The seventy-two peaks of Dajian Mountain, stretching for hundreds of miles, have formed a mountain pass with a height of more than 150 meters, a length of more than 500 meters, a width of more than 100 meters at the top, and a width of more than 50 meters at the bottom. The east peak of the pass is Yingpanzui, and the west peak is Mt. Jincheng. This mountain pass is called Jianmen.

Jianmen Pass is on the narrow valley pass between Yingpanzui and Jincheng Mountain cliffs.

Looking up from the pass, the mountain peaks can be faintly seen in the night like a sword, the two cliffs and stone walls are like knives and axes, relatively like a door, it is really "two cliffs face each other to serve Xiao Han, raise your head and only see a line of sky", "the rocks back to hug Shu Tiandusk, double swords for the peak group of a door".

Jianmen Guanlou, three floors high, stands in the middle of the cliff, looks majestic and magnificent. From Shaanxi to Sichuan or out of Sichuan into Shaanxi, you must pass through the door hole under the gate. Guarding this pass is equivalent to guarding the Sichuan-Shaanxi portal. Therefore, the defense was very tight, and a row of torches on the upper floor illuminated the surroundings, and the sentries stared and watched vigilantly at the Sword Pavilion Road outside the gate.

Hu Zongnan, who ascended the Jianmen Pass, was full of pride, and recited Li Bai's "Shu Dao Difficulty" in his unique Zhejiang dialect:

Wow! The stakes are high! The difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky!

Silkworms and fish, how dazed is the founding of the country!

He is 48,000 years old, and he is not populated with Qinsai.

Xidang Taibai has a bird road, which can cross the Emei upside down.

The earth collapsed and the mountain destroyed the strong man to death, and then the ladder stone stacks were hooked together.

There are six dragons back to the high standard, and there is a wave back to the river.

The flight of the yellow crane is not yet passable, and the ape wants to spend his sorrow and climb.

The green mud is a panpan, and a hundred steps and nine folds linger on the rocks.

He sat on his back and sighed with his hands.

Q: When will you return to the West? The road is daunting and the rock is unclimbable.

But when I saw the ancient trees of the Sad Bird, the male and the female flew around the forest.

I also heard Zigui crying the night moon, and I was sad about the empty mountain.

The difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky, so that people listen to this withered face!

Even the peaks go to the sky and do not exceed the feet, and the dead pines hang upside down against the cliffs.

The flying turbulent waterfall is noisy, and the cliff turns to the stone and thunder.

The same is true of its dangers, and people from afar come to it in vain.

The Sword Pavilion is majestic and Cui Wei, one husband is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open.

Guards or bandits, turned into wolves and jackals.

Avoid tigers in the morning, avoid long snakes at night, grind their teeth and suck blood, and kill people like hemp.

Although Jincheng is cloudy, it is better to return home early.

The difficulty of the Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky, and the side looks west and sighs.

After chanting, Hu Zongnan laughed and waved his hand to Deputy Division Commander Peng Qibiao and Chief of Staff Hu Shouqian: "Let's go, it's time to go to Mianyang!" ”

Surrounded by guards with torches, the group walked out of the inner gate building of Jianmen Pass, got on their horses and rushed down the mountain.

After Hu Zong's southern part passed through the Jianmen Pass, the commander of the Sichuan army battalion defending the Jianmen Pass told the soldiers to pay attention to the vigilance and went to sleep.

Since Zhuge Liang set up a garrison at this sword gate, all dynasties have soldiers and horses to guard it. After Deng Xihou occupied this area, he hoarded ammunition and food at the gate and sent a battalion to garrison it. It also stationed a company in Jianmen Field and Hanyang Town under the pass to defend, and stationed four regiments of troops in Jiange County and Jialing River, which can rush to the aid of Jianmen Pass at any time.

In the dangerous situation of Jianmen Pass and ten thousand people not to open, under normal circumstances, it is basically impossible to capture Xiongguan from outside Jianmen Pass. In Deng Xihou's mind, who wants to capture the Sword Gate Pass, unless he puts on his wings.

Unfortunately, this is not an ordinary situation, and the Red Army is not an ordinary team attacking Jianmen Pass.

Li Lingfeng and Wang Dahu had been hiding in the jungle on the southern slope of Jianmen Pass with their team for two days, and finally looked forward to Hu Zongnan's third echelon passing through Jianmen Pass.

Li Lingfeng made a gesture, and the three squadrons of Wang Laohu, Zhao Yonggang, and Zhao Zhiyu began to act. Wang Laohu's squadron led a battalion and a company to attack and occupy the camp of Panzui, Zhao Yonggang's squadron led a battalion and two companies to attack and occupy Jincheng Mountain, and Zhao Zhiyu's squadron led a battalion and three companies to attack and occupy Guanlou.

Dajian Mountain is dark and swarthy at night.

Tonight, the squad leader of the Sichuan army who is in charge of the southern guard of the Jianmen Pass Building is called Li Gaicheng.

The reason why it is called this name is because Li changed to his mother gave birth to 7 daughters in a row, and his son was about to go crazy, and he used the names of Zhao Di, Lai, Pandi, Wangdi, Change, Change, and Change on the female babies, and finally changed it to "change to", so he called him "Change".

To the surprise of the parents, this Li was indeed changed to a boy, but the family's hard-working spleen surname was also changed. may be the result of doting since childhood, this guy began to do nonsense as soon as he grew up, gambling, prostitution, smoking, what to do. soon lost a piece of the family business, and finally had to sell himself and become a strong man.

After the battalion commander went to sleep, Li Gaicheng felt that he was undertaking the task of standing guard in the south of Guanlou, facing the direction of Jiange County. Not to mention that there are garrisons all the way there, the troops of the First Division that have just passed have also eliminated all possible accidents. Standing at this post at this time is purely a matter of taking off your pants and farting.

Li changed his way to let the two brothers guard the building, taking turns to change the guard, and he often entered the building when he raised his feet.

A Sichuan soldier was reluctant and muttered: "Damn, bully!" ”

Li changed this sentence to hear it, turned around and walked over, and kicked at the soldier: "Turtle son, what are you talking about?" ”

The soldier was not afraid of him, and opened his eyes and said, "Why do you always let me stand guard?" I've been standing for a day, do you know? ”

Li changed it to go up and kicked it again: "You want to rebel, don't you?" Why do you say you keep standing guard? Everyone else makes tobacco and ocean for Lao Tzu, and your turtle son has nothing, so who will stand guard if you don't let you stand guard? ”

The more Li Changcheng scolded, the more energetic he became, using his hands and feet together, crackling, and beating the soldier to the ground.

Seeing the soldier covering his head and squatting on the ground without saying a word, Li Gaicheng became more and more annoyed, scolded in his mouth, grabbed the rifle on the ground, picked up the butt of the gun and hit the soldier's head.

The soldier was bleeding from his head and lay limply on the ground, seeing that he was not alive.

The soldier next to him ran into the building with a "mom" sound, shouting as he ran: "Killed, squad leader Li killed someone!" ”

Several soldiers rushed over and looked around the dead soldiers.

Li Gaicheng glared and shouted, "What do you see? Dead is dead ball, what's so good-looking? That turtle son dares to talk nonsense, you have all seen the fate of this bastard, don't blame Lao Tzu for turning his face and not recognizing people. ”

Seeing where a few soldiers stood cowering and didn't dare to speak, Li Gaicheng shouted: "Stand up for Lao Tzu, line up in a row, and be spiritual!" Look at your cowardice, sooner or later, you will also be shot goods! ”

After a few soldiers stood up, Li Gaicheng looked around for a while, and when he was satisfied, he said: "Leave a few people to stand guard in a while, and go to two people to throw this dead ghost on the hillside on the other side of the gate, and add some feed to the lynx and wild dogs." ”

Seeing that several soldiers answered loudly, Li Gaicheng was satisfied, took out a paper cigarette, lit it, took a puff, raised his head to look at the gloomy sky, scolded "Thief God, there is not even a moonlight", and prepared to go back to sleep in the building. Before leaving, Li Gaicheng casually glanced downstairs, and this look surprised him! Mom, there seems to be someone downstairs. Just as he was about to open his mouth to shout, he heard a whoosh, and a small arrow was stuck in his throat.

Several soldiers standing on the tower saw the squad leader fall backwards, and they all felt strange, they were still beating people just now, why did they die all of a sudden, does God really have eyes? Just as he was hesitating whether to take a look, a few small arrows flew in, and several soldiers stared at the ground with frightened eyes.

Seeing that the sentry on the Guan Lou was finished, Zhao Zhiyu raised his hand, and with a "grab" sound, the small iron claw was firmly buckled on the railing of the Guan Lou, and he used a light body technique, and a few ups and downs turned over the Guan Lou.

The fighters of the 3rd Special Operations Squadron and the 1st Battalion and 3rd Company poured up the stairs to the gatehouse. The sentry standing guard in front of the gate tower didn't have time to snort before it was resolved. The Sichuan army, who was sleeping in the gatehouse, never dreamed that he would become a prisoner without hearing a single gunshot.

Yingpanzui is the main position of guarding the sword gate pass since ancient times.

Starting from Jiang Wei of the Three Kingdoms, the camp is a natural camp guarded by soldiers. The top of the hill is relatively open, overgrown with thorny shrubs, which is convenient for sheltering fortifications. It is adjacent to the Jianmen cliff in the north, the Jianmen Pass in the west, the Houguan Pass in the east, the danger on three sides, only the slope in the south is gradually gentle, it is connected with the Jianmen field, and the large army can be stationed.

After Wang Laohu, the captain of the No. 1 Special Operations Squadron, led the soldiers to the camp to touch the mouth, he happened to encounter the enemy company commander checking the fortifications. The fighters got out of the bushes and pounced with bayonets. I only heard a popping sound, and all the enemies in the fortifications went to my grandmother's house.

After Wang Laohu captured the enemy company commander, he just made a small cut in the hand of the enemy company commander with a dagger, and the guy obediently took him to touch the enemy's battalion headquarters.

Wang Laohu is good at everything, but not good at all, and regards killing people as an artistic pursuit. Ever since his family was killed by [***], this guy wanted to kill [***] when he saw him, regardless of whether he was an official or a soldier. Especially after meeting Liu Yimin, he got guidance, and his martial arts have been greatly improved, and he has perfected the special warfare techniques taught by Liu Yimin.

When he arrived at the enemy camp headquarters, the sentry standing guard just shouted a password, Wang Laohu came to him as soon as he staggered, stretched out a thin steel wire in his hands, wrapped it around the sentry's neck, and dragged him to the ground, seeing the enemy company commander who followed him stunned, God, there is this kind of killing method!

After the enemy battalion commander was arrested, under the coercion of Wang Laohu, he made it clear what he knew about the deployment of troops near Jianmen Pass. After the explanation, the enemy battalion commander was still trembling, for fear that this killing god would give him a human body dissection.

The Jinchengshan garrison was also a company, and at this time, except for those who stood guard, the other soldiers fell asleep in the fortifications. When Zhao Zhiyu led the troops up, all the sentries looked at the front of the Sword Gate, and no one paid attention to the back. Zhao Zhiyu shot with a flying knife, and the knife was fatal. After quickly disposing of the sentries, the troops dispersed and took prisoners in the fortifications. After the careful Zhao Zhiyu caught the prisoners, he counted the number of prisoners, and only after it was accurate did he send a signal to report.

After receiving the telegram that the special detachment was attacking and occupying Jianmen Pass, Liu Yimin immediately ordered Li Lingfeng and Wang Dahu to arrange defenses on the spot, preparing to deal with the reinforcements from the direction of Guangyuan and Hu Zongnan's rearguard troops in case of retreat to Jianmen Pass.

Calculating the time, the enemy is coming, Liu Yimin thought about it, felt as if he had missed something, and felt uneasy in his heart.

Luo Ronghuan reminded on the side: "Commander, I heard that your deployment is all done around the avenue, what if the enemy soldiers advance in several ways?" Or what about the enemy sending troops to search to the left and right? ”

Liu Yimin suddenly realized that the problem he had missed was here. During the Battle of Xiaoshui, it was a road, the width of the canyon was less than 100 meters, and it was too arrogant after the victory of the Xiangjiang River of the Hunan army, so he gave himself a chance. During the battle of Qingxi Town, there was the Wuyang River on one side and the mountains on the other, and the enemy also sent a search force. Of course, the scale of their search force was too small, and they were easily killed by Li Lingfeng and others. Hu Zong's 1st and 2nd Brigades in the south were all Huangpu students from the mid-lieutenant to the brigade commander, and the march of their enrollment was probably mainly about multi-channel search, two-wing cover, echelon configuration, and echoing before and after. In the canyon from Jianmen Pass to Cuiyun Corridor, due to the terrain constraints and the fact that it is night, the search force may not be sent in a hurry. However, as soon as they arrived at the Cuiyun Corridor, the terrain gradually opened up, and I am afraid that these Huangpu students, who had suffered losses under the Fourth Front Army, would immediately send search troops to the two wings. This is the instinct of a soldier and does not need to be ordered by a senior commander.

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin urgently ordered the 11th Division, 12th Division, 13th Division, Engineer Regiment, and Baggage Regiment to take Shu Road as the base point and move their positions back 600 meters, but the high ground must conceal the troops, and the idea is to avoid the enemy's search force. In particular, in the 11th Division, Liu Yimin specially gave an explanation to the plateau, observed whether the enemy had search troops, and reported in a timely manner.

After the arrangement, considering that Hanyang Town might become the focus of contention, Liu Yimin asked Luo Ronghuan to bring Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di to immediately rush to the plateau of the 11th Division to assist in commanding. He Xinghua took two radio stations with him and stayed in Hanyang Town.

After Luo Ronghuan heard this, he didn't speak or act, and sat there silently.

Liu Yimin said patiently: "Political commissar, it's about to start, you go to the plateau and help him master the troops, please act quickly!" ”

Luo Ronghuan said at this time: "Commander, aren't you just afraid that the guards of Hanyang Town are weak, and I am in danger here?" Thank you for thinking for me and letting me go to the 11th Division, the first main force of the Seventh Army, to receive protection. However, I will not go, where is the corps headquarters, where is the commissar's position. You have no right to command me. ”

Liu Yimin looked at Luo Ronghuan, thinking that he was concerned about chaos and underestimated the marshal of the republic in history. Luo Ronghuan, who can lead the troops to rush out in the cracks of the heavy encirclement of the army, is he a person who is afraid of war and danger?

He smiled and said, "Okay, the two of us are here to command side by side and resolutely eliminate Hu Zongnan!" ”

At 11:50 p.m., Luo Yan reported that a brigade of the enemy's first echelon had approached the Cuiyun Corridor, and the enemy's second echelon was about 2,000 meters behind the first echelon, and the third echelon had not yet been found. Liu Yimin immediately ordered all troops along the road to make combat preparations.

At 12:10, the plateau reported that the enemy's first echelon had entered his defense zone. At the Cuiyun Corridor, the enemy began to send search units of one battalion each on each side, with a distance of about 50 meters from the main force.

Liu Yimin silently calculated, this is because of the terrain restrictions of the Cuiyun Corridor, when you arrive at Hanyang Town, it is estimated that the distance will be expanded to 100 meters, and after Hanyang Town, it should be able to expand to 300 meters. He ordered Chen Zixu, an operational staff officer, to immediately report the situation to all units, calculated based on the enemy's search distance of 300 meters.

At 12:50, Gao Yuan reported that the enemy's first echelon had all passed through his defense area and rushed to Hanyang Town. Luo Yan reported that the third echelon of the enemy was found, 2,000 meters away from the second echelon.

Now that the situation is clear, the combat missions of the various units can be further clarified. Liu Yimin immediately issued a further operational order, using the 13th Division to encircle and annihilate the enemy's first echelon, the 12th Division with the heavy firepower of the corps and the infantry battalion of the artillery regiment to encircle and annihilate the enemy's second-echelon heavy army group, and the 11th Division with the engineer regiment to encircle and annihilate the enemy's third echelon.

When the enemy's 1st Brigade arrived at Hanyang Town, it was already 1:10 a.m., and seeing that a squad of Sichuan soldiers defending the town's entrance was warming themselves by fire, Li Tiejun, commander of the 1st Brigade, wanted to order the troops to camp here. But he still restrained his **, and after briefly asking the Sichuan soldiers if there was any suspicious situation, under the unconventional attention of several Sichuan soldiers, he led the troops through Hanyang Town with their heads held high and headed towards the county seat of Jiange.

At 1:50 a.m., the enemy's second echelon arrived at Hanyang Town, and by this time the enemy officers and men were extremely tired. Fortunately, the Sichuan army stationed in Hanyang Town was well-behaved, boiled water in the town, and carried buckets to the street, so that every soldier could drink hot water.

The Reading Brigade and the Supplementary Brigade, who had drunk water, did not dare to stop in Hanyang Town for more and hurriedly went south.

Liu Yimin immediately ordered Cao Shengli's baggage regiment to quickly block the retreat of the enemy's second echelon. Feng Dafei was ordered to command the infantry battalions of the engineer regiment and the artillery regiment to establish a blocking position and cut off the southward passage of the enemy's third echelon. The cavalry battalion and the guard battalion were ordered to immediately concentrate on the position of the baggage regiment and strengthen the position of the baggage regiment.

Li Qing and Chen Dayong climbed on a small hill next to Shu Road in the north of the copyshop, observing the enemy's situation.

The 13th Division arrived late because of its late departure. Fortunately, Liu Yimin adjusted his thinking and directly ordered them to build a position north of the hand-shop, and ran a little less. After more than two hours of rest, the troops recovered their physical strength.

Li Qing's deployment was simple and practical, with the 39th Regiment acting as a blocker and intercepting the enemy head-on, the 38th Regiment and the 37th Regiment were respectively deployed on both sides of the Shu Road, the supplementary regiment, the divisional engineer battalion, the baggage battalion, and the reconnaissance company were serving as reserves, and the three artillery companies of the artillery battalion established positions on three small hills, and the firepower covered the entire defense area. The heavy machine gun battalion was under the command of the 37th Regiment and was ready to deal a blow to the enemy's first echelon.

From a distance, a fire dragon rolled from north to south, rolling in the direction of the hand-shop. Needless to say, Hu Zongnan's first division has arrived.

Li Qing smiled and said: "Lao Chen, I think this first division has a good reputation, but in fact, it is also a strong outsider. It's such a dark night, with so many torches, it's more enjoyable than shooting. I'm sure the first round of blows took out at least a third of him. ”

Chen Dayong said: "The instructors of the Whampoa Military Academy, I think the level is average. I don't know how much other knowledge has been taught, but there is one point, Huangpu students are basically nostrils to the sky, full of arrogance. Just look at the marching posture of Hu Zong's southern team, is it completely a posture that dares to provoke Lao Tzu? ”

Li Qing smiled: "Is the protégé of the Son of Heaven?" ”

Seeing that the enemy's torch team was getting closer and closer, and the search distance on both sides was less than 200 meters, Li Qing picked up the phone and ordered each regiment to approach both sides of the Shu Road and prepare for battle.

Putting down the phone, Li Qing said to Chen Dayong: "Old Chen, you personally command the artillery battalion of the division, give me a hard blow in the middle of the enemy's marching ranks, and listen to my gunfire and the whole division will fire together." ”

Li Tiejun, commander of the First Brigade of the First Division, is a native of Meixian County, Guangdong, graduated from the first phase of the Huangpu Military Academy, and has just turned 30 years old this year.

Since graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, Li Tiejun started as a trainee second lieutenant and worked his way up from platoon commander to commander of the First Brigade. That's it, Li Tiejun felt that the promotion in the first division was too slow, and if it was other troops, I am afraid that the division commander and army commander would have done it a long time ago. However, he was unwilling to leave the ace of the First Division, and waited for the First Division to become the First Army, so that he could get a main division commander to do it.

Li Tiejun, who was riding on a horse, squinted his eyes, thinking about his thoughts as he walked, do you want to find a chance to meet the principal? Seeing that there are more than 30,000 people in the First Division, more than any other army, but the division seat is always reluctant to be promoted to the army, and I don't know what he thinks, don't you know that the army commander is more powerful than the division commander, and the division commander is better than the brigade commander? Forget it, let him go, anyway, as long as he is promoted, the position of division commander will not be able to escape. The headmaster is really, to those damn warlord commanders, it is to send money, make wishes, and promote positions. I heard that the principal gave 600,000 oceans to a division commander in Sichuan last time, obediently, he can expand a few brigades! On the contrary, the principal has never been so generous to the students of Whampoa, at most he is a gift of a golden pen and a photo. Don't students need money, don't they need promotions?

Forget it, I don't want to, there's no difference between inside and outside!

Li Tiejun opened his eyes and looked at the team, a torch illuminated the night sky, which was continuous and about ten kilometers long. What a mighty first division! When I kill Mianyang tomorrow, I don't know if the Zhumao Red Bandit will jump into the Fujiang River in a panic when he sees the first division of the world that suddenly came out?

Thinking about it, thinking about it, Li Tiejun couldn't help laughing.

Zhou Yi, commander of the 39th Regiment of the 13th Red Division, and Zhong Zanda, political commissar, climbed in the trench temporarily dug on the right side of the Shu Road. In order to camouflage and concealment, Zhou Yi told the troops not to dig trenches on the road, but also to transport away the soil from digging trenches, cover the trenches with straw and grass, and must not let the enemy find that there is a blocking position in front.

This is Zhou Yi's first battle since he was transferred to the guard division and the current Seventh Army Corps, and it is related to the reputation of himself and the 39th Regiment, so Zhou Yi checked and checked, carefully and carefully, to ensure that the enemy could not find the position at a distance of 100 meters, and could not see the position clearly at a distance of 50 meters.

The task is very clear, that is, to resolutely block the enemy and let the main force gather and destroy the enemy's first echelon. In order to ensure the completion of the task, Zhou Yi asked He Mingliang of the engineer regiment to send people to cooperate with the division's engineer battalion, densely planted mines in front of the position, and also planted dozens of explosive packages. At this time, Zhou Yi was still not at ease, so he pestered the artillery regiment's thundering troops, supported six launchers, and placed them in the cypress forest on the right side of the front position, ready to surprise the enemy.

Looking at it, the enemy was already less than 100 meters from the position. Zhou Yi opened the safety of the barge gun and whispered to the battalion commander beside him: "Pass the order, I won't shoot, no one is allowed to shoot!" ”

(To be continued)