The army is besieging the city, and there are really people who continue to calculate their own selfish interests, these people are not someone else's subordinates, but a group of civil and military forces under Yuan Shu's account.

It is said that Yuan Shu, the vanguard of the Central Route Alliance, gritted his teeth and sent 40,000 troops from Yangzhou, with his generals Ji Ling, Zhang Xun, Wen Qin, Chen Lan, and strategists Zhuge Jin, Yan Xiang, Yang Hong and others, who came from Jiangdong to participate in the battle of Zhao, but they did not expect that the first battle would be under the Jiguan Pass, and they were hit by Xu Huang's head-on stick. After that, Yuan Shu pretended to be a turtle and shrank in the camp all day long, not daring to show his head, until Lu Zhi led the main army westward, leaving only him, Liu Biao, and Liu Yan to continue to be stationed in front of Jiguan.

Although Yuan Shu's combat strength is 20,000 less than that of his eldest brother Yuan Shao, the 40,000 Danyang elite soldiers are not a grade compared with the 40,000 soldiers led by Liu Biao and Liu Yan's troops. As soon as Lu Zhi left, several generals under Yuan Shu's command got up, feeling that under Jiguan, Yuan Shu could not be the boss, and as a result, he couldn't pee in the same pot with Liu Yan's generals Dong Fu and Pang Xi, Liu Biao's generals Li Yan and Huang Zhong and others, muttering all day long, and finally causing a run.

Liu Yan and Liu Biao, who served as "free guards", did not personally lead the team to Hanoi, and on behalf of the four generals Dong Fu, Pang Xi, Li Yan and Huang Zhong, who led the Northern Expedition of the Second Liu, respected the Taiwei Lu Zhi, but not him Yuan Shu, Ji Ling, Zhang Xun and others. If it is about force and strategy, even Ji Ling, the first general under Yuan Shu, is not in the eyes of everyone.

Unable to withstand the deliberate squeeze of Dong Fu and Li Yan and others, Yuan Shu's generals instigated him to continue to attack Keiguan, and offered a strategy to break the pass, which was really similar to Gongsun Zhan's method of secretly laying down the shooter to calculate Zhao Yun, or it was inspired by the war report on the Eastern Front, and several stinkers also concocted a conspiracy against Xu Huang.

There are several generals under Yuan Shu's account, except for Wen Qin's archery skills, but there are no marksmen like Murong Ping, but this does not affect them to develop their ideas and plot against Xu Huang with other ideas, such as using a large siege bed crossbow to suddenly attack the guards.

When Zhao Xing led the army to attack Sanzhang, he once asked Li Jinsi to take the Shadow Crew to ambush on the shore of Zhangshui in advance, and use a large bed crossbow salvo to shoot Zhang Liang, who was halfway across Zhangshui. Some of the Yellow Turban soldiers on the shore who witnessed this scene took advantage of the chaos to flee to the south and lurked incognito. Later, Yuan Shu entered Yangzhou, recruited troops on a large scale, and expanded the number of troops, and some "Yellow Turban remnants" took the opportunity to infiltrate Yuan Shu's army. The method of using the siege bed crossbow to sneak attack the main general guarding the pass was the advice that Chen Lan's soldiers quietly provided to him.

Chen Lan got this ploy and felt that she could give it a try, so she unceremoniously took it for herself and showed it off in front of Yuan Shu, but in fact, it was just a small abacus to compete for favor and improve her status. The generals saw that what Chen Lan said was reasonable, so they suggested that Yuan Shu might as well give it a try, and the main general in charge of tackling the problem naturally fell on Chen Lan, who proposed the strategy.

Chen Lan got Yuan Shu's order and immediately began to prepare. First of all, he had ten large ballistae for siege cars mobilized to simulate the shape of the pass and the position of the main general of the gate, and ordered his soldiers who fired the ballistas to practice every day until the ten siege bed crossbowmen could skillfully fire a volley. Secondly, in order to prevent the defenders from seeing the flaws, Chen Lan deliberately put a tent curtain around the outside of the ten bed crossbows, and when looking down from above, he would only think that it was ten slightly smaller camp tents.

After making these preparations, Chen Lan led his troops to attack Jiguan. I have to say that in order to be able to get rid of the guards of Jiguan, Chen Lan can be regarded as having done enough work, and if Xu Huang is caught off guard, he is very likely to be hit. The giant arrows of this crossbow are no better than the arrows fired by ordinary bows and crossbows, not only in terms of range, but also have huge penetrating power, and can even penetrate into the gaps in the wall, which is not something that the flesh can resist at all.

Chen Lan came to the Jiguan and shouted at the soldiers on the pass, which was nothing more than those clichés. What imperial court occupies the name of righteousness, the army under the gate is gathered, and the state will be broken in a few days, and there is only a dead end with Zhao Xing and so on. In the end, Chen Lan was very "naïve" and said that as long as the soldiers who closed the gate opened the gate and took the initiative to go out to surrender, the gold and silver treasures placed in the ten tents behind him could be chosen by everyone at will.

Among the ten tents mentioned by Chen Lan, there were naturally no gold and silver treasures, and some were just sharp weapons for killing. His lie is not clever at all, and it can even be seen through at a glance. But the insidious part is also here, Chen Lan used a not-so-clever lie to cover up a conspiracy, which further lowered the guard's vigilance.

Since Chen Lan played a trick and used "public opinion warfare" and "psychological warfare" against the defenders of Guanshang, as the first general under Zhao Xing to systematically put forward this concept, Chen Gong immediately handed over the remarks on how to fight back to Tai Shici, and asked Tai Shici to take a copper shouting microphone that could amplify the sound and launch a verbal counterattack against the Danyang soldiers under Guan.

Chen Lan's purpose in shouting was just to lure the master general guarding the pass to appear at the pass, so he couldn't help but be surprised to see a general he had never seen before come out to shout instead of Xu Huang. But Chen Lan thought about it, it doesn't matter which way of the immortal you are guarding the pass, even if Zhao Xing personally sits in the gate, this strategy has to be carried out, otherwise it will not be able to deal with Yuan Shu. So Chen Lan secretly passed down the order, and asked the bed crossbowmen hiding in the curtain to start aiming and preparing.

Tai Shi Cizheng shouted: "Midwinter is coming, the cold and miserable under the pass, why are the Danyang brothers starving and ......freezing here", he suddenly felt a numb scalp, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw that there was a mass of things under the pass that was coming towards him quickly, and immediately folded his back, and bent the upper half of the body exposed to the wall back at 90 degrees.

Without waiting for Tai Shi Ci's head to hang down to the ground, ten long arrows the thickness of a baby's arm that flew out from the ten tents under the curtain whistled away against his breastplate, and immediately shot the two personal soldiers who were originally standing not far behind Tai Shi Ci and left their bodies and nailed them alive on the wall of the Guan Tower.

Tai Shici, who was able to avoid this dangerous blow, turned around and saw the tragic death of his relatives, so he was furious in his heart, snatched a black giant bow from the hands of his dead relatives, and shot an arrow at Chen Lan, who found that the conspiracy had been revealed and was retreating in panic.

The soldiers on the gate only heard a sharp "buzz" sound, and saw Chen Lan, who was still foaming just now, falling straight from the horse's back and falling backwards, and a black arrow was stuck in front of Chen Lan.

At the same time that Tai Shi Ci shot Chen Lan with an arrow, Zang Ba, who was hiding in the shadows, had already ordered the trebuchet to be closed, and the bed crossbowman launched an indiscriminate shot at the ten tent curtains that were slowly retreating under the gate. Yuan Shu, Ji Ling, who were watching the battle with people from a distance, as well as Dong Fu, Pang Xi, Li Yan, Huang Zhong and others, who were specially invited, watched as the ten bed crossbows and soldiers who accompanied Chen Lan to battle were smashed into flesh and shot into hedgehogs by the stones and crossbow arrows that were fired down angrily from the close, and everyone's hearts couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

The defense of Keiguan is too powerful, if it weren't for being provoked by Chen Lan today, who carried out a round of retaliatory long-range attacks without reservation, the coalition forces in Guanxia would not have known that such a terrifying catapult and bed crossbow were installed on Jiguan. This can be regarded as the only contribution that Chen Lan, who has been shot to death, to the coalition forces.