Hangu Pass, one of the biggest "heroes" of Great Qin's domination of the world.

Before the Great Qin unified the world, when the national strength was still weak, Hangu Pass was known as the guarantee for the Great Qin to sleep peacefully from the monarch down.

There is no need to go into too much detail about its importance.

Therefore, after Lin Ze won the position of counterinsurgency commander, his first thought was to occupy Hangu Pass first.

Before thinking about victory, first thinking about defeat, only by steadily occupying Hangu Pass, and then relying on the support of the entire Guanzhong Land, Lin Ze can remain invincible.

Fortunately, Hangu Pass is not far from Lishan, only more than 400 miles, Lin Ze led an army of 50,000 people, lightly armed, and rushed to the vicinity of the pass in two days.

It's just that what makes Lin Ze feel lost is that Hangu Pass has changed hands.

Yes, even if Lin Ze realized the importance of Hangu Pass in the shortest possible time, he hurried and hurried, but he was still a step too late.

Now the gate of the pass is closed, and the battle flag with the two big characters of "Zhang Chu" is fluttering on the city wall.

Lin Ze was not too depressed, but calmly pointed to a hillside about 1,500 meters away from the pass, and ordered: "Pass on the order of the marshal, the whole army will rely on that hillside, take local materials and set up camp, rest well for a night, recuperate, and then follow the marshal tomorrow." ”

Then, under the command of a group of tomb guards, the 50,000 troops divided their labor, cut down trees and materials, set up camp, dug wells for water, and buried pots to make rice.

Lin Ze took 2,000 soldiers and stood guard not far away to prevent the rebels occupying Hangu Pass from suddenly coming out.

What surprised Lin Ze was that the rebels occupying Hangu Pass, although there was some commotion because Lin Ze brought 50,000 troops, did not send troops to test the move, which made Lin Ze secretly relieved.

What Lin Ze brought over this time was the new army, and they drove for two days in a row, whether it was their will or physical strength, they were at a low point, if the other party came to kill them when they first arrived, maybe it would bring a fatal blow to the 50,000 army.

Although Lin Ze is here, the whole army will not be wiped out, but for the new army, a defeat can make it collapse.

While carefully observing the situation at the pass, Lin Ze asked Wu Fan to hurry up and collect information about Hangu Pass in the past few days.

Briefly observed the deployment of the pass, because Lin Ze led the army to arrive, it was obvious that there were many more soldiers standing on the city wall to defend the city.

Lin Ze suddenly had a realization, maybe this army received an order to stick to the Hangu Pass and not to leave the pass easily.

Whether this is the case or not, Lin Ze has to continue to observe for a few days, and determine through the intelligence collected by Wu Fan.

After the camp was established, seeing that the rebels at Hangu Pass still had no idea of attacking the pass, Lin Ze stopped staring and led two thousand soldiers back to the camp, intending to wait until the situation was clear.

In the evening, Wu Fan came over with four brocade guards to ask to see Lin Ze, saying that there was a situation report.

Lin Ze, who was patrolling the camp, immediately put aside the matter of patrolling the camp and let Wu Fan and the others follow him back to the camp.

Wu Fan bowed to Lin Ze and said, "Lord Qiqi, my subordinates have brought all the three brocade guards who were ordered to monitor Hangu Pass, what do you want to know, just ask them." ”

The three brocade guards, seeing that their boss's boss was so respectful to Lin Ze, they didn't know that this was a big man, so they hurriedly bowed down and said: "The little one meets the adult, just ask what the adult wants to ask, the little one will definitely know everything, and the words are endless." ”

Lin Ze nodded slightly, "When did the rebels occupy Hangu Pass, and how many people are there in total?"

One of the brocade guards replied respectfully: "Three days ago, according to small observations, there were at least 100,000 people. ”

Three days? Lin Ze couldn't help but sigh, there were only three days left, and the matter of counterinsurgency changed from ordinary mode to hard mode.

According to the characteristics of Hangu Pass, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, 100,000 troops defend the city, and there is no 500,000 army to take turns to attack the city, so I can't even think that I can attack it head-on.

And the 500,000 army must be elite.

Lin Ze frowned and continued to ask, "How did the rebels behave after occupying Hangu Pass? Did they send someone to inquire about the situation in the middle of the pass?"

A brocade guard rolled his eyes and took a step forward and replied: "Lord Huiyu, after this rebel army occupied Hangu Pass, it was very cautious, and it is said that the pass was blocked on the same day, and the caravan and people were not allowed to pass. ”

"In the past three days, the 100,000 troops have all stayed in the pass, strengthening the defenses, and there is no sign of arranging people to go out to investigate, as the adults said. ”

After Lin Ze heard this, combined with his previous speculation, he could almost conclude that this was a lone army.

It is very likely that this army does not have much to do with Chen She, who is the king of Chen County, but is only ordered to occupy Hangu Pass and take the opportunity to occupy the initiative.

After all, if Chen Shi wanted to attack Chang'an and completely destroy the Qin State, Hangu Pass was a hurdle that he couldn't get around.

To his surprise, the Qin State had been unified for many years, and it actually ignored the importance of Hangu Pass, so it was easily occupied.

Now that the rebels have just occupied Hangu Pass for only three days, it is estimated that the news has not yet reached Chen She's ears, and the leader of this rebel army, in order to keep the great merit he has obtained by relying on luck, will be very conservative and stick to the pass, waiting for Chen Shen to arrange further people.

If Lin Ze wants to recapture Hangu Pass, I'm afraid the sooner the better.

If the rebels at the pass got in touch with Chen She, and received a steady stream of support from Chen She, as well as the large army sent to support, Lin Ze had no hope of recapturing this Xiongguan.

Lin Ze asked himself, who had already analyzed the situation at the pass, if he wanted to further confirm this, he would try it again tomorrow.

Next, Lin Ze asked some more about the situation of Hangu Pass, and after getting a fairly definite answer, he rewarded the three of them with some golden tickets, and waved them back.

After the three of them left, Lin Ze looked at Wu Fan and said, "The thing that the official arranged for you to do before, how are you preparing now?"

Wu Fan's face turned pale, and he bowed down and replied, "Lord Qiqi, it has been arranged. ”

Lin Ze nodded and said, "Then according to the original plan, let's launch it." ”

After Wu Fan agreed, he bowed and retreated.

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The next day, Lin Ze led an army of 20,000 and stopped a stone's throw away from the wall of Hangu Pass, and then took out his shields in the front three rows and put on a [31 31xs.] secondary defensive appearance.

Then Lin Ze came to the pass single-handedly and said in a loud voice: "This commander is the commander of the Qin army, who is the guard in the pass? ”

However, what responded to Lin Ze was a rain of arrows.

Lin Ze casually brushed aside these feather arrows, which were extremely threatening to ordinary soldiers, and couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

He originally wanted to lure out the chief general of the rebels in the city to see if he could "resist the tower" and kill him, but he didn't expect that people would not even show his face, which made Lin Ze's plan fail.

The performance of the rebel guards to strive for safety made Lin Ze more and more sure that the rebels in the city were a lone army.

Because I don't have enough confidence, that's why I behave like this.

Lin Ze neither had the joy of knowing the truth, nor the sadness of difficulty in capturing the rebels occupying Hangu Pass, but ordered the soldiers in the back rows to prepare and attack the other side with "air strikes".

After receiving Lin Ze's order, a pair of strong crossbows were assembled by the soldiers, loaded with special iron arrows, cold arrowheads, and faced the rebels in the pass.

These strong crossbows are the latest sharp weapons developed by Shaofu, and their range is one-third longer than before, so Lin Ze can stand firmly outside a stone's throw and attack the pass.

Sure enough, it still has an advantage in scientific and technological research and development.

After the "loading" was completed, a herald came to ask for instructions on whether to start firing arrows.

I saw Lin Ze give an order, and ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and countless special iron arrows fell on the wall of the pass, which looked very hideous.

However, under the protection of the city walls, the damage done to the rebels was extremely limited.

Lin Ze was not moved in the slightest, and continued to order the shooting of arrows, and as he shot and shot, smoke suddenly rose from the city wall.

That's right, this arrow is also the latest research and development crystallization of Shaofu, named rocket, and the shaft of the arrow contains incendiary substances, which can cause a fire in the concentration of quantity.

After shooting 30,000 rockets, the flames on the wall of Hangu Pass were three feet high.