Hua An nodded, slowly walked to the front of the Sword Pavilion guard, stretched out his hand to pull out the strip of cloth in his mouth, and said: "Wherever my Great Jin King Shi went, the generals guarding the pass have surrendered, and you are the only one who is unwilling to surrender, why is this?" ”

"Ben will receive the great grace of the first emperor, swear not to surrender, if you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect, hum!" The Sword Pavilion guards will look very dignified.

"Yes, a loyal servant." Hua An opened his mouth and praised it, and said softly: "If the generals of Shuzhong are as loyal as the generals, how can the general's army step into Liangzhou, and the generals of all the passes in Shuzhong have surrendered, can the generals know the reason?" ”

The defenders of the Sword Pavilion raised their eyebrows and said loudly: "They are all this group of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, traitors seeking glory, hateful, hateful. ”

Hua An smiled, shook his head and said: "The general is wrong, the reason why the generals of Shuzhong surrendered is because Li Shi is arrogant and unsympathetic to the people's feelings, and the people of Shu are already dissatisfied, so naturally they will not work for the blood of the dumb mainstream." ”

"Hmph......" The Sword Pavilion guard did not refute, he understood that what Hua An said was the truth, but in his heart, it was difficult for the believer to accept the surrender of the 'loyal ministers and two masters' for a while.

Seeing that the Sword Pavilion guard in front of him was a loyal and righteous person, Hua An couldn't bear to cause harm, stretched out his hand, and said softly: "Come on, loosen the tie, prepare a war horse and a bag of dry food for him, let him go!" After speaking, he walked with Li Guang and the others to the gate tower of Sword Pavilion Pass.

The two soldiers untied the guards of the Sword Pavilion, prepared war horses and dry food for him according to Hua An's requirements, and opened the north gate of the Sword Pavilion, allowing him to freely enter the northern part of Liangzhou. But they can't go to the direction of Chengdu.

"General Hua, why did you let him go, he refused to surrender!" Li Guang asked in a low voice as he walked.

Hua An looked at Li Guang and teased: "It's rare to have such a loyal minister in Shu, and I can't bear to do harm!" ”

When Li Guang and the generals behind him heard this, they all bowed their heads and said nothing, but it could be seen from their expressions that they were in a bad mood.

The area of the Sword Pavilion Pass is not large, but the city wall is very high. Hua An and a group of generals took Li Guang and others to climb the wall of Jiange Pass. Start admiring the nearby landscape.

The Sword Pavilion Pass is built on the mountain, and the two sides of the level that are several zhang high are vertical steep cliffs, and the height of the cliff is nearly 100 zhang, looking up and looking up. It feels like it's in the sky.

Such a tall Sword Pavilion Pass. and steep cliffs on both sides of the level. made Hua An's heart broaden all of a sudden, and the magic of nature made Hua An feel that people were so small.

At the same time, he sighed even more, if he hadn't captured Li Guang, the king of Han in Shu, alive. Using Li Guangyu to open the Sword Pavilion Pass, the tens of thousands of troops under his command are really difficult to break through the Sword Pavilion Pass, and even lose a lot of horses, and it is difficult for Shu Dao to go to the blue sky, which is really the truest portrayal here.

Seeing that Hua An was engrossed in observing the scenery around the Sword Pavilion, Li Guang stepped forward and said softly: "General Hua, less than a hundred miles south from here, is Zitong City, the capital of Zitong County. ”

Hua An smiled, looked at Li Guang, and said happily: "Haha! That's great, I knew that the king of Han could persuade the city passes along the way to return to Shun so smoothly, and the general would not have to bring so many troops. ”

"Our army marched so smoothly, and the king of Han contributed a lot." Wang San also praised loudly.

Being praised by Hua'an and Wang San, Li Guang was very happy, nodded again and again, and said: "The mandate of heaven cannot be violated, the will of heaven is like this, and it is just a little bit of a small effort." ”

Hua An patted Li Guang's shoulder heavily, and said loudly: "Our army is approaching Chengdu, and there are four big cities along the way: Zitong, Fucheng, Mianzhu, and Ruxian, all of which depend on the King of Han, and the King of Han should not let the general down." ”

"Haha, definitely, definitely, I must go all out to share the worries of the general and the Great Jin Kingdom." Li Guang hurriedly expressed his position.

Hua An smiled, turned around and walked towards the city, and began to arrange the defense of the Sword Pavilion, because the conditions here are very good, it can be said that it is a man who is not open, for this reason, Hua An only sent two hundred subordinates, responsible for guarding here, and the rest of the men and horses, including the surrendered Shu army, all went to the south of the Sword Pavilion to camp, and then prepared to continue to advance.

Due to the rugged and difficult passage of the Jiange Pass, it took a whole day for the army and logistics personnel of Hua'an to completely pass the Guò level.

After a day's rest, Hua An led his army to continue to march south, marching towards Zitong City, which was less than a hundred miles away.

The road from Jiange to Zitong is more rugged and difficult, some low-lying sections are full of muddy water, the hooves of the war horse will often fall into the mud and cannot be pulled out, and the soldiers on the horse have to jump off the war horse and work together with the beloved war horse to get out of the muddy road.

In some steep slopes, the baggage truck could not drive up normally at all, and the strength of the two oxen and the three soldiers was too weak, so the baggage battalion had to slow down the march, so that the soldiers driving helped each other, and more than a dozen soldiers pulled forward and backward, and finally could barely pull the baggage truck up to a high place.

The infantry also struggled to move through the mud, and many of the soldiers' feet were blistered, painful and itchy.

On some of the roads built along the steep mountain walls, the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army were even more frightened, and some soldiers did not pay attention and fell to the bottom of the cliffs hundreds of feet deep and disappeared without a trace.

However, most of the soldiers followed the road and marched towards Zitong City step by step, and when the team reached a position less than twenty miles away from Zitong City, the road became much wider and the road condition was much better, and the soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Hua'an let the army camp in place, prepared to rest for the night, and then marched to Zitong City on the second day.

The journey was extremely difficult, but finally came, Hua An's mood was complicated, he found a big rock on a small hill and sat down, thinking carefully, all kinds of situations encountered along the way.

"Big brother, fortunately, our army is on foot, if you take an animal-powered cart, it will not be a carry-on person, but a person-cart, look at the brothers in the baggage battalion, how tired they are, haha!" Iron Bull laughed twice and stretched out his hand to the baggage battalion soldiers lying on the ground.

Hua An looked at Tie Niu's direction, and sure enough, he found the difference, the soldiers under Tie Niu's command were all sitting on the ground resting, while the soldiers of the baggage battalion in charge of logistics were all lying on the ground, looking obviously tired.

Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth, looked at Tie Niu, and said, "Tie Niu, do your subordinates look very energetic?" Rest for half an hour, let them go and help the brothers in the baggage camp to set up the tents, and in the future, if they encounter a rough and difficult road, ask your men to help push the cart, remember. ”

"Yes, big brother, I remember." Tie Niu reluctantly responded.

"Look, let you talk more, it's good now!" Wang San opened his mouth and sneered.

Iron Bull snorted, turned and ran to another hill to inspect his surroundings.

Wang San walked to Hua An's side, sat down next to Hua An, and said softly: "Big brother, the road in Shuzhong is really rugged and difficult!" This is worse than we originally thought. ”

"Yes! Many sections of the road are obviously in disrepair, and they can no longer be called roads, how can such an important road be abandoned? . Hua An opened his mouth and took advantage of it.

"As the lord of Shu State, Li Shi does not build roads for the people, which is really mediocre, and it seems that he is really exhausted." Wang San Zhengse said.

Hua An nodded and said, "Li Shi is dim, if he doesn't build roads for the people, we can't follow in his footsteps!" As long as Shu is destroyed and the imperial court orders our army to defend Liangzhou, we must repair the road from Liangzhou to Yizhou, and if possible, build a few more roads to increase the connection between the counties in Shu.

"Yes! Big brother, when the time comes, Liangzhou and Yizhou will be connected, and the roads will be vertical and horizontal, isn't that another Saiwai Jiangnan? My national strength of Dajin must have increased greatly! ”

Hua An looked around and said softly: "As long as my generation works hard, within three or five years, the roads in Shuzhong will be greatly improved, and the lives of the common people will also be improved a lot." ”

"Well, we'll wait until that day." Wang San nodded.

After the tent was set up, Hua An and the generals returned to their respective tents, and the soldiers who had been tired for a day also began to rest.

Hua'an was in the big tent of the Chinese army, looking at the topographic map of Shuzhong on the case, and began a detailed study, Hua'an studied not only how the army should attack, but also considered that once the Shu State was destroyed, how to build in Liangzhou, how to repair roads, how to distribute water sources, how to reclaim fertile land, where to put pastures, these various construction matters, all made Hua'an exhausted.

"General Hua, this is a letter of persuasion written below, you can look at it first." Just when Hua'an was considering the construction of Shuzhong, Li Guang gently walked into the big tent and handed over the letter he had just written to Hua'an.

"King Han, don't stand, please take a seat." Hua An hurriedly beckoned Li Guang to sit down, and at the same time took the letter in Li Guang's hand and read it carefully.

At the same time, it was pointed out that the Great Jin Dynasty is orthodox in the world, and to submit to the Great Jin Dynasty is to obey the will of heaven and obey the people's will, and even, in the article, he also praised Hua An, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, so that Hua An's head felt more comfortable.

Hua An smiled, looked at Li Guang, and said softly: "King Han's letter of persuasion is really well written!" I believe that the county guard of Zitong County will definitely submit to my Great Jin after seeing it. ”

"Thank you for the general's praise, then send someone to send the letter to Zitong City now?" Li Guang asked softly.

"Okay, King Han, go and prepare!" Hua An said, handing the letter in his hand to Li Guang's hand.

Li Guang took the letter of persuasion written by himself, left the Chinese army's tent in Hua'an, and immediately sent a henchman to send the letter to Zitong City. (To be continued......)