Five days after Liu Bei issued the order to send troops, Jiameng County, Guanghan County. Guan Yu and Zhao Yun were doing the final handover work before sending troops.

Guan Yu took Zhao Yun to inspect the county and the surrounding dangerous passes, and pointed to the explanation:

"Zilong, Jia Meng will be handed over to you here, the Wuhuan cavalry is not familiar with mountain warfare and water warfare, so they are just used to defend the city. In these days of Jia Meng, I have strengthened the camp at the end of Ma Mingge Road and set up more antler traps, if Liu Yan dares to take the initiative to tackle key problems, he is really looking for death, and with the ability of Zilong, he will definitely be safe. ”

Zhao Yun promised: "Brother Yun, don't worry, even if Liu Yan dares to rebel and come with the soldiers of the three counties of Shu, I will teach him to take a step beyond Lei Chi."

I don't know if my brother sent troops this time, can the ships be enough? I heard that when the lord was in Yushan, it was extremely difficult to collect civilian ships, and Yide could not send troops to run the whole army by water. ”

Guan Yu: "The Jialing River is busy with water transportation, and it is quite convenient to find a boat, and I only have 5,000 soldiers, how can it not be enough?" It's a pity that to transport the boats in the Jialing River to the ditch, you have to go down the mountain for more than 600 miles, after reaching Dianjiang County, and then go back 700 miles to get to the most upstream of the ditch.

There are a total of 1,200 miles along the way, and it is necessary to pass through seven counties and four barbarian tribes, even if it is not to the upper reaches of the ditch, only to Hanchang, there are thousands of miles in total. Otherwise, I'll take more ships here and transfer them to Yide. ”

The reason why Liu Bei and Zhang Fei attacked in that direction was particularly scarce was that they crossed the Daba Mountain from Hanzhong, entered another river system, and then redispatched the collection ships. Blocked by the main ridge of Daba Mountain, the boats from the Hanzhong Basin cannot be transported to the source of the ditch.

And Guan Yu is directly relying on the river, and Jiameng County is located at the intersection of Mamingge Road and the Jialing River, of course, it is easy to levy enough boats for tens of thousands of people.

Zhao Yun couldn't help anything when he heard this, just sighed and said goodbye to Guan Yu.

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Guan Yu took 4,000 Youzhou soldiers and 1,000 Ban Yu barbarians who surrendered a month ago, and in just one day, they first went down the river from Jiameng and arrived near Langzhong, the largest county in Brazil.

Yan Yan, the general of Langzhong, was a middle-aged man in his forties—Yan Yan, whom Zhang Fei met when he attacked Jiangzhou in later generations, was already in his early sixties, and that was about twenty-five years later.

Yan Yan is also one of the few typical generals who "reached the peak of martial arts in the last years of Emperor Ling, and later completely entered the troubled times because of aging, and his state declined", similar to Huang Zhong.

However, because he is still relatively young, Yan Yan's current official position is much lower than that of later generations, and he is not qualified to be the commander of a county at all, but only a county lieutenant in Langzhong.

The strength of his troops has been fully matched according to the top of the defenders of a county, there are about 2,000 officers and soldiers, of course, he is not qualified to fight with Guan Yu, but it is okay to defend the city.

Guan Yu also did not have epoch-making siege weapons, and it was very difficult to attack a city defended by 2,000 people with 5,000 men. Moreover, the defense of the city can mobilize the young and strong people in the city to help in the war, and even if the ordinary young and strong are not good at martial arts, they will still throw rolling wood and stones and ash bottles of gold juice under the city wall.

In addition, because Langzhong County is a large county in Brazil, there are two Banyu barbarian tribes not far from the southern suburbs of the county, respectively in Nanchong and Xichong, which are also two of the seven surnames of the people, headed by the barbarian chief Puhu, each of whom can produce thousands of young people. (It is near Nanchong City on the Jialing River in later generations, in the middle of Langzhong and Chongqing, but it was still a barbarian department at the end of the Han Dynasty)

It's just that Pu Hu and others have always only colluded with Zhang Lu, while Yan Yan cooperated with Zhang Lu as a court official, resulting in no direct friendship between Yan Yan and Pu Hu. Without the coordination of Zhang Lu, the intermediary, Yan Yan was embarrassed to ask for help from the barbarians in person, and the two sides fought separately and resisted Guan Yu separately.

Guan Yu set up camp in the north of Langzhong City, let the ships transport grain back and forth from Jiameng, and the soldiers cut down trees to strengthen the fortifications, in the form of a protracted battle, pretending to completely surround Langzhong County.

And Yan Yan, just like his nature, is very capable, avoiding without fighting, and letting Guan Yu surround Langzhong from three sides without fighting.

Yan Yan personally inspected the arrangement of Guan Yu's army at the head of the city, and sneered in his heart: "Hmph, Guan Yu's men and horses, even if they completely surround Langzhong by land?" Xishuimen is facing the Jialing River, can he still surround the river? Otherwise, as long as our army can transport grain into the city by boat and water at night, he will not starve to death for several years. ”

After the land was completely besieged, Guan Yu first made a slight plan, planning to give Yan Yan a dismount, so he prepared to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

He pretended to clamor for the siege of the city every day, and at the same time cut off the information communication between Langzhong County and Xichong and Nanchong barbarians, hoping to deceive the Nanchong barbarian chief Pu Hu into worrying that Yan Yan would not be able to support him alone, so that he could kill Pu Hu who was lured out in the field battle by the way.

It's a pity that although Guan Yu's strategy is correct, he is flattering and thrown to the blind man - Pu Hu's IQ is low enough, as soon as Guan Yu pretends to attack Langzhong, Pu Hu believes it.

But the key is that Pu Hu has no friendship with Yan Yan, and after receiving the scout report, he just said lightly: "Let Yan Yan fight with that outsider, it's none of our business if anyone dies, if we lose both, we just collect the spoils of the two families." ”

So even if Pu Hu knew that Yan Yan was in danger, he didn't intend to save him at all.

Guan Yu had no choice but to give up the plan to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and instead use other strategies.

It has taken more than ten days to calculate the days, and it has entered April. Guan Yu, who originally planned to give the other party a chance to attack the heart after getting off the horse, decided to hit a shot with or without dates, and directly tried to attack the heart first.

On the first day of the fourth lunar month, Guan Yu personally took five hundred Danyang axe and shield soldiers to the city, and outside the range of the bow and crossbow, he shouted at the city head and knew the reason.

"County Lieutenant Yan, as a court official, you don't distinguish between right and wrong, and you are in the company of the rice thief Zhang Lu and resists the imperial army, aren't you afraid of leaving an infamy?"

Yan Yan hung Guan Yu at the head of the city for a while before Shi Shiran came out to refute: "Guan Yu! You don't want to be clever in your words, I am not helping Zhang Lu, but I am just ordered by Liu Zhijun to stick to Langzhong, what is wrong? If you want to crusade against Zhang Lu, why don't you go over the rainy mountains and go to the ditch?

And the Jiameng County you occupied the day before yesterday, according to the imperial court's map, belongs to Guanghan County, your lord Liu Bei is the Taishou of Hanzhong, and it is just a matter of chasing Zhang Lu, and he actually violated the county of Guanghan County, and Guanghan has never had rice thief activities before, you are arrogant! ”

The refutation must still be refuted, after all, Guan Yu said that he represents the imperial court, and if he does not refute, the morale of his own army will be greatly devastated.

Guan Yu asked the scolding fighters to shout together under the city: "Don't talk nonsense!" If there had never been a rice thief in Guanghan, how could our army have broken the pursuers sent by Zhang Lu to chase and kill the Han envoy in Jiameng a month ago? Could it be that Liu Yan was afraid that the imperial court envoys would arrive in Chengdu, so he would enter the country at any cost, and he would also kill the angel by the hands of thieves!

The soldiers and civilians in the city listened, my lord Zhenxi General was Zongzheng Shaoqing, thoroughly investigated whether there was evidence of collusion with Liu Yan in Zhang Lu's counter-case, and His Majesty sent Zhonglang to enter Li Su into Sichuan, and he also personally inquired in person, all of which were blocked by Zhang Lu in Jiameng! Yan Yan didn't know what was going on, and he was mistaken for a thief, so you must not be involved with it. ”

After Guan Yu said this, the city was really slightly shaken.

Seeing this, in order to expand the effect of the morale blow, Guan Yu had a temporary plan: he had surrounded Langzhong before, and wanted to besiege the city and wait for Pu Hu to come, but it was not all for nothing, at least he knew that those Ban Yu and Yan Yan were not completely of the same mind, but needed Zhang Lu, the intermediary, to coordinate in order to cooperate.

In this case, he could use the thousand Ban Barbarian captives he had captured before to pretend to shake Yan Yan's determination.

Guan Yu feigned a smile and shouted: "Yan Yan! You're not as knowledgeable as the Barbarian Chief! Since our army entered Sichuan, benevolence and virtue have been broadcast, and all barbarians hired to help in the war have paid military salaries in full, and the arrears of this dynasty have been changed.

Recently, I have a thousand new Pu's Ban Rui soldiers, all of whom follow Li Zhonglang's example of recruiting the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Fuluo. Do you think you can help me if you get stuck in Langzhong? I am here around you, and I still have the strength to divide the troops and continue to advance, and the soldiers are fighting more and more, no matter how obsessed you are, you will wait for the future to be condemned by the court and ruined your reputation! ”

After Guan Yu finished speaking, he asked a leader of the Ban Yu Barbarians to come forward and say the word, shouting to the head of the city, the defenders are all locals, whether it is a Ban Yu Barbarian or can be seen at a glance, seeing its appearance, weapons and armor, accent and demeanor, he immediately knew that Guan Yu had really recruited so many Ban Yu reinforcements.

This is not the end, after the barbarian leader shouted well, another Hun man in his twenties and thirties rode on a horse and shouted under the protection of the shield array-this person, of course, was borrowed by Li Su from Yu Fuluo, and sent some to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Li Su took advantage of his position as a general of the Xiongnu to borrow a group of Southern Xiongnu nobles, and even the Marquis of Gudu and the commander of a thousand soldiers, so that he could show up and tell Ban Yuman: Liu Bei gave him good treatment, and he never owed wages.

The Xiongnu nobleman shouted: "I am the second son of the Southern Xiongnu Xian Shan Yu, and now Yu Fu Luo Shan Yu is my own brother Hu Chuquan!" On behalf of General Zhenxi, Li Zhonglang promised our army 10,000,000 people that they would have 100 million yuan for settling in every year without having to fight, and that they would be paid in full before entering Sichuan. With such a benevolent and righteous general, all the Ban Barbarian troops will not be able to submit to General Zhenxi, and you will bear the consequences if you resist General Zhenxi! ”

Hu Chuquan also showed his own restraints, and the soldiers in the city became more and more shaken.

Guan Yu didn't attack the city either, he returned to the camp after scolding that day, and then pretended that nothing had happened, and after a few days, he suddenly put on a plan to divide his troops to surround Langzhong, and then used Huchuquan to go south first to spend money to appease other barbarian troops, and then clean up Yan Yan after the troops were enough and the cannon fodder was thick enough.

Yan Yan also paid attention to it, and naturally he would also grasp the movements of Guan Yujun.

Guan Yu's hand is similar to Zhang Fei's later generation, who "pretended to bypass Jiangzhou, and the main force continued to advance westward because of the grain to the enemy".

It's just that Zhang Fei acted more recklessly and realistically, pretending that the main force was going to sneak over. And Guan Yu originally gave people the impression of being stable, even if he pretended that the main force was going to advance lightly regardless of the back road, Yan Yan didn't believe it, so he could only pretend to "send a small force to persuade the envoy to show up and recruit more Ban Yu to help in the war".

Combined with the appearance of Hu Chuquan, this hand Yan Yan can't be unbelievable.

"No, if Guan Yu is really allowed to attack his heart so unscrupulously, I'm afraid that the barbarians in Xichong and Nanchong will turn against him. I had to make a desperate bet the day after tomorrow, and when the main force of Guan Yu's army left the besieged city, I concentrated the light warships in the city and chased down the river.

As long as the troops are many times larger than the guards around Hu Chuquan and intercept and kill Hu Chuquan, the relationship between Guan Yujun and the Southern Xiongnu will definitely break down, and the Southern Xiongnu will also suspect that Guan Yujun is pretending to be a thousand gold city bones, but in fact, they want to eliminate the high-level leaders of the Southern Xiongnu. In this way, the siege of Langzhong is self-extricated. ”

Yan Yan thought so.

He didn't know that more than a month ago, Li Su used the mission that he pretended that "once it is released, it will have a major adverse impact", forcing Zhang Wei to go out of the customs to intercept and kill the envoy.

Now Guan Yu is nothing more than following Li Su to learn badly, so naturally he is the first to think of the method that Li Su has used, and then use it after a little deformation. It's nothing more than using Hu Chuquan as a bait this time, and Hu Chuquan is still young and uneducated, and he doesn't know that he made a bait.

Two days later, Hu Chuquan secretly went south under the close protection of Guan Yu, and soon after, the troops who intercepted and killed Hu Chuquan were also led by Yan Yan and left the city and went down the river.