"Bo Yan, now that the situation is precarious, it doesn't hurt if you have any plans." Zhu Ran just smiled bitterly when he heard this, and asked bluntly. Chen Shi didn't say anything, just nodded. After all, now that the city is about to fall, if you don't take drastic measures, you can only sit back and wait for failure. If Lu Xun has any big tricks to turn defeat into victory, it is better to hurry up and use it.

"Xiahou Yuan's surname is extremely anxious, and he is known for his swift marching. If we withdraw, he will surely lead his men and horses to pursue him. I intend to withdraw the troops to Dingjun Mountain for the time being. At the same time, he sent people to the three counties of Longxi, transferred the men and horses of the old general Yan Yan, plus the men and horses of General Zhang Boyang and Yang Weigong of Dingjun Mountain, and set up an ambush to kill Xiahou Yuan! Lu Xun said slowly.

As soon as Lu Xun said this, Chen Shi and Zhu Ran's faces changed greatly. If this strategy is complicated, it is not complicated at all. To put it bluntly, it is to lure Xiahou Yuan to the steep place of Dingjun Mountain, and then set up an ambush to kill him. As long as Xiahou Yuan dies, then Cao's army will collapse without a fight. But the risk of doing so is still quite large, first, Xiahou Yuan is a veteran general on the battlefield, and he has always been known for his combat bravery, even if he is ambushed, he may not be able to do anything to him; Second, once they retreat to Dingjun Mountain, it means that most of Hanzhong is about to be lost, or they will be given up on their own initiative. If this risky move does not work, it means that Hanzhong has completely lost. And once the Longxi military horses are mobilized, then the three counties of Longxi may fall at any time. This responsibility is really not small. Whoever bears it must also shed a layer of skin.

Listening to the shouts of killing that were getting closer and closer, in the end, Zhu Ran gritted his teeth first and said: "Fight, anyway, now the city can't hold it, if you can kill Xiahou Yuan in one fell swoop, you can still win in danger." Bo Yan, when the time comes, we don't care about fighting alone, let's go up together and hack Xiahou Yuan to death! ”

"Okay, count me in!" With this sound, Shi Shi came Sun Shangxiang, who was dressed in military uniforms and wearing armor. Seeing his little wife running at this time, Lu Xun was also a little anxious: "Madam, there is chaos here, what are you doing here?" ”

"It's okay, husband, my martial arts are better than yours!" Sun Shangxiang said with a smile. Lu Xun couldn't help but be a little embarrassed when he heard this, the situation was already urgent at this time, and at that moment Lu Xun gave an order, the whole army withdrew in the direction of Dingjun Mountain, and at the same time sent someone to inform Zhang Yi of Dingjun Mountain, Yang Yi of Yangping Pass, and Yan Yan of Longxi and others to prepare to fight Xiahou Yuan in Dingjun Mountain. Xiahou Yuan was not ambiguous, and after pacifying the city a little, he led his own people to catch up. Xiahou Yuansheng marched quickly, but Lu Xun and others were familiar with the terrain of Hanzhong. In this way, you chased after me, and finally rushed to Dingjun Mountain with almost the front foot and the back foot.

What Xiahou Yuan didn't know was that at this time, his nephew who stayed in Fufeng City had already been drunk and asked Guo Huai to solve it, and then Sima Yi officially entered Chang'an, accepted the 70,000 elite soldiers in Guanzhong, and issued a document in the name of the Sima family, calling on the heroes of Guanzhong to crusade against Cao Ying, who killed the king, and there was a flood of people for a while. Zhong Xuan, who stayed in Chang'an, also got into trouble with him after getting Sima Yi's promise that he would not harm his interests. They cut off the military rations that were transported to Xiahou Yuan, and sent people to defend the Xiegu Pass, preparing to trap Xiahou Yuan. But Sima Yi didn't expect that Xiahou Yuan didn't wait to be trapped by him and hung up. And this time, Sima Yi took the opportunity to take away Hanzhong, Wudu, Yinping and Longxi.

The words were divided into two ends, at this time, Xiahou Yuan and Lu Xun chased after me, and after a few days, they both came to the foot of Dingjun Mountain. "General, are we going to wait for the rear army?" Captain Cao, who was coordinating the pursuit, looked at the thousands of people around him and Xiahou Yuan, and asked with some concern. Hanzhong is mountainous, which is not conducive to cavalry assault, and most of the infantry is still in Baocheng at this time, Xiahou Yuan only led thousands of elite divisions to chase Lu Xun.

"It doesn't matter, the Xichuan army was taken away by Zhao Botao to rescue Liu Bei. Even if Lu Xun'er wants to play any tricks, I think he is powerless! Xiahou Yuan said disapprerovingly. At this time, the scout came to report that there was Dingjun Mountain in front, and Lu Xun led more than 2,000 people to stand on his heels, looking like he was ready to fight to the death.

"Hmph, Lu Boyan, dare to fight to the death with me, I think you are impatient." Xiahou Yuan was a little scoffed at Lu Xun's behavior that was almost self-defeating. Although in the offensive and defensive battles of Chenggu, Xiahou Yuan did admire Lu Xun's ability to defend the city. But since Lu Xun abandoned the city and retreated, Xiahou Yuan believed that he had embarked on a road of no return. Relying on his more than 2,000 defeated soldiers, he wants to fight himself in the field, what is the difference between such a move and suicide?

And Lu Xun also knew bitterly at this time, although he successfully lured Xiahou Yuan to Dingjun Mountain, but Xiahou Yuan's pursuit was too fierce, and almost turned his lure into a real rout. If Lu Xun hadn't tried his best to restrain the team, he would have called Xiahou Yuan to be wiped out halfway. Rao is like this, more than 5,000 of his own people left Chenggu, and when they arrived at Dingjun Mountain, more than half of them were killed or wounded. If there is another day or two of such a chase, Lu Xun is really not confident that he can survive it.

"Give it to me!" With Xiahou Yuan's order, more than 5,000 elite soldiers in the pass formed a formation and rushed towards Lu Xun's more than 2,000 foot soldiers at the foot of Dingjun Mountain. Looking at Xiahou Yuan who was getting closer and closer, Lu Xun could even feel the sweat on his face dripping down gradually.

"Kill!" Xiahou Yuan stabbed to death a rushing enemy soldier with one shot, and he took Lu Xun directly. A spear stabbed in the stabbing of the ground, Xiahou Yuan didn't care, and directly returned the spear in his hand to separate it. However, the person who came was also good, and he was not shocked by his blade, and after this shot was separated, he slowed down a little, and another shot stabbed over, and there was almost no interruption between the two moves.

"Huh?" Only then did Xiahou Yuan notice that the person who came was actually making two guns. What surprised him even more was that this person was actually a young female general. With such a distraction, Sun Shangxiang's two guns had all been handed to him. Xiahou Yuan snorted coldly, and struggled with the spear in his hand from the bottom to the top, wanting to rely on his strength to shake all the opponent's blades away. But how could Sun Shangxiang do what he wanted? At the moment when the blades touched, the left pistol suddenly retracted, and then the right pistol stabbed Xiahou Yuan in the lower abdomen.

After a few moves, Xiahou Yuan already knew in his heart that this female general's martial arts were not much worse than herself, but unfortunately her strength was insufficient, and she could hardly be regarded as a strong opponent after all. In a normal confrontation, he could cut her down in less than twenty rounds. But at this moment, Zhu Ran, Chen Shi and Zhang Yi also killed one after another, surrounding Xiahou Yuan at the core, and it was clear that they were going to behead him. Xiahou Yuan was not afraid, and he did not fall behind at all with one enemy and four enemies. A forty-pound iron spear flew up and down like a light wooden stick in his hand, and Zhang Yi and Chen Shi, who were slightly inferior in martial arts among the four, intersected with his blades every time, and their arms were sore. Seeing that Xiahou Yuan has not been cleaned up here, although Lu Xun is in command there, the Sichuan army, which is not superior in numbers, has gradually been unable to defeat "Xiahou Yuan was killed." With this roar, he saw a military horse from the north killing. The first veteran had white hair, held a big knife in his hand, roared like thunder, and slapped his horse to take Xiahou Yuan. Xiahou Yuan saw that this veteran was amazingly imposing, and knew that he knew it. didn't dare to slack off at the moment, and hurriedly forced back Sun Shangxiang and the other four, and crossed the iron gun in his hand to take Yan Yan's knife.

In terms of martial arts, Yan Yan is only slightly inferior to Xiahou Yuan, plus any of the four people including Sun Shangxiang, they will already be enough to fight with Xiahou Yuan. Now that there are four more helpers, then Xiahou Yuan will not be able to bear it. And with the help of Yan Yan's army and horses, who arrived in time, the numerical advantage of the Sichuan army has been reversed. Although Xiahou Yuan fought bravely, he was not a reckless man who only knew how to fight hard. Seeing that the situation was not right, he immediately prepared to run away.

An arrow came with a "whoosh", and the target was not any of the five people who were fighting fiercely in the field, but Xiahou Yuan's war horse. After a mournful roar, the horse fell to the ground with an arrow in the head. Xiahou Yuan was shocked, and hurriedly raised his gun to block the blades attacked by the five people, but after all, he was alone. blocked Yan Yan's knife, and finally did not dodge Zhu Ran's knife, and was slashed on the back of the crotch, and suddenly completely planted the horse.

"Hey!" In the spirit of helping to fight the water dogs, the blades of the five people were cut down together, and with an earth-shattering scream, Xiahou Yuan died. "Who put the arrow?" After hacking Xiahou Yuan to death, Zhu Ran was the first to ask this question. The five of them looked at each other, turned their heads to look at Lu Xun again, but saw that he didn't notice. Most of the Sichuan army here is a field army, and there are not many crossbowmen. Who shot Xiahou Yuan's war horse?

Everyone didn't notice that the moment Xiahou Yuan fell off his horse just now, a small soldier wearing the color of Cao Bing's uniform secretly threw the bow and crossbow in his hand aside, and then turned around and ran. Even if someone noticed, it wouldn't be surprising. It's normal to have an occasional deserter or two on the battlefield. Even if someone noticed him, who would believe that such a small soldier as him would have nothing to do to shoot Xiahou Yuan?

As soon as Xiahou Yuan died, Cao Bing naturally fled. Lu Xun lit up his men and horses, preparing to take advantage of the situation to recover Hanzhong, but he didn't want to march to Liangzhou just now, but found that the defenders there had been replaced by the banner of Cao's army. Using Xiahou Yuan's head to surrender is also useless, and the other party doesn't seem to buy it at all.

"What's going on?" Lu Xun was also stunned. Xiahou Yuan is the leader of Cao Ying's placement in Guanzhong, and it stands to reason that as soon as he dies, these Cao troops should retreat, but now it seems that Xiahou Yuan's death is of no use to them at all. Lu Xun even wondered if it was Xiahou Yuan who died. While he was confused, Lu Xun could only send scouts first and did not mention the news many times.

A few days later, several astonishing news came to Lu Xun one after another. Cao Pi killed the king, Sima Yi gathered in Guanzhong to crusade against Cao Ying, and Guanzhong has now been owned by Sima Yi. And he had just sent Guo Huai to lead an army to attack the three counties of Longxi, where Fu Zhu and Tian Feng were too weak to resist, and they had already lost Wei Guang and Anding. And Zhuge Liang, who was sitting in Sichuan, also sent someone to inform him that because Liu Pan was forcing Bajun and threatening Xichuan, he also asked them to return to the army as soon as possible to defend Chengdu. Even Zhuge Liang said vaguely that now the troops are insufficient, and if the peripheral positions are lost, they will be lost, and now they can only concentrate their forces to defend Xichuan. The rest of the things will be talked about when Zhao Feng and even Liu Bei return to the army.

"Cao Pi killed the king?" Seeing this news, Lu Xun and the others were also really shocked.

"Cao Pi kills the king, Cao Ying is bound to be in a hurry. General Zhao rescued the lord, but he has more certainty! In the end, Lu Xun was superior in knowledge, and after the initial shock passed, he also put forward his own opinions. Everyone relieved themselves, and they also had a little more hope. At that moment, under Lu Xun's suggestion, everyone abandoned all the positions in Hanzhong except for Nanjiang City, and led the men and horses of the three counties of Longxi and Wudu and Yinping to withdraw to Jiameng Pass and Jianmen Pass, and strictly guarded the pass to block the hostile Sima Yi.

"Mr. Kong Ming, how is the situation now?" After leaving Zhang Yi to assist Wu Yizhen in guarding the Sword Gate Pass, and hurriedly returning to Chengdu, Lu Xun also hurriedly asked Zhuge Liang.

"It's very difficult, most of the military horses have been taken away by General Zhao, and now with the less than 30,000 men and horses led back by Bo Yan, there are only 40,000 or 50,000 people left in the entire Xichuan now. Zhang Gongyi and Wu Yuanxiong said that they had already led an army of 10,000 to Luocheng to block Liu Shuye. At present, Zhu Di, Hanjia and even the Brazilian counties can only rely on the county soldiers to defend themselves! Zhuge Liang said with some bitterness. No matter how resourceful he is, he is a little powerless now due to insufficient troops.

"The rest of the counties are still on their own, and the two counties of Pasir County and Badong and Dangqu are adjacent to Hanzhong, so you must guard against it!" Lu Xun thought about it and said, Zhuge Liang also agreed. At the moment, let Zhang Yi and the veteran Yan Yan lead the army to garrison these two important places. Huang Quan, on the other hand, was busy selecting the best soldiers from the county, stepping up training, and preparing to support the front lines at any time. Fortunately, Sima Yi was originally determined to be in Hanzhong and Guanzhong, and he was also busy appeasing people's hearts, and did not come to attack Xichuan for a while. Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun only need to prevent Liu Pan from engaging in friction for the time being, which is enough.

"Mr. Kong Ming, what do you think of Cao Pi's murder of the king?" After settling down a little, Lu Xun also asked Zhuge Liang about the hottest topic in the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty at the moment. Zhuge Liang shook his head when he heard this, and finally said in a rather affirmative tone: "In my opinion, Your Majesty is definitely not Cao Pi's victim." At least, all this is not Cao Pi's intention! ”

"Isn't it Cao Pi?" Wang Lei was stunned when he heard this. Zhuge Liang nodded, and then spoke: "Cao Ying has long been coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and now he has trapped the lord in Xingyang, which is already an advantage. Killing the Son of Heaven at this time can only be a self-chaos. As the son of the world, Cao Pi is not an unwise person, and he will not fail to see the benefits and harms of this. ”

"Then Mr. Kong Ming, do you think there is such a possibility, that is, His Majesty fled westward and was accidentally injured in the chaos? Cao Pi killed everyone in order to hide people's eyes and ears. After thinking about it, Lu Xun proposed a possible surname.

"It's possible, but now it seems that Sima Yi appeared a little abruptly. He took advantage of Cao Ying's lack of skills in Hebei, and Xiahou Yuan's death in battle, he took the opportunity to capture Guanzhong and Hanzhong. It went so smoothly that it would be impossible to say that he was unprepared before. Zhuge Liang said slowly.

After all, it was Zhuge Liang, although he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, but with Sima Yi's performance, he guessed that he couldn't leave ten. Lu Xun and the others were silent when they heard this, and all they could do now was to stick to Xichuan.

And when the news of Tianzi's death reached Zhao Feng's ears, he had just led the Sichuan army that had gone to rescue Liu Bei to Wancheng. Even as a traverser, Zhao Feng was really shocked by this news.

(To be continued)