Liu Bei applauded: "Shi Yuan's plan is very clever, I expect that Xiahou Yuan will definitely be recruited, I don't know what you think?" ”

Fang Shao and Fa Zheng both agreed with Pang Tong's strategy, and after some detailed discussions, they finally settled on a complete battle plan.

The plan was sent to Chengdu, and after receiving Zhuge Liang's support, Liu Bei officially issued a war mobilization order on the day of the beginning of autumn.

The land of the two states immediately responded, and the soldiers and horses scattered in Yizhou quietly gathered to Nanzheng, and Zhuge Liang, who was sitting in Chengdu, also quickly recruited the people, and quickly transported the grain and grass to Hanzhong.

A month later, the 130,000-strong army of Hanzhong was assembled. On the Jingzhou side, although Guan Yu also received a complete set of battle plans and knew that he was only a feint attack here, in order to create a realistic illusion, Guan Yu also mobilized 60,000 troops and made an offensive posture ready to go north at any time. In the three eastern counties, the 20,000 horses led by Wei Yan and Meng Da were also ready to go.

On this day in August, Liu Bei personally led an army of 90,000 people to the east along the Han River, and entered the three eastern counties one by one, and at the same time, Zhang Fei, Huang Quan and others also led 40,000 soldiers and horses north out of Chencang's old road and advanced in the direction of Chencang.

Such a large-scale military mobilization naturally could not escape Cao Ying's ears and eyes, and not long after Liu Bei set off from Nanzheng to the east, a secret report had been placed on the desk of Cao Ying, the capital of Xu.

At this moment, Cheng Yu, Liu Ye, Sima Yi and other strategists have all been summoned to Qi, so Cao Ying reported the secret letter to everyone, and said proudly: "Zhongde, it seems that everything is as you expected, Liu Bei's guy is really a trick." ”

Cheng Yu also looked proud, "All signs show that Liu Bei has used all the family resources in Jingyi Erzhou, it seems that after this battle, the prime minister should think about how to clean up Sun Quan's last enemy." ”

At this time, Liu Ye said: "Although the intelligence is so, the main forces of our army are now near Wanluo, and Guanlong is a little empty. ”

Cheng Yu said with a smile: "If Liu Bei really saw through my strategy and wanted to make a sound attack on the west, then he would not have sent Zhang Fei to attack Chen Cang and startle the snake." Therefore, I thought that Zhang Fei's entry into Chencang was just Liu Bei's feint strategy, one wanted to contain Guan Long's troops, and the other wanted the prime minister to transfer people from Xu Luo to help him, so as to relieve the pressure on him to seize Nanyang. ”

Cheng Yu's analysis is reasonable, although Cao Ying is a suspicious person, but after listening to Cheng Yu's analysis, he carefully pondered all kinds of information, as well as Liu Bei's correspondence sent by Cai Mao, and said: "Since Liu Bei has already been tricked, then Gu must not let him go this time." The herald ordered Gongming, Zixiao, Zidan, Wen Ze and other soldiers and horses to assemble in Nanyang as soon as possible according to the original plan. But remember, don't be too loud, you must wait for Liu Bei to completely fall into the trap, and then close the door and beat the dog. ”

Cao Ying looked at everyone and saw that many of them had no objections, only Sima Yi seemed to want to speak and stopped, so he asked: "Zhongda, if there is something in your heart, even if you come to the truth, why hide it." ”

Sima Yi said: "How dare Yi hide it, Yi just has a faint feeling that Cheng Zhongde's plan is going too well, and he always feels that something is wrong, but he can't say it for a while." ”

Cao Ying smiled, "It turns out that Zhongda, you are just suspicious of the gods, the way of using soldiers, when judging by intelligence, how can you only rely on your own feelings." ”

Sima Yi was busy laughing at himself: "The prime minister is right, Yi is suspicious." ”

On the same day, the order to encircle Nanyang was issued from Xudu, and Pegasus was sent to the armies that were already on standby. As a result, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xu Huang, Yu Ban, Cao Zhen and other Cao troops, about 80,000 soldiers and horses, secretly began to march from the counties around Nanyang. And Cao Ying personally commanded the main force of about 40,000 people in the Xudu area, ready to go to Nanyang at any time.

Seven days later, Liu Bei's 90,000 troops arrived in the three eastern counties one after another, which seemed to be huge, and it looked like they were preparing to march east to Nanyang, but if Xu Du could get the march sequence of this army, then Cao Ying would find a very interesting phenomenon.

Among the 90,000 troops, 20,000 pioneers are mixed corps composed of Yizhou soldiers and Hanzhong soldiers, and the commanders are Li Hui, Zhang Yi, and Zhang Ren, which also seems to be a temporary combination. The 40,000 Chinese army led by Liu Bei was basically composed of Yizhou soldiers, accompanied by Pang Tong, Wu Yi, Fei Guan, Ma Dai, Feng Xi, Zhang Nan and others. The 30,000 soldiers and horses behind the palace are the most elite Jingzhou soldiers in Liu Bei's group, commanded by Ma Chao and Huang Zhong, as well as Fa Zheng, Fang Shao, Pang De, Chen Shi, Wang Ping.

When the front army arrived in Shangyong, Liu Bei's Chinese army only entered Xicheng County, and as for the rear army commanded by Ma Chao and Huang Zhong, it was even less than 200 miles west of Nanzheng. The entire army of 90,000 can be said to be slowly advancing along the Han River like a long snake, hundreds of miles away from each other.

Of course, the route from Hanzhong to the three eastern counties was tortuous and difficult, and it was understandable that Liu Beijun would go one after another, and in the era when communications were not developed, it was difficult for the meticulous workers to detect such a detailed distribution of enemy troops.

Therefore, not long after Liu Bei's army arrived in Shangyong County, Cao Ying was even more convinced that Liu Bei was getting into the pocket array he had laid out on the Nanyang Plain step by step, so Cao Ying did not say that he led the 40,000 elite main forces of Xu Du and quietly drove to Nanyang.

At this moment, Zhang Fei's soldiers and horses also arrived at Sanguan from the old road and launched an attack on Chen Cang.

Sanguan is the boundary between the western end of the Qinling Mountains and Longshan, which is a low valley in the upper reaches of the Jialing River, and it is the most important passage between the north and south of the western Qinling Mountains. Sanguan is the north end of this passage when the road stands according to the danger, it is the throat between Guanzhong, Xiliang and Hanzhong, and its exit is Chencang County.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan had already received Cao Ying's secret edict, learned of Nanyang's plan to lure the enemy into depth, and was convinced that Liu Bei's main forces in Hanzhong were all going east, and Zhang Feijun, who attacked Chen Cang, was just a containment of the troops. Because of this, Xia Yuan led 50,000 Guanlong troops to Chencang day and night, and divided the villages in various parts of Chencang County to prevent Zhang Fei's attack.

The trend of the whole situation is like a pre-set program, which is carried out in an orderly manner.

On the evening of September 1, Fang Shao's rear army had just arrived at the Golden Fortress, which was the most precipitous pass in the eastern part of Hanzhong, and Yangguanping was known as the east-west gateway of Hanzhong.

Hundreds of warships docked in turn, and the army camped in the fortress and buried the pot to cook. When it was nearly evening, the company camp for more than ten miles was already full of smoke, and Ma Chao set up a banquet in his big tent to drink and chat with the generals.

On this expedition, Ma Chao was appointed as the governor of the rear army, located above Huang Zhong, the deputy governor of the rear army, and was nominally the commander of the rear army. However, perhaps because of the Hu people's surname for a long time, although he is the commander of an army, he does not have so many rules, and when he drinks happily, he calls the generals brothers, and the dirty words and jokes are blurted out.

Ma Chao's surname is also quite liked by the generals, after a few rounds of drinking, in the big tent, the generals have been drinking and laughing, so lively. And strategists like Fa Zheng and Fang Shao just sat there quietly eating and drinking, and didn't mess blindly with those military generals.

Unexpectedly, Fang Shao was drinking wine by himself, but Ma Chao came up with a jar of wine, and as soon as he came over, he hugged Fang Shao's shoulders, as if he was a good friend, and asked with a smile: "Zhongzheng, are you a man?" ”

Ma Chao was happy to have drunk too much, and suddenly came to such a ridiculous sentence, Fang Shao was stunned for a moment, and smiled helplessly: "This is very obvious, can't General Meng Qi see it?" ”

"Since we are men, then we will drink some jar wine, you half an altar, I will do half an altar, I will do it first as a respect." Ma Chao didn't say a word, picked up the wine jar, and swallowed half of it like water.

After drinking, Ma Chao wiped his mouth and handed half a jar of wine to Fang Shao to follow, "It's your turn." ”

Fang Shao was depressed, he couldn't drink the wine, but how could he drink it like this, he had to be embarrassed: "General Meng Qi has a good amount of wine, but I can't compare to you, this half jar of wine has gone down, you have to drink me down." ”

Ma Chao's face immediately darkened, and he said unhappily: "I'll do it first as a respect, you are still grinding, are you a man, or don't give me Ma Chao's face." ”

Ma Chao talked about this, Fang Shao couldn't shirk it anymore, he wanted to roll up his sleeves, picked up the jar and drank the rest of the wine, only to look at Ma Chao not to mention how surprised.

"Hmph, Lao Tzu served the leader in the wine back then, and he didn't drink it in any degree, this ultra-low concentration of wine is a fart." ’

Fang Shao put the wine jar on the table, his face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he looked like a real person did not show his face.

Those soldiers in Xiliang have always regarded being able to drink as a necessary condition for manhood, Ma Chao previously felt that Fang Shao's bookish anger was not manly, but after this half jar of wine was down, he couldn't help but look at Fang Shao with admiration, and couldn't help but praise the case: "Good amount of wine, good guts!" ”

"Laugh, laugh." Fang Shao burped, still looking calm.

At this time, Ma Chao came over again and asked mysteriously: "Zhongzheng, have you seen my Yunlu girl?" ”

Fang Shao was stunned, and he didn't know why he suddenly asked, "Miss Ma, of course Shao has seen it." ”

Ma Chao smiled and said: "My sister was born of mixed race, in our Xiliang area, but she is a famous beauty, Zhongzheng, what do you think of her, not much worse than your two ladies, right?" ”

Ma Chao's straightforwardness made Fang Shao a little embarrassed for a while, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, "What's this...... Ahem......"

When Fang Shao was in a dilemma, a person hurriedly entered and handed a letter to Ma Chao, saying that it was a secret order from the king of Hanzhong.

Ma Chao had no choice but to put aside what he had just done for the time being, slowly dismantled the secret order, and after a few glances, the whole person stood up, was silent for a moment, and suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed.

"It's time for revenge, Xiahou Yuan, I'm going to come and get the head, you have to wait, haha-"

(To be continued)