Chapter 57 Pacifying Yizhou
Although Liu Bei put Yang Huai and Gao Pei back, but on the night when they sent their troops to the city of Luocheng, Yang Huai and Gao Pei did not open the city gate to let our army enter. After trying to attack, the city was very well defended, so it had to retreat.
I guess it's likely that Yang Huai and Gao Pei were not trusted by Liu Xun after they went back, and they should have either been locked up or killed, so it would not be so simple to capture Yucheng. Sure enough, for several days, our army could not break through the city by besieging the city on three sides, and sent people to persuade Liu Zhang to surrender, but Liu Zhang always closed his eyes and kept silent. Pang Tong lay on the bed and persuaded Liu Bei to tie Liu Zhang in front of the battle and escorted him forward to attack the city, 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 died, he would not do such a thing.
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 followed his advice and sent someone to send the military order to Jingzhou.
Since then, our army has been in a situation of repeatedly attacking the city, but Liu Xunshi has defended the city too well, and it is difficult for our army to break through the city no matter how it attacks.
On the other hand, Zhang Song 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 could be used 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 by our side, the 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 Fa Zheng, 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 letter, so that Jingzhou can increase its troops, trying to make it attack from the direction of Badong to the city of Chengdu first, and then go north to encircle the city, then Liu Xun will have the general trend and can only open the city and surrender.
I didn't expect that when Pang Tong didn't 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 Zhang Song said in the letter that he and Fa Zheng had used the excuse that Chengdu would no longer send reinforcements to Luocheng, and 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 I don't know which generals Liu Bei specified in the letter to enter Sichuan, from the point of view of sending a letter to Jingzhou for the second time and wanting to achieve the goal of the Jingzhou army attacking Chengdu first, since Zhang Fei has already sent troops first, and if he transfers troops again, the lineup of entering Sichuan this time may not be less than in history.
Of course, what I care about the most is that the general who led the team when I sent the letter for the second time was Guan Ping, that is to say, although my 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 leading people to guard Jingzhou alone will be formed again!
Of course, this is not what I want to see, and at this critical moment of seizing Yizhou, I can't persuade Liu Bei to use fewer people on the issue of sending reinforcements into Sichuan. can only hope that after all Yizhou is taken, he will be advised to send more generals back to Jingzhou.
In the following days, it was Zhang Fei's turn to shine, he 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, Zhang Song, who had been sending people to watch the movements of this army, even if he got in touch with it, opened the city gate, so that Zhang Fei captured Chengdu almost without blood. However, our army 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 rescue him.
Soon Kong Ming and Zhao Yun also arrived at the city from the waterway to join our army, although Zhang Fei wanted to settle the people in Chengdu and surrender 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 Zhang Song and Fa Zheng arrived, Liu Bei asked Fa Zheng to write a letter of persuasion to Liu Xun, which brought out the meaning of surrendering to 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 resisted death, perhaps because he still cared about Liu Zhang, he finally chose Kaecheng.
Yang Huai and Gao Pei found out that they were imprisoned after our army 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 I have the greatest credit. Although the capture of Chengdu benefited from Zhang Song and Fa Zheng, Zhang Feiyi's early rush to the city of Chengdu can 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, he appointed Zhuge Liang as 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 me, because he and Pang unified with him and made a clever plan to help Liu Bei take Yizhou so quickly, he originally wanted me to be a pre-military senator and follow him at any time to give advice, but I insisted on returning to Wuling, and based on what he promised me before, Liu Bei had to follow my wishes to restore my position as Wuling Taishou, 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 me 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.
The position of Wuling Taishou is considered exceptional at my "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. I didn't know at the time, so I happily took it, and after Kong Ming came to me alone to inform me when I went back, I felt that this military position was indeed a bit big for me. Such a military position in Liu Bei's army can lead 50,000 troops at most. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who are above me, naturally no one said anything because of their relationship with Liu Bei, but I am still "under twenty", less than the weak crown, and I have obtained such a position, and I will definitely become the target of public criticism in the future.
However, on the one hand, Kong Ming told me to lower my 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 me, he said to me: "Han Xin was only twenty-six years old when he became a general for Liu Bang, and he won the world for Liu Bang. ”
Personally, I have little interest in becoming Han Xin, who was later chopped into meat sauce by Liu Bang, but I still respectfully thanked Kong Ming for his teachings, and excitedly ordered my subordinates to pack up and prepare to go back to Jingzhou to see Qing'er.
Before leaving, Kong Ming asked me to bring a letter to Huang Yueying, who was still in Nanjun at this time, I was surprised that Kong Ming did not take Zhao Yun and me back to Jingzhou with Pang Tong before he died, Kong Ming told me that Yizhou had just been decided, and there were many affairs in Shu that needed to be improved, and after a few months the affairs in Shu were settled, and he and General Zhao would return to Jingzhou.