At dawn, the lush canopy of the mountain forest obscures the light of the morning light, giving people a particularly gloomy and gloomy feeling.

The jackdaw in the treetops was awakened by the sound of footsteps, flapping its wings and opening its mouth to scream, but suddenly a sharp arrow silently pierced its throat.

"I have broth to drink today." A soldier rushed into the woods and picked up the birds that had fallen from the branches, squeezing out a little joy on his tired face.

Huang Zhong glanced at the young subordinate, turned around and continued to climb the mountain road with difficulty.

According to the strategy of the sergeant Zhuge Liang, Liu Yong1 took Zhang Fei as the vanguard general, and personally led the army to march to Pingdu, but sent Huang Zhong to take a thousand men and horses to secretly attack Tongxian County by water.

Almost seven days have passed since the departure from Linjiang City.

It was possible to take a boat directly to the city of Tongxian, but for fear of being discovered by the defenders, he landed and sneaked fifty miles away from the county seat. Since then, Huang Zhong and his 3,000 soldiers have been able to rely on two legs of meat to travel through the rugged mountain roads between the mountains.

3,000 soldiers, silently marching on the gravel-covered mountain road, this thin mountain road is rarely walked, only the mountain villagers, occasionally go to Patong County to sell some oil and salt mountain goods will pass, if you do not carefully distinguish, it is almost difficult to find.

Under the guidance of a native of Linjiang County, they climbed over many dangerous peaks, and at dusk, they finally saw the rolling Yangtze River, like a jade belt winding between the mountains on both sides, and another Yushui intersected not far from it, and overlooked, Yangqu City was like a gray agate stone inlaid at the junction of the two jade belts.

It's finally here.

Huang Zhong, who was out of breath, stepped on a big stone, wiped the beads of sweat falling like rain, and looked at the county seat of Tongxian County from afar, the old face that was so tired that it was almost distorted, finally showed a little relief at this moment.

The three thousand exhausted and ragged athletes under his command seemed to have seen the dawn of heaven from hell in an instant, and their originally languished and tired expressions were bursting with excitement at this moment, like a long-starved wolf finally finding the sheep they had been looking for for a long time.

Huang Zhong immediately ordered the whole army to eat a full meal, hide in the forest and rest until evening, and then quietly touched the mountains by the color of afterglow.

At nightfall, 3,000 soldiers and horses sneaked to the foot of the mountain and lay in ambush among the jungles.

At the head of the city, the torches flickered, and the few soldiers patrolling the city could be faintly seen, and Huang Zhong judged from experience that the county town was completely unaware of the approach of their surprise army.

Everything was as the Lord had expected.

The blood in his chest was surging, and the murderous aura had been ignited.

Huang Zhong squinted his eyes and looked at the city again, made a strong move with the knife in his hand, and shouted: "Kill~~"

The three thousand warriors shouted in unison, followed Huang Zhong like a fierce tiger and rushed out of the jungle towards the defenseless county town of Zong.

The sergeant on duty at the head of the city immediately fell into a panic, and the sound of gongs and warnings rang loudly.

With a distance of hundreds of paces approaching in an instant, Huang Zhong believed that when the defenders in the city were under this sudden attack, and it was too late to go to the city to garrison, his 3,000 soldiers and horses would climb to the top of the city first, and with the advantage of numbers, they would take the city gate in one fell swoop.

As long as you successfully enter the city, the entire county town will be at your fingertips, and it will be a great achievement immediately.

The moat was in front of him, and the soldiers who rushed to the front had already raised the dry wood in their hands, ready to throw it into the moat canal, which was not too deep, to pave the way for the follow-up siege team.

One hundred steps, fifty steps, thirty steps.

It seems that victory is just one step away.

At this moment, a cannon was heard, and countless soldiers suddenly appeared in the originally scattered city, and rows of sharp arrows, like the hideous teeth of death, were aimed at the enemy army rushing wildly.

The enemy is on guard!

"Buzz!" Huang Zhong's mind flashed with thunder, as if he had been struck by a violent lightning, and he suddenly stopped his pace, glanced at the enemy army waiting at the head of the city, and suddenly woke up.

"Withdraw, the whole army retreats."

The prerequisite for this battle is a surprise attack, so Huang Zhongcai did not set up a formation, he just wanted to attack the city by surprise, and then the big thing was decided.

But now, the enemy in the city has been prepared, and the crossbowmen are ready, and in such a situation, to attack in such a chaotic formation is tantamount to self-defeat.

Huang Zhong, an experienced man, could not have known this truth, so when he was sure that the enemy had been prepared, he decisively gave up the siege and ordered a retreat without hesitation.

But, after all, it was a step too late.

The sudden change of order, most of the soldiers did not know it, and still rushed forward with the previous siege order and the belief in meritorious service, and in the blink of an eye, they had reached the moat.

At the head of the city, the arrogant-looking general sneered: "Huang Senjun really expected things to be like a god, Liu Yong really used the trick of sneaking up on Fang County, hum, it's such a loss, otherwise how can I Meng Da show his skills." ”

It turned out that Liu Zhang had been furious in his heart since he forced Liu Yong to lead his troops straight into Hanzhong to attack Yangping Pass, and he thought that the world of Yangping Pass was dangerous, even if Liu Yong had 100,000 horses, he would be trapped between the mountains and mountains between Jiameng Pass and Yangping Pass, but he never expected that Liu Yong would really conquer Yangping Pass, and also captured Hanzhong in one fell swoop, and drove Zhang Lu to the mountains to be a savage. Before Liu Yong came to take revenge, Xichuan took the initiative to send troops to attack on the grounds of recovering Jiameng Pass, hoping to open the road to Guanzhong and welcome Cao Cao into Sichuan.

At the same time, a group of civil and military officers who fought against Liu Yong were promoted, and Huang Quan was appointed as a general of the military division, fully responsible for the war against Jingzhou.

Since learning the news that Liu Yong led his army into Sichuan, the scouts sent people to the front line in Chengdu overnight to report the news.

After Huang Quan learned the news, he speculated that Tongxian County was the only way for Liu Yong's army, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Liu Yong was likely to sneak attack and break the city, so he suggested that Liu Zhang urgently issue a military order and order a general to rush to Tongxian County with 2,000 men and horses to guard.

Meng Da traveled under the stars and nights, and arrived in Tong County the day before yesterday, reinforcing the city defenses on the one hand, and sending scouts to the south to reconnoiter the situation of various mountain roads and waterways.

As Huang Quan speculated, as soon as Meng Da arrived on the front foot, he detected an enemy army of thousands of people on the back foot, and was marching rapidly in the direction of Tongxian County on the trail.

According to the intelligence, Meng Da made sufficient preparations in advance, expecting that this surprise attack of the enemy army would take the opportunity to seize the city, so he had already secretly planted crossbowmen in the city, just waiting for this time to catch the enemy by surprise.