Liu Bei ordered Chen Zhi to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to surround the city, and went to Chengdu in person to appease the people and reward Wei Yan, Feng Xi and other soldiers. He also held the hand of Zhang Song and Fa Zheng and said: "There is Lao Yongnian and filial piety." ”

The two resigned again and again, Zhang Song told Liu Bei about the city head, and Liu Bei sighed after hearing it: "If I can revive the Han Dynasty, Liu Zhang and his son will still be the assassin of Yizhou, and they will never break their word."

Pang Tong said: "Lord, it is difficult to tolerate two tigers in a mountain today, so you should seek peace with Liu Zhang as soon as possible." Liu Bei couldn't bear to go. He ordered a temporary rest and recuperation, so that the officers and men of the three armies could recuperate.

Late that night, Liu Bei had not yet rested, and suddenly escorted Bo Wei to report: "Pang Tong is here." ”

Liu Bei ordered to invite, got up to greet him, and connected Pang Tong.

After sitting down, Liu Bei asked, "Shiyuan came here late at night, what did he come from?" ”

Pang Tong said: "Come and ask the lord to invite me to drink." ”

Liu Bei smiled slightly, and asked people to buy wine and food. Neatly prepared, Pang Tong picked up the wine glass and raised his glass to Liu Bei and said, "Respect the lord." ”

Liu Bei also raised his glass and drank it all. After three cups in a row, Liu Bei said: "Shi Yuan has nothing to say, just say it." ”

Pang Tong said: "The Lord knows me. The reason why the lord does not have troops to surround Guanghan today is whether he has scruples, and this scruple is the word benevolence and righteousness, I don't know if it is. ”

Liu Bei said: "Shiyuan knows me, takes away people's inheritance, and fights without declaring, alas." ”

Pang Tong said: "In this way, Han Gaozu and Emperor Guangwu are also unkind and unrighteous people. ”

Liu Bei was shocked: "Why do you say this." ”

Pang Tong said quietly: "Xiang Yu once rescued Gaozu, and Emperor Guangwu once defeated Liu Penzi and Liu Xuan, the same sect. Could it be that they are all unkind and unrighteous people, no, because their lifelong ambitions and outstanding abilities make them have to fight, there are so many heroes in the world, but in the end, only one person can survive, and the husband is not guilty of his crimes. Now, in this troubled world, there must be a trade-off in this position. In the same situation, Cao Cao will not allow the lord to sit big, always want to destroy the lord, Sun Quan occupies Jiangdong, not only for a while, at this moment, only by annexing Yizhou, and then trying to Guanzhong, there is hope to destroy Cao and Sun, otherwise, we will be swallowed up, like no waves on the water, please let the lord let reason suppress emotion and benevolence, Liu Zhang wants to blame him for being born in the wrong era, and he was involved in this war in the Central Plains. ”

Liu Bei raised his head and stared out the window, sighed, stepped forward to help Pang Tong and said, "Shiyuan's hard work, I understand, I will enter the army!" ”

Pang Tong said: "It's good that the lord can understand, lord, let's take down Yizhou, wait until it is successful, and just go back with the compensation with interest, if the Han survives, Liu Zhang's glory is endless, the Han is not there, Liu Zhang is just a ghost under the knife." ”

Liu Bei nodded, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves that night.

Two days later, Liu Bei raised his troops to prepare to attack Guanghan, and Liu Bei asked Pang Tong: "Shiyuan, is there a way to make Liu Yizhou surrender without a fight." ”

Pang Tong said: "Now it seems that the only way to make Liu Zhang completely give up resistance is to fight again, and we have to defeat him head-on." ”

Liu Bei nodded and agreed, and did not mention the dispatch of troops. Liu Bei ordered Zhang Song and others to continue to take care of Chengdu, and led his troops to Guanghan.

The vanguard Wei Yan led 7,000 soldiers and horses to arrive at the city of Guanghan, and Zhang Rende reported to Liu Zhang: "My lord, you can take advantage of Liu Bei's main force to frustrate his vanguard, and then defend the city."

Liu Zhang opened his mouth to speak, and finally said: "We might as well surrender." If the fight continues, it will only be the people who will suffer. ”

Zhang Ren struggled to support and said: "Since the lord has this heart, and allows me to go out of the city to fight, if I can win, even if I surrender Liu Bei, I dare not underestimate the lord, if I unfortunately lose, it is also the will of God." ”

Liu Zhang promised: "Be careful. ”

Zhang Ren was neatly clothed and led 20,000 soldiers and horses out of the city to attack Wei Yan, although Liu Zhang's army was numerous, but Wei Yanhao was not afraid of color, and lined up and fought.

Zhang Ren first sent scouts to understand the movements of Liu Bei's main army in a timely manner. After that, he commanded his troops and horses to surround Wei Yan.

Wei Yan encouraged the three armies: "The soldiers and horses in Sichuan, without going through the battle formation, without repairing the armor, we only need to hold on for two hours, and when the army comes, the internal and external attacks can break the enemy army, and the meritorious service is at this time." ”

Liu Beijun won consecutive battles, his morale was high, and with Wei Yan's encouragement, he was more majestic, vigorous and calm-faced with Liu Zhangjun.

Zhang Ren was also unambiguous, and offered a reward: "The first person to enter the enemy's formation will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold." "Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men, Liu Zhang's army rushed into Wei Yan's army formation.

Zhang Ren personally led his own soldiers to attack, Wei Yan led his troops to resist, Zhang Ren thought: Kill this person, the big thing can be decided. Wei Yan also pondered: If this person is captured, Guanghan can break it with a backhand.

As soon as the two of them fought, they both used a lot of strength. The two armies fought from midnight to noon, Wei Yan's troops and horses were very close, and Liu Zhang's army rushed out of the gap several times, but they were all desperately beaten back by Wei Yan, Feng Xi and other troops.

In this way, Liu Zhang's army could not give full play to its superiority, and Liu Zhang saw that the soldiers and horses were tired at the head of the city, so he ordered Liu Hui and Ma Han to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses out of the city to help in the battle.

Liu Bei's army was inferior, the soldiers were tired, more than half of the casualties were lost, and there were only 3,000 capable soldiers left, but Wei Yan knew that he could not retreat, and if he retreated, he would inevitably collapse, and he must encourage the soldiers, otherwise he would be desperate.

Wei Yan shouted: "Soldiers, now we can only fight to the death to repay the lord, I Wei Yan is not talented, I am willing to advance with everyone and never retreat." ”

Liu Beijun heard this and shouted: "I am willing to follow the general." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Ren was anxious, Zhang Ren knew: Only a quick battle and a quick decision are the best policy, and if you delay for too long, once Liu Beijun's main force arrives, it will inevitably fail.

Wei Yan fought to the death and did not retreat, Zhang Ren admired his bravery, but hated his difficulty, and shouted with a swing of his spear: "The enemy army is at the end of the road, and it is time to kill thieves and make meritorious contributions." ”

As soon as the words fell, the scout arrived and reported to Zhang Ren: "The enemy army has arrived, and it is only seven or eight miles away from here. ”

Zhang Ren said angrily: "Why not report it early!" ”

The scout said: "The enemy's master is extremely good at archery, except for me who fled back by the path, the rest were shot and killed." ”

Zhang Ren couldn't help but be surprised. Divided 10,000 soldiers and horses to order Wu Lan to intercept the attack, and urged the three armies to step up the siege and kill Wei Yan.

Wu Lan went to intercept the reinforcements, and faced a veteran general Huang Zhong, Wu Lan saw that he was a veteran, so he put his mind at ease, and he actually despised three points.

As soon as Huang Zhong saw Wu Lan's appearance, he immediately understood, so he hung up his knife and bow, and only one arrow hit Wu Lan in the cheek, and hurriedly rescued him left and right.

Huang Zhong slammed into him with a knife, and the commander of Liu Zhang's army did not know life and death, and the army's heart was shaken, and Huang Zhong rushed away. Huang Zhong looked straight in the direction of Wei Yan's banner and killed.

When Liu Beijun saw that the reinforcements had arrived, his morale soared, and Wei Yan immediately commanded his soldiers and horses to kill Huang Zhong and oppose Liu Zhang's army to form a flanking attack.

Seeing this, Zhang Ren knew that he couldn't do anything, so he ordered to retreat, Lei Tong and Wu Lan retreated first, followed by Liu Hui and Ma Han, and he was cut off.

After Huang Zhong and Wei Yan reconciled, Wei Yan's account only left more than 1,000 soldiers and horses that could fight, and the rest were all wounded, Huang Zhong left more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to take care of Wei Yan, and the rest attacked Liu Zhang's army.

Zhang Ren led the troops to resist, Liu Beijun was newly arriving, and his spirit was flourishing, Liu Zhang's army had no heart to fight, although Liu Zhang's soldiers and horses were many, but he was suppressed by Liu Beijun, and Huang Zhong waved his knife to fight Zhang Ren. Zhang Ren resisted, and the two fought together.

Liu Zhang saw it on the city tower, and hurriedly ordered to go out of the city to respond, Liu Ba said: "Lord, at this time, the soldiers and horses retreat, if you send the soldiers and horses out of the city again, it will increase the chaos, Liu Bei's main force will only increase the casualties, so that Liu Hui and Ma Han outside the city are enough to help." ”

Liu Zhang's words, let people pass the order, Liu Hui and Ma Han received the order to stop retreating, and transferred troops to support Zhang Ren, at this time all the departments were crowded into the city, and a transfer of troops still caused chaos in the army, and the two of them spent a lot of effort to transfer out 4,000 people to aid Zhang Ren.

The three of them fought Huang Zhong together, Wei Yan saw it from a distance, patted Ma to help, and took over Zhang Ren, Huang Zhong took the opportunity to use the knife method, the knife split Ma Han, Liu Hui panicked, Huang Zhong slapped down with the back of the knife, and stepped forward to capture Liu Hui left and right.

Zhang Ren forced Wei Yan to block left and right, and hurriedly stirred up, it turned out that Wei Yan had been fighting for a long time, and as soon as he rested just now, he had unloaded most of his strength, so he was defeated by Zhang Ren, Huang Zhong hurriedly took it, and Wei Yan took the opportunity to retreat and rest.

The two armies were fighting, the dust was flying in the distance, Huang Zhong was overjoyed, Zhang Ren was shocked, for a while, Liu Beijun was thunderous, and Liu Zhangjun was panicked.

Wei Yan took the opportunity to shout: "Intercept the enemy army, turn with the army, and break the enemy." ”

Liu Beijun agreed in unison, Zhang Ren was anxious, and saw that there were still sergeants at the city gate who kept retreating into the city. Zhang Renxuan shook a shot, broke away from Huang Zhong, and rushed to the suspension bridge.

When Liu Zhang saw Zhang Ren coming, he immediately beckoned him to enter the city, Zhang Ren turned over and fell off the horse, bowed to Liu Zhang three times, and got back on the horse.

Turning his head to the sergeants, he said: "Now, Liu Bei's main force has arrived, if we continue to retreat to the city, we will inevitably be robbed by Liu Bei's army, the city is all wives and children, if the city is broken, it will inevitably be disturbed by the enemy. Show me the male of Shuzhong, I Zhang Ren is not talented, and I am willing to fight the enemy army with all the kings. ”

Nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses outside the city listened to it, felt its intentions, and then stopped retreating, Zhang Ren ordered the soldiers and horses in the city to raise the suspension bridge, and Liu Zhang hurriedly urged Zhang Ren to enter the city.

Zhang Ren shouted: "Lord, repay him with death today." ”

Liu Zhang couldn't bear to raise the suspension bridge, Zhang Ren saw that Liu Beijun had arrived, so he dismantled the suspension bridge, turned over and fought with Liu Beijun to one place, and everyone surrounded Zhang Ren.

Pang Tong said: "Kill this person, Shu can be determined." ”

Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Killing Zhang Ren in Shu will definitely determine the hope of heroes from all over the world." ”

Ordered Kou Feng, Bo Wei and Huang Zhong to rush up, attack from all sides, and flank Zhang Ren.

Zhang Ren had the will to die, and the three of them attacked in turn, taking advantage of Zhang Ren's lack of strength, capturing Zhang Ren, and Liu Bei ordered the soldiers and horses to exert pressure and forced to land Liu Zhang's army.

Liu Zhangjun saw that Zhang Ren was captured, and his anger was suddenly discharged, except for more than 1,000 people, the rest surrendered, and these thousand people, Liu Bei also continued to persuade them to surrender, and when it was dark, there were only 100 people left, and Liu Bei had to capture or kill.

Liu Bei ordered people to take care of Zhang Ren and Liu Hui, rewarded Wei Yan, Huang Zhong and other generals, rewarded the three armies, and surrounded Guanghan.