Huang Zhong aimed at an enemy general and shouted, "Release the arrow!" As he spoke, the arrows in his hands had rushed towards the enemy general like meteors, and the herald soldiers around him waved the command flag in his hands at the same time......

The soldiers in the mountain road who were about to have a good meal did not have time to react, and many of them whimpered and were pierced by arrows and stones, and they still had the last bite of their life in their mouths......

A small number of soldiers reacted in time, and began to look for shelter before they had time to swallow the food in their mouths, but there were very few places to hide in the narrow mountain roads, and the Yizhou army was attacked from both sides, basically there were few dead corners of the attack, and the screams resounded through the valley, countless birds were frightened and rose into the sky, and the beasts hurriedly fled for their lives.

When Huang Zhong issued the order, Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao immediately led their troops to rush down the valley to make dumplings for this group of enemy troops.

Wu Xi, who was walking at the end of the line, heard the sound of ambush attacking (generally speaking, the main general is at the front, or in the middle of the team, but this operation is a death errand, and he is afraid of death, so he shrinks back to the back, and it is easier to escape for his life, isn't it?) At least it is not easy to be blocked by his own people), and immediately shouted: "Oops, ambush, retreat quickly, ...... quickly" After saying that, ignoring the three thousand soldiers and horses in front, he led dozens of cronies to turn around and flee.

Although Zhang Fei, who was in charge of the amputation, led his troops to attack at the first time to block the enemy's retreat, the steep mountain ridge greatly increased the time it took for them to advance. In the end, Wu Xi's cleverness saved his life, and when Zhang Fei rushed to the valley, the gang had already run nearly a hundred feet. Zhang Fei angrily scolded the enemy general for being as cowardly as a mouse, and ordered a random arrow to be fired, but the result was naturally in vain, and the enemy fled like a gust of wind to the depths of the valley.

Liu Zhang had warned Zhang Fei beforehand that he must not pursue the enemy, and he did not want his troops to become the target of ambush. Zhang Fei looked at the dozens of people who were gradually moving away, and couldn't help but itch the roots of his teeth, and when he turned around, he vented his anger on the surrounded enemy army, and rushed forward with a howl of snake grass.

The enemy saw that the main general abandoned the crowd and fled, and suddenly lost all the fighting spirit, and after listening to the Yizhou army shouting that the surrenderers would not be killed, they put down the weapons in their hands one after another, and as a result, Zhang Fei only killed three enemy soldiers, and the ambush battle ended victoriously, which made him feel very unhappy with the belligerence.

After counting, in this battle, in addition to Feng Xi and more than 60 other people who fled, the rest of the soldiers and horses were killed more than 1,300 and wounded, and only about 700 people were intact......

Liu Zhang didn't expect that in just half a pillar of incense, the battle would be over, and the results were so brilliant, compared to his own casualties of less than fifty people, it can be said that they were negligible.

Liu Zhang immediately ordered to commend the generals who participated in the battle, and at the same time ordered to make every effort to treat the wounded on both sides, and surrender all the enemy to Yangping Pass and put them into the supplementary battalion.

Liu Zhang rubbed his temples and said, "After this battle, Li Dao and Guo Yan will not dare to attack easily, and Hanzhong will not ignite the flames of war in a short time!" ”

Xi Zhicai said: "Li Dao's department is one out of ten, he will not dare to start a war again, in the opinion of his subordinates, he will definitely ask for help from Dong Zhuo on the one hand, and stick to the spot on the other!" ”

Liu Zhang said: "In the opinion of Zhicai, will Dong Zhuo send him reinforcements?" ”

Xi Zhicai said: "It shouldn't be, Dong Zhuo knows the terrain of Hanzhong very well, and no matter how many soldiers and horses he sends, he can't use it, as long as our army defends it according to the danger, he will definitely return in vain!" What's more, Dong thief hijacked the emperor and the harem, it can be said that he is the enemy of the whole world, and there are too many people he needs to guard against, Ma Teng and Han Sui in the west, Liu Dai and Yuan Shu in the east, as well as the civil and military ministers in the court who are loyal to the Han family...... He doesn't have much to do to fight our army. In contrast, there is no danger to defend in the northwest of Pingchuan, and Ma Teng and Han Sui's troops can drive directly to Chang'an at any time, which is his elbow and armpit problem, and only by solving Ma and Han first and stabilizing the rear can he have more energy to attack our army. During this period, his wisest move is undoubtedly to retreat north of the Qinling Mountains, the Qinling Mountains are a trench for them, and the same is true for our army, he only needs to hold Meixian and other places with a small number of troops, and our army can be trapped in Yizhou, and he can increase the attack on Ma and Han, and after finally eliminating the worries, it is the time for a decisive battle with our army. ”

Xun Yu also said: "The subordinates agree with Zhicai's words, compared with Ma and Han, our army is just a disease of ringworm, and Ma and Han are Dong Zhuo's henchmen, threatening his ruling center at any time, just like hanging a knife above his head, so that he can't sleep peacefully, if he wants to have a good dream, he must first knock this knife off!" ”

Liu Zhang nodded: "The words of the two are reasonable, but we can't be careless, order the whole army to strengthen vigilance, and send spies to pay attention to the road situation at a long time, not only the Praise Slope Road, but also the Meridian Road, Chen Cang Road, and Fu Luo Road, and then send people to infiltrate Chang'an to inquire about Dong Zhuojun's movements!" ”

Subsequently, Liu Zhang began to train troops in Hanzhong, training soldiers and horses all day long, striving for excellence, and at the same time he sent orders to recruit troops in Hanzhong to strengthen his own strength. Liu Zhang, who had read Du Fu's "Stone Entrenchment" and watched the movie "Catching the Strong Ding", was very disgusted with the practice of arresting Ding and filling the army, so he ordered those who joined the army to be voluntary, and no one should use any excuse to Latin. Although everyone was very puzzled by Liu Zhang's decision (catching strong men has been a popular practice for thousands of years), in the face of his power, no one insisted on opposing it, and after persuading for a while, they had to agree to his practice after seeing Liu Zhang's dictatorship.

In this way, the efficiency of conscription can only be described as bleak, and in more than a month's effort, there are tens of thousands of households in Hanzhong, and less than 3,000 recruits have been recruited.

Liu Zhang said that he was helpless, but he still insisted on his own views and always adhered to the principle of "voluntary", which earned him a reputation for benevolence among the people.

During this period, a major event occurred in Hanzhong. Yang Bai and Yang Song, who were sitting in Nanzheng, wantonly looted and embezzled the treasury, and were denounced (in fact, they were always under Liu Zhang's surveillance), and Liu Zhang ordered the investigation to be withdrawn. In just one month, the Yang brothers embezzled and forcibly seized the income, which reached 7,000 gold, and they contacted the merchants of Nanzheng, "speculatively", which caused the prices of Nanzheng to soar, the people had no food and clothing, and it became a practice to sell children and daughters, and the Yang brothers and their party took the opportunity to forcibly occupy many people's daughters......

In Liu Zhang's words, it was really an unforgivable crime, and the 2,000 people of Wei Yan's department secretly drove into Nanzheng and captured the Yang brothers. Liu Zhang didn't say a word, ordered all the beheading, when Wei Yan asked how to deal with the relatives of these people, Liu Zhang took into account the poor results of the conscription, and thought that Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty repaired the tomb with tens of thousands of prisoners, but was known as a rare benevolent monarch, so he ordered that the relatives of these people, the strong men among the domestic servants were all incorporated into the army, and the women and children were punished as official slaves.

Liu Zhang did not expect that his decision would double the results of the recruit recruitment several times - the number of prisoners who were finally filled into the army reached more than 7,300. And Liu Zhang was not only not blamed by the people for this, but because he removed a cancer for the people, his reputation among the people was raised to another height. This incident also brought another effect, that is, after the officials in Yizhou heard about it, they restrained their illegal undertakings a lot, but they knew that after the order not to arrest Ding was issued, since Liu Zhang, many people were fighting those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and once they were caught, the whole family would be over. Liu Zhang didn't expect that his order not to arrest Ding would change the atmosphere of Yizhou officialdom.