The grain officer fled back to the Jin army camp in embarrassment, and told Yuan Hua about the robbery of the grain before and after, after Yuan Hua listened, he sneered a few times, turned around, and walked to the grain officer, suddenly, pulled out his sword, and immediately cut the grain officer to the ground, spat at him, and scolded: "Phew! You still have the face to come back!" Xu Chao stepped forward to ask for his life, and asked: "Do you want to lead a group of soldiers and horses to chase the grain and grass back?" Yuan Hua waved his hand and replied: "The Qing army is taking a small road, which is winding and complicated, and you can't catch up." Xu Chao asked again, "Then do you want to send more troops and horses to guard the grain road?" Yuan Hua pondered for a moment, and suddenly a thought flashed, and said: "The widow is suddenly thinking, the Qing army has enough food and grass, why should they take the risk to rob our army rations? If this is the case, the widow must not be fooled by him, and the widow should concentrate his superior forces to attack the Qing army!" Xu Chao nodded and said: "Emperor Shengming, the Qing army does have such thoughts. After a pause, he was a little embarrassed, and said: "But the grain and grass in the army have become increasingly scarce, and it can't support it for a few days, but the Qing army on the opposite side is stubbornly holding on without fighting, and if this continues, we will be starved to death!" Yuan Hua replied: "The Qing army is stubborn and does not fight, we will force them to fight, you send people to the Qing army every day to scold in front of the pass, and the widow believes that there will always be a few people who can't stand the battle." ”

Xu Chao obeyed Yuan Hua's orders, and every day sent some soldiers of the Jin army to drink wine in front of the Qing army pass, shout and scold, and provoke the Qing army on the pass. The Qing army generals in the pass listened to the insults of the Jin soldiers, and they were eager to rush down the pass immediately and chop these Jin soldiers into meat sauce. However, the general Wang Yu threw a strict order, all soldiers must stick to the pass, not to fight, anyone who fights without authorization, are punished by the army, these generals do not dare to cross the thunder pool half a step, can only turn a deaf ear to the Jin army's scolding every day. Finally one day, Zhang Shun's deputy general Fu Rong quarreled that he couldn't stand it, so he came to ask Zhang Shun for his life, and said: "General, the Jin army under the gate scolds all day long, saying that we are shrunken turtles, screaming and scolding, unbearable, I am a bloody man, I can't stand this anger, I want to go out and kill the enemy!" Zhang Shun hurriedly said: "Brother, you have always known my temper, I have long wanted to go out and cut down those beasts, but the general has an order first, let me wait to stick to the pass, anyone who fights without authorization, there is no forgiveness, I think we should wait a little longer." Fu Rong hurriedly said: "Wang Yu is a thing, he is proud of his achievements, how can the general be afraid of him? Since the general is afraid of him, then he will kill the enemy." Zhang Shun grabbed him and said, "Brother, aren't you afraid that the general will blame him?" Fu Rong broke free of him, and was about to leave, saying: "I'm not afraid of him to blame, one person does things one by one, and cutting off the head is just a big scar!" Zhang Shun thought for a while, gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and said loudly: "Stand down! Since you are going, I will not stand idly by, I will go with you!" Fu Rong turned around and said with a smile: "This is my good brother!"

Under the repeated instigation of Fu Rong, Zhang Shun led the army out of the nest. When the scolding Jin soldiers saw that the Qing army was about to come out, they were so frightened that they threw away their armor and hurriedly fled to the rear. The Qing army pursued and killed all the way, but the more they pursued, the more wrong it became, and the road became narrower and narrower. Just when Zhang Shun noticed that something was wrong and was about to withdraw the army, he only heard a cannon sound, and the battle flag of the Jin army was erected around him. The soldiers of the Jin army killed from all directions at once, Xu Chao rode a war horse, and said with a triumphant smile: "General, don't come to harm?" Zhang Shun knew that he had been ambushed, pointed at Xu Chao, and scolded loudly: "The thief will lure me out of the customs, despicable and shameless!" Xu Chao laughed and said: "The soldiers are not tired of cheating, do you want this general to teach you?" Zhang Shun was furious, and wanted to come to take his head, but was shot back by random arrows. The Qing soldiers were caught off guard, and the formation was in chaos, and six out of ten were shot by the Jin army. In the end, under Zhang Shun's hard work, he broke out of the encirclement with less than 2,000 iron cavalry and withdrew to the camp. And when he returned to the camp and asked the defenders to open the door, he found that the alarm was pulled up in the gate and the door was closed. He fixed his eyes and found that he had fallen into the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and the Jin army had already occupied the pass after he left the pass. He was in a dilemma, so he could only lead the army to retreat to the rear and apologize to Wang Yu.

Zhang Shun returned to the rear barracks, immediately asked for a thick rope to tie himself up, knelt outside the tent, and apologized to Wang Yu. At this time, Xu Ning was reporting to Wang Yu the reaction of the Jin army after the grain robbery, "After the grain and grass were robbed, the Jin army neither sent people to recover it, nor did it send additional troops and horses to protect the grain road. Wang Yu replied: "Yuanhua is trying to make a desperate bet and must destroy our army." But their grain and grass can't last a few days, and if they don't protect the grain route, they will starve to death!" After a pause, he continued to say to Xu Ning: "In the rear of the Jin army, you can't just rob the grain, but also try to destroy the baggage, attack the soldiers and horses, and you can do anything that can interfere with the Jin army." At this moment, the armor soldier rushed in and reported: "General, General Zhang Shun is kneeling outside, he said that he underestimated the enemy and lost the third pass, and apologize to you!" This news exploded in Wang Yu's mind like a thunderbolt from a sunny day. He pushed away the armorer, rushed out, and scolded: "Where is Zhang Shun? I have to cut him with a thousand knives!"

Seeing Zhang Shun binding himself and pleading guilty, Wang Yu did not feel compassion, but rushed forward in a few steps and kicked him to the ground. Zhang Shun was kicked by him, and immediately the whole person lay on the ground, and blood flowed from the corners of his mouth. Wang Yu grabbed him by the collar and asked, "I told you to defend the third pass, why did you go to war without permission?" Then, he scolded: "Do you know that when you go out to fight, the Jin army's hard work and can't even attack the pass for several days suddenly becomes easy to reach, and you kill me!" Zhang Shun cried and said: "The last general is guilty, the last general mistook the general, and killed my brothers who died in battle! General, you can kill me!" Wang Yu let go of his collar, stood up, turned his back, and said, "Okay! I have issued a strict order that anyone who goes out to fight without permission will be killed!

At this moment, a loud and powerful voice came out, "Slow-". Wang Yu looked up and saw that Lu Ji was accompanied by Xu Ning and walked over. It turned out that Xu Ning was furious when he saw that Wang Yu had lost his defense, for fear that he would kill Zhang Shun on impulse, so he invited Lu Ji to come. Lu Ji stepped forward and said to Wang Yu: "I have already heard about this matter, but I plan to interrogate and interrogate General Zhang, and at that time, it will not be too late to kill him." What do you see, general?" Wang Yu's face was gloomy, and he said angrily: "Since Your Majesty wants to spare his life, then the general has nothing to say! It's just that if the law is not correct, the army's morale is unstable, and if Your Majesty is favoritism and cheating, just spare him like this, then it will be difficult to let the soldiers have orders in the future." After saying that, he ignored everyone and left directly. Lu Ji knew Wang Yu's temper, and persuading him at this time was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, so he let him go, and he asked the armor to take Zhang Shun to the big tent of the Chinese army and interrogate him personally.

Zhang Shun was taken to the big tent of the Chinese army, and immediately knelt on the ground with a "plop", and looked back at Lu Ji several times in a row, until the cranial hemorrhage stopped. Lu Ji couldn't bear to look at it, so he hurriedly asked him to get up and asked, "Did you go to war without permission?" Zhang Shun nodded and said, "I don't have enough concentration and can't stand the provocation of the Jin army, so I went to war." Lu Ji asked, "Don't you have anything to hide?" Zhang Shun replied: "The last general's answer is true, and all the guilt will be borne by one person at the end." Lu Ji didn't speak, and asked Zhang Shun to take him down. Xu Ning saw that Lu Ji was silent, and asked, "Is Your Majesty going to kill Zhang Shun?" Lu Ji nodded and said: "If it is really as Zhang Shun said, then in order to rectify the army's morale, he has only one way to die." Xu Ning hurriedly said: "There must be a secret in this case, and I also ask Your Majesty to forgive me for a few days, and Rong Mo will find out the truth and make a decision again." Lu Ji agreed to his request.

The Jin army won the third pass without blood, and the morale was greatly boosted, and the belief in defeating the Qing army was strengthened. Xu Chao stepped forward and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, our army easily occupied the third pass and captured countless grains and grasses, all of which are your clever calculations, Your Majesty!" Yuan Hua smiled and pretended to say mysteriously: "This time our victory still depends on the merits of a certain general." The generals looked at each other, not knowing who Yuan Hua was referring to. I saw Yuan Hua clapping his hands lightly and walking out of the military tent. The man saluted the generals one by one, and kowtowed to Yuan Hua. Xu Chao was shocked and asked, "Isn't this Zhang Shun's deputy general Fu Rong?" Yuan Hua let Fu Rong calm down and smiled at Xu Chao: "That's right, he is Zhang Shun's deputy general, but not long ago he had already defected to our Jin army." Fu Rong smiled flatteringly at Xu Chao and said: "The last general has already heard of the general's name, long admiration, long admiration!" Xu Chao smiled disdainfully, turned his face away, and said: "Since you are already under the command of my Jin army, then you must be loyal, don't look at the three and four!" Fu Rong nodded again and again. Yuan Hua said to Fu Rong: "If you make this great achievement, the widow will make you the general of the former army, and reward you with a thousand taels of silver!" Fu Rong hurriedly knelt down, kowtowed and thanked him, and said: "The emperor will rebuild the last general's kindness, and the last general will definitely be loyal to the emperor wholeheartedly, go to the soup and go to the fire, and then go to the place..." Yuan Hua then stood up and said to the generals: "Now, we have enough food and grass, and our morale is greatly boosted, and the widows are going to take this opportunity to concentrate their forces, pacify the Fanyang Mountains, and annihilate the Qing army in one fell swoop!" The generals stepped forward together, vying to fight the fourth pass. Yuan Hua interrupted them and said, "No need, the widow wants to personally lead the army to attack, and he must set foot in the Fanyang Mountain Range!"

On the morning of the second day, the originally calm fourth pass sounded a burst of alarms, and after the pass, Yuan Hua personally led 50,000 Jin troops to approach the pass. I saw that Yuan Hua had a neat bun on his head, put it in a white jade crown, wearing a black tight-fitting robe inside, a pair of black armor outside, and a red robe embroidered with a dragon totem on his shoulders. Yuan Hua gently raised his palm, the Jin army immediately stopped shouting, he looked at Guan Fang, and said with a smile: "Listen to the Qing army in the city, you are not the opponent of my Jin army, you should still look to the sky and return to obedience, so as not to be ruined after breaking the pass!" "Thank you for the emperor's kindness, but I, Pu Kuang, should share the worries of the country, with me, you can't take the customs defense!" Seeing that he did not have the slightest intention of surrendering, Yuan Hua waved his horsewhip and raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, give the Qing army a little color!" Under his order, more than a dozen catapults of the Jin army appeared together, only to see thousands of fireballs constantly rushing towards the Qing army's pass, although this pass defense stretched for several miles, it also became a sea of fire. Taking advantage of the Qing army's struggle in the sea of fire, the Jin army, under the cover of siege vehicles, attacked on all fronts and rushed to the pass. Under the supervision of Pu Kuang, the Qing army desperately shot the attacking Jin army, regardless of the scorching tongue of fire around them. There were mountains of corpses on and off the city, and rivers of blood flowed like rivers. Under the cover of siege vehicle soldiers with arrows and catapults, many Jin troops rushed to the pass and set up ladders to climb the pass. The Qing army was also red-eyed, braving the rain of arrows from siege trucks, picking up the ladders of the Jin army, or lifting huge trees and boulders to smash at the Jin army. Pu Kuang walked calmly behind the Qing army, and shouted loudly: "Defend the city desperately for me, and kill all the Jin troops for me!" His demeanor did not look like he was on a battlefield at a critical juncture, but more like a stroll among the idle courts. The battle lasted for five days and five nights, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the Qing army still clung to the pass, and the Jin army was repulsed by the Qing army many group charges. Seeing that the fourth pass had not been captured for many days, and the Jin army fell into a food crisis again, Yuanhua had to stop fighting and rest, and ordered the domestic grain to be transported to the Fanyang Mountains, but he learned that the grain road had been completely destroyed, and he could only recruit craftsmen to repair the grain road.

However, the governor of the grain road, Jian Cao Ran, told him that every time the Qing army built a grain road for the craftsmen, the whole army rushed to kill, burned the grain road, and killed the craftsmen. Xu Chao once again suggested that he send troops to protect the grain route, although Yuan Hua was unwilling to do so, but for the sake of grain and grass, he could only divide the troops and garrison soldiers and horses on various grain lines to prevent the Qing army from destroying the grain route.