Yangping Pass stands as in the past, and there are dense garrison soldiers standing on the head of the city, full of 5,000 people.

The city is still calm, the grass is barren, and there is no human figure in sight.

The Xiliang Army, stationed twenty miles away, would never have imagined that in the heavily defended Yangping Pass, it was a different scene at this time.

But seeing that all the camp tents in the vast open space in the pass were gone, they were replaced by rows of soldiers and soldiers of the Yizhou Army. Not only are the soldiers ready to go, but even Shi Zhaoyun, the gentle and elegant governor of Yizhou, who has always been dressed in brocade, is also wearing battle armor, wearing an eagle helmet (also known as a saga) at this moment, holding a sword, ready to fight in person.

The Xiliang army, which had been facing each other for half a month, did not kill, but the battle broke out in the rear of Yangping Pass, and Yang Bai, a general under Zhang Lu, led the army to block the south gate and trapped the Yizhou army in the pass, in a dilemma.

The reason why the shape shì has taken a sharp turn has to start from ten days ago.

Ten days ago, Yang Song, a strategist under Zhang Lu's account, suddenly took leave and returned to Nanzheng City, but unexpectedly he returned to Guannei overnight that night. For the next two days, Yang Song followed Zhang Lu all day long, muttering something and not knowing what to say. I only know that not long after, Zhang Lu and Zhao Wei had a fierce dispute at the banquet, and almost tore their faces and swords on the spot.

Late at night after the dispute, Zhang Lu quietly returned to Nanzheng City without saying goodbye, leaving Yang Song and Yang Bai brothers in the customs to deal with the aftermath.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Lu left on the front foot, and the brothers Yang Song and Yang Bai then quietly left Yangping Pass with more than 15,000 Han Chinese troops, and took away a large amount of grain, grass and baggage, and destroyed all the remaining grain and grass baggage.

That's why. It is because the grain and grass baggage in the customs were originally supervised and distributed by the brothers Yang Song and Yang Bai, and the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Hanzhong Army stayed in the customs to guard the warehouse. And this is also a necessary means for Zhang Lu to guard against the Yizhou army, and even Zhao Wei, Wu Yi and others have no way to refute it. Although it was very reluctant, it had to be accepted. After all, Zhang Lu is responsible for supplying the grain and grass required by the Yizhou army, and the mouth of eating people is short, and he is on Zhang Lu's territory, so it is understandable to arrange this way.

It is precisely because the Hanzhong Army is responsible for transporting grain and grass that the south gate that connects with Hanzhong has always been guarded by Hanzhong soldiers, and Yizhou soldiers are also accustomed to Hanzhong soldiers transporting grain and grass overnight. He did not suspect it, and naturally he would not report it to the generals, not realizing that the crisis had quietly come.

Meanwhile. Zhao Wei didn't take the battle of words at the banquet during the day to heart, and even thought that Zhang Lu was a little unreasonable and too stingy. Isn't it just wasting some food and eating dozens of more cows? What a big deal. Do you need to be so calculating and making a big fuss? For this reason, Zhao Wei also secretly ridiculed Zhang Lu in his heart for being too small-minded and narrow-minded, and it was difficult to achieve great things.

However, Zhao Wei never expected that Zhang Lu would really do something incredible to him, and this incident put him and the more than 30,000 Yizhou troops directly into a desperate situation. Zhang Lu actually left Yangping Pass overnight, not only taking away 15,000 Hanzhong soldiers, but also sweeping away the grain and grass. Destroy everything that can't be taken away.

"It's amazing, is Zhang Lu crazy? There is no grain and grass in the pass. How to resist the Xiliang army and how to keep Yangping Pass? When Zhao Wei learned that all the Hanzhong troops had withdrawn from Yangping Pass and taken away the grain and grass, these questions immediately came to his mind. No matter how much he wanted to break his head, he couldn't understand why Zhang Lu did this, and he did it so desperately, leaving no way out at all.

In fact, Zhao Wei really blamed Zhang Lu.

The reason why Zhang Lu left Yangping Pass overnight was because he was not angry and left in a negative mood, and wanted to return to the county guard mansion overnight to be quiet and quiet, and by the way, comfort his wives and concubines at home, and enjoy the blessings of all people. After all, he has been fighting for more than three months, and since the defeat of Chen Cang, he has no leisure to enjoy the leisurely life of Yingge Yan Dance, and he really can't hold it back.

Coincidentally, but when he encountered troubles, the Yizhou army squandered grain and grass supplies, which made Zhang Lu very angry and quarreled with Zhao Wei. Therefore, he was so angry that he thought that he was out of sight and out of mind, rather than staying here to suffer from the nest, it was better to return to the county guard mansion to relax and relax, anyway, the Xiliang army would not be able to break through Yangping Pass for a while and a half.

Officially holding this kind of thought, Zhang Lu left overnight, and before leaving, he did not forget to tell Yang Song to inform Zhao Wei. But what he never dreamed of was that Yang Song actually disobeyed his orders, conspired with his brother Yang Bai to rebel, and took away the Hanzhong soldiers and grain and grass baggage overnight.

After the brothers Yang Song and Yang Bai falsely passed on military orders and brought more than 10,000 soldiers and grain and grass out of the south gate, they did not return to Nanzheng City, but stationed in the valley five miles outside the south gate. Yang Bai led the army to dare to return the same way before dawn, built a trench one hundred and fifty steps away from the south gate, placed antlers, fences, and set up strong bows and crossbows, blocking the south gate so that not even a bird could fly over, and trapped the Yizhou army in the pass. As of today, the Yang brothers have besieged the Yizhou army for six full days.

And this qiē, Zhang Lu is still in the dark, intoxicated by the song and dance of the warbler all day long, and he is completely unaware of the drastic changes in Yangpingguan. It is even more impossible for him to know that the two Yang brothers led the soldiers of Hanzhong to fight fiercely with the Yizhou army at the south gate, and they have been fighting bloody battles for six days, and the soldiers on both sides have suffered heavy casualties.

After six days, the Yizhou army in Yangping Pass had been out of food for two days and had to kill horses to satisfy hunger.

Today is the third day of the food shortage, and many Yizhou soldiers have been hungry for two days, and they really can't support it. Therefore, if it can't break through the siege today, the Yizhou army can only sit and wait to be killed and buried in Yangping Pass. If this is the case, the 50,000 troops who rushed to the aid of Hanzhong this time will be completely wiped out, and not one of them will want to go back alive.

The soldiers of Yizhou, who were in a desperate situation, on the contrary, had risen sharply in combat effectiveness, and had fought bloody battles with the Hanzhong army in the past few days, fighting on a par with each other, and their combat effectiveness was not inferior to that of the Hanzhong soldiers in any way. The fly in the ointment is that the strong bow and hard crossbow blocked outside the south gate have huge lethality, and there are enough feather arrows, and they desperately release arrows without hesitation, causing great damage to the Yizhou soldiers and heavy casualties.

After six days of fierce fighting, the Yizhou army ran out of food and grass, and the arrows were insufficient, and more than 10,000 soldiers were lost successively, but they still could not break through the defensive siege of the Hanzhong army.

Forced to be helpless, today Zhao Wei plans to personally lead the army to fight, and if he doesn't succeed, he will become a benevolent person, and swear to break out of the encirclement, otherwise everyone will die here. Of course, it was Wu Yi, the general of Yizhou, who really led the army to take the lead, Zhao Wei was a scribe after all, and his posture was okay, but when he really fought, he was not even as good as an ordinary soldier, and he was purely sent to death.

However, Zhao Wei, the commander of the army, is not in vain. In the past few days, there have been great changes in the pass, but the defenders on the north gate tower have not moved at all, and they still rotate once every two hours, and they have always kept 5,000 soldiers standing on the city tower, so that the Xiliang army who is eyeing the tiger is stunned and does not see the slightest flaw, and still does not move.

In fact, these 5,000 defenders only came down from the east and then went up from the west, and the two sides were reversed, and there was no one to replace them at all, because the army in the Guannai was fighting at the south gate, and there were no extra troops to replace the defenders. Fortunately, although the Xiliang scouts were numerous, they never approached the city, otherwise they might have heard the shouts of killing on the other side of the pass and discovered the flaws in the defenders at the head of the city.

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Outside the south gate, in the temporary military tent, Yang Song and Yang Bai sat opposite each other, eating and drinking, and feasting.

After the meal, the brothers leisurely sipped their tea, listening from time to time to the sound of shouting and killing outside and the sound of random arrows breaking through the air, so as to deduce the fierce course of the fight.

"Third brother, today is the seventh day, the grain and grass of the Yizhou army should have been exhausted, it's time to release carrier pigeons and inform the Xiliang army to attack the city." Yang Song picked up the teacup and blew the hot air, and at the same time instructed the third brother Yang Bai.

Yang Bai nodded in response: "Okay, I'll listen to my brother and immediately give orders." Before the words fell, he casually summoned his own soldiers, handed over the letter that Yang Song had already written, and carefully admonished them, and the soldiers were ordered to leave.

Seeing the white carrier pigeon flying north, Yang Song got up and stood up, straightened his clothes, and said to Yang Bai with a solemn expression: "Today is very important, success or failure is here, and the glory and wealth of you and my brother are all pinned on here." Therefore, today's third brother must go all out, no matter what, he must guard the south gate, and he must not let go of a Yizhou soldier. As long as the Yizhou army is trapped in the pass and there is no ordnance to defend the city, the Xiliang army will be able to break through the north gate in one fell swoop, and then enter the pass. If this battle is won, the third brother can worship the marquis and seal his wife and son. For my brother, I went to the county guard's mansion, and now I can tell Zhang Lu the truth. Now there are only 30,000 defenders in Nanzheng City, and this is all Zhang Lu's soldiers and horses, so he has no choice but to take the initiative to ask the general to surrender. ”

Yang Bai was stunned when he heard this, and asked casually: "What about Yizhou Liu Zhang?" Can Zhang Lu still defect to Yizhou? ”

Yang Song smiled dumbly and said: "My third brother, how can you 、、、 the 50,000 soldiers and horses under Liu Zhang's command were all wiped out, all of them were killed by the Hanzhong army, plus Zhang Lu's mother and younger brother died in the hands of Liu Zhang, how could Zhang Lu defect to Liu Zhang?" Even if he went to serve pitifully, Liu Zhang would not take him in. Liu Zhang is not Liu Yan, this person is not very talented, but he has a perverse personality, and he acts according to his own likes and dislikes, and Yizhou will fall into the hands of others sooner or later. Moreover, it is more likely to fall into the hands of the generals. Well, without further ado, it's time for my brother to go. ”

Before the words fell, Yang Song turned around and left, muttering as he walked: "With the speed of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, it is estimated that when I arrive at the county guard, the Xiliang army will have broken through the north gate, and a charge can sweep away the Yizhou army, and then go straight to Nanzheng City." In this way, even if Zhang Lu was angry and wanted to kill me, he didn't have the guts. Well, you can go to him with confidence and boldness??????"

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