Fifty miles before Wudu County, the pioneer camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

It has been four days since Wei Yan set off to attack Qishan Fort, and according to the plan agreed before, Zhang Xi began to arrange his troops and divide his troops to capture all parts of Wudu.

Actually, it's not really an attack, it should be said to be a collection.

At this time, there were not many decent defenders in Wudu County at all, and although it was nominally Cao Wei's territory, it had been half-abandoned by Cao Wei.

During the Battle of Hanzhong, because Liu Bei seized Hanzhong and blocked the connection between Wudu County and Yongzhou, Wudu County was already in an isolated situation, and Cao Cao never thought that Wudu County could still hold it.

Therefore, after Cao Cao withdrew from Hanzhong, he immediately ordered to move the population of Wudu County to Youfufeng and abandon Wudu County.

Wudu County is basically an empty county now, and Cao Wei is basically in a state of semi-abandonment, except for arranging some county officials in each county to symbolically do a defense, even local officials have not arranged.

Of course, this is also related to the geographical location of Wudu County, most of which are the territory of the Qiang and Hu people, this place is either mountainous or Hu people, and there is no output at all, and it is not distressing to give up Cao Cao.

The only role is probably to warn Qishan Road and Liangzhou direction.

Therefore, when Zhang Xi led the army into Wudu County, all he saw were Hu people occupying the county seat, and as soon as Zhang Xi's army arrived, these Hu people immediately dispersed, and there was no intention of resisting at all.

After all, the Hu people are not good at defending the city, and the prestige of Ma Chao, the general of Shenweitian, is still there, and now Ma Chao's younger brother Ma Dai is guarding in Di Dao instead of his elder brother, and at the same time, many adult men in Qiang Hu also participated in the Northern Expedition and participated in the war as righteous cavalry under the command of Ma Chao.

Therefore, these Hu people will not and dare not do anything against the Zhang Xi army under the banner of Liu Bei's group.

Zhang Xi "captured" Wudu County almost very smoothly. Except for a little resistance in a few county seats, Zhang Xi did not delay even a day, and Zhang Xi controlled the entire Wudu County according to the original plan.

After occupying Wudu, Zhang Xi first sent a letter to Liu Bei in the rear to inform him of the situation, and Zhang Xi was embarrassed to say that this was a success.

Then, Zhang Xi left another 2,000 people scattered in various places to maintain law and order, and he led the remaining 15,000 people, with Zhang Yi as the vanguard in the front, to march quickly to support Wei Yan, who was attacking Qishan Fort.

Zhang Xi really didn't know how Wei Lao Pifu's progress was, and whether he had laid down Qishan Fort. This old puppet used his troops, either a big victory or a big defeat, and he never left himself a way back.

asked him to take 5,000 people, but he didn't listen, so he took his 3,000 people to Langzhangxi to remember that the intelligence said that the defenders of Qishan Fort were also about 2,000 to 3,000 people.

It's hard to say whether it can be captured or not, Zhang Xi only hopes that he will not encounter Wei Yan's defeated army when he enters the army this time.

It took nearly three days for Zhang Xi to lead 15,000 people to complete the march of the army of more than 100 miles or so.

As soon as he entered the Qishan crossing, Zhang Xi saw the soldiers sent by Wei Yan thank God, and the soldiers brought the documents to report the victory.

The letter is very in the style of that old horseman, and there are only a few sentences in the whole article, that is, to tell Zhang Xi that he has taken Qishan Fort, and ask Zhang Xi to quickly lead the army to come over to respond, and prepare to continue north out of Liangzhou.

Zhang Xi was a little puzzled that this old man Wei led the troops forward without directly greeting him?!

But it's right to think about it.

Wei Yan is not a fool, he brought only 3,000 people, these 3,000 people must have losses when attacking Qishan Fort, no matter how conceited he is, it is impossible for him to attack Liangzhou with this little man.

That's not to make a contribution, that's to find death.

But after Zhang Xi asked Wei Yan's messenger clearly, Zhang Xi understood. Although Wei Lao Pifu is not so stupid, the actual situation is much worse than Zhang Xi thought.

Old Pifu Wei is now lying in bed to recuperate from his injuries, and he really can't lead the army to the expedition, so he asked someone to inform Zhang Xi and quickly send someone over to respond.

As for Wei Lao Pifu's injury, it's heroic, but it's also funny.

According to the soldiers, on the night of that day, General Wei personally led the army to attack the camp of Qishan Fort at night, and killed the soldiers who tried to close the door and defend themselves like a god, and stood at the gate of the camp majestically, guarding the camp gate with his own strength.

Then General Wei was shot.

Indeed, Wei Yan broke into the camp gate alone, and the posture of standing alone at the camp gate was very shocking, but the defenders who reacted also unceremoniously shot arrows at him.

Wei Yan brandished his war knife and tried his best to resist, but after all, he was still hit by several arrows.

But Wei Yan still fought to the death, slashed and killed more than a dozen people, and repelled the Cao army who tried to snatch the camp gate twice, guarding the camp gate with his own strength, and the frightened Cao army did not dare to approach.

And taking advantage of the time that Wei Yan had gained, Wei Yan's guards finally crossed through the interception of the Cao army, rushed to Wei Yan's side, and guarded Wei Yan.

The soldiers of Wei Yanjun were also inspired by the brave performance of their generals, and suddenly broke out with super combat effectiveness, and Cao Jun, who was outside the camp, also realized that he was almost abandoned by the main general at this time, and suddenly had no intention of fighting, and fled into the camp.

Wei Yanjun took advantage of the situation and entered the camp of Qishan Fort.

And at this time, Gao Gang still wanted to react, after all, there were many Cao soldiers in the battalion, and there were few enemy soldiers, and the enemy reinforcements had not yet approached the foot of Qishan Fort, so it was not impossible to really besiege and kill these Wei Yan soldiers.

But at this time, the Cao army, because of Gao Gang's continuous wrong responses and the double influence of being breached by others, the morale of the Cao army plummeted, and he had no intention of fighting at all. Gao Gang had no choice but to take advantage of the chaos of the camp, and Wei Yanjun could not effectively control the strength of the camp, so under the escort of his own soldiers, he escaped from the camp of Qishan Fort and went to Liangzhou to report the news.

And Wei Yanma guarded the camp gate alone, with more than ten arrows in his body, looking like a hedgehog.

Originally, the soldiers of Wei Yanjun were still worried about whether General Wei was seriously injured, but it turned out that Wei Yan seemed to be in good spirits in addition to walking uncoordinatedly.

This thing was still in the mood to go down the mountain, and he sprayed angrily at the rear military captain who had just arrived, saying that if it weren't for the opponent being a fool, he would have completely explained himself on the mountain.

Then, Wei Yan ordered his headquarters to camp under Qishan Fort, while he stayed behind at Qishan Fort on the mountain, and at the same time sent messengers to report to Zhang Xi, urging Zhang Xi to march quickly, so that Liangzhou could not have too much time to prepare.

At this point, Zhang Xi had to admire Wei Yan's martial arts, and Wei Yan's performance made Zhang Xi think of a person-Dian Wei.

It's just that Dian Wei guarded the camp gate alone to protect the lord and escaped, while Wei Yan took the camp gate alone and made great achievements.

The two are judged by superiority.

If you have to involve it, Zhang Xi even felt that in Wei Yan's battle, some of the second master's demeanor of taking Yan Liang's head from the army back then turned the entire battle situation around.

But when Zhang Xi saw Wei Yan and asked about Wei Yan's injury, Zhang Xi couldn't help but want to laugh.

Wei Yan was hit by more than ten arrows, which looked scary, but because Wei Yan himself was wearing very thick armor, coupled with his good martial arts, he eliminated the power and speed of a large number of arrows while parrying, so although Wei Yan was hit by arrows, many of them were skin injuries, and the two most serious arrow wounds were not as good as an inch into the flesh, and most of the arrow wounds were not a big problem if they were bandaged a little.

But the problem is that the two places that enter the meat are an inch into the flesh, which is a bit difficult to describe.

The arrows in the front, Wei Yan basically blocked them, but the arrows in the back of the side. Well, there were two arrows, just so unfortunate, one left and one right, that hit Wei Yan's ass.

Now Wei Yan is lying on the bed and talking to Zhang Xi.

Zhang Xi really wanted to laugh.

It's not that Zhang Xi's character is not good, he likes to laugh at people, the main thing is. This contrast is a bit big.

After hearing about Wei Yan's battle process and seeing the description of Wei Yan's worship by Wei Yan's sergeants, Zhang Xi could fully imagine what kind of martial arts and demeanor Wei Yan was under the circumstances at that time.

But. This fierce general who descended like a god and took Qishan Fort by himself, but because he was shot two arrows in the buttocks, he is now lying on the bed and unable to move? !

Well, it's a little bit. Well, you can't laugh, you really can't laugh, if you laugh, then you really have a mortal enmity with Wei Yan.

Again, Wei Yan is really brave this time, and he almost won Qishan Fort by himself, no matter how you look at it, it is a great achievement, and it can be said to be the first decent credit since this Northern Expedition.

Zhang Xi took Wudu County, that is, to receive, not only Zhang Xi did not take credit for this matter, but Liu Bei's side would not think that occupying Wudu County was a credit. As long as you don't have to be mentally retarded, you can do this job.

Therefore, Zhang Xi immediately sent Wei Yan's exploits in capturing Qishan Fort and his heroic behavior to Liu Bei in the rear after a little polishing.

At the same time, Zhang Xi almost front and back received a military order from Liu Bei.

Now that you have occupied the Wudu, don't waste your time.

Liu Bei ordered Zhang Xi to lead the front army to quickly pass through Qishan Road and raid Tianshui County, an important town in Liangzhou.

After Tianshui County was defeated, Liu Bei had a passage into Yongzhou and Liangzhou, and then Liu Bei would personally lead a large army to sit in Tianshui County, implement the Broken Long, and then lead the troops eastward to seize Chang'an.

(End of chapter)