Knowing that Lu Xun had been defeated and had retreated to Jingzhou, he immediately made a new judgment on the situation.

Originally, Jiangdong Lu Xun and Nanban Meng Shu were the biggest dependents of Gao Dingyong and others. Gao Ding did not expect to be able to capture Chengdu with his own and Yong's coalition army, originally Gao Ding planned to take advantage of the situation when Lu Xun and the Southern Barbarians attacked Shu, take advantage of the situation to raise troops, and fish in troubled waters, but now that Lu Xun has withdrawn, the Shu army only needs to face the pressure from Nanzhong. And Meng Huo's soldiers and horses have not yet been assembled, and they cannot pose a threat to the Shu army, so it can be expected that the Shu army will inevitably take their own hands first.

Rather than being beaten to the ground by the Shu army, it is better to surrender while there are still some soldiers and horses in hand, so that you can also use these funds in your hands to seek an official and a half-position, which is better than being a lost dog in the end.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Gao Ding decided to surrender the Shu army immediately.

What Adou values is not Gao Ding, but the power in Gao Ding's hands. Gao Ding still has tens of thousands of troops in his hands, and he controls the entire Yue ~= Yi people, so Gao Ding's surrender saved Adou a lot of trouble. Gaoding's surrender also made Yue ~=, Zhu Ti and the three counties connected into a piece, and because of the Yong battle died, the Yongjia army will not be able to continue, after the Gaoding troops, the remnants of the Yong army also retreated to Yongchang, halfway by the Shu army ambush, most of the damage, only 10,000 horses fled back to Yongchang in the starry night. Then the Shu army made persistent efforts and sent troops to Jianning. At the beginning, Yong did not leave many people in Jianning to defend, now Yong's soldiers are defeated and killed, the trees are scattered, as soon as the Shu army arrives, Jianning immediately opens the city and surrenders, and in just a few days, the Shu army recaptured the entire territory of Jianning.

At the same time, Adou also got a very important news from Ding's mouth, that is, the army of Nanban Meng Shu is still being assembled. According to Gao Ding's calculations, it will take at least half a year for Meng Huo to complete the assembly.

Adou believes that now that Meng Huo has not completed the assembly of troops, it is the best time to attack Meng Huo. After Meng Shu has assembled the barbarians, it will be much more difficult to conquer the southern barbarians.

But the southern expedition to Meng is not a simple matter, the so-called three armies did not move the grain and grass first, the barbarians usually stay in the mountains and forests, the terrain is complicated, there are no roads in many places The Shu army wants to attack the Nanban, first of all, it is necessary to build the road first, and it is likely that where to fight, the road must be repaired, so as to ensure that the logistics grain and grass can be supplied in time.

But fortunately, Lu Kai is very familiar with the geography of the barbarian land, and also presented a book of "Pingman Ruling Map", with Lu Kai here, the Shu army will not get lost. Moreover, it was much easier to build roads in the Three Kingdoms era than now, and tens of thousands of people walked over and stepped on a road, so that the supply troops only needed to march along the road that the army in front had trodden.

In order to hinder the supply of logistics, Adou collected 100,000 people on the spot in Nanzhong to help the Shu army transport grain and grass. With the head snake of Gaoding, it is not very difficult to recruit people.

Because the Nanban road is so good, the land that Adou brought this time is all proficient in infantry field troops. Thirty thousand five creek barbarians in Shamokedi. Naturally, they had to bring all of them, and they also selected 30,000 elite soldiers from Gao Ding's command and Zhu Bao's remnants. plus 30,000 Shu troops. A total of 90,000 people. Conquer Meng.

……

December of the first year of Han Zhangwu. The crown prince Liu Chan received 90,000. Conquest of the Southern Barbarian Meng.

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Yongzhou.

Liu Beidi's army marched all the way. Soon occupied most of Yongzhou, and after the Xiqiang retreated. Liu Bei immediately continued to advance eastward, and finally came to Chencang.

Chencang is an important town in Yongzhou, especially the importance of the geographical location of Gaozu Ming after repairing the plank road to secretly cross Chencang is highlighted. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Hanzhong was occupied by Zhang Lu, and during the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao was worried that Zhang Lu would go out of the pass to attack Yongzhou, so he deliberately turned Chencang into a fortress. After years of reinforcement, today's Chencang is even easier to defend and difficult to attack, even if the Shu army has 200,000 troops, it will be difficult to capture Chencang for a while.

After Guan Yu withdrew from the Xiegu, Cao Zhen also knew that Guan Yu was just a soldier, so he immediately led his soldiers and horses west into Chencang, and then relied on Weishui and Chencang to establish a defensive line to hold on to the Shu army.

At this time, Sima Yi offered a plan to Cao Zhen, there were many Shu soldiers, and the grain and grass consumed were also more, and the Shu army was transported from Hanzhong twice, and 200,000 people consumed a lot of grain and grass every day, so they only needed to be deployed layer by layer, and they could not hold out, and consume with the Shu army, and when the Shu army was short of food and grass, they would inevitably retreat.

Cao Zhen agreed with Sima Yi's opinion, so he relied on Chen Cangcheng and Weishui to arrange a line of defense.

Although the Shu army had more than 200,000 troops, after seeing Cao Jun's defensive posture, Pang Tong still advised Liu Bei not to attack rashly. Because there are still counties to the east from Chencang to Chang'an, in the face of Cao Zhen's layers of defenses, Pang Tong does not want to lose his overwhelming strength when he reaches Chang'an, so the Shu army cannot lose too many troops in Chencang.

However, if the Shu army and the Cao army continue to consume like this, the supply of grain and grass for the Shu army will become a big problem. Transporting grain from Hanzhong to Chencang is a long way, not to mention the long distance, and the road is still very difficult, far more difficult than transporting grain from Xudu to Chencang. Long-term attrition is bound to be very unfavorable to the Shu army.

The consumption of the attacking force was too great, and the Shu army could not afford to wait for it, but Cao Zhen couldn't come out to fight the Shu army, which made Liu Bei feel like he couldn't start.

Liu Bei asked Pang Tong for his plan, and Pang Tong suggested to Liu Bei that he send Ma Chao to Liangzhou to slowly sweep away the remnants of Cao's army in Liangzhou, and at the same time put on a posture of long-term combat on both sides of Weishui to paralyze Cao Zhen.

On the other hand, Pang Tong pinned his hopes on Wei Yan to take the 5,000 people in the Meridian Valley, and now the main force of Cao's army is contained on the front line of Chencang, and the rear is Chang'ankong

It was Wei Yan who was able to successfully attack Chang'an through the Meridian Valley at this time, and Cao Chang'an's strategy was fundamental, so the battle of Yongzhou would be over.

As long as Wei Yan's side can successfully raid Chang'an, the main force of Chen Cang's Shu army can definitely afford to wait, and as long as what Pang Tong is doing at present can paralyze the Cao army, everything is worth it.

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Inside the Meridian Valley.

A group of Shu troops walked on the rugged Meridian Valley mountain road.

A Shu soldier stopped, sat on the bluestone on the side of the road, took off the straw sandals on his feet, and then took out a new pair of straw sandals from his backpack and put them on his feet, and kept muttering: "Hey! This is the last pair. ”

Wei Yan happened to be next to him, looked at the pair of straw sandals that had been torn and threw them to the side, and sighed slightly.

The road in this Meridian Valley is much more difficult than Wei imagined, especially after going deep into the Meridian Valley for thirty or forty miles, the road is rugged, Wei Yan has to leave a lot of unnecessary baggage in order to maintain the speed of the march, and he has to travel lightly to reduce the pressure of the march.

"General, it's been found out, and it's still about forty miles away from Taniguchi!" The scout hurriedly ran over and said to Wei Yan.

Hearing this news, Wei Yanchang let out a sigh of relief, the six hundred and sixty miles of Meridian Valley was finally over!

"Pass it on, the whole army will rest for two days, and after recuperating their strength, they will march directly to Chang'an!"

Two days later, Wei Yan lost all his baggage, and each person only brought three days' worth of grain and grass with him, and began to march towards the mouth of the Meridian Valley.

Yan arrived at the mouth of the Meridian Valley that night, and after easily capturing the mouth of the Meridian Valley, Wei Yan did not stay, and after an hour's rest, he rushed to Chang'an City overnight.

……

Xiahou is the son of Xiahou, and he also took Cao Cao's daughter Princess Qinghe, and the relationship between Xiahou and Cao is extraordinary. All the people in Yongzhou who are now Liu Bei's Northern Expedition Cao Jun are all in Yongzhou, except for the metropolitan governor Cao Zhenshu Xiahou's official titles are bigger.

However, Xiahou is not as good at leading troops to fight as his father Xiahou, and Xiahou can only be regarded as a rookie in terms of the art of war, and his martial arts are not as good as one-tenth of Xiahou's. However, Xiahou is not useless, at least in terms of local governance, Xiahou still has quite achievements.

Cao Zhen also knew that Xiahou didn't have much ability to fight, so he ordered Xiahou to stay in the rear and guard Chang'an. In Cao Zhen's opinion, now that the main force of the Shu army is contained in the front line by himself, Chang'an in the rear should not have a problem.

Chang'an is still hundreds of miles away from Chencang, and there are counties, Xianyang and other places in the middle, so even if the war in the direction of Chencang is ongoing, the people in Chang'an City are still doing what they should do, and they have not been affected much.

Since the beginning of Jian'an, Chang'an City has changed hands several times, Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu, Li Guo, Zhang Ji, Cao Cao, Ma Chao and others have occupied Chang'an, so the people of Chang'an City have been accustomed to this kind of war and chaos, even if the enemy has besieged the city, the people in Chang'an City will not worry too much about the future.

Chang'an City is the western capital of the Han Dynasty, which is naturally prosperous and abnormal, and there are hundreds of large and small families in the city. Merchants will go to Chang'an City for a few days to do a few business. Therefore, every morning, Chang'an City opens the city gate on time, and in the evening, Chang'an City will close the city gate on time, even if the war ahead is urgent, Chang'an City still remains like this.

After noon, the sun gradually turned west, and the sun shone on the city wall to the west of Chang'an, dyeing the tall and majestic city wall with a piece of gold.

Several county soldiers stood at the city gates, basking in the sun and snoozing listlessly with their weapons.

Because going west is a battlefield, there are not many people who enter and leave Chang'an City through the west gate in the past few days, and these soldiers guarding the gate are also happy to be idle.

In the distance, several men dressed as peasants came up, dressed in cloth and covered with mud on their feet, and the men in front of them were carrying things, while two people in the back were pushing a cart full of firewood.

The leader was nine feet tall, quite strong, with a face like a winter date, a beard on his lips, and a hemp bag on his shoulder.

A few people walked towards the city gate, and the city gate official raised his head to look at the group, and then lowered his head again, and kept muttering: "A bunch of poor mud legs, not much oil and water......"

Then, the city gate official pointed to the two people behind him and pouted: "You two go and collect the money!" ”

The two soldiers reluctantly stepped forward, stretched out their hands from afar, and said, "Quickly pay the city money, one big money per person!" And the car, five big bucks. ”

"This military master, you see that our car is full of firewood, and we can't sell it for a few dollars, you collect so much at once, the small ones can't afford it!"

"What nonsense, if you want to hand it over, you will pay it!" The soldier was about to turn his face as he spoke.

"Yes, yes, my name." The man dressed as a farmer hurriedly reached into his bosom and took out the money, and at the moment when his hand came out, an object the size of a golden thumb accidentally fell out and fell to the ground.

"It's gold!" When the guards of the city gate saw this golden thing, like wolves that had been hungry for several days saw meat, they pounced on it, and immediately huddled together.

"Squeeze what, squeeze!" The gatekeeper stepped forward, separated the crowd, snatched the gold from one of the soldiers, weighed it, and said, "Well, it is gold, and the weight is not light." ”

Hurriedly hid this piece of gold in his arms, and suddenly, the defenders were conscious of the question, where did these poor jingle farmers get this piece of gold?

When the guard turned around, he saw that the red-faced man grabbed the neck of the city gate official, and then twisted it hard, and the neck of the famous city gate official was twisted and broken after hearing a "click".

At the same time, the people dressed as farmers behind them drew their blades from the car and slashed at the surrounding Cao Jun, who was caught off guard and cut down several people.

A finger of the arrow flew into the sky, and smoke and dust gradually rose in the distance, and the killing slowly came.

The red-faced man put his hand into the arms of the corpse of the city gate official, groped for a long time, found the piece of gold, and then put it back in his arms, and at the same time said fiercely: "Boy, I want to make the money from my Wei Yan more tender......

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The Shu army rushed into Chang'an City like a wolf and a tiger. The people in Chang'an City were suddenly in a mess, some clever people hurriedly closed the doors and windows at home, and most of them hid everywhere on the street.

Wei Yan didn't pay attention to these people, but went straight to Xiahou's governor's mansion.

The chaotic shouts outside reached Xiahou's Governor's Mansion, and Xiahou led people to the door of the Governor's Mansion, only to see that the road was full of ordinary people fleeing in all directions, and the cries and the sound of fleeing footsteps were intertwined.

"Let's find out, what the hell is going on?" Xiahou hurriedly said to his subordinates, and without waiting for his subordinates to set off, a group of Cao Jun came from afar, and they were all injured.

When this group of Cao Jun saw Xiahou, they immediately ran to Xiahou, and at the same time shouted loudly: "My lord, it's not good! The Shu army has attacked! ”

"The Shu army has attacked?" Xiahou gasped, and the soldier immediately added: "Yes, my lord, the Shu army has already attacked the city, and there are so many Shu troops that I can't tell how many there are." ”

"Who is leading the troops?" Xiahou hurriedly asked.

"The last general didn't see it clearly, but he saw a red-faced man, more than nine feet tall, and a big knife in his hand."

When he heard the red-faced man, who was more than nine feet tall, and he still used a big knife, the first thing Xia Hou thought of was Guan Yu.

I saw that Xiahou's legs were weak, and he sat on the ground with his buttocks, and muttered in his mouth: "Guan Yu is here, what should I do?" What to do! ”

Speaking of which, Wei Yan and Guan Yu are about the same size, and they both have red faces, and they both use big knives, the difference between the two is that Guan Yu has a wisp of beautiful hair, but Wei Yan does not.

Guan Yu's fame was too great, and the soldier didn't mention the beard when he described Wei Yan's appearance, so Xiahou couldn't help but think of Wei Yan as Guan Yu.

Xiahou was not good at military affairs, but now he thought that Guan Yu had killed, and at this time, Xiahou had been frightened by Guan Yu and had no will to resist at all.

"What are you doing? Guan Yu is going to be killed, let's run! Xiahou exclaimed, regardless of the soldiers around him, he was the first to run towards the east gate. And the soldiers behind Xiahou heard Xiahou say that Guan Yu was coming, and they were originally retreating in their hearts, but now when they saw Xiahou running away, they also began to run away.

"Kill me!" Wei Yan rushed into Xiahou's Governor's Mansion with a knife, but at this time, except for a few elderly old servants in the Governor's Mansion, all the others who could run had already run away.

"General Guan spares his life, General Guan spares his life!" Several old servants knelt on the ground, not even daring to raise their heads, only begging for mercy in a muffled voice.

"General Guan?" Wei Yan looked at these kneeling old servants in confusion, then touched his chin and asked the personal guards beside him, "Has my beard grown a lot?" ”

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Wei Yan only brought 5,000 people, which was not much compared to Chang'an City, which occupied a huge area.

And if Xiahou resisted a little, Wei Yan would not have been able to capture Chang'an City so easily, but Xiahou had a preconceived idea and mistook Wei Yan for Guan Yu, and fled directly without a fight, so Wei Yan did not encounter much obstruction in this raid and captured Chang'an.

The news of the loss of Chang'an quickly spread to the front line of Chencang.

After Cao Zhen learned that Chang'an was lost, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "Xiahou, you misunderstood me!" ”

Sima Yi next to him was much more sober than Cao Zhen, and Sima Yi immediately said to Cao Zhen: "Governor, we will return to Chang'an immediately, if we can recapture Chang'an, we can still defend the city." As long as Chang'an is in hand, we have not lost! ”

"Zhong Da is right, order the three armies, immediately pull out the camp, let's go back to attack Chang'an." Cao Zhen immediately ordered.

"Governor and slow, don't pull out the camp!" Sima Yi hurriedly stopped.

"Why?"

"Dudu, if we pull out the camp, the Shu army on the other side will definitely know that we are returning to the army, and they will also know that Wei Yan has succeeded, and Liu Bei will definitely lead troops to follow suit, so we must not pull out the camp. This camp is placed here, confusing the Shu army, the army with a small amount of grain and grass, quickly return to the army, day and night counterattack Chang'an! However, even if this is the case, the Shu army will soon find out, so if Chang'an cannot be captured within three days, Liu Bei will inevitably lead the army to chase after him. Sima Yi hurriedly said.

"What Zhong Da said is that the order is to return to the army immediately and rush back to Chang'an day and night, and at all costs, Chang'an must be recaptured!"