"General, the Jingzhou army attacked really fiercely today!" In Bajun City, the deputy general Liu Bi, who had his arm hanging around his neck, said to Zhang Ren a little angrily. This wound was when he was commanding the defense of the city, and was shot through his right arm by a hidden arrow of the Jingzhou army.

"It seems that Zhang Fei is desperate and wants to solve it quickly!" Zhang Ren sneered, and then said to Liu Xuan: "The general insists on two more days, and when Jingzhou's army is exhausted and retreats, we can counterattack and cover up." ”

"Is two enough?" Liu Bi felt that Zhang Ren was a little too confident, but he heard Zhang Ren smile and said: "I have been here for a long time, and Zhang Fei's grain and grass have long been out of stock. Before that, General Gao robbed again, Zhang Fei was annoyed and ashamed, so he attacked with all his strength. We only need to hold on for a day or two, and their people will definitely retreat because of the lack of food and grass. Moreover, Zhang Fei's surname is as fierce as fire, and if he can't attack for a long time, he will drink and whip his soldiers, so the army's morale will be chaotic. ”

"Although Zhang Fei is a horseman, Zhuge Liang is resourceful and should not be taken lightly!" Liu Bi suddenly remembered something; Hurriedly reminded. There is no battle of Chibi in history, but Zhuge Liang has a great reputation in Jingxiang, and Liu Bi has heard of it to some extent.

"Such a white-faced scholar still has some skills in governance, so there is no need to worry about fighting!" Zhang Ren disagreed. This Zhang Dudu is a typical pragmatist, believing that fighting a war must be fought only if he has actually been on the battlefield, and those who can only talk about the role of strategists are limited. Such an idea doomed him to failure.

Zhang Ren was not bad, after the Jingzhou army attacked for three days, leaving more than 7,000 corpses, in the early morning of the fourth day, the defenders were pleasantly surprised to find that those annoying Jingzhou troops, with that terrible trebuchet, did not come to continue to disturb themselves today.

"Governor, the Jingzhou army retreated overnight!" Liu Bi reported to Zhang Renyu in surprise. The latter's brows furrowed slightly when he heard this, and he sent Xizuo to find out the whereabouts of the Jingzhou army. In the afternoon, the detailed work came to report one after another, saying that the Jingzhou army had gone south.

"To the south?" Zhang Ren was also stunned when he heard this, and then he understood and said with a smile: "It seems that this Zhang Fei is unwilling to return to Jingzhou like this, and wants to go to Nanzhong to gain a firm foothold with Zhu Di, and then Xu Tu me Xichuan!" ”

"General, since Zhang Fei has withdrawn, should we pursue?" Liu Bi and the others asked.

"Chasing, naturally chasing. Otherwise, if Zhang Fei is allowed to gain a foothold in Nanzhong, then I, Xichuan, will never be at peace! Zhang Ren said in a deep voice. Immediately, Zhang Ren left Liu Bi to defend the city, and he personally led an army of 50,000 to pursue Zhang Fei south with Ma Yan, Liu Han and others.

"General, the Jingzhou army should have set up camp here last night, you see that there are cooking stoves all over the place." Ma Yan pointed to the military stove on the ground. This kind of military stove is built with stones, and after it is built, the pot can be placed on it, and then the firewood and grass are lit underneath to cook rice and water. Generally, when the army withdraws, unless they want to hide their traces, these stoves are kept, and few people deliberately clean them.

"Well, send someone to count and see how many military stoves there are." Zhang Ren said quietly. After a short time, the army counted and reported, and there were about five thousand stoves.

"Ten people for one stove, then there should be 50,000 people!" Zhang Ren groaned. The march is different from the garrison, when the general march, especially when the army is in a hurry, the army only cooks one meal, and the other two meals are prepared together, and then carried on the road to eat. Generally speaking, a stove is only enough for ten people to eat around, first, the marching pot is almost so big, only enough for ten people to eat, and second, if there are too many people around a pot, it will be crowded, and it will bump and bump when eating.

"General, do you still want to pursue?" Ma Yan saw that the number of the other party was almost the same as his own, and he couldn't help but feel a little drumming in his heart. Zhang Ren thought about it, and finally spoke: "We still need to recover Nanzhong, and now it is easy to retreat, but it is Zhang Fei's trick to guard against this." In this way, General Ma, you should lead 5,000 men and horses to open the way first, and report the situation immediately. ”

"It's good!" Ma Yan also knew that this approach was safer, and at the moment he led the people and horses to open the way first, and Zhang Ren led the army to follow and then chased for a long time, and the traces left by the retreat of the Jingzhou army could be clearly seen along the way. For example, fallen horses, discarded worn armor. It's not much, but it's enough to show that a large army has just walked here.

"General, there is a large group of stoves in the open space ahead!" At this time, a probe reported that Ma Yan had learned the same thing, and hurriedly ordered someone to count the total number of military stoves, which surprised him.

"More than 7,000 stoves?" Ma Yan felt that this thing was a bit weird, if it was a stove for ten people, it would be enough for seventy or eighty thousand people to eat, why did Zhang Fei increase his troops instead? Ma Yan thought about it, and finally felt a little headache, so he decided to wait for Zhang Ren to come over and get an idea.

"More than 7,000 stoves?" Zhang Ren frowned when he heard this, and then began to personally inspect the military stoves scattered on this land. For a long time, after looking at dozens of military stoves, Zhang Ren showed an intriguing smile on his face.

"Governor, what's going on, where did this Zhang Fei get to increase his troops?" Ma Yan felt that his head hurt a little, but he heard Zhang Ren smile and said, "Who said that Zhang Fei has increased his troops?" ”

"Huh? Governor, isn't Zhang Fei having more stoves? Ma Yan asked a little inexplicably, and the rest of the generals were also at a loss. But Zhang Ren smiled and said: "Zhang Fei is not brainless, he was afraid that I would pursue, so he ordered the soldiers to dig more stoves to confuse the truth." But what he didn't expect was that the fake was fake, and it was different from the real stove. ”

"What's the difference?" Ma Yan carried forward his curiosity to the end and asked, but he heard Zhang Ren ask: "Ma Yan, how long does it take to cook a pot of rice?" ”

"About half an hour!" Ma Yan groaned slightly.

"That's right, it's about half an hour. During this half an hour, firewood and grass had to be burned to cook rice, and in the end, there was naturally a lot of ashes accumulated in the stove. However, I just checked dozens of stoves, and although the stones used to build the stoves have traces of being burned by fire, many of them only have a little ash in them, and it is estimated that they have just lit a handful of grass and burned it! Zhang Ren smiled.

"Do you mean that many of these stoves are fake?" Ma Yan listened for a long time and understood what he was coming to.

"That's right, Zhang Fei is afraid that I will see the truth and the falsehood, so he will build a fake stove. Tell me to go down and look at all the stoves to see how many are real and how many are fake. Zhang Ren continued to order, and the army hurriedly counted carefully, and finally reported that there were about 3,000 fake stoves, and the real stoves were about 4,000.

"If you talk about the real stove, there are not as many as yesterday. Zhang Fei lacked food and grass, and the soldiers were far away from Jingzhou, homesick, so it was not surprising that there were deserters. Someone, pass my orders, and pursue at full speed! After Zhang Ren figured out the situation, he ordered a full-speed pursuit. The 50,000 Sichuan army galloped all the way, pursued for two days, and finally caught up with the tail of the Jingzhou army on the edge of the water, after a melee, this force of about 2,000 people suffered heavy casualties, and the rest lost their armor and ran south, Zhang Ren ordered to continue the pursuit. The defeated soldiers ran to the rafts prepared by the river, and all of them ran across the river in a puff of smoke.

"General, there's another stove here!" When chasing to the edge of the Minjiang River, I found that it was another military stove here. Zhang Ren stepped forward to send someone to almost do it, but it turned out that the real stove was only more than 3,000, and the fake stove was more than 5,000.

"Hmph, it seems that Zhang Fei is indeed short of food and grass, it's only been a long time, and the military spirit has collapsed like this!" Zhang Ren said with some disdain. Looking at the opposite side of Fushui, Zhang Ren groaned for a while, and then ordered to collect the rafts of nearby counties and counties for the army to cross the river to pursue.

"General, Zhang Fei has fled to Nanzhong, I am afraid that I will lose if I wait for the lone army to go deep and chase after him, why not return to the army for the time being and make plans again?" General Gao Xiang saw that Zhang Ren didn't accept it, and he hurriedly admonished.

"Otherwise, if I don't take this opportunity to expel Zhang Fei from Xichuan in one fell swoop, and wait for him to develop a climate in Qiqi and connect with Jingnan, then I will be able to sleep and eat after I speak!" Zhang Ren was a little disapproving. It took a day's work to collect a large number of various rafts, and Zhang Ren ordered the army to cross the river in batches. After four trips back and forth, the 50,000 Sichuan army finally crossed the river, and the time was already the afternoon of this day. Zhang Ren ordered to advance thirty miles before setting up camp.

"Kill!" Not long after Zhang Ren left, the originally silent riverbank suddenly erupted into a shouting of killing, and thousands of Jingzhou soldiers who had been in ambush for a long time came out from the upper reaches of the river, and their target was the 1,000 Sichuan army left by Zhang Ren to guard the raft. After a while, the two sides began to engage each other in short arms, and the Sichuan army was in a hurry to engage in battle, and the number of people was small, and it was killed for a while.

"Governor, something is wrong, our brothers who stayed behind to guard the ship have been ambushed!" Zhang Renzheng led the army forward, but the soldiers who heard the broken news came to report the news, which was really extraordinary. In case the raft is gone, then I will really become a lone army trapped on the south bank of Fushui.

"Kill back!" Without much thought, Zhang Ren quickly made a decision. Then, just as the Sichuan army turned around and killed back, a burst of shouts of killing also erupted from their south. Countless Jingzhou troops suddenly appeared behind the Sichuan army and stabbed them into their formation. The Sichuan army was suddenly attacked, and suddenly became a little panicked.

"Don't mess around, line up to meet the enemy!" Zhang Ren desperately commanded the rebellious army, and thanks to his efforts, the Sichuan army began to gradually organize effective resistance. What Zhang Ren didn't know was that on a dirt slope not far from him, several people were watching him.

"Although the soldiers are ambushed but not chaotic, Zhang Ren is indeed a famous general in the world!" Looking at Zhang Ren, who commanded the soldiers to rush back and forth in the field, Zhuge Liang also sighed. Zhang Fei beside him didn't have such a good surname, and ordered hundreds of soldiers to protect Zhuge Liang and other civil officials, and he personally went down to meet the first general in Sichuan.

"Military advisor, in the past, Sun Bin was used to increase troops and reduce the stove, but now you are increasing the number of troops and increasing the stove, luring this Zhang to be fooled, but it is better than the ancients!" Yang Yi on the side patted the horse with some flattery.

"Zhang Ren is known as the first general in Xichuan, and the art of war breaks the dawn. If you want to make him ambushed, you can't do it without using more means. Zhuge Liang was not modest, just shook his fan and paid attention to the fierce battle under the dirt slope. After Zhang Fei personally entered the battle, the 60,000 Jingzhou army and the 50,000 Sichuan army were already fighting together. The arrowheads on both sides, Zhang Fei and Zhang Ren, were invincible and led their respective subordinates to fight bravely.

But God doesn't want someone to be invincible for too long, after easily solving a captain of the Yizhou Army, Zhang Fei suddenly felt a murderous aura coming towards him, and hurriedly crossed the Zhangba snake spear in his hand.

After a loud bang, Zhang Fei and the people who came each took three steps back. "Zhang Ren?" Seeing that the brass-faced general in front of him was not shocked back by himself, Zhang Fei immediately guessed his identity.

"Zhang Fei, let's die!" Zhang Ren roared angrily, and then stabbed out with a spear.

(To be continued)