Before entering the Xingtai and having a deep conversation with General Shen, Huan Xuan felt a lot more relieved. In addition to seeing the strong strength of the Xingtai Wang Division, this trip can also see that General Shen has a gentle attitude towards their Xiangyang army.

Huan Xuan didn't think that this was General Shen's pretentious gesture, because there was no need for that, taking a step back, even if General Shen was gentle on the surface but harbored evil intentions inside, with the strength of the current Xiatai Wang Division, it was far from being able to resist by their Xiangyang troops.

Without these thoughts and hesitations distracting from the thoughts, I can focus more on the current war. Military generals advance because of merit, this is always a truth.

General Shen asked the Xiangyang soldiers to be in charge of one side of the war, which was an extremely rare opportunity for Huan Xuan and the Xiangyang generals, no matter how the situation would develop in the future, if this battle could be fought beautifully and made great achievements, it would naturally be able to be a little calm.

As for the generals who followed Huan Xuan to Xingtai this time, they rarely expressed it in their words, but in their hearts they were no longer as resistant to the recruitment of Xingtai as they were originally, especially when they saw that a group of powerful ordnance had also joined their ranks on the return journey, and they were not lacking in expectations for the future war.

Although this batch of ordnance will not be assigned to their respective units, and a separate battalion will be directly managed by the Chinese army from transportation to specific operations, all the generals also know that only in this way can they give full play to the maximum effect of these heavy weapons and achieve miraculous results on the battlefield.

After returning to the temporary station in Nanyang, Huan Xuan began to arrange for the soldiers under his command to be promoted. Compared with the marching dispatch of the entire army of the Heluo Wang Division, the efficiency of the Xiangyang army was much lower. Although there is no lack of courage among the officers and men, the cooperation in logistics and baggage is a little lacking, and they cannot maintain the advance of the whole army, so they can only advance in batches.

The first group of troops to march west was Huanxuan's 2,000 Chinese troops, plus a total of 5,000 men and horses from the rest of the road, including 500 Yangwu ordnance battalions assisted by Xingtai, which set off from Nanyang and headed for Wuguan.

Wuguan is not as dangerous as Tongguan in this era, but it is also an important passage in and out of the pass, the so-called four stops of Qin, the throat of Qin Chu. The pass is located between the mountains and rivers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially Yique.

If it is according to the original empirical tactics, Huan Xuan should have placed the officers and men of the Chinese army in front of the pass, on the one hand, to maintain the momentum of encirclement, widely spread scouts to cut off the connection between the guards of the military pass and the parties in the rear, on the other hand, to wait for the successor army to converge, and then launch a battle to seize the pass with the superiority of troops.

In order to trap Wuguan Lock into an isolated stronghold, it may be necessary to recruit Jingyong to bypass the pass defense and set up ambushes to encircle the point to send reinforcements. In the end, it was either through the consumption of human lives to capture the defense, or the defenders in the pass realized that it was difficult to defend alone, and surrendered out of the pass.

But this time, because of the addition of a number of powerful ordnance, Huan Xuan's method of war was no longer conservative, and after the camp was stabilized, he immediately went into battle. A whole ten powerful general cannons were erected directly on the pontoon bridge on the Danshui River, while the rest of the soldiers collected and polished stone bullets between the surrounding mountains.

Wuguan is the gateway to Shangluo, so Guo Jing's troops are also set up here more than 3,000 soldiers, and at the same time, the west side of the pass defense also set up some dock wall camps that are horns of each other, and the surrounding soldiers who can be put into battle are nearly 10,000 people, and the commander of the soldiers is Guo Jing's other clan, Guo Chun.

Although this Guo Chun's reputation is not very obvious, but he is also a brave general, even in the early years when the state of Qian was still powerful, his people also had some battles with Huan Xuan between Xiangfan, and each other won and lost.

Now that Hu is exhausted, although Guo Chun did not dare to lead the crowd out of the customs rashly, he still has a good understanding of the situation in the east, and has prepared sufficient defense facilities in the pass.

When the Xiangyang army arrived, Guo Chun sent soldiers to set up a defensive line outside the wall, and sent people to scold the formation to lure the Xiangyang army to attack and dispel the spirit of his army: "Huan Xuan old slave, his subordinates are defeated, and now he has been willing to serve as a son of the southern raccoon dog and drive the west to die......

Naturally, there were no good words to scold before the battle, so after hearing the humiliation and scolding on the other side, the soldiers under Huan Xuan were also ashamed and indignant for a while, and they asked to go to battle to combat the arrogance of the enemy.

"It is an indisputable fact that the slaves and thieves are poor, and they retreat and live here, and they have become frightened people who have long been waiting to die, and even if they are happy for a while, they will inevitably die in the final situation, and there is no need to rush to fight for a while!"

Huan Xuan looked at the large number of throwing stones, giant trees and other objects and weapons stacked on the opposite wall, and knew that at this time, the fierce battle would inevitably lead to heavy casualties, and now that the advantage was on his side, there was really no need to drive the soldiers forward to die for the sake of a momentary spirit, so he just ordered to continue to strengthen the camp.

Seeing that the Xiangyang Army had no signs of attacking, the soldiers of the Hu Army on the pass could not help but become more arrogant for a while, Guo Chun even organized some soldiers to rush out of the defense line, and the pedals rushed down from the Danshui water, which can be described as full of arrogance.

"Let's shoot a round first!"

Seeing that the opposite side was like this, Huan Xuan naturally would not be polite, waved his hand and ordered, and then the sound of drums sounded in the military array.

A total of ten strong crossbows loaded on the shore of the warship and on both sides of the Danshui have been opened, and then angry arrows are flying, and the crossbow arrows that are thicker than the arms are not inferior to the steel guns, and more than a dozen black rainbows break through the air.

Soon the enemy paid the price for their arrogance, and the distance between them was still a few miles, and the enemy soldiers had not even opened their strings, and the powerful crossbow and huge arrows had already flown in, and the momentum was sharp and fast.

Although the soldiers at the front of the enemy army also had a shield, the shield was like paper paste in front of such a strong arrow, and it did not have the slightest defensive effect, and was directly broken by the arrow piercing!

As for the enemy soldiers behind those shields, they were naturally not spared, and within a few moments, several people were directly pierced by strong arrows, wailing and rolling into the water, and soon the river was dyed with a layer of blood!

Although the number of these powerful arrows is not large, and the actual damage caused is limited, but the deterrent power is full. Where had those soldiers seen such a ferocious crossbow with such a long range, and the bow and crossbow in their hands was a joke in comparison, and within a mile of charging distance, they were completely undefended live targets!

Seeing this scene, Guo Chun's face became ugly, and then he ordered the troops to be withdrawn, so that the soldiers retreated to the defense line in front of the wall, and did not make useless risks to send their lives to make morale even lower, and at the same time he ordered the soldiers on the wall to insult Huan Xuan even more, in order to stimulate the other party to attract the crowd to attack.

There are a lot of preparations in the pass, as long as the other party dares to bully and attack, Guo Chun is confident to give the other party several times the tragic retaliation. Even though those powerful crossbow arrows are sharp, they are only limited in their effectiveness under the protection of thick walls.

Especially if the other party dares to set up a strong crossbow in front of him, Guo Chun plans to rush and kill the enemy at any cost, as long as he can grab a few and erect them at the head of the city, the entire pass defense will be even more impregnable.

After repelling the enemy's tentative attack, Huan Xuan was also pleased with the powerful deterrent power of Wang Shi's strong weapons in the battle array, and such a calm arrangement of the offensive was simply a battle formation experience that he had never had before.

As for the soldiers under his command, they saw with their own eyes the strength of their killing weapons at this time, and their morale also climbed to a peak, and instead of being ashamed of the insults of the enemy camp, they laughed again and again.

For example, the enemy insulted the Xiangyang soldiers and soldiers for being extremely cowardly, only daring to use weapons to commit murder, and daring to step forward in hand-to-hand combat must be a dead end, this is all nonsense. Just as it is impossible for the enemy army to abandon the defense of the fortress and fight in a magnificent battle outside the wall. In war, everyone has their own strengths, this is the most normal thing, if you attack the strengths of others with your own shortcomings, that is the most stupid way!

Time passed in the mutual insults of the two sides, and although the Xiangyang army did not even make a tentative attack in the process, Guo Chun did not dare to relax because of this.

Standing at the head of the city, he could also see clearly what was going on in the enemy camp, and seeing that the Xiangyang army had collected a large number of stone bullets, he could not guess that the other party would inevitably use those strangely shaped trebuchets as the main means of attack later.

This discovery made Guo Chun feel a little calm, but he was faintly apprehensive.

The trebuchet is indeed a sharp weapon for attack and defense, and even many military formations have been set up on the wall of Wuguan Pass to combat the enemy's approaching wall. And Wuguan is also a Xiongguan that has been in operation for many years, the wall is high and strong, and the general stone throwing can only cause a little harassment, and the lethality is actually limited.

Both sides have such weapons, and in comparison, because the defenders of Wuguan occupy the commanding heights, the lethality of the stone throwing should be even greater. Under the confrontation between the two sides, the advantage must be on his side, and Huan Xuan wants to win the pass with this monotonous means, which is a dream.

However, after seeing the lethality of the opponent's crossbow and seeing the strange shape of the trebuchet opposite, Guo Chun faintly felt that there might be something beyond common sense in this battle.

However, since the other party is still in full swing preparing to attack, he naturally has to make corresponding preparations here. Therefore, Guo Chun also ordered the soldiers to go up to the wall, put away the trebuchet and giant trees and other throwing heavy objects, and as soon as the other party approached, they would immediately return the thunder!

Finally, the captain of the Yangwu Army, who was in charge of controlling the general's cannon in the military formation, came to tell him that all preparations had been stopped and that he would attack immediately.

Huan Xuan has seen the power of the general's cannon with his own eyes, and he has been looking forward to this moment for a long time, and no matter how the drill on the school field is, only actual combat is the best way to test the power.

"Attack!"

With Huan Xuan's order, gongs and drums were already sounding in unison in the Chinese army's formation, and the general's artillery on the front line slowly pushed forward. At the same time, the defenders on the wall also reacted, throwing rocks high and smashing them in this direction.

At present, the distance between the two fronts is still two miles away, and it is naturally impossible for those rubble ranges on the wall to cross such a long distance, so the main thing is to deter and force the Xiangyang army not to approach the wall.

However, the general's cannon stopped after pushing forward less than ten feet, and was still out of the opponent's range, which made the defenders on the wall laugh even more, mocking the Xiangyang army for being really timid.

However, their laughter was soon interrupted by an astonishing scene!

I saw that those big generals' cannons were firmly in place, and then the machine buckle was angry, and the huge stone bullets were thrown high, and the great force flew through the air with these stone bullets, and then bombarded the wall heavily!

"How, how so?"

The huge impact force made the wall tremble, and the broken and splashed stones even directly hit Guo Chun's front breastplate lobe, and his whole person was subconsciously pushed and slapped into the battlement wall by the soldiers of his close relatives.

The officers and men in the battle formation of the Xiangyang Army outside the wall also saw this scene, and suddenly the entire front resounded with thunderous cheers! Seeing this, Huan Xuan couldn't help but smile, and waved his fist high into the air: "I will break this level today!" ”

The next battle process, it is completely the time for the general cannon to perform alone, ten general cannons are lined up in turn, the first bombardment of the city, and Wuguan Guancheng is indeed worthy of the name of Xiongguan, under such frequent bombardment, the wall is still standing there, there is no major collapse damage.

However, in the process of the general's artillery bombardment, the wall was completely unable to counterattack, and all the counterattack methods prepared by the enemy soldiers were completely ineffective at such a range and distance, and they could only be passively beaten, wailing and screaming, and running and fleeing helplessly!

The saddest thing is that the enemy soldiers outside the wall, the defense line at the head of the city has been completely shattered by the strong offensive of the general's artillery, and they can no longer provide them with assistance, they can only helplessly trap under the wall. If you want to organize a front to charge the opposite side, you have to face the gouging and harvesting of the powerful bed crossbow!

Rong Xing has been doing half his life, and the war can still be fought like this!

At this moment, the Xiangyang Army has fallen into a carnival, although these veterans of the Xiangyang Hundred Battles are also extremely experienced in combat, but similar offensive and defensive situations and war situations are unheard of and unseen!

"Rush! Climb the pass first and fight for great success! ”

There was a loud bang, under the continuous bombardment, there was a collapse gap in the wall of Wuguanguan, seeing this scene, the Xiangyang soldiers were even more excited, and they didn't even need the main general's order, they all howled and stepped forward again, swarming in, busy chasing and killing those chaotic enemy troops in the city!