Within the pass.
Almost in an instant, the Qin army soldiers at the top of the city retreated in full, with well-trained movements and no hesitation at all.
From the position of the coalition army's commander, seeing that Shanyuguan was about to be breached, Huang Zu couldn't help it any longer, drew out his battle sword, and pointed forward fiercely:
"All armies attack——"
The war drum beats like exploding beans!
With this top order, instead of attacking the city in batches, the entire army began to charge together.
The entire plain outside the pass was filled with dust and soldiers, and the scene was extremely spectacular.
Not long after, the coalition forces at the forefront had completely entered the pass, but the well-trained Qin army had all evacuated as soon as the city was broken. At this time, only a mess on the ground was left.
Ye Gui had already followed the ladder to attack the city, and then ran down the city defense. He was at the forefront of the coalition forces, pointing his spear: "Chase!"
Such a great victory, if we don't take advantage of the victory and pursue it, how long will it take?
Under his leadership, the coalition soldiers followed the Qin army's escape route and pursued them all the way.
After a while, they were about to catch up with the Qin army, but at this moment, rows of black armor and red tassels suddenly stood up on the mountains on both sides.
Amidst the sound of armor scraping, He Zhen waved his hand and shouted coldly: "Fire the arrow!"
Following his order, arrows rained down like rain.
Plop, plop!
The sound of arrows piercing flesh was heard. The coalition soldiers at the front were unprepared and were shot over a large area in just an instant.
Miserable howls came one after another, and Ye Gui was also waving his spear desperately and blocking.
The Qin army kept firing arrows, one after another. Under such circumstances, the coalition forces could not pursue. They began to wave their weapons to block and retreat.
At the same time, large rocks were pushed down by a group of people, thundering down the steep slope and smashing into the crowd...
The scene was bloody and tragic, and the effect of this ambush was almost perfect. This is also the danger of Shanyuguan. Not only is the city pass difficult to break, but even if it is broken, there is also a natural best ambush point in this pass.
At present, most of the coalition forces have poured into the pass, but the front line was blocked after entering the valley. Not long after, the news also reached Huang Zu.
At this time, the three commanders had gathered together. Naturally, the three of them had already thoroughly studied the overall terrain of Shanyuguan. This ambush was not unexpected.
After hearing the soldiers' report, Huang Zu said: "The only way to pass through the valley road in Shanyu Pass is to attack the mountain and completely occupy the entire Shanyu Pass. Only then can our army pass safely."
Huangfu Ye agreed: "Now that the city has been broken, it is not surprising that there is such an ambush in the pass. This should also be the Qin army's rear-cutting force. It can be immediately deployed to attack the mountain. Their main force has been defeated, and the ambush force cannot hold on for long."
"Having said that, I am still a little worried." Huang Zudao: "Judging from the situation before Shanyuguan, it should take several months to break through, but today the Qin army was suddenly defeated. The defeat was a bit inexplicable. ah."
As soon as he finished speaking, Han Zhou said: "What's so strange about this? Huang Shuai didn't hear that the King of Qin had already moved away all the residents in the pass. What does this mean? It means that the King of Qin knew before that Shanyu Pass could not be defended. This We want to conserve our troops and retreat to Sichuan and Shu. The Qin army’s retreat should have been prepared long ago.”
"Well, that makes sense." Huang Zu nodded.
Subsequently, after leaving a pile of corpses on the valley road, the coalition forces began to lay out a strategy to attack the mountain.
On the other side, Su Yi had led the main army to withdraw across the entire line. Before leaving, he also told a messenger: "Tell He Zhen that after the ambush, it is enough to hold off the coalition forces for one day, and then retreat immediately. There is no need to fight to the death to stop them."
"No!" The ordering soldier clasped his fists and left.
This order quickly reached He Zhen.
At this time, the coalition forces had been severely beaten and were resting for the attack on the mountain. He Zhen was also commanding the soldiers.
"Soldiers, move quickly!"
"Gather all the rolling stones to the front line!"
Under the mountains on both sides, soldiers moved together, busy in front and back, most of them working in pairs, placing rolling stones, maces and other items in position so that they could be rolled down at any time.
At this moment, the messenger also hurried over.
"Report~~~~~"
"General, Commander Su has an order for you to block the attack for one day and retreat tomorrow."
The ordering soldier knelt down on one knee beside He Zhen, but the latter did not even look back and continued to command the soldiers, and then said:
"Tell Su Shuai that you can't find me."
"What?" The messenger was startled and said hurriedly: "But General..."
"It's nothing!" He Zhen interrupted him directly, and walked away without even looking at him.
Looking at his back, the messenger had no choice but to hurried down the mountain, rode back, and reported to Su Yi.
At this time, Su Yi's army was marching and evacuating. After listening to what the messenger said, he looked darkly and only murmured: "This common man..."
Then, he waved his hand and asked the messenger to retreat.
With Su Yi's talent, he didn't understand that if Luhe really broke off the ambush, the latter would definitely not retreat and would definitely fight to the death.
But it happened that Su Yi kept him.
This shows that Su Yi wants to inflict heavy losses on the enemy at the minimum cost.
And He Zhen is loyal. A typical general like him would rather die in battle than take a step back.
This battle to attack the mountain was even worse than the attack on the city. On the same ladder frame and the mountain walls on both sides, looking horizontally, there were soldiers climbing up desperately.
He Zhen had 20,000 people and was well prepared. Under arrows and rolling stones, barbed maces kept smashing into the crowd from the mountains. The battlefield was tragic as can be imagined.
After the fierce fighting during the day, the coalition forces launched a night attack without pause.
However, there was absolutely no problem for Ping Hezhen's 20,000 soldiers to guard the mountain for one day and choose an opportunity to retreat the next day, but he refused this order.
The unyielding general is ready to die with the enemy!
The fierce battle on the valley road continued for six or seven days. It was not until He Zhen's arrows were exhausted and there were no rolling stones that the coalition forces attacked the top of the mountain.
On one side of the mountain, He Zhen showed no intention of giving in. He pulled out the battle sword from his waist and screamed: "Kill!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he took the lead and was the first to meet the attacking coalition forces.
The war sword slashed, blood spattered, and the soldiers of the Qin army behind them also picked up their halberds and rushed towards the coalition forces with shouts.
The two sides started a face-to-face hand-to-hand combat.
But there were too many coalition forces. Although the Qin army was brave, they could not hold back the troops.
There were shouts of killing everywhere in the mountains.
Blood, along the slope, gathered into a small river, flowing...
During the period when the coalition forces were attacking the mountain, various units of the Qin Army also completed a series of deployments.
At the same time, King Xuan took Yan Qi as his commander and commanded 200,000 troops. He was already planning to send troops to Qin.
