At the beginning of the hour, a crescent moon hung in the sky above the north, and the ethereal sea of clouds shimmered with bright stars, staring at all creatures shrouded in the morning mist without blinking.

At the east gate of Chengdu, the moat is still brightly lit, just like day.

In the river, more than 1,000 sergeants are still salvaging the remains of the bodies that have sunk to the bottom of the water and dredge the river.

By this time, they had been in the dark red moat for three hours, salvaging thousands of corpses, tens of thousands of arrows, and mutilated weapons. The most difficult thing to salvage is the countless rocks and extremely heavy rolling logs that blocked the river, and hundreds of drowning horses in between.

It was because of the large number of weapons scattered in the river that the sergeants had to be extra careful after entering the water, so as not to be pricked by the underwater weapons or trip over stones. They are so slow to clear the river that it takes a whole night to clear it each time, and tonight is no exception.

Not only that, but the rebel soldiers under Zhao Wei's tent also tossed all night the night before yesterday, and they did not clean it up until after dawn. It's just that those guys don't have the slightest sense of responsibility, and every time they clean up the river, they will steal and play tricks, and they can't do their work, but they still do perfunctory things all night. After daybreak, even if the river was still blocked, they would not stop long, and climbed onto the shore and slipped away.

In this way, the work they did not finish remained in the river, and then fell on the defenders, so that they had to work in the river all night every day, not daring to relax for a moment, and were half tired to death.

After yesterday's tragic fighting, at least 2,000 corpses were piled up in the river. And the rocks and logs that rolled into the river were tens of thousands. In addition, the soldiers who cleaned the river not only had to clear all the obstacles that blocked the flow of water, but also buried the bodies of the rebel soldiers who had been abandoned under the city walls.

The most important thing is. According to the agreement negotiated between the commanders of the two armies, no more than 2,000 sergeants could be used to clean the river and bury the corpses. This is a hard and fast rule, and it is also the result of repeated arguments between the two parties, and no one can change it without authorization, let alone violate the regulations, otherwise the previous agreement will be invalid immediately.

For this reason, the defenders of the city could not afford to be injured. can only strictly follow the regulations, and dare not cross the thunder pool by half a step, lest Zhao Wei regret it.

Unconsciously. The time has reached seven o'clock, approaching the fifth watch, and in half an hour, the sky will be bright.

It was the last half hour before dawn. It was also a morning mist. The banks of the moat were swirling for a while.

At this time of day, visibility inside and outside the city is extremely low; Even with a torch, you can only see objects within 10 feet, and you can't see anything further away.

In addition, the half hour before dawn is also the time when people sleep the deepest and guard the most.

At this moment, the gates, which had been closed, opened again, and the door was opened very slowly. The movement is light and barely makes any sound.

Forthwith. I saw a group of sergeants walking out of the city, and there was no sound between the walks, and the steps were very light, but the speed was not slow. In a short time, tens of thousands of soldiers left the city one after another, quickly passing through the guò drawbridge, and without torches, and when they reached the north bank of the moat, all these soldiers disappeared in the thick fog and disappeared without a trace. At this moment, the gates were closed again, and torches were still planted on the banks of the moat, but the more than 1,800 cavalry who had just been dredged in the river were gone, and with them their mounts and sidearms disappeared.

Suddenly, the "whooshing" arrows broke through the air, instantly breaking the silent dawn, followed by the rumbling of horses' hooves.

In an instant, I saw arrows wrapped in oilcloth roaring into the air, and the bright lights of the stars converged into a piece in the sky, and after shuttling a hundred meters in the air, they suddenly fell sharply, like a flame beast, and pounced on the rebel camp tent shrouded in thick fog. At the same time, with the sudden sound of horses, tens of thousands of infantry soldiers came out of the dense fog around the originally silent rebel camp and quickly approached the rebel camp.

Obviously, this is an attempt by the garrison army under Zhang Ren's account to rob the camp.

Tens of thousands of troops quietly left the city before the fifth watch, and then used the dense fog with extremely low visibility to hide their whereabouts and quietly approached the rebel camp. Wait until the army forms a siege on the rebel camp on all sides, and then fire a flurry of arrows in an attempt to burn the rebel camp; Without waiting for the defenders of Yuanmen to react, Zhang Ren's army came out of the dense fog and suddenly attacked.

"Woohoo———!"

With a terrible scream, more than 100 sergeants stationed in the Yuanmen trench were shot one after another by sudden hidden arrows, and their screams when they were dying woke up the guards on the Yuanmen, thus exposing the whereabouts of the camp robbery army.

"The enemy has robbed the camp! Bell Bell Bell ??????"

In the silent exclamation of the defenders of Yuanmen, the bronze bell hanging on the tower of Yuanmen City was struck. The dull and long sound of the bell quickly spread into the sky and spread throughout the camp. Immediately, countless soldiers who had been awakened by the sound rushed out of the camp in panic, and when they looked up, they saw clusters of rockets whizzing towards them, and hundreds of camps close together were ignited by rockets.

In an instant, the huge rebel camp was completely boiling.

"Break through the enemy camp and capture Zhao Wei! Kill ———! ”

"Knock knock!"

Seeing the rebel camp on fire, the camp raiders who had been waiting for a long time no longer had any scruples and brazenly rushed to the enemy's camp. Suddenly, the war horses neighed, the arrows pierced through the air, the rumbling war drums resounded in the sky, and the noisy shouts of killing shook the four directions, shocking the earth.

At this point, Zhao Wei's rebels and Liu Zhang's army, which had been facing each other for more than half a month, finally ushered in the long-lost Armageddon.

By this time, Zhao Wei's rebellion had lasted for more than two months, and the situation in Yizhou had changed greatly. In the midst of fierce battles, both sides focused all their energy on each other, but they didn't know that a sky-devouring beast was quietly approaching them. Perhaps, when they decide the winner, this fierce beast will suddenly appear in front of them??????

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The peak is connected to the jade base, the ground is connected to the Jincheng, the sword pavilion is with the budding, the Jialing and the pillow white water, the male of the Chengtian is also.

This is the true portrayal of Jiameng Pass and Jianmen Pass on the Golden Bull Plank Road of Shu Road.

Historically, Zhuge Liang had expanded this plank road, and set up the Feiliang Pavilion Road at Jianmen Pass, and set up a pavilion to guard it. "The stone is chiseled overhead for the Feiliang Pavilion Road, in order to pass the brigade", so it is called the Sword Pavilion Road. Therefore, the Golden Bull Road (also known as the Stone Bull Road), which is more than 1,000 miles away, is what later generations called the Sword Pavilion Road in a broad sense.

The Western Route Army of Yizhou in the south, that is, the 90,000-strong army led by generals Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong, set out from Jiameng Pass at the northern end of Jiameng County, raided Jiameng County with lightning speed, and then entered and exited the West Gate from the east gate, and quickly entered the Jiange Road. (Jiameng County, that is, Zhaohua Town, Guangyuan, Sichuan, has since been called "Zhaohua City".) ）

This is the first step to determine whether the Western Route Army can enter the Shu Road, Zhaohua City is the throat town of the Golden Bull Road, and it is the only way for Hanzhong and Chengdu to enter and exit from the east and west, and it cannot be bypassed.

Fortunately, the Western Route Army took the lead in seizing the Jiameng Pass in the east of Zhaohua City, and has been planning to capture Zhaohua City for three years, so as to knock on the east gate of Shu Road. The civil strife in Yizhou made the people panic, so it left an opportunity for the Xiliang army to take advantage of, so that more than 1,000 soldiers of the Qin Gong Battalion under Huang Zhong's tent waited for the opportunity to sneak into the city, and then joined forces with the southern expeditionary army to seize the city in one fell swoop.

The first merit of the Western Route Army was made by Huang Zhong, so it was not in vain that he led his troops to garrison Jiameng Pass for three years.

After passing through Zhaohua City, Zhao Yun, the commander of the Western Route Army, decided to let Ma Chao serve as the vanguard general, leading the Longxiang battalion to open the road first, and build bridges when the mountains open the road and meet the water; Huang Zhong's Qin Gong Battalion escorted the grain and grass baggage, followed the Long Xiang Battalion, and walked in the middle of the whole army, while Zhao Yun's unequaled iron cavalry was the rear army, pressing the rear of the whole army. In order to facilitate the command of the whole army, Zhao Yun himself walked with the Qin Gong Battalion, which was regarded as sitting in the Chinese army, so as not to encounter a sudden battle, be caught off guard, and not be able to take care of each other.

Although the Golden Bull Road is the main plank road leading to Chengdu, there are cliffs and cliffs along the way, which are rugged and difficult to walk, so that the marching speed is extremely slow, but it is extremely beneficial for the Yizhou army to set up an ambush here.

In view of this, Zhao Yuncai decided to lead the Longxiang battalion to open the way first, and with the help of the rapid march of the Longxiang battalion, he took the lead in seizing a canyon plank road that could be ambushed everywhere with lightning speed, so as to ensure the smooth passage of the follow-up army.

Out of Zhaohua in the west, over Niutou Mountain, it entered the territory of Jianmen Pass.

Jianmen Pass is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, for the Sichuan-Shaanxi traffic throat, the soldiers of the past dynasties to "one husband is the pass, ten thousand people do not open" to describe its danger. The Yizhou army disposed of the pass narrowly in the plank road, with two cliffs, and its shape was like a door; And because it is located at the south end of the Sword Pavilion, the east and west are horizontal, the 72 peaks are undulating, the shape is like a sharp sword, straight into the sky, so it is called the Sword Gate Pass.

The precipitousness of the Jianmen Pass, not only the pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, a husband is not open when the pass is ten thousand people, the plank road in front of the pass is almost no way to go, and the pedestrians must climb in a roundabout way on the cliff. This is the most steep and difficult section of the plank road in Jianmen Pass, and it is also the place where it is most likely to be ambushed.

Fortunately, for thousands of years, there has been an endless stream of pedestrians and business travelers, and over time, an extremely narrow plank road has been carved out of the cliff. Although this plank road is only a few feet wide, the slightest mistake will lead to a stumble and fall into the cliff, so that pedestrians do not dare to ride horses on the plank road, and most of them lead war horses to climb on foot; However, in the end, there is better than nothing, and there is finally a way to go.

When the Western Route Army led by Zhao Yun arrived at the Jianmen Plank Road, they had to stop to rest and recuperate.

Immediately, Zhao Yun adjusted the marching formation again, and the Qin Gong Battalion under Huang Zhong's account opened the road first, and was responsible for capturing the Jianmen Pass; Only after the capture of the Sword Gate Pass can the army continue to advance.

Otherwise, if the army rashly enters the Jianmen Plank Road, once it encounters an ambush, it will immediately fall into a desperate situation, and there is no way to enter the sky and no door to the ground, and it is very likely that the whole army will be annihilated. It was because Zhao Yun was entrusted with the lives of 100,000 soldiers, and he never dared to take risks, so he could only send Huang Zhong to lead his troops and horses to explore the road first, waiting for an opportunity to raid Jianmen Pass.

—————— to be continued——————————————— (To be continued......

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