Baishuiguan is located on the ancient transportation line, with Qinlong in the north and Jiameng in the south. The waterway can go up the Bailong River to get Gannan, down to Bayu, and even Jingxiang, which is an important military pass. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Baishuiguan was first seen in the annals of history as "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Volume 13 Gongsun Shu Biography": "Shu Sui made the general Hou Dan open Baishui Pass, and the north guarded Nanzheng". "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The True Biography of the Law" also has clouds, Fa Zheng mentioned Baishui Pass when Liu Bei analyzed the situation at that time, he said: "Fish belly (Fengjie) and Guantou (that is, Baishui Pass) are really the gate of Yizhou's blessings and misfortunes. Fa Zheng believed that there were only two ways to enter Shu at that time, one was to take the fish belly (Fengjie) along the Yangtze River in the east to enter Shu, and the other was to take Baishuiguan from the land in the north to enter Shu. Therefore, it is a blessing to keep the belly of the fish and the juncture, and it is bound to be a disaster to lose the belly and the juncture.

It is precisely because of the important geographical location of Baishui Pass, since the Qin and Han dynasties, all dynasties have set up passes and built villages, sent troops to fight for Baishui Pass, and there are frequent wars here.

Liu Bei, the emperor of Shu Han, naturally knew the importance of Baishui Pass, and sent generals Yang Huai and Gao Pei to lead 30,000 troops to garrison Baishui Pass.

Li Yi adopted the strategy of the military advisor Zhuge Liang and led a part of the army to Baishui Pass, but secretly sent Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun to lead an army of 50,000 to bypass Baishui Pass and attack another important pass, Jiameng Pass, and then return to the division to go around the back of Baishui Pass from behind, and attack Baishui Pass with the main army on both sides.

The Shu army of Baishui Pass was in a desperate situation, and Yang Huai and Gao Pei had no choice but to surrender.

At this point, only the last Sword Pavilion Pass is left in the dangerous pass of Shu.

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Just when Li Yi led the Tang army to march forward, Liu Bei, Emperor Zhangwu of the Shu Han Dynasty, also drove his own expedition and brought 50,000 troops to the Sword Pavilion to meet the soldiers and horses of Emperor Wude Li Yi attacking Sichuan.

Wu Yi, the general of Shu Han, sat in Jiangguan and resisted the Tang army's Guan Yu department.

At the same time, Deng Zhi, the envoy of Shu Han, had secretly come to Jianye in Eastern Wu.

Jianye Palace.

"The messenger has come from afar to work hard, but he can go to the post house to rest." Emperor Sun Quan, the Great Wu Emperor, sat high on the throne, swaying his blue eyes and purple hair, and said with a smile on his face.

Deng Zhi saluted and retired, shaking his head in his heart, looking at the appearance of Emperor Sun Quan of Great Wu, he thought that he would not be able to promote reinforcements.

As soon as he left, the ministers of Eastern Wu began to tell the truth.

Zhou Yu was the first to come out and played: "Your Majesty, Li Yi's power is growing day by day, and only by uniting Shu can we resist the Tang Dynasty." The mountain roads in Xichuan are dangerous, and the Jedi in Xiongguan abound, and with Pang Tong sitting in Xichuan, Li Yi will definitely not be able to get benefits. The minister thought that he should agree to the alliance and send troops to attack Jingzhou, threaten Guan Yu's back route, and help Wu Yi resist the Tang army. ”

"No!" Before Zhou Yu's words fell, a heroic voice sounded, and when everyone looked over, it was Lu Xun, another important minister of Eastern Wu.

The corners of Zhou Yu's eyes twitched, and he said in his heart that the stinky boy is always against the governor of this capital. As long as the governor of this is in Soochow for a day, don't think about it.

Zhou Yu said unhappily: "Bo Yan, do you think that when the Shu Kingdom is destroyed, Eastern Wu will be able to fight against the powerful Tang State alone?" ”

"Grow the morale of others." Lu Xun pouted.

Zhou Yu's face changed greatly.

Emperor Sun Quan of Great Wu still attaches great importance to Lu Xun, and has just recently promoted him to the deputy governor of the navy, ranking after Huang Gai.

At Sun Quan's suggestion, Lu Xun glanced at Zhou Yu, and then said: "Your Majesty, you need to know that cranes and mussels are fighting, and there are yellow finches behind." Alliances must be concluded, but they cannot be immediately supported. What's more, the generals of the Tang Army, Gao Shun and Zhang He, have 100,000 elites in Hefei, and the Tang Army's sailors on the sea should not be underestimated. ”

"Water Army......" The corners of Sun Quan's eyes twitched slightly. Now the sailors of Dongwu are all shrunk in the water village, and only the sailors of the Tang Army can go out for a walk when they are napping. If it weren't for the good arrangement of the land-based defensive front, I am afraid that the border line would have been ravaged by the Tang Army's naval divisions.

So, Sun Quan adopted Lu Xun's suggestion and only agreed to the alliance. As for the reinforcements, Sun Quan temporarily refused on the grounds of Hefei's defense.

"Rat-eyed!" Zhou Yu scolded secretly, and immediately returned to Chaisang after retreating.

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In late June of the third year of Wude, Emperor Wude Li Yi led 120,000 Tang troops to camp twenty miles outside Jiange Pass.

Li Yi got out of the tent, picked up his gun and got on his horse, and led 10,000 elites into Dajian Mountain to go to the Sword Pavilion to watch.

Jiange Pass is located 30 kilometers north of the county seat of Jiange County, dwelling in the interrupt of Dajian Mountain, with cliffs on both sides, straight into the sky, the peaks and peaks leaning on the sky like a sword. The cliff is broken, the two walls are opposite, its shape is like a door, so it is also called "sword gate". It enjoys the reputation of "the world's danger in the sword", commonly known as "the first pass in the world".

Since ancient times, the majestic Sword Pavilion, choking into the throat of Shu, because of its dangerous terrain, has always been a place for soldiers to fight. According to legend, during the Warring States Period, King Qin Hui wanted to swallow Shu, but he had no way to enter Shu, and lied that he gave hardware cattle and five beauties to the King of Shu.

It seems that since then, the king of Shu has been relatively stupid, thinking that the hardware bull is less than 3,000 catties of gold, and there are beautiful women who have both wealth and beauty.

So the king of Shu believed it was true, sent a wrestler in Sichuan, split the mountain to open the way, entered Qin to welcome beauties, and transported a big golden bull. Since then, there is a road in and out of Xichuan, also known as the "Golden Bull Road". Due to passing through the Sword Pavilion, it is also known as the Sword Pavilion Shu Road.

It's just that in the end, gold and beauties were not ushered in, and the impatient Qin army outside the mountains was ushered in, and the Qin army entered Sichuan, and Bashu became the land of Great Qin.

Jianmen Pass is an important gateway to northern Sichuan. Xichuan and the north are mainly connected by three plank roads (Jinniu, Micang, Yinping), of which the Jinniu Road was built the earliest, relatively easy to walk, plus the Jinniu Road directly leads to the center of the Sichuan Basin - Chengdu, it is most convenient to attack Chengdu by the Jinniu Road, so the Jinniu Road is particularly important in the defense of northern Sichuan. And Jianmen Pass is the gateway to the Golden Bull Road.

In another time and space, the people who have run Sichuan in the past generations will pay special attention to Jianmen Pass, and the attention of the authorities coupled with the dangerous terrain makes Jianmen Pass one of the few passes in China that has not been completely broken from the front during the cold weapon period.

It is no exaggeration to use "one husband is the pass, ten thousand people are not open" to describe the sword gate. Zhonghui of the Three Kingdoms, Wang Jing of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and Wang Quanbin of the Northern Song Dynasty all confronted the local troops of Sichuan at Jianmen, and none of them broke through the Jianmen Pass from the front (among them, Wang Quanbin finally broke through by sending troops to bypass Jianmen and attack on both sides). At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Fu Youde entered Sichuan, and he did not take the Golden Bull Road, but bypassed the Sword Gate by Yinping Road and approached Chengdu.

In modern times, the Red Army and the People's Liberation Army also conquered Jianmen with the help of artillery.

At this time and space, after Liu Bei entered Shu, Pang Tong inspected the place, and felt that this sword pavilion was the lifeblood of Shu Han, so he ordered the soldiers to dig mountain rocks, erect flying beams, build plank roads, and strengthen the city.

Li Yi led 10,000 soldiers and horses all the way to the outside of the Sword Pavilion Pass, and found that the mountains were high and the roads were dangerous, so he just led 10,000 soldiers and horses to start the march and became difficult.

Dian Wei, who was accompanied by the king, looked up at the cliff to the sky, but felt dizzy, shook his head and retracted his gaze, and muttered to himself: "It's too difficult to walk here, it's not conducive to large-scale battles, it's better to bypass it." ”

Xun You on the side said with a smile: "The Xichuan Mountains stretch for nearly a thousand miles, and only here is the safest way into the Sichuan Mountains." The rest of the place is even poorer, and there is not even a sheep intestine path. ”

"Shu Road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky, we want to attack Yizhou, I'm afraid it's not easy." Li Yi also lamented the power of nature in ancient times, which could not be changed by ordinary manpower.

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When Li Yi's 10,000 soldiers and horses had not yet arrived in front of the Sword Pavilion Pass, a Shu soldier had already reported into the Sword Pavilion.

In the Sword Pavilion Pass City, the line of Liu Bei, the emperor of Zhangwu of the Shu Han Dynasty, was arranged in the garrison captain's mansion. The majestic guard of honor of the emperor of the Han dynasty and the mighty Imperial Forest Army gave the humble mansion a lot of imperial atmosphere.

At this moment, Emperor Liu Bei's holy car is in the hall, and there are two classes of martial arts under the hall, with the Wenchen headed by Pang Tong and the military general headed by Zhou Cang.

Since the emperor came here, everything was rearranged, and even the threshold was raised a lot. "The threshold is high", perhaps this is where the term "afterlife" comes from.

"Sun Quan's eyes are bright!" Liu Bei, who was on the throne, was very angry when he received Wu Yi's report and slandered the Great Wu Emperor.

Pang Tong snorted and shook the pu fan to fan the wind, and said: "The I Ching has clouds, Tianxingjian, and a gentleman should strive for self-improvement." ”

Liu Bei disagreed with this, and said in his heart that it was better to pull a cushion than no one, but on the surface, his face was pale, and he said seriously: "What the prime minister said is very true, it is better to ask for others than for yourself." ”

At this time, Zhou Cang glared at the ring and said in a rough voice: "Your Majesty, that Li Yi has come to the outside of the pass, and the minister prays for five thousand elite soldiers to be the vanguard, which will definitely frustrate his spirit." ”

Pang Tong interjected: "With Li Yi's character, he will definitely take the initiative to come, and General Zhou's battle is indispensable." ”

"Report." At this moment, a guard hurriedly walked into the hall and reported loudly, "Your Majesty, the 10,000 pioneers of the Tang Army have arrived in front of the pass, less than five miles away from the pass. ”

Liu Bei said: "Li Yi is here in the end, Zhou Aiqing, I will also give you 10,000 soldiers and horses to go to the battle." I'm right on top of the city, no...... I also came to the front of the battle to sweep you in front of the formation. ”

When he went out, Pang Tong whispered to Liu Bei: "Your Majesty, Li Yi is so happy, the battle will come in person, this is an opportunity to defeat him." ”

Then, Pang Tong came up with a plan. When Liu Bei heard this, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered someone to arrange it.

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Outside the Sword Pavilion Pass, the rumbling footsteps echoed in the mountains, but it was Li Yi who led the Tang army straight to the Sword Pavilion Pass.

The Tang army wore all black uniforms, black light armor, and the soldiers were all fierce, and the army was extremely powerful.

Li Yi was one mile before the pass, stopped the army and observed the surrounding mountains.

Xiongguan Sword Pavilion, surrounded by mountains, Sword Pavilion is in the canyon of Dajian Mountain. On both sides of the castle tower are two peaks like swords stuck in the ground, and all of them are mountains of different heights.

Suddenly, the drums were turned off, and the mountains were surrounded by echoes, as if the mountains were echoing.

Li Yi raised his eyes and saw the gate open, and a military horse drove out of the gate.

Not long after, this Biao army horse came to the front of the Tang army to line up.