Jiameng Pass was not a pass that Liu Zhang understood. Unlike Baishui Pass, Jiameng Pass was actually a city.
At the beginning, Jiameng Pass, like Baishui Pass, was simply used as a choke point to guard the Golden Bull Road.
As an important transportation thoroughfare in the Shu region, the place where the Jialing River and Bailong River meet leads to Hanzhong by land, down to Chengdu, and down the Jialing River to the important town of Langzhong in Brazil. The geographical location is extremely important.
Jiameng Pass is surrounded by water on three sides and backed by Niutou Mountain. It can be said that it is a natural danger! Later, in order to further consolidate this danger, Jiameng Pass was built into a city.
Whether you are going from Chengdu to Hanzhong or from Hanzhong to Chengdu, you must use the east and west gates of Jiameng Pass to meet! In other words, without Jiameng Pass, you cannot enter Shu. If you want to get out of Shu, you can't.
Absolutely impossible!
The geographical advantage of Jiameng Pass goes beyond that. It is surrounded by water on three sides, so the attacker can only attack the city from this part of the land. However, there is Tianxiong Pass on Niutou Mountain behind the land.
These two levels are at the horns of each other. Unless they attack at the same time with a huge advantage in force, they will never be able to break through the level.
Tianxiong Pass on Niutou Mountain is not well-known, but the actual attack difficulty is no less difficult than Jiameng Pass!
When Han Sui attacked Hanzhong, facing Yangping Pass, the reason why he did not choose to attack the weak points on the mountains but insisted on the narrow places on the flat ground was exactly the same.
Niutou Mountain is very steep. Just climbing Niutou Mountain is particularly difficult. How can we attack Tianxiong Pass on the mountain?
I'm afraid no matter how many armies there are, they will all be lost here!
However, Tianxiong Pass is only a dangerous point to protect Jiameng Pass. Once Jiameng Pass is lost, Tianxiong Pass will become an isolated city. The defenders can only abandon the pass and flee. On the contrary, if Tianxiong Pass is lost, Jiameng Pass can still rely on the dangerous point to hold on, and can still defend it.
Achieve the goal of guarding the Taurus Path.
Today, Jiameng Pass can be described as impregnable. Not only is Zhang Lu's brother Zhang Wei personally guarding it, but there are also 10,000 elite soldiers from Shu!
Zhang Wei was very knowledgeable. As soon as he entered Jiameng Pass, he sent 3,000 defenders to Tianxiong Pass. Including the original defenders, there were 8,000 people at Jiameng Pass and 3,500 at Tianxiong Pass.
people.
Precisely because of the confidence of Xiongguan and the soldiers, Zhang Wei was not afraid of Liu Zhang at all. Even if Liu Zhang was not caught by Yang Bai, Zhang Wei was confident of blocking Liu Zhang's progress.
In fact, Zhang Wei did not agree with Zhang Lu's idea of luring Liu Zhang to kill him from the beginning. He felt that with the advantage he now had, it was more than enough to deal with Liu Zhang who only had Hanzhong!
Unfortunately, Zhang Wei failed to convince Zhang Lu, and all he could do was cooperate.
It was getting very late, and Zhang Wei was still patrolling at the top of Jiamengguan City. This was something he had to do personally every day, and it was naturally for their brother's great cause.
"Is there any news from Baishui Pass?"
The soldier quickly handed over his hand and reported,
"Reporting to General Zhang, there is no news yet."
Zhang Wei nodded. Although he knew that any news would be notified to him as soon as possible, he still couldn't help asking long-winded questions.
If Yang Bai can really capture or kill Liu Zhang, that would be great! Zhang Wei is also willing to see this result. Then he can send his troops straight into Hanzhong and completely capture the two rivers!
"General Zhang, there seems to be some movement ahead!"
Suddenly the voice of a soldier came, interrupting Zhang Wei's wonderful fantasy and waking him up from his intoxication.
"where?"
Zhang Wei asked while looking into the darkness where the soldier was pointing.
Sure enough, there was fire approaching, but the fire was very bright and it didn't look like there were only a few people there.
"If there is any situation, notify the soldiers immediately to be on alert and be ready to fight at any time!"
There were soldiers and horses of unknown origin in the dark night. This situation made Zhang Wei nervous.
The defenders of Jiameng Pass are all the most elite people in Yizhou. They react very quickly. Before the fire reaches the city, all the soldiers have already cocked their bows and arrows. They only need to wait for an order to fire thousands of arrows!
"Who is coming? Stop quickly, otherwise I will be rude to you!"
When the fire was about twenty steps away from the city, Zhang Wei shouted towards the city, stopping the advance of the fire.
"Is this General Zhang up there?"
This voice was so familiar to Zhang Wei that his tense spirit immediately relaxed.
"Yang Bai?"
"That's right! Great, if General Zhang rests, I will have to spend the night in Guanxia!"
The city gate of Jiameng Pass is very high, and it is extremely dark under the pass. Zhang Wei could not see clearly what was going on underneath, but by the sound he was sure it was Yang Bai.
"Yang Changshi, what's going on? Why are you coming back in such a hurry?"
"General Zhang, I captured Liu Zhang alive, but some of his soldiers escaped and have already gone back to report the news! I believe it won't be long before Hanzhong's army will attack in a big way! I don't dare to delay, so I can only press Liu Zhang back first!"
Yang Bai's voice was full of excitement and excitement. Zhang Wei had no doubt at all and was immediately overjoyed! He never imagined that Yang Bai would succeed!
"Congratulations to Yang Changshi for his heavenly achievements! My elder brother will definitely reward Yang Changshi heavily!"
"Hahaha, General Zhang was the first to capture Liu Zhang this time!"
When Zhang Wei heard this, he felt extremely happy. Why brothers Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei were so polite to Yang Bai was because Yang Bai was so good at talking!
"Yang Changshi, wait a moment, I will open the city gate to welcome you in!"
"Thank you, General Zhang!"
Yang Bai didn't say much, but his words still contained an excited tone.
"General Zhang, wait!"
Zhang Weigang was about to go down to the city, but was directly stopped by the former Jiameng Pass guard.
"General Lei? What's wrong?"
Seeing that Lei Tie was blocking him, Zhang Wei did not leave directly.
The Lei family where Lei Tie belongs is a large family in Guanghan County, but the status of the Lei family is a bit strange. The Lei family is not in Guanghan County, but in the Guanghan vassal country, a place dominated by foreign races.
Even so, Zhang Wei did not dare to offend Lei Tie easily. He even respected Lei Tie from the time he came to Jiameng Pass. Because the Lei family had a very high reputation in the Guanghan vassal state, if he offended the Lei family, the Guanghan vassal state would be prone to riots!
Lei Tie looked down the city again, then walked to Zhang Wei's ear and whispered,
"General Zhang, it's dark now and the situation below the city is unknown. It will be dangerous to open the city gate hastily."
"Hiss...um..."
With Lei Tie's reminder, Zhang Wei also recovered from the huge temptation to capture Liu Zhang. Indeed, as Lei Tie said, the situation outside is unclear, what if there is a scam?
"General Lei, what do you think?"
Lei Tie thought for a while and did not answer Zhang Wei. Instead, he asked,
"General Zhang, are you sure this is Yang Changshi?"
"Don't worry, General Lei. I'm very sure, it's definitely him!"