"You are Liu Changsheng?" Zhao Yan's white eyebrows furrowed slightly, he couldn't imagine that Liu Changsheng, the world-famous Yan King, couldn't see the majesty on his body, if it weren't for the crowd, the few military generals beside him would be more like the regent who was surprised.

"Presumptuous, Your Highness, how can you be allowed to shout?" Before Zhao Yan spoke, the general shouted loudly, "When you see Your Highness, don't you want to see you?"

Liu Changsheng didn't care, raised his hand slightly, stopped the man, took two steps forward, looked at Zhao Yan, chuckled, and said, "It's down there, Taishou guards the city alone, and his courage is admirable."

Zhao Yan - stunned, I didn't expect Liu Changsheng to speak like this at this time, not mentioning the loss of the city at all, but saving face for him, it seems that Liu Changsheng's name as a corporal is not a lie.

"The generals are highly skilled, and we are careless, and we have nothing to say." Seeing that Liu Chang's ecology was like this, Zhao Yan was not too indifferent, and clenched his fists slightly, but he was already silent at the moment. I'm not afraid of these wolf-like soldiers." is too guarded to guard the government alone, and refuses to leave, is it because he has a will to die?" Liu Changsheng looked at Zhao Yan sitting in the hall, seemed to have insight into people's hearts, and said with a smile, "Mr. is a famous man in Yingchuan, following the Cao family, and also to help the Han family.

Shaking the country, doesn't Mr. remember the grace of the first emperor and serve the country?"

"I am a second minister, I am already ashamed in my heart, and I think that it is difficult to settle under Jiuquan, how can I be the master of the three masters?" Zhao Yan was dumbfounded—smiled, and shook his head slightly, "Although you are the Xinghan of the Liu family, but Emperor Liu's uncle Bi Jing is not the blood of the first emperor, if I am easy to change, I will be a repeated villain."

"Sir, why do you ......?"

"Hahaha, I miss my Zhao Yan-sheng, after all, I still misrecognize his master, and I have a bad reputation, it's really providential-"

Liu Changsheng frowned, and wanted to persuade again, but he didn't want Zhao Yan to suddenly burst out laughing, vomit blood and die, lying on the desk and not moving.

This Zhao Yan is so stubborn, and he doesn't recognize Liu Bei's identity, he only recognizes Emperor Han Xian, he is really an old stubborn, from the bottom of his heart, Liu Changsheng actually has doubts about Liu Bei's identity, but this has nothing to do with the overall situation.

He only needs to build a banner, gather people's hearts, reshape the dynasty, and return the people to a clear world in the name of the Han Dynasty, so that people in the world can live and work in peace and contentment. Sighing secretly, ordering someone to bury Zhao Yan's body, this government is also temporarily unusable, Liu Changsheng also left here, at this time the sky will be bright, out of the list of people, the deployment of city defense is the most important.

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517 Central Plains Plan

Although it suffered a few setbacks, it still took Anyi as quickly as possible, and in this way, the east, west and north regions of the river have been basically incorporated into the palm of the hand, and the areas along the two banks of the Yellow River have become the land of Shu.

Liu Changsheng was in a hurry to continue to march southward, in addition to sending Linghu Yu with Ping Pong to take Xie Liang, he was to take Anyi as the center, recruit the surrounding counties, and stabilize the rear.

In addition to the rainy weather, he also has to cover for Deng Ai on another road, as long as he personally leads the table tennis in Anyi, the attention of the Wei army is here, Deng Ai will be much more convenient, and at the same time, he is also waiting for the news of the southern table tennis, so as to act synchronously.

Xie Liang has a Xie County Port, where the Yellow River turns eastward at a big ferry, can cross the river from here, straight to Hongnong, Liu Changsheng ordered Hu Yu to understand Liang, then sent people to Hongnong to inquire about the news.

In Zhuge Liang's plan, the most important ring is the north and south of the table at the same time, Wei Yan from Wuguan to the north, Liu Changsheng from the east of the river to the south of the river, directly to take Hongnong County.

If you take Hongnong County smoothly, Tongguan Tianyou will be meaningless, even if Manchu Pet blocks the passage of the city gate, it will be useless, but it will become a lonely city, then the Wei army will have to retreat, and the road to Chang'an can be reopened.

Between Hongnong and Luoyang, only separated by the Daohan Valley Pass, but - the march distance, at that time Jinggi vibrate, Soochow in Xuzhou and Yangzhou to attract the main force of the Wei army, Sima Yi was dragged by Zhuge Liang in Nanyang, there was no time to rescue, and the capture of Luoyang was just around the corner.

In order to see each other steadily, Liu Changsheng sent Deng Ai this - Zhi Qi Ping to get Hangu Guandongguan, Hangu Pass is a long and narrow pass, Liangjing Ancient Road, east from Kunshan, west to Tongjin, because the pass is in the valley, deep and dangerous like a letter, so it is called Hangu Pass.

At that time, Liu Changsheng and Cao Rong Hongnong Alliance, passing through the narrow and winding Hangu Pass passage, sighed the danger of this place where the Ping Pong family must fight, Qin Yi Hangu Tianxue, resisted the division of the Six Kingdoms several times, and its important surname is self-evident.

If you don't take it first, if you want to enter Luoyang, you still have the last strength, so Liu Changsheng sent Deng Ai to take the first step, but also to get control of this dangerous place.

Deng Ai used to be Wei Ping, although at that time was only an ordinary table tennis pawn, but also to Luoyang, Chang'an land, he likes to record topographic maps, he naturally attaches more importance to Hangu Pass, and has also observed a lot, which is also his advantage.

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Liu Changsheng was like a broken bamboo in Hedong and outwitted Anyi, but the Ping Pong horses in Nanyang were restricted in all directions, and he understood that the Shu army was besieging Nanyang in the southwest, and Sima Yi also dispatched generals to guard the roads and strictly guard the main roads.

After Zhuge Liang came to Fancheng, Sima Yi personally led the table tennis from Huashui to Mopo, and transferred the new wild table tennis horse to echo in Chaoyang, and also made a strong situation in Fancheng, as long as the Jingzhou table tennis horses in Fancheng were forced back, the rest of the Shu army would retreat.

Hu Ban was ordered to guard Jiaxian, and when he heard that Sima Yi's army was coming, he hurriedly told Zhuge Liang and summoned Shi Ping to deploy defense.

When he scouted the horse that night, he reported, Zhuge Liang only told him to be careful in defense, not to fight easily, to defend if he can, and to abandon the city if he can't.

Hu Ban waited for several years to have such an opportunity, the first time to lead the table tennis alone, although he knew that the situation was weak, but he refused to give up, and immediately called on all the soldiers to defend the city together, and blocked the Sima army in the north of Jiaxian.

Sima Yi sent the pioneer officer Wang Ji to lead the table tennis to take Jiaxian, Wang Ji had previously lost the martial arts, this time he was guilty of meritorious service, but also Sima Yi gave him the opportunity, facing the small Jiaxian, the momentum is bound to win.

Ping Pong approached the city, the Wei army launched three fierce attacks first, but Hu Ban personally commanded and dispatched at the head of the city, although a small number of Wei troops climbed to the head of the city, but still successfully held the city.

The sky is about to get dark, Wang Ji has to collect the table tennis, the defense of the Shu army is beyond his imagination, Sima Yi's army is about to arrive, if he can't take Jiaxian, this merit has nothing to do with him.

After thinking hard in the middle of the night, Wang Ji suddenly had a plan, and secretly blamed himself for his meritorious service, and used the stupidest method to attack the city, losing his strength in vain, even if he took Jiaxian, I am afraid that he would be blamed by Sima Yi.

In the morning, Hu Ban got up early and came to the city, but he saw that the Wei army camp was not moving, and he did not see the siege of the city, so he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, and hurriedly sent people out of the city to find out the news.

Not long after, Tanma reported, "The main force of the Wei army has gone to attack Yinling Slope."

Hu Ban was shocked when he heard this, Yinling is a place where table tennis horses hoard grain, guarded by Wang You's 3,000 troops, and the Wei army divided the main force to sneak attack the table tennis grain, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist, if the table tennis grain is not guaranteed, he will not be able to continue to stay in Jiaxian.

After thinking about it again and again, Hu Ban decided to lead Ping Pong to save the Yin Tomb, first sent someone to report to Wang You, leaving - half Ping Pong to guard the city, and the other - half of the horse followed him out of the city to the west to the Yin Tomb.

When the rapid march passed through the mountain pass, suddenly the sound of killing on the two slopes was everywhere, Hu Ban was shocked, it turned out that the Wei army had been waiting in ambush here, and swooped down condescendingly.

The Shu army was in turmoil, and was killed by the Wei army, and they fled, and Hu Ban was also blocked by the Wei army, and the road was chased and killed, so he had no choice but to flee to the direction of Yinling to find Wang You.

Wang You saw Hu Ban leaving the city and coming here, describing his embarrassment, only to understand that he had fallen for the Wei army's plan, sighed, and said, "The general will go out of the city easily this time, I'm afraid that Jiaxian will not be guaranteed, let's retreat to Yancheng first, and wait for the prime minister's fate."

"Alas, that's all there is to it!" Hu Ban hung his head and regretted it, but now that he was useless, he asked Wang You to escort the grain and grass first, and after he led the table tennis himself, in case the Wei army came to chase.

Retreated to Yancheng, sure enough, there was already a defeat in Jiaxian County and fled back, no one commanded and the lack of ping tennis, Jiaxian was lost in just two hours.

Yancheng guard general Zhang Wei took Hu Ban and others into the city, leaving Wang You Ping Pong Ma and grain and grass in the city, Hu Ban went to Fancheng to confess the guilt, the first battle was lost, affecting morale, even if Zhuge Liang did not punish, he felt guilty in his heart.