Xiang Zuohui led 3,000 cavalry all the way, and arrived at Xiangyang City in the evening of the next day, they gave up their horses a few miles away, and ran to the city on foot.

As night approached, Xiang Zuohui led 3,000 soldiers to the city, only to see that the city gate was closed, the drawbridge was hanging high, and the defenders of the city were like facing a great enemy.

The moat of Xiangyang City is wide, but there will be a stone bridge in front of the city gate, which leads directly to the city, and the remaining moat in front of it is only a few zhang wide, and after putting down the suspension bridge, it will be just on the stone bridge.

Xiang Zuohui's Pegasus galloped to the bridge, raised his head and shouted, "Who is the defender at the head of the city?" ”

The head guard of the city is called Li Ling, a lieutenant general, he glanced at Wang Yu who was standing under the city tower behind him, Wang Yu nodded to him, Li Ling understood, he walked to the battlements and looked down.

"Is it General Xiang? I'm Li Ling. ”

Of course Xiang Zuohui knew Li Ling, Dong Xizhi stayed to assist Dong Zhu in guarding the city, Dong Zhu led 3,000 troops to the north, but Li Ling didn't follow, which is strange.

However, Xiang Zuohui was not suspicious, he hurriedly shouted: "Brothers are sleepy and tired, open the city gate quickly!" ”

"General Xiang, when the young master heard that the lord's army was defeated, he was so anxious that he led three thousand troops north to meet him, didn't you meet it?"

"Ahh I haven't met the young master, he's taking the official road! I'm taking the old way of the new wilderness. ”

Xiang Zuohui saw that the city was still a little hesitant, and he was annoyed, so he took out the golden arrow and shouted: "This is the lord Jin Lingji, the lord is worried about the loss of Xiangyang, let me come back to garrison first." ”

Li Ling hurriedly said with a smile: "Don't be angry with the general, because the young master has a strict order, and it is not allowed to open the city gate at will, and it is of course best to have a golden order arrow to the general, and I can also explain to the young master." ”

He hurriedly ordered a covered basket to be thrown left and right, and Xiang Zuo Hui asked his soldiers to put the golden arrow into the basket, buckle the lid, and the basket was dragged back.

Li Ling looked at Ling Jian, and then looked back from the corner of his eye, only to see Wang Yu make a gesture for him to open the city.

Li Ling said with a smile: "The arrow is correct, please wait, open the city gate immediately!" ”

He turned around and shouted, "Lower the drawbridge and open the gates!" ”

The drawbridge is slowly lowered, the city gate is slowly opened, Xiangyang City is a strategic city, its four city gates are duplex city gates, that is, the urn city structure, in addition to the outer city gate, there is also the inner city gate, the middle is the urn city, in the surrounding city gates, the north city gate is the main gate, so the urn city is very large, about 100 steps long, 50 steps wide, usually the city guards will train in the urn city.

The outer city gate opened, and the inner city gate, which was 100 steps away, was also opened simultaneously.

Xiang Zuo Hui was overjoyed, when the drawbridge was put down, he rushed onto the drawbridge, and the three thousand soldiers behind him followed, swarming into the city gate, after rushing into the city gate, Xiang Zuo Hui could not hide his desire to seize the city, accelerated the speed of the horse, rushed to the inner city gate, and the soldiers behind also ran wildly, but when there were still twenty steps away from the inner city gate, the inner city gate was suddenly closed.

Xiang Zuohui was taken aback, and turned around to look at the outer city gate, only to see that the outer city gate was also slowly closing.

'Hit the mark!' A thought flashed through his mind.

Xiang Zuohui anxiously shouted, "Retreat!" Get out of here! ”

At this time, thousands of soldiers suddenly appeared on the city around the urn city, and they released arrows into the urn city together, the arrows were like a torrential rain, and Xiang Zuo Hui was caught off guard, dozens of arrows were in his body, he fell off the horse, and was killed on the spot.

The 3,000 soldiers did not all enter the city, only about 2,000 entered, and the more than 1,000 soldiers who had not yet entered the city found that the city gate was beginning to close, and the drawbridge was pulled up, so frightened that they ran backwards and fled the city gate.

At this moment, 2,000 cavalry killed one left and one right, and the 1,000 Zhu Zhu army outside the city was in chaos, some scattered and fled, some knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.......

In less than a quarter of an hour, the battle was over, Xiang Zuohui's 3,000 soldiers were all wiped out, and the 3,000 war horses several miles away were all captured by the Jin army.

But Xiang Zuohui's 3,000 people were annihilated and could not be put on the stage, and Li Hongxin's 60,000 people were defeated as a spectacular scene.

Li Hongxin's 60,000 troops were exhausted, and could not resist the sharp offensive of 20,000 cavalry, in the chaos, the army collapsed, the 60,000 army scattered and fled in the field, and the 20,000 Jin cavalry surrounded and intercepted, so that the 60,000 army was cornered, and countless surrenderers surrendered.

Li Hongxin led more than 100 soldiers to flee in panic, but was targeted by Yang Xuanying, he led a thousand light cavalry to chase quickly, at this time, there was a river more than ten zhang wide in front, the river was turbulent, blocking Li Hongxin's way.

Yang Xuanying's pursuers had been killed dozens of steps away, Li Hongxin's heart was crossed, and he greeted him, he waved his knife and shouted: "Come and die!" ”

Yang Xuanying sneered, galloped on the horse, the golden spear of the dragon in his hand stabbed out like lightning, Li Hongxin raised his knife to block, but blocked a void, the opponent's spear disappeared in front of him, he secretly screamed that it was not good, only to feel that his stomach was cold, the tip of the opponent's spear pierced into his lower abdomen, the spear was twisted, Li Hongxin's liver and intestines were broken, he screamed in pain, turned over and fell off the horse, and the spear instantly pierced into his chest, and when Li Hongxin landed, he had become a corpse.

Li Hongxin's subordinates' eyes were red, and they rushed up with a roar, Li Xuanying's spear was ghostly, and he picked more than 20 people in a row, and the rest of the soldiers were frightened and fled one after another, but they were surrounded by more than 1,000 cavalry regiments, and finally all of them were killed, and none of them escaped.

The battle gradually came to an end in the pursuit, with more than 7,000 beheaded and nearly 50,000 surrendered by 60,000 troops, less than 3,000 escaped from the battlefield, and the Jin army captured a mountain of various armor and weapons.

stabilized the mood of the prisoners of war, Pei Xin left 5,000 people to guard the prisoners of war, he led the other armies to the north, all the way to the ground, Dengzhou Assassin Shi surrendered in Nanyang County, but Pei Xin's goal was Luyang Pass, Luyang Pass is the logistics of the 60,000 army, there are 200,000 stone of grain, and there are countless materials and materials.

At the beginning of the night, 10,000 cavalry under the leadership of the commander Pei Xin came to Luyang Pass, Luyang Pass is mainly to defend against the enemy of the southern invasion of the north, it is a city, the east and west sides are high mountain cliffs, the north and south each built a city wall, the terrain is high in the south and low in the north, the attack is dangerous from the north, and it is condescending from the south.

A large amount of grain and grass materials were hoarded in the city, and Pei Xin not only had to seize these materials, but also the key pass of Luyang Pass.

There are still 3,000 soldiers in the city, commanded by the general Wang Lie.

Pei Xin immediately stood on a low hill, staring at the Luyang Pass a few miles away, compared to the tall and sturdy northern city, the southern city was much lower, but this low was also relative, not so low that it could be captured without siege weapons.

The 10,000 cavalry led by Pei Xin naturally did not carry siege weapons, but they carried powerful alternative siege weapons.

Pei Xin looked at the sky, there was still the last sunset in the sky in the distance, and night was coming.

"An hour later, capture Luyang Pass!" Pei Xin gave the final order to attack.

.........

Night has completely fallen, the thick night shrouds Luyang Pass, the moonlight is dim, the night is deep, the three thousand soldiers on the pass nervously watch the wind and grass outside, although the pass is full of torches, but as far as the eye can see, it can only be within thirty steps.

At this time, dozens of soldiers holding huge shields gathered together and were slowly approaching the city gate, they were too big and were discovered by the soldiers at the city head when they were about eighty steps away from the city gate.

Wang Lie shouted: "Concentrate on the crossbowmen to shoot, and don't allow it to get close to the city gate!" ”

More than 2,000 crossbowmen shot at the slowly approaching enemy troops, and the arrows rained down on the black group outside the city, but the black group was not crushed, it was still moving, but the speed of movement was significantly slowed down.

"Shoot! Don't stop! Wang Lie, who saw the shooting effect, shouted.

Just when all the soldiers' attention was focused on the moving black shadow, everyone did not notice that outside the city, several very hidden black shadows were crawling, they rolled a huge iron ball, and soon reached the city wall, several soldiers got up, clinging to the city wall, to make sure that they were not found, they quickly moved towards the city gate.

The soldiers at the head of the city were attracted by the black shadow moving left and right, and no one noticed the change under the city gate.

Several men in black erected a wooden frame and put a huge iron lump on top of the city gate, because there was a curved arch above the city gate, so that the city gate was inlaid inside, and the defenders above could not see the city gate, so it formed a typical black lamp.

One soldier lit the line of fire, and the three soldiers ran wildly in both directions, and more than 100 soldiers who had been moving left and right to attract attention suddenly collapsed to the ground, lying on the ground, covering their heads and other vital points with shields.

The city stopped shooting, and the inside and outside of the city suddenly became very quiet, and the main general Wang Lie suddenly felt a strong danger in his heart, but before he could make a decision, he only heard an earth-shattering explosion.

The flames burst out, the city collapsed in the explosion, and the smoke and dust filled the sky over the city, and at least a thousand soldiers were buried under the rubble.

"Whew-"

The horn of the attack in the distance suddenly sounded, and 10,000 cavalry, led by Pei Xin, slaughtered Luyang Pass overwhelmingly.......

The fall of Luyang Pass marked the complete control of the northern part of Jingzhou by the Jin army.