Guan Yu's third son "Guan Suo" joined the army, and Zhang Xi, the commander of the Southern Expedition, was "overjoyed", and immediately appointed "Guan Suo" as the pioneer and guide for the army.

In fact, Guan Yinping was given 3,000 people, so that their husbands and wives could lead the army alone, so that they could have a separate tent and save themselves from squeezing the military tent with others.

As for whether Guan Yinping can command these 3,000 people, Zhang Xi is not worried that if Guan Yinping can't do it, won't Deng Ai be able to?!

With Deng Ai's current ability, he can lead 3,000 people to be a pioneer officer, and this responsibility is absolutely affordable.

Anyway, Zhang Xi can't get rid of this young couple, so let's stay first According to Deng Ai's description, Guan Yinping can be regarded as a fierce general, at least there is no problem at all in charging into battle.

However, the causes and consequences of these things, Zhang Xi still wrote a private letter and sent it to Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong in Chengdu, who was his eldest niece.

After doing this, the army moved on.

Deng Ai and Guan Yinping led the way to the road.

After arriving at the road, Zhang Xi suspended his march and began to analyze the enemy intelligence transmitted back by the detailed work.

At present, the four counties in Nanzhong and the three counties are in rebellion, and only the county prince and Gong Cao Lu Kai of Yongchang County have not responded, sticking to the county and not allowing the rebels to enter.

Yonghong also sent several letters to Yongchang County, hoping to persuade Wang and Lu Kai to surrender, and also sent troops to attack, but Lu Kai's family is also a wealthy family in Yongchang County, and if he resists with iron heart, the little force in Yonghong's hand will not be able to fight at all.

However, Yongchang County is located in a remote area, and the troops in the hands of Wang Yan and Lu Kai can only protect themselves.

After the rebellion in the three counties, Zhang Xi could not send people to contact Wang Yan and others in Yongchang County for the time being, so this road of soldiers and horses could not be considered for the time being.

Among the three counties, King Gaoding of Yueshan County has the largest number of troops, probably nearly 10,000 people.

But according to the characteristics of the Yi people's operations, often all the people are soldiers, and the best thing to say is that everyone can go into battle to kill the enemy, but to put it mildly, it is that among these 10,000 people, there may be old and weak women and children, and the people who can really fight will probably have to be discounted, that is, only five or six thousand people.

Yonghong and Meng Shu of Jianning County each probably have thousands of soldiers and horses, and the combined number of soldiers and horses exceeds that of Gaoding of Yueshan County, but the problem is that although these two military horses are nominally cooperative, they are both in charge of their own troops, and there is no possibility of unified and coordinated operations.

Moreover, Jianning County is behind Yueshan County, if Zhang Xi wants to attack Yonghong and Meng Huo in Jianning County, it is very likely that he will copy the back road of Yueshan County's Gaoding.

As for Zhu Baoma of Qiqi County, he has the least number of troops, but two or three thousand people, and this person is not a person of great talent, although he should rebel, but he has always insisted on sticking to Qiqi County, obviously just trying to fish in troubled waters. This person is not a big problem.

After figuring out the enemy situation in the three counties, Zhang Xi began to make a deployment - dividing the troops.

It is not possible to divide the troops, and in the places of the three counties, it is impossible to completely pacify the troops without dividing the troops, and fighting them one by one will not only take time and energy, but also increase the logistical pressure, and the grain and grass will not be so sufficient after all.

Therefore, Zhang Xi chose to attack Gaoding in Yueshan County first, and then divided 5,000 troops to Ma Zhong, so that Ma Zhong could clean up Zhu Bao.

Zhang Xi believed in Ma Zhong's strength, and at the same time, Zhang Xi also knew that in history, it was Ma Zhong who led the partial division and single-handedly got Zhu Bao and recovered Qiqi County.

As for the middle road, Zhang Xi also ordered Li Hui to lead 5,000 troops and advance to Pingyi County to defend it.

Zhang Xi, on the other hand, took the remaining 20,000 troops and marched into Yueshan County, first fighting Gaoding, attracting Yonghong and Meng from Jianning County to come to help.

Once Yonghong and Meng Huo went north, Li Hui could immediately lead his troops south, take a detour over the mountains from the small road, attack Meng Huo and Yonghong's Laochaowei County, and directly cut off the retreat of Yonghong and Meng Huo.

In order to ensure that Li Hui could complete the task, Zhang Xi handed over Wang Ping and the 1,000 troops led by him to Li Hui for control.

As for Ma Tan Zhang Xi and taking it with him, not for anything else, just to let him feel what the real military formation is like.

Now Ma Jian has basically adapted to this complicated military camp life, and he got out of the logistics unit for a while and came to the Chinese military tent, and Ma Jian still felt a little uncomfortable.

Moreover, because he did not participate in the previous strategy meeting, Ma Jian was very puzzled by Zhang Xi's current approach.

In Ma Yan's opinion, Zhang Xi's actions are too slow.

At this time, the main force of Gaoding was mainly gathered on the front line of Xuanniu, Dingxiao, and Beishui, and Zhang Xi led more than 20,000 troops, which also advanced to the line of Beishui.

However, Zhang Xi's daily march was less than twenty miles, and he set off at dawn, and began to camp just after noon.

It's December now, the climate in Nanzhong is rarely cooler, don't take advantage of this time to advance quickly, break the enemy in one fell swoop, and wait until the weather gets hot after the spring next year, our group of Yizhou soldiers can't consume these local natives in Nanzhong.

Therefore, Ma Tan deliberately found Zhang Xi and offered advice to Zhang Xi.

"Doesn't the governor hear the principle of "soldiers are noble and fast"?! Ma Tan found Zhang Xi and said to Zhang Xi, "Now that King Yi has few troops and his strength is scattered, why don't the generals march quickly and break the enemy in one fell swoop?" Such a march has been delayed for a long time, if Jianning Yonghong and Meng get help, wouldn't it be a mistake?! ”

Zhang Xi glanced at Ma Yan, and said in his heart, "Do you still know that the soldiers are fast?!

Then you were still caught off guard by Zhang He's mountain-climbing general in the street pavilion?!

Besides.

"It is true that I am familiar with the art of war at an early age." Zhang Xi smiled and explained to Ma Yan, "The art of war is indeed cloudy, "soldiers are noble and fast", but there are also clouds, "if you want to be fast, you can't reach it". If we march quickly, we can indeed defeat Gaoding, but then Gaoding's department is the Yiren of this county, although he is defeated and hidden in the mountains, how can I find it?! Moreover, Meng Huo and Yonghong led troops as Gao Ding's backup, and if Gao Ding was defeated quickly, these two would not dare to come again. If these two people stick to Jianning County and don't come out, we can't wait for the geographical advantage, but we have to conquer them one by one, wouldn't it be time-consuming and laborious?! ”

Speaking of which, there was no need to explain in detail, Ma Jian immediately understood.

Zhang Xi deliberately slowed down the march, waited for these three forces to merge, and then broke it in one fell swoop and completely put down the rebellion.

Thinking of what Zhang Xi said before, "The way to use soldiers, the opportunity becomes the first", suddenly seemed to notice something, and thoughtfully.

Since then, Ma Jian has rarely spoken, nor has he given advice to Zhang Xi, but has only been on the side, observing Zhang Xi's strategy of leading the troops.

Zhang Xi walked very slowly and slowly, creating a lot of time for the enemy army to gather.

On the enemy side, Gao Ding learned that Zhang Xi led 20,000 troops and came to Beishui, and immediately felt like a great enemy.

Gao Ding's rebellion was not for any mineral deposits, his rebellion, to a certain extent, is understandable.

After all, the Han regime in these years did not pay attention to any ethnic policies, so it was very common for Han bureaucrats to oppress and destroy people in the southern and central regions.

And Gao Ding is a native of Yiren, he just thinks that Yueshan County is the territory of Yiren, why let the Han people ride on the head of Yiren? !

Therefore, the purpose of Gaoding's rebellion was to expel the Han people from Yueshan County, and the other was because Yonghong promised him that as long as he raised an army, he would hand over Yueshan County to him Gaoding to rule.

Therefore, Gao Ding raised troops to resist, and he did have the motivation to stick to it.

But the problem is, the Han people are too strong.

Especially in the past hundred years, the Han people have always been powerful, even if Gao Ding wants to rebel, but when he sees more than 20,000 Han people coming towards him, he is still very afraid.

Gaoding rebelled, in order to rule Yueshan County, but also to fight for the interests of the Yi people, although he was an iron-hearted rebellion, but he was really worried that he would not be able to defeat the Han people, so he had been urging Yonghong and Meng to hurry north to support.

And what about Yonghong and Meng Shu. These two rebelled in order to divide the mineral deposits of Jianning County equally, so they naturally refused to leave Jianning County easily.

But in the same way, these two belong to people who still have brains, and they know that once Gao Ding can't stop them, then they have to face the Chengdu army, which is also very unfavorable to them.

Therefore, despite their reluctance, the two men personally led the troops and went to the rescue of Gaoding.

Among them, Yonghong was close to the end, he led 5,000 troops, and rushed to the Beishui area first, and Meng Huo was still on the road at this time.

At this time, Zhang Xi had also led his troops to Beishui, and stationed down, suspending the march.

Now in Beishui, the 15,000 combined forces of Gaoding and Yonghong are facing off against the 20,000 soldiers led by Zhang Xiqin, and the two sides are facing each other.

But at this time, no one knows what is going on inside the rebels. Gao Ding and Yonghong fought among themselves.

What the specific process was, no one knows, only that Yonghong, who came to rescue Gaoding, was killed by Gaoding's generals, and Gaoding also took the opportunity to annex Yonghong's soldiers.

This change made Zhang Xi a little dumbfounded.

Seriously, it's been a long time, Zhang Xi only remembers that Prime Minister Zhuge Liang captured Meng Shu seven times, and he can't remember what kind of high-end characters, Zhu Bao, Yonghong, etc., even Zhang Xi himself forgot about it, and there was such an infighting.

It's all at the cost of heads and annexed troops, and this kind of infighting certainly can't be fake. As a result, Meng Shu stopped his march to Beishui.

This is not particular about this high order, we are leading the troops to rescue you, no matter how it is considered to be kind to you, what is the contradiction, you can't kill people and take the army.

So are you really unable to bear the burden of asking us to come to the rescue, or do you want to take this opportunity to annex us, and then you can surrender to Liu Bei in exchange for high-ranking officials?!

Meng Shu hesitated like this, and suddenly stopped his army in place.

This also means that Zhang Xi's plan to "gather and annihilate" the rebels in Nanzhong has gone bankrupt.

While scolding his mother, Zhang Xi ordered his soldiers to attack Gaoding immediately.

Since you can't eat them all, it's not unacceptable to eat the fifteen thousand people in front of you.

If you hesitate any longer, you should withdraw your troops and run away.

Zhang Xi ordered an attack, Deng Ai and "Guan Suo" as the vanguard officer, the first to lead the army to attack, attacking the left wing camp of the Gaoding army, at the same time Zhang Wei led 5,000 Chinese troops to follow, attacking the middle of the Gaoding army, Zhang Yi led the rear army of 5,000 people, attacking the right wing camp of the Gaoding army.

Zhang Xi led 5,000 men as the general reserve.

Ma Tan was puzzled, asked Zhang Xi, and said, "Although the army is numerous, it is just a rabble, and it has just experienced internal strife, and the army is not in agreement, why don't the governors press the whole army to achieve all the merits?!" ”

Zhang Xi just smiled and said, "In the matter of the battle formation, don't be careless about the enemy, expect the enemy to be lenient, and know that the other army has no ambush?!" Creek's move is just in case. ”

Zhang Xi can't say that I'm afraid of death, so let's leave some troops to protect myself, besides, it's also necessary to keep reserves, if there is really a little change, it won't be useless.

Ma Jian nodded thoughtfully again.

And the soldiers of the Gao Ding army directly opposite are scattering.

(End of chapter)