Although the heat wave was not so violent on the side of the mountain, it was hot weather after all, and the soldiers were sweating. Pang Tong also drank water with a water bag from time to time, and the cicadas in his ears were endless.

"How long will it take to get close to Jiangyang County?" Pang Tong asked impatiently. Zhao Yun beside him rode out, went directly to the front to find the leader and asked for an understanding. After he came back, he said: "Great King, after passing the Luofeng Slope in front, you can walk another forty miles to get close to Jiangyang." ”

Pang Tong's blood faded when he heard it. Luofeng Slope is a trail in history where Pang Tong was ambushed and died.

"No way!" Pang Tong said suddenly, and Zhao Yun was also surprised.

"Why did the king ......?"

"You must not take this road, the whole army stops, and bring me the leader."

"There are several people ......"

"Bring one with you, quick!"

Zhao Yun didn't know what he was thinking, so he had no choice but to take the order. After a while, a local man in an earth-colored short coat came with Zhao Yun on horseback.

"If you don't go down Fengpo, what road can you take?" Pang Tong immediately asked.

The locals wiped the sweat on their cheeks and said in surprise: "This road is a shortcut, if you don't take it, you need to take a lot of unjust roads to get close to Jiangyang." ”

"It's okay, just tell me how to go!" Pang Tong seemed to be very urgent, and he didn't want to mention the three words Luo Fengpo.

"If you don't take this road, you have to take a detour to the northeast, taking the Quqin Road and the Yuanshan Forest Area, which will waste about several days." The locals felt like they were dealing with a strange person, and thought to themselves that if you don't believe me, you're tired.

"Okay, I'm not in a hurry." Pang Tong breathed a sigh of relief. I thought: "Liu is very trapped, and I don't want to be a soldier and a fast soldier, so why take such a terrible road." ”

Then the march began along another route. Half a day later, the spies suddenly reported that Luofeng Slope had signs of the Shu army moving. Pang Tong's heart palpitated. If he hadn't asked about Luo Fengpo and went straight to the end, he would definitely have fallen into Zhuge Liang's ambush plan.

He looked at the sky and said, "I don't know if it's the gods or what is in charge of everything, but I don't want to die in Shu, please." ”

But it is not safe to escape Luofengpo.

Most of the Quqin roads are winding along the trails of the mountain walls. Pang Tongjun is like a long snake winding. Pang Tong, who knew that this road was difficult, was still caught off guard although the march was slow. Stones and tree pillars rolled down the mountain, and Pang Tong's army was stoned to death. Some of the rocks cut off the mountain path. There is a cliff on one side and a cliff on the other, running wildly in front, not daring to move forward behind, and everyone is in danger of being seriously injured by Shi Mu. Some are attached to the wall, but most people are in this position to cover themselves. After a round of offensive, the Shu army also ran out of stones and trees at hand, and Pang Tong's army suffered more than 10,000 casualties. And the enemy soldiers rushed over in front, wanting to give Pang Tongjun a blow to the head. However, due to the narrow mountain road and the brave resistance of the soldiers in front, the Shu army did not make much progress and soon retreated.

The locals who led the way were also frightened into a cold sweat, and their hearts were unbearable. Then the two armies came to a relatively empty place with great difficulty. The soldiers were almost suffocated by the intense fear, exhausted.

Pang Tong ordered the scouts to find their way to a high place to watch. However, the trail is difficult and difficult for non-locals to find a way up the mountain. Everything is slowing down, and it can be seen that the closer you get to Jiangyang County, the more difficult it will become. Defending with such a terrain, Zhuge Liang was able to exert his talent that Pang Tong would be difficult to deal with.

Just when Pang Tong was considering whether to surround this area first and not attack. One night, someone visited. This is an incredible thing for the attacking side in the war zone of Brazil County. With a cautious attitude, Pang Tong summoned the man in.

Dressed in short clothes, as soon as he came in, he said: "Mother, it's so hard to find you." ”

Pang Tongyi trembled, dumbfounded. It was not someone else standing in front of him, but Zhang Ren, who had a friend of life and death before.

"Why are you here?" Pang Tong is like seeing someone who shouldn't be seen.

"Why can't I be here?" Zhang Ren asked rhetorically. "Lao Tzu was born in Brazil County when he was a child."

"I'm in a dilemma, didn't you come here just to see my appearance?"

"That's it. I think you're stupid, so I'll remind you that if you keep going, there may be ambushes and Zhuge Liang's clever calculations everywhere. It's too easy to fortify the strip of County in Brazil. I doubt you'll die before you even see the walls. Zhang Rendao.

"Let's accumulate some virtue, I've finally reached the last county." Pang Tong smiled bitterly. "So, what good news do you have for me?"

"I know a path I don't have to go?" Zhang Renshen chattered.

"No way?"

"It's not a road, to be exact. Hardly anyone will go. It is also possible for only local people who are not afraid of death to go to that dangerous place. At that time, as long as you took that kind of road, you could come by surprise. ”

"Such a difficult road, my entire army must have been unrealistic in the past."

"It's enough to bring a few hundred capable soldiers."

"Are you familiar?" The suspicion of Pang Tong's face also concealed the suspicion of Zhang Ren who suddenly appeared in the night. Although he was Liu Zhang's subordinate before. The possibility that he was bought by Liu Bei cannot be ruled out.

Zhang Ren said casually: "How can you not be familiar? When I was ten years old, I walked that road with the villagers. Someone once picked a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum on the edge of a mountain cliff there! He pointed to Pang Tong. Don't you believe me? That's right, you're a king after all, I'm just a grass people. ”

"Don't be foolish, of course I'll be wary of you." Pang Tong said coldly: "According to what you say, this road is not known by one person, so it shouldn't be some kind of secret way." ”

"It's definitely a dark path within a dark tunnel." Zhang Ren said with great certainty: "No one has taken that road for many years. There was a big snake there that swallowed the people who passed by, and the incident frightened the people nearby to forget about the road. ”

Pang Tong suddenly got up and said, "It's better to hit the day than to choose a day, go, take me there." ”

"Aren't you, I haven't even eaten?"

"What's the matter, this trivial little thing. Bring the wine and meat, and you eat slowly on the way. Pang Tong saw that he still had to speak. That's it, go. ”

Zhang Ren shook his head helplessly, so he had to follow. After Pang Tong instructed Lu Bu and others, he immediately took a hundred elite soldiers to follow Zhang Ren for a mile, and Zhang Ren began to climb the rock, which was obviously impossible to walk, it was too steep, and it was under the moon, so he had to slowly take advantage of the moonlight. Pang Tong was very fast, and after Zhang Ren stood on the flat ground above, he jumped up and landed beside him.

"You're pretty skilled, huh?" Zhang Ren looked at him in surprise.

Pang Tong tied the rope to a stone and threw down the rope so that the soldiers could climb it. The group walked along the mountain walls, some of which were only a foot wide, and below them were black abysses. Everyone focused their whole body on their feet. From time to time, I hear the sound of stones falling on a nearby wall because of kicking them down.

And the road beneath their feet grew wider. In the faint light, everyone sat down to rest, ate some dry food and drank some water.

"How long do you have to go?" Pang Tong asked impatiently.

"There's no way around it." Zhang Ren stood, sweeping the hills and dense forests below with one hand. They are definitely the most dangerous path they have taken.

"How long?"

"Three days is no problem." Zhang Ren spread his hands and said, "Of course, anything that happens is something I can't predict." Don't fall to your death halfway, I'm not responsible. ”

The difficult section of the road that kept the water overflowing and sweating all the time, everyone was thrown around with their clothes and armor, and only the package was carried out.

"Don't go!" Zhang Ren at the front said suddenly. He bowed down. Everyone seemed to feel threatened and did the same.

Pang Tong stepped forward, leaned behind him and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhang Ren pointed to a high place in front of him. I saw that there was smoke rising there, and there must be people living there.

"You're fooling me? Doesn't it mean that no one walks away from this kind of thing? How could anyone live in such a place. Pang Tong had already walked so that his feet were sore, and he kept climbing and touching the mountain wall, so that his hands were blistered and broken, and now a thin and hard cocoon came out.

"What a joke." Zhang Ren said to himself: "Lao Tzu didn't expect anyone to live in such a place. Where would any mountain dweller do such a stupid thing. It's inconvenient to buy something, and it's not at all something ordinary people do to go up and down the mountain in this kind of place. His words made Pang Tong also think of the point. Zhang Ren's voice sank and said, "It can't be an ordinary civilian. ”

"How?" Although Pang Tong was also aware of this, he needed a more accurate explanation.

"I'll find out at night." Zhang Ren's eyes shone with a cold light.

By evening, white smoke had risen from that high place again, and it was clear that someone was cooking again. After the sky became one of darkness, the fire flashed there for half an hour before it was extinguished. At the time of the third watch, this group of people who had been resting began to move forward under the leadership of Zhang Ren. They were shadows in the night, silent, cautiously climbing to the heights. And Zhang Ren took the lead and reached the highest place where the relatively flat was shared. Everyone is on standby. After a while, Zhang Ren came back, and he approached Pang Tong and said, "His mother's Zhuge Liang is really a freak." The Shu army actually fortified here, the road was blocked by a wooden pillar one zhang high, and there were more than a dozen camp tents inside, and there should be dozens of people here. On the one hand, they are defensive, and on the other hand, they should be for the convenience of reporting. We absolutely need to keep them all under control when no one can escape. As long as one person leaks the news, our hard work will be in vain. ”