Five days later, Chen Lin came to Baozhong County, Gao Shun greeted him in front of the city gate, as well as Yang Bai and a group of township elders in Baozhong County, etc. A few days ago, Gao Shun immediately rushed to Baozhong County after receiving Chen Lin's order, at this time everything in Baozhong County had been almost arranged, and more than 2,000 troops in the city were ruthlessly drawn out by Gao Shun 1,200, either to supplement the trapping camp, or sent to Shangyong Three Counties to help guard the prisoners who repaired the official road.

Yang Ren was left by Chen Lin to become solid, in Baozhong County, there were no outsiders left and right, Chen Lin asked Gao Shun: "Gao Shun, a certain Guanru training trap camp, quite strong, it is better to expand the trap camp to 5,000." Chen Lin seemed to be asking a question and giving an order, only to see Gao Shun lined up in a serious manner, and said: "Tell the lord, Shun is training the camp, but it is strict in discipline, diligent in * training, and by the way, three thousand soldiers are the upper limit, no matter how much, Shun is afraid that it will not be enough." "Gao Shun means that 3,000 soldiers with him is already the upper limit, and any more is not good.

The general himself leads the troops and the commander of the army is two different things, leading the army usually means bringing his own trained soldiers, and the commander of the army is to command other generals to fight, he only needs to understand the generals, not necessarily the soldiers under those generals. This is the difference between a general and a handsome talent, like Gao Shun, he may be able to command thousands of troops and horses to fight, but if he wants to train the soldiers himself, three thousand is the upper limit. Therefore, although the camp is very powerful, Chen Lin cannot force Gao Shun to train more.

Hearing Gao Shun say this, Chen Lin also felt reasonable, so he said: "That's good, Gao Shun's camp will increase to three thousand." Gao Shun is obviously the number one general under Chen Lin. Now Chen Lin's four armies, the rest are only a thousand people, but Gao Shun is in the camp, from 1,000 to 2,000, and now it has increased to 3,000, which shows Chen Lin's trust in Gao Shun.

Now that Yan Pu has begun to manage the government affairs of the newly acquired county town in Chenggu, Chen Lin saw that Yan Pu had properly managed the three counties of Shangyong, and knew that Yan Pu's ability was not just lip service, his actual ability was as powerful as he said. Just when Chen Lin and the others were in Baozhong County, suddenly Chen Lin received a letter sent by Yan Pu's order, Chen Lin smiled and said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, this letter from Zhizhi, Wenhe guessed why?" ”

Jia Xu smiled: "How do you know this?" Chen Lin laughed and handed the letter to Jia Xu, saying: "Zhizhi didn't know that Wenhe had made a plan, to isolate Nanzheng, I didn't think that Zhizhi was also a general idea, and he wrote a letter overnight to attack Chuyang and Anyang first. It turned out that this Yan Pu also wrote a letter to Chen Lin to offer advice, and it turned out to be exactly the same as what Jia Xu said, isolating Nan Zheng. Because at this time, Zhang Xiu retreated to Nanzheng, Nanzheng must be heavily guarded, and it is difficult to capture it urgently, only to control the other county towns first, and then slowly besiege Nanzheng, and then it is possible for Nanzheng to be in chaos without a fight.

It has been two days since Chen Lin came to Baozhong County, and it has been seven days since Yang Kai went to Chuyang, and there is no news, and the anxious Yang Bai comes every day to ask Chen Lin if there is any news. On this day, suddenly a scout brought a messenger who was said to be from Chuyang, Chen Lin hurriedly received him, and the messenger said that Yang Kai had successfully persuaded the guards of Chuyang, and Yang Kai hoped that Chen Lin would send someone to accept it as soon as possible to avoid chaos.

It turned out that Yang Kai did not start to persuade from where the guards were, but relied on the reputation of the Yang family, starting with the scholars, Chen said that he was powerful, won the recognition of the scholars, and jointly launched a verbal offensive against the defenders, just when the guards hesitated, Zhang Xiu suddenly sent another cronie to say that he was to replace Weiyang, and the guards could no longer sit still, so they simply put the Zhang Xiu cronies under house arrest, so there was a letter from Yang Kai.

Chen Lin looked at it, looked at Jia Xu, Jia Xu waved away the messenger, and said to Chen Lin: "Lord, whether it is true or not, the trip to Chuyang is essential, if the lord and father-in-law lead the army." The defenders of Chuyang were four or five thousand, and if they could go well, they would have suffered many fewer casualties. So Chen Lin personally led the army to Chuyang, and he was not afraid of Zhang Xiu's attack on Baozhong, but he was afraid that Zhang Xiu did not have the courage at this time.

More than 2,000 trapped in the camp, 800 cavalry and Chen Lin's guards, all drove to Chuyang, the westernmost county of Hanzhong County. When he came to the city of Canyang, Yang Kai led the guards and a group of scholars to greet him at the city gate, Chen Lin saw that Yang Kai was alive, and there was nothing unusual, knowing that Yang Kai was really going to surrender. Chen Lin hurriedly dismounted, and paid tribute to the people in Chuyang, and the people who were originally nervous were suddenly relieved. It was rumored that the new Taishou reused the local scholars, and it was true.

Chen Lin had already announced the appointment of the guard general of Weiyang at the city gate before entering the city, and as soon as the guard general turned around, he became the county lieutenant of Weiyang, taking off the identity of a thief, so he also expressed no objection to Chen Lin's removal of most of the defenders of the city. With the surrender of Chuyang, Chen Lin had an empty city, and more than 3,000 soldiers were young and strong. Chen Lin originally planned to dismiss these horses, but Jia Xu suggested that Chen Lin should use the 3,000 people as the front to attack Anyang, so Chen Lin left these 3,000 people and took charge of them personally.

Chen Lin saw Yang Kai as a real person, and Yang Kai actually had a bit of a Confucian appearance. Yang Kai saw that Chen Lin was kneeling at Chen Lin's feet and crying non-stop, which really made Chen Lin feel admired and a little disgusted, but Chen Lin could only pretend to help Yang Kai up with a smile on his face, and was relieved.

Chen Lin heard that Zhang Xiu had sent another cronie to take charge of Chuyang, and he thought that he was afraid that the current Anyang would be the same, so if he wanted to recruit Anyang again, he was afraid that it would be impossible. So Chen Lin said what he thought to Jia Xu, and Jia Xu did the same, saying: "What the lord said is reasonable, but even if the Anyang guard is dead set on Zhang Xiu, the big families in Anyang City don't think like this, and the lord has not forgotten how Chenggu captured it." ”

So Chen Lin rested in Chuyang for two days, and then drove to Anyang County with 6,000 men and horses. Since Chen Lin came to Nanzheng Sixth County, the local scholars have subsidized money and grain in order to buy Chen Lin, so in the war in Hanzhong, Chen Lin hardly had to pay a little money and grain. The same is true of the scholars in Chuyang, and the use of the 6,000 army is completely worry-free.

As long as Anyang is captured and Yangping Pass is captured by the way, only Zhang Xiu's Nanzheng will be left in Hanzhong County. Of course, Chen Lin knew that this Anyang was only afraid that it was not so easy to fight, and this was probably the first real tough battle after Chen Lin entered Hanzhong.

On the way, the more Chen Lin thought about it, the more he felt that this might not end in a short period of time, and he was afraid that Zhang Xiu would attack the empty county seat, so Chen Lin repeatedly ordered Cai Yang, who was carrying grain, to lead his troops into Hanzhong, because Cai Yang was in Shangyong at this time, and let Xicheng County Lieutenant Lin De temporarily take charge of the work of going back and forth to Runan, and there was Chen Lin's father, Chen Li, who was there, so there must be no mistake. When Chen Lin gave the order, Jia Xu said: "My lord, since Cai Sima also led his troops into Nanzheng, it is better not to do defense, but to let him and Yang Sima Yitong, who stayed in Chenggu, lead his troops to camp under Nanzheng City, and not let Zhang Xiu have the opportunity to go out and attack the cities." ”

As soon as Chen Lin heard it: "The number of the two is only 2,000, and most of them are new troops, Zhang Xiu has more than 10,000 troops, but he is afraid of ......" Chen Lin was worried that Cai Yang and Yang Ren would not be able to stop Zhang Xiu. Jia Xu smiled and said, "Lord, there is a plan to make Zhang Xiu no longer dare to go out of the city. Chen Lin hurriedly asked, it turned out that Jia Xu's plan was to let Chen Lin temporarily surround Anyang and not attack. Only let Gao Shun surround Anyang, Chen Lin secretly led Chen Ze's cavalry and 3,000 foot soldiers to secretly ambush behind Cai Yang's Yang Ren camp. As long as Zhang Xiu dared to go out of the city to attack Caiyang's camp, Chen Lin would attack, afraid of Zhang Xiu, and see if he dared to go out of the city in the future, and then he would attack Anyang.

When Chen Lin heard this, he ordered Gao Shun to lead his troops to besiege Anyang County, and he divided his troops to sneak back to Nanzheng without showing up. Therefore, in the eyes of Nanzheng Zhang Xiu, there are only 2,000 people from Cai and Yang under the city, as Chen Lin worried, Zhang Xiu just wanted to bully Cai Yang, and when the two of them had just set up camp, Zhang Xiu sent 5,000 men and horses to attack the camp.

Chen Lin was in another big camp not far behind the big camp, and when he heard that Zhang Xiu had sent troops, he laughed: "Wen He is like a god, okay, even if he can't completely annihilate the soldiers and horses out of the city this time, he can scare Zhang Xiu half to death." So Chen Ze's cavalry and Chen Lin personally led 3,000 foot soldiers and guards, one left and one right. When the generals who left the city were thinking that the camp was about to be breached, they suddenly found that there were enemies on both sides and hurriedly retreated. Zhang Xiu in the city also saw it clearly, and shouted loudly: "It's a plan." So he hurriedly withdrew his troops, but Chen Ze's cavalry was so easy to get rid of, and when he fled back to the city, 5,000 people left the city, 2,000 people returned to the city, and even the main general died in the chaos. Zhang Xiu urgently ordered the city gate to be closed, and no one was allowed to fight.

Chen Lin collected his troops and returned to the camp, and secretly led his troops to turn to the direction of Anyang, Zhang Xiu sent 5,000 people out of the city, but the walls of the city were still full, I was afraid that there were more than 10,000 troops in the city at this time. If there is a battle on the ground, Chen Lin is not afraid at all, but the other party has the convenience of the city, so Chen Lin will not dare to be careless. The strategy of breaking Anyang first is definitely wise, there are less than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the two cities, and Chen Lin has already occupied most of Hanzhong County, as long as the rice thieves in these two cities can't come out to cause harm everywhere, Chen Lin is not in a hurry. On the contrary, Chen Lin was quite satisfied with gathering all the Five Dou Mi Sect members together in this way, so that even if Zhang Xiu was killed in the future, there would still be scattered Five Dou Mi Sect disciples to deceive people's minds.

In fact, there are not many real Wudoumi disciples under Zhang Xiu's army, less than 10,000, and the others are just forced to join the army. Anyang has been besieged by Gao Shun for more than half a month, Gao Shun has not attacked once, and Anyang City does not dare to fight. As soon as Chen Lin's 4,000 army arrived, the changes in Anyang City were even greater, and the people were panicked. But the kind of thing that Chen Lin expected the scholar clan to rebel again and help Chen Lin did not happen, because Chen Lin would never have thought of it. At this time, there was no longer a big scholar family in the two cities of Nanzheng and Anyang, and Zhang Xiu basically lost his mind and ordered all the scholars to be slaughtered. Because of the loss of the city one after another, Zhang Xiu knew that it was the Shi clan who were making trouble, so Zhang Xiu gave this order, if it wasn't for Yang Kai's quick action, the cronies who went to take charge of Weiyang would also act the same.

In Anyang City, the real battle of storming began.