Although he was defeated by Zhao Yun for a while, his men and horses were also lost by one-third, and the main general was also killed.

However, the remnants of Yang Ren's cavalry, in terms of the size of the army, were still more than 1.5 times that of the Han army.

Even if the level of elite is far inferior to that of the Han army, taking advantage of the advantage of being familiar with the terrain in local combat, it can still be done if it is delayed from harassment.

Li Su also happened to need someone to cooperate with the opponent, and he also happened to pretend that the whole army was on alert and slowly retreated south, but in fact, he took the opportunity to preserve the physical strength of the soldiers.

After walking slowly for a morning, Li Su saw that the pursuers had slackened, and ordered Zhao Yun to make the whole army suddenly speed up.

Because the enemy had been on the road all night and had no rest in the morning, he was really sleepy and tired to the extreme, and he didn't dare to sprint and chase again, and was slightly thrown off by Li Su for half an hour.

When Shen Shi caught up again in the afternoon, he found that Li Su had actually set up camp again.

This time, Li Suxuan's camp location is safer, it is almost at the end of Ma Mingge Road, the west side is still leaning on the West Han River, and the south side can already see the Jialing River, which eventually flows into the Jialing River.

Therefore, if you camp high on the hillside here, you can not worry about being attacked in the northwest and southwest directions, and you can occupy the top of the mountain as long as you beware of the enemy attacking from the east slope.

As an aside, from the camp chosen by Li Su, if you cross the Jialing River to the west and go all the way to the west, it will be the Motianling that Fu Youde, the general of the early Ming Dynasty, smuggled into the Yinping and Shu Xia (Ming Yuzhen's summer).

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" said that Deng Ai smuggled into Yinping and also turned over the Sky Ridge, which is just Luo Guanzhong's present and ancient - because Luo Guanzhong himself was also a strategist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Shicheng's mastermind. He heard the details of the contemporaries of Zhu Yuanzhang's generals smuggling into Yinping to destroy the Shu regime, and thought that Deng Ai was also taking this road.

Historically, Deng Ai's smuggling of Yinping really turned over Ma Ge Mountain, which was further west than Motianling, but not so steep. However, what these two mountains have in common is that they are both located on the watershed of the Jialing River and the Fujiang River.

(Note: Before attacking Chengdu, the reason why they had to steal over Mage Mountain or Motianling was to switch from the Jialing River basin to the Fujiang River basin.) Because the Jialing River flows horizontally outside the Jianmen Pass, staying on both sides of the Jialing River will never be able to bypass the Jianmen Pass. ）

At present, it is too far to talk about Chengdu, and look back at the main battlefield where Li Su camped.

Since his camp is across the river from Motianling, and it is also the watershed between the Jialing River and the Western Han River, the degree of danger can be imagined.

So much so that the remnants of the cavalry under Yang Ren chased them to the foot of the mountain, and they didn't have the desire to attack the top of the mountain at all.

"But I remember this mountain is a dead mountain, right? There is no water source on the top of the mountain, as long as we don't let them go down to the river and draw water from the Jialing River or the Western Han River, won't they die of thirst in two days? Why do we have to endure so many casualties and attack the mountains? A military academy complained.

However, this theory was quickly refuted by his colleagues, and another military academy pointed out and said: "Not necessarily, we came half an hour late, and just now I saw that some people in the enemy army were stabbing and beating water, maybe they have already drawn a lot of water in this half an hour."

Look at it like this, don't you want to defend the mountain? But as long as we are around, three days are thirsty to death, five days and seven days are also thirsty death, they come from afar, it is impossible to bring too many barrels and kettles, how long can they store water just by carrying their skins? ”

Although everyone was puzzled, the handling decisions were highly consistent: they all chose a strategy similar to Zhang He's when he was scared of Ma Yan, and they were dying of thirst in the mountains!

It's just that some people with a little foresight have begun to doubt: With such a posture of sticking to and waiting for help, could it be that there is "aid" behind these Han envoys?

Where does aid come from? If there is help, isn't there a conspiracy......

But these things are not something that a mid-level officer like them has on his own.

Two hours after nightfall that day, Zhang Wei, who had climbed the mountain and followed the path with the infantry, finally arrived here with a full four or five thousand men, panting, and joined forces with the cavalry unit that had suffered considerable damage, and the total strength of the reorganized pursuers again exceeded 6,000 men.

After Zhang Wei arrived, he was first surprised.

"What? General Yang actually died in battle? And was he killed by the enemy general? Zhang Wei was dumbfounded, feeling a slight chill in his neck for no reason, and hurriedly asked for details.

Zhang Wei is still a little self-aware, he knows that Yang Ren and Yang Ang's martial arts are all above him. The reason why he can be a manager is completely because of his blood.

After learning about the cause of death, the colonels who led the soldiers told them their suspicions, and Zhang Wei became more and more suspicious.

"Knowing that this is a dead place, and still holding on here, it must be holding on to help...... Could it be that this Han envoy really has reinforcements? ”

But now he is difficult to ride a tiger, after all, it is also possible that the enemy knows that he can't escape, so he is bluffing?

What if he frightened the main interception force that he had managed to arrive to go back, and he relied on these 1,000 people to break through the blockade again?

It's all here, and it's impossible to leave as soon as you are scared.

Anyway, although the total strength of more than 10,000 people on the Yangping Pass side was transferred to chase and kill the Han envoys, there was no Yang Ang with two or three thousand people defending to the death!

Yangping Pass is so majestic and dangerous, with more than 2,000 people guarding it, no matter how strong the enemy is, it is impossible to capture it in a few days! This little time difference is still affordable.

"I don't want to, let the troops rest for the night immediately, and don't rush to the point where General Yang Ren is tired and suffered! The whole army will go all out to attack the mountain tomorrow! If you can't attack it in one day, make another plan. ”

Zhang Wei so ordered, and the whole army besieged and camped to rest.

Of course, Zhang Wei did not forget to arrange some scouts and take turns to guard to prevent the enemy from going down the mountain and robbing the camp.

Yang Ren's death in battle has made Zhang Wei fully vigilant, realizing that the Han envoy on the mountain is a very sinister existence, and he must not be taken lightly.

But fortunately, Li Su was also very self-aware, knowing that after the enemy army suffered losses, he must be the most vigilant, so he didn't say anything all night and didn't arrange any small actions.

How can anyone just yin someone yesterday and then go on to yin today, right? Always let the other person be paralyzed for a few days.

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The next morning, Li Su woke up again, and this time he could wash and eat and drink for a long time.

The enemy did not disturb him too early, and the soldiers still had time to boil hot water for Li Su to boil dried vegetable soup to drink and wash his face with hot water.

Zhao Yun shot a mountain chicken last night, and he had already asked the soldiers to pluck and clean it in advance, and roasted it for Li Su as a breakfast dish.

Finally made Li Su feel that today's IQ recovered relatively quickly, and the symptoms of getting up and low blood pressure demon king disappeared.

In fact, he misses the Greenspanian lifestyle of his previous life - it is said that the famous chairman of the Federal Reserve in later generations likes to soak in the bathtub every day when he has low blood pressure and wakes up at five o'clock. Many major decisions that affect the world economy are made when you are in the bathtub and your mind is at its clearest.

A few days after entering Shu, although the weather was still quite cold, I just felt damp all over my body, especially when I slept all night in the open and was sticky and greasy.

When he entered Hanzhong and Chengdu in the future, he built his own mansion, and he also had to farm well, and he would build a copper fountain like Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and he would be in a bad mood after getting up, and he would take a bath if he wanted to.

Fight for a hot tap bath! Kill Zhang Lu as soon as possible!

After being refreshed, Li Su said in a consultative tone: "Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, and they have teased Zhang Wei for three days, today is the most important thing, Zilong, Youping, you must resist." How many arrows do we have? ”

Zhao Yun: "About 70,000 or 80,000 pieces, after the enemy army was repulsed in the battle yesterday, I asked the brothers to recover some. ”

Li Su: "If the enemy attacks the mountain, you can quickly counterattack a few times first, which will have a deterrent effect and dispel their delusion of attacking." However, at least 20,000 arrows were left in preparation for the final counterattack.

I believe that if it is fast tonight, or if it is slow tomorrow morning, the news of the surprise attack of the imperial army on Yangping Pass will definitely reach Zhang Wei. The moment the news arrived, it must have been the time when Zhang Wei's morale was at its lowest. In the intermediate stage, we can pretend that the arrows are not enough, and then suddenly exert force at the end, which can further convince the enemy that they have really hit the plan, and then the army's morale will definitely be unstable. ”

The blow to the troops has always been twofold, on the one hand, it is the physical damage of the plan, and on the other hand, the psychological frustration of "we have been tricked" itself.

Li Su is good at manipulating people's hearts, how can he not make full use of it.

After confirming the arrows, Li Su asked about the stock of fresh water again, and Zhao Yun also gave a satisfactory answer.

Yesterday, Li Su took advantage of the time difference of an hour before the pursuers to draw water from the mountain.

He had asked the soldiers to cut down trees as soon as possible, build reservoirs, and fill gaps with bark to store water. Later, it was found that there were one or two small natural puddles on the top of the mountain, but the water was very dirty and stagnant, so some soldiers were separated to clean the stagnant water, clean the leaves and floating soil, and then draw water from the Jialing River at the foot of the mountain and pour it into this temporary reservoir, and then use alum magnet elm bark to purify the water when drinking.

But even so, the fresh water in this puddle is only for ordinary soldiers to drink, and Li Su and his generals must drink water in skin bags, and they still have to purify it and boil it before drinking.

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Zhang Wei's offensive soon began, and hundreds of infantry tentatively moved up the hill in two or three directions. Everyone climbed the mountain with short knives and wooden maces and shields, and more than 400 crossbows were thrown down the mountain, and from time to time some trees and small stones that had just been cut down last night were rolled.

It's just that the mountains are densely wooded, and the shading effect is also good, so the long-range strike damage is very small.

Of course, this kind of shelter is relative, and the people on the mountain will be blocked by several percent when they shoot down the mountain, and there will be no long-range firepower at the top of the mountain under the mountain.

Almost all of Zhang Weijun's bows and crossbows were shot in vain, and after a while, Zhang Wei realized this problem and signaled his archers to stop and not waste arrows in vain.

Li Sujun also quickly learned to be wise, because they cut down trees when they set up camp yesterday, and within seventy or eighty steps and thirty steps in front of the camp, two open areas where trees were cut down.

When Zhang Weijun rushed into this area, he would be subjected to a dense range of projectiles and close fire. Over time, Zhao Yun let the flag commander wave the flag command on the top of the mountain, and only raised the red flag when he saw the enemy enter the open area, and then all the crossbowmen opened fire with all their might. As soon as Zhang Weijun rushed through the open area and re-entered the range covered by the trees, he stopped shooting.

Fortunately, the infantry of Zhang Weijun rushed to the front of Li Su's camp, but because they were scattered and unable to form a battle formation, they were then assassinated by the Youzhou cavalry who dismounted and mounted guns and shields.

Two or three successive waves of onslaught had to be defeated, and each wave dropped as few as one or two hundred, and as many as three or four hundred corpses on the hillside, which caused Zhang Weijun's morale to be quite damaged.

And Li Sujun's casualties were minimal, the main loss was to shoot out twenty or thirty thousand arrows, Zhao Yun strictly implemented Li Su's order, and the first few waves had to have a deterrent effect, so he shot wildly.

Zhang Wei was really stunned for a while, and he didn't dare to let the soldiers charge in a cluster, but only harassed on a small scale, trying to deceive Li Su's arrows.

Zhang Wei also has military common sense, knowing that these missions are thousands of miles away, and all consumables cannot be replenished.

And in order to prevent the Han army from coming back to draw arrows and pick up arrows, he forced his troops forward into the woods halfway up the mountainside, and the two armies were no more than 300 paces apart to confront each other. If there is a Han army coming forward, then take the opportunity to counter-charge, this time difference is definitely too late to change the formation constraints, and it will definitely fall into a melee.

Seeing this, Li Su was also a little tricky, and had to change his tactics on the spot.

He remembered that when Dian Wei protected him through Mangdang Mountain, the quality of mountain warfare he showed was not bad, so he called Dian Wei: "You take three hundred Danyang axes and shield soldiers, go forward a hundred steps to the forest in front, and hide low." If Zhang Wei's small group of people touches it, I won't let go of the arrows, I can't withstand the consumption, and if I can force back in close combat, I will force back in close combat as much as possible. ”

"Whoa! Zhonglang is optimistic! Dian Wei was extremely excited, he was not very strong in cavalry, he couldn't bow and arrow, and his long-range attacks were all flying halberds within ten paces, and he had already been suffocated in the past two days.

Finally, it's time for another chance to fight in the mountain jungle!

He took three hundred Danyang soldiers of the Shanyue tribe to touch it, and suddenly took the initiative to defend.

Soon, Zhang Weijun had a small group of mountain soldiers touching up.

Li Su pretended to be a little bit into the barrage and released two bursts of arrows to cover up the existence of Dian Wei and paralyze the enemy army.

Dian Wei suddenly got up from the lying state and killed, and the double halberd flew over, pecking five or six people in succession. The rest of the axe and shield soldiers also rose to their feet, taking them by surprise at extremely close range.

But the enemy did not retreat at all because of Dian Wei's bravery, and even inspired the ferocity to continue to besiege it, Dian Wei's double halberd slaughtered, covered in blood, and his heart was slightly shocked:

"Although the martial arts of these barbarians are not as good as the Danyang soldiers, they are not afraid of death, and their morale is still above the Danyang soldiers. Where did Zhang Wei recruit these soldiers? ”

Because he was not psychologically prepared, Dian Wei's tricks were all killer moves to attack the enemy and save him, and when he encountered some enemy generals who exchanged his life and played with him, he was inevitably caught off guard.

"The Han dog is killed!" A barbarian general held an iron thistle bone in his hand, and slammed his head towards Dian Wei with his head wide open.

Dian Wei backhanded a halberd, thinking that he could easily poke the other party to death. But after the small branch on the halberd was completely pierced between the chest and abdomen of the enemy general, the man's strength to pounce forward was unabated, Dian Wei hurriedly abandoned a halberd and retreated, but he was still pierced by a hammer in the shoulder with two inches of wounds.

Fortunately, Dian Wei is strong, and this small injury doesn't even affect his movements, and he is also used to this crazy way of fighting with the enemy in exchange for his life - in history, he was wounded in more than a dozen places in the battle of Wancheng and could still fight loudly.

After fighting again with psychological preparations, Dian Wei did not give the enemy a chance to hurt him again, and the bloody battle took half an hour before the enemy was all killed.

When he returned to the mountain to deal with his wounds, Dian Wei reported the situation to Li Su, who was also a little surprised, but fortunately he caught a few live mouths, so he pulled the captives to torture.

"Where are you barbarians, and why do you serve Zhang Wei to resist the imperial court? Who will be the thief who was killed by the Marquis just now? ”

Xiao Bing didn't have so much backbone, and after some torture, he still spoke obediently: "We are Bajun Ban Yuman, and it was He Chong, the nephew of our patriarch He Huang, who was killed just now." ”

Li Su realized this, he had read the report of the imperial court, and knew that almost at the same time as the rise of Zhang Lu last year (the fifth year of Zhongping), in Ba County, south of Hanzhong, there were seven people surnamed Ban Yu who rebelled under the pretense of the Yellow Turban.

The reason for the rebellion is actually an old problem - the court does not pay the barbarians to serve as soldiers.

As early as the time of Emperor Huan, the imperial court had the habit of levying Ban Yu to fight the Qiang Rebellion, but Emperor Huan still paid the military during the reign of Emperor Huan. Since the second year of Emperor Ling's Zhongping, it was almost the same time as the military salary of the Wuhuan people and the Southern Xiongnu, and Emperor Ling also broke the military salary of the Ban Yuman, but he still levied and paid day work every year.

Therefore, the Ban Yu Barbarian Uprising is the same as Qiu Liju and the Southern Xiongnu Uprising.

However, the Ban Yu Barbarian Uprising did not affect the entire Ba County, because the Jiangzhou area in the south (later Chongqing) was still quite stable and was inhabited by Han people. The main areas of trouble are in Brazil, including Danqu and Langzhong.

It's just that because Zhang Lu is cut off from the road, the imperial court doesn't know how the Brazilian region developed later, but he didn't expect Ban Yuman to unite with Zhang Lu, and the two families fought against Han together.

He hurriedly instructed Dian Wei to be careful, not to underestimate the enemy, Ban Yuman's strength in mountain warfare is definitely not under the Danyang soldiers. Dian Wei also said that he had learned a lesson, and his style of play should be a little more restrained for a while, so as not to fight too hard.

After the establishment of the Shu Han regime in later generations, the "Wudang Flying Army", the strongest fighting will of Shu, was composed of two parts of barbarians, one part was Ban Yuman, and the other part was Wuxi Man under Zhuge Liang Pingnan Zhonghou and Meng Shu.

Wang Ping, the first commander of the Wudang Flying Army, was born in Ban Yu, but Wang Ping is estimated to be a young man now, and he will not become a colonel and captain until twenty years later. Wang Ping is the grandson of the head of the He family, the first surname of Ban Yuman.

Dian Wei had just killed a barbarian general surnamed He, and the captive said that he was the nephew of the patriarch, so it should be a distant cousin of Wang Ping.

With the melee resistance of the Danyang soldiers organized by Dian Wei, Zhang Wei did not reap the benefits of using Ban Yuman, and his morale became more and more depressed, and after a few more battles, he finally had to turn to a siege.

"That's it, there is a lack of water on the top of the mountain, and the Han envoy is thirsty to death!" Zhang Wei was so resolute in desperation.

After more than a day of fighting, it seemed boring and boring, knowing that at noon of the day, Zhang Wei suddenly got a piece of bad news.

Several horses finally came from the north: "The general is not good!" The main force of the Han army made a surprise attack on Yangping Pass. When we left, General Yang Angyang was still struggling to defend, and he asked us to come to report as soon as possible to ask the general to come back for help! ”

"What? Where did the Han army come from? Zhang Wei was almost so shocked that he fell off his horse.

Messenger: "I heard that the Han army forcibly marched and attacked Yangping Pass, which arrived from Hechi in one day and two nights by mountain road!" ”

Zhang Wei muttered in disbelief: "...... This, how could those northerners walk the mountain road so fast? That's impossible! Are they divine soldiers? ”

Zhang Wei was so shocked that he didn't realize the importance of the blockade news, so that the bad news quickly spread throughout the army, and the entire army was shocked and in an uproar.

Li Su on the mountain saw that the army under the mountain was shaking, and he already knew that he was successful, so he hurriedly ordered Dian Wei to kill with all his might.

Dian Wei took advantage of the poor command of the enemy's chaotic position, and took all the Danyang soldiers down the mountain like crazy tigers, slashed wildly, and slashed and killed hundreds of Zhang Weijun's foot soldiers who were fortified on the mountainside, and other chaotic soldiers also fled down the mountain one after another, and the encirclement support point halfway up the mountain was completely removed.

Zhang Wei suddenly felt in a dilemma, and he didn't know what to do.

Is it to die with Li Su, the dog thief, and pull a cushion before he dies, or go all out to save Yangpingguan?

No matter how you look at it, Yangpingguan is more important.

If the troops are divided again, I am afraid that neither end will be pleased.

"Leave two thousand barbarians, and use the fortifications built in the past two days to continue to strengthen the blockade and defend according to the camp. These hundreds of elite soldiers on the mountain are abnormal, and they can't be defeated in field battles and mountain attacks, but our army can still fight in a battle if the other side breaks through the camp.

You don't have to fight, just die of thirst! In particular, 500 archers were sent to aim at the mountain road that went down the mountain to get water from the Jialing River, and whoever dared to go down the mountain to fetch water was shot to death! ”

After weighing it repeatedly, Zhang Wei felt that leaving 2,000 people to defend Li Su to death would not be able to divide the troops and weaken the main force too much, and he could kill this yin dog with a big breath of evil anger, so it was decided. 1603419665