At this time, Jiange Road was only called the Taurus Road (the name of Jiange Road was only used in the future). The road was steep and rugged, and it was the last dangerous road to Chengdu. After leaving the end of Zitong County, it was a flat horse and there was no more steepness to guard with Chengdu.

The importance of this path is self-evident. Decades later, Zhuge Liang set up Jianmen Pass here, and the northern expedition or the enemy was defensive. This path was the most important. He must pass the northern expedition and defend the enemy. With the natural danger and the locality, Jiang Wei once blocked Zhong Hui's 200,000 troops here with tens of thousands of troops.

Guo Jia deeply understood the importance of this Tao. Although it is a man who is a pass and cannot open it, it refers to Jianmen Pass, whether it is Jianmen Pass in the future or Jiameng Pass that has just been won, it is actually on Jiange Road.

Standing on the Jiange Road, Guo Jia couldn't help but think of Deng Ai's surprise attack strategy to destroy Shu. He walked from Yinping County to the west of Hanzhong to Jinggu Road, and could directly take Chengdu or encircle the defenders at the end of Jiange Road. However, Guo Jia could not use this surprise attack strategy.

Liu Yan did not set up defenses on Jinggu Road, because he did not even defend the old road and Baoxi Road in the north gate of Yizhou. How could he expect that there would be surprise troops on Jinggu Road?

Taking Chengdu from Jinggu Road cannot be said to be a victory in danger, but a life-threatening life. You need to cross mountains and ridges and overcome all difficulties and dangers. If there are too many people and horses, it will delay the speed of the march and cannot achieve the effect of surprise attacks. Even if there are few people and horses to come to Chengdu, even if Liu Yan has 10,000 defenders, he will not surrender like Liu Adu.

Therefore, Guo Jia could not adopt Deng Ai's strategy of destroying Shu, so he could only control his troops on the right path, waded through Jiange Road, and the troops arrived in Chengdu.

After receiving the investigation from the scout cavalry, Guo Jia learned that at the north of Zitong County at the end of Jiange Road, Liu Yan had sent generals to guard the intersection. There were camps on both sides of the intersection. In addition, the army stationed at the intersection, if you wanted to forcibly advance, not only would you encounter resistance at the intersection, but there would also be condescending defenders on the mountain dangerous sides. It would be decent to be surrounded by enemies on three sides. In fact, you would encounter the persistence of the front guards and ambushing them unscrupulously on both sides. It would be harder to pass by this road.

Guo Jia, who was temporarily resting in Jiameng Pass, has been here for three days. He couldn't sleep late at night and stood on the city tower of Jiameng Pass, stroking the stone wall with his hand. The cold feeling relieved the heat of summer night.

Looking south, Guo Jia frowned. How to get through Jiange Road is a difficult problem. It is not that he is worried that he will lose his troops and generals, and that there is no one without bloodshed in the war. It is just that he is worried that 110,000 troops under his command will rush to Jiange Road. Even if the casualty rate is one to one, he can accept it. But if he walks out of Jiange Road, he will have less than 50,000 troops, how can he conquer Chengdu? At that time, he will be in a dilemma and can only retreat to Hanzhong. In the future, Liu Yan will definitely take strict precautions and be afraid of him a hundred times, and it will be even more difficult to conquer Chengdu.

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Xi Zhicai climbed the city tower and came behind Guo Jia. When he saw Guo Jia's expression, he knew that he must be worried about the Jiange Road. He said to Guo Jia with a smile: "Lord, I have a plan, I don't know if the lord dares to use it."

"If you send generals to lead the army across mountains and rivers, it goes without saying that Yuanzhi just offered this strategy in the afternoon."

Xi Zhicai smiled and walked behind Guo Jia and whispered a few times. Guo Jia's eyes lit up, and after weighing the pros and cons, he said, "You can give it a try."

...

When it was dawn, more than 10,000 prisoners in Jiameng Pass were confiscated with weapons and armor, wearing only coarse linen nests in the southern corner of the pass. They were worried for several days, and the prisoners, who did not know what their fate would be, had bloodshot eyes, were covered in disheveled faces, and were full of embarrassment.

The soldiers who came to deliver the meal in the early morning only carried a bucket filled with clear water and put it in front of the prisoners, then turned around and left.

"Hey! Why is there only water?"

"Does we just want to starve to death?"

...

The captives immediately protested loudly, but the soldiers who came to deliver the meal just shrugged and said casually: "We are almost out of food, so what if you care?"

...

The prisoners felt cold in their hearts. Unexpectedly, these troops that emerged from somewhere had almost gone through military rations. According to their speculation, it was already considered that they had been fully righteous and righteous without killing prisoners. They could live a few more days if they had given a bowl of water to slowly starve to death. However, how could these more than 10,000 prisoners sit and wait for death?

After private discussion, the prisoners decided to fight to the death, so they took advantage of the unpreparedness of the defenders and attacked together, seized the troops of the defenders, rushed through the south gate of Jiameng Pass, and fled towards Chengdu.

No one of the prisoners who were exhausted and ran into trouble wondered why the South Gate was almost unprepared, and no one noticed that when they were running towards Chengdu, the team of more than 10,000 people seemed to have at least 30,000 people.

The chaos in Jiameng Pass stabilized shortly after the prisoners escaped. Standing on the gate, looking at the prisoners' escaped backs, Guo Jia whispered: "Send the order, and the entire army set out after an hour. Gao Shun led the cavalry as the vanguard, Xu Chu Dianwei was the general of the central army, and the other generals came to the rear with me. Let Gao Shun always maintain a distance of five miles from the front to escape from the prisoners."

After the military order was issued, Guo Jia murmured softly: "This battle depends on how the general who guarded the last door of Liu Yan made a decision."

...

Since he led 30,000 troops out of Chengdu and came to the north of Zitong County to guard the exit of Jiange Road, Wu Yi arranged troops in a well-organized manner. He sent 5,000 soldiers to set up ambush on the mountains on both sides of the road, and he commanded 20,000 soldiers to block the road at the intersection. It was considered a normal rule. As long as Guo Jia dared to come, even if he could not stop Guo Jia's army, at least 30,000 troops would be able to kill Guo Jia 100,000.

There are still 40,000 defenders in Chengdu. Wu Yi dare not speculate whether they can defend it. After all, Guo Jia claims to be a 400,000 army heading south, and Jiameng Pass has now lost it within one day. Wu Yi doesn't know how many soldiers Guo Jia has, but it will definitely not be missing, otherwise Jiameng Pass will not be lost so quickly.

In the evening, Wu Yi, who was armed with armor, was sitting in the tent reading military books. At less than 30 years old, he looked gentle and had the style of a Confucian general, but his practical experience was pitifully small. He followed Liu Yan to take over Yizhou, except for his slight contribution to attacking local tyrants, he had no experience in a major war. If he had not been a reliable general brought to Yizhou by Liu Yan, he would probably have led 30,000 troops to guard the last line of defense for Liu Yan to Chengdu.

"Report to the general, there is a large army invading the north!"

When Wu Yi heard the news, he immediately rushed out of the commander's tent, summoned the generals to go to the front line, preparing to face the enemy.

Riding a horse out of the military formation, Wu Yi looked at the entrance of Jiange in the north with a serious expression. Soon, smoke and dust rose up at the corner of the intersection, and wherever he could see a large group of people running towards this side in chaos. Wu Yi frowned slightly, for the first time he saw such a chaotic army.

The arms were raised and fell, and the rain of arrows on the mountains on both sides of the road entrance seemed to be falling like light clouds covering the sun.

The people in front stopped and screamed endlessly. Wu Yi saw their appearance clearly, with coarse cloth and unarmed clothes, and even more shocked and suspicious. Seeing that they did not rush forward, he ordered to stop shooting and asked loudly: "Where is Guo Jia?"

The crowd that fled was the prisoners who escaped from Jiameng Pass. They thought they could survive when they escaped to Chengdu, but they didn't expect that the fastest-running group of people died under the arrow, which was a terrible sight.

The people behind did not dare to rush forward any longer. When they heard Wu Yi’s question, they immediately shouted at Wu Yi in a verbal way.

"General, we are the guards of Jiameng Pass!"

"Don't shoot arrows, we are not thieves."

"The bandit army is still in Jiameng Pass."

"Let us go."

...

Wu Yi did not dare to take it lightly, but when he saw that they had neither weapons nor armor, and he believed in the authentic Sichuan dialect, he also believed the generals around him, and he had indeed recognized his fellow villagers there. Wu Yi ordered the army to give way for them to pass quickly.

There were only two ways in front of Wu Yi. Ei, either let them go back to Chengdu and merge into the army, or shoot all these people in front of him. With a thought, Wu Yi chose the former.

When the prisoners heard Wu Yi let go, they were immediately happy and did not rush to run away. They passed the way that Wu Yi's army made way out in an orderly manner.

Looking at the long queue of people passing through his army, Wu Yi was suddenly frightened and his face was bloodless.

There are only 20,000 defenders in Jiameng Pass!

Why are there no less than 20,000 people running away now?

"stop!"

Wu Yi drew his sword to the sky, looked down at the people who had passed through the army, shouting: "Kill all of these people! A thief army is mixed in!"

"General, I am not a thief!"

"General, he is a thief army!"

"Don't kill me!"

...

The 30,000 prisoners in this line rushed to identify the people around him as thieves and expressed their position. How many of them were fishing for troubled waters and reversing right and wrong, no one could explain it clearly.

Wu Yi's army showed off its weapons and began to kill the prisoners. The prisoners rose up to resist. The originally orderly army began to be in chaos from the inside. At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from the north of Jiange Road.

Among the chaotic troops, Wu Yi was still commanding the army to kill the prisoners, but at least nearly 20,000 prisoners passed through the middle of his army. There were Guo Jia soldiers hiding among the prisoners in front, middle and back, from Zhang Yan's troops. After creating chaos, a melee began.

Gao Shun led five thousand light cavalry to attack. Even though the roads in Jiange were narrow, it was enough for twenty horses to walk side by side.

Crossbowmen on the mountains on both sides of the road entrance kept sending arrows rain, but without Wu Yi's army blocking the enemy at the road entrance, they could not ambush all the enemies in a short time.

The five thousand light cavalry were led by Gao Shun to charge. Wu Yi's army, which was already chaotic, was vulnerable at this time. The horses galloped in and had no resistance. In just a moment, they were driven to the intersection by Gao Shun's light cavalry troops. Xu Chu and Dian Wei's army, behind the cavalry team, charged with all their strength, regardless of the attacks on the mountains on both sides.

When Gao Shun led the cavalry to break through the Wu Yi army that blocked the road, the obstacles to the Jiange Road no longer existed. Even if the condescending attacks on the mountains on both sides had a unique geographical advantage, their arrow rain would be useless after Guo Jia's army rushed out of the road entrance.

Wu Yi was captured, and after more than 7,000 troops at the intersection of the road, all the rest surrendered. When the 10,000 soldiers who set up an ambush on the mountain saw that the commander was captured, they also went down the mountain to surrender.

Despite the victory, Guo Jia still lost more than 20,000 troops in this battle.
Chapter completed!