As soon as Natanhun broke into the town of Mingshui, Tang Yuan walked away with his soldiers, not taking the main road, but taking a shortcut and hiding on the side of the road in Mingshui, Xingzhou Road.

Hanzhong is mountainous, ambushes can be fought everywhere, as long as the war horses are controlled and don't let them make a sound, and the valley here is tight, the smell of the horse can spread far away, in order to cover up the smell, I have also thought of a lot of ways to clean and cover the smell of the horse.

Shu Han Liu Xun's team has a lot of tricks, and he even brought hunting dogs with him in the war, those dogs have a certain detection and warning effect, not to mention, it is really a good way, Tang Yuan decided to raise a few himself.

"Liu Xun is an emperor who can fight, he personally leads the troops, and he is hungry, I really admire him, what do they eat if they don't transport grain for so long?" Tang Yuan said while nibbling on dry food.

"We don't have much food." Tang Hu said.

Nalan said: "Liu Xun knows that we are ambushed here. Even if you don't know it exactly, you still feel like we're here. ”

"Why didn't you say Liu Xun withdrew his troops?" Tang Hu asked.

Nalan said: "I don't know about this, maybe he has other plans." Now the two sides are consuming like this, which is really tiring. ”

"If you want me to say, we should go one step further." Tang Yuan seemed to have made a decision: "Feng Feima, you go and tell Natanhun, if you want, come with me to fight Liangzhou." Although it is not a grain road, as long as we make more movement and occupy more territory, Liu Xun will definitely panic. Believe it or not, he can bear it alone. ”

Tang Yuan didn't intend to be able to assist him at all, he ran away with his soldiers, all the way to the east to prepare to attack Xixian.

Xixian is not a battleground for the battle of Hanzhong, because his strategic location is not important, but Tang Yuan is still sharpening his sword, and the soldiers defending the city in Xixian County are just some militia soldiers, and they are very anxious when they see Tang Yuan your regular army is coming. They were worried that because they did not resist when Shu Han came, they would bear the crime of rebellion, so they did not dare to open the city gate. He also stood at the head of the city and shouted, saying that the reinforcements would return soon.

Tang Yuan shot an arrow to kill the county order, with a big stone to the city, the soldiers climbed the low city wall along the stone, this battle was easy, the enemy saw Tang Yuan began to transport wood and stones to pile under the city wall, they had already run, broke the city gate, lived in, let Chen Bao defend the city, erected the banner of the Liang army.

Then he left 5,000 men and horses for Chen Bao, and he continued to march east with his troops, and said to Chen Bao before leaving, let the scouts go out for fifty miles, if you find the enemy, you will flee immediately, don't resist, this city is too short, it has no effect at all.

Chen Bao agreed.

Tang Yuan also said that if Natanhun comes, you will give him the city and tell him that he must defend it, and you will tell him that I will fight the military mountain.

Chen Bao was puzzled: "Dingjun Mountain is a place heavily guarded by the enemy, and it is not easy to fight." ”

Tang Yuan said: "I won't really fight, I will go to fight Niutou Mountain, and then scavenge some food on the mountain, and attack Micheng at night." If I can fight, it will be my fate, but if I can't fight, I will continue to go back to the mountains to fight guerrillas. After such a toss, I think Liu Xun can't help it, he will either transport grain or withdraw the army. In addition, I also count on Tang Xiao to launch a fierce attack on Liu Xun at this time. ”

Tang Yuan's design had been decided, and he went east with his soldiers, and at this time the troops were already out of food. Tang Yuan said that it is the height of summer, and there must be food on the mountain, so we will feign an attack on Niutou Mountain, besiege the mountain to send reinforcements, and grab the enemy's grain to eat. Unless the enemy army does not come to support, it is better to take Niutou Mountain directly, and there will definitely be food on this stronghold. If not...... Then find another way.

In fact, Tang Yuan didn't know the bottom of his heart, when he hit Xixian, he also said that when he entered the city, he would have something to eat, but he couldn't even find a mouse in the city, and everyone ran out.

Although the strategic location of Xixian County is not useful, but Liangzhou is very important, there are three mountains here, namely Dingjun Mountain, Niutou Mountain, Zhongliang Mountain, these three mountains are like three nails, nailed in the land of Hanzhong, at first everyone thought that the Liang army would be here to fight a decisive battle with the Han army, but the Shu Han Emperor Liu Xun had to push the battlefield to the north, and played a war of attrition with Tang Xiao in that narrow area.

The advantage of this for them is that the grain route is shorter.

But the disadvantages are also obvious, once someone breaks through the defense line, it is easy to surround them.

Liu Xun also thought about this problem, he stationed the vanguard troops in Xingzhou, and there were 100,000 reinforcements behind him, and 100,000 people escorted grain and grass without moving, even if they were sent, Tang Yuan did not dare to rob them. This is what Tang Yuan is most distressed about. That's why he had to go east.

If you don't run, it's easy to starve to death.

Obviously, the current situation is not at all what was envisioned at the beginning.

At the beginning, he boasted to Tang Xiao that he went to the sea, saying that as long as he broke through Rolling Horse Ridge, the enemy army would be in chaos.

But how can there be so many clever calculations on the battlefield, this time Tang Yuan miscalculated, and he needed to do a lot of work to make up for his mistakes.

Poor Natanhun was unlucky with Tang Yuan, originally he thought that he had discovered a big secret and a big opportunity, but after a few days of coming, he found that the situation was not good, and he had already begun to evacuate Mingshui and run east.

thought that Tang Yuan would be able to attack Xingzhou City, but Tang Yuan ran along the trail to the border of Liangzhou, attacked Xixian, and then marched to Niutou Mountain.

Natanhun was worried that Tang Yuan would be left behind, so he followed closely.

As a result, as soon as he came to Xixian, Chen Bao left with his soldiers, Chen Bao said, make room for you, and we will go to Dingjun Mountain.

If Natan Hun believed Chen Bao's words, then he had to defend Xixian to the death, protect Tang Yuan's back road, and wait for the news of Tang Yuan's war.

But Natanhun didn't believe that Tang Yuan would really go to Dingjun Mountain.

That mountain is not easy to fight.

You Tang Yuan now have a total of more than 10,000 people, and if you want to take Dingjun Mountain with the same strength, it's a dream. My troops, combined with yours, can't defeat the Dingjun Mountain, which is garrisoned by 10,000 men.

So Natanhun also followed Chen Bao to the east, and when they were about to reach Dingjun Mountain, they saw a mountain fire on Dingjun Mountain, burning black gas.

The enemy had already cut down many trees, just to prevent someone from burning the mountain, but Tang Yuan still set the mountain on fire.

The enemy general was so angry that he led his troops to rush down the mountain, but Tang Yuan ran away.

The enemy general began to put out the fire, and Chen Bao and Natanhun came again.

Natanhun looked at the situation and said, "Let's help General Tang add another fire, and then let's go." ”

"Where are you going?" The adjutant asked.

Natanhun said: "Tang Yuan will not fight Dingjun Mountain, he just wants to pass by safely, he is very likely to lose Daniutou Mountain, where there are few soldiers, and it is better to fight than Dingjun Mountain." ”。

Chen Duoyang, the head of Dingjun Mountain, was really unlucky, Tang Yuan and Na Tanhun were just passing by, but they had to burn the mountain, although they were not attacked, but they still burned the mountain he was guarding to black, and it was uncomfortable to look at this.

The smell of charcoal was in the air.