In the end, Zhang Lu still chose to continue to be an official and gave up the position of the leader of Wudou Midao.

Lü Bu appointed him as the Taishou of Hedong County and the general of Zhennan. After the war is over, the cultists of Wudou Midao will move their families to the counties of Guanzhong Sanfu and Sili to enrich the population.

The army of Hanzhong will also be reorganized after the enemy army is repulsed, and after the reorganization, it will be unified into the formation of the Central Army.

Zhang Wei, Yang Ren and other officers of the Hanzhong army can go to Shaling Military Academy to study, and after graduation, they will serve in the Central Army. Yan Pu stayed in Hanzhong, preparing to assist the new Hanzhong Taishou in the future.

After arranging all the matters in Hanzhong, Lu Bu can study the war in Hanzhong with one mind.

The route chosen by Zhu Ling's Fourth Division was relatively easy to follow, and Wuguan was originally controlled by the Central Army.

Therefore, you can sneak out of the customs at any time and sneak attack the back road of the Jingzhou army.

In order to achieve the purpose of the raid, the engineer battalion of the 4th Division played a huge role, erecting pontoon bridges over the Danshui and Hanshui, helping the large army to quickly cross these two river moats.

The Fourth Division ran for hundreds of miles, occupied Wudang County, and then crossed Wudang Mountain overnight and appeared in the north of Fangling County.

At this moment, the main force of the Jingzhou army led by Huang Zhong was attacking Shangyong City, and only Cai Mao remained in Fangling County with 3,000 men and horses, responsible for guarding the logistics accumulated here.

Tai Shici led the vanguard of his 10th Brigade to flee from Wudang County to Fangling under the guise of the Jingzhou Army, and the news of the occupation of Wudang County by the Han army had not yet reached Fangling.

Cai Mao was drinking in the city, and when he heard that the defeated army of Wudang County was coming, there were only a few hundred people, so he opened the door and let them in, he planned to ask what the specific situation was, how was Wudang occupied by the Han army?

As a result, as soon as the city gate was opened, Tai Shici led people into the city, occupied the city gate, sent a signal for the army to enter the city, and started a street battle.

But the Jingzhou army didn't know what street fighting was, and Cai Mao didn't have any command talent, so he woke up in fright, disguised himself as an ordinary soldier, ran out of the city, and fled back to Xiangyang alone.

The main generals of the Jingzhou army all ran away, and there was no one to command, and soon the whole army was wiped out, a large amount of grain and grass and baggage all fell into the hands of the central army, and Fangling County was successfully recovered by the fourth division.

At this point, the Central Army had cut off the retreat of the Jingzhou Army, and then Zhu Ling led the troops of the Fourth Division to advance in the direction of Shangyong.

At the same time, Lu Bu had also led the Rong 1st Division and the Special Warfare Brigade to set off from Nanzheng and rush to Shangyong, and the 2nd Rong Brigade and the 2nd Rong Brigade in Guanhai were one step ahead and ran in front of the whole army.

Although Shangyong City was surrounded by the main force of the Jingzhou Army, Zhang Wei was not flustered, he still had more than 10,000 people in his hands, and the counterattack was insufficient, but the defense of the city was very firm.

And he knew that Zhang Lu had moved the rescue troops from Chang'an, and the Central Army was on the way to help, so he only needed to hold on until the reinforcements arrived.

Calculate the time, it's almost there, Zhang Wei won't be in a hurry, the city is strong, the grain and grass are sufficient, and he can attack as much as the Jingzhou army likes.

Huang Zhong was not as easy as Zhang Wei, but the 50,000-strong army besieged the city for a long time, and he was a little annoyed.

He was finally reused by the lord Liu Biao, and led an army of 50,000 alone, although he successfully took Fangling, but under this Shangyong city, it was blocked for several days.

This march was carried out together with Liu Zhang's army in Yizhou, but when Hanzhong was conquered, the interests must have been divided according to who occupied the territory.

I don't know where the army in Yizhou has gone? Don't let them take the lead!

However, soon Huang Zhong received the news of the loss of Fangling, and General Cai Mao's life and death were unknown!

The most critical and fatal thing is that all the grain and grass baggage have been taken away by the Central Army. Huang Zhong estimated the surplus food in the army, but it couldn't support it for a few days.

Shangyong was anxious and could not take it, so it was better to return to the army to recover Fangling and wait for the regain of logistical supplies.

Thinking of this, Huang Zhong made up his mind and ordered the army to stop attacking the city, prepare for it, and return to the army to attack Fangling.

Zhang had few guards, watching the Jingzhou army retreat, for fear that this was some trap set by the enemy, and seeing Huang Zhong's Jingzhou army pull out the camp and return to attack Fangling, he did not dare to attack.

Shangyong was not far from Fangling, and Huang Zhong accelerated his march all the way, just to get a quick victory.

As a result, he turned around and walked thirty miles, and he met Zhu Ling's fourth division head-on, and a veritable encounter broke out.

The distance between Shangyong and Fangling is not as many mountains as when they entered Hanzhong, but it is a smooth road, so the Central Army and the Jingzhou Army encountered it in a wilderness.

The Central Army is Zhu Ling's Fourth Division, which lacks a regiment and stays to defend Fangling County.

Huang Zhong's main force of Jingzhou Army had 50,000 horses, and Huang Zhong was also a battle-hardened general, and when the army marched, scouts were also sent a lot.

It's a pity that his scouts encountered the scouts of the Central Army, so Zhu Ling received an alert early, saying that a large group of Jingzhou troops with a scale of 50,000 people appeared in the direction of his advance.

Basically, both sides were infantry, twenty miles apart, and basically both sides set off separately for a short time.

Zhu Ling immediately ordered the brigades to seize the low hills on both sides of the official road, dig improvised trenches, and prepare for defensive operations.

After all, he has few people, although the combat power of the Central Army can be one against three, but Zhu Ling is a cautious person, he is not blindly confident.

At the same time, he ordered the reconnaissance battalion to send men to the upper echelons to see if there was any activity of its own army.

At the beginning, Lu Bu's plan was to first encircle the Jingzhou army after the three-way march, and then clean up the Yizhou army, and break each one.

The Central Army has always advocated the tactics of concentrating superior forces and breaking through each other.

So he wanted to see if Wei Xu's Third Division or Wang Quan's Special Operations Brigade had arrived near Shangyong.

Huang Zhong didn't get the news from the scouts in front of him for a long time, and he was also a little uneasy.

Although he heard that the central army that captured Fangling was only a few thousand people, the combat effectiveness of Lu Bu's men was so strong that even a more arrogant person like Huang Zhong had to admit that it was higher than his subordinates.

So he didn't dare to despise the enemy, if there was no news back, it was already bad news, it was probably that there was already a central army waiting for him in front, and I heard that Lu Bu's army was the best at ambushes and detours.

Huang Zhong ordered the army to slow down, and then sent more troops to search and probe the front.

This time I finally got the definite news, more than ten miles away, a team of Han troops seized the hills on both sides of the avenue and was digging trenches, apparently to block the advance of the Jingzhou army.

Huang Zhong inquired about the number of people on the other side, because he couldn't get too close, so he couldn't get an accurate number, but it should not exceed 20,000.

Huang Zhong thought about it, according to the establishment of the Central Army, it is generally organized by divisions or brigades, and a division has three brigades, which is almost 15,000 or 6,000 people.

It seems that it is a division of the Central Army that captured Fangling, and it will definitely not exceed 20,000 people, and they have a threefold numerical advantage, and everyone is infantry, and they are still fighting for a numerical advantage.

(End of chapter)