Chapter 284 Dingjun Mountain

There are only three words written on Liu Feng's secret letter - Dingjunshan.

Huang Zhong turned the letter several times and couldn't find anything other than these three words.

He couldn't help but look puzzled and asked, "What else did the lord say besides this letter?"

The messenger replied, "The lord said that the key to victory lies in Dingjun Mountain. After the old general explores this place, he will naturally understand the master's intention."

Huang Zhong nodded slightly and ordered the messenger to go down to rest.

Putting down the secret letter in his hand, Huang Zhong's eyes turned to the map. In the east of Yangping Pass, on the south bank of the water, he found the place called Dingjun Mountain.

In theory, Yangping Pass only locks the road into Hanzhong. In fact, along the mountain path, over the mountains, you can also go around to the east of Yangping Pass.

However, although there are paths to go, the grain transportation is unsustainable, and the large-scale siege chess cannot be transported. With light soldiers alone, it is impossible to capture the Yangping Pass at all.

This is a superficial situation, but Huang Zhong believes that since the general is thousands of miles away and sends this secret plan to him, it must make sense.

Therefore, Huang Zhong immediately sent scouts to take the mountain path and go around to the east of Yangping Pass to explore the terrain around Dingjun Mountain.

A few days later, the scouts brought back detailed topographic information about Dingjun Mountain. When Huang Zhong analyzed some information in detail, he immediately figured out Liu Feng's intention.

It turns out that this Dingjun Mountain is located on the southeast side of Yangpingguan. This mountain is the only place to pass from the Micang Road to Nanzheng in the south. Because the Micang Road is rugged and difficult to walk, few people have attacked Hanzhong from Micang since ancient times, so the status of Dingjun Mountain is far less important than that of Yangping Pass.

Although this is the case, if the mountain is occupied, it can threaten Nanzheng to the east and the rear of Yangpingguan to the west. Although it is difficult to constitute a real threat, it will also cause panic to the enemy in the whole situation.

In Dingjun Mountain, there are only more than a thousand enemy troops on guard. If Huang Zhong leads an army to cross the water in the south and bypass Yangping through the path, he will be able to unexpectedly grab Dingjun Mountain, causing a great deterrent to the enemy of Yangping.

The enemy is afraid of being threatened by the rear, and will definitely come to compete for Dingjun Mountain. In this way, the enemy can be lured out of the dangerous barrier and annihilated in the field.

Under Huang Zhong's balance, even if he is ready to send troops to the army.

When Huang Zhong summoned the generals and said his tactical ideas, General Li Feng Zhang Yi said, "There are few enemies in Dingjun Mountain, and our unexpected attack can be taken in one fell swoop. However, occupying this mountain, although it can induce the enemy to divide troops, the terrain around Dingjun Mountain is narrow, which is not conducive to attack. If the enemy only sets up a fortress under the mountain and refuses to fight. At that time, our army could not attack, and the food and fodder were not good. Sooner or later, we still had to abandon the mountain and withdraw. Isn't it an empty work?

Huang Zhong smiled and said happily, "I have considered this section before, but according to the information brought back by the scouts, I think the mountain situation around Dingjun Mountain is an excellent place for soldiers given by God. As long as it can occupy this mountain, the rest is not enough."

Zhang Yi and other generals all believed in Huang Zhongzhi's talent. Seeing the coach's confidence, they said nothing more.

At this time, Huang Zhong sighed in his heart: The general is far away from Hebei, but he can win thousands of miles away. He is really a god...########## A few days later, Huang Zhong's army set out.

30,000 troops, Huang Zhong left 10,000 to guard the camp, with Zhang Yi as the vanguard, 20,000 soldiers and horses lightly crossed the water to the south, secretly crossed the Micang Mountain, and spared the southeast of Yangping Pass. Three days later, he unexpectedly appeared in the enemy camp of Dingjun Mountain.

On that day, it was foggy. With the cover of the weather, Zhang Yi led 3,000 vanguard Shu troops into the enemy camp. Like cutting vegetables and cutting melons, he killed more than a thousand enemy troops and howled, and washed their blood into a river. More than a thousand enemy troops were almost completely destroyed, leaving only dozens of people who narrowly escaped the massacre and fled back to Yangping Pass in a panic.

After unexpectedly attacking Dingjun Mountain, Huang Zhong set up two large villages on the east and west wings at the foot of Dingjun Mountain, and divided the troops to guard, creating a formation of preparing to go east and west, and at the same time threatening Nanzheng and Yangping Pass.

The loss of Dingjun Mountain shocked Zhao Yun, the general of Yangping Pass.

Because Liu Bei competes with Liu Feng in the Central Plains, the troops in Hanzhong have been transferred for a few times. At this moment, there are only less than a thousand defenders in the direction of Nanzheng. At this time, Dingjunshan fell into the enemy's hands, which will inevitably have a considerable impact on the stability of the hearts of Hanzhong.

After exploring the enemy's strength and confirming that the enemy who sneaked on Dingjun Mountain would be Huang Zhong, the commander of the Shu army, Zhao Yun did not dare to underestimate it. He immediately left 5,000 soldiers and horses in Yangpingguan and led 10,000 soldiers and horses to Dingjun Mountain.

In response to the two battalions under the Shu army, Zhao Yun also leaned back to the water and set up two battalions in the east and west, trying to block Huang Zhong's march on both sides.

When Gao Ju Dingjun was on the mountain and saw the enemy's establishment of a fortress, Huang Zhong smiled.

The plan to lure the enemy has been successful, and Zhang Yi and other generals have asked for battle one after another, demanding that the whole army attack and break through the camp set up by Zhao Yun.

Obviously, Zhao Yun also knew that the army mountain was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and his own soldiers and horses were few, so it was not easy to seize the mountain by force.

And Zhao Yun also knew that the Shu army came lightly, and there was no food to carry, so he was tit-for-tat and only set up two villages to defend without attacking.

Zhao Yun's purpose is very clear. He wants to consume Huang Zhong's food and force him to withdraw by himself. In this way, the soldiers can recover without blood.

Huang Zhong's 20,000 troops came across the mountain with less than ten days of food, which was also the main reason why Zhang Yi and other generals took the initiative to fight.

Of course, Huang Zhong knows the advantages and disadvantages of his army, and it is imperative to take the initiative to attack.

However, Huang Zhong is worried that it is not difficult to forcibly break through the enemy's village with superior forces. If the enemy loses and retreats to Yangping Pass to defend, his strategic goal of capturing Yangping Pass is still impossible to achieve.

The only way is to solve Zhao Yun in Dingjun Mountain. His army took advantage of the victory and followed the enemy's defeated army into Yangping Pass.

After careful reconnaissance of the terrain around Dingjun Mountain and the deployment of enemy soldiers, Huang Zhong decided to adopt the tactic of encirclement.

According to the existing information, Zhao Yun led 7,000 soldiers and horses to guard the West Camp, which means that the enemy's East Battalion had only about 3,000 troops, and his defensive ability was relatively weaker.

Huang Zhong's plan is very simple. Zhang Yi led an army of 8,000 to besiege the enemy's eastern battalion without attacking, so as to lure Zhao Yun's army to relieve the siege.

At this time, the main force led by Huang Zhong can ambush at the foot of Dingjun Mountain and attack Zhao Yun's reinforcements halfway.

If Zhao Yun wants to rescue the East Camp, he must pass through an open flat land in front of Dingjun Mountain, which is the place chosen by Huang Zhong to ambush.

After the main peak of the army mountain, there is a natural large depression, which can gather at least tens of thousands of troops.

And the distance between the top of Dingjun Mountain and the foot of the mountain is no more than 200 steps at most. Such a height difference is neither too high nor too low, which is suitable for ambush on the mountain to rush down quickly.

Huang Zhong guessed that it was such a favorable factor that was the reason why Liu Feng asked him to use Dingjun Mountain as the place to defeat the enemy.

It's just that Huang Zhong couldn't figure it out. After Liu Feng captured Yizhou, he only stayed in Shuzhong for less than half a year and returned to Jingzhou. I believe that he didn't know much about the general interests of Shuzhong, but how could he be so familiar with Dingjun Mountain in Hanzhong?

Of course, Huang Zhong will not guess that Liu Feng actually doesn't know the topography of Dingjun Mountain at all. Liu Feng's secret plan is based on his memory of that period of history that no longer exists.

Liu Feng remembered that in the past history, after Liu Bei captured Yizhou, he sent all his strength to attack Hanzhong. It was in the battle of Dingjun Mountain that he killed Cao Jian's general Xiahou Yuan, thus breaking through the Yangping Pass and opening the passage to Hanzhong.

In that battle, Liu Bei also attacked Yangping for a long time, and finally had to change the battlefield to Dingjun Mountain.

Therefore, Liu Feng thought that in this case, it proved that the terrain of Dingjun Mountain should be beneficial to the attacker, so he secretly taught Huang Zhong this plan to break the enemy.

Liu Fengjue's ability to use Huang Zhong's soldiers, as long as he gives him a little reminder, he will certainly be able to realize the important surname of Dingjunshan, just like Liu Bei in those years.

It turned out that Liu Feng's expectation was really not wrong.

The plan has been decided. The next day is at night, and the armies will act according to the plan.

That night, Vice General Zhang Yi led 8,000 troops out of the right village and launched a night attack on the enemy's eastern camp.

The enemy's right battalion was guarded by Wu Lan, with no more than 3,000 troops. Because there were few soldiers, they set up antlers outside the village, dug heavy trenches, and the fortifications were also solid.

With the cover of the night, Zhang Yi made the soldiers beat the drums and shout, creating an illusion that the army was coming. After the early morning, the night wind suddenly rose, and Zhang Yi used the upper wind to attack the camp with torches and burned most of the antlers on the northwest side of the enemy camp.

Zhang Yi's bluff and the fire attack of the wind made Wu Lan mistakenly think that Huang Zhong was the main force to attack. Shocked, he sent several horses to rush to the West Camp and ask Zhao Yun for help.

Zhao Yun was afraid that Dongzhai would be lost. He originally planned to rescue, but he was worried that it was dark and the enemy's whereabouts were unknown. He was afraid that he had been ambushed by the enemy, so he had been hesitant.

It was not until dawn that Zhao Yun received several calls for help from Wu Lan that he decided to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses out of the village and go straight to the east camp.

At this time, Huang Zhong had already led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to hide in the sky behind Dingjun Mountain for a night. The night on the mountain was cold and he was frozen all night. When the sky was about to dawn, he finally saw the shadow of the enemy on the top of the mountain.

Looking up, I saw thousands of soldiers and horses rushing by in front of Dingjun Mountain.

Obviously, the Tianwa on the top of the mountain effectively hid Huang Zhong's deeds, so that the scouts sent by Zhao Yun failed to detect the enemy's ambush. Therefore, Zhao Yun dared to march quickly and passed in front of Dingjun Mountain without any precautions.

In the eyes of the murderous intention, the bear's fighting spirit burned. Huang Zhong seemed to feel it enough. The rusty knife in his hand was trembling excitedly at this moment.

The veteran turned over his horse, held a big knife in his hand, and shouted, "The whole army will attack!"

The flag flucled, and the drums sounded like thunder. Huang Zhong rushed to the bottom of the mountain.

Behind him, the 10,000 elite Shu army followed the old generals and killed the enemy at the foot of the mountain.

(to be continued)