Sanbakou is a mountain col that is more than ten miles long, it is also the only way to Guangxin by land, on both sides of the col are two mountains with steep terrain, the mountain is the reckless primeval forest, the shade of the trees at the foot of the mountain is dense, the beasts are infested, the merchants and farmers walk for many years, and finally go out of a flat official road in this mountain pass.

The mountain col is wide in the south and narrow in the north, the narrowest pass is only less than 20 zhang, and the Jiaozhou army took local materials here, built a wooden village, and garrisoned 300 people.

The original intention of Jiaozhou to build a wooden village here was not to defend, if the Han army moved south, 300 people could not resist at all, and the fundamental purpose of Jiaozhou's garrison here was for the food in this area.

It belongs to the jurisdiction of Fengyang County of the Han Kingdom, and the essence of Fengyang County is in these three basins covering an area of more than 100,000 acres, and it is also an important grain-producing area of Linhe County.

The Jiaozhou army did not dare to go north to seize Fengyang County and seize the land of the Han State, so they had to use a way to seek benefits, after the construction of the wooden village at the mouth of the three dams, the local peasants were forced to threaten to hand over the grain tax to the Jiaozhou army, so that Jiaozhou seized the interests of the Han State in disguise.

This situation has been maintained for three years, just a few months ago after the autumn harvest, the Jiaozhou army here received tens of thousands of stone of grain tax, the grain was stored in the warehouse of the wooden village, part of it has been transported to Guangxin County, there are about 6,000 stone of grain in the wooden village.

The leader of the Jiaozhou Army guarding the mouth of the three dams is a tooth general, named Yang Jin, a native of Cangwu County, not shrewd and capable, nor stupid, belonging to a very mediocre type, but this person's family is the Wang clan of Cangwu County, which is the class that Liu Bei needs to encircle, Yang Jin also benefited from this, and in just three years, he was promoted from an ordinary tun chief to a tooth general.

Yang Jin had already received a warning from Guan Yu, saying that the Han army might go south by land, which made him extremely nervous, once the Han army went south by land, it would inevitably pass through Sanbakou, but he only had 300 men under his command, if he could hold this wooden village.

For a few days, Yang Jin couldn't eat or sleep well, and he was extremely anxious, he was expecting every day that the Han army would not take the land route, but take the water route from Lishui to the south, five days have passed since Guan Yu's warning, and there is still no movement at the mouth of the three dams, and there is no sign of the Han army going south, which makes Yang Jin think that maybe it is because of the heavy snow that the road is closed, so that the Han army cannot go south.

Thinking of the heavy snow that occurred once in decades, Yang Jin's heart was slightly relieved, but despite this, he was still very vigilant, and ordered the soldiers to patrol and monitor the wall day and night, not daring to be careless.

The time gradually came to the fourth watch, which was a low tide period for the night patrol soldiers, and after being vigilant in the middle of the night, the patrol soldiers finally became sleepy, and their vigilance would disappear little by little, and at this time, it was the best time to start a night battle.

Therefore, the experienced generals will replace the patrol soldiers at the third watch, so that the soldiers in good mental condition continue to take over the patrol, Yang Jin obviously does not have this experience, he set the time for the change of guard at dawn, which means that the night patrol soldiers have to guard all night.

However, the vigilance of the guards was relaxed, but not completely lost, and the soldiers still patrolled back and forth on the wall, but they had become sluggish to some subtle noises outside.

For example, from time to time there was a slight sound of branches breaking in the woods dozens of paces away, and the dead branches on the ground were trampled off, perhaps infested by fierce beasts, but also dangerously approaching, and in any case, the patrol soldiers should be very concerned.

At the second watch, they might be wary of it, but now, the soldiers are exhausted, yawning desperately, only thinking about the early dawn, and no longer paying attention to the strange noise outside.

"Is there a bobcat out there?" One soldier heard the sound of branches snapping continuously, and finally became a little suspicious.

"Who knows, it could be a bobcat! I came out hungry to find something to eat, but maybe the snow was too heavy to break the branches, and it wouldn't be any Han army anyway. ”

"That's right, on such a cold day, the snow will not melt for ten days, and the Han army will go south? It's a joke, I think General Yang is also a little fussed. ”

As the crowd was talking, someone booed, "Don't say it, he's coming!" ”

Not far away, someone walked up to the wall, and all the soldiers didn't dare to speak anymore, only to see the main general Yang Jin walking over quickly, "Is there any situation?" Yang Jin asked loudly.

"General Qiyu, there is nothing abnormal."

"You must be vigilant, you are not allowed to be lazy to sleep, whoever dares to be lazy will be punished immediately!"

Yang Jin was loudly reprimanding the patrol soldiers, just dozens of steps away, dozens of black shadows hid in the woods, because some soldiers accidentally stepped on a few branches, so that the Han soldiers behind did not dare to move forward, only more than thirty soldiers approached the wooden village.

Behind a big tree, Liu Zheng stared at the officer who was talking on the wall, there was a trace of doubt in his eyes, he was not sure whether this person was the enemy's main general, if it was the enemy's main general, they could shoot this person with arrows, if it was not the main general, they would be startled if they acted too early.

But at this moment, the accident happened, a roar of a beast came from above Liu Zheng's head, Liu Zheng looked up suddenly, and a leopard hiding in a tree jumped over his head and knocked down a soldier on the very edge.

This is a hungry leopard that is looking for food in the snow, and has long found the man in black who is quietly approaching the wall.

In normal times, the leopard would not dare to attack so many humans, but at this time, it was hungry and cold, and he pounced on a Han soldier from behind.

The sudden change also alarmed the defenders on the wall, and dozens of people leaned on the wall to look out, only to see a leopard pounce on a man in black, and more than a dozen people in black around him were slashing leopards.

The guard Yang Jin suddenly reacted and shouted: "It's the enemy army, ring the alarm quickly!" ”

'When! While! While! The alarm bell on the wall rang, the defenders shouted, at this time, the leopard that attacked the Han army had been cut by the soldiers, and the soldiers fled into the dense forest after dropping their prey.

This was the first time that the Eagle Strike Army had been discovered in a sneak attack at night for so many years, which really made Liu Zheng angry, and he immediately ordered: "Order, storm Muzhai!" ”

At this moment, a tooth general next to him persuaded: "I'm afraid that General Ren hasn't been deployed to the position yet, so it's not appropriate to attack the city now!" ”

Liu Zheng suddenly woke up and immediately ordered: "Retreat!" ”

The Han soldiers at the mouth of the valley retreated one after another, and after a moment they withdrew from the mouth of the valley, at this time, all three hundred defenders went up to the wall, and shot arrows into the woods on both sides, and it took a long time to calm down.

The Eagle Strike Army's consistent practice is to attack from the front and back, attack head-on, and respond with surprise troops, and this time is no exception, with the adjutant general Ren Ping leading 200 soldiers to make a detour from the left side of the mountain to the back of the wooden village, preparing to attack the enemy village from the rear.

For the Han army, it is easy to capture this wooden village, just use fire to attack, you can burn the wall, but the consequence of the fire attack is that the grain stored in the wooden village will also be burned, seeing that Wang Ping will lead thousands of soldiers to the south to support, Liu Zheng must consider leaving food for the reinforcements behind.

It was precisely because of this consideration that Liu Zheng and Ren Ping discussed and decided that Ren Ping would be a surprise soldier and first occupy the granary behind the enemy's village, and Liu Zheng would attack from the front.

Time passed little by little, the sky gradually brightened, and Liu was sitting on a big rock, patiently waiting for Ren Ping's news.

"General!"

A soldier rushed from a distance, Liu Zheng recognized him as the person who followed Ren Ping, and hurriedly jumped off the boulder and greeted him, "How is the situation?" ”

"General Qiyu, we have arrived at the predetermined position, and General Ren said that we can launch an attack."

Liu Zheng was overjoyed, and immediately ordered: "Prepare to attack!" ”

The three hundred eagle strikers began to quickly form a formation, they were in a column of ten in thirty columns, each with a saber in his hand and a heavy shield, which was enough to resist the fire of crossbow arrows from a distance of thirty paces, and the sharp saber to chop the spears of the enemy.

Thirty soldiers were holding temporary bumping logs made of hundred-year-old giant trees, and they lined up at the end of the line, and Liu Zhengzhan sword swords were whimpered, and the long horn whimpered and reached the valley.

The alarm bell on the wooden village sounded again, tossed in the middle of the night, the soldiers of the Jiaozhou Army who were just about to rest were awakened, rushed to the wall, and looked at the valley mouth nervously, Yang Jin also rushed to the wall with armor and helmet, he held a silver gun, at this time he calmed down, he felt that the enemy army was not many soldiers, it seemed that there were only a few hundred people, maybe this was just the patrol soldiers of the Han army, with these hundreds of soldiers, it was impossible to break through the wall.

"General, here!"

A soldier pointed at the valley mouth and shouted, Yang Jin also saw it, a hundred steps away from the valley mouth appeared black pressure Han soldiers, dozens of people in a row, about ten rows, the number of people is only three or four hundred, Yang Jin is a local, he does not know the details of the Han army, let alone the most elite Eagle Strike Army of the Han army.

"Crossbow Bolts Ready!"

He shouted, and the three hundred defenders raised their crossbow arrows together, aiming at the Han army in the distance, all the Jiaozhou troops were on the wall, they didn't think that there would be troops behind them, and only reinforcements could come from behind, how could it be the Han army? Even the main general Yang Jin didn't have this intention.

At this time, the Han army was getting closer and closer, and when they entered the distance of eighty steps, Yang Jin shouted, "Shoot!" ”

Three hundred crossbows were fired at the same time, and a dense number of arrows were fired at the Han soldiers at the mouth of the valley, and a string of sounds broke through the air, and the power was strong, and the Han soldiers raised their heavy shields almost at the same time, covering their bodies, but they did not stop under their feet, and continued to slowly move closer to the wall.

"With rolling logs!"

Yang Jin saw that the first round of arrows had no effect, and not even a wounded Han soldier appeared, his eyes were on fire, and he roared loudly again, the wall of the wall to the valley mouth was a slope of thirty degrees, and in the case that the arrows were not lethal, the Jiaozhou army finally sacrificed their powerful defensive weapons.

Sections of rolling logs smashed towards the valley mouth, the logs rolled, and smashed into the dense Han soldiers, the Han soldiers were caught off guard, more than a dozen soldiers were smashed and fell to the ground, and the soldiers behind dodged to both sides, and the valley mouth suddenly became empty.

Yang Jin saw that the rolling wood was effective, and shouted excitedly, "Give up the bow and arrow, use the rolling log!" ”

At this time, the Han army regrouped, but they were not in a hurry to charge, still unhurried, and came very slowly towards the enemy village, and hundreds of defenders raised the rolling logs again