Liu Feng's secret letter only had three words written on it - Dingjun Mountain.

Huang Zhong flipped through the letter several times, but could not find anything else except these three words.

He couldn't help but look puzzled and asked, "Apart from this letter, what else does the lord say?" ”

The envoy replied: "The lord said that the key to victory lies in Dingjun Mountain, and after the old general explores this place, he will naturally understand the lord's intentions." ”

Huang Zhong nodded slightly, and then ordered the messenger to go down to rest.

Putting down the secret letter in his hand, Huang Zhong's gaze shifted to the map, and in the east of Yangping Pass, on the south bank of the water, he found the place called Dingjun Mountain.

Theoretically, Yangping Pass only locks the road into Hanzhong, in fact, along the mountain path, over the mountains and mountains, you can also go around to the east of Yangping Pass.

It's just that although there are small roads to go, the transportation of grain is unsustainable, and the large siege equipment and chess cannot be transported over, and it is impossible to capture Yangping Pass with lightly armed soldiers alone.

This is the superficial situation, but Huang Zhong believes that since the general is thousands of miles away and sends him this secret plan, it must have its reason.

Therefore, Huang Zhong immediately sent scouts to take the mountain trail and go around to the east of Yangping Pass to explore the terrain around Dingjun Mountain.

A few days later, the scouts brought back detailed topographical information about Dingjun Mountain, and when Huang Zhong analyzed some of the information in detail, he immediately figured out Liu Feng's intentions.

Originally, this Dingjun Mountain is located on the southeast side of Yangping Pass, this mountain is the necessary place for the south of the Micang Trail to lead to Nanzheng, because the Micang Road is rugged and difficult to travel, since ancient times, few people have attacked Hanzhong from the Rice Cang, so the status of the Dingjun Mountain is far less important than Yangping Pass.

Nevertheless, if this mountain is occupied, it can threaten Nanzheng to the east and the flank and rear of Yangping Pass to the west, and although it is difficult to constitute a real threat, it will also cause panic among the enemy in the whole situation.

If Huang Zhong led an army to cross the river south and bypass Yangping through the trail, he would be able to unexpectedly grab the Dingjun Mountain, which would cause great deterrence to the enemy in Yangping.

Fearing the threat to the rear, the enemy will certainly come to fight for Dingjun Mountain, so that the enemy army can be lured out of the danger and annihilated by a field battle.

Huang Zhong weighed it, and even prepared to send troops to Dingjun Mountain.

When Huang Zhong summoned the generals and told his tactical ideas, Zhang Yi, the general of Li Feng, said: "There are few enemies in Dingjun Mountain, and our surprise attack can be taken in one fell swoop." However, occupying this mountain, although it can induce the enemy to divide the army, but the terrain around Dingjun Mountain is narrow, which is not conducive to attacking, if the enemy only sets up a village under the mountain to defend himself, he will not fight. At that time, our army could not conquer the attack, and there was not enough food and grass, so sooner or later we would have to abandon the mountain and retreat. ”

Huang Zhong stroked his beard and smiled, and said happily: "I have also considered this section before, but according to the information brought back by the scouts, I think that the mountains around Dingjun Mountain should be an excellent place to use troops given to us by God, as long as we can occupy this mountain, the rest is not to worry about." ”

Zhang Yi and other generals are convinced of Huang Zhong's talents, and when they see that the coach is so confident, they will not say more.

At this time, Huang Zhong sighed in his heart: The general is far away in Hebei, but he can win a decisive victory thousands of miles away, and the real god is also ......#####几天之后, Huang Zhong's army has set off.

30,000 troops, Huang Zhong left 10,000 to guard the camp, with Zhang Yi as the vanguard, 20,000 soldiers and horses lightly armed to cross the water, secretly crossed the Micang Mountain, spared to the southeast of Yangping Pass, three days later, unexpectedly appeared in the enemy camp of Dingjun Mountain.

On the same day, it was foggy, and under the cover of the weather, Zhang Yi led 3,000 vanguard Shu troops into the enemy camp, like chopping vegetables and cutting melons, killing more than 1,000 enemy troops to the point of crying wolves and howling, and washing blood into a river. More than 1,000 enemy troops were almost wiped out, leaving only a few dozen people who escaped the massacre and fled back to Yangping Pass in a panic.

After taking Dingjun Mountain by surprise, Huang Zhong set up two large villages at the foot of Dingjun Mountain, east and west wings, and divided his troops to defend them, creating a formation ready to go east and west, and threaten Nanzheng and Yangpingguan at the same time.

The loss of Dingjun Mountain shocked Zhao Yun, the general of Yangping Pass.

Because Liu Bei was competing with Liu Feng in the Central Plains, the forces in Hanzhong had been withdrawn from several emptiness, and at this moment, the defenders in the direction of Nanzheng were only less than 1,000 people.

After finding out the enemy's strength and determining that the enemy who attacked Dingjun Mountain was Huang Zhong, the commander of the Shu army, Zhao Yun did not dare to underestimate it, and immediately left 5,000 soldiers and horses to Yangpingguan, and led 10,000 soldiers and horses to Dingjun Mountain.

In response to the two camps under the Shu army, Zhao Yun also backed the water and set up two large camps in the east and west, trying to block the route of Huang Zhong's troops on the east and west.

When Gao was on the mountain and saw the enemy army setting up a fortress, Huang Zhong smiled.

The plan to lure the enemy has been successful, and Zhang Yi and other generals have asked for battle, asking the whole army to attack and break through the camp set up by Zhao Yun.

Obviously, Zhao Yun also knew that the Dingjun Mountain was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and his own troops and horses were few, so it would not be easy to forcibly seize the mountain.

And Zhao Yun knew that the Shu army came lightly and would not carry much food, so he fought-for-tat, only set up two villages, and defended but not attacked.

Zhao Yun's purpose is very clear, he just wants to consume Huang Zhong's food and force him to withdraw his troops on his own, so that the Dingjun mountain soldiers can recover it without blood.

Huang Zhong's 20,000 troops came over the mountains and only brought less than ten days of food, which was also the main reason why Zhang Yi and other generals took the initiative to ask for battle.

Of course, Huang Zhong knew the advantages and disadvantages of his own army, and it was imperative to take the initiative to attack.

However, what Huang Zhong was worried about was that it was not difficult to forcibly break through the enemy village with superior forces, but it would be difficult to do it, and if the enemy army was defeated and retreated to Yangping Pass to defend it, his strategic goal of seizing Yangping Pass would still not be achieved.

The only way is to solve Zhao Yun in Dingjun Mountain, and his army will take advantage of the victory and follow the enemy's defeated army into Yangping Pass.

After conducting another thorough reconnaissance of the terrain around Dingjun Mountain and the deployment of enemy soldiers, Huang Zhong decided to adopt the tactics of encircling the point to send reinforcements.

According to the available information, Zhao Yunzi led 7,000 soldiers and horses to garrison the west camp, which means that the enemy's east camp only has about 3,000 troops, and the defensive ability is relatively weak.

Huang Zhong's plan was very simple, he ordered Zhang Yi to lead an army of 8,000 to besiege the enemy's eastern camp without attacking it, so as to lure Zhao Yun's army in the western camp to relieve the siege.

At this time, the main force led by Huang Zhong could ambush at the foot of Dingjun Mountain and attack Zhao Yun's reinforcements halfway.

If Zhao Yun wanted to rescue Dongying, he had to pass through an open flat area in front of Dingjun Mountain, which was the ambush place chosen by Huang Zhong.

After the main peak of Dingjun Mountain, there is a large natural depression, which can at least gather about 10,000 troops.

And the distance between the top of Dingjun Mountain and the foot of the mountain is not more than 200 steps at most, such a height difference is neither too high nor too low, which is suitable for the ambush soldiers on the mountain to rush down quickly.

Huang Zhong guessed that it was such a geographical advantage that was the reason why Liu Feng asked him to use Dingjun Mountain as the location to break the enemy.

It's just that Huang Zhong couldn't understand that after Liu Feng captured Yizhou, he only stayed in Shuzhong for less than half a year before returning to Jingzhou, I believe he didn't know much about the geography of Shuzhong, but how could he be so familiar with Dingjun Mountain in Hanzhong?

Of course, Huang Zhong would not have guessed that Liu Feng actually didn't know the terrain of Dingjun Mountain at all, and Liu Feng's secret plan was based on his memory of that period of history that no longer existed.

Liu Feng remembered that in the past history, after Liu Bei captured Yizhou, he sent all his troops to attack Hanzhong, and it was in the battle of Dingjun Mountain that he killed Cao Ying's general Xiahou Yuan, thus breaking through Yangping Pass and opening up the passage into Hanzhong.

In that battle, Liu Bei also attacked Yangping for a long time, and finally had to change the battlefield to Dingjun Mountain.

Therefore, Liu Feng thought that since this was the case, it would prove that the terrain of Dingjun Mountain should be beneficial to the attacker's side, so he secretly taught Huang Zhong this plan to break the enemy.

Liu Fengjue's ability to use Huang Zhong's troops, as long as he is reminded a little, he will definitely be able to realize the important surname of Dingjun Mountain, just like Liu Bei back then.

Facts have proved that Liu Feng's expectations are indeed not wrong.

The plan has been decided, and the next night, the armies acted according to the plan.

That night, the adjutant general Zhang Yi led an army of 8,000 troops from the right village and launched a night attack on the enemy's east camp.

The enemy's right battalion will be guarded by Wu Lan, the strength is only 3,000, because there are few soldiers, so they set up antlers outside the wall, dig heavy trenches, and build fortifications that are also strong.

Zhang Yi took advantage of the cover of the night and planted many torches, causing the sergeants to beat drums and shout, creating an illusion of an incoming army. After the early hours of the morning, the night wind suddenly rose, and Zhang Yi took advantage of the wind to order the soldiers to attack the camp with torches, burning most of the antlers on the northwest side of the enemy camp.

Zhang Yi's bluff and the fire attack of the tailwind made Wu Lan mistakenly think that Huang Zhong's main force was attacking, and in shock, he sent several horsemen to rush to the west camp and ask Zhao Yun for help.

Zhao Yun was afraid that Dongzhai would be lost, so he originally planned to go to the rescue, but he was worried that it was dark and the enemy's whereabouts were unknown, so he was afraid that he would be ambushed by the enemy, so he had been hesitating.

It wasn't until dawn that Zhao Yun received several calls for help from Wu Lan before deciding to leave the village with 5,000 soldiers and horses and go straight to Dongying.

At this time, Huang Zhong had already led his more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to hide in the sky depression behind Dingjun Mountain for a night, the night on the mountain was cold, and he was frozen all night, and when the sky was about to dawn, he finally saw the shadow of the enemy army on the top of the mountain.

When I raised my eyes, I saw thousands of soldiers and horses, hurrying past in front of Dingjun Mountain.

Obviously, the Tianwa on the top of the mountain effectively hid Huang Zhong's whereabouts, so that the scouts sent by Zhao Yun failed to detect the enemy's ambush, so Zhao Yun dared to rush the army and passed in front of Dingjun Mountain without warning.

In the eyes of the killing machine, the fierce battle intent burned, and Huang Zhong seemed to be able to feel it, and the already rusty treasure knife in his hand was trembling with excitement at the moment.

The veteran turned on his horse, held a big knife in his hand, and shouted: "The whole army is attacking!" ”

The flag was unfurled, the drums were like thunder, and Huang Zhong took the lead and rushed down the mountain.

Behind him, 10,000 elite Shu troops, following this veteran who was more than a year old, were all over the mountains and killed the enemy army at the foot of the mountain.

(To be continued)