July 19, 20, 21.

Gongsun Chan launched an attack on the Sanhe Pavilion on the side of Guangyang Road for three consecutive days, but he could not overcome it.

Taishan General Mao Shao used his own example to illustrate that with thousands of people and one heart, the strategy is strong, and although the enemy is five times as strong as him, he cannot be defeated.

But for Mao Shao in the Qi, although he is worry-free now, as the main force of the Zhenbei army continues to move south to Sanhe Pavilion, the pressure on his side will become more and more, so he also hopes that Zhang Dan on the periphery can rescue him.

In fact, Mao Shao didn't know that when Gongsun Chan launched the third attack on the 21st, Zhang Dan's side really allocated a reinforcement to rescue Mao Shao.

On July 21, after the excavation of the outer fortifications of Jiumen had been completed, Zhang Dan sent Pan Zhang to dispatch 1,000 people from his remaining headquarters to rescue Sanheting.

Zhang Dan did not have high expectations for Pan Zhang's actions, because fighting on the Great Plains, the side lacking cavalry was too passive. He just wanted to send a signal to his subordinates inside the Three Rivers Pavilion:

"We will not abandon you."

Sure enough, as soon as Pan Zhang led the thousands of people in his headquarters to the north, he was detected by Gongsun Zhan's outpost.

He was worried about how to conquer the enemy of Sanhe Pavilion, so he sent such a big gift, so he naturally didn't plan to let it go. As long as the reinforcements of the Taishan Army from the south are eliminated and the head of their military flag is captured, it will naturally be able to form a huge blow to the morale of the thief army in the pavilion.

In this way, Gongsun Zan dispatched Gai Tong, Lu Fang, Gongsun Yue, Gongsun Fan, Shan Jing, Xian Yufu and other departments, with the cooperation of local tyrants and townspeople, to prepare to ambush Pan Zhang's department at the fourth watch.

At the same time, in order to protect the safety of the back road, Gongsun Zhan also left Zhou Zhong, the captain of the Yue cavalry, to continue to carry out a containment attack on Sanhe Pavilion, so that he would not know that his reinforcements had arrived.

After proper scheduling, on July 23, when the sky was faint, Gongsun Zhan immediately led 2,000 horsemen to raid Pan Zhang's camp in front and back. But who knew that the sneak attack battle, which should have been foolproof, did not achieve the expected results.

It turned out that after Pan Zhang went north, although he was anxious about the safety of Sanheting's subordinates, he also knew that he was actually in a very dangerous situation.

The first is that they are not covered by cavalry, which makes them very narrow in vision and extremely vulnerable to ambushes. Another is that they have too few troops, and once they fight the Han cavalry in the field, they will not be able to catch it. In the end, he was also worried that he wouldn't make the people in Sanhe Pavilion panic because of the defeat on his side, and it would be worth the loss.

So, Pan Zhang did a steady and steady fight from the beginning, standing firm, and preventing night attacks.

Therefore, if you have the heart to win without intention, although Gongsun Zhan's cavalry is heavy, it can't break through Pan Zhang's gate at the first time, so the so-called defeat has become a delusion.

In this way, Gongsun Chan couldn't help Pan Zhang, and Pan Zhang couldn't help Gongsun Zhan, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.

At the same time, the main force of the Zhenbei Army in the north has been getting closer and closer, if Gongsun Zan can't pull out the Sanhe Pavilion and open up the passage for the army to go south, then the original advantage of the Han army will be discounted.

So, Gongsun Chan sought advice from Shi Guan Jing, the commander of the army.

Guan Jing and Gongsun Chan are both students of Lu Zhi, but compared to Gongsun Chan and Liu Bei, Guan Jing is the student of Lu Zhi's true biography.

Gongsun Chan also relies on this senior brother a lot, so he often asks about things left and right.

In the face of Gongsun Zhan's request for advice, Guan Jing had no reservations and said frankly:

"With Jing's original intention, Lu Shi should not use troops at this time, but I hate that Zhao Jun's clever words and coaxed Lu Shi's soldiers to go south."

Regarding Guan Jing's answer, Gongsun Chan was quite surprised. was in Shangquyang before, although he also felt that Zhao Jun's tongue was fancy, but he still admitted in his heart that Zhao Jun was reasonable.

Now if you don't take advantage of the Taishan army to go south before the harvest, wait for the opponent's food to be sufficient, and take the Jiumen foothold as a defensive node, then it will be passive.

And Gongsun Chan still has a thing in his heart, that is, if it is not Zhao Jun, he Gongsun Chan will not go south to make meritorious contributions. But Guan Jing in front of him has always been Gongsun Zhan's trusted senior brother, and he still attaches great importance to his opinion, so he asked.

Guan Jing directly listed the following reasons for Gongsun Zhan:

"It's the July heat, and even Hebei is extremely hot. Our army has many cavalry, and it is a northerner, so it is not heat-resistant. In the back, the soldiers were steaming, hungry, thirsty, and tired, and the epidemic was exposed, so how to drive the soldiers to battle. Even if a man can endure it, can a horse? What's more, our army is full of nonsense, and there are many troubles, and we will have the heart to return to the north. Once one person fled, a hundred followed, and an army would waver. At that time, what can Lu Shi do if he repents? ”

In fact, after Guan Jing only said this one reason, Gongsun Chan was convinced, but Guan Jing didn't stop, and said another thing that Gongsun Chan was worried about.

Guan Jing said indifferently in a deep and cold tone:

"Dashuai is still too optimistic. Xianbei is violent, Wuhuan is treacherous, and the Huns are treacherous, all of which have the intention of invading China. The three ethnic groups are all over the north, and every time there is something in China, the small and the big know everything. Now I gather the soldiers of the north to ask for a thief from Mount Tai. If you can thunder and make contributions, it will be fine, and once the winter and summer are extended, it will be dangerous. There are already many Hu people in our army, and we know the truth of our army. At that time, the Saiwai tribe knew that I was unfavorable, and admitted that it was a crime, and with today's strength, could it be possible to save it? When the time comes, the soldiers in the north will be in trouble, how can we have the face to explain to our hometown fathers? ”

At this time, Gongsun Zhan's eyes were already red, he was a Han supremacist, and he couldn't wait to kill all the Hu people. Originally, because Lu Shi was pressing on it, he couldn't bear to destroy the overall situation, so he turned a blind eye to Hu Renchong's presence in the army.

And now when he heard the consequences of Guan Jing's words, he couldn't sit still anymore, and he couldn't wait to kill all the Hu people in the general immediately.

Fortunately, he still had reason at this time, knowing that he couldn't do this, and said to Guan Jing, now that the matter has come to this, the top priority is to break the Sanhe Pavilion and ask him if he has a plan.

And Guan Jing really gave Gongsun Chan a strategy.

After the failure of ambushing Pan Zhang's reinforcements, Gongsun Zhan began to go out with his whole army, constantly plundering the nearby townships, and drove all the villagers to Sanheting.

Yan Bing is a foreign soldier, and there are many Hu people, and their military discipline can be imagined. Along the way, there were Han people who fled and were killed, and the back of the Hu people and horses was full of captured women, pots and bowls, all of which were useful things.

After driving all the people from the nearby villagers into the camp, Gongsun Zhan suddenly invited 16 generals under his command to enter the camp in the name of rewarding merit.

When the generals who were still in the camp heard that Gongsun Chan was going to reward them, they all rushed to enter the big tent.

At this time, Gongsun Zhan had already ambushed the strong men under the curtain, and when the generals arrived, they stood out and captured them behind the tent.

There is a Hu general muttering awkward Chinese dialect and said angrily:

"You Han people are so unreasonable, it was your marshal who invited us to go south, but now you are doing this to us? Can you bear the wrath of your commander? ”

Gongsun Zhan ignored him at all, and then a group of soldiers stepped forward, grabbed the head of the Hu man, and smashed the man's yellow teeth with the handle of the axe.

The ferocious scene directly frightened the other Hu people, and they knew in their hearts that it was not good, and this Gongsun Zan was afraid that he was going to kill them all.

So, a Wuhuan rider, in a very standard Chinese dialect, lay on the ground and kept kowtowing, crying bitterly:

"General, we will be guilty of capital punishment for prostitutes in the camp. But please see that the general is about to fight the war, it is better to let us die on the battlefield, so as to repay the general's kindness. ”

This Wuhuan will be a clever tongue, if it is an ordinary Han general in person, he may agree to the words.

But they met Gongsun Zhan, the "White Horse Captain" who was known outside the Saiwai.

So sixteen heads were cut off, and the inside of the tent was bloody.

When some of the nearby Hu people heard the shouts of their chiefs, they also put on their armor and marched to the big tent.

Seeing that a mutiny was about to happen, Gongsun Zhan, dressed in blood, came out of the tent and stood at the military gate to angrily rebellious soldiers:

"I see who dares to violate my military law!"

These Hu soldiers knew Gongsun Zhan, knew that his people were very brave, and saw the Han soldiers pressing nearby, these Hu soldiers who had lost their leader Hu knew that the general situation was gone, so they could only surrender.

In the end, these Hu soldiers were split by Gongsun Zhan, and they were never repeated.

Easily eliminated the hidden dangers in the army, Gongsun Zhan began to implement the Guan Jing policy.

In general, his strategy can be summed up in the word "encirclement".

Since I can't attack it, and you're in a strategic passage, I'll surround you inside. This enclosure is to dig a deep trench directly around the periphery of the Sanhe Pavilion, and then build a circle of walls outside, trapping the Taishan army inside.

And the Sanhe Pavilion is already small, once the Han army uses this strategy, it won't take long to win without a fight. So this strategy is not ingenious, but it is extremely useful.

So Gongsun Chan began to drive the displaced people who were captured nearby and began to dig trenches around the Sanhe Pavilion.

Mao Shao saw that the enemy army began to change tactics, and after a little thought, he understood what the other side was going to do.

Because when he was captured, Taishan used this tactic in the army, do you say that Mao Shao can not remember it vividly?

Therefore, Mao Shao took advantage of the construction of the Han army and led troops to attack the wall several times, often several times a day, which seriously damaged the construction progress of the Han army.

In this way, Mao Shao of Sanhe Pavilion bought three more days for Zhang Dan and Dong to visit there.

It was also in these three days that the entire battle situation underwent earth-shaking changes, greatly reversing the entire battle situation.

On July 23, the first day after Pan Zhang's troops had already gone north.

The Taishan army ended a few days of truce and began a fierce attack on the Nine Gates.

On the fifth watch, the Taishan army sneaked to Jiumen Waihao with two battalions of 1,000 people each, and filled the trenches with soil. But when it was time to fill the second trench, the Han army on the Jiumen City found that the attack of the Taishan army was blocked.

Seeing that the offensive was blocked, the former enemy commander-in-chief Dong visited and ordered the second group to prepare for the replacement. And this time, he sent 800 longbowmen, all of whom set fire arrows and burned the guards on the Nine Gates City.

The remaining 500-man armoured men attacked in the midst of the fireworks above.

But the South Gate guard attacked by the Taishan Army was obviously a qualified military official. In the face of the alternating attacks of the Taishan army, his people responded calmly.

On the one hand, he ordered the sergeants to overturn the burned tent under the city, and then ordered the men to cover the fire with sand. On the other hand, he ordered the wrestlers to be brave and strong to shoot rolling stones to stop the Tarzan army armor under the city.

The armor warriors who were running with the ladder were directly hit head-on. They are not afraid of the arrows of the Han army, but they are afraid of the golden juice of rolling stones.

For a while, under the head of the city, there were many mournings.

Dong visited the city and saw that the losses were serious, so he hurriedly waved the flag and ordered the third team to go up.

And over there, the Han army at the head of the city also saw a general standing on the slope, and saw that its golden drum honor guard was readily available, and he knew that it was the big eye of the thief.

Therefore, the head of the city will order 200 archers with accurate heads to shoot at Dong Wan in the high place, and arrows rain down, but Dong Wan was not injured by an arrow, and everyone thought that he was a god.

After the armor soldiers in front were withdrawn, the third rotation had already filled in all three heavy layers in the back and arrived at the root of the city to cover them. This time, they took the siege equipment brought up from the rear and began to build defensive positions under the city roots.

There were crash cars that crashed under the city gate, ladder trucks that raised ladders under the city to transport troops, and giant trucks that hit the city wall directly to provide shelter for the sergeants below.

The variety of siege methods did not make the siege smooth. Because for the guards at the head of the city, no matter what kind of equipment you use, you can't change the fact that these are all wooden, and they are afraid of fire.

So under the order of the defender, dozens of torches were thrown down from the city, and the siege equipment that the Taishan army had finally transported was burned.

Seeing the raging fire under the city, Dong Wan, who supervised the battle in front of the battle, on the one hand, Mingjin collected the troops, and on the other hand, he asked left and right:

"Does anyone know who this southern guard will be? I thought that the city was already unparalleled in the world, but I didn't expect to see one who was still good at guarding it today. ”

Faced with this question, the congregation will be ashamed and speechless.

At that time, two generals of the military academy captain Wang Zhang in the right army system came out in line and asked to fight. They are Deng Chong and Shi Lang, both of whom are fierce generals in the army.

Dong Wan shook his head, in the end, he gave up the attack of the day.

That night, the Han army at the head of the city sent down 200 warriors, along the wooden planks laid on the trench, touched the camp of the Taishan army, and was about to burn its baggage equipment. Suddenly, the torches were bright, and they were surrounded by the Tarzan legions.

Needless to say, the result was that except for some Han troops who surrendered in fear, the rest died in battle.

And Dong Wan also learned from these prisoners who the Han army guards at the south gate were.

It turned out that this person's name was Jiang Qi.

Dong Wan silently kept this person's name in his heart.

Jiang Qi's night attack on Taishan's army did not affect his defense of the city on the second day.

Dong Wan successively ordered Li Cun, Zhang Neng, Li Wu, Zheng Xiang and other brave generals of the right army system to attack the city one after another, but they could not be defeated.

That night, in order to save the morale of the army, Jiang Qi, the defender of the city, attacked the city at night again, but was once again defeated by the two brothers Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang, who patrolled the city.

In the end, only Jiang Qi and dozens of others fled back to the city in embarrassment.

The morale of the Taishan army was greatly boosted.

During the daylight of the second day, Dong Wan suddenly went against the norm and ordered the whole army to launch a general attack at Simen as soon as he came up, changing the original strategy of besieging three and attacking one.

This time, Dong Yu directly poured out the 10,000 people in his department, and took the elite warriors as the front move, attacking four gates.

And the Han army was caught off guard, and the east gate was jumped into the city by two brothers, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang. It was also at this time that Feng Xun in the city took his own guards and reinforcements in the city to the head of the city to help in the battle.

The battle was dark, and both sides were exhausted, and the Han army finally drove the Taishan army off the city.

And on this night, Jiang Qi and the others were once again unexpected, and they issued a military order with Feng Xun, gathered 800 brave soldiers, and attacked the city at night for the third time.

This time, Jiang Qi was sure that the Taishan army would not be defenseless.

But I didn't want to this time, before they touched the gate of the Taishan barracks, the Nine Gates City behind them was in chaos. Then an army burst out of the darkness and rushed towards the nine gates that had been opened.

Before long, the Nine Gates City was broken.

Do you know how the Nine Gates City was broken?