Winter October, earthquake. In December, the arrows flowed from the southeast to the northwest, and their length was like the sky. Liu Yi sent the watch to Stone City, the court thought that the Shu Road was far away, and the Wen people were few and deep, and they were all worried, but Liu Yi thought it would be a must. Or ask the reason, and say: "Knowledge." Wen, who is good at learning, does not have to get it. But after the fear of Keshu, Wen ended up **** court ear. ”

------- excerpt from the introduction

"How? Have you found it all out? Zeng Hua asked anxiously.

"Back to the military master, it's been investigated." It was a scout captain who replied. "I watched the riverside for three days, and the time of the Jiangzhou Navy patrol here is the same every day. Six times a day, day and night, each two hours apart. ”

"Okay, you continue to monitor the Jiangzhou Navy Army's river patrol, and if there is any change or abnormality, report to me immediately." Zeng Hua nodded and said.

"Yes!"

After the scout captain walked out of the big tent, Zeng Hua turned to the first building of the Changshui Army, the second building of the Zhuqu, and the second building of the main Xu Dang. Like Liu Jin, Zhang Qu and Xu Dang both came out of the Hedong refugees who first followed Zeng Hua. However, Zhang Qu is not from Hedong, he is a son of the Wangzhang family in Jinyang County, Bingzhou, and his ancestor is Zhang Wenyuan (Zhang Liao), a former general of Wei and a former general of Jinyang. Later, he was exiled to Hedong with his clansmen, and when he grew up, his relatives and friends were almost dead. Fortunately, he loved martial arts since he was a child, was brave and resolute, and had an ancestral style, so he survived in the troubled times, and finally went south with the Hedong refugees to meet Zeng Hua.

Xu Dang is a native of Yang County, Hedong County (now southeast of Hongdong County, Shanxi), the word Dingshan, claiming to be the descendant of General Wei You and Yang Hou Xu Huang.

These two were the two best performers in the first training camp of the Changshui Army, and they were later promoted by Zeng Hua. The two did not live up to Zeng Hua's expectations, they were diligent and studious, and they were able to dominate the camp, raise the people and make peace, and were ordered to make no mistakes. He was able to achieve good results in every drill, so he replaced Zhang Shou and Gan Rui as the owners of the second and third buildings.

Zeng Hua attaches great importance to Zhang Qu and Xu Dang, and has high expectations, and once wrote "The Ancient Calling Tiger" and "Yafu Legacy" to encourage the two. (I wonder if Zeng Hua wrote simplified Chinese or cursive?) However, his "wolf ambition is well known to passers-by". Think about it, who said these two sentences? ）

"Suiyuan, how are you investigating?" Zeng Hua asked Zhang Qu first.

"Back to the military master, I toured the section of the river for more than 50 miles, and asked the local mountain people and fishermen, and found an excellent place to cross the river. The river is neither wide nor narrow, but the current is gentle. I personally swam quietly with a few good sergeants in the water, and I could swim through in a quarter of an hour. If I had pulled more than ten thick ropes at the same time, my 3,000 soldiers would have been able to swim through them all within two hours. Moreover, I secretly collected more than a dozen fishing boats and hid them in the shadows, and as soon as I could, I immediately transported all the weapons and armor of the whole army in two hours. Zhang Qu, who was dignified, behaved very respectfully in front of Zeng Hua, who was four years younger than him.

"Lord, I went to the other side to take a look, it was all wilderness, and it was rarely inhabited. I walked there for more than fifty miles before I found two woodcutters chopping wood. I asked them, from there there is a road leading directly to the city of Jiangzhou, which is said to be a post road opened in the Qin period, but it has been abolished for a long time, and not many people know about it. I have captured these two people back to Jiangnan, and coerced and enticed them to agree to lead the way for our army. ”

"Okay, Suiyuan, well done!" Zeng Hua praised.

Seeing Zeng Hua turn to himself, Xu Dang knew that it was time to report to himself, and immediately clasped his fists and said: "Back to the army master, I selected a hundred warriors from each tun with the lord of Liu, and temporarily organized them into a team, thinking that they were a death squad." Then in the past few days, I did assault training, and I did it according to the requirements of the military master. I also followed the instructions of the military master, walked around the armies with official documents, found a few sergeants who had been to Jiangzhou in the Chinese army of Badong County, inquired in detail about the Wumen city defense of Jiangzhou and the surrounding terrain, and drew a simple map. In the end, we also asked Lord Yizhou for these three soldiers from Brazil County, who thought it was our help. ”

"Good! Well done! Zeng Hua praised again, and then said: "Suiyuan, Dingshan, you continue to rectify the soldiers and horses, and continue to prepare according to what I said." Wuzi, you are in the center of the dispatch and command. It was the hour of the hour, and after breakfast, the whole army had rested except for those who had patrols and had tasks, and had lunch as usual at noon, and then continued to rest. I will immediately rush to the Chinese army camp for a meeting, and it is estimated that I will return in the afternoon, and the whole army will have dinner at the end of the day, and then I will begin to straighten out the armor and prepare the dry rations that I bring with me. ”

"Qianfu (Liu Jinzi), you are in charge of patrolling around our army's camp. We're going to do great things tonight, and we can't let any cats and dogs get a little bit of noise. You set up a scout for me within a radius of dozens of miles, and you can't let go of a rabbit that looks like a Shu soldier. Zeng Hua continued to explain.

"All obey the orders of the army master!"

Liu Yin is steady and reliable, Che Yin is meticulous and meticulous, Zeng Hua certainly believed them, and Zhang Qu and Xu Dang are also loyal and capable people, so after he finished explaining, he hurried to the Chinese army camp under the escort of more than a dozen personal guards.

"Lord Huan! If this Jiangzhou is not captured, it will do far more harm than good to us. Zeng Hua said after Gong Hu and others proposed to let Jiangzhou leave the city and continue to implement the strategic intention of directly attacking Chengdu.

"What do you mean, Xuping? Go on. "Huan Wen is not an ordinary person to Zeng Hua now, which can be seen by blind people. (Can a blind man really see it?) ）

"Lord Huan, my lords, the confluence of the Western Han River (now the Jialing River) and the Yangtze River in Bajun Jiangzhou (now Chongqing) is the throat pass connecting Yizhou and Jingzhou. To put it mildly, if Jiangzhou doesn't take it, if we lose in Chengdu, there will be no way to escape. Besides, even if we take Chengdu directly, in case the Jiangzhou defenders are unwilling to surrender and continue to resist, then we are still alone in Yizhou, and we can't connect with Jingzhou, and we have to go back and forcibly take Jiangzhou, and there will be a lot of variables in this by then. ”

"There is another important reason, if we don't take Jiangzhou, then we can't go up against the water, take Dianjiang (now Hechuan, Sichuan), Deyang, and Guanghan to attack Chengdu from the east. We could only go west along the Yangtze River, take Fu County (now Hejiang, Sichuan) and Jiangyang County (now Luzhou City, Sichuan) and go straight to Jianwei County (now Yibin, Sichuan), and then go north against the Yangtze River (people at that time regarded the Minjiang River as the main stream and upstream of the Yangtze River), take Nan'an (now Leshan, Sichuan), Wuyang (now Pengshan, Sichuan), and attack Chengdu from the south. ”

Zeng Hua pointed to the map hanging in the big tent and said.

"Attacking Chengdu in the south, this was originally a good move, which could catch Chengdu pseudo-Shu Li by surprise. But if we abandon Jiangzhou and go west, even children in the puppet Shu will know our strategic intentions. When the time comes, a big net will be laid in Jianwei, what else will be fought in this battle? ”

After listening to Zeng Hua's words, everyone was silent, and everyone sat there pondering, trying to reminisce.

Zeng Qianjun said very much. There are only three roads to take Chengdu since ancient times, from Fushui to the east, from Mianzhu to the north, from Jianwei to the south. We came from Jingzhou to the east, and there were only two ways to go east and south. If Liujiangzhou is behind us and continues to guard the front line of Fushui, we will be completely at a disadvantage. Only by taking Jiangzhou and leaving a general to guard it, one can connect Jingzhou and ensure our back road, and the other can deter the surrounding areas, and directly take the nearby Fuling County, Danqu County and Guanghan County, so as to create the illusion that our army is coming eastward to the puppet Shu Li in Chengdu, and cover the strategic plan for the army to continue to take health as the south. Jiang Xiaxiang and Yuan Qiao, the leader of the guard, opened their mouths in agreement.

"That's true, but this Jiangzhou is not easy to fight! First of all, it is located in the north of the river, across the river from us, we want to attack it, the first step is to cross the river. Although the Jiangzhou Navy is weak, it is fatal at this juncture. And it's built in a dangerous location, easy to defend and difficult to attack! "It was Yizhou Thorn Shi Zhou Fu who sighed.

"It's better for us to transfer the Jiangling Navy and heavy troops up, and take Jiangzhou first and then make plans." It was Sima Wuji, the king of Nanjun, who came up with this not-so-clever idea.

"In this way, even if our strategy of taking Chengdu directly with light troops is broken, all that remains is to fight with the pseudo-Shu, but I don't know when this vicious battle will end, and how long can we hold on?" It was Mao Muzhi who joined the army who spoke.

With that, the big tent fell into silence again.

Huan Wen looked around at everyone, and finally stared directly at Zeng Hua.

But Zeng Hua, the initiator, didn't learn anything, and he learned Liu Yi's celebrity style. I saw that he unhurriedly picked up the water cup on the coffee table in front of him, took a few sips slowly, felt as if he was not very thirst-quenching, and finally drank the tea in the cup with his head high. The whole one is not here to attend a military meeting, but to visit as a guest.

Seeing Zeng Hua's half-learned celebrity movements, Huan Wen suddenly laughed, laughing loudly, and went straight to the top of the big tent. When others were pondering and doubting, Yuan Qiao also smiled. But he smiled very reservedly, just sitting there and stroking his beard and laughing.

When Mao Muzhi laughed for the third time, Zeng Hua couldn't help it anymore and laughed too. He smiled and put the water cup back on the coffee table in front of him, and said to Huan Wen: "I still can't hide this little trick from Lord Huan!" ”

"You know, stop pretending here. If you didn't have a complete solution, you wouldn't be making a lot of nonsense here. Hurry up and tell us what you're planning! Huan Wen said sharply, but his face was full of smiles.

"Lord Hui Huan, back to your lords. In fact, I have already thought of a plan to take Jiangzhou City directly, if God doesn't do anything, I should be able to stand on the tower of Jiangzhou City tomorrow. Zeng Hua arched his hand and said.

"Tomorrow, even if our rear army is still thirty miles away from the ferry port on the south bank of Jiangzhou, your front army will be fifty miles away from Jiangzhou!" Sima Wuji exclaimed in surprise.

"Fifty miles, if the Changshui army marches quickly, it can be reached in two hours. Isn't it, Xuping? Huan Wen asked.

"No, Lord Huan, you don't know." Zeng Hua smiled and replied. It seems that Huan Wen still knows a little bit about the details of his troops.

"Zeng Qianjun, what is your strategy?" Zhou Fu asked anxiously.

"Urgent! Emergency military intelligence! Just as Zeng Hua was about to elaborate on his plan, a spy shouted outside the tent.

"Express!" Hearing that it was an emergency military report, Huan Wen didn't dare to be sloppy, and hurriedly called in.

"Report! At the end of the day, the Shu army went out of Jiangzhou City, crossed the Yangtze River in the south, stationed at the Yangguan ferry in the south of the Yangtze River, and went out of Yangguan in the morning after tomorrow, marching slowly along the road from which our army came. According to the survey, there are about 5,000 people, and they are now about 20 miles away from our rear army. ”

After listening to the spies' report, Zeng Hua couldn't help but sigh: "It's really providence!" ”

When the spies came out of the big tent, Zhou Fu couldn't help asking: "Why did Zeng Qianjun sigh like this?" ”

"Jiangzhou sent 5,000 troops, intending to follow our army and see if our army is really moving west? This sweeping matter is the business of Lord Yuan of the Hou Army. I think this Jiangzhou is retaining Lord Yuan, and I want to invite him to Jiangzhou to sit in town. As soon as Zeng Hua said this, everyone burst into laughter and responded: "That's right! Exactly! ”

After Zeng Hua waited for everyone to stop laughing, Zhengse explained his strategy one by one, and then hugged his fists at Huan Wen and Yuan Qiao: "This plan also asks Lord Huan and Lord Yuan to cooperate with our army, so the chances of victory are greater!" ”

Yuan Qiao didn't speak, just lowered his head and pondered there. Sima Wuji, who was next to him, said, "This is a little too risky." ”

But at this time, Huan Wen slapped his thigh, stood up and shouted: "Okay! What a strategy! It is already a big adventure for our army to go deep into Shu alone, what else is there to be afraid of. Xuping, you can go and do it with confidence. Here I dispatch and command, and the 5,000 Shu army has its own Uncle Yan to send it. We'll be happy with you. ”

And Yuan Qiao also came back to his senses, looked at Zeng Hua with a strange look, and said in an unusually resolute tone: "Xuping, don't worry!" I will naturally take care of these 5,000 Shu troops, and I will take care of them well, covering you to take Jiangzhou directly! Hopefully we'll see you across the river tomorrow. ”

By the time it was winter, it had already begun to get dark.

Zeng Hua and Che Yin stood on a small hill in the south of the Yangtze River, and their figures were the same as the three thousand soldiers of the Changshui Army who were deliberately waiting to attack around them, and they had long been deeply hidden in the thick night and dense woods.

"Wuzi, this is the hometown of the Bayi people! Didn't you say last time that the ancestral home of Li Te, the founding lord of the puppet Shu country, was not the Danqu County on the other side (north of present-day Dazhu, Sichuan)? Zeng Hua looked at Jiangbei in the night and said to Che Yin.

"Yes, military master, the Ba Yi people went out from Ba County in the north of the Yangtze River." Che Yin replied loudly. It's still some way from the river, and as long as you don't deliberately shout loudly, you can't hear the sound on the river.

"Today we will kick off the defeat of the puppet Shu regime established by their descendants here, and also start the first victory of our Changshui Army." Zeng Hua said excitedly.

"The first victory? Lord, wasn't the first victory of our Changshui Army achieved in Tongxian (now Fuling, Chongqing)? Che Yin asked in surprise.

Hearing this, Zeng Hua was almost speechless, you car martial arts, which pot you don't open, which pot you mention, fortunately it's dark this day, otherwise my red face wouldn't have been laughed at by you. Zeng Hua couldn't help but think of the first victory in Tongxian County ten days ago.

At that time, Zeng Hua took the lead and led the first building to the city of Tongxian County, scolding and shouting, preparing to fight to the death with the Shu army in the city. At this time, Zeng Hua and his men were full of spirit, like a group of young tigers that had just come out of the cage, which was quite violent. That momentum, dare to go up to the nine days to catch the sun and the moon, and go down to the deep sea to catch the king, I just hope that there are countless Shu troops in the city of Tongxian County, so that they can fight a bloody battle.

Who knew that after calling for a long time, there was no movement in the city of Tongxian County, and even the heads of the guards did not come out one or two. Could it be an empty city plan? It seems that Zhuge Wuhou's mass base in Shu is still good, and any place can use such a shocking trick as the empty city plan!

Finally, more than an hour later, a person who looked like an official finally appeared on the wall of the city of Tongxian County, and asked tremblingly: "Who are the people in the city?" ”

Zeng Hua, who had never dared to act rashly, was waiting for the scout's return, and when he saw that someone in the city had finally accosted him, he immediately replied: "I am the general of Anxi of the Great Jin Dynasty, the commander of the Jiejie, the governor of Jing Si, Yongyi, Liangning, the military of the six states, the commander of the Southern Barbarian Captain, the forward and former guard army under the command of Lord Shihuan of Jingzhou, and the commander of the Captain Shui, Zeng Hua, is also!" Today, he led the army west to conquer the pseudo-Shu, and the flea people are not going to go out of the city and surrender quickly! If you are half a step late, my army will turn you into powder!" ”

Zeng Hua finally got over the addiction of an ancient general calling the city.

"Are you really the striker under the command of Lord Jingzhou Thorn Shi Huan?" The one in the city still asked tremblingly, expressing doubts about the strange sky blue earth yellow and red star military flag at the front.

"Damn! Do you want me to throw the official seal to you? Zeng Hua was a little impatient. Is this his "first battle"? Why do you want to kill it! "Looks like you don't want to come down! Come on, get ready to attack the city! "Lao Tzu doesn't believe that my 3,000 men and horses can't attack your small city that is only seven feet high! The three thousand Changshui, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, shouted in unison, raised their shields, and carried the ladder to prepare to beat the drum to attack the city.

"The general is angry! The general is angry! We fall! Seeing that Zeng Hua under the city was about to go crazy, the city immediately shouted loudly and quickly opened the city gate. I saw a middle-aged man wearing a pseudo-Shu County official uniform walking out of the city gate, followed by about dozens of people who were trivial, wearing the clothes of officials and husbands, looking like a group of rats who had been coaxed out of the hole.

"Who are you?" Zeng Hua asked depressedly.

"The next official is Feng Yue, the county commander of Tong County, and the official seal of Feng Tong County welcomes the general!"

Only then did Zeng Hua know that there were only a dozen officials in this county, and more than 100 people were temporarily brought in, which made Zeng Hua's first victory. However, this victory made Zeng Hua and the Changshui Army feel very shameless, although Huan Wen asked the record room to record the first merit of Zeng Hua and the Changshui Army, and also let Feng Yue serve with the former army, but Zeng Hua and the Changshui Army were reluctant to mention the matter.

Only Che Yin dared to say this in Zeng Hua, Zeng Hua was embarrassed to refute him, but at this time, Feng Yue next to him was there for fear that the world would not be chaotic: "On that day, the official saw that the captain led the army under the city of Tongxian, and the army was neat and murderous. What's more, this is the official army's recovery of Yizhou, which is a righteous move by Shuntian, even if there are thousands of troops and horses, they dare not do the act of blocking the car with their mantis arms. ”

Zeng Hua's face was a little black, but Che Yin was trembling next to him and had a stroke! If Zeng Hua hadn't seen that although Feng Yue was pedantic, he was a good hand at handling internal affairs, he would have stepped on this uninteresting bookbag a long time ago.

Fortunately, Zhang Qu came at this time and relieved Zeng Hua's siege in time.

"Lord of the army, the Jiangzhou Navy patrol ship has gone east. It will take two hours to make another trip. Zhang Quyu reported.

"Good! Summons, get started now! Zeng Hua recovered his normal color and ordered.