In March, Li Ban chased the Chinese army eastward and recovered Brazil, and after a little rest, he wanted to be a teacher, and halfway through, he received an edict from the lord, saying that Zhou Wan was dead, and asked them to take the opportunity to attack Hanzhong. So they went to the foot of the rice cang mountain, camped in the village, accumulated grain, and waited for the opportunity, which was a full four months.

The main thing is to send people to lobby Yang Hu, but Yang Hu does not answer.

This is to take care of the grace of Zhou's visit, Yang Hu said at the beginning: "Zhou Gong doesn't look down on me and treats me very well, how can I hurt his heirs?" "I asked myself to lead 4,000 men and horses out of the town to prevent the Jingzhou soldiers from coming again - Wang Hui really took advantage of the mourning to rejuvenate the division and was defeated by Yang Hu. Regardless of whether Yang Hu regretted his determination in the past, after all, now that he was outnumbered and weak, he would not dare to suddenly compete with Zhou Fu.

As for accepting the edict of the lord and seducing the army into the country...... Yang Hu was once attached to the Chengdu regime, the so-called "good horses don't eat back grass", this change of camp jumping around in the sky will be scolded by the world, even if Yang Hu himself doesn't care, he can't convince his generals. Moreover, he had a knot with the Li family at the beginning, how could he return to success?

Therefore, he ignored it, and devoted himself to guarding against the Jingzhou soldiers, and asked Nanzheng for reinforcements, to fight out of Hanzhong and attack Weixing County. Of course, Nan Zheng is for the sake of Yudi, and the other may not really be at ease with Yang Hu, but it is just perfunctory and refuses to add troops to him.

So he sat and consumed like this, and finally Tao Kan led his troops into Hanzhong, and then took Mao Bao as the vanguard to attack Micang Mountain.

Mao Bao, accompanied by Yang Hu, went out in advance, climbed the mountain and watched, only to see that there were no less than 30,000 soldiers, the camp was densely covered with foothills, and the murderous aura turned into stratus clouds, which was quite terrifying to look at. It's just that Mao Bao is not a new general, and after a little look, he smiled and said to Yang Hu: "The narrow foothills make the Dikou camp crowded, but it is like a long snake, and it is difficult to deal with each other. And the battalions are scattered, and the fighting is uneven, which is not difficult to break. ”

Yang Hu also said: "Li Ban does not enter the south of Zheng before the peace, and does not retreat into the mountains of Brazil, and the camp here for three or four months will inevitably lead to slackness of the generals - I know what it means, or when the grain is sufficient after the autumn, he will attack Nanzheng with Li Shou." Our army can take the opportunity to destroy it and clear the enemy from the south. ”

He said in his heart that he should quickly clean up Li Ban, and then turned around and forced Li Shou back, and when it was over, I would have the opportunity to say that Tao Gong would go out to beat Wang Xuan's dog's head.

Soon after the second general went down the mountain, he immediately ordered his troops and horses to press directly on the barracks of the Di army.

As Yang Hu expected, Li Ban was planning to march after the autumn - I can't stay here all the time, waiting for your Yang Hu's reply, Chengdu has already sent people to urge him many times - these days he is dispatching supplies, planning the march route, and sending people to make a detour to greet Li Shou and agree on a date for the joint attack.

Regarding Tao Kanzhi's entry into Hanzhong, Li Ban's news is lagging behind, and he has just received the news, and he is discussing with Ren Hui - should we launch according to the original plan, or will we withdraw from the army? Tao Kan may not be easier to deal with than Zhou Yu - when he suddenly reported that the Chinese army was killed, he couldn't help but be a little confused.

The main body of the army was the displaced people in the southern migration to Shu—both Di people, former Jin people, and other Rong tribes—to put it mildly, they were professional thieves, but not professional soldiers, and although they fought bravely, they were poorly organized and disciplined. In addition, Li Xiong himself hates red tape the most, not only does he have no system in the court, but the Li family and the capital of the palace are called brothers and uncles, and there is no system in the army, and most of the banners and the like are lacking. Therefore, even after Ren Hui's planning, this camp is very unorthodox and chaotic, and cannot respond to each other.

- In fact, Yang Hu's Hanzhong Army was also this virtue, and it was all after being incorporated by Zhou Yu that he taught him how to fight seriously, not just large-scale fighting.

The Chinese army is different, Pei should be the most important system, and Tao Kan was a famous general for a while, deeply influenced by the main force of the old Jin Dynasty, well-organized, and well-founded. To tell the truth, the Jin army was still very capable of fighting at the beginning of the country, because the basis of the military force started by the Sima clan was the pawns of Cao Wei, Longxi and Jingbei, which were able to break the tree in the north and Wu Yue in the south. The problem lies in the decline of the Sima clan, purely out of infighting, fighting with one's own family, killing rivers of blood, and tossing the elite first, so that he can only open the door and steal, and summon Hu and Qian to help......

Therefore, Mao Bao did not wait for Tao Kan's main force to arrive, and he took the lead in launching a fierce attack on Chengba, he took the lead, regardless of the number of arrows in his body, and broke three battalions in half a day, which was worthy of killing in front of Li Ban. Li Ban resisted desperately, and at the same time beckoned all his troops to come to help, in a vain attempt to encircle the Chinese army. It's a pity that the terrain at the foot of the Micang Mountain is complicated, the flat land is small, and the battalion is scattered, which makes it difficult for the rest of the soldiers and horses to rescue quickly, and even if they arrive, they can't copy the flank of the Chinese army at all......

Mao Baoyao saw that a gold-armored general immediately became angry, whipped and reprimanded, shouted and shouted, and said in his heart that it was probably Li Ban. He was good at shooting, but he dismounted and took the bow, and the arm of the ape was stretched like a full moon, and he immediately looked at the chest and shot it. Standing at more than one hundred and twenty paces, but as accurate as in front of him, the sound of strings sounded here, and the gold-armored general over there screamed miserably and fell off his horse.

However, this person is not Li Ban, but Li Ban's brother Li Du.

Li Xiong's eldest brother Li Shiwu, and his second brother Li Dang gave birth to four sons, namely Li Wan, Li Zhi, Li Ban and Li Du. Among them, Li Wan and Li Zhi were defeated and captured when they fought with Zhou Wan at the beginning of the year, and Li Xiong sent people to Nanzheng with generous gifts to ask Zhou Wan for leniency, but Zhou Shida ignored them and took them directly to Luoyang. Pei Cai didn't kill Erli, he ordered to be imprisoned first, and then sent to Chengdu, asking Li Xiong to go to Luo, then he could be released, otherwise-"And wait to capture Xiong, and the brothers will be killed." ”

If he just said that he would go to the emperor's name, maybe Li Xiong would have followed-just by seeing that his own son was going to pass on the throne to Li Ban, he knew how precious he was to the nephews born by his second brother - but if he wanted to enter the Hajj to see him, this Li Xiong resolutely refused to agree. Fortunately, looking at this situation, the two nephews can't die for the time being......

The remaining Li Ban and Li Du are all at the foot of Micang Mountain, among which Li Ban is superior in civil affairs and inferior in martial arts, so it is his younger brother Li Du who directly commands the soldiers and horses to resist the Chinese army. At that moment, Li was shot down by Mao Bao with an arrow, although because the distance was too far and the arrow was insufficient, resulting in penetrating the heavy armor, he could not die for a while, which also made Li Ban frightened. Hurriedly ordered someone to snatch back his brother, and then took Ren Hui and the others to turn around and run, planning to retreat to a few camps in the south first.

However, the organization and discipline of the Di army are poor, and the battle can be swarmed with the wind, once frustrated, the cowardly will tire the brave, and they want to temporarily retreat and then stabilize their position, how can such a difficult operation be played. So one rode away and a hundred rode away, one battalion collapsed and ten battalions collapsed, everyone fell into the wilderness on the spot, and everyone ran for their lives, and they couldn't be restrained at all.

Mao Bao and Yang Hu took advantage of the situation to chase after them, and caught up with Li Ban and Ren Hui to the sky and no way to enter the ground, only hating the short legs of the horses in Sichuan and not running fast enough. Because the roads in Brazil are dangerous and narrow, it is difficult to advance and retreat, which has led to countless defeated soldiers congested on the roads and become a live target for the Chinese army. But it is precisely because of this that Li Ban, who fled in advance, could use the lives of his soldiers to naturally cut off the rear and stop the Chinese army, and his family was able to escape from his life.

In this breath, he ran for two days and two nights, and when he retreated into Hanchang City, he picked up some remnants of the army, and there was not a single ......

The Chinese army won a complete victory, eliminating the threat from the south of Hanzhong, but then Tao Kan waved his army to Chuyang, but hit a hard nail.

Tao Shixing originally planned to kill Hanchang City in one go, but from the south of Micang Mountain, the road was tortuous and narrow, and the mountains on both sides were towering, so he couldn't help but gasp. It is said that Ben was in the south of the Yangtze River, good at water warfare, or fighting in water networks and swamps, and then crossed the river to the Central Plains, and the cavalry on the Great Plains gradually accumulated a lot of experience, but Tao Kan had never encountered such a dangerous terrain before.

After all, Di Kou has occupied Bashu for more than ten years, and he must be familiar with geography, if he sends out an army and follows the path to me, I am afraid that victory will turn into defeat in an instant! And even if he is undefeated, if the main force is stumped by the enemy in this dangerous and narrow place, and Li Shou takes the opportunity to attack Nanzheng, what should it be?

So after Tao Kan went south for dozens of miles, he stopped chasing, turned around and triumphantly crossed the Hanzhong Basin, and then went west to attack Chuyang.

Among the Li family's brothers and nephews—he was the son of Li Xiong's uncle, Li Xiang—Li Shou was the best at military warfare, and his command ability was not comparable to Li Ban and Li Du. Therefore, Tao Kan killed the battle under the city of Chuyang, Li Shou could not hold out, and the Chinese army tried to attack the city, but it could not be defeated for more than ten days.

Tao Kan even built a lot of heavy siege equipment, bombarded the city wall with more than a dozen catapults every day, and then approached the city wall with dozens of ladders, indulging rockets, and attacked for more than half a month, paying nearly 1,000 casualties, before finally forcing Li Shou to abandon the city and retreat.

Tao Kanfu chased Li Shou to the Sword Pavilion, and after looking at the terrain, he couldn't help but gasp again-"Is there still such a danger in the world?" ”

The Sword Pavilion is dangerous, in the past, it was just heard of it, but it was not seen, but now it looks at it, like Chenggaoguan, the Central Plains is dangerous, compared with this pavilion, it is like a child who has no ability to protect himself...... Tao Shixing then said to the left and right:

"I know that in the past, Zhong Shiji was frustrated under the Sword Pavilion with tens of thousands of people, and he really can't be ridiculed as a mediocre talent because of this. And Zhou Shida's plan to go south from Hanzhong, first set Sanba, and then to Chengdu, which is indeed an old plan. "In the future, we will have to do the same, now...... Let's withdraw our troops first, it's not yet time to destroy Bayi with all our might.

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While Tao Kan entered Hanzhong and repelled the Di army, on the Jizhou side, Hua Ting also mobilized several troops and horses to besiege Kong Chang.

On the north road, Zhou Jin, the governor of the Shenwu Army, crossed the Juma River from the south of Hao County and killed Zhang Wu; On the west road, after the Gongsheng Army, the division governor Guo Yu first set Zhongshan and Julu two counties, and re-passed through Boling and Hejian to take Nanpi in the east; On the south road, after Xie Fengyu retreated to Dongguang, he successively summoned the left division of the Weisheng Army stationed in Qingzhou to the north, and the strength of the army also recovered to about 4,000.

The specific marching route of the troops and horses of the three routes, the time of the combined attack, and even the countermeasures after encountering the enemy were all planned by the cardinal. However, the situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, the pivot is far away in Luoyang after all, and there are no telegrams or telephones in these years, if you do not know how to act exactly according to the plan, most of them will suffer defeats - just like the later Northern Song Dynasty - so you must order a general and the president to be safe and secure.

When the plan was made, Zhen returned from Shangdang with the side, and naturally jumped out to ask for an order, but Pei Gai did not allow it, saying: "Director of Qing, in the mountains, in Shuize, in the land of the Hebei Plain, why do you need to go?" ”

Zhen stalked his neck and said: "The cavalry ministers have also brought it, and the plain ministers have also broken through, can it be that the ministers will not fight when they go down the mountain and leave the water?" ”

Pei Gai smiled and said: "No, I mean, the mountains and rivers are fighting, and there are only a few people who can compete with Qing, so why not let others fight in the plains?" The ruler is long, the inch is short, only because of the use of people, according to local conditions, can be half the work and twice the result. Today, Qing is vying for the task of the plains, if I agree, then others will compete for the task of mountains and rivers on another day, and I have to obey - does Jiang Nanqing still want to go? ”

Zhen Sui had no choice but to give in, and after retreating to his own mansion, he was inevitably depressed. His wife Liang asked the reason, Zhen Sui said honestly, and then sighed: "This world is about to be decided, the battle is one less battle, I also know that His Majesty can't hand over all the battles to the lord to fight, you must have a bowl of water to level up, take care of others - but for me it is a stuffy thing!" ”

Liang said with a smile: "Everyone wants to enjoy peace, but the husband prefers to fight with the enemy, you must know that the sword has no eyes, even if you are as brave as the husband, it is difficult to guarantee in case, this battle array is still less." ”

Zhen Sui glared at her and scolded, "Are you cursing me?" This can hurt the master's sword, but it hasn't been created yet! Then he said: "I have nothing else to do, I have this dignified eight-foot body, I only know how to fight, if I am not allowed to fight, it will be like making a farmer put down his old age, and a scholar abandons poetry and books, and his bones will definitely ache from being idle." If I knew today, I would not assist the Son of Heaven, but I could make the troubled times last longer......"

Liang was startled when he heard this, and hurriedly reminded: "Husband, be cautious, if this statement is leaked, I am afraid that I will be destroyed!" ”

Zhen Sui pouted: "I hope that the court will declare my guilt and send someone to arrest me, and then the master will raise his sword and spear to kill a river of blood, go out of Luoyang, and go back to the mountain to be a thief!" ”

Liang was shocked and inexplicable, and hurriedly said: "The husband may be able to kill alone, but we are all going to die and have no place to bury - is it possible that the husband only cares about himself and does not think about his wife and daughter?" ”

Zhen Sui snorted coldly: "What do you have to worry about your wife and daughter-unless you give birth to a son for me as soon as possible, I may look at the small side and try to live a peaceful life, not to cause trouble, and not to rush into battle......"

He spontaneously complained and did not mention it, and said that in the end, because of the recommendation of Zu Li, Wei Ce was a person from Hebei, familiar with geography and human feelings, and ordered him to be the commander of the Gongsheng army, and the three generals besieged Kong Chang.

The battle began in October, although the chaotic army was numerous, but it did not have too strong combat effectiveness, almost at the touch of a button, to the moon, finally Kong Chang and his core soldiers and horses more than 2,000 people besieged in Fuyang City. In the first month of the following year, when the city was broken and Kong Chang was captured, Wei Ce ridiculed: "If you have escaped from Xiangguo, if you hide traces, you may be able to live, but you want to gather the city and occupy the city, hoping to get lucky, isn't it self-defeating?" ”

Kong Chang stiffened his neck and said, "How can the eldest husband hide his name and die in the countryside?" If you die, you will die, you can see the king again in the underground, and in the next life, you will turn into a thief, so as to disturb the world of your family! ”

Hearing him say the word "afterlife", Wei Ce couldn't help frowning slightly, thinking of someone......

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