Wang Ping and Wei Yan received Jiang Wei's military orders, and after a short rest at the mouth of the Meridian Valley, they quickly raised their army and rushed to Tongguan.

As for Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Nan, Wang Ping relieved them of their military power and replaced them with generals of the Han army to lead the army, but let the two still go out with the army.

After Wang Ping and Wei Yan's troops met, plus the 30,000 Wei troops who had newly joined the Han army, Wang Ping and Wei Yan quickly had an army of 60,000 under their command. The army soon arrived at Lantin.

Lantian was not a big city, it was easily broken by the army commanded by Wang Ping and Wei Yan, after Lantian was resupplied, except for leaving a small number of troops to garrison Lantian, the army continued all the way north, bypassing Cao Shuang's army, and went straight to Tongguan.

Tongguan is the world's Xiongguan, when Ma Chao led 100,000 Xiliang iron cavalry and Cao Cao to fight a decisive battle here, Ma Chao took advantage of the chaos to occupy Tongguan, Cao Cao almost had no way to take Ma Chao.

Later, Cao Cao adopted the method of avoiding the real and attacking the false, while sending Cao Ren to lead the army to confront Ma Chao at Tongguan to absorb the attention of the Guanxi army, and at the same time told him to fight easily; On the other hand, Cao Cao sent Xu Huang and Zhu Ling to lead 4,000 people to cross Pubanjin at night and base themselves in Hexi.

Cao Cao personally led his army north across the Yellow River from a ferry east of Tongguan to join Xu Huang's army. In this way, Cao Cao calmly entered Guanzhong and avoided the natural danger of Tongguan.

In September of the same year, Cao Cao set up more suspicious soldiers and sneaked into Weishui by boat, so as to cross the Weishui and go deep into the hinterland of Guanzhong. However, Cao Cao only defended and did not attack, refusing to engage Ma Chao head-on, and did not allow him to challenge him in the same number. Over time, there were problems with the logistical supply of the Kwanti Army.

In the end, Cao Cao adopted the anti-intermediary strategy of the strategist Jia Xu, and successfully separated Ma Chao and Han Sui, resulting in a split within the Xiliang army, and Cao Cao recaptured Chang'an and Tongguan in one fell swoop.

Somewhat similar to Ma Chao's situation back then, this time, the Han army also quickly captured Chang'an with an absolute superiority of forces, and there were not many defenders in Tongguan.

Therefore, Wang Ping and Wei Yan, after arriving at Tongguan, pushed Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Nan out and asked them to open the city gate.

Wei Yan was a little opposed to doing this before, worried about what if Xiahou Nan and Xiahou Xuan suddenly changed their hexagrams?

But Wang Ping thinks that there will be no such possibility, because the two have been dismissed by Cao Wei, and loyalty to the Han is the only way out. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the two of them mutinied temporarily, with the comparison of the soldiers under Wang Ping and the strength of Tongguan, it is not difficult to storm Tongguan, but Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Nan will definitely fight to the death in the city.

With the fierce and inward-looking personalities of the two, Wang Ping was sure that the two of them would not dare to temporarily jump back.

Sure enough, Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Nan cooperated with the Han army very much, and led a small army to Tongguan, thinking that Chang'an City was broken, hiding in the mountains to escape the pursuit of the Han army, and did not dare to come out, until Cao Shuang's main army arrived later, they dared to go out of the mountain and return to Tongguan, and easily deceived the gate of Tongguan.

After the gate of Tongguan was opened, Wang Ping and Wei Yan immediately led their troops to rush up, quickly killed the Wei army guarding the gate, and successfully captured Tongguan.

After conquering Tongguan, Wang Ping proudly praised Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Nan and said: "The two generals have made this great achievement, and Jiang Weidu will definitely ask His Majesty for the merit of the two generals." ”

Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Nan said that as Han Chen, it is a matter of course to be loyal to the Han Dynasty, and the two of them are duty-bound.

So Wang Ping immediately wrote a good letter, asking the scouts to report to Jiang Wei that Tongguan had been captured, and Cao Shuang's 120,000 army had been strategically surrounded, and he could launch a general attack as soon as Jiang Wei gave an order.

Two days later, the news that Tongguan had been broken came back to Chang'an, Jiang Wei was excited, and sighed loudly:

"Good! Good! That's great! Now Cao Shuang's wings are difficult to fly! ”

Zhuge Zhan immediately asked, "Brother Boyo, what's wrong?" ”

Jiang Wei handed Wang Ping's letter to Zhuge Zhan, and after Zhuge Zhan read it, he was also excited.

"Great! Not only was Tongguan defeated, but after Wang Ping and Wei Yan joined forces, they actually had an army of 60,000 in Tongguan. ”

Jiang Wei then asked, "Have Zhang Xu, Pan Ping, and Liang Qian arrived in Chang'an?" ”

Zhuge Zhan shook his head and said: "Not yet, Zhang Xue and General Pan Ping are expected to arrive in Chang'an in five days, but Liang Qian's two thousand Tiefutu should be able to reach Chang'an today!" ”

Jiang Wei thought for a while and said: "Then don't wait for Zhang Xue and Pan Ping, they are afraid that they will not be able to catch up with the Battle of Chang'an, but there are 80,000 troops in Chang'an City, 60,000 troops in Tongguan, and the strength has exceeded 140,000 troops, which is enough to eat Cao Shuang, Xiao Zhuge and order the generals to fight a decisive battle with the Wei army tomorrow." ”

"Yes! Xiao Zhuge showed an excited look on his face.

Since Cao Shuang came to Chang'an, the Han army has been fighting a nest battle, and now it is finally going to gather and annihilate Cao Shuang's main force, just thinking about it makes me feel very happy.

The military order for tomorrow's decisive battle was quickly transmitted to the generals of Chang'an, and quickly passed to Wang Ping and Wei Yan through scouts.

The generals in Chang'an City have long been holding back their evil anger, and now they are finally about to fight Cao Shuang's decisive battle, everyone is grinding their fists and eager to try, as if there is a fire in their eyes, looking forward to tomorrow's big war coming sooner.

In the afternoon, Chang'an City came to two thousand cavalry with heavy armor, this cavalry is special, not only the knight is fully armored, but also the war horse is also fully armored, only two big eyes are exposed.

Liang Qian's 2,000 Tiefu Tu arrived.

Rather than an iron float, it is more appropriate to call it a copper float, because both the armor stomach of a war horse and the armor stomach of a knight use a large amount of copper, on the contrary, in order to reduce the weight of the armor, the use of iron is relatively small, and only the refined iron used in some vital parts, such as heart goggles and so on.

On the one hand, the copper-based armor is to reduce the weight of the armor, and on the other hand, it is also because the output of the Baopen Mountain copper mine is extremely high, and it is very close to Lanzhou, so it can be used locally and catch up with the war.

The bronze armor was polished to a sparkling light, and its magnificence was far beyond the ordinary iron armor, and from a distance, it looked like a golden army, glittering in the sun.

Even Jiang Wei couldn't help but be amazed when he saw it, and felt that the bronze armor was more handsome than the iron armor when he wore it on his body.

"The last general, Liang Qian, arrived in Chang'an with two thousand iron floats, and waited for the governor to send him!" Seeing Jiang Wei, Liang Qian immediately dismounted and bowed.

Jiang Wei smiled and helped Liang Qian up, and smiled at Liang Qian: "It's just the right time, if you kid comes two days late, you won't be able to catch up with the big battle in Chang'an City!" ”

When Liang Qian heard this, his face was excited.

Liang Xu also hurried to hug his younger brother, and was very happy to see that his younger brother was now leading the Tiefutu.

Almost all the main generals of Chang'an came, and Jiang Wei ordered the generals to go to the governor's mansion in Chang'an City to discuss the battle plan for tomorrow's decisive battle.

After everyone arrived at the conference hall, Jiang Wei looked at the generals and said with a radiant expression:

"Ladies and gentlemen, in tomorrow's decisive battle, our army will eat Cao Shuang's 120,000 army in one bite!"