The fact that Zhang He was defeated was only spread to the centurion level in the army. The soldiers were not aware of it. They just thought that Zhang He was defeated by Zhang Fei, and they all ran away.

These soldiers had no intention of fighting and were about to return to Wakou Pass. Zhang He could not defeat him and insisted on stopping to fight.

Although he barely set up the formation, the formation was shaky as soon as he joined the battle.

In order to stand up hard and be invincible, Zhang He led the way and bravely moved forward, he also claimed that reinforcements would arrive soon because the hundreds of generals kept shouting.

After a while of about a meal, reinforcements had not yet appeared.

Even if people were sent to Wakou Pass for help, reinforcements should have arrived. There was no movement at all. The soldiers thought they had been deceived, and their morale was in chaos and began to disintegrate.

Zhang Fei led the army to fight, and of course he also heard Zhang He's army's calls, but he didn't care at all, and just focused on leading the army to conflict, so Zhang He's army was defeated.

After all, Zhang He has excellent martial arts skills, so even Zhang He can't stop him. He killed his life and opened a road, returned to Wakou Pass, gathered defeated troops, and could not stand there.

Zhang He had thousands of ambush troops from both sides, but they were stopped by Wei Yan and Lei Tong's troops. A burst of arrows were shot out, driving them into the valley, blocking the mountain road with vehicles, and setting fire to the car.

The grass and trees in the valley were all on fire, and the smoke was invisible, and the ambush was not allowed to leave. Although there were not much damage, it was a few days later when we detoured back to Wakou Pass.

As the defeated soldiers returned to the pass one after another, Zhang He gathered thousands of troops and horses, and felt a little relieved, but he could barely defend the pass.

Zhang Fei, Wei Yan and Lei Tong have taken turns to attack the pass in recent days. Zhang He did not dare to be careless and used a rolling stone to defend the pass. Zhang Fei did not want to be too severely injured and did not attack the pass.

Seeing that the strong attack failed, Zhang Fei simply refused to attack the enemy first, retreated twenty miles to the camp, and ordered Wu Deng to lead dozens of horses to scatter on both sides of the pass and explore the path.

Before Wu Deng could return, Zhang Fei and Wei Yan were walking their horses by the mountain. Suddenly, they saw several men and women carrying small bags on the remote mountain road and walking along the mountain.

Zhang Fei pointed at the people with a horse whip and said to Wei Yan:

"The capture of Wakou Pass is only for these people."

Then he called the guards beside him and ordered:

"You go down and invite those people over. I have something to ask, be kind and don't be afraid of them."

The guard was a clever man and quickly called the men and women to the front of the horse. Zhang Fei dismounted the horse and used kind words to calm his heart and asked where he came from.

Although the people were afraid, they still told Zhang Fei honestly:

"We were originally residents of Hanzhong. We visited relatives in Xichuan. Now we are going to return to Hanzhong. We heard that there were large troops fighting here and blocked the official road of Langzhong. Now we pass Cangxi, and we take a detour from the Huiqichuan in Zitong Mountain to enter Hanzhong. We want to go home quickly."

Zhang Fei took a detour, not trying to attack Hanzhong, but wanted to attack Wakou Pass, so he asked:

"Isn't the distance from this road to Wakou Pass?"

These people often walk this path and answer without hesitation:

"It's not too far. I go around the Zitong Mountain Road, just behind Wakou Pass."

Zhang Fei was overjoyed when he heard this, so he invited these people to the military camp, enjoyed good wine and food, made a bounty, and asked them to lead the way and go together.

After Zhang Fei made up his plan, he summoned Wei Yan and Lei Tong to share the matter with him:

"General Lei leads his troops to guard the camp, General Wei leads his troops to attack Zhang He. I personally lead the light cavalry out of Zitong Mountain and attack from behind the pass."

Zhang Fei ordered the people to lead the way, select 500 elite infantrymen, and take a small path to Wakou Pass.

Zhang He had less than 5,000 defeated troops under his command, and he expected that it would be difficult to defend the pass, so he sent several groups of people to ask Xiahou Yuan for help, and he had already received a reward, saying that Cao Hong's reinforcements from Yecheng had arrived and would come to take over the defense soon.

The reinforcements were not delayed, and Zhang Fei did not come to attack the key points. Instead, Zhang He was worried, afraid that Zhang Fei would have any tricks.

Suddenly, the guards came to report, and Wei Yan led his army to attack under the pass.

When Zhang He heard that it was not Zhang Fei, he had no scruples. In order to boost morale, he decided to fight in person, so he put on his horse and prepared to go down the mountain to fight.

Suddenly, another urgent report was reported:

"There are fire in the fourth and fifth directions after the pass, and I don't know where the soldiers are coming."

When Zhang He heard the fire in the backyard, he felt something was wrong and he didn't care about going down to fight, so he led his troops to the back of the pass.

I saw a bulge of people and horses, and the flag was opened, and Zhang Fei rode out.

Zhang He was shocked and dared not fight, so he rushed to the small road.

The path was narrow and the horse was unbearable. Zhang Fei chased after him in a hurry. Zhang He abandoned his horse and walked out of the mountain stream. However, only dozens of soldiers followed him.

After Zhang Fei occupied Wakou Pass, he went to Hanzhong without any obstacles, which was equivalent to opening the path to attack Hanzhong.

Zhang Fei knew the importance of the matter, and did not want to face Xiahou Yuan directly. He did not greedy for merit and made rapid progress. Instead, he guarded Wakou Pass and sent a fast horse to drive Chengdu to report the victory to Liu Bei, waiting for the next instructions.

Liu Bei received Zhang Fei's good news and knew that the path to attack Hanzhong had been opened, so he summoned everyone to discuss it. He couldn't wait to conquer Hanzhong before Cao Cao's reinforcements arrived.

Fa Zheng said:

"In the former, Cao Cao defeated Zhang Lu and pacified Hanzhong, but did not use Tuba and Shu to do so, leaving only Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He, the two generals of Zhang He, and led the army to return north. This is a mistake. Now that Zhang He is newly defeated, Wakou Pass is lost. If the lord takes advantage of this time and brings a large army to fight him in person, Hanzhong can be determined. After Hanzhong is established, he will train troops to accumulate grain, observe the rift, advance can be used to fight against the thieves, and retreat can be used to defend himself. This is the time when heaven is with him, and it cannot be lost."

Liu Bei and Kong Ming both felt deeply.

So, Liu Bei personally led Fa Zheng, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Gao Xiang, Liu Feng and others to use Huang Quan's strategy to conquer Pu Hu in Badong County and Du Bin in Baxi County, and the army was approaching Hanzhong County.

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After Ma Su sent Sun Lang away, he was idle and always felt something was wrong in his heart. He couldn't help but take out the handwritten Dream Book and read it casually.

Suddenly, Wu Deng, who was following Zhang Fei's battle, sent people to report that Zhang Fei had completely defeated Zhang He and occupied Wakou Pass. Now he was stationed in Langzhong to rest.

It turned out that more than ten fine works left in Zhang He's army had no eyes after these battles, and several were lost. The rest followed Zhang He and retreated back to Hanzhong.

Wu Deng wrote to ask for instructions, and these secret chess felt that they had completed their mission. Now Zhang He has almost become the commander of the bare feet. The more than ten centurions are useless. Some people want to take the opportunity to return to Xichuan.

Ma Su is now at home and has no right to resettle them. Wu Deng himself is just a centurion, and he cannot make his own decisions.

These detailed works have to be returned to Xichuan, and their identities are not difficult to identify, but they can only enter Zhang Fei's army. Even if they do not have the merits and rewards, they need to maintain their original positions personally.

Zhang Fei's army had only 5,000 people. It was not easy to ask him to arrange more than a dozen centurions to enter at once, which meant that it was quite difficult to transfer the same number of officers.
Chapter completed!