By the time Fa Zheng reacted, it was already too late.

Pang Tong led the army in the pass, with the help of the reed pipe, from the tributary of the Han River, sneaked to the bottom of the Jiange Pass, and then integrated the soldiers and horses of the Yan State who fled to the west, gathered 10,000 troops, and launched a fierce attack on the Jiange Pass.

There are only thousands of Shu Han's recruits on the Sword Pavilion Pass, and even if the Sword Pavilion closes the steep Sword Pavilion Road, it can't resist the Pang Tong army.

It only took Pang Tong less than an hour to take down the Sword Pavilion.

When Fa Zheng led the army back to the Sword Pavilion Pass, the entire Sword Pavilion Pass was already full of the banner of the Yan Kingdom.

"Feng Xiao Pang Tong, hehe!" Fa Zheng looked at the Yanguo banner on the Sword Pavilion and said with a wry smile: "Obey the heart of the lower earth." ”

"Shangshu, what should we do?"

Fa Zheng looked at Wei Yan beside him, and said with a wry smile: "What else, return to Jiameng Pass immediately." ”

"Return to Jiameng Pass?" Wei Yan was stunned for a moment, and said with an anxious face: "The Sword Pavilion Pass was taken by the Yan army, and our army is just a turtle in the urn, and sooner or later it will be taken by the soldiers and horses of the Yan State." ”

Fa Zheng shook his head and said with a calm face: "That maybe! ”

"As soon as the Sword Pavilion is lost, the army of the Yan Kingdom can completely drive straight into and attack the hinterland of Wushu Han. But as long as Ben Shangshu can hold the Jiameng Pass, then Pang Tong will not dare to go south for the time being. ”

Wei Yan was puzzled at first, and then suddenly said: "What does Shangshu mean is to use the 20,000 army as a nail and stick it in the throat of Yanguo into Shu?" ”

Fa Zheng nodded, did not hesitate, and said in a deep voice: "Order the three armies to return to Jiameng Pass immediately." ”

"No!"

Fa Zheng's departure was expected by Pang Tong. Only by defending Jiameng Pass can Fa Zheng reduce the threat of his capture of the Sword Pavilion Pass to the hinterland of Shu Han. However, this put Fazheng himself in danger. But at least it can give Liu Bei in Chengdu some time to react.

Pang Tong didn't want to go out of the pass to stop it, and even defeat Fazheng's army, and really control the Sword Pavilion Pass in his own hands, but Fazheng's military talent is not inferior to his own, if Fazheng is given another chance, I'm afraid Fazheng will really take the opportunity to win back a city.

Pang Tong didn't want to take any chances.

Zhao Yun, who broke into Ba County, did not attack Langzhong, but swung his army westward and attacked Zitong County behind the Sword Pavilion Pass.

As soon as the battle between Jiange Pass and Jia Meng Pass ended, Pang Tong flew a pigeon to pass the book and told Zhao Yun the news of Jia Meng's fall.

Although there were many fierce generals under Zhao Yun's command, the military order given to Zhao Yun by Pang Tong did raid Zitong and take Zitong City.

The passage from the east of the Sword Pavilion Pass to the north has been blocked by the Fa Zheng of Jia Meng Pass, so that Pang Tong cannot get the baggage and military supplies, if Zhao Yun can take Zitong Cheng, he can temporarily use Zitong as a reserve military supply place for the Sword Pavilion Pass.

As for asking Zhao Yun to cooperate with him to recapture Jiameng Pass, Pang Tong didn't think about it. However, in Pang Tong's view, the recapture of Jiameng Pass does not seem to be the greatest benefit to Yanguo compared to the situation at this time.

The Sword Pavilion fell into his own hands, Shu Han Liu Bei would definitely get the news soon, if he joined forces with Zhao Yun to attack Jiameng Pass at this time, Liu Bei would definitely jump over the wall in a hurry and send a large army to the Sword Pavilion frantically.

But if the law is left untouched, Liu Bei will be able to have a chance to breathe. can make Liu Bei breathe, Liu Bei will naturally not go crazy and attack wildly.

Pang Tong's phoenix chick is as famous as Zhuge Liang's Wolong, and Pang Tong naturally does not dare to underestimate Zhuge Liang.

If Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei were forced to be in a hurry, Pang Tong would not be confident that he would be able to resist Fa Zheng and Zhuge Liang outside the Sword Pavilion Pass at the same time with only 10,000 soldiers and horses.

As long as Fa Zheng is closed to Jia Meng, Liu Bei will think that he and Zhao Yun are alone, and they can't get the military support of Yan State, so they can slowly grind Pang Tong and Zhao Yun to death.

As for Jiameng Pass, there are also Jiameng City and Langzhong City, which can simultaneously defend the Yan army in Baishui Pass in the north and Pang Tong in Jiange Pass in the west.

Of course, Pang Tong will not sit still like this.

As long as the situation can be stabilized temporarily, Pang Tong will have a plan to exhaust Zhuge Liang. Yes, it is to exhaust Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang is among the many ministers and generals under Liu Bei's command, and his prestige is comparable to Liu Bei, and even more popular than Liu Bei in some aspects.

Liu Bei lost generals one after another, which made Liu Bei show a state of having soldiers and no generals. In this way, no matter how many troops Liu Bei has, there are only a few generals who can command.

In this case, Liu Bei had to pay more attention to the soldiers who could command the soldiers and horses. As for whether he will snub a strategist like Zhuge Liang, it depends on how Liu Bei handles it.

Pang Tong knows Zhuge Liang's ability, both inside and outside!

Not only can he lead troops to fight, but he can also deal with political affairs and balance the balance between the major forces under Liu Bei's command.

And now Liu Bei has to pay attention to the soldiers of the army, so he gave Pang Tong a chance.

Fa Zheng was trapped in Jiameng Pass, and there was one less top strategist under Liu Bei. Pang Tong planned to take this opportunity to first mess up Liu Bei's internal affairs, so that Zhuge Liang was tired of running for his life and had no time to take care of the seemingly stable military situation for the time being.

And Liu Bei will inevitably promote the generals as soon as possible and command the army for himself.

At this time, on the Sword Pavilion Pass, Pang Tong released the flying pigeon in his hand again. The purpose of Feige's biography this time is not Zhao Yun, but Zhou Budo, who is far away in Nanjun.

If you want to put pressure on Liu Bei, it is not enough to stand still at Sword Pavilion Pass, and you have to face the battlefield in the east, and Zhou Budo cooperates.

"I don't know if this young man who is valued by the lord is really talented, my strategy, I hope he can understand it." Pang Tong chuckled and muttered to himself, looking worried, but his tone seemed to be very determined.

In Pang Tong's understanding, none of the people appointed and promoted by Xiang Ao himself, whether they were strategists or generals, seemed to be simple.

Xu Shu is like this, Zhao Yun is like this, Guo Jia is like this, and Jia Xu is also like this. Moreover, the good news came from Jingbei before, which made Pang Tong look sideways at Zhou Budo. Although he has not fought with Zhou Yu, he can be appointed by Sun Ce as the governor of Wu State, and Zhou Yu's resourcefulness is also unparalleled.

A young general beat Zhou Yu to the point that he could barely raise his head, and Pang Tong believed that Zhou Budo could understand his strategy and cooperate with him.

At this time, Zitong City had been broken by Zhao Yun and completely controlled.

"General, the remnants of the city have been cleared."

Zhao Yun carried a spear, stood in front of Zitong's mansion and asked in a deep voice, "Can you disturb the people?" ”

"The last general has ordered the entire city to patrol the warlord's battalion, and as long as he finds anyone who disturbs the people, he will be killed on the spot!"

Zhao Yun nodded and said in a deep voice: "It's a good job." We are now behind enemy lines, and we cannot tolerate the slightest mistake. ”

"The last general understands, the general can rest assured!"

"Has Hakuba Yicong already left the city?"

"General Yu, five thousand white horses have been disguised out of the city. It's just..."

"Just what?"

The adjutant general frowned, and said distressedly: "It's just that the war horses of the white horse are really not good at disguise, and the white horses are all very eye-catching." ”

When Zhao Yun heard this, he shook his head with a wry smile. The question of the white horse, Zhao Yun and Xiang Ao have discussed it many times, and they have long wanted to replace it. Although it has a great deterrent effect on the enemy, once it is necessary to make a plan, the white horse becomes the biggest obstacle.

"The toner brothers sent by the Lord are useless?"

The adjutant general smiled wryly: "No, Bai Ma Yi said from his brother that it doesn't look good." ”

When Zhao Yun heard this, his brows piled together, he thought about it, and then said with a fierce face: "Order the white horse to obey, you must paint, if you resist, you will be expelled from the white horse immediately, and you will not be hired for life!" ”

The adjutant general trembled when he heard this, and solemnly clenched his fists and said, "No! ”

Indeed, as Pang Tong expected, Liu Bei did not send a large army to attack Jiange Pass, but only deployed a large army on Mianzhu Pass (now Mianzhu County, Deyang City, Sichuan Province, in the area of Lutou Mountain), looking like a strict defense.

In the palace of the king of Shu in Chengdu, the capital of Shu Han.

"Kong Ming, are you really not going to attack the Sword Pavilion Pass?"

Looking at Liu Bei, who was haggard, Zhuge Liang sighed slightly: "I can't fight for the time being." ”

At this time, the two armies led by Pang Tong and Fa Shangshu were in a wonderful balance. Fa Shangshu did not take the initiative to send troops to attack the Sword Pavilion Pass, because he was worried that the defenders of the Yan State on the Baishui Pass would move south. If it is not handled properly, and Jia Meng Pass is lost, then the lord's Shu Han will be completely exposed to the minions of the Yan Kingdom. ”

Liu Bei, who had already been boiled into dark circles, was very annoyed and patted the few in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Then you have been in a stalemate with Xiang Ao like this?" ”

"Reports came from all over the country, and the Shu family was panicked, and many children of the family had doubts about the rule of this king. If it continues like this, I'm afraid that there is no need for Xiang Ao's army to go south, this king... Hum! ”

The more Liu Bei spoke, the more angry he became, he snorted coldly, and slapped him fiercely.

"The Lord is angry!" Zhuge Liang hurriedly reassured Liu Bei and said: "The intelligence ministers from all over the country have already read it, and they already have countermeasures. ”

"What is the solution?"

"The lord can follow the example of Xiang Ao, the king of Yan, and canonize the marquis of various families. The marquis who has no real power is exchanged for the warriors raised by the families in various places to enrich the army. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he was first overjoyed, and then said in distress: "Kong Ming is not unaware, as soon as the war with the Yan army came, many of the generals of Wushu Han died unexpectedly, and now there are fewer and fewer generals who can lead the army. ”

"At this time, if you recruit soldiers and horses from the family, not only will you not be able to increase your troops, but I am afraid that you will waste food and grass in vain."

Zhuge Liang smiled lightly and said to Liu Bei: "Liang naturally knows, but Liang has a second plan." ”

"Oh?" Seeing Zhuge Liang so confident, Liu Bei finally became interested.

"Since you are a major general, why don't you select good talents from the Shu family that is truly loyal to the lord?"

"In this way, not only can we temporarily relieve the embarrassment of having no generals, but also set some examples for families with different voices."

Liu Bei lowered his head and pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "This plan is feasible. But how to get rid of the situation that the previous dynasty family sat big? ”

When Zhuge Liang heard this, his expression was a little displeased. However, Zhuge Liang didn't show it, and chuckled: "Suppress the tiger with the tiger." ”

"Although there are many families who are uncertain, but after all, the family is a family, and they will definitely pay more attention to the interests of their respective families. The lord can completely cut the flesh from the uncertain family and help the loyal lord to strengthen the family family for the time being. ”

In this way, the family will be divided into three factions and clamp each other down. And the family took over from each other, but it continued to strengthen the strength of the lord, so that the lord could fight with Xiang Ao. ”

"Now that the Yan Kingdom is unrivaled, no one in the world feels that the Yan Kingdom is about to dominate the world. But as long as the lord resists this period of time and prevents Xiang Ao from dominating the world, then the lord will be able to confront Xiang Ao from north and south. ”

Zhuge Liang said, stopped for a while, and waited for Liu Bei to make his own decision after digesting it.

Liu Bei thought for a long time, then raised his head and looked at Zhuge Liang, and said fiercely with dark eyes: "Kong Ming is the right-hand man of this king, just do it, and this king will support it." ”

When Zhuge Liang heard this, he nodded with satisfaction, and after bowing deeply to Liu Bei, he went to arrange for the matter of provoking the family.

And Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang's departing back, his expression changed, and finally became more and more ruthless.

For a time, the entire Shu Han family undercurrent surged. The family that supported Liu Bei became more and more rampant; Some of the wavering families were forced to express their support for Liu Bei's Northern Expedition, while others were hypocritical and secretly planning the future of their respective families.

Although Pang Tong was in the Sword Pavilion Pass, he was not idle for a moment, and one after another orders kept making people disguise themselves as refugees and enter Shudi.

After the news in Shu came back, Pang Tong became more and more confident that he would not waste a single soldier and enter Shu County.

In Chengdu, the capital of Shu and Han Dynasty, which is full of dangers, from time to time, there will be families who will be pushed out of the noon gate and beheaded to show the public.

And the occupation of the east side is becoming more and more intense. Gan Ning, the commander of the navy, under the order of Zhou Budo, began to attack Yufu.

Although Guan Yu is a world-famous handsome general, he really has no available naval generals under him, so he has to use the city defense to stalemate with Gan Ning.

For Guan Yu, Gan Ning has to admire, a veteran who has passed the mandate of heaven, is even more desperate than Gan Ning to fight. Especially seeing that Guan Yu didn't know how to fight in the water at all, and only relied on his own bravery and non-stop mobilization of troops and horses to guard against Yufu, Gan Ning even couldn't bear to see a veteran who was so embarrassed by himself.

As for why Zhou Budo was able to free up his hands and attack the west to fish. still has to talk about Zhou Yu, who was so angry that he vomited blood by Zhou Budo before.

After Zhou Yu was so angry that he vomited blood by Zhou Budo, he was sent back to Wu County, Wu State. After Zhou Yu left Jingzhou, Wu sent another low-key commander.

This person is not only low-key, but also extremely cautious in the use of the art of war, Zhou Budo's many tricks have been seen through by this person, and then they compete against each other.

In desperation, Zhou Budo had to stalemate with this person in Changsha County and Jiangxia County. In order to be able to defeat this person, Zhou Budo spent a lot of effort to collect information about this person.

Before he could study this person thoroughly, Pang Tong's flying pigeon biography passed to Zhou Budo's hands.

Pang Tong's strategy opened Zhou Budo's eyes. I don't want to face off in battle, there are so many Dao Dao.

The young Zhou Budo thought most about how to defeat the enemy on the frontal battlefield, and he didn't think about it at all, starting from the inside of the enemy.

Anyway, he couldn't capture Jingzhou for the time being, so Zhou Budo simply turned his gun and cooperated with Pang Tong to attack Liu Bei in Xishu first. By the way, learn from Pang Tong how to mess up the enemy's regime on the battlefield.

In the past few days, Zhuge Liang has been so tired.

Zhuge Liang has always thought that he can be counted as a man and a man. Even if Liu Bei was pressed and beaten by Xiang Ao all the time, Zhuge Liang thought that Xiang Ao's background was too rich and the outbreak was too fierce.

But the intrigue between him and the major families in the past few days made Zhuge Liang suddenly come to his senses, and he was not a god.

"My lord, the family with different intentions has been identified." Zhuge Liang handed the information to Liu Bei with a tired face: "The lord will see if you will deal with it immediately?" ”

Liu Bei nodded, did not answer, and carefully looked at the information handed over by Zhuge Liang.

After a long time, Liu Bei raised his head, looked very angry and said, "These family dogs are really not small. ”

"Don't say anything about insulting the people, but you have thoughts about the generals under the command of this king."

Zhuge Liang nodded helplessly and said: "These families are all interested in interests, but they are really moths of my Shu Han. The minister thinks that it is better to solve it as soon as possible. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he nodded thoughtfully and said, "Kong Ming looked at the arrangement and dealt with it. ”

Zhuge Liang took the order, and said tiredly: "Lord, can you arrange two deputies for the minister?" ”

"Why?"

"Things between the families are really terrible."

Liu Bei took a closer look at Zhuge Liang, only to find that Zhuge Liang's temples, which had just passed, actually had not obvious white hair.

Liu Bei was slightly shocked in his heart, and asked with concern: "Is Kong Ming too tired recently?" ”

Zhuge Liang shook his head lightly and said: "It's okay, as long as the affairs between the families can be handled well, the minister will be fine." ”

Liu Bei nodded suspiciously, I don't know why Zhuge Liang is so anxious to deal with the affairs of the family, but according to the current situation, it seems that dealing with the affairs of the family can indeed maximize the strength of Shu Han.

During this time, although the entire Shu Han was in a good mood, there were dozens of more generals under Liu Bei who could take on great responsibilities.

Although he has not yet found a general who can sit on one side like Guan Yu and Li Yan, it does solve Liu Bei's embarrassment that he has no generals available at this time.

Liu Bei, who tasted the sweetness, was naturally unwilling to give up, and wanted Zhuge Liang to finish the decision discussed before as soon as possible. Although Liu Bei was also worried that Zhuge Liang's body would be overwhelmed, since Zhuge Liang himself said that it was fine, it should not be too much of a problem.

Besides, Zhuge Liang was in the prime of life at this time, and Liu Bei seemed to have no problem.

There are middle and low-level generals, but Zhuge Liang is getting busier and busier.

Not only do they have to deal with the problems of the family, but they also have to constantly inspect the ability and style of the new generals. If the ability is good, it is natural to send the front line, make meritorious contributions, and be promoted as soon as possible; If there is a problem with the style, it must be curbed as soon as possible, so as not to affect Zhuge Liang's strategy to Liu Bei.

Under such a few months of persistence, Liu Bei's strength has indeed increased greatly, especially in the battlefield in the east, under the situation of many soldiers and generals, he almost counterattacked into Nanjun several times.

However, Zhuge Liang, whom Liu Bei relied on, was so tired that he was bedridden.

Zhuge Liang has come to his mansion in Chengdu, and several groups of so-called miracle doctors have come, all of which were invited by Liu Bei in a hurry.

Everyone said that the prime minister was overworked, and it was good to rest for a while.