Zhang Ren was still one step late.

Since there was no raft to cross the river, although Zhang Ren withdrew from the battlefield in time after the ambush, he could only retreat along the river first, crossing the Zhu Causeway and running to Qianwei. Along the way, Zhang Fei led the army to chase and kill, and the Sichuan army ran like a frightened bird. When Zhang Ren withdrew to Qianwei, he counted the men and horses under his command, and the total number of zeros was only more than 23,000 people, and the casualties were more than half.

After a little rest, Zhang Ren sent someone to inform Liu Zhang in Chengdu and asked him to continue to send troops to help him defend Ba County. After Liu Zhang received Zhang Ren's battle report, although he was extremely annoyed by the unfavorable situation of the battle, he was angry, Zhang Ren was the first general under his command, and now he still needs to rely on him. To this end, Liu Zhang sent the general Xiang Cun and Fuban to lead 20,000 horses to reinforce Zhang Ren. After converging these 20,000 reinforcements, Zhang Ren prepared to go to Ba County to garrison again. But at this time, news came that after Zhang Fei ambushed him, he sent Kou Feng to lead a partial division and used Gao Xiang to deceive the gate of Jiangzhou City, thus occupying Ba County. Zhang Ren had no choice but to lead his troops to hold the gateway to Chengdu, and at the same time divide his troops to assist Yan Yanzhen in guarding Langzhong.

"General, there is nothing abnormal in the old general Yan Yan of Bajun, why do you need to divide troops to garrison?" Mahan was a little incomprehensible to Zhang Ren's decision.

"It's not that I don't believe in General Yan, it's just that at the moment, our army is being attacked on both sides, and the war is unfavorable. I'm struggling to face Zhang Fei here, if General Yan can repel Zhao Feng there, it can also relieve the pressure on my side a little! Zhang Ren sighed. Ma Han and the others were silent when they heard this, and the loss of Ba County was really difficult for them to accept. I held back for a long time and wanted to fight a defensive counterattack, but in the end I still fell into the scheme, which was too big a psychological blow to them.

calmed down a little, and Zhang Ren also threw himself into the next battle with vigor. He sent scouts to investigate all the main roads at night, and then he sat in the city to command. What he didn't know was that not far from Jiangyou, a crisis had quietly descended.

"General, we've finally set foot on Skyscraper!" Ma Tan looked at the vast mountaintop and couldn't help crying with joy for a while. Not only him, but Wang Ping, Yang Ren and Niu Jin, who had been climbing the mountain together for half a month, were all dancing excitedly. After paying the price of nearly 500 people falling off the cliff, the remaining 10,000 people finally came to Motianling, which was already very steep from the side they came from, but the problem was that the opposite side of the mountain was even more precipitous, almost a steep cliff. If Zhao Feng hadn't been prepared, they would have had to go down like Deng Ai.

"The army rests here all day, and at the same time arranges rope ladders, rests their spirits, and then goes down the mountain this evening, and then raids Jiangyou in the early morning tomorrow morning while taking advantage of the fog!" Zhao Feng looked at the exhausted soldiers, it was indeed too difficult for them to go down the mountain now. Besides, he still has enough food rations for six days by his side, so there is no need to be in such a hurry.

At that moment, the soldiers were stationed on the top of the hill, and the hundred or so strong men with iron nails and ropes on their backs began to lay out rope ladders. At the same time, Zhao Feng ordered someone to take out the carrier pigeon he carried with him, and sent a message to tell He Qi and Lu Xun that he had successfully arrived at Motianling, and asked them to prepare to divide their troops to take Jiameng Pass and Jianmen Pass. But the development of things was no longer what he could have predicted in the ravine.

"Niu Jin, tomorrow you pick five hundred of the most elite brothers, take the Jiangyou City Gate for me in one fell swoop, and then plan the army to kill it!" Zhao Feng admonished. This kind of thing still has to be done by Niu Jin, an outlaw, who naturally promised not to mention it.

The weather was fine on this day, the sun was not too big, but a cool breeze was blowing, so the more than 9,000 people felt very comfortable blowing the mountain breeze on the top of the mountain. By the afternoon, a hundred rope ladders had been tied, and the army began to descend one after another. On the way, some people died because of the rope ladder damage or slipping under their feet, but the total number of casualties was only a dozen. By the time more than 9,000 people had descended the mountain, it was already nightfall.

"Zijun, you lead the way ahead, the army set off overnight, you must rush to Jiangyou before dawn!" Zhao Feng looked at the sky, not knowing if he was too late. However, the elite soldiers of Danyang are the elite of the world, and it should be no problem to march in a hurry!

"Don't worry, general, we will be in time!" As if he knew what Zhao Feng was worried about, Wang Ping said confidently. The two gathered their troops as soon as possible, and then rushed to Jiangyou at full speed under the leadership of Wang Ping.

The moon was very big that night, and there were many stars, and there was no need for torches, and the group hurried along the mountain road. Originally, Zhao Feng wanted to discard the five hundred forked iron hoof horses in a hurry, but Ma Jian thought that the BMW was rare, so he finally brought them with a rope to fall off the cliff. Later, Zhao Feng finally understood why this guy was kept, because the current Ma Tan was riding forward with him.

I am not afraid of making too much noise, because the people of Xichuan never imagined that there would be a Hanzhong military god who came to their hinterland unknowingly. The mountain town is foggy in summer, and by the time the morning light fades before dawn, the fog has covered the entire mountain. The people around you are a little farther away, and you can't see it.

"General, Captain Wang asked me to tell you, there are still five miles left in front of Jiangyou!" Just when Zhao Feng was a little stunned, Niu Jin's voice came into his ears. Looking around, Zhao Feng was sure that under such a heavy fog, five miles of land was enough for people to see everything clearly, so he immediately ordered the whole army to stop, and according to the plan agreed in advance, Niu Jin led the people to take advantage of the fog to seize the gate of Jiangyou. Zhao Feng himself led the army to ambush in the grass and trees on both sides of the mountain road, and under the cover of the fog, even the pedestrians walking on the road could not find their tracks.

Although fog can make people unable to see clearly, it cannot stop the transmission of sound. Not long after Zhao Feng and others were ambushed, they gradually began to hear the sound of pedestrians walking by, thinking that they were all people who were going to Jiangyou City. After a while, there were more and more people, and Zhao Feng secretly prayed in his heart that the fog would not dissipate, so that the army could be hidden deeper.

I don't know how long it took, but I finally heard the sound of the city gate creaking, and the people who had gathered under the city began to prepare to enter the city. At this moment, Niu Jin, who had been in ambush for a long time, led five hundred warriors to kill in an instant, and rushed straight to the city gate that had not had time to close.

"Enemy attack, close the city gates, ah!" One of the soldiers guarding the gates of the city opened the encounter with his screams. Wielding a knife to kill the person in front of him, Niu Jin did not stop and led the army to kill in the city. At the same time, Zhao Feng's army, which was ambushed on both sides of the mountain road five miles away, also advanced rapidly, striving to take advantage of the situation to take Jiangyou in one fell swoop as soon as possible.

"The general is not good, the Hanzhong army has killed it!" Yang Huai in Jiangyou City had just gotten up, and he was almost fainted by this unexpected news. "What are you talking about, is it the Hanzhong Army?" Yang Huai asked in disbelief as he looked at the soldier who came to give the order, in fact, there was no need for this person to answer, the shouting and killing outside was getting closer and closer, and even Yang Huai himself heard it.

"Come with me and drive the enemy out of the city!" Yang Huai is Liu Zhang's diehard loyalist, and he will never surrender willingly, although the enemy situation is not clear now, but he still thinks about how to fulfill his duties as a guard. Jiangyou is located in the hinterland of Xichuan, and the defenders are only more than 1,000 people, except for the hundreds of people guarding the four gates, the rest are stationed in the barracks in the south of the city. Yang Huai hurriedly put on his armor and went to the barracks to gather people.

"Quick!" As soon as he led his guards out of the door, Yang Huai found that the street was already full of Hanzhong troops, and he immediately understood that the general trend had gone. At this moment, the Hanzhong army also discovered him and surrounded him.

"Kill!" Knowing that there was no way out, Yang Huaiyi gritted his teeth and led the army forward to start a battle of trapped beasts. After hacking several people to death in a row, Yang Huai's big knife was blocked by Niu Jin's.

"Hey!" Yang Huai even slashed several times, but was separated by Niu Jin, at this time, Wang Ping had already led the army to kill, and after his subordinates were annihilated, the two of them couldn't care about bullying more and less, and jointly attacked Yang Huai, the big leader.

With a "dang" sound, Yang Huai's big knife and Wang Ping slashed for a moment, and they didn't have time to retract their defenses for a while. Niu Jin accurately grasped this vacancy and stabbed Yang Huai's chest with a spear. The latter hurriedly dodged, but was still pierced in the shoulder, and fainted on the spot with a scream.

"It's slow, maybe it's useful to keep this guy!" Niu Jin stopped Wang Ping, who wanted to take advantage of the situation to cut off Yang Huai's head, and followed Zhao Feng for a long time, Niu Jin also knew that his generals had always liked to cheat and deceive in wars, and now staying in this unconscious Yang Huai may be very useful.

"How's the battle going?" In the middle of the Jiangyou County Yazhong, Zhao Feng asked Ma Yan.

"The defenders were defenseless, and after the four hundred guerrillas at the gate of the city were annihilated, all the 1,000 Yizhou troops in the south of the city surrendered, and Linglaimin of Jiangyou County had surrendered, and now he was outside the gate." Ma Tan replied.

"Laimin?" Zhao Feng still has some images of this person, he seems to be one of the famous ministers of Shu Han in history, and Fei Shi, Yang Hong, Qin Mi and others are collectively known as the Seven Talents of Shuzhong, but he and Fei Shi are still just a small county order.

"Let him in!" Zhao Feng thought for a while, and after a while, Ma Jian led a Confucian student in his twenties in. Seeing that the clothes on his body are very shabby, I think that this brother is now in a humble official position, and his family background is also very ordinary.

"Lai Min has seen General Zhao!" Looking at Zhao Feng, who was sitting on the throne of the county commander, Lai Min didn't dare to have any dissatisfaction, and hurriedly saluted.

"It's polite to come to the county order, I heard that the county order is willing to surrender?" Zhao Feng asked lightly. Lai Min heard him ask this, and hurriedly replied: "The villain is willing to listen to the general's dispatch." ”

"Well, do you know Gao Pei, the guard of Fushui Pass, where is he guarded?" Zhao Feng asked quietly.

"General Gao Pei is a good friend of General Yang Huai, and he has 5,000 men and horses stationed there in Fushui Pass!" Lai Min hurriedly replied. In fact, Zhao Feng already knew about these situations, but now that he heard Lai Min say it, he was sure that he was really taking refuge.

"That's good, come to the county order, the grain and grass in Jiameng Pass and Jianmen Pass are all to be transferred through you?" Zhao Feng continued to ask.

"Exactly!" When Lai Min heard him ask, his heart suddenly brightened: It seems that Zhao Feng is going to cut off the grain routes of these two defenders.

"Very good, now that Yang Huai has been captured, can you come to the county order to help us and others to open the Fushui Pass?" Zhao Feng looked at Lai Min in front of him and asked confidently, not afraid that he would not agree. At the same time, Zhao Feng informed Lu Xun that he was ready to seize Jiameng Pass and Jianmen Pass according to the previous plan.

(To be continued)