Zhao Yun's troops were all cavalry, and they immediately advanced by land and water after receiving the order, and their actions were naturally very fast.

The army marched by land, and the ships traveled up the river to carry grain.

In order to ensure the suddenness of the advance, Zhao Yun let the cavalry change horses for one person and two horses, and the empty horse carried a grain bag that was enough for ten days to eat, even if the grain ship was out of touch.

Anyway, if you surrender all the way, you can take food from the granary of the newly recruited county town to replenish it on the spot. Liu Bei brought 30,000 horses with him when he entered Sichuan, and it was no problem to give Zhao Yun 20,000 horses.

Within just two days, Zhao Yun rushed to Jiangyang County, Qianwei County.

When Liu Yan entered Sichuan, Qianwei Taishou was Ren Qi of the Ren family of the Shu Confucian Sect, but Ren Qi was killed by Liu Yan at the beginning of last year with an excuse, so Liu Yan had the opportunity to replace his henchman Wang Shang as the new Taishou.

This Wang Shang is a native of Yu County, Guanghan County, and is also a famous person in Shu. In history, after Liu Yan's death, Liu Zhang succeeded to the throne, and he was further promoted and transferred to Yizhou Zhizhong, which was regarded as the third-in-command of Yizhou's administrative and civil officials, and concurrently served as the acting Shu County Taishou. It was not until later that the famous scholar Xu Jing entered Shu and annexed it, and Liu Yan sent Wang Shang's Shu County Taishou to Xu Jing.

As an aside, Xu Jing and his younger brother Xu Shao are both well-known connoisseurs of human goods, and Xu Shao is the one who opened the "Yuedan Commentary". After Xu Jing took over the Taishou of Shu County, Liu Zhang also asked Xu Jing to evaluate the characters in Shu, and Xu Jing said that Wang Shang's virtue and talent can be called "Xichuan Wang Jingxing" (Wang Lang).

When Xu Jing said this, Wang Lang was not yet a prince, but Xuzhou Mu Taoqian's governance, the same as Wang Shang's official position under Liu Zhang. Wang Shang was very complacent when he heard this metaphor, and felt that this was a great recognition of him. It can be seen that the reputation of "Wang Situ" when he was young was still very good.

But these are all later words, and at present, this "Xichuan Wang Lang" is still Liu Yan's confidant, and he is too guarded.

Zhao Yunbing went to the city, spread the banner and read the holy decree, the army was mighty, and everyone in Jiangyang County felt that it was better to surrender, and only Taishou still wanted to die.

After all, Liu Yan is also a hero, and after a few years in Shu, there are still quite a few henchmen. It is impossible to fall to the three counties of Xichuan, and he can't even find three candidates for Taishou who are willing to work with him. It is reasonable for Jiang Yang to resist a little.

After Zhao Yunzhao surrendered, Wang Shang saw that people's hearts were fluctuating, and hurriedly spoke to appease the Qianwei Changshi Chen Shi, Jiangyang County Commander Zhao Min, and Duwei Wang Tang, who he promoted:

"Don't worry, although Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses are strong, they are all cavalry? There is no need to storm the city in a hurry. We dragged him down? Let him have to wait for the army behind the waterway, and there will be no danger of being attacked for at least five or six days. ”

Changshi Chen Shi is the Chen valve person at the end of the four surnames of Dong, Ren, Yang, and Chen of the four sects of Shu Confucianism? It is also the Chen family's contemporary academic reputation is the highest.

When Liu Yan suppressed the four sects? Dong Fu's family escaped because of Wei Wei, and Ren and Yang were killed more miserably? Chen Valve was also killed and demoted, but not as miserable as the Ren and Yang families. So this Chen Shi has been pinching his nose to work for Liu Yan? Zhao Yun is here at this moment? His waist was stiff, and he dared to persuade Wang Shang a few words:

"Fu Jun, then Zhao Yun brought Wu Ban to announce the decree, and his father Wu Kuang is the left Zhonglang general of the Northern Army of the Beijing Division? Can the holy decree of their testimony be false? Although now Dong Zhuo has blackmailed the emperor? But I believe that this holy decree was issued last year when General He was an assistant to the government, and to confront it is a betrayal of the imperial court.

What's more, Diaoyu City and Jiangzhou have been breached, and thousands of soldiers and horses from our Jiangyang side gave Liu Yan a funeral, isn't it worth it...... It's not that I, Chen, am greedy for life and afraid of death, but it's really that this Jiangyang is dragging it out? Sooner or later, it will be broken, and it will only be a futile murder. ”

Zhao Min in other counties, Wang Tang in charge of military affairs? I can't talk too much on these topics, and see that Chen Shi helped them become villains? He kept silent and watched the chiefs talk about it.

Wang Shang didn't dare to put up a fight? Patient persuasion: "Chen Shi! If you don't want to betray the Lord! Can't we stay in Jiangyang for a long time? Can it be delayed for a few days? It's better to set aside time for the envoy to prepare. Looking at Liu Beijun's posture, it must be a plan to go up the Yangtze River and turn into the Minjiang River to go straight behind Chengdu.

The envoy did not guard against the south, so we delayed it for ten days and eight days, and sent a message to the envoy, asking him to send a general to at least hold Nan'an and choke the key passes of Longquan Mountain. At that time, even if you can't defeat Zhao Yun, and then negotiate with him to surrender, Zhao Yun will not have to kill Liwei because we have delayed for a little longer. I heard that Liu Bei has always regarded himself as benevolent, righteous and loving the people, as long as the person who surrenders, no matter how long he resists and then surrenders, he will not be harmed. ”

Wang Shang's words are purely bullying honest people, because he knows Liu Bei's benevolence and righteousness, so he resists and resists to show that he is very fierce, and he delays enough time before surrendering.

said it so plainly, although it dispelled the concerns of other civil and military officers about "whether it will be liquidated by Zhao Yun after resisting", but it also became more and more contemptuous of Wang Shang: You let us resist the dead people, just to delay time to report to Liu Yan? Remind Liu Yan that the main direction of attack of the Han army is the Yangtze River side of the southern front?

Zhao Yun outside the city saw that the persuasion was unsuccessful, and he also let the cavalry symbolically run and fire arrows to harass the city head, and then temporarily retreated, waiting to build siege weapons. The first day was not a direct and peaceful settlement.

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However, while Zhao Yun retreated and set up camp, Chen Shi and the others were not idle.

After Wang Shangdu went back to rest when he was tired, Chen Shi immediately recruited Zhao Min and Wang Tang to reason with the facts and talk to them about the reason why "this kind of hard work is meaningless".

"Zhao County Order, Wang Duwei, this Wang Shang's idea is really whimsical. In my opinion, it is absolutely impossible for Zhao Yun to be the main force of Liu Bei's attack on Chengdu, even if Liu Bei really deploys it like this, it is because Liu Bei, as a northerner, is not familiar with the geography of Shuzhong. Therefore, we don't need to report to the envoy at all, it is better to surrender directly, so as not to mislead the envoy. ”

Zhao Min and Wang Tang were about to find a step down, and they asked Chen Shi in a low voice: "Why did Chen Changshi say this?" ”

Chen Shi also lowered his voice: "I remember that you are both from Ba County, right?" Zhao County's order is from Dianjiang, and Wang Duwei is from Langzhong, that is, the prince of Fu, and he is also from Deyang, Guanghan - and I am a native of Qianwei, and no one knows the geography of Qianwei County better than me.

Tracing the Yangtze River and the Min River upstream, attacking Chengdu by land and water, it seems very convenient, but in fact there is one biggest flaw, that is, when the land route goes to Nan'an County, the east side will be blocked by Longquan Mountain. Longquan Mountain is the barrier on the east side of the Chengdu Plain, starting from Mianzhu in the north and reaching Nan'an in the south, so the Chengdu Plain has Mianzhu Pass in the north and Nan'an Pass in the south.

However, the south road has a greater disadvantage than the north road, that is, after the north road breaks through the Mianzhu Pass, there is a gentle tributary of Fushui that can go around the hinterland of Chengdu, and it is convenient to transport grain. Even if the South Road breaks through Nan'an County, at the mouth of the Minjiang River on the west side of Nan'an County, the water transportation will be blocked because of the turbulence is too turbulent.

Here at the mouth of the Minjiang River Gorge, there is Tsing Yi water and foam water flowing into the Minjiang River, the turbulence is extremely dangerous, and there is no boat to pass since ancient times. So I estimate that Liu Bei's final main attack will definitely be Mianzhu on the northern line, and it cannot be Nan'an on the southern line. Zhao Yun made a lot of fanfare along the way, but he was a suspicious soldier. If Wang Shang had informed the envoy, it would have misled the envoy.

If we surrender the city immediately, we will not let Wang Shang's misleading letter be sent, but we will help the envoy. In this way, we not only obeyed the holy decree of the imperial court, but also spared the deaths and injuries of the people and soldiers, and also fulfilled the loyalty of the prince of the palace to Liu Yuanjun, isn't it the best of all three? ”

The "foaming water" mentioned in Chen Shi's mouth is the Dadu River in later generations, and Nan'an County is Leshan in later generations.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Dadu River flowed into the estuary canyon of the Minjiang River, which was very turbulent and could not be passed by boat at all, until the later Six Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, and it was successively rectified.

The Tang Dynasty cultivated the Giant Buddha here, nominally using the Buddha to control the turbulence of the river, but in fact, it was also to dig and widen the narrow part of the mountain wall, and there was a supporting water conservancy remediation, after which the mouth of the Minjiang River of the Dadu River could be relatively safe to navigate.

Chen Shi is a native of Qianwei, so he knows that Zhao Yun can't get to Chengdu on this road, and it will be the end of Nan'an.

Zhao Min and Wang Tang were also dumbfounded when they heard this crooked reasoning, it turned out that "betraying Liu Yan is for Liu Yan's good, and not letting Liu Yan be misled by the stupid Wang Shang".

So what's the hesitation? Not only did I follow the holy decree, but I was also doing it for Liu Yan's good, hurry up!

That night, Wang Tang found some henchmen, cleared the defense of an area on the city wall, ensured that there were no Wang Shang's people around, and then dropped Chen Shi's hanging basket down the city, and let Chen Shi personally go to Zhao Yun's military camp to surrender, discuss the conditions for dedicating the city, and agreed that if the negotiation was completed, Chen Shi would be able to bring the troops back in the middle of the night, and Wang Tang would open the city gate on the city tower.

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Half an hour later, Zhao Yun barracks.

Before Zhao Yun could sleep, a small colonel came in and reported: "Captain, a civilian official was caught outside the camp, claiming to be Qianwei County Magistrate Shi, and he came to surrender." ”

Zhao Yun perked up: "Please come in." ”

As he spoke, he secretly thought in his heart: This time he didn't even need a messenger, and he personally went out of the city to surrender, which was willing to be a hostage to prove the sincerity of the city, and there should be no fraud.

Zhao Yun can take him to get the city gate together, and if there is fraud, he will be stabbed to death with a single shot.

Chen Shi was quickly brought in, expressing the tragic situation of many officials in Qianwei being bullied and oppressed by Liu Yan, and said that he had contacted the lieutenant to open the door, and Wang Shang was alone in the whole city, plus his henchmen and descendants still wanted to resist.

Of course, in order to whitewash his position, Chen Shi inevitably told Zhao Min and Wang Tang his analysis just now, and told Zhao Yun that he would not be able to enter Chengdu by land and water by taking this road, and the boat would not be able to get on the boat when he arrived at the mouth of the Dadu River in Nan'an.

"It turns out that after the Minjiang River arrives in Nan'an, it will be so difficult to sail? Thanks to Chen Changshi, he is a native of Qianwei and is familiar with geography. As long as the follow-up goes smoothly, when our army takes the road and Nan'an, I will report to the lord truthfully, Chen Changshi can also live in his original position, even if he wants to go to any county in Nanzhong, it is not impossible. ”

"Thank you, Captain Zhao! Then I will lead the army into the city. Chen Shi hurriedly thanked him.

Zhao Yun still has the rank of captain of Changshui of the Northern Army of the Beijing Division, and even Chen Shi knows it.

Zhao Yun hurriedly ordered thousands of soldiers and horses, and followed Chen Shi to the outside of the city, Wang Tang directly opened the city and surrendered at the head of the city, while Wang Shang was still sleeping.

Qianwei was the county ruler, so he only resisted for one day, and he didn't even have a chance to deliver the letter, and he fell that night.

Zhao Yun's cavalry went straight to the Taishou Mansion, dragged the sleeping "Xichuan Wang Lang" from the bed and tied it up, and sent it back to Jiangzhou Liu Bei to report the victory.