The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 291 Sneak Attack on Wuguan
Zhang Wu personally led Wei Yan, Shamoke, [-] elite soldiers from the Wuwei battalion, and [-] Wuxi barbarian soldiers, and went up the Han River and the Dan River to attack Wuguan along the route Wei Yan led to detect.

At the same time that Zhang Wu set off, Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ding Feng and others would lead the Xiangyang [-] navy and [-] infantry to Chaisang.When Zhang Wu attacked Wuguan and dragged Cao Cao in Guanzhong, Chaisang's army would aggressively attack Jiangdong, defeat the remaining Jiangdong navy, and occupy Lujiang.

At the same time, Feng Xi led [-] Jiangling sailors to Chaisang, and Su Fei also led [-] Jiangxia sailors to join Ganning in Chaisang.

Zhang Wu appointed Gan Ning as the superintendent of the extermination of Wu.

Chen Sun and Kuai Yue guarded Xiangyang, and Xu Shu led an army of [-] to garrison Fancheng.

At this time, 12 sailors and [-] infantry troops were assembled on the Chaisang front line, totaling [-] troops.Zhang Wu planned to use all his strength to completely eliminate Jiangdong.

Most of Jingzhou's main forces were concentrated in Chaisang, and Xiangyang was empty of troops. If Cao Cao came to attack, the consequences would be very serious. Therefore, Zhang Wu personally led troops to attack Wuguan to ensure that Cao Cao could be contained in Hanzhong.

Through investigation, it was found that the general of the Cao army guarding Wuguan at this time was Xia Houen, who was killed by Zhao Yun in Changbanpo in the original book and took away the Qingzhi sword.At this time, the Qingzhi sword had already belonged to Zhang Wu, and the Changbanpo battle had not occurred. This Xiahouen was still alive and served as the guard of Wuguan.

Xiahouen is Xiahouyuan's younger brother, quite brave, so he was sent by Cao Cao to assist Xiahouyuan in guarding the pass.Xia Houyuan asked him to guard Wuguan with two thousand soldiers.

What a fate!Zhang Wu thought happily.

This person is a celebrity who is called the "Three Boys of Sending Treasure" together with himself and Zhang Song. He just met Zhang Song not long ago, and he didn't expect to deal with this last one soon.

The amount of water in the upper reaches of Danshui was not large, so Zhang Wu led [-] soldiers to go upstream in small boats.Because some food was hidden along the coast in advance, the logistical pressure was reduced.

However, there was not much food in storage, and the food and grass that Huang Zhong sent people to hide was far away from Wuguan, because he was afraid of being discovered by Cao Jun, so he would scare the snake.

Zhang Wu's plan is that once the surprise attack on Wuguan is successful, he will immediately notify Huang Zhong to lead his army to come to support.

Sha Moke led two hundred barbarians as the vanguard, and scattered in the dense forest by the water.These people live in the mountains and dense forests, and are very good at mountain warfare and jungle warfare.

When Zhang Wu and his party reached the junction of Danshui and Wuguan River, in order to avoid being discovered by Cao Jun, Zhang Wu only brought 500 people and Wei Yan to approach Wuguan secretly.The rest were led by Samoko and hid in the nearby dense forest, and even the boat and luggage were dragged into the dense forest to hide.

Wuguan Road, as the traffic artery connecting Guanzhong and Nanyang Basin, is usually full of pedestrians.Many merchants passed through Wuguan and sold goods from Liangzhou and Hanzhong to Jingzhou or Jiangdong.There are also many caravans from Jingzhou and Jiangdong selling southern specialties to Guanzhong or Liangzhou.

Zhang Wu also bought war horses from Liangzhou through some aristocratic families in Jingzhou. They either went through Yangping Pass to Hanzhong and then transported to Jingzhou, or passed through Guanzhong to pass through Wuguan and transported to Jingzhou.

In order to keep it secret, Zhang Wu detained all the businessmen and pedestrians he met along the way in the army, and promised that as long as they were honest and obedient, he would let them go after five days.

It is said that Wuguan Road is an important commercial road, and Wuguan Road is one of the few places on this road where you can rest. There should be merchants staying overnight.Zhang Wuyuan also planned to ask Wei Yan to bring a few clever soldiers dressed as businessmen to spend the night in the pass, and then sneak attack Cao Bing guarding the gate in the middle of the night, and then open the gate to let Zhang Wu in.

But I didn't expect that Xiahouen guarded the pass twice. In order to ensure safety, he ordered no caravans and pedestrians to stay overnight in the pass.It doesn't matter which family doesn't give face, anyway, as a member of the Xiahou family, he is not afraid of offending others.

This plan failed, so Zhang Wu had to find another way.Fortunately, although Xiahouen is more careful, after all, he has been safe for a long time, and Xiahouen is also careless.

Wei Yan sent people to pretend to be merchants many times, trying to get close to the soldiers guarding the pass when passing through Wuguan, and sent some special products and money to inquire about the news.Through insinuations, it can be concluded that Xiahouen often does not patrol the night, so the soldiers guarding the customs will violate the regulations of the customs in the second half of the night.

For example, it was originally stipulated that three inspections were required every half an hour, but some soldiers were lazy and only inspected once.There are also soldiers who can't stand the sleepiness when they are on duty at night, so they will secretly sleep for a while.

This gave him an opportunity to take advantage of. Among the [-] soldiers Zhang Wu brought, there were [-] Wuxi barbarian soldiers who were good at climbing.So Zhang Wu ordered Wei Yan to select fifty elite soldiers from the Wuwei Battalion and ten Wuxi barbarian soldiers, and climb up the cliff on the west side of Wuguan in the dark.

In the second half of the night, Wei Yan used a telescope to carefully observe the situation of the guards at the gate. When he found a chance, he ordered these soldiers to tie one end of the rope to a strong tree or stone, and the other end to his waist, and slowly fell to the gate. above.

At the same time, Zhang Wu also led the rest of the soldiers to lurk outside Wuguan, only to open the door after Wei Yan's sneak attack was successful.

These soldiers in the Wuwei Battalion were all trained as special forces, and subjects like this kind of sneak attack in the middle of the night were also frequently trained.The soldiers of the fifty military guard battalions led by Wei Yan are all the elite among the elite, and they are all capable of serving as grassroots officers in ordinary troops.And the ten Wuxi barbarian soldiers are also carefully selected people with strong skills and extraordinary martial arts skills.

Wei Yan and others took advantage of the slackness of the soldiers guarding the pass, quickly landed on the pass wall, and then violently launched an attack, quickly beheading Cao Jun on duty on the wall.After leaving five soldiers to find something to light the fire and signal to Zhang Wu outside the pass, Wei Yan led his men to kill the pass.

Although there are more than 100 Cao troops stationed at the closed gate, there is no match for these elite soldiers led by Wei Yan in a hurry.When a school lieutenant who led the team was hacked to death by Wei Yan, the rest of the Cao army fled one after another and went to report the situation to Xia Houen.

Wei Yan led someone to open the closed gate, just as Zhang Wu saw the fire on the closed wall, he led his troops to rush over, and just outside the closed gate, the gate opened.

Zhang Wu immediately commanded [-] soldiers to go up to the wall to look down on them, and the remaining [-] soldiers lined up at the gate, ready to welcome Xia Houen to lead his troops to break through the pass.

At the same time, Zhang Wu sent people to return quickly, and asked Sha Moke to quickly lead troops to support him. At the same time, he also sent people to rush overnight to send the information to Huang Zhong who was stationed in Shangyong as soon as possible.

Xiahouen, who was sleeping, suddenly heard a scream of fighting. As a general of the Xiahou family who had followed Cao Cao for many years, Xiahouen immediately realized that something had happened.

Xia Houen got up in a hurry, before he even had time to put on his armor, he just grabbed his iron spear, called his personal guards, and told them to quickly gather their troops and rush to the closed door.

After a while, some fleeing soldiers reported to Xiahouen that a group of people had made a surprise attack, killed and dispersed the defenders, and occupied the closed gate.

Xia Houen turned pale with shock. Wuguan is an important pass south of Chang'an, which is of great significance. If Wuguan is lost, Chang'an will be threatened.

At that time, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, entered Wuguan and conquered Xianyang (just west of Chang'an) in one fell swoop.

(End of this chapter)