"It's really strange to say, the result of Brother Shen's investigation is exactly the same as your son-in-law expected, Shangyong does have a small warlord there, the Shen family, and the name of the head of the family is called Shen Tan. Envoy Liu, where did your son-in-law get the information about the place where birds don't? "Shen Mi's intelligence ability is really not bad, and he has investigated the situation of Shangyong clearly in just a few days.

"Two generals, don't care so much, how many troops does this Shen family have in Shangyong, and if you two work together, how sure are you that you can take it down before the cold winter comes?" Liu Shan was not surprised by Jin Jue's ability for a long time, and he hurriedly asked.

Liu Shan knew that if he could take Shangyong one day earlier and control the entire western part of Hanzhong County, the success rate of Gongzi to win the entire Hanzhong County would be higher, so when he set off, although Jin Jue did not set a specific goal for Liu Shan's trip, he set a goal for himself - at least to take Shangyong County.

"No problem, that Shen Tan thought that Shangyong County was in a dangerous terrain at this time, and no one would pay attention to it, so he thought that he was really at ease. As long as we act quickly and send troops immediately, we will definitely be able to take Shangyong County. Shen Mi replied confidently.

Shen Mi is so confident, in fact, there is another reason, when some of his subordinates fled from Yizhou to Jingzhou, they either took the road of the Three Gorges, or the road in the west of Hanzhong County, of course, this road is inaccessible, therefore, compared with the Three Gorges road, more people died on this road.

"That's good, this matter is naturally sooner rather than later, when will the two of you send troops?" Liu Shan asked urgently.

"Hehe, don't worry, Envoy Liu, before leaving, our brother will ask Liu Jingzhou for another batch of grain!" Lou Fa replied with a smile.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the princes who had food were the masters, otherwise, they would not be able to command their subordinates at all. This is how Jin Jue deceived Zhang Lu three times in a row.

It lasted until the beginning of August, and Liu Biao sent people to Fancheng to transport this month's grain and grass to Fancheng, but this time, he did not complete the deployment and new weapons for the three generals of Fancheng as agreed before. Zhang Xiu is now ready to sell at a price, except for Cao Cao, who is the messenger to see, who is the gift of the recipient, and sent two messengers to Jingzhou and Xuzhou to ask for money, food and people.

The other princes thought that Zhang Xiu had now formed such a big hatred with Cao Cao, so naturally they would not take refuge in him. Therefore, in Liu Biao's heart, the importance of the three generals Gan Ning who are now staying in Fancheng has greatly decreased compared to before.

If at this time, Zhang Xiuken completely surrendered to Liu Biao, it is impossible to say, this famous man of the Eight Gu will take back the Jingzhou soldiers under the three of them.

Seeing such a situation, as soon as they got the grain, Shen Mi and Lou Fa no longer hesitated, and ran away with all the grain and grass belonging to the three generals, and led the army to leave Fancheng overnight, first to the north and then to the west.

Originally, Shen Mi and Lou Fa were not ready to play this trick and directly lead the troops to Shangyong, but in order to prevent Gan Ning from discovering in advance and sending troops to attack the two armies, under Liu Shan's suggestion, a total of 2,000 people from the two armies first made a gesture of moving closer to Wancheng, so they were suspicious.

In addition to his own 800 subordinates, Gan Ning's subordinates also had 200 Jingzhou soldiers. Even if Liu Biao knew Gan Ning's ability, for the sake of balance, when he sent troops to defend at the beginning, he let the three generals' subordinates each have 1,000 people.

Under such circumstances, even if Gan Ning discovered that there was an abnormal movement between the two armies, he would never dare to act rashly until the specific movements of the two armies were ascertained. It's not that I'm afraid of Shen Mi and Lou Fa, but I'm afraid of Zhang Xiu.

No matter how powerful Gan Ning's subordinates are, they are only infantry and sailors, but the elite under Zhang Xiu are all elite cavalry of Xiliang, even if the number has been sharply reduced after several major battles, it is not something that Gan Ning can deal with now.

When the two armies had run twenty miles, they immediately switched their defensive lines and rushed straight to Shangyong in the east.

In doing so, Zhang Xiujun and Gan Ning were both afraid, but they couldn't figure out the situation in a short time, and by the time they understood it, the two armies had already entered the territory of central and western Han.

The development of things was also as Liu Shan expected, Shen Mi and Lou Fa's troops had just run out of Fancheng for less than five miles before they were discovered by Gan Ning's men. However, as soon as he heard that these two fellow villagers were actually heading north, Gan Ning hesitated.

Similarly, Zhang Xiujun was also very puzzled, he had already accepted Liu Biao's envoy, and also sent an envoy to explain to Liu Biao what had happened before, but why did the defenders of Fancheng suddenly march towards Wancheng overnight?

"Hahaha, lord, you don't have to worry, have you forgotten that Liu Shan? I expected that the other party was preparing to use our army as a guise to deceive that Gan Ning in Fancheng, and with your cavalry in Wancheng to deter, he would not dare to chase him out of the city. Jia Xu heard Tanma's recital and explained with a smile.

"So, he's taking advantage of me!" Zhang Xiu asked a little angrily.

"So to speak!" Jia Xu looked at the dark night sky and replied.

"You send scouts to investigate, if you are close to the territory of the old character, the old character will immediately send cavalry to sweep them away." Zhang Xiu commanded angrily.

The princes of the world are well aware of the characteristics of Zhang Xiujun, so Jia Xu knows very well that the other party will definitely turn early, and he will not leave Zhang Xiu and Gan Ning a chance to make a move, but he did not point this out in front of Zhang Xiu.

The more angry Zhang Xiu is now, the more convinced he will be if he really has to go to Jin Jue in the future.

Now Jia Xu really wants to see quickly how Jin Jue took advantage of Nanyang's defeat to make trouble for Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu.

Because of Shen Mi's ability to spy on it, the march of 2,000 Jingzhou soldiers was very smooth, and in history, when Meng Da and Liu Feng attacked Shangyong, the number of troops led by them was not large, and it was not a surprise attack, so Shen Tan was forced to choose to surrender.

This time, the number of troops led by Shen Mi and Lou Fa may not be as large as that of Meng Da and them, but they occupy the item of surprise attack.

Therefore, this military operation was very smooth, first easily took the pass into the western counties of Hanzhong County - Yunguan, by the way to take Yun County, and then, the two armies quickly rushed to the destination, and chose to attack at night, and successfully attacked the county seat of Shangyong County with one drum.

The smooth all surprised Liu Shan, Shen Mi and Lou Fa.

The defenders of Shangyong County were so slack that they couldn't find anyone to resist during the whole process.