After taking Wuling, Fu Youde went north to Jiangling and stationed troops in Zigui. He will wait for the supplies to be prepared before he starts the plan to attack Shu. After arriving in Zigui, Fu Youde began to take the lead, and Liu Heimin and Huo Jun all came under his hands.

Zhang Yi is preparing to attack Yizhou in three ways, the middle road is ready, and the south road is to attack Nanzhong from Jiaozhi County. Zhang Yi chose Lin Fengxiang as the commander, and gathered Wang Xiong, Han Shizhong, Yu Dayou, Sun Wuzhong, Ding Feng, as well as Wang Wei, Liu Min, Fu Wei, Zhang Nan, and Fu Kuang sent by Zhang Yi in the past, with a total of 30,000 troops.

Zhang Yi of Jiaozhou only had two counties whose troops did not move, that is, Jiuzhen County and Rinan County. These two counties are currently carrying out small-scale clearance of the Zhanren, and the combat effectiveness of the Zhanren is much worse than that of the alien races in the Han Dynasty, mainly because of their short stature, only taller than the Japanese people! Therefore, Zhang Yi did not move these two counties, leaving more than 10,000 soldiers.

However, these 10,000 soldiers are not the previous batch, and those soldiers were replaced by Zhang Yi at the beginning of the year. You must know that those soldiers are all from Yangzhou, and it can be said that they have left their hometowns in the past two years, and their hearts have returned! Therefore, Zhang Yi asked Jiaozhou to train a group of soldiers by himself, and sent 30,000 soldiers, including many veterans, which were specially used to teach these recruits in Jiaozhou.

Gangneung was dispatched, so it was natural to send strategists. The strategist of the middle road is Liu Muzhi, the south road is Wang Shouren, as for the north road, basically there is no need for Zhang Yi to worry about it, the commander of the army on the north road is Di Qing, because taking the north road is the most difficult road, so there are only 10,000 people, Di Qing only needs to bring a few generals. Zhang Yi transferred Wei Yan and Lu Xun to Di Qing, and let Di Qing go to the front line of Yong and Xicheng.

Why is this route the hardest to take? In fact, there are still more mountains, and the Han River will become a water stream further upstream, because the mountains are dangerous and there are many waterfalls. The mountain fault is too large, and it is easy to march from the top down, but it is not easy to go up from the bottom up. When Guan Yu defeated Maicheng, many people said that Liu Feng watched Guan Yu die, but this was a bit wronged Liu Feng.

Don't look at Xiangyang is very close to Shangyong, but it is very difficult to get over, when Liu Feng received the news, he didn't dare to move at all. Soon after Shangyong's new decision, Shen Tan devoted himself to Cao. If he goes to the rescue, Shen Tan will inevitably rebel. In order to rescue, someone lost his own territory, and Liu Feng will definitely be condemned. And Liu Feng would not have expected Guan Yu to die like this, his partner Meng Da also thought so, and Liu Feng was not the only one who thought so.

Then there is the fact that after Liu Bei's defeat in Yiling, Huang Quan and others had to surrender to Cao because they were cut off by the Wu army. If the road on Shangyong's side is really easy, Huang Quan will definitely not surrender to Cao Cao. You must know that after Liu Bei heard that Huang Quan was demoted to Cao, what he said was that he was sorry for Huang Quan, and Huang Quan was not sorry for him. It can be seen how difficult the road to the mediocre is, and it is impossible to even retreat.

Li Jing went north to Nanyang and settled in Xinye, attracting the attention of Yu Ban in Nanyang. Di Qing led the army from Zhuyang to Zhushui to Fangling. Fang Ling had been taken down by Zhang Yi two years ago, but Zhang Yi did not garrison the enlarged army, but because Fang Ling was too close to Xiangyang, Hanzhong could send troops from Fang Ling to attack Xiangyang at any time.

After Di Qing reached Fang Ling, he immediately learned how to go to Shangyong from the Fang Ling defenders. The soldiers were fast, Di Qing directly marched westward, and raided Shangyong County.

Shangyong City is so big, but the road is too difficult to walk. It can be said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the degree is even stronger than that of Shuzhong. The Tianxin in Shu is actually two-sided, Shuzhong can block the outside army, and the outside can also block the army in Shu from coming out. Just like the Battle of Yiling, Lu Xun blocked Liu Bei.

And the mediocrity is different, the mediocrity is also easy to keep, but it is difficult for people on the outside to trap the mediocrity inside. However, because the road of Shangyong's withdrawal is too difficult, Hanzhong has basically not returned here since ancient times.

The reason why this is the case is that there is actually an allusion, and this allusion is called mediocrity self-disturbance. This idiom is now used to describe a dull person, but it was born after the fall of the Yongguo in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Many people have not heard of Yongguo, but this country is very strong, even when it perished, it was also very powerful. The location of the Yong State is the Shangyong area, but the Yong people are very good at war, many small countries are vassals of the Yong State, and even the entire Hanzhong was once a vassal of the Yong State, and the territory of the Ba State was larger than that of the Ba State in its heyday. And it also frequently invades other countries, and basically no country can resist their invasions.

The state of Chu is a big country, and the king of Chu Zhuang is also a very wise king of the state of Chu. But it was during the time of King Chu Zhuang that many people in Chu starved to death because of natural disasters. At that time, the king of Chuzhuang was in the process of taoguang and obscurity, in the so-called stage of not flying for three years. At this time, many countries were attacking the Chu State, among which was the Yong State. In the face of other countries, King Chu Zhuang basically had no reaction, but in the face of Yongguo, King Chu Zhuang unexpectedly showed his wise side, tore off his disguise, and quickly contacted the two bitter masters of Yongguo, Ba and Qin.

So the three kingdoms joined forces, besieged Yongguo, destroyed Yongguo, and divided the land of Yongguo. The mediocrity attacked the Chu State and was wiped out by the Chu State, which is the original meaning of the mediocrity's self-disturbance.

After Di Qing won Shangyong, he then watched Xicheng. Xicheng County is also a famous place, in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang retreated to Xicheng, and Sima Yi's army chased after him, so there was a famous empty city plan.

But the empty city plan is fake, and the place name of Xicheng is wrong in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It is recorded in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms that Zhuge Liang returned to more than 1,000 families in Baxi County after losing the street pavilion. This West County is not the West City of Hanzhong, but the West County of Hanyang County. If Zhang He became Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang, he didn't use the empty city plan, not to mention these, everyone is familiar with them.

But Xicheng is not an easy place to attack, and the road from Shangyong to Xicheng is not very easy to walk. Therefore, Di Qing's capture of Shangyong was just to prepare for the attack on Hanzhong, and he did not attack immediately.

Zhang Lu in Hanzhong is not a fuel-efficient person, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and it is basically impossible to attack them with these 10,000 people alone. He now needs to wait for an opportunity in Shangyong, and what Li Jing has to do next is to create an opportunity for Di Qing so that he can raid Nanzheng, the seat of Hanzhong.

Li Jing stationed 50,000 troops in Xinye, and the monks and apprentices united and approached Wancheng together. They are ready to lay down Wancheng and completely solve the nail that Cao Cao left in Nanyang.