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Shangyong City is located at the confluence of three mountains, Qinling Mountain, Daba Mountain and Wudang Mountain. The terrain in this area is complex, with many mountains and rivers rushing through the mountain streams. It is easy to have dangerous passes. Shangyong City is located on the most important Hanyong Road. Become the throat node from Xiangfan to Hanzhong.

For Jingzhou, Shangyong belongs to the northwest frontier, and it is connected to Hanzhong, whose status is far from being comparable to that of Shuzhong and Guanzhong.

Merchants usually go to Guanzhong by taking the Nanxiang narrow road, that is, from Nanyang to Neixiang, through Wuguan and Shangluo to Chang'an, instead of taking the difficult and dangerous Hanzhong road, so Shangyong has little strategic significance for Jingzhou.

But Shangyong City is unusual for Hanzhong. The Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountains surround Hanzhong firmly from south to north, and Wudang Mountain blocks the way to the east. In this way, the Han River flowing through the northern foot of Wudang Mountain And the Hanyong Road along the southern foot of Wudang Mountain has become the two key roads for Hanzhong's advancement. It can be said that Shangyong is the east gate of Hanzhong.

But such an extremely important east gate is not in the hands of Zhang Lu. It was occupied by Cao Jun before. Zhang Lu did not dare to offend Cao Cao. , relatively speaking, Liu Jing seems to be a little more annoying than Cao Cao.

On the winding mountain road, an army of 5000 people is rapidly marching southeast. This army is the Han Dynasty Expeditionary Army led by Meng Da. They have bypassed Wuling County and Jianshi, where there are almost no troops. County, the target is directed at Shangyong City, thirty miles away.

At this time they had entered the territory of Shangyong County, and there was a beacon tower a few miles ahead, called Wuling Tower, which was the westernmost beacon tower in Jingzhou and the outpost of Shangyong City. There were only a dozen soldiers stationed there, but it was very useful important.

The Hanzhong army came to a relatively wide mountain depression, with a small stream flowing down from the mountain stream. Meng Da saw that this place was suitable for camping, so he waved his hand and said, "Stop advancing, and the army will camp here."

The soldiers sat down to rest one after another, and waited for the arrival of the logistics team behind them to set up camp to rest. At this time, two lieutenants, Meng You and Li Fang, surrounded Meng Da. [

Meng You is Meng Da's younger brother, but Li Fang is Zhang Lu's confidant and was once one of Zhang Lu's personal guards. Zhang Lu asked him to follow Meng Da to the Shangyong. It is human nature, Meng Da led five thousand heavy troops to march eastward, and Zhang Lu had no henchmen to follow him, how could Zhang Lu feel relieved.

"General Meng, do you want to pull out the beacon ahead?" Li Fang asked.

Meng Da looked at the map. From here, there are two north-south roads to the east, which converge at Shangyong City, and the beacon is just on the north road, at the height of the northern foothills. Tao has little effect.

Meng Da pondered for a moment, then shook his head, and said to Meng You and Li Fang, "Don't startle the snake, there is no need to pull out this beacon, just go south."

He looked up at the time, and immediately ordered: "No rest, continue marching!"

The soldiers had to get up and continue marching under the sound of cursing, and quickly went to Yongcheng along the South Road.

The city wall of Shangyong is tall and strong, and it is located on a high place. There are dangerous mountains on both sides, and there is a water blockage in front. However, without any effort, he obtained this key city leading to Hanzhong from Cao Cao in exchange.

The leader of Shangyong is Wei Yan. As Wei Yan, he should be in Jiangxia or Nanjun, standing alone, but let him guard this border city. In the eyes of Jingzhou soldiers, this is the punishment for Wei Yan's failure to defend Chaisang City. .

But Wei Yan knew very well that the night he accepted the post of guard, Jia Xu told him the Hanzhong strategy in detail, and he was actually implementing a major decision to expand Jingzhou westward.

On the top of the city, Wei Yan is patrolling around with a dozen personal guards. Wei Yan has already received the secret information sent by Meng Da last night. In these two days, the Hanzhong Army will launch an attack on Shangyong City. , Wei Yan also knew the specific attack plan. The opponent wanted to occupy Yongnan City on the opposite bank first. He needed to cooperate with Meng Da to let the Hanzhong army occupy Shangyong.

Even though he knew that this was the grand strategy of Hanzhong, Bashu, and related to the success or failure of the entire western expansion, Wei Yan still felt a little uncomfortable. After all, this was another loss of the city that could be defeated but not won, which had a great impact on his reputation.

If the matter is clarified afterwards, maybe it can be redeemed, but if it is not clarified, he will be blamed to the end, and Wei Yan is very suspicious, and it is very likely that such things will not be announced in the future.

Just thinking about this, Wei Yan felt very depressed, but the military order was like a mountain, he had to implement it, and this matter was related to the westward expansion strategy, one wrong step would lose the whole game, thinking of this, Wei Yan had to swallow the depression in his heart.

At this time, the alarm bell at the east end of the city suddenly rang, 'Dang!when!when! The bell rang quickly, and Wei Yan was taken aback. This meant that something happened in the east of the city. After walking a few steps, he immediately realized that it should be Yongnan City. Isn't this Meng Da's plan? [

He quickly came to the east of the city, and it was indeed Yongnan City. The beacon fire at the top of the city was lit, which meant that there was an enemy, and the soldiers talked a lot. Yongnan City is located in the hinterland, how could there be enemies, and it has been abandoned. There are only a dozen soldiers in the city. How long does this last.

Soon, a soldier rushed to the top of the city to report, "General Wei, a group of bandits with nearly [-] people attacked Yongnan City. The brothers could not resist and were forced to retreat!"

Wei Yan took a deep breath and shouted: "Pass my order, all the troops will gather immediately, and follow me to take back Yongnan City!"

Several generals rushed away, when the deputy general Lu Jin hurried over and persuaded Wei Yan: "General, our defenders only have more than a thousand people, if we all go to capture Yongnan City, Shangyong will be empty. It is a bandit's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, and the consequences will be very serious."

Lu Jin lived and died with Wei Yan in Xiazhi County, and the two formed a deep friendship. He also became Wei Yan's lieutenant general. Wei Yan pulled him aside and said in a low voice: "It's not that simple, just listen to my arrangement." , I will lead a thousand troops to retake Xiazhi County, and you lead the rest of the brothers to guard Shangyong. If the Guanzhong army comes to attack, you don’t have to defend the city, just abandon the city and leave immediately. I will arrange ships for you to cross the river downstream. , remember, don’t resist, don’t make so-called sacrifices, and abandon the city immediately!”

Lu Jin was very shocked, but he also understood a little bit, "I understand."

Wei Yan told him again: "This matter is very confidential, only you and I know about it here, and no third person should know about it."

Lu Jin nodded, "The humble official knows that, I will pretend to be a little bit, and leave in a hurry."

"Go! Get some soldiers for me."

A quarter of an hour later, Wei Yan led [-] defenders across the river to cross the blocked water, and went to kill Yongnan City on the opposite bank, while there were only more than [-] defenders left in Shangyong City.

At this time, in a forest about three miles away from Shangyong City, Meng Da led thousands of soldiers and was nervously waiting for the change of Shangyong City. Meng You led 200 people disguised as bandits to attack Yongnan City.They waited for this opportunity.

Li Fang next to him saw that Meng Da was very nervous, and beads of sweat were streaming down his forehead, so he persuaded him with a smile: "General Meng, don't worry too much. The rest of the defenders can completely be captured."

Meng Da sighed, "If I ask for more troops, I'm afraid someone won't let me go."

Li Fang knew that he was referring to Zhang Wei, so he smiled and comforted him and said, "With my lord supporting you, I don't think anyone would dare to harm you."

Meng Da nodded, "Thank you General Li!"

At this moment, a spy quickly came to report, "Report to General Meng, Wei Yan led a thousand troops across the river to kill Yongnan City."

Meng Da was overjoyed, and said to Li Fang, "This is God's will!"

"Hehe! It's not God's will, it's the general's plan that succeeded."

Meng Da immediately ordered: "General Li can lead five hundred crossbowmen to the Docking Wharf to prevent Wei Yan's army from returning, and I will be in charge of attacking the city."

"As ordered!"

Li Fang waved his hand, "Crossbowmen follow me!"

He led five hundred crossbowmen around Shangyong and ran towards the pier one mile away from Shangyong City. Seeing that they had already passed the city, Meng Da gave an order, "Attack the city!"

"Ugh-"

The horn blew in the woods, and more than [-] Hanzhong troops rushed out of the woods, resisting dozens of siege ladders and charging towards Yongcheng.

The bell rang loudly at the top of Shangyong City, and the defenders shouted loudly. The beacon fire at the top of the city was lit, and there were three pillars of green smoke, indicating that there was an army coming to attack. Facing the rushing Hanzhong army, Lu Jin looked sternly at the overwhelming enemy army, they only had 300 people, even if they really defended, they would not be able to defend the city.

At this time, a village chief rushed to report: "General Lu, the brothers are not strong enough to defend the city!"

Lu Jin sighed for a while, and ordered: "Abandon the city, and the army retreats north!"

Three hundred soldiers opened the east gate and rushed out of the city under the leadership of Lu Jin. Instead of going to the pier, they fled north along the blocked water. Wei Yan arranged a boat for them ten miles to the north.

The result of this sneak attack made the Hanzhong army overjoyed. They successfully captured Shangyong City without hurting a single soldier, and took the city Zhang Lu had dreamed of into their arms.

Meng Da immediately sent people to Hanzhong to report the good news to Zhang Lu. At the same time, he also reminded Zhang Lu that to prevent Jingzhou from counterattacking, he must not only strengthen the defense of Shangyong, but also prevent the Jingzhou army from attacking Hanzhong from Hanshui.

The news of the fall of Shangyong County shocked both Xiangyang and Jingzhou. The military adviser Jia Xu immediately sent someone to rush to Jiangling with [-] li to report the urgent information to Liu Jing.

At this time, the Jingzhou Army had already occupied Gong'an County, and was marching into Wuling County, Lingling County, and Guiyang County in three routes, while Liu Bei's army was forced to retreat south to Hengyang County, where he set up a battle to the death with the Jingzhou Army. .

At this critical moment, Liu Jing got the news that the Hanzhong Army took advantage of the Jingzhou Army's recovery of Jingnan to capture Shangyong. Liu Jing was extremely furious, and immediately ordered Gan Ning to lead [-] sailors and [-] warships to march towards Hanzhong. , He also ordered Zhao Yun to be the main general and lead an army of [-] to attack Shangyong by land.

At the same time, Liu Jing sent Sima Yi to Shuzhong again to urge Liu Zhang to fulfill his promise and send troops to Hanzhong. The situation in Jingzhou, Bashu and Hanzhong was mobilized by a small Shangyong city.