On the last day of September, Zhang Fei finally arrived at the last stop of his trip after so many days of rushing to the enclosure.

He had just recovered Jiange County, and then walked more than 20 miles along the plank road in the north valley of the county, came to the back of Jianmen Pass, and shouted to the enemy troops who were already under the enemy on the wall to surrender:

"Zhang Ren Xiaoer! Surrender quickly! Pang Xi has already given up Jiangyou and Zitong, and he is afraid to come out in Fucheng! You have been attacked by us before and after, for the sake of you being a loyal and brave warrior, you have blocked Gao Shun and Wu Kuang for a year, my eldest brother wants to give you a chance to repent and reform! Liu Yan betrayed the court against the thief, and he will be defeated soon! ”

The rammed earth city wall of Jianmen Pass had already been smashed by the harassment of catapults, and Zhang Ren had long since stopped counting on the original city wall to defend it, but retreated layer by layer, using wooden stakes to temporarily build barriers one after another to block Gao Shun.

Fortunately, in the past six months, Gao Shun has also become soy sauce, and he didn't expect to break through, just to attract Pang Xi's attention and troops here, so the life of both sides has become better, like a "sit-in war".

Knowing that today, Zhang Ren didn't get a warning in advance, and he didn't dare to leave his post without permission, so he was cut off from the back road and blocked in the Sword Pavilion Road and couldn't get out.

There is Gao Shun in front and Zhang Fei in the back, what a miserable word.

Zhang Ren knew that there was no point in keeping it, but after all, people have sunk costs, and he blocked Gao Shun for almost a year for this matter, so he gave up his efforts because his teammates didn't give up, and his brain couldn't turn around for a while.

Zhang Rense shouted inwardly: "The people who have received the grace of the Han Lu country in the world can not care about betrayal or not betray the court!" I, Zhang Renzu, was poor, a common man, and had never received Han'en, Liu Yan promoted me to the position of military marquis, and I should be a loyal person! Today there is only death!

Besides, I don't believe that Pang Taishou will abandon me and others, Zhang Fei, I think you are the commander of the first brigade who attacked the Sword Pavilion and wanted to deceive me! If I hold it for three or five days, after Pang Taishou will definitely lead a large army to attack you, it is not known who will be caught in the middle at that time! ”

"Hahahaha, don't you believe that Pang Xi has given up Jiangyou and Zitong and returned to Mianzhu and Fucheng? I'll show you a testimony! Charge up! Zhang Ren, do you know who this demon woman is? ”

Anyway? Zhang Fei asked two people to come forward. Are the two sides separated by hundreds of paces? In the range of the crossbow is involved, so I can't see the face clearly.

But Zhang Ren looked at the woman's clothes? Just a little impressed? And after Zhang Fei whipped the demon woman with torture and made her scream? Zhang Ren is undoubtedly confirmed.

Because that woman's voice is so bewitching, too distinctive? Once you hear it, you won't forget it.

Zhang Fei spurned and introduced: "You should recognize!" This old lady is Liu Yan's old thief's concubine and Zhang Lu's rebel thief**! What you should know? Where did Liu Yan leave her, she was arrested by us, do you still doubt that Jiang You and Zitong were recovered by the Han? ”

It turned out that Liu Yan left Zhang Lu's mother on Pang Xi's side to supervise the army? This witch also often has to show her head? The generals were familiar with her voice. This woman is actually in her forties, and she is only practicing the rice thief demon method, and she has the skill to stop her face, so that she can confuse Liu Yan.

"If you can't see clearly, I'll let you look carefully! You say that you are loyal to Liu Yan? He was deceived by the witch and refused to return, and you cannot persuade him. Now that Liu Mao is dead? Liu Yan has no queen by his side. No matter how loyal you are to Liu Yan, wait for Liu Yan to die? The inheritance has only fallen into the hands of him and the son of this rice thief and demon woman, and you can't bear to work hard for this kind of pickled goods? ”

Zhang Fei said? Pulled out a saber and chopped the old demon woman's head? A kick into the distance? Let Sergeant Zhang Ren pick it up and take a look at it slowly.

Zhang Ren picked up the head and confirmed it again and again, and felt that Zhang Fei's words also made some sense - Liu Yan is now dying, what is there to listen to about that kind of dying and chaotic life? Maybe it wasn't Liu Yan's true meaning, but he was bewitched by a traitor......

"Alas......" found Zhang Ren at the foot of the steps, and asked the soldiers to put down their weapons and surrender at the gate.

The terrain of Jianmen Pass is dangerous, the front is narrow, and there are not many defenders in peacetime, but after some battle losses, Pang Xi regularly replenishes his troops, so it only remains at 2,000 at the same time.

After Zhang Fei collected their weapons, he lined up the captives and sent them back to the county seat of Jiange.

Gao Shun on the other side finally crossed the gate with eight hundred trapped, and then there was a battalion of Wu Kuangbu's temporarily led by Wu Lan, passing in turn.

As for Wu Kuang himself, although he is nominally Gao Shun's direct leader, because the state of war here is a long-term sit-in, he doesn't want to suffer this hardship, so he is stationed in Jiameng County all the year round.

After the news of the breakthrough of Jianmen Pass here is confirmed, Wu Kuang will naturally go out from Jia Meng to Zitong to help Zhang Fei ensure the back road in the direction of Zitong and Jiangyou, so that Zhang Fei and Gao Shun can let go of their hands to deal with the frontal enemy.

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With the opening of the Jiange Road, all the roads in the rear of Hanzhong into the Chengdu Plain fell into the hands of Liu Beijun, and he could advance and retreat freely from then on. The grain and grass that Liu Beijun hoarded in Jiameng County can also be transported over through the plank road to subsidize the front line of Guanghan County-

But in fact, there is no need to do this, because there are too many surrendered counties in Guanghan County, and Liu Beijun can casually spend the grain in the official warehouses of the surrendered counties. Not long after the autumn harvest ended, on the rich and fertile Chengdu Plain, there were warehouses and warehouses everywhere, how could there be a shortage of military rations, and Liu Yan would be too late even if he was willing to clear the wilderness.

At this point, there is no point in sticking to any of the main points of transportation, only the meaningful thing is to concentrate the final forces for a decisive battle, and choose two strongholds that need to be held if the final defeat is achieved.

On the battlefield of the southern front, Liu Yan led the main force back to Chengdu and Mianzhu to find Pang Xi to gather troops, and at the same time, Wang Lei, who was in charge of the broken end, also had a miserable life.

Liu Yan left Wang Lei with about 10,000 local soldiers in Yizhou to drag Zhao Yun, and the reason why he didn't give it to Dongzhou soldiers was because Liu Yan had long known that Wang Lei, an abandoned son, would not be able to win against Zhao Yun, and the precious 30,000 Dongzhou soldiers would have to be kept for the final battle.

As a result, Wang Lei's role was only to drag Zhao Yun for three or five days.

These Yizhou locals were already demoralized, fighting 10,000 people on the Meishan Plain, or facing the Youzhou elite cavalry who had seen blood for many years, even if there was a camp to rely on, it was completely unbearable.

It's just that the huge camp left by the main army makes Wang Lei have a lot of strategic depth that he can gradually give up, and abandoning a battalion in half a day can drag Zhao Yun for several days. But it dragged on for four days, retreated to the last camp, and when there was no way to retreat, that is, the day when Wang Lei's resistance ended.

Zhao Yun charged slightly, the Yizhou recruits surrendered in a neat and tidy manner, Wang Lei tried to restrain military discipline, but he was not cut by his own people's back, but he was trampled by the fleeing rebels a few times, and he was injured and passed out. After the incorporation, Zhao Yun was assigned by the general to capture Wang Ti and send him for treatment.

Zhao Yun also strictly followed Liu Bei's prisoner of war policy before he set off: for the people who eat Hanlu in the world, if they stubbornly help Liu Yan and refuse to surrender, then of course it is not said that it is a betrayal of the imperial court. Even if you don't kill them, at least you have to cut them down to the people after they are captured.

But for the talents who were promoted by Liu Yan from the common people, they have not eaten Hanlu, have not received the favor of the imperial court, and do not have the imperial court in their hearts, so they will leave their lives to watch the aftermath.

After all, Liu Bei himself was also from a poor background and his bloodline was noble, but when he was a child, his family was very poor in money, and he was able to understand the mentality of "the one who dies for his confidant", and he is also willing to give a chance to those who serve the lord faithfully. (After Liu Bei lost his father and before the age of fifteen, he was very poor, there is no doubt about this.) Rich is after his uncle sponsored a study tour)

Perhaps this is Liu Bei's consistent down-to-earth view of employing people, and it is also his instinctive method of attracting talents.

On the seventh day of October, after Zhao Yun defeated Wang Lei, he further occupied Wuyang County, which was also the last county in the hands of Liu Yan in Qianwei County. Zhao Yun's troops shuttled through the Chengdu Plain, and Liu Yan couldn't stop him at all, and he didn't dare to stop him, so he could only shrink into the county seat and the camp and assume a defensive posture.

Three days later, Zhao Yun, who came and went freely, finally joined forces with Zhang Fei from the north near Mianzhu, and he was idle these days, and he did not forget to continue to transform and integrate those scattered Qingqiang soldiers and prisoners, and the troops were fighting more and more.

On the other side, because Zhang Feijun received Gao Shun and Wu Kuang, there were about 2,000 elite soldiers from the Northern Army of the Beijing Division of Gao Wu's Second Division, and he incorporated a little of Zhang Ren and others' troops, and selected those who were really brainwashed by Liu Bei and were willing to rebel.

Therefore, when Zhang Zhao joined forces, he found that their total strength had swelled from 20,000 at the time of departure to 25,000. There are still more scattered places to surrender troops, and if the combat effectiveness is not suitable for temporary mobilization, Zhang and Zhao are too lazy to bring them, so as not to slow down the march and slow down the speed, so they stay in the local area and go on the defensive.

A few days later, about October 15, the final battle day with Liu Yan was finally coming.

Liu Bei, who had previously sat in Jiangzhou, had also heard the news of the decisive battle seven or eight days ago, so he brought some descendants to help in the battle, and met Zhang and Zhao on October 15 to personally supervise the final battle. Liu Bei also has about 5,000 troops, most of whom are Youzhou soldiers and Ban Yu barbarians-

These troops were originally going to defend all the key points around Jiangzhou and prevent Liu Yan from counterattacking. But since Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun advanced so smoothly, the counterattack did not exist, and Liu Bei's little strategic reserve was idle, and the defense work was handed over to the new surrendered army to take over.

As a result, the total strength of Liu Bei's army on the Mianzhu Plain reached 30,000.

The total strength of Liu Yan's army was originally expected to be able to gather 110,000 people, but since nearly 10,000 Qingqiang and Suo soldiers were lost in advance, and the 10,000 Yizhou soldiers when Wang Ti broke off, the actual strength of the final decisive battle was only 90,000 - 60,000 Yizhou soldiers, 30,000 Dongzhou soldiers, and no barbarian soldiers.

Looking at the book figures, Liu Yan still has a three-fold numerical advantage, but everyone knows the actual quality and morale.

When Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun saw Liu Bei, they naturally wanted to drink a few cups to catch the wind, Zhang Fei first punished himself with three urns, and then wiped his mouth and asked, "Big brother, is Boya staying in Jiangzhou to guard?" What's going on with the second brother, he should have entered Jingzhou a long time ago, right? ”

Liu Bei snatched the wine urn: "The big war is coming, drink less!" A few days ago, there was a sudden report from Zijing's side, saying that there was some change in Guanzhong, and Huangfu Song was afraid that he would be transferred away by the Son of Heaven. Even his son Huangfu Jianshou persuaded him not to obey Dong Zhuo's chaotic life, but Huangfu Song was foolish and refused to be accommodating, alas.

However, Huangfu Song still knew Xinyi, and Empress Lingsi entrusted Princess Wannian to him for protection through Boya. Before leaving, Huangfu Song secretly asked Boya to lead a small number of troops to bring Princess Wannian to Hanzhong, it seems that Huangfu Song knows that he is going, I am afraid that the result will not be too good.

As for Yun Chang's side, before I left Jiangzhou, I heard that Yun Chang had already taken the White Emperor City and Wu County, and now he should enter Jingzhou. However, there are many thieves and heroes in Jingnan who resist, and I heard that Dong Zhuo's newly appointed Wuling Taishou Jin Xuan also refused to obey, so Jin Xuan's position should be to regard Dong Zhuo's opponents as chaos, and Yun Chang can only solve this Dong Zhuo henchman by force. ”

Zhang Fei was so angry that he kicked and smashed the wine jar, and complained hatefully: "That Huangfu Song...... In vain, he is a general of chariots and cavalry, but he damages the righteousness of the world for the sake of a small section, if he leads Yongliang's troops to resist Dong Zhuo...... That's it, I don't want to do this, let's kill Liu Yan's main force first and then talk about the rest! ”