It has to be admitted that before arriving at Yangping Pass in person to reconnaissance the terrain, Li Su always had an inertial mind in his mind, that is, he mistakenly believed that Yangping Pass was a gateway to block the northern army from entering Sichuan.

In this case, Yangping Pass should be directly crossing the middle of the road along the Chencang Road and Qishan Road, and cut off all contacts. Anyone who wants to go south must pass through the gate of the Pass before he can enter Sichuan.

But after seeing it in person, he found that this was not the case. The road was forked in a herringbone shape. Yangping Pass was at the tip of this herringbone shape. The road from the northwest would pass through the pass, and the road from the southeast would pass through the pass.

But as long as you don’t want to enter Hanzhong and you just pass by, Yangpingguan will not hinder you at all - this is just a gateway to enter Hanzhong, and it will not affect pure passers-by.

"But why did Yangping Pass stand in this place? Isn't this leaving a loophole for those who smuggled south?" Li Su couldn't help thinking.

But he quickly realized that this was because the ancients who made Yangping Pass did not know where the threat they had to be guarded for came from, whether the enemy came from the south or the north.

Because you must know that in the pre-Qin period, the Qin State took Hanzhong early and Bashu later, which means that at that time, Hanzhong was one with Guanzhong in the north, rather than with Shu County and Ba County in the south.

If Yangping Pass is built on the stroke from the north of the herringbone, it will be convenient to guard against the enemy coming from Guanzhong, but when the enemy comes from Bashu, it will have no defense. Similarly, when practicing on the stroke from the herringbone, you can defend against the enemy coming from the south, but you cannot defend against the enemy coming from the north.

Looking at the geographical situation in front of him and thinking about these things in a comprehensive way, Li Su finally suddenly realized: "I was negligent! I should have thought of it long ago. In history, it was not just Cao Cao who destroyed Zhang Luzhong and destroyed Shu Han, and it was necessary to attack Yangping Pass. When Liu Bei fought against Hanzhong with Cao Cao, Liu Bei came from the south, and didn't he also attack Yangping Pass!

It was only after the battle of Dingjunshan to kill Xiahou Yuan from the south. Since Yangping Pass was to attack Yangping Pass from the south and north, Yangping Pass of course only thought that it was mainly to provide defense for Hanzhong and defense for Shu Road as a supplement."

In fact, in history, with the formation of the confrontation pattern of "Hanzhong and Shu County" integration, the Shu Han regime set up another checkpoint south of Yangping Pass, called "Yang'an Pass".

Later, rumor was spread throughout the dynasties. In modern times, the place name "Yang'an Pass" was "Yangpingguan Town", which was used until the 21st century. However, the real Yangpingguan was called "Guyangpingguan".

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After understanding all the geographical cause and effect, Li Su had a question in his mind, and he discussed with Liu Bei and Lu Su in a discussion tone:

"Brother, Zijing, do you think that since Yangping Pass has not been cut off from the road to Sichuan, if the Guanzhong warlords fight with Yizhou in the future, will the army from the north be able to bypass Yangping Pass and go directly to the south to attack the hinterland of Yizhou?"

Li Su just asked this question casually and said whatever he thought of.

Liu Bei laughed directly when he heard this: "How is it possible? This is a long way to Shu County. Even if you smuggle through Yangping Pass, you can still smuggle through Baishui Pass and Jiange? Stealing is impossible to achieve great things. You must fight one by one.

Otherwise, after the army passed, the defenders in Yangping Pass would only need to go forward for a few miles and cut off your return and food routes. Whether the army from the north was blocked in the Maming Pavilion Road or the Jiange Road, they would not be able to advance or retreat. There was only a plank road under your feet, and you would starve to death after the food was exhausted."

Li Su also quickly realized that he was anxious about this question, and with his IQ thinking a little longer, he would not ask.

He laughed awkwardly for a few seconds in self-deprecatingly, but soon inspired another possibility: "Hey! Wait, but if the army needs to protect the food route and cannot sneak through, then the small group of people are just to enter Sichuan, then they can always sneak through, right?"

Liu Bei and Lu Su did not answer immediately, but carefully observed the terrain of the road in front of Guanzhou, and then nodded and admitted: "The Guan wall is two miles away from the intersection of the north and south roads. There is no problem with the merchant group of hundreds of people stolen it."

Li Su's brain was running rapidly, and he tried his best to lean on the angle of "how to lure the enemy out of the pass and annihilate the enemy". After racking his brains for a long time, his hair was slightly pulled off. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed, integrating all the prerequisites.

"My plan is done! I have a way to lure Zhang Wei's main force out of the pass and fight with us!"

Liu Bei and Lu Su suddenly stood up and looked at Li Su with incredible eyes: Damn? Can this be done?

How can I cheat this? Can I cheat Zhang Wei into Alzheimer's disease with cerebral thrombosis?

Liu Bei was stunned for a while before he came to his senses, and hurriedly held Li Su's hands: "Brother, let's talk!"

Li Su pointed to the road ahead of the pass: "Your Majesty, the mission you give you this time is different. Your Majesty asked your brother to destroy the Mi thief Zhang Lu and pacify Hanzhong. He ordered me to spy on Liu Yan's true thoughts. After Zhang Lu pacified, he would hit Liu Yan again.

Since this is the case, we can first change the order of the task: keep the mission of attacking Zhang Lu confidential first, don’t show any signs, pretend that my brother’s army is all in the lower direction, and detour against Han Sui.

But I went to Sichuan with the title of General of the Central Army and condemned Liu Yan. I could bring five hundred guards or a thousand guards with me, and pass by Yangping Pass at night, pretending to go straight to Maming Pavilion Road to Baishui Pass.

As we all know, Baishui Pass and Zitong are not areas where rice thieves are chaotic, but areas with good deeds under Liu Yan's rule. Therefore, as long as I can sneak to Baishui Pass, Liu Yan will never dare to kill me again.

Because as long as I die in Baishui Pass and even further south, the nature will change. Liu Yan no longer hides the secrets and intercepts the Han envoy through Zhang Lu, but instead he personally pulls the flag to rebel against the Han Dynasty! Now that Your Majesty is still there, will Liu Yan dare to take the blame for this world?

Even if Liu Yan wanted to kill me secretly, could not one of my missions run back? As long as one of them returned to Luoyang, Liu Yan would be the number one rebel in the world. Therefore, as long as Liu Yan was not stupid, he would have repeatedly instructed Zhang Lu to kill the Han envoy in the occupied area before Baishui Pass. In this way, even if the deputy envoy of the missions, he would follow the people and escape from the mountains and rivers to escape back to the north, he would not frame Liu Yan for the murder of the envoy!"

Before Li Su and Liu Bei went south this time, Emperor Ling of Han actually sent two groups of envoys to investigate the situation in Yizhou, but they were killed on Zhang Lu's territory before they even reached Liu Yan's directly controlled area.

But every time, there were armed guards in the mission who escaped back alive. The reason why they couldn't catch Liu Yan was because Liu Yan chose the geographical location of the crime so well, without revealing flaws, and he used a knife to kill people perfectly.

Liu Yan is good at acting, while Li Su is better at acting than him!

I also pretended to be sure, "As long as I enter the area directly under Liu Yan's control, Liu Yan would not dare to kill me." So I learned from the lessons of the first two groups of killed envoys and smuggled through Yangping Pass!

The mission of about a thousand people did not need to consider the retreat route and the food route. After Zhang Wei found out that Li Su had passed, he cut off the road in front of the pass and set up additional camps and set up a checkpoint, which was useless at all.

Such a small amount of food can be brought with you, and you can also show the imperial court's talisman collection along the way, so that the local government can provide it with it, and even pay for the money to buy food and eat.

When Li Su said this, Liu Bei was still thinking about this idea, while Lu Su had already reacted.

Lu Su slammed into a high-high and exclaimed: "If this could be done, wouldn't Zhang Wei have to send troops to pursue Zhonglang crazily, in order to intercept you before Zhonglang escapes from Maming Pavilion! So Zhang Wei's main force guarding the pass has to take the initiative to go out of the pass and fight!"

Without knowing that there were large troops more than a hundred miles away from the northwest, Zhang Wei did not feel any risks of military research. Of course, he did not dare to take the blame of "inadvertently allowing the delegation to sneak past the border before the pass", and he definitely wanted to make up for his mistakes!

After Zhang Wei rushed to Li Su and arrived at the Maming Pavilion Road, Liu Bei led his army from the northwest and marched quickly to Yangping Pass to block the retreat of Zhang Wei to retreat into the pass!

Then Zhang Wei was double-screwed in Ma Ming Pavilion by Li Su and Liu Bei, and it was Zhang Wei's turn to be clamped into a thousand-layer cake.

However, there is a dilemma to really implement this plan.

First of all, Liu Bei insisted on the current confidentiality measures and prevented Zhang Wei from alerting that there was a large army a hundred miles away from the north, and he had to ensure that he marched urgently at that time. Before Zhang Wei could react, he would rush 150 miles from Hechi to Yangping Pass to attack!

Secondly, Li Su as bait, he cannot bring too many soldiers around him. He must be in line with his identity as a delegation. If there are too many soldiers, he will scare away the enemy. Too few soldiers will easily make the enemy strong. He feels that he can annihilate it by sending a few thousand people, and cannot lure too many guards.

In this way, the danger of Li Su's bait is quite great. If the troops around him are not elite enough, they will not be able to support Liu Bei's army to intercept Zhang Wei's retreat, and Li Su will be killed by Zhang Wei.

And even if Liu Bei intercepted him in place, if Zhang Wei felt that he had already broken the net and wanted to kill Li Su, the culprit who cheated him so badly before he died, it would be possible that he would be furious to attack him crazily and pull Li Su to death together.

"This... this plan is too dangerous. How can I let my brother pretend to be a delegation and go deep into the enemy's back as bait? Just a mere Yangping Pass, we can only attack slowly and fill in with the soldiers..."

Liu Bei still felt a little reluctant and couldn't let his buddy take risks. He knew that Li Su had no martial arts skills.

Li Su advised: "Brother, don't worry. At most, my entourage, the thousand entourages, will be the elite troops in the army, and everyone will wear armor. If you send a few more generals to protect me. Even if Zhang Wei is really crazy, the army will chase me, will I still be unable to escape with a few people? I will use normal methods to attack Yangping Pass, and I may not be able to attack in a few years."

Liu Bei struggled in pain for a while and sighed: "Since that's the case, let Zilong select a thousand cavalry, and everyone escorted his brother, Dian Wei, and Zhou Tai. Alas, it's a pity that Ziyi was in Donglai, Yide was injured again, and Yun Chang also led the main force to solve the problem.

If Zhang Wei chased his brother, it would be really fierce, and it wouldn't matter if he had abandoned his army and fled with a few confidant generals. Although these thousand elite soldiers were precious, they were nothing in comparison. I would like to exchange for my brother the most carefully selected good horse..."

"No! Don't! The most important thing is to ride a horse smoothly!" Even though Li Su was not superstitious, he almost scared when he heard this.

If Liu Bei was asked to send him a horse, wouldn’t it be Pang Tong’s Flegg? That would be too unlucky!

This matter cannot be agreed!

Li Su not only refused to change the horse, but also thought to himself: "When you really go deep into the enemy's back as bait, you must let Dian Wei Zhoutai stay away from the left half a step, and let Zhao Yun go out to explore the way. You must see clearly whether the terrain on both sides is easily ambushed. No word on the cliff can be missed. Anyway, Luofengpo is not here."
Chapter completed!