The time was advanced to half a month ago.

The Sword Pavilion is the only passage from Hanzhong to Shuzhou, because the mountains on both sides are steep, like a road split by a sword, and the road is narrow and rugged, so it has naturally become a place where soldiers must fight.

Jianmen Pass is Zhang Xianzhong's first gateway against the imperial court, Zhang Xianzhong has high hopes for this place, so tens of thousands of troops are arranged here and here, hoping to rely on the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain and strong troops of the Sword Pavilion to frustrate Di Qing's army, give them a blow, and then retreat in the face of difficulties.

Before the war, according to the estimation of his advisers and generals, the Sword Gate Pass could hold off the imperial army for at least a month.

Most of the generals of the Great West Kingdom agreed with this estimate, and only one was not very optimistic about it.

This person is Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, and he can be regarded as his number one general Li Dingguo.

Regarding Li Dingguo's worries, Zhang Xianzhongbu disagreed. He thinks that the reason why Li Zicheng lost is because Li Zicheng is in the middle of the four wars, and he thinks that Li Zicheng is not a person with a destiny, so failure is also a matter of course.

But he himself is different, he occupies Shuzhou, which is rich in natural resources and easy to defend and difficult to attack, and is blessed with unique talents, and the overall situation of the imperial court is destined to be empty if it wants to pacify itself like pacifying Li Zicheng.

Zhang Xianzhong's other son and general, Sun Kewang, deeply agreed with Zhang Xianzhong's words.

Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo can be regarded as Zhang Xianzhong's right-hand men, and they were also accepted by Zhang Xianzhong as their righteous sons, so there is naturally competition.

Li Dingguo is calm and decisive, while Sun Kewang is ambitious and scheming. has always liked to find an opportunity to dismantle Li Dingguo's platform, so Zhang Xianzhong, who was stubborn and a little nervous, gradually disliked Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo knew that he was weak, so he could only sigh and stop talking.

The Great Western Army was in full swing at Jianmen Pass, and the ambitious hope was to show their prestige by crushing the imperial army here.

It's a pity that for three days in a row, the imperial army was just stationed outside the pass, set up a good position, and kept on guard, but it definitely did not go to war, and the defenders in the pass were confused, confused, and didn't know what the idea of the official army was.

Di Qing knew that Jianmen Pass was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if he attacked it strongly, he would definitely suffer heavy casualties, so after finding the guide, he personally followed the guide to explore the terrain near Jianmen Pass, and finally found a way to quickly break through Jianmen Pass.

Three days later, the defenders of the Sword Pavilion were a little slack, thinking that the official army would camp like a few days ago, when suddenly the flags in the official army camp were unfurled, the voices of the people were boiling, and the sound of a tsunami was roaring in the mountains, and the defenders were suddenly frightened and ready to fight.

But after a while, calm returned to the camp of the officers and soldiers, and the defenders had a false alarm.

But after only half an hour, the noisy cheers in the official camp sounded again, and the defenders couldn't help but get nervous again.

When there was movement in the camp of the third time, the defenders were a little slack, thinking that the officers and soldiers were going to play tricks again, so they were a little lazy and unwilling to move.

However, to their surprise, the official army sent a team of men and horses to the front of the pass at this time to rush and kill for a while, and then retreated after shooting arrows indiscriminately.

In this way, the officers and soldiers had to make another movement every hour, tossing and turning for a day and a night, so that the defenders were tired and exhausted one by one.

In the second half of the night, the camp was completely quiet, and the defenders fell asleep in panic and worry.

As everyone knows, Di Qing surveyed the surrounding terrain in the past few days, and learned from the guide that there was an extremely secret path, the trail passed through the lofty mountains, no more than three feet wide, its rugged and winding, slippery and difficult to walk, and it was rarely visited on weekdays, and only occasionally some beasts or medicine pickers who were good at climbing would take this road.

At the end of this road is said to be an extremely narrow canyon thirty miles behind the Jianmen Pass, through which Guangyuan City can be reached.

Di Qing originally planned to send elite soldiers to climb up the hills on both sides of Jianmen Pass, and then condescendingly use grenades or explosives packs to attack Jianmen Pass from above, but after surveying the terrain, he abandoned this idea.

The peaks on both sides of Jianmen Pass are extremely steep and steep, and even some soothing places have been bulldozed by the defenders long ago, so there is no possibility of climbing at all.

If you force yourself to climb, you will definitely lose a lot.

But this newfound remote trail gave Di Qing a new idea.

He selected 3,000 elite soldiers from the Wehrmacht who were good at walking and climbing in the mountains, and asked them to travel lightly, carrying three base ammunition each, in addition to the necessary dry food and water bottles, and lurking on the trail to the back of the Sword Gate Pass in the night.

This trail is little known in the first place, and the defenders did not place a guard here. In addition, they were tossed by the official army for a day and a night, and finally had the time to sleep at night, and they all fell into a deep sleep, and they didn't even notice that this partial division of the official army had quietly sneaked behind them.

By the morning of the second day, the officers and troops still had not detected a formal attack, allowing the defenders to sleep well.

The defenders had no idea what the officers were going to do, but the initial tension had begun to slacken, and many people began to gossip and even doze off.

Most of these defenders were local soldiers forcibly recruited by Zhang Xianzhong in Shuzhou, and only those officers and generals were his original descendants.

This combat effectiveness and will to fight can actually be imagined.

"What do you say the officials and soldiers are tossing and turning, if you want to fight, you have to fight happily, what are you doing with these nameless things."

"What do you know about this melon baby, this is called the real is virtual, the virtual is real, the real is virtual, the virtual is real, this is called the art of war, understand?"

"The art of war, if Lao Tzu is a general, he must definitely have a happy fight, this is called a hero!"

When the defenders in Guanzhong were still talking nonsense about the Longmen formation, the official army was burying pots and cooking in the camp.

After the whole army finished eating, Di Qing looked south for a while and said softly, "The time should be almost up." ”

Then he ordered the whole army to storm the Jianmen Pass.

In an instant, with the sound of three cannons and the whine of the horn, a pair of officers and soldiers in gray military uniforms opened out of the barracks, and a huge and neat gray phalanx was formed under the sword gate.

The infantry was in the middle, and the cavalry was guarded on both flanks.

When the artillery unit finally came out, hundreds of cannons were lined up, lined up in neat rows, and the artillerymen began to adjust the angle of the barrel under the command of the officer, and slowly aimed the muzzle of the cannon at the sword gate.

"Fire!" Di Qing gave an order.

Boom Boom!