In the south of Pingcheng, there is a mountain in the west of Juyang, Yanmen Mountain.

This mountain is right in the center of Yanmen County, and the terrain of Yanmen Mountain is dangerous. If you want to enter the south from the north of Yanmen County, the fastest way is to go through the west foot of Yanmen Mountain.

Originally, there were not many people here, and there were no passes. Later, after Liu Zhang captured Yanmen County, he established a pass at the west foot of Yanmen Mountain——Yanmen Pass.

It takes 220 li to go from Pingcheng to Yanmen Pass to the Yin Pavilion of Yanmen County Government, but if you bypass Yanmen Pass, you need to walk 40 li more.

These 40 miles are all mountainous, and it will take several days to complete.

Therefore, after Yuan Shao led a main force of [-] troops from Gaoliu in Youzhou to Pingcheng in Yanmen County, he followed the marching route of Liu Yuan's first battle to the south again.

Along the same road, they could not go on.

Yan Liang, the vanguard in front, sent someone to report to the Chinese army 20 miles behind, and the road ahead was blocked.

The last time I came, the road to the west of Yanmen Mountain was open, but this time there was a pass blocking it.

Yan Liang asked Yuan Shao to decide whether to seize the pass or bypass it.

Yuan Shao asked all the counselors, but all the counselors did not dare to speak easily, and they all thought about it.

In the battle of the year before last, Yuan Shao's adviser Tian Feng died, Xu You fled, and Ju Shou was left in Yecheng. Only Guo Tu, Feng Ji, Xin Pi, and Xun Kan were with the army.

Seeing that the counselors did not speak, Yuan Shao could only urge him, and Feng Ji suggested to win the pass.

One hundred thousand troops take a long detour, and the consumption on the road will greatly increase.

Yuan Shao immediately ordered Yan Liang to seize the pass.

Yanmen Pass was built on the hillside. A main pass wall was erected on the main road at the west foot, and the mountain walls on both sides were also built.

In front of the main pass wall, an arrow tower was also built, and hundreds of horses and fences were placed as barriers.

Because of the news from the front line, Xu Feng, the guard of the Yanmen Gate, closed the mountain road in front of the wall early on, and the road was blocked by layers of horses and fences.

In this way, if Yuan Shao's army north of Yanmen Pass wanted to attack the pass, they had to remove the layers of repelling horses and fences. If the defenders inside the pass wanted to leave the pass to chase the enemy, it would be very difficult.

However, the order given by the prefect of Yanmen to the guard of Yanmen Pass was to guard Yanmen Pass and wait for reinforcements.

Xu Feng, the general guard of Yanmen Pass, was originally a subordinate of the Taiyuan prefect. After Liu Zhang was surrendered, he was promoted to be a school lieutenant and guarded Yanmen Pass.

Originally, there were thousands of defenders at Yanmen Pass. After Pingcheng was captured, the prefect of Yanmen sent reinforcements to Yanmen Pass by 1000 soldiers.

Yan Liang received Yuan Shao's military order and immediately ordered the vanguard to move closer to Yanmen Pass.

Under the guard of a few personal soldiers, he climbed up and watched Yanmen Pass from afar.

"Pass our military order, Zhao Rong will destroy the fence outside the pass and the horses."

Yan Liang's captain, Zhao Rong, immediately gathered thousands of people from the headquarters, and began to clean up the horses and fences in front of Yanmen Pass.

The repelling horse is lighter and easier to clean, but the fence is relatively large, so the weight is naturally much heavier.

Fortunately, there were enough people, and it took less than half an hour for them to clear up one-third of the horses and fences in front of the pass, and advance fifty steps outside the pass wall.

This distance has already entered the range of the archer.

The archers on the arrow tower outside the pass began to shoot and kill Yuan Jun. The thousands of people in Zhao Rong's headquarters were all simple swordsmen and had no ability to fight back. He could only order his soldiers to speed up the progress.

Casualties, began to appear.

These Yuan Jun soldiers who cleaned up the horses and fences had no blind spots in front of the archers on the arrow tower, and they could shoot at will.

Although there were not many archers, they did a lot of damage to Zhao Rong.

In the rear, Yan Liang, who was standing on a high place, saw it and immediately ordered five hundred archers to go for reinforcements.

With the addition of these archers, the casualties of Zhao Rong's troops were greatly reduced.

The archers on the arrow tower will definitely attack the enemy's archers first.

Another half an hour later, Zhao Rong's army had lost more than [-] people, and the archers who came to reinforce were also killed or injured [-], but they advanced the battle line by [-] steps, and they were [-] steps away from the Yanmen Pass. Thirty steps to go.

On the road ahead, there were still many refusal horses, but Yan Liang did not order them to continue cleaning.

Because, he began to order his subordinates to attack the commanding heights.

On these commanding heights, arrow towers were built, and these arrow towers must be captured.

Around these arrow towers, there are fence protections to prevent local soldiers from easily attacking.

The fighting situation began to become fierce.

"Quick, take down the three arrow towers on the left!"

"Quickly, the archer will go to me!"

"Order He Liang to rush up to me!"

Yan Liang watched the battle situation and kept giving orders. The defensive buildings in front of Yanmen Pass were destroyed one by one, and several arrow towers had already been breached.

On the main wall, Xu Feng looked at the enemy in front with a deep expression, and kept giving orders.

He only has 2000 people, so he has to count carefully.

Soon, the two secondary walls on the right were captured by the enemy. Xu Feng immediately ordered two generals to send reinforcements to drive the enemy down.

Seeing that two hours had passed and Yanmen Pass hadn't been taken yet, Yan Liang got off the high ground, mounted his horse, took a shield and simple knife from his personal guards, and rushed towards the wall of Yanmen Pass.

On the wall, thunder and stone rolled wood, and arrows rained in waves.

Yan Liang held up the shield to protect himself, and quickly walked up the long ladder step by step to a secondary wall on the right.

Three arrows were pierced on his body, but it didn't affect his actions at all.

Holding the shield in his left hand, Yan Liang slammed forward fiercely, knocking one defender into the air, and then overwhelmed the two defenders behind him.

Then he swung his right hand violently forward, and a defender fell.

But for a moment, within five steps around him, there was no living defender.

He cleared out this area, and the personal guards outside the pass climbed up the pass wall continuously. Although the number was still small, they still occupied a certain area.

Yan Liang continued to move forward, but he cleared the range of ten steps in a short while.

Xu Feng noticed Yan Liang on the main wall, and he thought that if he didn't send reinforcements, the enemy would completely occupy the secondary wall on the right.

He immediately snatched the spear from the soldiers around him and ran towards Yan Liang.

"The enemy general is too presumptuous!" With a loud shout, Xu Feng stabbed Yan Liang with a long spear.

"Too slow!" Yan Liang saw the enemy general approaching, easily pushed the spear head away with his shield, then stepped forward quickly, and slashed out fiercely.

Xu Feng's spear had already been stabbed, so he couldn't take it back, he could only watch helplessly as the opponent's blade came.

Xu Feng was killed by one knife. Yan Liang looked at the sword and shield in his hand, immediately threw them on the ground, and then stepped forward to pick up the spear on the ground.

He shook it in his hand, it was not as heavy as his long spear, but at least it was used by the opposing general, and the quality was not bad.

Yan Liang took his usual weapon and continued to fight forward, defending the left and right, and there was no enemy.

Soon, he took down this sub-closed wall.

The soldiers behind him continued to climb the long ladder to the wall.

They followed Yan Liang and continued to move forward, and soon took down the main pass wall.

Yan Liang shot one shot at the front, quickly killed the city wall, and then opened the gate.

Yanmen Pass was captured.

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