In the ninth chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War, it is recorded in the chapter on the land: the law of using war, there are scattered land, light land, contentious land, handover land, Qu land, heavy land, pan land, encircled land, and dead land. And the Sword Pavilion is a strategic place that integrates contention, handover and land.

Jiange City is located on the northern edge of Guanghan County, guarding the Jianmen Pass, and is an important passage connecting Yizhou with Hanzhong and its Wudu, and its strategic position is very important. The terrain is high in the northwest, low in the southeast, and there is an internal water moat, and the real city is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In the sword gate pass fifteen miles away, it is located at the break of the big sword mountain, with cliffs on both sides, straight into the sky, and the peaks and peaks lean against the sky like a sword; The cliff is broken, the two walls are opposite, its shape is like a door, so it is called "sword gate". It enjoys the reputation of "the world's danger in the sword", commonly known as "the first pass in the world", which can really be described as a one-man pass, and ten thousand people can't open it. The majestic sword gate, choking into the throat of Shu, because of its dangerous terrain, has always been a place for soldiers to fight.

The purpose of Jiang Xu's trip was to occupy the Sword Pavilion, open the Jianmen Pass, and cut off the transportation hub of Yizhou and Hanzhong.

Although the Sword Pavilion is very important, it is not valued by Liu Yan and Zhang Lu, Zhang Lu knows very well in his heart that the Sword Pavilion is the throat of Shu, and Liu Yan will definitely send heavy troops to guard it, otherwise the Sword Pavilion will be lost, and the Sword Gate Pass will definitely not be guaranteed.

And Liu Yan is just the opposite, he thinks that in front of the Sword Pavilion there is Jia Meng Pass, that is the only important place to enter Shu, for Zhang Lu, Jia Meng Pass is equivalent to his net worth, Jia Meng is lost, the Xiliang army can drive straight in, and the soldiers are under the city of Hanzhong. It is precisely because of this psychology that Liu Yan did not send heavy troops to guard the Sword Pavilion, but stationed most of the Shu army in the front line of Yuzhong and Jiangyou. In case the Western Liang army attacked Yizhou along the Qishan Mountain from Longxi.

In the Micang Mountain, dozens of miles southwest of the Sword Pavilion, a uniformly dressed alien army was advancing rapidly, the stragglers on both sides always kept a distance of a hundred paces from the main team, and the foot soldiers in the center lined up in a loose marching formation, with spearmen and halberders outside, and archers inside. Each third of them also carried a wooden shield made of rattan.

Those who know the art of war can see at a glance that this queue is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and if something happens, they will immediately turn into a sharp knife or a solid shield.

In front of the main force, there was an elite vanguard of about 5,000 people, the first one, wearing a thick Liangdang armor and a tiger helmet, he was about eighteen years old, and he was not tall. Under the sharp bones, the eyes are not big, and under the thick eyebrows, the pair of black and shiny eyes reveal a look of agility, wisdom, and fortitude.

"Major General, the general asked you to suspend the march and send scouts to explore the road first!"

Just as the young general was directing his soldiers to dig a road through the mountain, a soldier wearing elite armor caught up. Said to the young general.

When the young general heard this, he turned his head to look at the Chinese army. After seeing the nod of the commander of the Central Military Division, he immediately began to organize scouts to spread out in order to probe everything within a radius of thirty miles.

It didn't take long for a scout to come galloping from a distance, and several stragglers immediately met him and confirmed the identity of the other party. Only then did the scout get out of the way, and the scout rushed to the Chinese army in the queue, shouting at the two generals: "Report, thirty miles ahead." There are scouts of the Shu army! ”

Standing on the left side of the Central Army is a short and stout man, with extremely thick eyebrows, but small eyes, and fat lips highlighting a bit of loyalty, and next to him stands a man dressed as a scribe, with a square face slightly red, and a pair of short hair floating under his chin, looking quite heavy and heroic.

The news of the scout made the expressions of the two generals froze slightly, and cavalry appeared there, indicating that they had entered the sight of the Shu army of the Sword Pavilion, and they might encounter a battle at any time, but in this way, they would lose the purpose of attacking the Sword Pavilion.

After the soldiers of the three armies saw this, they were well-trained and lined up, with their spears and halberds slightly oblique, and their bows and crossbows were wound up in order to deal with possible sneak attacks at any time.

"Yishan, did we expose our whereabouts? The Shu army is here, the purpose is unknown, how about our main force to send a Biao army to meet and explore the reality? This was a serious argument, but it was quickly rejected by Yang Fu.

"No, the scouts of the Shu army are not here to investigate, I'm afraid there are other purposes, that Yinping path is just a statement of the mountain people, until today, it has been implemented by us, and this Sword Pavilion defender is not an immortal, how can he know the existence of the Yinping path?"

"Then what do you mean......" Jiang Xu tugged at his stiff and shiny beard and said in a long voice: "Attack and kill these scouts?" ”

"Send someone to see what they're here for, making arrangements!" Yang Fu said quickly.

Jiang Xu nodded and beckoned to Jiang Wei in front of him.

"You bring someone to touch it, see what these Shu soldiers are here for, remember, be careful!" Seeing Jiang Wei walking to him, Jiang Xu immediately ordered, he thought that Jiang Wei was the most suitable to do this, although he was very young, but he was very cautious, if he let those Qiang generals go, it was inevitable that there would be no moths.

Jiang Wei clenched the spear in his hand: "The last general will take the order!" ”

After that, he selected two elite soldiers, and suddenly rushed into the mountains and forests, and the three of them cautiously touched forward, and sneaked for more than two hours, and suddenly there was a heavy sound of horses' hooves in front of them.

Jiang Wei's eyes lit up, and with a wave of his big hand, he motioned for the others to stop moving forward and slowly ambushed in the dense weeds.

"Horse bastard, those dogs drink and eat meat there every day, but they tell us to come here to hunt!"

Jiang Wei buried his whole body in the weeds, and heard a Sichuan voice from front of him from a distance, although the language was very jerky, but he could understand it, and he secretly said in his heart: It turns out that they are hunting.

"That one said it's not Le, but the other one is a general, we are soldiers, and we only have the life of drinking soup when we go back!"

"Well, I say, what are you two boys talking about? If you can't shoot the prey, I'm afraid you won't even be able to drink the soup when you go back! ”

Just when the two of them were complaining and muttering, another voice came, and the accent didn't look like a Sichuan Shu person, but like a Xiliang accent.

Jiang Wei raised his eyes and saw that not far away, there were four soldiers dressed in Shu army costumes coming slowly, two of them were relatively forward, with a head knife hanging from their waists, holding a strong bow in their hands, and the expressions on their faces were unhappy, as if there was something troublesome lingering in their hearts, presumably these two people were the two Sichuan soldiers who had just complained about their dissatisfaction. To the right of the two Sichuan troops were four men with strong physiques, who were slowly walking in the direction of Jiang Wei at this time.

Jiang Wei's eyes lit up, and he slowly pulled out the saber on his waist, and then signaled the two soldiers next to him to get ready.

After the four people approached, Jiang Wei and the two soldiers took the lead in attacking, and immediately rushed out of the dense forest.

Those Shu soldiers only cared to check if there was any prey, but they didn't expect that there would be a sudden killing move in front of them, and they were stabbed down three people at once, and the screams were everywhere, Jiang Wei's martial arts were quite vicious, and every time they slashed down, there was no way to live, and they soon cut down the four Shu soldiers to the ground.

These changes made the remaining two sentry riders dumbfounded, and they forgot to run away for a while, and watched Jiang Wei and the three of them approach to them in a daze, until they saw the appearance of these three people clearly, they woke up like a dream, took out the short bow in their hands, and ordered them to stand in place.

There was a sneer on the corner of Jiang Wei's mouth, and he said coldly: "Catch it alive!" ”

The two relatives rushed to the front of the two Shu soldiers with a sword, and slashed the short bows of the two Shu soldiers, one for each person, but they put the knife across their necks and walked towards Jiang Wei step by step.

The two Sichuan soldiers were held against their throats by two sharp blades, their bodies did not dare to move at all, their chests rose and fell, their faces were full of horror, and their faces were extremely pale with fright.

"You are the scouts of the defenders of the Sword Pavilion?"

Jiang Wei stared at the two Shu soldiers with a cold gaze, and asked coldly, his tone was unquestionable.

The two Shu soldiers glanced at each other, and then hurriedly nodded like chickens pecking rice, worried that if they hesitated, they would be in a different place.

"How many defenders are there in the Sword Pavilion, how many people are there in your trip, come quickly, if there is half a word, a certain will not be spared!"

One of the older Shu Jun's lips squirmed a few times, as if he wanted to tell Jiang Wei about the situation, but he struggled inwardly for a moment before swallowing the words back into his stomach.

Jiang Wei sighed lightly, his eyes signaled that he would kill him, and he nodded, and with a knife, he plunged into the neck of the older Shu soldier, and the warm blood spurted out at once, spilling the face of another Shu soldier.

With the experience of the past, the surviving Shu army did not hesitate, and told Jiang Wei about the situation of the Sword Pavilion in one by one.

"General, I've said what I should say, can you let me go now?"

Shu Jun swallowed his saliva and looked at Jiang Wei with a blank eye, now people are swords and I am fish and meat, whether he lives or dies, it all depends on the young general in front of him.

Jiang Wei nodded, motioned for his follower to let go of the Shu army, and after repeatedly making sure that Jiang Wei was not joking, he immediately withdrew the ring head knife and pushed the Shu army away.

The Shu army swallowed his saliva, and walked back towards the forest in three steps, as long as he got out of this forest, he could step on the war horse, and then gallop to the Sword Pavilion, after making sure that Jiang Wei was really going to let himself go, the Shu army changed from walking slowly to trotting blindly,

Jiang Wei picked up the short bow that was thrown on the ground, quickly opened his bow and set up an arrow, aiming at the Shu army that was running in front of him, and with a crisp sound, the Shu army fell to the ground.

Jiang Wei shook his head helplessly, if it weren't for the extraordinary period, he wouldn't have killed this Shu army, but in this situation, he didn't allow any mistakes, the three of them quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and then galloped towards Jiang Xu's army. (To be continued......)