About a mile away from the town, there is a sentry post in the wide area in front. Normally there is no sentry post, but after the war, the sentry post was restored and there were about 20 people.
Fang Qun led the team towards the sentry post, and the leader of the sentry team was shouting: "Stop, who is that?"
"Captain Wang, it's me!" Fang Qun shouted.
"Didn't you go to report the situation? Are you back so soon?"
Team Zheng's tone was full of ridicule, and everyone knew very well that Fang Qun must have gone to town to find a woman.
"Forget it, we met the inspection team!"
The team leader was startled, looked at the team behind Fang Qun, and asked nervously: "Are they the inspection team?"
Fang Qun lowered his voice and said, "Be careful, we're from Chengdu."
Zhang Dian walked up quickly with his men, flashed the silver medal in his hand, and said sternly: "Inspection Army, ordered to investigate the defense and military discipline of Jianmen Pass."
The team leader only saw a silver medal with white flowers. He couldn't make out the inscriptions on it. He didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "I am the team leader Wang Tuo, please see the general!"
Zhang Dian took a look and asked, "How many people are here?"
"Twenty-one people even held humble positions."
"Gather them all together and we will question them individually one by one."
After a while, the twenty soldiers were assembled. Zhang Dian immediately took the twenty soldiers on duty separately for questioning in the name of investigating military discipline.
Not long after, the twenty-one Tang soldiers on duty returned. When Fang Qun took a closer look, he discovered that the clothes had not changed, but the person had changed.
What about the twenty-one brothers before?
Fang Qun asked with a trembling voice: "General Zhang, they... were they all killed?"
Zhang Dian smiled and shook his head, "They are all Tang soldiers. If we don't have to, we will not be cruel to ordinary soldiers. We have tied them up and will release them after dawn."
Fang Qun breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you General Zhang for your magnanimity!"
Zhang Dian said calmly: "Then you are wrong. On the battlefield, it is always life and death. To be tolerant to the enemy is to be cruel to yourself. You will know later. I am by no means a tolerant person."
Zhang Dian waved his hand and led 250 people to continue running towards Jianmen Pass. Only 50 people were left at the foot of the mountain. In his opinion, it was enough to light the camp tents at the critical moment. It was said to be a wartime state.
The tents are still pitched so densely. Doesn't this create opportunities for the enemy?
In fact, Zhang Dian did not know that the Jianmen garrison did not expect that there would be enemy troops in the south. This was a kind of inertia of thinking. It was very simple. If a large number of troops appeared in the south, what would they do to defend Dajian Pass?
Cutting off all contact is just a precaution against spies from the imperial court.
There were still two miles away from the Great Sword Gate, and there happened to be a wide space here. Zhang Dian and his men stopped. They had to wait here.
"Fang Qun, go ahead! We'll wait here."
Fang Qun nodded, "If there is a war, I will come and notify you in time."
He ran towards the Great Sword Gate.
Twenty thousand troops have arrived at Jianmen. According to the original plan, they were to launch gunpowder arrows into the sky to tell Zhang Dian that they had arrived, but they were not needed now as they had already established contact.
Firing gunpowder arrows will alarm the enemy troops at the foot of the mountain, causing Zhang Dian's men on the mountain road to be flanked from both sides.
In fact, Bai Xiaode thought wrong and did not fire the gunpowder arrows. The Jiange defenders still had a way to notify the defenders at the foot of the mountain.
The defenders on Guancheng suddenly discovered the Helong army, and they all screamed in surprise, and then the bell on the sword pavilion rang.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The low bells sent a signal for help to the foot of the mountain.
Bai Xiaode was furious, drew his sword and shouted: "Attack!"
The first batch of 3,000 soldiers ran along the steps, holding large shields in their hands, and lined up in two rows towards the sword pavilion above the steps.
At this time, Zhang Dian also heard the alarm bell coming from above, and he immediately ordered: "Fire the gunpowder arrows!"
A gunpowder arrow soared over the cliff and crossed a long abyss.
Li Tianhong, a colonel under the city, saw the rocket. They immediately took action, took out more than a dozen kerosene bags, rushed around the military camp, sprayed kerosene into the camp, and then threw burning torches into the camp.
At this time, there was a slight commotion in the camp. Many people were awakened by the bells of Dajian Pass, including the general Ni Wenzhong. He turned over and sat up and asked two soldiers: "Did you hear the bells?"
The two soldiers nodded, "I heard it. It was the bell from the Jiange Pavilion. I wonder what happened?"
"Nonsense! If you ring the bell at midnight, it must be the imperial army attacking."
Ni Wenzhong stood up and shouted: "Send the order for the entire army to assemble!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden shouting and shouting. Ni Wenzhong strode out of the camp. The scene in front of him immediately frightened him. The surroundings were full of fire, countless tents were set on fire, and the soldiers fled in panic.
"General, run!"
Lieutenant General Yang Qi came with a group of people, picked up Ni Wenzhong and fled. Ni Wenzhong turned around and shouted: "My sword, my armor!"
"General, save your life first!"
A group of them quickly rushed towards the south gate of the military camp, which was the closest gate to them. Along the way, countless soldiers howled and screamed in the tent and fell into the fire.
A group of people managed to escape before the fire completely engulfed the military camp. There were already many soldiers outside who had escaped early. When they saw the general coming out, they all gathered around.
Not long after, the fire completely engulfed the camp, and no one could escape.
Ni Wenzhong sighed and ordered his men to count the number of people. Fortunately, it was not too tragic. There were 1,500 people who escaped and about 500 people were burned to death.
But soon, Ni Wenzhong discovered another big problem. Most of the soldiers did not have weapons or even armor. They fled for their lives in a hurry. Where could they manage weapons and armor? They would only get in the way.
After counting for a while, there were only 600 people with weapons.
"General, are we going to support Jiange?" Yang Qi asked in a low voice.
Everyone looked at Ni Wenzhong.
Ni Wenzhong lowered his head for a while, then suddenly said with a ferocious smile: "They burned our barracks just to prevent us from supporting Jiange. I have to go and kill them from behind!"
Ni Wenzhong had already realized that there must be a small team of imperial troops lurking over, and they succeeded in sneaking the attack on the camp. They must attack Jiange from behind, kill themselves, and attack the defenders on the Jiange from front to back to crush these bastards.
Thousands of corpses.
"General, we only have more than 600 weapons!" Yang Qi said worriedly.
"enough!"
It is not a plain battle, but a battle on a mountain road. Six hundred men are more than enough.
"You stay here to greet the other brothers and evacuate to Jianmen County first. If you find Dajianmen, rush to Chengdu and report immediately!"
Ni Wenzhong picked up a spear and shouted: "Brothers with weapons, follow me!"
Six hundred soldiers rushed to follow Ni Wenzhong's sword pavilion.
Yang Qi sighed and retreated towards Jianmen County with more than 900 people.