Zhang Meng ordered two of them to come to him, instructed them to go to the old camp immediately to pass on my order, and ordered Zhang Bao to lead 4,000 troops to Tianshui County from the left road, and arrive at the outside of Tianshui County within a time limit of five days.

Guan Xing was ordered to lead troops to garrison the old camp and wait for transfer at any time.

The scout took the order and left.

Zhang Meng then ordered the deputy general Wang Rui to lead 500 troops to march forward, and the deputy general Cao Xian to lead 1,000 troops to the rear of the palace. After the order, he led his troops to walk between the Chinese army.

So more than 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Shu Kingdom, carrying dozens of heavy wagons, slowly looked at Tianshui County and marched, wanting to come and recover Tianshui County.

Like the march ahead, the mountain road is very rugged, the carriages, horses and pedestrians are tired all the way, it is inevitable to stay overnight, after walking for four days and four nights, before coming to a canyon, the scout came back and reported that this place is called Niujiao Gorge, the road is very narrow, there are dozens of miles of winding road away, through this Niujiao Gorge, and then walk a hundred and ten miles, it is Tianshui City.

Zhang Meng listened and asked, "What is the situation in the city, has the city gate been closed and waiting for resistance?" ”

The scout said that it may be that Tianshui City has not yet known that our army is about to attack, so the four gates are wide open, and the soldiers and civilians in the city come and go casually, and there is no panic in coming and going.

Zhang Meng listened, thought for a while, looked up at the sky, and saw that the sun was setting early in the mountains, and the sky was already a little dark, so he ordered: "Camp and stay here, and march after breakfast tomorrow." ”

So, the soldiers scattered out to set up tents, build fires, and prepare for dinner and lodging.

The soldiers of the whole battalion were busy until the time of the lamp, and then they arranged to stop, so Zhang Meng lay down on the bunk after dinner.

At this time, the lights had been turned off in the entire barracks, and only on both sides of the gate in front of the Chinese army's tent, two lanterns hung high, reflecting the vague outline of the entire barracks.

The barracks gradually fell asleep, and there were only sentries patrolling the night, patrolling back and forth along the deer wood in groups of three or five with bows and arrows.

Seeing the second watch, the surroundings gradually quieted down, and suddenly a cannon sounded, followed by the sound of distant killings outside the barracks, and in the night, it seemed that thousands of troops and horses surrounded and killed.

Zhang Meng listened, turned over to the bunk, sword out of the tent, raised his eyes to look around, but there was no enemy soldier, and when the whole battalion of soldiers rushed out in panic, the shouting and killing quietly stopped, there was no light far and near, only the stars in the sky blinked, as if laughing at Zhang Meng's battalion of soldiers and horses.

Zhang Meng saw it and ordered to strengthen vigilance, and the rest of the men and horses rested as usual.

The soldiers in the full battalion had just laid down, and there was another cannon shot, and the sound of killing was everywhere in the distance of the barracks······ In this way, until dawn, five harassments were repeated over and over again, making the five thousand Shu soldiers and horses sleepy and unable to stop, and they were in panic all night.

When the day dawned, the soldiers were still panicked and not at ease.

At this time, Zhang Meng had already expected that this was the Wei soldiers in Tianshui City who had ambushed the men and horses in advance and carried out harassment and panic here.

Zhang Meng was thinking about how to act, suddenly the forward men and horses fled back from the canyon, the pioneer Wang Rui hung an arm on his chest with a bandage, came to Zhang Meng, rolled the saddle and dismounted, and came over to pray: "The main general, the last general, was attacked by the Wei soldiers last night The barracks were attacked, more than 30 soldiers were killed, and more than 100 were injured. After daybreak, we withdrew. ”

Zhang Meng listened and asked, "······ your arm?" ”

"In the middle of the fight, I was hit by an arrow. Fortunately, the injury was not bad. ”

"You have led troops for many years, why are you camping in the canyon?"

"Lord, there is an open place in the canyon, and there is flowing water passing through, it is a good place to camp, if you go out of the valley to stay, last night, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out."

Zhang Meng listened, no longer asked, and instructed Wang Rui to go over to bandage the wounds and place the wounded, and then summoned the deputy general of the army to study the military situation.

The generals expressed their opinions, and finally came to the conclusion, "There must be a capable person in the water city this day, this person is bold and careful, dares to take risks, and must be a good general." ”

Zhang Meng heard it and felt the same way: "Yes, he is a good general." With a frightened tactic, he suppressed the main force of our army, so that the main force of our army did not dare to move at night, and he attacked my forward men and horses over there with peace of mind, and he actually let him get his hands! Thinking of this, Zhang Meng also saw the weakness of his opponent: "His men and horses are insufficient, and he doesn't dare to come over and attack my main force at night." ”

Zhang Meng thought of this and was happy: "I haven't met an opponent since I started the battle, and now I have met, hehe, fighting wits and courage, I want to see who is the master!" Thinking of this, Zhang Meng instructed the adjutant general: "The whole army stops advancing and is stationed here." Then he commanded: "Bring people into the neighborhood and find some peasants, and I will question them." ”

After stopping for an hour, it was almost time for lunch, and the scout brought an old man, who said that he was a farmer herding sheep in the neighborhood.

Zhang Meng comforted the old man with good words, and asked about the civil and military generals in Tianshui City, the old man said that he had relatives who were soldiers in the city, and other officials were not very familiar with it, but he only knew that there was a young general, and his ancestors held military positions in this Tianshui City, and he was already a third-generation military general in this young general, "This young general has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he is skilled in bows and horses, and he is famous far and wide." ”

Zhang Meng asked the name of the young general, and the old man said that his name was Jiang Wei, and the word was Boyo.

Zhang Meng asked again about Jiang Wei and other things, but the old man didn't know anything.

After sending the old man away, Zhang Meng stood in front of the gate, took a deep breath, and said to himself excitedly: "I have known Jiang Wei Jiang Boyo for a long time, and now I have met here, hello, Jiang Wei!" Well, only since I crossed over, until now I Zhang Meng has not met an opponent, I met you Jiang Wei today, okay, come on, I will definitely capture you alive and dedicate you to the prime minister, let the prime minister train you well, and then work with me to help the prime minister complete the historical task of destroying Wei Xinghan. ”

It turned out that a few days ago, Jiang Wei was in the yamen of Tianshui County, and talked to Taishou Ma Zun about Nan'an County and Anding County, Ma Zun looked very sad and said: "Yang Ling of Nan'an County and Cui Liang of Anding have surrendered to Shu. Originally, our three counties of Tianshui and Nan'an were horns of each other, but now it has suddenly become this situation, Boyo, you say, what do you say we should do? ”

Jiang Wei just saw Ma Zun Taishou's sad mood, but he didn't pay attention to his mentality, so he asked: "Taishou said what to do, the general will definitely obey your orders." ”

Ma Zun said, it is obvious that now that Anding Nan'an has surrendered, our Tianshui has become a lonely city, there is really no rescue soldiers outside and no food and grass inside, so how to resist with the Shu soldiers.