Sure enough, things turned out just as Wen Yuan had expected.

With the thousands of people captured in Hechi City being driven out, in just a few days, the news of the Han army's burning of Hechi, the death of Wang Doumao, and the extermination of the White Horse Clan spread throughout Wudu County like wings. And wherever the news spread, the Di people were cast a shadow of fear, so that Wen Yuan did not encounter any obstacles along the way in the next ten days, but several Di tribes along the way came to surrender.

For these obedient Di tribes, Wen Yuan was not polite. With the power of Hechi's great victory, more than 10,000 Di young people were recruited, and the Di Legion was established to use them as they did when they used the Hun Legion. Not to mention, these Di soldiers are still very good at mountain warfare. As long as the military discipline is stricter, it will be an elite unit fighting in the mountains of Yizhou in the future!

And for Wenyuan's arrangement, several Di tribes have no objections, and the barbarians are like this, only admitting big fists. Wen Yuan is very powerful, and they are very tame one by one.

So, Wen Yuan had no worries along the way. And from the river to the west, along the Han River can reach Hanzhong County, Wen Yuan ordered Ma Dai to stay for the Taishou to pacify Wudu, and ordered Li Yan to collect ships along the way, so more than 100,000 soldiers advanced by land and water, and rushed to Hanzhong.

After another ten days, the army arrived at the territory of Fuxian County, which is the easternmost part of Wudu, and Yangping Pass is only separated by a mountain range, and the back of Yangping Pass can be reached by a mountain pass in a detour to the south, and at this time the straight-line distance between the two sides is even closer than a hundred miles!

Seeing that Hanzhong was in sight, the morale of the Jin army was also invigorated. Once the army appears in the rear of Yangping Pass like a divine soldier descending from the sky, the enemy soldiers on the pass can imagine what kind of chaos it will be!

However, things were not as smooth sailing as everyone imagined, seeing that the army was getting closer and closer to the mountain pass, the scout in front suddenly came with a shocking news, the narrow mountain pass was actually stationed in the troops led by Zhang Lu's general Yang Bai!

Some people may notice that Yang Bai was not sent by Zhang Lu to guard the south to guard against Liu Bei's sneak attack? How did it suddenly appear here?

In fact, the reason for these troop transfers is Sima Yi!

Among the Han Chinese military generals, perhaps no one can see the possibility of Wen Yuan's division of troops in a roundabout way, but who is Sima Yi? How could he, with the intelligence of a demon, not be prepared?

As early as half a month ago, Sima Yi saw that the battle at Yangping Pass was protracted, and Yan Liang's soldiers and horses were refused to advance here, but he never saw Wen Yuan send a large team to support here, so he began to suspect that Wen Yuan might take the Chencang Road to flank the hinterland of Hanzhong behind Yangping Pass.

He wrote to Zhang Lu several times, telling him that the main force of the Jin army was probably making a detour to Hanzhong through the Chencang plank road, and asked Zhang Lu to take precautions in advance.

Not to mention, although Zhang Lu's brain is not as good as Sima Yi's, but he still values his own life very seriously, he quickly followed Sima Yi's advice, but he was suffering from the fact that he had no troops in his hands for a while, so he could only draw half of the soldiers and horses from the southern front, and let Yang Bai lead the camp on the road to the junction of Wudu and Hanzhong, while Zhang Lu stepped up the recruitment of soldiers in Hanzhong, and once the situation required it, he sent troops to reinforce it.

Wen Yuan naturally didn't know about the changes in the strength of Hanzhong, but it was never a good thing that soldiers and horses blocked the road! Wen Yuan hurriedly asked the spies how many enemy troops were stationed there! The latter truthfully reported that there were about 5,000 soldiers and horses, which made Wen Yuan breathe a sigh of relief.

But he already had a vague sense that something was wrong. Five thousand people, it is said that there is no need for so many troops to be stationed in that mountain pass, which is not very important in geographical location! In other words, Zhang Lu may have heard some rumors and rumors, and he has already taken precautions against the rear of Yangping Pass! So what is the situation in Hanzhong now?

In the mountains and mountains of Wudu, Wen Yuan has not exchanged news with Yan Liang's army outside Yangping Pass for half a month, only knowing that Yan Liang has been suppressing the defenders of Hanzhong with meteorite vehicles for the past two months, but Yangping Pass is too dangerous and solid, and the defenders have sufficient troops, so it is difficult to break through from the front in a short period of time.

Communication was lagging behind, there was too little reliable information at hand, and Wen Yuan couldn't judge the situation in Hanzhong for a while, so after thinking about it, he could only order Tai Shici and Xu Huang to lead 5,000 elite soldiers each to move forward, and strive to take the camp in the mountain pass in one fell swoop before the defenders had time to react!

The second general ordered his troops and horses to kill the position of this mountain pass, and after a brief observation, he couldn't help but feel emotional. To say that the terrain of Hanzhong is really not blown, just a random mountain pass terrain is so steep, 5,000 soldiers and horses and a fortified village, the road to the Hanzhong Plain will be completely cut off!

The road ahead was blocked, Xu Huang and Tai Shici could only fight in front of the camp, and ordered the sergeants under their command to shout and curse in front of the gate of the village.

In the village, when he heard that the Jin army was coming, the guard general Yang Bai was also busy convening his subordinates to discuss.

"Generals, the Jin army is challenging outside the camp, do you think you should go out of the camp to fight, or stick to resist the enemy? I heard that the Jin army is brave and good at fighting, I must not be careless...... "Yang Bai actually doesn't have many catties in his stomach, it all depends on his brother Yang Song's deep favor by Zhang Lu's side to get such a general, this thing heard that the Jin army came to challenge, and he still hopes to stick to it without fighting."

"How can a general grow the morale of others? It is true that the Jin army is brave and good at fighting, is it possible that my Hanzhong ghost pawn is weak? ”。 Without waiting for Yang Bai to finish speaking, the general Yuan Yue stood up and said: "Besides, the Jin army is coming from afar, it must be extremely tired at this time, our army can wait for the labor to break it in one fell swoop, if they wait for them to get respite, it will not be so easy to repel it." ”

Yang Bai thought for a while and hesitated: "What General Yuan said is not unreasonable, but before coming, Sima Junshi had warned him many times that he should not easily engage the Jin army, but only go deep and high, and wait for the reinforcements sent by Shijun......"

"Sima Yi? Hum! Yuan Yue snorted coldly and sneered: "He was beaten by Zhang Liao in Yuzhou, and he was already scared of his guts, and he fled to us with nowhere to go, how can you believe this kind of coward's words?" Besides, in my opinion, the Jin army is actually like that, if they are really so capable of fighting, why haven't they broken through the Yangping Pass for half a year? ”

"This ......" Yuan Yue said is reasonable, and he blocked Yang Bai into the root of the wall, if he didn't fight, wouldn't he want a group of subordinates to look down on him?

Yang Bai thought about it and decided: "Okay! Since this is the case, please ask General Yuan to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to fight, and the general will personally lead the troops to sweep the formation, remember not to underestimate the enemy, if you can't win, quickly rush back to the formation. ”

Yuan Yue gladly accepted the order and ordered 1,000 ghost soldiers from the headquarters to go out of the camp to meet the enemy, and Yang Bai also led 2,000 soldiers out of the village.