The main general who was sent by Wang Chuhui to guard Changning Village, surnamed Zhou, named Hongyuan, is a typical martial artist.

Zhou Hongyuan was originally a commander of the Shu Kingdom's holy army. This person not only can lead the troops, but also shoots the sycophants well, so he won the trust of Wang Chuhui, and was appointed by Wang Chuhui as Sima of Hanzhong, and also the deputy head of the soldiers and horses.

Among Changning Village, Zhenbei Fort and Xu Ting Village, Changning Village is the largest, and the defense facilities are also the most complete, and it is still the forefront of resisting the Northern Army.

After the field investigation, after Zhou Hongyuan arrived in Hanzhong, he asked for orders to be stationed in Changning Village.

Changning Village, the original garrison size, was 4,000 people. Zhou Hongyuan was worried about the lack of troops, so he brought 3,000 more people from Hanzhong to garrison Changning Village.

For a time, Changning Village was originally in a dangerous terrain, coupled with strong soldiers and horses. Zhou Hongyuan selfishly thought that even if the Han army came to attack, it would only be in vain.

As it turned out, Zhou Hongyuan expected it well. After Wang Ken led more than 20,000 troops into the front of Changning Village, he could only watch Changning Village, but could not make up his mind to launch a general attack.

After all, the road in front of the village can only accommodate eight people walking side by side. And there are more than 1,000 archers in Changning Village, so what is there to worry about?

After dinner, Zhou Hongyuan, according to his previous habits, walked around the wall and inspected the defense completely.

Rolling wood, rocks, cauldrons boiling gold juice, countless feather arrows, everything.

Zhou Hongyuan has reason to believe that as long as the Han army dares to attack, it must be corpses rushing over vertically and being thrown back horizontally.

"Chief, the Han army has never dared to launch a general attack, could it be some conspiracy?" Zhou Hongyuan's henchman, Sun Gang, the owner of Changning Village, asked him with some hesitation.

Zhou Hongyuan smiled and said, "Since ancient times, the Meridian Valley, where Changning Village is located, has not been broken by the Northern Army. Do you know why? ”

Sun Gang thought for a while and said: "The terrain is too dangerous, as long as you are not a fool, you can see that it is impossible to take Changning Village with a frontal hard attack." ”

"That's right. To put it bluntly, as long as we don't take the initiative to attack, stay in the village, and don't fall into the ambush of the Han army, what can I do? Zhou Hongyuan smiled conceitedly.

Zhou Hongyuan does have the capital to be conceited.

The Han army from the north, except for a few raids, did not make any particularly big moves.

Obviously, the Han army also knew the inferior terrain of its location, and did not dare to rashly take human lives to fill the sinkhole of Changning Village.

"Chief, news from the south that Zhenbei Fort has been lost." Sun Gang thought about it, and finally decided to say it directly, so as not to be sorry for Zhou Hongyuan, who had always supported him.

"Alas!" Zhou Hongyuan sighed heavily, he never dreamed that Zhenbei Fort, which was located south of Changning Village, would be lost to the Han army in such a short period of time.

If Zhenbei Fort is not lost, with the risk of Changning Village, Zhou Hongyuan can sit back and watch the changes without worry.

Now, it was too late to say anything, and Zhou Hongyuan didn't have the courage to raise troops to recapture Zhenbei Fort.

So many years of comfortable life have created the overall lazy habits of the Shu army, which cannot be changed overnight.

In the final analysis, the danger of Shu Road not only protected the safety of Shu, but also turned the Shu army into a team that was good at defending and not attacking.

You can get battle merits by guarding the natural risk, so why risk death to fight, this has become a common rule in the Shu army.

Now, the problem Zhou Hongyuan faces is that the food in the village is only enough for more than 7,000 defenders, and they will have to eat for another two to three months.

After the food is eaten, what to do, Zhou Hongyuan's mind is blank, and he has no idea at all.

Li Zhongyi led more than 1,000 people, and after crossing the Zhenbei Fort, Xiaoxing stayed overnight, hurried and hurried, and finally arrived at Wujialing, twenty miles south of Changning Village, three days later.

Zhou Hongyuan is not a mediocre person, since he knows that Zhenbei Fort has been lost, he will inevitably send a sentry.

Li Zhongyi had already guarded against this hand, so after he led his army to turn around and march north, he stopped at Wujialing.

From Wujialing to the north, it is the haunt of the Shu army outpost, there is no need to alarm Zhou Hongyuan so early.

After camping in Wujialing, Li Zhongyi sent people to take the trail and send a secret letter to Wang Ken. In the letter, Li Zhongyi agreed on the time and method of marching, and ordered Wang Ken to follow the plan.

The Shu army in Changning Village, after all, has as many as 7,000 people, and Changning Village has strangled the throat from the Meridian Valley into Shu.

In the vast mountains, a small force bypassed Changning Village, but in fact, it was not a big problem.

However, if a large army of tens of thousands of people wants to bypass Changning Village, the logistics supply will definitely not be able to keep up.

made the appearance of setting fire to the village, not only to drive away the Shu army, but also not to let the Shu army burn the plank road.

What Wang Ken wants to do is actually not complicated, in the final analysis, there is only one: use the attack to attract the attention of the Shu army.

After dark, Li Zhongyi led the soldiers of the Qinya guard battalion and took the lead on the journey.

When it is said to be a march, it is actually to climb an endless mountain range. The sand table shows a distance of 20 miles, but in fact, it takes at least four hours to arrive after the road.

Fortunately, Li Zhongyi's pro-tooth guards are all elite soldiers carefully built in accordance with the requirements of special forces.

Along the way, the guards who went out to reconnoiter had already set up a rope ladder, and the follow-up people and horses only needed to climb up to the top of the mountain along the rope ladder.

Stop-and-go, stop-and-go, more than three hours later, Li Zhongyi climbed a mountain opposite Changning Village. At this moment, in Changning Village, the lights were bright, Li Zhongyi took the monocular in Gao Qiang's hand and quietly observed for a while.

Well, the guard of the Shu army is not a fool. He obviously knew the dangers of night attacks, and deliberately made the Changning Village as bright as day.

Anyway, in the mountains, there is a lot of wood that cannot be burned, which can be said to be inexhaustible.

"If you are Zhou Hongyuan, will you arrange a secret whistle?" Li Zhongyi asked Gao Qiang in a low voice.

Gao Qiang looked carefully, shook his head in the darkness and said: "With the danger of Changning Village, if it were me, I only needed to guard against the enemy's sneak attack at night." ”

Having said that, Li Zhongyi didn't dare to be careless after all, and immediately ordered a pro-tooth guard to quietly touch Changning Village, and his task was mainly to find and quietly kill the secret post of the Shu army.

In this era, the people who know how to conduct special operations in the mountains, except for Li Zhongyi, are the soldiers of the Pioneer Battalion, the Brave Battalion and the Guards Battalion.

Time passed minute by minute, and it was not until the east was slightly white that Li Zhongyi received accurate news: the secret post arranged by the Shu army had been quietly killed.

To be precise, after getting the news, Li Zhongyi secretly broke out in a cold sweat. If it is not for caution, it is clear that this sneak attack will face great danger.