Under the leadership of Leng Bao, the group soon came to Baishui Pass, Zhang Fei and others were walking, and suddenly the troops in front stopped, Leng Bao rode a fast horse and Yan Yan came to Zhang Fei's side, first bowed to Zhang Fei respectfully, and then Leng Bao said: "Qi Yu Lord, there are three miles ahead to Baishui Pass, the last general came to ask the lord, I don't know how to attack Baishui Pass?" ”

Zhang Fei said: "The army is on standby, you and General Yan will go to Baishui Pass with me to see what is going on." ”

"Whoa!"

As soon as the order was given, Zhang Fei asked the army to stand by, and he took Yan Yan, Fa Zheng, Peng Tuo, Leng Bao and others to Baishui Pass.

Baishuiguan is in a dangerous terrain, close to the mountains and rivers, the Guancheng is built on the alluvial zone between the West Han River and Baishui, this Guancheng is also named Baishuiguan because it belongs to Baishui County.

Baishui Pass is the only place to enter Shu from Hanzhong, the east is the West Han water, the west is the white water, the Baishui Pass is sandwiched between these two rivers, like a nail, firmly inserted here.

However, due to the rising water level of the Baishui River in recent years, the area around Baishui Pass has gradually shrunk, and Baishui Pass can no longer accommodate so many troops, and it has gradually become an abandoned pass.

But the geographical location of this pass is very dangerous, and it can't be unguarded, so since Leng Bao was appointed as the governor of Baishui, he has been using Baishui Pass as an outpost, mainly responsible for transmitting the enemy's situation, and has basically lost its defensive role.

Zhang Fei and others, under the leadership of Leng Bao, came to the bank of the Baishui River in the evening. It's nearly twilight. The group hid in the reeds by the river and looked at the Baishui Pass on the other side of the river. But seeing that the lights in Baishui Pass were bright, the city walls were crowded, and Zhang Lu's army walked back and forth from time to time, looking very heavily guarded.

However, Baishui Pass is like an isolated island in the middle of the sea, suspended in the sea, and is not connected to the surrounding area.

Yan Yandong looked around and couldn't help frowning. Twisting his face, he asked Leng Bao: "Where is the pontoon bridge leading to Baishui Pass?" ”

Leng Bao smiled bitterly: "The old general doesn't know, the water level of the Baishui River has risen in the past few years, and the pontoon bridge that the old general originally built has long been washed away by the flood, and the water flow here has become relatively turbulent, and it is no longer difficult to build a pontoon bridge. ”

Yan Yan said with emotion: "Alas! What an important pass the Baishui Pass was in the past, I didn't expect it to become so depressed after a few years! ”

Zhang Fei said: "General Leng, you mean, if you want to go to Baishui Pass." Only by boat? ”

"Hmm." Leng Bud nodded and continued. "Because of this, Baishuiguan has lost its original defensive significance. Not only has the water level of the Baishui River risen, but also the water level of the Hanshui River to the east of Baishuiguan, which was originally built on a fan-shaped area impacted by two rivers, and if the ground of Baishuiguan was not rocky, but mud, Baishuiguan would have been washed away by floods. Even so, the current Baishui Pass is also precarious, as long as there is a heavy rain in summer, the water level of the Baishui River and the Hanshui River rises, in case of flooding, Baishui Pass may be washed away by the flood at any time. Therefore, the last general has been using this place as an outpost, mainly responsible for delivering messages. ”

"I see, it seems that although there are people in Baishui Pass, Zhang Lu's army will definitely not all be stationed in it, and it must be stationed somewhere nearby." Zhang Fei said.

Leng Bao said: "I have already sent scouts to investigate, Zhang Lu's army is stationed on the shore of Hanshui, and there are only five hundred people in Baishui Pass, who are responsible for guarding the prisoners. ”

Zhang Fei said: "Let's go, take a detour to the Hanshui River, and go to see what is going on, I want to see how strong Zhang Lu's army is." ”

"Won't you save the captives in Baishui Pass first?" Leng Bud hurriedly asked.

Zhang Fei said: "If we don't defeat Zhang Lu's army first, once we attack Baishui Pass, Zhang Lu's army will definitely continue to reinforce Baishui Pass, and then the two sides can only fall into a stalemate." And as far as I know, Zhang Lu's army is far several times larger than ours, and if he fights hard, he may not be able to win, and it is also unwise. ”

Leng Bud didn't speak anymore, because what Zhang Fei said made perfect sense. The reason why Zhang Lu was able to dominate Hanzhong for many years and invade Yizhou many times was because he had many soldiers. Zhang Lu's army is a little different from the ordinary army, Zhang Lu's army has some religious colors from top to bottom, and runs through the entire army with five buckets of rice.

The founder of Wudou Midao is called Zhang Ling, also known as Zhang Daoling, and later generations all call him Zhang Tianshi, so the Wudou Midao he founded is also called Tianshi Dao. The reason why there is a five-bucket rice road is because all those who enter the Tao need to pay five buckets of rice, hence the name.

Zhang Lu is Zhang Ling's grandson, after Zhang Ling's death, Zhang Lu's father inherited Zhang Ling's ancestral business and continued to preach, after Zhang Lu's father died, Zhang Lu inherited his father's business and became the leader of Wudou Midao. Zhang Lu's mother also believes in Taoism, through ghosts, is a witch who knows witchcraft, Liu Yan when he seized Yizhou, once consulted Zhang Lu's mother, and also got some support from Wudou Midao, and the two families have since become world friends.

Later, Liu Yan became the pastor of Yizhou, appointed Zhang Lu as the governor of Sima, and together with Sima Zhang Xiu of other departments, he led troops to attack Hanzhong Taishou Sugu. After Zhang Xiu killed Su Gu, Zhang Xiu wanted to take the credit alone, and wanted to take the opportunity to kill Zhang Lu, Zhang Lu was alert, so he attacked first, killed Zhang Xiu, seized Zhang Xiu's subordinates, and began to dominate Hanzhong. After Liu Yan found out, he was helpless, so he came up with a plan to kill people with a knife, and secretly instructed Zhang Lu to kill the envoy sent by the imperial court and cut off the road to the imperial court.

Zhang Lu really did it, and then Liu Yan sent troops to attack Zhang Lu in the name of crusading against the traitors in plain clothes. But what he didn't expect was that before Liu Yan's order was issued, he became seriously ill and fell into a slump from then on, so the plan to attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong was not realized. On the contrary, Zhang Lu was like a fish in water in Hanzhong, and his power grew stronger day by day, and over time, it also became a problem for Liu Yan.

Before Liu Yan died, he called his son Liu Zhang to his side and instructed Liu Zhang: "One mountain does not tolerate two tigers, Zhang Lu is not a person who is willing to live under the people, and the development of Wudou Midao is very fast." All the disciples of the Five Buckets of Rice Dao. They all obeyed the words of their leaders. Now on the surface, Zhang Lu is very obedient in Hanzhong. But if he is allowed to develop for a few more years, Zhang Lu is likely to ride on Liu Zhang's neck, and it will be difficult to clean up Zhang Lu when the time comes. ”

Liu Zhang remembered Liu Yan's last words, and on the third day after Liu Yan's death, Liu Zhang ordered the arrest of Zhang Lu's mother, who was still living on Qingcheng Mountain outside Chengdu. Together with more than 1,000 disciples of Wudou Mi Dao, they were arrested and all beheaded for public display, and it was ordered that from now in Yizhou, there are people who believe in Wudou Mi Taoism, all of whom will be killed.

In addition, Liu Zhang gathered troops and prepared to send troops to Hanzhong to crusade against Zhang Lu.

Who knows, when Liu Zhang was arresting the disciples of the Five Bucket Rice Dao in Qingcheng Mountain. There was a fish that slipped through the net, and the man rushed to Hanzhong. Xiang Zhang Lu made a clear gesture. As soon as Zhang Lu heard that his mother and more than 1,000 disciples were killed by Liu Zhang, he was naturally filled with righteous indignation, and at that moment, under the banner of revenge, he drove the disciples of Wudou Midao to start attacking Yizhou with an army, and sent people into Yizhou, inciting the disciples of Wudou Midao to respond one after another.

If it weren't for the fact that Yan Yan happened to lead the army to garrison in Baishui County at that time and block Zhang Lu's troops, Zhang Lu was likely to break through Baishui Pass and enter Yizhou.

After Yan Yan repelled Zhang Lu's army, after learning the truth of Zhang Lu's rebellion, he was very angry at Liu Zhang's excesses, but at this time, Yan Yan still focused on the overall situation, first investigated on the spot, and built a number of large and small passes in Baishui County, so that they were closely linked, and even if they suffered a sudden attack, they could come and go to rescue. And on the basis of the original three passes, it has been renovated to make it a new pass, which can accommodate more troops and is more defensive.

After Zhang Lu's army retreated, Wudou Midao in Yizhou began to gather crowds one after another to make trouble, capture the state capital, burn and loot. Liu Zhang had to send Yan Yan to Yizhou to quell the rebellion. Later, the rebellion was put down, Yan Yan's credit was the greatest, Liu Zhang summoned Yan Yan, and wanted to reward Yan Yan well, but as soon as Yan Yan came up, he accused Liu Zhang of what he did in front of everyone, which made Liu Zhang very unable to get off the stage. In addition, Zhang Ren fanned the flames from the side, Liu Zhang was angry, and began to alienate Yan Yan, and released Yan Yan to be the Taishou of Bajun, and in the following years, he continued to weaken Yan Yan's military power.

Under the leadership of Leng Bao, the group detoured to the shore of the Western Han River, hiding in a reed swing and looking into the distance, but saw Zhang Lu's army stationed on the shore, the camp was very large, there were many people, the lights were bright, and there were bonfires on the sides of the tents, and a group of people sat around the bonfire talking and laughing, and the bonfire was also baked with pieces of delicious food.

At first glance, Zhang Lu's army was not here to fight, but to participate in the bonfire party, which was so lively.

However, everyone also noticed that Zhang Lu's army was different from any other army, and they were not wearing military uniforms, but Taoist uniforms, and each Taoist uniform was printed with a distinctive symbol representing the Five Dou Mi Dao - Bagua.

Other than that, not a single weapon was to be seen.

When Zhang Fei saw such an army for the first time, he couldn't help asking: "If such an army starts a war, how can they fight?" ”

Leng Bao said: "Zhang Lu's army knows all about witchcraft, they don't use weapons to fight at all, as long as they do a random method, they can scatter beans into soldiers, and they have thousands of troops and horses to help." ”

Zhang Fei said in surprise: "Is there really such a magic in the world? I don't believe it. ”

Leng Bao said: "If the lord doesn't believe it, tomorrow during the day, the last general will come to attack them with troops, and the lord will watch from a distance." When the time comes, you can't believe it! ”

Zhang Fei said: "When Taiping Dao rebelled, it was also advertised that there were gods to help each other, what to say that they were invulnerable, and what kind of immortal art to protect the body, but I saw it, and I stabbed them with a spear casually, and they still had a big hole in their bodies." Presumably, these five buckets of rice are also tricks and ghosts. ”

"Lord, whether Wudou Midao is pretending to be a ghost or not, tomorrow the lord will know at a glance!" Leng Bud said.

"If you want to know if Wudou Midao is pretending to be a ghost, why wait until tomorrow, you can do it today!" Zhang Fei said.

"What do you mean by ......," Leng Bud asked.

"Night Attack!" Zhang Fei said. (To be continued......)