On both sides of the Jianmen Pass is a steep and straight mountain, the bottom of the disconnection in the middle is the Sword Pavilion, to go up hundreds of steps, on both sides of the steps are two stone troughs for the wheels of the cart to walk, walked for thousands of years, has formed two deep rut tracks.

The carriage is more difficult to pass, and when going up, people need to push the cart hard behind and climb up step by step, while when the carriage comes down, people need to desperately hold it in front and let the cart slowly go down.

When the time was almost to close the city, the soldiers of Jianmen Pass were already waiting for the drums of the little sword to come.

At this moment, a huge caravan of mules and horses came from the north, and the soldiers of Guancheng suddenly smiled, such a large caravan, at least five hundred yuan per person, but the duty general of Jianmen Pass was very cautious, let the soldiers wave their flags, and let the other party stop in place, if it is a caravan that often takes this line, it will understand the rules.

The caravan of mules and horses stopped, and at this moment, a short, stocky, middle-aged man who looked like a marmot ran up to the castle first, and halfway through the run, he was so tired that he was out of breath and could not run.

Many soldiers laughed, they knew this Humpty Dumpty man, a native of Jianzhou, called Wang Maung, nicknamed Wang Fat Cat, who often walked the Jianmen Shu Road, going back and forth between Chang'an and Chengdu.

The man on duty put down his heart, he was very familiar with Wang Fatcat, but he was familiar with each other, but the rules could not be changed, he ordered a brigade commander to bring more than 20 soldiers to deal with it.

The brigade commander stepped forward and hugged his fists and smiled: "Proprietor Wang, what good things did you buy to sell in Chengdu this time?" ”

Wang Fat Cat grinned and said: "This time it's coarse cloth, and I will buy 10,000 pieces of coarse cloth in Chang'an and sell it in Chengdu." ”

"Coarse cloth can still make money?" The brigade commander asked puzzled.

"Then you don't understand, Chang'an's coarse cloth is 20 wen a horse, Chengdu is 70 wen a horse, the difference between 10,000 horses is 500 yuan, last year's road expenses and men's wages and taxes, I can make a net profit of 200 yuan this trip."

"And the brothers' tea money?"

"That's indispensable brothers, old rules! A mule costs 100 yuan, and we have 300 mules here, 30,000 yuan, and it will not be less. ”

"Wang Dongzhu is wealthy, I thank you in advance on behalf of my brothers, but I have been strictly managing it recently, and we will follow the rules."

"No problem, just follow the rules!"

Wang Dongzhu handed over a piece of paper to the brigade commander, which was the customs clearance certificate of the small sword in front of him, indicating that it had been searched, and the goods had also been inspected, and there was no problem.

The brigade commander took the customs clearance pass and looked at it, and said, "Since it has been checked before, let's check it a little!" It's just a routine. ”

"General, please! But the rules haven't changed! Daggers and daggers can be carried. ”

"This rule has not changed, a self-defense short sword that is no more than two feet can be carried."

"Then please!"

With a wave of his hand, the soldiers stepped forward and began to search their bodies one by one, all of whom carried only a short sword of self-defense no more than two feet.

The brigade commander pressed the goods, and could see that they were all cloths, bundled together, and the proprietor Wang was a little nervous: "General, the goods don't need to be opened!" It's hard to bandage, and it's going to get dark soon. ”

According to the rules of strict inspection, it is necessary to open and inspect, but the sky is indeed getting dark, and I faintly heard the sound of drums from the side of the little sword, and the brigade commander thought that people would give thirty yuan of tea money, and he was an old merchant again, so he had to give some face.

He looked at his men again, and the soldiers waved their hands at him, meaning that there was no violation, and he nodded and said, "Okay! Parlay is allowed. ”

Wang Dongzhu ran up to pay the money, and handed thirty taels of silver to the Lang general on duty, Lang Jiang checked the silver and grinned: "Wang Dongzhu's business is getting bigger and bigger!" After it is developed, bring the little brother a hand. ”

"Where! Where! It's all about making a little money to support the family. ”

Lang Jiang also said casually, and the Wang proprietor's answer was also extremely tactful, the two laughed, and Lang Jiang waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

The team of people and horses passed the pass in a mighty way, and at this time, the city gate of the Sword Gate Pass also began to close........

In the darkness of the night, Zhou Fei and eighty of his men and the caravan temporarily parted ways, their weapons and firearms hidden in coarse cloth rolls, war knives, longbows, gunpowder arrows, fire folds, and so on.

The reason why Zhou Fei and the others did not make a move when they passed the pass was mainly because they were afraid of the thousand elite enemy troops on the mountain road south of Jianmen Pass, and the Jianmen Pass was attacked from the north, which was extremely difficult, but the southern slope was gentle, and it would be much easier to attack from the southern slope.

If he starts when he passes the pass, Zhou Fei is sure to seize the Jianmen Pass, but he is not sure to hold the Jianmen Pass, if he wants to capture the Jianmen Pass safely, he must first solve the thousand defenders on the ramp.

In the face of the Jin army's major strategy of attacking Bashu, the gains and losses of Jianmen Pass are the most critical point, and when Zhang Yun handed over this task to Zhou Fei, he felt great pressure and couldn't sleep for two nights.

Zhou Fei gathered everyone together and told his subordinates his ideas, all his subordinates were carefully selected, all of them could fight with one enemy and ten, their martial arts were very strong, and they were extremely good at night fighting, these eighty people were the basis for the success of this mission, so Zhou Fei selected the most elite scouts, most of them were brigade commanders, and many were scout captains.

"When we came over, we all saw a full 120 big tents, of which 20 are material tents, they are very large, close to the city, and 100 big tents are lodging tents, each big tent is five feet apart before, not built at random, but very regular, indicating that the distance of five feet is a fire prevention zone, but I personally think that this is for the daytime to consider, you see, the mountain wind at night is very strong."

Everyone looked up to experience the wind speed, the wind was southerly, and the wind speed was very fast, and a captain said: "General Zhou, I think the main reason is that the Jianmen Pass is located in the mountain pass, and the wind is blowing in a concentrated manner, and the distance of five feet cannot prevent the fire at all. ”

Zhou Fei waved his hand, "I'm just talking to you about ideas, I don't have time to discuss it anymore, I will divide everyone into two groups, Captain Liu, you lead twenty people to be responsible for seizing the Sword Gate Pass, if it goes well here, I will come to pick you up!" ”

"Obey the order!" A lieutenant bowed.

Zhou Fei looked at the sky, it was almost two watches, he waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

They hid in a col, and out of the col was the slope of the mountain, which was much smoother than the steep slope to the north, and the slope was very wide, even more than a mile at its widest, and they were about two miles away from the camp, and they were slowly going up the mountain on the left, and when they were a mile away, there was a secret sentry hidden in the rock crevice on the cliff, which they found when they came down the mountain.

They discovered this dark sentinel, but the dark sentry did not find them, and with mental calculation or unintentional, the Jin army itself had an advantage.

A crossbowman hides behind a boulder, loads a bloody poisoned arrow into the crossbow groove and aims at the outpost soldiers in the rock crevice.

After being shot by this poisoned arrow, it will be effective in a few seconds, although it will not be poisoned immediately, but the person is already weak, there is no sound in the shouting, and the military camp can no longer be notified, and then he will slowly die in despair.

'Click! The crossbow machine made a soft sound, and a poisoned arrow 'Whoosh!' The arrow hit the throat of the whistle in the crevice, and the whistle slammed into his throat, shook his body, and fell helplessly.

Zhou Fei and his subordinates' hearts were raised to their throats, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the dark whistle had been killed.

Zhou Fei waved lightly to everyone, and everyone rushed along the rock wall, gradually approaching the enemy barracks, and there were two sentries outside the barracks, one east and one west, patrolling back and forth.

It can be seen from the sentries that this army is relatively well-trained, and generally in this kind of camp that has not been attacked for decades, the sentries have long been hiding in the corner and sleeping, and they are still more vigilant here.

Zhou Fei gave a few of his subordinates a look, everyone understood, and bypassed from both sides, while Zhou Fei slowly climbed to a foot in front of the east sentry, he jumped up suddenly, threw the sentry to the ground like a leopard, covered the other party's mouth, and used his arms fiercely, 'Click! With a thud, the sentry's neck was twisted.

At the same time, the western sentry was also covered by the Jin army scouts and stabbed in the back of the heart.

After the two patrolmen were killed, the whole barracks was left undefended to them, and the soldiers ran behind the tent, lighting fires as they ran.

Soon, the thirty tents on the south side were the first to burn, and the fire spread very quickly by the wind, and in the blink of an eye, half of the tents were on fire.

The sleeping soldier was awakened by the flames, frightened to the soul, and ran out barefoot, but ran out of the big tent was killed more brutally, the Jin army scouts had been waiting for them for a long time, a cold knife stabbed into the heart, and then kicked him back into the big tent, another soldier just poked his head out, the cold light flashed, the corpse was separated, the head rolled out of the big tent, and the headless corpse was left in the flames.

The continuous screams, the crackling sound of the flames, all the big tents were set on fire, and a thousand soldiers escaped from the big tents, but they were ruthlessly killed by the Jin army scout soldiers, and the Jin army scouts all snatched the spears, and with the spears, they were even more ferocious and murderous.

Captain Liu Bin led 20 scout soldiers to sneak to the Jianmen Pass, the Jianmen Pass is made of bluestone, about two zhang high, and there is a city tower above, which can accommodate 30 to 50 soldiers in the city tower, and there are currently 30 soldiers stationed in the city tower.

Just when the fire was just burning, the soldiers quickly built a human ladder, ten soldiers took the lead in climbing into the tower, throwing down two ropes, and the soldiers behind also pulled the ropes to climb up, and soon, twenty soldiers entered the city, and the soldiers who were still asleep suffered a catastrophe.......

At the third watch, the battle finally ended, 1,000 defenders were completely annihilated, more than 300 people were killed, more than 600 people surrendered, no one escaped, and the defender was also stabbed to death by Zhou Fei in the melee.

The day gradually dawned, the three thousand Jin troops arrived at Jianmen Pass and took over the defense of Jianmen Pass, Zhou Fei led eighty of his men to continue south, and the merchant Wang Feimao was still waiting for them in Jianmen County, at the foot of the mountain, dozens of miles away.

After everyone converged, Zhou Fei and his men continued to pretend to be caravan men and headed for Chengdu, hundreds of miles away.

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