The sun was long in summer, and it was only halfway through the first half of the day. With this hazy cover, the Cao army, who had already prepared for the night battle, immediately took action. More than 800 carefully selected mountain combatants came out of the pass under Xiahou Shang, the nephew of Xiahou Yuan, and quickly came to the middle section of Hanguguan Valley Road. Before the sky was dark, they climbed up to the top of the cliffs on both sides of the valley road, gathered the torches, turbulence and other objects brought by the army in one place, and quickly collected the rolling stones that had been in the grass and shrubs before, concentrated in the narrow mountain road, and hiding their bodies. Just wait for the opportunity to arrive, they immediately blocked the narrow mountain road under the cliff with torches, stones and other objects.

During this period, the patrol sentry of the Cao army always closely monitored the movements at the entrance of the valley and did not give the Xuzhou scouts the opportunity to detect the Cao army's ambush. Fortunately, the passway of Hangu Pass was narrow and easy to block, so the Cao army sentry could confirm that the Xuzhou army did not notice the Xiahou Shang team's ambush. After the Xiahou Shang team was in place, the Cao army sentry immediately retreated to Hangu Pass to avoid alarming the snake and causing the Xuzhou army to notice something.

At the same time, the main force of Cao's army in Hangu Pass was already making the final preparations for the battle, checking dry food and preparing torches, placing arrows on bows and crossbows, sharpening the swords and guns, and seizing the time to make the final rest. During this period, the more than 10,000 troops who were preparing to participate in the battle were almost silent. From Zhang Liao and Zhang He, the two Cao army teams who were the most capable generals, and from ordinary soldiers, all looked solemn and nervous, because they knew that the self-army would definitely have a big battle tonight, and the opponent would still be the most powerful Xuzhou army in the world now. If you are not careful when fighting, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The sickly boss Cao personally came to the east gate of Hangu Guan to supervise the battle. Looking at the gradually darkened sky on the east, one by one, one past incidents couldn't help but come to the heart of Boss Cao. Whenever he thought of the troubles of raising tigers under the city of Xuzhou, the last of his strength was suddenly attacked by the Xuzhou army, and forced to give up the Xuchang capital, which had been strangled for countless hard work, Boss Cao's heart hurt like a knife, and he hated and secretly admired his unworthy son-in-law.

It was cloudy at night, the stars and moon were light, and there was no light. The weather was both beneficial and unfavorable to Cao's army. The advantage was that it could conceal its own ambush, and the disadvantage was that it was difficult for Cao's army to judge the enemy's situation. So the third update of the agreement was about to come. In addition to vaguely hearing some almost inaudible sounds of footsteps, the Cao's army could not judge how many enemies came outside the pass. Where was it hiding, who was the general who led the army.

The timer leaked the arrow and finally pointed to the third update. The sound of the gongzi sounded from the depths of Guancheng. Cao Jun and the civil and military officials in Guanlou stood up straight and turned their eyes neatly to the black face of Cao. Boss Cao first closed his eyes gently and prayed for a word of blessing from God. This time the pottery thief did not see through his clever plan, and then opened his eyes and said in a deep voice: "As long as you plan!"

On the wall, three red lanterns agreed by Zhang Liao and Deputy Director Tao rose. Boss Cao and others looked outside the pass nervously. They were soon surprised to find that not far from the front of the door, less than a hundred steps away, three torches suddenly appeared shaking back and forth. Boss Cao was very happy and nodded to Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao understood and first knelt down on one knee to salute Boss Cao, then stood up and rushed to Xiaguan without saying a word to lead the troops to fight. Boss Cao looked at Zhang Liaoxiaguan, and then secretly prayed in his heart, "I hope that the Tao thief is greedy for me and leads his troops here personally."

The closed heavy door slowly opened, and the sound of calling for Xuzhou troops to enter the gate was heard under the gate. The deafening drum horn shouted at the darkness outside the gate also suddenly sounded the sound of killing. The mountains echoed, the sky collapsed and the earth cracked. Boss Cao waved his hand decisively, and the same violent sound of war drum horns suddenly sounded at the gate of Hangu. In an instant, the sound of killing sounds were everywhere in the darkness of Hangu Pass and the sides of the gate. Zhang Liao led his army to attack for 4,000. Feng Kai and Niu Gai on both sides also led a thousand ambush troops to fight out. Three groups came out together to double-team the direction of the sound.

"I've been trapped! Retreat quickly! Retreat!" The screams of Xuzhou troops sounded outside the pass. As soon as there were not many torches, they quickly retreated towards the narrow pass. Boss Cao laughed loudly and said, "Retreat? It's too late! Beat the drum with all his strength, and attack the entire army. We must annihilate all these enemies entering the valley in the valley!"

The dozens of cowhide drums on the wall were beaten more fiercely, and countless torches lit up in the Cao army clearly illuminated the small open area outside the east gate of Hangu Guandong. The three Cao troops were like tigers down the mountain, and like dragons going out to the sea, rushing towards the direction of Xuzhou army retreating. Although they had experienced similar wars countless times, this time, Boss Cao was still so nervous that his palms were sweating, and he kept praying in his heart: "I hope the Tao thief personally led the troops. Even if it was not the Tao thief personally led the troops, at least I would bless me to kill a Tao thief general, right?"

At the same time, the Cao army, who was ambushed on the top of the cliffs on both sides of the narrow road, heard the war drums on the wall of the passer-down, immediately put down countless rolling stones and wood falling, and threw down countless lit torches and firewood splashed with tinder oil. All the trees that could be cut down were cut down. They threw them down as much as possible. In a moment, the mountain road that was only a few meters wide was blocked and the torch ignited the trees again, burning the newly cut trees and firewood, which was thick smoke, and the thick smoke was blown by the night wind, quickly spreading the Shili Valley Road east of Hangu Guancheng. The smoke was charming and almost unable to see his fingers. The Xuzhou army trapped west of the valley road was almost a foregone conclusion!

Why do you have to say it almost? I believe that friends have all heard the story of Shangfang Valley. If there was a downpour at this time and the fire in the valley was extinguished in time, then the Xuzhou army would still have hope of successfully breaking through. Although Boss Cao, who has always been lucky on the battlefield, did not encounter such a bad thing, he unexpectedly encountered a strange thing - until the Cao army chased into the valley, he never saw half of the Xuzhou soldiers!

"Ah! There is an ambush underground, and an ambush underground!"

What made the Cao army even more frightened was another strange thing. After quickly rushing into the widest valley, which was only more than ten meters away, the Cao army soldiers who rushed to the front seemed to have some magic. Suddenly, they hugged their feet and screamed. Many people fell forward by their companions who were not able to hold their feet behind. As a result, the screaming became even more violent and shrill, "Don't push! Don't push! There are thorns on the ground! There are iron thorns on the ground!"

The iron spikes on the ground were of course the first horse-drawn nails used by the Xuzhou army, and they also spread the entire valley entrance road. Cao Jun, who was eager to make contributions, rushed into the valley road. Of course, the first thing was that he was stabbed by the Zamadai's foot. Dozens of Cao's soldiers were seriously injured and forced to retreat to the battlefield. Zhang Liao and Niu Gai and others had no choice but to order the soldiers to quickly wrap their clothes with spears to make a simple broom. While sweeping the Zamadai on the road to the side of the road, he chased the valley road. But after such a slight delay, the Xuzhou army had already escaped far away, and the thick smoke completely enveloped the entire valley road. It was even more difficult for the Cao army to find out where the Xuzhou soldiers were.

In fact, when he learned that the horse-drawn appeared in the road, Mr. Cao, Guo Jia and others had already had a premonition that something was wrong. However, the fighter was fleeting, and Xiahou Shang's team had cut off the retreat of the Xuzhou army. In order to seize this opportunity to annihilate the enemy, Mr. Cao still gritted the bullet and ordered the Zhang Liao team to continue pursuing the deep valley road. At the same time, Mr. Cao was not allowed to comfort himself secretly, "The Taoist thief is treacherous. In order to prevent our army from being in a hiding position, it is normal for the sneak attack team to carry the horse-drawn to block our army's pursuit. I hope this thief has no other tricks."

The Xuzhou army did not have any other tricks in a short period of time, but when Zhang Liao and Niu Gai chased into the depths of the smoke-filled valley road, they said that they could not find the shadow of the Xuzhou army. The Xuzhou army, which had been beating gongs and drums before, seemed to have gone to heaven and earth, disappeared out of thin air into the Hangu Road, which was rugged and covered with strange rocks and grass. The Cao army was searching in all directions, but they could never find the shadow of even a Xuzhou soldier. The Cao army, Xiahou Shang team, who was responsible for the blocking mission, never saw or heard the Xuzhou army passing through his feet.

Surprisingly and puzzled, Zhang Liao naturally had to send an envoy to report the situation to Boss Cao. The envoy used a lot of effort to send the news back to Hangu Pass. Boss Cao, Guo Jia and others looked at each other, and once suspected that there was a small path in the valley road to get out of the valley. But after careful calculation, Guo Jia, who had become thinner into a skeleton, suddenly turned pale. When he spoke quickly, he coughed violently. While coughing in pain, he said with difficulty: "Lord... lord, we were... trapped. The soldiers of the pottery thief must have put on our military uniforms and scrambled into our team in the chaos."

"Bitch! How can there be such a traitor in this world?!" Boss Cao cursed with great disgrace and shouted: "Mingjin! Quickly Mingjin! Close the door, no soldiers and soldiers are allowed to return to the door! Let our team gather outside the door, carefully identify the team! Carefully identify the team!"

As he shouted, Boss Cao couldn't help but bent down and coughed violently. While coughing in pain, he burst out a few mouthfuls of blood, and screamed in despair in his heart, "I've been trapped again! This time I'm in trouble. If the main force of the pottery thief takes the opportunity to fight to the bottom of the gate, our team will be in awesome!"

Deputy Director Tao never disappointed his father-in-law. Through scout reconnaissance, he discovered the location of Xiahou Shang's ambush troops. Deputy Director Tao immediately sent a large number of mountain combatants. With the cover of night and thick smoke, he sneaked up to the Cao army's ambush positions, climbed up to the top of the relatively open hillside, and suddenly launched an attack on Xiahou Shang's team. Xiahou Shang realized that the situation was wrong was too late, and Xuzhou infantry had already reached the forefront. Xiahou Shang could not get timely contact with Cao and his friendly troops. Seeing that his army had completed the task of blocking valleys, he led an ambush with only 800 people to fight and retreat, and slowly retreated towards Hangu Pass.

At this time, the main brigade of the Xuzhou Army also took action. The Xuzhou infantry, who were responsible for the road opening mission, lined up into the valley with straw bags filled with soil, transported the bales through human transmission, threw the bales onto the trees ignited by Cao's army. Thousands of bales quickly piled up into slopes, destroying firewood and grass, paving the road too quickly but unshakable. Outside the valley road, Deputy Director Tao's handsome little face was already full of ferocious smiles, and said with a smug smile: "Father-in-law, I guess you should also find that the son-in-law's sneak attack team is actually wearing your military uniform. It doesn't matter, just identify it slowly. When you identify my five hundred elite soldiers, I will definitely have already reached Hangu Pass."

The unworthy son-in-law was smiling, but his poor father-in-law was vomiting blood. After the golden gong sounded, the team that was deeply trapped in the valley could not retreat at all. The team that retreated first saw that the door was closed, and immediately became a big uproar. Finally, the envoys were sent to notify the army that Xuzhou soldiers had already sneaked into their own teams, and the elite level was no longer as good as the Cao army's team. The Xuzhou soldiers who had sneaked into the Cao army also took the opportunity to make trouble. The evil people first complained and pointed at the Cao army soldiers beside him and shouted spies, causing countless twists and turns. Among them, there was also a situation of Cao army soldiers killing and fighting each other. The eldest son of Cao was so anxious that he vomited blood on the wall, but he had no choice but to order all soldiers not to use force. Those who violated the order immediately beheaded. Then they gathered and identified according to the Qutun organization.

According to the Qutun organization, the screening of the army was indeed effective. Several Xuzhou soldiers who tried to sneak into the Cao army were discovered by the grassroots generals of the Cao army. However, after being discovered, these Xuzhou soldiers either fled or shouted for justice. They were randomly raising their own team's names. The Cao army was unable to tell the truth in a hurry, so they had to concentrate these unknown soldiers next to the guards. As a result, these soldiers took the opportunity to flee far away, attracting Cao army to chase and add to the chaos of the Cao army. At the same time, more Xuzhou soldiers were hiding in the valley road or in the smoke, waiting for the opportunity to sneak into Hangu Guanzhong to initiate an internal response.

Deputy Director Tao did not give Boss Cao too much time to identify. At dawn, after using the already prepared landblocks to open the road ahead, Wei Yan was the first to lead the Xuzhou team to the near-front of the Cao army. Zhang Liao, who was blocked outside the pass, had no choice but to quickly arrange his deputy Niu Gai to lead the army to meet the enemy. As a result, Xuzhou soldiers lying in the valley road took the opportunity to sneak into the Niu Gai team. Taking advantage of the opportunity of Niu Gai fighting with Wei Yan's army, they suddenly attacked Niu Gai himself and the grassroots generals of the Cao army. While shouting, they slashed their companions. Niu Gai team was in chaos and was killed by the Danyang elite soldiers under Wei Yan's command and were defeated to the open area outside the east gate of Hangu Guan, seeking protection of Zhang Liao's team there. Wei Yan took the opportunity to rush his troops to attack and fought with Zhang Liao's team again.

Seeing this, Boss Cao was completely desperate. He knew that even if the self-armed army did not want to fight in the field in this battle, he was forced to send someone to send Zhang Liao to order Zhang Liao to repel the enemy at all costs, and then retreat to the pass after the Xuzhou army retreated. After receiving the order, Zhang Liao also knew that Boss Cao had to do so. In order to protect Hangu Pass, he had to let the self-arms fight to the death. Therefore, Zhang Liao was not dissatisfied with it. He just immediately organized a team to fight in a row, and fought with the Xuzhou army that was coming from endlessly.

This is a bloody and fierce battle where both sides sacrificed their lives. In order to allow their soldiers to take the opportunity to sneak into the pass and initiate internal responses, and to win the Hangu Pass, the ever-great pass of Hangu Pass at the lowest cost. The Xuzhou army launched the most fierce full-scale attack on the Zhangliao team from the beginning. In order to protect Hangu Pass, the Zhangliao team did not give the Xuzhou army the opportunity to sneak into the pass and cause chaos. They could only resist with the pass wall and fight to the death with the Xuzhou army without any way to retreat. The battle became fierce from the beginning and was extremely cruel and bloody from the beginning.

The front line of the two armies was chaotic, with people rushing like ants, and the ground was full of corpses and wounded soldiers. The terrible guns and swords were densely slashed like storms, swords and axes, and flying arrows were constantly stopped. The Xuzhou army with sufficient troops followed, attacking the positions of Cao's army like a huge wave. The Cao's army gathered into a group, and fought to the death with the guard wall under the cover of the crossbow. The battle with the Xuzhou army was overturned, with the sun and the moon missing. In a moment, the blood was flowing and corpses were everywhere.

The brave ones won when they meet on a narrow road. At this moment, the Xuzhou army's combat effectiveness advantages were fully utilized. The Xuzhou army first joined the battlefield. It was already a ruthless person who could compete with the elite Cao army head-on before the Battle of Cangting. In recent years, he followed Deputy Director Tao to fight against the elites of the south and north. His combat effectiveness increased instead of decreasing, and his combat experience was richer. The elite forces of the Cao army were lost in the war in the Central Plains. Although the army formed later had undergone some practical tests, its combat effectiveness was still unable to be compared with the elites of the Cao army back then. In the face of the fierce offensive of the Danyang rogue soldiers, he had no power to fight back. If Zhang Liao had not ordered the army to fight back against the wall in time, he would have been killed and dispersed by the Danyang rogue soldiers and forced to start the full-scale melee that the Danyang soldiers were the best.

Even so, in the face of the endless offensive of the Xuzhou army, Zhang Liao's team was soon at an absolute disadvantage. They were surrounded by three Xuzhou troops, Wei Yan, Ma Yan and Zhang Nan, in a semi-arc shape. They could only resist and be beaten and could not fight back. At the same time, Xuzhou soldiers who were wearing Cao's uniforms also seized the opportunity to make trouble and sneak attacks from behind and sneak attacked Cao's generals from behind and rushed into the Cao's army. Zhang Liao's deputy Feng Kai was distracted by a Danyang soldier who was stabbed to the wrist and fell to the ground by a Danyang soldier, and then was killed by Xuzhou soldiers. Several teams of Xuzhou soldiers took the opportunity to enter the inside of Zhang Liao's team, and joined forces with their companions on the outside to attack the enemy inside and outside, gradually pulling the battle into a melee.

At noon, Deputy Director Tao personally led the central army to the battlefield, built a command platform on the gentle slope on the right side of the valley road, and looked at the Zhang Liao team fighting in groups. The self-armed army was anxious to defeat the enemy. Seeing that Boss Cao was closed in seclusion and refused to let the Zhang Liao team return to the gate, he showed that he would not give the self-armed army a chance to break through the gate. Deputy Director Tao calculated for a while and ordered: "Star the cannon and send a signal. Let our internal assistants take action together."

"Let's go." Liu Ye quickly stopped it and asked, "Lord, is it a pity? We finally seized this opportunity and got so many insiders. As long as we can attack Cao Zhe, we will have the opportunity to take the opportunity to win the Hangu Pass. Now we order to take action, and this opportunity will be missed."

"The will of Cao Zhe is very human. He will not open the door at the risk of sacrificing the main force because of the thousands of troops outside the pass." Deputy Director Tao said indifferently: "Besides, this battlefield is too narrow, and our troops cannot be fully expanded. If you want to wipe out these thousands of Cao Zhe teams who are fighting for trapped beasts, you will have to jump off a few teeth."

"That's right." Liu Ye suggested: "But you might as well wait a little longer. It's just noon now and we still have time."

Deputy Director Tao hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, don't click the cannon to send a signal for the time being, let Wei Yan's team retreat, and let Zhongkang lead the new force to rush."

The order was conveyed. Xu Chu led 3,000 new forces to join the battlefield, and replaced the Wei Yan team that had been fighting for more than three hours. However, the battlefield outside Hangu Pass was too narrow, and Xu Chu's team and Wei Yan team were unable to move when they rotated positions. Therefore, the Xuzhou army took more than a moment to be considered as being in place for defense. At the same time, it also lost the charge advantage of the new force. It could only attack towards Zhang Liao's team like the beginning, and could not immediately break up and disperse Zhang Liao's team.

Although he lost the advantage of charge, the new force still had an absolute physical advantage in front of the enemy's tired soldiers. Xu Chu, who was good at fighting hard, was unstoppable in front of the Cao army. He killed more than ten enemies with one move, which made Zhang Liao's team terrified and retreated one after another. The new force brought by Xu Chu also took the opportunity to press on and desperately squeeze the Zhang Liao army's position. Zhang Liao's team was forced to shrink continuously, and the positions that were condensed into groups were like snowballs in the sun, getting smaller and smaller.

Seeing this, Cao's civil and military officials on the wall were so anxious that they were so anxious that they were smoking. The civil and military officials begged Cao to open the door and ask Zhang Liao's team to withdraw the already small troops inside the gate. Zhang He volunteered to lead the army to guard the door, fighting to block the Xuzhou army's flight into the gate. However, Cao's face turned pale and he coughed for a while and said, "You can only let Zhang Liao fight to the death, and you can't risk opening. I must be responsible for the 20,000 troops in the city."

"But if the Tao Ying traitor let his superior troops take turns to fight and the rotation battle consumes the physical strength of Zhang Wenyuan's team, then Wenyuan's army will be in danger of being wiped out." Zhang He said.

"This open area outside Hangu Pass is not big, the pottery thieves are inconvenient to rotate, and Zhang Liao's team has no way to retreat, so it is not so easy to be annihilated by the enemy." Boss Cao replied coldly.

In this way, you attacked and defended for more than an hour. Seeing that although Zhang Liao's team relied on their flesh and blood to resist the attack of the self-armed army, they still did not see the death and injury of the heavy casualties of the boss Cao opened the door. He also estimated that there were not many insiders who had mixed into Zhang Liao's team. Deputy Director Tao still ordered helplessly: "Cao thief won this bet, please click the cannon. We don't have the chance to enter Hangu Pass today."

Seeing that Zhang Liao's team had more than half of their casualties, Boss Cao was still so heartless that he refused to open the door and let his team enter the pass. Liu Ye no longer opposed Deputy Director Tao gave up the opportunity to break the pass. Ma Zhong lit the pine cannons according to his order. The cannons were thunderous. The Xuzhou soldiers hiding inside the Zhang Liao team no longer hid after getting the signal. They immediately seized the opportunity and started to riot from the inside, slashing and killing Cao's soldiers. Zhang Liao's team was immediately in chaos. Xu Chu and Ma Yan and others took the opportunity to attack fiercely, responding to their companions and breaking out of the siege while attacking Zhang Liao's team.

Hearing the pine cannons only available in the Xuzhou army, and seeing the chaos within his own team, Boss Cao immediately guessed that Deputy Director Tao had given up the opportunity to capture Hangu Pass. He carefully observed the situation of his own team for a moment. Seeing that those soldiers who deliberately made chaos were rushing out, Boss Cao finally ordered Dian Wei: "Junming, lead the army down, open the door, let our army go back to the pass, and then defend the city gate for me to death. Remember, all soldiers entering the pass must immediately put down their weapons, assemble the orders of the Hou, and those who violate the orders must immediately be killed."

Dian Wei took the order and left. Boss Cao ordered the soldiers to yell in the closure and immediately put down their weapons and accept the order of screening after entering the closure wall. Then he ordered the door to be opened and let his own team, who had suffered heavy casualties, return to the closure to save their lives. As a result, this did not allow many Cao soldiers to escape back to the closure. As soon as the closure door was closed, the terrified Cao soldiers immediately rushed back to the closure. As the trampled on each other, there were many dead people and corpses piled up in the closure corridor. At the same time, the Xuzhou army also took the opportunity to attack with all their might, and rushed to the closure gate with the momentum of Cao's defeat, trying to take the opportunity to enter the Hangu Pass and break the gate. There were chaos in front of the closure gate and countless dead people surrendered in Cao's army.

Seeing the Xuzhou army encircled the gateway with its own defeated soldiers, Boss Cao sighed and had to order to put down the Qianjin Gate immediately. After the Qianjin Gate landed on the ground, although the Xuzhou army had no chance to enter the pass, the more than 2,000 Cao army blocked outside the pass also had no way out. For a moment, the Cao army outside the Hangu Pass suddenly cried and shook the sky. Boss Cao also burst into tears and ordered: "Twist as many ropes as possible, our soldiers, even if they can save one more person back."
Chapter completed!