Early the next morning, Guo Huai personally led his troops to the city of Nanzheng. On the horse, he shouted loudly: "I am Guo Huai, the general of Anyuan under the command of the King of Jin, please ask Hanning Taishou to go out of the city to answer!" ”

In the middle of the night, I saw a person appear on the city wall, this person was dressed in gorgeous clothes, seven feet tall, slightly fat, although he was over forty years old, but his skin was fair and maintained as if he was in his thirties.

I only listened to the man: "This official is Zhang Lu!" If you have something to say, you will speak, but if you persuade you to surrender, please avoid opening your respect, I Zhang Lu swear to live and die with Nanzheng! ”

Guo Huai secretly sneered, and the intelligence said that Zhang Lu likes others to call him Shijun and call himself this seat! Now he keeps saying that he is showing weakness and admitting that he is the Taishou of the imperial court, so he still swears to live and die with Nanzheng? It's just to save some face.

saw through Zhang Lu's thoughts, but Guo Huai did not refute it, but shouted loudly: "Can Zhang Taishou know the time of day?" ”。 General Zhang Lu did not answer, Guo Huai continued: "Since the king of my family has supported the Son of Heaven, he has served the Son of Heaven to fight the thieves, and the heavenly soldiers are everywhere, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Lu Bu, Ma, Han and others are all given heads, and the soldiers are forward, and they are all willing to surrender to the wind!" Today, the king of my family commanded millions of elite soldiers, thousands of generals, and recovered Hanzhong by the edict of the Son of Heaven. Yangping Pass has been broken by our army, and Taishou is known as the minister of the imperial court, why didn't he open the city and surrender early? ”

Surrender! That's right, Guo Huai just wants to persuade Zhang Lu to surrender! Ordinary generals attack a city, and the inertial thinking is how to break through the city defense, such a general lacks a sense of the overall situation, and can only be a general, and is still one level away from the realm of the commander of an army. Those who are in command need to consider the overall situation and use all factors that are beneficial to their own side inside and outside the battlefield to win a battle.

Doesn't Sun Tzu have a saying, for the general. Attack the city for the bottom, attack the heart for the top.

At first, Guo Huai was simply thinking about how to break through Nanzheng with only the little force at hand, but Wen Yuan's military order brought him great inspiration, making him suddenly think of thinking about the problem from another angle, and being able to think of these proves that Wen Yuan's vision is good, Guo Huai is indeed an all-rounder who can write and martial arts, and it is worth cultivating in the future.

And Guo Huai's words are really powerful enough, at least Zhang Lu was frightened at once, think about Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Lu Bu, which one didn't need him Zhang Lu to mix up back then? But these heroes of the world have not been cleaned up by Zhang Liao one by one? Now that Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses have all hit the city of Nanzheng, won't he have to end up in the same fate?

Seeing that Zhang Lu didn't answer, Guo Huai knew that he was afraid, so he smashed the big stick down, and then threw out a carrot: "Zhang Taishou and relax, my king has always been known for his benevolence and righteousness, not a cruel and murderous person, Taishou also knows that although Cao Cao and my king were mutual mortal enemies, now he has paid official worship to Taifu, and Lu Bu is also a general under the account of my king." If Taishou is willing to open the city and surrender at this moment, so as to avoid the lives of the people of Nanzheng, my lord will definitely treat him well, and he will not be able to pay homage to Taishou in the future. ”

Zhang Lu hesitated: "Is the general's words serious? ”

Guo Huai laughed and said: "The matter has come to this, is it necessary for Taishou to think that it is necessary to lie?" The hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Han Dynasty will be able to meet under the city of Nanzheng in a few days, does Taishou think that he can defend Nanzheng with the thousands of remnants in the city? Whether the Taishou surrenders or not, the destruction of the city is inevitable, but for the officials and people of the Taishou and the city...... But it's different! ”

Guo Huai's words were a pun, which not only sold Zhang Lu a favor, but also put a burden on him, and pressed the fate of the entire army and people in the city on Zhang Lu. If you Zhang Lu surrenders, the people in the city will naturally be safe and sound because of you, but if you don't surrender, once the battle starts, the sword has no eyes, and the dead and wounded soldiers and civilians will be your Zhang Lu's sin.

Speaking of which, what else does Zhang Lu have to say? Although he couldn't give up the foundation of Hanzhong at the beginning, it was more important to save the life of his whole family in comparison, as soon as Guo Huai's soldiers and horses arrived in the city, Zhang Lu actually didn't plan to resist, and he said those hard-mouthed words at the beginning, just to save some face for himself.

Now Guo Huai has given all his face, not only to spare his life, but also to ask Zhang Liao to give him a reward, Zhang Lu is grateful, but he pretended to be regretful and sighed on his face; "That's it! It's not that I, Zhang Lu, don't want to live and die together in Nanzheng, I really can't bear to see the war together, the people of the city are suffering because of me, you don't have to persuade me, immediately prepare to seal the household registration, and follow me out of the city to ask General Guo to surrender. ”

The officials under Zhang Lu are not fools, and when they heard the words, they all agreed to the promise, and they didn't even persuade Zhang Lu to resist. I guess anyone can see this, resist? Before Zhang Liao's army could attack Nanzheng, those who dared to say this had already been devoured alive by their own lives.

Zhang Lu immediately opened the city gate and led a group of civil and military officials out of the city to ask Guo Huai for surrender. Guo Huai did not dare to be self-dictatorated, and after entering the city, he comforted Zhang Lu and the military officials under his account, ordered people to settle the people in Simen, sealed the account books of the treasury, and sent people to report to Wenyuan in Hanshui.

As soon as Wenyuan crossed the Han River, he received a good news from Guo Huai, and arrived at Nanzheng in a few days, and the army passed through Chuyang halfway. The two brothers Yang Ren and Yang Ang heard that Nanzheng fell, Zhang Lu surrendered, and the two generals also went out of the city to surrender. Wen Yuan gently reassured that Feng Er would be the marquis, so he ordered the two to stay in front of the tent as generals.

Entering the city, Zhang Lu came to pay homage again, Wen Yuan ordered someone to collect the household registration book, and immediately played Zhang Lu as the former general, Xin'an Hou, and the rest of the original officials also had their own rewards.

A few days later, Yan Liang and several other generals also led hundreds of thousands of troops inside and outside Yangping Pass to Nanzheng, and so far, more than 200,000 soldiers and horses from the three routes gathered in Nanzheng.

In terms of internal affairs, Wen Yuan was not idle. After entering Nanzheng, Wenyuan used Hanning Taishou Yin Silk to recruit the neighboring counties of An, and within half a month, all nine counties in Hanzhong County surrendered. Here we cannot fail to mention the internal affairs of Hanzhong, because it has not been affected by the war and war disasters all the year round, and Zhang Lu is quite popular in Hanzhong, Hanzhong has a stable society and a large population! The size of just one county has a population of nearly 400,000, which is almost half a state of the Central Plains!

Zhang Lu returned to Shun and stabilized Hanzhong without spending too much energy on Wenyuan, everything was in a smooth transition, which was all due to Guo Huai's persuasion. Wen Yuan did not break his promise, and waited for the three armies to gather to personally hold a banquet for Guo Huai to celebrate his achievements, so as to praise and reward.

Half a month later, the officials sent to recruit the county in the south of An'an came to report that Sima Yi refused to surrender, but led the troops to forcibly entrap tens of thousands of Hanzhong people and took refuge in Liu Bei's account.

This news undoubtedly attracted Wen Yuan's attention to the direction of Xichuan again.

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