In fact, when Huang Zhong rushed up the city wall, Lu Bu had already arrived at Hulao Pass.

Hulao Pass is a county town, Chenggao County.

All the people in the county were moved away by Dong Zhuo and sent to Chang'an in Guanzhong.

Therefore, today's Hulao Pass is an empty city, including the west part of the city, which is the direction from Luoyang. It is usually guarded by thousands of soldiers.

As the saying goes, ten sieges and five attacks, if there are still 50,000 people in Hulao Pass, then it can still be regarded as the most powerful pass in the world.

But now there are only 30,000 people, which makes Xu Rong's troops somewhat stretched.

In fact, Xu Rong was not unaware that Luoyang had sent reinforcements. After all, there would definitely be messengers from Luoyang to convey Dong Zhuo's instructions to Xu Rong.

It's just that Luoyang is nearly two hundred miles away from Chenggao County. Even if reinforcements arrive, it will take two or three days.

Therefore, Xu Rong was not sure when the reinforcements would arrive. Calculating the date, it should probably be today.

But if today comes too late, it will be a disaster for them.

Therefore, when Xu Rong ordered a full-scale counterattack back to the city wall, he announced to the soldiers that reinforcements would arrive soon and asked them to fight to the death.

This was undoubtedly a wise move to boost morale. Dong Jun made rapid attacks in a short period of time. As Liu Bei's soldiers continued to climb onto the city wall, the coalition forces that had already occupied a large number of sections of the city wall quickly intertwined with Dong Jun, and the two sides fought fiercely.

It was difficult to resolve, and the situation was at a stalemate for a while.

When Lu Bu arrived at Hulao Pass, he quickly discovered something strange. There were only a few old soldiers guarding the west gate of the city. The shouts of killing were loud in the distance, and noisy noises continued to be heard.

Lu Bu may not be very good at conspiracy, but his sense of war is extremely keen. When he heard these sounds, he immediately realized that there might be a problem in the forward position, and immediately shouted: "Hurry, enter the city quickly!"

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

The soldiers of the Xiliang Army, clad in black armor, rumbled on the rammed earth and marched towards the city.

Lu Bu rode a red rabbit horse. After the city gate opened, he rushed into the pass first, followed the wide and straight streets, and headed towards the east gate like an arrow.

When he arrived at Guanxia, ​​he saw coalition soldiers climbing up the city wall like ants in a steady stream. The wide city wall was full of people. Xu Rong had sent all the soldiers he could.

But as long as all the ladders are not pushed down, the number of enemies behind them will not decrease, and may even continue to increase.

At this time, Hulao Prison had become shaky and on the verge of falling.

"kill!"

Lu Bu did not hesitate and ran towards the city wall with his halberd.

The Red Rabbit Horse seemed to be able to fly over eaves and walls. It actually rushed directly through the stone stairs to the southern city wall section. On the wide city gate, it galloped wantonly. With just one collision, it could knock away several coalition soldiers and give the coalition forces a huge blow.

Very lethal.

As this new force continued to attack, the Hulao was densely closed, with heads crowded together. From time to time, someone fell down with shrill screams, blood spattered everywhere, and the sound of weapons being exchanged could be heard everywhere.

"Put the top on, put the top on!"

Surrounded by a large number of soldiers, Xu Rong commanded everywhere. Once the coalition soldiers in a certain area were cleared, he immediately ordered the soldiers to put down their defenses.

The city wall of Hulao Pass is much wider than the walls of ordinary county towns. After all, it is one of the most powerful passes in the world. In order to build a large number of fortifications on the pass, the width of the gate from east to west is five feet, which is more than ten meters, plus the length of three miles.

, can fully accommodate tens of thousands of troops as a battlefield.

Now that the gate has been destroyed by trebuchets, it has long been in a mess. The bed crossbows, crossbow stands, towers, fishing bridges, and bell boards that were originally covered with them have almost all suffered devastating damage. Only lime, hammered wood, firewood, and gates have been destroyed.

, roofs, machine bridges, Bailu houses and other special props or mechanisms are still playing their role.

Especially the bed crossbows were almost destroyed because they were difficult to move.

The reason why the bed crossbow did not work some time ago and had to be bombarded by the coalition's catapults is because the coalition upgraded the wooden curtain.

The original wooden curtain was a large piece of wood, generally between five and ten centimeters thick.

In order to cope with Dong Jun's bed crossbow, the wooden curtain was not only five times thicker, but also five wooden boards overlapped together, connected in series by nails, fixed on the wooden curtain cart, and covered with a layer of iron plates. Don't say that now

Bed crossbows and rockets cannot cause damage to wooden curtains.

In the offensive and defensive battles between the two sides, what amazed the princes of the world the most was not the endless imagination and siege equipment of the Qingzhou Army, but the abundant financial resources.

Laying iron plates on wooden curtains?

How rich does it take for a person to do this?

But no matter what, this back-and-forth battle has indeed given countless people profound inspiration.

Xu Rong is not completely without counterattack capabilities. There are a large number of roof panels in the internal structure of the city wall. Once the coalition enemies on a section of the city wall are cleared, the roof panels will be lifted immediately to prevent the next wave of enemies from approaching the city.

The so-called top board is a wooden board inside the parapet. When the enemy attacks, if it is lifted and fixed, it will extend to the outside of the city like a cover, making it impossible for the attacking soldiers to get up.

At the same time, the sentinels in the Bailu House below the city wall, where the previous guard post was located, were also holding fire poles and burning the ladders.

Lime and wood were poured down continuously, and both sides used every possible means.

War is a matter of resorting to all possible means.

When Lu Bu came up, it was the time when the coalition soldiers launched a massive attack.

To be precise, it was when Liu Bei's army launched a massive attack.

The other princes all stood still and waited quietly for the outcome of this battle.

After all, Liu Bei's army has 60,000 men and he is the strongest among all the princes. If he goes to Hulao Pass to fight to the death, even if he wins in the end, the outcome will be very tragic. Everyone except Gongsun Zan is happy to see this

ending.

Gongsun Zan was willing to send people. He had some Han soldiers who could dismount and fight, but Liu Bei refused.

The cavalry should be on horseback, instead of rushing into the city wall like the infantry.

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Huang Zhong didn't know which person he had cut, but his knife was already full of gaps and dense cracks.

There was blood on his body, mixed with sweat flowing from his forehead, soaking his clothes. Most of it was the blood of his enemies, and a small amount was the blood of his comrades.

A Liang's face turned even paler. Their team of fifty people now only had a dozen or so people still fighting in a corner. A steady stream of enemy troops rushed up and surrounded them.

Don't think that this is a war of 180,000 people against 30,000 people. In fact, from the beginning, they only had 8,000 death squads.

By the time Liu Bei's soldiers rushed up, they had already been fighting for several minutes.

Thirty thousand people versus eight thousand people. After a few minutes of fighting, the number of troops was reduced to over a thousand. Although Liu Bei's follow-up troops were already catching up, it should be noted that unlike Dong Jun, they could not walk up the stairs.

It takes several minutes for each soldier to climb through the trench first and then the ladder. This means that once the reinforcement speed cannot match the attrition speed on the city wall, the final result will be that all the death squad vanguards will be killed, and those who have not yet come up will be killed.

The coalition forces were driven down the city, making this critical battle a failure.

Therefore, the battle was very intense and the fighting was very fierce. The city walls were full of corpses of both the enemy and ours. Both the coalition forces and Dong's army were fighting with all their strength, and no one dared to spare a hand.

The coalition forces came because of Liu Bei's generous rewards, while Dong's army came because they got on the pirate ship and couldn't get off.

Dong Zhuo's army structure was mainly composed of the Northern and Southern armies. The Northern Army was okay, after all, they had only arrived in Luoyang not long ago. The Southern Army and many powerful armies did a lot of unscrupulous things in Luoyang, including robbing the late emperor's tomb and looting.

Looting the nobles and noble families, etc.

Once the coalition forces represented by these noble families attack Guan, and they are liquidated afterwards, it is self-evident what will happen to the generals of these armies.

Therefore, the Northern Army is now stationed in the south, and the Southern Army and powerful soldiers and horses are all fighting to the death here.

A Liang gasped for breath. He had killed three people, but the number of enemies still made him feel desperate. His teeth were trembling and he said to Huang Zhong: "Captain...Captain, you must help me after I die."

I will give the pension to my mother."

"Silly boy, you won't die, just follow me."

Huang Zhong tried his best to keep his breathing steady. Even for a person like him, his physical strength was still very high in this kind of battle. The number of enemies who fell under his hands was at least thirty.

A fierce general is said to be an enemy of ten thousand people, but it would be extremely difficult for Zhang Fei to defeat more than ten or twenty people. In a sea of ​​​​people, no matter how brave a person is, he is as small as a drop in the ocean.

The vast sea of ​​Dong Jun's soldiers was like a tide, washing away Liu Bei's soldiers who had climbed up the city wall. From the beginning, they were overwhelmingly powerful, but now they have turned to passive defense to cover the arrival of new soldiers. This is the limit of what the vanguard army can do.

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But the next moment, the coalition forces on the city wall felt a sense of despair.

Because the enemy's reinforcements actually arrived.

When the two sides are in a stalemate, the enemy suddenly appears with a new force. What this means is needless to say.

Even though Liu Bei's army has 60,000 men, the prerequisite is that they can all be deployed at once.

Limited by trenches and walls, this is almost impossible.

So when they saw the enemy's reinforcements arriving, the faces of Liu Bei, Chen Mu, Tian Feng, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others who were overlooking the battlefield situation from a high platform outside the pass suddenly changed.

"Why is it at this time?"

Tian Feng murmured to himself.

"It would be better if it were a little later, a little later."

Liu Bei gritted his teeth and tried not to let himself tremble because of his excessive anger.

If Dong Jun's reinforcements were delayed and all his soldiers could reach the city wall, the outcome of the final battle would definitely be tilted towards him.

But now, at this time, anyone with a little common sense will understand that the situation is over. Because there are at least 40,000 people in Guanxia who have not climbed up the city wall, and there are still only a few thousand people fighting in Guanxia.

The reason why these thousands of people did not fall was because soldiers outside the city were coming up one after another, so that they could barely maintain the balance.
To be continued...