On September 16, Yizhou Prefecture governed Mianzhu. (At this moment, the state of Yizhou is in Mianzhu, and Liu Yan moved to Chengdu before his death)

In the governor's mansion, which looks like a simple version of the palace, Liu Yan, who is only in his early sixties, looks like he has white hair and deep wrinkles, and people who don't know still think that he is already in his old age, at least more than ten years older than his real age.

Liu Yan lay on the sickbed, hoarse and panting, grinning his teeth. Since he learned seven days ago that his only son, Liu Mao, who had been brought to Yizhou, had contracted the disease and died violently in Ba County, Liu Yan had been hit hard by [www.boquge.xyz].

Not only is his beard and hair gray, but the vertebrae on his back are also attacked by anger and poisonous gas, and a string of poisonous gangrene grows, which hurts when he touches it. So he couldn't lie down to sleep for a while, and he could only lie on his stomach at first, but the elderly person's cardiopulmonary function was not good, and he was lying on his stomach and pressed his breathing, so he was panting so badly that his heart seemed to be beating tired.

Later, the doctor next to him changed him to a soft couch and let him lie on his side, which was better.

Liu Yan has been Zongzheng and Taichang, of course, he is well versed in history, he knows that Fan Zeng, the father next to Xiang Yu, is angry and angry, and he died of poison in his spine. This made Liu Yan more and more deeply afraid that his time would be short.

In the original history, Liu Mao was not in good health, and he was not adapted to the hot climate in the south, and it was obvious that he was not adapted to the water and soil. He also died of a violent illness a year before Liu Yan's death, and it can only be said that Tianshou is like this. The oppression of the Diaoyu City battle, the deterioration of the environment, and the virus in the food only made Liu Mao die two or three years early.

After the Battle of Diaoyu City, Liu Beijun's news blockade was not bad, and people outside didn't know about Liu Mao's death at first, but it was when Jiangzhou City was besieged and Li Su openly used Liu Mao's death to hit the morale of the Jiangzhou defenders as a surrender excuse, and this information spread.

In addition, no one in Jiangzhou broke through to report the news, and the melon-eating masses outside the city naturally passed the news to Han'an County (Neijiang), and the officials in Han'an hurriedly reported the news. So when Liu Yan knew about his son's death, Jiangzhou had already fallen.

In the next five or six days, there was no new bad news. But the more this is the case, the more Liu Yan feels unreliable in his heart, and it is better to give a good time - he knows that with the fall of Jiangzhou, the other counties of Ba County will definitely fall sooner or later? No news coming? I am afraid that it is because the local county officials surrendered so quickly that there is no need to send an urgent report for help.

Just when Liu Yan was worried? Finally a message came to give him a good time.

A state priest in his early twenties? A man named Wang Ti with an urgent report? Rushing in with a slightly pale face.

This Wang is a grassroots secretarial position, and he is quite diligent? Originally, Liu Yan was going to go through the training, and he was promoted to a literary career a few years later? That can be regarded as a promotion from an official to an official.

"Envoy! Envoy, no! Zhao Yun, the captain of Changshui under Liu Bei, has already broken through the Yan Dao. Wang Ti said worriedly.

"Servant? Zhao Yun came so fast! Liu Yan's pupils shrank and opened, and he gritted his teeth? It seems that there is a little bit of spirit? Maybe it's because the focus is shifted to business, so you don't think about the poisonous sores behind it.

Liu Yan was already quite surprised by Liu Bei's rapid progress, but after calming down a little, he soon found that there were other tricks:

"Isn't that right? How could the news of the fall of the Servant Road come directly? The last time you heard the latest news upstream? It was said four days ago that the rune had fallen. There is still Jiangyang between Fujie and Yandao, and Jiangyang is the county of Qianwei? How could there be no message? Could it be that Zhao Yun bypassed Jiangyang Jiancheng and directly attacked the road behind him? He doesn't even need to open up the Yangtze River route? ”

"This ...... Let's go and make sure. Wang Lei also found out that it was wrong, but he was young and knowledgeable? The specialty is not in the military? Hear the news from the Kuaima messenger? I yelled and shouted to report it, but I didn't think much about it.

After some confirmation, the messenger was also very innocent, saying that he had traveled 300 miles a day and drove for several days to deliver the letter. As for Jiang Yang's lack of letters, maybe he surrendered directly without resistance.

Wang Lei felt that this kind of malicious speculation was not good to tell Liu Yan, for fear of slandering Wang Shang, Chen Shi and other Qianwei officials - if people are still fighting bloody battles, but they are surrounded and the information is blocked, but you say that he surrendered, isn't that "Guo Tu's behavior".

Wang Lei had no choice but to go elsewhere to inquire about the source, trying to find out thoroughly before reporting it, but because he was delayed for an hour or two because he was running around, there was a new bad news.

"Wangfu Peng! I was sent by the Li County Commander of Nan'an, and yesterday morning, Liu Bei's account under Zhao Yun led tens of thousands of horses to suddenly arrive in Nan'an, and he was already attacking the city. Li County ordered me to come to report the emergency, please send troops to rescue as soon as possible! ”

Wang Lei was dumbfounded when he heard this.

It was only in the morning that it was said that Yandao had fallen, and only an hour and a half later, Nan'an was besieged?

What speed is this? There are 200 miles from Jiangyang to Yandao, and more than 200 miles from Yandao to Nan'an. Nan'an is only more than 200 miles away from Chengdu, and there is only one Wuyang (Meishan) in the middle

"Impossible! How could Zhao Yun march two hundred miles in two hours! It's a dream! Wang Lei interrogated him directly.

The messenger was stunned: "I don't know! I was sent by Nan'an, but ...... I remember that not long after the commander of our Li County got the news that he was coming from Yandao, he found out that Zhao Yun's army was coming. It takes time for the messenger to hurry. ”

Wang Ti took a look at it, only to find that this was possible—it wasn't that Zhao Yun had traveled two hundred miles in two hours. It was the time it took for Zhao Yun's army to rush 200 miles, and the time it took to rush 200 miles with the urgent messenger, and the difference was only two hours.

But this is also an exaggeration, indicating that Zhao Yun ran almost at full speed all the way to enclose the land, and he didn't fight at all.

And the messenger can change horses, and Zhao Yun's army can also change horses? That's one man and two horses? This kind of configuration has only been heard of in the Hu troops of the Xiongnu and Wuhuan.

It's horrible.

Anyway, Wang Lei is a native of Yizhou, and he has never seen so many horses in his life.

Wang Lei knew that the matter was urgent, and hurriedly went inside to ask to see Liu Yan.

This time, Liu Yan's complexion was a little better, he had just had lunch, it seemed that he had dealt with some military affairs in the morning, some consumption, his appetite became a little better, and he was also refreshed after eating.

Wang Lei had to report again: "Envoy, the latest urgent report, Zhao Yun has led the army to attack Nan'an yesterday, and asked the envoy to send troops to rescue." ”

Liu Yan's hand shook, and the toothpick that was flossing his teeth pierced the nasolabial folds on his lips, which was a blood spot.

He gritted his teeth and became angry at the servant girl next to him who was pressing on the ribs of his back, and the servant girl had been ordered to help him knead and detoxify.

"It's so heavy! Want to squeeze through the abscess? Drag it out and shoot it to death! ”

After killing a servant girl, the anger and anger subsided a little, and he barely saved his life, and died without high blood pressure or poisonous sores. He gasped for a moment, accepted the reality, and sighed:

Captain Zhao Yun of Changshui...... It is worthy of being a flying general in the world. Originally, when I heard that the Ten Standing Servants were in turmoil, Zhao Yun single-handedly killed the Ten Standing Servants to seize the palace gate, and Queen Lingsi said that she was brave, but I still don't believe it......

Alas, let the Dongzhou soldiers, Qingqiang soldiers, and Suo soldiers straighten out, and immediately set off to Wuyang first! Early tomorrow morning, I will rush by car to catch up with the army, and I will march in person! ”

Wang Lei was shocked: "Envoy, your body ......"

Liu Yan smiled bitterly: "So far, who else can supervise the army around me?" Pang Xi wants to guard Jiangyou and supervise the Sword Pavilion, in addition, who can suppress tens of thousands of troops from being recruited by Liu Bei to defect?

Zhao Yun's momentum is so fast, he must have commanded the main force under Liu Bei, and the 20,000 Dongzhou soldiers in Mianzhu and Chengdu, with the Yizhou soldiers, may not be able to win completely. You immediately give the order to let Pang Xi also divide half of his men to help in the battle, and if he can't leave, let his son bring it. ”

Up to now, Liu Yan can't take care of generals at all, as long as he is loyal and reliable, there is no way to appoint cronyism.

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It's a pity that Liu Yan reacted so quickly, and when his army rushed to Wuyang County and continued to advance towards Nan'an, he still got the bad news that Nan'an had fallen on the way.

After Zhao Yun attacked the city, it took the messenger a day to report the news, and the army spent another two days marching to arrive, which is no longer unpleasant. But Zhao Yun captured Nan'an in three days, and you can't do anything about him.

Nan'an, as the southern end of Longquan Mountain, the barrier on the east side of the Chengdu Plain, Liu Yan was guarded by his henchmen, and he also resisted by force, but in the end he still did not carry the people's hearts floating. Almost as soon as Zhao Yun's troops used the flying ladder to ascend to the top of the city, the soldiers next to him knelt down and surrendered.

After Liu Yan's army moved south from Wuyang County, it was halfway down the road, and it was still thirty or forty miles away from Nan'an, so it had to stop and camp.

Fortunately, the terrain in this area is not very open, the east-west width between the Minjiang River and Longquan Mountain is only a dozen miles, Liu Yan's tens of thousands of troops are stationed, digging long trenches on the spot, piling up the excavated soil into low walls, and setting up camps to cut off the road, but it can also prevent Zhao Yun from continuing to go north.

Although Liu Yan claimed to be able to mobilize more than 100,000 mobile troops, it took time, and the only ones who could rush to the battlefield in the first few days were 20,000 Dongzhou soldiers and 10,000 Qiang soldiers (5,000 Qingqiang soldiers and 5,000 Su soldiers). Liu Yan mistakenly thought that Zhao Yun also had 20,000 people, and it was so menacing, and the dangerous place in Nan'an County was lost again, of course, he didn't dare to fight Zhao Yun directly, so he had to wait for the rear team.

Zhao Yun had advanced six hundred miles in four days before, and spent another two or three days attacking Nan'an, and after being tired for seven days, it was actually the end of the crossbow, and he hurriedly let the troops sleep in Nan'an County, and they didn't have the strength to rob the camp.

The two sides tacitly confronted each other for two days, Zhao Yun's troops recovered their physical strength, Liu Yan also waited for follow-up reinforcements, and there were 50,000 or 60,000 horses on the front line for the time being. If he is given another seven or eight days to mobilize and assemble troops from various counties, the total number can last up to 110,000.

The approximate size of Liu Yanjun's army, the scouts sent by Zhao Yun were also roughly investigated, and Zhao Yun knew that he couldn't wait any longer, and if he waited any longer, he might not even have the opportunity to fight harassmently, and he would only be completely blocked in Nan'an County.

"Early tomorrow morning, leave 5,000 Youzhou cavalry to guard the city, and 5,000 Wuhuan cavalry to rob the camp with me. The fourth watch cooks, and the fifth watch arrives. ”

It is better to go later when a large army of 5,000 people robbed the camp, and it is better to launch an attack when the sky is a little bright, so as not to trample on each other in chaos.

And Zhao Yun was also prepared that Liu Yan would defend tightly, so he led the archers to rob the camp, even if the enemy camp could not be attacked, then put arrows across the wall to harass and then retreat, it was best to lure the enemy to pursue, and if he refused to pursue, he would kill the enemy's majesty.