The Shimen Pass at the end of the Han Dynasty had long since disappeared.

It is located north of Qinshui County (Jiyuan), at the junction of Taihang Mountain and the Hanoi Plain. In the 20th century, the "Jiyuan Qinhe Reservoir" was built at this location, raising the Qinshui water level and using the drop that rushed out of the Taihang Mountain to generate electricity.

Shimen Xing sank into the bottom of the reservoir, replaced by the "Qinlongxia Scenic Area", an artificial reservoir scenic area. You can see the scenery photos by searching directly on Baidu Map.

In Shimen Xing at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were no brick and stone walls. The main reason was that Qinshui passed through the valley entrance and could be directly navigated on the river. It would be useless if you built a wall.

But a camp was built on the side of the river beach on the east bank of Qinshui. When the war was critical, some troops were stationed to block the river surface. As for the west bank of the river, it was relatively steeper, and generally there would be no troops marching from the steep slopes of the mountains and forests on the west bank.

Tuo Yi, who is responsible for the defense of all Hanoi County, has not many generals who can make a move. He must also guard against the forefront Dongyuan County to prevent Guan Yu from obtaining the dock city in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and also guard against the direct land entry of Zhuguan Xing and Jiguan Xing from Hedong. By this calculation, at least the top three generals under Tuo Yi's account must be scored to lead the troops.

Further down, the county's Huai County and the Dukou hub city Ye Wang have a defensive priority, and the Shimen Xing is higher than the Shimen Xing. It would be nice to have a nameless dragon supporting commander with a public face in Shimen Xing.

Opposite the road from Shimenxing, Zhang Liao’s defense zone, his own people, why did Tuo Yi waste his energy on guarding Zhang Liao? Then wouldn’t he attack his friendly forces?

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November 13th, the second half of the night.

It only took eight hours to change hands between Duan and Wu Ze in the upper reaches of Qinshui. Therefore, the passes and county towns in the downstream did not even get any news, and there was no knowledge of the changes in the upstream.

When Guan Yu sieges the city, he let people surrounded the main road outside the city first. Even if Yuan's soldiers or local pro-Yuan people missed the net and reported the news, they could not go down along Qinshui. They could only cross the mountains and cross the eastern Kong Cangling Ridge and detour to report the news. Therefore, it would take at least two days for the defense zone on the south side to know the loss of the upstream.

The Shimen Xing guard, a miscellaneous commander named Guan Gu, was sleeping in the camp on the east bank of the river with three thousand people. This person was originally a small leader of the Black Mountain bandit, but he was not a staunch member among the Black Mountain bandits.

In history, before Yuan Shao killed Zhang Yan, he directly surrendered to Zhang Yang, the prefect of Hanoi under Yuan Shao's tent. He became a middle-level officer under Zhang Yang's general Yang Chou, which shows that his level is really low.

In this life, because of the butterfly effect, Zhang Yan had been dead for almost five years, and more people were betrayed among the Black Mountain bandits. Although they were probably going fast, after a few years, they had no hard work or fatigue. They barely turned from being the leader of the thief and becoming the chief of the official army.

A general who was born in a black bandit, had never read the military tactics, but he was still a little alert, so he would not be careless when he went to the camp without leaving soldiers at night.

However, without the generals personally patrol and inspect, the soldiers can be lazy, and the night patrol is limited to the east coast. The west coast is so steep that people will never be arranged to stay at night. It’s November, and it’s so cold. If it’s too dark at night, it’s not easy to organize a boat to cross Qinshui. Wouldn’t the soldiers who were put on the west coast patrol all night and no one would rotate?

However, on this quiet night when only hearing the pine and tree waves, in the mountains and forests on the west bank of Qinshui, the place where the local guards in Hanoi felt that it was impossible for anyone to walk at night to defend, there were two thousand of the most elite mountain soldiers climbing and stealing.

On the thirteenth day of the lunar calendar, there are two days left before the full moon night. The white moonlight in the sky can barely shine on the ground, see the terrain clearly, and it will be fine as long as you don’t walk under the shade of the trees.

The reason why these two thousand Wang Ping's direct mountain soldiers can maintain such a good state is on the one hand because Guan Yu has a large number of troops. When he attacked the Duan family, these two thousand people did not participate in the battle, but went around the city directly, so their physical strength was well preserved.

Forty thousand people fought against two county towns, and no matter how much they squeezed, they could squeeze out a considerable number of people to rest.

On the other hand, it is because Liu Bei's camp has invested a lot in the construction of mountain soldiers in recent years. Although it is not possible to ensure that tens of thousands of mountain soldiers are treated very well, it is still easy to give some extra treatment to Wang Ping and Meng brothers.

If Wang Ping wants to cross the mountains, he cannot wear iron armor. The two thousand people are equipped with leather armor. However, leather armor is divided into different levels. They wear the most tough leather armor made of rhinestone and crocodile leather.

In addition, when making dried meat food in the army, the internal organs obtained from slaughtering livestock are concentrated to add food to these soldiers who need to marching in complex terrain. After eating too much animal liver, there is no night blindness and you can cross mountains at night. As for the scientific principles, of course, Li Su explained it a few years ago.

This kind of information is not afraid of leaking secrets. Anyway, except for Liu Bei, other princes in this world did not need to build mountain troops.

Wang Ping took the night road and mountain road with a hard and quiet for two hours, and finally walked around the lower reaches of the west bank of Shimen Xing, and six or seven miles away from the camp in the Guigu Defense Zone.

Seeing that he would not be discovered by the soldiers in the camp from here, he would have to cut some wood and tied it into a raft to return to the east coast.

The width of the river surface of Qinshui in this section is only thirty feet. In fact, if it weren't for carrying steel weapons, you could swim directly. Moreover, after flowing out of the stone gate of Taihang Mountain, the dropping difference downstream is not large, and the water flow speed has slowed down. However, Wang Ping considered that the whole body was soaked in the water at winter night, which would affect the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, so he chopped some wood randomly and fooled the river across the river.

After the fourth update, Wang Ping reorganized his formation behind Guan Gu, and then organized his troops to launch a back stab.

"Kill!"

"Guan Yu's 50,000 troops are here! Those who surrender are exempt from death!"

Thousands of mountain soldiers wearing rhinoceros leather armor, holding steel blades, battle axes and nail hammers in their hands poured into the turbulent camp from behind.

The archers on the tower were about to warn, but before they could shoot two rounds of bows and arrows, Wang Ping's men had already rushed to the front, and torches were thrown around. Within a few minutes, the camp was full of flames.

Until the moment when he woke up, he was confused: Which side is the south? Which side is the north? An enemy attacked? Then the direction of the enemy should be north? Who can't see clearly in the darkness? The sense of direction is too poor.

But when he rushed out with his armor that had not been tied and was about to command the troops to counterattack, he realized that his order was a little confused and asked his personal soldiers to repel the enemy from the north. However, everyone looked at each other and found that the order was inconsistent with the actual situation.

"Prince, the enemy came from the south!" several personal guard officers who woke up early reminded.

"No matter which side, it's just going to repel the enemy's most!" Guan Gu paused his horse and rushed over.

Unfortunately, his second order in the darkness did not spread much, and many soldiers were still executing his first order - mainly because at this time, enemy troops did appear on the north side.

After Wang Ping launched the back stab, Xu Huang on the front no longer hid his whereabouts and led a team of people to advance along the river beach on the east bank of Qinshui. It is safest to march along the river at night, because even night blindness can listen to the sound of water to determine whether he has gone a deviant trajectory, which is very suitable for large army mobility.

So, many soldiers under Guan Gu went out of the camp to fight Xu Huang, and the entire camp was in chaos.

Don’t think that the guys who rushed out are so conscious that they are. Whether they are really willing to fight Xu Huang, maybe they just find an opportunity to escape. If they really see the enemy’s power, they will kneel down and surrender directly.

Guan Gu led the more than a hundred personal guards who could only be mobilized in the camp to rush towards Wang Ping's entry. Not to mention, although Guan Gu was at a great disadvantage because of theft, Wang Ping's troops came over mountains and rivers, and although they were elite, they did not have a single horse.

Even Wang Ping, as a general, could not match his horse and could only fight in the field. He was rushed out of the camp gate by Guan Gu and rushed back and forth along the river beach, which was a bit of a loss. Although Xu Huang in the north had cavalry, the camp had not yet completely captured, and Xu Huang could not come to support him.

Seeing that Wang Ping was fighting the most fiercely and the Han soldiers were holding the most elite, he rushed over without hesitation. He was really knocked away by his people. Although many of the Heishan cavalry of Guigu were also dismissed, he had at least exaggerated his momentum.

In addition, the terrain of the battlefield by the river was narrow and long, and the turbulent storm broke through in the middle, tearing open Wang Ping's formation. Wang Ping's soldiers were forced to both sides, like sandwich biscuits, and even crossbows could not be used. If the arrows were shot, it might accidentally hurt the friendly forces behind them.

Fortunately, Wang Ping reacted quickly, and his mountain soldiers also considered the issue of how to prevent enemy cavalry from rushing up in a narrow terrain, and immediately deployed the staff to carry a staff and passively attacked.

Using thick, long, hard and valuable staff to set up sweeping cavalry across the streets, this is what Liu Yu likes to use when he defeated the Northern Wei cavalry. Compared with the method of setting up a gun array, the spear relies on the spear, hoping that the enemy cavalry was hitting the tip of the spear. The staff formation hopes to sweep across the enemy cavalry over the side of the formation. When the horse's inertia hits, the rod will immediately break the pole and the legs will be broken.

Guan Gu originally wanted to rely on his condescending advantage, Ma Zhan killed Wang Ping first against Fang Zhan. However, before he rushed to Wang Ping, his horse was broken by a thick wooden stick, and Guan Gu staggered and fell off the horse.

The personal guards around him wanted to protect him and break through the siege, and strangled him into a group of Wang Ping. In a short while, dozens of corpses lay down on the ground. Yu Gu and Wang Ping naturally fought to the same place.

In the firelight, Guan Gu vaguely saw Wang Ping's appearance, spat and cursed bloodily: "Look, you are in your early twenties, and you are still stinking, so why are you here to die before you dry up?"

Unfortunately, he had just finished mocking Wang Ping's youth, and before he could fight with a few moves, he was chopped off by Wang Ping.

The Yuan army in the Shimen Camp quickly dispersed, and the rest of them knelt down and surrendered. Wang Ping and Xu Huang worked together to completely clear the pass.

...

On November 14th, taking advantage of the last window before the enemy fully reacted to the sneak attack, Guan Yu led his army to continue to advance rapidly, forcing Qinshui, who was unknown and did not dare to fight, and the next day he marched to the wild king.

After all, there was a general in Yewang County. It was Yang Chou under Zhang Yang. Yang Chou led 5,000 people to guard the city and at the same time asked Tuo Yi, the county-level county-level county, for help.
Chapter completed!