"Yide can lead the soldiers to reward and punish clearly, and the order is forbidden, and I don't have to worry about it."

After dawn, Liu Bei personally climbed Dingjun Mountain, inspected the captured camp, and climbed to the top to look east, and couldn't help but sigh.

Zhang Fei fought bloodily, smashed generals in battle, and killed dozens of enemy soldiers, these Liu Bei was not surprised or surprised.

is the only one who is very pleased that Zhang Fei was able to bring the Danyang soldiers who are not familiar with him in ordinary times, and let the soldiers order to prohibit them, and reward them according to their promises after capturing the camp.

It seems that Zhang Fei is a person, although he can't learn a lesson permanently after making a mistake every time, but he can still suffer for two years after suffering an injury. Basically, the cautious shelf life after every injury is that long.

"Big brother, you underestimate me too much, I changed it when I was injured by Zhang Ju's people, and I was more careful when I was injured by Yan Xing this time." Zhang Fei proudly said on the side that this is all a basic operation, and there is no need to take it out to say.

He couldn't help but follow Liu Bei to look, but no matter how he looked, he couldn't see Nan Zhengcheng, so he couldn't help complaining: "What is the big brother looking at?" I've been staring at the east for so long, and I've heard that Nanzheng still has fifty or sixty miles, and I can't see it here. ”

"I'm willing, what I can see in my heart is what I can see." Liu Bei crossed his waist in high spirits, his chin was raised so that even his beard was blown up by the mountain lan,

"Yangping Pass and Dingjun Mountain are all down, and Hanzhong is already in my hands! Although Zhang Lu claimed that there were still 20,000 soldiers and horses in various places, it was similar to the number of soldiers that our army could fight. But if there is no danger, just rely on those rice thieves and ghosts, hehe. ”

When Liu Bei's army entered Sichuan, there were 30,000 horses, but 3,000 people died in the Yangping Pass, Dingjun Mountain, Ma Mingge Road, and Xiguan Station, and the losses in various places were added, and the dead and seriously injured were infected, and the total loss of Lin Lin was one or two thousand people.

This is only the battle deaths, counting the minor injuries that need to recuperate, and the water and soil are not adapted to the disease and cannot fight, the total number is 5,000. Therefore, Liu Bei said that the Han army only had 20,000 soldiers left to fight, which is a very pragmatic data.

Despite this, he is already very confident in swallowing Zhang Lu in the future.

It's just that you don't have to be in a hurry in the follow-up, and you can't use your life to exchange time for Nanzheng in order to quickly take Nanzheng, you can move forward slowly and steadily.

Lu Su, who was following Liu Bei to inspect the mountain, never got a chance to speak just now, and he was also relieved when he heard this, and hurriedly encouraged: "The general can use both urgency and mercy for the soldiers, this is the luck of the court and the three armies." ”

Liu Bei pointed to the bottom of the mountain: "The army has been repaired for three days, so you don't have to rush." In the past three days, as long as the Huangsha County at the foot of Dingjun Mountain is occupied and rectified, and the rice thieves are cleared of the sacrificial wine, the rest is not asked. We waited for Yun Chang and Boya to return from the army. Calculate the days, give Yun Chang three days, and even fight with the road, it should be enough.

Three days later, we divided our troops into Xujin, bypassed Nanzheng from the north side, collected Baozhong, Chenggu, and Nanxiang along the way, and surrounded Nanzheng within ten days. Then it was passed on to determine the prosperity of those remote and small counties, gold, and red shore. Nan Zheng can slowly besiege. ”

The Huangsha, Xingshi, Gold, and Chi'an mentioned by Liu Bei are the four small counties with less than 5,000 households in the nine counties of Hanzhong, that is, the county magistrate can only set up a "county magistrate" and is not qualified to set up a "county order". They are all on the edge of the Hanzhong Basin, upstream of the Hanshui tributaries, and are very remote.

Anyway, after entering Yangping Pass and controlling the commanding heights, you can defeat the enemy because of grain, and you don't have to worry about the trouble of going over the mountains to transport grain.

To put it mildly, it's like after Deng Ai crossed Jiangyou, he didn't need to rush to fight Chengdu at all, as long as he snowballed on the rich Chengdu Plain to control all places, he could fight more and more food, and get richer and richer.

It's just that Liu Bei is not a traverser, he doesn't know the existence of Deng Ai, but the truth of the art of war is the same.

Lu Su hurriedly received the order, and reminded by the way: "What if Zhang Lu knew that he would not be able to hold Nanzheng in the end, and he was afraid of being surrounded, so he fled in advance?" ”

Liu Bei's eyes narrowed: "I haven't had time to take a closer look at the terrain, if he wants to escape, where will he go?" ”

Lu Su took out the map, pointed it and said: "The Nanbao Water flows into the Han River from south to north, and it flows through the city of Nanzheng. The source of the Nanbao water is in the main ridge of Yushan. The south side of the main mountain is only more than ten miles, which is the source of the ditch.

If Zhang Lu wanted to escape to the dangerous place to defend himself, he would definitely trace the south to the source, and then cross the main ridge of Yushan Mountain, enter the ditch and then go down the river, entrenched in various counties in Brazil. ”

The "Rain Mountain" mentioned by Lu Su is the Daba Mountain in the later generations, to be precise, this section of Daba Mountain in the south of Hanzhong County. Hanzhong County is bounded by the Qinling Mountains in the north and Daba Mountain in the south, which is a basin surrounded by mountains.

The name "Rain Mountain" also comes from the symmetrical folds on both sides of this watershed. Wherever the depression on the northern slope forms a river source where rainwater collects, a river will also form in the symmetrical place on the southern slope.

The ditch is both a river and the name of a county in Brazil.

As a river, the ditch is the canal river of later generations. The Qujiang River, the Fujiang River and the Jialing River are the main sources, and these three rivers will eventually converge in Dianjiang County, Jiangzhou (later Chongqing Hechuan, the origin of the place name "Hechuan" is because the three rivers converge here) to become the complete Jialing River, and then flow into the Yangtze River in Jiangzhou.

Lu Su was worried that if Zhang Lu was put in the ditch water system, with the complex terrain and ravines in the Brazilian region, I was afraid that he would not be able to catch him for a while, and then you would have to cross the border all the way to Dianjiang County and the confluence of the three rivers to completely clear the remnants of the thieves?

Therefore, from a purely military point of view, in order to completely stabilize the hearts of the people in Hanzhong as soon as possible, it is better to completely encircle Nanzheng as soon as possible and prevent Zhang Lu from running away.

But Liu Bei had other plans in his heart.

When he left Luoyang, he also saw the weakened state of Emperor Han Ling, and as long as he knew a little bit about the illness and looked at the complexion, he knew that it was only a few months.

This is not only Liu Bei will see it this way - the reason why Dong Zhuo in history was recalled and appointed as the pastor of the state after Chen Cang was relieved of the siege, and he no longer went north when he went to Hedong, was because Dong Zhuo arrived in Hedong at the end of February, more than a month later than Liu Bei's departure from Beijing. Then Dong Zhuo also saw that the emperor was ill, so he had to gamble and stay in Hedong.

Moreover, Li Su gave advice to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei also highly suspected that Liu Yan had a lot of evidence of trespassing.

If Zhang Lu had pacified it so quickly, he would have only one Hanzhong County on hand, at most plus the two passing counties Wudu and Yinping in the Qinling Mountains that he occupied when he came to the road. Relying on such three poor counties, he completely turned his face with Liu Yan, even if he had the righteous name of the imperial court at that time, it would be difficult for Liu Yan to rebel.

It is better to hold a steady hand, continue to expand the territory and strength in the name of Zhang Lu, and also have more time to farm in Hanzhong to buffer and prepare.

The loss of grain transportation over the Qinling Mountains is too terrifying. The reason why this attack on Yangping Pass was able to hold up was because it only took half a month to take Yangping Pass before and after (counting from the days when leaving Chencang and marching south into the mountains, not from the beginning of military battles)

But if you want to deal with Shu County in the future, you have to harvest the grain in the Hanzhong Basin for the last season, and then use the grain from Hanzhong to fight Shu County.

Liu Bei was also badly taught by Li Su, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and sighed: "We still take pity on the lives of the soldiers, the dog is still in a hurry and jumps over the wall, if it is too hasty to chase Zhang Lu, he will break through with the remaining 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the besieging men and horses of our army on the side of Nanzheng may not be able to stop him, maybe there will be many casualties."

If he wants to leave, we will surround the three and lack one, and try to take advantage of the opportunity to weaken him. As long as there is a lack of one of the three encirclements, Zhang Lujun will definitely have no intention of fighting and just want to escape, and when the time comes, we will follow and cover the killing, and Zilong's Wuhuan Assault Cavalry will be available, and our army will definitely have few casualties. ”

Liu Bei didn't say a word that he wanted to raise his own respect, and only said that he cherished the lives of soldiers.

But Lu Su was also the first person in later generations to dare to say such a rebellious remark as "the Han family cannot be revived, and the Cao thief cannot be eliminated suddenly", so he immediately understood the leader's mind in seconds.

"The general is also missing one of the three rounds, and this is slightly the same as the general's view. The subordinates just persuaded the general to completely besiege and kill, afraid that Zhang Lu was good at inciting people with ghosts and gods. If I can kill him, then all the counties in Hanzhong can be used by me immediately.

If you indulge it, I am afraid that he is in the ditch, and he still gives spiritual sustenance to the people in Hanzhong who are confused by the fallacy, causing the people to understand the hardships of the court and the general for a while, and cannot be used by the general wholeheartedly. ”

This problem is also very realistic, because killing the spiritual leader of a warlord who has caused trouble by confusing people's minds can have a miraculous effect on breaking down crooked theories and breaking spiritual sustenance. Lu Su also took this into account to do both evils and felt that he should be besieged to death.

Liu Bei thought about it and decided to take a gamble: "Two years ago, when I was in Luoyang, I heard that Boya and Liu Yan talked about the root cause of the Zhangjiao Yellow Turban Incident. I think Boya must be good at debunking these ghosts and gods.

When Yun Chang rescues Boya, our army will definitely be able to find a way to reap the benefits of the arsonists without being harmed by the arsonists. It is like the medicine of the tiger and wolf, the medicine is violent, and there is a backlash, the famous doctor can use the way of harmony between the monarch and the minister, and the auxiliary materials to remove the tiger and wolf's nature and leave the curative effect, isn't it beautiful? ”

Lu Su couldn't help but admire: The lord's trust in Brother Boya is too exaggerated, Brother Boya hasn't been rescued yet, and he hasn't even discussed a word with him about this issue, so the lord blindly believes that Brother Boya will definitely be able to come up with a countermeasure of "reconciliation between the monarch and the minister"?

However, perhaps Liu Bei felt that even if he couldn't achieve "reconciliation between the monarch and the minister", he would rather take this powerful medicine with this side effect.

"In this case, just wait for General Guan to rescue Brother Boya, and wait and see what he thinks." Lu Su no longer persuaded.

……

In the next three days, the army rested and rectified in full accordance with Liu Bei's requirements, and then detoured to Nanzheng from the north side, occupied Baozhong, and realized the encirclement of Nanzheng County on the west, north, and east sides, and then continued to march along the Han River to Chenggu.

This clearly shows that he temporarily gave up the side directly south of Nanzheng County and facing Nanbaoshui, and let Zhang Lu flee for his life.

On the other hand, Li Su finally returned to Chuyang County, where Liu Bei was stationed, on the fifth day after the fall of Yangping Pass.

He was followed back by Zhao Yun and Dian Wei, as well as hundreds of elite guards.

When Liu Bei heard that Li Su had arrived, he was almost eager to see through, and personally walked more than ten miles from Chuyang, and went out to greet him outside Yangping Pass.

"Brother Xian, should this trip be okay?" Liu Bei checked it himself and confirmed that Li Su was not injured at all, and then he found a problem, "Why didn't Yun Chang come back with Brother Xian?" ”

Li Su put away the folding fan and replied: "I learned from Yun Chang that Zhang Wei was captured and sent to Guanxia to hit the morale of the rice thieves, so I know that Yangping Pass and Chuyang must have fallen into the hands of my brother. The strength of the brother is comparable to Zhang Lu, and it is impossible to completely destroy Zhang Lu with one blow.

Moreover, I worked together with Yun Chang to capture a lot of Banyu barbarian captives this time, and only then did I learn that Zhang Lu had been very close to Banyu this year, and if he escaped, he would definitely go south to Brazil. I thought that Brazil was a steep terrain, and the only way to go down was to go down the three rivers.

So I discussed with Yun Chang and asked him not to toss back and forth, just at the end of Ma Mingge Road, he took advantage of the situation to occupy Jiameng County, which is on the verge of the Jialing River. When the time comes, if the brother goes south to Brazil, it happens that the brother will lead the army south along the ditch, and Yun Chang will lead the troops south along the Jialing River. Divide and attack, and definitely annihilate Zhang Lu and Ban Yuman north of the Dianjiang River. ”

Liu Bei heard a slight coolness: "I...... A few days ago, I made a temporary decision to go south to Brazil, and the virtuous brother was in the danger of Ma Mingge Road, and he actually knew my intentions......"

Lu Su, Zhuge Jin, and Zhuge Liang next to him were even more dumbfounded.

Li Su hurriedly explained: "I can't talk about the prophet's intentions, but I just think it's more appropriate to take Brazil in this way." If my brother didn't have this intention, I would persuade my brother to act like this when I came back this time, but the hero saw the same thing, and it was a coincidence. ”