In the twenty-second year of Jian'an, in September, Yangpingguan, Hanzhong.

The commanders of the two armies before and after Yangping Pass, almost at about the same time, each received a letter.

Liu Bei received Guan Yu's urgent battle report, and informed Liu Bei of his achievements in flooding the Seventh Army, capturing Fancheng, and forcing Xiangyang to surrender.

When Liu Bei saw it, he immediately laughed and passed the battle report to the three armies as an encouragement.

After Fa Zheng and Pang Tong saw the military report, they immediately found Liu Bei, and while congratulating, they were also a little worried.

Guan Yu broke through Xiangfan at this time, although it could effectively prevent Cao Cao from advancing west to support Xiahou Yuan, but in the same way, Guan Yu might also face the situation that Cao Cao personally led his army south.

At that time, whether Xiangfan can hold on to it is really a question mark.

If you want to keep Xiangfan, in addition to Guan Yu needs to hold on, Hanzhong also needs to find some way to break the impasse in front of him as soon as possible.

And in Xiahou Yuan's hand, he also received Cao Cao's handwritten letter.

In Cao Cao's letter, he explained to Xiahou Yuan in detail the changes in Xiangfan, which caused him to dare not easily support Hanzhong now, and hoped that Xiahou Yuan would defend cautiously and not rush forward, giving Liu Bei an opportunity.

After holding out until winter, Cao Cao had a way to get rid of Guan Yu's threat and enter Hanzhong to support him.

After Xiahou Yuan saw the letter, although he was a little worried, he was not worried.

Although he still has no reinforcements, and after several battles, there are only more than 20,000 people in his hands, but Yangping Pass is still in his hands.

Liu Bei on the opposite side, although he received support from Hanzhong, and his number increased to more than 80,000 people, he was still blocked by himself under Yangping Pass, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Therefore, Xiahou Yuan felt that there would be no problem if it lasted until winter, even after the spring of next year.

And at this time, Liu Bei moved.

It is not clear whether it was Liu Bei's own suggestion or Pang Tongfazheng's plan, Liu Bei made a move that Xiahou Yuan completely unexpected - he personally led a part of his soldiers to cross the water in the south, crossed Micang Mountain from the mountain path, bypassed Yangping Pass from the mountain road, and entered Dingjun Mountain in the hinterland of Hanzhong.

Xiahou Yuan really didn't expect Liu Bei to do this, this is a typical lone army going deep, and Liu Beijun's logistics, grain and grass supplies are gone? !

Because it was really unexpected, Xiahou Yuan didn't notice Liu Bei's behavior of climbing the mountain, and it wasn't until Liu Bei led Fa Zheng and Huang Zhong to appear behind him and completely occupied Dingjun Mountain, that Xiahou Yuan suddenly found that he seemed to be being attacked from front to back.

Xiahou Yuan hurriedly adjusted his strategic deployment, recalled Zhang He, who was stationed in Guangshi, and ordered Xu Huang to garrison Yangping Pass, while Xiahou Yuan led Guo Huai, Zhang He and others to camp at the foot of Dingjun Mountain to fight against Liu Bei.

But Xiahou Yuan was a step slower to react after all, and Liu Bei had already occupied Dingjun Mountain, which meant that Liu Bei had a condescending geographical advantage.

In order to avoid being directly attacked by Liu Bei's group, Xiahou Yuan decided to take a defensive position, building antlers around the camp for defense, and at the same time assigned 5,000 troops to Zhang He, so that he could stick to the mountain road on the right side of the camp.

Anyway, I don't know what Xiahou Yuan thinks, but when he is facing a defensive position, he dares to divide his troops. Probably Xiahou Yuan judged that Liu Bei would not bring too many troops when he came over the mountain, and there would be no more than 10,000 people to die.

In short, Xiahou Yuan is such a division of troops, Fa Zheng is almost happy to death.

I heard that the attacker racked his brains and tried every means to mobilize the defender to divide his troops, but today is the first time I have seen that the defender will take the initiative to divide his troops.

Fa Zheng immediately suggested that Liu Bei personally lead the main force of the army down the mountain to burn the antlers and storm Zhang He's troops, while he and Huang Zhong continued to garrison the camp, pretending to be suspicious soldiers to attract Xiahou Yuan's attention, so that Xiahou Yuan did not dare to help Zhang He easily.

Yes, Fa Zheng's original intention was to buy time for Liu Bei and eat the five thousand people of Zhang He's department.

It's not impossible, Liu Bei brought it, but it's an elite soldier.

It is not the elite soldiers in Shu, but the elite soldiers who originally guarded the White Emperor City, the white soldiers.

Chen Zhidu, the commander of the Bai Yu soldiers, was transferred to the Hanzhong battlefield by Liu Bei, and those who can follow Liu Bei to climb mountains and wade through rivers can still maintain their combat effectiveness, and now in Liu Bei's army, in addition to the five thousand people under Zhang Fei, Bai Yu soldiers can do it.

And then bar. Zhang He wondered, why is it always me who is injured?!

It was already very uncomfortable to fight more with less in Guangshi, and it was finally transferred back from the Guangshi battlefield by Xiahou Yuan, but he came over and was besieged by Liu Bei. Why?

Moreover, Zhang He was fatally surprised to find that these soldiers in front of him were attacking from the night.

In these years, the soldiers who can see at night must be elite soldiers, and the soldiers who can attack at night will be several times more organized than ordinary soldiers.

Such elite soldiers, not to mention the ferocious attack, and the degree of organization is extremely high, basically do not give Zhang He a chance to adjust and breathe, as long as the defense line is a little loose, it will immediately pour up.

Zhang He understood that Liu Bei was taking advantage of his small number of soldiers to try to defeat the soldiers led by Zhang He in a wave, and then outflank Xiahou Yuan.

Therefore, Zhang He didn't dare to be careless at all, he was attacked in the middle of the night, and before dawn, he had already sent people to Xiahou Yuan's camp to ask Xiahou Yuan for help.

Xiahou Yuan was also surprised.

Xiahou Yuan knew Zhang He's ability very well, when he was in Guangshi, with 5,000 people, he dragged Liu Bei's nearly 20,000 troops, and Zhang He had never asked for help from him so quickly.

This time it was so abnormal, which showed that Zhang He was facing the attack of Liu Bei's main army.

If that's the case. Xiahou Yuan suddenly realized that these distinct camps in front of him were just suspicious soldiers.

Out of caution, Xiahou Yuan sent reinforcements to Zhang He and launched an attack on Liu Bei's camp on the mountain.

A tentative attack, after all, the opponent occupies the high ground, even if there are only one or two thousand people to defend, and he does not have a sufficient number of soldiers, he will not be able to kill at all.

Xiahou Yuan only judged whether Liu Bei was still on the mountain by the movement of the opponent's troops, the direction of movement of the banners on the mountain, and the number of arrows.

As a result, Xiahou Yuan found that Liu Beijun on the mountain moved quickly, but the banner did not move much, occupying the advantage of the top of the mountain, but in the face of attack, he used arrows to retreat the enemy rather than fight head-on.

Of course, the most important thing is that the arrows shot are quite sparse.

Combined with the battle report from Zhang He's side, Xiahou Yuan suddenly made a judgment that Liu Bei's army had moved to besiege Zhang He's camp.

Therefore, Xiahou Yuan only left 3,000 people for himself, and the rest were all sent to support Zhang He, and ordered Zhang He to do his best to stop Liu Bei and delay time.

Xiahou Yuan knew that Liu Bei would not carry too much grain and grass when he came over the mountain, and it was inconvenient to transport grain and grass on the mountain road, and the longer the time dragged on, Liu Bei's supply of grain and grass would become more and more unfavorable.

As long as he dragged Liu Bei out of food and retreated, he would be considered a winner.

Until now, Xiahou Yuan is still relatively sober and has the demeanor of a famous general.

Although he only left 3,000 soldiers for himself, Liu Bei's Dingjun Mountain military camp was indeed only 2,000 people, and these people were more than defended, and it was simply unrealistic to attack Xiahou Yuan's camp.

Not to mention, Xiahou Yuan also specially built antlers to prevent Liu Beijun on the mountain from suddenly rushing down from the mountain.

Therefore, the focus of both sides is on the victory or defeat of Zhang He and Liu Bei.

But the next thing is that I really can't understand the Fa.

Both sides attack and defend, even if it is a suspicious soldier and an empty battalion, they must make some offensive and defensive means.

For example, if Xiahou Yuan built antlers, then Fazheng had to find a way to burn them, and if it was necessary to go down the mountain to fight, these antlers would be a hindrance after all.

But Xiahou Yuan personally led four hundred elite soldiers to repair the antlers himself. What does that mean?!

Fa Zheng really can't understand it, but Fa Zheng knows that if he lets go of such a good opportunity, it will be a pity.

Moreover, Xiahou Yuan didn't come to repair the antlers once, he inspected the antler defense for three or four days in a row, and when he saw that there were unqualified antlers, or there were antlers that were burned by Liu Beijun, he personally commanded people to repair them.

In fact, here Xiahou Yuan also misjudged Liu Bei's soldiers on the mountain.

Judging by the density of arrows in the last attack, Xiahou Yuan said that the total strength of Liu Bei's group on the mountain was probably between 1,000 and 2,000 people.

Since the main attack is on Zhang He's side, the ones who stay in the camp can basically be determined to be suspicious soldiers, with more than enough defense and insufficient attack.

Therefore, Xiahou Yuan judged that Liu Beijun on the mountain would not take the initiative to attack the mountain.

Another one, Xiahou Yuan is also a little arrogant, he feels that he has led four hundred elite guards, even if Liu Bei's soldiers come out with a thousand people, he relies on these four hundred elites, and he has the strength to fight.

Therefore, Xiahou Yuan came out to repair the antlers by himself so arrogantly.

Come once, Fazheng may still hesitate, you have been here for three or four days in a row, and Fazheng can still let you go?!

Seeing Xiahou Yuan reappearing, Fa Zheng immediately ordered Huang Zhong to take all the two thousand soldiers in the camp out, and strive to complete the battle and directly kill Xiahou Yuan.

Huang Zhong has been staring at Xiahou Yuan for a day or two, this kind of great achievement sent to the door, if he can't catch it, he will live in vain to be more than sixty years old.

And then there was no then.

In the battle of Dingjun Mountain, the veteran Huang Zhongyu beheaded Xiahou Yuan and made immortal achievements.

Yu cut off the emperor, and the reputation is eternal.

(End of chapter)