Chapter 657: Surrender
In the end, Wang Chang has been tricked, and what he has won is indeed a virtual and real scheme.
In this wave, Wang Chang is on the second layer, but Zhang Xi is really on the fifth layer.
The Han army outside Changling City is indeed the main force of the army led by Zhang Xi, the so-called empty camp is just a play for Wang Chang, and as soon as Wang Chang led the troops to leave Changling, Zhang Xi immediately led the army to take advantage of the situation to capture Changling, which was guarded by only 1,000 people.
And on the Weicheng side, in fact, it is Liu Yin with 3,000 soldiers, as for the Weicheng guard Hu Zun. This one really surrendered.
When Wang Chang led the troops and rushed to Weicheng in the snow, he found that there was a Chinese character flag hanging high on the head of Weicheng City, and the guards of Weicheng had also been replaced by Liu Yin, a Shu general.
When Wang Chang saw this scene, there was a chill in the back of his head, from his spine to his buttocks.
Wang Chang is not the kind of brainless and reckless man, think about it with a little brain, he knows that he has been tricked, and the Changling Tomb that he was stationed in is very likely to be unable to be saved, and it is even possible that not far behind him at this time, Zhang Xi has already led his troops to counterattack, intending to completely trap his three thousand soldiers under the city of Weicheng.
Wang Chang is really angry, this Hu Zun is really unreliable.
I wanted to scold a few words at the head of Weicheng to get angry, but Wang Chang actually knew that it was pointless to do this kind of thing at this time.
It is better to preserve the vitality of the 3,000 forbidden army, withdraw the army first, and find a way to contact the full favor of Chang'an, so that he can send someone to pick up himself and others to cross the river and retreat to Chang'an, which is a way out.
Therefore, Wang Chang did not hesitate to lead the army to retreat, temporarily retreating to Yangling, crossing the river from Weiqiao on the east side of Yangling, and withdrawing the army to Chang'an.
It can be said that Wang Chang's withdrawal speed was really fast, so fast that Zhang Xi's army came to him, and Wang Chang was not blocked, and in today's snowy weather, it is not so easy to really lead the troops to pursue.
Therefore, Zhang Xi did not force it too much, but led the army into Weicheng and joined Liu Yin and Hu Zun.
The biggest hero of this attack on Zuo Fengyi is naturally the Anding people, Hu Zun.
If it weren't for Hu Zun's initiative to send his henchmen to contact Zhang Xi and say that he would take the initiative to surrender, Zhang Xi's series of false and real suspicious tactics would be impossible to talk about.
To be honest, Zhang Xi was also a little caught off guard by Hu Zun's sudden surrender, and he couldn't believe this, how could he surrender?!。
Zhang Xi vaguely remembers, this Hu Zun seems to be Cao Wei's ironcore.
Although the years are too long, I don't remember it very clearly, but Zhang Xi seems to remember that when Zhuge Liang was on the Northern Expedition in history, he met him.
Although Hu Zun is considered a dragon in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in history, it seems that Hu Zun's family, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren seem to be very good.
Well, at least in the game, the value of five measurements is okay, and the family is a relatively easy type of second-rate general.
So, Zhang Xi really didn't believe it, Hu Zun surrendered to himself, it was sincere, Zhang Xi always felt that this could be Wang Chang's trick of surrendering.
But. Liu Yin tried to persuade Zhang Xi, and he believed that Hu Zun's surrender was credible.
At least, there are enough reasons for Hu Zun to choose to surrender to Dahan.
is still the same sentence, Hu Zun is from the Anding Hu family, and the relationship between the Anding Hu family in Guanzhong is complicated, and many of them are in-laws with each other.
Now that Cao Wei is moving people into Guanzhong on a large scale, there will definitely be people who are unwilling to give up their family business and move into Guannei, but in today's world, there are no powerful families in Guanzhong who stand up and raise their arms and shout, these families do not have enough strength to rebel, and in the face of the whip and ring head knife of Cao Wei Group, most of the Guanzhong families have chosen to submit.
But even so, some families will not say that they will put all their hopes on Cao Wei's side.
Everyone understands the truth of people leaving their hometowns, and for some families, going to the Central Plains is basically equivalent to starting from scratch, and no one knows where the future of the family is.
Therefore, it is very normal for some people to hope that someone will take the lead and test the reaction of the big Han.
It's not that the families are more willing to accept the Han Dynasty's fish scale atlas system, the main thing is that everyone's land is in Guanzhong, and if they move to the Central Plains, these lands can't be taken away.
It's better to take the risk and try it, although it may be like this in the future on the side of the big man, but at least, you can keep your family business, right?
And Anding Hu happens to be a very suitable candidate.
First, the Anding Hu clan is also a local hero, their basic plate is in Guanzhong, but not in Sanfu, but in Anding, and the cool officials who are full of favor will not be able to use Anding County for a while.
Second, the scale of the Hu clan in Anding has almost reached the limit in Anding, and there is also a need to divide the family, in order to share the risk of survival, send Hu Zun to contact the Han Dynasty, and the remaining line will follow the Great Wei into the customs, and in the end, no matter who wins, the Hu family will always survive.
Based on his understanding of the family, Liu Yin still felt that Hu Zun's request to surrender had a certain degree of credibility.
That is, Liu Yin, who is from a great family in Shudi, knows the virtues and survival of today's family, and thinks about it from the position of others, Liu Yin can understand the intention of stabilizing the Hu family.
Otherwise, with Zhang Xi's character, even if he can think of this, he doesn't dare to believe it easily.
It's one thing to understand the truth, it's another thing to believe in the truth.
What's more, Liu Yin automatically asked Ying, and he represented Zhang Xi to come forward to contact Hu Zun If there is a problem, it is also him Liu Yin who is in danger, not Zhang Xi, who is the commander of the first army.
Zhang Xi pondered for a while, and felt that this was not bad, after all, Hu Zun in his memory did not seem to be the kind of person who could reach eighty in intelligence, and it should not be realistic to hide it from Liu Yin.
In this way, Liu Yin secretly entered the city, and after a private conversation with Hu Zun, he confirmed the other party's purpose.
It is to settle the Hu family, and also to some families in Guanzhong, leaving a way back, so that they will not be forced by Cao Wei to move inward.
Since these people have realistic interests and needs, Liu Yin believes that they have no reason to deceive the big han, after all, there is no actual conflict of interest between the big man and them for the time being, and they can't commit it at all.
After leaving the city, Liu Yin stated his opinion to Zhang Xi in detail, believing that these families and Hu Zun were credible.
Zhang Xi still doesn't believe in Hu Zun and these families, but Zhang Xi still trusts Liu Yin very much.
Since this is the case, Zhang Xi also began to use his brain. If you want me to believe in your sincerity, it's very simple, write a report for help to Wang Chang of Changling.
Originally, Zhang Xi was still worried, and he had more than 10,000 county soldiers to march to Zuo Fengyi and break through the defense line of the Wei army. I am only a partial division, and my troops are insufficient, which is not so easy to do.
In Wugong County, Zhang Xi has fully realized how big the gap between the county soldiers he led and the Cao Wei forbidden army in terms of combat effectiveness.
If it was a hard-fought battle, Zhang Xi really didn't think that his own strength was an advantage.
Therefore, in the face of the Changling-Weicheng defense line formed by Wang Chang, Zhang Xi still had to find a way to win.
The art of war is cloudy, and the old man Sun Wu told the world hundreds of years ago how to use soldiers in the face of such a situation.
You have to find a way to lure the enemy into dividing your forces.
And now, Wang Chang is forced by the situation and has to take the initiative to divide his troops to defend it, and the purpose of the first step has been achieved.
But even so, if Zhang Xi only relied on a hard attack to defend the Changling Tomb guarded by 4,000 people, he was still not sure that he would be able to completely take it.
Therefore, Zhang Xi thought about it, and he had to find a way to let Wang Chang divide his troops again.
It's just that if it's just a conventional trick to lure Wang Chang to divide his troops and ambush himself halfway, I'm afraid Wang Changzhen may not be fooled.
is fooled, in the face of the thousands of Cao Wei forbidden troops led by Wang Chang personally, with the combat effectiveness of the Han soldiers, they may not be able to fight.
Zhang Xi also has an impression of Wang Chang, if you use the data of the game to describe it, this person's intelligence is at least eighty or more, and he is not the kind of unwise person.
I actually dealt with him once in Wugong County, and this person is also very good at leading the army, and his decision is fast enough, and his reaction is very timely, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to deceive him with conventional routines.
Now, with Hu Zun's surrender, let Hu Zun send an untimely letter for help, and then make a suspicious posture, so that Wang Chang believes that he is attacking Changling with a suspicious strategy, but in fact, he is besieging Weicheng, but he is more sure that Wang Chang will be fooled.
Of course, out of incomplete trust in Hu Zun, Zhang Xi asked Liu Yin to lead 3,000 troops, and while entering Weicheng to take over the city defense, he did not choose to ambush Wang Chang halfway, for fear that Wang Chang and Hu Zun would have any communication, and Wang Chang would give himself a counter-ambush halfway.
Therefore, Zhang Xi chose the practice of insurance, and after using suspicious tactics to deceive Wang Chang out of the city, he first chose to conquer Changling, and then according to the actual situation, to see if he returned to the army to attack Wang Chang's soldiers.
In this way, Zhang Xi can avoid a field battle with Cao Wei's forbidden army at the first time, so that his own losses will not be too great.
On the other hand, even if Hu Zun is still deceived in the end, or Wang Chang is not fooled at all, the big deal is that Zhang Xi can't conquer Changling, and Weicheng can still be taken.
Zhang Xi thought about it a lot, but when the strategy was actually implemented, it was unusually smooth.
Hu Zun really surrendered, not pretending, and there was no strategy, so Liu Yin's takeover of Weicheng's defense was quite smooth, and Hu Zun was also very cooperative in handing over the military power of Weicheng.
At this time in Weicheng, there are not many families and people in the city, as long as Hu Zun cooperates and hands over the military power, Liu Yin does not even have to worry that Hu Zun will collude with the families in the city to rebel again.
As for Wang Chang, after a successful tentative attack, he didn't think much about it, and left Changling with 3,000 soldiers, leaving only 1,000 soldiers to guard. If Zhang Xi can't grasp this kind of opportunity, he won't have to lead the troops to fight.
It's a pity that because Zhang Xi was too cautious, and because Wang Chang's reaction was very fast, he failed to seize the fighter and cooperate with Liu Yin and Hu Zun to completely besiege Wang Chang's troops under Weicheng and give them the opportunity to evacuate, so they did not complete the work.
But even so, as soon as Changling and Weicheng are concerned, the entire passage between Zuo Fengyi and Chang'an will be completely opened, and Zhang Xi can lead the troops at any time, whether it is to attack Chang'an or to seize Tongguan, the initiative is already in Zhang Xi's hands.
Now, it's Cao Wei's turn to be anxious.
(End of chapter)