At this time, on the side of Fenglin Pass on the south side of Xiangyang City, there were also 3,000 regular soldiers and 5,000 young men guarding it.

After Liu Biao fled back to Xiangyang before, he reorganized his troops and horses in Xiangyang and sent scouts to investigate the movements of Zhu Wei's army, while looking for the whereabouts of Liu Qi, Kuai Yue, Deng Yi and others.

It's a pity that the scouts brought back all the bad news, although Liu Biao still doesn't know the exact information that Liu Qi and Kuai Yue are dead, and Deng Yi has surrendered, but the soldiers and horses sent out by Yicheng can no longer be found, and it is very likely that they have been wiped out by Zhu Wei, but they can basically be determined.

In this way, Liu Biao could only rely on the defenders who stayed in Xiangyang and the recruited young people, so Liu Biao once again sent messengers to Wenpin and Zhang Xiu of Nanyang County to ask for help, and asked them to bring troops back to Xiangyang.

Then he began to arrange the Xiangyang defense line, and the outer passes of Xiangyang City, such as Fenglin Pass, were also highly valued by Liu Biao.

Therefore, this time, among the 8,000 troops he sent to Fenglin Pass, 2,000 soldiers and 3,000 Qingzhuang were stationed in Fenglin Pass, and the other 500 soldiers with 1,000 Qingzhuang were stationed on Da Shou Mountain and Guanyin Pavilion respectively.

The Da Shou Mountain and the Guanyin Pavilion are both steep cliff terrain, and the trees on them have been cut down a lot, and the defensive stone Lei position or something has been built, but it is not easy to go up.

Generally speaking, to attack Fenglin Pass, it is best to take these two mountains first, so that you can use these two mountains to condescend to a military town like Fenglin Pass.

Otherwise, the defenders of Fenglin Pass can use the mountains on both sides to pose a great threat to the attacker when they attack Fenglin Pass.

Although there are only 3,000 regular soldiers in this Fenglin Pass, and the other 5,000 are composed of young and strong, with the help of the defensive line formed by the hills on both sides and the middle pass, even the young and strong can exert some threatening power.

Therefore, after Tai Shi Ci took the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion to set up a posture here, he did not launch a fierce attack at the beginning, but only fought tentatively first.

Anyway, Tai Shi Ci's task was to feint, and he was not in a hurry, so Tai Shi Ci asked people to set up a rushing car in front of Fenglin Pass, and let the archers and crossbow archers go up to the high platform, and the Liu Biao guards on Fenglin Pass attacked and pinned down.

On both sides, the Dashou Mountain and Guanyin Pavilion can really only be regarded as small hills, the highest is about 150 meters, and the defenders of Liu Biao have constructed a defensive line on some steep slopes, guarding the two hills like terraced fields.

However, unlike the wall of the pass military town like Fenglin Pass, this Dashou Mountain and Guanyin Pavilion can naturally still be climbed.

Therefore, Tai Shi Ci suppressed the Liu Biao defenders in Fenglin Pass with a rushing car, and at the same time sent two thousand sword and shield men and one thousand crossbow archers to start trying to attack Guanyin Pavilion.

Compared with Da Shou Mountain, the terrain of Guanyin Pavilion is more gentle, and at the same time, Guanyin Pavilion is an independent small hill, unlike Da Shou Mountain, which is connected to Da Xian Mountain, so that the Guanyin Pavilion does not have to worry about Liu Biao's soldiers attacking from the mountain, turning over and over to fight for the trouble of this hill,

This time, Tai Shi Ci sent Bao Long, who was originally born as a hunter in the mountains, to lead the battle to capture Guanyin Pavilion.

Two thousand sword and shield men protected a thousand crossbow archers, and rushed up to kill the mountain situation, and in many places on the slope of Guanyin Pavilion, there was also a regular soldier of Liu Biao, commanding hundreds or hundreds of young men, defending on the cliffs and rocky defense lines formed by the mountain topography everywhere.

Seeing that the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion were coming immediately, the defenders of the defensive line everywhere inevitably began to shoot arrows downward, throwing stones, rolling logs, etc., because the trees leaning towards the southeast side and so on were cleared, so these stones and rolling logs soon rolled down towards the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion who had set up a shield array.

"Dodge carefully, scatter and charge!"

In the face of such a situation, the soldiers on the side of the Divine Arrow Battalion can only rush hard, and there is no way to take advantage of it, so Bao Long, who is commanding in the back, can't help shouting in his mouth, let the military marquis who commands the soldiers below charge the soldiers of the Qu to charge up.

"Kill! Come on! ”

The soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion also hurriedly dodged around the hillside, dodging the falling stones and rolling logs with the help of the mountain, and then rushed up to kill, and many crossbow archers were also looking for opportunities to shoot crossbow arrows upward.

For a time, there were many casualties on the side of the Divine Arrow Battalion, more than a dozen people were hit in the head by stones, and their heads fell to the ground with broken blood, and at least hundreds of others were also injured by falling rocks and rolling logs, or were seriously injured on the ground, or slightly injured and continued to charge up.

However, many young men on the hills, because of their lack of experience, were also shot by the crossbow archers of the Divine Arrow Battalion, and shouted in pain on the mountain, causing confusion in the defensive line.

It's just that there are still Liu Biao's regular soldiers commanding here, so these young men were quickly suppressed again, so they began to throw stones and roll stakes again.

The battle continued with one side charging and one side defending.

However, it seems that the soldiers on the side of the Divine Arrow Battalion are not poorly trained, even if they are climbing the mountain and charging, and are at the disadvantage of attacking from a low place to a high place, they can also use the protection of the shield combination, relying on the slope formed by the shield at the mountain wall and mountain rocks, unloading some of the threats of falling rocks and rolling logs, and then climbing up quickly.

Coupled with the crossbow arrows' crossbow arrows, there were soon sword and shield men who had already killed the bottom line of defense on the hill of Guanyin Pavilion.

Of course, these sword and shield men were very experienced, and they did not rush in alone, but after gathering more than twenty people around them, they rushed forward together.

Then more than twenty sword and shield men cooperated with each other to form a shield battle formation and began to attack this defensive line, and soon they divided the defensive line composed of seventy or eighty young men and one Shi Liu Biao soldiers on this side into chaos.

There are about seven lines of defense on the slope of the Guanyin Pavilion, the top one is the top of the Guanyin Pavilion, below are two parallel slope rocks, and then below is a rock cliff, and then there are three small rock slopes.

Now this defense line is a small rocky slope at the bottom of the Guanyin Pavilion, and there were only nearly 100 people guarding it, but now after being rushed up by the sword and shield men of the Divine Arrow Battalion, they quickly killed the guards Qingzhuang and Liu Biao's soldiers here.

Around the same time, the other two small rocky slope defenses were also taken down by the sword and shield men of the Divine Arrow Battalion, and then everyone rushed towards the rock cliff again.

It's just that this rock cliff has a drop of about two meters, and there are more than 300 young men and more than 100 Liu Biao soldiers guarding it, which is an insurmountable defense line in Guanyin Pavilion.

The point is that there are only three or four meters wide blocks below this rocky cliff that can be approached, so there are only seven or eight sword and shield men of the Divine Arrow Battalion who rush to the cliff every time, so it is difficult to give full play to the advantage of numbers, climb up, and disrupt the defensive steps of the defenders.

Therefore, the nearly 500 sword and shield men who rushed to this side first had to stop here, and formed a shield array here to resist the feathered arrows, falling rocks, and rolling logs shot down from the cliff.

Soon, however, the crossbowmen were escorted by the crossbowmen below, and the crossbowmen fired a series of crossbow arrows at the rocky cliff to suppress the guards on the rocky cliff.

Then the sword and shield hand in front of him began to climb this rock cliff again, and in the way of a human ladder, he directly used his hand shield to lift his companion up, and began to rush up this rock cliff......