From Jianmen Pass to the south is the Bashu Plain, there is no danger, all the way is smooth.

After staying at Jianmen Pass for five days, personnel, horses, and baggage were transported from the side of Jianmen Pass to the plain area.

At the beginning of August, with Zhonglang General Jia Long and Jun Sima Zhang Ren as the vanguard, the army went south.

With Jia Long's prestige in Guanghan County, all the way to Mianzhu, everywhere he called out surrender, the road was smooth and unimpeded, without encountering any resistance, the army smoothly entered Mianzhu City, and successively became the advance base and baggage turnover point.

Wherever the army went, it did not commit any crimes with the people, and cracked down on bullies and scoundrels, rectified the rule of officials, people's livelihood, relieved orphans and widows, and stabilized the place, which was deeply welcomed by the people.

Liu Zhang was shocked when he learned that Jia Long and Zhao Wei rebelled at the same time, and that the Liangzhou soldiers were approaching Guanghan County.

It is only more than 500 miles from Jianmen Pass to Chengdu, and the distance to Mianzhu is even closer, and the army occupied Mianzhu in only four days, which is so fast that Liu Zhang was caught off guard.

This completely disrupted Liu Zhang's plan, he originally wanted to reject Dong Zhuo in the east, Liangzhou in the north, and ensure the safety of Yizhou; Liangzhou Zhao Yun attacked Hanzhong County, he did not go to the rescue of Zhang Lu, nor did he attack Zhang Lu, but sent the trusted Zhonglang general Jia Long to lead the army to garrison Jianmen Pass, hoping to wait for Liangzhou and Zhang Lu of Hanzhong County to fight and lose, and then reap the profits and let Jia Long take Hanzhong County.

Unexpectedly, after Jia Long took over the pass along the way from Jianmen Pass to Hanzhong County, the Yingliangzhou army went south, and Ba County had been lost, and Yizhou faced a two-sided attack.

What's more, Jia Long and Zhao Wei are both old men, leading more than 30,000 troops, and they are the people he trusts the most, and their surrender to Liangzhou has dealt too much damage to Yizhou's morale, which is what Liu Zhang is most worried about.

Liu Zhang immediately summoned everyone to come to the meeting.

He and Zhonglang General Wu Yi wanted to defend the fortified city of Chengdu and recruit the counties of the Quartet to help; As for Ba County, he didn't have much control over it, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Pang Xi and others believe that Jia Long and Zhao Wei's Shu soldiers have low combat effectiveness and are not a cause for concern, and the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou have just arrived, and they can be eliminated in a battle; He was very confident in the combat effectiveness of the Dongzhou soldiers and the Qingqiang cavalry; Therefore, we can't stick to Chengdu, but take the initiative.

Pang Xi is both an opportunist and a conspirator, although he is famous in talent and learning, but he actually knows nothing about military affairs, and he is also indifferent to the governance of people's livelihood, everything is based on his own and family interests, and he is not a good minister who cares about the Han family or seeks benefits for the people, which is a common problem of the late Han family.

Dongzhou Group belongs to an external force, dependent on Liu Zhang's father and son to survive, at this critical moment, will unite and fight to the death, otherwise, Liu Zhang is destroyed, they can not survive alone, this is Pang Xi's confidence.

Pang Xiben and Liu Yan had a good family, and later had the grace of rescuing Liu Yan's grandsons, won Liu Yan's trust, became a trusted minister, and because of his support, he became a powerful minister above 10,000 people under one person in Yizhou, and he also served as a general in the west of the army, and governed the Dongzhou soldiers with super combat power; Liu Zhang's previous judgment was wrong, and the important ministers he trusted all rebelled, and under the pressure of the soldiers, he had no choice but to adopt his suggestion and send Dongzhou soldiers to take the initiative to attack.

Pang Xi sent Li Yan, the elite general of the Dongzhou Group, as his protector, and led more than 30,000 people to garrison Luo County to block the enemy outside Shu County.

The Dongzhou soldiers belonged to Liu Zhang's Zhonghu army, with only more than 30,000 people, Li Yan took 10,000 away, and Chengdu left 20,000.

Li Yan was a county official when he was young, and he was known for his talent, and Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao asked him to serve in various counties in the county. When Dong Zhuo attacked Jingzhou, Li Yanzheng was the commander of Zigui County, so he went west to Shu, Liu Zhang used him as the county commander of Chengdu, and gained a reputation for being capable, and because of his strong martial arts and proficient in the art of war, he was deeply liked by Pang Xi and became the backbone of the Dongzhou Group.

However, Pang Xi didn't know that Li Yan, like him, was also an opportunist and a conspirator, selfish and selfish, and did not have much loyalty to Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang listened to Wu Yi's suggestion and immediately recruited the officers and soldiers of Qianwei County and Shu County to come to Chengdu to rescue, and recruited Qingqiang cavalry to come to the aid urgently to prevent Pang Xi from being lost.

Pang Xi also sent Zhonglang general Wu Yi to lead 15,000 Qingqiang cavalry to raid Fuxian, wanting to cut off the return of the Liangzhou soldiers.

This arrangement seems foolproof.

Mianzhu is the former Yizhou Governor's Office, Jia Long has been an official in Mianzhu for many years, and has won the support of the local people, which can be regarded as his nest.

After stabilizing Mianzhu, Zhao Yun, Guo Jia and others and the large army temporarily rested in Mianzhu for a few days; Jia Long and Zhang Ren led the officers and soldiers of the headquarters to go south to Guanghan County in advance.

Jia Long first persuaded him to surrender, and recounted the evil deeds of Liu Zhang's father and son; Li Yan stood at the head of the city and was silent.

Captain Deng Xian was furious and asked for an order to go out of the city to fight; Li Yan nodded in agreement; Led 10,000 Shu soldiers out of the city to line up.

Zhang Ren went out to fight with him, did not get together, stabbed Deng Xian under the horse, the army covered and killed, the Shu soldiers were unable to fight the enemy, and retreated; Li Yan closed the door, and they had to disperse and go home; Jia Long did not pursue and let him go.

Li Yan defended the fortified city and refused to fight; The city of Luo County was strong, Jia Long was unwilling to attack head-on, and the troops did not have an advantage, and the two sides confronted each other.

When Zhao Yun learned that Qingqiang was attacking, he was furious in his heart, how could the Han people allow barbarians to interfere in the war? He stayed with Shi'a to garrison Mianzhu, and he personally led 20,000 cavalry to rescue Fucheng.

The Qingqiang officers and soldiers were already afraid of the strong combat effectiveness of the Liangzhou cavalry, and now they do not have an advantage in numbers, and it is reasonable that their morale is low.

Before the Qingqiang lined up the formation, Zhao Yun had ordered the left and right flanks to launch a surprise attack, and he personally led the Chinese army directly into the Qingqiang cavalry formation, and went straight to the banner of the Chinese army; Behind him was his cavalry guard, on the inside was the senior cavalry of Situn, on the periphery was the junior cavalry of the four-part series, and then there were the cavalry of Wudu County.

Zhao Yun and the senior cavalry were like arrows, extremely sharp, and went straight to the Qingqiang army; Zhao Yun was even more like a god of war, his spear flew, swept across a piece, and stabbed straight into a string, which made the Qiang people frightened and retreated.

The combat effectiveness of the high-level cavalry far exceeded that of the Qingqiang cavalry.

The Qiang people are incapacitated, and the left and right flanks have already started fighting, so that the Qingqiang cavalry is in danger of being surrounded; Seeing that the situation was not good, the chief of his team hurriedly ordered a retreat; At this time, the retreat, the defeat was like a mountain, and the Qiang cavalry had no intention of fighting, and the retreat evolved into a rout.

Wu Yi was abandoned by Qingqiang and captured by Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun still pursued Qingqiang closely, leading the cavalry to fiercely pursue Baili.

Fortunately, the Qingqiang cavalry had at least two horses each, so they fled back to the Guanghan subject country in embarrassment, and after that, they were even more afraid of the Liangzhou cavalry.

It wasn't until the opponent entered the mountains that Zhao Yun returned victorious; However, less than 10,000 Qingqiang escaped; Six thousand horses were captured in good condition alone.

Returning to Mianzhu, Wu Yi announced his surrender; He now has no soldiers, so he has little use value, just to facilitate propaganda and hit the morale of the Shu army.

When Liu Zhang learned that the Qingqiang cavalry was defeated, he was cold in his heart.

The Qingqiang cavalry is the thug of their father and son to suppress the local forces in Yizhou, with strong combat effectiveness, and one of the key forces that rely on to maintain the Yizhou regime, how did they defeat so quickly and so completely?

Wu Yi is from Chenliu County, Yanzhou, and is a family friend of Liu Zhang's family, so he has traveled thousands of miles from Zhongyuan to invest in the Central Plains and become the key force of Dongzhou Group, and his sister is Liu Zhang's widowed sister-in-law.

Wu Yi has always been Liu Zhang's right-hand man, deeply trusted and valued, and now he is captured, which is a great blow to Liu Zhang; What disappointed him even more was that now Wu Yi actually announced the surrender of Liangzhou, which dealt a greater blow to the morale of the Dongzhou group; The morale of the Shu army was even lower.

Zhao Yun and Guo Jia's strategy was to advance city by city and reach the city of Chengdu, but now the situation has changed, and the Shu army is stationed in Ruxian County to block the advance of the army; Li Yan couldn't hold on.

I had to choose something else.