Chapter 13 The Poor and the Poor

Even the peak goes to the sky without a foot, the dry pine hangs upside down against the cliff, a husband is a hero, and ten thousand people can not open! It is not an exaggeration to use this sentence to describe the Jia Meng Pass that Kang Peng is about to face.

Forced landing in Hanzhong Zhang Lu, Dong Zhuojun in Hanzhong for a short rest, waiting for Sun Ce to escort the supply of grain, grass and ordnance sufficient, especially the serious loss of special foot bow and long arrows, and wait for Ma Chao to conquer Shangyong to return to the division, Kang Peng stayed with Dong Boss Zhao Cen to guard Hanzhong, ordered Wu Ban to guard Shangyong in case of Liu Biao, after everything was ready, Kang Peng personally led the army to travel, marched to Jiameng Pass, to take the Jiameng Pass that once belonged to him.

Although he has already heard Chen Gong and others describe the steep road of Jiameng Pass, Dong Zhuojun has been psychologically prepared, but when he really stepped on the Shu Road, Dong Zhuojun, who was accustomed to walking on the plain, still suffered enough on the rugged and abrupt Shu Road, and the infantry army was better, and he could walk on the bumpy and rugged road and slowly trek one foot deep and one foot shallow, while the Xiliang Iron Horse without land in the plain was miserable, and the high-headed and long-legged northwest horse could not eat at all on the potholed Shu Road. The cavalry often slipped with people and horses, and there were a few unlucky ghosts who fell off the cliff, and lost their lives before they were paid, and they had to get off the horse and walk, and the heavy catapult could not move forward at all, so they had to be disassembled into sub-zero parts and carried forward by the soldiers.

"Master, be careful!" Kang Peng's pro-soldier captain almost slipped when he saw that Kang Peng, who was also forced to dismount and walk, and hurriedly grabbed Kang Peng's belt, so as to avoid Kang Peng's fate of becoming a clay man. ”

Kang Peng wiped the oil and sweat off his fat face, looked at the soldiers who were carrying ordnance and materials and were struggling to move forward, all of them were not easy, but he still shook his head and said: "Brothers, it is also difficult, let's go by yourself." ”

Jia Xu, who was weak, also slipped over step by step, "Taishi, the villain watches the sky at night, it is estimated that this rainy weather will last for half a month, and our road is still difficult to walk." Jia Xu paused and said: "According to the villain's observation, and asked the public station to verify, although this mountain road was originally very rugged, it was not as serious as it is now, and now it should be deliberately sabotaged, the purpose is to take advantage of the terrain to frustrate the spirit of our army, and its heart is vicious!" ”

Kang Peng nodded, thought for a while, and raised his head and said: "The athletes of the Xiliang Army, you are the pride of the plains, the overlord of the grassland, in the face of the mountains and rivers of Shudao, do you want to be a turtle?" ”

"I don't want to!" Hearing Kang Peng's words, Dong Zhuojun's soldiers, who had been tortured by this rugged mountain road, raised their heads and shouted in agreement.

"Okay, then cheer up, our Xiliang Army is not only the pride of the plains, the overlord of the grassland, but also the goshawk on the high mountains!" After that, Kang Peng resisted a bag of grain, stepped away from the fat legs with the thickness of ordinary people's waists, strode forward, and while walking, he also pulled open the broken gong and sang: "Majestic, high-spirited, stride into Qinlingjiang, fight Liu Yan, and destroy the thieves, it is for the hometown ......."

Inspired by Kang Peng's plagiarism and tampering with the songs of later generations, the dejected Dong Zhuojun raised his head, his sloppy gaze was resolute again, and his steps became much brisker.

Kang Peng used his singing voice to boost morale, and his advisers all admired it, but his latest concubine Wen Lu sneered, and cursed her husband in her heart: "Old thief, you wait for the whole army to be wiped out!" That night, after Kang Peng coerced Wen Lu to dedicate himself to him, he kept the agreement and let Zhang Chunhua and Zhang Lu's family go to Chang'an under house arrest, and treated Wen Lu with all kinds of warmth and consideration, and wanted Wen Lu to submit to him physically and mentally, but Wen Lu still ignored him, even if Kang Peng forced her to go to bed, she didn't scream or shout, just silently wept, let Kang Peng ravage without saying a word, and just wanted to find an opportunity to avenge his father's death.

Although Dong Zhuojun's morale has rebounded a lot, when the army arrived in front of Jiameng Pass, Dong Zhuojun's soldiers were all stunned and shaken. At this moment, the long and narrow open space in front of Jiameng Pass that could have been camped has been full of horse traps and rocks, as well as criss-crossing ditches, and the ditches are densely filled with bamboo thorns, which are daunting, and they can neither deploy troops nor set up camp.

What makes Kang Peng stammered the most is the wall of Jiameng Pass, when Chen Gong deployed to defend Jiameng Pass, he once raised the wall, so that the wall of the original only five zhang high increased to six zhang, and now the wall of Jiameng Pass, at least nine zhang high, is all built of large bluestone, and it is also densely covered with arrow stacks and arrow holes, and countless sharp antlers poke out of the wall, which not only makes the ladder unable to climb to the wall, but also makes Kang Peng's siege killer attack stone vehicle ineffective - the shooting height is not enough, only the foot bow can barely pose a threat to the defenders.

Kang Peng was dazzled by the overlapping fortifications and defensive methods, and Kang Peng couldn't help but exclaim: "It's only been a few days since Jia Long recaptured Jiameng Pass, how did he build so many fortifications?" ”

Kang Peng knew that Jia Long had a very good reputation among the people of Yizhou, and this time Jia Long was fighting to defend the people of Yizhou. As early as the day of the recapture of Jiameng Pass, Jia Long began to arrange fortifications, ostensibly sending troops to rescue Hanzhong, but in fact to buy time for the construction of fortifications, and the people of nearby Sichuan also did their best to support the soldiers, those who have money to pay, powerful contributions, those bluestones needed to raise the wall are mined by the people from the mountains, removed from their own courtyard walls and houses and sent to Jiameng Pass, and the timber and green bamboo are harvested countless and sent to Jiameng Pass to pile up into a mountain. The criss-crossing ditches are dug out one by one by the people with simple tools and the Yizhou army at the fastest speed, and at this moment on the mountain road leading from Guangyuan to Jiameng Pass, there are countless people in Sichuan transporting food and ordnance back and forth, like a huge human dragon, coming and going.

Looking at the crystallization of the perseverance of the Yizhou army and civilians, Kang Peng, who didn't have much military experience, was dumbfounded, and asked Jia Xu for help: "The enemy is like this, the military division, our army has no place to even camp, what should I do now?" ”

Jia Xu was also helpless against these complicated fortifications, and after thinking hard, he admonished: "Taishi, in the current situation, our army can not camp here, five miles away from here, there is a vacant land with a gentle slope, and the water source is also more convenient, so you can go there to camp; As for ditches and horse pits, we can only wait for the sergeants to pick up the soil and fill it up, and then attack Jiameng Pass not too late. ”

Kang Peng was a little unwilling to retreat without fighting, but looking at the land in front of the pass that seemed to have been ravaged by giant gods and murderous machines, he was still reluctant to let the soldiers go up to die, and ordered in frustration: "Retreat five miles to the village." ”

"Hooray!" Seeing that Dong Zhuojun, who was arrogant and domineering in Hanzhong, was forced to withdraw his troops without further or an arrow, Jia Meng closed the cheers and thunder, and the gongs and drums shook the sky to celebrate Dong Zhuojun's escape without a fight, but Dong Zhuojun was demoralized and retreated with his tail between his legs, Kang Peng gritted his teeth and felt that his face was gloomy.

"Old thief, don't you boast that you are invincible?" Wen Lu refused to let go of this opportunity to fight the enemy who killed his father and forced his mother to rape himself, and took the initiative to sneer at Kang Peng for the first time from that night: "Why did you escape with your tail between your legs? Don't dare to face my comrades? ”

Kang Peng was so ashamed that he didn't dare to look at Wen Lu's delicate face, and muttered: "What do women know about military affairs?" The prime minister temporarily retreated five miles today in order to advance thousands of miles in the future. The words that were not right provoked Wen Lu to sneer again, and his contempt for Kang Peng increased a little more.

After a night of fire in the nest five miles away, Kang Peng was so angry that he didn't even have the mind to go to Wenlu, and as soon as the sky was bright, Kang Peng sent soldiers to carry soil and pick stones, asking them to fill in the fortifications of Jiameng Pass within one day. But in less than two hours, many soldiers sent out cried and called their mothers back, it turned out that after Dong Zhuojun evacuated last night, the Yizhou army quietly went out of the pass, and put a large number of poisonous snakes and insects collected by the people in Sichuan in front of the pass, Dong Zhuojun's soldiers were mostly used to staying on the prairie, and they were not familiar with the nature of snakes and insects, many soldiers were bitten and bitten to death by poisonous snakes when filling ditches and sorting out the rocks, and many soldiers stepped on the trap and were stabbed to death by wooden thorns in the trap, and even the commander of Yizhou did not see what he looked like, Dong Zhuojun sacrificed hundreds of soldiers, The fortifications and traps have not been cleared even a third, and the morale has been greatly damaged.

In Wen Lu's sneer, Kang Peng's fat face couldn't hold back, he was furious, and scolded: "Old Jia Long, dare to be like this? I swear to kill you! In front of Dong Zhuojun's civil and military forces, Wen Lu immediately sneered at each other: "General Jia is brave and good at fighting, and his wit is unparalleled, what ability do you have to kill him?" ”

Although it is a big crime to disturb the morale of the army and contradict the commander, Kang Peng is willing to kill Wen Lu, and at the moment Kang Peng's fat face turned to the side, "Send her back to the account first, and then clean her up after the prime minister finishes her business, and she will not be allowed to enter the big account in the future." ”

After the soldiers escorted the sneering Wen Lu down, Kang Peng tried to calm himself down, and then asked: "Gentlemen, Jia Long stopped our army with poisonous snakes and worms, and there are many dead and wounded soldiers in our army, how to deal with it?" ”

Jia Xu Fazheng and the others were also dumbfounded, they only knew how to march and strategize, but they had never studied how to drive away many poisonous snakes, Dong Zhuojun Wenwu was staring at Hua Tuo, who did not need to enter the account, hurried over, "Taishi, most of our soldiers were bitten by poisonous insects, Xiaohou suggested that the soldiers should be sprinkled with realgar sulfur and other things, which will definitely drive away snakes and insects." ”

Kang Peng was overjoyed and hurriedly obeyed his orders. But the soldiers didn't go long and came back in a hurry, it turned out that Jia Long had expected Dong Zhuojun to do this, and there were many rockets on the Jiameng Pass, but after Dong Zhuojun's soldiers sprinkled sulfur and realgar and other insects all over the place, Jia Meng put down a burst of rockets when he closed the door, ignited the sulfur, and then ignited the thatch and dead wood that had been laid on the ground, and burned many Dong Zhuojun soldiers.

Kang Peng almost fainted, and personally led the army to fill in those fortifications, replacing the previous batch of soldiers with heavy casualties, this time Jia Meng did not play any tricks on the pass, but this came and went, and the time was delayed a lot, even if Kang Peng personally supervised the army, the complicated fortifications in front of the pass could not be filled in one day. The next day, when Dong Zhuojun's hard work was about to be completed, Zhang Ren suddenly led the army out to kill for a while, killing many Dong Zhuojun sappers and then retreating to Jiameng Pass.

On the third day, Kang Peng, who was holding back his belly, personally followed the army to the front of the pass to drown, and asked Jia Long to come out and fight him to the death, but Jia Long just couldn't hold on, and let Kang Peng jump around and scold him like a god under the pass, but once Dong Zhuojun approached the wall, Jia Long immediately greeted him with a raindrop-like bow and arrow, forcing Dong Zhuojun to not get close at all.

Kang Peng was furious, ordered the catapult to throw boulders close to the wall, trying to force the defenders of Jiameng Pass to go out of the pass to engage the battle, but the wall of Jiameng Pass was not better than the city wall of the city that Kang Peng had attacked before, Jia Long had already estimated the range and height of the catapult according to the siege method of Dong Zhuojun reported by the people, and increased the height and reinforcement of the wall, and the big stones thrown by the catapult could not be thrown on the wall at all, and could only be smashed on the reinforced wall, and only a small number of small stones could be thrown on the wall, but under the cover of the long shield of the Yizhou army, these small stones could not pose a threat to the defenders of the gate at all.

Kang Peng saw that the catapult was ineffective, and sent his foot to open his bow to the field, and poured a rain of arrows on the Jiameng Gate, not wanting to close the door and suddenly erect countless thick trees, just like holding up a huge umbrella on the Jiameng Wall, the foot Zhang Bow and Feather Arrows that barely shot on the wall could not penetrate these half-foot-thick giant trees at all, and Dong Zhuojun's second magic weapon for attacking the city was declared useless.

As soon as he thought of going back and being ridiculed by Wen Lu, Kang Peng was furious, regardless of the fact that the ladder in his hand was only eight zhang high, and he wanted to forcibly attack the city.

Two days later, Dong Zhuojun built dozens of PTZ, Kang Peng and high-spirited personally led the army to attack Jiameng Pass, I don't want Jia Long to have prepared a large number of butter water-soaked rockets, Dong Zhuojun worked hard to build the PTZ just entered the range, Jiameng Pass rockets were fired, burning Dong Zhuojun's magic weapon in one fell swoop, burning to death many Dong Zhuojun soldiers, Dong Zhuojun soldiers who had already attacked the pass saw that there was no hope of breaking through, and the gate was like rain of arrows, so they had to withdraw to the camp, and Dong Zhuojun's siege failed again.

That night, Kang Peng, who was so angry that the three corpses jumped straight up, forced the strategists to come up with a way to build a siege vehicle to crash into the city! This time, Kang Peng learned to be obedient, the siege vehicles were all made in the barracks, so that the people of Yizhou in the past could not see it, Dong Zhuojun's secrecy skills were not bad, and more than 40 siege vehicles were built in three days, but the Yizhou army was ignorant.

In the early morning of the second day when the siege vehicle was ready, Dong Zhuojun's army set out, shouted and marched in, covering the siege vehicle to attack the wall, but Jia Long's power was far beyond the imagination of the bad students, Jia Meng just saw that this time it was a siege vehicle, Jia Long ordered the soldiers to dig stones through the eyes, use ropes to pierce the flying stones, and fly back and forth to hit the siege vehicles, less than half an hour, more than 40 siege vehicles were lost, and many soldiers were also compensated for their precious lives.

Kang Peng was so angry that he didn't have the strength to scold, but he said hatefully: "Old Jia Long, if you fall into the hands of Benxiang, Benxiang will definitely make you regret giving birth." ”

Scolding and scolding, if you don't break the Jiameng Pass, Jia Long who is close in front of him still can't catch it, Kang Peng pondered for a long time, and came up with an idea to attack the city - let the soldiers dig tunnels to enter the pass, although Jia Xu and others thought that there were many stones in the ground in Shuzhong, and it was difficult for the sergeants to dig them, so they repeatedly dissuaded him, but Kang Peng's copper bell glared, "Jia Long could dig one back then, can't the invincible Xiliang Army in the world?" He stopped listening to persuasion and went on his own way. But after more than ten days of hard work, when Dong Zhuojun's soldiers dug to the pass with great difficulty, they found that Jia Long had already dug a trench in Guanzhong, not only the tunnel mouth was exposed, but also many soldiers were killed by the turtle in the urn of the Yizhou army. The two armies were in a stalemate for more than 20 days, Dong Zhuojun not only had no way to take Jiameng Pass, but also lost nearly 4,000 soldiers, Jiameng Pass was still standing still, and Kang Peng was so angry that his blood pressure increased countless times.

On this day, it was drizzling in the sky again, Kang Peng saw that Jia Mengguan could not be conquered for a long time, and he was angry and had no intention of fighting, so he let the army rest for a day, but he ran to the back tent to vent Wenlu, wanting to find back the majesty of a man on her delicate body. After going crazy, Kang Peng lay beside Wen Lu like a fat pig panting, but Wen Lu endured the pain and sneered: "Old thief, has your Jia Meng Pass been defeated?" ”

Kang Peng gasped and said: "Don't be too happy, in the eyes of the Prime Minister, breaking through the Jia Meng Pass is just a gesture, but the Prime Minister is merciful and unwilling to use this trick." ”

Wen Lu sneered and said disdainfully: "You will also have compassion? Unless dogs don't eat! Wen Lu thought about it and sneered: "Compassionate Master Dong, you can tell me about your method of breaking the level, let me see if you are bragging?" ”

Kang Peng gently rubbed Wen Lu's firm and tender **, and said with a lewd smile: "You don't believe it? Then let's make a bet, if you prove that you are not bragging, then you will take the initiative to serve this appearance once; If it turns out that the true image is bragging, then the original image will immediately let you go and let you out of the sea of suffering. ”

Wen Lu glanced at Kang Peng's ugly fat face, and said that the old thief is so sure? But Wen Lu thought about it, if the old thief was really sure to break the level, he would have used it a long time ago, so would he still not use it? Wen Lu sneered: "Okay, just bet, if the method you said to break the level really works, not to mention taking the initiative to serve you once, ten times." ”

"Do you know about abductions?" Kang Peng's voice suddenly became extremely cold.

Wen Lu nodded, "I know, it is a very serious disease, it will make people have a high fever and pain all over the body, and then most of the people who get sick will die, even if they are lucky enough not to die, they will leave pockmarks on their faces, also known as smallpox." Wen Lu looked at the roof of the tent and said quietly: "Smallpox is very contagious, basically there is no cure, someone in that village in Jingzhou has smallpox, and all the people in that village have to be burned to death." ”

"So you're from Jingzhou?" Kang Pengxin said that I am really good enough, and only now did I know where my wife's hometown was. Kang Peng said coldly: "Although smallpox is powerful, I know that there is a way to cure smallpox, and that method is called pox." ”

"So what?" Wen Lu was curious: "What does it have to do with breaking the level?" ”

Kang Peng hugged Wen Lu tightly into his arms, and whether she wanted to or not, he whispered in her ear: "Five days ago, Wen Huahou reported to Ben Xiang that smallpox was found in a village around Baocheng in Hanzhong, and Ben Xiang had already sent a military doctor to inoculate the people in that village. But Benxiang not only knows how to cure smallpox, but also knows how to infect smallpox. ”

Wen Lu opened his mouth wide, couldn't close it for a long time, stared at Kang Peng's ugly face as if he didn't know Kang Peng, Kang Peng said lightly: "There are not only enemies in Jiameng Pass, but also countless innocent people who are in contact with them. ”

Wen Lu was silent, and all kinds of feelings came to her heart, but Kang Peng was asking her for a bet, "Beauty, did you win?" Why don't you serve the marquis obediently? Kang Peng said as his fat hand began to move on Wen Lu's tender and fragrant body again.

Wen Lu's face was flushed, and he didn't resist, but he was still unconvinced: "Liar, smallpox is so bad, can your pox be cured?" Besides, how can you artificially spread smallpox and brag without paying taxes? ”

Kang Peng's fat hand swam even more on Wen Lu's body, and said with a lewd smile: "What's the use of lying to you?" Benxiang does not want to use smallpox to mutilate his compatriots, but he will not be soft-hearted when he uses smallpox, and he has sent someone to collect the clothes and sheets used by smallpox patients, and is ready to give a generous gift to our two hated neighbors in the north, the Xiongnu and Karasuma, and when the time comes, you will know how powerful Benxiang is. ”

When Kang Peng advanced into Wen Lu's body, the voice of the soldiers suddenly came from outside, "Tell the Taishi, Wen Hou Feige passed the book and sent the battle report." ”

Kang Peng jumped up, Lu Bu and Zhang Xiu's troops had no news, Kang Peng had been anxious, and ran quickly behind the tent curtain with his bare buttocks, and stretched out his fat hand outside the tent, "Bring it." Kang Peng's anxious appearance made Wen Lu feel relieved, "Congratulations, your godson must have suffered a defeat and came to ask you for help." ”

"Crow's beak!" Kang Peng scolded secretly, but after reading Lu Bu's battle report, Kang Peng immediately jumped three feet high, rushed to the bed, hugged Wen Lu and kissed him wildly, "Beauty, this time you don't have to do it, Jia Meng Pass is about to be broken, and your godson is really angry with Ben Xiang!" ”

For more information on what happened next, see the next chapter.