"Boyo, Yang'an Guan, it's lost!"

"Huh? This...... Yang'an Pass is so steep, and there is a loyal general like Zilian in charge, how can it be lost? ”

Rewind the clock to more than ten days ago.

On August 13, the southern end of the Meridian Valley exited.

"Liu Qin, the subordinate of Weixing County, meets General Zhenxi."

"Liu is too hard. Huh~~~ The steepness of this Meridian Valley will be regarded as an insight. If it weren't for Liu Taishou, he would have guarded the exit in advance. As long as Xishu puts a team of people here, he will come up with it, but I don't know how much effort it will take. If this war against Shu can be successful, Liu Taishou will be the first credit! ”

Zhong Hui said such things at this time, but he was really not putting on a show.

As a Yingchuan person who has lived in the Central Plains for a long time, the first time he crossed such a majestic mountain as the Qinling Mountains, Zhong Hui was really shocked by the rugged mountain road here.

Not to mention anything else, in the more than ten days since entering the Qinling Mountains, Zhong Hui's feet rarely touched the ground - not riding a horse without touching the ground. Instead, the main thing to step on is the plank laid on the narrow plank road, and the real ground is dozens to hundreds of meters away from the plank under your feet. And in the process of marching, Zhong Hui's horse also stepped on a wooden plank, almost getting General Zhenxi to the bottom of the cliff.

General Zhenxi was very angry about this. The first thing he did after crawling out of the hole was to arrest and kill Xu Yi, who was responsible for opening the way for the whole army—who was Xu Yi? Cao Cao's personal bodyguard Xu Chu's son! Although this move also has the meaning of killing people. But the experience of hanging in mid-air did strongly stimulate Zhong Hui's nerves.

"I don't dare to be the general of Zhenxi so praised. The lower officials just did their duty. ”

"Well, Liu Taishou. Without further ado, what is the current troop arrangement of the Shu thieves in Hanzhong? ”

"Whoa! Xia Guan has already found out. The Shu thieves shrank more than 10,000 troops in Han, Le, Jin, and Yang'anguan. The wheat fields in the Hanzhong Basin have all been harvested, and all the people in the field have moved into the city. ”

"Hmm...... This is a solid wall. Zhong Hui's face became very unpleasant: "That's it, herald!" ”

"I'll wait for the general's orders!"

"Herald! Immediately after the whole army is out of the valley! Send men to contact allies in the other two lanes. After the rectification was completed, the whole army marched towards Seoul! ”

"Whoa!"

On 15 August, all 120,000 Cao Wei soldiers entered the Hanzhong Basin and spread out on the whole line.

But the situation they faced was very bad: in the wilderness of the entire Hanzhong Basin, there was not a single grain of grain to be found, and not a single common person could be seen.

Zhong Hui, who had personally walked through the Qinling Mountains once, frowned deeply in the face of such a situation: If this continues, if one or two cities in Hanzhong are not taken as soon as possible, the Wei army, which has as many as 120,000 people, will soon fall into the embarrassing situation of grain transshipment difficulties, and sooner or later it will not be able to supply.

On 16 August, Cao Wei's forward forces launched an assault on Seoul. Jiang Bin, the protector of the Shu Han Hanzhong Corps, guarded the law, and the Wei army did not find the slightest hope of breaking through the city.

On August 17, Zhonghui came to the city of Seoul. After going around Seoul, Zhong Hui was also very speechless: this city has been built since the time of Wang Ping. The Shuhan government continued to strengthen it for more than 20 years. It is simply impossible to take such a city without filling in the lives of 350,000 people and without continuing to attack for more than half a year.

For Zhong Hui, who was born in a family of Yingchuan Gaomen, the life of an ordinary soldier is nothing. But what he can't afford is time: Sima Zhao's life has entered the countdown, and he will never be given too much time. Therefore, in the face of such a strong city to attack, Zhong Hui did not dare to do so in such a political ecology.

Since you can't storm it, then persuade you to surrender. In any case, Zhong Hui's articles are very well written, and calligraphy is one of the best in the world.

In the afternoon of the same day, Jiang Bin, the Shu Han guard general in Seoul, received a letter from Zhong Hui.

The content of the letter is very elegant, and there is no such word as "please surrender" throughout the text: There are too many virtuous and virtuous people in the land of Bashu, as for you, Jiang Bin and Zhuge Siyuan (Zhuge Zhan), just like grass and trees are interdependent and understand each other, and I Zhonghui are the same kind of people. It is said that respecting the sages of Sangzi has been a virtue of our nation since ancient times. I came to Shu today, and my main purpose is to visit the grave of my father, where is your father's grave? Please tell me that I will definitely go to the sacrifice and sprinkle the sweep.

Jiang Bin, the protector of the Hanzhong Army, whose father was the second minister of the Shu Han regime: the great Sima Jiang Wan. Zhong Hui proposed to go to Jiang Wan's grave, and his true meaning was: "I look up to you very much, brother, surrender, if you surrender, I will be very good to you." ”

"Cut! This Zhong Shiji, am I familiar with you? Do I need you to pay homage to my father's grave? ”

"And the general? How do I reply? ”

"Hehehe, this bell will not be a cheerful person. How can there be such persuasion and persuasion. That's it, he's not happy, I'm happy. ”

Soon, Zhong Hui also received a reply from Jiang Bin.

"I know that you regard me as a confidant, and I am willing to treat you as a person who smells like, and Yashu will benefit, so it is inconvenient to refuse your request. The deceased father fell ill and died in Fu County, and the soothsayer said that it was a treasure of feng shui, so he was buried there. Knowing that you came to Shu in the west, you actually had to stoop down to look at the cemetery to show respect. Yan looked back at Confucius as a father, which was his benevolence. It is sad to know that you are here, and it makes me miss my father even more. ”

The words are very elegant, but in fact, the content is quite arrogant: "Stupid! Who is my father? The Great Sima of the Great Han! I'm going to carry on his legacy and defend the Great Han. How is it possible to surrender? You want to sweep my daddy's grave? Hehehe, my father's grave is far from here. In Fuxian! If you have what it takes to get there, go and sweep the grave. Hahaha~~~"

Zhong Hui, who received Jiang Bin's reply, had 10,000 *** roaring in his heart. But on the surface, he still smiled and said to the generals: "This Jiang Bin is really a wonderful person!" ”

MB's elegant persuasion failed, and you actually said that people are wonderful people. Do you want to face?

The wonderful person is wonderful, and Zhong Hui is very depressed.

Then he divided the army of 120,000 into four teams. Tentative attacks were launched on Seoul, Lecheng, Golden City, and Yanganguan respectively.

Needless to say, Seoul can't be defeated.

Lecheng is the same, it is the same Hanzhong backbone city as Seoul.

As for the golden city guarded by Liu Yin, yes, it was a small city. But the city was built on a hill. And it is different from the time when Ma Tan set up camp in the middle of the mountain and was cut off from the water source. On the hill where the Golden City is located, it has its own independent water source - in short, it still can't be beaten.

As for Yang'an Pass, Zhong Hui didn't hold out any hope at all—that was the most important of the various strongholds in Hanzhong—this was the bottom of the pocket, which could never be broken. Wang Han, Jiang Bin and others gave the most soldiers in this level and equipped it with the most capable generals in the Hanzhong Legion.

Let's take a look at the leading general sent by Zhonghui to Yang'an Pass: Hu Lie, the protector. This master is Sima Zhao's confidant, and the entire Hu family relies on the Sima family to make a fortune. is the most loyal to the Sima family. That's why he was sent by Sima Zhao to be the protector of Zhonghui and to be the duty of surveillance. Zhong Hui sent Hu Lie to attack Yang'an Pass. is deliberately asking Hu Lie to touch a disgraced face, so that he can further suppress Hu Lie in terms of camp affairs in the future.

In short, General Zhenxi was very unhappy at this time: if none of these strongholds could be knocked down, he could only count on Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu to launch an attack from behind Yang'an Pass - in that case, where would he, the commander of the whole army, put his face?