Of course, Guo Peng won't tell Lejin that this is an appointment between him and Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.

After the internal coordination of Liu Biao's forces, Zhang Yun was still the main general, and 30,000 troops went north to attack Runan County and Yingchuan County.

Liu Biao originally wanted to recruit in person, but was strongly opposed, and wanted to appoint Liu Pan as the coach, but was vetoed, citing Liu Pan being too irritable.

In the end, Liu Biao had no choice but to accept the plan of taking Zhang Yun as the commander and Liu Pan as Zhang Yun's deputy, and at the same time, Liu Biao also saw clearly that these people did not want to expand the war at all, and at most they could only accept the results of the symbolic Northern Expedition, and were unwilling to fight with Guo Peng.

Liu Biao was very annoyed, but there was no way, without the support of these people, his Northern Expeditionary Army would not be able to fight far.

Let's attack it, at least send troops.

With Nanyang in hand, Jingzhou's defense line is complete, Xiangyang is safe, when Nanyang County can't be saved, that is the most dangerous.

Liu Biao and Sun Ce's offensive plan was determined, Liu Biao was a feint, Sun Ce was the real onslaught, for Sun Ce, this battle could even be said to be a battle for the founding of the country.

At the end of August, Liu Zhang's army, which they were trying to help with, finally fought against the Liangzhou army in Hanyang County and Wudu County.

After a long journey of almost two months, crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, Liu Zhang's army finally fought the Liangzhou soldiers who had been prepared for a long time at the end of the Qishan Road.

The vanguard of Liu Zhang's department fought against Ma Teng and Han Sui's troops in Hanyang County, and Ma Teng and Han Sui continued to form an alliance, and led the warlords of Liangzhou to form an alliance against the Shu army.

The two major warlords led a coalition of 50,000 troops of Cheng Yi, Li Kan, Yang Qiu, Ma Wan, and Candidate to resist the attack of the main force of the Shu army in Hanyang County.

I have to say that when the Shu army encountered the counterattack of the Liangzhou soldiers who had been prepared for a long time at the destination, the leaders of the Shu army did not expect it, including Fa Zhengnei, but they did not expect that the people of Liangzhou were ready to lead the army to take the initiative to counterattack the attack of the Shu army.

Their target, Ji County, had long been tightly defended by the Liangzhou soldiers, and the Liangzhou soldiers were simply prepared, and the Shu army was suddenly attacked, caught off guard, and the vanguard was defeated for a while.

This surprised Pang Xi and Fa Zheng.

"How can the people of Liangzhou come prepared? Could it be that we had received information about our attack in advance? ”

Pang Xi looked at Fa Zheng.

Fa Zheng was very surprised.

"Our march is so secretive, all in the deep mountains, how could the people of Liangzhou know in advance?"

Fa Zheng didn't think of this, so he suddenly faced the situation that the people of Liangzhou came prepared, Fa Zheng gritted his teeth and persuaded: "Now the situation has reached this point, our army is difficult to ride a tiger, and has to meet it head-on, if you retreat at this time, you will inevitably lose miserably, if you take the initiative to attack, there is still a chance to win!" ”

Pang Xi thought about it, this Northern Expedition was also led by him, and if it failed, the consequences would be unimaginable.

So Pang Xi made a desperate bet, led the main force of the Shu army to attack, and started a fierce battle with the Liangzhou soldiers near Ji County.

A big battle was fought from morning to dusk, the two sides did not distinguish between victory and defeat, the Shu army in the preparation of Fa Zheng more bows and crossbows to deal with the charge of the Liangzhou soldiers, the Liangzhou soldiers lacked strong crossbows, were shot by the rain of arrows and could not raise their heads, very embarrassed, for a time could not impact the Shu army formation.

As night fell, both sides returned to their respective camps, preparing to fight again in the coming day.

Pang Xi and Fa Zheng were surprised by the advance preparations of the Liangzhou people, and Ma Teng Han Sui was also surprised by the number of strong crossbows of the Yizhou people.

"No matter how they know, now that our purpose has been exposed, there is no way out, the Liangzhou thieves must have concentrated the main force in Ji County to prevent us from going out of the mountain, so it is just right, if we can defeat the Liangzhou soldiers head-on, then the land of Longyou will be owned by me!"

Fa Zheng comforted Pang Xi in this way.

But Pang Xi was worried.

"The Liangzhou horse team is strong, our army lacks a horse team, it is difficult to deal with it, if it continues, I am afraid it will be difficult to conquer Ji County, our army is difficult to fight a protracted war, and the grain and grass are exhausted for a long time, how can this battle be fought? Filial piety, why are they on guard? ”

Pang Xi has such doubts, and Fa Zheng also has them.

Fazheng's initial plan was to attack its unpreparedness, take Hanyang County, and use it as a base to rapidly expand the results of the battle, attack it unprepared, and let the Liangzhou soldiers fail to give full play to their advantages of being strong and good at fighting, and they will be defeated.

Quickly push Longyou, force the people of Liangzhou to surrender, so as to fully base Longyou, quickly occupy the major crossings of Longshan, and block Longdao in the case that Guo Peng can't react, you can slowly digest Liangzhou with peace of mind, so that after two or three years, the overall situation has been decided.

But now the first wave has been blocked, the first plan cannot be realized, and now the two armies are still facing each other, and there is still some distance from completely taking Hanyang County.

If you continue to fight, even if you can win, can you get other Liangzhou parts?

If they can't be caught off guard, the follow-up strategy will not be able to continue.

Damn it!

Fa Zheng gritted his teeth fiercely, his heart full of indignation.

He couldn't figure out who leaked the news of the Shu army's march and made the army fall into such a passive situation.

Unlike the situation on the Shu army's side, the Liangzhou soldiers were jubilant, because they withstood the first wave of the Shu army's offensive and did not lose Hanyang County, so they could naturally gain an advantage.

As long as they continue to resist and do not let the Shu army seize the territory, it will not take long to force them to retreat from the army, and Liangzhou will naturally be safe.

The warlords, big and small, are still very grateful to their wise selves for standing together at a critical moment, not against each other, but against foreign enemies together.

It should be done again in the future, not only when dealing with Liu Zhang, but also when dealing with Guo Peng.

Ma Teng and Han Sui guarded Longdao, controlled the key crossing, and while guarding against Guo Peng to rob while taking advantage of the fire, they fought against Liu Zhang with the main force, which was not delayed in either aspect.

So Ma Teng and Han Sui took the advantage.

In the face of Pang Xi's vacillation, Fa Zheng could only continue to cheer him up and support him to continue to attack the Liangzhou army.

After the Liangzhou army passed Guo Peng's blow, the will to fight and combat effectiveness were greatly attenuated, and in the face of the strong crossbow of the Shu army, in the face of the blow of this technical flow army, the Liangzhou horse team was difficult to deal with.

The Liangzhou spearmen that Ma Teng and Han Sui were proud of were completely lost in the battle with Guo Peng, and although the rest of the armies also had their own elite troops, they fought with a cooperation.

It's not that your elite plus my elite are the elite of all of us, such a simple addition cannot be counted on the battlefield, and the different combat habits of the respective armies cannot bridge each other in a short period of time, so there will be big problems in coordination.

This kind of big problem in coordination will appear in various senses, including when facing the attack of the Shu army with unified orders, the Liangzhou army formation cannot make a uniform resistance, and the coordination is improper, and it cannot resist the Shu army's military formation.

As a result, the Liangzhou soldiers were defeated again and again on the battlefield of the field, lost their troops and lost the possibility of continuing the field war, and had to retreat to Ji County and defend the city.

The Shu army began to attack the city, and the Liangzhou army also relied on the city to insist on resistance, not giving an inch, and the two sides fought back and forth, gradually becoming a tug-of-war.

A month has passed, the battle situation has not changed, although the Liangzhou soldiers lost their troops and were beaten to defend the city, but the Shu army still failed to capture Ji County.

During this period, Guo Peng received a letter from Guo Jia.

Guo Jia said to Guo Peng in the letter, so that Guo Peng doesn't have to care too much about Liu Zhang and Liu Biao, these two people can't go north after all, they are just dry bones in the grave, dogs guarding the door, and it is absolutely impossible to succeed.

The only one who really deserves to care about is Sun Ce.