Originally, the best way to collect and surrender the captives was to complain first, and then carry out a wave of activities to fight local tyrants and divide the land, after all, this trick has been proven to be extremely effective in later generations, ensuring that these captives can spare their lives.

It's just that this plan is not very suitable for today's era, and it is not in line with Li Hao's current identity, after all, Li Hao is now a member of the family, so he can't dig his own roots.

In that case, it is estimated that Emperor Wen should be quite happy, because he can weaken the power of the family without his action, and then when this matter causes an uproar in the world, it can be said that it is a double win to use Li Hao's head to appease people's hearts, but for Li Hao, it is a loss.

Therefore, this complaint is still needed, but the spearhead must be guided, and the relationship between most of the families in Shu should be cut out as much as possible, and the relationship between the big families in Shu should be concentrated and guided to Gongsun Shu.

Of course, some of them are really hard to read, and Li Hao doesn't plan to let them go, anyway, two chickens have to die to make the monkey wake up.

For this reason, Li Hao deliberately found some guys who could speak well and blended into the captives to help them find the object of hatred.

In addition, Li Hao can't give the field or anything, but Li Hao is willing to spend money, all kinds of rewards and posthumous pensions are in place, although the effect may not be as good as the land, but it is barely enough.

Especially in the follow-up battles to deal with the attack of the Shu army, after Li Hao fulfilled his promises one by one, the morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, and those who had not previously joined the soldiers joined one after another.

After Li Hao digested all the soldiers he had captured, he had more than 40,000 troops in his hands, so Li Hao began to try to counterattack two months later.

The primary goal was to attack Mianzhu, and since Hou Dan was defeated in the last attack on Fucheng, he retreated to Mianzhu to hold on.

Later, in the attack launched by Gongsun Shu to deal with Guanghan and Fucheng, this guy also led his troops to participate, and then he returned again in vain.

Now that the Mianzhu garrison is less than 30,000, it is just time to try to fight a dozen, of course, before sending troops, Li Hao also sent someone to Guanghan to inform the coming.

Although Lai Xi didn't trust those soldiers very much, since Li Hao promised to send troops this time only to recruit 2,000 Han troops to suppress the formation, the remaining 28,000 soldiers and horses would be used to surrender soldiers, which would not affect the defense of Fucheng.

Then he didn't stop him, and he just wanted to see what tricks Li Hao was playing.

In this way, Li Hao led 30,000 soldiers and horses to Mianzhu, but at this time, Hou Dan in Mianzhu City had been defeated in the previous battles.

In the face of Li Hao, who had almost the same number of soldiers and horses as in the city, he did not dare to go out of the city to meet the attack, but only dared to hold on in the city.

Of course, for his subordinates, Hou Dan's reason is to use the momentum of the city wall to consume Li Hao's sharp energy, and when Li Hao's troops can't attack for a long time and their morale is low, they will eliminate Li Hao in one fell swoop and take back Fucheng.

But at the same time, Hou Dan asked people to go to Ruxian and Shifang for help, but now Wu Han has entered Shu and launched a war again on the southern front, involving a part of the Shu army, and now there are not too many troops on the northern front.

In addition, the attacking troops and Mianzhu troops are equal, since ancient times, it is easy to defend the city, but it is difficult to attack the city, and Yuxian and Shifang thought that as long as Hou Dan did not take the initiative to attack, the defense would be no problem, so they did not send troops to come.

In this context, Li Hao didn't know whether Hou Dan's subordinates believed it or not, but their persistent policy was still very resolute, such as cutting down all the tall trees near Mianzhu City, so that Li Hao had to transport materials from far behind to make siege equipment, which was delayed for more than ten days.

And when Li Hao arrived at the north gate of Mianzhu City with a group of equipment, except for the south gate, only a few people were sent to watch, and Li Hao also sent people to surround the other east and west gates.

Originally, according to the law of encircling three and missing one, the south gate should also send people to hide in the shadows, and wait until the enemy retreats before making a surprise attack.

It's just that Li Hao doesn't have that much at hand, so he simply comes to a virtual one, and the real is false, but the number of Li Hao's soldiers and horses is actually not difficult to guess, so the chance of concealing it is not great.

And Hou Dan was a little dumbfounded when he saw the weapons in front of him, because many of these things in the Han army were something he had never seen.

After all, Shu is too closed, and their gang has only fought with the Han army in the past when they were in Longyou, but at that time, the main focus of the Han army was the speed of soldiers, and they rarely used these equipment.

Later, when besieging Jicheng, it was used, but the supporting Shu army was solved by Li Hao halfway, so Hou Dan had no concept of these things.

Therefore, the situation in the field was not as he thought, the Han army would cross the moat with a rain of arrows, and then rush to the city with a cloud ladder under the rain of arrows.

Instead, the Han army hid under the shelter and flattened the moat with a moat bridge, and then fifteen tall and tall Linchong vehicles lined up, slowly moving towards the city wall with the help of dozens of layers of protected horses pulling forward and hundreds of soldiers pushing back.

Even if the bow and arrow were fired at the head of the city, the damage actually caused to the Han army besieging the city was not large, but it caused the castle sergeant to be injured.

Of course, although Hou Dan had never seen this thing, he could guess that he couldn't let this thing get close to the city wall.

So after realizing that this thing was useless with ordinary arrows, Hou Dan came up with another idea, after all, no matter how strong this thing is, it is made of wood, and it must be afraid of fire, so he immediately asked people to put an arrow on the arrow to ignite the fire, and then shot a volley towards Linchong.

When he saw this scene, Li Hao's heart moved, thinking that this Hou Dan was not all a waste.

However, when making Linchong, Li Hao himself considered the requirements of fire prevention, and covered the front with the leather of the wet felt blanket, of course, this could not completely prevent the fire attack, but it was no problem to deal with a small number of rockets.

Therefore, after Hou Dan saw that a salvo was ineffective, he immediately changed his thinking and let all the rockets be shot in one place and broken one by one.

At the same time, he also planned to organize a group of elite soldiers to kill from the city gate, and take the fire-causing things directly under the Linchong to prevent fire, and the two-pronged approach was carried out.

Looking at the little firelight on Linchong, Li Hao couldn't help frowning, but Li Hao was not worried about the rockets in the city, after all, according to this efficiency, it would be great if Hou Dan could ignite a Linchong, and Li Hao could still accept this loss.

Instead, he felt that Hou Dan should not let it go when he saw this situation, so he called Yuan Wo and said, "I estimate that Hou Dan may open the city gate and send someone out to set fire to destroy these Linchong."

Go and move the cavalry to the front, and if you find any men and horses coming out of the city, immediately go forward and destroy them, and it would be better if you could rush into the city. ”

After Yuan Wo left, Li Hao asked people to notify the people at the other three city gates, especially the south gate, not to let Hou Dan come to a surprise attack.

Sure enough, not long after, the north gate of Mianzhu City suddenly opened, and a group of defenders rushed out of the city gate directly with torches, and killed in the direction of Linchong, and closed the city gate after leaving with the others.

Seeing this, Yuan Wo immediately led the cavalry to start charging, and then before this group of people who rushed out approached Linchong, they were almost strangled by the cavalry back and forth.

Originally, Yuan Wo could have left some people behind and let them flee to the city, just waiting for the city gate to open and take advantage of the situation to enter, but Hou Dan should have also seen this, and he didn't open the door, but let them run along the city wall in the direction of the south gate.

Seeing that there was no chance to enter the city, Yuan Wo didn't want to lose the defeat of these remnants of the army against the arrows at the head of the city, so he took the initiative to retreat.

At this point, Hou Dan's temptation is over, and he can only hope that the rocket can make a contribution, but in the end, only one Linchong was burned down.

When Hou Dan saw that there were nearly two hundred soldiers running down from the burning Linchong, his face was ugly.

When the remaining Linchong were close to the city wall, Li Hao knew that the critical moment of this battle had arrived, and immediately ordered a group of men and horses carrying ordinary ladders to prepare, just waiting for the overpass of Linchong to build the city wall and attract the troops on the city, they could rush up the ladder and climb the city.

Li Hao has been preparing for this siege battle for so long in advance, just to fight his majesty in one go, so Li Hao didn't plan to test it, and he went all out as soon as he made a move.

And it turned out that Hou Dan was indeed a little stunned by Li Hao's hand, because as soon as the overpass was built, more than 2,000 Han soldiers on the fourteen rushed to the city wall with a roar, and the fierce momentum beat the defenders on the city head to retreat.

Later, although they pounced back under the command of Hou Dan, they finally allowed the Han army to gain a firm foothold, and then dozens of cloud ladders set up the city wall, and the Han army continued to climb from the city to the city.

It took more than an hour and a half to attack the head of the city from about three minutes to the end of noon, and the Han army finally repelled the Shu army and took the north gate city wall.

By the time the north gate opened and the main force of the Han army entered the city, Hou Dan had no idea of starting a street battle with the Han army, but wanted to escape from Mianzhu.

So Hou Dan didn't care about gathering the soldiers and horses in the city and the east and west gates, so he only retreated to the south gate with a group of personal soldiers, left in a hurry with the defenders, and fled straight to Luo County.

Even Hou Dan ran away, and the Shu army in the city naturally did not have much will to resist, and soon surrendered to Li Hao.

After that, the captives were taken into custody and appeased, and by the way, the people's livelihood was stabilized, and someone was sent to report to Guanghan to inform him that he had taken Mianzhu.

However, there has been a precedent for appeasement, and these people in Shu have a lot of contact, and there are original people who have come forward to say it, plus Li Hao happily rewarded and bereaved after seizing the loot, so this matter is quite smooth.

Within a few days, Li Hao pulled up more than 10,000 horses, minus the 2,000 men and horses killed during the siege, Li Hao had nearly 10,000 more troops after this battle, and then Li Hao began to plan to attack again.

It's just that Shifang and Ruoxian are close to the hinterland of Chengdu, and if you go further, I'm afraid you will have to face Gongsun Shu's all-out counterattack, and Li Hao doesn't want to poke this hornet's nest for the time being.

So Li Hao's goal was to aim at Yu County, and after occupying there, Mianzhu and Guanghan could also form a line and borrow from each other.

After determining the target, Li Hao immediately sent someone to inform Laishe, and now Laishe was really interested in Li Hao's methods, and also wanted to see what Li Hao could do, so he agreed.

Of course, Mianzhu's defense is also very important, so Li Hao exchanged 5,000 men and horses from Fucheng and Mianzhu, and transferred the original elite of 5,000. After all, with Mianzhu blocking, the threat to Fucheng is already very small.

After the end of the change of defense, Li Hao left 15,000 troops in Mianzhu, and then took 25,000 men and horses to attack Yuxian.

The defense of Yuxian County is not as good as Mianzhu, so it will naturally be easier to fight down, and by the way, Li Hao has increased his army by 10,000 soldiers and horses.

At this time, Li Hao controlled 60,000 soldiers and horses, which was more than the number of troops under her control, which made Lai She even more interested in Li Hao.

However, Lai She did not go back to the source, after all, everyone has their own style, and the method of leading troops that suits Li Hao may not be suitable for him, and Lai She does not want to inquire about other people's secrets.

But now that there are enough soldiers and horses, then Laishe wants to take back Dianjiang and get in touch with the Southern Route Army in Jiangzhou, so Laishe asked Li Hao to come to Guanghan to discuss.

Li Hao naturally supported Laishe's idea, so Li Hao transferred 20,000 soldiers and horses out and handed them over to Laishe, of course, in addition to giving a part of the post-war pension, Li Hao was responsible for the rest.

Because he can't give up his wealth as generously as Li Hao here, and more importantly, he has a lot of soldiers and horses under his command, if he gives Li Hao enough money, then it is also a problem whether others give it or not.

This time, he planned to personally take charge of the troops, and it happened that he came forward to contact the Southern Route Army, and he was much easier to talk to than Li Hao.

For this reason, Li Wending was ordered to temporarily manage the Guanghan military, and the Mianzhu, Yuncheng, and Fucheng taken by Li Hao were still managed by Li Hao, so Li Hao left 5,000 soldiers and horses in Yunxian County, and returned to Mianzhu with the remaining soldiers and horses.

In the following month, Li Hao led his troops to fight with the soldiers of Shifang and Ruoxian many times, constantly bleeding the two cities, and even the latter two cities also learned to stick to the fortified cities, and did not fight again.

After taking Dianjiang, it got in touch with the South Route Army, and since then the Han Army has formed an encirclement of Chengdu on a large scale.

The situation was good for a while, and then after Wu Han communicated with Lai She, he decided to start marching towards Chengdu from the north and south roads.

On the side of the Northern Route Army, Li Hao was responsible for leading his troops to attack Shifang, Ruoxian, and Fanxian, and later after returning with his troops, he attacked Xindu and Pixian through Yunxian County, and advanced to the city of Chengdu.

The Southern Route Army was personally led by Wu Han and Liu Shang to attack Wuyang and Guangdu, and directly made peace with the Northern Route Army under the city of Chengdu.

In the face of the attack of more than 200,000 troops from the north and south, Gongsun Shu's side was overstretched, and finally three months later, the army of the north and south successfully met under the city of Chengdu.

At this point, Gongsun Shu was completely powerless to return to the sky, and finally led 5,000 dead soldiers to raid the Han army camp, but the result was a big defeat, Gongsun Shu was wounded and fled back, died that night, Yancen surrendered the city, and Shuzhong was pacified.

So the Han army entered the city of Chengdu, collected the remaining remnants, and appeased the people and local families, of course, only a small part of the soldiers and horses entered the city, and more soldiers and horses stayed in the camps outside the city.

Just as Li Hao was busy with these things, he suddenly heard someone report that Wu Han had ordered the army to enter the city to investigate the cause of the death of General Zhengnan.

Hearing this news, even if Li Hao knew that things were not good, if he really just checked the matter, why not send a large army into the city, coupled with what Li Wending said before, Li Hao was even more uneasy in his heart.

immediately sent someone to find her, and he hurried to find Wu Han, after all, if the two armies fought, no matter how many people died, Li Hao would not say anything.

But now that the other party is still surrendering, it will inevitably be wrong to do it again, and it may not only be for the prisoners, but even for the people, Li Hao can't look down on it.

When he saw Wu Han, Li Hao asked: "Da Sima, what do you want to do when you enter the city now?" ”