Zhang Fei inevitably still had some lingering palpitations about Ma Chao's mentions, after all, Ma Chao was not his subordinate, and the two of them were only in a cooperative relationship, he hesitantly glanced at Fa Zheng beside him, although he didn't speak, but the look in his eyes was that he hoped that Fa Zheng could give him a Jian.

Fa Zheng understood the meaning contained in Zhang Fei's eyes, so he whispered in Zhang Fei's ear: "The lord can go out of the city to meet Ma Chao, after all, if we want to break the deadlock, we all count on Ma Chao, so it also seems that the lord values love and righteousness!" ”

After Zhang Fei heard this, he didn't think about anything more, and felt that what Fa Zheng said was also very reasonable, he noticed that Ma Chao was still followed by Pang De and Ma Dai, and he immediately said to Liu Xian and Li Yan: "You go down with me, and lead another twenty elite soldiers, so as not to have an accident." ”

Liu Xian and Li Yan both nodded, and arched their hands: "Huh! ”

Subsequently, the city gate of the Sword Pavilion was opened, Zhang Fei was fully clothed in armor, riding a high-headed horse, leading Liu Xian, Li Yan and twenty elite horsemen, out of the customs together, and came to Ma Chao.

This was a very simple meeting, Ma Chao and Zhang Fei exchanged a few words of greeting, and then said goodbye hastily, and there were no accidents in the middle, which also made Zhang Fei, Liu Xian, Li Yan and others, who were originally nervous, breathe a sigh of relief.

Zhang Fei and the others watched Ma Chao lead the army away, and watched Ma Chao's back gradually disappear, Zhang Fei said to the soldiers behind him: "Send scouts to follow all the way and see where Ma Chao's army went!" ”

"Whoa!"

In the following days, news continued to come that the scouts sent by Zhang Fei followed all the way. It was found that Ma Chao led the army and indeed retreated. began to retreat to Hanzhong. When Zhang Fei learned the news, he decided that Ma Chao had indeed left, so he no longer sent scouts, but directly sent troops, and went to Baishui County with a large army non-stop, preparing to temporarily stop at Baishui Pass, and then wait for Ma Chao to go away, and then go to occupy Hanzhong.

this day. Zhang Fei took Fa Zheng, Liu Xian, Li Yan and others all the way to Jiameng Pass, and saw Jiameng Pass, which was blackened by the fire of the day, and also sighed with emotion, and now, most of the places east of the Sword Pavilion are no longer owned by him, and Zhang Fei can only develop towards Hanzhong, with Cheng Dù, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, plus Ma Chao, a very strong ally, to fight against the Han army.

It's been a few days. Meng Da led Zhang Fei's family and Guan Yu's family. Together with Guan Ping, Zhang Bao and others secretly returned to the Sword Pavilion, after Zhang Fei left the Sword Pavilion, he handed over the Sword Pavilion to Meng Da to guard, Guan Ping and Zhang Bao assisted Meng Da to guard, and also left 3,000 soldiers and horses in case of emergency.

Now the weather has reached the end of November, every day is gloomy, there are snowflakes falling in the air, it has been snowing for three days in a row, the whole earth has been wrapped in a layer of silver-white, Zhang Fei and others walked slowly in the thick snow, against the cold wind, a day will walk thirty miles, although it is slow, but it is relatively safe.

Two days later, Zhang Fei's army arrived in Baishui County, where Pang Tong had used it as a rear when the Han army occupied it, but now the Han army has retreated, but some of the new policies set up by Pang Tong have been retained, and the entire county has not been affected much.

Now that Zhang Fei's army has come here again, many people are a little apprehensive, worried that Zhang Fei will destroy some of the good policies left by the Han army here.

However, Zhang Fei did not let the army enter the city, but went straight to Baishui Pass, now the river near Baishui Pass has frozen, the army can directly step on the thick ice to reach Baishui Pass, Zhang Fei climbed the gate of Baishui Pass to look out, only feel the narrowness of this pass.

Baishui Pass, once used as a bridgehead to defend Hanzhong into Shu, has gradually lost its defensive significance after many wars, but Zhang Fei wants to repair it again, but this is also after he occupied Hanzhong.

Today's Zhang Fei, the total strength is less than 20,000, of which the cavalry is even fewer, only more than 500 cavalry, such a small number of troops, it is simply not enough to occupy so many places, only by occupying Hanzhong, can it gradually develop.

Now Zhang Fei is already planning to give up Xichuan, he is ready to take the army to Hanzhong, occupy Dongchuan, enter the Han army that can unite with Ma Chao to fight Chang'an, and retreat to defend the imperial city, so Hanzhong is the top priority for Zhang Fei.

For this reason, Zhang Fei also had a secret talk with Ma Chao, and Ma Chao also agreed to give Hanzhong to Zhang Fei. That's why Zhang Fei followed Ma Chao's army all the way.

That night, Zhang Fei led the army to camp near Baishui Pass, after a few days of traveling, the soldiers were a little tired, coupled with the invasion of the cold, the soldiers could not sleep well at night, so the soldiers always raised a bonfire in the tent at night for heating, so that they could sleep.

At that time, when the army was asleep and the barracks were snoring, groups of black shadows slowly surged up from all directions of Baishui Pass, at least ten times the number of Zhang Fei, and they had surrounded Baishui Pass.

In a moment, everyone was already in place, but when they heard a shout, the black pressed people rushed up, all shouted loudly, and rushed towards the barracks at Baishui Pass.

The shouting shook the sky, straight into the sky, the Sichuan soldiers who were still asleep were suddenly awakened, many people were panicked, they put on some clothes in a hurry, just out of the camp tent, they bumped into a group of cavalry rushing over, each cavalryman's face was a hideous expression, and his eyes were very fierce and fierce, put away a gun, and stabbed the Sichuan soldiers to death under the horse.

After a while, the inside of the barracks was completely surrounded by the enemy, and more and more enemies surrounded the entire barracks, and all the soldiers were blocked inside, and the conflict did not come out.

The enemy army did not fight hard, and directly set a fire, burned the tent, and prepared to force the Sichuan soldiers out of the tent.

The sudden attack made Zhang Fei, Fa Zheng, Liu Xian, Li Yan and others feel inexplicable, reflecting the firelight, they vaguely saw that these enemies were none other than the Han army, and most of the people on horseback were Qiang people, they were strangling the Sichuan soldiers together.

The army has been completely surrounded, Ma Chao is on the left, Xu Huang is on the right, Ma Dai is in front, Pang De is behind, and the four generals each led a large army to flank the Sichuan soldiers and launched a fierce offensive against the Sichuan soldiers.

The Sichuan soldiers were defeated in the first battle, with countless casualties, and those who were alive were crying for their fathers and mothers, and they all had no heart to fight and surrendered one after another.

The battle lasted only half an hour, and it ended in the defeat of the Sichuan soldiers, and even Zhang Fei, Fa Zheng, Liu Xian, Li Yan and others were captured. (To be continued......)