Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1110 Origin

  Tongguan city, in the dark night, people and horses were fighting, and the soldiers of both sides fought together, and the figures changed from big to small under the light of the fire, like ghosts.

  Tongguan City was originally defended against the Hongnong side, and after the previous battle, there are still many places waiting to be repaired, and there are no residential villages around. The main thing in Tongguan City is said to be important, but it is no different from the guard dog left behind by Yang Biao's withdrawal from Guanzhong. In addition, it has been safe for half a year, so it is inevitable to slack off a lot.

  So these days Yang Tong is lazy in the government office and the like. These Tongguan guards who have no errands and no one to supervise them, who will brave the cold outside to work hard when winter comes?

When Ma Yan led the labor force dressed as luggage, tricked the city gate into opening and started killing, although there were not many soldiers in Tongguan, but the soldiers who left the city gate were attacked panicked, Many Tongguan soldiers in the city did not respond for a while!

When the Tongguan defenders on the left side of the city gate shouted loudly, and the screams continued, the Tongguan defenders in the city began to riot. People came out of the earthen huts and tents, and looked at the city gate in a daze. chaotic scene.

Both Yang Tong and Li Xian were trapped on the top of the city tower. There were only some low-level non-commissioned officers left in the city, who were still trying to control the situation, and ordered the soldiers to form a formation, put on armor, look for weapons, open bows and arrows, and prepare to defend. !

However, the orders of these low-level non-commissioned officers are inevitably a bit messy, and the shouts are earth-shattering. There are quite a few, but soldiers who have not formed an array can no longer be called an effective combat force, and it is even difficult to achieve a combined force.

Ma Yan brought a hundred people to serve as guards for the baggage cart, and there were two hundred soldiers in the baggage cart. These soldiers were all armored and elite. The soldiers were scattered in all directions.

Xu Shu prepared to attack the city behind, but did not leave much buffer time for the Tongguan defenders. The brigade kept rushing towards the gate of Tongguan city. The sound of horseshoes is as exciting as thunder, and all these scenes add to the chaos at the West Gate of Tongguan!

   Not long after, the vanguard cavalry of the brigade rushed to the west gate of Tongguan. The speed was so fast that even Mayan's vanguard had not had time to push all the empty baggage carts away from the road!

   "Quick! Push away! The brigade is coming!"

Dozens of cavalrymen at the front led their horses and shuttled through the gaps in the baggage carts, shouting, and then rushed into the city gate without stopping, along the street, directly meeting the Tongguan soldiers who began to gather in the city Bumped together!

  Both sides suddenly burst out with loud shouts of killing. One side wants to retreat, the other side wants to rescue. The two sides are entangled together. Weapons are flying and colliding. From time to time, some people fall off their horses, and some people fall down covered in blood from time to time.

But after all, Xu Shu's cavalry rushing to the city had been prepared for a long time, and they were fully equipped. The cavalry who came later saw that the road was congested. The guards at Tongguan burst out!

  In the night, I saw the snow-white feathers streaking across the night sky with slight traces, and then stuck on the human body, blooming blood flowers one after another...

   When Xu Shu rushed to the city with a large army, the Tongguan defenders' will to resist, which was not much in the first place, collapsed, and many people began to throw down their weapons and try to escape from the battlefield.

  The resistance at the gate of the city gradually weakened. Except for Yang Tong and Li Xian on the top of the city who barely brought some men to resist Mayan's attack, the rest of the place had basically given up.

  In such a short period of less than two or three quarters, there were already corpses everywhere near the west gate of Tongguan, and blood flowed horizontally, dyeing the people and horses blood red, and they looked even more hideous in the light of the fire.

  Xu Shu raised his saber and shouted: "Enter the city! Those who don't surrender will be killed without mercy!"

   At this moment, Li Xian was also covered in blood, some belonged to others, and some belonged to him.

  Backed by Ma Yan from the Chi Road, he almost immediately fell into the chaotic Tongguan soldiers. After finally calming down the surrounding soldiers, he found that the entire battlefield was beyond control.

   If he hadn't been tricked into opening the city gate, then he could still resist for a while, but now the soldiers and horses rushing in from outside the city have separated the rest of the Tongguan soldiers in the city from the guards at the top of the city...

Ma Yan had already dismounted at this time, but he rushed to the front of the queue. His movements were large, but accurate and powerful. He knocked off the opponent's weapon with the arm shield of his left hand, smashed or stabbed the spear, and almost no one could do it. Resist, every wave is a Tongguan soldier's fall!

  At Ma Yan's side, everyone was fighting fiercely, which formed a stark contrast with the Tongguan defenders.

   "Break the city! Break the city!"

   "Those who don't surrender will be killed without mercy!"

   More and more voices are shouting, while the voices in the city are getting quieter...

   "Damn it! Kill! Kill me back!" Yang Tong screamed, yelling desperately to let his soldiers charge forward, while he himself shrank back.

  Li Xian with one arm hanging down, retreated to Yang Tong's side panting, and said, "Captain, I can't keep it... What should we do..."

"Kill! Kill them! Otherwise, you will all die! You will all die!" Yang Tong screamed, then stared at Li Xian like a maniac, grabbed Li Xian's lapel, spit and shouted, "You What are you doing back down! Why don't you go up and kill them! Kill them!"

   "Captain!" Li Xian tried to wake Yang Tong up, and said, "We can't hold it anymore! Captain, we have already lost! We can't hold it anymore!"

Yang Tong was originally just a son of the gentry who had learned some military strategies, how could he compare with the generals who had actually been on the battlefield, under the panic and fear of losing the pass, he had obviously entered a state of madness, as if he had never Hearing that, he grabbed Li Xian's skirt, raised the knife in his hand, and howled, "No! Kill me! Otherwise, I'll cut you off!"

  Seeing that Li Xian was still hesitant, Yang Tong actually chopped him down without saying a word!

   Li Xian hurriedly parried with a knife. One arm was injured, and he avoided it with some difficulty. He was in a panic for a while.

  Yang Tong still slashed with the knife relentlessly, and roared: "Kill you! Kill you! Kill them all! Kill them all! Kill..."

  Yang Tong stopped in the middle of his cry, and when he looked down, he didn't know when Li Xian's saber had pierced his body.

  Yang Tong let out a throat gurgling sound, then dropped his saber and fell to the ground, falling on his back...

  Li Xian looked at Yang Tong, turned his head away, and shouted: "No more fights! No more fights! We surrender! Surrender..."

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  At this moment, fierce siege battles are also going on on the north bank of the Weishui River in Chang'an.

The fireworks inside and outside the mausoleum have covered the sky and the sun, and the corpses on the city wall are everywhere. The blood has turned the soil around the city into blood-colored mud. No matter whether it is a man or a horse, every time they step on it, it turns over. It's a purple-black color.

The tombs of Chang'an were originally the tombs of the emperors of the Han Dynasty. Because of the long construction time and the need for a lot of manpower, they gradually formed a small city with a large population, but they didn't know that the emperors of the Han Dynasty , Watching the juniors hacking and killing each other underground, what kind of feeling does it feel in my heart...

Seeing that the sky had completely disappeared and the battlefield was dark, Zhao Wen couldn't help sighing, and said, "Mingjin, withdraw your troops." After a day of cutting, it still needs to be repaired, so it is not a last resort, and I will not choose to attack the city at night.

   "clang clang clang..."

  Accompanied by the sound of the golden gong, the soldiers who were attacking the city stopped immediately, turned around and walked back, and some even climbed up the ladder, and immediately slid down regardless.

  Under the city are all pawns who staggered and retreated. At this moment, the defenders on the city wall of the mausoleum also retracted their weapons, even those who had already strung their strings and drew their bows.

  In fact, some of the soldiers on both sides knew each other, and many of them were friends. If it wasn’t for the general order, who would be willing to raise a sword to a former friend...

   "General Xia!" Zhao Wen looked at Xia Mou with some dissatisfaction and said, "It has been many days since the attack, how long will it take to capture this small tomb?"

Xia Mou arched his hands and said: "Emissary Zhao, when the sons attacked, they did not slack off at all! This mausoleum is surrounded by mountains and rivers, so it is easy to defend and difficult to attack... But please rest assured, the soldiers in the mausoleum are similar It's exhausted, so it can be conquered in a few days..."

   Zhao Wen snorted, and was about to say something when suddenly a few war horses galloped from afar, which immediately attracted Zhao Wen's attention. One of these knights, a messenger, rushed to Zhao Wen soon, and delivered the urgent report from Zuo Fengyi.

   "Zhengxi...moved?!" Zhao Wen followed the light of the torch, looked at it a few times, and couldn't help blurting out.

  Xia Mou, who stood aside with his ears pricked up, was also taken aback. He widened his eyes and asked, "What? General Zhengxi is here? Where are you?"

  Zhao Wen turned his eyes, looked at Xia Mou with a half-smile, and said, "Why, is General Xia worried, or is he timid?"

After all, Xia Mou is also an old man, so he quickly adjusted his expression, stroked his beard and said, "Master Zhao is serious...Since I am leading the army, I have to pay more attention to the other party's movements. Why, come to Mr. Zhao , how did you become timid?"

  Zhao Wen smiled and said: "So, Zhao has made a slip of the tongue. However, General Xia can rest assured that it is not General Zhengxi who is dispatched, but the partial army stationed in Suyi under his command..."

  Xu Shu was stationed in Suyi, Zhao Wen naturally paid attention to it all the time, so Xu Shu set out from Suyi to attack, and it was not long before he was detected by the people sent by Zhao Wen, so naturally he reported to Zhao Wen immediately.

  Xia Mou squinted his eyes, calculated in his heart, and said, "I don't know how many people are there? How many horses?"

"Huh... there are nearly three thousand infantry, and about two thousand horse troops..." Zhao Wen snorted, not knowing what it meant, and said slowly, "...this is an all-out mobilization, and there are only three hundred defenders left in Suyi... "

  Xia Mou frowned slightly, and said: "So... Su Yi is here, it will take five days at the earliest, and seven days at the slowest! The number is quite a lot, this... is tricky!"

  Zhao Wen looked at Xia Mou, and then said in a deep voice: "General Xia, don't worry, this army is not coming to Chang'an, but going east..."

"To the east? It's hard to say...Tongguan?" Xia Mou thought for a while, then turned pale and said, "If Tongguan is lost, the communication between east and west will be cut off... Well, what should I do..." Xia Mou fell to Zhao Wen, In fact, it is mostly because of Yang Biao's face. Now that Tongguan is at risk, it means that the main road of communication with Hongnong will be cut off and contact will be lost. Naturally, I feel a little flustered.

Zhao Wen pondered for a while, and said: "Tongguan has more than 2,000 defenders, and there is no shortage of food, grass and equipment... Therefore, there may be insufficient advances, and the defense should last for ten and a half months... Even if the force of the Western Division is twice that of Tongguan It is not easy to pull out the city..." The siege battle is the most cruel and time-consuming thing, and it is completely exhausted with human lives, so it is not a problem for Zhao Wen to have such a judgment.

   "But..." Zhao Wen groaned, thinking, frowning tightly. This army marching west is going east, so when will the next army marching west come, and where will it go?

  Zhao Wen does not believe that Fei Qian would be idle and bored, and let his soldiers attack at will, so there must be a goal, and this goal, no matter how I feel, I think it is here. After all, Zhong Shao and Fei Qian seem to have a bit of an agreement...

  Zhao Wen pondered for a long time, then gritted his teeth and said, "Suyi!"

  Xia Mou rolled his eyes and said, "What does Mr. Zhao mean?"

"A few days ago, news came from Hedong that General Zhengxi was still in Pingyang! What's more, the area from Pingyang to Beiqu, and from Beiqu to Diaoyin are all mountain roads, winding and rugged, and it is difficult to travel! So calculating the time, even if It’s General Zhengxi who drives fast, and can’t reach Diaoyin right now!” Zhao Wen said while thinking, “That is to say, General Zhengxi may be able to get here as soon as possible to rescue the Zhong family. It's on the east line!"

  From Pingyang to Hedong, and then from Hedong to Guanzhong, except for Shaanxi and Tianjin, which need to cross the river, most of the rest of the area is flat, which is naturally faster and more convenient than taking the mountain road...

   What's more, the only way to go is to conquer Tongguan!

"That's right!" Zhao Wen clapped his hands heavily, and said, "That's it! Heh heh, so and so sent a partial army to capture Suyi, block the intersection of Diaoyin going south, and then transfer troops to support Tongguan! In this way, even if it is a levy If Xi wants to turn around, it will be too late!"

  (end of this chapter)