Li Hao led the army day and night to hide in the mountains fifteen miles outside Fucheng, and he personally led the team to approach the city gate after dawn to check the situation.

Sure enough, the situation here was similar to what Li Hao had imagined, because it was far away from the war in the south, and there were two cities of Guanghan and Deyang in the middle as barriers.

In addition, the Han army on the northern front was blocked in front of the Jianmen Pass and did not enter, and the guards here probably never thought that a large number of Han troops would suddenly run here, so there were not too many guards at the city gate, and they all opened and closed the city gate normally.

That happened to be convenient for Li Hao, so Li Hao planned to pick out five hundred elite soldiers from his command, change into the clothes of the Shu army specially brought from Hanzhong, and pretend to be the reinforcements of the Shu army.

Of course, Li Hao didn't expect them to be able to sneak into the city, after all, the Shu army was not stupid, even if it was defenseless, it would not let a soldier and horse enter the city without an order.

Li Hao's original intention was to let them attract the attention of the officers and soldiers defending the city of Shu, and then let another group of people who were replaced by ordinary people and caravans approach the city gate.

No matter which side succeeds, he will directly attack at the city gate, directly block the Shu army and prevent the Shu army from closing the city gate, as long as he can hold on until Li Hao and the army arrive, Fucheng will be broken.

For this reason, Li Hao also deliberately found a large family nearby, borrowed some cars, horses, clothes, etc., of course, for their safety, Li Hao also deliberately left a team of people to protect them, so as not to spread the news and make it unfavorable to them.

Early the next morning, these two disguised men and horses marched towards Fucheng from both sides, and Li Hao's army also moved forward, just in order not to attract the attention of the Shu army, not to get too close to the city, and finally stopped in a mountain col eight miles away from Fucheng.

And Li Hao's plan was also implemented very smoothly, although the pretending Shu army was blocked two miles away, but the people and horses pretending to be ordinary people and caravans approached the city gate.

And because they wanted to verify the identity of these Shu soldiers of unknown origin, some of the guards left the city gate, so they naturally seized this opportunity and immediately attacked the door.

Then the men and horses pretending to be the Shu army saw that things were going well, so they naturally followed directly, and quickly solved the Shu army guards who came to verify their identities, so they ran forward to help guard the city gate, and hurriedly sent a signal and fireworks in the air to notify Li Hao.

Seeing this kind of fighting, the people who were still waiting at the city gate to enter and exit the city gate immediately divided into two groups, and ran to the city and outside the city, thinking of staying away from this group of soldiers and horses of unknown origin.

And the Han army didn't stop his behavior, but just stuck at the city gate, blocking the Shu soldiers and horses who came to snatch the city gate.

However, the movement of the Shu army is indeed a little slow, except for the soldiers and horses who were already guarding the wall, quickly rushing down to recapture the city gate, the remaining main soldiers and horses only arrived at the time of most of the pillar incense earlier than Li Hao.

With the arrival of the main force on Li Hao's side, there was no suspense in this battle, and after being hit head-on, the soldiers defending the city surrendered under the command of Song Cang, the defender of Fucheng.

So far, Li Hao has completed the major goal of entering Shu, and with the stronghold of Fucheng and the nearly one million stone grain hoarded in the city, Li Hao can calmly deal with the follow-up war.

However, Li Hao is quite strange as to why there is so much grain in Fucheng, after all, even if Fucheng is an important town in Yibei, it should not pile up so much grain.

At this time, Li Hao had a conjecture that might help solve one of his current problems, that is, how to take down the sword gate and let them in.

After all, although he is now occupying Fucheng and being sandwiched between the Jianmen Pass inside and outside the Laishu Pass, in fact, the tens of thousands of troops at the Jianmen Pass are not so easy to deal with.

First, Li Hao couldn't dispatch the whole army, otherwise once the reinforcements of the Shu army arrived to recapture Fucheng, it would be Li Hao's department caught in the middle, and it was the kind that there was no city to rely on.

But if there are fewer people, it will have no effect, so Li Hao has been thinking about how to break this situation since he entered the city.

So after learning about the food problem, Li Hao intuitively felt that this would be a breakthrough, and even if he asked people to call Song Cang to ask.

Speaking of Song Cang, this person is also interesting, even if Li Hao led the army into the city, but there are still 7,000 people in the Shu army in Fucheng, not to mention the specific strength, but on paper alone, it may not be impossible to break hands with the Han army.

But when Li Hao's army arrived, this guy directly led his troops to surrender without much resistance, and helped Li Hao collect all the soldiers and horses in the city.

Of course, Li Hao can also guess the specific reason why he did this, after all, the Song family is a big family in Shuzhong, so he naturally has to think about his future.

Now the Han army is attacking the city all the way on the southern front, and it has reached the vicinity of Chengdu, and a large army has suddenly emerged on the northern front.

Although he didn't know how this army arrived, it turned out that Gongsun Shu was already about to collapse, and the big family should naturally find another master, after all, the continuation of the family is more important.

As a result, the people sent out by Li Hao came back after a while, so Li Hao asked, "Didn't you ask you to invite Lord Song, why did you come back so soon." ”

The person replied: "Back to the son, I just left the mansion and saw Lord Song, and he said that he had something important to ask to see the son." ”

"Yes, that's right, you go and invite Lord Song in." Li Hao said when he heard this, and then Song Cang followed the comer.

Before Li Hao could ask, he heard Song Cang say: "My lord, I have a strategy to help my lord take the Sword Gate Pass." ”

Li Hao asked: "Oh, yes, please come quickly, if this plan is feasible, you can welcome the general of Peking University into Shu, this is a great achievement, and then I will ask the general to personally ask for credit for Lord Song." ”

Hearing Li Hao's words, Song Cang was naturally happy, after all, based on the reputation of the Yuan family, he still believed what Li Hao said.

"My lord, Fucheng is already responsible for supplying grain and grass to Jianmen Pass, and it just so happens that a batch of grain and grass needs to be transported to Jianmen Pass recently.

Although some civilians and soldiers fled from yesterday's battle, the battlefield was at the south city gate, and the other three city gates were closed after receiving the report, plus everyone knew that Jianmen Pass was being attacked by a large army, and ordinary people and soldiers would not flee there.

And I screened the big families and generals in the city yesterday, and no one left the city, so I am sure that the news of Fucheng has not been known by the Jianmen guards.

If we send a group of soldiers and horses into Jianmen Pass on the pretext of transporting military rations, echoing with the general outside the pass, we will definitely be able to capture Jianmen Pass in one fell swoop.

But it must be fast, otherwise when Mianzhu or Zitong Shou gets the news, they will definitely send someone to Jianmen Pass to inform them. ”

Song Cangde's words confirmed that Li Haode's conjecture was right, and sure enough, the surplus grain and grass in this city was to transport military rations to Jianmen Pass, which was indeed an opportunity that could be exploited.

It's just that although Song Cang performed well in the front, Li Hao still had some worries, if he sent troops, would he be pitted by Song Cang.

So he asked tentatively: "This plan is a good way, but I don't know what Lord Song thinks should be done?" ”

Li Hao is looking to see if Song Cang will take the initiative to personally escort him, if he proposes it, then it may be to get out of Li Hao's control, and Li Hao will have to be more guarded.

Of course, Song Cang also understood Li Hao's concerns, so he said: "According to the usual practice, this time it is necessary to transport 100,000 stone military rations to Jianmen Pass, and 3,000 people will be recruited and more than 1,000 guards will be recruited.

My idea is that the adults will transfer 2,000 soldiers and horses to mix in, and the rest will call the soldiers and horses of Shudi, which will be led by my close confidant Li Yuan, and his family scrolls are also in Fucheng, which is worthy of trust.

Moreover, he has also sent grain in the past few times, and the guards who keep the sword gate will not suspect it. ”

Hearing Song Cang say this, Li Hao was also relieved, after all, no matter how he looked at it, Li Hao didn't think that Song Cang was the one who could die for Gongsun Shu.

Moreover, the number of soldiers and horses mobilized was also in line with Li Hao's expectations, so that he would not lose control of Fucheng after sending out the men and horses.

"Those Shu soldiers and horses who have been called can guarantee that there will be no problems, after all, once they are exposed in the Sword Gate, there is no place to escape.

And in this way, you must first reach an agreement with the general, do you know what shortcuts can bypass the sword gate. ”

Hearing Li Hao say this, Song Cang immediately understood that Li Hao was going to agree, and immediately replied: "Don't worry, my lord, these people are my cronies in the army, if anything goes wrong, my lord can take my head at any time."

As for the shortcut, I know a small road that has never been passed by Jianmen Pass in Su Village and Qingqiangdian, although the army cannot pass, but if it is only a small group of people, it is still very easy to walk. ”

Li Hao pondered for a while, and then said aloud: "Okay, then this matter will be arranged by Lord Song, and I will fully cooperate." ”

With Li Hao's permission, Song Cang immediately set about handling the matter, first pointing Ruth's guide, setting off with Li Hao's guards and handwritten letters to introduce the situation, and rushed to find Laishe.

Then it was to load the grain and grass into the truck, and split and combine the soldiers and horses sent by Li Hao and the soldiers and horses from Shudi, so that Li Hao could rest assured.

In two days, Song Cang got everything right, and after consulting Li Hao, he set off for Jianmen Pass.

At this time, Li Hao's side also got a reward, Li Yuan and Song Cang's family scrolls were still in Fucheng, and no one suddenly disappeared.

Li Hao naturally couldn't believe Song Cang's words, so after Song Cang left that day, he asked people to keep an eye on the mansion of the two to confirm the situation in their homes.

Of course, Li Hao believed that his actions would not be able to hide from Song Cang, the head snake, but Li Hao didn't intend to hide it, because Song Cang would pretend not to know if he knew.

After all, with the passage of time, the news of his presence in Fucheng would definitely let Gongsun Shu know, and he would definitely send someone to recover Fucheng, so he had to make some defensive preparations.

However, in the end, the number of soldiers and horses came a little more than Li Hao thought, and Hou Dan led no less than 60,000 soldiers and horses to come.

According to Li Hao's assumption, there are soldiers and horses on the southern front making trouble near Chengdu, and there should not be so many soldiers and horses that Gongsun Shu can draw, after all, compared to the risk of Chengdu being breached, he should not be so important.

Of course, not all of these soldiers and horses came to attack Fucheng, of which about 40,000 people surrounded Fucheng, and the remaining 20,000 horses did not stop in Fucheng, but went straight to the direction of Jianmen Pass.

Thinking about it, Hou Dan also understood that since Li Hao had already taken Fucheng, it was impossible to ignore the Jianmen Gate, so he thought about sending troops and horses to go.

However, Li Hao didn't care about this, anyway, if the strategy was successful, he would have already fallen into the hands of the Han army at this time.

On the contrary, if the strategy fails, the Han army will not be able to enter the Sword Gate Pass at all, so it doesn't matter if these people go or not.

Before the Shu army attacked the city, Hou Dan sent people to shout in front of the city, saying that Cen Peng, the commander of the Han army on the southern route, had been killed in Guangdu, and the Han army retreated.

Then he said that Li Hao is now a lone soldier, if he knows each other, he will go out of the city as soon as possible to beg for surrender, and Gongsun Shu will definitely add Li Hao to the rank of knight, but if he resists, it will be a dead end.

Li Hao, who heard this, chuckled in his heart, because Li Hao really believed that Cen Peng had an accident.

Of course, Li Hao didn't think that he was killed in battle, but was assassinated by Gongsun Shu, after all, if Gongsun Shu's subordinates really had the ability to defeat Cen Peng head-on, they would not let Cen Peng fight near Chengdu.

However, in front of everyone, Li Hao will definitely not tell the truth, but directly refutes it, anyway, this kind of thing is justified by each person, and Li Hao doesn't think Hou Dan can come up with any ironclad evidence.

Then the two armies officially fought, and Hou Dan used all his strength at the beginning in order to capture Fucheng as soon as possible.

It's just that Li Hao has a strong city to rely on, and he has taken precautions in advance, Hou Dan has attacked for two days in a row, and there is no hope of breaking the city.

Of course, although Li Hao is confident that Hou Dan will not be able to attack in a short time, it is not a matter to keep guarding like this, and now that Cen Peng is dead, the situation of the Southern Route Army is unknown.

If there is no breakthrough on the Jianmen Pass, Li Hao will have to find a way out for himself, and he can't stay in the lonely city all the time.

After all, it's okay now, people in the city like Song Cang still trust Li Hao, but if there is no turnaround for a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not rebel.

Just when Li Hao was worried about this, several carrier pigeons flew in from outside the city, bringing good news to Li Hao, that is, the main force of the Han army on the northern front had taken the Jianmen Pass, and now it had driven straight to Fucheng.

Then Li Hao is not worried about his own safety, but it is a pity that there is no chance to drag Hou Dan's main force and create an opportunity for Laishe to gather and annihilate the Shu army.

Because the two soldiers and horses sent by Hou Dan in front of him will definitely collide with the main force led by Laishe, Li Hao has no doubt that Laishe can win, but without the blessing of the terrain, Laishe is afraid that he will not have the ability to completely annihilate them.

At that time, there will definitely be a rout army that will flee back in advance to inform Hou Dan of the situation, and Hou Dan will want to leave at that time, and it is really difficult to stop Li Hao with the soldiers and horses in his hands now.

Of course, Li Hao didn't want to do nothing, so he asked Song Cang to discuss, organize a group of elites to come out, and wait until Hou Dan retreated to attack and see how much he could stop.

Song Cang was also very happy to hear the news that the main force of the Han army had crossed the Jianmen Pass, although he didn't know how Li Hao knew, but this kind of thing that would be clear in a few days, Li Hao couldn't lie to him.

Originally, he was still worried about the news of Hou Dan, but now he immediately had the spirit, and selected a part of the elite soldiers from the Shu army according to Li Hao's instructions.

After Hou Dan's headquarters outside the city began to retreat, Li Hao immediately realized that it should be the front-line rout who sent the news back, and immediately ordered someone to open the south city gate and send soldiers and horses who had already been ready to leave the city to rush directly to the direction of Hou Dan's Chinese army.

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This completely caught Hou Dan off guard, after all, in his opinion, after learning the news, he was ready to retreat as soon as possible.

And Li Hao's side was besieged from all sides, and it was impossible to know the situation in front of him before him, so naturally he would not take the initiative to attack, so he was beaten all of a sudden, and somehow, even the Chinese army Daxu fell.

Now Hou Dan's department is completely chaotic, after all, Daxu is the representative of the commander, Daxu stands, the army's heart gathers, stable as Mount Tai; If the army falls, the army will be disheartened and vulnerable.

After Li Hao discovered this situation at the head of the city, he immediately grasped the opportunity, except for the necessary personnel to defend the city, all the other soldiers and horses were taken out by Li Hao.

All of a sudden, Hou Dan's Chinese army was defeated and collapsed, and it also implicated soldiers and horses in three other places, even if Hou Dan wanted to come forward to maintain the situation, it would be useless.

Li Hao led the team to pursue all the way until about noon, and then collected the troops back, and captured more than 10,000 people just by taking prisoners along the way, plus there may be more soldiers and horses who escaped.

It is estimated that Hou Dan brought out 60,000 horses, and 10,000 people and horses can be brought back completely, thank God.