The news of the rout of the East Gate soon caused a chain reaction, and Xiahou Yuan of the North Gate withdrew his troops overnight, joined forces with Yu Ban and other soldiers of the East Gate, and withdrew from the village for ten miles.

Hua Wenxuan sat on the main hall of Wancheng, looking at the generals in the hall with a smile, the ballista and bombs brought to Wancheng this time were only a small part of the Xiangyang workshop, and most of the rest had been arranged to be sent to Xu Shu, even if it was a small part, tens of thousands of soldiers could be defeated in Wancheng, and Yu Ban's helpless eyes in front of the battle today would still appear in front of Hua Wenxuan's eyes, if he could be fully prepared, with this bomb, it would be easy to break Xu Du.

Hua Wenxuan picked up the wine cup and came to Wei Yan, "In today's battle at the East Gate, the soldiers and horses of the Cao family will inevitably be frightened, Xiahou Yuan and his troops together, presumably also to stabilize the morale of the army, General Wenchang, dare to go on my behalf!" Completely crush their fighting spirit! ”

Wei Yan got up and arched his hand and said, "The last general is willing to go!" ”

Hua Wenxuan smiled, "Pick two thousand strong men, match good horses, prepare three fireballs for each person, and go to Cao Ying, since they want to join forces together, send them back to the west together!" ”

Wei Yan received the order, went down and selected two thousand strong men with strong bodies, especially amazing arm strength, each took three karmic fireballs and tied them with a rope, and brought another fire with him, and went to the Cao army camp ten miles away overnight.

Xiahou Yuan, Yu Ban, Li Dian and others were working together in the tent to deal with it, Wei Yan had already taken advantage of the night to touch the edge of the camp, Wei Yan rode on a horse, looked at Cao Jun's camp in the dense forest, and shouted in a low voice: "Take the fire!" The soldiers went out in two ways, rushed to the village to light the fire, and threw the karmic fireballs into all parts of the village and retreated! ”

The password was passed down one by one, Wei Yan looked at the moon above his head, a dark cloud was slowly moving towards it, the moonlight gradually dimmed, Wei Yan put his finger in his mouth, a piercing whistle sounded, and two columns of horses swarmed out of the dense forest, lightly crossed the antler fence in front of the gate, and broke into the village.

The alarm of the night attack was accompanied by the sound of drums resounding through the Cao camp, Wei Yanhe took out the fire from the people, ignited the karmic fireball in his hand, and threw it to the camp tents, there was already a team of people and horses going straight to the grain storage place and the stable, for a time the fireball exploded all over the Cao camp, but Wei Yan and the others did not stagnate, and threw all the karmic fireballs and fled, leaving only the flames in the Cao camp to burn the four fields unscrupulously.

Hua Wenxuan stood on the tower of the city gate, looking at the flames gradually rising in the distant sky, and his heart was full of indescribable excitement.

Wei Yan's night attack completely crushed the fighting spirit of Cao's army, and the originally menacing soldiers and horses from all over the city did not even reach the city, so they slowly retreated.

After receiving the news of Cao Jun's retreat, Wei Yan and the other generals smiled, "With the new weapon of the lord, don't say that there are tens of thousands of people here, that is, Cao Mengde is alive, and he has a million male soldiers, I'm afraid I can't help it!" ”

Hua Wenxuan also made up his mind that since this firearm is so powerful, it must not be passed on to outsiders, and it is necessary to rely on the current advantage and rapid expansion.

It's just that the current iron-smelting process is unqualified, and the cannon body can't be cast, otherwise it's good to build a cannon! The ballista and bomb defense are good hands, but marching and fighting cannot be used to determine victory or defeat, let alone siege, so it has to be planned slowly.

The news of the new weapon in Hua Wenxuan's hand quickly spread all over the country, and the Cao family no longer dared to act rashly after suffering from it.

Hua Wenxuan collected his troops and returned to Xiangyang, stepping up the casting of all kinds of bombs, but Huang Yueying was tired enough.

After entering the summer, Xu Shu captured Jiangzhou, and the news of Zhao Yun's pacification of Shangyong came one after another.

Hua Wenxuan stood in front of the map, silently looked at the direction of Chengdu and Hanzhong, from the letter reported by Xu Shu, Yizhou is weak, the people's hearts are scattered, Xu Shu according to Hua Wenxuan said, divided and divided Yizhou celebrities, and got the support of Dongzhou parties such as Fa Zheng and Zhang Song, with 30,000 partial divisions to take Jiangzhou, a war dependent.

Sun Ce was really as Hua Wenxuan guessed, extremely brave and able to fight well, but at the moment Liu Zhang in Yizhou was helpless, so he could only tightly guard the pass, in a vain attempt to keep the enemy out.

Now it seems that it is a matter of time for Xu Shu to become the owner of Chengdu, so it is a good time to take Hanzhong from the top.

Hua Wenxuan looked at Zhuge Liang, if he went to take Hanzhong, such a big place as Jingzhou could only be entrusted to Zhuge Liang, there was Wei Yan in Wancheng in the north, and there were firearms to help, that is, Cao Pi personally led the army to come, but I was afraid that he would not be able to eat good fruits, and then leave Zhuge Liang in Xiangyang to strategize, mobilize grain and grass to support all roads, if the situation is good, he can take Bashu and Hanzhong before winter, and complete the situation of Liu Bei's heyday.

"Zhuge Military Division!" Hua Wenxuan has already thought of a method, so he will leave immediately, "Jingzhou will be handed over to you, the first army of Yuanzhi on the west road will take Bashu directly, I intend to go to Hanzhong from the west of Shangyong, Sun Quan in the east, and Cao Pi in the north, it depends on the military division to be more vigilant!" ”

Zhuge Liang nodded, since Hua Wenxuan came up with the black powder thing, the defense has been completely able to do one hundred, and stabilizing the situation in Jingzhou is a piece of cake for him.

As soon as the dog days passed, Jiangdong's envoy Zhuge Jin arrived in Xiangyang, and Sun Quan learned that Hua Wenxuan had a new weapon, so he specially ordered Zhuge Jin to come to negotiate a deal.

In order to go west to Hanzhong and avoid Jingzhou from being attacked on his back, Hua Wenxuan pretended to be generous and bartered with Jiangdong like the previous repeater, earning a large amount of grain in Jiangdong, but Jiangdong Sun Quan had to be grateful to him.

Sending Zhuge Jin away, Hua Wenxuan summoned everyone and announced the plan to go west to Hanzhong, and handed over all the affairs of Jingzhou to Zhuge Liang, with Zhao Yun as the vanguard, Zhang Nan and Feng Xi as the left and right guards, and Jian Yong was responsible for the military grain and grass, leading 40,000 troops.

The army circled in the mountain col for nearly a month, and finally arrived at the Hanzhong Plain under the guidance of the mountain people, and suddenly appeared outside the city of Chenggu.

Where can the city guard guess, there will be so many soldiers and horses suddenly in the mountains and forests, and from the banner I don't know where the army came from, in a panic rushed into battle, the city defense drills are out of order, where is the experienced Zhao Yun opponent, less than three or five drums, then won the city fortification.

Hanzhong is not big, but it depends on natural dangers, there is Yangping Pass in the north, and there are Jiange and Jiameng Pass in the south, which has been free from the invasion of war.

Hua Wenxuan stood on the head of the city, looking at the endless fertile fields of Hanzhong, recalling what Sima Hui said in the past, if he wanted to unlock the last secret of Zhang Jiao's clothed mound, it was on Zhang Lu in Hanzhong.