There is a small city in Chang'an near the Qinling Mountains, called Duling. This small city is the mausoleum of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xun. The location of the mausoleum was originally a highland, and the two rivers of Yu and Chan flowed through this place, and the old name of the Han Dynasty was "Hongguyuan". Emperor Xuan was good at swimming in the plain when he was young, after he was the emperor, he chose the cemetery here, built the cemetery, because it was adjacent to the continuous treacherous terrain of the Qinling Mountains, so that the land here has always been barren, not suitable for large-scale reclamation of tuntian, so the people living here also rely on hunting in the mountains to fill the needs of life.

But since decades ago, Duling has gradually begun to get erect, and the reason is that the valley mouth south of Duling is a mountain pass called Zi.

Guanzhong to Hanzhong, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Wuding opened the mountain, repaired the plank road, is from the slope valley, Kei Valley began to go south, along the Min River straight into the east and west two rivers, although this road can not get rid of the Shu road difficult and treacherous, but after all, it can also be regarded as a rare good road south of the Qinling Mountains.

Merchants and ordinary people who have always walked from the two places also chose the Xiegu crossing in the west, so the road south of Duling is more difficult to walk, and the road is too narrow and has not undergone much development, and few people walk, and it is not even valued by the county officials.

But since the middle of the Middle Plains, the Yellow Turban Rebellion opened the prelude to the entire troubled times, starting from Dong Zhuo's entry into Luoyang, the princes fought in the world, and the land of Guanzhong and Sili, which was rich in the past, was almost made like hell on earth by these Xiliang warlords. In order to avoid the brutal warlord rule and exploitation, most of the people in Guanzhong fled from this fertile hometown where they had lived for generations, and Hanzhong was separated by the Qinling Mountains, and it was the place of refuge chosen by the people of Guanzhong.

It has been clearly recorded in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, "Tens of thousands of people in Guanxi ran to the Meridian Valley". Tens of thousands of people moved south through this path, and it was also because Li Guo vigorously prevented the people from absconding out of the country at that time and focused his attention on the entrance of the Shu Road in the west of the sloping valley, and the people had no choice but to choose this more dangerous road.

There is no road in the world, and when people walk too much, they will naturally step on the road. The pace of tens of thousands of people has finally made the many difficult terrain in the Meridian Valley much smoother. The Meridian Valley is more than 600 miles long, the north mouth is called Zi, less than 100 miles away from Chang'an, and Duling is a small city strictly guarded in the direction of Zikou. The south entrance is called Wu, and the closest place to him is Shiquan.

The war brought endless disasters to other places, but for Du Ling, a large number of Guanzhong people with their families had to pass through Hanzhong, but it brought great vitality to this small city. Most of the people who fled from Guanzhong came with their families. It is the wealth accumulated by the whole family. Tens of thousands of people only need to eat a bowl of noodles here, and the accumulated benefits are enough to make this small town enter the leap exhibition.

At the same time, because the locals here see another way of survival, they are more diligent in the development of the Meridian Valley.

Of course. Meridian Valley has been abandoned for so many years. It is also because the terrain is too treacherous. A large number of people poured into Hanzhong through here. Zhang Lu in Hanzhong naturally knew that there was such a place, but with the rebellion of Li Guo and Ma Chao being pacified by Xiahou Yuan. After the situation stabilized, the Shu Road in the valley was reopened, and most of the merchants put their itinerary in the west. Meridian Valley's side doesn't seem so important again. After the establishment of Hanzhong and Shu Han, the confrontation between Shu Han and Cao Wei was the most incompatible, and the trade between the two sides became more and more scarce, and even the Xiegu Avenue declined, not to mention the Meridian Valley Road in this area.

Recently, however, this valley road has become lively. Thousands of red-clothed and red-crowned soldiers dragged their tattered clothes and weapons out of the valley road, and time seemed to go back hundreds of years at once. At that time, it was the period of 'Liu Xiang Rivalry', Liu Bang was forced to go to Hanzhong to become the king of Han, and it was through the Meridian Valley that the difficulty of the road inspired the determination of the Han soldiers to fight against Xiang Yu, and in the end, they fought back to Guanzhong and seized the world. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hanzhong Taishou Wang Sheng's monograph "Ode to the Stone Gate" praised the meridian road to stimulate the morale of the Han soldiers: "Gaozu was ordered, the road was from the meridian, and it flourished in Hanzhong......

However, this man is not another Han, the man who stands in front of the army is nine feet long, his cloak exudes a hideous face, and he puts a Fang Tian painting halberd on his shoulder and grins and calls for the soldiers to hurry up.

"With Ehuan, Taniguchi is only so big, and no matter how much he calls, he won't !!" Wang Ping, who was dressed in dirt and sloppy on the side, sat on the ground without any image, and shouted dissatisfiedly at E Huan who was on the horse.

There's no way, who called the person Ehuan's mount is the Dian horse, "Huayang Guozhi? Nanzhong Zhi said: "The elders rumored that there are divine horses in Dianchi Lake, or Jiaoyan, that is, the birth of a horse, commonly known as the 'Dianchi Horse', five hundred miles a day. Although the Dian horse is short and has short legs, it has good endurance and is especially good at walking mountain roads. At that time, when entering the valley, Wang Ping disliked that the horses of the Wudang Flying Army were too short and unsightly, so he chose his own Liangzhou war horse.

But never thought that his war horse fell into the valley less than ten days after entering the valley, Wang Ping said that he was very depressed, he went out of Shu to take refuge in Cao Cao is to go to the Meridian Valley, but at that time he was on foot but never thought that it was so difficult to ride a horse, but he looked down on the Dian horse like walking on the ground.

"Haha!! General Wang, who told you to look down on our Dianchi horses, you must know that Wu Guo has raised tens of thousands of war horses in Dianchi Lake, and I don't know what they fed the horses, all of them are as tall as Liangzhou horses! What a heavenly Mahler! Ehuan's non-stop muttering was not a point.

But Wang Ping heard the point stiffly, and secretly thought in his heart, 'Wu Guo has raised so many war horses in Dianchi, but why are their war horses so tall and not at all like the war horses ridden by the Wudang Flying Army!' Wang Ping, who couldn't think of a reason, had to hide this bit of in his heart, took out a cowhide water bag and poured a mouthful of water.

Waiting for the 3,000 Wudang Fei Army and the more than 2,000 Han Zhong Army to all walk out of the valley road, and at this time all fell to the ground to rest or drink water to rest, Wang Ping stood up and put his arm around the neck of E Huan, who was a head taller than him, and whispered: "Da Sima has a life, let's divide the troops after a day's rest, are you a cavalry?" When talking about the cavalry, Wang Ping's expression was so weird and weird, "The marching speed is fast, you lead the headquarters to march quickly to capture Tongguan." And I led the army to Kasakatsu, remember to make more noise along the way! ”

Although the two of them have Wudang Feijun, Wang Ping and E Huan are not Zhuge Liang's descendants, but Xu Shu's favorite generals, there is no way who calls Xu Shu is a big Sima and a poor family, and he is born in a cold family, so these cold generals are congenitally close to him. This E Huan and Wang Ping are Xu Shu's long-awaited backers.

In the past, Wang Ping participated in the Battle of Weinan with Xiahou Yuan, and even when Xu Huang smuggled into Pu Hanjin, he was obeying orders in the army, and it was precisely because he knew this that Xu Shu was so relieved that Wang Ping only took 2,000 soldiers and horses to attack Pu Hanjin. And Ehuan occupies Tongguan is simpler, Tongguan is located in the east of the Guanzhong Plain, located in Qin, Jin, Henan Province to rush the place, and the Hangu Pass at the east entrance of the ancient road of Cuihan is far away The situation of Tongguan is very dangerous, there are Qinling Mountains in the south. There is a forbidden valley in the southeast, and there are 12 cities in the south of the valley; There are Wei and Luo Erchuan in the north, and the Yellow River hugs down, and the west is near Huayue. The surrounding mountains are even mountains, peaks are even peaks, the valleys are deep and the precipices are exclusive, the mountains are high and the roads are narrow, and there is a narrow sheep intestine path in the middle, and only one car and one horse can be allowed to go back and forth.

It stands to reason that it should be very difficult to attack, but thanks to Cao Rui's order, Sanfu and Tongguan's guards have been transferred to Cao Zhen, and Xiahou Mao, the Zhenxi general of Wei, is even more straw bag as the supreme commander of Chang'an, when the Shu Han army attacked, he packed up his only 5,000 soldiers to cage the city and defend himself, and gave up Sanfu, Tongguan, and Weinan near Chang'an. (After Cao Pi succeeded to the throne.) Because Cao Pi and Xiahou Nan were friendly, he was named the general of Anxi, holding the festival, and supervising Guanzhong after Xiahou Yuan)

"Okay, then Lao Tzu will go to fight Tongguanle, I don't know how many defenders there are in Tongguan, Lao Tzu is not enough to fight Le!!" E Huan readily agreed to Wang Ping's division of labor, but after agreeing, he began to chatter again.

The terrain of Tongguan is steep because there are high mountains on both sides, and the reason for Xu Shu's arrangement is that Ehuan's Wudang Flying Army runs through the mountain. However, hearing E Huan's question, Wang Ping rolled his eyes helplessly and said, "E Huan, can you not add a strangle to every sentence!" Got it! Phew!! Wang Ping accidentally added a strangle to the end of the sentence.

"Howler!" As soon as E Huan subconsciously said it, he saw Wang Ping's murderous gaze, and immediately smirked and touched his head: "Remember, you haven't told me how many Wei troops there are in Tongguan?" ”

"How do I know, but according to the informant, Tongguan originally only had a little more than a thousand guards, and now another batch has been transferred, I'm afraid there are only a few hundred people!"

"Okay, I'll set off tomorrow to take Tongguanle!! (To be continued......)