Yangping Pass is just a pass, not a city, so after Liu Bei's 20,000 troops entered the pass, it was definitely impossible for him to live in the pass, but to stay in Mianyang County for the night.

Mianyang is located on the north bank where the intersection of Mianhua and Han Rivers, about ten miles east of Yangping Pass.

Because it is too close to Yangping Pass, Mianyang County has no longer needed fortifications since ancient times. The city wall is only more than one meter high, almost just a decoration, and most of the materials needed by the Yangping Pass defenders are stored here.

The army that had previously broken through Yangping Pass was basically able to take Mianyang County without bloodshed, and this time was no exception. After Yang Ang ran away, there were only hundreds of ghost soldiers in Mianyang. They surrendered directly when they saw tens of thousands of troops coming.

Liu Bei asked Lu Su to count the city's household registration books to safeguard the people. There were more than 14,000 households and more than 60,000 people, making it the third largest county in the nine counties in Hanzhong.

The biggest one is of course Nanzheng, with more than 20,000 households; secondly, Nanxiang, about 15,000 or 6,000 households. The remaining Baozhong, Chenggu also had more than 10,000 households, while the other four counties had only a few thousand households.

There are 73,000 households in the entire Hanzhong County and more than 346,000 people, and the barbarians are not included in the statistics.

Hanzhong is also a rare place with a larger population than during the reign of Emperor Huan. Due to decades of war in Liangzhou, the population has been crossing the Qinling Mountains and fleeing south. In the early years of Emperor Huan, there are 280,000 people, but now it has increased to 340,000.

After Liu Bei's army entered the city, he did not disturb the people. After all, this place would be its own rear base in the future and would definitely be well built, so he did not violate the private property, but only took over the treasury of Zhang Lujun.

Of course, those fake products of the sacrificial wine at all levels of the sacrificial wine must be confiscated, and some of the mansions will be taken over to the Han generals for temporary residence.

***The laughter and praise are endless.

...

Zhang Fei did not participate in the Battle of Yangping Pass. After entering Mianyang, he was also assigned to the best house to stay temporarily. It was not because of his contribution, but because he needed to recover from his injuries, so he was treated so favorably.

At this moment, Zhang Fei was covering his head with a quilt in pain, wanting to fall asleep as soon as possible.

Damn it, in the deep courtyards next door, the noise and the smell of the celebration banquets always came, making him irritable and crazy.

"These thieves are so noisy when they have dinner, so they can't be quiet!"

Zhang Fei was angry and almost wanted to go out and beat someone. If he hadn't been to the elder brother's care, he said he was injured and was not allowed to drink alcohol during his resting period, would he have been so miserable?

In Zhang Fei's opinion, just Yan Xing's shot more than twenty days ago, the cut wound had long healed, and he still had a bird.

Just when Zhang Fei couldn't hold it in, there was a noise outside the door, and it seemed that a guest was visiting. Zhang Fei quickly rushed up and looked out the door. It turned out to be Liu Bei.

"Brother, when we are having fun tonight, I won't go to celebrate and comfort the generals. I'll do something bad to come to me," Zhang Fei couldn't help but blurt out.

Liu Bei patted Zhang Fei's palm: "How are your injuries in the past few days?"

Zhang Fei's eyes lit up: "It's been a long time ago. Brother, please see that I can eat and sleep well..."

He originally wanted to say that the snake spear can rotate as usual, but when he spoke, he remembered that he had not settled down recently and had not recreated the snake spear.

I had to sigh embarrassedly, and instead picked up the copper hammer that I usually used as a short weapon for self-defense, and swung it a few times to show my strength.

Liu Bei patted his shoulder: "It's good that you'll be fine. The generals have been busy lately and they really can't pull out the people to lead the troops. If you have a good credit for holding the sheep, you will have to worry about your third brother. Although it's not as important as taking Yangping Pass, it's also important."

Zhang Fei jumped up excitedly: "Oh? Brother, say it quickly, I've been holding my birds out of breath these days. If I win, can I drink and celebrate the achievements with you?"

Liu Bei: "If you have no health, it's okay to drink a little, but you must not exceed two liters per day."

Zhang Fei had already faded out of his mouth and shouted: "It's good to have two liters, so tell me where to go."

Liu Bei: "Here we go south and cross the Han River, and then go east for another thirty miles. There is a mountain called Dingjun Mountain along the south bank of the Han River. This Dingjun Mountain is the commanding height of the Hanzhong Basin, and forty miles further west is Nanzheng County.

There may have been two or three thousand defenders on the front of the city, but I asked the prisoners in Yangping Guanzhong and said that more than a thousand people were urgently transferred to Yangping Pass to assist in the guards by Yang Ang before, and now there are at most more than a thousand defenders left on the mountain. However, Zhang Lu's reinforcements in the direction of Nanzheng will definitely arrive at Yangping Pass before tomorrow evening according to the original marching speed.

I will definitely pass by Dingjun Mountain tomorrow morning. If you run into the retreating Yang Ang halfway and turn directly to Dingjun Mountain, you will come faster. So I would like to ask my third brother to seize the top of Dingjun Mountain before dawn tomorrow. This time it is a night of mountain climbing. You can't ride a horse, and you don't have to use your snake spear. Just use this copper hammer round shield to supervise the formation. I will temporarily allocate all the Danyang soldiers who are good at attacking the mountains to you."

"Don't worry, brother, I can't get Dingjun Mountain before tomorrow sunrise, so I'm willing to issue a military order." Zhang Fei picked up his weapons to prepare for the attack, but he was not a reckless man, and couldn't help but ask more concern, "I didn't expect that the generals were not free, and it was my turn - where did the second brother go? Didn't he work hard today?"

Liu Bei: "Chen Yun didn't come back in the afternoon. He sent a team of confidants to tie Zhang Wei to send him back. He also asked them to bring a message, saying that he was torturing Zhang Weijun's prisoners. He heard that Zhang Wei had left two thousand Banyan Man deep in the road of Maming Pavilion, besieged Boya on the mountain on the Jialing River, hoping to die of thirst. Yun Chang was afraid that Boya would be in trouble, so he immediately took the cavalry to rescue him after disarming the prisoners.

Don’t be too arrogant. Now it’s the hour of the year. If you march to Dingjun Mountain in a hurry, you may be afraid of being in the middle of the night. You must be careful when attacking the mountain in the dark.”

Liu Bei was not worried about the speed of the march. Although Zhang Fei temporarily led the Danyang soldiers, everyone could ride a horse and rush to the road. He had to get off the horse and climb the mountain to attack when he reached the foot of the mountain.

Zhang Fei hurriedly prepared and asked the troops to bring only one meal of dry food, so he rushed straight to Dingjun Mountain and arrived smoothly as expected.

The westernmost sections of Dingjun Mountain are actually less than twenty miles away from Mianyang County, but this mountain stretches along the south bank of the Han River, with twelve consecutive peaks connecting to form a ridge. The highest main peak is more than thirty miles away from Mianyang, and the mountaintop village that Zhang Lujun has always set up is also here.

Zhang Fei was in the north for a long time and had not fought a mountain war for many years. Now he still feels uncomfortable with picking up a copper hammer and shield. But twenty years later in history, he helped Liu Bei enter Sichuan, seize Langzhong, and Dangqu kill all the way to Hanzhong and defeated Zhang He. It can be seen that he still has talent in mountain warfare.

Today, Liu Bei sent him to Dingjun Mountain, which seemed to ignite a lurking talent in Zhang Fei's blood.

More than 3,000 Danyang soldiers followed Zhang Fei's order. Although they were still a little tired, their morale was extremely high and they rushed up the mountain in the dark.

...

Yang Bai, the garrison commander of Dingjun Mountain, has been worried recently. Early today, Yang Ang, the garrison commander of Yangping Pass, asked him to transfer a thousand reinforcements to guard the pass, and he only had half of his troops left. After worrying for a day, he didn't know how long Yangping Pass could last and whether Zhang Wei could lead his troops back to the pass.

He waited carefully until midnight before Yang Bai fell asleep. Before he fell asleep, he thought to himself: Yangping Pass is so steep, and it will be fine if the reinforcements from Nanzheng arrive for another day or two. I am afraid that Zhang Wei, the younger brother of Shijun, will not be able to survive. He heard that the Han army is huge, so Zhang Wei took the initiative to go out to hunt down the Han envoy and was blocked in the valley to fight in the field. How could Zhang Wei survive with his ability?

I hope Shijun should not take his anger at other generals because of his brother's death and refuse to go to rescue him.

sleep!

After sleeping until the end of the ugly moment, at about two or three o'clock in the morning, Yang Bai was suddenly awakened by a beating sound of flames. He quickly got up and looked. Before he could even wear his armor, he found that several fences in the camp were hooked and pushed back and torches were lit at the entrance of the camp.

"No, it's the Han army robbed the camp!" The ordinary rice thief soldiers were already in chaos.

Yang Bo was shocked because he didn't know when Yangping Pass was lost, so his sleep quality was of course better.

"Yang Ang is so terrible! He couldn't defend Yangping Pass but didn't send anyone to inform him! How could the Han army come faster than the fugitive soldiers? Could it be that Yangping Pass was wiped out? Yang Ang died in battle and could not report the news?"

Many thoughts flashed through Yang Bai's mind, and he was very resentful, but he could only pick up his weapons immediately, put on his helmet and went to fight.

Under this situation, the number of enemy troops was twice that of Mizhe soldiers, and their combat skills were more elite, so the situation was obviously one-sided.

"Don't be messed up! Don't be messed up! Relying on the east side of the village wall, Yang Bai tried hard to set up a few Danyang soldiers and garrison commanders. The iron maces led by the team were already sore and numb.

Those blunt objects that are hit hard by weight and inertia are very uncomfortable even if they are blocked. Every time it is a severe test for every muscle and bone from the arm to the shoulder.

Many of the ordinary ghost soldiers around Yang Bai even slapped blood and fell back after being hit.

In the chaos, Yang Bai's shouting and martial arts performance were so conspicuous that Zhang Fei finally set his sights on him.

Since he stabbed Yan Xing with each other, Zhang Fei has always held his breath, but Yan Xing's lesson also made Zhang Fei a little cautious and no longer look down on his personal martial arts as before.

It is OK to forget the pain after healing the scar, but it is just about to heal now. No matter how poor Zhang Fei has a memory, he has to be careful about the shelf life of one or two years.

"Good come!" Zhang Fei took out a more focused attitude than dealing with Yan Xing, picked up the copper hammer and stepped forward, and rushed forward with a large iron shield of two and a half feet in diameter. After that, the copper hammer swung a semicircle to greet Yang Bai's forehead.

"Puff--" Yang Bai was also holding a shield. After his shield was hit head-on by Zhang Fei's iron shield, he could not even relieve his energy.

Just as my eyes were getting dark and the sky was spinning, the copper hammer head weighing more than ten pounds hit Yang Bai's helmet at a speed similar to a baseball serve.

The helmet was completely concave, and a small amount of brain matter splashed out for five steps, but more brain matter was like a bowl of tofu soup, with a deformed helmet inside.
Chapter completed!