Li Yan took 20,000 troops down to Huya Mountain, thinking that he could achieve a victory in Yidao under his own command and add some merits to himself, but unexpectedly encountered Zhang Ren's army of 80,000.

In Li Yan's opinion, no matter whether the Yizhou soldiers who attacked Yidao were 3,000 or 5,000, as long as he recaptured Yidao City, the credit would be the same as Huang Zhong's original recapture of Jingmen Mountain. After all, Yidao is the throat leading to Gangneung, and if it is occupied by the Yizhou army for a long time, it will cut off the connection between Huya Mountain and Gangneung, which is also a very dangerous thing.

It's a pity that this time Li Yan saw not 3,000 or 5,000 Yizhou soldiers, nor 30,000 or 50,000 Yizhou soldiers, but a full 80,000 Yizhou main force!

Li Yan against Zhang Ren, with 20,000 against 80,000, with no intention to fight, the result was that the 20,000 troops in Jingzhou were wiped out, and Li Yan himself was seriously injured and captured.

Without waiting for the news of Li Yan's defeat to return to Huya Mountain, Zhang Ren led his army to copy the back road of Huya Mountain, and completely blocked the two back roads of Huang Zhong's troops to Dangyang or Jiangling.

The battle of Yiling has been fought here, and the Jingzhou side has been in a completely passive situation, if you count the war that has started in the north of Jingzhou, then the fall of Liu Biao seems to have become inevitable, but it is a matter of time.

However, Huang Zhong, a veteran general who had been guarding Huya Mountain for a year, did not show any uneasiness when he learned that Cao Cao had led his army to attack Deng County, the gateway to Xiangyang; he did not show any impatience when he learned that Li Yan's 20,000 men had been ambushed by Zhang Ren and that his entire army had been wiped out; and he still did not appear to be alarmed when he saw that Li Yan had completely cut off the retreat route from Huya Mountain to Jiangling and Dangyang. Huang Zhong was so sure, could it be said that he thought that with his only remaining 30,000 troops, he could stop the hundreds of thousands of troops from Yizhou attacking Jingzhou?

In fact, Huang Zhong didn't think about anything at this time, he just strictly adhered to his duties as a soldier, since Liu Biao did not give him the order to retreat from Huya Mountain, then he had the responsibility to lead his subordinates to hold on, even if there was only one soldier left. If in the end, if he really wants to die on Huya Mountain, Huang Zhong will definitely not take half a step back.

Dying on the battlefield is the highest glory of a military general, and it is also the mission and responsibility of being a soldier. The crockpot is always broken by the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle. From the day Huang Zhong entered Huya Mountain, he did not think that he could return from the mountain alive. Therefore, he ignored the situation outside the mountain, and just insisted on patrolling and practicing every day, leaving his burly and upright figure on various positions in Huya Mountain, insisting on eating and living with the soldiers, and encouraging the soldiers guarding the mountain.

There is such a leading general, who leads by example, guards Huya Mountain, and although there are now large armies outside the mountain, the soldiers on the mountain are still in high spirits, and there is no sign of rout or commotion.

After besieging Huya Mountain for several days, Zhang Ren sent someone up the mountain to send a letter of persuasion to Huang Zhong, the general content of which was that he admired Huang Zhong's skills and morality very much, and was willing to worship Huang Zhong as a brother of the opposite sex.

Zhang Ren's letter of persuasion really put a lot of effort into it, and there was not a single word "surrender" mentioned in the whole letter, it was all words of knowing and moving with reason, and he really respected Huang Zhong very much. Zhang Ren even offered to recommend Huang Zhong to Sima Fang to take his place, and he was Huang Zhong's deputy.

After reading Zhang Ren's letter, Huang Zhong can be sure that Zhang Ren is not playing a set of tricks of hypocrisy, but really respects himself and is really willing to make friends with him. Huang Zhong did not slaughter Zhang Ren's messenger who went up the mountain to deliver the letter with a knife, but also wrote a letter to politely reject Zhang Ren's kindness.

In his reply to Zhang Ren, Huang Zhong clearly expressed his determination and will to live and die with Huya Mountain. Huang Zhong said that if he can leave Huya Mountain alive and not fight against Zhang Ren on the battlefield in the future, he is willing to make soil for incense and become brothers of the opposite sex with Zhang Ren.

After Zhang Ren received Huang Zhong's reply, he couldn't help but feel emotion and regret. He himself also highly advocated loyalty and righteousness, and repeatedly rejected the persuasion of his master Tong Yuan, his junior brother Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun, and never refused to communicate with the Jin Kingdom and refused to switch to Zhao Xing's command. If Zhang Ren was willing, he would have too many opportunities to pull a force to the north over the years.

Since each is its own master, and there is no brotherhood on the battlefield, Zhang Ren immediately ordered the army to start besieging Huya Mountain after Huang Zhong rejected his kindness.

This time, Zhang Ren was also ruthless, he not only let the 80,000 Yizhou elites launch a fierce attack from the eastern foot of Huya Mountain, but also asked the 100,000 Yizhou new troops stationed in Jingmen Mountain to launch an offensive from the western foot of Huya Mountain at the same time. In order to quickly capture the well-defended Huya Mountain, Zhang Ren spared no effort to use black powder that had never been used.

In view of this, the battle for the siege of Huya Mountain went straight to its most frantic and brutal stage from the very beginning. In just five days, the Yizhou army attacking the mountain lost 40,000 troops, while the defending Huang Zhong's troops were reduced from 30,000 to less than 15,000.

At this moment, Huang Zhong, who had not closed his eyes for five days and five nights, was still standing on the main position covered in blood, holding a dark iron tire bow, and shot the low-level leaders of the Yizhou Army who rushed to the front one by one.

In the past few days, Huang Zhong has shot and killed no less than a hundred low-level generals of the Yizhou Army with this strangely shaped but powerful divine bow in his hand. Up to now, the Yizhou army attacking the mountain was frightened by the big black bow in Huang Zhong's hand, and they didn't dare to reveal their identities easily.

The divine bow in Huang Zhong's hand was designed by Zhao Xing inspired by the later generation of composite bows with eccentric wheel devices. The Jin Kingdom's steelmaking process and the manufacture of special materials have made greater progress than ten years ago, and although this compound bow equipped with eccentric wheels has not been mass-produced for the time being due to its high cost, it has become a special standard weapon for high-ranking generals.

The black big bow in Huang Zhong's hand is much more advanced than the recurve bow and the straight draw bow, and the biggest advantage is that it saves more than half of the effort, and each launch is very stable and the range is extremely long. Huang Zhong and Tai Shici, Lu Bu, and Zhao Yun are listed as the "Four Great Marksmen", and they are at the top of the list, and his strength must be very amazing, so the big bow that Lu Meng gave to Huang Zhong on behalf of Zhao Xing is more than twice as powerful as the same type of bow, which can be described as huge, and it shoots through the clouds and the sun.

As for why Zhao Xing asked Lu Meng to send such a divine weapon to Huang Zhong as he liked, he could only understand it and could not be spoken.

Huang Hansheng, who was holding a divine bow, stood on the top of Huya Mountain, not afraid of the repeated attacks of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Yizhou Army, and interpreted the ethics and standards of being a military general with the action of fighting to the death.