Badong County is almost the area of Chongqing in later generations. There are really a lot of mountains in this place, a mountain town.

The advantage of the mountain is that it is difficult to travel and easy to defend.

But there's a problem.

Xiahou Yuan's current location is in the mountainous plain in the northwest of Padang County, this place is relatively wide, and the terrain advantage in this place is not great.

Therefore, Zhang Xi's idea was to introduce Xiahou Yuan into a narrower mountain road, and use the mountainous terrain to block and drag Xiahou Yuan's army layer by layer.

After carefully observing the map, Zhang Xi found that Baihe Town, in front of Hanfeng County, was a good place.

Therefore, Zhang Xi pulled Chen Dao, Zhang Wei, and Li Qiu to formulate a battle plan together.

To put it simply, it is to lure the enemy deeper.

But Xiahou Yuan is not his brother Xiahou Yuan in the end, and the person who can make a name for himself in Liangzhou is obviously not so easy to be fooled.

So how to lure the enemy is the key.

And the current situation on Xiahou Yuan's side is actually a bit beyond Xiahou Yuan's expectations.

The strategic purpose of Xiahou Yuan's troops was not to conquer Ba County, but to relocate people to enrich the population of Hanzhong.

Therefore, Xiahou Yuan sent more than 30,000 troops this time and sent about 10,000 troops to Zhang He, just to disturb Zhang Fei's sight in Brazil County, and at the same time expand the front to the west, creating enough time for Xiahou Yuan to move the population.

Xiahou Yuan himself didn't expect that Zhang He would be so fierce that he hit the area of Dangshi at once.

Waiting for Zhang He's battle report to come, Xiahou Yuan suddenly ordered to suspend the march and the migration of the local population.

Then, Xiahou Yuan began to hesitate whether to send troops to support Zhang He and coerce Chengdu, or not to send reinforcements and continue to implement the original strategy. Visiting the Malay newspaper, the Taishou of Padang County, Zhang Xi, attacked his flank and easily uprooted two camps.

Now Xiahou Yuan can't leave it alone.

This place in Badong County was actually within Xiahou Yuan's plan.

The purpose of this army is to plunder the population, and the garrison of Padang County is insufficient, and Xiahou Yuan was originally going to capture it, but he was just waiting for Zhang He's progress before deciding when to attack Padang County.

But now that Zhang He is progressing so smoothly, Xiahou Yuan has moved his mind, then this Badong County can't help but take it down.

If Xiahou Yuan led his troops westward to support Zhang He, then Badong County would be behind Xiahou Yuan's army, and once the defenders of Badong County went north and directly cut off Xiahou Yuan's return route, then Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He's 30,000 troops might be suffocated in Ba County, and finally divided and surrounded by Liu Bei's group, and wiped out one by one.

So, this threat to Patong County must be cleared.

Originally, Xiahou Yuan really didn't take Badong County seriously, after all, according to the detailed intelligence, there were only 3,000 county soldiers in the northern part of Badong County to defend, and they had to be scattered all over the place, so it was difficult to gather for a while.

Such a distribution of forces is beneficial to Xiahou Yuan, that is, the enemy's defenders are scattered, and their combat effectiveness will be weak, but there are also disadvantages, that is, Xiahou Yuan cannot be broken in one fell swoop, and it must be advanced one county by one.

But there are only 3,000 people in total, and there may be less than 1,000 defenders in each county assigned to each county, and Xiahou Yuan is not too concerned.

As for Yufu's 10,000 Bai Yu soldiers, Xiahou Yuan actually got some deviations, he didn't know that Yu Fu's garrison was Liu Bei's pro-army Bai Yu soldiers, Xiahou Yuan only thought that when Zhuge Liang entered Sichuan, he left thousands of Jingzhou soldiers, and the number was also deviated, Xiahou Yuan thought that there were only a few thousand people, and they were all the forces used to defend the southern part of Badong County.

Therefore, in Xiahou Yuan's opinion, at least in the northern part of Padang County, he has an absolute advantage.

Xiahou Yuan has not heard of Zhang Xi's reputation, and knows that this is a wise general, but the reputation of generals in these years is not easy to say, Zhang Xi does not have any famous representative battles, most of the battles are "from the attack", and I have not heard of any experience in leading troops alone, so Xiahou Yuan did not take it to heart.

In addition, in the face of his own army of more than 20,000 people, Zhang Xi, who was only a few thousand people garrisoned, did not choose to fortify at all levels, but concentrated his troops in Hanfeng County, and even dared to sneak attack his own camp, which was a very stupid behavior in Xiahou Yuan's opinion.

Zhang Xi's behavior of concentrating troops made Xiahou Yuan see the possibility of taking the entire Badong County in a war.

As long as the defenders of Badong County led by Zhang Xi are broken, then the entire Badong County will no longer have the strength to defend it, whether it is to occupy the entire place or plunder the population to go north, it is completely in Xiahou Yuan's thoughts.

Moreover, Xiahou Yuan has more than 20,000 soldiers on hand, and most of the soldiers are the elite who followed Xiahou Yuan to pacify Liangzhou, Xiahou Yuan really didn't believe that the elite under his own command, with more and less, could not do Liu Bei's local county soldiers.

Sure enough, things were exactly as Xiahou Yuan expected.

When Xiahou Yuan led the elite soldiers to the west of Badong County and led his troops to attack the defenders of Badong County, the elite infantry led by Xiahou Yuan won three battles in a row at once.

In the first formation, the defenders of Padang County also resisted a little, causing a lot of damage to Xiahou Yuan's foot soldiers, but then the enemy commander inexplicably shrank the line, abandoned the camp in the field, and retreated twenty miles to camp.

Xiahou Yuan thought it was a fraud at first, and after carefully sending someone to take over the empty camp, he carefully inspected the camp and found that in the granary of this camp, there was a lot of military rations that had not had time to be moved, and some of these military rations were already moldy and damp, and they could not be eaten at all.

Xiahou Yuan immediately guessed that the defenders of Badong County on the opposite side retreated from the front, probably not because they couldn't fight, but because they didn't want to fight.

No soldier would have much desire to fight when he encountered such food treatment.

As for the battle at the beginning, it was probably forced by the main general and had to fight.

However, this is a speculation in the end, Xiahou Yuan can become a general, obviously not an idiot, so the next day, he launched a second round of tentative attacks on the camp of the defenders of Badong County.

Although it was not able to break through the enemy's camp, in terms of combat effectiveness, it was indeed more fragile than it was during the field battle during the daytime yesterday.

Xiahou Yuan was still not at ease, and continued to attack on the third day, but unexpectedly found that today's defense seemed to be tighter than the previous two days combined.

Xiahou Yuan, who was unexpected, did not continue to attack, but ordered the army to retreat.

At the same time, he sent a small saku to infiltrate the opponent's camp to find out the news.

After probably resting like this for two days, Xiahou Yuan finally got the reward for his meticulous work.

It is said that some time ago, the non-commissioned officers of Patong County were indeed demoralized because of the problem of military rations.

But two days ago, it was Zhang Xi, the Taishou of Badong County, who personally escorted a batch of grain and grass over, and opened it in front of the soldiers, all of them were high-quality rice, and then Zhang Xi encouraged the army in the camp, so the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of Badong County would suddenly increase in the past two days.

The truth of this information, Xiahou Yuan is not too suspicious.

After all, if he was from Zhang Xi's point of view, he would also play such a temporary morale boost, and Zhang Xi would do this, which is worthy of his reputation as a "wise general".

The key is how to end up in the future, and whether there can be such a supply of grain and grass, which is the key.

Therefore, Xiahou Yuan did not rush to attack, but asked the soldiers to continue to camp to rest and wait for the reaction of the opponent's camp.

If you are in a hurry to attack, you may push the opponent's soldiers into a corner, and once the opponent realizes this, they may fight to the death, so that your own losses will be relatively large.

It's better to wait and see what happens.

After another four or five days, Xiahou Yuan suddenly heard a commotion in the camp opposite, and hurriedly went out of the camp tent to watch, only to find that the enemy camp was in chaos, with fires and human figures everywhere, and many people were even trying to escape from the camp.

Obviously, there was a mutiny.

Xiahou Yuan was overjoyed, and was about to order the army to take advantage of the situation to attack, but then calmed down again.

Let's see.

If it was a real mutiny, then these mutinous soldiers would no longer return to the camp, which could be regarded as weakening the military strength of the defenders of Patong County.

And if that's the trap. Hehe, first steady a hand and see the situation.

Xiahou Yuan continued to remain calm, and waited until all the soldiers in the camp were dispersed, and then let the soldiers occupy the empty camp, and then check the granary of the camp.

Because it was a soldier who mutinied and retreated, although the granary was a mess, a lot of grain and grass were there, but it was scattered all over the place.

Xiahou Yuan looked carefully and found that only the top part of the grain was rice, and the further down he went, all the grain in the grain bag turned into bran and bean husks.

It's not that these things can't be eaten, but when they are used as military rations, then it's really not surprising that the soldiers mutinied.

Considering that it is almost August, it is not surprising that such a situation occurs when the new grain is not in supply and the old grain is exhausted.

There is no shortage of food and grass, and it is useless to change Han Xinlai, let alone Zhang Xi.

Even if Zhang Xi, a "wise general", is worthy of his name, in this case, I am afraid there will be no better way than to retreat.

After all, not everyone is Cheng Yu, and not everyone has the ability to let the grain and grass officials "voluntarily" take the blame.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan did not hesitate any longer, and immediately ordered the front army to pursue, catch up with the retreating defenders of Padang County as soon as possible, entangle them, and lead the army himself to follow, striving to completely defeat this army, and then take all of Padang County.

The subsequent development of the war, and basically according to Xiahou Yuan's expectations, the front army chased to the tail of the defenders of Padang County, although the soldiers of Padang County tried to form a defensive line to resist, but they were quickly killed, tried to assemble, and were killed again. Killed three times in a row.

Hearing that the war was developing so smoothly, Xiahou Yuan didn't care about it at the moment, handed over the rear army to Xu Huang's command, and led the Chinese army to advance rapidly, and soon caught up with the front army, merged in one place, and continued the pursuit.

Then, they chased to Baihe Town in the north of Hanfeng County.

Then, Xiahou Yuan was cut off from the back road.

(End of chapter)