Volume 5 Wyvern in the Sky

Hexagram said: Ninety-five: The flying dragon is in the sky, and it is beneficial to see the adult

"Elephant" said: The flying dragon is in the sky, and the big man is also man.

The dragon soars in the air, which means that the gentleman has done a lot.

In this volume, Liu Hou embarked on a journey to dominate the Central Plains, and he could finally compete with the great powers of history.

Chapter 1 Gyeyang-gun

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou finally reorganized his troops, went out of the Nanling Ancient Road, and went north to the Central Plains.

When passing through the Nanling Ancient Road, Zhao Yun, Guan Suo, Guo Youzhi and other generals guarding the three passes of Nanling returned one after another, and Fei Yi sent people to take over the defense.

As soon as it came out of Lingnan, Guiyang County belonged to Jingzhou and was under the rule of Guan Gong. After Sun Quan launched a full-scale attack on Shu, he immediately sent troops to occupy the two counties of Guiyang and Lingling. Guan Gong was surrounded in Nanjun, and he was too busy to take care of himself, so he couldn't send troops to rescue.

Zhibin County, Guiyang County, now Chenzhou, Hunan, has jurisdiction over present-day southern Hunan and northern Guangdong. Guiyang County has a vast land, vast land and sparsely populated land, which is very desolate and isolated. It is inhabited by some ethnic minorities and many Han Chinese who moved here to escape the war in the Central Plains.

The social form of the ethnic minorities here is still relatively backward, they live in clusters, and even some are still in the period of slavery society, the production tools used are very simple, slash-and-burn, the production is extremely backward, and the life is very difficult, and it is called Nanban by the Central Plains people.

At this time, the Central Plains is in turmoil, you are fighting for me, and there is no peace. People are displaced and their lives and property are not secured. It's relatively peaceful. But it is not a paradise, the wind is calm, and the phenomenon of fighting between tribes and races occurs from time to time.

Especially after the Battle of Chibi that year, Liu Bei sent Zhao Yun to occupy this place, and was recently robbed by Sun Quan's faction. The war in the Central Plains has burned to this peaceful land, and the people's lives will no longer be peaceful.

After entering Guiyang County, the Shu army did not encounter resistance along the way, although there were mountains and forests, but the soldiers of the Shu army were either well-trained or born in the southern barbarians, and were accustomed to walking in the mountains and forests, so the marching speed of the Shu army was not slow.

Soon, the Shu army marched under the city of Binxian County, which was the seat of Guiyang County. Liu Hou discovered that the Taishou of Guiyang County turned out to be an old acquaintance Han Dang, one of the seven Eastern Wu generals he designed and captured in Jingzhou that year.

Han Dang was good at bows and arrows, horsemanship, and superior strength, so he was appreciated by Sun Jian, and followed him to conquer and maneuver around, took several adventures and made difficulties, captured the enemy in battle, and repeatedly made military exploits, and was later appointed as the Sima of other departments. After that, he followed Sun Ce to the east and west, and after Sun Ce's death, he followed Sun Quan to the south and the north.

It can be said that Han Dang is the elder of the three dynasties of Eastern Wu, who served Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and Sun Quan, and was loyal to the Sun family.

At this time, Han Dang was already in his fifties, and he still led the troops to capture Guiyang County for Eastern Wu, and temporarily served as the county guard of Guiyang and guarded southern Hunan for Sun Quanzhen.

Sun Quan sent a veteran with great military achievements and experience to guard Guiyang, obviously with the intention of preventing Liu Hou from going north.

Most of his troops were involved in fighting with the Shu army in the north, and he really couldn't spare too many men to deal with Liu Hou, so he could only let a veteran guard the city. I hope that with this veteran's rich war experience, I can drag Liu Hou's Shu army to buy more time for my war situation in the north.

Sun Quan's idea is right, if the Shu army is replaced by other people to lead the troops and another unit, it may really take a lot of effort to meet Han Dang, a veteran of a hundred battles, to stick to the fortified city.

However, Sun Quan forgot that Han Dang had suffered Liu Hou's loss in Jingzhou. Not to mention the question of whether there is a psychological shadow, just a fierce general like Han Dang, who mainly focuses on bravery, is still an old fierce general, in front of Liu Hou, who is full of means and cunning as a fox, he is not vulnerable at all, and the two are not opponents of the same magnitude at all.

The Shu army drove straight into Guiyang County, and after arriving in Chenxian County, he immediately surrounded Simen. This time, Liu Hou didn't do anything to encircle three and lack one, and he didn't do anything to encircle one and lack three, and directly surrounded all the four city gates, obviously wanting to annihilate the Wu army in the city.

At this time, it was different from when he was in Lingnan, where he blocked the three checkpoints of the Nanling Ancient Road, and the whole Lingnan showed a trend of closing the door and beating the dogs, and the Dongwu people who escaped from the city would eventually not escape the fate of annihilation, but because of the loss of the strong city as the basis, they would die faster.

But here it is different, if the enemy abandons the city and flees, they can easily achieve the goal of saving forces. If they run back to find Sun Quan, Sun Quan will have a terrifying number of troops in his hands. Therefore, if you have the opportunity to annihilate the enemy, you must annihilate the enemy and try to eliminate the living forces of Soochow, which can effectively reduce the number of enemies faced in the final decisive battle.

Liu Hou didn't do anything to persuade him to surrender, because he knew that a person like Han Dang, who had followed the Sun family for three generations, would inevitably be 100% loyal to the Sun family.

It is a complete waste of saliva to persuade such people to surrender, and it is estimated that it is almost as difficult as persuading monks to buy combs, refrigerators to Eskimos, and leather jackets to Equatorial Guineans.

On the first day of the arrival of the Shu army, the camp was set up first, all the soldiers rested for a day, and the baggage team rushed to build ladders, siege vehicles and other equipment overnight.

The next day, the Shu army got up, buried the pot to cook, and after eating the battle meal, Chenshi officially began to attack the city. Liu Hou was accustomed to working from 9 to 5, even in siege. His habit did not conform to the prevailing rules of the time.

The ancient troops generally had to assemble at the time of the roll call, called the point of the Mao, Liu Hou, the descendant of the lazy worm, stubbornly postponed this time for two hours, and was stunned to get to work at the time of the hour to start attacking the city.

The most depressed was Han Dang, who originally knew that the enemy who came to attack was the prince of Xishu who had captured him by trickery the year before last, and he was holding his breath, wanting to humiliate the other party when this prince came to persuade him to surrender or shout.

Who knew that this prince did not play his cards according to common sense at all, neither expressing the persuasion of seeking talent, nor the regular shouting before the game. Instead, without saying a word, he began to attack the city with all his might. Therefore, when the guns of the Shu army rang out, he didn't even react, and he didn't believe that this was the truth.

The fact is that the Shu army has already begun to attack the city. The siege of the Shu army can be described as thunderous. First of all, ten bronze cannons gathered fire and bombarded the city gate in unison.

Originally, after the Shu army captured Panyu City, some cannons were transported from Chengdu, many of which were larger than the bronze cannons that Liu Hou brought out of Lingnan now. However, Liu Hou took into account the importance of Lingnan and the strategic significance of the three checkpoints of the Nanling Ancient Road, and resolutely decided to erect these guns on these three checkpoints.

Therefore, now Liu Hou still only brought out ten bronze cannons. However, just these ten bronze cannons are enough, Han Dang is not a step and does not have enough experience in dealing with the siege of the Shu army. He didn't even block the gates with earth and stones.

Therefore, after two rounds of ten cannons, one of the two city gates has disappeared, and the remaining one has also become a fishing net, and the whole city has become a woman who wants to take and ask for a green building, and the Shu army is the anxious ghost with excessive hormone secretion.