Chapter Eighty-Seven: Dingjun Mountain

Located 5 kilometers south of M County, SX Province, Dingjun Mountain is composed of 12 hills, so the local people usually call it the Twelve Lianzhu Mountain. Looking from west to east, the third peak is the highest peak, and it is also the main peak of Dingjun Mountain, with an altitude of 833 meters, and the mountain is full www.biquge.info of pine and cypress lushness, which is a rare scenic place. There is a big depression behind this mountain, called Yangtian Depression, it is very spacious, it can be stationed more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, it is a good place to train soldiers.

There is a saying that "if you have the military mountain, you will get Hanzhong, and if you have Hanzhong, you will have the world." So after Cao Cao occupied Hanzhong, he sent a force of 8,000 people to be stationed in Dingjun Mountain to guard against the Shu army, but after Xiahou Yuan was defeated some time ago, most of the troops in Dingjun Mountain were withdrawn to the vicinity of Hanzhong City, so now the number of Wei troops on Dingjun Mountain is not much, and there are only less than 3,000 people. Later, Liu Bei led an army of 40,000 to suddenly arrive at Dingjun Mountain, like a divine soldier descending from heaven, and the Wei army on Dingjun Mountain surrendered without a fight.

In fact, Xiahou Yuan also knows the importance of Dingjun Mountain, and the topography of Dingjun Mountain determines that it is very beneficial to the defending side, even if there is only a thousand troops to hold on for a few days, there is no problem, so that he has enough time to rescue, and the Shu army wants to cross the Han River from Pujia Pass to Dingjun Mountain, and the time for the army to cross the Han River Xiahou Yuan is very clear in his heart, so Xiahou Yuan is actually not worried about the Shu army attacking Dingjun Mountain, on the contrary, Xiahou Yuan still has some hope that the Shu army will attack Dingjun Mountain, In this way, he can join forces with the Wei army on Dingjun Mountain and eliminate the Shu army. However, Xiahou Yuan never imagined that the time it took for the 40,000 troops of the Shu army to cross the river was so short, so short that he had no time to react. In the end, he had no choice but to order Zhang He to temporarily lead the army to retreat and preserve his strength for the future.

Due to Zhang He's timely retreat, the plan to prepare to attack Zhang He's 20,000 troops with General Zhang Fei in front and back did not come true, and a good opportunity to destroy the Wei army was lost. General Zhang Fei led his army to Hanzhong to the side of Hanshui and the SD side of the Dingjun Army, and set up camp here, so that he could form a rivalry with Liu Bei's army that was encamped in Dingjun Mountain.

With the warming of the weather, the pines and cypresses on Dingjun Mountain have also grown green young leaves at this time, looking around from the main peak, they are all green pines and cypresses, which are very spectacular and amazing. After Shi Yuan came to Dingjun Mountain, he took time to play Dingjun Mountain again. In the previous life, due to such and such reasons, I did not come to Dingjun Mountain to play, and now I have traveled to the Three Kingdoms period, and can come to Dingjun Mountain as Liu Bei's military advisor, Shi Yuan naturally has a pride in his heart, and Dingjun Mountain at this time is less humanistic, but there is a lot more natural color, which makes Shi Yuan very amazed and marvels at the charm of nature itself. Perhaps in the mountains, the less people deliberately embellish them, the more they can show the beauty of nature itself.

On this day, Shi Yuan was playing around in the Dingjun Mountain, and a guard found this place and told the lord to let the military advisor rush to the lord's military tent now, saying that there was something important to discuss. When Shi Yuan heard this, he didn't care about playing, and immediately rushed to Liu Bei's military tent with the guards. When he arrived at the military tent, Shi Yuan saw Liu Bei's angry face, and he also knocked over the water cup on the table to the ground, and felt a little strange in his heart.

"Lord, why is that?"

When Liu Bei saw Shi Yuan coming, he casually threw over a scroll of books, and then said angrily:

Huang Zhong and Li Hui fell into the trap of Cao Hong and Cao Zhen, lost more than 10,000 soldiers, and lost their defenses, and now they led their troops to retreat to Wudu. Now send someone over and ask for reinforcements! ”

Shi Yuan picked up the book that Liu Bei threw over, opened it and looked at it carefully, then put down the book, thought about it and said:

"Don't worry or be angry. Although General Huang Zhong was defeated for a while, the military capital was still in our hands, which gave us the opportunity to reoccupy the lower defense. ”

It turned out that after Cao Hong and Cao Zhen learned that Liu Bei led the army to cross the Han River, they immediately led the army to retreat, and it was not indispensable for the old general Huang Zhong to lead the army to pursue, but Huang Zhong never thought that this was a conspiracy of Cao Hong and Cao Zhen, pretended to retreat and then ambushed him, beat Huang Zhong by surprise, and almost completely wiped out the pursuing Huang Zhong troops, and finally Huang Zhong was able to escape under the desperate protection of the soldiers and returned to Wudu.

"Lord, now that our army has occupied Dingjun Mountain, Cao Jun is bound to come to fight with our army for this mountain, so Cao Hong and Cao Zhen will definitely lead their troops back to help, converge with Xiahou Yuan, Zhang He, etc., and then concentrate superior forces to fight a decisive battle with our army on Dingjun Mountain. The location of Hanzhong determined that the transportation of grain and grass for the Cao army was very inconvenient, so the battle of Hanzhong could not be delayed by the Cao army, and the Eastern Wu would definitely take advantage of the Cao army and our army to send troops when they were fighting in Hanzhong, so it was determined that the Cao army must have a decisive battle with our army as soon as possible.

Cao Hong and Cao Zhen led the troops back to help, and the military capital will be fine, so the lord can rest assured. For the sake of today's plan, we should discuss how to resist Cao's attack on Dingjun Mountain. ”

"What Shi Yuan said makes sense, but that Wudu is a necessary place to go from Longxi to Hanzhong, if Cao Cao sends troops from Longxi to attack Wudu, what can he do?"

"The lord is very worried, but the land of Longxi Cao Cao captured not long ago, the people's hearts are not attached, General Ma Chao is a Fufeng Wang clan, in the local people are very popular, for the sake of today's plan we can send Meng Qi to Longxi, incite the local people, then Cao's army is bound to be tired of coping, so it is impossible to send troops from Longxi to attack Wudu."

"It's just that Meng Qi is leading the army near Yangping Pass now, and if he leaves, I'm afraid that he will lose here." Liu Bei thought for a while and then said.

"It doesn't matter. After Meng Qi went to the land of Longxi, he could let Gongheng lead the soldiers to settle in Guancheng and Baishui Pass, and this road only needed to contain the enemy. And there is also General Wei Yan, who will be able to protect Guancheng and Baishuiguan. ”

"Okay, just follow the strategy of the military advisor."

After Liu Bei finished speaking, he picked up the brush on the table and wrote on the paper, and after writing, he called in a guard, and asked the guard to immediately go to General Ma Chao's barracks, and then handed it over to General Ma Chao with his own hands.

Not long after, Fa Zheng, Zhao Yun, Zhang Ren and others also came to Liu Bei's military camp, and Zhao Yun, Zhang Ren and others told Liu Bei about the situation of camping in Dingjun Mountain. The main peak of Dingjun Mountain is the highest peak among the 12 peaks, standing on the top of this peak and other peaks can be seen at a glance, so Zhao Yun, Zhang Ren and others deployed 20,000 Shu troops on this peak, and Liu Bei's military tent was also deployed in this peak, because there were many peaks in Dingjun Mountain, Liu Bei's 40,000 troops could not be stationed on each peak, so in the end, the remaining 20,000 people of the Shu army were deployed in four higher peaks.

The two peaks on the east and west sides of the main peak are each deployed with 5,000 Shu troops, respectively, there are Liu Feng and Zhang Bao two army commanders, and the westernmost peak is also deployed with 5,000 soldiers, led by Zhang Ren, the general of Anyuan, Liu Bei arrived at Pujia Pass because Zhang Ren made great contributions in the last victory over the Cao army, and appointed Zhang Ren as the general of Anyuan, which belongs to the rank of four products. If Cao's army crossed the Han River from Yangping Pass to attack Dingjun Mountain, this peak was the only way for Cao's army, so Liu Bei ordered Zhang Ren to lead Liu Bi and Deng Xian to personally guard this mountain. Zhao Yun and Fa Zheng led the remaining 5,000 men to camp on the eastern peak of Dingjun Mountain, which was the closest to General Zhang Fei's 15,000-strong military camp.

After some discussion, they departed for their respective camps.

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After Cao Hong and Cao Zhen killed more than 10,000 Shu troops in ambush, they led their troops to take the next defense, but because the army led by Liu Bei crossed the Han River and occupied Dingjun Mountain, the two did not dare to continue to attack Wudu, and finally Cao Hong ordered Zhang Ji to lead 5,000 soldiers to stay in the lower defense, and Cao Hong, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu and others led 20,000 soldiers to return to Yangping Pass and join Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He.

In fact, Cao Hong and others also know that if they leave now, it will become very difficult to take Wudu again, but they are forced by the general trend and now have to lead the army to leave, and Cao Hong and others are also very unwilling in their hearts.

After most of the day's march, Cao Hong and others led the army to Yangping Pass. After learning that Cao Hong led his troops to defeat Huang Zhong, the more than 10,000 Shu troops led by Ma Chao and Wei Yan led the army to leave Yangping Pass and returned to the Guancheng.

After arriving at Yangping Pass, there was no time to rest, Cao Hong and others went to the Yangping Pass meeting hall, at this time Xiahou Yuan, Zhang He, Xu Huang, Du Xi and other generals were all in Yangping Pass, there were a total of 60,000 Cao troops in the pass, and all the elite Cao troops in Hanzhong could be said to be here.

Now Liu Bei led 40,000 soldiers to camp in Dingjun Mountain, relying on the dangerous terrain. Dingjun Mountain is the most dangerous terrain in Han, and if you don't take it, it will be very disadvantageous to our army. Therefore, in order to get rid of the unfavorable situation, I decided to lead the army to Dingjun Mountain, and fought a decisive battle with Liu Bei's main force, and decided the battle of Hanzhong in the first battle. Xiahou Yuan said in the conference hall.

After Cao Hong heard Xiahou Yuan's words, he thought for a moment, and then said:

"General Xiahou, now that the lord has led the army from Luoyang, it won't take long to arrive in Hanzhong, can we hold on for a while, and wait for the army led by the lord to arrive in Hanzhong, and then it is not too late to fight Liu Bei."

"No." It turned out to be Du Xian, who should have had different thoughts after hearing Cao Hong's words!

"Now there are only 40,000 people of Liu Bei and 15,000 people of Zhang Fei in the land of Dingjun Mountain, and our army now has a certain advantage in the decisive battle of Dingjun Mountain.

Du Raid's words are not unreasonable, you must know that Hanzhong is much closer to Chengdu than Luoyang is closer to Chengdu, in comparison, it must be that Liu Bei's reinforcements to Hanzhong have a short time, Du Raid is worried that Liu Bei's reinforcements will have arrived in Hanzhong before the reinforcements led by the lord Cao Cao arrive.