Gao Gang, although he is unknown in history, can hold Qishan Fort with inferior troops in the first Northern Expedition, if you want to say that he is a fool, you will look down on him too much.

Gao Gang still has the ability of this person, when he set up the defense line of Qishan Fort, he not only expanded the control range at the bottom of the mountain, set up five outposts, and set up a secret sentry halfway up the mountain.

This outpost is a bit like a bunker, an observation post that has been temporarily dug up with a few rocks in the shade.

Because it was covered by mountains and rocks, and it was exposed on the ground, Wei Yan did not find this dark post because his eyesight was limited during the day, and he couldn't see the team of hundreds of soldiers led by Wei Yan when it was dark.

When the guards in the outpost discovered that a large number of soldiers had gone up the mountain in the middle of the night, they immediately understood that this could not be their own people, and immediately sounded the warning horn.

As soon as the horn sounded, not only the soldiers on the mountain were awakened, but Gao Gang also woke up and realized that the situation was not good.

At this time, Wei Yan, who saw that his whereabouts were exposed, also made a quick decision, asked the raiding soldiers to light the torches, and took advantage of the short confusion period of the enemy army to quickly break through, and strive to kill at the gate of the camp on the top of the mountain and seize control of the gate of the camp.

At the same time, when Wei Yan, who was halfway up the mountain, lit the torches, he also told the 2,500 soldiers who were still under the mountain to start a general attack.

Gao Gang, although he is not a fool and has worked hard on the defense of Qishan Fort, he is not a famous general after all.

If you are prepared to fight and defend according to the terrain advantage, then Gao Gang can still hold on for a while.

But now in the face of an unprepared surprise attack, Gao Gang lacks the composure and coping qualities that a famous general should have, and he did fall into chaos in a short period of time.

When he saw that Wei Yan had already led his troops to kill halfway up the mountain, this was the first chaos, and when he saw countless torches lit at the foot of the mountain, and the torch group was advancing in the direction of Qishan Fort, it was the second chaos.

Under the two chaos, Gao Gang did not make a qualified response at the first time, and he, the main general, did not react, and the soldiers below did not know what to do in this situation in the middle of the night and the enemy situation was unknown.

Therefore, Wei Yan took advantage of this chaotic situation of the enemy army, quickly killed from the halfway up the mountain to the top of the mountain, and began to besiege the fortress gate of the Qishan Fort camp.

But the camp of Qishan Fort is a military fortress after all, and the gate of the camp is closed at night, and Wei Yan really can't break through for a while. This gave Gao Gang time to react.

In addition, Gao Gang found that although the torch team under the mountain was advancing in the direction of Qishan Fort, the nearest torch team was also five miles away from Qishan Fort, and the enemy army attacking the top of the mountain, but hundreds of people were not without a chance to turn the tables.

In the camp of Qishan Fort, there are more than 2,000 guards.

If you hold on to it and wait until the local army converges and attacks on the mountain together, although Qishan Fort can still hold on, no one knows when it will be breached.

After all, in the current situation, Qishan Fort no longer has a geographical advantage, and the number of enemy troops is unknown, once the opponent's strength exceeds more than twice his own, then Gao Gang does not know how long he can hold out with the combat effectiveness of this group of soldiers.

But now, most of the enemy army is still far away from the mountain, and only a few hundred people have attacked the top of the mountain, and there are at least four or five times more of them.

As long as these soldiers who attacked the mountain are eliminated and the condescending geographical advantage is re-occupied, then it will not be so easy for those enemy troops under the mountain to attack.

For this reason, Gao Gang gritted his teeth and ordered the gate to be released and the whole army attacked.

And at this time, Wei Yan's attack was also a little uncomfortable.

War is like this, some things are well planned, but when they are actually implemented, you will find that things may not necessarily go the way you want them to.

According to Wei Yan's layout plan, when he launched a general attack on the mountain, his remaining 2,500 people should have already reached the bottom of the cliff not far away, and at this time, it was possible to break through the Qishan Fort camp by quickly going up the mountain to reinforce himself.

But for now. Wei Yan took the time to take a look at the bottom of the mountain, and found that his group of rear soldiers were still seven or eight miles away from Qishan Fort, and most importantly, the direction seemed to be a little off, not in the southwest of the mountain road, but on the southeast side of Qishan Fort.

At this distance, in this direction, he almost didn't make Wei Yan half dead.

God knows what these soldiers are doing, it's just that the speed of movement is slow, why are they still going in the wrong direction?!

But if you think about it, these soldiers can't see clearly at night, and they can't use torches for lighting, so they rely on ropes to pull them, and there is nothing they can do if they deviate.

But in this way, Wei Yan had to rely on the strength of 500 people to attack the city on Qishan Fort, and the troops were not enough.

The lack of troops is not the point, if the defenders of Qishan Fort react, focus on their own offensive direction, and strengthen the defense of the large battalions in other places, even if their rear army arrives in time, I am afraid it will not help.

The open space at the gate of the camp of Qishan Fort could not accommodate too many people to attack and fight, but the defending army relied on the camp to defend, and it was really not so easy to break.

And once the defenders hold on until dawn and discover their own reality and reality, it will be very difficult to conquer this Qishan Fort.

So in fact, Wei Yan was really anxious, he could only hope that the guard of Qishan Fort was an incompetent person, and the chaos in the army could be longer, so that he could have more time to seize the Zhaimen.

But soon, Wei Yan knew that this was impossible.

In the originally panicked camp of Qishan Fort, the noisy panic sound became less and less, Wei Yan tried the third attack, the originally crumbling Zhaimen, this time it was replenished and strengthened by the troops, and the defense was more orderly, this attack was repelled by the enemy's arrows and throwing stones.

Obviously, the current defenders of Qishan Fort have a unified command, and the soldiers have confidence in their hearts.

Wei Yan suddenly fell into a dilemma.

If the enemy can't hold out and rely on the troops in the city to hold the walled gate, it is simply unrealistic to completely break through the big village within the narrow range of this mountaintop.

But if you retreat and besiege without attacking, then your purpose of this rapid march and sneak attack will be completely defeated.

Just when Wei Yan was in a dilemma, the turning point appeared very suddenly.

Wei Yan didn't know what the enemy defenders thought, he actually opened the door to meet the battle.

This Wei Yan really doesn't understand, is the enemy defender in the brain in the water?!

If Wei Yan is replaced to defend this Qishan Fort, even if he wants to break the enemy, Wei Yan will hold on until dawn, and after seeing the number of enemy troops clearly, how can he suddenly open the gate of the fortress and send troops to fight in the field? !

Aren't you afraid of being defeated in the field, and then you will take advantage of the situation to attack the Zhaimen?!

Wei Yan didn't understand, but Wei Yan knew that this was simply the best opportunity God had given him, if he couldn't catch it, then really don't go back to Zhang Xi, just send his head back.

As soon as he saw the enemy army coming out of the city to face the battle, Wei Yan was immediately ecstatic, drew his matching sword, held it high above the top, and shouted loudly, "The first merit of the Northern Expedition is in front of you!" All the soldiers will follow me to kill the enemy, and those who climb the city first will be rewarded with 100 gold! ”

After speaking, Wei Yan personally took his own guards and personally rushed to the front, and the first one was strangled with the Cao soldiers who rushed out of the gate.

And the Wei Yan soldiers behind him, seeing that the main generals were all rushing to kill in front, naturally they all took the lead bravely, and in addition, there was a reward of 100 gold for climbing the city first.

Again, the 100 gold in this year is not a hundred copper coins, but a genuine 100 taels of gold, a huge fortune.

If you talk to these soldiers who don't know a single soldier about "killing the enemy and serving the country", or "supporting the Han family", they won't be able to bird you, but the reward of 100 gold is enough to trigger them to fight to the death.

Therefore, under the encouragement of the main general and the monetary reward, the morale of the five hundred Wei Yan soldiers was greatly shaken and they moved forward bravely.

And Gao Gang at this time also regretted it. I shouldn't have gone out of the city to fight.

I can't beat it.

Originally, there was a big gap in the quality of the soldiers on both sides, one side was the elite soldiers of the Hanzhong Army personally trained by Wei Yan, and the other side was just an ordinary Cao Wei garrison.

Plus the other party has a monetary incentive. Gao Gang couldn't get a reward of 100 gold, and even if he made a verbal declaration now, Guo Huai, the assassin of Liangzhou, would not reimburse himself afterwards.

At that time, even if he defended Qishan Fort, I am afraid that he would have to be "reimbursed" and "reimbursed" by this group of soldiers under his command.

Now in front of the big camp of Qishan Fort, the two armies are fighting each other, and the Cao army is slowly collapsing with the naked eye.

At the gate of the camp of Qishan Fort, due to the restrictions of the terrain, it can only accommodate about a thousand people to spread out, and no matter how many people there are, they can't accommodate it.

Therefore, Gao Gang had no way to send reinforcements to meet these soldiers who went out to fight, and as soon as he left the village, he was crowded.

Gao Gang regrets it now.

Gao Gang was not a famous general in the end, first he misjudged the enemy's combat strength, thinking that he could kill Wei Yan with his numerical advantage, and then misjudged the terrain and did not carefully consider the number of fighters that could be accommodated outside the camp of Qishan Fort.

But Gao Gang still has some brains and ability, seeing that the current situation is very unfavorable to his side, if he continues to fight like this, the enemy army will be wrapped up in his own defeated army and slaughtered into the camp.

Gao Gang thought about it for a while, and his heart was ruthless, and he directly ordered the gate to be closed.

At this time, closing the walled gate means giving up the hundreds of Cao Wei soldiers who went out of the city to fight, and leaving them to fend for themselves.

As for himself, he led the remaining more than 1,000 soldiers to defend Qishan Fort, delaying time and waiting for reinforcements from Liangzhou.

Gao Gang felt that with the sturdiness of Qishan Fort, maybe he really held on until the day he saw the reinforcements. But sorry, he made a mistake again.

Gao Gang's decision was too cold-blooded and ruthless.

Those hundreds of Cao Wei soldiers were ordered to go out of the city to fight, and now Gao Gang said to abandon it, this behavior can be said to be a strong man with a broken wrist, or it can be said to be ruthless.

Gao Gang has no feelings and interests with these soldiers, but his soldiers are not many of his fellow villagers and friends, and even relatives and brothers are outside, Gao Gang ordered the gate to be closed, but it is not so easy to close.

The soldiers in these years did not have such a high consciousness, and in the case of no one organized, they would not mutiny in front of the army at this time. But procrastinating in carrying out military orders and calling on his fellow villagers to come back quickly will still be done.

And it was such a procrastination that made Wei Yan keenly aware of Gao Gang's intentions.

Wei Yan is now at the forefront of the two armies, and with his superb force value and the hard work of the guards around him, he is about to break through the entire Cao army's defense line.

In this case, how could Wei Yan not see it, and how could he not hear it. Wei Yan knew that Gao Gang must not be allowed to close the gate of the wall, this is his last chance to break through Qishan Fort.

Wei Yan looked at the gate that was slowly closing, his heart was anxious, he gritted his teeth, roared, knocked open the Cao soldier in front of him with a knife, kicked wildly, quickly passed through the enemy's defense line, and occupied the position of the camp gate with a loud roar against the cold arrows that might be shot at any time.

With his own strength, he killed several people in a row, killed the Cao army that was scattered at the gate of the camp, slashed and killed the soldiers who closed the door, and stood proudly in front of the camp gate with a knife.

Next, it is necessary to guard the camp gate and wait for his soldiers to follow.

(End of chapter)