The conversation was divided into two parts, Jiao Chu, and Han Heng took the troops stationed in Changshan Zhongshan back to Youzhou, after all, it would take some time.

During this period of time, the Yanshan defense line in the northern part of Ji County obviously had to rely on Zhang Nan and Wangmen to withstand and drag the time over.

On the eighth day of the April 1st, Xu Huang and Tuo Yi broke through Zhuolu and continued to advance east along the Sanggan River and arrived at Juyang, the capital of Shanggu County, on the tenth day of the day.

Compared with the Dai County next door, the worst thing about Shanggu County is that the county seat was directly built along the Sanggan River, rather than choosing the dangerous Yinshan and Yanshan Pass, which could not escape the army's advance along the river.

Later, the most important city of Shanggu County was Zhangjiakou, which was the frontier of the Great Wall. However, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhangjiakou was still called Guangning County, which was not a developed place. In this era, the grassland trade in Shanggu did not rise at all.

The rise of Zhangjiakou was mainly due to the later Jin merchants of the Ming Dynasty who smuggled and banned the sale of strategic materials to the grasslands, and then they grew to a complete body.

Today, Juyang, the capital of Shanggu County, is equivalent to Huailai, Hebei in later generations. This place is only 250 miles away from Ji County, about 100 miles away from the Great Wall in Yanshan, and 200 miles away from the border of the Great Wall outside Yinshan, making it an important hub.

When Xu Huang's troops arrived in Juyang, they thought they would fight a big battle, at least it should be much more intense than when they passed by Sanggan County and Zhuolu County before. This was the first county-level city to conquer since the Han army launched the liberation of Youzhou.

But the final result was quite unexpected and reasonable.

Yuan Xi's defenders actually urgently withdrew the troops and young and strong people in Juyang City, and transported away all the weapons and as much food as possible. All the remaining food and grass that were not transported were burned out, leaving no mouthful for the attacking enemy troops.

Even organized an army to rob the people before leaving, obviously intending to starve all the elderly who could not walk and had to stay in Juyang City to death or push them to Zhang Fei's troops.

The Youzhou Army did this not necessarily mean that they were cruel by nature, but they knew that since they wanted to implement the policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, destroying grain inventory in the retreat area would become the top priority.

This specific order was not issued directly by Yuan Xi, but by Zhang Nan, who was the coordinated defense zone in front, responded to the situation.

When Zhang Nan beat Zhang Chun under Liu Yu, he was incompatible with Liu Bei. Liu Bei asked him to resist the pressure several times, but Liu Bei himself pleased his superiors to seek credit.

During the Yanshan Blocking Battle, Zhang Nan's direct descendants suffered the most losses, but they got the least contributions, and they were all snatched by Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, under Liu Bei's command.

The most despicable time, when Zhang Fei raided Zhang Chun, he even called himself "Sima Zhang Bei, another unit under the command of Zhang Nan, the commander of the Yuyang Commander. He made a contribution to Zhang Fei's hatred.

Liu Bei, Jiao Chu, and Zhang Nan were all three counties, but Liu Bei stepped on their heads and climbed up. Finally, he was promoted to the Wuhuan Captain, the Du Liao General, the Liaodong Prefect, the Zhenxi General, the Hanzhong Prefect... He ascended all the way up.

Zhang Nan and Liu Bei and Zhang Fei have accumulated so many new and old grudges. This time, of course he came to kill Zhang Fei and take revenge. Therefore, Yuan Xi sent him to Juyongguan to block Zhang Fei, and Zhang Nan volunteered so bravely and eager to try.

Moreover, Jiao Chu and Zhang Nan were in high positions early, but later they were unhappy in promotion. They inevitably felt that they were not satisfied with their talents and had a high opinion of themselves, which gave them an extra sense of confusion.

(Note: The first Jiao Chuan in "The Three Kingdoms" has no further information after Zhang Nan surrendered to Cao. The two of them are confused about their self-confidence. However, in "Romance of the Romance", they actively competed to be the pioneers of the water war during the Battle of Red Cliff. Jiao Chu was stabbed to death by Han Dang, and Zhang Nan was chopped off by Zhou Tai. All of this is compiled.)

After arriving at Juyongguan, he also tried his best to do everything he could to make as disgusting as possible to weaken Zhang Fei.

In Zhang Nan's opinion, it would be a pity that the old men and women in Juyang County who are too old to pay taxes or can't walk on the road, even if they are killed, they will not contribute to the country.

What's more, he doesn't have to do it now. As long as he stole all the food rations of these old people and threw them to Zhang Fei's troops, Zhang Fei would not give out military rations to help him, then these old men and women would starve to death under Zhang Fei's rule.

If you share the food, Zhang Fei will be short of food faster. Those strongholds on the road more than 400 miles will be effective if they cut off Zhang Fei's grain road.

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Xu Huang easily rushed into Ju Yang, who was only the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled. Seeing this scene, he was quite shocked. However, he had no time to ask about the situation of the local people, so he could only stop looting the local people (and could not loot things).

In a state of war, it is too late to sympathize with the people. Even when Liu Bei saved Tao Qian in history, he "had thousands of hungry people ascended troops" halfway through the way, but he just said that he would give the hungry people in Xuzhou a bite of food, so that they could temporarily ascend to the cannon fodder, and engage in the most dangerous war of attrition.

At most, what Xu Huang and Que Yi could do was this. It was impossible to provide relief to the people who had been robbed of food by the enemy for free. At most, they would take some food to let the people who were about to starve to fight in the front row, and carry soil and dig trenches to fill the defensive fortifications of the defensive party.

After thinking about it, Xu Huang made a decision like this. He set up a price code, temporarily recruited troops, dug soil to fill the trenches outside Juyong Pass, and was willing to do this job, which means that he was really robbed and had no food to eat, and he would starve to death if he didn't do it.

Those who refuse to come to apply for the contract mean that they must have hidden food secretly when Zhang Nan implemented the scorched earth strategy and starved to death, so they were disdainful of doing it.

This can be regarded as using the "invisible hand of the market" to select the group of people with the most urgent needs for food. It is much less pressure than comprehensive relief, and it does not damage its reputation.

And at least Xu Huang also implemented Liu Bei's camp's usual policy towards the people of the enemy-occupied areas, and did not dislike the old man who was weak and came to make a living. As long as he was willing to come, he would hire him to carry soil and fill the trench.

This was not Xu Huang's original intention, but he knew the emperor's usual requirements and acted in accordance with the spirit of the document of the great leader.

Tuo Yi's temper is even worse than Xu Huang. He couldn't help but curse when he saw the tragic situation left by Zhang Nan.

Within two days, after cleaning up the mess in Juyang, ensuring the smooth flow of logistics roads, Xu Huang and Tuo Yi continued to advance and soon arrived at the Badaling Great Wall on April 15th and reached the bottom of Juyong Pass.

Xu Huang ordered the soldiers to set up a formation, destroy the peripheral fortification facilities, and establish siege positions, and build siege machines and ladder rushers.

Xu Huang did not expect to break through Juyong Pass entirely by himself. After all, the assignment of tasks before the war had long been agreed. But he had to make sure to stick to tens of thousands of main players here, maintaining the pressure to make Yuan Xi empty in the rear and other directions, so it would not be possible not to act like a little.

On April 20, after a passage was initially destroyed in the outer trench and the antlers of the red-fighting trench was initially destroyed, Xu Huang took Tuo Yi and personally set up a formation outside the pass, beat drums to help, and insulted the battle.

Regardless of whether Zhang Nan goes to war or not, it is always good to scold Zhang Nan and even Yuan Xi’s ancestors first.

It is best to be able to incite the defenders to go out of the clearance and fight in the field. If they don’t leave the clearance, they can also attack the enemy’s anger, expose their bad deeds to slightly shake the morale of the army, and delay time, which prompts them to believe more that Zhang Fei really plans to attack Juyongguan.

After all, if you dragged the show and didn't really fight after you came, Yuan Xi would definitely realize that there was a conspiracy and would there be another surprise attack from other directions.

After Xu Huang came to the gate, he asked Tuo Yi to go out and call, and insulted Yuan Xi for harming the people.

Que Yi was happy to do this, and he was cursing at the moment: "Listen to the generals of the city! I am Que Yi, the left general under Yuan Shao's tent! Yuan Shao insulted the Han throne, and was even more incompetent, exhausted the three armies to death, and now he is even more ashamed and angry.

I have even abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, and you are still following Yuan Xi’s rebel thief to kill He Yi! The thief general in the city is wolf-like and dog-like! In order to strengthen the walls and clear the country, he actually harmed the people of Juyang!

You are all soldiers in Shanggu. Do you have no family in Juyang City? Why are you still following this kind of thief who is worse than pigs and dogs? You abandon your darkness and turn to the light early. Your Majesty is kind and kind, and you can still let go of your past!

Your Majesty is also from Youzhou, and from Zhuo County. You Youzhou soldiers were bullied by Jizhou people under the rule of the Yuan family, so you didn’t take the opportunity to rise up! The dog thieves on the city, if you have the guts, come out to fight a decisive battle with a certain person! Fight with General Zhang!”

Not to mention, Tuo Yi asked countless cursing players to follow this routine to curse, which really made the defenders at Juyong Pass stop and didn't know how to curse back for a while. After all, what Tuo Yi said was true.

This is not because Ku Yi has a high IQ and can summarize reasonable rhetoric. These words are not difficult, but were summarized by several county towns all the way to surrender. In practice, the lines are naturally becoming more and more appreciated by both the elegant and the masses, and the effect is obvious.

Zhang Nan didn't want to pay attention to the city at first. Seeing that the morale of the military was a little slackened, he didn't care. After personally going to the female wall wall of the city tower, he cursed back:

"Tu Yi, you are a lord, and you still have the face to fight? Your grandfather Zhang Nan is here! Don't think that you could defeat our Youzhou generals if you beat Gongsun Zan back then!

The little thief Zhang Fei was just a dog-like person under his grandfather's tent. When he beat Zhang Chun, he even pretended to be "Sima Zhang Bei, another subordinate of the Yuyang Commander Zhang Nan," and used his grandfather's name to deceive him. Grandpa never calculated the debt with him!

Let the dog come out and answer the master by himself! What are you guys? If he dares to come, grandpa will clean up the portal and break it up with him! You are not worthy of tainting grandpa's iron spear!"

Zhang Nan's insults really brought back a little momentum. At least when the soldiers of Youzhou Army heard that their heads and generals were so senior, they were at the same level as Liu Bei, but they were framed by Liu Bei, so they did not get promoted quickly. Zhang Fei even pretended to be Zhang Nan's subordinates and secretly went to fight.

Once this dark history was revealed, the psychological advantages of Youzhou soldiers were immediately there. If Zhang Fei had the ability, why would he pretend to be General Zhang Nan's subordinates to cheat?

It seems that the chariot and cavalry generals of the pseudo-de-Kunming in Guanxi are just like that.

When Que Yi was asked this, he was stunned for a moment. Unexpectedly, Zhang Nan was so brave and so timid that he actually said that Zhang Fei dared to go into battle himself, so he would come out of the gate and fight alone?!

If I had known this, I would have asked Zhang Fei to go to Jingxingkou and Changshan County to go around in the back! Wouldn't it be better to come directly to Juyongguan and stab Zhang Nan to death?

Of course, calm down and think about it carefully. Even if Zhang Nan was stabbed to death, he would not be able to take Juyong Pass. After all, tens of thousands of soldiers and the Great Wall Pass were placed there, so how could he be thrown into someone just because he was about to die?

So it is still not a loss to attack the surprise attack in the back.

But the current problem is that Zhang Fei is not here, how can I make excuses in this game? Zhang Fei is not like someone who is aggressively challenged and dare not fight.

Xu Huang, who was in the central army, heard about the drama effect ahead, and also brought his personal guards to slap horses and dance axes, shouting for help:

"Zhang Nan's husband! It turns out that you, who was born in troubled times and served as a commander for ten years, did not grow up to be a waste to guard this pass! It is said that some people live as long as dogs, but they are talking about waste like you. The general of the chariot and cavalry are now noble, so are you worthy of fighting with him?

Xu Huang is here in Hedong! If you want to fight, you will go down to the gate. Let me see my big axe take your dog's head! If you can beat the big axe in my hand, the general of the chariot will challenge you! Never break your promise!"

Zhang Nan was furious and was really brave. He rode a tall and big black horse, covered with heavy armor, and got on the horse with an iron spear, and led more than a hundred cavalry to open the door and go out to challenge.

Xu Huang was stunned. He really didn't expect that the troubled times lasted for so many years, and the princes were killed to death until now, and there were such easy-to-talk enemy generals.

How did Zhang Nan live to this day?

But Xu Huang didn't have time to think too much, and rode his horse and swung his axe to fight. Not to mention that Zhang Nan was a brave man, he was really strong and had a bad temper.

Xu Huang fought with him for more than 30 years and chopped Zhang Nan down with an axe.

Juyong closed the Wang Gate, the deputy general guarding the city, and covered his face with unbearable eyes. He quickly ordered the crossbow to shoot the ground, and did not dare to open the city gate and let Zhang Nan return to the city. The cavalry of the personal guards around Zhang Nan were chopped and killed dozens of cavalry, and then surrendered to Xu Huang as a barely.
Chapter completed!