The grand event of the imperial examination has passed, Luoyang City has finally returned to calm, and the merchants in the city seem to have been exhausted, and they have long since lost the madness of the previous few days. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Unlike the listless merchants in Luoyang, in Yanyu and Henan, the people have long been busy on construction sites such as river embankments and irrigation canals.

They are all ordinary people who have been affected by the disaster this year, and now they are taking the opportunity to earn more money to support their families.

This year's drought has caused huge losses in the Central Plains, and if it were not for the cabinet's all-out assistance, I don't know how many people would have been homeless and homeless.

However, it was precisely the severe disaster that made the government and the people realize the importance of water conservancy facilities, so as the disaster passed, all parts of the Central Plains rushed to repair water conservancy projects.

Compared with the Central Plains, which was in full swing, the Hanzhong area became tense due to the war.

If there were satellites in this era, it would be easy to see such a scene - there were several large armies along the Qinling Mountains from east to west, interspersed along the Qinshu Ancient Road in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, and the target was directly aimed at Hanzhong and Shu.

Along the way, there were also baggage soldiers pushing carts and small carts, responsible for ensuring the supply of materials for the army.

Because of the restrictions of the times, the communication of the various armies is not smooth, which makes it impossible for the various armies to be perfect in coordination.

For example, the Left Route Army said that it was a feint mission, but neither the main general Beigong Chun nor the generals at all levels were willing to act as vassals of the war, so from the very beginning, Beigong Chun fully tapped the role of the Left Route Army.

When the First Division of the Central Route Army, under the leadership of Gao Kai, the general of the Naval Division, marched to Yangping Pass by land and water, Beigong Chun had ordered Xue Tao to attack and seize Ankang, opening the door to threaten Chenggu from the southeast.

Immediately afterwards, Beigong Pure Life Jia Jian and Xue Tao launched a strong attack on Chenggu at the same time, changing the attitude of grinding foreign workers before.

The first to change was the Crossbowmen, whose attacks were no longer aimlessly covered by shotguns, and began to purposefully clear the enemy's valuable targets.

Under the cover of bed crossbows, the sword and shield soldiers launched a fierce attack on the city, and they advanced layer by layer, clearing the remaining enemies of the city.

The continuous shouts and cries of killing and crying resounded throughout Chenggu County, and most of the wooden buildings in the city were completely turned into ruins under the repeated bombardment of the Yan army's ballistae that lasted for half a month.

Originally, the defenders were already overstretched to deal with Jia Jian's troops in the front, but when Xue Tao came up from the flank, the defenders' rear road was cut off, and their morale suddenly dropped to the lowest.

The fierce battle in Chenggu City lasted for three hours, and it was not until it was close to dusk that it gradually came to an end.

The fierce fighting caused great losses on both sides, and in the end only more than 1,000 survivors of the 5,000 defenders were killed.

The Yan army also paid thousands of casualties, and many people in the city were also affected.

After the battle stopped, the army came over and asked, "After dark, will the army continue to march in the direction of Nanzheng?" ”

Jia Jian did not directly respond to joining the army, but looked at Xue Tao and asked, "What does Zihong think?" ”

"Our army suffered a lot of losses in this battle, coupled with the continuous march, the soldiers are tired, why don't you rest in Chenggu first? After the army of tomorrow has nourished its spirits, it will be driven to Nanzheng? ”

"Zihong is reasonable, so leave a few people in charge of guarding, and the rest of the people will hurry up and rest!"

Nanzheng is about forty miles away from Chenggu, and it can be reached in two days if you march quickly. If it starts tomorrow morning, it will take two days for the team to reach Nanzheng at the earliest, no matter what, but I don't know how the Nanzheng defenders will react when they learn that Chenggu is lost?

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The loss of Chenggu made Li Shou, who was sitting in Nanzheng, feel a huge threat, and he knew very well that once Chenggu was lost, then the Yan army would be able to directly threaten the safety of Nanzheng from the east, and the entire Hanzhong would be in danger of being lost.

The recent war has not gone well, which has made Li Shou feel very bad, and the details of the battle of Chenggu have been sent to him one after another. The Cheng Han side relied too much on the Qin Mountains, thinking that they could defend the danger, but they didn't know that the Yan army just took advantage of the psychology of the Cheng Han soldiers, and sent elites to sneak attack Ankang from the trail to succeed, and then forcibly took Chenggu.

Originally, Cheng Han's defense line in Hanzhong was centered on Nanzheng, and the periphery was based on the three key passes of Chenggu, Baogu and Yangping Pass, defending the east, north and west directions respectively.

For this reason, Li Shou had to order to temporarily stop supporting Yangping Pass and Baogu and make every effort to arrange the defense of Nanzheng. Originally, he had already planned, first relying on the danger to consume the Yan army's sharp energy, and when the morale of the Yan army decreased, he would be able to launch a counterattack against the Yan army with the cavalry of the Kui'an Department as the vanguard.

Now that Chenggu is lost, Li Shou has to re-examine the strategy he set before.

Li Shou was a little confused about the current actions of the Yan army, originally he thought that the Yan army was making a big show on the plank roads such as Baochuan Road, Meridian Road, and Fu Luo Road in order to attract the attention of the Cheng Han army, and then attacked Yangping Pass.

As a result, Li Shou did not wait for the news of the attack on Yangping Pass, but first received the bad news that Chenggu had lost in the east. In this way, Li Shou couldn't figure out the intentions of the Yan army, and he couldn't figure out whether the Yan army under Yangping Pass was a feint or a strong attack?

If the intention of the Yan army on the front line of Yangping Pass could not be determined, Li Shou would not dare to transfer troops to strengthen the defense of Nanzheng.

In order to discuss countermeasures, Li Shou gathered his subordinates together with Kui An'an. Listening to Li Shou's introduction of the current military situation, the expressions on the faces of everyone present suddenly became rich. Especially for Kui An, he didn't expect Yan Jun to break through the defense line so quickly.

Kui Anke came to become a Han with great ambitions, but before he could show his strength, Yan Jun then approached Nanzheng.

"Let's talk about it." Li Shou straightened his waist and said quietly.

Seeing that all the generals of Cheng Han were silent, Kui An pondered for a moment and asked: "Dare to ask General Li, can the Nanzheng garrison hold it alone?" ”

Li Shou thought for a while and said: "It's hard to say, there are tens of thousands of Yan troops occupying Chenggu now, and I heard that they are also equipped with bed crossbows, ballistas and other large siege equipment, and only tens of thousands of defenders in the city are not enough to block the Yan army." ”

Hearing Li Shou say so frankly that he couldn't hold Nanzheng, Kui An couldn't help but feel a little discouraged, he knew that Cheng Han was so bad, he shouldn't have rushed to come in the first place, who knew that one wrong step would make the last team of people fall to death.

After Li Shou finished speaking, he looked at Kui An, counting on Kui An to make suggestions. He had already heard of Kui'an's name, and before the rise of King Yan, Shi Le, Shi Hu, Kui'an, Zhixiong, Taobao, Kong Chang and other people were all famous people in the world.

"General, if you can't hold Nanzheng, the whole of Hanzhong is in danger of being lost. If Hanzhong loses, then we can only retreat to the Sword Pavilion! ”

"No, Nan Zheng must not be lost!" Li Shou cut the railway, as a general of the Cheng Han Dynasty, he knows the importance of Hanzhong better than anyone else, it can be said that Hanzhong is lost, and it is impossible to hold Shudi.

"I wonder if General Kui'an has a plan to keep Hanzhong?"

"In my opinion, if you want to keep Nanzheng, you must defeat the current Yan army head-on!"

"Humph! General Kui'an said lightly, the Yan army is a famous strong army in the world, and the head-on duel has never been defeated, and I become a Han soldier who may be able to block its troops by relying on the dangerous pass, once out of the city to face the battle, I am afraid that only the whole army will be wiped out. ”

A Cheng Han general heard what Kui An said, and couldn't help but sneer. In fact, many people in Cheng Han don't look down on Kui An like a lost dog, and now seeing Kui An talking eloquently in front of Li Shou, some jealous generals seized the opportunity and couldn't help but ridicule wantonly.

"If the Yan army was so easy to defeat, you people wouldn't have been wiped out in the first place, right?"

Such a meal of words with guns and sticks between guns and sticks ridiculed Kui An fiercely, the language was very sharp, very straightforward, and full of the smell of suppression, but most of the Cheng Han generals present did not feel inappropriate. There is no way, who made Kui An an outsider, and he also stood in collusion with Li Ban, which disgusted many Han people.

Kui An knows that today's people are feathered phoenixes who are not as good as chickens, although they are full of anger in their hearts, they are silent on the surface, as if they have not heard the accusations from the outside world.

"This bunch of garbage, it's just nonsense!"

Li Shou couldn't help frowning, feeling very disgusted by the nonsense of his subordinates. The crowd's attack on Kui'an, in his opinion, was simply sowing discord and cutting off his arm. Anyway, there are more than 10,000 elite horsemen under Kui'an's command, and then he has to rely on the other party, how can he say these unobtrusive words? (To be continued.) )