Choose Liu Bei at the start, I am the only one who knows the plot of the Three Kingdoms.

Wei Yan looked at the 100,000 troops outside the city, especially those led by Cao Ren and Xu Huang, and he already had plans to dismantle Jianmen Pass.

But Wei Yan soon ran into a problem. How could he dismantle this huge Jianmen Pass?
This isn't made of wood, it's made of stone.

"Wei Yan, open the city gates and surrender. As long as you join the King of Wei, you will be able to obtain a high position and generous salary."

The generals under Gu Rubing's command are all top-notch. Any two of them can become a great help to Cao Cao. Cao Ren also began to have some interest in talent.

However, Wei Yan didn't care at all about Cao Ren's recruitment.

"General, when General Deng Ai left, he only left us kerosene and some defensive equipment. I'm afraid there is no way to destroy Jianmen Pass."

When Wei Yan heard the news, he smiled bitterly in helplessness.

Deng Ai really screwed him. How could a pile of kerosene destroy Jianmen Pass? Isn't it just a decoration? Once the enemy occupied Jianmen Pass, it would only take a few days to completely restore Jianmen Pass.

"It seems we can only defend."

Wei Yan looked at the soldiers in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

If there are not many, just two thousand special soldiers here, I can guard Jianmen Pass by myself, but the soldiers under my command are all ordinary soldiers.

"Be prepared to fight to the death."

"Yes, we swear to live and die together at Jianmen Pass!"

Watching the deputy general's leaving back, Wei Yan also picked up the White Tiger Sun-Devouring Sword beside him and stood on the city wall.

"Cao Ren, don't waste your breath. If you have the courage, charge forward and we will fight for 300 rounds. If you don't have the courage, just go back and defend your Annan, and wait for my lord to come back and welcome our army."

After hearing this, Cao Ren knew that it was useless to say more and could only command his army to attack the city.

Wei Yan took out all the stored supplies in the warehouse and began to defend in all aspects.

But these 100,000 people seemed to be very powerful, but once they started fighting, Wei Yan found something wrong.

The strength of these people is relatively weak, and it seems that their fighting power is the same as that of the previous Westerners.

This made Wei Yan relax a lot.

After a day of siege, Wei Yan lost less than 5,000 people, while Cao Ren and his men lost 20,000 people.

After watching the day's battle, Cao Ren was very disappointed.

These people from the Western Legion only know how to intrigue within the barracks every day. Once they need to go to the battlefield, they are all as timid as mice. They are quite capable of fighting with their own people, but when asked to fight with Liu Bei's people, they are all timid, typical bullies at home.

"With such fighting ability, you still have the nerve to fight with our people?"

Cao Ren looked at the list of casualties and threw it to the ground.

"Okay, now is not the time to think about these things. The most important thing for us right now is to find a way to take down Jianmen Pass as soon as possible."

Xu Huang walked forward and picked up the list on the ground.

Zhong Hui, who was standing by, saw this scene and came up with an idea.

"General, I may have a solution."

"Go ahead."

"General, we can use this method..."

Soon, the siege battle of the second day began.

This time, Wei Yan looked at the Wei soldiers under the city and found that there were tens of thousands of them, while Cao Ren's central army had almost no backup.

"What exactly is Cao Ren going to do? Try with all his might? Is he so sure that he can swallow me whole?"

Soon as the two sides came into contact, the Western Legion suffered heavy casualties.

However, Cao Ren turned a blind eye to all this and continued to send large numbers of people rushing towards the city wall.

Soon, a gap appeared in the defense of the city wall.

Wei Yan had to let the last reserve troops plug the gap.

Three hours later, Cao Ren sounded the horn to call back his troops.

Only then did Wei Yan feel relieved.

"General, our army has suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and less than half of them are still able to fight."

"so much?"

After Wei Yan finished speaking, he looked in the direction of Cao Ren.

If they all suffered such heavy losses, then Cao Ren's losses would be even greater. He didn't quite understand what Cao Ren was so anxious about.

Cao Ren looked at the list of casualties in his hand. The number of casualties had reached 40,000.

"General, the plan has been implemented, but I don't know if Wei Yan will be fooled."

"Don't worry, Wei Yan is just as eager as we are to find an opportunity to break through."

Cao Ren sneered.

Inside Jianmen Pass.

A soldier came to Wei Yan.

"General, based on the bodies we counted on the ground and the number of stoves in Cao Ren's camp, we can infer that the Wei army still has less than 30,000 soldiers."

"Less than thirty thousand?"

Wei Yan knew that Cao Ren’s losses this time would definitely be heavy, but he did not expect that the losses would be so great.

The news that there were less than 30,000 people made Wei Yan have some other thoughts.

Wei Yan knew the difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides. It would be easy for him to defeat the Wei army of less than 30,000 with his own 15,000 men.

In this case, why should I stay here and guard the city in fear? Wouldn't it be better to just get rid of them?
Thinking of this, Wei Yan immediately gathered 10,000 people and started rushing towards Cao Ren's camp.

There were less than five thousand people left in the city.

However, shortly after Wei Yan left, the corpses of the Western Legion that were originally lying on the ground suddenly stood up.

Under the moonlight, these people began to move slowly towards Jianmen Pass.

Wei Yan led 10,000 men to ambush near the Wei army camp, but looking at the people coming and going in the camp, Wei Yan always felt that something was wrong.

No matter how you look at it, the defense in this camp is a bit too lax.

"Something's wrong. Go and try it out."

Wei Yan sent out a small team of people, who quietly entered the camp. After dealing with the sentry at the gate, the team checked the entire camp, but found that the entire camp was empty, without a single person.

The tents with firelight were also empty, and the tents that looked like they had human figures in them were actually filled with straw men.

"General, we've fallen into a trap."

After hearing this, Wei Yan immediately realized that Jianmen Pass could not be defended.

"Everyone, rush to Jianmen Pass immediately."

With Wei Yan's words, everyone quickly rushed towards Jianmen Pass.

However, when they arrived at Jianmen Pass, they saw that the flags hanging on Jianmen Pass no longer had the words "Liu" and "Lie" on them, but had been replaced with the words "Cao" and "Wei". Cao Ren was also standing on the city wall, looking at Wei Yan.

"Wei Yan, Jianmen Pass is now mine. If you know what's good for you, surrender immediately. Otherwise, be careful that we will attack you from both sides, and you will be the one who suffers the consequences!"

Cao Ren just wanted to scare Wei Yan. There were only 30,000 people in Annan, and although he had 60,000 people under his command, their overall combat effectiveness was low. How could he have the troops to attack Wei Yan?

"Cao Ren, you bastard, just wait for me!"

Wei Yan looked at Jianmen Pass unwillingly. He knew that he had underestimated the enemy this time and the losses would be too great. It might even lead to the failure of all their previous efforts.

"General, let's go. We can't stay here any longer."

The deputy general at the side looked around. They only had 10,000 people now, and they had no idea how many people were on the other side. Fearing an ambush, they immediately urged them on.

"I know!"

Wei Yan glared at his deputy general and turned to look around.

Retreat? Where should I go?
Just then, a group of people suddenly emerged from the surroundings.

Seeing these people coming out, Wei Yan immediately drew his sword and wanted to attack.

"General, we are General Deng Ai's men."

Upon hearing this, Wei Yan realized that the people coming were actually his own people.

"What are you doing here?"

"General, we were ordered to come here to provide reinforcements, but we didn't expect that Jianmen Pass would be breached."

Upon hearing this, the deputy general standing by couldn't help but lower his head, secretly sighing that these people were really good at talking and just rubbing salt into the wound.

Wei Yan's face also turned red and he coughed.

"General, General Deng Ai said that if the city is breached, we should immediately rush to Yinping Trail and defend that place at all costs. That is the key to our future success."

Wei Yan then remembered that the reason he was able to break through Jianmen Pass was because Deng Ai took a detour to launch a surprise attack. It didn't matter whether Jianmen Pass was broken. As long as the Yinping path was still in their hands, it was only a matter of time before Jianmen Pass was broken.

Thinking of this, Wei Yan immediately took everyone and rushed to the Yinping Road.

When Cao Ren saw Wei Yan leaving, he had no intention of pursuing him. The most important thing at the moment was to defend Jianmen Pass.

Gu Rubing was strolling around Constantinople with Sun Shangxiang.

After a period of investigation, Gu Rubing discovered that he had indeed underestimated the Anluo Empire.

The population here is not much smaller than that of the Han Dynasty, and the equipment in all aspects is relatively comprehensive. The reason for the low combat effectiveness is entirely because there are too few battles here. The rise of the Anluo Empire was too smooth, and it had never fought any tough battles. Once someone who is proficient in training soldiers appears, he will be able to quickly train the people here into a powerful combat force.

No matter what, the Anluo Empire is a threat. Gu Rubing has been thinking about how to disintegrate the Anluo Empire.

Just then, a passerby bumped into Gu Rubing.

When Gu Rubing looked at the man, he suddenly found that there seemed to be something extra in his hand.

The man nodded to Gu Rubing, then turned and entered the crowd.

Sun Shangxiang looked at the man's back with dissatisfaction.

"Why is this person walking so rashly?"

"Forget it, let's find a place to eat something."

Gu Rubing said forget it, so Sun Shangxiang naturally didn't want to care about anything anymore. Instead, she brought Gu Rubing to the restaurant, while Huang Zhong and Pang De followed not far behind Gu Rubing.

After ordering some food and drinks, Gu Rubing found an opportunity to leave the restaurant and came to a deserted place.

Only then did Gu Rubing see that it was a letter from that person.

After opening the letter, Gu Rubing saw that Wei Yan had lost Jianmen Pass and lost 20,000 troops. Now Wei Yan was stationed on the Yinping trail as Deng Ai had said.

Unexpectedly, Wei Yan lost Jianmen Pass so quickly.

Gu Rubing kept thinking in his mind what to do next.

"Lord, what's wrong?"

Huang Zhong was worried about Gu Rubing coming out by himself, so he followed behind him all the time.

"Jianmen Pass is lost."

"lost?"

Huang Zhong knew how many people they had lost in their attempt to capture Jianmen Pass. Now they had finally taken Jianmen Pass, but now they had lost it. All their previous efforts would have been in vain.

"My lord, whoever loses Jianmen Pass must not be allowed to stay."

"It's Wei Yan!"

"This……"

Huang Zhong and Wei Yan had a good relationship in private. When he heard that it was Wei Yan, Huang Zhong regretted that he spoke too quickly. Why did he say those words so early? Now he wanted to plead for Wei Yan, but he didn't know what to say.

"My lord, this..."

Seeing Huang Zhong hesitant to speak, Gu Rubing smiled and patted Huang Zhong on the shoulder.

He really had no intention of punishing Wei Yan.

After all, the number of people he left for Yizhou was too small, and there were only 60,000 people in the entire Guangyang County. He needed to defend the entire county city, and there were even two other counties. Such a large force was originally small. Cao Cao also had the support of the Anluo Empire, so losing the city was also within Gu Rubing's expectations.

When Sun Shangxiang saw Gu Rubing coming back, she immediately picked up some food for him.

But she could see that Gu Rubing had something on his mind when he came back this time.

"what happened?"

Sun Shangxiang looked at Gu Rubing. She knew in her heart that Gu Rubing might not be able to stay here for much longer.

"Shangxiang, something happened on the front line. I need to go back. Do you want to go back with me or stay with your father?"

"problem occurs?"

Today's Sun Shangxiang is no longer the little bully she was in Yangzhou, and naturally she knows what the overall situation is.

"I'll go back with you. Now that we're engaged, if I go with you, no one else will be able to spread rumors."

Gu Rubing smiled and nodded.

After the two of them had a simple meal, Gu Rubing took Sun Shangxiang into the palace and found Sun Jian.

"King Wu, I'm going to take Shangxiang back with me."

"Go back? King Lie, you are leaving so soon. Is there something wrong on the front line?"

Looking at Sun Jian, Gu Rubing hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's right. Cao Cao counterattacked and we lost Jianmen Pass. I don't know how long Guangyang County can hold out. After Guangyang County, there will be no more soldiers to defend the city."

"Jianmen Pass was lost? Didn't you spend a lot of effort to capture Jianmen Pass? How could you lose it so quickly? Do you need my help?"

When Gu Rubing was about to say what he needed, Zhou Yu, who was standing beside him, immediately came over.

"My Lord, we have no one left to send now. Most of our people are on the periphery, controlling the surrounding cities of the Anluo Empire."

"I see, King Lie, that's a pity. I can't help you with anything. If you want to take Shangxiang away, then go ahead. I have no objection." (End of this chapter)