On the ninth day of the fifth month of the second year of Xiande, Wang Jing personally led his troops to break through the Huanghua Valley Tun grain land, captured thousands of Shu soldiers, captured more than 1,000 war horses, nearly 100,000 stones of grain and grass, and more than 10,000 sets of military armor equipment. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wang Jing returned to Weiwu City in victory, held a military meeting with Zhang Yue and other generals overnight, and decided to take advantage of the victory to attack. On the next day, Wang Tingyi was sent to lead 2,500 troops to bypass Huanghua Valley, detour south along the mountain path in the northwest of Fengzhou, take Tangcang Town and Maling Village, and block the western passage after arriving at Guzhen, so as to control the side Ji and the back road.

Leaving the deputy capital of the three armies, Yu Hou Jiao Dayong, led a thousand troops to garrison Weiwu City, and waited for the provincial envoy Zan Jurun to lead the Fengxiang soldiers to escort the grain and grass to arrive to change the defense, and then go south. Zhang Yue and Wang Jing led the main force of 10,000 elite soldiers from Weiwu City to the south and set up a large camp in the northeast of Fengzhou City.

Zhang Yue was busy sending troops to cut down trees and build siege equipment, while Wang Jing sent people to escort Zhao Chongpu, the capital of the mighty army of Fengzhou, to persuade him to surrender, and the effect was really good, and the forts around the outskirts of the city basically surrendered, because most of the guards were Fengzhou locals.

At the same time, Xiang Xun of the East Route Army led 5,000 Zhen'an troops, Murong Yanzhao and Shi Guangjun led 5,000 people from Han Zhongming's division of the Fourth Army of Hujie Left Chamber, and 5,000 troops from Zhang Congzhao's division of the Fifth Army, with 10,000 combat troops, plus 2,000 Fengxiang troops who escorted logistics grain and grass, a total of 12,000 people. Out of Yu County to take the valley, along the valley water south to Taibai County, leaving the Fengxiang army to transport grain and grass, the soldiers out of Taibai County, along the Baoshui south, this road is called the Baochuan Road.

Because the slope road is too remote, in the east of Fengzhou one hundred and seventy or eighty miles, the mountains and mountains are blocked, only one Lianyun plank road in the middle can lead to Fengzhou Prefecture, and the two ends are the north pass pass, the south is Xingyuan Mansion, there are no rural towns for hundreds of miles on the way, there are only three military villages, the garrison has not been fought for a long time, almost as soon as the Zhou army arrived, the garrison ran away.

Although there were not many troops to fight all the way, but the road was too difficult to walk, they had to camp every day, and they had to wait for the logistics to keep up, Xiang Xun and Murong Yanzhao walked for six or seven days before they arrived in Tiefo Town, where there was a commander of the Shu army stationed there, and before the Zhou army arrived, they ran away.

Caught a few tongues to ask about the terrain and the garrison, camped in Tiefo Town that night, and in the early morning of the seventh day of the first month, Liu Xinfa led 1,000 troops to the west to capture Liuhou Town, control the intersection of Lianyun Plank Road and Baochuan Road, and at the same time cut off the road for the Liuba Military City garrison to flee north.

The main force of the training department continued to the south from Tiefo Town, after seizing the Xiaowan Stack, turned the road to the northwest, all the way to break through the Black Dragon Stack, Dengpo Stack, Qingshui Stack, Thrush Pass, to the Anshan Post this section of the plank road, arrived at the Liuba Military City on the ninth day of the first day to camp, persuaded to surrender to no avail, decided to attack the city the next day.

Liuba Military City is also a county town in the Tang Dynasty, the wall is one zhang five high, the circumference is more than seven miles, there are three gates of east, south and north, and the west is a mountain without setting up the city gate. Because of the important location, and the loss of population is only used for the military, there are 2,000 garrisons, the guard is named Sun Liangqing, is the eldest son of Sun Hanshao, the king of Le'an County, more than 40 years old, and his family is in Chengdu.

This person's eldest son, Sun Yingfan, is the niece and son-in-law of Han Jixun, the handsome commander of Qinzhou Xiongwujie, that is, Han Furong's husband, but the marriage between the two families was broken, and Han Furong wanted to withdraw from the marriage but couldn't, so she helped the family take care of the business and refused to return to her husband's house.

Early in the morning, Sun Liangqing expelled the envoys sent by the Zhou army to persuade him to surrender, summoned the soldiers to the city, and cheered up morale: "Soldiers, we are waiting for the king's luck, and now the country is in trouble, so we should repay the king's kindness." Moreover, Fengzhou is the gateway to Xingyuan Mansion, and Xingyuan Mansion is the hometown of Ru Cao, once the city is broken, the Zhou army will go south, and you and other families will be ruined, irretrievable, I hope that the soldiers will defend the city with their lives, waiting for reinforcements! ”

"Sun Du envoy! When will reinforcements arrive? The deputy capital envoy was a native of Fengzhou, and he didn't have the idea of fighting hard, so he asked weakly in a low voice.

"There are police at the border, how can the DPRK and China sit idly by? If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will behead you! Sun Liangqing warned sharply, and the deputy envoy suddenly didn't dare to ask again.

Xiang Xun and Murong Yanzhao saw that there was no hope of persuading them to surrender, so they led their troops out of the camp early in the morning. Murong Yanzhao was a little arrogant, and he was not convinced by Xiang Xun, because of the combat mission assigned by Zhang Yue, he went south with Xiang Xun.

Now they want to join forces to attack the city, but Murong Yanzhao is unwilling to cooperate, and pointed at the city wall with a horsewhip in his hand and said: "Good steel has to be used on the blade, our forbidden army is all elite, you can attack from the east gate, and the envoy can attack from the south gate, but I want to see who breaks the city first!" ”

"Good! Our Zhen'an army is not a weak brigade! Xiang Xun was unhappy, Murong Yanzhao pushed the bar all the way, if it weren't for Zhang Yue's face, Xiang Xun would have liked to give this guy some color. He is the envoy of the Southern Court of Xuanhui and the marshal of Zhen'an, and he is the commander of the soldiers and horses on this expedition, and his power position is much higher than him, but this guy is too ignorant.

Therefore, the two divisions each led 5,000 troops and attacked from the east and south gates at the same time. Xiang Xun's Zhen'an army did not bring any heavy equipment, the same was suppressed by crossbowmen, siege ladders, ramming hammers up and down at the same time, but the effect was too bad, when encountering the Shu general Sun Liangqing with his life to defend, rolling wood and stones were beaten down like rain, five waves of attack casualties of nearly 1,000 troops, most of the wooden ladders were destroyed, and they didn't even touch the battlements, and they made a disgrace.

Sent people to the east gate to inspect Murong Yanzhao's department, the situation was similar, the attack failed in the morning, and both of them were a little at a loss. When it was time to eat and recuperate at noon, Murong Yanzhao took the initiative to come over to discuss with a thick old face, and came up with an idea: "The method of using soldiers, ten will surround it, and five will attack it, but if we divide our troops, we will undoubtedly reduce our own strength, so it is better to change to the main attack at the south gate, and the feint attack at the east gate, and concentrate our forces to break through in one fell swoop. ”

"A certain also has this intention, but this is not enough, we have to send a thousand selected sharps into four teams, mixed in the echelon to take the lead, if this is not enough, we have to find another way." Xiang Xun is also a veteran and has a lot of experience in siege.

At the end of the afternoon, the battle started again, Xiang Xun first hid Zhang Congzhao, Zhou Mingyuan and other 1,000 elite elites in the Chinese army, and sent Murong Yanzhao to lead the forbidden army of 3,000 from the east gate to feint, Shi Guangjun and Han Zhongming also sent 3,000 troops to attack the city from the south gate, or to attack the city to chase the door, 60 large wooden ladders climbed, the result was of course the same, both rounds of attacks were beaten back.

"To the envoy! Why don't you go all out, do you really want to spend all your elite troops here? Murong Yanzhao was furious and ran outside the south gate to question.

"Don't worry! It is estimated that the casualties of the Shu army have exceeded 800, and now is the time to do your best! Xiang Xuncheng said with a smile on his face.

Murong Yanzhao glanced at Xiang Xun deeply, said no more, and turned around the east gate to attack again. At the same time, Xiang Xun ordered the front army to advance again, with 1,000 archers approaching the city wall 80 paces and throwing arrows, 500 sword and shield men carrying ramsticks to bombard the city gate in waves, with Zhang Congzhao and Zhou Mingyuan leading 1,000 elite people to climb the ladder in the hands of the ladder.

The Shu army experienced the war, all relied on one breath to support, the sharp spirit was finally exhausted at the end of the day, the rolling wood and stones were almost consumed, and the three rounds of attacks finally could not be stopped, and Zhang Congzhao, a fierce general under Zhang Yue, took the lead in attacking the city, and then the elite followed, and soon opened a gap.

Xiang Xun led the Chinese army to beat drums and cheer under the city, and sent additional crossbowmen to suppress it remotely, and the Zhou army gradually surged up like a tide, and it happened that the city gate was also knocked open, and the Shu army finally couldn't support it, and the whole army collapsed.

Xiang Xun then led the Chinese army to follow up, captured the Liuba Military City, opened up the plank road to Fengzhou in the northwest, and sent heralds from the Lianyun plank road to Fengzhou to find Zhang Yue's main force to report. At the same time, he sent people back to Yuzhou, and the good news was transmitted to Zan Jurun in the rear, and he sorted out the summary of various military newspapers, and then went up to the Tokyo court. (To be continued.) )