Li Wei returned to the mansion sullenly, and ordered repeatedly: "Quick, help me pack my bags, and set off in an hour." ”

When his wife, Yang, heard about this in the backyard, she hurriedly ran over and said excitedly, "Master, you are going to go on the expedition again." ”

Li Zhuo's official position under Dong Zhuo is not high, just a school captain, originally Dong Zhuo's subordinates in addition to Lu Bu, there are five major lieutenant generals, namely Niu Fu, Dong Yue, Duan Xuan, Hu Zhen and Xu Rong, and then it is the turn of Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji The four captains, the five major lieutenant generals are headed by Niu Fu, he is Dong Zhuo's second son-in-law, Li Dao and others are in his army, and Hua Xiong is the captain of Hu Zhen's subordinates, and now Hu Zhen has surrendered to the Kwantung Coalition Army in Tiger Pass, Xu Rong was stabbed to death by Xiahoudun in the battle of ambushing Cao Ying, and only Niu Fu, Dong Yue and Duan Xuan were left among the Zhonglang generals, counting Lu Bu, Li Wei's status among the generals under Dong Zhuo has been ranked fifth, but his official position has not been promoted.

Li Dao's official position is not high, and Yu Lu is naturally not high, but his family's gold, silver, jewelry, antiques and curiosities are piled up in the warehouse, and the beautiful wives and concubines are full of backyards, wearing silk and satin, and eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and it is absolutely impossible to live such a life with his meager Yulu, however, the style of the Xiliang army is completely different from Liu Xin's army, they are all fighting and looting at the same time, and these money beauties in Li Dao's family are all obtained by him following Dong Zhuo to Luoyang, taking advantage of the opportunity to go out to loot everywhere, Therefore, when this Mrs. Yang heard that he was going to go on an expedition again, she behaved so happily, and she didn't notice the look on Li Dao's face at all.

Seeing that the Yang family looked like a fan of wealth, Li Wei said angrily: "Don't think about those good things first, this expedition is different from the past, and you have to compete with Liu Xin for Hanzhong." ”

Yang realized that her husband was a little different from usual today, and couldn't help asking, "Is it that Jingzhou Mu, is he very powerful?" ”

Li Dao was annoyed in his heart, glared at her fiercely and said: "What do women and Taoist people know, if they are in the land of Guanzhong, they do it with a knife and a gun, even if there are ten Liu Xin, I am not afraid of him, what is Hanzhong, don't you know that Shu Dao is difficult and dangerous." ”

Yang said blankly: "Is it difficult to walk the road in Hanzhong, when I was a child, the slave family followed my father once, it seems to be okay, I remember that it was not far from Yangping Pass." ”

Li Wei sighed and said: "Madam, what you said was the peaceful years, the current Yangping Pass is heavily guarded, who will let you go over, if you want to take Hanzhong, you must first take Yangping Pass, no one is willing to take over such a drudgery, but it fell on my head, you say that you are not angry." ”

Yang finally understood, this time the expedition is really different from the past, the benefits are about not to be earned, don't take any more mistakes, annoying Dong Zhuo is not a joke, Yang looked at the worried husband, suddenly had an idea, and said: "Master, why did you forget that poor scholar, why don't you ask him to think of a way." ”

Li Dao slapped his thigh and said repeatedly: "Oh, if it weren't for Mrs. reminding me, I would have almost forgotten about it, yes, yes, yes, hurry up and invite him over." ”

If Liu Xin was here, he would definitely be surprised, the poor scholar in Yang's mouth turned out to be Jia Xu, a famous poisoner during the Three Kingdoms period.

It was a few years ago, when Jia Xu was poor, one day he was bumped into by Li Dao and took him in the army, but Jia Xu said first, this time with Li Dao's help, he could help him do some chores such as copying, as for giving advice, he could only help him once in his life, and after helping once, the two sides did not owe each other, and there was no more to do with it.

Li Dao himself is also quite talented in marching and fighting, the reason why Niu Fu can rank first in Zhonglang General, in addition to the identity of Dong Zhuo's daughter, military achievements are also an important reason, and most of Niu Fu's military merits are earned by Li Dao and Guo Yan, Li Dao heard Jia Xu put forward this condition at that time, just thought that Jia Xu said a joke, and he didn't take it to heart at all, and Li Dao didn't have anything to do with Jia Xu's advice for so many years, and gradually forgot Jia Xu, only regarded Jia Xu as an ordinary scribe in the army, today the matter is urgent, under Yang's reminder, Li Wei remembered Jia Xu and hurriedly sent someone to invite,

Jia Xu was working in Li Dao's army, and he naturally knew the goal of this operation, and when he heard that Li Dao came to ask him for advice, he couldn't help but feel relieved, and the contract between himself and Li Dao could be dissolved from now on.

Seeing Li Dao's rare appearance of irritability, Jia Xu knew that he had no idea about this expedition, so he couldn't help but smile and said: "General Li knows that from here, there are four roads to choose from, one is to take the Meridian Valley Road, the second is to take the Luo Valley Road, the third is to take the Xiegu Valley Road, and the fourth is to take the Yangping Pass of the old road of Chencang, although the first three valley roads are not dangerous, but the road is difficult and difficult to walk, the general's subordinates are mostly cavalry, and it is not easy to pass through without one block, if Zhang Lu gets the news, Only a small team of men and horses is ambushed on the other side, even if there are thousands of troops and horses, there is nothing they can do, according to Jia's humble opinion, the general can only choose the fourth road, first capture Yangping Pass, and then take Hanzhong directly. ”

Li Wei shook his head and said: "I know the situation of these four roads, if you pass through the first three valley roads, I don't know how much time it will take, and when my army passes, Hanzhong will have already been taken by Liu Xin, but the terrain of Yangping Pass is dangerous, the area in front of the pass is narrow, the troops cannot be deployed, and the strong attack is difficult to achieve, which is what makes me in a dilemma." ”

Jia Xu saw that Li Wei did not trust his plan, but he didn't care at all, Jia Xu had already made up his mind to help him this time and never owe each other from now on, so he continued to analyze for him: "General Li, if it is a peaceful use of troops, Jia will never persuade the general to choose the fourth way, but now it is not the same as before, Liu Xin has captured Jiameng Pass, and will definitely further attack the counties of Hanzhong, Liu Xin does not have many horses in the army, he does not have enough cavalry to run long-distance, only wait for Hanzhong to take advantage of the situation and then attack Yangping Pass, At that time, the fastest will be three days later, and the general is different, you can rely on the advantage of the cavalry, rush to Yangping Pass in front of Liu Xin, really at that time, Zhang Lu's army on Yangping Pass can be said to be the enemy on the back, they either surrender to Liu Xin, or surrender to the general, or trapped alive on the pass, there is no fourth way to go, the general can be in the name of the imperial court, the defenders of Yangping Pass are promised high-ranking officials, why worry that they don't come to serve the general, as long as they take Yangping Pass, Hanzhong will be at your fingertips, and the general is a great achievement, Jia can also retire successfully. ”

After listening to Jia Xu's analysis, Li Wei felt that it was reasonable, so he hurriedly picked up the people and killed Benyang Pingguan.

Li Dao's headquarters has a total of 50,000 people, all of them are elite Xiliang cavalry, these years have followed Li Dao behind the east and west, everyone has made a lot of oil and water, I heard that there is a chance to go out again, it is really brave, everyone is vying for the first, not only that, Dong Zhuo also allocated another 50,000 foot soldiers for him to drive this time, these 50,000 foot soldiers are the soldiers under He Jin who were bought at the beginning, that is, the Luoyang Army in the past,

Jia Xu's strategy emphasized the word "fast", Li Wei suspected that these Luoyang foot soldiers had slowed down the speed of the march, so he handed them over to his cousins Li Ying and Li Wei to lead, and he brought 50,000 cavalry from his headquarters first.

Originally, according to the footsteps of the Xiliang war horse, from Chencang out of the pass, and then through Hechi, Fuxian to Yangping Pass, at most it only takes a day and a half of effort, the eighth afternoon of the first month of the first month of departure, at the latest on the evening of the ninth day of the first month can rush to Yangping Pass, if like Sun Ce night and night, the early morning of the ninth day of the first month can also arrive, if they can really arrive in the early morning of the ninth day of the first month, the situation will be very different, by that time, Guannan is 5,000 Jingzhou cavalry, and north is 50,000 Xiliang iron cavalry, who surrenders, I believe that Zhang Wei's choice must be Li Dao, but unfortunately the military discipline of the Xiliang Army is sloppy, it has always been a march while looting, there are so many war horses but they can't come up quickly, plus after coming to Chang'an, after more than a year of peace, the soldiers' savings are almost exhausted, and finally seize the opportunity to come out, and it is even more intensified, eager to scrape off the three layers of land, so it drags on, when the vanguard of Li Dao's cavalry comes to Yangping Pass, it is already noon on the tenth day of the first month,

As early as this time the day before, Sun Ce had already captured Yangping Pass, although the process during the period was a bit of a mistake, but the result was still quite satisfactory, and now Zhang Biao, Li Sheng, these lieutenants are also willing to convincingly obey his orders, this eighteen-year-old young man has experienced so many changes, and now he has gradually matured, he knows very well the significance of this Yangping Pass to Liu Xin, on the day of the occupation of Yangping Pass, Sun Ce transferred all the 20,000 defenders who surrendered to the pass, Waiting for Liu Xin's army to arrive and land separately, and only the 5,000 cavalry he brought to guard the city was guarded, the purpose was to prevent the surrendered defenders from mutiny, under this arrangement, even if the 20,000 soldiers surrendered and rebelled, relying on the strong wall, Sun Ce was confident that he would hold on until Liu Xin's army arrived.

After discussion, Sun Ce and Zhang Biao they were divided into three groups, taking turns to patrol the gate, day and night, at noon that day, the sun was shining, and there were sudden bursts of hurried horse hooves in the distance, and the cavalry who dealt with the war horses all day could feel it, such hooves were by no means one or two horses could make such a movement, and it was impossible for one or two hundred horses to be able to make such movements, the number was at least equal to them, and in the blink of an eye, pieces of silver flowers rose on the snow in the north, Sun Ce, who was patrolling the city, could clearly feel the slight vibration under his feet, and he couldn't help but feel his heart tighten, the time to come was finally here, and he didn't need to give orders, all the soldiers were in good spirits and raised their vigilance, Zhang Biao, Li Sheng and others also walked quickly to the city, trying to look north,

Slowly, a large black shadow appeared in the north, the black shadow was getting closer and closer, countless cavalry swarmed, and the shocking scene of thousands of horses galloping made these men who were also good at fighting on horses were also moved.