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"Traitor, I, Yang Fu, only hate that I failed to skin you at the beginning, you will not end well!"

Yang Fu was not afraid, he scolded Ma Chao, only scolded Ma Chao so that his eyes were bloodshot, he jumped off the horse and raised his knife to behead Yang Fu. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Meng Qi and slow!" Fang Shao Pegasus came from afar, and when he saw that Ma Chao was about to kill him, he shouted to stop.

Ma Chao's knife stopped in mid-air, and when he looked back, he saw that Fang Shao had rushed to the front, he jumped off his horse and persuaded: "General Meng Qi, since this surnamed Yang is a prisoner, it is up to the king to decide whether to kill or scrape, how can we make a claim." ”

Ma Chao was filled with hatred, where could he listen to Fang Shao's advice, gritted his teeth and said: "This fight killed my three brothers, two sons and one daughter, if I don't cut him with a thousand knives, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart." ”

In fact, this Yang Fu Fang Shao no longer wants to see him, thinking that Ma Chao treated him well at the beginning, and regarded him as a confidant, this person misses the old master, and finally betrays Ma Chao, and in front of Ma Chao, he killed Ma Chao's family, which is a bit contemptible, Ma Chao wants to kill him to vent his hatred, and Fang Shao has no objection.

Now the reason why Fang Shao is blocking it is actually to maintain the authority of Liu Bei and King Hanzhong.

Ma Chao has great prestige in Xiliang, and this time he tackled Long, naturally it was indispensable to borrow his prestige, but of course, Liu Bei was also worried that Ma Chao would take the opportunity to restore his old power, and finally form a big tail, so this time he sent troops, and specially made Huang Zhong the deputy governor, divided a part of Ma Chao's military power, and made Fang Shao a strategist with the army, one to assist Ma Chao, and the other to be regarded as a kind of supervision.

If Ma Chao took the initiative to slaughter Yang Fu, it would be a disrespect for the authority of the King of Hanzhong, and Fang Shao would naturally have to stand up to stop it.

And after Yang Fu listened to the conversation between the two, he laughed loudly and said disdainfully: "It seems that I am really right, the so-called Jin Ma Chao is now just an eagle dog under Liu Bei, and he died in the hands of people like you, my Yang Fu is really shameless, haha——"

Fang Shao's brows suddenly furrowed, and he secretly thought: "This guy is really a powerful character who is not afraid of death, and he is dying at the end of his life, but he still wants to sow discord!" ’

And Ma Chao was completely provoked by Yang Fu's words, where could he take care of Fang Shao's dissuasion, with a loud roar, the big knife fell angrily, and a big head rolled to the ground.

After stabbing the enemy, Ma Chao's whole person seemed to be relieved, he wiped a handful of blood on his face, looked up to the sky and smiled: "Brothers, I, Ma Chao, do what I say, today I finally avenged you, you are in the spirit of the sky, you should also rest in peace." ”

Yang Fu was dead, and it was useless for Fang Shao to say anything, so he was silent at the moment, just shaking his head and sighing.

After Ma Chao took revenge, his spirit became a little more reasonable, and he turned back to Fang Shao and said, "Zhongzheng, don't worry, I will explain this matter to the king." The king knows my troubles, and he will definitely not care. ”

The matter has come to this point, it is useless to say more, Fang Shao said: "Don't worry, let's talk about this matter later, we have more important things to do, let's go and meet Xiaozhi first." ”

When it was about to dawn, Jicheng, which had been noisy all night, returned to calm, and the four gates and various key points were controlled by the Han army. Ma Chao then ordered people to re-dig the water source and restore the water supply to the city, and on the other hand, he rushed to the Taishou Mansion and gathered with Fang Shao and others.

The second time he sat at the top of the government affairs hall of the Taishou Mansion, and the revenge was avenged, Ma Chao's face was filled with a strong sense of pride.

Fang Shao didn't have time to taste the joy of victory, he saw that everyone had arrived, so he said loudly: "Everyone, now that Jicheng has been lowered, Tianshui County is my gain, and the counties of Longxi can be easily lowered." For the sake of today's plan, I thought that when we should send a group of soldiers and horses to the street pavilion during the starry night, we must occupy this place before Xiahou Yuan reacts, block the reinforcements of the Cao army east of Longshan, and then we can calmly collect Longxi and Liangzhou. ”

Ma Chao said: "Then Xiahou Yuan knew that our army was out of Longxi, so he naturally had to send someone to report to Cao Thief first, and he must not dare to act without authorization." And my soldiers have worked hard all night, so it is better to rest for a while, and it is not too late to go to the street pavilion in a few days. ”

It seemed to be an easy victory, so that Ma Chao had the idea of underestimating the enemy, Fang Shao hurriedly said: "Xiahou Yuan was ordered by Cao Ying to control the Guanlong army, this person is very strategic, if he hears that Longxi is missing, he will definitely not wait for the report to Cao Ying, he will lead the army to seize the Jieting Pass, General Meng Qi, don't despise this person." ”

At this time, Fa Zheng also said: "What Zhongzheng said is extremely true, the street pavilion is the main road, if it is for Xiahou Yuan, then when Cao Ying reacts, his army can calmly cross Longshan to fight a decisive battle with our army, in this case, our army will fall into an unfavorable situation." Meng Qi, it is better to send a force of troops and horses to seize the street pavilion. ”

Ma Chao pondered for a moment, and then said: "Okay, just send seven thousand soldiers and horses out, and Zhongzheng you and the prince will go to occupy the street pavilion." I and Xiaozhi and the rest of the princes will continue to collect the counties of Longxi, protect the grain routes, and wait for the king's Chinese army to come and rendezvous. ”

"Damn, when Ma Jian guarded the street pavilion, Zhuge Liang finally gave more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and you only gave me 7,000, which is really interesting."

Fang Shao was unhappy, but he also knew that when Zhuge Liang came out of Qishan, he had 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, but now Ma Chao only has 40,000 soldiers in his hands, and he also gave 10,000 to Huang Zhong, leaving some of them in Qishan, and the troops he has at hand are not large, and it is already good to be able to allocate 7,000 soldiers and horses to Fang Shao.

Therefore, Fang Shao didn't have time to delay any longer, so he led a total of 7,000 soldiers and horses with Wang Ping, brought nearly 20 days of rations, spared the counties and towns along the way that had not yet surrendered, and went straight to the street pavilion.

Two days later, Fang Shao and his tired army of 7,000 finally arrived at the Jieting Pass.

Turning over the map, it can be seen that the Qinling Mountains in the east-west direction and the Longshan Mountains in the north-south direction form an inverted "Ding" character, which separates the three regions of Longxi, Hanzhong and Guanzhong from each other, and it is the Longshan Mountains that separate Guanzhong and the counties of Longxi. After the loss of Linwei, the difficult Weihe valley was impassable, so the street pavilion in the middle of Longshan became the only passage for Guanzhong reinforcements to pass through Longshan and go to Longxi.

Originally, Fang Shao thought that as long as he grabbed precious time, occupied the street pavilion first, and went down to the village, he could easily block the enemy, but when Fang Shao arrived at the street pavilion, he found that the terrain of the street pavilion was very far from what he imagined.

The pavilion is not empty, there is a small city of less than 1,000 people. However, this city is no more than two feet high, no more than a foot thick, and it can be shaken for a long time by kicking it, and it is obviously unreliable to want to defend the city. However, when the originally narrow Longshan passage was extended to this section of the street pavilion, it suddenly expanded to a width of five or six kilometers, with the little force at hand of Fang Shao, in such a wide area, whether it was a city or a village, it was obviously difficult to compete with Xiahou Yuan's elite cavalry.

Suddenly, Fang Shao understood Ma Tan's difficulties a little, it was not that he didn't understand the art of war, and he didn't deliberately disobey Zhuge Liang's orders, and went up to Nanshan to defend it, but the intelligence officers of the Shu army back then did not depict the detailed geography of the street pavilion, which made Ma Tan fall into a situation where he had no choice.

Fang Shao suddenly felt that he had also fallen into the same predicament as Ma Yan, and it seemed that he had to choose to go up the mountain to settle a village. In fact, going up the mountain to form a village does not mean giving way to the enemy, even if the soldiers and horses are tied on the mountain next to the avenue, Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses do not dare to continue to march towards Longxi, because Fang Shao can cut off his back road at any time and threaten his flank, so Xiahou Yuan's only choice is to eliminate Fang Shao first.

However, Ma Tan went up the mountain to set up a village, but because he was cut off from the water source by Zhang He, he finally collapsed without a fight. After observing the topography of the street pavilion, Fang Shao realized that Ma Jian was not just a soldier on paper, how could a person like him who had been a military staff officer for so many years ignore such an important issue as water sources.

So, Fang Shao inspected Nanshan, where Ma Jian set up a camp and set up a village. The topography of this mountain is very distinctive, and its top is a crescent-shaped platform, which can be stationed with more than 10,000 soldiers. It is very steep on the north, east and west sides, and on the southeast side is a slope of about 30 degrees, which is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. If the enemy attacks from below, you can attack the entire enemy team from three sides at the same time on the crescent-shaped ridgeline, and the enemy army in front can only be engaged in the battle with only fifty men, which is obviously a very defensible terrain.

The only problem is that the nearest source of open water is the Qingshui River that flows next to the mountain avenue, it is obvious that the enemy can easily cut off the water source, which can't help but make Fang Shao more suspicious of history, according to Ma Yan's ability, is he really stupid enough to not even see such an obvious loophole?

So, with suspicion, Fang Shao continued to inspect the topography of Nanshan, and to his surprise, there was a clear spring on the southwest side of Nanshan. And the location of this spring is relatively hidden, if you do not do careful reconnaissance, it is generally difficult to find, this spring is backed by the South Mountain, in the position of halfway up the mountain, and the terrain where it is located is also an easy to defend and difficult to attack, a valley mouth in front of the spring, only less than three or five hundred people can easily defend.

"Could it be that Ma Jian relied on this dark water source at the beginning, so he dared to have a fearless 'Sheshui Mountain'?"

But since there is such a dark water source, how did Zhang He decide on Ma Yan's water source in the first place?

Fang Shao couldn't help but fall into deep doubts, he carefully inspected the terrain of the South Mountain again, and then, he stood on the top of the mountain, looking around at the terrain and landform of the entire Jieting area, his expression revealing a heavy look of confusion.

Looking at the murmuring Qingshui River at the foot of the mountain, thinking back to that period of history, he tried his best to dig out some historical truths.

When the afterglow of dusk reflected on Fang Shao's face, he suddenly figured it out.

"The reason why the battle of Jieting in history was defeated was, in the final analysis, the combination of Ma Tan and Wang Ping, yes, this should be the truth."

(To be continued)