The three counties of Shangyong, located in the south of the Qinling Mountains, are distributed on both sides of the Han River, and are absolutely deep mountains and old forests. There are only nine county seats, scattered in small valleys or plains.

These three counties originally belonged to Hanzhong, but because there was no oil and water in the poor mountains and bad waters, it was too difficult to send troops to control them, so they were abandoned by Zhang Lu. Liu Biao was not too short of meat, so he sent troops to get it, so these three counties became Jingzhou's territory.

Guan Ping led more than 1,200 people under his command after two days of rapid marching, through a large area of no man's land, over the plains, and over the mountains and mountains, and finally reached Hanshui.

The Hanshui River is wide enough to drive large boats.

Ships from Hanzhong can follow the Han River to Jingzhou and enter the Yangtze River.

Guan Ping had already sent people to explore this section of water, chose an area with a slow current, and ordered the construction of a pontoon bridge. On this trip, Guan Ping also brought some professional craftsmen, under the command of the craftsmen, the soldiers worked together to build the pontoon bridge, but in half a day, the pontoon bridge was built.

After the pontoon bridge was built, Guan Ping stayed behind and Li Zheng led the men and horses of the camp to guard the pontoon bridge and wait for the follow-up army.

Guan Ping led Zhang Bao, Zhou Xiong, Li Fei, Ding Feng, Ding Feng, Mi Wei, Zhao Tong and others to cross the mountains and reach the outside of Fangling City.

It's been a hard walk.

Although there are large mountain roads, no matter how wide the mountain roads in the Han Dynasty are, they are not easy to walk. Fortunately, it is winter now, and there is little rain, so if the army marches in summer, I am afraid that the heavy rain will be able to block the movement of the army.

The three counties of Shangyong are really easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, in the history of the Three Kingdoms, the semi-independent strength of the three counties of Shangyong was finally broken. Meng Da, Shen family brothers, Liu Feng.

It was Guan Yu's defeat in Jingzhou and his call for help to these people, but these people did not save them when they saw death.

See death and don't save the foursome.

However, the good news is that the quartet did not end well.

Liu Feng was the first to be unlucky, he was at odds with Meng Da, and Meng Da was afraid of the guilt of not saving Guan Yu, so he simply surrendered to Cao Wei, colluded with Cao Wei's forces to drive Liu Feng away, Liu Feng fled back to Chengdu, and was killed by Liu Bei.

However, Meng Da was not proud of the spring breeze for a long time, because he half-heartedly wanted to surrender to Shu Han, so he was killed by Sima Yi.

Shen Tan, the eldest of the Shen brothers, was relieved of his official position early and moved to Nanyang for retirement.

When Sima Yi pacified the Mengda Rebellion, the second Shenyi was arrested by Sima Yi and sent to the north, where he was named an idle general and lived for a long time.

Among these four people, the ending of the Shen brothers is not bad.

Among these people, Meng Da and Liu Feng have not yet become powerful, and the Shen brothers are entrenched in Shangyong, with thousands of households.

If this action is compared to opening a dungeon, then the Shen brothers are the final bosses of this dungeon.

And the first thing Guan Ping has to deal with is Fang Ling Taishou Kuaiqi, a Confucian in intelligence, who can't fight at all, and his talent is also mediocre, only because he is a member of the Kuai family, so he can worship as Taishou.

By the way, this person is still Prime Minister Liangliang's brother-in-law.

The plan was to take Fangling County first, use it as a foothold, lead the follow-up men, and finally besiege Shangyong. Before Liu Biao reacted, he occupied the three counties at a lightning speed.

Although the mountain road was difficult to walk, Guan Ping still reached the outside of Fangling County at a very fast speed. A county town located deep in the mountains and on a small plain.

It is surrounded by dense rice fields and villages.

The city is only one zhang high, and it is in disrepair, there are traces of cracks everywhere, and weeds have grown in the cracked places, and the weeds have withered and yellowed at this moment, but they are stubborn and have not fallen, and the wind blows the grass on the wall, and the sides fall.

Shangyong three counties, nine county seats.

The combined population of the nine counties is only a little more than 100,000.

Among them, the Shen brothers entrenched in Shangyong County are the strongest, with more than 5,000 households and a population of 30,000, followed by Fangling, and the population inside and outside the city adds up to more than 20,000.

However, because Kuai Qi did not know soldiers, there were not many people in the city, only five or six hundred soldiers. Moreover, these soldiers are all old and weak, and what is even more outrageous is that there is a lack of armament, and some of them even hold rusty knives and guns.

There was no news before Guan Ping entered the army, and the speed of the march was fast. Kuai Qi didn't have time to react, let alone gather men and women inside and outside the city to defend the city together.

When Guan Ping led the army to the city, he was faced with a rural county town with poor defense, few troops, weak soldiers, and vulnerability.

However, such a county town did not collapse immediately. When Guan Ping came to the city, he saw that the gate of Fangling City was closed, and there was a banner with the word "Kuai" on the city wall, fluttering in the wind, very mighty.

Guan Ping led dozens of horsemen under the city, and an old man appeared on the head of the city, and said inwardly: "Where did you come from, you can know that my Fangling City is the general of Zhennan, and the city under the rule of Liu Gong, the assassin of Jingzhou." Lord Taishou is a member of the clan of Lord Kuai Yue in Jingzhou. ”

"Lord Captain, it's not difficult to capture this broken city, please order me to attack." This is the first battle of Brother Han's brother Zhang Bao, and he was a little excited, so he immediately asked for his life.

Who knows that someone is robbing business. Ma Tan said calmly: "Lord Captain, the Confucianism has no courage, and he is a fellow villager with me. I begged a horse to enter the city and persuaded him to surrender. ”

Zhang Bao was furious when she heard this, and glared at Ma Yan, the guy who grabbed business. The urn said angrily: "When a horse joins the army, you must know that the sword is not long-eyed." If Kuaiqi puts his heart and liver aside and refuses to surrender, you will have no return. ”

"I'm absolutely sure." Ma Tan said quietly.

Guan Ping said to Ma Yan: "Then you will have to go often." ”

Choose one of the two.

No matter how simple the siege is, there can be casualties. On the contrary, if Ma Tan can persuade Kuai Qi to surrender Kaicheng, it will be bloodless.

Guan Ping has heard it I don't know how many times, Kuai Qi is a Confucian, and he is timid. So don't worry, Ma Jian went in to persuade him to surrender.

Hearing this, Ma Tan bowed his hand to Guan Ping, and then rode his horse to the city, and after identifying himself, he was welcomed into the city by the guards.

Zhang Bao was a little dissatisfied when he saw that the business was robbed, and snorted coldly, but did not make any unnecessary moves. This Han brother is very well-behaved in the army.

Ignore Zhang Bao's foolish thing for now.

Guan Ping has expectations.

Kuai Qi, Zhuge Liang's brother-in-law.

It's a very, very bullish identity.

In history, the founding emperor of the Shu Han Dynasty and the prime minister Liangliang were a natural pair, fish and water.

But unfortunately, in this plane, Beibei is dead. There is no need to look at the thatched house three times, and Longzhong has been plagiarized by Guan Ping, Zhuge Liang, and Xu Shu in the future, and he has fallen into uncertainty.

Even Pang Tong and Jiang Wan may have become a dream bubble.

Since Beibei's death, Guan Ping has been entangled in this matter. Do you want to visit Prime Minister Liangliang, the military division, and the military division?

Maybe after some conversation, the sages were shocked by my domineering spirit, bowed their heads, and proclaimed the lord, willing to serve the work of dogs and horses?

Guan Ping was just thinking about it, and he didn't think that anything like that would happen.

There is a big difference between stinky dad and being prepared.

These people can serve the heroes, but they will not serve the stinky father. As for him? I'm afraid that in the eyes of the sages, it is just a milky smell that has not dried up.

It's like when he went to Jiangdong and met Lu Su and Zhuge Jin, he was known as "the general horn boy." ”

And Guan Ping's biggest shining point is actually the countermeasure in front of the hall that time, that is, the pair of Longzhong after plagiarism. But this strategy is to be kept secret, Guan Ping has already asked Ma Jie, Yin Guan and others to keep their mouths shut and not publicize it to the outside world.

Because if the strategic intent is leaked, then there is no point in it.

So on Guan Ping, there is hardly any shining point.

As for the shining point of Mi's wine, I am afraid it is nothing in the eyes of the sages.

All in all, the Guan family father and son do not have any advantages, any shining place, can tempt to recruit the sages.

So after Guan Ping was entangled, he didn't go to Qunxian, but planned to go with the flow. Anyway, there is one thing Guan Ping is sure of.

The sages will definitely come out of the mountain.

Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Jiang Wan are all ambitious people, and it is impossible to bury their talents.

Guan Ping only worked hard to develop, enhance his strength, enhance his prestige, and attract the sages to defect before he left the mountain.

And while going with the flow, if you can do something small, of course, it will be better.

Kuaiqi.

Zhuge Liang's brother-in-law.

In Guan Ping's view, if he can seize Fangling as a foothold, it is certainly worth joy, but if he can get Kuaiqi, it will be a joy on top of joy.

What an opportunity.

Since he is Zhuge Liangliang's brother-in-law, it's no problem to get a family letter, right? It's okay to mention Guan Ping in a letter to the family, right?

And at this moment, Kuai Qi, who was considered by Guan Ping to be a star of hope, was heartbroken.

Kuai Qi is 28 years old this year, and he is Kuai Yue's nephew in terms of generation. Kuai Qisheng is very handsome and dignified, tall and dignified.

But it's an embroidered pillow.

If you are reading, Kuai Qi is mediocre.

If you are too guarded, Kuai Qi belongs to the next talent.

The outside world's evaluation of Kuai Qi is not wrong at all, Kuai Qi only became Fang Ling Taishou because of his surname Kuai.

However, Kuai Qi is not ashamed of this, and of course he is not proud. Anyway, Kuai Qi did too much because of his surname, and he did it with peace of mind.

Kuai Qi has been guarding Fangling for three years, and his feeling for Fangling is okay, although the place is a little remote and the city is a little simpler.

But the advantage of the castle standing deep in the mountains is that there is no war.

This place is so poor that even bandits are rare.

Life in the rural county is very calm and comfortable. Kuai Qi's daily life is to practice calligraphy with his wife Zhuge and tease his children.

By the way, go out to catch a fish, and when you are interested, you can also go into the mountains to shoot some prey.

As a scholar, Kuaiqi's hunting skills are also okay, shoot a rabbit, and you can hit it once in three or four times.

Kuai Qi never thought that this peaceful day would be broken, and a group of men and horses of unknown origin suddenly killed under the county seat, as if they were going to attack the city?

When the news came, Kuai Qi was reading in the study, and when he heard that someone had killed him in the city, Kuai Qi's first reaction was impossible.

It wasn't until after repeated confirmation that Kuai Qi knew that the matter was big, and he couldn't help but panic.

"What to do? Why don't you give up the city and slip away? ”