[The order of the two chapters was reversed yesterday, sorry!]
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Yang Xiuying immediately realized that the Queen Mother must have some news. He quickly invited Xu Shiqi into the backyard. Xu Shiqi took out a folded edict and handed it to Yang Xiuying, "This is the Queen Mother's secret order to His Highness the King of Jin. Please Commander Yang forward it to the Jin Dynasty."
Your Highness!"
Yang Xiuying was overjoyed. The King of Jin had mentioned this secret edict several times and finally got it. He quickly took the secret edict and said, "I will send someone to Hanzhong right now!"
Xu Shiqi added: "Today Ju Wenzhen and the others are going to kidnap the Queen Mother and the Emperor south. Commander Yang, please send someone to follow. If there is anything urgent, you can contact us at any time."
Yang Xiuying nodded, "Eunuch Xu, please rest assured, I will follow you south personally, and I will also find a way to contact Eunuch Xu."
Xu Shiqi did not dare to stay outside the palace for a long time, so he said goodbye and left. Yang Xiuying immediately sent people to Hanzhong to deliver the Queen Mother's secret edict to the King of Jin.
There are three main roads into Sichuan from Hanzhong, namely Jinniu Road, Micang Road and Litchi Road. Jinniu Road is the main road. It goes south from Mian County, Hanzhong and can go directly to Chengdu. Large armies entering Sichuan basically take this road.
Jinniu Road is also called Jianmen Shu Road, and the most dangerous place is Jianmen Pass.
The mountain where Jianmen Pass is located is called Dajian Mountain, also known as Jianmen Mountain. It looks like a natural stone gate split with a knife, stretching in front of you. There are many high mountains here, deep ditches and fast water.
Jianmen Mountain tilts unevenly to the southeast, with steep northern slopes and gentler southern slopes. These geological characteristics make Jianmen Mountain unique and dangerous.
Viewed from the front, this stone wall is like a natural city wall with copper and iron walls, blocking the thousands of miles of mountains coming from the Qinling Mountains and blocking the steps coming from the Central Plains.
Viewed from the side, it looks like a giant wave that fills the sky; viewed from the back, it looks like a group of galloping horses, making all intruders intimidated.
The steep stone walls on both sides of Dajian Mountain stretch for hundreds of miles, forming a natural city wall. They suddenly break off at the Jianmen Pass, leaving a long and narrow pass. The two cliffs of the pass are towering, like knives and axes. This pass has become the entrance to Sichuan.
The must-pass road is known as "the most powerful pass in the world" and "the most dangerous gate in the world".
Since the Jin army had already occupied Hanzhong, the Shence Army was afraid that the Jin army would continue to move south, so they deployed 8,000 soldiers to guard Jianmen Pass. Jianmen Pass was narrow, and of course there was no room for 8,000 troops to stand. Even on the slope behind, they could not deploy more than 8,000 soldiers.
There are more than a thousand people, and the army is mainly stationed in Jianmen County at the foot of the mountain dozens of miles away.
Jianmen Pass actually has two lines of defense. The first is Dajian Pass, also known as Jianmen Pass. The mountain road here is steep and difficult to navigate. Coming from the north, you need to climb up. The elevation angle is nearly 70 degrees. It is an easy to defend but difficult place.
Attack the ground.
Next is the Xiaojian garrison, which is located thirty miles north of Dajian Pass. The terrain here is more dangerous and one must walk through the plank road. There are not many soldiers, only about thirty people.
The main function of the small sword garrison is to provide early warning. Once an army attacks, they will immediately beat the thundering drum and notify the Dajian Pass thirty miles away. The Dajian Pass will immediately enter a fighting state.
The terrain is so dangerous that even hundreds of thousands of people would never be able to capture Jianmen Pass.
Although the army was heavily guarding the area, merchants traveling from north to south were not prohibited, and there was still an endless stream of merchants passing through the Great and Small Sword Passes every day.
That morning, a caravan consisting of more than a hundred mules and horses was walking towards Xiaojianzhu. But in front of the caravan was a charming woman riding a donkey, with her maid leading the way.
The donkey walks.
The plank road was built on a stone cliff, with a river below it. A pergola was built on a slightly sunken place on the cliff. The pergola was filled with soldiers. To the west of the pergola was a huge, thundering drum.
It gives the impression that there has been no enemy invasion at Jianmen Pass for decades, so this big drum should not have been beaten for decades. The big drum is covered with dust, and maybe spiders have built webs on it, but in fact, this drum has not been beaten for decades.
There was a lot of wear and tear, and the drumsticks were replaced one after another, and the system was strict. The drumsticks were specially kept by the school captain, and you could not play the drums as you pleased.
At this time, a soldier suddenly spotted the beauty riding on a donkey and exclaimed, "Here comes a beauty!"
All the soldiers sitting under the arbor got up and ran over. It was rare to see women here all year round. What the soldiers wanted most was to save some money and go to the brothel in Jianmen County to vent their anger.
Suddenly a charming beauty appeared. The soldiers were like flies that smelled the smell of fresh feces. They rushed towards her and crowded on the plank road. They stared at the charming woman and couldn't help but salivate.
Flow down.
"Everyone, come back to me!"
The captain gave a sharp shout, but none of the soldiers moved. This woman was as beautiful as a picture, round where she should be, round where she should be, and with an extremely hot body. She was simply a one-in-a-million beauty. Thirty soldiers were stunned.
Living.
At this time, Meijiao Niang came to the soldiers. She smiled seductively and said, "Are you going to have to search me in the past?"
The soldiers were waking up from a dream and shouted excitedly: "Search! Search! Take off all clothes and search!"
Meijiao Niang's eyes showed a murderous intent. She suddenly rose into the air and passed over the soldiers' heads. Her sword was unsheathed, a cold light flashed, five or six heads left their necks, and blood spurted out.
The captain was so angry that he stamped his feet. He was striding forward to catch the soldiers, but something happened suddenly. The woman actually killed someone. He was shocked. He instinctively turned around and rushed towards the drum stand. Suddenly he thought of the drumsticks. He turned around and rushed to a big rock.
Then he touched the iron-wood drumstick and turned towards the big drum.
Mei Jiaoniang is none other than Ying Caihe. This southern expedition to Chengdu involves protecting the Queen Mother and the young emperor, so Ying Caihe needs to take action. She takes the initiative to take over the important task of seizing the small sword garrison for the scouts behind. As for Jianmen Pass, if
She will take action only when the scouts really can't take it.
Ying Caihe landed lightly and rushed behind dozens of soldiers. She stabbed three swords in succession, each sword piercing the back of the enemy soldier's neck.
Ying Caihe was a notorious female devil who was ruthless and ruthless. She killed eight enemy soldiers in the blink of an eye. This was also due to her Zhanlu sword, which was as sharp as iron and mud.
, easily chopped off the heads of five soldiers.
Ying Caihe turned around and saw the other captain rushing toward the big drum with a drumstick in his hand. She waved her hand and four poison-quenching gold needles were neatly nailed on the back of the captain's neck. The captain was still two steps away from the big drum.
Hei lost consciousness in his legs and fell to the ground with a thud. The drumstick fell out of his hand and rolled more than ten feet away. He spun around on the edge of the wood and finally fell off the plank road.
At this time, the young businessmen behind drew their swords and came to kill them. The leader was the scout general Zhou Fei. In the blink of an eye, seven more people died under Ying Cai's sword. She was vicious and killed them all with one sword.
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The remaining fifteen soldiers were so frightened that they knelt down and surrendered, begging for their lives.
Ying Caihe hated these soldiers for teasing him. He didn't care whether the other party surrendered or not. He chopped off four more heads with his sword. When he hit the fifth head, there was a sound of 'Dang!' and Zhou Fei's sword blocked her.
sword.
"They have surrendered, no more killing!"
Even Zhou Fei felt that although this woman was powerful, she had too much desire to kill and she did whatever she wanted without following any rules.
Zhou Fei saw Ying Caihe's eyebrows raised, obviously not ready to blame him, he hurriedly said: "We need to torture the intelligence alive!"
This sentence made sense, and the murderous intent in Ying Caihe's eyes gradually faded away.
"Disciple, let's go!"
She mounted her donkey and headed north with her apprentice. The sword gate closed her door and left her alone.
Ying Caihe left, and Zhou Fei led his men to quickly take over the small sword garrison. There were thirty-one people in total, and Ying Caihe killed twenty of them, including the leader Xiaowei.
Zhou Fei secretly sighed, this Yingcaihe could only be used once in a while, it was too cruel to kill people.
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By interrogating the captured soldiers, Zhou Fei obtained information about Jianmen Pass. There were actually 8,000 troops stationed at Jianmen Pass, but there were only 1,000 permanent soldiers, while there were only dozens of soldiers in Jiange Pass, and the other soldiers were stationed behind.
There are more than a hundred large tents on the gentle slope.
Zhou Fei simply used stones to lay out the layout of Jianmen Pass, and he immediately had a plan in his mind to capture Jianmen Pass.
At this time, he asked another important confession. Every night at 3:30 p.m., that is, at 5:30 p.m., the small sword garrison must beat the drum eighty-one times continuously. When Jianmen Pass hears the drum sound, it will be closed.
At the quarter hour of the next day, the small sword garrison will also beat the drum eighty-one times in a row, and the sword gate will be opened.
Zhou Fei looked around for the drumstick and found that the drumstick fell into the rock crack under the plank road. They spent a lot of effort to fish the drumstick up. At this time, there was still an hour and a half before the drum sounded in the evening. They
You must get to Jianmen Pass before the drum sounds.
Time did not wait for us, so Zhou Fei left twenty men to guard the small sword garrison, while he led eighty of the most elite soldiers, pretending to be members of a huge caravan, and accelerated towards Jianmen Pass.