Three days later,

Fifty miles southwest of Chencang, the Qinling Valley Dasan Pass.

People inside and outside the pass have a completely opposite mood.

Lu Su, who had been nervous for several days, finally received the messenger sent back by Liu Bei and Li Su, and expressed his agreement with Lu Su's defensive strategy. This made Lu Su, who had been struggling to hold on, finally calmed down.

It is allowed to withdraw and abandon Dasan Pass in a planned and rhythmic manner, so that the defense war will not collapse suddenly.

The rest is to delay time, so just drag it.

After receiving the reply, Lu Su first gave it to the county magistrates and officials of the Sanguan County under Fa Zheng, and then explained to the Qujunhou and the garrison commander who were temporarily promoted under his command, telling them the news that reinforcements were about to arrive.

"The soldiers are very good at defending! Don't worry about the lack of crossbow arrows, thorns, gray bottles of gold juice and rolling wood stones. If you see the enemy ants, you will smash them hard! The lord will make all the inventory in Hechi County arsenal support us! We only need to guard for another ten days at most! Let me go and smash them!

General Zhang’s main reinforcements should have received the lord’s messenger. Although General Zhang has not replied yet, he can arrive at Yangping Pass in twenty-five days!

There is also good news! The Gan Ning and Gan Duwei stationed in Ba County have already sent a reply to the lord! This means that he had led 10,000 Banyan Man from Ba County to head north from Jiangzhou three days ago, and would arrive six or seven days earlier than General Zhang! In 18 days, Gan Ning will definitely go to Yangping Pass and Hechi County on the 20th!"

When Lu Su told the good news to the newly-farmed recruits who had been unstable in the military, the morale of the entire army immediately stabilized.

For the troops defending the pass, nothing is more inspiring than the accurate arrival time of reinforcements. Everyone has hope in their hearts, and they will have to survive this day no matter how they defend.

It was also an unexpected surprise. In fact, when Liu Bei was about to reply to Lu Su, he himself did not expect that there was another side teacher who could be dispatched seven or eight days earlier than Zhang Fei, and that was Gan Ning.

Who made the South attack after the autumn harvest last year? Other generals either fought wars or went south to train troops to support the war, and they had to do anything. However, because Gan Ning was not adapted to the climate in Nanzhong, he vomited, had severe fever and vomited, and had severe fever. He returned to Ba County to recuperate for a full half year before he completely restored his military power.

At that time, Li Su thought that Gan Ning had a life of attacking the Southern Barbarians. Every time he went to fight with the Southern Barbarians, he would get tropical infectious diseases.

Since he recovered from his illness, Gan Ning couldn't stay idle, so he divided the reserve troops that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who were supposed to be training in Jianwei, and asked to take on training tasks and eat in Ba County. Now Liu Bei is asking for help, and Zhang Fei is at the junction of Jianwei and Yueli, and Gan Ning is closer, which is considered a disaster.

Gan Ning himself is from Bajun. Although he is a Han Chinese, he is quite familiar with Banhua. Wang Ping is by Guan Yu, so Gan Ning selected some grassroots officers from the seven surnames of the people to help him control the details, and hurriedly brought the barbarian soldiers to rescue him.

Gan Ning, who missed a year of opportunity to make meritorious service, was extremely anxious and wanted to win the first prize. The Banyan Man he led was also a mountainous nation. He originally lived in the mountains of Daba and rushed north along the Jialing River as fast as flying.

...

Fan Chou, Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu and others outside the pass were suffering.

Liu Bei escaped seven days ago, Dong Yue from Chen Cangcheng sent troops six days ago and arrived at Dasan Pass five days ago.

However, in fact, the siege battle lasted more than three days, because when the troops arrived, they had to spend two days to repair their strength and build siege equipment. Although it was only fifty miles away, because they were all Qinling Mountain Road, it was impossible to drag the heavy siege equipment stockpiled in Chencang City, so they could only be logged on site.

While building siege weapons, Jia Xu actually sent people to curse the enemy wildly, but it was obviously in vain, because no one would be so stupid that he would go out of the way to fight in the field.

When the first day of the siege of the city, the Xiliang army was still quite energetic. The soldiers believed in the propaganda that "Hanzhong lacked troops and there were not many people guarding the city". They leaned on the ladder and climbed the city and climbed quickly.

After some people rushed to the top of the city, they found that the defenders were indeed not good at melee combat. As long as one or two Xiliang soldiers gained a foothold, they could take at least five or six lives before they were assassinated and killed by random guns.

But soon they found that the defenders were not skilled in martial arts but were very resilient. The reserve team was arranged very well, and the rotation was orderly, and there was no obvious defensive loophole due to the continuous siege.

If the Xiliang soldiers wanted to go to the city of Yifu, they would have to be shot to death by at least dozens of people on the ladder. Such a terrifying exchange lasted a little longer, and the sharpness would soon disappear.

After the third day of the attack, Fan Chou calculated the casualties of his side. Today's fierce attack killed hundreds of people. They were all the Xiliang men who were licking blood from the knife. They were immediately dissatisfied.

Fan Chou rushed into Zhang Xiu's camp directly, and the crowd came out and grabbed Jia Xu's sleeve: "You old boy, Wen Huai, said, "Don't lose the attack quickly," you lost a ghost! We killed and injured more than 2,000 people just by attacking such a military military guard. Is this what you said, "Hanzhong is empty"?"

Zhang Xiu still respected Jia Xu more and hurried over to hold Fan Chou: "How dare you be rude! Fan Chou, you are just a captain, Jia Chou is also a captain. You and my uncle are both on the same level. Jia Chou is the most trusted person in General Yangwu. Do you don't want to be promoted to General General!"

Fan Chou had a bad temper, so of course he was not showing any weakness. He pushed Zhang Xiu hard before giving up: "Zhu Zi! Nai Weng doesn't have the same thing as you interrupt! You also know that I am on par with your uncle!"

Zhang Xiu swallowed his anger and did not dare to ask for it back. He rubbed it, only asking Fan Chou to get angry and then he would pass here.

It turns out that in history, after Li Ju and Guo Si entered Beijing, Li Guo and others were immediately named General Yang Wu and General Yang Lie, and Fan Chou and Zhang Ji should be promoted to General Zhonglang.

But now because of the butterfly effect, the left Zhonglang general Dong Yue stationed troops in Chen Cang. He did not participate in the attack on Chang'an, so he did not make any contribution. Fan Chou, who was implicated in Dong Yue's command, could not be promoted for the time being.

After all, Zhang Ji and Fan Chou were lower than Dong Yue at the beginning. When they were General of the Central Army, they were just lieutenants. Dong Yue was not dead or promoted, so they had to wait, hoping to make a contribution and get a name for themselves and ask Emperor Xian for an official position.

Although Chang'an is already in chaos, he still has to pay a little attention to the title of title. Even Li Jue himself did not dare to be a general with a heavy title at the beginning.

After Li Jue took power in history, he first reigned Huangfu Song as the General of the Cavalry and Cavalry for three or four months, and used this sign to stabilize the hearts of the people. Then he promoted Huangfu Song Ming and secretly demoted to the Grand Marshal, and Li Jue himself replaced him as the General of the Cavalry and Cavalry. In this life, Li Jue still respected Huangfu Song, but in fact he did not have any military power, and he was a mascot.

As for Jia Xu, before Dong Zhuo moved west, he had already been appointed as the "Pingjin Pass Commander" (Xiaopingjin is Luoyang, a ferry crossing on the south bank of the Yellow River west of Mengjin Ferry). After Luoyang was abandoned, Jia Xu had been promoted to the Captain of the Anti-Escaping, so he was on the same level as Li Jue and Guo Si.

Jia Xu was just afraid that being a leader would be too hatred, so this time the rebels were just in the uprising stage, and he chose not to ask for promotion for the time being. Just like in the late Qin Dynasty, when Pei County rebelled, Xiao He and Cao Shen had more valuable lives and had concerns, and did not want to be the chief evil, so Liu Bang, a barefoot person who was not afraid of wearing shoes, was the "center evil".

However, with the complete feud with Liu Bei's camp, Jia Xu's mentality actually relaxed slightly. He felt that if he was indeed unstoppable and did not escape the possibility of Liu Bei's hatred, it would be better to be the official, strengthen the direct power, and add more iron-core allies to strengthen his own trump card.

In history, Jia Xu dared to offend Cao Cao and then surrender to Cao Cao because he knew that Cao Cao urgently needed foreign aid before and after the Battle of Guandu, and no longer respected the Han Dynasty. At that time, the incident of wearing clothes and edicts had already happened. So no matter how many sins Jia Xu had committed to the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao didn't care.

But Liu Bei is different. Liu Bei is a hard-core Han faction. Even if Jia Xu offended Liu Bei himself, Liu Bei can generously forgive him in the future, but the crimes of "trying to overthrow the Han Dynasty" are difficult to escape.

Jia Xu's IQ is very clear about this. He can only protect himself or rely on those who are enemies of Liu Bei to protect him.

...

After Jia Xu and Fan Chou had an attack and Zhang Xiu endured the grievance, he sincerely bridged the internal conflicts of the coalition and gave a briefing on Fan Chou:

"Person Fan, I ask you to attack quickly and not lose it, for everyone's sake. I don't think there is anything wrong with this strategy. Although Guanzhong is known to have the fourth pass of Qin, Liangzhou, Hanzhong, and Wanluo are now in the hands of the enemy. It is not a long-term solution to find a place without any worries.

As for the temporary setback of the attack, I did not expect that the guard generals were so tenacious. Sanguan was located in a narrow valley, and it was difficult for the army to be launched. At first, I planned to use suspicious soldiers to suppress them and bows and crossbows, so that all the soldiers guarding the gate could not rest. However, our army relied on the large number of people to attack in turn. Within a few days, our army was full of energy and the enemy was exhausted, so we naturally broke through the gate.

Unfortunately, the guard general was not moved by my suspicion of the military noise, and the dispatch of An Zhiruo Su. I heard that the county magistrate of Sanguan was Fa Zheng, but he was just a young man who was not as good as the champion. Although he was said to have many ingenious ideas, it seems that I was wrong about him, or was the guard general not Fa Zheng? But Li Su must have been counseling military aircraft beside Liu Bei. I was defeated by Wuzhangyuan a few days ago, so I should not be able to get out of Sanguan..."

"Say so much nonsense, just say how to get this San Pass! You don't want to say that these two thousand people were killed or injured in vain!" Fan Chou was very impatient when he heard this, and he didn't bother to care about these excuses at all.

Jia Xu was slightly ashamed: "I can only continue to attack for the time being, but don't worry, I will investigate the situation of the defender as soon as possible, and I will have a look tonight."

Fan Chou couldn't continue to complain for a while, so he could only wait and see for another night.

Fortunately, on the third day of the attack, both sides suffered heavy casualties. The siege side actually had the opportunity to try to capture some captive ants when climbing the city. When climbing the city, they often climbed to the top of the city and fell down the wall with the defenders. The walls of Sanguan were not high, and those who fell down might not be dead.

Jia Xu was worried and ordered the soldiers to take advantage of the night to pull the corpse under the wall and pretend to collect the corpse.

At the beginning, he tried his best to shoot arrows downward, but he couldn't see the target clearly in the dark night and his killing efficiency was not high. Later, Jia Xu simply asked his soldiers to shout from a distance in advance, saying that his side was just trying to collect corpses, and he also ran on the grounds that "it was unrighteous to collect corpses, and both sides had the attack and defense of the corpses collected."

Of course, the defenders would not give up shooting arrows because of their verbal benefits, but the key was to confirm that Jia Xu just wanted to collect the corpse. The defenders felt that it was beneficial to him, so they adopted a scheming attitude while surveillance. As long as the corpse collecting team did not move other abnormal movements, they would not stop it for the time being.

Because the defense at the level was also afraid that the corpses would pile too high, and even formed a slope to level the city wall, the siege party, regardless of casualties, could step on the corpse and siege the city and rushed up directly.

However, Jia Xu obviously did not intend to make the pile of corpses shorter. The corpse collection team he ordered was to pretend to drag the corpses of the Xiliang army, but in fact, he tried his best to select the fallen Han soldiers.

After being pulled back to the camp to identify, Jia Xu found several angry survivors, including some grassroots officers, who could wake up after a little treatment from the military doctor.

Jia Xu ordered some porridge torture the situation of the guard general, and he easily tricked him into knowing the information of the guard general and some other information.

After hearing this, Jia Xu thought to himself: "It turns out that the commander of Sanguan is Lu Su? And the one who was defeated by me in Wuzhangyuan that day was Fa Zheng? What a pity, I thought I beat Li Su almost to annihilation.
Chapter completed!