Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 405 Outsmarting Wakou Pass (3)

At this time, Li Song had already retreated to Chang'an. The people Zhang He sent to ask for help ran all the way, and finally came to Chang'an to meet Li Song and explain his purpose.

Li Song was furious when he heard about it, and he blamed Zhang Yun in his heart for forgetting the pain when he healed his scar.

But you can't turn a blind eye to Zhang Yun's request for help. After all, if you don't rescue Zhang Yun, it will easily cause turmoil in the morale of the army.

Today, if you don't go to rescue Zhang Xi, you don't have to rescue others tomorrow. In this way, who will fight to the death for you.

Li Song ordered Zhou Qing and Xue Xiantu to lead [-] troops to Wakou Pass to reinforce Zhang Yun. At this time, Xia Houba took advantage of the victory to pursue Zhang Yun outside Wakou Pass.

Zhang He stood firm at Wakou Pass, waiting for Li Song's reinforcements to arrive. Xia Houba launched a fierce attack on Wakou Pass for several days, but he was still unable to capture Wakou Pass.

Seeing that the attack could not be defeated for a long time, Xia Houba had no choice but to retreat for [-] li. Every day, he and Zhang Yi led dozens of riders, sentry on both sides to scout the trails, to see if there was any way to break through Wakou Pass.

One evening, the two came to a hidden valley. There was a hut in the valley. The chimney on the hut was emitting wisps of smoke. Ma, come forward and ask for a bowl of water to drink.

When they came to the door of the hut, the two stood outside the fence and looked in. In the small courtyard surrounded by the fence, a man was sitting and resting in the courtyard, a child was playing beside it, and a woman was lighting a fire beside her. meal.

The two looked at each other, and Zhang Yi stepped forward and shouted: "Brother! My brothers and I have traveled here and are a little thirsty. Can you ask for a bowl of water?"

Seeing that Xiahouba and the two of them didn't look like bad guys, the man also agreed with them because they were just begging for a bowl of water.

"You two brothers! Please come in and sit down. I'll bring you two bowls of water." The man warmly greeted the two of them to come in.

"Thank you, brother!" The two entered, thanked each other, took a large bowl of water from the man, and drank it down in one gulp.

"Brother! Why do you live in seclusion here?" After drinking the water, the two chatted with the man, only to learn that this family is not local, but lives in seclusion here.

The man said: "My family was originally a resident of Hanzhong. It was only because of the war that they moved here to live in seclusion. It's just that the war will subside. I don't know how long it will take."

Xia Houba thought to himself that this man came here to live in seclusion after escaping the war from Hanzhong, and he might know how to bypass Wakou Pass, so he asked: "Now there are two large armies fighting outside, and the Langzhong pipeline is blocked. I wonder if there is still a way?" Can you go to Hanzhong?"

Xia Houba was just asking casually, and he treated a dead horse as a living horse doctor, even if the man didn't know, it didn't matter.

The man said: "This little brother asked me, even if you asked the right person, I really know that there is a small road to the back of Wakou Pass. Back then, my family used this small road to live in seclusion here."

The two were overjoyed after hearing this, and Xia Houba hurriedly asked: "Brother, please tell me how to get on this path, I am very grateful."

The man said: "Little brother, you are welcome. You just need to cross the Cangxi River, and you can enter Hanzhong from the Huai River in Zitong Mountain. If you walk along the path in Zitong Mountain, you can reach the back of Wakou Pass."

Xia Houba and the two were overjoyed, and asked the man to take them there. Before leaving, they left a piece of silver as a reward for the man who told him the way.

Back in the camp, Xia Houba immediately ordered Zhang Yi: "Tomorrow, you lead the troops to attack Wakou Pass, attract Zhang Xi's attention, and try not to let him find out that there is anything wrong. I will personally lead Qingqi out of Zitong Mountain to go around Wakou Pass sneaked up on him from behind."

I heard that Li Song has ordered Zhou Qing and Xue Xiantu to lead [-] troops to reinforce Zhang He. We must capture Wakou Pass before they arrive. "

The next day, Zhang Yi followed Xia Houba's instructions and led the army to Wakou Pass, where he formed an array outside Wakou Pass, and asked Zhang He to fight.

But he didn't know that at this time, Xiahou led two thousand Qingqi, entered the small road, and quietly went around Wakou Pass, Zhang Xi didn't know anything about it.

Zhang Yun looked at Zhang Yijun who was calling for formation outside the pass, and ignored them. Now he really doesn't care what the enemy calls for formation. It won't be too late when the reinforcements arrive. As for now, of course he doesn't pay attention.

At this time, someone suddenly came to report: "Suddenly fire broke out on the fourth or fifth road after the pass. Soldiers and horses came out from nowhere."

Zhang He was shocked!He personally led five thousand soldiers to check, and left the general to guard the pass. Suddenly, a group of soldiers and horses came out from the left and right sides, and Zhang He was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses!Zhang He was furious, and stabbed at Xiahouba with his spear. The two fought for [-] rounds. Xiahouba lost to Zhang He.

"Report!" Yiqi galloped over and shouted, "Wakou Pass is lost! Wakou Pass is lost!"

Zhang He was shocked!Unwilling to fight, he reined in his horse and hurried to the path. The horse couldn't move anymore, and Cao Jun was in a hurry to chase him. Zhang Yun had to abandon his horse and run up the mountain, looking for a way to escape. There are only a dozen people left.

"General, now that we have lost Wakou Pass, what should we do now!" one person asked.

"I lost Wakou Pass, so I can't get rid of it. Now I have to go back to Chang'an and report to Duke Tang. Let's go!" Zhang Yun said, and took the lead towards Chang'an.

On the way, I met Zhou Qing and Xue Xiantu who came to reinforce Wakou Pass.

"General Zhang, what's wrong with you? Why are you in such a mess? Aren't you guarding the Wakou Pass?" Seeing Zhang Xi in a panic, Zhou Qing hurriedly asked, but guessed in his heart that Zhang He might have lost the Wakou Pass.

"To tell you the truth, Wakou Pass is lost! Where are you going?" Zhang He blamed himself.

"The two of us were ordered by Duke Tang! We went to Wakou Pass to reinforce the general, but Wakou Pass was lost before my two brothers arrived. What should we do now?" Xue Xiantu said.

None of the three spoke, and they fell silent for a moment. After a while, Zhou Qing said: "It turns out that Wakou Pass has been lost, why don't you go back and report to Duke Tang."

"Alright! Let's return to Chang'an the same way." Zhou Qing also agreed.

"You two, please listen to me. If we go back like this, we will definitely be punished by Tang Gong. Why don't I go back and take Wakou Pass back before the enemy knows it?"

"In this way, you two are a great achievement! And I can make up for it! I don't know what you two think?" Seeing that they planned to go back to Chang'an, Zhang Yun felt unwilling and hurriedly stopped them.

The two naturally understood Zhang He's thoughts, but they still rejected Zhang He's proposal. No matter what he said, they ignored him and returned to Chang'an with an army of [-].

(End of this chapter)