Jiange Road is only called the Golden Bull Road at this time (only the name of the Jiange Road is used in the future), the road is steep, rugged and difficult, it is the last dangerous road leading to Chengdu, after going out of the end of Zitong County, it is a horse Pingchuan, and there is no precipitous between Chengdu and no longer precipitous.

The importance of this road is self-evident, decades later, Zhuge Liang set up a sword gate pass here, the Northern Expedition or the enemy, this road can be called the top priority, the Northern Expedition must pass, the enemy must defend, according to the natural danger and geographical advantages, Jiang Wei once used tens of thousands of horses here to block the Zhonghui 200,000 troops.

Guo Jia deeply understands the important surname of this road, although it refers to the Jianmen Pass, whether it is the Jianmen Pass or the Jiameng Pass that has just been won, it is actually on the Sword Pavilion Road.

Standing on the Sword Pavilion Road, Guo Jia couldn't help but think of Deng Ai's surprise attack strategy of destroying Shu, taking Jinggu Road from Yinping County in the west of Hanzhong, you can directly take Chengdu, and you can also outflank the defenders at the end of the Sword Pavilion Road, but this surprise attack strategy Guo Jia can't use it.

Liu Yan really wouldn't have fortified Jinggu Road, because he didn't even have a defense of the old road and the Baochuan Road at the northern gateway of Yizhou, how could he expect that there would be strange soldiers in Jinggu Road?

Taking Chengdu from Jinggu Road can not be said to be a victory in danger, but a life of nine deaths, you need to go over the mountains and mountains, overcome thousands of difficulties and dangers, there are many people and horses, it will delay the speed of the march, and the effect of the surprise attack will not be achieved, even if you arrive in Chengdu, even if Liu Yan has 10,000 defenders, he will not surrender like Liu Adou.

Therefore, Deng Ai's strategy of destroying Shu, Guo Jia could not adopt it, so he could only go to the righteous way to the imperial soldiers, wade through the Sword Pavilion Road, and the soldiers came to Chengdu.

Got the scout cavalry's report, Guo Jia learned that at the end of the Jiange Road in the north of Zitong County, Liu Yan had sent generals to guard the crossing, there were camps on the mountains on both sides of the crossing, plus the army stationed at the crossing, if you want to force the march, not only will you encounter resistance at the crossing, but there will also be condescending defenders on both sides of the mountain, and it is a decent statement to be surrounded by the enemy on three sides, in fact, you will encounter the insistence of the frontal defenders, and the unscrupulous ambush on both sides.

Guo Jia, who was temporarily resting in Jiameng Pass, had stayed here for three days, and he stood on the tower of Jiameng Pass in the middle of the night, touching the stone wall with his hand, and the feeling of coldness made the heat of the summer night disappear a little.

Looking at the south, Guo Jia frowned, how to wade through the Sword Pavilion Road is a difficult problem, not that he is worried about the strong attack and the loss of the generals, there is no bloodshed in the war, but he is worried, the 110,000 soldiers and horses under his command rushed to the Sword Pavilion Road, even if it is a one-to-one casualty rate, he can accept it, but if there are less than 50,000 soldiers and horses around him when he walks out of the Sword Pavilion Road, how can he conquer Chengdu? At that time, it is a dilemma, and he can only retreat to Hanzhong, and Liu Yan must take strict precautions in the future, and he is a hundred times more jealous, and it will be even more difficult to move forward in Chengdu.

Wow

Xi Zhicai climbed the city tower and came behind Guo Jia, and when he saw Guo Jia's expression, he knew that he must be worried about the Sword Pavilion Dao, and said to Guo Jia with a smile: "Lord, I have a plan, I don't know if the lord dares to use it." ”

"If you send generals to lead the army through the mountains and mountains to make a detour, needless to say, Yuan Zhi just offered this strategy in the afternoon."

Xi Zhicai stroked his beard and smiled, and after walking behind Guo Jia and whispering a few words, Guo Jia's eyes lit up, and after weighing it, he said, "You can give it a try." ”

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When the sky was bright, more than 10,000 captives in Jiameng Pass were confiscated with weapons and armor, and they only wore coarse linen clothes in the southern corner of the pass, and the captives who were worried and did not know what their fate would be, their eyes were bloodshot, unkempt, and they were all embarrassed.

The soldiers who came early in the morning to deliver food only carried buckets full of water and placed them in front of the captives, then turned and left.

"Hey! How is there only water? ”

"Do you want us to starve to death by just giving us water?"

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The captives immediately protested loudly, but the soldiers who came to deliver the food just shrugged their shoulders and said casually: "We are almost out of food, what do you care about?" ”

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The captives were cold in their hearts, they didn't expect that these troops that came out of nowhere would run out of military rations, according to their guesses, not killing the prisoners was already considered benevolent and righteous, and they could live a few more days if they were given a bowl of water to drink and starve to death, but how could their more than 10,000 captives sit still and wait to die?

After discussing in private, the captives decided to fight to the death, so they took advantage of the unpreparedness of the defenders to attack together, seized the defenders' blades, and then rushed through the south gate of Jiameng Pass, and fled in the direction of Chengdu.

None of the exhausted captives wondered why the South Gate was barely defended, and no one noticed that as they fled toward Chengdu, the contingent of more than 10,000 men looked like there were at least 30,000 people.

The chaos in Jiameng Pass stabilized soon after the captives fled, standing on the pass and looking at the backs of the captives fleeing, Guo Jia said softly: "Pass the order, the whole army will set off in an hour, Gao Shun will lead the cavalry as the vanguard, Xu Chudianwei will be the general of the Chinese army, and the rest of the generals will respond with me in the rear." Let Gao Shun always keep a distance of five miles from the captives who fled ahead. ”

After the military order was issued, Guo Jia muttered softly: "This battle depends on the decision of the generals who guarded the last gate for Liu Yan." ”

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Since he led 30,000 soldiers and horses out of Chengdu to the north of Zitong County to guard the exit of Jiange Road, Wu Yi arranged troops in a regular manner, sent 5,000 soldiers to ambush on the mountains on both sides of the crossing, and commanded 20,000 soldiers to block the road at the crossing, which is considered decent, as long as Guo Jia dares to come, even if he can't stop Guo Jia's army, at least 30,000 soldiers and horses will fight to kill Guo Jia's 100,000, it is not impossible.

And there are still 40,000 defenders in Chengdu, whether it can be defended, Wu Yi does not dare to speculate, after all, Guo Jia claims to have an army of 400,000 to the south, and now Jiameng Pass is also lost in one day, how many soldiers and horses Guo Jia has, Wu Yi does not know, but it must not be less, otherwise Jiameng Pass will not be lost so quickly.

In the evening, Wu Yi in armor sat in the tent and read the book of war, less than 30 years old, he looked like a gentleman, has the style of a Confucian general, but the actual combat experience is still pitiful, followed Liu Yan into Yizhou, in addition to a slight merit in the fight against the local heroes, he has no experience in the war, if he is not a reliable general brought by Liu Yan to Yizhou, I am afraid he will not lead 30,000 troops to Liu Yan to guard the last line of defense to Chengdu.

"Report, General, there is a large army coming from the north!"

When Wu Yi heard the news, he immediately rushed out of the tent and gathered the generals to go to the front line together, ready to meet the enemy.

Riding out of the military formation, Wu Yi looked at the sword pavilion crossing in the north with a solemn expression, and after a while, the smoke and dust rose at the corner of the crossing, and as far as the eye could see, a group of people ran towards this side in chaos, Wu Yi frowned slightly, the first time he saw such a chaotic army.

The arms were raised and fell, and the rain of arrows on the mountains on both sides of the crossing seemed to fall like light clouds.

The people in front stopped, the screams were endless, Wu Yi saw their appearance clearly, coarse linen clothes, unarmed, even more suspicious in his heart, seeing that they did not rush forward again, so he ordered to stop shooting, and asked loudly: "Where is Guo Jia?" ”

The fleeing crowd was the captives who escaped from Jiameng Pass, thinking that they would survive by escaping to Chengdu, but they didn't expect that the fastest group of people who ran were killed under the arrows, which was miserable.

The people behind didn't dare to rush forward anymore, and when they heard Wu Yi's question, they immediately shouted at Wu Yi.

"General, we are the defenders of Jiameng Pass!"

"Don't let go of the arrows, we're not thieves."

"The thief army is still in Jiameng Pass."

"Let us go."

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Wu Yi didn't dare to take it lightly, but seeing that they had neither weapons nor armor, and they believed in the authentic Sichuan dialect, and some of the generals around him reported to their subordinates that they did recognize their fellow countrymen in it, so Wu Yi ordered the army to get out of the way for them to pass quickly.

There were only two ways in front of Wu Yi, either let them go back to Chengdu and join the army, or shoot all these people in front of him, and in a flash, Wu Yi chose the former.

When the captives heard Wu Yi's release, they were immediately overjoyed, and they were not in a hurry to run, and passed through the road of Wu Yi's army in an orderly manner.

Looking at the long line of people passing through his army, Wu Yi was suddenly shocked and bloodless.

There are only 20,000 defenders in Jiameng Pass!

Why are there now no less than 20,000 people fleeing?

"Stop!"

Wu Yi drew his sword and pointed it at the sky, condescendingly looked down at those who passed through the army, and shouted: "Kill all these people!" There's an army of thieves mixed in! ”

"General, I'm not a thief!"

"General, he's a thief!"

"Don't kill me!"

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This line of 30,000 captives scrambled to identify the people around them as thieves and make a stand, and no one could say clearly how many of them were fishing in troubled waters, reversing right and wrong.

Wu Yi's army showed its weapons and began to kill the captives, the captives rose up to resist, and the originally orderly army began to chaos from the inside, and at this time, the sound of horses' hooves sounded from the north of the Sword Pavilion Road.

In the chaos of the army, Wu Yi was still commanding the army to kill the prisoners, but at least nearly 20,000 prisoners passed through the middle of his army, and there were Guo Jia soldiers hidden in the captives in the front, middle and back, from Zhang Yan's department, and after creating chaos, a melee began.

Gao Shun led five thousand light horsemen to rush over, even though the road of the Sword Pavilion Road was narrow, it was enough for twenty horses to walk side by side.

The crossbowmen on the mountains on both sides of the crossing continued to rain arrows, but without Wu Yi's army blocking the enemy at the crossing, they could not ambush all the enemy troops in a short time.

Five thousand light cavalry led by Gao Shun rushed into battle, the already chaotic Wu Yi army was vulnerable at this time, the war horse galloped, there was no ability to resist, only a moment was Gao Shun's light cavalry troops rushed open the crossing, the cavalry team behind Xu Chu and Dian Wei's army charged with all their might, regardless of the attack on the mountains on both sides.

When Gao Shun led the cavalry to break away from Wu Yi's army blocking the road, the obstacle of the Sword Pavilion Road no longer existed, even if the condescending attacks on the mountains on both sides had a unique geographical advantage, but after Guo Jia's army rushed out of the crossing, their arrow rain was useless.

Wu Yi was captured, and after the 20,000 troops at the crossing lost more than 7,000, the rest surrendered, and the 10,000 soldiers who set up an ambush on the mountain saw that the commander was captured, and they also went down the mountain to disarm and surrender.

Despite the victory, Guo Jia still lost more than 20,000 troops in this battle.