"Is the wind so strong? This damn wind!" Seeing the fire spread, Li Cheng stretched out his right hand, felt the wind in the air, and yelled cursingly.

"Come here, I will be appointed as Dai Tao, Zhong Xu, and Tan Xiong, and each of them sent people to help Wang Rong put out the fire and separate the surrounding buildings. We must not let the fire continue to spread."

Li Cheng transferred 300 people from the north, south and east gates to fight the fire, leaving the west gates alone to remain unmoved. He vaguely felt that the fire seemed a bit abnormal, burning too fast and too strong, after all, the wind seemed not very strong tonight.

"Look at General, the defenders of the South Gate have been transferred away." Mao Yong pointed to Tongguan in the distance and said.

Wu Banxi said: "Okay, please order Han Rui to attack Ximen immediately."

Han Rui was his subordinate general, and was hiding outside the east gate with two thousand soldiers.

Wu Ban felt that it was not enough to have the Youwei set fire inside the pass, and the terrain outside the South Gate was narrow and it was difficult to deploy three thousand troops, so he divided his troops into two, allowing Han Rui to lead the brigade to the west gate to launch a feint attack to further attract the Wei army's troops. He himself led the remaining thousand troops to attack the South Gate.

Such a two-pronged approach will definitely make the enemy's morale confused and increase the chance of breaking the barrier.

"Kill!"

With the order, Han Rui led his troops to suddenly attack Ximen.

The Wei soldiers were shocked and panicked: "The enemy attacks, the enemy attacks..."

"Don't panic, don't be confused, the archers come forward and let go." Although Li Cheng was also surprised by the sudden attacking enemy, he forced himself to calm down, stabilize his soldiers, and defend and counterattack.

The Wei army in Ximen was caught off guard and was caught off guard by the Han army. Fortunately, the chief general Li Cheng was on the west wall. He appeased his troops and dispatched troops. With a rain of arrows, he finally blocked the Han army's offensive.

"Damn it, I knew that the fire was strange. It must be the trick of the Sichuan thieves. Damn, where did these Shu troops come out? Why didn't they hear any sound? Could it be from Chang'an?" Li Cheng was in a daze while commanding the soldiers to fight against the enemy.

Although the Wei army's resistance was quite timely, the Han army came very suddenly, and a charge had already reached the bottom of the wall. In addition, the attack was fierce, the Wei army in Ximen gradually could not resist it.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Li Cheng hurriedly ordered: "People come, please transfer a group of people from the south gate to support, and then let Tan Xiong from the east gate send 200 people to come." He expected that the enemy would come from the west, and the rest of the gates should be unhindered.

Unexpectedly, this action hit Wu Bansheng's plan to attack the west. Seeing that the number of defenders in the South Gate decreased again, he finally issued an order to attack. More than a thousand Han troops suddenly broke out and headed straight for the South Gate.

At this time, there were only about two hundred soldiers left in the South Gate. How could they be the opponent of more than a thousand Han troops without any defense? As soon as they emerged, they were shot into a hornet's nest by the Han army's archers.

Mao Yong led the way and rushed to the front. He was the first to climb the ladder and climbed to the gate first. He rushed into the enemy group with the big sword in his hand and slashed left and right, but no one could stop him.

With his support, more and more Han troops climbed the wall, and as a result, the Wei army could not resist and were killed and retreated repeatedly. Someone shouted, and the Wei army rushed to escape and the south gate fell.

With a bang, the door opened and the Wu Ban led the team to the pass and rushed into the pass, all of whom were fighting towards the west gate.

The Ximen Wei army was already struggling to defend, but at this time they were attacked by internal and external forces, how could they resist? Everyone had no intention of fighting and fled in all directions. Only the chief general Li Cheng led dozens of confidants to resist stubbornly.

But the mantis arm could not be used as a chariot, so Wu Ban ordered the soldiers to siege from all directions. In less than a quarter of an hour, Li Cheng and others were all killed.

All three thousand Han troops entered the pass and went to four gates to eliminate the remaining enemies. By dawn, the two thousand Wei troops were either annihilated or surrendered, and the eastern gate of Tongguan, the Guanzhong area, completely fell into the hands of the Han army.

"Prime Minister, General Zhenxi sent an urgent report. He had captured Tongguan three days ago." Wei Min broke into the general's tent with a romance to contemplate Zhuge Liang, who was standing in front of the wooden map, reported.

Zhuge Liang hurriedly turned around and shouted happily: "Okay, once Tongguan is taken, the overall situation will be settled, and the entire Guanzhong area will be owned by our great Han."

"What the Prime Minister said is that if you capture Tongguan, the east gate of Guanzhong is successfully locked, and the reinforcements of the Wei thieves will find it difficult to come in. My royal army can calmly annihilate Cao Zhen's army." Yang Yi also walked over from the west side of the tent and agreed.

Wei Min said: "Prime Minister, General Zhenxi also said in the urgent report that the 30,000 reinforcements led by Cao Hong were less than 200 miles away from Tongguan. The thief stopped advancing when he learned that Tongguan had lost and now stayed in Hongnong to watch the situation."

"Replying Yuan Xiong to strengthen his vigilance. Cao Hong is a veteran of Wei. Although he is not good at wisdom and strategy, he has been in battle for decades and has extremely rich experience in battle formations. He is not comparable to ordinary people. Be careful.

As long as he guards Tongguan, he will be a great achievement. If there is any change, he should not be underestimated. Come and ask for help quickly." Zhuge Liang said.

Wei Min clasped her fists and replied, "No, please send someone to reply."

"Duke Wei, send someone to Mingzhi, Wen Chang and others to call the big tent to discuss matters." Zhuge Liang turned his body and ordered Yang Yi.

Yang Yi bowed and said that he quickly left the commander's tent and arranged for his commanders to pass on orders from various battalions.

Yesterday morning, Zhuge Liang led more than 30,000 troops out of Tangluo Road and successfully arrived at Chang'an City to meet with Yang Qing and Wei Yan.

The three Han troops gathered together a total of less than 60,000 infantry and cavalry, and surrounded Chang'an. Despite the huge momentum, they still only surrounded and did not attack.

After a while, Yang Qing and others arrived at the tent one after another. After the ceremony, they each sat down and waited for Zhuge Liang, who was behind the commander's case, to speak.

Zhuge Liang first informed of the good news that Wu Ban captured Tongguan, and then said loudly: "Although the situation of our army is very good at the moment, Cao Rui and others from Luoyang must not sit idly by and watch Chang'an fall into the hands of our army, nor will they watch the destruction of more than 100,000 Wei troops in Guanzhong.

In an urgent report, Wu Yuanxiong said that the reinforcements led by Cao Hong had arrived in Hongnong. Although the march has stopped now, they can come to fight at any time. Cao Hong is a general of Wei, and the 30,000 Wei troops are not a small number. Even if there is a blockade by Tongguan, we should not underestimate them.

Furthermore, even if Yuan Xiong successfully blocks Cao Hong, it is difficult to guarantee that Cao Rui will not send more reinforcements? If the Wei army in Guandong continues to come, our army will never have peace, and Guanzhong will not be able to guarantee it for a long time.

Therefore, there are two urgent tasks at present. First, gather troops and quickly annihilate Cao Zhen’s army in Ziwu Valley. Second, according to the previous strategy, we send a group of troops to attack Bingzhou to divide the military power of the Wei State and buy time for the main army to recover Chang'an."

"Prime Minister, according to the previously agreed Northern Expedition strategy, the task of attacking Bingzhou should be undertaken by our Liangzhou army.

Yan asked for orders to lead his troops to Qi County, and gathered with the 5,000 Qiang and Hu cavalry led by Ma Zhonghua, and entered Hedong through Fengyi, captured Shangdang, Henan, and Wei County, threatening the pseudo-Wei Luoyang and Yecheng." As soon as Zhuge Liang's words fell, Wei Yan couldn't wait to speak.

Zhuge Liang secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. Although Wei Yan had already decided to lead the army to attack Bingzhou, the situation was unsuccessful and unsuccessful. Now Wei Yan led his troops to the city of Chang'an to participate in the siege. If he forced him to give up the great contribution of regaining the old capital of Chang'an and turn north to Bingzhou to harass him, it would be a bit unkind.
Chapter completed!