As soon as the order was given, a quick cold meal began in the mountains, forests and valleys - a bag of mountain stream water was called, and a piece of dried beef with sauce and a few pieces of thick noodles and hard cakes were munched, and after eating for a while, the valley and woods resounded with the sound of snoring all over the mountains.

This is not afraid of being heard, one is an uninhabited mountain forest, and the other is that the scout ranger has been released for more than 50 miles, and no one can enter any mountain pass.

More than half of the other two armies were outside the Hangu Pass, and they were divided into two sections: on the first night, they arrived at the Taolin Heights in the Hangu Pass, ate, drank, and slept for a day, and secretly went out of the mountain at night.

Although the distance was within 200 miles, which was a short distance for the officers and soldiers of the Wang Division, the most careful preparations were still made: the war horses were wrapped in hooves, the armor was fixed with armor leaves, the coughing people were wrapped with cloth bands in advance, and the swords, bows, arrows, horns, etc. were all fixed.

Wei He also issued a special order to the army leaving the customs: the soldiers who went out of the customs were only distributed with dried beef with sauce, not with mutton with sauce.

The generals and soldiers laughed for a while. If you think about it, the mutton has a strong flavor, as long as you carry it with you, it must be chewy; Thousands of people eat together, even if it is cold, the smell wafts away with the wind, and it is difficult to ensure that it will not be detected by the shrewd enemy scouts.

Thinking about it like this, the soldiers admired the new commander greatly. In this way for two consecutive nights, in the early morning of the third day, Wei He received Yin Talismans from various secret scouts in Kunshan: the armies of both roads had arrived at the designated mountains and forests to ambush properly.

Wei He immediately ordered the Yin Talisman to be sent back: Activate it tomorrow night. In the early morning, the sun had just hung on the top of the eastern mountain, and the Hangu guard general Chongli hurriedly climbed to the top of the city, and there was no movement for several days, and he was already very anxious.

As soon as he ran up the city wall, he heard the arrow tower Sima shout urgently: "The enemy army is coming!" Express General. Chongli snorted: "Calm down, I'm here." Striding to the female wall of the arrow tower, holding the pergola in his hand and looking up, his face immediately darkened - on the vast mountain outside the pass, a golden thin line was approaching, and in a moment, the golden thin line under the morning glow turned into a surging yellow tide, heavy thunder rumbling to the ground, the flag flying iron cavalry vertical and horizontal horn loud, overwhelming the earth.

Chongli's heart was full of mixed feelings, and the deep voice of teacher Rongyi sounded in his ears: "Sticking to Hangu Pass is your only way out." A few days ago, when he went to Luoyi to meet his teacher in the name of dispatching military rations, he whispered his confusion in a no-man's land: "The second prince Xiong Hong commanded the army to attack Hangu Pass, and the King of Chu pressured me to choose the opportunity to sacrifice the pass, is this matter feasible?" I remember that day, Rong Yi's sharp eyes almost saw through him, and he gasped and asked: "In front of it, there were heavy troops of the Eighth Division of Chengzhou, and then there was Zhaogonghu pinching your grain and grass supplies, and there was also a royal supervisor by his side, and there were ambushes of Weihe inside and outside the pass, what do you say?" How could he not understand that offering his life was equivalent to giving his life, but ...... He still wants to earn a fortune for his homeland: "Is there no other way to go?" ”

"Hmph......" Rong Yi sneered: "Once you have entered the Zhou room, you are Zhou Chen, you should forget your identity in the Chu room." The battle of Hangu Pass is the time for you to break with Xiongqu in a showdown. "It's time!

Looking at the gold tide surging outside the gate, Chongli smiled coldly and ordered: "Gather troops!" "Ten horns

The sound of "woo-" suddenly resounded through the city. With the rapid and mournful trumpet, groups of red-clad soldiers poured up to the city from a dozen stone stairs and horse paths.

In a moment, the armor on the walls at both ends of the arrow tower was bright. Chongli turned around and strode up to the drum stand at the highest point in the center of the arrow tower, took off two arm-thick drumsticks, and shouted loudly: "All teams are in position, return to my order-" After that, he beat the drumsticks and played a rapid drum beat like dense rain.

m In a moment, there were three short horns under the arrow tower, and then a long response: "A thousand bows and crossbows are in place——"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! "Three heavy drums sounded at the height of the arrow tower. Two trombones sounded at the head of the city, and one responded: "A thousand rolling logs and stones are in place—"

"Boom! Rumble Rumble Rumble! A trombone, a response: "Three thousand spearmen in place—"

"Knock knock! Knock knock! One long, two short, three horns, followed by an echo: "A thousand guerrillas are in place—"

"Knock knock! Boom! Two long and one short three horns, and another echo: "Two thousand porters are in place-"

"Boom Boom! Boom! The head of the city suddenly shouted in unison: "Protect me Da Zhou, don't die and don't spin!" "The mountain and the valley should be suddenly thundered and crushed into the distance.

At this moment, the army in the distance had condensed into a vast beige forest. Suddenly, rumbling war drums swept across the field, and three huge infantry phalanxes pushed cloud chariots and carried cloud ladders, and the angry clouds rolled towards this small Guancheng in the rolling mountains.

After the phalanx, a large banner hunted Shu roll, fighting big

The word "Chu" can also be seen very clearly in the city. According to Xiong Hong's agreement with Hu Yufang, the onslaught on Hangu Pass should have started in the afternoon.

This is also the siege practice since ancient times, one is that the army gallops to the city, and it must take a short rest; The second is to attack the city in the afternoon, which is closely connected with the night battle, and the soldiers will not lose their strength.

However, Xiong Hong thought about it again and again, and felt that Hangu was closed within two mountains, and the city could accommodate more than 20,000 people at most to attack the city, and if the 100,000 troops took turns to attack, there was no need to worry about the soldiers losing their strength.

If you can conquer Hangu Pass before the Hubei army takes Luoyi and go straight to the hinterland of Guanzhong, it will be a battle that will be famous all over the world.

With this thought, he made the following arrangements: the cavalry stayed in the base camp, and the infantry marched lightly and fiercely attacked the city; Once the fortress is conquered, it will be driven straight by the follow-up cavalry; Even if the siege battle is protracted, the infantry can also rotate back to the base camp to rest.

Under this deployment, all the 80,000 infantry of the Chu army were lightly armed, with only one day's dry food and siege-related weapons, and the rest of the baggage was left in the base camp.

The deployment was certain, and the main force of the Chu army went out at midnight, marched lightly, and rushed to the Hangu Pass when the sun came out of the mountain.

Seeing that there were no heavy troops in the pass, Xiong Hongda was excited, and gave an order to attack a phalanx of 10,000 people first.

Make an agreement: whoever is the first to climb the city will be rewarded with a thousand gold and sealed a thousand households! For the soldiers on the bloody battlefield, the bounty is something outside the body, and it is not certain that they will receive it if they die in battle.

It just shows that the king of Chu has obtained the Tonglu Mountain, and he has made a lot of generous moves. But this thousand fiefdoms are inherited by their descendants for eternity, and for them who are not surnamed Mi, it is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

As soon as such a reward came out, the soldiers were all in their blood, and the mountains roared like a tsunami to Hangu Pass. Chongli at the head of the city roared: "Light up the wolf smoke and beacon fire - fight!" ”