At this time, three days had passed since Wei Yan sent a letter asking for help, and these three days were torture every day for Wei Yan and the others, a test of life and death.
After clearing the Han troops in Dingjun Mountain and Tiandang Mountain, the Daqian Army relied on the advantage of artillery to continuously bombard the Yangping Pass defenders. If Wei Yan had not been prepared in advance, he dug multiple trenches in the 100-200 range of Yangping Pass, using Sandbags and earth mounds were used to create multiple low walls to withstand the bombardment of Da Gan's army. In addition, he used the law enforcement team of the Jingzhou Army led by him. The harsh military laws deterred the Hanzhong Army and prevented Yangping Pass from falling.
But this can only weaken the power of the artillery of the Daqian Army at most, but it cannot allow the Han army to change the situation of being unable to fight back. If they want to attack the Daqian Army, they must wait for the soldiers of the Daqian Army to attack Yangping Pass 100 They could either rush out and engage in a hand-to-hand combat with Da Qian's army. However, they did not have the advantage in hand-to-hand combat with the Han army, so Wei Yan and the others could only be beaten and could not fight back!
In three days, Yangping Pass was pockmarked by Daqian's artillery and turned into a dilapidated pass. Wei Yan and others had suffered over a thousand casualties, and the morale of the army was on the verge of collapse at any time!
Every moment, people were fleeing in the direction of Daqian's army. At first, Wei Yan asked archers to shoot these fleeing soldiers, but as more and more soldiers fled, even the law enforcement team brought by Wei Yan began to flee. (They fled towards Hanzhong), naturally there was no one to enforce military law.
Looking at the Yangping Pass that was almost falling, Wei Yan, the few personal guards around him, said in despair: "General, my subordinates have tried their best!" After saying that, Wei Yan was ready to lead his last personal guards and the large army to fight!
But at this moment, "Boom, boom, boom!" Fierce war drums kept coming from a distance, and then echoed around Yangping Pass!
Wei Yan's personal guards said excitedly: "General, our reinforcements are here! We are saved!"
Wei Yan looked at the smoke not far away and breathed a sigh of relief, but looked at the dilapidated Yangping Pass and said solemnly: "Yangping Pass can no longer be used. After all, we still failed to hold the pass. We can't drive the Daqian Army out of Hanzhong later. This battle It’s not over yet!”
On the other side, Liu Shi was originally happy about the fall of Yangping Pass, but he did not expect that the sound of the Han army's war drums came out from behind Yangping Pass. He was worried that his army would be ambushed by the Han army, so he had to retreat with gold!
"Chang Wen, are you still alive?" Liu Pan met the fleeing Jingzhou army on the road to Yangping Pass when he led his army. He caught these deserters and asked about the situation at Yangping Pass. Knowing that Yangping Pass was about to fall, he accelerated his army Marching pace, but in the end, I only saw a dilapidated pass and a scene of rivers of blood. I cried out in extreme worry for a while.
At this time, Wei Yan said loudly: "He's not dead yet!"
Then Wei Yan ran out with more than a dozen of his personal guards. When he saw Liu Pan, he smiled bitterly and said, "But the Yangping Pass that the general entrusted to me was not defended!"
After finishing speaking, he looked at the dilapidated pass and said: "Under this situation, it is obviously impossible for Yangping Pass to stop the attack of the Daqian Army, especially their artillery attack. The reason why I was defeated so miserably this time is that 3,000 We couldn't defend it for even three days because the artillery of Daqian Army kept bombarding the pass! If our army's artillery can't keep up, our army's defeat is inevitable!"
"Artillery! I'm afraid our army's artillery will have to wait another ten days to reach the front line!" Liu Pan also looked solemn when he heard this. This is not the first time that the Daqian army has relied on artillery to defeat them. In the past, their artillery The number is small, but at least there are still some, but this time I came to Hanzhong in a hurry, and there are not even roads in many places. The 3,000 of them still came to Hanzhong after going through a lot of hardships, and it was impossible to bring artillery here!
Liu Pan thought for a while and said: "How about our army retreats to Mianyang County and relies on Mianyang City to block the attack of the Daqian Army!"
But Wei Yan shook his head and said: "Not even the strong and dangerous Yangping Pass can stop the attack of the Daqian Army, let alone the small county of Mianyang. Retreating now is equivalent to giving up the entire Yangping Pass!"
Then Wei Yan said firmly: "I have been bombarded by Da Gan's army for the past three days. I thought of a way to stop Da Gan's army, which is to station the army on Zouma Ridge near Yangping Pass. This way it looks like we have let After leaving Yangping Pass, Liu Shi definitely did not dare to enter Hanzhong easily. Instead, he had to find a way to capture Zoumaling first. Otherwise, the rear of Daqian Army would be completely exposed to the attack of Zoumaling, and our army could cut off Daqian Army's retreat. , then Liu Shi’s 30,000-strong army will become the turtle in the urn!
And Liu Shi wants to attack Zoumaling. With the terrain of Zoumaling, the power of their artillery will definitely be weakened. Moreover, we can also dig trenches in the mountains to offset the power of Daqian army's artillery. There is also a condescending terrain. It can be said that Zoumaling Ling is even more suitable to resist the Daqian army than the current Yangping Pass!"
Of course, the biggest problem with this tactic is that giving up Yangping Pass is equivalent to opening the door to Hanzhong. Now Liu Shi's troops are insufficient, but as long as he takes Yangping Pass, he will take the initiative and wait for the reinforcements from behind. The soldiers of the Daqian Army can continue to pour into Hanzhong from Yangping Pass!
Looking at the dilapidated Yangping Pass, Liu Pan chose to believe in Wei Yan's tactics. He first reported the situation here to Liu Bei, then led his 10,000 troops to Zomaling, and then established a camp on Zomaling to create a resistance to the horses. Luzhai, digging trenches.
With the help of five buckets of rice sect sacrificial wine, Liu Shi outside Yangping Pass finally understood clearly that the enemy on the other side was 10,000 soldiers put together by the Hanzhong clan. They were all private soldiers of the Hanzhong clan, and they were not strong in combat effectiveness. Not to mention, the equipment is much better than that of the Hanzhong Army, and the armor rate has reached 10% (here I am talking about iron armor)!
After Liu Shi learned about the enemy's situation, he understood what Liu Pan and the others were thinking. If they did not deal with the enemies on Zoumaling, he would not dare to go deep into Hanzhong even if they occupied Yangping Pass.
So Liu Shi first led an army to occupy Yangping Pass, leaving 10,000 people to find a way to clean up the interior of Yangping Pass and repair Yangping Pass at the same time. He led an army of 20,000 to attack Zomaling. However, Liu Pan and Wei Yan relied on the difficult terrain advantages and the resistance of horses to Luzhai. , trenches and other obstacles, he repelled Liu Shi's more than ten attacks in a row. Especially when facing the mortars of the Daqian Army, Wei Yan learned his shame and became brave. He personally led the elite to attack the mortar positions. , Liu Shi was careless and was rushed to the mortar battalion position by Wei Yan. More than a dozen mortars were destroyed by Wei Yan. At the same time, Liu Pan commanded the army to use crossbows and arrows to counterattack the Daqian army's position. They relied on the condescending terrain. , for a time Da Ganjun didn’t take much advantage.