Return to the Three Kingdoms with the Empire System

Chapter 165 Hu Zhen's Surrender
Just when Hao Meng rushed towards the closed door, a turning point appeared.In the rear of the Xiliang army, Ye Hua and Xia Mou took care of more than a thousand defeated soldiers of Duan Yao.After the two armies joined forces, Ye Hua asked Xia Mou about the situation at Hangu Pass. After hearing Xia Mou say that only this 6000-man team was going to attack Hangu Pass, Ye Hua probably guessed the Xiliang army's strategy.

After hearing Ye Hua's words, Xia Mou was shocked when he learned that there was another Xiliang army of 2 people. Fortunately, that army was afraid that Xia Mou's people would escape and some of them fled back, so they did not take action against them. Otherwise, these more than 4000 people would undoubtedly die.

The two did not hesitate. Since there is still a Xiliang army of 2 people, they must be attacking Hangu Pass at this time.

Sure enough, when the two rushed back with the army, the Xiliang army was attacking Hangu Pass regardless of casualties.Immediately, the spear-throwing warriors threw a batch of short spears, and they landed among the soldiers of the Xiliang Army who were really waiting behind.

In an instant, a thousand short spears pierced the soldiers of the Xiliang army, making a "pop" sound.Some of the soldiers who were pierced were not killed, and Dang even let out the screams of lonely wolves.

Those Xiliang soldiers heard the movement behind them, but when they turned around, they found that an imperial army had rushed out.In their expectation, the imperial army chasing Duan Yan would keep chasing him. It is impossible to come back so soon. After all, they are all running, and those who escape for their lives will run faster.

Moreover, the imperial army that appeared behind was somewhat different from the previous army, which was why they were puzzled.However, now is not the time to think so much. Under the command of the commander, some soldiers of the Xiliang Army turned around and started to kill the imperial army.

But, would Ye Hua be stupid enough to put a thousand spear-throwing warriors in front of him to be directly attacked by the Xiliang army?A thousand pikemen stood in front of the spear-throwing warriors, facing the Xiliang army's attack directly, while the spear-throwing warriors stood behind the pikemen, and could continue to throw short spears towards the Xiliang army.

This made the Xiliang army miserable, they also brought archers, but all those archers were sent to the front of Hangu Pass to shoot at the imperial army on the pass wall to cover the Xiliang army. attack.Only in this way, the Xiliang army in the rear will be miserable. Not only must they face the threat posed by the spearmen in front, but they must also beware of the short spears that can only fall from the sky.

After the reserve battalion led by Hao Meng got involved in the battle to close the gate, Hu Zhen's Xiliang army was immediately overwhelmed, and was forced to withdraw step by step.

After Hu Zhen withdrew, looking at the imperial army on the wall, he felt that he had been tricked.There are no fewer than 3000 imperial troops on this pass wall, and at least a thousand people have been invested in the battle at the gate. At the beginning, the information at Hangu Pass said that there were only more than 9000 people at Hangu Pass, but now there are nearly [-] people In addition to the imperial soldiers who died on the wall, there are at least ten thousand people hidden in Hangu Pass.

"Fell into a trap, retreat!" After Hu Zhen exited the gate, he shouted to his troops.The commander who gave the order heard what Hu Zhen said and quickly ordered the troops to retreat.However, after Ming Jin, they discovered that there was still fighting at the rear.

To say that this Hangu Pass is indeed difficult to attack and easy to defend, even though Hu Zhen brought [-] Xiliang troops over, except for a relatively open area in front of the pass, the soldiers behind the Xiliang Army are still more than two miles away. outside.At the beginning, the sound of killing at Hangu Pass was loud, so Hu Zhen and the others did not hear the sound of killing coming from behind.But now that the soldiers had just retreated from the front, the shouts of killing from the rear could be clearly heard.

Hu Zhen and the others are in a mess at this time. In this kind of terrain, there is no place to escape. Could it be possible to escape to the mountains?But the Qinling Mountains are so dangerous, who would dare to flee to the mountains?

Hu Zhen is in a dilemma at this time, but it doesn't mean that Xu Rong and Qu Yi will let them go.When they were in Hangu Pass, they also heard the shouts of killing coming from behind these people. Immediately, these people did not care about the fatigue of the hard battle just now, and rushed out of the pass with a large army.

There were too many corpses piled up at the closed gate, so Xu Rong led the army to directly borrow the ladder used by the Xiliang army to break through the pass, and the Xiliang army who watched were dumbfounded.

"The one who surrenders will not die, and don't surrender!" Xu Rong shouted loudly at the Xiliang army on the opposite side after rushing down the wall.Hearing the general's call, the soldiers around him also shouted loudly.

"General, that seems to be General Xu Rong." At this time, a commander next to Hu Zhen said to Hu Zhen after seeing Xu Rong.

Hu Zhen didn't see that the person was Xu Rong, but Hu Zhen couldn't tell.At this time, when Hu Zhen heard the commander beside him say Xu Rong's name, he neither yelled loudly nor stopped him, but just sighed, and his meaning was clear.

When the soldiers of the Xiliang Army heard that the person on the other side was General Xu Rong, they immediately relaxed their weapons in their hands.If you can not die, who wants to die?Before, they were worried that they would be killed if they surrendered, but now that they knew that they were facing General Xu Rong, they couldn't help but relax their will to die.

"Whoever surrenders will avoid death!" Seeing that the Xiliang army had not moved yet, Xu Rong shouted again.He knew how many people there were in Hangu Pass. Even if the gate of Hangu Pass was lost before, these soldiers of the Xiliang Army might not be able to capture Hangu Pass. At this time, these Xiliang Army had lost their morale and would not fight again. If we go down, these soldiers will definitely be wiped out.After all, Xu Rong was once the commander of the Xiliang Army, and among these people, there might be his former subordinates, and he couldn't take action.

"If you haven't surrendered yet, what are you waiting for?" Xu Rong walked up to the Xiliang army and asked loudly.

Hu Zhen looked at Xu Rong right in front of his eyes. He knew that Xu Rong's martial arts were not as good as his. If he made a move now, he would definitely kill Xu Rong.However, Hu Zhen was also reluctant to do so, after all, he used to be in the same army.Sighing, Hu Zhen walked out in front of Xu Rong, knelt down and said: "The former general Dong Zhuo's tent, Hu Zhen, the general of Xiliang, led the people to surrender."

The Xiliang army was shocked, and Xu Rong was also a little surprised.He knew that Hu Zhen would surrender considering the lives of so many soldiers in the Xiliang Army, but what he didn't expect was that Hu Zhen surrendered in the name of Dong Zhuo's generals.

Hu Zhen naturally has his reasons for doing so.I just want to tell Xu Rong that we used to be robes, and if these people surrender, they cannot be killed.The second is to tell those Xiliang soldiers that we are Dong Zhuo's soldiers, not the so-called Yuan Shao's soldiers of the Yuan family and Yuan Shao.

The generals of the Xiliang Army were also dissatisfied with Yuan Shao. Since Yuan Shao took over Dong Zhuo's power, he has been expanding his own strength.The Xiliang army used to have tens of thousands of people, but now, apart from the 6000 people of Hu Zhen and Duan Yao, only Dong Cheng has more than [-] people left.

But as for Yuan Shao's direct relatives and generals, Chun Yuqiong had a total of 5 people under him, and these people exceeded the total number of the Xiliang Army.Wen Chou has 5000 subordinates, but these 5000 are all heavy armored cavalry, and their combat power is no worse than the [-] to [-] Xiliang soldiers.

In this case, what if it falls?Moreover, it’s not that everyone has never fought before, it’s just that their strength is really not good enough.

All of a sudden, the soldiers of the Xiliang Army knelt down like dominoes, disarmed and surrendered.The soldiers at the back didn't know what was going on, but they saw the people in front kneeling down, and immediately, they also knelt down.The Xiliang soldiers who were still fighting with the imperial army felt that something was wrong, and there was no support behind them. When they looked back, they were all kneeling on the ground.Therefore, these people also knelt down, and when they knelt down and surrendered, they didn't forget to tug on the clothes of their comrades around them.

This battle is indeed tragic.Hu Zhen brought 2 people, but in the end, only a little over 700 surrendered, and the rest died in battle.As for the imperial army, more than [-] people were killed or injured in the first camp, more than [-] were killed or injured by the pikemen, and more than [-] were killed or injured by the remaining soldiers.

Although the loss was a bit heavy, it was a blow to Yuan Shao's strength after all.After defending Hangu Pass, Xu Rong and the others did not retreat, but asked Zhang Xiu to bring 5000 people back to report the situation, while the rest were planning how to take down Tongguan.

In Luoyang City, Huang Cong has been released.Ye Mo had received news before that Yuan Shu had moved.Only then did Ye Mo understand why he was uneasy.

Ye Mo thought that Liu Biao would make a move, thought that Tao Qian would suddenly regain his youthful domineering spirit, thought that the Huns would come back again, but he never thought that Yuan Shu would make a move.Yuan Shu has always been at odds with Yuan Shao, just to compete for the position of the head of the Yuan family.

Both Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao had different intentions and wanted to become emperor.However, the Yuan family has only so many resources, and only by obtaining all the resources of the Yuan family can they succeed.In Ye Mo's previous life, the two each had half of the resources of the Yuan family, and they were also the two biggest princes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty for a period of time.

But in this life, the imperial power is still there, and Yuan Huai is not dead.Under Ye Mo's persuasion, Yuan Huai also planned to hand over the position of head of the Yuan family to Yuan Yi, who was also an official in Luoyang City at this time.Since the resources of the Yuan family have nothing to do with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, it makes sense for these two to unite.After all, neither of them is a fool, or Yuan Shao is not a fool.

As for Yuan Shu, as long as there are enough benefits and as long as you make him happy, he may listen to you and do anything.Yuan Shao was generous on the outside but cautious on the inside, and was indecisive; but Yuan Shu was different. Yuan Shu could hand over all his soldiers to Ji Ling, even though Ji Ling was not very good at commanding troops; he could also ask Yang Hong to make suggestions for him, even though Yang Hong didn't have much ability. .

Afterwards, Ji was inspired by Yuan Shu, and it was okay to lead the army to fight later. Yang Hong was the most selfish, but he spared no effort in making suggestions and traveling on missions for Yuan Shu.

Ye Mo brought Huang Cong out of the death row in order for Huang Cong to lead someone to fight Yuan Shao.At this time, there were few generals in command in the court. Since this person could command the imperial guards, he must also be able to command troops in battle.And now there are few soldiers in the court, and there are only 1000 soldiers drawn from the forbidden army, except for the [-] two-handed swordsmen Dianwei is training.The army that Yuan Shu dispatched was at least [-].

(End of this chapter)