In the war, Zhang Lu is indeed not professional enough compared with Ma Chao and others.

When the ice and snow melted, Ma Chao destroyed the embankment built in the upper reaches of Baishui, and the water of the waves roared down, and the Baishui Pass became a country in an instant. But this did not cause much loss to Guan Yu, and the city of Baishui Pass was much stronger than Ma Chao imagined, and the water soaked for more than half a month before it completely penetrated into the ground, and then the Liangzhou army immediately continued to besiege Chengguan with mud.

This time it's a real siege.

Taking advantage of the surge in Baishui, Ma Dai led his army to cross the pass by boat, and followed the main road behind it, only a little bit, he was able to trap Guan Yu, who had destroyed the grain and grass due to the flooding, in the Baishui Pass. It's a pity that he was defeated by Wei Yan and Guan Yu.

But the Baishui Pass was broken after all, there was no grain and grass, and the so-called Xiongguan was just a coffin. Guan Yu then withdrew to the Pujia Pass behind him with Wei Yan, who came after him, and continued to block the main road.

Attacking and seizing the city, as long as Ma Chao and the others are still there, it will definitely not be the turn of Zhang Lu, who has lost troops and generals several times in the previous battles with the Liu family, and even Yang Ren, Yang Ang and others under the command of Hanzhong will be despised. This is also something that can't be helped, in terms of momentum, where is Zhao Yunma's super dominance in the world that Zhang Lu, who has lived in Hanzhong for a long time, can compare? What's more, even if it is to deal with the enemy army on Baishui Pass, they are much stronger than Zhang Lu.

But there are things that can't be replaced by bravery.

Can Ma Chao sacrifice to the fallen soldiers? He can't!

Zhang Tianshixing.

After the bloody battle, the altar was opened to worship the sky, Zhang Tianshi, who was wearing armor, sang the Dharma horn, the disciples collected the corpses, and the drumming music did not say anything else, at least Ma Chao and others' subordinates Qiang people, Di people, and Liangzhou Han soldiers were very awe-inspiring, and their morale was even higher after the ceremony.

Since the beginning of the ancestor of the Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling to Taishang Laojun Sword Seal Fu Da Break the Ghost Soldier to open the altar to teach the Tao, there are people who believe in the Tao in Hanzhong, Ba County, Liangzhou Wudu, and dependent countries in Yizhou, at that time, the Heavenly Master Tao was full of mystery and prestige, but it was extremely mysterious, and people wanted to cultivate the Tao but couldn't; But who let Zhang Daoling's ancestor have a good grandson, although he didn't have the ambition of a prince, but he provoked a prince, in order to confront Liu Zhang, recruit disciples, as long as he can pay five buckets of rice, he can be his followers.

Zhang Daoling used the Taishang Laojun Sword Seal Talisman to break the ghost soldiers, which sounded quite mysterious. In fact, it is not so complicated, when Zhang Lu's grandfather was alive, Yizhou's beliefs were extremely complicated, the Ba people believed in primitive witchcraft, large-scale obscenity and harmed the people, and witches worshipped ghosts and demons of the law and wizards gathered people to collect money, and did all kinds of evil. Taoist records say that Zhang Daoling fought with the eight ghosts and demons and the Six Heavenly Demon Kings, and finally subdued them, so that the land of Sichuan and Shu no longer believed in witchcraft.

In fact, it should be like Cao Cao's destruction of obscenity when he was the prime minister, but after the destruction, he changed people's beliefs.

Zhang Lu is indeed a talent, one hundred and ten years ago, his grandfather fought ghost soldiers, and one hundred and ten years later, in order to fight Liu Zhang, he set up ghost soldiers, and gathered the surrounding beliefs as one place, forming a rigorous level headed by the heavenly master, supplemented by the great sacrificial wine, the sacrificial wine for the grassroots officials, and the ghost pawn as the believer.

What a capable person.

The method of transporting ghosts of Maoshan Taoist priests should have started from Zhang Lu.

After the Baishui Pass was broken, Ma Chao led the army to continue to pursue Guan Yu and Zhao Yun to plan the baggage between the two passes. At the same time, the congregation was ordered to resume production and tax the agricultural mulberry.

In the long war with Yizhou, the people under Zhang Lu have long been accustomed to plowing the fields while fighting, not to mention that now with the soldiers of Zhao on their side, the people's hearts have never been so stable, and there is no delay in the spring farming time.

As soon as he entered the farm, Yang Fu, a native of Liangzhou, rushed to Yizhou after a long journey, and he was accompanied by a team of dozens of people, including merchants who were good at the language of the Western Regions, believers who practiced Buddhism, and scribes who were familiar with the annals of history, and handed Zhang Lu a letter from Yanbei.

Seeing the letter, Zhang Lu was very worried...... King Zhao didn't seem to have a good impression of the Heavenly Master Sect, and the previous letters with Zhang Lu mentioned all about military affairs, which always made Zhang Lu feel depressed.

As far as he is a Heavenly Master and a Heavenly Master, ruling Hanzhong in Zhang Lu's heart is nothing at all, he can do better and promote Taoism, which is also the reason why he has no princely ambition in his heart. If Yanbei summons him to Handan to preach now, Zhang Lu can not even go to Hanzhong, but it's a pity, which prince attaches importance to faith today? Everyone is busy attacking back and forth, and they don't do good things.

"King Zhao, let me go to the Western Regions...... Yue's Country? Zhang Lu jumped up like a fried cat, pointed at Yang Fu and said angrily: "I have never owed anything to King Zhao, why should I be expelled from it!" ”

Yang Fu was stunned by Zhang Lu's anger, and hurriedly waved his hand to calm his anger, and said, "The king is not expelling the Heavenly Master, this is a good thing!" In the past, the monks of the Yue clan came to the east and preached in the White Horse Temple, and there were good people and bad people among the believers, such as the Futu Pagoda that was repaired by Xiaorong and killed people. Now the Chen soldiers of the Yue Clan are on the border and want to compete with the king, so the king ordered to come down to invite him and ask the heavenly master to go west to preach. ”

"The king heard that the believers of the Heavenly Master are sacrificial wine and ghost pawns, and the Heavenly Master is specially allowed to leave the heirs who can inherit the Taoist system in Hanzhong to succeed the Heavenly Master, and you will lead 5,000 ghost pawns into the Western Regions, and the Song Marquis Song Jian can also belong to the command of the Heavenly Master, and more than 10,000 troops will attack the Yue Clan, and the Heavenly Master will receive the long history of the Western Regions and preach in the Western Regions."

Zhang Lu paused, fascinated by the prospect depicted by Yang Fu. The long history of the Western Regions? He paused and said, "When will the king go on his way?" ”

"At this time, there is no hurry, it is very important to go to the Western Regions, and King Zhao still has many instructions to the Heavenly Master, such as the Heavenly Master Dao should not only preach in the Western Regions, but also shoulder the important tasks of teaching Sinology and teaching the people to be loyal to the monarch."

Zhang Lu heard that Yanbei did not mean to let him preach, or not just to preach, but as an expeditionary general like Tai Shici, he went to open up territory. But this is very different, Tai Shi Ci attacked Xianbei in the north, just to defeat the enemy army, the land captured by the grassland outside the Saiwai can not be fully occupied, even if the Yan clan has set up a lot of horse farms outside the Saiwai this year to raise horses and graze, but it is still different from him going to the Western Regions.

What Yanbei wants him to teach Sinology and Taoism in the Western Regions has only one ultimate goal, to use more gentle means than direct combat to truly turn the people of the Western Regions into Han Chinese.

This may be the first religious war in the entire world's history to serve politics.