Liu Bei was righteous after all, and seeing that Li Su supported him to let Zhang Lu go and slowly clean up, he was not in a hurry to ask for specific strategies first.

Anyway, there is still some time before the Hanzhong Basin is completely occupied, so what is the urgency to do.

At present, what Liu Bei is most concerned about is how Li Su was relieved of the siege and how Guan Yu and the troops he brought are doing, so he quickly changed the topic and pulled Li Su to ask about his experience in the past few days, especially whether the generals brought by Li Su were injured.

This kind of bearing is quite admirable.

It's like when you come back from a business trip, the boss just understands the success of the business a little bit, and then doesn't ask you how much money you make, but asks if you have any situation in your life and whether there are any difficulties at home these days when you are away.

Such a boss is called a person who can be a person and has emotional intelligence. The people around Liu Bei are also used to it.

Li Su also told the truth about the experience, saying that Zhao Yun and Zhou Tai were unharmed, and Dian Wei was injured by a nail hammer when he was fighting with the barbarian general, Liu Bei was also slightly moved, and said very experienced: "Su asked the barbarian soldiers in the south The armor is not good, but they are good at using poison, can Dian Wei carefully treat the wound and check whether it is poisonous?" ”

Li Su expressed reassurance: "At that time, I had specially asked the soldiers to cut off some of the skin and flesh around the nail sores slightly, boil them in clean water, wash them, and bandage them without stitching them for the time being. Dian Wei is strong, but he can also endure pain, which is really admirable. ”

Li Su's treatment was not to prevent quenching, but purely for fear of tetanus. The mace of that kind of barbarian is a few nails pierced on a big wooden stick, and the nails are rusty, and Li Su, who knows a little bit about modern medicine, feels terrible when he sees it.

He knew that tetanus was an anaerobic bacterium, and he was most afraid of deep and airtight wounds, so he would rather let Dian Wei's wound be open and exposed, and only use boiled breathable kudzu cloth to bandage it without suturing, so that the wound could be exposed to air and apply anti-inflammatory herbs. There were no tetanus shots in those days, and this was already the best way to deal with it.

Liu Bei hit it crookedly, thinking that this was the latest magic method to prevent quenching poison, so he didn't think about it anymore.

Later, Liu Bei asked Li Su about his experience of getting out of trouble, how Guan Yu's troops had suffered casualties in several battles, and whether there were any difficulties, and Li Su also answered them one by one.

"Our army is not in danger these days, when Zhang Wei left, he only knew that I occupied a dangerous mountain and the elite soldiers, but he didn't know that I let the soldiers draw water and hoard it in advance, and the strict rationing of drinking water could support it for four or five days. What's more, I also asked the soldiers to find some plantains and kudzu vines on the top of the mountain, which can be cut and twisted to extract juice.

Therefore, Zhang Wei's tactics of caring for those Ban Yu barbarians who stayed to monitor me did not need to take the initiative to attack, but only besieged our army to death, and it was a mistake at the beginning. I also shouted to try to recruit the Ban Yu barbarians, telling them that their brother is the lord of benevolence and righteousness, and that the recruitment of barbarian soldiers has never been paid, as evidenced by the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Fuluo.

It's a pity that Yu Fuluo is not there, and it can't be proved for a while, Dian Wei killed a few more barbarian generals, and they refused to surrender for a while. But after Yun Chang killed, I asked Youping to take advantage of the situation to kill the mountainous area, break through the gap and cut off the retreat of the barbarians, and annihilate them with Yun Chang in front and back. About thirteen or four hundred people eventually surrendered.

I also asked my brother to allocate some money in the past few days, send someone to Jiameng County and Yun Chang as a cash salary, and then send some generals and colonels around Yu Fu Luo to show up and say the word, then these barbarians will definitely be able to be used by Yun Chang with peace of mind. Counting these barbarians, the number of combatable soldiers under Yun Chang's command has now recovered to 5,000, according to the confrontation between Jia Meng and Liu Yan, and the troops can be divided along the Jialing River to attack Brazil at any time on a different day, and they can be randomly two. ”

Li Su's words not only explained the cause and effect of his recent experience, but also arranged the follow-up preparations clearly, Liu Bei didn't ask much after listening to it, and directly ordered to do it according to Li Su's requirements.

Jiameng County, where Guan Yu is now stationed mentioned by Li Su, has not yet built an official "Jiameng Pass" during the reign of Emperor Ling. In the same way, in fact, Jiange County on Liu Yan's side has not yet built the "Jianmen Pass", and the Baishui Pass that controls the confluence of the upper reaches of the Jialing River a little north already exists.

However, because it is a traffic artery, the dangerous places of Jiameng County and Jiange County are all cut down tree stakes, dense turns, lined up into walled walls, and set up antlers, horses, pits, earthen wall foundations, and wooden arrow towers, which are equivalent to some fortifications for camping.

Strictly speaking, Jiameng County does not belong to Hanzhong County, but a county in the northeasternmost corner of Guanghan County, which also belongs to Liu Yan's territory. But when Liu Yan and Zhang Lu joined forces to make a game before, the actual control area of the two sides was ambiguous.

Almost the entire territory of Jiameng County is in the valley of Maming Gedao, which is so poor that there is no population to arable land. Guan Yu pretended to pursue Zhang Lu's remnants and chased them here, taking advantage of the situation, forming a tacit understanding of "Liu Bei takes Jiameng Pass as the boundary, and Liu Yan takes Jiange and Baishui Pass as the boundary".

Liu Yanjun probably turned a blind eye to this established fact. The terrain in that area is obviously who attacks and who suffers, and it is impossible to capture the opposite pass without more than ten times the casualties, not to mention that Liu Yan is probably panicking in his heart at the moment, afraid that Liu Bei will catch his handle - now Liu Yan's name is still Hanchen! Not a warlord!

Liu Bei followed Li Su's strategy, steadily carried it out, and prepared to slowly occupy the surrounding counties in Hanzhong.

In addition, Liu Bei also waited until Li Su came back at this moment before he officially rewarded a series of battles such as Yangping Pass and Dingjun Mountain.

Although Li Su himself did not participate in Yangping Pass and the subsequent battle at all, Liu Bei personally believed that Li Su's plan to lure the enemy out of the pass was the first merit of the campaign, and said that after completely taking Zhang Lu, he would be promoted to the imperial court according to this performance. No one in the whole army questioned it, and they were all convinced.

Everyone knew very well in their hearts that for this pass guarded by more than 2,000 people, the Han army paid the price of 3,000 deaths before attacking it. If there were really 10,000 people guarding the checkpoint at leisure, the Han army would not be able to capture it simply by multiplying four times the number of casualties, and maybe it would not be able to capture it for a year and a half.

This "first merit in Sichuan" is definitely more convincing than Liu Bang's "strategizing and winning thousands of miles away, and the ovary is also good".

……

At the same time that Liu Beijun was arranging to accept the Hanzhong Plain, in Nanzheng County, Zhang Lu had urgently mobilized all the soldiers who could leave their hometowns, and mobilized all the small boats around Nanzheng to prepare to leave the city from the south gate, flee to Yushan by Nanbaoshui, cross the mountain into the Brazilian ditch, and defect to Banyuman.

On the question of whether to escape, Zhang Lu still hesitated for a while, and in the Taishou Mansion in Nanzheng County in the past few days, there has been a lot of fighting over this matter.

His initial idea was to either defend or surrender, but because of the persuasion of his confidant Yan Pu, he finally changed to fleeing.

At that time, Yang Ang had just fled back, bringing the news that Zhang Wei's entire army had been destroyed and Yangping Pass had been lost, and persuaded Zhang Lu to immediately mobilize all the remaining forces of Nanzheng, and concentrate the men and horses of each county to defend the city.

But Yan Puli overrode public opinion: "General Yang, the cage city is defended, and it must cooperate with the strong wall to clear the wilderness and wait for the time to clear.

Liu Bei only needs to divide his troops to plunder the counties, and Yegu is the capital, and there will never be a shortage of military rations. When he completely besieged Nanzheng, the elite of our army was inferior to Liu Bei, there was no hope of breaking through in the field, and he was trapped in a lonely city, wouldn't he starve to death in vain in the end? ”

Zhang Lu immediately woke up at that time: "Yes, we can't defend the lonely city, we have no reinforcements, Liu Yuanjun will never dare to rebel to save us, Liu Bei got the food of the four fields in Hanzhong again, and it is us who will die sooner or later if we are trapped - Yan Junshi, then you see, if you surrender Liu Bei, can you have a good end?" ”

Today's Zhang Lu is still young, about 30 years old, and his younger brother Zhang Wei is only in his early twenties. At such an age, he is more bloody and ambitious than when Cao Cao invaded Hanzhong more than 20 years later. So Zhang Lu was actually reluctant to surrender in his heart.

And Yan Pu's next words made him more and more angry: "In today's world, the world will be chaotic but not yet chaotic, this is the time when the imperial court is using heavy canons." When Zhu Jun begged for the yellow scarf in the past, he said to the generals: In the life of the ancestors in the past, the world fell apart, so the three chapters of the law were used to win the hearts of the people. Now the sea is unified, only the Yellow Turban rebels, if it is allowed to surrender, there is no way to persuade good.

The world is divided into a world of several hegemons and no co-masters, and they recruit rebels to cherish distant people. There is a world of co-masters in the world, only the first righteous person will be rewarded, and the last one will be killed, and only the teacher will think twice. ”

When Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan divided the world, it was okay for Zhang Lu to surrender to Cao Cao, because Cao Cao must treat him well and be an example.

Just like when Qian Zhou persuaded Liu Chan to surrender in later generations, an important argument was that "Cao Wei also needs to take the kindness of His Majesty as an example to show the Wu people, so His Majesty will inevitably be glorious and rich", and even Qian Zhou dared to say "If Cao Wei dares not to seal the position of His Majesty's prince, his ministers will go to Luoyang to fight for reason", why should he treat the surrender faction badly.

But there is a premise for all this, that is, everyone in the world has become accustomed to the division of the world as the norm, and will no longer be unable to pull down the burden of "there are many places in the world that are not the king's land".

But now is obviously not the case, it is still the last year of Emperor Ling's reign, and there has never been a precedent of leniency for the anti-thieves who rely on evil words to confuse the public.

You can't keep, you can't fall, let's run.

In this way, Zhang Lu gathered 8,000 ghost pawns, equipped with all the boats, as well as weapons that could be taken away, and rations for a period of time, and left the city by water.

Before leaving, he irresponsibly handed over the task of defending the city to Yang Ang, and took the other party's hand on the dock to take care of it:

"General Yang, there are still thousands of soldiers in the city, as well as men and horses gathered from Chenggu and others, you must defend this city after I leave."

Yang Ang's heart was simply filled with countless grass and mud horses galloping by: You ran away, let Lao Tzu be trapped in the lonely city, isn't this to send Lao Tzu to death?

Fortunately, Zhang Lu still understands people's hearts, and he was afraid that Yang Ang would betray him if his morale would collapse directly, so he whispered a few words in his ear: "The matter has come to this, I am not to blame for your mistakes in abandoning my brother and Yangpingguan in the past." You might as well hold this Nanzheng County for two or three months, and buy time for our army to contact the barbarians to reorganize their forces and resist the dangerous passes.

As long as the defense is completed for so long, I will allow you to surrender, and in the future, if I counterattack back to Hanzhong, I will never liquidate your surrender, and I will say that I surrendered under order. If you surrender directly, Liu Bei will also look down on you, and if you persist for a while, you can be a loyal minister at both ends, why is it not beautiful? ”

has already opened the skylight to say that it is up to this point, and Yang Ang is not good at being hypocritical, so he said that he will definitely complete the task.

Let my brother hold on for two or three months before surrendering...... That means two months!

Yang Ang prides himself on his enterprise-level understanding.