October of the ninth year of Jian'an.

The first battle between the Yang family's army in Sichuan started on Ziwu Road.

The northern end of Ziwu Road goes directly to the south of Chang'an, the southern section is called "Zigu" and the northern section is called "Wugu". The rugged landform of Ziwu Valley provides a large number of places to ambush, and setting up ambush can easily wipe out the enemy troops in the valley, so this longest route is also the most dangerous.

At first, Wen Pin was smooth sailing, but when he first arrived at Wugu, he met Ma Chao's troops. Ma Chao was in danger and guarded him. Wen Pin fought with him several times, but he returned without success.

Several other routes also encountered several games. Because the task of Nandaying was to attack feint and attracted Zhang Lu's army, the soldiers of Nandaying did not attack hard, and retreated dozens of miles after a moment of resistance. However, the combat effectiveness shown by Nandaying made Zhang Lu's generals a little scared. For this reason, Zhang Lu also added 2,000 to each unit, resulting in only hundreds of defenders in Nanzheng City.

In the same month, Zhao Yun led his army to Lueyang. Looking at Yangping Pass that was close to him, Zhao Yun quickly summoned his subordinates to discuss matters.

"Everyone, Yangping Pass is just thirty miles ahead. Who would like to attack this pass?" Zhao Yun said in a deep voice with a serious expression.

"At the end of the day, I am willing to go there, and I will decide that the general will take this pass!" Zhang Xiu said.

Zhang Song, who was standing beside him, asked with a smile: "Yangping Pass leans against Jigong Mountain in the south and the Jialing River in the north. The terrain is extremely dangerous. You can enter Sichuan in the south, connect to Luoyang in the north, reach Longnan in the west, and reach Hanzhong in the east. It is a place that military strategists must fight for! The guard of this pass is called Zhang Wei, and he is the younger brother of Zhang Lu, the prefect of Hanzhong. He led 5,000 troops to guard this pass for many years. General Zhang, how are you planning to capture Yangping Pass?"

Zhang Xiu replied confidently: "Now that Zhang Lujun's attention is all focused on the east side. I thought that the defense of this level would definitely not be too strict. I personally led a thousand warriors to seize the closing at night to buy time for the general!"

Zhang Song nodded and said, "What General Zhang said is very true. This is Jigong Mountain in the south of the pass, and the walls are built against the mountain. Why don't you go to two ways? A team of people attacked from Jigong Mountain, and a team of people touched from under the pass. From the bottom, it seems that there are those climbing things that can be climbed over Jigong Mountain."

Zhao Yun was silent for a while and said, "Okay, that general will give you two thousand people. If the door is opened and closed, you can set fire as a sign. I will lead a thousand cavalry to help you!"

That night, Zhang Xiu led two thousand people to Yangping Pass in the dark. After not far from Yangping Pass, Zhang Xiu immediately divided his troops into two groups. He personally led his people to climb Jigong Mountain. When he came to a cliff, he could clearly see the wall at the foot of the mountain. However, the cliff here could allow up to five or six people to go down at the same time, but Zhang Lujun continued to patrol on the wall.

After seeing this situation, a person beside Zhang Xiu said in surprise: "Father, you can go down at most five or six people at a time, but there are Zhang Lujun constantly patrolling the wall! We will definitely be discovered. If the rope is destroyed, then wouldn't the person who goes down first enter the tiger's mouth?"

This person is called Zhang Quan, who is the son of Zhang Xiu. He was about fourteen or fifteen years old. He went to Hanzhong this time and came to see the world with Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu glared at Zhang Quan angrily and shouted in a low voice: "What are you panic? Be quiet and watch how I do it!"

After observing Zhang Lujun's patrol method on one side, Zhang Xiu inferred that the time interval between Zhang Lujun patrolling to the end of the wall at the foot of the mountain was one quarter of an hour, which means that the patrol team had just left and returned again, at most, more than a hundred people could go down from the mountain to close the wall, and it was still the case that Zhang Lujun was not discovered.

After making a decision for a while, Zhang Xiu decided to take a risk. Then, he selected a hundred good players from the team and asked them to go down first. He himself was among the hundreds of people.

As soon as he got down to the wall, Zhang Xiu took more than 20 people to the wall and looked for the door-closing winch in Zhang Song's mouth. The door-closing of Yangping Pass was pulled by ropes and divided into left and right sides. Ten people on each side need to rotate at the same time to pull the door-closing.

Soon, twenty or thirty people rushed to the wall. When Zhang Xiu saw the figure of his son Zhang Quan, he immediately shouted in a low voice: "Why are you down? Didn't you let you stay in the mountain?"

Zhang Quan grinned and replied, "Father, your patrol team is only forty or fifty. The defense is so relaxed. Why don't we kill this group of people first, and open and close the door with peace of mind!"

When Zhang Xiu was stunned when he heard this, he felt that what Zhang Quan said was reasonable. He could not blame his son anymore. He brought more than ten good men to the wall again and prepared to attack the patrol team that was blocking the wall.

"Who are you waiting for?"

Zhang Xiu was still walking on the stone stairs with his men when he heard a loud shout coming from the wall.

"Not good! I've been discovered! Go up!" Zhang Xiu's expression changed, he pulled out his battle knife and ran towards the wall.

When he arrived on the wall, Zhang Lujun's patrol was fighting with the Yang family army. When Zhang Xiu arrived, he was right behind the Zhang Lujun patrol team. He lifted his sword and slashed it. Zhang Lujun was caught off guard and was quickly killed by Zhang Xiu and others.

However, on this quiet night, a sudden loud shout came from the sound of a drop of water falling into the boiling oil, and suddenly crackled, and the entire Yangping Pass was boiling.

A group of disheveled Zhang Lu soldiers rushed out of the city tower. Zhang Xiu looked anxious and quickly let someone drop the rope and let his soldiers outside the wall climb up, while he himself took some people to kill the other party.

After hearing the fighting, Zhang Quan quickly turned the winch and prepared to open and close the door.

The battle between the wall began, and Zhang Xiu was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. Soon, he killed the soldiers of Zhang Lu's army in the city tower and ran away with his head. As more and more soldiers of the Yang family army arrived at the juncture, Zhang Xiu quickly stabilized his position. He had no time to think about it, and lit the entire city tower with some torches.

Zhang Weigang led his army to arrive, and saw that the closing door had been opened. A team of cavalry was rushing in from outside the pass. The first general, the white armored white horse, was majestic.

The deputy general said anxiously: "General, the door has been opened now, what should we do?"

Zhang Wei sternly said: "What are you afraid of? The enemy has only two or three thousand people, but our army has four or five thousand. Kill them, close the door and take them back!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Wei slapped his horse and rushed towards the general wearing white armor and riding a white horse.

This person is none other than Zhao Yun, the head general of the Yang family army's Xidaying.

Seeing that the enemy general dared to fight, Zhao Yun grinned and said, "Over overestimate his abilities! He dared to be arrogant in front of me, Zhao Yun. See how I will kill you!"

"What?" At this time, Zhang Weigang rushed to Zhao Yun, and naturally heard what Zhao Yun said just now, and exclaimed: "Are you Zhao Yun?"

Ma Chao was originally the number one powerful general under Zhang Lu's command. Now that Zhao Yun, who beat Ma Chao, appeared in Yangping Guanzhong, Zhang Wei was shocked and his courage was depressed. Before he could react, a cold light stabbed at him and instantly passed by his chest.

After Zhao Yun stabbed Zhang Wei to death with a shot, the other soldiers of Zhang Lu were shocked. However, Zhao Yun did not give them time to react. After rushing down, Zhao Yun successfully took the main throat of the entering Sichuan.

At this time, a young general came to Zhao Yun and laughed and said, "Uncle Zhao, how about it? I opened the door to close!"

As soon as he saw the person coming, Zhao Yun shook his head and smiled bitterly: "So it's your kid. Why, your father is relieved to let you out?"

Zhang Quan laughed and said, "What's wrong with me? If I hadn't suggested killing those patrol teams first, we might be fighting now!"

"No big or small!" Zhang Xiu came to report the results of the battle to Zhao Yun, but heard his son's words and immediately cursed: "Do you dare to take credit in front of General Zhao? Why don't you apologize to General Zhao?"

Zhao Yun waved his hand and said, "Hey, your kid is very good. When he went to the battlefield for the first time, he was like a person who was fine. It was good, very good. He trained him well! When he went to the college next time he went to study, this kid would go with him to see the world!"

Zhang Xiu was happy when he heard this. Even he had only been studying at the academy for half a year. When he heard that Zhao Yun was willing to give Zhang Quan the next place, he smiled happily: "Then the relationship is good. After the battle, we will invite General Zhao to drink!"

After taking down Yangping Pass, Zhao Yun rode Sanqian Qing and rushed towards the southern expedition without stopping.

The next day, at dawn, outside Nanzheng City.

A group of ragged "defeated troops" appeared outside Nanzheng City.
Chapter completed!