There is no need to look at Zhang Ren's expression, just listening to his tone, Zhao Feng can feel that this old man is very dissatisfied with his arrival.

I was secretly wary in my heart, but now was not the time to turn my face. At that moment, Zhao Feng smiled faintly and said, "Zhao led a total of 15,000 people to come. ”

"Humph!" Zhang Ren snorted coldly and said: "I have more than ten generals in Sichuan, more than 100,000 elite soldiers and have not been able to capture Hanzhong, and General Zhao only brings 15,000 men and horses, isn't it too child's play?" As soon as he said this, a group of Yizhou generals immediately echoed him.

Zhao Feng still doesn't understand that these people are deliberately cutting his face, his own people are just partial divisions, and there will not be too many troops, what he really has to rely on is Guan Yu's army, Zhang Ren is known as the first general in Sichuan, he will not be unclear about the mystery, and now he is purely picking a bone in an egg.

Since he was provocative, Zhao Feng was not polite. At the moment, looking at Zhang Ren, who shot Pang Xiaoniao to death in history, Zhao Feng snorted and said: "General Zhang doesn't know that the soldiers are not expensive, and the eight thousand Jiangdong soldiers of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, broke the Qin army of 200,000. When Zhao was in Guangling, Xuzhou, he repelled Yuan Shu's 150,000 army with 30,000 horses. In the battle of Guandu in the former, Cao Mengde only had Yuan Shao as a soldier and a horse, and won a complete victory. Today, Zhang Lu is only tens of thousands of horses, and the land occupied is only the two counties of Hanzhong. Under the attack of General Guan and I, this thief must be the leader. ”

Zhang Ren was speechless for a while, after all, he was not a person who was good at bickering, and Zhao Feng couldn't find the words to fight back casually. At this time, Wang Lei stood up again and asked, "I don't know what General Zhao's plan is, can you tell me about it?" ”

Wang Lei is much better than Zhang Renyin, and now that Zhao Feng hasn't seen a single hair of Zhang Lu, how can he have any clever plan? If you can't say it, you will inevitably cut Zhao Feng's face. However, Zhao Feng was so easily frightened by him, and snorted coldly: "Zhang Lu has only been entrenched in Hanzhong for a few years, and compared to Sun Quan, who was entrenched in Jiangdong in the past, it is still a step behind. I can still deal with Sun Quan, and now I am just Zhang Lu, so why worry about it. "Obviously, I can't say a rough idea, but I just make a lot of words, as if I have a full grasp, this guy is shameless.

No matter how slow Liu Zhang's reaction is, it is time to hear the meaning of the words. Waving his hand to signal that everyone who was about to move to settle down, Liu Zhang turned his head to Zhao Feng and said: "General Zhao is brave and powerful, although Zhang is in Shuzhong, he also knows." It's just 15,000 soldiers and horses, which is too little after all. In this way, I will allocate another 5,000 soldiers and generals here, gather 20,000, and then attack Zhang Lu. As soon as the grain and grass are heavy, I will allocate it here. ”

No way! Zhao Feng is really moved by Liu Zhang now, no matter how sincere this guy is, he is not so sincere. However, it is estimated that Liu Zhang really hates Zhang Lu to the extreme, and now someone can help him clean up the most hated person in his life, so everything is negotiable.

Since you're polite, I'm not welcome. At that moment, Zhao Fengxun thanked and said: "Thanks to the generosity of Duke Shu, Feng is grateful. It's just that Feng doesn't know a lot about the geography of Sichuan, and he also asked Shu Gong to send a familiar person as our guide. ”

"It's easy!" Liu Zhang nodded, and then asked Zhang Ren: "Justice, do you know who knows the geography of Shuzhong?" ”

Zhang Ren thought for a while, and finally spoke: "I have a chief under my command, surnamed Wang Mingping, Zijun, and a native of Danqu, Brazil. This person is familiar with the geography of Shuzhong and Hanzhong, and can be a guide. Liu Zhang nodded, and ordered Wang Ping to go to Zhao Feng's tent to listen to it. I don't want Zhao Feng to be overjoyed in his heart: Wang Ping Zijun, a general in the middle and late Han Dynasty in history, a defense expert and a geography expert in Hanzhong, just ran to help him lead the way?

It's just that in history, Wang Ping went to Cao Ying, but later Xu Huang wanted to use him as a scapegoat, so he switched to Liu Bei, why did he come here now? Zhao Feng estimated that this old man hadn't gone to Cao Ying yet. After all, Lao Cao's current focus is on Hebei, not Guanzhong, which is too far away from Xichuan. However, this Zhang Ren was also stingy, and he only sent a chief to help him. When he said that he never dreamed that this long lamp was not a fuel-efficient lamp. Now that he's here, I can't let him go anymore.

After determining the candidate for the guide officer, Zhao Feng was also relieved. Liu Zhang has enjoyed himself in Shu for many years, and he is the first expert in eating, drinking and having fun. Under his promotion, the atmosphere of the banquet reached a small **, and Zhao Feng and others all took advantage of it. The next time, Zhao Feng politely refused Liu Zhang's gracious stay on the grounds of the urgency of the military situation, and led the army to Jiameng Pass, preparing to attack Hanzhong. In this way, Liu Zhang was very upset, and hurriedly sent someone to supervise the grain and grass, and then sent his wife and brother, the general Fei Guan, to lead an army of 5,000 to help in the war. On the other hand, Zhang Ren also transferred Wang Ping to Zhao Feng's account.

"Meet General Zhao!" After a few days, in Zhao Feng's large military camp tent, which was still more than 100 miles away from Jiameng Pass, a sturdy young man in his twenties saluted Zhao Feng. Looking at the person in front of him, Zhao Feng nodded and asked, "You are Wang Ping Wang Zijun?" ”

"It's the villain!" Wang Ping replied. Zhao Feng snorted, and then asked, "Listen to General Zhang." Are you familiar with the geography of Hanzhong? ”

"The villain is from an Orion family, and he has been walking in the mountains since he was a child, so he is very familiar with the geography of Hanzhong." Wang Ping replied.

I see, with this living map, and Zhang Lu's commanded generals who don't have any effective generals, they should be able to easily take Hanzhong. Zhao Feng muttered silently in his heart, but he still spoke first: "Can the unknown son tell me about the terrain of Hanzhong?" ”

"No!" Wang Ping was not modest, and said directly: "At present, the generals and soldiers are out of Jiameng Pass, attacking Nanzheng, where Zhang Lu is located, and there are many passes along the way, Nanjiang City, Tiandang Mountain, Micang Mountain, Dingjun Mountain and Yangping Pass are all dangerous places. Especially Yangping Pass, its danger is not under Jianmen Pass. If Zhang Lu defended to the death, even if the soldiers attacked, it would have little effect. ”

"Hmph, no matter how steep it is, let's stone him to death!" Zhou Tai didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, and pouted directly. Unexpectedly, Wang Ping smiled bitterly: "The terrain of Yangping Pass is dangerous, only because it is narrow in front of the pass, which is not conducive to the pressure of the soldiers, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack." Zijun had heard that the Jingzhou army's trebuchet was brave, but this thing is estimated to be ten in front of the pass, and it is almost the same. ”

"Is that so?" Zhou Tai was a little dumbfounded. Zhu Ran groaned and said, "Since this Yangping Pass is so dangerous, can you bypass Yangping Pass and take Nanzheng directly?" ”

"There is no path yet!" Wang Ping smiled bitterly. Zhao Feng carefully recalled the situation when Liu Bei and Cao Ying captured Hanzhong in history, and felt that there should always be some ways to deal with Yangping Pass, and he was not in a hurry at the moment, so he just said: "I'm waiting for this way just to respond, let's capture Nanjiang City." Maybe I haven't captured Yangping Pass yet, and General Guan has already taken Nanzheng. And when all the people saw that the Lord had said this, they said no more. At that moment, everyone camped and rested for the night, and then led the army to continue to move forward, preparing to arrive at Jiameng Pass.

"General, when we start fighting, I'm afraid that this Yizhou army can't be counted on!" Seeing that the five thousand Yizhou troops led by Fei Guan who came to help in the battle had fallen behind, Zhou Tai also muttered. As he said, these Yizhou troops have really opened the eyes of the Jingzhou army in the past few days, and their weak equipment and serious lack of physical fitness have made the Jingzhou army breathtaking. Zhao Feng estimated that their combat effectiveness was estimated to be similar to that of the county soldiers in Jingzhou.

As for this Fei Guan, this person is nicknamed the Yizhou God of Wine, and it can be seen from this name that this guy should not be a very suitable person for war. As he was talking, Fei Guan had already caught up with him, and said breathlessly: "General Zhao, can you rest for a while and then leave, the brothers really can't walk!" ”

"General Fei, there are only ten miles left from Jiameng Pass, and it's not too late to rest when you get to the pass!" Zhao Feng was a little speechless.

"But the brothers really can't walk!" Fei Guan smacked his lips. Zhao Feng looked at the Yizhou army behind him, and many people were already sitting directly on the side of the road panting. At this time, unless it is a fire burning buttocks, these people should not be able to walk.

"Well, let's rest for a while!" Zhao Feng said a little helplessly. "That's a lot of rest these days!" Zhou Tai has something to say in his words, and he is still there regardless of Fei Guan. However, Fei Guan is a big fat man, open-minded and unimpressed, but sighed: "The Jingzhou army is really the elite of the world, we Yizhou people have been used to walking mountain roads since childhood, but we are not as good as you can walk, it is really powerful!" I think even the most elite men and horses under General Zhang's command are not as good as this tiger army. ”

"What, General Fei, aren't you the most elite centaur in Yizhou?" Zhao Feng heard the name of the hall now, and hurriedly asked.

"Of course not, General Zhang's 20,000 horses are the most elite in my Shu." Fei Guan replied as he gasped. Zhao Feng nodded, but he was silently calculating in his heart, if there were only those 20,000 people in Yizhou who could fight, it would indeed be infamous.

After a break for tea, the army continued to meander forward, and it didn't take long to reach Jiameng Pass, where the guards Wu Lan and Lei Tong had been waiting for a long time. "I didn't expect General Zhao and General Fei to come so quickly!" Wu Lan was a little incredulous. Lei Tong even smiled: "I thought that General Fei would arrive the day after tomorrow at the earliest!" ”

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I haven't learned anything else these days with General Zhao, but my walking ability has increased a lot!" Fei Guan knew the two well, and he didn't care about their ridicule.

The second general hurriedly welcomed Zhao Feng into the pass, and everyone sat down before they began to deliberate. When entering the customs, Zhao Feng paid attention to this Jiameng Pass, which was also a rare and steep place. In history, it was absolutely not unreasonable for Huo Jun to repel the attack of 20,000 people here with 2,000 people. If you want to let him be in a small city like Maicheng, it is estimated that Huo Jun will be wiped out in half a month.

"Two generals, I don't know if Zhang Lu has come to attack recently?" After sitting down, Zhao Feng asked first. looked at Wu Lanlei Tong in front of him, almost all of them were in their thirties. These two people are more unlucky, although they both defected to Liu Bei in history, but they hung up when they captured Hanzhong, and they didn't wait for Liu Bei to become king, and the benefits they got after surrendering were really limited.

"Zhang Lu's house has been very peaceful recently, probably because General Guan's soldiers are mediocre, so he can't afford to invade Xichuan!" Wu Lan said with a smile. Lei Tong continued: "I sent a small envoy to inquire around yesterday, but I reported that there were only a few hundred defenders left in my Nanjiang City. Zhang Lu sent the general Yang Ang to guard Yangping Pass, which relied on Yangping Pass and Tiandang Mountain, Dingjun Mountain and Micang Mountain, and laid out a position to hold on. ”

"That being the case, taking advantage of the emptiness of the defenders, I will lead the army to attack Nanjiang City tomorrow." Zhao Feng didn't expect that pies would fall from the sky this day, and he made a quick decision at the moment. Wu Lan and Lei Tong were taken aback, and Fei Guan even cried and said, "General Zhao, this has just arrived at Jiameng Pass, let's rest for a few days!" ”

"It's okay, I just lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to go, General Fei, you can lead the troops to stay in Jiamengguan temporarily!" Zhao Feng waved his hand and said, he also knew that this Fei Guan was like a dead dog now, and it was a little difficult for him to continue the march. After a pause, Zhao Feng also said deliberately: "Zhao was ordered by my lord to remove this Zhang Lu for the Duke of Shu." One is to report the previous rescue; the second is the righteousness of all brothers; The third is to rescue the hundreds of thousands of people in Hanzhong who were fooled by Zhang Lu. Now that Zhang Lu is close at hand, he should go all out and exterminate him as soon as possible! General Fei led the army to rest and recuperate, and when I captured Nanjiang City, I will lead my troops to take over the city! ”

"General Zhao Gaoyi!" These generals are easy to be fooled, and when they see Zhao Feng so righteous and awe-inspiring, they are also admired. That night, Wu Lan and Lei Tong entertained Zhao Feng and Jingzhou military horses at Jiameng Pass, and nourished their spirits, and then Zhao Feng personally led 15,000 men and horses to take Nanjiang City. As for Fei Guan and the 5,000 Yizhou Army, let's take a good rest in Jiameng Pass first.

According to Wang Ping's guidance, the Jingzhou army marched along the main road for a few days, and came to Nanjiang City, the first city under the rule of Zhang Lu in Hanzhong. Zhao Feng saw that it was still early, so he immediately ordered Zhu Ran to set up a camp to garrison first, and he led Zhou Tai, Niu Jin and others to call the battle. Wang Ping and Sun Fu had told him before that although the combat effectiveness of the Hanzhong army was not very strong, its fighting spirit was extremely strong, and there were very few who surrendered. Zhao Feng also knew that this was the result of Zhang Lu's rule of the army with religion, thinking about those religious fanatics in later generations, as well as the Yellow Turban Rebellion twenty years ago, Zhao Feng really felt that this kind of soldier was terrifying enough. This unity of politics and religion is something that even Mao Taizu is afraid of. I just don't know how far this Hanzhong army will not be afraid of death. If all the people come and go to the army, it won't be easy to deal with, and you can't kill the whole Hanzhong. Therefore, Zhao Feng also wanted to kill the opponent's general in front of the formation by calling the formation, hoping to quickly disintegrate the opponent's fighting spirit by cutting through the chaos with such a quick knife.

The so-called call is to select dozens of soldiers with loud enough voices to shout and scold to lure the enemy into battle. Not long after scolding, I heard a stirring above the city, and then the city gate was opened, and two groups of people and horses rushed out, one of which was a military general riding out on horseback, and he still shouted to himself: "Who dare to commit a thief to my Nanjiang City, the old man Changqi is here!" ”

Changqi? Zhao Feng carefully searched for this name in his mind, and finally remembered who this old man was: when Cao Ying attacked Hanzhong in history, he was killed by Xiahou Yuan in seconds. This kind of rookie Zhao Feng was naturally not interested, and turned his head to everyone lazily and asked, "Which of you is going to clean him up?" ”

"I'll go!" But it was Niu Jinxing who rushed forward to fight. Although Niu Jin's martial arts are not as good as Xiahou Yuan, they are not comparable to this Chang Qi, as soon as the two fought for only two rounds, Niu Jin smashed away a shot from Chang Qi, and then split it in half.

"Kill!" Zhao Feng waved his army to rush into the city, because Nanjiang City had been abandoned by Zhang Lu, there were not many defenders, and there were only 500 people. Changqi was beheaded, and the rest of the fighting spirit was shattered and surrendered one after another. "It's fine!" Zhao Feng also secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, if it was true that the people of the city believed in the Five Buckets of Rice Dao and played the people's war with them, it would not be good, and now it seems that it is not enough.

Zhao Feng didn't know that he was actually a little worried. Historically, Liu Bei and Cao Ying captured Hanzhong, but they did not encounter too terrifying mass resistance. After entering Nanjiang City, the army was first stabilized, and then a carrier pigeon accompanying the army was taken out, and a military newspaper was briefly written, and then it was released.

"General, where did this carrier pigeon fly?" Niu Jin watched the carrier pigeon fly away and couldn't help asking.

"Go to Hanshou first, and then Ma Jichang will tell the lord and General Guan again." Zhao Feng replied. After half a year of construction, the pigeon network has now been distributed to Jingzhou and the whole territory of Yangzhou, of which Hanshou is the largest central hub station. It is expected that in another year, the scope will be expanded to include all places under Liu Bei's rule.

(To be continued)