Zhuge Quan's use of troops is strange, this time it is the seven-way expedition to Shu, the time of Zhong Juqiu's departure is designed, Shan Xiongxin led 12,000 troops, wearing the clothes of the Qiang tribe from Jincheng, and always maintained a distance of fifty miles from Zhong Juqiu; Shan Xiongxin defeated Guo Xingfang, killed 7,000 captured Tang troops, and took the opportunity to occupy Gansong County and Zhihuaidao County, sweeping away the surrounding Tang army.

Shan Xiongxin ordered people to summon Zhong Juqiu and Chipai Qiang to turn back; Guo Xingfang and Wei Qingjian rendezvous, are discussing whether not to reinforce Hanzhong for the time being, mobilize the troops of Danchang and Wudu counties to recapture Huaidao County, scout Tanma to return, Xie Yingdeng from Longxi to attack and occupy Danchang County, Zhuge Quan's army killed Wudu County. It was almost a copy of Deng Ai's destruction of Shu that year, Guo Xingfang did not hesitate anymore, and immediately retreated to Yinping.

After Zhuge Quan occupied Wudu County, he ordered Ma Gongyou and Li Yun to divide their troops to seize the Jiangchuan Pass and Kongyou Daokou, and stop the Tang army on the bank of the Bailong River. Looking at the position of the Hexi Army by the mountains and rivers, Guo Xingfang looked around at the generals around him, pulled out his sword, and said sharply: "Following the Tang Emperor for dozens of battles, there is Li Tang's country, I didn't expect it to be so bad luck today." Only by rushing out from here can we return to Yinping, all the soldiers, ready to attack, with me and no burden"

The Tang army beat war drums, the two rows of infantry in front of them put up their armor, the back were cavalrymen with spears and horse lances, and the crossbowmen of the horse infantry army on both sides rushed to the Hexi army position with neat steps; The infantry of the 3,000 Tang Army began to arrange positions behind the army, and the cavalry of the Hexi Army was 60 miles away, but they could arrive in an hour.

After joining the Hexi Army, Shui's soldiers captured Chang'an all the way and defeated the Turks, and the confidence to defeat the opponent was unfounded; Li Yun's lieutenant Liang Hulang had a gloomy face, calculated the distance of the Tang army, and gave the order to "shoot" and attack. The power of the bed crossbow was huge, and the shield army of the Tang army was completely lost after the first round of salvo "shooting", but for the cavalry of the Tang army to gain the distance and time to charge, under the leadership of the fat cavalry general Wei Qingjian, 4,000 Tang cavalry rushed to the position of the Hexi army desperately.

Liang Hulang waved his hand, and five hundred infantry rushed to the front, each with a gourd in his hand, and the engine was turned off, spewing out five hundred flames; The fire was actually not big, and the distance was not particularly far, Wei Qingjian could even guess that it was phosphorus, but the war horses were frightened, squeezed and trampled on each other, and became "chaotic". When the Tang army reorganized its formation, the gourd soldiers of the Hexi Army fled back, and it was another round of bed crossbow shooting.

Guo Xingfang saw clearly in the Chinese army that the fire-breathing gourd of the Hexi Army was actually not lethal, and the only use was to "force" the cavalry to retreat and buy time for the installation of the bed crossbow. Although half of the five hundred gourd soldiers were "shot" to death by the crossbowmen on both sides of the Tang army, the Tang army trampled on each other and died more than three or four hundred, and a volley of the bed crossbow caused more than 1,000 cavalry to fall off their horses; The most important thing is time, and the enemy cavalry behind him has "approached" to twenty miles.

The cavalry of the Tang army paid 2,000 casualties and finally attacked the position of the Hexi army, but under the "pressure" of the opponent's cavalry and Baidao soldiers, they were finally driven out of the position; Fortunately, the large infantry army rushed to the front of the position, and after a short exchange of "fire", the soldiers of both sides were desperate to strangle each other. A charge sounded behind the Tang army, and seven thousand Hexi cavalry rushed to the battlefield, and the time for a decisive battle came.

The two sides fought, the water of the Bailongjiang River had been dyed red, the Tang army finally tore a hole, and under the cover of Wei Qingjian, Guo Xingfang crossed the position of the Hexi army with more than 200 cavalry and 3,000 infantry. Under the unremitting pursuit of Shan Xiongxin, Wei Qingjian was killed, and even the 3,000 infantry who broke through were all killed, and when he fled to Qushui County, Yinping County, Guo Xingfang only had more than 80 horsemen left, and Yinping Taishou Chen saw that it was Guo Xingfang, and hurriedly opened the city gate to let them in.

Knowing that the three counties of Wudu had been lost, Chen Cha suggested: "The three counties of Qushui, Changsong, and Zhengxi are less than 2,000 soldiers, so it is better to retreat to Jianmen Pass and Changlong County, as long as Yinping Road and Jiange are not lost, the Hexi army will be helpless." If General Duan can finally hold Hanzhong, he can wait for an opportunity to restore the middle land. ”

Guo Xingfang knew that there was no way, so he led a thousand horsemen to go first, went to the Sword Pavilion to set up defenses, and notified the Han disease Chengdu; Let Chen Cha take people to Yinping Road and inform the defenders there. Guo Xingfang and the others kept going all the way, they were really tired and rested for an hour, and ran to the Sword Pavilion for two or two nights, only to know that Hanzhong had not yet been lost, but it was already in danger, and the Sui general Xie Yingdeng led 15,000 cavalry to take the lead and cut off the passage between the Sword Pavilion and Hanzhong.

The Sword Pavilion has already transferred 5,000 troops to Hanzhong, plus the 1,000 people brought by Guo Xingfang, but the 4,000 defenders, Guo Xingfang said to the defending general Li Chen, the Duke of Xiangwu County: "At this moment, we can't send another soldier or a pawn, we can only send someone to inform the Duan Governor, it is better to win, and if we can't win, we must find a way to return to the Sword Pavilion." ”

Li Chen is Li Xiaogong's elder brother, and he is not good at warfare, so he arranged for Guo Xingfang to lead Duan Lun to defeat in Hanzhong, and after Xie Yingdeng's army arrived, he opened up the connection with Jiang Duo's army in one fell swoop; The Hexi Army announced that it was willing to settle the wingmen to live in the towns, and as long as they defected to the Hexi Army, the wingmen could be assigned land and live the same life as the Han people. 100,000 men came out of the mountains, and the Tang army was defeated like a mountain, and in less than a month, Han Zheng was lost

Hanzhong is a grain-producing area, Zhuge Quan dispatched 10,000 bureaucrats to form a transportation team, using wooden oxen and horses to transport salt from Longyou, and tea from Hanzhong, which soon made the mood of the people of the three counties settle down before the Chinese New Year. Chang'an sent an edict from Yang Chong, announcing that in consideration of the resettlement of more than 100,000 bureaucrats, Hanzhong would be exempted from grain tax for two years.

Yang Chong also introduced a series of measures, using the cities of more than 70 overseas Chinese counties such as Qinzhou to settle bureaucrats, which can be Han bureaucrats in the same city, or let bureaucrats set up separate counties; The biggest benefit of Hanzhong to Chang'an is that it occupies Bashan, which produces tea, although the tea is not as good as Jiangnan, but there is no problem in making brick tea. The wingmen are good at climbing mountains, which is suitable for picking tea and grain, and it is still transported from Longyou in the spring.

Yang Chong wrote a letter to Zhuge Quan and others to tell Zhuge Quan and others that in terms of agriculture, the bureaucrats do not have to plant crops, but can use the tea trees and "medicine" materials on the mountains as crops and assign them to the bureaucrats, so that they can plant and collect, and the government will harvest them every year, and the value is more than the cost of growing grain; For this reason, Chang'an sent Fuqugu to investigate, preparing to further open a workshop, with the mentality of seeking wealth and danger, and the wealthy families in Longyouguan, Hexi, who have not been able to get a lot of oil and water, have sent people to get a piece of the pie.

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