Liu Yi continued to expand the camp on his side, preparing to welcome the arrival of Liu Bei's main force, and on the other side, Yang Song returned to Nanzheng, but did not immediately ask to leave Zhenyang Pingguan.

"Shijun, the minister is incompetent, so he can only persuade Liu Bei to suspend it for seven days." Yang Song came to Zhang Lu and said with a look of shame.

"Seven days?" Zhang Lu didn't have too much frustration, after all, it was a good thing to get seven days, and nodded at the moment: "Bo Nian doesn't need to blame himself, seven days is seven days, it's better than one day." ”

Nanzheng up and down, in fact, is not afraid of Liu Bei's use of soldiers, the most uncomfortable thing is that Liu Bei's army just stopped there, did not fight, retreated and did not retreat, which made people worry all day long, and on his side, the last time Zhang Wei went to listen to the news, but he was almost shot by an old soldier sent by others, and he came back with a disgraced face, not to mention the morale of the army, just the generals here, few people are willing to take the initiative to fight.

Now that he has a seven-day promise, he also takes it for granted that Liu Bei will launch an attack after seven days, which also makes the generals subconsciously think that after seven days, it is the time for Liu Bei's army to attack the city, but his heart relaxes and begins to actively prepare for war.

In the next few days, it was calm, Liu Yi outside the city was using these times to expand the camp frantically, preparing siege equipment, but under the call of Zhang Lu, the soldiers and civilians of Nanzheng continued to carry rolling wood and stones to strengthen the city defense, it looked like a battlefield about to start a war, but like two construction sites.

"Sir." On this day, Liu Bei's army had arrived in a steady stream of sleep, Huang Zhong came down from the dougong, looked at Liu Yi with some concern and said: "Although it has been peaceful for a few days, but these days, Zhang Lu has been strengthening the city wall, and it will be even more difficult if Nanzheng wants to break through." ”

The strength of the two sides is actually almost the same, and even Liu Bei is a little less, Zhang Lu has the advantage of strengthening the city, and it is not easy to conquer it.

"That's a problem, but this matter should be a headache for the lord and the military advisor, I don't care about this." Liu Yi is in a much more relaxed mood now, after all, Liu Bei's soldiers and horses are coming in in a steady stream, and Liu Yi doesn't have to bother thinking about how to deceive Zhang Lu, as for how to capture Hanzhong, this kind of thing, let Liu Bei and Pang Tong have a headache.

Huang Zhong was a little speechless when he heard this, what is the operation of letting others fill the pit you dug?

Liu Yi doesn't care about those, his work is basically done now, even if Liu Bei wants to attack, the ladders and catapults he made are enough to make up for the lack of geographical advantages, Jing Yi Liu Yi recently thought of a new one, and he hasn't started to do it yet, so he just took this opportunity to do a good job of the well he envisioned.

"How's Buncho's injury?" Liu Yi remembered something and turned his head to look at Huang Zhongdao.

Wei Yan came back a few days ago, but he was infected with a cold, and the sores on his shoulders also showed signs of suppuration.

"The wound has scabbed over and is out of the way." Huang Zhong said with a smile.

"Well, it's not going well!" Liu Yi sighed, this battle in Hanzhong is much more troublesome than imagined, and I don't know why Zhang Lu surrendered Cao Cao so easily in history, but now he refuses to surrender Liu Bei.

……

In the seventeenth year of Jian'an, on the eighth day of the sixth month, Liu Bei's army finally arrived at the camp outside Nanzheng City, and Liu Yi took Guan Ping, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan to meet him.

"Lord, the last will be guilty!" Wei Yan still had bandages on his shoulders, and when he saw Liu Bei, he immediately asked for guilt, if he hadn't marched too hastily this time, he wouldn't have failed in his original perfect plan beforehand.

"This matter has nothing to do with Wen Chang." Liu Bei stepped forward and helped Wei Yan up, Liu Bei liked this general who looked a little similar to his second brother, especially this time, although the plan to attack the east and the west failed to materialize, but Wei Yan's ability to show in this battle made Liu Bei like it even more, and looked at the bandage on Wei Yan's shoulder with concern and said, "How is Wen Chang's injury?" ”

"It's all right!" Wei Yan stood up with some emotion.

"Bo Yuan, what is the situation now?" After appeasing Wei Yan, Liu Bei pulled Wei Yan and Liu Yi into the account together, and asked with a smile at Liu Yi.

"It's basically stable, I have some plans, I started a start, how to improve it, it still needs to be done by the lord and Shiyuan." Liu Yi said with a smile.

"Oh?" Liu Bei smiled and asked, "But I don't know what the plan is?" ”

"That Yang Song's brother Yang Bai was captured by Wen Chang, and now in our camp, some time ago Yang Song came to defect in the name of an envoy, I asked him to go back, try to help us seize Yangping Pass, and then Wen Chang went to cooperate, it is best to detain the 10,000 troops that Yang Ang is about to return, and then block the pass, then it will be a turtle in the urn."

"Catching turtles in an urn?" Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, but then he understood, shook his head and smiled: "Bo Yuan can always say some novel words, but this is appropriate. ”

Yangping Pass is the throat fortress of Hanchuan to defend against foreign enemies from the north, if Yangping Pass can be included in the palm, then the land of Hanzhong, Liu Bei can continue to ask Yizhou for troops and food, and Zhang Lu is equivalent to being trapped and dying here, it is indeed a turtle in the urn.

"It's a good idea." Pang Tong nodded, groped for his beard, looked at Liu Yi and said, "How to do it." ”

"It's up to you." Liu Yi sat on his mat with an expression of "I am very optimistic about you".

Pang Tong was speechless, and after thinking carefully for a while, he looked at Liu Bei and said: "Lord, Bo Yuan's plan is quite clever, but it is not yet known whether Yang Song can go to Yangping Pass. ”

Hearing this, Liu Bei nodded, and looked at Liu Yi.

"This ...... It depends on the will of God, I only agreed with him how to see me when he came out, as for when he came out, this is hard to say. Liu Yi said helplessly.

If Yang Song can use it well, he will definitely be a good son, so Liu Yi also has to consider his safety, when the two armies face each other, the two sides can still see each other.

"There is a plan, since Nanzheng Chengjian can be sent to break through Chenggu and make plans to make a plan to Xu Tu, then Zhang Lu must be worried that our army will bypass Nanzheng and cut off the retreat of Yangping Pass, and at that time, Yang Song will have a chance to play." Pang Tong said with a smile.

"What if it's not Yang Song but someone else in the end?" Liu Yi said curiously.

"Annihilation!" Pang Tong domineering Dao, although he took the initiative to attack the city, the loss would be huge, but if he fought a field battle, Liu Beijun was not afraid: "In addition, the grain road between Jiameng Pass also needs to be dredged, but General Hansheng was ordered to lead a department to meet General Liu Feng." ”

Liu Feng these days to transport grain and grass, are to bypass the Hanzhong army garrisoned checkpoints, take the road to send, quite inconvenient, now that the army has arrived, then this Hanzhong military camp between the army and Jiameng Pass, there is no need to exist, the siege is not good, but if it is just to attack a camp, it is not difficult for Liu Beijun today.

When Liu Bei heard this, he nodded and said, "According to Shiyuan's words, Han Sheng?" ”

"The last general!" Huang Zhong took a step forward and said loudly.

"With your 2,000 soldiers and horses, capture this camp as soon as possible and dredge our army's grain road." Liu Bei said with a smile.

"Whoa!" Huang Zhong didn't say a word, he took the order and left, these days except for scaring Zhang Wei that day, there is basically no battle to fight, and he has long been a little depressed, although it is not a big battle now, but for Huang Zhong, it is better than nothing.

"The old general is still quite eager." Liu Yi looked at the direction Huang Zhong left and said with some amusement.

"Although it failed to defeat Hanzhong, it is not necessarily a bad thing." Pang Tong looked at Liu Yi and said with a smile: "Bo Yuan knows, then Liu Zhang has promised to send 8,000 additional soldiers and horses for our army, another 3 million, and 100,000 stones of grain and grass. ”

"So little?" Liu Yi looked at Pang Tong unexpectedly, not to mention thirty or fifty thousand, one or two hundred thousand must be there, right?

"This matter should be slowly figured out, now that Hanzhong has not been lowered, if Liu Zhang is forced to be in a hurry, the gain of cutting off our army's logistics will outweigh the losses." Pang Tong explained with a smile: "This little bit will make Liu Zhang feel more at ease, and when our army gets the land of Hanzhong, it will be good to turn against Liu Zhang." ”

To put it bluntly, it's just a blunt knife to cut meat, first fatten yourself up, and then lift the table to light up the guy, Liu Yi doesn't care too much about this, but Liu Bei's face on the side is a little dark, you two just discuss this kind of thing in front of me, is it really good?

"Don't blame the lord, Shiyuan is like this, he speaks regardless of the occasion." Seeing this, Liu Yi hurriedly turned the firepower away, it's none of my business.

Pang Tong: "......"

"Bo Yuan thinks that Nanzheng is unattackable?" Liu Bei looked at Liu Yi and asked.

If Nanzheng can be conquered directly, it will save Liu Bei a lot of trouble, the last time he attacked Jiangling, Liu Yi's weapons, armor and siege ships were miraculous, and the power was also an eye-opener for Liu Bei.

"It's not easy, there is little difference between the two sides in terms of troops, although the siege equipment has been made, but it is still slightly insufficient to reverse the disadvantage of our army by relying on these." Liu Yi shook his head, the most important thing is the soldier's armor, he doesn't have so much time to make it, and now there are more than 2,000 people wearing Liu Yi's armor in the army, which can be regarded as the elite under Liu Bei, if it can be the same as when he attacked Jiangling, there are 8,000 such elites, then it will be no problem, but now, Liu Yi is not completely sure, so he does not dare to pat his chest to guarantee.

At that time, Liu Bei's equipment, but Liu Yi spent several months to equip it with sufficient materials, and now there are no conditions at that time, and there is not enough time.

"However, the rest of the cities, it is not difficult to take them, and they can take this opportunity to stabilize the foundation, spread kindness in this land of Hanzhong, gather the hearts of the people, and prepare for our army's counterattack on Shudi." Liu Yi said with a smile, using Liu Zhang's money to build his own territory, although the money will still be Liu Bei's sooner or later, but this feels different, not to mention that it is equivalent to weakening Liu Zhang in disguise, why not?

When Liu Bei heard this, he could only give up his plan to attack Nanzheng immediately, and attack Hanzhong according to Pang Tong's plan with peace of mind.