After Liu Bei got the Wei army pressed to Wudu and Yinping, he knew that Cao Pi was seeking his own prestige.

Cao Pi had previously learned that Liu Bei was king, and sent Chen Jiao to lure Qiang and prepare them to respond to the Cao army that was about to enter the army.

Unexpectedly, when Ma Chao inspected the tribes, some of the tribes who agreed to come down were panicked, and Zhao Yun, who followed Ma Chao, knocked out the flaws, knocked on the side, and unexpectedly scared out the news that Qiang and Qi were connected with each other.

Ma Chao led his troops to take down several tribes. The rest of the tribes who agreed to Cao's army were frightened, launched a rebellion, and formed a coalition army to cause chaos in Longyou and Tianshui.

Ma Chao joined Liangzhou Thorn Shi Huang Quan, Jincheng Taishou Su Ze, Nan'an Taishou Liu Yan, Tianshui Taishou Zhou Budo, Longxi Taishou Xu Miao, Overseer Liu Chan, Hufen Captain Guan Xing, Huwei Captain Zhang Bao, Pingxi Captain Jiang Wei and others led the troops and horses to attack the Zhuhu coalition army, won a complete victory, and quelled the rebellion.

More than 30,000 were beheaded, tens of thousands of horses, 1,110,000 sheep, and 80,000 cattle were obtained. Ma Chao used his prestige to recruit the rebellious Qiang and reorganized it into more than 7,000 Qiang cavalry. Huang Quan moved all the families of these cavalrymen to Jincheng and other cities.

After breaking the Hu and reporting to Hanzhong, Liu Bei was very happy and laughed: "Meng Qi, Zilong, and Gongheng fought bravely, and for a hundred years, Qiang Di has been constantly harassing the people, and for the sake of the frontier, the Qiang Di who is committed to the Han Dynasty has also been coerced into rebellion, with countless casualties, and now it is a big victory." I'm so happy. ”

Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and others were alerted to this might indicate that Cao Pi was starting to move, and the two reminded Liu Bei to be careful. Liu Bei also thought so, and on the one hand sent people to reward everyone, and on the other hand, he asked Longyou to be on guard to prevent Cao Jun.

Liu Bei was called the queen, nominally with Chengdu as the royal capital, but in fact it was Nanzheng in Hanzhong as the actual commanding place.

Liu Bei reclaimed wasteland in Hanzhong, organized tuntian, and hoarded grain and grass. Lecture on the art of war, drill soldiers and horses, and prepare for the Northern Expedition.

Cao Pi made the first move, and the sentry set up by Wei Yan quickly reported. Liu Bei reacted quickly, raised 80,000 troops and horses, with Zhang Fei and Lei Tong as the vanguard, Feng Xi, Gao Xiang, and Wang Ping as the Chinese army, and Pang Tong as the military division, and personally entered Yinping County to engage the Wei army.

Just after the vanguard troops entered Yinping, Pang Tong and Liu Bei said: "How is the king going to retreat from the enemy?" ”

Liu Bei said: "Yinping is located in a mountainous area, with dense forests and high mountains, which is not conducive to the galloping of cavalry, but it is the time for the infantry to make meritorious contributions, and our Yizhou soldiers are well-trained, and it is extremely beneficial for us to fight in the mountains." Gu I want to lure Cao Pi into battle with me, and then use the mountains to go around their backs and flank them. ”

Pang Tong said: "The king is high, and he can see the doorway at a glance, yes, Cao Pi went smoothly into Yinping and Wudu counties, but it was equivalent to entering the cage, and he couldn't give full play to his advantage in troops."

Compared with the soldiers and horses of the Han army, which are good at mountain warfare, they are slightly inferior. It's just that how and when is the king going to march into the army? ”

Liu Bei said: "Yinping has been lost, Wudu County is in danger, I intend to start attacking immediately, attack Yinping first, and send a force of soldiers and horses to force Wudu County, and Wudu will form a horn trend." ”

Pang Tong said: "Why didn't the king send soldiers and horses to cut off the Cao army's grain route?" ”

Liu Bei said: "I also have this intention, I am afraid that there are no competent soldiers and horses in the battalion, and I have already sent someone to urgently transfer the flying army to come." Pang Tong thought so.

Liu Bei ordered the generals Wang Ping, Liu Yin, Zhang Yi and others to lead 3,000 troops each under the guidance of the people of Yinping County to open up a road from the mountains, go around to the vanguard Zhang Fei, and send people to let Zhang Fei march slowly. He urged the soldiers and horses to reach Yinping.

Cao Zhen, the general of the Cao army in Yinping County, had already figured out the geography around Yinping, and Cao Zhen set up camps in several key mountain passes to prevent the Han army from coming by detour.

When the Han army arrived after receiving the report, he personally led 30,000 troops and horses straight to the vanguard of the Han army, more than 10,000 people, preparing to frustrate the spirit of the Han army first.

Cao Zhen first set up an ambush at the key places where the Han army must march through, but Zhang Fei had been in Wudu and Yinping, and was very familiar with geography.

Zhang Fei sent several teams of scouts to several dangerous places to listen, and the rest of them reported that there was no ambush, and only one place was not reported.

Zhang Fei immediately judged that there must be ghosts where there is no return. Zhang Fei once again sent fine people to watch the terrain from a distance, and sure enough, the terrain there was steep and narrow, with high mountains and dense forests.

Zhang Fei suddenly said, "You said that there is a dense forest?" The person who reciprocated replied affirmatively, which made Zhang Fei very happy.

Zhang Fei and Lei Tong discussed, since Cao Jun may be ambushed in the dense forest, it is to bring about his own destruction, and the two of them planned and began to march.

Zhang Fei ordered the three armies to bring a bunch of hay each, and began to look at the ambush of Cao's army step by step.

After two days of grinding and marching, the wind was blowing, Zhang Fei felt that the time had come, and he changed his previous slow march and rushed forward with all his might, just when he was about to enter the ambush of Cao's army.

Zhang Fei ordered to stop, divided into six teams of 100 people, and went to the ambush circle first, and the Wei army in ambush saw that there were only 600 people, so they did not move, and put a long line to catch big fish, this is just the sentinel of the Han army, what they don't know is that they don't move to prove that these 600 people don't move.

The 600 Han troops began to scatter in all directions, lighting hay and setting fire to the mountains on all sides, these actions were clearly seen by the Cao army on the mountain, and they could not hide their bodies, so they had to jump up and attack the Han army.

Zhang Fei outside was not idle, and began to set fire from the entrance, the wind helped the fire, and the fire swept and spread to the entire mountain.

The Cao army was all driven out by the fire, embarrassed, Zhang Fei killed, and the Cao army, which was not ready, was killed by the Han army for a while, and left in defeat.

Zhang Fei did not give up, and closely chased after the defeated soldiers. Cao Zhentun was stationed not far away, and after seeing the skyrocketing fire, he found that the situation was not good, so he led thousands of soldiers and horses to come.

On the road, it was a defeated army, and then Zhang Fei killed, Cao Zhen waved his army to fight with Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei was killing energetically, seeing Cao Junjun receiving the soldiers and horses, he did not retreat, and the horses were killed into the battle, and Cao Zhen commanded the soldiers and horses to surround Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei saw Cao Zhen and smiled: "Come on, come on, boy, fight with your Grandpa Zhang for three hundred rounds!" Cao Zhen ignored it.

Zhang Fei was extremely brave, tearing and encircling several times, but it caused chaos in Cao's army, Lei Tong took the opportunity to attack from the flank, and Cao Zhen had to retreat.

Zhang Fei and Lei Tong chased straight to Cao Jun, chased over a mountain, and their vision suddenly opened up, and Cao Jun was ready to fight.

Cao Zhen climbed the mountain that had been selected long ago to observe the battlefield situation, dispatched troops, and commanded Cao's army to besiege Zhang Fei.

Cao Zhen gathered his thoughts, he underestimated the Han army too much before, and wanted to come to Zhang Feijun's general, which is an opponent who will be defeated so easily. Fortunately, Cao Zhen improvised and lured Zhang Fei to pursue, and the army lined up here.

Zhang Fei was not slow to react, and commanded the Han army to gather the formation and confront the Cao army. Cao Zhen didn't wait for Zhang Fei to form a formation and start attacking, and Cao's army came out on both wings.

Zhang Fei understood at a glance that the Wei army was ready to eat him, and snorted, Zhang Fei raised his spear and jumped on the horse, and divided into two teams with Lei Tong to block the Cao army on both wings, and the deputy general Zong Yu resisted the Cao army of the Chinese army.

While fighting and walking, the two soldiers and horses started to fight, and Cao Zhen knew that he would definitely not take advantage of himself. After a battle between the two armies, Zhang Fei saw that Cao's army had the upper hand in numbers and physical strength, and it was not a way to go on like this.

Zhang Fei looked sideways, calculated his heart, and said to the soldiers on the left and right: "The enemy is outnumbered, we must take advantage of the geographical advantage." I look at the northwest Tushan can be relied on, as long as we take the lead in capturing Tushan and condescendingly form an advantage over Cao's army, we can reverse the disadvantage, you go and inform General Lei Tong and General Zongzhu to cooperate with me. "The pro-soldier commanded.

Lei Tong replied: "That's exactly what I mean." I will go to seize the mountain, and General Zhang will go to resist Cao's army. ”

Lei Tong shook his spear and faced Cao Jun, and as soon as he took over, Lei Tong even killed him, jumped down several Cao generals and lieutenants, and killed Cao Jun.

Lei Tong attacked fiercely for a while, forcing the Cao army back more than ten steps, retreating sharply from the flank of the Cao army, turning over and grabbing the mountain to the west. Zhang Fei commanded his soldiers and horses to catch Cao's attack.

Cao Zhen watched the battle from a high place, and said with a smile when he saw Lei Tong's actions: "The Han army is really a child, can't I see their thoughts, I want to seize the soil and mountains in the northwest, how can I do what they want, Zhang Fei is the courage of a horseman, I have 30,000 soldiers and horses, and he is only 10,000."

It is common sense to dare to engage in battle without waiting for Liu Bei's army, to attack more and less, and to dominate the outnumbered, Zhang Fei relied on his own slight courage and lost more than 10,000 people in vain, see how I transfer troops to capture him. ”

Cao Zhen ordered Zhu Zan to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to seize the northwest Tushan before Lei Tong, and divided 3,000 soldiers and horses to order the general Xue and when Zhang Fei and Lei Tong had no time to take care of him, they detoured to surround the Han army after the Han army.

Cao Zhen led more than 1,000 people to sit and watch the battle. Lei Tong was fighting with the blocking Cao army, and rushed to a place not far from Tushan, and Zong Pre sent half of his soldiers and horses to kill from the oblique spurs, helping Lei Tong.

Lei Tong's troops strengthened, broke the blockage of Cao's army, approached Tushan, and began to climb the mountain. Unexpectedly, Zhu Zan suddenly killed and snatched the earth mountain, and Lei Tong and Zhu Zan each occupied half of the earth mountain.

Zhu Zan had many soldiers and horses, and Lei Tong was quite brave, and the two fell into a stalemate. Zhang Fei saw it clearly in the distance, knowing that the plan had been seen by Cao Zhen.

Zhang Fei forced himself to calm down, and began to quickly find a way to get out of the predicament, the spear in his hand was not slow at all, Zhang Fei saw a Cao army detouring behind his soldiers and horses, this is to make dumplings. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Zhang Fei glanced around, and suddenly figured out how to change the situation of the battle, without delay, Zhang Fei shouted: "Kill with me." ”

After that, he led the troops to rush out, Zhang Fei tried his best, carried two knives, and quickly opened the gap to break through, but the fatal thing was that Lei Tong and Zong Pre were still inside.

Cao Zhen snorted when he saw such a scene from a high place: "Although Zhang Fei is brave, he has become old and afraid of death!" ”

ordered everyone to shout at Zhang Fei to flee and disturb the morale of the Han army. Zhang Fei whispered to the left and right: "Don't worry, I deliberately deceive, you took advantage of Cao Jun to think that I was afraid, and when I neglected to take precautions, I seized the small ridge in the southwest and captured it."

Cao's army will inevitably come to besiege us, and when the time comes, we will climb to the north corner of the ridge, rush down to attack the back of Zhu Zan, and will meet with General Lei Tong. ”

Everyone agreed, and pretended to retreat along the ridge to the ridge, and when Cao Junjun saw it, he cheered loudly, relaxed, and surrounded Lei Tong and Zongpre. The Han army took the opportunity to kill the ridge, and the Cao army found that it was not good at this time and hurriedly came to seize it.

Zhang Fei jumped up and stepped on the war horse, using the condescending impact of the ridge to lead his own soldiers to kill hundreds of Cao troops, and the Cao army's offensive slowed down slightly.

Zhang Fei gathered his soldiers and horses to move forward along the ridge and killed him from the north corner, Cao Zhen saw it clearly, knew that it was not good, and urgently ordered everyone to block Zhang Fei.

Unexpectedly, the order was sent a step too late, Zhang Fei had already tore through the encirclement of Cao's army and penetrated directly into Tushan, and the direction that Zhang Fei killed from the ridge was precisely Zhu Zan's flank.

Zhu Zan was fighting with Zhang Fei for Tushan, but was killed by Zhang Fei from behind, and Zhang Fei ordered most of the soldiers and horses to block the Cao army who wanted to rush up.

He only led 500 people to kill Zhu Zan's soldiers and horses, Zhu Zan was defeated, and he couldn't stop it anymore, the Wei army was defeated down the mountain, Zhang Fei ordered to open the opening and let the Cao army go down the mountain, and the Cao army was defeated and rushed down, but collided with the Cao army who wanted to rush up.

In chaos, Zhang Fei and Lei Tong lost no time in rushing to kill, and the Cao army who killed them was defeated.

Cao Zhen personally rushed to the formation to command and could not contain it, Zhang Fei, Lei Tong, and Zong Pre joined forces in one place, and fought hard to kill and kill out of the encirclement of the Cao army.

Just when the Han army retreated, unexpectedly, after the two broke through, they met with the 2,000 Cao army sent by the rear, Zhang Fei and Lei Tong killed for a while, and the Cao army was defeated after the rear.

Exploring the Malay report that Cao Zhen commanded Cao's army to retreat, Zhang Fei said: "How can you make the thief retreat calmly." After that, he turned over and killed back, Zhang Fei personally ignored his own attack, which greatly boosted the morale of the Han army.

Cao Zhen was very surprised, Zhang Fei dared to turn back! The stable formation began to counterattack, Zhang Fei retreated again, Cao Zhen was unwilling to dwell on it for too long, and the soldiers were already showing their exhaustion.

So, after Cao Zhen ordered Xue to break off, he returned to the camp with his whole army. Zhang Fei and Cao Zhen fought each other, the Han army can be said to win first and then draw, Cao Zhen was defeated first and then drawn, Cao Zhen faced such a result, and his own advantage in strength actually fought a draw, which was really an undefeated defeat.

After Cao Zhen retreated, his subordinates reported that Cao Pi's envoy had arrived, and Cao Zhen personally got up to access.

The envoy said to Cao Zhen: "The king already knows that Liu Bei's army is coming, I hope that the general can be able to catch Yinping well, and when His Majesty captures Wudu County, the army will naturally come!" "Cao Zhen was overjoyed and entertained the messenger.

Zhang Fei returned to the camp to rest, and the next day, Liu Bei's army came, Zhang Fei told him about the battle situation, and Liu Bei listened: "Warlike, the third brother, General Lei, General Zong, you can still dampen the spirit of Cao's army when you are at a disadvantage, you are really a warrior!" The three of them didn't even dare to say it.

A few days later, Wang Ping, Zhang Yi, Liu Yin and other soldiers and horses sent by Liu Bei to report back to report that they brought back news that disappointed Liu Bei: their advance was either because the road was really steep and difficult to climb, delaying time and the battle was unprofitable, or they encountered the defenders set by Cao Zhen, in order to avoid startling the grass and snakes, exposing their whereabouts and other reasons, they could only wait for the next order.

Liu Bei was very disappointed, and Pang Tong comforted: "Your Majesty, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, this is not a good thing!" ”

Liu Bei asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Pang Tong said: "Your Majesty, the generals have generally figured out the situation, as long as there is time, this lofty mountain can be completely crossed, and the flying army will definitely be able to make contributions, which has paved the way for forcing Cao Pi to retreat." ”

Liu Bei turned his worries into joy and said: "Reasonable." ”

Liu Bei asked Pang Tong: "Shi Yuan has any clever plan to retreat from the enemy, I will listen to it." ”

Pang Tong said: "Where do I have any clever plan, this plan that I can think of now, the king is already implementing." ”

Liu Bei thought for a while and said, "What Mo Fei Shiyuan said is that he is going to use the Wudang Flying Army to cut off the enemy's grain and grass. ”

Pang Tong said: "Exactly, the king atoned for his sins, I don't have anything to calculate for the time being!" ”

Liu Bei said: "This situation is difficult after all!" Wait for the Wudang Flying Army to arrive, hand it over to the Wudang Flying Army, and then see if Cao Jun can show his flaws. I am worried about whether it is useful to cut off food, after all, Cao Pi will not make the mistake of ignoring the grain route. ”

Pang Tong said: "The king is right, so we mainly attack and harass, even if it delays the Cao army's grain transportation team."

Cao Pi's 200,000 army this time has taken advantage of the number of people, but it has to be subject to grain and grass, 200,000 people, plus tens of thousands of people, what will happen if it is delayed for a day, no more, seven or eight times, there is a problem with Cao's army's grain road, and there is still the heart to fight? ”

Liu Bei said: "Yes, good, in this case, I will speed up the urging of Wudang Feijun." ”

After a pause, Liu Bei said again: "Shiyuan, what do you think of the situation in Longyou?" ”

Pang Tong thought for a while, thought about it for a while, and said, "Your Majesty, do you think the counties of Longyou will take the initiative to surrender?" ”

Liu Bei said: "No, Liu Yan doesn't have much ability, he is absolutely loyal, and his internal affairs are fine, so I asked him to be the Taishou of Nan'an." Zhao Yun, Zhou Budo, Li Hui, and Zhang Wei are all loyal people, Xu Miao will not surrender as long as we are not at an obvious disadvantage! ”

Pang Tong said: "Then there is nothing to worry about. Cao Jun's attack on Longyou had to be attacked step by step, and he couldn't afford it. ”

Liu Bei said: "I'm worried that they will be broken by each one without help inside and outside." Just like we did when we conquered Longyou. ”

Pang Tong said: "The king is worried about it too much. At the time of Cao Cao, Liangzhou and Longyou did not have time to fully control it, and their defenses were weak. The king has been in business for more than three years, Huang Quan, Su Ze and others are fully operational, Qiang Di is completely in the heart, as long as they have the heart, it is completely okay to gather 350,000 cavalry, and then it is not difficult to launch Qiang Di to retreat. What's more, Ma Chao is also in Liangzhou, so he gets twice the result with half the effort! ”

Liu Bei was enlightened by Pang Tong, and his heart settled down a little. Liu Bei didn't know that he had Pang Tong's comfort, and Pang Tong hid his worries in his heart.

Pang Tong understands the advantages and disadvantages, and now he is most afraid that Cao Jun will take the right side of the grain Longyou and take the street pavilion, and the Cao army will not be subject to the grain and grass if he is on the right side of the grain, and the loss of the street pavilion is equivalent to opening the road to enter the right side of Longyou, and he will declare bankruptcy if he defends himself according to the risk. Pang Tong could only hide these words in his heart, so as not to affect Liu Bei's mood, what they needed to deal with was Cao Pi's 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Two days later, Liu Bei marched into the army, and Cao Zhen withdrew to a dangerous place to defend, and Pang Tong had already expected that Cao Zhen would block his army from approaching Xia Wei to support the still holding Wudu.

However, Liu Bei was not waiting in vain in the past two days, he sent people to order Wang Ping, Zhang Yi, Liu Yin and others to change the previous wide net, cooperate with the strategy of attacking on the whole front, and change it to concentrate on attacking a little.

Wang Ping, Zhang Yi and others went to occupy the upper end of the dangerous mountain pass, when Liu Bei attacked Cao Zhen head-on, Wang Ping beat drums and shouted at the upper end of the mountain pass, Cao Jun did not know the truth, thinking that the Han army was going to attack from top to bottom and abandon the mountain pass.

Liu Bei saw that Cao Jun was retreating, and did not give him a chance to breathe, so he ordered Zhang Fei and Lei Tong to chase after him alternately, without stopping, and the two of them received their orders. Liu Bei repeated his old tricks and broke two mountain passes.

Cao Zhen was prepared, and Liu Bei commanded his soldiers and horses to storm and take a mountain pass, opening up a road to Wudu.

Liu Bei asked the generals: "Who dares to lead the troops to send grain and grass into the city of Xiabian?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Fei came out and said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to go!" ”

Liu Bei smiled: "Yes, you have to do it." After all, Cao Zhen is a newcomer and cannot fully control the geography here. Taking advantage of Cao Zhen's dazzle, we led our troops to Wudu to support it, so as to strengthen the heart of Wudu to defend the city! ”

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