Guan Yu, who was originally advancing slowly, immediately accelerated his march after receiving Luo Hai's good news the next day, and it only took three days to completely enter the Shangdang area and reach the easternmost Jincheng area of the Shangdang region.

Starting from Yicheng, the straight-line distance is actually more than 200 miles, but the mountain road is tortuous, and if you really want to calculate it, it will never be less than 300 miles.

The entire Shangdang area is actually quite large, from east to north, it is four or five hundred miles long, and about two hundred miles wide from east to west. A high ground, a relatively flat high ground, surrounded by mountains, is really a very peculiar terrain.

However, don't look at the Shangdang area as large, but the population in it is really small. It is not as many as those in later generations, there are 20,000 or 30,000 people in a small town in the Shangdang area.

According to some historical investigations, in the fifth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Han Dynasty (140), there were 26,222 households in Shangdang County, with a population of 127403 people, an area of 29,228 square kilometers, and a population density of about 4.44 people per square kilometer, with an average of about six people per household. You must know that 140 A.D. is only a few decades after now, and there were only about 120,000 people at that time, which shows the thinness of its population.

Of course, after several decades of development, the population of the Shangdang area may be hundreds of thousands, but at most it will not exceed the population of 300,000 or 400,000. Otherwise, Zhang Yang would not have been in the party for so long, and he still hasn't been able to develop. It was also because of the threat of the Celestial Wolf Army that he would expand his army to seventy or eighty thousand horses.

Most of the population in the Shangdang area is concentrated in the area east of Shangdang. Such as Jincheng, Changzhi, Huguan area.

Jincheng is the main city of Shangdang, however, Zhang Yang felt that Jincheng was too close to Hedong and Hanoi of Jizhou and was vulnerable to surprise attacks, so he usually took Changzhi as the center and regarded Huguan in the south of Changzhi as his main military fortress. Most of his troops stayed in Huguan.

Guan Yu's army, when entering the Shangdang area, met Luo Hai who was waiting, Wu Jiang, a group of underworld experts, it turned out that these guys. Just after a battle with Zhang Yang's reinforcements, neither side took advantage of anything. Afterward. Zhang Yang's reinforcements withdrew to Jincheng.

After Guan Yu asked. It is confirmed that this Zhang Yang army of about 5,000 people should be Zhang Yang's elite sergeants, so we must deal with these thousands of people first. After all, Jincheng is in the easternmost region of the Shangdang region, and if they don't solve it, they will attack Changzhi and Huguan, and it will not be easy for them to stab themselves in the back.

Numerous spies were dispatched. went to reconnoiter Zhang Yang's current situation, and also divided 10,000 military horses and advanced to Changzhi, mainly using these 10,000 military horses. The containment attracted Zhang Yang's attention, so that he did not dare to easily lead the army to Jincheng to support.

Jincheng is the main city of the Shangdang region, and the capture of Jincheng is equivalent to being able to gain a foothold in the Shangdang region.

Jincheng is an ancient city, and the entire city is not too big, and the population does not reach 100,000. Especially after Zhang Yang forcibly conscripted a group of Shangdang people as laborers, the population in Jincheng is estimated to be between 50,000 and 60,000.

The defender who stayed in Jincheng was Fang Jing, a confidant of Zhang Yang.

As soon as Guan Yu's army arrived, he closed the city and wanted to use the strong city to defend it. Depending on how Guan Yu called the formation, he just couldn't come out.

In addition, he sent soldiers to force the people in the city to help them defend the city.

There was no way, because Guan Yu didn't have any siege equipment, and he was not in a hurry to attack the city, but left 20,000 military horses to besiege Jincheng, and sent another 10,000 horses to attack Changzhi. Another 10,000 horses were sent to meet the other two armies entering the Shangdang area.

Five days later, the frustrated army of Lu Bu and Zhao Yun had also entered the Shangdang area, and they divided into two routes, besieging Changzhi City all the way and attacking Huguan all the way.

For a time, the Shangdang area was covered with war clouds, and the smell of fierce soldiers and dangerous battles infected everyone in the Shangdang area.

Zhang Yang Now, when the Heavenly Wolf Army was besieging Changzhi, he had already withdrawn the 20,000 elite soldiers who had not been sent out to Huguan. At this time, he also knew that the general situation had gone, and he also sent fast horses to order the troops who stayed behind to enter the Shangdang area in various states to withdraw quickly, so as not to be annihilated by the Heavenly Wolf Army one by one.

The Sky Wolf Army has more troops than him, and the sergeants are stronger than him. Zhang Yang now, there is really a feeling that the world is not in the future.

He is now faced with three choices. First, it is to surrender to the Sky Wolf Army. Second, he led his army, left Shangdang, went east out of Jizhou Hanoi, and went to seek refuge with Yuan Shao. Third, it is to fight to the death with the Heavenly Wolf Army, but it is foreseeable that in the end, it will be the end of his Zhang Yangcheng's death.

However, Zhang Yang was really unwilling, he had been in Shangdang for so long, and he was a good local emperor, before he walked out of Shangdang to participate in the Dong Alliance, and not long after he came back to occupy the state, he was now forced into a corner by Chu Xiong. The hatred in his heart. It's a pity that the facts in front of him really don't have a little way.

He also knows that staying in Qingshan is not afraid of running out of firewood. However, he also knew that whether he took refuge in Chu Xiong or Yuan Shao, he might not have any chance of getting ahead. Chu Xiong didn't say it, he didn't know what his fate would be after he took refuge in Chu Xiong. Even if Chu Xiong doesn't kill himself, I'm afraid he won't reuse himself, because he has a few catties and a few taels He knows in his heart that if he wants to be martial or not, if he wants to plan or not, what can he do? Why? He is used to being a hero, and he is really not used to the role of me as a fish.

Similarly, if you take refuge in Yuan Shao, there will be no good end. If he leads the army to vote, Cao Cao will definitely take care of himself, and if he doesn't bring the army to vote, he won't be able to reuse.

In the end, Zhang Yang decided that no matter what, he would not give up lightly, and he really didn't want to give up his own glory and wealth without fighting to the last soldier.

Zhang Yang also saw his sergeant. Under the pressure of the large army of the Sky Wolf Army, the sergeant's morale was weakened, and he had lost the courage to fight with the Sky Wolf Army.

Time passed day by day, and the Sky Wolf Army surrounded the three places without attacking, but freed up its troops. took away other areas of the party.

Zhang Yang was besieged on the fifth day of Shangdang, the entire area north of Shangdang. In the direction of the Celestial Wolf Army. The local towns, without much resistance at all, surrendered to the Sky Wolf Army, and what made Zhang Yang feel helpless the most was that the people of Shangdang, who had been oppressed for a long time, actually welcomed the Sky Wolf Army. This also allowed the Celestial Wolf Army to soon be able to completely dominate the area. The improvised government was also loved by the people. Now, it is also the summer cultivation period, under the rule of the Sky Wolf Army. Farming is in full swing everywhere.

The first to hold on was Jincheng.

Under the spontaneous action of the people, he secretly opened a city gate, let the captain of the wolf army drive straight in, and the more than 5,000 soldiers defending the city, the main general Fang Jing was beheaded by Zhang Fei, and the sergeants were killed by more than 2,000 people, and about 3,000 people surrendered.

As soon as Jincheng fell, Zhang Yang's general trend has gone. He cowered in Huguan and did not dare to come out, and in the end, Changzhi was also attacked by Lu Bu's army.

What made Zhang Yang helpless was that the generals who fled back to Huguan told him that in the process of attacking the city, the people who were forced by them to participate in the defense of the city were forced by them to defect to the siege of the city.

As a result, Zhang Yang finally tasted the evil consequences of committing many injustices and killing himself. If he hadn't been so oppressed by the people in the party, how could the people treat him like this?

Jincheng and Changzhi fell to the hands of the Heavenly Wolf Army one after another, and Zhang Yang became a lonely city in Huguan. However, even if those two cities were not lost, each city would be lonely, because they would not dare to go out of the city to help each other. With the Sky Wolf Army having more troops than them, it would be a dead end for them to dare to leave the city.

Guan Yu sent people to persuade Zhang Yang to surrender to no avail, so he attacked Huguan.

Of course, the intensity of the strong attack is not large, and until the last moment, Guan Yu will definitely not lose too many troops because of the forced siege.

Zhang Yang took advantage of the night to lead the army out of the city to break through. But from the very beginning, he was intercepted by the Heavenly Wolf Army, escaped from Huguan for more than 20 miles, and fell into an ambush that Guo Jia had already ambushed.

Zhang Yang's entire army was annihilated, and he himself was seriously injured by Zhang Fei, who arrived at the scene, and died after rescue.

Before he died, he asked Zhang Fei if Chu Xiong could tolerate him if he voted for Chu Xiong.

Zhang Fei laughed, "Haha, don't ask about this, haven't you heard of the name of benevolence and righteousness of my lord, what's the point of asking this now." ”

At this point, the battle of Shangdang was finally won with the demise of Zhang Yang.

Looking at the battle of Shangdang, the difficulty is how to wave the army into the Shangdang, and even if Zhang Yang returns to his lair, his soldiers are not opponents of the Heavenly Wolf Army. Zhang Yang's demise was also expected.

Shangdang fell into the hands of the Heavenly Wolf Army, and Guo Yun, the Taishou of Xihe County, went to Taiyuan to find Liu Bei to surrender to Cheng in a very prescient name, for him who has no ambition to be a Taishou, who is a state pastor has nothing to do with him, he can continue to be a Taishou if he is lucky, and he can save his life if he is unlucky.

Of course, Liu Bei likes this kind of person the most, and it's a good thing to be afraid of death! If you are afraid of death, you will be obedient, and your own policies will be easy to implement.

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"Congratulations to the lord and the great victory!" Fu Zhi personally looked for Chu Xiong in the palace, knelt in front of Chu Xiong, and bowed to the monarch and ministers, and then said happily.

"Ahem...... It's all said that sitting and talking, you are like this, and this king can't help but want you to kneel on the washboard, um. Mr. Fu is really a bit like ......" I looked at the really obscene Fu Zhi, and I couldn't help but make fun of him.

"Lord, what is a washboard, is it a sacred object invented by the lord, can you show me." It was also very novel to hear Chu Xiong's new term suddenly appear.

"Well, this is really not, let's talk about merging the state!" I was embarrassed, I thought too much, how can there be such a thing in this era.