Longshan is a high mountain lying in the west of the Guanzhong Plain, as if from a bird's-eye view from the air, Longxi is just like a ridge at the head of the Guanzhong Plain, so the world gives it a more apt name - Longshan, and because of its twists and turns, the six layers of the road can reach the top, also known as Liupan Mountain.

If you want to enter Longxi from Guanzhong, Longshan in the north-south direction is a barrier that must be crossed, and it is very unrealistic to take the six-fold road to cross Longshan, so the best route is the various passes in Longshan in the thousands of miles.

Compared with other passes, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the street pavilion is undoubtedly the most bizarre pass. Longshan is majestic and precipitous, stretches for thousands of miles, but it is born to the street pavilion here, as if it is cut off by life, leaving a flat avenue that is several miles wide, so throughout the ages, the street pavilion pass has become an important passage leading to Longyou in Guanzhong. And such a terrain has undoubtedly created the street pavilion easy to attack and difficult to defend.

When it comes to street pavilions, it is undoubtedly an eternal pain in the hearts of Shu people.

In the sixth year of Shu Jianxing, Zhuge Liang wrote the eternal article "The Teacher's Table", and expressed his determination to the later lord Liu Chan and swore to the Northern Expedition. I have to say that this is the largest of the Northern Expedition of Shu Han, and it is also the closest to success, Zhuge Liang's troops went out of Qishan, the world was shaken, Tianshui, Nan'an, Anding three counties were not attacked, only Yongzhou Thorn Shi Guo Huai stubbornly defended Shangqi and refused to surrender.

At that time, Cao Wei's court was still active and effective, and Emperor Cao Rui of Wei Ming decisively sent the famous general Zhang He to lead 50,000 troops to aid Longyou. Zhang He did not live up to Cao Rui's expectations, and worked tirelessly to rush to Longyou.

From Guanzhong to Longyou, the most ideal way is to take the official road of the street pavilion, Zhang He naturally will not choose another road, 50,000 steps to ride, with the speed of chasing the stars and the moon straight to the street pavilion.

Zhuge Liang naturally also recognized the importance of street pavilions. However, after the troops came out of Qishan, in order to capture the counties of Longshang, the Shu army had dispersed its troops, and it was overstretched to deal with Zhang He's attack, so Ma Jian stood on the cusp of the wind and waves.

Ma Tan is a staff talent, and he made suggestions and suggestions when Zhuge Liang was on his southern expedition. Zhuge Liang also overrode public opinion this time, appointed Ma Jian as the main general to guard the street pavilion, and put this heaviest burden on Ma Tan's shoulders.

However, the well-known result was that Ma Tan was defeated and failed to defend the street pavilion, which also led to the failure of the First Northern Expedition. Is it because Ma Yan's words on paper are exaggerated and cannot be reused, or is Zhuge Liang's strategy inappropriate? All this seemed to have become meaningless, and Shu was tragically reversed in the first Northern Expedition. But it has become a haze that will never linger in the hearts of Shu people.

In the following decades, although Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wei tried their best again and again to help the Han family restore the mountains and rivers, because the Wei State was already on guard, in an environment where the strength of the enemy and us was extremely different, it was already impossible to achieve the same victory as the First Northern Expedition.

This undoubtedly makes the Shu people more painful about the loss of the street pavilion, if everything can be done again, replace the useless horse. Maybe the street pavilion will not be lost, and Shu Han will not lose the Longyou counties that have been captured. You can even wave your division in Guanzhong and go straight to Luoyang.

But history does not assume, and the loss of the street pavilion has become the most unbearable past in the hearts of Shu people.

A cool mountain breeze blew on Fu Yan's dignified and resolute face.

The spring wind is warm and warm, and the whole Longshan has shown a pale green color in the spring breeze. The green mountains and green waters, the spring is boundless, but Fu Yan is not in the mood for the slightest appreciation, his eyes are on the vast and vast Guanzhong Plain.

The great battle that took place here thirty-seven years ago has long since disappeared, and the voice of the Iron Horse Jingo can no longer be heard on the desolate and lonely ancient road. But once again there has been an amazing coincidence in history, and the obscure street pavilion will become the world's attention again, and it will once again carry the hopes and expectations of the people of Xiangshu.

Fu Yan only felt that the burden on his shoulders seemed to be as heavy as a thousand pounds, and he was almost out of breath.

"Maybe Ma Jian was in the same mood back then, right?" Fu Yi laughed self-deprecatingly.

In fact, the current situation has a striking resemblance to Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, taking the counties of Longyou, but having to divide his troops against the enemy, but the slight difference is that Zhuge Liang's opponent is Guo Huai, and Liu Yin's opponent is a foreign Qiang people, Cao Wei's reinforcements are once again a huge kill, and Jieting has once again become the lifeblood of the life and death of the Shu army.

If you can't keep the street pavilion, you can only keep the six counties of Longyou that have been in hand, if you can't keep the street pavilion, the result can only be the same as Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition.

Maybe the situation is even worse, at that time Zhuge Liang still had a way to retreat, at that time, Hanzhong was still the base camp of the Shu army, and the Northern Expedition failed, and there was still a chance to retreat. At this time, the Shu army can be said to have basically no way to retreat, if it really wants to retreat, it can only retreat to the grassland and snow mountain, and the people who crawled from the ghost gate will never want to face the barbaric place that devours life.

Die and come back to life!

This is the situation that the Shu army is facing now, if it is not won, it will die! There is no second way to go.

After Fu Yan and Liu Yin divided their troops, they led 20,000 horses and horses from the Hubu Left Battalion, the Hubu Right Battalion, the Yang'an Battalion and the Wudang Battalion to the Jieting.

Ma Jian at that time, also led 20,000 horses, maybe his mood was slightly more relaxed than Fu Yan, after all, it was the first time he led the troops to fight, for a staff member who only participated in the planning in the Chinese military account, the kind of confidence and ambition when he first led the troops was indescribable, with the high hopes of Prime Minister Zhuge and the expectations of the Shu Han Dynasty, Ma Jian embarked on a road of no return.

The ideal is very plump, but the reality is too skinny, the self-righteous Ma Tan was finally cut off because of the failure of the street pavilion, maybe Zhuge Liang didn't want to kill him, but someone must pay for this failure, Ma Tan can only become the scapegoat, used to calm the anger of the government and the opposition.

Later generations almost unanimously blamed the loss of the street pavilion on the mistake of Ma Tan's strategy, Ma Jian seriously violated the military common sense of the village, stationed the army on a mountain without a water source, surrounded by the Wei army's troops, cut off the water source, and trapped alone, which led to the defeat.

But is that really the case? Even if Ma Jian executed the correct defensive strategy, would he really be able to hold the street pavilion? (To be continued.) )