After everyone's discussion, it was unanimously agreed that Dong Zhuojun was most likely to take the praise slope. The reason why it is judged that Dong Zhuojun chose this line is because of the objective conditions of the four roads, and there is also a point that the Baozhong Slope is in Baozhong County, as long as Baozhong County is occupied, it will be regarded as having a firm foothold in the Hanzhong Plain, and it can be retreated to defend Baozhong County, in order to ensure the smooth flow of the Baozhong Slope, and the elite Xiliang Army will continue to drive into Yizhou, which can attack Nanzheng, capture the Hanzhong Plain, and then attack the hinterland of Yizhou - Chengdu Plain!

Liu Zhang agreed with everyone's opinions, and immediately ordered Yan Yan to advance to Yangping Pass, with full responsibility for the defense of the western front, and ordered Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, and Liao Hua to lead their troops to capture (it should be said that it is more accurate to occupy the Hanzhong Plain at this time, except for the surrounded by the regiments, almost all of them are undefended cities) Baozhong County, with Huang Zhongdu Baozhong's front-line battle, after capturing Baozhong, immediately sent sentinels to go deep into the Baozhong Road to investigate the movements of Dong Zhuo's army, and at the same time seize the time to strengthen the defense of Baozhong County.

Just as the herald was leaving, Xu Ding said in a low voice: "Lord, the hour has come!" ”

Liu Zhang raised his head, it turned out that an hour had passed unconsciously, and after looking at everyone, he said, "Has Zhang Lu surrendered?" ”

"My lord, Zhang Lu did not surrender, and the defenders of Chuyang did not surrender!"

Liu Zhang nodded, even if the defenders wanted to surrender, it was impossible, unless the group mutinied, whoever dared to surrender at this time would inevitably be ordered by Zhang Lu to shoot the hornet's nest.

"Order Gongming and Wenchang to attack from all sides and storm Chuyang!"

"Yes!" Xu Ding gave a salute, turned around and walked out of the tent.

The sound of water in the copper leaking pot "dripping", and after the ruler of the timer dropped by three scales, a fierce shouting of killing was remembered in the distance.

Liu Zhang has always been reluctant to see such a scene, unless the battle situation is unfavorable and the coach needs to come to the front line in person to boost morale, otherwise, he will not go to the front line to watch the countless fresh lives disappear in front of his eyes, so he did not go out to watch the battle, and continued to discuss with the strategists how to meet Dong Zhuojun seemingly calmly, but his heart had already drifted to the battlefield, and what was discussed after the war started, in fact, he did not know. In fact, not only him, but most of the advisers also put their minds on the battle of Chuyang.

Xu Huang, Wei Yan and others were placed in advance, with the Dongzhou Army to capture the South Gate, the British Army to capture the West Gate, and the North Gate and the East Gate were handed over to the Yizhou Army that was transferred before the war. Counting this absolutely luxurious lineup, it gathered Xu Huang, Wei Ting, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Gao Shun, Hua Xiong and other peerless generals, in order to capture a small county town with only 5,000 defenders. Liu Zhang couldn't help but sigh secretly: "This is really, really a bit of a feeling of using anti-aircraft guns to fight mosquitoes!" ”

In the face of such a luxurious lineup, although Yang Ang tried his best, he was limited by his patience and strength, and he persisted for less than half an hour before being attacked by the Yizhou army.

The first to lead his troops to attack the city wall was the newly descended Gao Shun. After the arrival of 10,000 soldiers and horses drawn from all over Yizhou, in order to strengthen the control of this army and increase the combat effectiveness, Liu Zhang placed Gao Shun and others in. Gao Shun is worthy of being a good general who can train "trapped in the camp", and in just a short period of time, he has made the soldiers under his command soar in battle, and he can be said to stand out among the 10,000 soldiers. This time he showed his face again, not only was he the first to attack the city wall, but Gao Shun himself killed Yang Ang with his own hands, Yang Ang died, and the defenders in the city had no one in charge, and there was a big chaos......

Zhang Lu, who was alone in the county office, listened to the shouts of killing that were getting closer and closer, and in despair, he pulled out the sword at his waist......

After Liu Zhang heard that Gao Shun was the first to lead his troops to climb the city wall, he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Shen Zhi (Liu Zhang's word for Gao Shun) is really powerful, originally I thought that the first to land in the city will be the British army!" Well, Shen Zhi took the first credit, and he must be rewarded, so let's move him to the captain (originally a captain, only a thousand in the department), and take charge of a battalion of 2,000 soldiers and horses! ”

An hour later, Liu Zhang saw Zhang Lu's corpse in the county office, shook his head, he still couldn't do such a thing as dissecting the coffin and killing the corpse, sighed, and said: "Ordered someone to make a coffin and bury him and Zhang Wei together!" ”

Xu Ding immediately said: "Yes, lord!" With that, he commanded the two guards to carry out Zhang Lu, who had dried up his blood.

Liu Zhang thought of the two sentences in Wei Zi'an's "Flower Moon Traces" in the Qing Dynasty, and couldn't help but read them: "One heart is enough to hate for thousands of years, and then look back on the body for a hundred years!" ”

didn't have much time for Liu Zhang to sigh, leaving Liang Xi's troops to clean up the battlefield in Chuyang; The brothers Yang Bai and Yang Song led their troops to 1,500 troops and stationed in Nanzheng; He also ordered Guan Yu and Huaxiong to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to the east and occupy Xicheng, Shangyong, Fangling and other counties in the eastern part of Hanzhong County; The rest of the soldiers and horses all went to Baozhong and prepared to meet Dong Zhuojun.

Yang Bai and Yang Song's order to enter Nanzheng was opposed by most people, among which Yan Pu knew the two brothers very well, he knew very well what the two brothers were, and he bluntly said that Nanzheng was the seat of Hanzhong, and this time there was no war, the people in the city were rich and the treasury was overflowing, and if the two were ordered to enter, with the character of the two, I am afraid that they would vigorously embezzle and accept bribes and fill their pockets.

Of course, Liu Zhang also knows who Yang Bai and Yang Song are, and it is precisely because he knows that he doesn't want to leave these two*, but these two people led the army to surrender, if they kill them for no reason, who will dare to surrender him in the future? Since you can't kill it directly, you have to take a detour! Liu Zhang's roundabout tactic is to put these two brothers in the prosperous Nanzheng, with the character of these two brothers, it is impossible not to be tempted to see countless money (Yang Song is a guy who directly asks Cao Cao for rewards after defecting to the enemy, he is simply bold, will they still be afraid of corruption or something?). As long as they make a move, Liu Zhang can justifiably behead the two of them!

Of course, Liu Zhang's thoughts are impossible to say, doesn't that make him too dark? He said against his will that the two brothers had been in Nanzheng for a long time and had a better understanding of the situation in Nanzheng, and Yan Pu wanted to stay by his side to give advice, and he could not find a more suitable candidate than the Yang brothers for the time being, so he let them temporarily take charge of Nanzheng, and then reappoint them when there was a suitable candidate in the future. At the same time, he also said that the Han has a sacred and inviolable law, no matter who violates the law of the Han Dynasty, they will be dealt with according to law, and I believe that the Yang brothers will not openly defy the law!

When they learned that it was because of Liu Zhang's efforts to get the news that they got the right to control Nanzheng, the Yang brothers shed tears of excitement (this is not moving, but a kind of mentality of a daughter-in-law who has become a mother-in-law for many years, there was Zhang Lu in the past, they were all petty fights, and they couldn't get much money, and now the new lord is so trusting that he handed over such an important place to himself, isn't this obviously 'taking care' of them and making them very rich?). The two immediately summoned the headquarters and quickly received Nan Zheng with unprecedented speed!

After several battles in a row, Liu Zhang captured a total of 5,500 enemy troops, at this time Zhang Lu had been destroyed, Liu Zhang was no longer worried about the recurrence of these people, and put all of them in Weiyang, and transferred the supplementary battalion to Li Dian of the forbidden and personal guard battalion to be responsible for training, and made sure that he became an army as soon as possible.

After counting, Liu Zhang found that his strength had not only not decreased, but increased a lot after several battles. There were 31,000 men at the time of the expedition, and now there are more than 37,000 wounded and surrendered troops, including 30,000 at the time of the expedition (about 1,000 killed and disabled), 5,500 prisoners, and 1,500 surrenders.

Looking at the more than 20,000 high-spirited soldiers and horses in Baozhong County, Liu Zhang was confident that he could block Dong Zhuo's army in the Qinling Mountains. Do you want to know how wide is the ramp? How many people can pass side by side? Dong Zhuozong sent 100,000 soldiers and horses to come, and was trapped by the battlefield environment, how much can he invest at one time? Liu Zhang was sure that as long as he concentrated his superior forces and encroached on them little by little, the enemy would eventually choose to retreat.