Chapter 81 The First Battle of Hanzhong

"Guan Yun's soldiers sent to Hanzhong, and Zhao Botao's soldiers entered Xichuan?" After reading the information handed over by their father, Cao Pi and Cao Zhang were also a little surprised.

"What do you think of this matter?" Cao Yan asked with a smile and looked at his two sons with expectant eyes at the same time.

"Guan Yunchang is the tiger general of the world, and Zhao Botao has many tricks. These two people join hands and attack Zhang Lu on both sides, and they will be defeated!" Cao Zhang pondered a little and said.

"If this is not the case, once Hanzhong falls into the hands of Liu Bei, Xichuan will be in its hinterland. Liu Zhang is weak. Since Xichuan is already in its hinterland, he will get it for Liu Bei sooner or later. Liu Bei has now occupied the land of the five states, and the Sun family has also been exterminated by it. Behind them are the vast sea, with no worries. In this way, it will be much more difficult for us to be the enemy again. Cao Pi didn't just think about the battle.

"Hmm!" Cao Wei was quite satisfied with the judgment of his two sons, and then asked, "What do you think we should do in such a situation?"

Cao Zhang and Cao Pi pondered for a while. Finally, Cao Zhang said, "You can gather the people in Guanzhong and take advantage of the defeat of both Guan Yu and Zhang Lu to take Hanzhong, so that they can eat Xichuan!" Cao Pi also nodded.

"Although my son's plan is wonderful, there is still a better plan!" Cao Jianfu smiled and said that someone outside the account came to report that Jia Xu and Liu Bao had something to see.

"Shan Yu, Wen He, what's the matter?" Cao Li hurriedly ordered them to come in and talk. After the two entered the account, they sat down. First of all, Liu Bao said excitedly, "Mr. Wei, someone under my command just came to report that he has found a path that can go straight to Danhan Mountain!"

"Good!" Cao Yan was overjoyed when he heard the words, and then said excitedly, "Sand Yu quickly go to rectify the army and horses in the headquarters. We will send troops tomorrow to destroy these fresh and humble species!"

"Yes!" Liu Bao arched his hand and happily returned to the camp to rectify the army. Cao Qian looked at the back of Liu Bao, who was far away, and suddenly said to Jia Xu, "Wen He, after this battle, I'm afraid that the Xianbei clan will be extinct, and the Xiongnu is also greatly damaged. I'm afraid it will be difficult for the aliens in the northern frontier to make a difference."

"In a hundred years, you can be safe; after a hundred years, it's hard to be expected." Jia Xu said lightly.

"What do you say about Wenhe?" Cao can't help but wonder.

"Alas!" Jia Xu also sighed in a rare way, and then said bitterly, "I was born in Xiliang, and I know a lot about these aliens. These years, the surname is like a jackal, and it will always invade. The Ming Dynasty now said to Ping Xianbei and Xiongnu, but a hundred years later, after four generations, these aliens have regained their vitality and will be a disaster again. At that time, we can't predict whether it will be as sharp as the wise man.

"So that's it!" Cao Shen nodded and then smiled and said, "I, Cao Mengde, should be satisfied if I can protect the peace of the Han Dynasty for a hundred years." At this moment, the door was opened again, but Cao Zhen came in from outside the camp with an excited face.

"Master, Yuan asked the general to send someone to send an urgent report!" Cao Zhen delivered an urgent official letter to Cao Wei.

"Zidan, did you peek at it?" Although Cao Hen had some reproach in his words, he still had a smile on his face.

"Lord, I'm so happy!" Cao Zhen acquiesced while smiling. Cao Wei opened it and took a look. Even if he was calm, he couldn't help but stand up excitedly.

"Father, what's the matter?" Cao Zhang and Cao Pi couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

"Yuan Rang has conquered Zhuo County, Shanggu and Dai County, and Yuan Tan led the army back to Liaodong!" Cao Wei said excitedly.

"Why is it so fast?" Cao Zhang couldn't help asking puzzledly. You should know that Yuan Tan also has heavy troops in these cities. Why did he lose so quickly?

"Yuan Tan colluded with Xianbei before. At this time, he had lost the hearts of the people of Youzhou. Tian Yu, the governor of Zhuo County, and Xia Houlan, the general of the county, were all anyway. Yuan let the soldiers take these two cities without blood. Go to the counties of the valley, looking down at the wind. Cao Yan laughed and then sighed, "It's a mistake. Yuan Tan can only return to Liaodong now. In his whole life, he will be a Gongsun at most.

"At present, Hebei has calmed down. Why doesn't my father wave his army to the south and fight to the death with Liu Bei to determine the world?" Cao Zhang was a little too excited and hurriedly asked.

"I'm not busy. Let's wait until the article restores the people's livelihood in Hebei. In addition, take advantage of the great damage of Xianbei's vitality, and then move forward again. By the way, Zidan, call Qian Shao. Cao Zhen hurriedly agreed not to mention it.

Since Qian Shao defected to Cao Qian, Cao Qian did not arrange any important official positions for him for a while. At this time, he heard Cao Qian summoning him and hurriedly came to meet him. Zijing, I now make you a general in the north of the State of Wei. I will be more than 20,000 fresh and heroic soldiers captured these days, and I will be trained into a cavalry army. You will lead you to fight in the battlefield for me later!" Cao gave the order.

"Thank you for your grace!" Qian Shao was overjoyed when he heard the words. He quickly thanked him and went to rectify the army and horses. At the same time, Cao Wei also ordered the three armies to gather. He personally led and merged with Liu Bao's Xiongnu troops and horses. He followed the path explored by Liu Bao and killed Danhan Mountain overnight.

It's not to mention that Cao Shen was in the west of the north of the country at this time, and Guan Yu's 50,000 troops were finally under the city after another march. What made Guan Yu quite satisfied was that although the road was rough and narrow on the way, there was a large open area in front of Xicheng City. Even if it is inconvenient for the army to attack the city, it is still more than enough to put dozens of throwers under it.

That's what Guan Yu thought and did. In a short time, 80 catapults had been placed under the Xicheng City, and then the accompanying soldiers began to assemble, and then collected stones in the surrounding mountains to prepare to attack the city.

"General, what are they going to do?" Yang Ren looked at Jingzhou Army's behavior inexplicably and asked Zhang Wei. In the previous battle, Yang Ren had never accompanied the army to go to mediocrity, and he knew nothing about this trem.

"It's not good, they want to smash stones!" Zhang Wei looked at the gradually assembled catapult, and suddenly remembered the terrible catapult at the beginning. Every time, he could throw more than a hundred catties of stones hundreds of steps away. Zhang Wei just saw the catapult on the city from afar. At the beginning of today, these catapults were disassembled and installed in the car for the convenience of carrying in the valley, and now they begin to assemble. Before installing, Zhang Wei failed to recognize the catapult for a while. Now as soon as Zhang Wei was assembled, he immediately realized what Jingzhou Army wanted to do.

Then Zhang Wei realized another terrible problem: Xicheng is not big, and his 20,000 troops are nestled here. Once the stones are smashed over, the casualties are definitely not covered.

"Quick, pass the order down and get ready to fight!" Zhang Wei's voice trembled. Yang Renzheng was inexplicable. At this time, all the throwers had been assembled. The first batch of 80 threx were smashed at the same time, and more than 80 jin of stones flew to the head of the West City in the stunned eyes of the generals guarding the city.

"Bang!", "Bang!", "Ah!" All kinds of voices sounded. "Bang" is the sound of stones hitting the defenders, smashing the big living people into meat sauce in an instant, making such a sound; "Bang" is the dull sound of those stones that did not hit the living people and hit the wall; "Ah" is the screams of those who were not hit by the key and were about to die.

In the first batch of stone rain, hundreds of people in the city have already given their lives. The stone is too big. Although some of them fail to hit the target, several people are often killed together. On average, a stone absolutely kills more than one person.

"What?" Yang Ren also had a long time in the battlefield, but he was also hit by this sudden blow, and he couldn't react for a while. At this moment, the second round of stone rain came again, and there was another ghost crying and howling around the city.

"Zhang Wei's child curled up the army in this small city, which really made our army's treble as a living target!" Looking at the depressed defenders on the head of the city, Guan Yu was also a little disdainful.

"It's a good thing that this guard is still a person who has seen our army's throwing machine in Shangyong, and he didn't make any preparations at all. If you act like this, you will really destroy yourself!" Zhuge Jin also shook his head.

To say that most of the Hanzhong army are believers of Zhang Lu's Wudou Midao, and they are absolutely not afraid of death when they fight. Otherwise, Zhang Lu doesn't have any generals that he can do. How can the Yizhou army, which has a famous general Zhang Ren, be helpless? He can only take advantage of the emptiness of the defense to attack? But now this trebum is too horrible. Often when a stone comes down, it will smash people into a bubble of meat sauce. Such a tragic scene, not to mention that you are a five-dou rice road, even the immortal road, you will vomit when you see it.

"General, what should I do?" After the third round of stone rain, Yang Ren asked anxiously. Being pressed naked can only fight back and can't fight back. This kind of battle is simply impossible. In fact, the direct casualties caused by these three rounds of stone rain are very limited. There are only about 400 people in general. Compared with 20,000 defenders, it is really a drop in the flesh. But the blow to morale is absolutely fatal.

"Bunjian, you lead people down to the tower first, and only send thousands of people to guard each time to prevent excessive casualties. Let's plan after today!" Zhang Wei couldn't come up with any good ideas for a while, so he could only order to use this stupid method to reduce casualties first. Look up at the sky. It's noon now, and I still have to stand it today.

A stuffy stone made the unsolid wall of the West City a little loose. Zhang Wei also hurriedly ordered people to strengthen the wall at night and clean up the dead bodies and rubble on the head of the city.

"Today, a total of 1, 146 soldiers have been smashed to death, and more than 300 people are seriously injured and can't fight anymore!" After Counting the number of people, Yang Ren reported to Zhang Wei with a pale face. Although he did not send a detailed work, Zhang Wei also knew that none of the Jingzhou troops who attacked the city today died.

None of the sieges died, and more than a thousand defenders of the city died. This kind of strange war, not to mention that Zhang Wei, a Hanzhong Tubao, has never seen, even Cao Mengde, a well-informed veteran of the battlefield, is rarely encountered. What's more, after Zhang Wei proposed to guard in shifts, the defenders sent to the head of the city all knew that they were going to die, and they all refused to die. It was not until Zhang Wei led the pro-guards to urge him that he reluctantly went to the city. Although Zhang Wei is not a wise and far-reaching man, he also knows that if it goes on like this, the military will inevitably be unstable.

"Bunjian, you led the army overnight to set up a fortress in the mountain in the west and watch each other with the west city, so that everyone would not be crushed here and smashed together." Zhang Wei thought for a time.

"It's good!" Yang Ren couldn't think of a good way, so he had to do it first. After a pause, Yang Ren suddenly proposed, "General, why don't you steal Guan Yu's camp at night?"

"Guan Yu is a world-famous general. How can he be defenseless in the camp?" Zhang Wei frowned and said that he was not very interested in Yang Ren's proposal.

"Guan Yu's army has come here from afar, and they may not be prepared. How can they know if they don't try?" Yang Ren said with a little impulsist.

"If that's the case, Bo Jian, you can send a lieutenant to lead 3,000 troops to try." Zhang Wei was still relatively cautious. He didn't dare to send too many people, and he didn't even dare to let Yang Ren go by himself. Yang Ren nodded and went to arrange the village under his own, not to mention it.

In the other side, Zhao Feng's 15,000 people, after a long journey on the mountain road on the 29th, finally arrived in Chengdu, Shu County, where the capital of Yizhou was located.

"General Zhao, I have been waiting for you for a long time!" Before he arrived in Chengdu, Zhao Feng saw a large group of people in front of him, waiting for a long time. At present, one person is a big fat man, smiling forward. The court uniform on his body is the same as that of Liu Bei. Obviously, he is the lord of Yizhou, Liu Zhang, the Duke of Shu. Looking at his appearance, Zhao Feng will never believe that he is a shrewd person.

"Zhao came here, how dare the Duke of Shu wait for a long time!" Although Zhao Feng was slandered in his heart, he still had to do some superficial things in the face of this local snake. In case you get angry with others, your own manpower is not enough for others to stuff their teeth. While being polite, he hurriedly rushed forward to salute.

"Haha!" Liu Zhang was quite approachable. He stepped forward and helped Zhao Feng up, took his hand to board his chariot together, and entered Chengdu together to show his boast. As for the people of Jingzhou, Liu Zhang arranged wine and meat to reward the laborers.

"Damn, this guy is too honest!" Zhao Feng saw that Liu Zhang was notware of himself at all, and he was almost helpless. When the group came to Liu Zhang's mansion of Shu, Liu Zhang had already ordered someone to arrange a rich banquet.

"General Zhao has passed the weak crown, and he has become a three-grade member of the dynasty, and he is also a famous general who has been on the battlefield for a long time. Pingjiang East, Zhu Lv Bu, and even Prime Minister Cao Cheng, who swept the Hebei River, suffered a great defeat under the general. It's really young and hopeful!" After sitting down, Liu Zhang also opened his mouth to compliment.

"How dare you? It's all wise, so it's just that the last generals have some credit!" It is rare for Zhao Feng to be thick-skinned in the world, and he can't help but feel hot in the face of such praise. After a few words of flattery, Liu Zhang also introduced the main characters in Shu to Zhao Feng. Liu Zhang gave Zhao Feng enough face at this banquet. Except for the veteran Yan Yan, who was not present in Nanzhong, all the other important officials in Shuzhong were present. The celebrities mentioned in the book, such as Huang Quan, Zhang Song, Fa Zheng and Zhang Ren, are all there. However, seeing that Zhang Song was really short, Zhao Feng estimated that he was less than 1.55 meters, which was almost the same as Guo Xiaosi in his previous life. And Zhang Ren, who is known as the first general in Sichuan Middle School, is only about 1.7 meters tall and has a beard. But his fingers were thick, his muscles were knotted, and his eyes were bright. He knew at a glance that he was a battlefield general.

After three rounds of drinking, after the end of each other's praise, Zhang Ren took the initiative to get up and ask, "I don't know how many military horses General Zhao has brought in the Hanzhong this time?"

(to be continued)