A round of scorching sun shines, and the warm sunshine drives away the severe cold of this winter.

Amidst the sky full of yellow sand, on the official road to Tongguan, Ma Teng and Han Sui, with their remaining 30,000 troops and horses, slowly headed towards Tongguan, which was already very close in front of them.

As for Xiahou Dun, he had already crossed the Yellow River with the remaining hundreds of people!

"General!"

Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves came from not far ahead, and along with a shout, a scout appeared in front of Ma Teng, Han Sui and others.

When Ma Teng and Han Sui were wondering, the scout had already arrived on horseback and reported with clasped fists: "I'm reporting to the two generals that Yan Rou has been repairing and raising the walls of Tongguan not long ago, and has dug many excavated objects outside the pass.

It is a shallow trench with horse stakes and deer antlers widely spread in the trench. Soldiers guard the gate tower day and night, and the defense is tight!"

"Well, this Yan Rou was prepared quickly!" Ma Teng sighed with emotion, raised his head and asked, "What about Zhang Fei and those fleeing soldiers?"

"We have all returned to Tongguan. The soldiers who were slightly injured have joined in guarding the pass!" the scout reported truthfully.

This understanding immediately made Ma Teng and Han Sui feel worried. However, they did not stop and directly ordered: "Continue marching!"

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Under Tongguan

Even though it was not the first time to see Tongguan, Ma Teng and Han Sui, looking at the steep Tongguan, they still felt a sense of powerlessness.

Tongguan is the east gate of Guanzhong and the fortress for entering the pass. It is bordered by the Yellow River in the north and the mountainside in the south. It is naturally dangerous and has always been a battleground for military strategists. It is the "first dangerous place in the region"!

The thin road is dangerous and the apes compete!

From this we can see the danger of Tongguan!

Especially after the repairs, the towers of Tongguan are now five feet high, and the width of the walls is even three feet thick. Coupled with the shimmering weapons, it makes people feel as if they are facing a city made of fine iron!

Ma Teng took a deep breath, reined in his horse slowly, and raised his hand slowly: "Send out a thousand men and prepare to attack the city!"

Of course, a thousand people are not trying to break through, but to test the opponent's defense!

Most of these thousand people were destined to perish on this city tower, but there was nothing they could do about it. After all, from the moment they entered the army, they were destined to have this day!

A thousand people, led by a captain, slowly marched out, equipped with ladders and other siege equipment.

However, Ma Teng did not attack the city immediately. Instead, he rode his horse further forward, raised his head and shouted: "Is General Yan Rou here?!"

"The general is here!" A positive response came from the tower. Yan Rou, who was dressed in green shirt, pressed the hilt of the sword at her waist and walked slowly to the edge of the tower. She glanced at Ma Teng questioningly and said calmly.

shouted:

"Ma Teng, do you know that as a court official, you rashly mobilized troops and horses to attack other counties without orders from the court? This is a rebellious thief. According to the law..."

Yan Rou trailed off and suddenly yelled fiercely: "Copy the nine tribes, confiscate all the family property, make the men into the official families and serve as slaves for generations, and the women into the official families as maids for generations! And you, Ma Teng, will be torn into pieces like a chariot!"

"The car was torn into pieces!"

"The car was torn apart and dismembered!"

.....

In an instant, the guards on the entire city tower seemed to be boiling. They raised their weapons crazily, roaring like thunder, and the echoes echoed throughout Tongguan continuously!

Ma Teng, who was under the tower, never expected that Yan Rou would be the first to attack. Seeing this, the words of solicitation he was about to say were suddenly swallowed back in his throat!

His face had turned dark blue, and his whole body was trembling with anger. He suddenly raised the sword in his hand and roared: "Yan Rou, I will not kill you, and I swear that I will not be a human being! Come on, give it to me."

General, attack the city!"

Amid Ma Teng's almost frantic roar, more than a thousand soldiers from Xiliang rushed toward the Tongguan Tower. The ones at the front were holding swords and axes, holding wooden shields in their hands, and were one step behind, leaving a huge gap for them.

Xiliang soldiers were running quickly carrying ladders.

Behind them were hundreds of soldiers holding long halberds tightly in their hands, hiding between cloud ladders and ladders. Finally, hundreds of soldiers from Xiliang rode on war horses, wore light armor, held long bows, and arrows were already strung.

Get ready to pour over the gate tower.

Even though the Xiliang army is not as good as Wu Zhaohou's army, they are still the best soldiers in the world, and they don't want to die! So at this moment, it seems that these one thousand people are more elite than the Xiliang soldiers who attacked Chang'an City before!

When they attacked Chang'an, there were tens of thousands of soldiers behind them, ready to climb the ladder at any time. But now, there were also tens of thousands of soldiers behind them, but they would never rescue them!

The only one they can rely on is themselves!

Looking at the extremely elite Xiliang Army, Yan Rou, who was standing on the pass tower looking down at the pass, showed a sinister smile on her face: "It seems that life and death are indeed the best way to stimulate potential! It's just that

, no matter what, it cannot change the fact that the Xiliang soldiers are elite on horseback, not elite on infantry!"

After she finished speaking, Yan Rou turned sideways and said in a calm tone: "Give me the order and raise the crossbow!"

"Here!"

"The general has orders, raise your crossbows!"

As soon as Yan Rou finished speaking, the soldiers passed the order down layer by layer. Crossbow beds emitting a faint cold light were immediately set up on the wall, and the bows and arrows with strings ringing and banging were also half-raised.

He rose up and pointed the long arrow with a blood groove at the bottom of the city tower at the Xiliang army!

"Tuk-tuk-tuk..."

There was no kerosene, no rolling wood and stone, only a dense rain of arrows like locusts pouring down from the tower, constantly hitting the wooden shield in the hand of the axe-hand!

A wave of arrows were all blocked, but at this moment, the crossbow bed suddenly released the crossbow string.

Bang! Bang! Bang...

An extremely huge crossbow arrow with an arrow count shot out and crashed into those wooden shields with huge force. How could the crossbow arrows fired from the crossbow bed be resisted by human power?

The crossbow arrows directly broke the wooden shield, poof! Poof! They directly penetrated the swordsman holding the wooden shield and nailed him directly. Some crossbow arrows even penetrated one person and then nailed another person again, just like a skewer of candied haws.

Usually, two bloody corpses are nailed to the ground!

And when any axe-hand holding a wooden shield is killed, it means that a gap appears, and a rain of arrows pours out from the sky immediately, so fiercely that it falls into the enemy group under the gate tower, and in a moment...

It overturned a big piece!

There were more and more corpses piled up, and it was even difficult to get close to the Guan Tower. The offensive of a thousand men was suddenly interrupted. Seeing the miserable dead soldiers, one by one Xiliang army began to retreat involuntarily.

"Don't retreat! Come on, general! Come on!" Ma Teng cursed angrily and kept waving his sword, killing two soldiers who retreated. Finally, he frightened the retreating Xiliang army.

Burning with anger and losing his mind, Ma Teng rushed directly towards Guanlou, raised the sword in his hand and roared: "The one who climbs first will be rewarded with ten thousand coins!"

It is an eternal law on the battlefield to produce warriors under heavy rewards. As soon as Ma Teng finished speaking, the soldiers who were still alive gritted their teeth and followed Ma Teng, braving the rain of arrows, and sprinted towards the Guanlou!

When Han Sui, Ma Chao and others saw Ma Teng ascending first, their expressions changed with shock, and they shouted: "Brother Ma, come back quickly, it's dangerous!"

"Father, get back quickly!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a long bow suddenly appeared in the hand of Yan Rou, who had never moved above the Guan Tower. He drew an arrow from the string and pointed at Ma Teng, who was already approaching the Guan Tower as he dodged to the left and right!

"not good!"

Ma Teng, who was experienced in many battles after all, suddenly felt a cold and biting breath aimed at him, and he woke up instantly.

"Brother Ma (father), be careful!" Han Sui and Ma Chao almost blurted out in surprise.

However, Ma Teng had no time to react. He only saw a flash of cold light, and a black shadow shot out. A long arrow as thick as his thumb pierced directly through Ma Teng's right arm with a 'pop' sound, making Ma Teng howl in agony.

He was knocked over directly and fell to the ground.
Chapter completed!