At Yangping Pass, Xu Huang led the soldiers in the pass to still surround the city unhurriedly.

In order to prevent the morale of the soldiers from falling due to the long siege of the city, Xu Huang even held some unique games outside the city.

Sergeant Guan frolicked outside Yangping Pass every day, but he never really attacked once. This couldn't help but make Zhang Wei surprised, angry, happy, and worried.

Yang Ren said angrily: "Xu Huang is too deceitful, he dares to frolic in the city, and he doesn't take us as a thing at all." ”

"Please take 5,000 men and horses out of the city, and take advantage of the carelessness of the soldiers in Guanzhong, you will definitely be able to kill them by surprise."

Regarding Yang Ren's suggestion, Zhang Wei was also very moved.

However, Yan Pu repeatedly admonished, saying that the reason why the Guanzhong soldiers outside the city were like this must be Xu Huang's plan to lure the enemy, and they would be defeated if they rashly left the city.

Zhang Wei is now the commander of the First Army, and whether he can hold Yangping Pass is related to the life and death of the entire Hanzhong.

After careful consideration, Zhang Wei did not rashly go out of the city to attack the Guanzhong soldiers after all, but just defended the city every day, not daring to slack off in the slightest.

It's just that during this time, the Yang brothers repeatedly asked for war, but Zhang Wei's opinion of them has changed greatly. In Zhang Wei's view, the Yang brothers and Yang Song are not the same people, and as military generals, they are definitely unwilling to surrender to the enemy.

Therefore, now Zhang Wei's vigilance against Yang Ren and Yang Ang has also begun to slowly weaken.

On the contrary, although Zhang Wei had been following Yan Pu's strategy, he held the city and refused to fight. However, it was precisely because of Yan Pu's strong persuasion that Zhang Wei missed several opportunities to break through the Chinese army.

Of course, this kind of opportunity is just Zhang Wei's own assumption. If he really went out of the city to face the battle, it was unknown whether he would really be victorious.

On this day, Zhang Wei was inspecting the city, and suddenly saw the dust in the west of Yangping Pass, the flag covering the sky and the sun, and the sound of the horn resounded through the heavens and the earth, and he was immediately shocked.

"Could it be that the Guanzhong army has already come?"

Zhang Wei hurriedly called a few soldiers with excellent eyesight and asked them to see what was going on in the distance.

After reading it, a soldier said with some fear: "General, there is a group of men and horses from the west, waving the banner of the word 'Chen', and the enemy army has no end in sight, it is simply boundless." ”

Zhang Wei's face changed, and then he reprimanded the soldier: "We are guarding Yangping Pass, even if the thief army is so powerful, what's the matter? ”

"You must not bewitch the people and disturb the morale of the army, otherwise you will be dealt with by military law."

When the soldier heard this, he was terrified, and immediately did not dare to speak again.

Zhang Wei instructed the adjutant to guard the city, but he went to summon Yang Ren, Yang Ang and Yan Pu to come to the meeting: "Chen Wenzhao personally led the army to attack Yangping Pass, do you have a strategy to retreat from the enemy?" ”

Although Zhang Wei was full of confidence before, he said that he could rely on the natural danger of Yangping Pass to block the soldiers of Guanzhong outside the city.

However, Chen Xu's prestige over the years is too heavy, and he started from the end of the Wei Dynasty but fought in the south and the north to lay down the big family business. As long as he leads the troops to recruit in person, no matter how difficult the situation is, Chen Xu can almost win the final victory.

There are even rumors in the world that Chen Xu is the son of Huang Tian and is protected by Huang Tian.

Maybe those scholars scoffed at this statement, but Zhang Wei was also an out-and-out Taoist believer, believing in Taoist doctrine and still respecting God very much.

Today's Chen Xu has almost never suffered defeat, and in the eyes of many people, he is an invincible god of war and an invincible god of war.

Even if Zhang Wei was very conceited, after learning that Chen Xu personally led the troops over, he still felt a little unsteady in his heart.

Yan Pu saw that Zhang Wei was afraid in his heart, and hurriedly said: "General Hugh should be worried, Yangping Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if Chen Wenzhao is good, what does it matter?" ”

"The general only needs to send people to defend the city, even if Chen Wenzhao has the ability to reach the sky, it is impossible to capture this pass."

Zhang Wei heard that his heart was a little calm, and then he led Yang Ang and Yang Ren to the city wall, urging the soldiers to strengthen the city and hoard more materials necessary for defense.

……

It is difficult to go to Shu and it is difficult to go to the sky.

Even if Chen Xu led the soldiers and horses to make a detour, this slightly wide road still seemed very narrow and rugged in comparison. There were even places where the soldiers could not walk side by side.

In this way, the army led by Wen Zhao was separated by nearly fifty miles. Therefore, the Han sergeants on the city wall will see the boundless appearance of the soldiers in Guanzhong.

In fact, the soldiers and horses brought by Wen Zhao this time were only 50,000. Although he levied 500,000 troops in the territory, he did not think of bringing them to attack Hanzhong at all.

What Chen Xu has created is just a 'general trend'.

In the face of 500,000 newly recruited troops, plus 100,000 strong soldiers, I am afraid that any prince in the world will feel extremely strong pressure.

Although half a million recruits have little training, when they are large enough to make up for the qualitative gap.

Xu Huang took a group of men and horses to welcome Chen Xu into the camp.

Gong Du was as anxious as fire, and when he saw Wen Zhao just sitting down, he couldn't help but ask: "I've been waiting here for more than a month, when will the lord let us attack the city." ”

Wen Zhaodan was about to drink a cup of hot water in his mouth, and after hearing Gong Du's words, he couldn't help laughing.

He put the bowl with hot water on the table and asked, "Is the terrain of Yangping Pass precipitous?" ”

Although Gong Du was reckless, he also knew the danger of Yangping Pass, and immediately said with a twist: "Although Yangping Pass is steep, we can't force it through."

Wen Zhao picked up the bowl on the desk, blew on the hot water inside, and said, "Zhang Lu, Liu Zhang, and Liu Biao are not to worry, taking Hanzhong is just a trivial matter." ”

However, although Hanzhong is only a county, there are nearly one million people in it. In addition, Hanzhong has dense water flow and fertile land, even if there was a national drought that year, the impact on Hanzhong was very small. ”

"Although Zhang Lu is not a male lord, he is a good official, and the whole of Hanzhong is governed by him in an orderly manner."

"I raised troops this time, not only to conquer Hanzhong, but also to get an intact granary, as well as the grain and wealth accumulated in Hanzhong for so many years."

The wealth of Hanzhong is self-evident, as long as Chen Xu can peacefully take over the entire Hanzhong, just the money and grain in the treasury of Hanzhong can support Chen Xu and Yuan Shao, and a large-scale war will break out.

However, Hanzhong was too remote, and it was inconvenient to transport grain to the north. Therefore, even if Hanzhong was conquered, Wen Zhao would not spend a lot of manpower and material resources to transport grain to Guanzhong.

Seeing that Gong Du was still puzzled, Wen Zhao sighed lightly and said, "Attacking the city is just a means, and occupying the entire Hanzhong is the goal." ”

"If this matter can be solved in one sentence, why do you have to waste troops and fight to the death?"

Speaking of this, Wen Zhao drank all the hot water in the bowl.

(I'm about to change my biological clock, so I'll update it a little less these days, and it's really uncomfortable to reverse black and white every day.) ）