Link's caution was not superfluous in the end, when the heavy rain stopped, the first group of scouts sent out came back to report, saying that Zhang Lu and Liu Bei's army had really joined forces, and the two sides had a total of 100,000 coalition troops, the commander Pang Tong, the deputy commander was Hanzhong General Yang Ang, the vanguard was Ma Chao, who was very familiar with Hanzhong and Xiliang, and the vanguard military division was Sun Tianming.

In the first battle, both sides were caught off guard, and the two rushing armies collided together, Ma Chao saw that Link's control of the Guanzhong army had exceeded his prestige suppression in the Xiliang region, and he wisely rushed into the Yangping Pass with less than 5,000 men and horses at the suggestion of Sun Tianming in the rear.

Yangping Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Xiahoudun in the north has been attacking for a few days and has not taken it, Link is standing on the east side of Yangping Pass in a dilemma.

Cao Cao gave him the task of sniping Pang Tong's coalition army to the north, and the opponent's number was above his subordinates, and once he placed the position on the south side of Yangping Pass, Sun Tianming in the pass would inevitably send Ma Chao to lead the cavalry to attack him from behind while Pang Tong's army attacked him.

But the enemy is in the pass, and once this southern expedition is really in vain, Link doesn't know if he still has a chance to take revenge. If you can't take revenge, the long-cherished wish of the original owner in the deepest part of your body can't be released, and that's a harm to yourself.

Moreover, from a strategic point of view, once Liu Bei succeeds in attacking Hanzhong this time, his power will inevitably rise, which will affect his layout of the post-Three Kingdoms era, which is the real tragedy.

Do you want to put yourself between Sun Tianming and Pang Tong?

Link hesitated for a moment, he chose to believe that Xiahoudun, who was attacking the north gate of Yangping Pass, could make Sun Tianming not send too many men to attack him from behind, he decided, and arranged the army between Pang Tong and Yangping Pass.

Looking at the big banner with the word "Sun" closed by Yangping, Link thought to himself: "It's okay to do this, it can be regarded as cutting off the connection between Sun Tianming and Pang Tong." At that time, once the one-eyed dragon breaks through Yangping Pass, I happen to kill Sun Tianming in the chaos of the army, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone! ”

This plan is good, but looking at the army of 30,000 people under his command, and then thinking about the small army of 100,000 led by Pang Tong, Link is not sure that he will have the last laugh.

He asked Yu Ban and Le Jin to lead 8,000 men and horses to line up on his left and right, and he took the rest of the army to quickly set up a camp under Yangping Pass, and at the same time arranged for people to immediately build fortifications, waiting for the arrival of Pang Tong's army, and also waiting for Sun Tianming to send people out of Yangping Pass.

In the afternoon, the rain had completely stopped, and Pang Tong's army had not yet arrived from the south, taking advantage of his free time, Lin Ke rode his horse straight to the bottom of Yangping Pass, thinking that if he could seduce one or two guards in Yangping Pass to come out and fight alone, killing a few people first would also be regarded as raising morale for his own side.

However, the fierce battle on the north side of Yangping Pass was tight, and Sun Tianming and Ma Chao were also afraid of Link's force value, so they naturally refused to send people out to die. It's just that Sun Tianming thought for a while when he heard that Link appeared under the city, and he also took dozens of thieves in Qingshan Village ten years ago, and now Liu Bei's soldiers to the south of Yangping Pass.

The original owner in Link's body struggled violently and restlessly, making Link couldn't help but look up at Yangping Pass, and the one who slowly appeared and gradually walked in the middle direction was not Sun Tianming, who had been away for several years.

Link raised the halberd in his hand and pointed at Sun Tianming, who was looking at him condescendingly at the head of the city, and his eyes suddenly burst out with fierce murderous intent rising into the sky.

"It's been a long time, Sun Tianming, I'll kill you this time!"

Coincidentally, Sun Tianming, who was looking at each other hundreds of feet apart, was the same: "It's been a long time, the second master, public and private, this time I will do everything possible to leave your head under Yangping Pass!" ”

Looking at Link Ke, who was holding the halberd of the prancing horse, Ma Chao gritted his teeth and said: "A few years ago in Weishui, if it weren't for this guy's hand, Cao Cao's head would have been taken by me!" ”

Sun Tianming said with a smile: "General Meng Qi's courage and strategy are known to the world. If the general has the heart to avenge that revenge, it is better to take a thousand soldiers and horses out of the city to fight, as long as Link does not chase and fall into his treacherous plan when he retreats, our army will have no worries with its back to Yangping Pass. ”

Ma Chao is a general who has experienced too many things, he has the heart to go out to challenge Link, but he is afraid that Yangpingguan will not be able to support Xiahoudun's attack and fall, so he hesitated: "I'm afraid it's not appropriate, I'm here to help fight Yangpingguan, but I led my troops to attack Link......"

"Don't worry, general, just Xiahoudun, I still have a plan to retire him for a day or two." Sun Tianming smiled slightly, "What's more, the soldiers of Yangping Pass are actually Zhang Lu's descendants, although there are no well-known generals, they are enough to resist Xiahoudun's offensive." ”

Speaking of this, Sun Tianming said quickly in a low voice: "Doesn't the general see the situation that the lord is facing now?" Zhang Lu is powerful, even if he submits to the lord, the soldiers and horses under his command are hundreds of thousands, if you don't consume some on this Yangping Pass, how can the lord sit in Chengdu? ”

Ma Chao smiled: "It's still you literati who think far, but I'm more urgent." It's okay, I'll go out for a while, Link this guy, after many years, I just heard that this guy is famous in the Guanzhong realm, but I don't know if he has improved his martial arts. In this way, please also ask Sun Junshi to press the formation for me! ”

Sun Tianming said with a smile: "That's natural, the general can rest assured that I have already arranged for Xiahoudun's offensive." ”

Sure enough, the voice fell, and the surprise shouts of Zhang Lujun's soldiers came from the north gate of Yangping Pass, all saying that Xiahou had retreated.

Ma Chao glanced at Sun Tianming, this person is capable, but he is not very familiar with him, and he didn't know that he could make a fierce general like Xiahoudun have to stop today's attack.

Sun Tianming smiled on his face, and said secretly in his heart: "Although Xiahoudun is a general, his generals are not more than ten times that of Zhang Lu's army in Yangping Pass, and if he wants to attack Yangping Pass, all Cao Cao's army must arrive." As for the fighting spirit to motivate the soldiers of Yangping Pass, it is nothing more than telling them that after holding Yangping Pass, all the money stored in the warehouse of the official government in the pass belongs to them. ”

It seems that Liu Bei does trust Sun Tianming very much, otherwise, how many years of money and wealth have been accumulated in Yangping Pass, once it is all divided, it will be a big loss.

It's just that Zhang Lu did not surrender to Cao Cao as in the original history, but directly returned to Liu Bei, and his treasury in Hanzhong naturally belonged to Liu Bei. Compared with that income, the treasury of Yangping Guan is really not in Liu Bei's eyes.

At this moment, Lin Ke had already assigned Li Dian and Yu Ban, one was responsible for comprehensively building a defense line against Yangping Pass and Pang Tong's army, and the other was fully responsible for gathering the soldiers and none of them were allowed to go south to attack Pang Tong, thus delaying his pace.

Li Dian and Yu Ban laughed at Lin Ke for being too cautious, and even Yu Ban said: "Wen Gong has never been so cautious in the south and south for ten years, why is he so cautious in the face of this Pang Tong?" ”

Link didn't tell them how terrible Pang Tong was, and even in his heart, Sun Tianming, who had followed Liu Bei for so long, was by no means a weakling, not to mention that now Liu Bei had completely won Hanzhong, there was no shortage of people and horses, there was a lot of grain and grass, and there were many fierce generals and good generals under his command, and there were as many raindrops as raindrops.

Not to mention Lao Huang Zhong's fierce horse chao, as far as Zhang Ren of Xichuan is concerned, that is the guy who shot Pang Tong to death in history, and if he wants a small group of troops to carry out a sneak attack on them in the mountains, it is completely to give his soldiers to them as food.

But these words can't be said to Li Dian and Yu Ban, who have not seen Pang Tong's power.

"Next, it's going to be a fierce battle!" After returning to the south and looking at it for a long time, the war clouds had risen from the top of the mountain, thinking about the 30,000 soldiers he brought out from Jincheng, and wondering how many bones would be buried after this battle, Link felt heavy in his heart and sighed secretly.

To be honest, Link is a little unoptimistic about Lao Cao's southern expedition, in history, he was able to take Hanzhong before Liu Bei, it was because Zhang Lu surrendered to him, not Liu Bei in this time and space. With his strength after digesting Zhang Lu's strength, he was not able to stop Liu Bei from occupying Hanzhong in the end, not to mention now.

It's not that Link remembers this history clearly, he only remembers that Liu Bei finally became the king of Hanzhong. Since he is the king of Hanzhong, how can there be any reason that Hanzhong is not in Liu Bei's hands?

This expedition, as long as you can kill Sun Tianming and fulfill the long-cherished wish of this body, it will be enough.

As soon as Link thought like this in his heart, he heard the pro-army shouting: "General, in Yangping Pass, there are generals who have come out to fight!" ”