Liu Zhang led the army to the Sword Pavilion, suddenly stopped, and asked Xiao Furong to stay here with the barbarian army, Xiao Furong was puzzled.

"Rong'er, I have informed your father of the king of Yewutie, hoping that Wuxi will send troops to help, and now seeing that it is about to enter winter, your father has promised to send soldiers and horses, you receive the Wuxi army here, and carry out rectification, Chengdu will successively transport all kinds of equipment, Ge and hook and sickle guns, you ask the people to transport them to Hanzhong, light armor and white pole guns, all equipped with the Wuxi army."

"Why receive it here? Isn't it okay to go to Hanzhong? Xiao Furong raised her head and asked, with a layer of mist in her bright eyes.

"I'll give you an order when the time comes."

Xiao Furong nodded, since Liu Zhang said so, she couldn't say anything more.

Xiao Furong left behind with three thousand barbarian troops, and Liu Zhang continued to march towards Hanzhong with the army, Fa Zheng said: "Lord, you left Miss Xiao in the Sword Pavilion, you should have another deep meaning, right?" ”

Liu Zhang nodded: "It's not counting, I don't know if I can use it, but since this time it's mainly to defend, the barbarian army is of little use to us." ”

Liu Zhang's expression was a little solemn, Fa Zheng knew what Liu Zhang was thinking, defensive operations were the most aggrieved operations, fighting back and forth on their own territory, and the harm was that they didn't say anything, and they couldn't completely remove the hidden dangers of Xiliang and Qiang soldiers.

In this battle, there were three results, one was the great victory of the Sichuan army, and the Xiliang army retreated to the north, and since then it has formed a great enmity with the Qiang people, harassing all parts of Hanzhong, and Hanzhong cannot live in peace.

Second, after a long time, the Xiliang army retreated due to lack of food, and also formed a great enemy, and the strength of the Xiliang army and the Qiang army was not damaged, and there was no peace in Hanzhong, and there was no more peace in Hanzhong, and it was four years of recuperation, I am afraid that Hanzhong could not provide any help.

The third type, the Sichuan army is defeated, then there is nothing to say, if the Xiliang army enters Hanzhong. The entire Jingyi will be shaken, and Xichuan will be threatened by a strong threat, so it will not be a defensive battle, and then the Sichuan army will have to pour out its troops, regain Hanzhong, and recuperate and be ruined.

But either of these three outcomes. None of Liu Zhang's goal was achieved, Liu Zhang wanted to relieve the Qiang army's troubles, so that Hanzhong, a large grain-producing county, could provide help for recuperation, and now for Yizhou, nothing is more important than food.

"Don't worry too much, lord." Fa Zheng said: "Although we can't think of a way now, but I don't think the enemy army is monolithic this time, first of all, the Qiang side is not normal, as far as I know." Tsing Yi Qiang and Bai Ma Qiang did not agree with sending troops, and the Xiliang Army sent fewer troops, and when we arrived in Hanzhong, we analyzed the situation of all parties, and maybe we could find a way to defeat the enemy with the enemy. ”

"I hope so." Liu Zhang responded. He didn't think too much in his heart, Liu Zhang had always been more inclined to improvise, and he hadn't arrived in Hanzhong at this time, so it was useless to think too much.

It's just that. Ma Chao took advantage of Jing Yi's recuperation to commit a crime, and did not teach Xiliangjun a lesson, Liu Zhang was really unwilling in his heart.

Liu Zhang led the army into Hanzhong.

Ma Chao shocked the West Liang. The Hanzhong Army has also heard of Ma Chao's reputation, and when they heard that Ma Chao had violated the realm, they were all like pins and needles, the army's heart was shaken, and the defenders of Yangping Pass were panicked.

The news of Liu Zhang's arrival in Hanzhong spread, and the Hanzhong army was relieved.

Liu Zhang first looked at the seriously injured Wu Ban, Wu Ban is now able to speak, with more than a dozen knife wounds all over his body, which is unbearable, Liu Zhang learned about the incident and the current general situation from Wu Ban's mouth.

In addition to Wu Ban's injury and the previous killing of the leader of Tsing Yi Qiang, there are some other noteworthy details.

This time, the thirteen departments of Xiqiang, came twelve, the only young Bai Ma Qiang, the Tsing Yi Qiang family was the dominant one in the past, and the first Lingqiang has been dissatisfied as the second child, but Bai Ma Qiang is the diehard loyalist of Tsing Yi Qiang.

After the leader of Tsing Yi Qiang was killed, Xian Lingqiang immediately attacked Tsing Yi Qiang's base camp, and then brought in his ally Ma Teng to help in the battle, stabilized his position, and resisted Tsing Yi Qiang's counterattack.

Tsing Yi Qiang failed to fight back, completely collapsed, Xian Lingqiang took the opportunity to merge the forces of Tsing Yi Qiang, set up the leader of the Tsing Yi Qiang puppet, so that Tsing Yi Qiang completely became his vassal, Xian Lingqiang was able to grow, becoming the new leader of the thirteen departments of Xiqiang.

And the first warrior of Tsing Yi Qiang, and also the first warrior of the thirteen tribes of Xiqiang, Bai Jia Xiao was unwilling to be the first Qiang vassal, fled to Baimaqiang, was accepted by Baimaqiang, and became the second leader.

It stands to reason that the leader of Tsing Yi Qiang was "killed by Wu Ban", if Tsing Yi Qiang believes, then Xi Fengchi, as a loyal minister of the former leader of Tsing Yi Qiang, should lead the people of Baima Qiang to find revenge on the Sichuan army, why didn't he come?

In addition, Xian Lingqiang attacked Tsing Yi Qiang too quickly, Liu Zhang and Fa Zheng both deduced that the killing of the leader of Tsing Yi Qiang was absolutely inseparable from Xian Lingqiang.

It seems that Xian Lingqiang should have killed Tsing Yi Qiang in order to gain the dominance of the thirteen tribes of Xiqiang, and attacking the Sichuan army is very simple, Xian Lingqiang needs to establish his hegemony through this war.

However, if the abnormality of the Qiang people is still reasonable, the Xiliang army is by no means normal.

Han Sui ambushed Wu Ban, but this time it was Ma Teng who sent troops, and Han Sui didn't send a single soldier, even if the two were brothers, Ma Teng didn't need to be so emperor and eunuch in a hurry, right?

If it was really Han Sui who ambushed Wu Ban, and Han Sui offended the Sichuan army, it should be Han Sui who was keen on attacking the Sichuan army.

According to the details provided by Wu Ban, Wu Ban went to negotiate this time, and confirmed that Han Sui would not attack him, but in fact, when the ambush occurred, Han Sui's soldiers and horses were also panicked, and Han Sui would have died in it if it wasn't for the horse.

In this way, both Fa Zheng and Liu Zhang guessed that Han Sui, who had started from scratch and had been in Xiliang for more than ten years, was not the one who ambushed Wu Ban at all......

Fa Zheng said to Liu Zhang: "Lord, Han Sui didn't send troops this time, I'm afraid it's not that he doesn't want to go, Han Sui is known as the fox of Xiliang, with Han Sui's personality, the mistake will be wrong to the end, since he offended us, he won't care about what is not Wu Ban who he ambushed, and he doesn't send troops, it is likely that he is guarding against the enemy." ”

"Against whom?"

Fa Zheng said in a deep voice: "Qiang and Ma Teng. ”

Liu Zhang frowned.

Fa Zhengdao: "Tsing Yi Qiang began to grow with Han Sui, and Xian Lingqiang is Ma Teng's ally, Xian Lingqiang can assassinate Tsing Yi Qiang, why can't Ma Teng assassinate Han Sui?"

Now that Tsing Yi Qiang's power has been greatly reduced, isn't Han Sui afraid that Ma Teng and Xian Lingqiang will jointly attack his territory? I think that's why Han Sui didn't send troops. ”

Liu Zhang shook his head: "This kind of reasoning is in line with logic, we think like this, Han Sui will also think like this, it is really possible that he will not send troops because he has a dislike for Ma Teng."

But I think there must be something else going on for this. The Xiliang people don't like intrigues and tricks very much, it's not that Han Sui and Ma Teng don't know how to do it, but the Xiliang people and the Qiang people have always looked down on people who conspire and scheming, especially this kind of assassination leader, even if you win, no one will obey you. But. ”

Liu Zhang smiled and said, "We don't have to think too much. As long as we find something that suits our interests from this matter, it is best to provoke the remnants of Tsing Yi Qiang to fight with Xian Lingqiang, and then provoke Ma Teng to fight with Han Sui, and within a few years, we in the north should have no worries. ”

Fa Zheng nodded, and at this moment, a soldier came to report: "Report to the lord, Ma Chao and the thirteen departments of Xiqiang will meet in the Beiyuan, a total of 80,000 people." Even under the wooden platform, Shangguan, iron dragon, more than ten dangerous blockages, it is expected to arrive at Yangping Pass in one day. ”

"It's coming so fast." Liu Zhang and Fa Zheng stood up at the same time.

Liu Zhang urgently arrived at Yangping Pass with soldiers and horses. Ma Chao actually arrived first, camped twenty miles outside Yangping Pass, cut down trees, and built siege equipment.

Liu Zhang took Fa Zheng and a few relatives to inspect the city defense. Yangpingguan now has 60,000 horses gathered inside and outside, all of which were transferred to Hanzhong after the original expedition to Jingzhou, and the original troops of Hanzhong Shangyong. In front of the city gate, Liu Zhang saw many people entering in panic and asked Yang Rendao: "What's going on?" ”

Yang Ren replied: "Recently, the war in Chang'an, Guanzhong has become more and more intense, more than a dozen princes have wantonly merged, and the people have fled one after another. ”

Liu Zhang frowned and said, "Aren't you afraid that the Xiliang Army will come in?" ”

Yang Ren said: "Xiliang can't be guarded against, but even if there are no these homeless, they can still come in, as for the Xiliang soldiers, the Xiliang soldiers lost their spears and war horses, so they are not Xiliang soldiers, we put in the homeless people in batches, carefully checked, there should be no obstacles." ”

Liu Zhang nodded, and Fa Zheng said: "It seems that Cao Cao is going to completely control Guanzhong, first instigate the princes to merge with each other, and then break each other, and Chang'an will be in Cao Cao's hands." ”

Liu Zhang said: "I'm not worried about this, some people are more worried than us about Guanzhong being completely controlled by Cao Cao." ”

"Who?"

"Liu Bei of Stone City."

Liu Zhang and Fa Zheng chatted while inspecting the city defense.

In Yangping Pass, there are many Sichuan soldiers who came back from the defeat of Mutai and Shangguan, these soldiers are all frightened on their faces, and tell the guards of Yangping Pass about the Xiliang soldiers they saw, Liu Zhang walked through the city defense, and heard two people talking, and did not find Liu Zhang's arrival.

"You don't know, the Xiliang Army is so powerful, especially that Ma Chao, our three centurions and more than a dozen army commanders have not stopped them, people block and kill, and God blocks and kills gods."

"Is it that powerful?"

"That's not it, if the Xiliang army breaks through, let's run with it, if we are caught up by the Xiliang cavalry, it's strange if we don't get trampled into mud."

"I'm scared right now."

Liu Zhang listened to it for a long time, and suddenly said to the soldier in a cold voice: "Are you very afraid of the Xiliang Army?" ”

The soldier turned his head suddenly, and when he saw Liu Zhang, his face turned white with fright.

"No...... Unafraid. The soldier stammered.

"Come on, drag these defeated soldiers who spread rumors and disturb the morale of the army out and behead them."

The defeated soldiers changed color in an instant, and Yang Ren hurriedly said: "Lord, the loss of Shangguan and other places is a dereliction of duty by the last general, and these soldiers' nonsense is an unintentional mistake, please forgive me." ”

"Please spare your life, we will never dare again."

"Don't dare anymore."

The soldiers fell to their knees and begged for mercy.

Fa Zheng whispered: "Lord, there are more defeated soldiers than this, and all of them are afraid to shake the hearts of the army." ”

Liu Zhang nodded slightly, and said to Yang Ren: "Escort these soldiers up and wait for disposal." ”

"Yes." Yang Ren bowed his hand, waved his hand, and a large group of soldiers came over.

"Thank you for the grace of the lord not to kill, thank you for the grace of the lord not to kill." The defeated soldiers were escorted away by the soldiers.

"Did you see that?" Liu Zhang said loudly to the soldiers: "The Xiliang army is not so terrible, his Xiliang army is crisscrossing Xiliang, and our Sichuan army has also gone down to Jingzhou, who wins and who loses is not yet known, in this battle, the enemy army is coming from afar, the enemy attacks and defends, we have the advantage, Ma Chaoxiu wants to take a step beyond Lei Chi." ”

After Liu Zhang's shouting, coupled with the brilliant achievements of the Sichuan army in the past two years, the soldiers removed most of their fears.

Liu Zhang and Fa Zheng returned to the inner hall and convened Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, Yang Ren, Gao Pei and other generals to discuss the matter.

Liu Zhang said: "Now." The morale of our army is not high, and we are afraid of Ma Chao and the Xiliang army, and we need a victory to boost the morale of the army, otherwise Yangping Pass will not be able to hold on, I mean this, the enemy army is tired from afar, and it is just tomorrow to launch an attack. ”

Fa Zheng nodded and said, "Ma Chao has been like a bamboo. The arrogance was too great, and we arrived outside Yangping Pass at midnight, and after encampment, it was dawn, and tomorrow we didn't think about any combat power, we attacked, even if we couldn't defeat it, we could defeat it, and boost the morale of the defenders. ”

"Why don't you attack the camp tonight, so that the Xiliang army can't set up the village?" Gao Pei asked.

Liu Zhang shook his head: "There are too many troops. Fighting at night, I am afraid that the pass will be attacked, and there will be fewer sorties, for fear of being caught up and swallowed by Xiliang Cavalry, but. It's okay to harass you, Gao Pei, you bring someone tonight, each with a ringing in their hands. Go to the vicinity of the Xiliang military camp to beat gongs and drums, so that they can't be at peace. ”

"Huh?" Gao Pei regretted that he was talking too much, and he took on such a task.

Midnight. Gao Pei took the gong team to the mountain near the Xiliang military camp, and slammed the gong, hundreds of gongs made a piercing sound, and the angry Xiliang soldiers and Qiang soldiers shouted, but they were helpless against the scattered Sichuan soldiers in the mountains.

Ma Chao was angry and personally led people up the mountain to look for it, but he didn't find anything, but the sound of the gong kept changing directions, and the angry Ma Chao gritted his teeth, and the Xiliang army and the Qiang soldiers couldn't live in peace all night.

On the second day, the weather was warm, there was no scorching sun, no clouds, and the autumn was crisp, Liu Zhang left 10,000 people to guard the pass, led 50,000 Sichuan troops out of the pass, and challenged the drums to the Xiliang military camp.

In the Xiliang military camp, Ma Chao was about to carry a gun to fight, and Ma Dai, the younger brother of the deputy general Pang De, was dissuaded, Pang De said: "Young General, our army is far away, I didn't sleep all night last night, and I can't be at peace when I was disturbed by Sichuan thieves. ”

Ma Chao was in a white robe and silver armor, with a heroic and arrogant face, and snorted coldly: "What about being tired?" I rode all over the world in Xiliangxiao, even if I was tired, the Sichuan army was not an opponent, and I went into battle with me, and my horse Chao fought sinister people like Liu Zhang. ”

Last night, he was harassed and couldn't live in peace, Ma Chao's hatred for Liu Zhang was unquenchable, and at this time, the Sichuan army attacked, which was in line with Ma Chao's intentions, and immediately put on his horse and led the Xiliang army out of the camp to confront the Sichuan army in the wasteland.

The autumn wind is bleak, the yellow grass is blowing, the Xiliang cavalry swarms out like flowing water, the Qiang soldiers wield scimitars and short spears, roaring and arraying, the Xiliang soldiers are all wearing capes, with a fierce face, looking coldly at the Sichuan army's array.

The Sichuan army lined up a complete queue on the plain, with the long shield in front, the hook and sickle and the round shield in the back, the archers behind, and then the spearmen, and the two wings of the chariot guards, and the whole formation was airtight.

Liu Zhang looked over in the middle of the formation, saw that the Xiliang soldiers and Qiang soldiers were in good spirits, and said to Fa Zheng on the side: "How do I feel that this is a team that has been resting for a month, where is it like I just arrived last night?" ”

Fa Zheng also frowned: "Lord, this battle cannot be taken lightly. ”

The Xiliang soldiers with their capes and the Qiang soldiers wearing animal skin hats formed a simple cavalry formation, the war horses neighed lightly, and the sound became one, and the Xiliang army had a high fighting spirit, waving the weapons in their hands, and howling "woo woo".

Not to be outdone, the Sichuan army, under the command of Wei Yan, raised their spears and shouted: "Ho, ho, ho." The spear slammed into the ground, making a sonorous sound.

The killing intent of the battlefield soaked into the field with the roar of the two armies, these were two armies that had never encountered an opponent before, and the Sichuan army, under the leadership of Liu Zhang, fought from Fucheng to Xiangyang, and rarely met an opponent.

The Xiliang Army can be called the first horse in the world, under the leadership of Dong Zhuo, crisscrossing the land of Henan, and finally died under the civil strife, and the Xiliang rebel army led by Ma Chao was terrified in Xiliang.

Ma Chao suddenly raised his silver spear, and the Xiliang army was immediately silent, Ma Chao was handsome, heroic, and shouted: "Liu Zhang, you are in vain as the lord of Shu, and you use despicable means, you dare to fight to the death with my Ma Chao, if I lose, the Xiliang army will all belong to you, how about it?" ”

"Woo, woo, woo." The Xiliang army was boiling.

"Piff, fight with me." Liu Zhang scolded casually, I am afraid that before he can get closer, he was poked off the horse by a gun, and shouted loudly: "Ma'er, you are not able to succeed, you are also the queen of the Han Zhongliang, don't you know my ancestor and Xiang Yu's husband in the past?" If you commit an unprovoked offense, the Han rebels against the ministers, and you will surely be defeated. ”

"Liu Zhang, you ruled Shuzhong and killed hundreds of thousands of unarmed people, dare to talk to me about loyalty? Today, I will take your head, take Shuzhong, Kuang Fu Sheji, and kill. ”

"Kill."

The Xiliang army with a cloak screamed and killed the Sichuan army's formation, with an axe in his hand, a short spear, a scimitar, and a knife, and so on, overwhelmingly pressing on the Sichuan army.

"Library, library."

The long shield of the Sichuan army hit the ground hard, the round shield hand behind raised the shield, the long hook and sickle protruded the groove of the shield, and the crossbowman bent the bow and arrow.

"Kill."

Xiliang rode over, bent his bow and arrows on the horse, and after a round of throwing, he slammed into the shield array, the horse's hooves were high and trampled on the long shield, and the Sichuan army Changge hooked the horse's legs, the horse's hooves were pulled off, and the war horse screamed and fell in front of the shield array.

The Xiliang cavalry behind was unmoved, the front fell to the ground, and the back immediately pounced, several impacts, the shield array was seriously loosened, some cavalry crashed into the formation, the Sichuan soldiers were violently knocked away, the archers behind hurriedly shot sharp arrows, and the Xiliang cavalry continued to have cavalry being thrown off the horse.

As soon as the two armies fought, they immediately suffered heavy casualties, and the front of the Xiliang cavalry was killed and wounded by the Changge and hook and sickle spears that specialized in dealing with the cavalry, and they were shot a lot by the archers behind, and the long shield men in front of the Sichuan army were almost all knocked away by the people with shields.

Wei Yan said loudly: "The lord is not good, our Changge hand and hook and sickle gun are too few, if this continues, or our formation will be broken by the Xiliang army in a short time of incense." ”

"I'm afraid it's less than a stick of incense." Fa Zheng looked ahead and said.

Wei Yan looked over, only to see Ma Chao wielding a silver spear, Pang De on the left, Ma Dai on the right, leading hundreds of healthy horsemen to open the way first, and quickly slaughtered the Sichuan army formation, in front of Ma Chao, there was a row of shield arrays that were not impacted at all, only to see Ma Chao kill without hesitation, and a shot was stabbed on the long shield. (To be continued.) )

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