Chapter 35: The Siege of the City for Reinforcements

It turned out that Zhao Yun and Xu Shu had a plan to easily seize Xiameng Pass from Xiameng Pass, waiting for Zhang Lu to attack.

Zhao Yun waved his hand, Xia Meng closed the random arrow and shot down, and after a night of marching, Zhang Lushi, who was extremely tired, fled in a hurry, mourning all over the field; Another round of random arrows was fired, some of the fleeing soldiers collided together, some were shot and fell to the ground, Xia Meng Pass was a canyon sandwiched by mountains, and the soldiers could not escape far and could only barely squeeze under the trees.

"Brothers! Retreat! Zhang Zheng didn't care about Zhang Lu's face, issued the correct military order, and yelled.

The sergeant of Han then retreated backwards, Zhang Lu looked at Zhang Zheng with a sullen face, but he couldn't say anything, and quickly went to the end of the team to lead the soldiers to retreat under the escort of Yang Ren.

Zhang Lu led the army to march ten miles, the mountains on both sides of the canyon gradually loosened, the road became wide, the mountains were no longer steep, there were a few chirping sparrows among the trees, and the newly planted rape pouted the aroma of the earth, which was the smell of home.

"Let's rest on the spot." Zhang Lu shouted at Yang Ren.

The sergeant of the Han army, who had been marching and launching another battle after a battle, was already exhausted, rested on the spot, shrank on the ground, endured the morning breeze that was also damp, and fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

Zhang Lu, who glanced at the rest of the soldiers, had long lost the excitement of capturing Xia Meng Pass, but after suffering a fiasco, he suddenly became exhausted, tired but not sleepy at all.

Zhang Zheng walked up to Zhang Lu and said, "Brother, since the enemy army is prepared in Xiameng Pass, it will be difficult to capture it directly. Fortunately, we have already won the Sword Pavilion, so let's go back to the Sword Pavilion first, and slowly figure out how about Shuzhong? ”

Zhang Lu thought that there was only that, but he was not happy with Zhang Zheng's opinion, and said lightly: "You go and rest, I have my own opinion!" ”

Zhang Luzheng was talking, but heard the sound of thunder that seemed to be violent coming from the mountains they were close to, Zhang Lu Zhang Zheng slowly looked back, and found that hundreds of boulders rolled down from the mountains, pressing on the dead wood to make a crackling thunder sound, and hundreds of boulders rolled like thousands of troops and horses charging, like a tiger descending the mountain, and like a pack of wolves attacking.

Zhang Lu Zhang Zheng was shocked, and Zhang Zheng shouted:

"Brothers, wake up! Be careful to dodge! As he spoke, he casually woke up the soldiers around him.

Zhang Lu didn't care about others, so he quickly found a corner where only one person could not roll in.

Sergeant Han, it's good not to be woken up, although the power of the rolling stone is huge, it will not necessarily roll to someone. But at this moment, the sergeants and pawns of Han were all woken up, and the boulder accelerated after hundreds of meters of rolling down, and the speed was as fast as thunder, and there was no time to dodge. Sergeant Han was bustling and panicked, and more soldiers were not crushed to death by boulders, but trampled to death by each other; Many soldiers knew that if they continued to stay in the camp they were waiting for death, and it was better to escape, so the Han sergeants and soldiers dispersed as a whole, some ran to the Sword Pavilion, some ran to Xiameng Pass to surrender, and some climbed a hill without knowing where to go.

Xu Shu, who was on the mountains to the south, looked at the scattered Hanzhong army and said to the soldiers behind him:

"Everyone's worked hard." Then he muttered: "The rest depends on Zilong." ”

It is said that Zhao Yun has been leading his troops to disappear and follow behind the retreating Hanzhong army, and the tired Han sergeant and Zhang Lu, who was bent on fleeing, did not find Zhao Yun.

At this time, Zhao Yun saw that the boulder had rolled over the camp of the Hanzhong army and gradually stopped, so that the Jingzhou army hidden in the forest reorganized its military uniforms and lined up in front of Zhang Lujun on the grass, and shouted:

"Those who descend will not die!"

Sergeant Han's fragile nerves collapsed. In a hurry, the retreat, more than 10,000 troops, under the impact of the momentum of the 1,000 spearmen led by Zhao Yun, collapsed, fled in all directions, and only a few hundred people could hold their positions.

Zhao Yun attacked Zhang Lu directly. Zhang Zheng stepped forward to resist, but was casually beaten up by Zhao Yun and retreated in a hurry; Yang Ren stepped forward to assist, but was swept to the ground by Zhao Yun with a shot, beating Zhang Zheng so hard that he didn't dare to get close, stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Lu, threw it to the Jingzhou soldiers behind him, and tied him up.

Zhao Yun led the army to capture Zhang Lu and Zhang Zheng Yang Ren alive, and the Hanzhong army surrendered 9,000 people, retreated to Xiameng Guanzhong, and joined Xu Shu to discuss how to break Xintong Zhang Ren.

"Now that we have just filled the captured Hanzhong soldiers into the army, I think we should train for a while longer, and there is no hurry to attack Xintong." Xu Shu said.

"Today, I took a turn in the army, and the newly filled Hanzhong army was in a decadent spirit and demoralized. I think that Hanzhong has not yet been breached, and it is not a sincere surrender. Zhao Yun said.

"It's human nature." Xu Shu said with emotion.

"So we should send troops as soon as possible now, either to capture Xintong and encourage the soldiers, or to go north to conquer Hanzhong. Otherwise, these surrendered Hanzhong troops are likely to become a disaster. Zhao Yundao.

"Entering Hanzhong, I, Xu Yuanzhi, don't have the courage." Xu Shu looked at Zhao Yun with a smile and said, Zhao Yun shook his head with a light smile, Xu Shu continued, "As for capturing Xintong as soon as possible," he looked at the map spread out on the table, and walked out of the room to think back and forth on Xia Meng Pass, looking at the handsome and rugged mountains in the distance, and then turned to look at Xin Tong City, which was faintly visible on the vast basin, and looked back at the magnificent Xia Meng Pass, he suddenly had a plan, returned to the table, and said:

"Zilong, in the past few days since we evacuated outside Xintong City and captured Xiameng Pass, the news that Zhang Ren was besieged in Xintong City should have spread, right?"

"Well, presumably Liu Zhang from Chengdu has also received the news." Zhao Yun said, frowned again and said:

"Shiyuan, you are Liu Zhang, will send reinforcements?"

"Send reinforcements?" Xu Shu didn't expect this, but immediately said slowly:

"Eh, don't worry, with Zilong's bravery and ability to lead the army, Liu Zhang is not afraid of even if he goes out. This is the strategy of encircling the point to send reinforcements, and the young master must have thought of it when we went out to the army. ”

Zhao Yun listened to Xu Shu praise himself and smiled humbly.

"Between Xintong County and Chengdu, there are two important passes, namely Fushui Pass and Mianzhu Pass." Xu Shu pointed to the map and said, "Fushui Pass is now guarded by Wu Lanlei Tong, we can first let some military horses pass under Xintong City with great fanfare, and inform Zhang Ren that Xintong will not take it." Directly south to break through Fushui Pass and Mianzhu Pass, and attack Chengdu. ”

"Report." As Xu Shu was talking, an intelligence officer who Zhao Yun didn't know stood at the door and shouted. Zhao Yun let him in, and he said:

"General Zhao, Xu Junshi, and General Yan Yan have captured Jiangzhou City and are heading towards Chengdu. Please see the detailed information at this time. As he spoke, he handed over the information.

After Xu Shu let him go down, he said happily:

"God help me, we also have to let Zhang Ren know; Knowing that we waved our army south and General Yan Yan attacked Chengdu together, with Zhang Ren's loyalty, he would definitely open the city and send troops to stop us. At this time, he took Xintong City in one fell swoop. ”