The Assassin Empire of the Three Kingdoms

The Xiahoudun brothers did not dare to stay longer at Jiashikou, and led hundreds of defeated soldiers to retreat to Chang'an along the original road.When Xia Houyuan woke up, it was no longer Jiashikou.Many defeated soldiers were gathered along the way, all of them were terrified, unable to muster up the courage to fight again, disheartened and listless.All the food and grass in the luggage were completely burned, and everyone along the way was without a grain of food.

"General! Wuguan has been taken by Jingzhou soldiers!" A soldier hurried over, scrambling and almost fell to the ground.

Xiahou Dun was furious: "These Jingzhou thieves are deceiving people too much, second brother, you rest first, I will lead people to take Wuguan down!" Xia Houyuan did not stop.Xiahoudun shouted loudly, there were indeed hundreds of soldiers following Xiahoudun to Wuguan.

At that time, Wen Pin asked Lu Xun how many soldiers and horses he would need to defend Wuguan.Lu Xun replied that it would be enough to give him three thousand soldiers.With [-] soldiers and horses, they bypassed Jiashikou and came to Wuguan. Xia Houyuan left some Cao troops behind in order to leave a way out for himself.Lu Xun asked people to hang up the banner of Cao Jun. Because the battle ahead was unfavorable, Xia Houyuan sent people back to defend Wuguan under the pretext of entering the pass and taking Cao Jun's soldiers and horses in one fell swoop.Immediately ordered the assembly of soldiers and horses, blocked the gate of the city, and moved all the rolling logs and stones to the city.

In order to guard against Cao Jun's night attack, Lu Xun set up a cauldron of butter on the wall of the pass, and lit it all up at night, illuminating the entire pass as if it were daytime.The 1000 soldiers and Ma Luxun were divided into three teams, each with 2000 people, who took turns to go to the city to be on duty, and the other 1000 people, 1000 people rested, and [-] people were responsible for carrying.The efficiency of this is extremely high, and it can be guaranteed anytime and anywhere. Two-thirds of the soldiers and horses are on alert, and there are [-] reserve troops.

Looking at the dragon army battle flag high above the city.Xiahou Dun said angrily: "You despicable villain, dare to come down and fight with me?" Xiahou Dun stood under the gate and let go of his voice to challenge.But there is no movement at all when it is closed.Xiahoudun ordered people to insult him, but they ignored him.It wasn't until he was so angry that he swung his halberd and was about to attack the city that there was some movement on the closed wall.

Use bows and arrows when you are far away, and greet with various defensive equipment when you are close.Cao Jun didn't have the tools to climb the city, and there was nothing he could do to face such a powerful pass as Wuguan.Instead of climbing up the wall, he also dropped dozens of corpses for no reason.Xiahou Dun was furious, but he had no choice but to go back with his soldiers and horses.

Xia Houyuan leaned against the big tree, looking at Xiahou Dun's expression, he knew what the result was. Xia Houyuan sighed: "Be careful, be careful, always worry that it is the strategy of Jingzhou people, but I still fell in! How many soldiers are there in Wuguan?" Horses? Who guards them?"

Xiahou Dun shook his head.A sharp-eyed soldier hurriedly said: "I don't know the soldiers and horses, but the leader's surname is Lu! That's what it says on the banner!"

"Lu? When did Long Fei have another general surnamed Lu?"

"It's not a general, it seems like it's just a captain!"

"Ah?" Xia Houyuan chuckled: "Hey! Hu Luo Pingyang was bullied by dogs! Even a small captain will embarrass our army! Let's go and see!"

Xiahou Dun snorted coldly: "This little captain is too angry, he only hides and closes the door, bullying us so that we can't go to the city, let me catch him, he will be crushed into a pulp!"

Xia Houyuan brought all the soldiers and horses to Wuguan, looked up, and sure enough there was a small flag next to the big flag, with the words Du Wei Lu written on it.Xia Houyuan pushed away the soldiers supporting him on both sides, straightened his armor, and raised his legs towards Wuguan.The soldiers on the city saw it from a distance, and were about to bend their bows and set their arrows, Lu Xun waved his hands: "Let's see what he wants to say first?"

I saw Xia Houyuan came to the pass and shouted to the above: "The one above is Captain Lu, I have something to say!"

Lu Xun smiled, and stuck his head out of the wall: "You are Xia Houyuan, right? I am Lu Xun, Captain of the Dragon Army. If you have anything to say, please listen to me!"

Xia Houyuan was a little surprised when he saw it.Lu Xun is gentle, with a thin body, he hasn't even grown a beard, and his immature face has a slight bookish look.Xia Houyuan was a little dazed. Such a child could fight, and he didn't believe it: "Are you really Captain Lu?"

Lu Xun laughed and said, "It's guaranteed to be fake!"

Xia Houyuan stabilized his mind: "The captain is stationed at Wuguan alone. Although we have suffered a disastrous defeat, we still have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under him. Chang'an knows that our army has failed, so he will definitely send troops to rescue. At that time, the two sides will attack. Guard this Wuguan, in my opinion..."

"Let us withdraw from Wuguan in your opinion?" Lu Xun interrupted Xia Houyuan's words at the gate, with a smile on his face, and he didn't care at all.

"Aren't you afraid?" Xia Houyuan asked.

Lu Xun smiled: "Scared! How can you not be afraid! General Xiahou has tens of thousands of defeated troops, and Zhang Ji in Chang'an also has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. If we attack twice, it is absolutely difficult for our few thousand soldiers alone to deal with it! But General Xiahou seems to have forgotten something?"

"Forgot what?"

Lu Xun said: "The general forgot, there are tens of thousands of cavalry from our Dragon Army chasing after you, and Chang'an Zhang is unable to help at all. As far as I know, since Ma Teng died, all Xiliang soldiers and horses have returned. His son, Ma Chao, borrowed tens of thousands of troops from the Qiang people, and is marching towards Chang'an in great strength, these generals don't know about it, do they?"

Xia Houyuan was shocked by these few words, not because he didn't know these things, but because he was surprised when they came from such a child's mouth.Xia Houyuan immediately looked at the child in Guan Guan with admiration: "So you don't want to leave?"

"The general is right, since you have been ordered to stick to this place, even if there is only one person left, you will not be allowed to pass!" Lu Xun's body swelled instantly, and the demeanor of a general returned to his face.

Xia Houyuan came back silently.Everyone heard their conversation clearly, Xiahoudun said angrily: "Such a small baby wants to block us, brothers, there will be food after taking Wuguan! Go!" Xiahoudun shouted, the first He rushed towards Wuguan, followed by most of the defeated soldiers. Under the temptation of food, they could only risk their lives.

Xia Houyuan didn't stop him. At this juncture, there was no other way but to fight hard. How many people can escape from Wuguan in the end can only be left to fate.Looking at the swarming soldiers and horses, Lu Xun swung his robe sleeves and drew out his sword with a clang: "Brothers, this is Cao Jun's last fight. Block them and annihilate them all to save Jingzhou. The general waits." Let us triumph! For Jingzhou! For the general!"

"For Jingzhou! For the General!" Lu Xun raised his arms and shouted, and the three thousand dragon troops also shouted together, and their voices went straight to the sky above Wuguan.

Cao Jun's soldiers obviously couldn't adapt to such a battle.Hunger made them unable to lift up their spirits. They didn't even have the strength to run. They were all listless. Although they followed Xiahou Dun, they didn't have any murderous intent.The arrows in the sky slanted down, and some Cao soldiers even threw away their self-defense armor. The arrows shot at their bodies without any barriers, and the sound of skin and flesh could be heard.

"Shield hand step forward! Shield hand step forward!" Xiahou Dun kept shouting.

Soldiers, look at me and I look at you, the tens of thousands of troops found less than a hundred shields, and some were thrown away when they were burned, or they were burned out.Some are thrown away when fleeing for their lives, which is too cumbersome.I regret it when I use it now.

Cao Jun rushed to the closed wall and looked up. The closed wall several feet high made people dizzy. Cao Jun, who had no tools to climb the wall, was at a loss for a while.Xiahou Dun yelled, "Climb for me!"

The soldiers had no choice but to rely on their own hands to clasp the cracks in the closed wall, braving the rain of arrows and the messy things thrown from the city wall, and began to climb the wall.Bodies began to pile up under the wall.Cao Jun stepped on the corpses of his own people and climbed up little by little.Xiahou Dun had no intention of retreating at all.The [-] troops are placed higher and higher under the closed wall.

Seeing that it was about to reach the middle of the wall.If you wait until Cao Jun rushes up, you can't hold it with only [-] soldiers and horses.Xiahou Dun was a little excited, even if he piled up corpses, he had to pile them up.Guan Wall was still desperately resisting, showing no signs of fatigue. Lu Xun looked at it and sneered, "Pour oil! Set fire!"

Large pots of kerosene were poured down on the city wall and sprinkled on the wall-climbing soldiers and dead bodies.A few torches lit the kerosene.Cao Jun started to roar, that kind of brutal roar.The soldier covered in flames rushed out of the fire screaming in pain, and the rest of the soldiers hurriedly dodged when they saw it.The entire wall was surrounded by fire.The soldiers could not approach at all.The smoky smell of kerosene and the smell of grilled meat wafted in the air.

"Aw...!" In broad daylight, a wolf's howl came from the depths of the woods. It was the sound of a wild animal smelling its prey.

Xiahou Dun got out of the fire and tried his best to extinguish the flames on his body. His hair and beard were all scorched, and ashes fell when he touched it lightly.Turning his head and looking, Xiahou Dun gritted his teeth: "This kid is too ruthless! He even wants to burn the corpse!"

Xia Houyuan looked at it: "The fire has surrounded the pass wall, we can't wait here, the pursuers behind us will catch up at some point!"

"Then what should we do? If we can't pass here, we can't return to Chang'an!"

Xia Houyuan looked at the surrounding mountains. They were all high mountains with dense forests, and there was nowhere to find a path.The guide has disappeared, and he can only rely on himself at this time.Xia Houyuan gritted his teeth: "Go, detour!"

There was no gong to retreat, nor was there an order to retreat.Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan sneaked into the nearby woods with a few guards.The majestic Qinling Mountains is the dividing line between the north and the south. The mountains are extremely high and stretch for tens of thousands of miles.Although it is said that you can walk there, once you go in and wander around aimlessly in the mountains, whether you can come out alive is a big problem.

Climbing up a mountain ridge, looking back at the still burning Wuguan city wall, Cao Jun's soldiers are still rushing forward desperately.There was nothing they could do, and there were only two ways left, either to be killed or captured.Knowing that the main general had run away, they stopped attacking one after another.I don't know if I'm still rushing into the fire.Xia Houyuan couldn't bear to look any longer, Xiahou Dun also let out a long sigh, turned around and continued walking up the mountain.