The Conquest of the Three Kingdoms

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Lu gritted his teeth resentfully, and shouted "The whole army retreats".

Before the words finished, Zhang Lu pulled on his horse and left first.

Zhang Lu's general flag had already left before the bell sounded.

The Hanzhong Army, which was originally in a state of disarray, saw Zhang Lu leave first.In an instant, people's hearts collapsed, and the tens of thousands of Hanzhong troops who had not fought turned around and fled.

The cavalry fled first.More than 2 Chinese troops who had not fought followed, but suffered from the [-] former troops who were still fighting fiercely.

Le Jin, who was fighting a bloody battle, heard the sound of Ming Jin, and could only retreat according to the order, but the Chu army who was close at hand, how could they easily let them go, these Chu troops who had killed to the upsurge.Following behind them came the mad killing.

Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of the main force of the Chu army also rushed in.With an overwhelming advantage, he was crushed.

The [-] Hanzhong soldiers were killed like ghosts and wolves howling, blood flowed into rivers, and corpses littered the fields.

The whole army is out.Li Yan rode his horse and wielded his sword.He also led five thousand tiger guards to kill them all.

The rolling tide of soldiers, following a long bloody road, pursued all the way towards the Hanzhong camp.

When Zhang Lu and his frightened soldiers managed to escape to the camp, they saw that the antlers outside the camp were completely destroyed, and the raging flames blocked his way back to the camp.

Behind him, Li Yan's army came like the wind.If they were chased by the Chu army, even if Zhang Luneng fled to the camp.It will also be broken by Li Yanlian's remnant battalion.

The panicked Zhang Lu didn't have the slightest intention to fight at the moment, he didn't dare to think about defending Hanzhong anymore, he didn't even think about it, and immediately led his disabled soldiers to look at Nanzheng to retreat.

Seeing Zhang Lu abandoning the camp, the generals guarding the camp lost their fighting spirit and fled to Nanzheng one after another.

Of course, Li Yan would not let Zhang Lu go so easily. While dividing his troops to capture the Nanzheng camp, he personally led the army and chased after him into Nanzheng.

The valley road was narrow and difficult, and it was difficult for the horses to move forward. In desperation, Zhang Lu had to order half of the horses to be abandoned, and the cavalry abandoned their horses and walked.

Zhang Lu, who had escaped for dozens of miles, was like a frightened bird, fearing that Li Yan would pursue him, so he ordered the plank road to be burned down to prevent the Chu army from pursuing.

After losing nearly [-] troops and [-] good Liangzhou horses, Zhang Lu finally stopped Li Yan from chasing and killing them by using the burned plank road.

Seeing that the plank road had been destroyed and Nanzheng's terrain was complicated, if he chased him down, he might be caught by Zhang Lu's ambush, so Li Yan ordered his troops to retreat, and the troops withdrew from Nanzheng, and entered Zhang Lu's abandoned camp.

With a big victory, Li Yan's strategic goal was basically completed.

As Li Yan predicted in advance, Zhang Lu was completely driven out of Hanzhong, and the loss of troops would be extremely heavy.

For Li Yan, in addition to repelling Zhang Lu, there was another unexpected harvest, which was nearly [-] good Liangzhou horses left by Zhang Lu.

Although Li Yan has always had two cavalry, the Shenxing Cavalry and the Tiefutu, the horses have suffered a lot of battle damage after years of conquests.

However, the land occupied by Li Yan is all in the south where there is no horse production. Most of the horses needed can only be obtained by smuggling from traders, which is far from enough to meet the needs.

These [-] war horses are like sending charcoal in the snow, and they are of great help to Li Yan in maintaining the strength of the cavalry.

With a lot of fruit, Li Yan swaggered and led his army into Zhang Lu's abandoned camp. He planned to rest here for one night, and tomorrow he would lead his victorious army to attack Nanzheng City, the seat of Hanzhong County.

As soon as he entered the camp, Huang Zhong, who entered the camp in advance, came to greet him.

"General, there are more than 2000 soldiers in the Hanzhong camp. They were all captured by our army before they could escape. There was also an enemy general named Yang Shu who was imprisoned in a prison cart by Zhang Lu. Please tell me how to deal with it. .”

Poplar...

It's really interesting that the current general will be imprisoned by Zhang Lu in a prison van.

Li Yan immediately rode his horse to go, and at the same time passed on the surrender of several captives, asking why Yang Shu was imprisoned.

After asking, Li Yan learned about Yang Shu's persuasion to Zhang Lu, and even more about the Battle of Dingjun Mountain. Yang Shu also persuaded Yang Ren several times.

"This poplar tree does have some knowledge. If Yang Ren and Zhang Lu listen to his advice, the outcome of the match is still unknown."

When Li Yan was feeling emotional, he appreciated this poplar even more.

After walking for a long time, the group came to the rear camp, and saw a military general sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed in the prison car. Although he was in the prison car, his demeanor was quite calm.

The general in the prison cart is naturally Yang Shu.

"What are you doing with him locked up, let him out quickly." Li Yan raised his whip and drank.

The left and right relatives rushed forward and opened the prison car.

Yang Shu opened his eyes, glanced outside, and immediately got out of the prison car calmly, walked up to Li Yan, and slightly cupped his hands: "I have heard the name of the King of Chu for a long time, and today I see it, it really deserves the reputation."

"How do you know that I am Li Yan?" Li Yan asked curiously.

Yang Shu said indifferently: "Only the King of Chu has the courage to distribute the authority of the army to the generals. During the war, he will appoint a commander and cooperate with each department to fight. As the commander this time, the general has already exuded the heroism of this commander. Domineering, although I have never met him, Huai also knows that such a person must have an extraordinary bearing. Although Huai is not talented, he still has some insight."

Although only a few words, but the evaluation of Li Yan is already very high.

Even so, Li Yan couldn't hear the slightest taste of flattery, and Li Yan was able to break it with just a few words. This Yang Shu is indeed not an ordinary person.

At that moment, Li Yan laughed, and said proudly: "Well said, Yang Shu, I know you are also a character, if Yang Ren and Zhang Lu listen to your advice, they will not be defeated today. Others will not listen Your persuasion, I am the best at accepting advice, submit to me."

Li Yan didn't beat around the bush much, and directly surrendered.

There was a bit of hesitation in Yang Shu's eyes, but immediately, his expression became resolute.

"Thanks to the great attention of the general, Huai is willing to do his best for the general." Yang Shu bowed generously.

He spoke to Yang Ren before and was reprimanded by him, but now he speaks to Zhang Lu and puts him in a prison van for the furious Zhang Lu. Yang Shu has long been cold-hearted.

Up to now, with a hero like Li Yan here, Yang Shu is a person who knows current affairs, so there is no way not to surrender.

After defeating Zhang Lu, he won another general with both civil and military skills. The harvest of this battle has far exceeded Li Yan's imagination.

The complacent Li Yan was so excited that he couldn't help laughing wildly.

The day after Yangshu was recruited to surrender, Li Yan's army set off, with the newly surrendered Yangshu leading [-] soldiers and horses as the vanguard, and drove straight into Nanzheng.

Zhang Lu defeated Nanzheng, and the army fled to the junction of Hanzhong and Yizhou. When the news came, the whole Hanzhong was devastated.

Wherever Li Yan's army passed by, the cities of Huangsha and Baozhong all fell in anticipation.

In less than two days, Li Yan's army had arrived at the city of Nanzheng.

At this time, most of the soldiers and civilians in Nanzheng City had been moved away by Zhang Lu, and there were only a thousand county soldiers and hundreds of military households left in the city.

Before the army arrived, all the officials in the city opened the gates to welcome the surrender.

Without bloodshed, Li Yan planted his red flag on the top of the city of Hanzhong County.

The conquest of Nanzheng was determined by the spread of Yu County in Hanzhong. After entering Nanzheng, Li Yansui ordered Zhao Yun to lead [-] soldiers and horses, and went eastward along the Mian River to cooperate with Chen Dao of Nanyang to jointly capture the three counties of Nanman.

The Shen brothers of Nanman, who were originally the two leaders of the rat, surrendered without a fight when Zhang Lu attacked. Now seeing that Zhang Lu was defeated and retreated from Hanzhong, he immediately surrendered to Li Yan.

Considering the bad deeds of the Shen brothers' repeated rebellion, Li Yan was not polite to those two brothers, and ordered Zhao Yun to behead the two Shen brothers directly, and forcibly took all the thousands of powerful families from the three counties of Nanman to the three counties of Nanman. Moved to Nanyang.

It was near the end of autumn, and the fighting in Hanzhong was basically over, and the three counties of Nanman were all owned by Li Yan.

It can be said that the entire Yizhou has belonged to Li Yan.

Zhang Lu, who returned to Guanzhong, was severely injured, but because he had moved more than 20 people from Hanzhong in advance, Li Yan could not rely on Hanzhong in a short period of time.

Moreover, after nearly three months of war in Hanzhong, Hanzhong suffered a lot of losses, and it will take time to restore the economy and heal the wounds of the war.

Therefore, after capturing Hanzhong, Li Yan ordered a truce.

A month later, Nie Zefeng led the army into Hanzhong, and all the Chu troops began to boil. All the generals knew that this meant that they would take Yizhou in one fell swoop. At this time, they were facing the first city of Yizhou , Baidi City.

Of course, in this process, there was still an episode, that is, Fazheng, the number one advisor in Chengdu, still surrendered to the Chu army and King Nie Zefeng of Chu.

At this time, Huang Quan, who was transferred to be the prefect of Badong, was leading [-] Shu soldiers to guard Baidi City.

As Fazheng said, Huang Quan was deeply suspicious of Nie Zefeng's threatening that he would not attack Yizhou any more. The four thousand Shu soldiers were on guard, as if they were facing a big enemy.

And when Nie Zefeng went to the camp fifteen miles east of Baidi City, after setting up camp, Huang Quan didn't fulfill his landlord's friendship, and didn't send anyone to come to serve as soldiers. Moreover, in broad daylight, Baidi City's four gates were closed. It's like guarding against thieves.

Chinese army tent.

Nie Zefeng stood at the tent door, looking at the Baidi City towering over the river, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Xiaozhi, it seems like you said, this Huang Quan Fanggu is really guarded, it seems that he wants to catch him by surprise. It may not be easy to win the White Emperor City."

But Fazheng smiled and said: "Your Majesty's army has successfully passed through the Three Gorges, so there is nothing to worry about. Once it comes, it will be safe. This Baidi City is not in a hurry to take it, just take it slowly."

"This king wants to draw it slowly, but the people of the world don't give time to loneliness."

At this time, Pang Tong, who was standing next to him, smiled, and said lightly: "How can a Baidi City be delayed for too long? Well, the king will write a letter to invite Huang Quan to come to a meeting and see how this famous scholar in Sichuan will deal with it." .”

This is Pang Tong's strategy to give courtesy first and then soldiers.

Right now Nie Zefeng and Liu Zhang are joining forces in name, the name is Chu army helping Liu Zhang fight against the Nanman army, Liu Zhang is the master, Nie Zefeng is the guest, and now Huang Quan is the prefect of Badong County, so it's fine if he doesn't take the initiative to welcome Nie Zefeng, the guest.

Now that Nie Zefeng, the host, took the initiative to host a banquet, if Huang Quan didn't come, wouldn't it be a bit too rude.