In fact, in the Three Kingdoms game played by Zhu Wei, the location of Wancheng is also very crucial.

Wancheng just sealed the north of Xiangyang, and there was also a new Yecheng as a buffer, as long as Wancheng was held, it could ensure that Xiangyang was in a safe rear, and through Wancheng, it could attack Chang'an in the northwest, Luoyang in the north, and Xudu, Chenliu and other Central Plains in the northeast.

In the game of the Three Kingdoms, Wancheng was originally often a city occupied by Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu had a large number of troops, so when Zhu Wei played the game, he would use the tactic of consuming food to send an army to pull Yuan Shu's huge army around the war map until Yuan Shu's grain and grass were exhausted, and then he could receive Yuan Shu's more than 100,000 surrendered troops.

This can be regarded as a means of playing this Three Kingdoms game.

It's a pity that in the real world of the Three Kingdoms, Yuan Shu has already been driven from Wancheng to Shouchun in Huainan, and at the same time, it is impossible for Zhu Wei to use the tactics of consuming food in the real world, so Zhu Wei can only rely on himself to recruit and train troops.

Fortunately, it is much easier to recruit soldiers in the real world than in the Three Kingdoms game, and it does not need to spend much gold and food, and it will not reduce the loyalty of the people too much, so Zhu Wei gradually made an army of more than 100,000.

However, Wancheng's position in the real world is indeed very crucial, and it can be regarded as the gateway to protect Jingzhou.

It's just that although Wancheng has great military and strategic significance, Wancheng itself is not an easy to defend and difficult to attack city.

This Wancheng is located on the basin valley plain, and like Fancheng, it does not cause much difficulty to the besieging party, so once the Cao army is close to Wancheng in the original history, it can easily capture Wancheng.

Previously, Zhang Xiu had been captured by Cao Cao many times, and had to retreat to other county seats, and then recaptured Wancheng with the help of reinforcements sent by Liu Biao.

Therefore, the forces generally stationed in Wancheng want to meet the enemy from the north, most of them go to the north of Wancheng, and Bowangpo extended from Funiu Mountain, with the help of the terrain advantage of Bowangpo, it is more defensible than directly garrisoning Wancheng.

This time, the combined forces of Zhu Wei and Zhang Xiu faced the Cao army commanded by Xiahou Yuan, and the main battlefield was also placed in Bowangpo, and Wancheng could only be regarded as a military city of the rear garrison.

At the same time, as mentioned earlier, the land of Nanyang has gone through the scourge of war and plague, and the population has been greatly reduced.

Now there are less than 20,000 people in Wancheng, so Zhu Wei led the army into Wancheng, and what he saw could be regarded as a somewhat ruined city.

Wancheng changed hands several times in the hands of Cao Cao, Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao's coalition forces, and when Zhang Xiu rebelled against Cao Cao before, he had set fire in Wancheng, so now many houses in this city are abandoned and collapsed.

Even the rammed earth city wall of Wancheng has collapsed in many places, leaving only a notch two or three meters high, and even a gap directly appears in some places.

But Zhang Xiu is too lazy to rebuild, anyway, he can't rely on the city to defend the attack of Cao Cao's army, so it's better to let it go, anyway, Wancheng is not his real territory, he is just temporarily stationed here to raise troops.

It's no wonder that Zhang Xiu doesn't care about Zhu Wei's entry into Wancheng now, and it doesn't matter if he even hands Wancheng directly to Zhu Wei, because Wancheng is really not worth his nostalgia or anything.

And Zhu Wei's army stationed in Wancheng did not cause any changes in Wancheng, the people of Wancheng have become accustomed to the changing king flag at the head of the city, as long as the new owner who enters Wancheng does not slaughter the city, they can continue to survive.

Of course, at this moment, Zhu Wei didn't care about the thoughts of these Wancheng people, and paid more attention to Bowangpo's side.

According to Jia Xu's strategy, Zhang Xiu led the troops directly to Bowangpo, and at the same time sent an envoy to Xiahou Yuan's troops and horses, which seemed to be preparing to lead the troops to join Xiahou Yuan's troops, and seemed to have completely surrendered to Cao Cao.

This is Jia Xu's plan to fake surrender.

Zhang Xiu's fake surrender can be regarded as taking advantage of the trend, because Cao Cao did ask Xiahou Yuan to send someone to contact Zhang Xiu before, saying that he was willing to continue to accept Zhang Xiu regardless of his previous suspicions, as long as Zhang Xiu was willing to surrender, and cooperated with Xiahou Yuan's troops to attack Nanyang and attack Xiangyang, Zhang Xiu would naturally be rewarded in the future.

So now Jia Xu asked Zhang Xiu to pretend to agree, and then made a gesture of being driven out of Wancheng by Zhu Wei's army, and directly went to Xiahou Yuan for help.

And now among the soldiers and horses of Zhang Xiu's department, there are about 4,000 Xiliang cavalry left by Zhang Ji, and these cavalry can be regarded as the core elite of Zhang Xiu's army, and they are the foundation of Zhang Xiu's life in this troubled era.

Zhang Xiu's treatment of these cavalry is also very good, and these Xiliang cavalry basically have two horses per person, and they can fight with different horses, and their combat effectiveness is indeed good.

In addition, Zhang Xiu also recruited 3,000 spearmen and more than 2,000 archers, sword and shield men in Nanyang, in fact, these soldiers and horses were more before, but they had lost a lot in the previous war.

However, the loss of these infantry is not in Zhang Xiu's mind, anyway, if they die, they can be recruited again, and it is relatively easy for infantry to train.

In addition, there are more than 2,000 foreign Hu cavalry and infantry under the command of Hu Che'er in Zhang Xiu'er's army, which can be regarded as a relatively warlike unit in Zhang Xiu's army.

Now Zhang Xiu has also gathered the troops and horses of Hu Che'er's department and retreated to the north side of Bowangpo together, preparing to find the 20,000 Cao troops commanded by Xiahou Yuan to converge.

And the Xiong Lu battalion on Zhu Wei's side also took over the defensive front of Zhang Xiu's army on the side of Bowangpo little by little, of course, in order to deceive the Cao army commanded by Xiahou Yuan, the Xiong Lu battalion commanded by Pang Yan also put on a posture of pursuing Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses.

Therefore, the Xiong Lu battalion took over Bowangpo's defense line, and it seems that it was also because of the defeat of Zhang Xiu's army that he had no fighting spirit, so he could easily take over the defense, anyway, on the surface, it seems that this scene is still somewhat real.

Now that Zhu Wei is in Wancheng, he can watch everything that happens in front of him through the Three Kingdoms game system like a live broadcast, and at the same time inform Jia Xu at any time, so that Jia Xu can also make changes at the first time.

Of course, when Zhu Wei led the army into Wancheng, the forward troops of Cao's army under Xiahou Yuan had also approached Bowangpo, so Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses had already been in contact with Cao's army.

And the soldiers and horses of the Xionglu battalion commanded by Pang Yan also stopped the so-called pursuit in a timely manner, and found a dangerous place to camp in Bowangpo, as if they were preparing to confront the Cao army of Xiahou Yuan here.

This famous Bowang slope in history, roughly located in the southwest of Wancheng about 60 miles, north of Funiu Mountain, south of Yinshan Mountain, west of the White River, in fact, is Funiu Mountain extends here a mangang area, that is, a kind of undulating low hilly landform environment.

There is also an ancient Xianghan Pass Road in Bowangpo, which is carved out between the hills and woods, which can allow business travelers from the south to the north to pass through, and it is also convenient for business travel vehicles to pass through the north and south on the ancient road.

And now this Xianghan Pass has naturally become the main road for the northern and southern armies to pass through Bowangpo......