Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 391 Conquering Hanzhong (1)

Zhang Ren shot Pang Tong to death, the Cao army was congested, unable to advance or retreat, more than half of the casualties, the former army flew to report to Xia Houxuan, Xia Houxuan hurriedly reined in his troops to return, but the mountain road was narrow and he could not fight, and Zhang Ren cut off the return route, in Gaofu Xia Houxuan was flustered when he shot with a strong bow and crossbow.

Xia Houxuan listened to the words of the new Shu soldiers, opened the way first, and rushed to Luocheng. Unexpectedly, Wu Lan and Lei Tong, the guards of Luocheng, blocked the way; Gai heart.

Xia Houxuan couldn't escape in a desperate battle, and almost died. Fortunately, the old general Huang Zhong came to rescue him, so he saved his life. He attacked twice, defeated the two generals Wu and Lei, and rushed directly to the city of Luo.

Liu Gui led his troops out, and Cao Ang came to meet them. After a scuffle between the two sides, Cao's army was defeated, and Cao Ang and others had to retreat to Fucheng.

Cao Ang and his troops entered Fuguan again, and asked Pang Tong about the news that there were sergeants who had escaped from Luofengpo. They reported that the army division and their horses were shot to death in front of the slope by random arrows. Yao set up a sacrifice for calling back the soul, and all the generals cried.

Cao Ang was disrespectful in the first battle in Luocheng, let alone, in Xuchang City, Li Song had just asked for an order to attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, left the palace, and summoned a group of civil and military officials to discuss in Tiance Mansion.

"Meet Tang Gong!" Wen Wu, who had been waiting for a long time, saw Li Song coming, and hurriedly bowed and bowed his hands in salute.

Li Song came to sit down on the main seat, flicked his sleeves and said, "Excuse me!" Wen Wu then got up, and Li Song continued: "I have already presented to the emperor, please order to attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, the emperor ordered me to lead the army."

"Zhang Lu is becoming more and more pampered. He dared to ignore the imperial court's conquest, refused to become an official, and even dared to take in Ma Chao who betrayed the imperial court. It is really abominable! He has to get rid of it." Li Song said.

"Zhang Lujiu ruled Hanzhong, and Yin Guofu, a Hanzhong citizen, was close to Yizhou. If Hanzhong was captured, Yizhou would lose its eastern gate. It would be easier to conquer Yizhou." Xu Maogong said.

"Maogong's words are exactly what I want. Zhang He and Yu Jin, you two are the vanguard, leading [-] troops straight to Hanzhong." Li Song laughed, and then gave orders to Zhang He and Yu Jin.

"No! The last general takes the order!" The two came out, clasped their fists and bowed to accept the order.

"Yue Fei and Wanyan Zongbi led an army of [-] in the rear to escort food and grass, and the rest of the generals followed me to lead an army of [-] in the middle to attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong." Li Song continued to order.

"Promise!" All the generals clasped their fists in response.

Li Song didn't know if arranging this pair of mortal enemies together would cause them to fight each other, but judging from the past situation, at most they were unhappy with each other, and there was no sign of fighting too much.

In the autumn of 18th year of Jian'an, Li Song launched a division to march westward, and divided the troops into three divisions: Zhang He and Yu Jin, the pioneers in the front, and Li Song led the generals in the center; Yue Fei and Wanyan Zongbi (Jin Wushu) escorted the grain and grass in the rear.

Zhang Lu and his younger brother Zhang Wei discussed the strategy of retreating the enemy. Zhang Wei said: "The most dangerous place in Hanzhong is Yangping Pass; as long as Yangping Pass is not lost, Hanzhong will have no worries! But at the pass On the left and right, surrounded by mountains and forests, we set down more than ten fences to meet the enemy Li Bing. My brother stayed behind in Hanning, please allocate more food and grass to deal with it."

"Brother, go ahead. You don't have to worry about food and grass. Just kill the enemy and keep Hanzhong safe." Zhang Lu agreed.

"I will order generals Yang Ang and Yang Ren to go with the second brother. I wonder when the second brother will leave?" Zhang Lu said.

"The military situation is urgent, so I'm leaving now." Zhang Wei said, Zhang Lu immediately ordered Yang Ang, Yang Ren, and Zhang Wei to lead the army.

A few days later, Zhang Yun and Yu Jinqian's army arrived. Hearing that Yangping Pass was ready, they ordered to leave the pass and go down to the village.

Knowing the arrival of Zhang He and Yu Jin, Zhang Wei and the other three boarded Yangping Pass. Zhang Wei said: "Now that the enemy army has arrived, they are going to camp [-] miles outside Yangping Pass. What do you two think should be done?"

"The enemy army has traveled a long distance and will definitely be exhausted. We might as well attack them at night before they recover." Yang Ang said.

"Okay! They will definitely not take precautions. Our army can win with one blow. First destroy Li Song's vanguard and rub his spirit." Zhang Wei was overjoyed.

"I'll order people to prepare to attack Li Song's camp tonight." After Yang Ren finished speaking, he cupped his fists in a salute, turned and left, and arranged for the night attack.

That night, the soldiers were tired and rested separately, but they forgot to arrange manpower to prevent the enemy from attacking at night. In the middle of the night, they suddenly heard that there was a fire behind the stronghold, and two soldiers from Yang Ang and Yang Ren came to rob the stronghold.

Zhang He and Yu Jin hurried out of the camp, and saw flames shooting up to the sky from all sides. They wanted to organize soldiers and horses to fight the enemy, but they found that the enemy army was coming so fiercely that it was impossible to organize manpower to fight against the enemy. The soldiers rushed in, and Li Bing was defeated. The two saw that the situation was irreversible, so they had to retreat to meet Li Song.

Zhang Wei saw that Zhang Yun had escaped, and Yu Jin did not pursue him. He ordered his soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and Pegasus reported to Zhang Lu, winning the first battle!Zhang Lu was overjoyed when he learned that Li Song's army wasn't that powerful, and he felt even more confident about defeating Li Song.

Zhang He and Yu Jin knelt in front of Li Song, shaking their heads. Li Song said angrily, "You two have been marching for many years and have rich combat experience. Don't you know that if soldiers are tired from a long journey, they need to prevent the enemy from robbing the village? You are better off." , but you don’t have any consciousness at all, why didn’t you make preparations?” He wanted to kill the two of them, but they were spared from death by obeying the request of the officials according to the military law of the Ming Dynasty.

"Today, rest here. Tomorrow I will go to investigate in person. Be careful tonight." Li Song said, and the generals took orders.

The next day, Li Song led his troops to the front team. Seeing that the mountain was treacherous, the trees were dense, and he didn't know the way. He was afraid that there might be an ambush, so he led the troops back to the stronghold. There must be no soldiers."

Xu Chu said: "Now that the army has arrived at this place, my lord is not afraid of suffering or tired."

"It's not that I'm afraid of suffering or tiredness, I'd better go back first, and come back tomorrow to find out!" After finishing speaking, he was the first to transfer back to the horse's head and return to the camp.

The next day, Li Song got on his horse, took Xu Chu and Pei Yuanqing with [-] elite soldiers from the Xuanjia Army, and went to see Zhang Wei's stockade.

Li Song originally planned to take only two people there, but he was worried that if the enemy found that there were only three people, he would lead troops to surround and kill them, so he took ten thousand elite soldiers with him.

Turning around the hillside, he saw Zhang Weizhai's fence earlier, Li Song pointed his whip at a distance, and said to the two generals, "It's so strong, it's hard to get off!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a shout from behind, arrows rained like rain, Yang Ang and Yang Ren attacked in two directions, and the Xuanjia Army immediately formed a formation to meet the enemy.

Xu Chu was shocked and said: "My lord, go away! I will lead the army to fight against the enemy, and Pei Yuanqing will protect the lord."

After all, when he was about to raise his sword and ride his horse forward, Li Song stretched out his hand to stop him: "Don't worry about Zhongkang! I have already made arrangements!"

Yang Ang and Yang Ren saw Li Song standing there dumbfounded, thinking they were overly frightened, they couldn't help being overjoyed, and moved forward even more courageously.

Just when Xu Chu and Pei Yuanqing were secretly worried, they suddenly killed a soldier from both sides. It was Zhang He and Yu Jin who were ordered by Li Song to lurk quietly on both sides, waiting for Yang Ang and others to lead the troops. , Waiting for an opportunity to fight out, so he killed Yang Ang and Yang Ren, protected Li Song and returned to the camp, and Li Song rewarded the four generals.

(End of this chapter)