Three years ago, Yang Jun was almost defeated and died.

First, he attacked Hedong, and although he won victory on the battlefield, he made mistakes one after another in terms of strategy. Although he defeated Li Yuan, he was blocked by Yu Wenhua and Wang Shichong. In the end, the labor division went on an expedition, and the soldiers were defeated, but they had to withdraw from Hedong and fight for half a year, all of which made wedding clothes for others.

Then he prepared troops and horses, originally wanted to temporarily abandon Guannei, and make every effort to conquer Bazhong, Hanzhong, and Shuzhong, in order to control the southwest and control the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, so as to stabilize the Jianghan base camp in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and finally sweep away Nanchen, occupy half of the southern rivers and mountains from then on, and then try to conquer the north and west, and dominate the world.

But who would have expected that Yang Hao, who was just a cousin of the Yang family, not only refused to obey the mandate of heaven, but actually united with the two rebels of the Yang family to deal with him. At that time, Shen Faxing of Nanchen listened to his daughter's words, took advantage of the Central Plains, and came from the north with a wave of his army, bypassing the defenses laid in the Jiujiang area, and turned to take Xiangyang, then Jiangling, and then took his base camp Jianghan.

Attacked from three sides, and in the end, he was left with less than 100,000 soldiers and horses trapped in Hanzhong, and almost killed himself by drinking his sword.

If it weren't for the time of critical health, Chen Ke's army forced Hanzhong, deterred Shen Faxing and Yuwen Chengdu, and aided him with equipment, grain and grass, he would have been defeated and died.

But sometimes things are so ridiculous, several times the mountains and rivers are exhausted, and in the end, even the two uncles Xiao Yu and Xiao Mill surrendered to the Chen Dynasty, but he gradually became clear. lasted for three years, but Chen Pojun, who had not spoken out for three years, suddenly sent troops to attack the city and almost destroyed Nan Chen. Shen Luoyan and Du Fuwei were defeated, and Shen Faxing hurriedly transferred the soldiers and horses stationed in Bazhong and had been attacking Hanzhong back to Jiangnan.

At this time, the Yuwen family in Guanzhong was also not allowed to be alone. Longyou Xue Ju, who had been jointly attacked by Li Liang in Hexi and Yuwen in Guanzhong, suddenly didn't know where to find a wizard. As a result, everyone thought it would be a few more years. When the Xue clan's Qin state was about to be destroyed. Xue Ju suddenly poured the troops of the whole country and raised 300,000 troops to attack the Yuwen clan. The Yuwen family lost consecutive battles and lost the city and land along the way.

However, Xue Ju, the overlord of Western Qin, was advancing all the way. In the blink of an eye, it has already hit the edge of Chang'an, and it is only more than 100 miles away from Chang'an.

Yu Wenhua and frightened, while urgently recruiting troops to block. On the one hand, he had to urgently transfer back his adopted son Yuwen Chengdu, who was confronting Yang Jun in Hanzhong.

Yang Jun, who has been attacked from both sides and gradually lost his confidence, never thought that he would have such a good opportunity. After burning incense and bathing to thank God and the ancestors of the Yang family, Yang Jian sent four old marshals, Yujuluo, Tu Wanxu, Dong Chun, and Yang Yichen, each with 30,000 soldiers and horses, to attack from all sides.

The four real battlefield veterans have been able to keep Yang Jun's support until now, which proves their ability. At this time, he was ordered to go on the expedition, and on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, there would naturally be no accidents. It's only been more than three months. The four marshals have already blossomed on all sides.

To the north, Yujuluo led his army along the Qinling Mountains and pocketed several counties in Hanzhong to the east of the Qinling Mountains. The soldiers and horses reached the bottom of the pass. controlled the passage of Guanzhong from Chencang to Hanzhong, and blocked the possibility of Yuwen Xu Guo re-entering Hanzhong in the future.

Subsequently. Tu Wanxu led the army to the south, defeated Yang Hao's Shu army in Lian Zhan, recovered all the cities north of Jianmen Pass, and drove all Yang Hao's soldiers and horses back to Shuzhong south of Jianmen.

Dong Chun and Yang Yichen each led an army and went all the way to the south, defeating the Southern Chen army in Sanba and recovering the counties south of Daba Mountain. Yang Yichen even marched all the way to the east, all the way to the gate of Jiangling, an important town in Jianghan.

All of a sudden, Yang Xuan's army was mighty, although he had not yet recovered the heyday when he occupied Jianghan and captured Bahan, but he had completely turned over and was no longer waiting for death. …,

After recovering most of his strength, although Yang Jian was attacked on all sides, he neither dealt with the Yuwen clan first, nor did he plan to single-handedly take Shen Faxing, who took his old nest, nor did he immediately deal with Chen Pojun ungratefully. Instead, he immediately sent troops to attack Yang Hao, his cousin in Shuzhong.

For Yang Jun, Yang Hao is the weakest party among the four surrounding families, and it is also the one he hates the most. There is a way to prefer to be with foreign enemies rather than with domestic thieves. In Yang Xuan's view, Yang Hao, as a member of the Yang family, did not want to help him recover his homeland, but colluded with outsiders to deal with him, which is truly unforgivable. On the other hand, the four marshals also unanimously proposed to take Shuzhong first, and for several years, Yang Jian has relied on Chen Pojun's support for grain and grass weapons to survive until now.

But now, now that he has recovered most of his strength, and is no longer the one who can only rely on the Chen Dynasty's grain and grass weapons, and can only fight to the death with the Yuwen clan and Nan Chen, helping the Chen Dynasty to divide a lot of pressure, Chen Kefu naturally can't provide him with grain and grass stupidly. Therefore, Yang Yong, who had restored the strength of his troops, was in great need of re-expanding the army's logistical and financial resources, as well as food and grass. And Shuzhong has always been rich, rich but weak, which naturally became the best target for attack.

Hanzhong into Shu, there have been two roads since ancient times.

From Nanzheng to the south along the mountain range through the Xishen Dam, crossing the Bayu Pass, after crossing the mountain range along the Nanjiang River valley to Bazhong, it is the rice cang road. From Hanzhong to Sanba, this is a shortcut. During the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao attacked Zhang Lu, and Zhang Lu fled from Micang Road.

And the other road is the first choice of most of the generals who attack Shu, because the center of gravity in Shu is in Chengdu, the Jinniu Road starts from Mianxian County, Shaanxi Province in the north, and reaches the big sword pass of the Sword Pavilion in the south, and the highest peak in the middle is called Chaotianling, and the Sword Pavilion is its throat at the southern end. The Golden Bull Road was first opened by King Qin Hui to conquer Shu, and later, Zhong Hui attacked Shu Han, Wei Chi took Liang Yizhou, Guo Chongtao attacked Qianshu, Northern Song Dynasty Ping Hou Shu, and Mongolia attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, all of which had marched from here.

After some deliberation, the four veterans decided to march in two directions.

Yang Yichen and Yang Jian stayed in Hanzhong, while Dong Chun led his troops to feint to attack Micang Road, attracting the attention of Nan Chen and Shuzhong. Then the two old marshals of Yujuluo and Tu Wanxu led the elite soldiers to attack the Great Sword Pass from the Golden Bull Road and take Chengdu directly.

In August, when Tong Yehu was still just beginning to assemble troops and horses, Dong Chun commanded 50,000 troops, claiming that 150,000 crossed Micang Mountain to the south, sent troops to Micang Road, out of Badong, and pointed directly at Jiangling.

Jiangling, that is, ancient Jingzhou, is an important town in Jianghan and is the center. Since Xiangyang was occupied by Northern Chen, Shen Faxing stationed heavy troops in Jiangling and Jiangxia to defend the entire vast Jianghan Yuanxiang region.

Dong Chun went out of Badong, went down the Yangtze River, and went straight to Jiangling, seeing that he was about to attack Yichang City. Dong Chun entered the scope of Yichang. It's not just about offense. It also represents the beginning of Yang Jun's all-out revenge on Shen Faxing.

The countries are fighting, and there is no specific border border, but Yichang is the boundary. To the west is Padang, and to the east is Jiangling, but this is the boundary since ancient times. Now Patong is Yang Jun's territory. Jiangling is Nan Chen's territory. As soon as Dong Chun appeared here, in Nan Chen's opinion, this was already Yang Jin's all-out revenge.

Because of the battle with Bei Chen in June, the vitality of the Southern Chen Army was greatly damaged, and the east and west were cut off by the Northern Chen Army. The Jianghan counties that were cut off were already under the prying eyes of the Northern Chen army, which was very dangerous, and at this time, Yang Xuan suddenly came with an army of 150,000, how could Shen Faxing not worry. One is not good. Jianghan in the entire dozen counties is about to return to Yang Jin's hands, not to mention that Jianghan is Yang Jin's old nest, and now Nanchen has only been captured for three years. Who knows how the counties will face Yang Jun.

This trick made by Yang Jun. The results are amazing. Just as predicted by the four old marshals, Dong Chun's forward troops just appeared outside Yichang City. Shen Faxing had already rushed to Jiangling from Jiangxia in person, and quickly dispatched troops from all over Jianghan to Jiangling. …,

However, Nanchen has not fully recovered from the defeat in the previous battle, and in order to prevent Beichen from marching south again, Shen Faxing also deployed a large number of elite soldiers and horses on the south bank of the Yangtze River such as Jiankang in the east. At this time, there were less than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the western Jianghan area, and they had to defend the cities. Prevent Chen's army from Xiangyang from repeating the route they had taken to capture Jianghan.

In desperation, Shen Faxing also worked hard and issued a compulsory conscription order like Chen Pojun. However, Beichen has dozens of provinces and a population of more than 20 million. The area around South Chenjianghan is only a dozen counties and counties, with a population of only a few million. Moreover, Shen Faxing and Yang Yun have recruited a large number of soldiers in this area several times, and they have long been left with no young and strong.

Therefore, in desperation, Shen Faxing retreated to the next best, and at this time, he couldn't control the age limit. Originally, the age of 18 was introduced, but now those over the age of 15 are required to enlist. In the past, people over the age of 55 were exempt from conscription, but now, they are exempt at the age of 60.

In order to make up the numbers, those conscripts conscripted many teenagers who were only thirteen or fourteen years old as if they were fifteen years old. Some of the old men were gray-haired and looked to be seventy years old, but they thought they were only fifty-nine years old.

Ten rooms are empty, and there is not even a young man in sight in ten towns and eight miles. The tragic situation was shocking, and many people who did not want to join the army fled one after another and fled into the mountains and rivers. However, the Nanchen army, which was not able to serve in the army, was angry, so they began to forcibly recruit young and strong girls and women who had escaped from men's families into the military camp to take on logistics and transportation and other military forces.

After several strong pursuits, Shen Faxing finally gathered 200,000 troops in Jiangling City. However, of the 200,000 people, women, the elderly, and children accounted for about 31 of them, and about half of the rest were newly recruited people. The real soldiers are only 50,000 or 60,000 people.

"We haven't lost yet, we still have 200,000 people, and if we hold on for a little longer, the princess of Chu State will be able to lead an army of 100,000 to help immediately!"

However, such words do not do much except comfort the people. Under Dong Chun's feint, in just three days, Dong Chun successively seized the two major positions of Liutou Beach and Wolf Tail Beach, and then captured Huangniu Mountain outside Yichang City.

Yichang is a small city on the Yangtze River, but Dong Chun easily seized the two major beaches and commanding peaks in its upper reaches. This result made Dong Chun, who was originally a feint, not expect, and once thought that it was Shen Faxing's trap.

As a result, on the fourth day, Dong Chun's whole army tentatively attacked once. An army of 50,000 marched down the river with warships and countless logs. As a result, by the evening of the battle, Dong's army had already broken through Yichang City and occupied the whole city.

Shen Faxing's 50,000 troops transferred to Yichang were killed in countless battles, and the rest were all defeated, and even Shen Faxing, the king of Wu, who commanded the city in person, was also hit by a stray arrow, injured his heart, and was carried back to Jiangling City.

As soon as he returned to Jiangling, Shen Faxing vomited several liters of blood, and the doctors rescued him, and after half a day, he regretfully claimed that he was unable to rejuvenate, and King Wu only had a few days left to live. As soon as he heard the news, Shen Faxing, who was semi-unconscious, sighed and spit out a sentence weakly: "Pass on this royal order, quickly summon the princess of Chu to come to Jiangling!" ”