Chapter 117: Attack on Jianmen Pass

The four scenic spots of Sichuan in ancient times are: Mount Emei, which is famous for its beauty, Qingcheng, and Kuimen, which is famous for its majesticity. The last one is Jianmen Pass, which is famous for its steepness.

Jianmen Pass is located at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, in the middle of the Dajian Mountains. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Shu, saw that the terrain here was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he sent troops to hang stones in the air to build Jianmen Pass.

"The two cliffs stand against the Han Dynasty at night, and only look at the sky with their heads raised." This poem explains the importance of the geographical location of Jianmen Pass. Jianmen Pass is located in a must-pass place for Qin to enter Shu. Its strategic position is extremely important. It is a place that military strategists in history have fought for. There have been countless wars here. There have been many heroes buried their bones here, and no one can explain clearly.

The famous ones were Zhuge Liang who went out to Qishan six times. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang avoided Shu during the "Anshi Rebellion". During the Huang Chao Uprising, Emperor Xizong of Tang fled to Shu and fell ill here. He drank the mountain springs here and recovered. All of these happened here.

The great success of Qin's destruction of Bashu was also closely related to it. This is the famous story of "Stone Niu Destroyed Shu". King Huiwen of Qin adopted Sima Cuo's suggestion and was preparing to destroy Shu. Qin was very powerful at that time, so there was naturally no problem with military power. The problem was that there was no road for the army to pass. King Huiwen of Qin wrote to the King of Shu, saying that Qin had obtained a stone cow from heaven, which could produce gold at night. Qin was willing to form a friendly neighbor with Shu and present the stone cow to Shu. In addition, he also had to give the beautiful jewels to the King of Shu and asked the King of Shu to send someone to pick it up.

The King of Shu was naturally very happy to have such a great thing and sent the five powers around him to build the road. When the road was repaired, we were not a stone cow that could dung gold, nor was there beautiful women and jewelry, but only a murderous Qin army. As a result, there was no saying that Shu was destroyed by Qin, which was the origin of the "Shu Road".

Zhong Hui, a famous general from the Three Kingdoms, once led 100,000 people to attack Jianmen Pass. Jiang Wei defended Jianmen Pass with only 30,000 troops, which prevented Zhong Hui, the famous general, from stepping over the line. Li Bai once lamented that Jianmen Pass was a "one man should be the pass, but ten thousand men should not open", which was a very worthy word.

Mengge implemented a great detour strategy, swearing to attack Song in Liupanshan, and then set off after arriving at Dalizhou base camp. After three groups of troops were sent to Sichuan, they passed by here. Jianmen Pass had long fallen into the hands of the Mongols. The Mongolian army controlled this dangerous pass and could get necessary reinforcements from the Hanzhong Guanzhong. This is also an important reason why the Mongols were invincible for so many years in Sichuan.

Zhang Jue once lamented that if Jianmen Pass was still in the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty, it would be possible for them to annihilate the Mongolian army in Sichuan with the spirit of the war of resistance of Sichuan soldiers and civilians. It was precisely because Jianmen Pass was in the hands of the Mongolians that Zhang Jue and others' pressure invisibly increased a lot.

Taking back Jianmen Pass, then sweep the northern Sichuan, cut off the connection between the Mongolian army in Sichuan and the Mongolian army in Guanzhong, Hanzhong. Surrounding and annihilation has always been Zhang Jue's dream. Unfortunately, due to the insufficient troops in Sichuan, this plan could not be implemented. Until Li Jun decided to increase troops in Sichuan, recover Sichuan, and solicit Zhang Jue's opinions, the first thing Zhang Jue thought of was the plan in his dream.

After Liu Hezi and Zhang Jue entered Sichuan, they began to create conditions for attacking Jianmen Pass, so that Diaoyu City could fight. As soon as the battle of Diaoyu City ended, it meant that the gate in northern Chongqing had been completely opened and the Song army could go north in large numbers. Liu Hezi led a 100,000 army to Jianmen Pass, and Zhang Jue led 110,000 troops to western Sichuan, preparing to cut off the passage between Sichuan and Yunnan, completely isolated the Mongolian army in Sichuan, and create conditions for complete annihilation.

The setting sun beats blood, and the afterglow of the setting sun shines on the sword gate, reflecting this majestic pass into golden yellow, magnificent and particularly beautiful.

On the trail of Dajian Mountain, there was a team of great men moving forward. The number of men was large, with a large number of thousands. They were all wearing plain clothes. If they were not for their intellect, they would definitely think that they were ordinary people. If they were experts, they could see at a glance that they were definitely not ordinary people, because they walked with standard postures and were obviously well trained. They had bulging waists, needless to say, they must have weapons, and they were probably army.

Theirs are indeed the army, the elite troops of the Southern Song Dynasty. The one who led the team was not someone else, but Liu Hezi himself. He had to get the key points of attacking Jianmen Pass. He wanted to beat the Mongolians, but he could not knock down Jianmen Pass, otherwise he would not be able to achieve the purpose of mobilizing the Mongolian army in Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and therefore he had to grasp the right position.

It was precisely based on this consideration that Liu Hezi decided to sing this opera more realistically, and first brought a small army to attack, which gave the Mongols the illusion that the Southern Song Dynasty was bound to win. In that case, the enemy in Guanzhong in Hanzhong would come uninvited, so it would be easier to deal with them.

Seeing Jianmen Pass from afar, Liu Hezi sighed: "Jiange is majestic and Cui Wei, one man is the pass, ten thousand men cannot open! One man is the pass, ten thousand men cannot open! Taibai's famous line is indeed true." This is a poem about Jianmen Pass in Li Bai's "The Road to Shu" and Liu Hezi chanted it naturally when this feeling was unnatural.

Liu Hezi waved his hand and the Song army hid in the trees. Liu Hezi looked at the mountain and said, "Tell me the order. Without my order, no one is allowed to move, and no one is allowed to make a sound."

"Yes!" The personal soldiers immediately passed on his orders.

Liu Hezi checked and saw that the soldiers were following the correct answer. He was very satisfied and said, "If you have nothing to do, you will lie down and sleep to nourish your energy." After the instructions, he sat under a towering tree, leaned his back on the trunk and fell asleep.

After rushing through the mountain road for dozens of miles, he was really sleepy. Not long after, Liu Hezi fell asleep. Liu Hezi was awakened by a snoring sound. It turned out that a big soldier was sleeping soundly. When his nose wings were twitching, the snoring sounded like thunder, shaking the mountain.

Liu Hezi patted his stomach with a knife. The big soldier woke up suddenly, jumped up suddenly, grabbed the hilt of the knife, and shouted, "Who?"

"I." Liu Hezi admitted himself and said, "Your snoring is too loud, afraid that the Tartars wouldn't know we are coming? You don't have to sleep anymore, go and inspect." After explaining, he lay down and fell asleep again.

The soldier was very upset and muttered, "What's wrong with the snoring? The hero snored like thunder. I snore loudly, because I am a hero." Although he didn't want to, Liu Hezi ordered very strictly and had to obey and had to execute the order.

The moon is in the middle of the sky, and the moon is as bright as water, dyeing the earth a silvery color, and the night breeze is very comfortable.

Liu Hezi turned over and sat up, stretched his waist, and said, "I'm so dreaming of keeping someone sleeping. I'm really comfortable sleeping. I sent the order and gathered to attack."

After the order was passed, the soldiers immediately gathered and followed Liu Hezi to Jianmen Pass.

In the cold night, there was nothing except the occasional sound of scammering. Liu Hezi took his soldiers to touch the city wall. When Liu Hezi made gestures, the soldiers took out their flying claws and threw them on the city wall. He pulled them with force, held them firmly, grabbed the rope and rushed straight to the head of the city.

In order to prepare for this operation, Liu Hezi conducted targeted training on the soldiers. Naturally, the soldiers did not have any effort to get up, and they were quick to get up. They rushed to the top of the city after a while.

Liu Hezi ordered two hundred soldiers to respond outside the city, then grabbed the rope and flew up. He was as sharp as a cat, and soon got on the top of the city and joined the soldiers who went to the top of the city first.

This action was originally for acting. Perhaps God wants to make Liu Hezi play the show perfectly. As soon as Liu Hezi came to the city, a team of patrolling Mongolian soldiers drove over. There were seven or eight hundred Song soldiers on the city, and they were all elite soldiers. It was too simple to deal with this team of Mongolian soldiers. Liu Hezi would not be polite to them and shouted, "Kill!" and rushed out first.

The soldiers slept comfortably and were full of energy. They were all like tigers in the South Mountain. They rushed up and slashed and killed them. The patroling Mongolian soldiers immediately turned into meat paste.

This also alarmed the Mongolian soldiers in the city. Wang Dechen, who was guarding the city, immediately mobilized the Mongolian army to encircle and annihilate Liu Hezi. Liu Hezi was such a person. Knowing that the situation was urgent, he could not delay it. He ordered to rush to the city gate. They were not far from the city gate and rushed to the first breath. The Mongolian army guarding the city gate immediately came to fight. The hand-throwing cast iron bombs in the Song army seemed to be at them for money. After the explosion, countless minced meat was added to the ground.

The Song army rushed to the city gate under Liu Hezi's fingers, quickly opened the city gate, put the explosive packs in the city gate hole, and left the city like flying.

By the time Wang Dechen led the Mongolian army to chase the city gate, Liu Hezi and the others had long since run away, and there was nothing except the endless night sky.

A Mongolian soldier had sharp eyes and was the first to see the explosive pack on the ground. He had never seen the explosive pack used by the Song army. He was very curious and said, "What is this?" His words immediately attracted the attention of other Mongolian soldiers. After seeking Wang Dechen's consent, a centurion ordered a soldier to pick up an explosive pack and open it.

The soldier had to order the explosive pack to open. When the centurion looked at it, he said, "Gunpowder." Before he reported it to Wang Dechen, the torch in the soldier's hand exploded and sparks splashed on the explosive pack. A huge ball of fire flashed, and the unlucky soldier burned black charcoal heads.

Wang Dechen was about to order his soldiers to take away the explosive bag, but at this moment, countless highlights appeared in the night sky, and shot rapidly and headed straight for the explosive bag. Wang Dechen was a famous general who followed Mongolia to fight. He made great contributions to Mengge's implementation of the great detour strategy. He did not react slowly. He immediately knew something was wrong and shouted: "Get out quickly." He ran away and fled.

The rocket shot the explosive pack, and a huge fireball soared into the sky. A earth-shaking sound came. As the mud and sand splashed, the city gate of Jianmen Pass had no idea where it flew. With this explosion, the city gate of Jianmen Pass had been completely opened.

The huge shock wave drove Wang Dechen away and hit the ground hard, grinning. It took him a long time to get up. Looking at the city gate that could no longer defend against the enemy, I felt that the situation was not good.

Wang Dechen did not see Liu Hezi in the dark night showing a strange smile. He touched his right hand and blew a kiss at Jianmen Pass, and smiled and said, "Ah, this place will become a meat grinder tomorrow." His voice was as elegant as a poet chanting, as if the swordmen Pass was opening was a great joy.

When the sun rose the next day, Liu Hezi's strange smile was perfectly interpreted. As Liu Hezi said, the city gate of Jianmen Pass really became a meat grinder.

The city gate was opened and there was no powerful tool to block the enemy's attack. Wang Dechen knew that something was wrong and quickly ordered the repair, hoping to repair it before the Song army began to attack.

His abacus was indeed good, but unfortunately, he rushed to find the right materials. It was not possible to repair the city gate in a day or two. When the sun just climbed the mountain, a shocking sound came. Wang Dechen, who was urging the repair of the city gate on the city, was immediately shocked. Looking around, he saw a group of people and horses coming from afar, flags fluttering, swords and guns were like forests, people were like dragons, and horses were like tigers. Needless to say, it was naturally an elite force.

"Here, we're finally here." Wang Dechen felt a little dizzy and hurriedly ordered the Mongolian army to drive to the city gate and prepare to face the enemy. If the battle was not built, it goes without saying that the Song army would definitely compete for the city gate at all costs.

Wang Dechen's prediction proved correct. The Song army lined up in a single arrow in Li Jianmen Pass, with neat and solid, stable and heavy, and unshakable momentum.

"The feng shui changes in the east, thirty years, and thirty years," Wang Dechen looked at the formation of the Song army and thought so: "The changes in the Southern Dynasties are really big."

Liu Hezi was wearing military uniforms, flying majestic, rushed out and rushed to Wang Dechen on the top of the city, saying, "Wang Dechen, I'll live your life, surrender quickly."

The sentence "I'll live your life" was what Wang Dechen said to Wang Jian during the Battle of Diaoyu City. At that time, Wang Dechen attacked the outer fortress of Diaoyu City at night and wanted to take it down in one fell swoop. Wang Jian led his army to fight and defeated him. In desperation, he rushed to the city and shouted, "Wang Jian, I'll live your life, surrender quickly." Of course, Wang Jian did not surrender, and he was greeted by the rainy arrows and stones. Although Wang Dechen ran fast, he still hit the stones.

Today, history repeats itself. Liu Hezi used what Wang Dechen said back then to him, which was extremely ironic. Looking back on what happened back then, Wang Dechen was upset and shouted: "Shoot, shoot, shoot hard, shoot me hard, and shoot this one to death." He grabbed a bow from the soldier, took an arrow, and shot it at Liu Hezi.

The arrows that were like rain shot, Liu Hezi regarded them as nothing, and said as usual, and said to Wang Dechen on the top of the city: "Wang Dechen, I give you a chance to survive. You don't want it. Don't blame me for not giving you a chance." He pulled his horse's head and returned to the formation. Behind him, the sound of the arrow shooting into the soil was the sound of the arrow shooting into the soil.

Liu Hezi spoke with you, Wang Dechen heard it and was angry in his heart. He felt that Liu Hezi's words were very harsh and unacceptable, and there was nothing he could do, so he could only stare at him.

"Fire the cannon, fire the cannon." Liu Hezi ordered the gunman. The gunman became busy. After a while, two cannons roared angrily, two shells fell on the top of the city, and two crisp explosions sounded. Several unlucky Mongolian soldiers boarded the earthen plane, either killed or injured by the explosion.

Wang Dechen has long heard of the famous name of the Song army. What he is most worried about is that the Song army's artillery is concentrated and fired in a row. Unexpectedly, the Song army only has two artillery pieces. Needless to say, it is naturally because it did not arrive. This is a great joy and is extremely happy. The anger that caused Liu Hezi just now disappeared.

Deputy General Jiao Yu immediately ran up and said to Liu Hezi, "General, how long will the two cannons be bombed? Hurry up and order the rest of the cannons should be transferred up too."

"Architecture, they have not arrived yet." Liu Hezi said helplessly.

Jiao Yu blurted out: "They were not clearly hiding in the valley outside, there were hundreds of them..." Liu Hezi glared back into his stomach afterwards.

He was right. Zhu Ruixiang's artillery was sleeping in a dry ravine outside. They were too bored because the order Liu Hezi gave them was to sleep in the ravine. Whoever sleeps well is violating military discipline and should be dealt with seriously. Liu Hezi's military discipline is extremely strict. Although the soldiers did not want to do so, they dared not to obey it.

"You are right. Go and order Zhu Ruixiang and ask him to come and support here immediately." Liu Hezi said to Jiao Yu with a sudden realization, "Go quickly. If Zhu Ruixiang comes too late, he will need military law."

Jiao Yu thought that Zhu Ruixiang was sleeping next to the cannons now. As long as he conveyed the order, he would come in less than half an hour. Several hundred cannons fired in volleys, Jianmen Pass would be razed to the ground. Killing the Mongolian army here would become a matter of guarding the matter. A huge victory would be obtained immediately. He said excitedly: "Abide by the order!" He went there excitedly.

Looking at Jiao Yu's back, a strange smile appeared on the corner of Liu Hezi's mouth again.

Jiao Yuxing rushed into the valley and shouted from a distance: "Old Zhu, wake up quickly, General Liu has an order for you."

Zhu Ruixiang, who was sleeping soundly on the cannon stand, opened his eyes reluctantly, rubbed his eyes and said, "Who? He was shouting so much. Oh, it's you, Lao Jiao, is there something good?"

"Yes, yes, General Liu wants you to go over and reinforce immediately. If you go too late, you need military law to be engaged in military law." Jiao Yu was very worried and Zhu Ruixiang said, "You know, General Liu is a military order, and he said he would definitely deal with it. Don't be too late, go quickly."

Zhu Ruixiang's sleepy eyes were slackened, and his right hand stretched towards Jiao Yu. Jiao Yu said in surprise: "What?"

"Warning warrant." Zhu Ruixiang explained: "You don't know. General Liu said that if I want me to move, I must have his warrant. Without his warrant, I dare not move. You know, General Liu's military orders are like a mountain, and I dare not violate them." He leaned his head against the cannon stand again, preparing to sleep again.

Jiao Yu slapped his forehead and said, "Look at me so happy that I have forgotten this. You wait, I'll go ask for a warrant." He ran away anxiously.
Chapter completed!