"Gongqi rest assured, how can the lord not know the importance of Hanzhong? Believe me, the lord will definitely send reinforcements! ”

Seeing that Zhang Lu was silent, Zhang Xiu's attitude also softened.

Next, Zhang Lu is also needed to work together with him to resist Dong Huang, and Zhang Xiu does not dare to offend Zhang Lu too much, so he can only pick up good words.

"I'm afraid we won't hold out until reinforcements arrive."

Zhang Lu smiled bitterly.

This is a very real question, even if Liu Yan really has the heart to save Hanzhong, but when will his reinforcements arrive? Even if they arrived in time, would they be able to withstand the attack of Dong Huang's army?

Compared with the invincible Dong Huang army in the elite field, the biggest advantage of Liu Yanjun, who has an unstable foothold, is that he is relatively good at mountain warfare and many dangerous passes in Shu, if Liu Yan really gives up these advantages and Dong Huang's army in a decisive battle in Hanzhong, I am afraid that he will really lose very badly.

"And what about our loved ones?"

Zhang Xiu is not really stupid, he understands all these truths, but the affairs of his family are the biggest factor affecting his choice.

"Let's take one step at a time!"

What Zhang Xiu was worried about was also what Zhang Lu was helpless about.

Even Zhang Lu, who had no fighting spirit, did not decide whether to choose to surrender as a dutiful son, or to flee back to Shuzhong via the rice cang road.

If possible, Zhang Lu doesn't want to abandon his mother and his family who are still in Liu Yan's mansion, but if he goes back like this, how should he deal with himself?

For a while, Zhang Lu and Zhang Xiu fell into silence until urgent reports from the front came one after another.

The front line came to report: Yangping Pass is broken, and the praise is lost!

Dong Huang had no trouble beating Yangpingguan.

Yangping Pass was already in disrepair, and Dong Huang also brought a big killer - trebuchet.

Science and technology are the primary productive forces!

Although Dong Huang did not have much confidence in the development of thermal weapons, he was very interested in siege equipment such as trebuchets.

Although Dong Huang didn't know the construction method of the thunderbolt car and the return cannon, he only said one idea, and said something about levers, pulleys and the like, Ma Jun, who had strong hands-on ability and was eager to get Dong Huang's approval, turned around day and night for three days in a row, and invented the trebuchet.

The hastily invented Ma Jun generation trebuchet may not be as powerful as the thunderbolt and return cannon, but dozens of catties of boulders smashed into the city wall, and the morale of the defenders of Yangping Pass was suddenly lost.

What's even more dramatic is that Su Guyu's Zhao Song and Chen Diao are lurking in Guanzhong with dead soldiers at this time.

In history, after Su Gu's death, in order to avenge Su Gu, Zhao Song alone carried a sword and killed Zhang Xiu's camp, killing dozens of people in a row, almost killing Zhang Xiu, and finally being besieged and killed!

After Chen Tiao learned of Zhao Song's death, he also gathered more than 100 guests to attack Zhang Xiu's army, and broke Zhang Xiu's former army into Zhang Xiu's camp, and finally died of wounds because he was outnumbered.

At this time, the two also wanted to avenge Su Gu, but they heard that Dong Huang's army had arrived at Yangping Pass.

The two of them combined, with the courage of a puppet to assassinate to the death, it is very likely that they will be outnumbered and fail miserably, but if they help Dong Huang's army break through, they will definitely be able to kill Zhang Xiu with the help of Dong Huang.

So the two led the dead soldiers to pretend to be Su Gu's army and infiltrated Yangping Pass, preparing to open and close the city.

It happened that the morale of the defenders was robbed, and the two immediately broke out, killed the guard Yang Bai, and took Dong Huang's army into the city.

After that, the two asked for orders as guides, wanting to guide Dong Huang's cavalry to surround Nanzheng and cut off Zhang Xiu's escape before Zhang Lu and Zhang Xiu could react. Dong Huang took their advice.

Listen to the name of Baozhong, you know, it is related to Baoshui and Baochuan Road, in fact, it is the first city after entering Hanzhong from Guanzhong through Baochuan Road.

Entering Shu is a plan set by Dong Huang and Jia Xu a long time ago, and it has been deduced countless times, including the plan of the army to attract the attention of the enemy from Yangping Pass, and the surprise soldiers to take the Bao Slope Road, Fu Luo Road, and Meridian Road to sneak attack.

In order to ensure the success rate of the plan and prevent the emergence of war agents in Hanzhong who knew the plot from making a moth, Dong Huang tried his best to send troops to these three roads, among which the best one was handed over to Xu Huang, and the other two were handed over to Wu Ban and Wu Lan brothers.

According to the agreed date, Xu Huang commanded a total of more than 10,000 men and horses, opened the road with the fine willow camp, and entered the Bao Slope Road.

Fortunately, Xu Huang did not encounter ambushes along the way, and easily occupied the panicked Baozhong, and then left 2,000 people to guard the back road, and the main force rushed to the south of Zheng.

When Zhang Lu and Zhang Xiu got the news, Dong Huang's two troops were already about to arrive in Nanzheng, and when the two were about to flee, Dong Huang's cavalry had already cut off their retreat to the south!

What to do?

Zhang Lu and Zhang Xiu both know very well that they can't keep it! You can't escape!

Just when Zhang Xiu was about to turn his heart and burn the jade in Nanzhengcheng, Zhang Lu made the first move.

Zhang Lu took advantage of Zhang Xiu's unpreparedness, captured Zhang Xiu alive, and then went out of the city to surrender.

Dong Huang accepted Zhang Lu's surrender, but handed Zhang Xiu over to Zhao Song and Chen Tiao for revenge.

After Zhao Song and Chen Diao killed Zhang Xiu, Dong Huang unlocked a new attendant.

[Sixth-Order Squire-Dead Soldier-Swordsman: Zhao Song]

[This squire has the following special skills: 1. Loyalty: His loyalty is unswerving to death, and he is willing to die for you!] 2. Swordsman: He has extraordinary swordsmanship! 3. Training: Each mission world can train 30 fifth-order dead soldiers who are willing to stab to the death! 】

[Fifth-Order Squire-Ranger-Swordsman: Chen Tune]

[This squire has the following special skills: 1. Loyalty: His loyalty is unswerving to death, and he is willing to die for you!] 2. Swordsman: He has extraordinary swordsmanship! 3. Training: Each mission world can train 100 fourth-order rangers who are good at gathering intelligence! 】

The appearance of these two attendants was definitely a surprise.

For Dong Huang, their biggest role is to have an absolutely trustworthy spy and assassin force.

Relying on them, Dong Huang can establish an intelligence agency similar to Jinyiwei that integrates intelligence collection, assassination and other functions!

The only pity is that there are so few of them!

Dong Huang temporarily placed them under the command of Jia Xu.

After Zhang Lu surrendered, Nan Zheng fell into Dong Huang's hands unharmed.

With Nanzheng, it is only a matter of time before the whole territory of Hanzhong is obtained.

At this point, although the attack at the Sword Pavilion was frustrated, the road from Hanzhong to Shu through the Micang Road was opened.

Compared with the Golden Bull Road through the Sword Pavilion, this road is wider and easier to walk, through which you can directly enter Ba County, seize Langzhong, Danqu and the important town of Jiangzhou, and then go upriver from Jiangzhou to Chengdu through Qianwei County.

This time, Dong Huang didn't play any tricks of fiction and reality, and directly ordered Gao Shun to be the main general, with Xi Zhicai as the military advisor, and Xu Ding, Cheng Lian, Wei Yue, Hu Che'er and other Xiao generals as deputy generals, leading the trapped camp and 30,000 elites who had not shown much performance along the way to enter Ba County, vowing to gain a firm foothold in Ba County before Liu Yan reacted.

Gao Shun never disappointed Dong Huang.

When Dong Huang put his arm around the waist of the Empress Dowager He and pointed to the country and told her that she would build the Hanzhong palace there and let Liu Bian have a place to live, Gao Shun crossed the Micang Mountain with all the hardships and dangers, easily took the unsuspecting Hanchang County, and then went south along the dive and easily took the ditch.

(End of chapter)