Just now, under Huang Zhong's deliberate intention, the chilling and captivating momentum enveloped Zhang Xiu's whole body. Zhang Xiu, who had never felt such pressure, broke out of the cocoon and turned into a butterfly. He no longer feared Huang Zhong, but instead understood some of the true meaning of martial arts from it, which was a blessing in disguise.

Although he was unwilling to admit his failure, Zhang Ji had to give up his weapons and chose to surrender to Huang Zhong.

In this battle, Huang Zhong followed Jia Mu's plan and attacked Zhang Ji's army camp at night. He defeated Zhang Ji, who had 60,000 soldiers with 10,000 Dragon and Tiger Guards, lost only thousands of them. It was truly a huge victory. Huang Zhong's name also spread throughout the Sili territory after Gan Ning and Taishici.

The Wei brothers were like eggplant made from frost and allowed the Yang family to seize it.

Huang Zhong, with the momentum of great victory, swept across Hongnong County with Mount Tai to the top within a few days. After Yang Fan personally led his army to cross the Yellow River south, Hongnong County was taken into his pocket and ruled.

After surrendering tens of thousands of troops under Zhang Ji, Yang Fan's army in the southern expedition increased instead of decreasing, reaching a huge 100,000. However, Yang Fan sent all the surrendered soldiers to Bingzhou, and the He Yi brothers were responsible for the rectification. In his opinion, soldiers who did not undergo systematic training were not suitable for the existing system of the Yang family army. Instead of imposing them together, they would only increase their worries. It would be better to directly allow the reserves to be reincarnated into the army after the training was completed.

On this day, Yang Fan brought 40,000 troops to Tongguan. The general guarding the pass was Jin Shang, who was sent by Yang Fan to Yanzhou as the governor of the Wei family, and Wei Duan, the head of the Wei family in Chang'an.

In the camp, Yang Fan personally summoned Wei Ning, Wei Ji, Wei Zi and Wei Zhen to listen.

At this time, Wei Ning's eyes were silent and his face was full of vicissitudes. He did not have the style of the Wei family's son.

Yang Fan smiled and said, "I haven't seen each other for several years, how are Zhongdao doing well?"

Wei Ning looked jealous and said in a deep voice: "How dare Yang Piqi think about the dog that is a broken family?"

Yang Fan's face was slightly dark and asked, "I was assassinated in Taihua Mountain, but did you make a move from it? Come on the real trick."

Wei Ning obviously guessed that Yang Fan would settle the score in the autumn, and now he admitted it alone: ​​"Yes, I am just jealous of you. Why are Wen Ji's childhood sweetheart? When I was talking about marriage, you were fucked by you. As long as you were a man, you couldn't swallow this. However, the sky had no eyes and didn't kill you that day. It's a pity, it's hateful."

Huang Zhong cursed angrily: "The bold madman dares to be disrespectful and seek death!"

Wei Ning Lingran was not afraid and smiled freely and said, "Okay, then you kill me quickly, come, kill me! Kill me, you never want to know who wanted to kill Yang Fan at the beginning."

Huang Zhong was angry and speechless for a moment. Xun You was extremely wise and guessed that this was Wei Ning's way of protecting himself. Then he laughed and said, "Oh? The person behind the assassination of my master? Do you want me to analyze the situation for you and analyze the situation at that time? In fact, it is not difficult to guess the person behind this."

Yang Fan was stunned when he heard this and thought to himself, "Has Xun You guessed something, but Yang Fan originally planned to make a final decision in Wei Ning. He didn't want to do anything else, but because his only relative was involved, Yang Fan gave up his plan to ask questions.

However, Xun You said so confidently, and Yang Fan naturally wanted to hear how he analyzed it. He smiled and said, "What is Gongda's opinion? Tell me."

Xun You talked quietly and said, "My lord was appointed as the General of the Northern Expedition, and was a new noble in the court. My lord's family was a wealthy family of the Han Dynasty, with three nobles in one family. It was extremely powerful. If someone really dared to take the blame for the world and launch a war, his family would definitely be like the Yang family of Hongnong. At that time, only the Yuan family of Runan had the courage and foundation to provoke the Yang family, which was increasingly popular. The Yuan family of the Yuan family was the most famous family of the dynasty. The older generation would definitely not do such a foolish thing. Among the younger generations of the Yuan family, Yuan Shao and the Yuan Shu brothers, Yuan Shao had old friends with our lord, and he would not have done this. Yuan Shu had a conflict with him when he first arrived in Luoyang. It is rumored that Yuan Shu was a narrow-minded person. It is probably because of Yuan Shu that the assassination of our lord in Taihua Mountain. What do you think is right?"

Wei Ning's face was pale. He never expected that Xun You guessed the Yuan family in just a few sentences, and the analysis was extremely reasonable, just as if he had experienced it personally.

Seeing Wei Ning's timidity, Xun You knew that what he had analyzed was similar to what happened at that time. However, when this involved Yang Fan's family affairs, Xun You did not dare to make any guesses and kept silent.

Yang Fan looked at Xun You in surprise. This matter was something that Ditingying Ying learned after investigating from many sources. Xun You analyzed it boldly and guessed it almost completely. It can be seen that Xun You is dull on the surface, but in fact he is as smart as the sea and has a hidden strategy.

Yang Fan wanted to stop here, but after Xun You told the truth, he had to express his attitude, "I have no way to investigate whether this matter is related to Yuan Shu, just this matter ends here. Feng Xiao, what crime should Wei Ning be sentenced?"

Guo Jia was very thoughtful, and then guessed Yang Fan’s plan, and quickly replied loudly: “Wei Ning is suspected of assassinating a first-rank official in our dynasty. Now the evidence is conclusive, Wei Ning confesses and follows the rules and should be executed!”

After hearing this, Wei Ji's expression changed slightly. He was about to speak out for him, but Wei Zi grabbed him tightly. Looking at the anxious look in Wei Ji's eyes, Wei Zi shook his head and told him not to make any decisions. After hesitating for a while, Wei Ji gave up his plan to plead for Wei Ning and said intimately that Wei Ning alone would be used to exchange for the survival of most of the Wei family's children. This is not a loss.

Seeing that his elder brother and second uncle had not spoken out for him, Wei Ning was discouraged and only wanted to die quickly and no longer defended him.

Seeing that Wei Ning had agreed to this matter, Yang Fan immediately ordered Dian Wei: "Come on evil. Since Wei Ning has already admitted it, then drag it down and behead it!"

Guo Jia suddenly thought of something and hurriedly stepped forward and whispered in Yang Fan's ear: "Lord, now there is Jin Shang in Tongguan and Wei Duan is guarding it. Why do we take this Wei Ning to the front of the pass and behead him. What do you think?"

Yang Fan was stunned when he heard this, and then guessed what Guo Jia said. He glanced at Wei Ji, who was still immersed in grief, nodded quietly and replied: "Then let Feng Xiaojian behead him!"

After the matter was settled, Yang Fan ordered Wei Ji and the other two: "Bo Yu, since you three recognize me as the master, I will treat you equally. Let's do this. You three immediately go north to Huashaoshan and go to the academy to study. After graduation, you will be the head of the county at least."

卫觊三人连忙领命而去.

Now that the pass is in full swing, and it is not far from spring plowing, Yang Fan's mood is also anxious.

Xun You took the lead in making a plan and said, "Lord, it's not difficult to break Tongguan now."

杨帆急声问道:“如何破之?”

Xun You smiled and said, "With Sima family and the lessons of the Wei family, and with the Wei brothers being the prisoners of our lord, Wei Duan must not dare to fight with his lord to the end. He just needs to send an eloquent person to convince Wei Duan to surrender."

Huang Zhong disagreed, and immediately stepped out and said, "This plan is too dangerous. Anyone who can speak and speak is the right-hand man of my master. How can he easily take risks? Although Tongguan is strong, there are only five thousand defenders. The last general can lead his army to take it down in just one day."

杨帆笑道:“汉升勿急!”

At this time, Guo Jia also completed his mission and rushed back. After seeing this, Yang Fan hurriedly asked, "Wang Xiao, how about it?"

Guo Jia smiled and said, "Wei Duan's face turned pale, and Jin Shang gritted his teeth."

Yang Fan slapped his high-high and said, "In this way, that trick can be accomplished. I wonder who would like to go there?"

After hearing this, Guo Jia and Xun You looked at each other, and then Xun You came out and said, "I'm willing to go!"

Yang Fan thought for a while and nodded in agreement with Xun You as a lobbyist, going to Tongguan to recruit Wei Duan.

而此时的潼关之内,则是愁云密布.

Since Guo Jia beheaded Wei Ning in front of Wei Duan, Wei Duan has a look of panic all day long and full of sorrow.

Over the past period of time, battles broke out at the wooden bridge outside Tongguan. The miserable roars and helpless shouts continued to erode Jin Shang's heart and made this upright old man suffer. Today, outside Tongguan, Wei Ning, who was provoking the Sili family to rise up, was also beheaded and displayed in public. This was a heavy blow to the Wei family.

Seeing his old friend's face full of sorrow, Jin Shang quickly advised him to stand firm and not be frightened by the actions of the Yang family army.

At midnight, Wei Duan was drinking alone in the house, and Wei Duan came uninvited.

As soon as the two met, Jin Shang began to persuade him. Wei Duan was so annoyed that he immediately shouted: "Enough, Yuan Xiu, is it that the person captured is not your son, so you are so careless?"

Jin Shang smiled bitterly and said, "I am sad that Xiu Fu, General Yuan and General Zhong were captured, but please think carefully. Since Yang Fan captured Wei Ning and killed him directly, why did he take Wei Ning to the front of the pass before beheading the public?"

Wei Duan replied irritably: "Isn't it just to let you and I retreat when we see the difficulties. Please lower the switch? Is there any other intention?"

Jin Shang advised: "Yes, Yang Fan's move is intended to let us turn on and surrender, but he has tens of thousands of troops, so why has he not been able to solve the problem for us? Instead, he performed this for us?"

Wei Duan replied angrily: "Then what do you think Yang Fan's move is?"

Jin Shang analyzed: "Now that spring plowing is coming, Yang Fan's army is consuming so much every day. This time, the southern expedition of Sili took several months and used tens of thousands of troops. I guess that Yang Fan's army had no food, so he was unable to continue the expedition to the west!"

Speaking of this military strategy, Jin Shang really knew nothing. Even Wei Duan could see the importance of Tongguan. As Yang Fan, who has made great achievements in the world, wouldn't he not be able to see it? If he had no food in the army, he would have taken Tongguan at all costs.

Thinking of this, Wei Duan sneered and said with hatred: "The danger of Tongguan can connect to the throat of Liangzhou in the west, and the army of Guandong Central Plains in the east. What a man Yang Piqi is like? How could he not hold such a critical place in his own hands?"
Chapter completed!