Liu Zhang glanced at Wei Yan, Wei Yan didn't speak, his face was calm, Liu Zhang was slightly surprised, raised his head and said: "Okay, go down to the whole army to set up defenses, you remember, the Xiliang Army prides itself on being invincible in the world, we defeated the Xiliang Army once, but the Xiliang Army will not be reconciled."

As long as we defeat them again, the Sichuan army will be famous all over the world, so you must be cautious, do not be impatient, and fight this crucial battle well. ”

"Yes." The generals agreed in unison.

The generals left, Liu Zhang called Wei Yan, Wei Yan bowed to Liu Zhang, Liu Zhang sat down and asked, "I didn't mention you when I assigned the combat mission just now, why didn't you speak?" Don't want to fight? Don't want to fight? ”

Wei Yan raised his head and said: "Lord, the lord said to the last general when he conquered Brazil, you can't be arrogant and arrogant, you can't be greedy for merit, the last general has always kept it in mind, if the lord really thinks that Wei Yan is worthy of a heavy responsibility, he will naturally assign tasks, if not, Wei Yan will ask for his life, but he will be disgusted." ”

"So you remember."

"The last general will never forget." Wei Yan said: "The lord thinks that Wei Yan has forgotten, but Wei Yan himself feels that he doesn't, as the saying goes, the general will not be subject to foreign military orders, when Wei Yan leads the army alone, he will watch the time and wait for changes at any time, and choose the plan that is most conducive to the entire battle situation, the battle of Jiangling, and the battle of Yangping Pass, if there is a second time, Wei Yan will still choose so, even if the lord will add a knife and axe after the battle." ”

Liu Zhang looked at Wei Yan and said slowly: "Listening to your tone, it seems that you are very dissatisfied with my handling of you?" ”

"The last general will not dare." Wei Yan said loudly: "Wei Yan is a general, the lord is the lord, he will take the war as his own responsibility, not avoid life and death, the lord should maintain the authority of the superior, and do not avoid the heroes and good generals, Wei Yan has no complaints about the disposal of the lord." ”

Liu Zhang looked at Wei Yan for a while, smiled, stood up and said, "That's good." This time, I will give you a task, sneak attack on Tianshui, and leave it to you to dispose of, as long as the result is achieved, how about it? ”

"Tianshui? How many soldiers and horses did the lord give to the last general? ”

"Five thousand."

"Five thousand?" Wei Yan frowned.

"Miscellaneous soldiers." Liu Zhang added.

Wei Yan frowned, although the army of the Western Liang Army went south, Tianshui was the main place to store grain. It is impossible to be guarded without soldiers and horses, and it is still cavalry, 5,000 miscellaneous soldiers, I am afraid that before the siege ladder is brought over, it will be attacked by the Xiliang army.

"Don't you dare to take orders?" Liu Zhang said.

"Five thousand miscellaneous soldiers, the last general can't receive orders, but as long as the lord gives me another two hundred elite soldiers, I am willing to take Tianshui for the lord and hold on for more than ten days."

"Ten days? this time. It should be the time when the Xiliang Army can return to help, and the calculation is very accurate, okay, give you two hundred school swordsmen......"

"Commanded by Guan Yinping." Before Liu Zhang finished speaking, Wei Yan interjected.

"Why?"

"You can cheat the city. Guan Yinping's dedication to the lord has not yet been spread, and even if it is spread, it will be doubtful. If necessary, he can also be a hostage. ”

Liu Zhang groaned, although Ma Yunlu Pang De and others knew that Guan Yinping was in the Sichuan army. But I didn't know that she had joined the Sichuan army, if Guan Yinping suddenly appeared under Tianshui City, as Guan Yu's daughter, Liu Bei was also one of the warlords of the Forty-Seven Routes, and it was likely that she would succeed in defrauding the city.

As for the hostages, the threat will not be big, Guan Yu's reputation is resounding all over the world, but after all, Liu Bei's power is weak, and the Xiliang warlord only recognizes his strength, and he will not give Guan Yu much face, but after all, it is better than nothing, if he meets the generals of Ma Teng's army, he can really threaten it.

It's just that you have to turn off the screen and do this kind of thing......

Liu Zhang said to Wei Yan: "You go down first to prepare, I will give you two hundred school swordsmen, but Guan Yinping is not necessarily, remember, if your deeds are exposed, you will be under the banner of Dongzhou soldiers." ”

Wei Yan frowned, as if he was a little puzzled, and then said loudly: "Yes." ”

Wei Yan went down, Fa Zheng looked at Wei Yan's back, and said to Liu Zhang: "Lord, Wei Yan is a famous general, but he is too wild and untamable. ”

"It's not that he is wild and untamable, there is a kind of restlessness in this man's bones." Liu Zhang said in a deep voice. "But don't worry, I don't think Wei Yan will dare to fall off the reins under my eyelids."

"I'm worried that the lord will ...... in the future" As soon as Fa Zheng finished speaking, Liu Zhang looked at him, and Fa Zheng immediately bowed in fear: "My subordinates have lost their words, please forgive my lord." ”

Liu Zhang turned his head: "What's the gaffe, this is indeed a problem you should consider, Xun'er, Xun'er......"

Liu Zhang muttered a few words, thinking of Liu Xun, a person who can only write poems and compositions, has no means, and the most important thing is to have good thoughts, how can such a person control this class of civil and military generals, and how to survive in troubled times?

Liu Zhang now understands why he wanted to get rid of Wei Yan when Zhuge Liang died, it was not necessarily that Wei Yan wanted to rebel, but that Liu Chan couldn't control it.

"You guys go down first, and call Yinping in." Liu Zhang closed his eyes, his face a little tired.

"Yes."

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"Meet my lord." Guan Yinping handed over the scimitar with a sheath to the guards, and bowed to Liu Zhang, Liu Zhang lay on the chair and wiped his face with both palms, opened his eyes, and glanced at Guan Yinping up and down: "Yinping, how old are you?" ”

Guan Yinping's face was a little embarrassed, and it was not good to ask the girl so bluntly how old she was, but the other party was the lord, could she not answer? But can the lord ask this question casually?

It seems that neither of these questions has an answer, because there is no precedent for women to be generals.

"There is still half a moon and fourteen." Guan Yinping replied.

"Fourteen." Liu Zhang muttered: "So young, I really shouldn't have let you be a general, you are not yet an adult." ”

"Then do you want to learn martial arts with Yinping?" Guan Yinping raised his chin and looked at Liu Zhangdao. Liu Zhang was speechless.

"I have a mission that may die, would you like to go?" After a while, Liu Zhang asked.

Guan Yinping looked at Liu Zhang, and said solemnly: "Lord, I am your general, not the vase you bought, my subordinates don't know why the lord called me specifically to ask this question, if the lord is going to give other generals such a task, will he also call to ask?"

Although Yinping is young, he still knows the basic way of general, since he has decided to serve the lord and eat the king's luck, he should repay him with death. Yinping only hopes that the lord will treat Yinping as an ordinary general and forget the identity of Yinping's woman, so that Yinping can be at ease under the main account. ”

Liu Zhang looked at Guan Yinping and nodded.

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Han Sui gathered the warlords in Guanzhong, swore to attack the river in the suburbs of Tianshui, sacrificed to the three gods of heaven, earth and man, and proclaimed himself the leader of the Xiliang Alliance. Led an army of 200,000 to Hanzhong, Cao Cao canonized Han Sui as the assassin of Liangzhou, the general of the expedition to the west, the Marquis of Chengdu, and the Hou Yuan of Chang'an Zhong Xiang Xiahou Yuan sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to help.

The wooden platform and Shangguan are two backing mountain Xiongguan, more than three zhang high, and the wooden platform is higher than the Shangguan wall. However, because the road behind Shangguan was narrow and the mountains were undulating, Han Sui left a small number of soldiers and horses in Shangguan to contain the defenders, and a large number of Xiliang troops flocked to Mutai.

In front of Mutai Pass, the black pressure pressed a group of cavalry and infantry, of which the cavalry accounted for the majority, most of the infantry were Yongzhou warlords, Wu Ban, who had just recovered from serious injuries, stood on the wall, and the Xiliang army could not see the end at a glance, and took a breath of cool air.

"Good fellows. The last general had never seen so many soldiers and horses in his life. Wu Ban sighed.

Fa Zheng smiled: "Look at a lot, rabble." ”

The Xiliang army shouted under the city, and the Yongzhou infantry raised their spears and roared, among which the military appearance of the Xiliang army was on the war horse. It looks majestic, but the warlords of Yongzhou are much more chilling, most of them are infantry, even if they are cavalry, they can only be regarded as horse troops. The so-called horse army is an infantry that can ride horses, which is much worse than the combat strength of the Xiliang army.

And these people have a variety of weapons. Every time you lose a woman who gives some money and a woman who wins a battle that collects some money, everyone is afraid of becoming the target of the public, so that the war cannot be cut off, and the supply cannot be supplied.

So these warlords only have one way to make money, robbing the people, the people leave their homes, and the warlords get poorer and poorer, so that the rich land in Guanzhong, from the warlord army to the people at the bottom, are all mixed into beggars, and finally even the team of the princess of Shache Kingdom dares to rob.

The warlords of Yongzhou are basically a rabble.

The Xiliang army is elite, but unfortunately the orders are not even, the warlords of the Ma Teng system and the warlords of the Han Sui system have been divided and combined for more than ten years, and the dependent warlords have long been used to it.

In this way, the 200,000 troops of the Xiliang Allied Army gathered more than 100,000 in front of the wooden platform, which looked magnificent, distinguishable and uneven. It's not as good as Ma Chao leading an army of 80,000, and the neat sound of stepping on the ground, shouting, and the sound of scimitars slapping shields shakes people's hearts.

Han Sui brought a large army this time, just to scare and scare the Sichuan army, the defenders of the Mutaichuan army added the people brought by Wu Ban, only 20,000 people, close to ten to one ratio, and the Xiliang army was mainly cavalry, and Han Sui thought about it, and the defenders should be frightened and collapsed.

If this was a battle in Xiliang, that disobedient prince, Han Sui only needed to swing around in front of his city like this, and immediately bow down.

But apparently the Sichuan army was not frightened, Wu Ban waved his hand, hundreds of crossbowmen, divided into three rows, two rows of throws, one row of flat shots, hundreds of arrows shot out with a whistling sound, nailed in front of the Xiliang army, throwing arrow rain and flat arrow rain to form a straight line.

The rain of arrows trembled, conveying the determination of the Sichuan army to dare to fight and want to fight, the Xiliang army, especially those Yongzhou warlords, were startled, archers are a valuable class, in each of their tens of thousands of troops, it would be good to have a team of archers, let alone shoot so neatly.

"Xiliang boys, let the Sichuan army see how powerful you are." Han Sui roared, one of the eight horsemen of Qiben, Liang Xing, one of the eight horsemen of Qiben, playing with horses, each led a group to kill the city pass, and fired a bow and arrows at the wooden platform.

"Hahahaha."

On the Mutai Pass, the Sichuan Army made a shocking laughter, the cavalry of the Xiliang Army threw the bow, it was a siege weapon, for the Xiongguan of Mutai, although it was difficult to suppress, but the threat was still there.

However, the Sichuan army saw Ma Chao's cavalry and archery formation in Yangping Pass, the overwhelming rain of arrows, the U-shaped formation that was as smooth as flowing water, and the circular route of the S-shaped curve, all of which were breathtaking.

The cavalry and archery array commanded by Liang Xing is also a must compared to the cavalry of the Central Plains and the South, but compared to Ma Chao's cavalry array, it is too far behind, this is like a person who is used to eating white rice, you want him to eat bran rice, how do you think the Sichuan army thinks, how do you think the cavalry and archery formation of the Xiliang army is ridiculous.

The Sichuan army has already fought with the Xiliang army, and knows that the Xiliang army likes to scare people, and without siege equipment, it is impossible to capture the city with a cavalry array, not to mention the cavalry and archery array played by Liang Xing's horses, the arrow rain is messy, and it cannot form a cover, and it cannot threaten the defenders at the head of the city at all.

Liang Xingma played in the laughter of the Sichuan army, and returned with a disgraced face, Han Sui glared at the two fiercely, the morale of the entire Xiliang army was low, and the Sichuan army had a high fighting spirit, and continued to provoke the Xiliang army.

"Xiliang children, come and attack the city, your uncle is impatient."

"Han Sui old dog, come on, come to the city, the master pees on your head, and the winter makes you hot."

"Your Shenwei generals have all been defeated, what is Han Laogou, he is a lot old, go back to nurse his grandson."

"Hahahaha."

Han Sui's old face was very angry, and Ma Teng said: "Big brother, don't be angry, forget it today, wait until we build the siege equipment, and then come to a decisive battle with the Sichuan Barbarians, and see that they are still arrogant." ”

"You say it." Han Sui tied his face and said loudly: "I didn't get angry, 200,000 people, and I crushed this group of Sichuan barbarians to death, hum." ”

The Xiliang army retreated like a stream, and the Chengtouchuan army raised their spears and cheered in unison, and each cheer pierced into the ears of the Xiliang army like a needle.

Watching Xiliangjun walk away, Fa Zheng said to Wu Ban: "This rabble will be handed over to you, do you have confidence?" ”

Wu Ban said loudly: "The Xiliang army invaded the territory because I believed in Han Sui to negotiate peace and repelled the Xiliang army, and Wu Ban was duty-bound. ”

Wu Ban looked at the miscellaneous infantry who fell in the rear team, and said disdainfully: "Although the Xiliang army is numerous, Mutai is dangerous, no matter how many people there are, there are not many people to attack the city at one time."

I just looked at the cavalry and shooting formation of the Xiliang Army, and laughed off my big teeth, if Ma Chao comes in person, I am still afraid of three points, Han Sui, don't worry, sir, I will hold the wooden platform, otherwise I will come to see you. ”

"Okay, the general can have this determination, but don't talk about life and death lightly." Fa Zheng nodded, and was about to leave, his post was the Chinese army, giving full play to the greatest advantage of cross-arming in the shape of a zigzag.

Wu Ban suddenly said: "Sir, I will trespass on the end of the book, and there is a question that should not be asked." ”

"Just ask."

Wu Ban said: "Why did the lord personally lead the cavalry this time, is this too dangerous, and it seems that the lord is not a very good cavalry commander, and his subordinates feel a little unnecessary." ”

Fa Zheng smiled: "Why are you so obscure, the lord's guild is good on horseback, I remember the battle of Fucheng the year before last, the lord led the army to pursue Zhao Yun for thousands of miles, and when he arrived in Jiangzhou, his legs were worn out, and the flesh and blood were blurred, how could the lord lead any cavalry, but." ”

Fa Zheng smiled and said to Wu Ban: "Don't worry, the lord is not the kind of person who likes personal adventures, since he takes risks, there is a reason, and there are benefits." ”

"Yes."

Wu Ban bowed, raised his head to look into the distance, and breathed a sigh of relief, so far, Wu Ban felt that he had chosen the right one.

From the very beginning when Liu Zhang returned from Jiangzhou, the clans conspired, Wu Ban never thought of opposing Liu Zhang, but before the Battle of Fucheng, Wu Ban was quite disdainful of Liu Zhang, and he didn't even have the idea of being an official, as long as the Ming Lord entered Sichuan, Wu Ban was the first willing to surrender. (To be continued.) )