Chapter 826: Messy Situation

Because of the arrogance of the Shu army, the Han army was dissatisfied with it, but because the Shu army came to support the Han army, the soldiers of the Han army could only suppress the dissatisfaction in their hearts.

Especially after the soldiers of the Shu army scourged the families of the generals of the Han army, causing the two sides to directly use force, the dissatisfaction of the soldiers of the Han army with them has reached its peak. However, under the suppression of the upper-level officials, they all forcibly suppressed the anger in their hearts.

But now, instead of going north, the Shu army began to retreat to Hanzhong, coupled with the spread of rumors, the anger in the hearts of the soldiers below began to be stimulated.

Your Shu army came to my land of Hanzhong, ate and drank well, was arrogant, and did all the bad things, and we tolerated it everywhere, but it was because you were under the banner of supporting the north. Now you don't move forward with a single shot, but you still want to hit Hanzhong's attention, don't even think about it.

As a result, the retreating Shu army began to become the target of cold attention from the Han soldiers everywhere. Originally, it was the Shu army that sneered at the Han army and said that the Han army was incompetent. Now, the soldiers of the Han army began to sneer at the soldiers of the Shu army, and returned the color. Of course, the soldiers of the Han army were also wary of the Shu army everywhere, in case they really had thoughts about the land of Hanzhong.

Luo Dingyuan, who was located in Chang'an, sent information to Hanzhong, and also sent information to the king of Hanzhong. After the king of Hanzhong learned about the situation of the Shu army in Hanzhong, coupled with Luo Dingyuan's intelligence, he couldn't help but worry that the Shu army would really think about Hanzhong. So he also sent an order to Hanzhong, asking Hanzhong to guard the Shu army, and never let the Shu army occupy the land of Hanzhong. However, because the Shu army did not make a move against Hanzhong, it did not directly send a letter to the Chengdu government to ask the king of Shu.

After the Zhao army occupied the northern part of Yinping Mansion, it immediately attacked the southern part of Yinping Mansion and Wenshan Mansion, and the momentum was grand, which made the King of Shu even worried about the situation in the north. Therefore, he ordered Hanzhong to seal the strict seal, asking his subordinates to return to the division immediately. However, he did not return to Yizhou directly, but entered Baocheng from the west of Hanzhong, and crossed the land of Yang into Yinping to defend against the Zhao army.

After Feng Yanzhang received the order, he immediately asked the army to go north to assemble quickly, and asked the Hanzhong government to prepare a batch of grain and grass for himself. The army and began to march to the northwestern part of Hanzhong.

The officials of Hanzhong have received an order from the king of Hanzhong, and they can't be careless about these Shu troops. Therefore, they asked these Shu troops to go north to Xiyongzhou, and Hanzhong would gradually transport grain and grass for them. In addition, they also began to express suspicion that the Shu army pushed the army and gathered to the northwest. At the same time, they also secretly implicitly implicated the Shu army, if you don't contribute to my Han army, why should I provide food and grass materials for your army?

You must know that there are more than 30,000 people in the Shu army supporting Hanzhong this time, and the food and grass materials needed by the army are not a few. No matter who it is, they are not willing to provide the daily needs of tens of thousands of armies for other princes for no reason. The Shu army supported Xiyongzhou, and naturally would not transport grain and grass from its own territory to the distant land of Xiyongzhou. In addition, the Shu army supported the Han army, which also contributed to the Han army, so the grain and grass were naturally provided by Hanzhong, which was closer to the front line.

Now the Shu army has to defend its north, and the grain and grass needed by the army can only be provided by Hanzhong for the time being. However, it is obvious that their request made Hanzhong a little unhappy.

Regarding the questioning of the officials in Hanzhong, Feng Yanzhang, the commander of the Shu army, still directly told the other party the truth, and he was ordered to support the north, and he was powerless for Xiyongzhou for the time being. That's why the army gathered and headed northwest.

As for the purpose of the Shu army, the officials in Hanzhong are now clear, although they are helpless in their hearts, but they can't force others to ignore themselves and continue to support Chang'an. In the face of the grain demanded by the other party, the officials in Hanzhong still provided it in order not to cause contradictions between the two sides.

At this time, several officers and colonels of the Shu army were assassinated, and the site of the assassination also left the Han army's dissatisfaction and revenge on the former Shu army in Hanzhong. In addition, the grain and grass materials prepared for the Shu army were also burned by fire at night, and at the same time, it began to spread in Hanzhong that Hanzhong officials wanted to collude with the Shu army, betray the king, and plot the land of Hanzhong.

The generals and colonels of the Shu army were killed, and there was still the dissatisfaction of the Han army soldiers, where would the Shu army be willing, without food, they would not be able to reach the front line on time, and it would be difficult to complete the task. Therefore, Feng Yanzhang, the commander of the Shu army, asked Hanzhong to give a reply and provide grain and grass on time.

And at this moment, in the land of Hanzhong, the soldiers of the Han army shouted that they would make the Shu army pay the price, and that those officials who had colluded with the Shu army would give an answer. Even the Han army in various places is ready to go to war at any time, and they want to leave the Shu army in the land of Hanzhong.

The officials in Hanzhong can be frightened a lot, where dare to let the Shu army and the Han army fight in Hanzhong? At that time, I am afraid that even if the Shu army does not pay attention to Hanzhong, the king of Shu will have to turn his face with the king of Hanzhong and send troops to Hanzhong. The helpless Hanzhong officials began to appease the soldiers below again, and also gave an explanation to the Shu army, after all, several generals and dozens of soldiers were killed, and the Shu army would not give up.

For the officers and soldiers of the Han army, they have already begun to act against the Shu army, and they naturally cannot sit idly by. Even if the generals above disagreed, the soldiers below still did their own thing. Now, these passionate soldiers are no longer something that the generals above can suppress, and of course, it is also related to the fact that many of them are also involved.

All of a sudden, in Hanzhong, there was a big war between the two sides. However, still under the appeasement of Hanzhong officials, he barely maintained restraint. For the Shu army, they need the Han army to give an explanation, but more importantly, they need the grain and grass materials given by the Han army, otherwise, the army will not be able to pull out. As for the Han army, the generals were certainly very dissatisfied with these Shu armies, but they did not dare to let the two sides fight in Hanzhong easily, after all, the big war together, it was their own territory that received the trouble. When the time comes, no matter what the outcome, it will be difficult for them to explain to the king.

If it is only two parties, but in the land of Hanzhong, there are also people from the other side, that is, Zhao Jun's secret agents and meticulous work. If it is in normal times, these secret agents will definitely not act easily, you must know that the southern princes have always been careful and strict to check the secret agents and meticulous work of the Zhao army. But now there are signs of riots in the land of Hanzhong because of the disagreement between the Shu army and the Han army, which has already made the Han army pay attention to other aspects.

Therefore, the detailed secret agents planted by the Zhao army in Hanzhong and the newly dispatched major secret guards after the war began to be active, and the squads responsible for the actions of these detailed secret sighs and secret guards all turned into the Han army attacking the soldiers of the Shu army, or turning into the Shu army attacking the soldiers of the Han army. For a while, the soldiers of the Shu army and the Han army were all killed and wounded, but the person who shot was precisely the other party, giving people a feeling that the two sides were attacking each other.

Although the generals and officials on both sides felt that something was wrong, the successive deaths had made it difficult for them to suppress the soldiers under their command. As a result, the soldiers on both sides secretly killed each other. More importantly, the officers and men of the Han army were dissatisfied with the upper-level officials who provided grain and grass for the Shu army, and even destroyed the grain transported to the Shu army.

The Shu army wanted to rush to the northern front line of Yizhou to support the frontline war, but because of the Han army's containment and grain and grass problems, they could not move forward smoothly. As a last resort, Feng Yanzhang can only report the situation to his own king. And the Han army can only report the situation to the king of Hanzhong, after all, the reinforcements of the Shu army are unwilling to support, and how to deal with the situation in the north still needs the king of Hanzhong to make an idea himself.

Taking advantage of the chaos in Hanzhong in the south, the Zhao army did not stop moving. When Zhao Kang attacked Luoguguan by the Shu army, he raided and took Yixian, Yongxian and other places, gradually cutting off the connection between Xiyongzhou and Hanzhong, and also opened up the passage for the army to advance westward and converge with Liangzhou. Of course, it also gradually reduced the living space of the Han army in Xiyongzhou.

In addition, the army of two towns under the command of Liangzhou, one town began to slope south and was responsible for the stability of the eastern part of Liangzhou, and the other town began to advance eastward. In the western part of Xiyongzhou, Jingzhao Mansion, Shangluo Mansion and Jingyang Mansion are the eastern region of Chang'an, where the Han army also stationed a lot of troops to resist the Liangzhou people.

In Xiyongzhou, when the Han army occupied this place, in addition to the south of Hanzhong without the need for a large army to garrison, the east guarded against the Liangzhou army, the Zhao army stationed two towns in Liangzhou, and Liangzhou is located in a higher terrain, the eastern region of Chang'an, there is a tendency to suppress, so, here, after the king of Hanzhong returned here in the past, a lot of people and horses were placed here to garrison the border cities.

Not to mention in the north, the north of Feng Yi's Mansion is the land of the Zhao army and the state, which should not be underestimated, and here, the Han army is also stationed with a lot of people. But after all, this place was overwhelmed by the Zhao army, and it was conquered by the Zhao army under the back and forth transfer.

As for the east, because the east was the territory of the King of Luoyang in the past, there were fewer garrisons. It is that Dongyongzhou is occupied by the Zhao army, because of the Hangu Pass, there are also not many. Therefore, after the loss of Hangu Pass, the Zhao army was able to quickly conquer this place.

Originally, there were many garrisons in the three prefectures in the west of Chang'an, but after the fall of the eastern and northern parts of Chang'an, Lin Shucheng repeatedly transferred manpower from the west to supplement the defense of Chang'an, as well as designed outside Feng Yi and Weinan County. In addition, the gradual disintegration of the Zhao army in the western three provinces and the county towns and towns close to the north and south made the Han army in the western three provinces gradually shrink, and retreated backwards without defeat.

Speaking of which, the Zhao army's ability to capture these counties and towns is not only because the Zhao army is strong, but also because of Lin Shucheng. In the past, Lin Shu became a calculating Zhao army, coercing the families of the eastern armies to let the eastern soldiers fight to the death. The families of these soldiers were actually arranged by Lin Shucheng in the western prefectures and counties. Lin Shucheng's methods have been excessive, but he has no idea of killing the families of the soldiers under his command.

However, after the news that Zhao Jun forced Lin Shucheng to fight to the death with the soldiers' families, coupled with the testimony of these people who had lost their families, it suddenly confirmed what Zhao Jun said. As a result, when the Zhao army attacked, many of the defenders in these places surrendered directly. As for those people, most of them belong directly. After all, they don't want their families to be coerced by the Han army, and they don't want their families to be sent to death because of themselves.

After the riots within the Han army and the Shu army, Luogu Pass was calmed down here, and the Shu army was already preparing to support the northern part of Yizhou to resist the Zhao army, so naturally it would not come to attack Luogu Pass. And the Han army in Hanzhong, in addition to not having the strength to attack north, now most of its energy is also contained by the Shu army located in the middle of Hanzhong, so all of a sudden, the Zhao army does not need to attack for the southern Hanzhong army.

After Yang Wangqing and Zhao Kang discussed, while reporting to Zhao Xun, they immediately waved their troops to Yixian and Yongxian, preparing to march westward and join the Liangzhou Department and the two cities of Sanguan and Chencang.

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After the third town of the Zhenjun in Liangzhou received Zhao Xun's military order, the army immediately launched a surprise attack on Mumen, Wudu, and Tielong Mountain. The northern part of Yizhou is mostly lofty mountains and mountains, and the terrain is steep and abnormal, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Therefore, the Zhao army, which occupied Liangzhou, had never made a move against the northern part of Yizhou, and was not willing to waste time and energy here.

Similarly, for the Shu army, they are not willing to provoke the Zhao army easily. Although the terrain they are in is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but when they want to enter the land of Liangzhou, the situation is different. In addition, when the army goes north, whether it is the movement of the army or the grain and grass materials, it will be affected by the terrain, which is very difficult. In addition, the king of Shu was not willing to easily start a war with the Zhao army, so as not to anger the Zhao army, so the two sides have always been at the point of non-aggression against each other.

It is also because of this, coupled with the terrain, that there are not many defenders here. The Zhao army's action, under the swiftness, the Shu army had no defense at all, and the Zhao army broke through the checkpoints and cities, and even occupied several dangerous passes and county towns in the north of Yizhou. The northern areas of Yinping and Wenshan provinces in Yizhou were occupied by the Zhao army.

However, even if the King of Shu didn't care about the situation in the north, how could he be careless when he was connected with the Zhao army. Therefore, in the two places of Wenshan Mansion and Yinping Mansion, Situ Che, the king of Shu, arranged for his general He Qingzhang to command the soldiers of the two prefectures, responsible for the defense of the north, beware of the Zhao army, and appointed him as the general of Dingbei.

This He Qingzhang does have some ability, although the terrain of the two provinces is steep, and the population and troops are not much, but there are no fewer city checkpoints in various places. In addition, beacon towers were built in some areas. It is precisely because of this that after the Zhao army took advantage of the righteousness of the northern cities to attack these places, the southern region would quickly get the news.

After the third town Zhao army took Wudu, the soldiers divided into two routes, respectively took Qishan and Xiabian, preparing to raid Yinping, Luoyang and Huzhong, wanting to take Yinping and Wenshan, and occupy the land of the two provinces in the north of Chengdu, and seize the gap in the south and the passage into Hanzhong in the east.

However, the Shu army's response was not slow. He Qingzhang, who received the information through the beacon tower, immediately reduced his forces and concentrated the main force on the eastern passage of the Zhao army's southward movement, that is, the line of Xiabi and Luoyang, while on the line of Qishan in the west, he sent partial divisions and recruited young men from the surrounding areas to help resist. In his opinion, the terrain of the Qishan line is more precipitous than that in the east, and it can be said that as long as the soldiers refuse to defend the land, it will be difficult for the Zhao army to break through. At the very least, it can delay enough time to allow the troops in the south of Wenshan to garrison Wenshan and Jiangyou on the front line.

Although the terrain of the eastern region is also steep, it is a passage into the western part of central Hanzhong. If the Zhao army enters here, the Zhao army's army can appear in the land of Hanzhong, and then it can directly wave the army south to Yizhou. In addition, He Qingzhang also knew that the purpose of the Zhao army must be Hanzhong first, and Hanzhong was the northern defense line of the Shu army, which could not be lost. If Hanzhong is lost, the advantage of Zhao's army can be brought into play. Unlike in the northern part of Yizhou, although the Zhao army has a lot of soldiers and food, and the armor and equipment are sharp, it is difficult to play a role here.

Wherever the Zhao army went south, although the Shu army adopted defensive tactics, it did fight with the Zhao army in every city, defend every city, and fight to the death at every pass, so as to delay the advance of the Zhao army as much as possible and consume the strength and armor of the Zhao army.

The Zhao army's movement was blocked, and the losses were not small, after all, the terrain here, the Shu army knew more than the Zhao army. Over the mountains and mountains, the Shu army is more familiar than the Zhao army.

As a last resort, Xue Qinglan, the general of the Third Town Army, deserves to stop his actions and report to Zhao Xun about the development here. Zhao Xun, who got the battle report, couldn't help but be surprised by such an inconspicuous general of the Shu army in Dingbei, and being able to block the actions of his own army showed that he was not as good as his ability.

You must know that the Dingbei general is just a miscellaneous general in the Shu army, if he can be watched by the king of Shu, he will not settle in the north of Yizhou, and the number of troops under his command is only nearly 10,000 people. However, after Zhao Xun read the battle report sent by Xue Qinglan, he ordered Xue Qinglan to stop the onslaught, and only needed to contain the other party and put pressure on the other party. Because the strategy of the Dingbei general of the Shu army is indeed very symptomatic, under this terrain, in the case of the Shu army's small number of troops and no reinforcements, one of the important parties was selected to delay the Zhao army's troops, and did not let the soldiers fight to the death, but to consume the Zhao army's soldiers and armor equipment, to exchange space for time and the Zhao army's vital force to delay, and to delay the Zhao army's advance speed, so that the Zhao army's plan to take advantage of the panic in the north of Yizhou, the rapid advance of the operation failed.

However, Zhao Xun didn't pay too much attention to this. Its purpose is still to focus on Xiyongzhou and Chang'an. As for Yizhou, it is nothing more than to put pressure on the King of Shu, so that the alliance of southern princes will not exist, and they will just sweep the snow in front of their doors.

The current battle line of the Zhao army is too big and too long, reaching the Luoyang line in West Yongzhou in the east, the Chang'an line in East Yongzhou in the middle, and the north of Yizhou and the southeast of Liangzhou in the west. The too long battle line not only made the Zhao army's troops start to be nervous, but also the grain, grass, materials and armor in the rear also began to be nervous.

Although there is not yet a shortage of food, grass, materials and troops. However, the potential adverse effects are already emerging. Almost all the mobile forces around the battlefield began to be mobilized, and the food and grass materials needed by the army needed to be transported by more baggage teams. Even in some places, there has been a slight increase in the price of grain. Now that summer is coming, Zhao Xun also wants to prevent the possibility of a major drought in a certain place. Therefore, as for the northern battlefield of Yizhou, it is not the main battlefield of the Zhao army.

In addition, Zhao Xun now wants the king of Shu and the king of Hanzhong to turn their faces because of the land of Hanzhong, if the Zhao army invades Yizhou on a large scale, the king of Shu will definitely not have a conflict with the king of Hanzhong, after all, the Zhao army is their number one enemy.