The ferry port of Tiger City is not far from Tiger City.

The distance is only 200 zhang.

Hucheng is the gateway to the eastern part of Hanzhong, and if you take a boat from Jingzhou to go up against the Han River, you must first reach the vicinity of Hucheng. But this is not the source of the Han water, which can also go west into Hanzhong.

So there are ships that dock here, and there are ships that continue west. The ferry port here is actually not busy.

Zhang Bao commanded more than 4,000 people and selected 500 people who dared to fight. Pretending to be a merchant, he shipped salt to Hanzhong, and stored weapons, bows, crossbows, and carts in the ship.

At this moment, Zhang Bao was wearing a wide robe, as if he was a scholar and a businessman, but because his appearance was too powerful, he frequently attracted people's attention.

However, no one suspected that this guy was a general, because no one had ever tried to attack Hanzhong from the east.

"Hurry up and move, haven't you eaten?" Zhang Bao crossed his waist with his hands behind his back and scolded. He had a loud voice and a vicious spirit, like a profiteer who oppressed the workers, which attracted the eyes of the people around him.

"What do you see, haven't you seen the salt merchant from Jingzhou?" Zhang Bao looked around and scolded.

In fact, Zhang Bao is usually not like this, but he has been sitting on the boat for a long time, and he is a little flustered, and his anger is a little big. Plus it's a bit of a misunderstanding of what a businessman is.

Even if a businessman is a profiteer, he is mostly amiable, but he doesn't look like a bandit like him.

None of the people around wanted to make trouble, and when they saw Zhang Bao being so vicious, they all swallowed their anger. At this time, Meng Jing came to the ferry, saw Zhang Bao's eyes lit up, and came up to see Zhang Bao, including Zhang Bao, everyone didn't recognize him, and after communicating for a while, Meng Jing was able to meet Zhang Bao, the two whispered for a while, and Zhang Bao nodded.

"Let's go."

Zhang Bao waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to march towards Tiger City. As for Meng Jing, he stayed.

One hundred carts, two men pulling the cart in front, two people pushing back, one man with a sword to accompany them, and the number was five hundred.

The caravan looked a little bigger, but it wasn't too unusual. Most of the carts were filled with salt, but there were also weapons and crossbows.

No matter how you say Hucheng, it is also a military city, although the atmosphere is comfortable, there are still soldiers in front of the city gate to check to see if anyone has brought a large number of weapons into the city.

Mainly weapons such as bows and crossbows, swords don't matter. Now the world is in turmoil, and merchants with swordsmen to protect them abound. And the scale of Zhang Bao's caravan was a bit large, which immediately attracted the attention of the guards of the city.

So a person who led the team and was suspected of being a leader clenched his fist at Zhang Bao, intending to search Yanba. Zhang Bao naturally didn't do it, and said, "Do it." ”

Zhang Bao made the first move, drew the saber at his waist, and killed the stunned Shi Chang, and the elite soldiers around him immediately killed the guards in front of the door.

Immediately, Zhang Bao rushed into the city first, and the accompanying 100 swordsmen followed, and the rest of the soldiers took out the bows and weapons hidden in the cart, divided into two teams, and attacked the military areas on both sides of the city gate, and killed people when they saw them.

There was chaos in front of the city gates, and the merchants and pedestrians who were about to enter the city were frightened, like an upside-down flood, and fled one after another.

Zhang Bao personally led the team, and selected 500 soldiers from 4,000 people, and the soldiers guarding here were only 250 people, and Dou who dared to resist was killed by Zhang Bao, and those who surrendered on their knees were all tied up.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Bao occupied the city gate, and then divided a hundred people to guard the city gate and guard the prisoners. After that, Zhang Bao and a soldier under his command each led 200 people, divided to the north of the city, went to the south of the city, and after standing at the city gate, each divided a hundred people and attacked the west city gate.

And the city guard Sheng was drunk and did not react at all, and was taken out of the city by his own soldiers and went to Nanzheng.

Zhang Bao did not pursue, but ordered the town to guard the city wall.

Because his task was only half completed, he captured Hucheng and welcomed the follow-up army of Commander Guan Ping into the city. Everything else is false, only a firm foothold is real.

Therefore, Zhang Bao did nothing else except order his soldiers to guard the city gates on all sides and be on strict guard. But the dead man Meng Jing had another suggestion.

Zhang Bao was convinced of Meng Jing's courage to come here alone, and treated him with guest etiquette. After Zhang Bao leveled Hucheng, he summoned Meng Jing to drink.

After three rounds of drinking, Meng Jing put down his wine glass and said, "General, you are right to guard the city gate and wait for the Ming Mansion (Guan Ping)." But if that's all there is to it, half of the work will be lost. ”

"Oh, what's that saying?" Zhang Bao said in surprise.

Why is it that you have to lose half of your work?

"Zhang Lu's evil words confuse the public, and there are many believers under his rule. Now that the generals are in full swing, they dare not make trouble. If they stay at night, they may burn down the granaries, the treasury, and even set the city on fire. And Hucheng is the place where the soldiers are stationed in Hanzhong, and the granary and treasury are sufficient. If the Ming government leads troops to come, they can be used on the spot, otherwise they need to transfer grain, grass and ordnance from Fangling. Meng Jing arched his hand and said.

"That Zhang Lu is really so powerful? Will anyone in the city dare to burn houses and granaries? Zhang Bao frowned when he heard this.

"Don't be careless." Meng Jing sighed. He had been in Tiger City for a long time, and he had seen with his own eyes how the fanatical followers of the Five Doumi Sect were crazy, and they could really do anything.

"Just Mr. Yi." Zhang Bao thought about it for a moment or two, and felt that this matter had to be done. Then he summoned his henchmen, mobilized men and horses, and emptied the granary, arsenal, and treasury of Hucheng to the military area, and ordered the soldiers to take turns to be on guard, but not outside the city, but inside the city.

At night, Zhang Bao slept peacefully in the city gate tower, and was awakened as expected. He stood at the head of the city and watched the fire rise in the city, as if some rebels had set their houses on fire, causing great chaos in the city, and another riot had attacked the military area.

It's just that the ants can't shake the elephant, and they were all killed by Zhang Bao's soldiers.

Zhang Bao wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said happily: "Fortunately, after listening to Mr. Meng's words, I first moved the grain, arsenal, and money in the city, otherwise." ”

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Let's say that the defenders of Tiger City couldn't stop the resistance because they were drunk, which led to the Tiger City being breached. However, with Zhang Bao's ability, I'm afraid that even if he is awake, I'm afraid that he will just insert the label and sell the head.

Yu Sheng was loaded into a cart by his own soldiers, and hurriedly rushed out of Hucheng and headed for Nanzheng. The bumps on the road made Yu Sheng wake up, ask about the situation, and immediately panicked and frightened.

He didn't dare to go to Nanzheng, but with a few personal soldiers, he went south to Daba Mountain to avoid the edge for the time being.

This caused Nanzheng to get the news a little late, but after all, someone still spread the news to Nanzheng, and Nanzheng was shaken.

Zhang Lu didn't care about cultivating and meditating, and summoned his subordinates to the lobby to discuss with some embarrassment. ”

Tang Wen looked at each other, speechless for a moment, and then all looked at Yan Pu. There are still some elites under Zhang Lu, not to mention Yang Bai, who is greedy for money.

Resourcefulness has Yan Pu.

There are Yang Ang and Zhang Wei in the war. However, at this moment, Yang Ang and Zhang Wei were fighting with Liu Zhang's army in the south. And the only person who can stabilize the situation at this moment is Yan Pu.

And thinking that almost all of their elite soldiers and strong generals were in the south, the mood of the civil and military officers was panicked.

"Someone actually invaded Hanzhong from the east!!" Yang Bai's face turned pale and he thought of a possibility.

Yan Pu was the only one calm among the crowd, he thought for a moment and said to Zhang Lu, "Please summon the person who delivered the news in." ”

Zhang Lu nodded and did so. Not long after, a person who looked like a small official walked in, bowing to Zhang Lu and the civil and military officers present with some nervousness.

Yan Pu asked, "Are you an official of Hucheng?" ”

"Returning to your lordship. Xiao Nai is a small and medium-sized official in the county. The clerk replied.

"Do you know how many people there are? Under what banner? Yan Pu asked again.

"There should not be many people, there is no flag, but the people of Fangling who seem to have an accent. They didn't wear armor, they just dressed up as ordinary people. The clerk replied.

"Let's go down." Yan Pu said.

"No." The little official said yes, turned around and went down.

After Yan Pu finished asking, he arched his hand to Zhang Lu and said, "My lord." This must have been Guan Ping's selected general, who pretended to be a merchant and landed on the shore, and then attacked Hucheng. There were not many men in the front, but there must have been a large army trailing them. At this moment, it has been two days since the news came from Hucheng, and it will take another three days to send a large army to mobilize grain and grass to Hucheng for rescue, and Guan Ping's army may have already killed Hucheng at that time. And the people in the city are only 10,000 elite soldiers, and Guan Ping is brave and good at fighting, I am afraid that there will be no return. You might as well garrison Nanzheng first, recall Yang Ang, and Zhang Wei's 40,000 or 50,000 troops return to Nanzheng, and then make plans. ”

Zhang Lu glanced at Yan Pu, he also trusted the mastermind. But because of habit, he still went to the secret room for divination, and then ordered someone to summon Zhang Wei and Yang Ang to return to the army.

At the same time, Yan Pu resolutely did not drag the mud and water.

He suggested that Zhang Lu send an order to the counties to treat the heads of the big sacrificial wine, recruit believers, and close the city gates to resist. He also ordered Nanzheng City to impose martial law, recruit people and believers, open the treasury, distribute weapons, and defend the city.

Zhang Lu is very popular in Hanzhong, and Nanzheng City is a big city with a population of tens of thousands, and women of all ages are willing to defend the city for Zhang Lu, and the morale is high for a while.

If Guan Pingzhen led the army westward, if he attacked Nanzheng, he would definitely not be able to capture Nanzheng, and because he did not capture the cities along the road, the grain route would be dangerous.

If you scatter your forces to attack the counties, you will also be in a quagmire.

For a while, Hanzhong was like an open giant net, enveloping Guan Ping.

But there are two sides to a lot of things.

For a while, the whole Hanzhong knew that Fangling in the east was too guarded by Guanping, and led a large army to attack Hanzhong, and Hucheng had been lost.

Prior to this, it was already rumored in Hanzhong that Guan Ping, a young man, was too guarded.

This person is brave and good at fighting, and he will be a tiger.

This person is good at business and makes money every day.

The shadow of the name tree of man. And with Guan Ping's entry into Tiger City, this image became clearer, causing a sense of terror and panic to emerge in Hanzhong.

And Zhang Lu confused the people with the Five Buckets of Rice Sect and deceived the people with his evil words. There are many believers in Hanzhong, but is there no force against Zhang Lu?

You must know that Zhang Lu is a rice thief, who started as a traitor, and is not a serious official.

and ruled Hanzhong with the Five Doumi Sect, are there no disagreeers from those big families?

At this moment, the outcome is not yet known, but Guan Ping definitely has a chance to win.

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