Boom! Boom! Boom!

Knock Knock......

The sound of the drum was sudden, and when the sky was only slightly bright, it sounded without warning.

The sound of drums shook people's hearts and made everyone's sleepiness dissipate in an instant.

In Padang City, there was a sound of ping-pong, which was the awakening of some people in the city by the heavy and passionate drumming. Most of the people thought that something big had happened, and they jumped up in a panic, naturally they stumbled, got some plates and scoops at home, and made some noises.

It is not a big deal for a person or a family to do so, but at the same point in time, and it is still the same among the people of the whole city, so it is inevitable that there will be such a loud sound of ping-pong.

The sound of a long horn vibrated shortly after the drum sounded.

At this moment, the people in Padang City were quiet, because they had come back to their senses and knew that this was the prelude to the army.

Sure enough, on the street outside the densely packed houses, there was already a cheering order, which was the cheering of the generals and sergeants to assemble in line.

Stomp, stomp!

Then, the sound of the uniform army moving also sounded.

"Is the Yizhou army attacking the city? Son, quick! Check it out, and if you need our help with deliveries, do so. ”

"Going to fight? No, you have to help. ”

"Mother, you stay at home, we can't suffer the benefits of the New Han Dynasty in vain. Now that there's going to be a war, we're going to have to help. ”

"We can't go to the battlefield and kill the enemy. But there are some heavy jobs in the army, and if you need manpower. Our old and young masters are all okay. Let's go and ask the officers in the barracks. ”

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These are some of the reactions of the people in Padang City. During the period of time when the New Han Army was stationed in Badong City, they were already close to the officers and soldiers of the New Han Army, and they had already subconsciously regarded themselves as the subjects of the New Han Dynasty and the Yizhou Army as enemies.

It is precisely because the governance policy of the New Han Dynasty is open and transparent, enlightened and obedient. Let the people of Padang City directly benefit and benefit, you can see and feel that under the rule of the New Han Dynasty, their lives are getting better day by day, and their lives are full of hope.

Therefore, when they heard the sound of war drums and horns, their first reaction was to think that the Yizhou army was coming and was going to attack the city. Most of them can come out spontaneously and want to do something for the New Han Army.

Well, that, Zhang Fei has been fighting against Liu Beijun in Badong City for the past few months. It's not that it's not without gains.

However, when many people went out to help, they were told by the soldiers of the New Han Army on the street. This one. It was not the Yizhou Army that called, but the New Han Army was going to attack the Yizhou Army. It's time to march to Yizhou.

The people of Padang City who heard the news were stunned. Most of them have a more complex mind. After all, not long ago, they were also from Yizhou, and now they have become the subjects of the New Han Dynasty, and it won't be long before they are going to fight Yizhou. However, more people, thinking about the current good, think that it is actually good that Yizhou will be under the jurisdiction of the New Han Dynasty in the future. At least, they don't see anything bad right now, do they? On the contrary, it is much better now than it was before.

Therefore, after they were stunned for a while, they were also a little happy, and began to cheer for the New Han Army on the side of the street. Among them, many of them actually have a relatively close relationship with the people in Yizhou. There are also many Padang people who still have their relatives in Yizhou. They thought that if the New Han Army entered Yizhou and unified Yizhou, they would also be able to contact each other with their relatives, and they would not have to be as difficult to communicate with each other as they are now.

These circumstances actually show that the attack of the Xinhan Army on the Yizhou Army is the will of the people.

The city walls of Badong City, which is not too tall and majestic, have been planted with the dragon banner of the Han Dynasty, and the city gates in the west and south of the city are opened in a rattling sound, and the first to rush out are two cavalry armies, and the cavalry army went out of the city in order to stabilize the situation first.

Then, there were the infantrymen, pikemen, archers, swords and shields. After that, there are military horses that carry heavy weapons such as trebuchets and bed crossbows.

In addition, Zhao Yun's cavalry army was also launched, divided into two, one slowly advanced upstream along the bank of the river, and the other advanced along the foot of the mountain south of Padang City, this cavalry army was mainly to protect the southern wing of the New Han Army coming out of Badong City.

Badong City is not too big, so the cavalry led by Zhao Yun later did not enter the city, but camped in the southeast of Badong City, facing the Yizhou army in the west of Badong City.

The Yizhou Army and the Xinhan Army only faced each other in Badong City, and the Yizhou Army occupied the Ichuan Mountain Road and a large area of mountains in the west of Badong City, as well as a large camp of the Yizhou Army in the west of Badong City.

Liu Bei was really not at ease, he originally wanted to leave Badong and return to Chengdu, and wanted to completely seize control of Yizhou from Liu Zhang's hands first, so that he could completely take Yizhou for himself. However, he really didn't dare to leave Padang City. Because he is in opposition to Zhang Fei here in Padang City, then Zhang Fei will not directly send troops to attack him.

Liu Bei knew Zhang Fei's temperament too well, and knew that Zhang Fei was a knife-mouthed tofu-hearted person. Don't look at the usual he is arrogant and impulsive, but he is a person who pays the most attention to affection. Moreover, compared to Guan Yulai, Zhang Fei may be more strong.

At least, not long after the recapture of Zhuzhou, when Guan Yu was surrounded in Xiapi, if it was Zhang Fei, I am afraid that Zhang Fei would definitely not agree to Cao Cao's conditions, and Zhang Fei would not have thought of the matter of making three chapters with Cao Cao, and even, he would rather die than have anything to do with Cao Cao.

Such a strong person is also the most emotionally fragile person. Liu Bei is confident that no matter what Zhang Fei does, he will not take his former big brother seriously. Liu Bei also has that kind of confidence, even if he stood in front of Zhang Fei with his head held high and let Zhang Fei stab him with a knife, he believed that Zhang Fei would not dare.

It is precisely because of this understanding that self-confidence. Liu Beicai couldn't leave Padang easily. As long as he is there, as long as the commander of the New Han Army on the opposite side is still Zhang Fei. Then, the New Han Army will not want to enter Yizhou. So. Yizhou is safe and sound, and he has time to operate, if the entire Yizhou is twisted into a rope, he will go all out to fight against the New Han Dynasty.

Liu Bei is in Badong City, which does not mean that he does nothing, but he controls the situation in Yizhou from afar, and keeps sending people to operate. Now, in Chengdu City, people from Liu Zhang's faction. There is already a faint situation of being controlled in a corner of Chengdu City.

More local wealthy families in Chengdu have slowly moved closer to Liu Bei in line with the idea that Liu Bei can get more benefits by following him, at least they can preserve the benefits they can obtain now. It is precisely because of the support of many wealthy families in Chengdu that Liu Bei is now able to maintain the expenses of hundreds of thousands of troops, including the military rations paid to the barbarian army.

Originally, Liu Bei wanted to borrow Meng Shu's power to help him officially seize Yizhou and help him with his strength. Resist the attack of the New Han army. In this way, he Liu Beifang may show his strength in Yizhou, so that he has space and time for development.

However, he really didn't expect it. Zhang Lukong in Hanzhong had hundreds of thousands of military horses, but he was defeated by the New Han Army so easily. He was a little sad about his misfortune and angry with him. Zhang Lu, this bastard. If he can cooperate with him more deeply, he and Meng Xu's army can enter Hanzhong. Cooperate with his military horses to hold the only way for the New Han army to enter Hanzhong, so why does Zhang Lu have today's fate?

Every time I think of Zhang Lu's face that rejects people thousands of miles away. From the beginning, he didn't seem to pay much attention to him, and Liu Bei felt annoyed when he didn't look very good.

Of course, these things are already a foregone conclusion. When Zhang Lu of Hanzhong announced his return to the New Han Dynasty, Liu Bei was really a little panicked and worried.

In this way, Liu Bei had to respond accordingly.

Fortunately, Liu Bei had already made arrangements in Hanzhong, and he was finally able to sell Zhang Lu's subordinate Yang Song. In this way, he can capture Yangping Pass without blood.

From Hanzhong to Xichuan, there are not many roads that can be walked, but there are just a few steep mountain roads. Except for the Yangping Pass line, which is a route more suitable for the operation of the army, other mountain roads are not easy to pass. At most, you can let some lightly armed people pass. However, in the dangerous places of those mountain roads, Liu Bei had already made arrangements and sent his most trusted people to guard them, and he believed that it would be absolutely difficult for the New Han Army to enter Yizhou from those small roads.

For this reason, Yangpingguan is particularly important.

Liu Bei couldn't leave Badong City, he was worried that once he left, Zhang Fei would have no restraint, and at that time, with the military horses he left, he might not be able to withstand the attack of the New Han army. At this point, Liu Bei knew in his heart that if the Xinhan army really wanted to attack him earlier, his Yizhou army, which had low combat effectiveness, would have been defeated long ago, and the road to Yizhou had already been opened to the Xinhan army.

Under such circumstances, Liu Bei had no choice but to invite Meng Huo to go to Yangping Pass to defend Yangping Pass, wanting to use the strength of Meng Huo's barbarian army to invade the western route of the New Han army.

When asking Meng Shu to lead the army to Yangping Pass to receive the pass, Liu Bei also warned Meng Huo very seriously, asking Meng Shu not to be careless, it is best to defend Yangping Pass, not to go out of the pass easily to fight with the New Han army, and not to have the intention of entering Hanzhong.

Because Liu Bei also knew that Meng Shu was indeed a little arrogant in his heart. In other words, Meng Huo, the remote king of the Southern Barbarians, has been in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, and there is a little bit of ignorance of the frog at the bottom of the well sitting in the well and watching the sky. I didn't intuitively understand the power of the New Han Army at all. He didn't know that the prestige of the New Han Army had been slowly built up in the past ten years, not bragging. He, the Southern Barbarian Army, still has the idea of wanting to compete with the New Han Army, which is very dangerous.

However, within a few days, what made Liu Bei so depressed that he vomited blood was that Meng Shu really took his words as the wind in his ears, and actually stupidly listened to Yang Song's instigation, and wanted to wave his army into Hanzhong to plunder? Really ridiculous, ignorant! Guys who don't know whether they are dead or alive.

There is one thing that may not have been seriously considered by ordinary princes. That is, after the establishment of the New Han Dynasty, I don't know how many times it was invaded by foreign races, or attacked by princes. However, there is a fact that people can't help but consider, but all the areas and towns that were collected by the New Han Dynasty have basically not been lost, especially for a region, as long as it falls into the hands of the New Han Dynasty, then no matter who wants to rob it, it will inevitably hit a head and bleed.

is as strong as Cao Cao, didn't he take the Tiger Prison Pass from the hands of the New Han Army? However, the ass was not yet hot, and the New Han Army immediately took it back. Let Cao Cao lose his troops and generals, make duck blood everywhere, and his strength has been greatly reduced, until now, Cao Cao has not really recovered his vitality, and in the face of the new Han Dynasty, he is still in a defensive posture, and he does not dare to provoke Liu Yi easily.

Therefore, after Liu Bei discovered this characteristic, he has always warned himself in his heart that if he is not completely sure, he must not recklessly compete with the New Han Army for the territory that has fallen into the hands of the New Han Army. What he can do for the time being is to keep his important passes firmly in his hands, resolutely resist the attack of the New Han Army, and avoid his own territory falling into the hands of the New Han Army again.

Meng was a reckless man, and he buried nearly 100,000 barbarian troops in one fell swoop. Although it was not his Liu Bei's military horse, Liu Bei also felt heartache, because without a barbarian military horse that was stronger than the Yizhou army, why should he resist the New Han army? Also, what Liu Bei was most worried about was that he was worried that Meng Shu's defeat at this point would seriously hit Meng Shu's confidence and the morale of the barbarian army, and would seriously affect the attitude of the barbarian army towards the New Han army. Once those barbarian armies have a fear of the New Han Army, then Yizhou will be finished.

Fortunately, according to the information sent back by the spies Kuaima, Yangping Pass was still in his hands and did not fall into the hands of the New Han Army. Then it's not too bad. Liu Bei only hopes that Meng Shu can suffer a loss and grow wise, and can firmly guard Yangping Pass for him.

Liu Bei was anxiously watching the battle between Yizhou and Hanzhong, and he also did not expect that the New Han Army in Badong City, which he had thought would not attack him in the morning, would actually attack his camp at this moment, without warning. This really made Liu Bei's eyes fall in shock.

As soon as the drums in Padang City sounded, he was so frightened that he jumped up from his bed, and before he even had time to put on his armor, he ran to the high place in the camp to observe.

He saw a detachment of the New Han Army driving out of the city of Padang, and saw some baggage also being carried out of the city. Seeing the New Han Army camp that came to the east of Padang City in the distance, there were also cavalry driving out continuously. Liu Bei felt that something bad was going to happen, this time, the Xinhan Army was going to play with him, and it was really going to attack his Yizhou Army. (To be continued......)