"Guan Yun's troops sent to Hanzhong, and Zhao Botao's troops entered Xichuan?" After reading the information handed over by their father, Cao Pi and Cao Zhang were also a little surprised.

"What do you think about this?" Cao Ying asked with a smile, looking at his two sons with expectant eyes.

"Guan Yunchang is the tiger general of the world, and Zhao Botao is scheming. These two joined forces and attacked Zhang Lu on both sides, and their people will be defeated! Cao Zhang groaned for a moment and spoke.

Not only that, once Hanzhong fell into the hands of Liu Bei, Xichuan would be in its hinterland. Liu Zhang is a weak person, and since Xichuan is already in his hinterland, sooner or later it will be obtained by Liu Bei. Liu Bei now occupies the land of Wuzhou, and the Sun clan has also been exterminated by him, with the vast sea behind him, and there is no worries. In this way, it will be much more difficult for us to become enemies again. Cao Pi was thinking more than just about the battle array.

"Hmm!" Cao Ying was still satisfied with the judgment of his two sons, and then asked, "What do you think we should do in such a situation?" ”

Cao Zhang and Cao Pi each pondered for a while, and finally Cao Zhang spoke: "You can mobilize the people of Guanzhong and take Hanzhong while Guan Yu and Zhang Lu are both defeated, so that they can eat Xichuan in the future!" Cao Pi also nodded.

"My plan is wonderful, but there is an even better plan!" Cao Ying stroked his beard and said with a smile, at this time, someone outside the account came to report, saying that Jia Xu and Liu Bao had something to see.

"Shan Yu, Wen He, what's the matter?" Cao Ying hurriedly ordered them to come in and talk. After the two of them entered the account, they sat down, and first Liu Bao said excitedly: "Duke Wei, just now someone under my command came to report, and I have found a small road that can go directly to Danhan Mountain!" ”

"Good!" Cao Ying was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said excitedly: "Shan Yu quickly went to rectify the military horses of the headquarters, and I will send troops to exterminate this group of Xianbei and lowly breeds when I say tomorrow!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Bao arched his hand, and rushed back to the camp to rectify the military horses. Cao Ying looked at the back of Liu Bao who was far away, and suddenly said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, after this battle, the Xianbei clan is afraid that it will become extinct, the Xiongnu are also greatly injured, and the alien races in northern Xinjiang are afraid that it will be difficult to make a difference." ”

"In a hundred years, you can keep peace; A hundred years later, it's hard to predict. Jia Xu said lightly.

"What do you mean by this?" Cao Ying couldn't help but wonder.

"Alas!" Jia Xu also sighed rarely, and then said with some bitterness: "Xu was born in Xiliang and knows a lot about these alien races. Over the years, the surname has been like a jackal, and it will always only come to invade. The Ming Dynasty is now called the Xianbei and the Xiongnu, but a hundred years later, after four generations, these alien races have recovered their vitality, and they will be troubled again. At that time, whether he can be as sharp as the Ming Gong is not something we can predict. ”

"I see!" Cao Ying nodded, and then said with a smile: "I can keep the Han people safe for a hundred years, and I, Cao Mengde, should also be content." At this moment, the tent door was opened again, but Cao Zhen walked in from outside the camp with an excited face.

"Lord, General Yuan sent someone to send an urgent report!" Cao Zhen handed Cao Ying an urgent official letter.

"Zidan, have you peeked at it?" Although Cao Ying's words had some reproach in his words, he still had a smile on his face.

"My lord, I am very happy!" Cao Zhen acquiesced while grinning. Cao Ying opened it and saw that Rao was calm and couldn't help but stand up excitedly.

"Father, what's the matter?" Cao Zhang and Cao Pi couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

"Yuan Rang has broken through Zhuo County, Shanggu and Dai County, and Yuan Tan led the army back to Liaodong!" Cao Ying said excitedly.

"Why so fast?" Cao Zhang couldn't help but ask in wonder. You must know that Yuan Tan also has heavy troops to defend these cities, why did he lose them so quickly.

"Yuan Tan colluded with Xianbei before, and at this time he had lost the hearts of the people of Youzhou, Zhuojun Taishou Tianyu and Daijun Guard Xiahou Lan were all right, and Yuan Rang soldiers took these two cities without blood. The counties of the upper valley are descending from the wind. Cao Ying laughed, and then sighed: "One thought, Yuan Tan can only return to Liaodong now." For the rest of his life, he is at most a grandson. ”

"Now that Hebei has been pacified, why doesn't my father organize his army and go south and fight Liu Bei to the death to determine the world?" Cao Zhang's excitement was a little too much, and he hurriedly asked.

"Don't be busy, wait for Wen Ruo to restore the livelihood of Hebei people. Moreover, taking advantage of the great injury of Xianbei's vitality, he should march again. By the way, Zidan, call Shao. Cao Zhen hurriedly promised not to mention it.

Since Shao took refuge in Cao Ying, Cao Ying did not arrange any important official positions for him for a while, and when he heard Cao Ying summoning him, he hurriedly came to meet him. "Zijing, I will now make you the general of Wei Zhenbei, and the more than 20,000 Xianbei and strong people who have been captured these days will be trained into a cavalry army with me, and you will lead it, and I will fight on the battlefield for me in the future!" Cao Ying ordered.

"Thank you Duke Wei for your grace!" When he heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked him, and went to rectify the military horses without mentioning it. At the same time, Cao Ying also ordered the three armies to assemble, led by himself, merged with Liu Bao's Xiongnu army and horses, and followed the path that Liu Bao poked out, and killed Danhan Mountain overnight.

Not to mention that Cao Ying was fighting in Saibei at this time, in the west city of Hanzhong, Guan Yu's 50,000 troops finally came to the city after another march. What satisfied Guan Yu was that although the road was rugged and narrow, there was an open land in front of Xicheng City. Even if it is inconvenient for the army to attack the city, it is still more than enough to get dozens of trebuchets to swing down.

Guan Yu thought so and did so. In a short time, eighty trebuchets had been set up under Xicheng City, and then the soldiers of the army began to assemble them, and then went to the surrounding mountains to collect stones and prepare for the siege.

"General, what are they doing here?" Yang Ren looked at the actions of the Jingzhou army with some inexplicability and asked Zhang Wei. Yang Ren had never gone to Shangyong with the army in the previous battle, and he didn't know anything about this trebuchet.

"Oh no, they're trying to smash stones!" Zhang Wei looked at the trebuchet that was gradually assembling and formed, and suddenly remembered the terrifying trebuchet of Shangyong at the beginning, which could throw more than 100 catties of large stones hundreds of steps away each time. Zhang Wei only saw the appearance of the trebuchet on the city gate from a distance, at the beginning of today, these trebuchets were disassembled and loaded on the car to run in order to facilitate the carrying in the valley road, and now they have begun to assemble. Before it was installed, Zhang Wei couldn't recognize the trebuchet for a while, but now as soon as it was assembled, Zhang Wei immediately realized what the Jingzhou army wanted to do.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Wei realized another terrifying problem: Xicheng is not big, his 20,000 troops are nesting here, once the stones are overwhelming, the casualties are definitely not covered.

"Quick, give the order, get ready for battle!" Zhang Wei's voice trembled. Yang Renzheng was inexplicable, at this time the trebuchet had been fully assembled, and the first batch of eighty trebuchets were smashed at the same time, and eighty hundred-pound stones flew towards the head of Xicheng City in the stunned eyes of the soldiers defending the city.

"Smack!" "Bang! "Ahh ”。 All sorts of voices followed. "Pop" is the sound of stones hitting the defenders, smashing large living people into meat sauce in an instant, making such a sound; "Bang" is the dull sound of stones that have not hit the living people and hit the city wall; "Ah" is the screams of those who have not been hit and are not dead.

The first batch of stone rain, more than 100 people in the city have already given their lives. The stones are so large that some of them fail to hit the target, but they often kill several people together, and on average, one stone kills more than one person.

"What?" Yang Ren can be regarded as a battle-hardened battle, but he was also hit by this sudden blow, and he couldn't react for a while. At this moment, the second round of stone rain came, and there was another ghost cry and wolf howl in the city.

"Zhang Weixiao'er curled up the army in this small city, and really let our army's trebuchet be used as a live target!" Glancing at the dejected defenders on the city, Guan Yu was also a little disdainful.

"It's a shame that this Zhang Wei is still a person who has seen our army's trebuchets in Shangyong, and he didn't make any preparations at all. To do so is to be self-defeating! Zhuge Jin also shook his head and said.

To say that most of the Hanzhong army are believers in Zhang Lu's Five Bucket Rice Dao, they are absolutely not afraid of death when they fight. Otherwise, Zhang Lu has no generals who can handle it, how can the Yizhou army with the famous general Zhang Ren have no choice but to dare to raise troops to attack while the garrison is empty? But now this trebuchet is so terrifying that it often smashes people into a bubble of meat sauce when a stone comes down. Such a tragic scene, don't say that you are a five-bucket rice dao, that is, a fairy dao, and you will vomit when you see it.

"General, what should I do?" After the third round of stone rain, Yang Ren asked with some trepidation. Being held naked by someone can only fight and can't fight back, this kind of battle is simply not fought. In fact, the direct casualties caused by these three rounds of stone rain were very limited, and there were only about 400 people, which was really a drop in the bucket compared to the 20,000 defenders. But the blow to morale is absolutely fatal.

"Bojian, you lead people down to the city tower first, and only send a thousand people to guard each time to prevent excessive casualties. Wait until today, and then make plans! Zhang Wei couldn't come up with any good ideas for a while, so he could only order this stupid method to reduce casualties first. Looking up at the sky, it was noon at this time, and there was still something to bear today.

Stuffy head and head with stones, smashed the not very solid city wall in the west city are a little loose, Zhang Wei also hurriedly ordered people to strengthen the city wall at night, and clean up the dead bodies and rubble on the city.

"Today, a total of 1,146 soldiers have been stoned to death, and more than 300 people are seriously injured and cannot fight anymore!" After counting the number of people, Yang Ren reported to Zhang Weiyu with a somewhat pale face. Although he didn't send a detailed work, Zhang Wei also knew that none of the Jingzhou troops who attacked the city today died.

None of the siegers died, and more than a thousand people defending the city died, not to mention that Zhang Wei, a Hanzhong bun, had never seen this kind of strange war, even if it was the well-informed Cao Mengde, a veteran of the battlefield in the world, he rarely encountered it. What's even worse is that after Zhang Wei proposed to defend the emperor in shifts, the defenders who were sent to the head of the city knew that they were going to die, and they were all unwilling to die. It wasn't until Zhang Wei led the pro-guard army to supervise that he reluctantly went to the city. Although Zhang Wei is not a far-reaching person, he also knows that if this continues, the military spirit will inevitably be unstable.

"Bojian, you led the army overnight and set up a village in the western col, and watched each other with Xicheng, so that everyone would not be smashed here." Zhang Wei thought for a while.

"It's good!" Yang Ren couldn't think of any good way, so he could only do it first. After a pause, Yang Ren suddenly proposed: "General, why don't you go to steal Guan Yu's camp at night?" ”

"Guan Yu is a world-famous general, how can he be defenseless in the camp?" Zhang Wei frowned, not too interested in Yang Ren's proposal.

"Guan Yu's army has come from afar, and it may not be guarded, how can you know if you don't try?" Yang Ren was a little unrelenting.

"That being the case, Bo Jian, you can send a lieutenant and lead an army of three thousand to try it." Zhang Wei was still more cautious, he didn't dare to send too many people, and he didn't even dare to let Yang Ren go by himself. Yang Ren nodded, and went to arrange for people to go to the village, and did not mention the camp.

On the other hand, Zhao Feng's 15,000 men and horses, after a long journey on the mountain road for 29 days, finally arrived at the seat of Yizhou's governance, Chengdu in Shu County.

"General Zhao, I've been waiting for a long time!" Before arriving in Chengdu, Zhao Feng saw a large group of people lined up in front of him, waiting for him for a long time. The current one was a big fat man, and he stepped forward with a smile. The court clothes on his body are the same as Liu Bei's, obviously he is the lord of Yizhou, Liu Zhang, the Duke of Shu. Looking at his appearance as a pig-brain, Zhao Feng never believed that he was a shrewd person.

"Zhao is here, how dare Duke Shu wait for a long time!" Although Zhao Feng was slanderous in his heart, he still had to do some superficial things in the face of this local snake. In case you provoke others, your own manpower is not enough for others to use to stuff their teeth. While being polite, he hurriedly rushed forward to salute.

"Haha!" Liu Zhang was quite approachable, stepped forward to help Zhao Feng up, took his hand and boarded his chariot together, and entered Chengdu together to show his boast. As for the people and horses in Jingzhou, Liu Zhang arranged wine and meat to reward the labor army.

"Dizzy, this guy is too sincere!" Zhao Feng saw that Liu Zhang was not wary of himself at all, and he was almost helpless in his heart. When the group came to Liu Zhang's Shu State Mansion, Liu Zhang had already ordered someone to arrange a sumptuous feast for hospitality.

"General Zhao is too weak to be crowned, and he is already a member of the three grades of the dynasty, and he is a famous general who has been on the battlefield for a long time. Pingjiangdong, Zhu Lu Bu, and even Prime Minister Cao Cheng, who swept Hebei, all suffered a big defeat under the general, and he was really young and promising! After sitting down, Liu Zhang also opened his mouth to compliment.

"How dare you, it's all the lord's wisdom, which makes the last general mix up some credit!" Rao is Zhao Feng's thick skin is rare in the world, and in the face of such praise, he can't help but feel a little hot on his face. A few words of compliment and politeness, Liu Zhang also introduced the main characters in Shu for Zhao Feng. This banquet Liu Zhang gave Zhao Feng enough face, except for the veteran Yan Yanzhen Shou Nanzhong, who was not present, and the rest of the important officials in Shuzhong were all present. The celebrities mentioned in the book, such as Huang Quan, Zhang Song, Fa Zheng, and Zhang Ren are all there. But seeing that Zhang Song was really short, Zhao Feng estimated that he was less than 1.55 meters, which was almost the same as Guo Xiaosi in his previous life. and Zhang Ren, who is known as the first general in Sichuan, is only about 1.70 meters tall, with a beard. But the knuckles of his fingers are thick, his muscles are knotted, and his eyes are bright, and he knows that he is a battlefield veteran at a glance.

After three rounds of drinking, after the mutual praise was over, it was Zhang Ren who took the initiative to get up and asked: "I don't know how many military horses General Zhao brought with him when he marched into Hanzhong this time?" ”

(To be continued)