Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan wrote another letter to Cao Cao, this letter except Cao Cao, no Cao general in the army knows what Ma Xiaoquan wrote Of course, Mrs. Tsing Yi knows

+++++++++++++++++++At the beginning of December of the 23rd year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (218 AD), Liu Bei, who had been attacking Hanzhong for a long time, finally ushered in a strategic turning point.

If you want to talk about this, it is still inseparable from Ma Xiaoquan.

It is said that after Liu Bei and Cao Cao fought for a while last year without success, he was at a loss for the matter of food and salary, and at this time, Ma Xiaoquan sent someone to bring Liu Bei a sentence, the content was very simple, only a few words: The grain and grass will arrive soon.

Liu Bei was very surprised at that time, how could Lord Shangxian be so clear about his lack of food and grass in Yecheng? You must know that our Shu army has done a good job of secrecy.

At this time, Sun Quan suddenly wrote a letter to Liu Bei, telling Liu Bei that I heard that Uncle Liu Huang is now fighting with Cao Lao Thief, and I, Sun Zhongmou, were deeply moved, no matter what the two of us are, so when I wrote this letter to you, I had already delivered a batch of supplies to your army

Liu Bei has not stopped until now for half of his life, Sun Quan is young, and with Liu Bei's experience, he naturally understands what Sun Quan's purple-haired child is thinking, but the land of Hanzhong, if you don't take it, let alone Cao Cao, even if Sun Quan turns his face with himself in the future, he may make a detour to take Hanzhong.

After thinking about it, Liu Bei still decided to continue to fight Cao Cao, as for Jingzhou, there should be no problem with Yu here.

Liu Bei was very curious in his heart, why did Lord Shangxian and Sun Quan write letters one after another, and one said that the grain and grass would arrive soon, and the other said that a batch of materials would be sent, could it be that the batch of materials that Sun Quan said was grain and grass?

With a skeptical mentality, Liu Bei ushered in Sun Quan's envoy at the end of the twenty-third year of Jian'an.

I thought that Sun Quan's so-called "batch of materials" was nothing more than a meaning, but after seeing the materials, Liu Bei was deeply shocked by Sun Quan's generosity.

The most scarce thing in the war was food, and Sun Quan did what he liked and simply sent Liu Bei two months' rations.

At this time, the number of Liu Beijun's troops had reached more than 50,000 people, and two months' rations? Good guy, Sun Quan really has courage.

Liu Bei didn't have time to thank Sun Quan, so he simply wrote a letter and asked Wu Jun's envoy to bring it back.

Liu Bei actually didn't know that when he received Sun Quan's supplies, Sun Quan, who was far away in Chaisang, was holding a wine jug and stealing fun.

Why? Because Sun Quan's batch of materials was actually bought from him by Ma Xiaoquan, and then given to Liu Bei in the name of his Sun Quan.

Of course, the reason why Ma Xiaoquan did this was completely for the sake of the process of history.

Since the start of the war between Cao and Liu, although Ma Xiaoquan was far away in Yecheng, he had been paying attention to the movements of the two armies all the time.

Since there were no carrier pigeons at this time, only fast horses to deliver news, so Ma Xiaoquan specially hired a group of retired Cao soldiers to do his detailed work to inquire about the news of the two sides, of course, to ensure the timeliness of the news, the number of people who inquired about the news should be at least more than 1,000.

After several months of investigation, Ma Xiaoquan was surprised to find that although Liu Bei seemed to have an advantage, in fact, because of the problem of grain, grass and salary, he had not formed a strong attack.

Ma Xiaoquan compared the timetable in the data device in his body, and after calculating again, he felt that the process was a little slower, so he sent someone to Sun Quan day and night, and negotiated a deal with Sun Quan to send military rations in his name.

Although Sun Quan was younger than Liu Bei, he was not a fool, and when he first heard the terms of the transaction brought by Ma Xiaoquan's envoy, Sun Quan did not agree.

Although Sun Liu has an alliance, but for the problem of Jingzhou, Sun Liu has been very unhappy, even if Sun Quan is stronger than Liu Bei now, he will not let down his guard against Liu Bei, thinking that when Liu Bei had nothing, he was very cheeky and shameless and had strong ability, and now Liu Bei has a foothold in Yizhou, we don't know if the ability is strong or not, but the thickness of the face may be strengthened more.

Ma Xiaoquan concluded that Sun Quan would not agree, so he specially prepared a letter for Sun Quan before his envoy set off.

After the Ma family's envoy was refused, the envoy immediately took out Ma Xiaoquan's letter and handed it to Sun Quan.

Sun Quan unfolded the letter suspiciously and read it, and suddenly smiled.

No one knows what Ma Xiaoquan wrote to Sun Quan, but after reading this letter from Lord Shangxian, Sun Quan immediately changed his mind, and despite everyone's dissuasion, he gave Ma Xiaoquan a large number of materials on credit.

Half a month later, Ma Xiaoquan fulfilled his promise to trade and paid Sun Quan a batch of treasures, of course, at this time the war was still going on

With Sun Quan's batch of supplies, Liu Bei instantly felt that his waist was stiff. After sending out detailed investigations one after another, Liu Bei got another good news.

This will be the beginning of January in the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, it is a severe winter weather, the weather is dry and does not snow, and the north wind is whistling.

Due to the lack of numbers, Cao Jun sprinkled a lot of horse rejection antlers on Liu Beijun's road to Hanzhong.

Liu Bei immediately came up with a "fire in winter" and burned the antlers all over the ground into brittle wood.

With the "encouragement of the flames", Liu Bei began to storm the land of Hanzhong on a large scale.

There were not many Cao soldiers, not to mention the defeat and retreat, and there was no chance to even defeat and retreat to rectify the army.

Liu Bei was full of spirits, full of pride, eating the food sent by Sun Quan, Liu Bei didn't seem to have any love at all, he fought for three days, and Liu Bei gnawed on chicken legs for three days.

However, although the battle was more and more victorious, there was a general in Cao's army who really made Liu Bei suffer.

"Damn~~" Liu Bei spit out the chicken leg bone in his mouth and scolded hatefully, "A jaw opening actually restrained my tens of thousands of troops, it's really annoying to me!" ”

Fa Zheng stepped forward and said: "Don't be impatient, although our army broke through Yangping Pass, but did not send people to garrison, there are many mountainous areas in Hanzhong, and the open jaw is smaller than our army, and it is naturally more advantageous to attack and retreat than our army, but why should we keep fighting with it?" ”

Liu Bei nodded and motioned for Fa Zheng to continue.

Fa Zheng said: "Your lord, you can lead the army to cross the mian water, go straight to the Dingjun Mountain, and then seize the favorable terrain."

Liu Bei's eyes lit up, and he nodded and praised: "This plan is very wonderful, good, just according to what Xiaozhi said." ”

Fa Zheng's surprise attack was very effective, because the number of Cao troops was small, they could not effectively prevent the Shu army from forcibly crossing the water, and after a little resistance, the Cao army gave up the water and retreated to Dingjun Mountain.

Dingjun Mountain is a throat road leading to Hanzhong, and if Dingjun Mountain is taken, it can be said that many important roads will be directly connected.

Liu Bei understands this truth, and Cao Cao naturally understands it, but Cao Jun's manpower is now insufficient, even if Cao Cao has come to Hanzhong to supervise the battle at this moment, there is no way to send troops to help.

Cao Cao sent a letter to Xiahou Yuan, the commander of the army, warning him not to act rashly and to calm down, but Xiahou Yuan thought that the lord was old and his courage had become smaller, so he did not listen.

After encountering the Shu army, Xiahou Yuan personally went out to fight with the Shu army for a day, although the Shu army was superior in numbers, but due to the unfavorable terrain, Xiahou Yuan had their own victories and defeats.

At night, Liu Bei convened his subordinates to discuss the next strategy.

Fa Zheng said: "My lord, our current grain and grass situation can be eased due to Sun Quan's assistance, and take this opportunity to think that our subordinates should first take Dingjun Mountain!" ”

Liu Bei nodded and said, "It's just that how to take Dingjun Mountain?" ”

Fa Zheng smiled slightly, pointed to the sand table and said: "Dingjun Mountain is not the highest terrain in this area, but Xiahou Yuan is stationed in Dingjun Mountain, that is to say, we can completely seize a higher terrain than Dingjun Mountain, and attack Xiahou Yuan to attack and kill the lord, please see" Fa Zheng said, pointing to a mountain road on the sand table, "This mountain is called 'Broken Army Mountain', adjacent to Dingjun Mountain, because the terrain is relatively steep, Xiahou Yuan did not send too many people to guard"

Liu Bei kept nodding his head while listening: "Okay, then take the broken army mountain." ”

The next day, the Shu army broke through the military mountain, and this move caught Xiahou Yuan a little off guard.

Xiahou Yuan immediately sent Zhang Jaw to the rescue, and he himself actually ran down the mountain to repair the antlers that were destroyed by the Shu army.

After Liu Bei got the news, he immediately sent General Huang Zhong to attack Dingjun Mountain.

Xiahou Yuan saw that the situation was not right, not only did he not retreat, but he actually ran to fight Huang Zhong.

Liu Bei saw that Xiahou Yuan was so impulsive, and he was secretly overjoyed in his heart. He adopted Fazheng's strategy of "the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy retreats and I chase, and the enemy returns to me", so that Xiahou Yuan not only did not get a little cheap, but also became more and more angry.

In the face of the successive provocations of the Shu army, Xiahou Yuan couldn't sit still. But there are more people on the other side than yourself, and you can't beat it hard, really

In the afternoon of this day, the temperature rose slightly, and Xiahou Yuan was drinking water angrily, when suddenly there was a sound of gongs and drums not far away.

Xiahou Yuan waved his hand and said, "Damn, it's Huang Zhong's dead old man's cry again, don't pay attention to it." With that, Xiahou Yuan sat on the ground and wiped his spear.

But this time Xiahou Yuan made a mistake in judgment.

Huang Zhong really called him, but after shouting a few times in a row, seeing that Xiahou Yuan had no reaction, Huang Zhong really led the army to rush over.

By the time the Shu army approached, it was too late to say anything.

Xiahou Yuan was only halfway through his words before Huang Zhong cut off his braids with a knife on his shoulder, and as soon as the main general died, Cao Junjun was in turmoil.

After Zhang Jaw, who went to the rescue of Pojun Mountain, got the news, he couldn't continue to hold on, so he had to retreat to the north bank of the Han River in one go.

Since then, Dingjun Mountain has been lost.