The army besieged the city, and there were really people who continued to plot against their own selfish interests at the critical moment. These people were not under others' subordinates, but a group of civil and military officials under Yuan Shu's tent.

It is said that Yuan Shu, the vanguard of the central coalition, gritted his teeth and sent 40,000 troops from Yangzhou, and brought his generals Ji Ling, Zhang Xun, Wen Qin, Chen Lan, advisers Zhuge Jin, Yan Xiang, Yang Hong and others from Jiangdong to participate in the battle for Zhao. Unexpectedly, the first battle was under Jiguan and was hit by Xu Huang's big stick. After that, Yuan Shu pretended to be a turtle and hurried in the camp all day long and did not dare to show his head. Until Lu Zhi led his main force westward, only he and Liu Biao were left, and Liu Yan's three forces continued to station in front of Jiguan.

Although Yuan Shu's troops participating in the battle were 20,000 less than his elder brother Yuan Shao, the 40,000 Danyang elite soldiers were not at the same level as the 40,000 soldiers led by Liu Biao and Liu Yan's troops. As soon as Lu Zhi left, several generals under Yuan Shu became proud and felt that Yuan Shu could not be the boss under Jiguan. As a result, they could not pee in the same pot with Liu Yan's generals Dong Fu, Pang Xi, Liu Biao's generals Li Yan, Huang Zhong and others. They whispered all day long, and eventually caused a run.

Liu Yan and Liu Biao, who served as the "freedom defender", did not lead the team to Hanoi in person. The four generals Dong Fu, Pang Xi, Li Yan and Huang Zhong, who led the Northern Expedition on behalf of the second Liu, respected the Grand Marshal Lu Zhi, but not Yuan Shu, Ji Ling, Zhang Xun and others. If it were about force and strategy, even Ji Ling, the largest general under Yuan Shu, would not be attracted to everyone's eyes.

Unable to withstand the intentional run by Dong Fu, Li Yan and others, the generals under Yuan Shu encouraged him to continue attacking Jiguan and offered a plan to break the pass. It was actually somewhat similar to Gongsun Zan's secretly deploying a slasher to plot against Zhao Yun. Or, inspired by the Eastern Front War Report, several cobblers also tinkered with a conspiracy against Xu Huang.

The military generals under Yuan Shu's tent, except for Wen Qin's shooting skills, did not have sharpshooters like Murong Ping, but this did not affect their pioneering ideas and plotted against Xu Huang with other ideas, such as using a large siege crossbow to suddenly attack the guards.

When Zhao Xing led his army to attack San Zhang, he asked Li Jinsi and his shadow team members to ambush the shore of Zhangshui, using large bed crossbows to shoot Zhang Liang, who was half crossing the Zhangshui. Some of the Yellow Turban soldiers on the shore who had witnessed this scene were fleeing to the south while they were lurking incognito. Later, Yuan Shu entered Yangzhou, recruited soldiers in large quantities, and expanded the number of troops. The "remnants of the Yellow Turbans" took the opportunity to sneak into Yuan Shu's army. The way to use the siege bed crossbow to attack the chief general guarding the pass was the advice provided by Chen Lan's soldiers quietly.

Chen Lan got this strategy and thought she could give it a try, so she took it for herself without hesitation and showed it in front of Yuan Shu. In fact, it was just a small plan to compete for favor and improve her status. Seeing that Chen Lan was right, the generals suggested that Yuan Shu might as well give it a try, and the main general in charge of the problem naturally fell on Chen Lan who proposed the strategy.

After receiving Yuan Shu's order, Chen Lan immediately started to prepare. First, he asked someone to mobilize ten large crossbow chariots for siege, simulate the appearance of Jiguan and the position of the main general of Guan Shang, and ordered his soldiers who fired the crossbow chariots to practice every day until the ten crossbowmen could skillfully shoot volleys. Secondly, in order not to let the guards at the gate see the flaws, Chen Lan specially surrounded the ten crossbows outside. When looking from above, he would only think that they were ten smaller tents.

After making all these preparations, Chen Lan led his troops to attack Jiguan. It has to be said that in order to be able to fall off the guards of Jiguan, Chen Lan has done enough effort. If Xu Huang is not as good as the arrows fired by ordinary crossbows, he is likely to be hit. The giant arrows of this crossbow are not much longer than the arrows fired by ordinary crossbows. They are not even more piercing, and can even penetrate into the gaps in the wall. They are not something that the body can resist.

Chen Lan came to Jiguan and shouted at the soldiers at the closed, but it was just clichés. The imperial court occupied the title of great power, and the army gathered at the gate, Bingzhou would soon be defeated, and Zhao Xing would eventually die, etc. Chen Lan finally said very "naively" that as long as the soldiers at the closed open the door and take the initiative to surrender, the gold, silver and treasures placed in the ten curtains behind him can be chosen at will.

Among the ten curtains that Chen Lan mentioned, there was naturally no gold, silver and treasures, and only a weapon for killing people. His lie was not clever at all, and could even be seen through at a glance. But the insidious place was here. Chen Lan used a not-so-wise lie to cover up a conspiracy and further reduced the vigilance of the guards in the custody.

Since Chen Lan was so polite that she used "public opinion war" and "psychological warfare" to the defenders of the Guan Shang. As the general under Zhao Xing who first systematically proposed this concept, Chen Gong immediately handed over the remarks of how to counterattack to Taishici, and asked Taishici to hold a copper microphone that could amplify the sound and launch a verbal counterattack against the Danyang soldiers under the Guan Shang.

The purpose of Chen Lan's call was to lure the main general who guarded the pass to appear at the pass, so she couldn't help but be surprised to see a general who had never seen before coming out to call on Xu Huang. But Chen Lan thought again, no matter which god you are guarding the pass, even if Zhao Xing was in charge of the pass, this plan must be carried out, otherwise it would be impossible to hand over Yuan Shu. So Chen Lan secretly sent an order to let the crossbowman hiding in the curtain start aiming and preparing.

Taishi Cizheng shouted: "The winter is coming, and the gate is cold and miserable. Why do Brother Danyang go hungry and freeze here..." When he said this, he suddenly felt his scalp numb. From the corner of his eyes, he saw a mass of things coming towards him quickly. He immediately folded his back and bent his upper half of the body exposed to the wall at ninety degrees.

Without waiting for Taishici's head to the ground, the ten babies' arms-thick arrows flying out of the ten curtains below the Guan were whistling away against his breastplate, and immediately shot the two personal soldiers who were originally standing not far behind Taishici and left the place, and nailed to the wall of Guanlou.

Taishi Ci, who had barely escaped this dangerous attack, turned around and saw his relatives tragically dying. So he was so angry that he took off a huge black bow from his dead partner, and shot at Chen Lan's head, who was evacuating in panic.

The soldiers who closed the door heard a "buzzing" sound, and saw Chen Lan, who was still spitting, falling straight back from the horse's back, and a black arrow was inserted into Chen Lan's face.

While Taishi Ci shot Chen Lan with an arrow, Zang Ba, who was hiding in the dark, had ordered the closed catapult and the crossbowman to launch an indiscriminate shooting at the ten curtains that were slowly retreating under the pass. Yuan Shu, Ji Ling, and Dong Fu, Pang Xi, Li Yan, Huang Zhong and others who were specially invited to watch the battle, watched the ten crossbows and soldiers who were fighting with Chen Lan, and were smashed into flesh mud by the stones and crossbow arrows that were shot down from the closed, and they could not help but sweat.

Jiguan's defense is really powerful. If it weren't for being angry by Chen Lan today and the Guan Shang launched a retaliatory long-range attack without reservation, the Guan Shang Shan Army would not have known that such a terrifying catapult cart and crossbow were installed on Jiguan. This would be the only contribution Chen Lan, who had been shot to death, made to the coalition forces.

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