Jianmen Pass, is the branch of Longmen Mountain, its landform is complex, even in the Shu Road that is difficult to go up to the blue sky, it is also considered to be a little top-notch, the northwest is high here, the southeast is low, the mountains are dense, the ravines are staggered, even the mountains are absolutely sword, the mountains are crossed, the ancient saying goes: the rock is not climbable on the road.

Sichuan deputy chief soldier crossbow general Zhang Ling, at this time led 3,000 troops, stationed in the Jianmen Pass of the Guanlou, this Guanlou is built in the middle of two steep mountain cliffs, both cliffs are towering into the clouds, the middle line is passed, the shape is like a gate, so it is called Jianmen.

The mountain road here, at most only four people side by side, can really be described as a master, ten thousand people can not open, since ancient times, want to attack Shuzhong from the Jianmen Pass, can be described as an impossible task. Historically, many northern regimes wanted to invade Sichuan, and they would choose to attack Sichuan from the location of Hechuan Diaoyu City, such as Meng Ge, who was killed in the attack on Diaoyu City.

But for Zhu Yuanzhang, it is impossible to take Huguang, his base is in Shaanxi, Huguang is still in the hands of the imperial court, if you want to capture Sichuan, for Zhu Jun, there is only one way to go, Jianmen Pass.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang and all the leaders who entered the Sichuan were sitting on a small hill northeast of Jianmen Pass, looking at Jianmen Pass from a distance, considering how to capture this level.

Wang Er looked at this majestic strange pass, and couldn't help but sweat a little: "This level is difficult to attack!" I don't know how many times more dangerous than our Huanglong cottage back then, the officers and soldiers attacked our Huanglong cottage and suffered heavy losses, and they were not allowed to go up. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "The mountain road can only be used by four people in parallel." If we attack, our soldiers will not be able to support it, and the three thousand soldiers on the mountain only need to knock down the rolling logs and stones, and the soldiers will have to retreat obediently......"

Wang Er asked, "Is it okay to run out of their food?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "Don't even think about this kind of thing, the importance of Jianmen Pass is recorded in the history books, the Xishu regime during the Three Kingdoms was prosperous in Zhaohua and died in Jianmen, and this place has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times." No matter how stupid the court is. There will also be enough food here for a few years, and it is impossible to starve the defenders. ”

Wang Er picked his head helplessly.

At this time, the three brothers of the Meng family, who were sitting next to him, spoke: "It's not advisable to attack by force, you still have to think of other ways." I don't think it's possible to find a mountain wall that can be climbed by manpower at all, as long as you find a flaw. Let's climb over the past. You can make the sword gate gate useless. "These three brothers are worthy of being mountain rats who grew up in Sichuan. The first thing they think of is "the mountains that cannot be crossed without manpower".

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "The mountain in the middle of the river is still the most familiar to your three brothers. Leave it to the three brothers to try their best, but ...... This Sword Gate has been standing for thousands of years, and I don't know how many people have fought its idea, and it is not so easy to find a place where you can bypass it. ”

At this time, Xu Renjie suddenly said: "I read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and saw that the book said that Zhong Hui could not attack the Jianmen Pass for a long time, Deng Ai took advantage of the opportunity of Jiang Wei to entangle with Zhong Hui at the Jianmen Pass, and went to the west for a hundred miles, crossed Yinping, and attacked Chengdu, I don't know if we can use this strategy." ”

When the three brothers of the Meng family heard this, they immediately shook their heads and said: "How can you believe what is written in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", that thing is just a commentary that talks about play, the dangerous mountains in Shu are not so easy to circumvent, not to mention that for thousands of years, geological changes, and ravines are changeable, and the tactics of the Three Kingdoms are now impossible to use. ”

Xu Renjie snorted: "How do you know if you don't give it a try?" Maybe Yin Ping really has a way to go around? With that, he leaned down on the map on the table, carefully looking for Yin Ping. He didn't know if he didn't look for it, and he was startled when he looked for it, he searched for a long time on the map, but he didn't find the word "Yinping" at all.

"What about Yin Ping? I'm really convinced, why is there no Yin Ping on the map? Xu Renjie wiped his sweat and said.

The three brothers of the Meng family laughed: "I've told you, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is written blindly, there is no place for Yin Ping at all, haha." ”

"Nope! Yin Ping is there. Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly interjected: "I want to think about it......" After all, he has seen the world for hundreds of years, and knows that the names of places in the world are unpredictable, there used to be a place called Yinping, and it was not uncommon to change the name later, after thinking for a long time, he finally remembered something, and asked tentatively: "You look on the map, west of Jianmen Pass, is there a place called Qingchuan County." ”

Xu Renjie hurriedly looked at the map for a while, and exclaimed: "Sure enough, there is a small county called Qingchuan County...... Could it be that this place is the Yin Ping of the Three Kingdoms? ”

The three brothers of the Meng family didn't need to look at the map at all, so they said: "There is indeed a Qingchuan County, but it is extremely remote and rarely mentioned, and there are very few Han people living there, mainly Tibetans, Miao, Zhuang, Dongxiang, Hui, Tujia, Qiang and other ethnic minorities live there, we don't know that it used to be called Yinping." ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was immediately overjoyed: "Quick, go and invite the hundred Qiang soldiers to ask about the situation in Qingchuan County." ”

Not long after, a well-informed Qiang soldier was approached by Xu Renjie's people, and everyone hurriedly asked him: "Do you know if Qingchuan County used to be called Yinping?" ”

The Qiang soldier smiled: "Yes, there is an ancient road in Qingchuan County, the name is Yinping Ancient Road, according to legend, it is the Three Kingdoms era, General Deng Ai raided Xishu place...... However, the place is extremely dangerous, ordinary people can't find it at all, and all the people who live there are ethnic minorities, such as the Tujia, Hui, and Qiang, and the Han people will not run to that kind of dangerous mountains and rivers to take root. ”

Xu Renjie was overjoyed: "Quick, take me there!" ”

When the leaders heard that there was really a Yin Ping, they couldn't help but be a little moved, and the places described in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" still made them a little fascinated. Especially Xu Renjie, a war enthusiast, when he hears this kind of place, how can he not want to explore the truth.

Wang Er also shouted beside him: "Jianmen Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Brother Zhu is definitely not willing to attack here." I don't want to stay here, I want to go to Yin Ping to have fun. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it carefully, and also agreed with Wang Er's words, Jianmen Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is indeed not a good place to attack, if it is too bad to lose too much here, the troops will be lost in vain, and it will be even more difficult when attacking Chengdu.

At that moment, Zhu Yuanzhang distributed the army and sent the three brothers of the Meng family to continue to look for whether there was a mountain road in the mountain next to Jianmen Pass that could be secretly climbed. Zhu Yuanzhang led 10,000 Shaanxi soldiers as a cover. Attract the attention of the defenders of Jianmen Pass, and make them think that Zhu Jun intends to attack Jianmen Pass. And Xu Renjie, together with Wang Er and Ying Shanhong, led 3,000 black pole soldiers, plus 5,000 ordinary Shaanxi soldiers. A total of 8,000 people. Lead the way with the Qiang people. Go to the Yinping Ancient Road to see, if there is a chance to climb over there, just go over it. Straight into the back of the Sword Gate Pass, two sides and one clamp, the guards of the Sword Gate Pass will inevitably collapse without a fight-

Qingchuan Prefecture, Yamanaka!

After walking through mountain after mountain, over ridge after ridge, Xu Renjie's face was already a little dark, his legs trembled involuntarily, his head was sweating profusely, and he was out of breath and couldn't breathe.

On the march, he usually rode on a horse, and he never felt so tired, but after entering Qingchuan County, he really realized what Shu Dao was! The danger of the mountain here, compared with the time from Hanzhong into the Sichuan, in the Guangyuan Mountains when climbing and rolling is more precipitous, because although the road from Hanzhong to Guangyuan is dangerous, but there are often people walking, there are more people walking, there is a road, there is a road, there is a road will not be too difficult.

But there is no road in the mountains of Qingchuan County at all, the black pole soldiers under the command of Xu Renjie keep cutting trees to open the road, these dangerous roads are okay to walk, walking horses is completely useless, Xu Renjie had to get off the horse, and walk like ordinary soldiers, which is really a little painful for him, the old man who was born as a businessman, but fortunately, the attraction of the Yinping Ancient Road to him is almost endless, which makes him grit his teeth and move forward strongly. There is a big one, and there is a posture of not swearing to return it until it is peaceful.

Along the way, I actually met two small mountain villages inhabited by Qiang people, and the Qiang soldiers who were responsible for leading the way went into the village and said a few words, and the Qiang people took the initiative to welcome them out, serving tea and water to Xu Renjie, and Xu Renjie used some Han gadgets to give back to them, and the Qiang people were naturally very happy.

But when they passed through the villages of the Hui, Miao, and Tujia people, they did not have such treatment, and as soon as the Hui, Miao, and Tujia people saw Zhu Jun, they all fled from the village and hid in the nearby mountains, so that they could not even find someone to beg for water to drink. Moreover, it is said that the Miao people are good at using poisons, so Zhu Jun did not even dare to touch the well in the Miao village.

Xu Renjie couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, why did Zhu Jun only become friends with the Qiang people, and didn't turn the Hui, Miao, and Tujia people into friends? It seems that we have to hurry up on this matter, and find a way to connect with these ethnic minorities after we go back, otherwise it will be too inconvenient to act in this place in Sichuan.

After four or five days of arduous trekking, and with the help of the local Qiang people, Zhu Jun finally came to the legendary Yinping Ancient Road with great effort.

The altitude here is extremely high, with an altitude of more than 2,700 meters, Xu Renjie only feels that he can't breathe well, and there is a slight tingling sensation in the back of his head, which is also the so-called altitude sickness. Altitude sickness is something that varies from person to person, and has nothing to do with physical fitness, some fat men will also have altitude sickness, but some frail and sick people will not have, this is mainly due to the respiratory system of different people, of course, people who have lived on the plateau since childhood, they have long been accustomed to it, and will not have altitude sickness.

Xu Renjie saw a high ridge in front of him, and his heart couldn't help but move, and he asked the Qiang people: "That's the skyscraper in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", right?" ”

Qiang Min smiled: "Exactly! ”

Xu Renjie was excited in his heart: "I heard that Zhuge Kongming set up a stele on the Motianling, which reads: The second fire is just rising, someone crosses this, the two soldiers compete, and soon he dies, he is talking about Deng Ai and Zhong Hui, can this stele still be seen now?" ”

Qiang Min couldn't help but shake his head and said: "This is nonsense written in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", how can Zhuge Kongming have such a god?" There has never been a stone monument on this mountain...... However, there is a stone wall with four words left by Deng Ai: Deng Ai has passed here. ”

Xu Renjie was first disappointed, because he couldn't see the monument erected by Zhuge Kongming, and then he was excited, because he could see Deng Ailiu's words, he hurriedly urged: "Take me to see the stone wall." ”

Qiang Min smiled and planned to lead the way, but at this moment, the Qiang Min suddenly smiled, his face became serious, and he pointed to Motianling and said, "This mountain ...... Wrong. Let's not go any closer. ”

Xu Renjie Qi said: "What's wrong? ”

Qiang Min said: "I can't say either, but in short, it is a little different from ordinary mountains...... It felt weirdly quiet. ”

Xu Renjie listened to it, and sure enough, he couldn't hear any birds and insects on this mountain, he was shocked, after all, he was a general who had fought for more than ten years, and he judged what was going on almost instantly, and exclaimed: "There are ambushes on the mountain." ”

Zhu Jun was about to climb the ridge, Xu Renjie hurriedly shouted that there was an ambush, and the soldiers in front hurriedly retreated. The soldiers in the back also hurriedly got out of the way. Zhu Jun is well-trained in peacetime. At this time, they retreated very quickly, and with a bang, the hundreds of black pole soldiers who had originally walked on the mountain road retreated to the foot of the mountain in the blink of an eye.

This sudden retreat startled the ambush soldiers on the top of the mountain. They were in a good ambush. I wanted to wait for most of the soldiers of the Zhu army to go up the mountain road. smashed the stone down and caught Zhu Jun off guard, but he didn't expect Zhu Jun to react so quickly. As soon as I retreated, I retreated without a trace, and now it is impossible to throw stones.

The leading general of the ambush knew that his ambush had been discovered, so he no longer hid, and when he whistled, many heads began to appear on the top of the mountain, and after a while, the heads of the people were covered with half of the skyscraper.

Xu Renjie looked up at the people who kept coming out on the Sky Ridge, and couldn't help but take a serious look, only to see that these people who came out were not officers and soldiers, at least they were not wearing the uniform mandarin duck jackets of officers and soldiers. They are wearing the unique clothing of a kind of ethnic minorities, which looks a bit like the Miao and Zhuang people, and Xu Renjie doesn't know much about the clothes of these ethnic minorities, but he can't recognize them.

The Qiang people who showed them the way recognized it at a glance, and he exclaimed, "It's from the Tujia family!" ”

Xu Renjie was slightly surprised: "Tujia? Along the way, we also met several Tujia villages, and they only fled and did not clash with us, so why did they suddenly set up an ambush here? ”

Qiang Min said in a deep voice: "The people we met were all ordinary people of the Tujia family, and they naturally wanted to flee when they saw the army, but now it is the army of the Tujia family that appears on the Motian Ridge......"

When Xu Renjie heard this, he was shocked again: "The army of the Tujia family? Could it be ...... White pole soldiers? ”

Sure enough, as soon as Xu Renjie thought of this, he saw that the heads of the people who came out of the top of the mountain also erected their weapons, long white-pole guns, with a hook and sickle at the tip of the gun, and a ring at the end of the gun, their white-pole guns were almost exactly the same as the black-pole guns used by the black-pole soldiers under Xu Renjie's command, the difference was that the gun was white on one side and the gun was black on the other, black and white, and the confrontation was far away, which looked so weird.

Xu Renjie couldn't help but gasp: It's really a white pole soldier? Good my mom, I actually ran into ...... here Could it be that I'm going to fight the famous Qin Liangyu soon? No way...... Can I beat her?

Xu Renjie couldn't help but shouted at the mountain ridge in an excited voice: "Is it General Qin Liangyu, the commander-in-chief of the Tujia family?" ”

After the roar, a male general suddenly jumped out of the white pole soldier formation on the top of the mountain, this general was not wearing the national costume of the Tujia family like other soldiers, but wearing a fish scale armor that the military attaché of the Ming Dynasty loved to wear, the armor was all bright silver, which looked silver and shining, and was very dazzling. Looking at his face closely, I saw that he was about thirty years old, strong, mighty, and very handsome, but unfortunately he was blind in one left eye, and only one right eye remained, which affected his handsome appearance.

The man shouted at the bottom of the mountain, "Who dares to call my mother by her name? To deal with Er and other thieves, why do you need my mother to take action personally, it is enough to have my Ma Xianglin here. ”

Xu Renjie tilted his head and asked the Qiang people next to him, "Who is Ma Xianglin?" ”

The Qiang man wiped a handful of sweat, and his body actually shrank behind Xu Renjie's back, looking a little scared, he said in a low voice: "That's Qin Liangyu's son, Ma Xianglin!" Because of his strong martial arts and handsome appearance, he has a nickname in the army, called Xiao Ma Chao. Later, in the battle of the Hunhe River in Liaodong against the Manchu Tartars, he was hit by the Tartars' stray arrows and shot blind in one eye, so the army also called him the one-eyed horse, this person is extremely powerful...... The general is still careful. ”

I heard that it was a person who participated in the battle of the Hunhe River, Xu Renjie was really shocked, the battle of the Hunhe River was a famous battle in the Ming Dynasty, this battle occurred in the first year of the Apocalypse, when the Eight Banners Army surrounded the Ming army, the Ming army fell behind, and the battle situation was urgent. Qi Jiguang's nephew, Qi Jin, led the world-famous Qi family army, fought side by side with the white pole soldiers in central Sichuan, and fought against the Manchu Eight Banners.

At that time, the Manchu Eight Banner Army had never suffered defeat in the battle against the Ming army, nor had it fallen into a bitter battle, but when it met the Qi family army and the white pole soldiers, they felt that the fight was extremely difficult, and the Qi family army and the white pole soldiers were only 10,000 people, and they were able to defeat tens of thousands of Manchu Tartars, which shocked the Eight Banner Army.

In the end, because of the betrayal of the traitor, the Qi family army was wiped out, and the world-famous Qi family army disappeared from the historical stage, and the white pole soldiers also suffered heavy casualties, Qin Liangyu's brother Qin Bangping was killed in battle, his younger brother Qin Minping was seriously injured, and his son Ma Xianglin lost an eye.

In the records of the historical books, the Qing Dynasty Gu Yingtai wrote the "Ming History Chronicles" with the following feelings: "It was a battle, and the Ming Dynasty had more than 10,000 people and tens of thousands of people, although they were overturned, it was the first bloody battle since the Liaozuo used troops. (To be continued.) )