Cui Yao, a secret agent of the Tingwang Division who was in Tongguan, saw Yuwentai's 6,000 light horsemen go out of the pass at night, and ushered in tens of thousands of foot soldiers.

A large net specially designed for Dou Tai has been opened.

He desperately wanted to pass the news back, but since Yuwentai left the customs, the entire Tongguan had been under martial law and was not allowed to enter or leave.

Cui Yao was desperate in his heart, this was a sense of powerlessness watching 20,000 steps disappear.

Yuwentai led 6,000 horsemen out of the pass and ambushed far away, he was waiting, waiting for Dou Tai to march to Tongguan.

But he was not completely sure, Yuwentai was gambling, betting that Dou Tai was proud of his repeated victories, and was deceived by him.

Dou Tai, who was stationed in Fenglingdu, was indeed fooled.

Different people will have different opinions about the behavior of the same person.

In Dou Tai's view, Yuwentai, who was far away in Chang'an, made a safe choice: one guarded the passes everywhere to guard against the Kanto, and the other went west to pursue Ke Zhu Hunyuan.

Therefore, he has no doubts about the authenticity of the news.

And Gao Cheng knows that Yuwentai likes to make dangerous moves, and when Kansai is at an absolute disadvantage, only tricks can turn the tables.

However, the fundamental reason for Zhu Hunyuan's return to the east was his lack of confidence in the nascent Kansai regime.

As a strategist who is also well versed in the hearts of the people, Gao Cheng puts himself in the position of Yuwentai, and his first consideration is definitely not the issue of Zhu Hunyuan's return to the east.

But Zhu Hunyuan did not have the appeal of Uncle Liu Huang, and it was impossible for the people of Qinzhou and Weizhou to leave their hometowns and follow him to flee to Kanto, and it was impossible for him to help the old and the young, slowing down his marching speed.

It is great that thousands of families in the Zhu Hunyuan tribe have returned to the east, and there is not much change in the comparison of strength between Kanto and Kansai.

Let Gao Cheng choose, and he will target Dou Tai.

He would never choose to disperse his subordinates, and not mention the issue of communication between the east and the west, even if he succeeded in intercepting and killing Ke Zhu Hunyuan, it would only be a loss within Kansai, and it would not have much effect on boosting people's hearts.

The nascent Kansai regime urgently needed a victory to appease the people, and once it swallowed Dou Tai's army, the losses to the Gao clan were far greater than the gains that Zhu Hunyuan defected to.

Gao Cheng believes that with Yuwentai's resourcefulness, he will not fail to see this opportunity.

And it was Gao Huan who provided Yuwentai with this opportunity.

Dou Tai is famous for his cavalry attacks, but Gao Huan thinks that once Yuwentai chooses to go west to intercept and kill Ke Zhu Hunyuan, Dou Tai's task will be to attack Tongguan, either to take this Xiongguan in the world, or to force Yuwentai to come back to help.

Therefore, in Gao Huan's view, cavalry could not play much role in this battle.

No matter how rich he is, Gao Huan can't do the stupid thing of dispatching cavalry to dismount and attack the city when he has enough foot soldiers.

Only then did he have a cavalry general who had won many victories, and the opportunity to lead 20,000 foot soldiers was placed in front of Yuwentai.

In the third year of Taichang, that is, in 534 A.D., May 13.

Dou Tai's 20,000 foot soldiers crossed the Yellow River from Fenglingdu to the south and marched towards Tongguan.

He faithfully completed the combat order issued by Gao Huan before sending troops: once Yuwentai advanced westward, immediately attacked Tongguan and forced Yuwentai to return to the division, once Yuwentai returned to the division before the fall of Tongguan, he could not fight, or withdraw from Fenglingdu, or retreat to Hongnong County, and defend the city.

Yuwentai, who was hidden south of Tongguan, finally got the news that Dou Tai had crossed the river.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Dou Tai has entered the urn, this battle will be won! ”

In the wilderness, Yu Wentai looked at the accompanying rider and raised his voice.

The appearance of Zhizhu in his hand greatly encouraged the soldiers.

They are all battle-hardened generals, and no one can't understand that Dou Tai is already in a deep death.

There are tens of thousands of foot soldiers secretly stationed in Tongguan, and there are 6,000 light cavalry ambushes outside the pass, once Dou Tai arrives at Tongguan, the light cavalry outside the pass and the foot soldiers inside the pass are flanked by each other, and their crowds will be defeated.

Dou Tai was at a loss to know his dangerous situation, and he even remembered taking Tongguan and joining Gao Huan's subsequent Jinyang army to march westward and go straight to Chang'an.

Over the years, he has followed Gao Huan to fight too many tailwind battles, which also made Dou Tai despise the heroes of the world, and the Kansai leader He Bayue, who has always been regarded as the great enemy of the Kanto region, was only killed by Gao Huan's slight tricks, and he was buried in the river meander, which undoubtedly increased the arrogance of the Kanto soldiers again.

He Bayue, who almost single-handedly pacified Guanlong, is still dead, and what commendable record does he have in Yuwentai.

Dou Tai is often a pioneer of high joy, but he is not a brave and reckless man.

Wei Ke attacked Huaishuo alone, and when the city was broken, Dou Tai's father and brother were all killed.

Dou Tai couldn't take care of his wife Lou Heinu, so he carried the remains of his father and brother thousands of miles to Er Zhurong, and was appointed as the governor of the tent and participated in the military.

Er Zhu Rong broke Luoyang, and General Bai Ningyuan, General Hu Ben Zhonglang, and the forward governor began to lead the army.

After that, he followed Yuan Tianmu and Gao Huan to conquer Xing Gao, and was promoted to an auxiliary general and a cavalry general for his military exploits, and was awarded the title of viscount.

When Gao Huan left Jinzhou, Liu Gui, who was undercover by Er Zhurong's side, operated on his behalf, transferred Dou Tai to his command, and always had to consult with him whenever there was military affairs.

"Green Sword Fairy"

Among the Gao family's bunch of pig generals, the brave and resourceful Dou Tai did not only rely on his in-laws to gain today's status.

Because he was already ready to attack the city when he left Jinyang, Dou Tai did not need to go to Gao Cheng to conquer Xuzhou, and he had to temporarily build siege equipment when he walked to Pengcheng City.

20,000 foot soldiers lined up outside the pass, and there were all kinds of equipment such as siege vehicles, catapults, and ladders.

Dou Tai straddled the horse, looked at Xiongguan from afar, and a sense of pride was born from his heart: Who said that I, Dou Tai, would only be a general! If you don't return for a long time, I will definitely take this pass and open the way for King Gao to go west!

Zhao Guili looked down on Dou Tai's army at the head of Tongguan City, the 20,000 infantry army was neatly organized, it was obviously a battle-hardened force, and Gao Huan did not dispatch miscellaneous troops to do things.

The experience of being expelled by Ke Zhu Hunyuan made Zhao Gui deeply ashamed.

But he also has a reason: if you give me such an army, how can you easily lose Qinzhou.

Fortunately, Yu Wentai was able to understand his difficulties and did not blame him.

Hou Mo Chen Yue did not receive the battle but the soldiers were scattered, and Zhao Gui, who had just left Qinzhou, knew very well what the morale of the Qinzhou soldiers was, so he abandoned the city and fled.

When he was indignant, the catapult outside the city smashed the collected boulder into the city wall, and Zhao Gui hurriedly dodged.

Seeing the array of Dou Tai's army rushing out of countless queues, stepping on the drum to push the siege vehicles and ladders towards Tongguan.

Zhao Gui hurriedly ordered:

"Wave the flag."

The flag-bearer moved when he heard the order.

In fact, there was no need for Zhao Gui's signal notification, and Yuwentai, who ventured to the front line to watch in person, immediately returned to the army after seeing Dou Tai start to attack the city.

Looking at the six thousand light horsemen who were personally led out of the customs by him, Yu Wentai inspired everyone:

"He Bagong has a great favor to us, but he was unjustly killed by Gao Huan without guilt, and now Dou Tai is unprepared and is in death, everyone! Revenge for the Horbats, starting today! ”

The crowd shouted in unison:

"Avenge the Father!"

"Good! Pass on my military orders! All on board! ”

At the sound of an order, 6,000 men turned over and mounted their horses.

Yu Wentai turned his horse's head, raised his arm, and shouted:

"Soldiers, follow me to kill!"

Dou Tai always looked at the Tongguan city wall.

Thick smoke rose from Tongguan into the sky, and the soldiers who were besieging the city flocked to the city wall like ants, using ladders to climb up to fight the defenders.

The fire oil was poured down by the defenders, and the fire man threw himself on the ground and struggled, and the miserable howl was unbearable to hear.

The soldiers who were knocked down the ladder by rolling logs and boulders fell to their deaths on the spot.

Being poured with boiled gold juice on the head is the real life is worse than death.

Dou Tai's heart is like an iron stone, if he wants to conquer Xiongguan, it is inevitable that he will be killed or injured, as a general, being ruthless is only the most basic quality.

Dou Tai, who had originally focused on the Tongguan City Wall, suddenly felt the ground tremble.

As a cavalry general, Dou Tai immediately changed color, this is a large force of cavalry charging.

Sure enough, after a few breaths, there was a roaring sound of horses' hooves on the south side, and Dou Tai turned his head to look, with his years of experience in the army, he saw thousands of horses.

At this time, Dou Tai didn't understand that he was fooled, Yuwentai didn't go west to intercept Zhu Hunyuan at all, otherwise how could the cavalry appear on the battlefield.

A subordinate general said anxiously:

"General! Hurry up and order Mingjin to withdraw his troops! Let the siege soldiers retreat and form a battle against the enemy! ”

Dou Tai's forehead was bruised, and he roared:

"Strike gold now! At this time, it was too late to form a formation, and the whole army would cross the river north with me! ”

This is as if to abandon the soldiers who are still besieging the city, and let them hinder the pace of the pursuers.

Dou Tai knew very well that since the Guanxi cavalry went east, there must be a large number of foot soldiers stationed in Tongguan, which was determined to encircle and annihilate him under Tongguan City.

If you don't leave, let alone the siege soldiers, all the 20,000 people who went south will be buried here.

The generals faithfully conveyed Dou Tai's military order, the deafening sound of gongs resounded through the battlefield, the whole army fled north, and during the march, a general pointed to Tongguan and exclaimed:

"General! Look! The defenders of Tongguan have come out! ”

Dou Taixun glanced at it, and tens of thousands of people poured out from Tongguan to cover up the scattered siege soldiers.

At the same time, the Kansai cavalry that came into view bypassed the rout under the command of the commander.

Dou Tai's face sank like water, and the other party made up his mind to leave him in Tongguan.

"Hurry up, it will be safe to get on the boat at the ferry, if you disperse at this time, you will be slaughtered by thieves, and only by working together to the north can you have life."

Dou Tai was still struggling to maintain the troops that did not participate in the siege, and although he abandoned the siege soldiers, he did not abandon the army.

Otherwise, with the horse under his crotch, why can't he get out.

But the legs of the foot soldiers under his command could not match Yuwentai's light cavalry after all.

Dou Tai's troops were attacked by Yuwentai's army, and they were easily cut off.

It's right to think about it, when attacking the city, they were ambushed and attacked by two phases, and the soldiers had already become frightened birds, so how could they still have the fighting spirit.

"General, we have horses, it's better to go first, and leave it for the useful body to plan for the future!"

Seeing that the army was already in chaos, the generals persuaded one after another.

However, Dou Tai saw the 20,000 army heading south, but was ambushed, and felt shameless to see Gao Huan again, and did not want to be captured by the Western army, so he said to the generals:

"Today's defeat, the sin lies with Dou Tai alone, you wait to return to Jinyang and confess to King Gao on my behalf."

Then he shall raise his sword and kill himself.

In the east, there was another herd of horses galloping.

The general glanced at it and said with great joy:

"General, look!"

------Off topic------

I didn't finish the revisions until half past two, and I was really sleepy, so I had to get up at seven in the morning to continue writing.

I still owe 3,000 words, and I really don't have time to make up for it in the past two days, so I'll make it up next week. Because I have been attending classes during the day and preparing for the exams at the end of the month.

Today's two chapters of 8,000 words are still the first chapter updated at six o'clock in the evening, and the second chapter before twelve o'clock.