When Liu Xiu took down the Kui group and freed up his hands to officially deal with Gongsun Shu, it was already 35 AD.

In the spring of this year, Liu Xiu deployed troops to divide the south and north routes to start a war against Gongsun Shu. At this time, Liu Xiu has been the emperor for 11 years, and he has basically leveled other competitors, so it is his normal figure and luxurious lineup that deals with Chairman Gongsun.

Among them, on the northern front, it was Zhonglang who would take command in the future, and Feng Yi, Geng Yi, Gai Yan, Ma Cheng, and others led their troops to attack Hanzhong; On the southern front, it was led by the great Sima Wu Han and Cen Peng, who led the Fuwei general Zang Gong, the Zhuyu general Liu Long, the Xiaocai general Liu Xin, as well as more than 60,000 soldiers and 5,000 war horses from Nanyang, Nanjun, Wuling, Guiyang, Lingling, Changsha and other places, gathered in Jingmen and traced Jiangxi to the west.

This is obviously Liu Xiu's most serious figure and the most powerful lineup to clamp down and exterminate a single opponent.

Liu Xiu's north-south attack position put Gongsun Shu in a situation of being attacked on his back from the beginning.

Since it is a war, it is often a chaotic fist, people come and go, time and space are intertwined, and a variety of factors are entangled together. For the sake of narrative convenience, let's talk about each other.

Let's start with the northern route.

In fact, I have long wanted to tell my grandson by myself!

In accordance with Liu Xiu's strategic intentions, he planned to eliminate Kui Huan and Gongsun Shu for many years, and based on his first-hand information about his travels to Xizhou and Bashu, he reported to Liu Xiu many times and put forward his own package of suggestions.

This package of recommendations includes a number of factors and complex steps, but in general terms, it is divided chronologically into three steps:

First of all, Qi Zheng is used together, and the combination of talk and negotiation is used, and a variety of means are used to win the hustle and bustle;

secondly, to suppress and appease, mainly to pacify, to recruit the remnants of the hustle and bustle, and to run Xizhou into a stable state and a base for attacking Gongsun Shu;

Third, clear the foreign aid around Gongsun Shu and attack him directly.

This kind of plan, according to the current statement, is to carry out a surgical blow to Gongsun Shu.

Liu Xiu has always admired Brother Lai's ambitions, integrity and talents, and fully adopted his package of suggestions.

Therefore, Liu Xiu was full of expectations and entrusted him with the great task of attacking the northern road, and even many generals with outstanding merits, ability and political integrity, and profound qualifications, such as Feng Yi, Geng Yi, Gai Yan, Ma Cheng, etc., let him command.

In June, the weather is hot, and people travel lightly.

Lai She carefully chose a route: take Tianshui as the base, go straight south, seize the upper reaches of the Jialing River, and then go straight down the river, looking at the north of Sichuan.

He only arranged for a small number of soldiers to participate, and only led the Huya general Gai Yan, the Yangwu general Ma Cheng and their troops and horses, and asked other soldiers to stand by temporarily.

This is because the Shu Road is difficult, the transportation is time-consuming and troublesome, and if everyone goes up, the supply will not be bearable; secondly, the mountains and rivers are staggered, and the site is narrow, which is not suitable for large corps operations and large-scale action to beat people; Moreover, he has always believed that people are not more but fine, and that it may not rain if there are more dragons, and only by capturing more enemies can he see the true character of a hero.

You may still remember that 3 years ago, Lai She, who only led more than 2,000 people and horses, ran thousands of miles, opened mountains and roads, broke the city and cut people, and seized the hustle and bustle of the Liuyang Fortress.

In front of Laishe, Gongsun Shu deployed two generals to resist the Han army: Wang Yuan, the former general of the Kui army, who had been annexed, to guard Hechi (present-day Huixian, Gansu), and the general Huan'an to defend Xiazhu (northwest of present-day Chengxian County, Gansu). These two cities just choke the main road to the south of the Jialing River, and Wang Yuan has a deep grudge with Liu Xiu, and would rather die than surrender, and Huan'an is also an important shareholder and business backbone of Gongsun Ji Chengjia Dynasty Company.

However, Laishe's action was indeed too violent, Wang Yuan and Huan'an Ge'er collapsed at the touch of a button, and the two cities were easily taken by Laishe.

The people who came to the country did not stop, and then continued to go south, and the people in the Bashu area were in turmoil.

(Trapped, take advantage of the victory to advance, the Shu people are afraid.) ）

At this time, the Han army on the southern front advanced like a bamboo, and the Fuwei general Zang Gong was even more earnest, rushing left and right, rushing all the way into the hinterland of Bashu, Wang Yuan had no choice but to surrender to him.

General Zang is usually honest and kind, few words, simple and rigorous, and low-key, but he is both wise and brave, and his performance on the battlefield this time is contrary to his usual temperament, with fiery movements, elegant postures, invincible, and quite a style of coming and going. I will talk about his wonderful performance when I introduce the situation on the southern front.

Huan'an saw that he was alone on the northern front, and he was not an opponent at all when he made a head-on move with Lai, and felt that he had to make a bad move.