Chapter 57 Pacifying Yizhou.
Although Liu Bei put Yang Huai and Gao Pei back, but on the night when the troops were sent to the city of Luocheng, Yang Huai and Gao Pei did not open the city gate to let Liu Beijun enter. The pen &www.biquge.info amp; fun & pavilion tried to attack, but the city was very well guarded, so he could only retreat.
Zhuge Song guessed that it was likely that Yang Huai and Gao Pei were not trusted by Liu Xun after they returned, and they should have either been locked up or killed, so it would not be so simple to capture Luocheng. Sure enough, for several days, Liu Bei's army could not break through the city by besieging the city on three sides, so he sent people to persuade Liu Zhang to surrender, but Liu Zhang always kept his eyes closed. Pang Tong lay on the bed and persuaded Liu Bei to tie Liu Zhang in front of the battle, and attacked the city with the strategy of escorting him forward, so that the defenders did not dare to release arrows. But Liu Beifei said that it was a great injustice to betray the alliance before, and even if he was killed, he would not do such a thing again.
After Pang Tong's persuasion was fruitless, he was worried that Liu Zhang's army in Badong would go to Luocheng for reinforcements, so he suggested that Liu Bei Xiushu go to Jingzhou, and let Zhang Fei lead troops from Jingzhou to attack Bajun as a containment. Liu Bei obeyed this time, and sent someone to send the military order to Jingzhou.
After that, Liu Beijun has been in a situation of repeatedly attacking and attacking the city but not attacking the slope, Liu Xunshi defended the city too well, Zhuge Song felt that if Liu Zhang did not go to recruit him, it would take a year.
On the other hand, Fa Zheng, who had stayed in Chengdu before, sent a letter saying that because Liu Zhang took away most of the senior generals during his personal expedition, Liu Xun took away the remaining generals he thought he could use in order to capture Jiameng Pass, so most of the remaining generals in the city had low positions and no military power. After Liu Zhang was captured, people in Chengdu were panicked, and many people had the intention of surrendering. Now many young generals in Chengdu have been bought by him and his cronies, and the government affairs of Chengdu City are now under his control. I'm afraid that Liu Xun will give up the city and flee back to Chengdu to re-arm, and it is difficult to say whether the situation will change at that time.
In this case, in order to prevent Liu Xun from returning to Chengdu, Liu Bei discussed with Pang Tong, and then began to relax his attack on Luocheng, making Liu Xun firmly believe that it was not difficult for him to hold Luocheng. And sent people to Jingzhou again to send a message, so that Jingzhou increased its troops, trying to make it attack from the direction of Badong to the city of Chengdu first, and then take Chengdu and then go north to encircle the city, when Liu Xun saw that the general trend had gone, he could only open the city and surrender.
Zhuge Song didn't expect that when Pang Tong did not die in battle, Liu Bei would still transfer Jingzhou troops into Sichuan again. However, judging from the current situation, Luocheng was in a difficult situation for a while, although Fa Zheng said in his letter that he had used the excuse that Chengdu would no longer send reinforcements to Luocheng, and that he would think of reducing Chengdu's assistance to Luocheng in terms of ordnance, grain and grass. However, judging from the current situation, it seems that the best choice is to transfer the Jingzhou army into Sichuan. Although Zhuge Song did not know which generals Liu Bei specified in the letter to enter Sichuan, from the point of view of sending the letter to Jingzhou for the second time and wanting to achieve the goal of the Jingzhou army attacking Chengdu first, since Zhang Fei had already sent troops first, and then transferred troops, the lineup of entering Sichuan this time may not be less than in history.
Of course, what Zhuge Song cares about the most is that the general who led the team when he sent the letter for the second time was Guan Ping, that is to say, although Zhuge Song's previous efforts greatly shortened the time for Liu Bei to take Yizhou, but Liu Bei's trust in Guan Yu will never change, if this time it is really like in history that Kong Ming and Zhao Yun will also fly into Sichuan with Zhang, then the situation of Guan Yu alone leading people to guard Jingzhou will be formed again!
Of course, this is not what Zhuge Song wants to see, and at this critical moment of seizing Yizhou, Zhuge Song could not persuade Liu Bei to use fewer people on the issue of sending reinforcements into Sichuan. can only hope that after all Yizhou is taken, it is recommended that Liu Bei send more generals back to Jingzhou.
In the following days, it was Zhang Fei's turn to shine, Zhang Fei pretended to be drunk and whipped the soldiers before the second wave of reinforcements from Kong Ming and Zhao Yun joined him, and Yan Yan went out of the city to capture him, and then made him surrender willingly with a humble attitude, and along the way, he opened all the passes to Chengdu with Yan Yan's relationship.
After Zhang Fei's army arrived at the city of Chengdu, Fa Zheng, who had been sending people to watch the movements of this army, immediately contacted it and opened the city gate, allowing Zhang Fei to capture Chengdu almost without blood. Liu Bei's side adopted the method of loosening the outside and tightening the inside, and it seemed that the number of attacks on the city was getting less and less, but the encirclement was getting tighter and tighter, so that even if Liu Xun could know that Zhang Fei had arrived in Chengdu, he would not be able to fight back to the rescue.
Soon Kong Ming and Zhao Yun also arrived at Liu Bei from the waterway to join Liu Bei, although Zhang Fei wanted to settle the people in Chengdu and recruit Liu Zhang's army in various passes, and could not come to converge, but Liu Xun fell into a lonely city at this time. After Fa Zheng arrived, Liu Bei asked Fa Zheng to write a letter of persuasion to Liu Xun, which brought out the meaning that surrender would save him and Liu Zhang from death and give him generous treatment. Although Liu Xun should have been a guy who refused to surrender even if he was to die, in this situation that the general trend had gone, and because Liu Zhang had already been captured, he finally had no choice but to open the city.
Yang Huai and Gao Pei found out that they were locked in prison after Liu Bei entered the city, Liu Bei spared them from death, but they were no longer appointed and demoted to civilians, and then the army pressed Liu Zhang's father and son into Chengdu.
After Liu Bei entered Chengdu, he led the Yizhou pastor, feasted on the soldiers, rewarded the meritorious generals, and added officials to the knighthood. Among the meritorious people in the Jingzhou army, Zhang Fei, Pang Tong and Zhuge Song have the greatest credit. Although the capture of Chengdu benefited from Fazheng, Zhang Feiyi's early rush to Chengdu can still be said to be indispensable, and he was named General Anxi. With Pang Tong as the Marquis of the Left Capital, he is still the deputy military division militarily. Of course, in order to balance the relationship, Liu Bei made Zhuge Liang the general of the military division, and Guan Yu, who stayed in Jingzhou, as the general of Anton. As for Zhang Song and Fa Zheng, Fa Zheng was appointed as the Taishou and Yangwu General of Shu County, and Zhang Song was appointed as Zhonglang, both of which were extremely prominent.
As for Zhuge Song, because he and Pang unification even came up with a clever plan to help Liu Bei take Yizhou so quickly, Liu Bei originally wanted Zhuge Song to be a pre-military senator and follow him at any time to give advice, but Zhuge Song insisted on returning to Wuling, and based on Liu Bei's previous promises, Liu Bei had no choice but to follow Zhuge Song's wishes to restore his position as the Taishou of Wuling, and because of the merit of Shu and the seal of General Pingxi. In addition, Liu Bei also gave Zhang Song, Fa Zheng, Zhang Fei, Pang Tong, Guan Yu and Zhuge Song 300 catties of gold, 1,000 catties of silver, 30 million catties of money, and 1,000 horses of brocade as the highest reward among the generals. Of course, as a condition, Zheng Liang, who had already been targeted by Liu Bei before, was directly detained by Liu Bei as his personal guard on the grounds that Zhao Yun was going out to inspect the counties in Shuzhong.
The position of Wuling Taishou is considered exceptional in Zhuge Song's "age", and the military position of General Pingxi even surpasses Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong and others in Liu Beijun, only under Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Zhuge Song didn't know at the time, so he happily took it, and after Kong Ming went back to tell him alone, Zhuge Song felt that this military position was indeed a bit big for him. Such a military position in Liu Bei's army can lead 50,000 troops at most. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who are above Zhuge Song, naturally no one said anything because of their relationship with Liu Bei, but Zhuge Song is still "under twenty", less than the weak crown, and he has obtained such a position, and he will definitely become the target of public criticism in the future.
However, on the one hand, Kong Ming told Zhuge Song to lower his posture and behave after returning to Jingzhou, especially not to anger General Guan, and on the other hand, he used the example of Han Xin in ancient times to inspire him, and said to Zhuge Song: "Han Xin was only twenty-six years old when he became a general for Liu Bang, and he won the world for Liu Bang. ”
Zhuge Song was personally not very interested in becoming Han Xin, who was later chopped into meat sauce by Liu Bang, but he still respectfully thanked Kong Ming for his teachings, and excitedly ordered his subordinates to pack up and prepare to go back to Jingzhou to see Qing'er.
Before leaving, Kong Ming asked Zhuge Song to bring a letter to Huang Yueying, who was still in Nanjun at this time, Zhuge Song was surprised that Kong Ming did not take Zhao Yun and himself back to Jingzhou when Pang Tong was not dead, Kong Ming told him: "Yizhou has just been decided, there are many affairs in Shu that need to be improved, and after a few months, things in Shu are settled, and he and General Zhao will return to Jingzhou." ”
Only then did Zhuge Song solve his confusion and embark on a journey back to Jingzhou with many rewards from his subordinates and Liu Bei.