Chapter 88 Pingding Hanzhong

Guan Yu actually has no confidence in Zhao Feng's current situation.

Although Zhang Lu has only one Nanzheng City left, with his reputation in Hanzhong, it is absolutely not difficult for him to mobilize the people to rise again once his army withdraws. Although Zhao Feng has more than 20,000 people on hand, he doesn't want to appease Baocheng, Chenggu, Liangzhou and other places without a few thousand people. The remaining troops that can be mobilized are only more than 10,000, and the garrison of Zhang Lu in the city is estimated to be less than 10,000. To attack the city with nearly one-on-one troops, this business does not seem to be profitable in any case, not to mention that the 5,000 troops are not reliable, and the combat effectiveness of the 5,000 Yizhou Army is really weaker.

In addition, the lack of manpower is more deadly than the lack of troops. In order to regain Shangyong as soon as possible, Guan Yu seconded Zhou Tai. The remaining generals, except for Zhao Feng himself, are only Yang Ren, who surrendered. However, Guan Yu has no confidence, but he also knows that even if Zhao Feng can't take Nanzheng, he is still very sure of running back to Xichuan from Yangpingguan. At most, he will be disgraced, and the whole army will not be destroyed.

Throwing away his messy thoughts, Guan Yu also led the army back to Jingzhou from the mountain road, and at the same time prepared to recover Shangyong and Nanxiang along the way. At the same time, Guan Yu also remotely commanded Wenpin in Xiangyang and Li Yan in Fancheng through carrier pigeons, allowing them to block the waterway of the Han River and cut off all food and fodder transported from Guanzhong to Shangyong.

"Shangyong is a mountain city, and the storage of grain is bound to be limited. Every few months, the defenders in the city have to transfer grain and fodder from Xiangyang. At present, the mediocre food storage is only enough to support one month at most. Coupled with Xia Houyuan's garrison, the support time will only be shorter!" Zhuge Jin is responsible for logistics, which is naturally well known.

"It's so good. Let's see who we are hungry!" Guan Yu sneered, but he was also a little afraid. If Zhao Feng hadn't taken the rice warehouse mountain and taken Zhang Lu's food and fodder, his current situation would not have been much better than that of Xia Houyuan.

Besides, Zhao Feng, looking at a lot of empty tents and several people standing in front of him with bad faces, couldn't help laughing and saying, "You don't seem to have enough confidence!"

"General, the last general is willing to lead a elite soldier to climb up to Nanzheng at night and take down the city!" It's still Niu Jin who is the most bold. He jumped out directly and asked for help. In contrast, Wang Ping, Ma Yan, Zhuge Jun, Fei Guan and Yang Ren all looked solemn and did not say a word.

"If we don't have enough troops, how can we attack? I don't know if you have a plan?" After Zhao Feng finished speaking, he still looked at Ma Yan and Zhuge Jun. Among the people in the account, only two of them are most likely to give advice.

"General, at present, our army is not strong enough, and Zhang Lu, a place in Hanzhong, has been operating for many years. Once the war is delayed for a long time and Zhang Lu teaches the people to rise up, our army will inevitably suffer from the enemy and will not be at peace. The only plan for now is to fight quickly!" It was Ma Yan who shook his head and talked. It was Ma Yan.

"What's the plan for young children?" Zhao Feng is also looking forward to him saying something to himself. In history, Zhuge Liang had to respect his opinions. Although he is still very young, he might as well take a look at his paper first, and maybe he can give himself some inspiration.

"The general has long been confident. Why do you need to make a fool of yourself? Zijun is already familiar with the geography of Hanzhong, but the general also deliberately asked General Guan to leave General Yang Ren. It must be a fraudulent surrender!" Ma said with a smile.

"The boy still has a little vision!" Zhao Feng said in his heart. This Ma Yu seems to be more able to figure out his intentions. The reason why he has been so powerful under Zhuge Liang in history is probably inseparable from his ability!

"That being said, will Zhang Lu be tricked?" Zhuge Jun, who was beside him, frowned and said, but his eyes were looking at Yang Ren. Yang Ren's understanding of Zhang Lu here is the most thorough.

"Zhang Lu may be tricked, but Yanpu is resourceful, and I'm afraid he can't hide it from him!" Yang Ren meditated a little, and he was still quite sure.

"Who is Yanpu?" Although Ma Zhen was inquiring, the trace of disdain in his tone was still heard by everyone. Zhao Feng's eyebrows hurt a little. This horse can't help but underestimate the world's heroes. How can he be so frivolous at such a young age?

"Two great counselors under Zhang Lu, Yang Song and Yan Pu. Yang Song is extremely greedy for money, but the Yang family is a big clan in Hanzhong. If Zhang Lu wants to sit firmly in Hanzhong, he can't be supported by this person, so he has more patience with him. Yanpu used to come to defect from Guanzhong. This person is resourceful. Zhang Lu fought with the Yizhou Army, and most of them rely on his advice. Yang Ren didn't care too much about the tone of Ma Qian's yellow-mouthed children's words. After all, he just went to Yanpu, and now he patiently introduced his surname in detail.

"Mr. Yang, General Yang, are you also from Mr. Yang?" Ma asked curiously. Yang Ren shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Although my surname is Yang, I am from Runan. I came to Hanzhong just to avoid disaster, which has nothing to do with Yang Song."

"Hanzhong was originally just a small county, with no more than 100,000 people. After Zhang Lu came, he recruited more exiles and occupied the West City. Only then did he gather 700,000 or 800,000 people. The last general came from Runan with the exiles, and Yanpu came from Guanzhong. Yang Ren was afraid that Zhao Feng and others did not know much about the situation, so he continued to explain in detail.

"So that's it!" After listening to Yang Ren's words, everyone basically has a deeper understanding of the situation in Hanzhong. Zhao Feng pondered a little and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter. Even if Yanpu is resourceful, I understand that even if he can see through the strategy, he can't see through the plan. There must be more work to deal with Zhang Lu!" At present, Zhao Feng ordered everyone to act according to their plans.

After several days, Zhang Lu in Nanzheng City received a letter from Yang Ren, his former subordinate. In the letter, Yang Ren claimed that due to the attack on Shangyong, Guan Yu had led a large army to help back, and now the camp is empty, but there are only thousands of people. I would like to set fire to the camp tonight to cause trouble, and then fight with the defenders in Zhanglu City to break through the Jingzhou army in one fell swoop.

"You two, what do you think?" Zhang Lu handed the letter to Yang Song and Yanpu for question. He is also a self-aware person. He can still have some ideas about government affairs. These military strategies are not his strengths. It's better to ask Yang Song and Yanpu.

Yanpu read the letter again and again, and finally frowned and said, "Master, whether Yang Ren cheated or not, this matter must be fraudulent!"

"What does this mean, sir?" Zhang Lu motioned Yang Ren to speak in more detail.

"It is not surprising that Yang Ren is greedy and afraid of death. But Zhao Botao is a famous general in the world. How can he let Yang Ren come and go freely? At present, this letter, either written by Zhao Feng instructs Yang Ren, or when Zhao Feng waits for me to go out of the city to rob the fortress, he will set up an ambushes and destroy me!" Yan Ppu said slowly.

"That's not necessarily true. Yang Renxin said that Shangyong was attacked. Could it be that General Xiahou's rescuers were dispatched? What's more, it was carefully explored, but it was said that a large army withdrew. If so, the strength of Jingzhou army is scarce. Why don't we take this good opportunity to defeat it so that we can recover Hanzhong as soon as possible!" Yang Song's opinion is different.

"This?" Zhang Lu was also a little at a loss when he saw that his two counselors disagreed. Yanpu thought for a while but said with a smile, "Lord, don't worry. I have a plan to break the Jingzhou army!"

"Military teacher, please speak!" Zhang Lu hurriedly motioned to Yan Pou to say more details.

"The lord can send a small number of troops and horses to let them enter the camp first. After the ambush is exhausted, the lord will lead the army to cover up again, and he will win a complete victory!" Yan Pyu said with a smile.

"It's so good, just follow this!" Zhang Lu made a plan. He didn't see that a smug smile flashed in Yang Song's eyes.

After the discussion, Yang Song found an excuse and took time to go back to his home. General Wang, please tell General Zhao that I have done what he asked me to do. In his study, Yang Song said to a big man, who was Wang Ping.

"Mr. Lao, my general has been looking up to Mr. Hanzhong for a long time. He said that he will take Hanzhong later, and he still needs more efforts!" Wang Ping lowered his voice and laughed. Last night, Wang Ping sneaked into the city to meet Yang Song at night, and sent the treasures prepared by Zhao Feng and handwritten letters. He asked him to try to persuade Zhang Lu to lead the army out of the city, and then open the most negligent east gate and persuade his own people to enter the city. Yang Matsumoto wanted to talk a lot, but he didn't want Yanpu to make a plan, so he didn't have to do anything.

At present, Yang Song explained Yan's plan in detail. After receiving the reply, Wang Ping took advantage of the defense of the defense of the garrison, secretly fell down from the head of the city with a rope, and returned to the Jingzhou army camp to reply to Zhao Feng.

"Very good!" After receiving Wang Ping's confirmation, Zhao Feng was also a little more confident. Now Niu Jin was ordered to lead 3,000 troops to ambush on the side of the East Gate, and the rest of the people ambushed on both sides of the camp with themselves. When the fire starts, let Wang Ping lead 500 troops to kill, wait until all the troops enter the ambush circle, and then lead the army to kill.

"General, how do you know that Yang Song is greedy for money? When I saw the treasure given to him by the general last night, my eyes were about to fall out!" Wang Ping remembered Yang Song's blue and delicate eyes at that time, and he was also a little lingering, and he admired Zhao Feng's judgment.

Zhao Feng smiled, but said in his heart: Brother Wang Ping, if I tell you that I know that this man is greedy for money from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, you won't think I'm crazy!

"Lord, you are all ready!" On the head of Nan Zhengcheng, Yang Bai looked at the hundreds of cavalry behind him and said to Zhang Lu. At this time, it was past midnight, and everything was quiet and dark.

"Good, you lead the army first. When the fire broke out in his camp, he immediately entered, and I led my own army to follow!" Zhang Lu looked at the quiet Jingzhou army camp in the distance. There were only some small torches for lighting, which were not very real from a distance.

"Master, look, it's on fire!" Yang Song suddenly said. Don't let him shout, Zhang Lu also saw it clearly. The back of the Jingzhou army camp suddenly burned, and the fire was really big.

"Kill!" Yang Bai took the lead and led hundreds of cavalry to kill the burning Jingzhou army camp. Zhang Lu gathered a large group of people and prepared to kill later. Only two counselors, Yanpu and Yang Song, and a group of literary ministers, led more than a thousand people to stay in Nanzheng City.

"Sure enough, it's not what the military expected!" Yang Bai, who entered the center of the ambush circle, now saw it clearly. Although the Jingzhou army camp burned up, there were very few people inside, about a few hundred people. He just ran back and forth to create the illusion of panic.

At this moment, there was a shout of killing on both sides, and a man suddenly came out. The first person jumped over the horse and laughed, "You have already fallen into the plan. Why don't you get off the horse and surrender?"

"Humph!" Yang Bai didn't answer. He went straight up and cut it with a knife. Seeing that his martial arts were medioth, Wang Ping only used half of his time to act with him, and only asked to introduce Zhang Lu into the middle.

The two of them fought for more than ten rounds, and they heard the shouts of killing in the distance. Zhang Lu led a large army to cover up from behind. Fighting hard to force Wang Ping to retreat, Yang Bai also said proudly, "You have been recognized by my military division, and you should surrender as soon as possible!"

"Let's see who sees who!" Wang Ping sneered. As if to confirm his words, there were suddenly shouts of killing on both sides. The two men wrapped Zhang Lu's rear army in the core and cut them into two sections to kill.

"What's going on?" Yang Bai was shocked when he saw this and was a little distracted. Wang Ping's big knife had been cut in his head. It was too late to quickly raise his gun to block it. He was cut off the horse by a knife on his shoulder.

"Yang Song, what are you going to do?" On the head of Nanzheng City, Yanpu was pressed to death by several people, but he still shouted angrily at Yang Song, who pulled out his sword out of the sheath in front of him.

"Hey hey, Yan Junshi, the person who knows the current affairs is Junjie, and I have defected to Uncle Liu. Yan Junshi is very intelligent. Why don't you abandon the secret with me? Yang Songpi smiled and said without a smile.

"Bah, you dog thief who sells his master for glory, you can't die! I, Yanpu, am not a loyal and unrighteous person. If you want to kill him, why are you so wordy!" Yanpu was not afraid at all, but just scolded fiercely.

"Huh?" Yang Song suddenly felt that he couldn't hang on his face. He pulled his heart out the long sword at his waist, directly stabbed Yanpu to death on the spot with a sword, and then ordered someone to open the suspension bridge to pick up the Jingzhou army into the city.

"Who is Yang Song?" Niu Jin, who had just entered the city, asked loudly while sending someone to take over the city defense.

"Yang Song is here. What is the unknown general?" After saying this, Yang Song was speechless, because the long sword in Niu Jin's hand had been inserted into his heart. After pulling it out, his whole body fell down. All the people behind Niu Jin took action and killed Yang Song's entourage.

"I don't know who you are, but the general told me that you are a villain. If you teach me to kill you in chaos, you can't blame me!" Looking at Yang Song's dead body, Niu Jin muttered to himself in his heart. At the same time, the people of Zhang Lu's robbery camp have also been encircled, and it is difficult to protect themselves. Zhang Lu was protected by dozens of personal guards. He tried his best to kill a bloody road and came straight to South Zhengcheng.

"What's going on?" Zhang Lu saw that the lights in the city were shining, but the banner was already that of the Jingzhou Army, and he immediately felt a cool air rushing straight from the soles of his feet to his forehead. In this service, Zhao Feng retreated from Guan Yu's army. When Zhang Lu's heart was slack, he lured him out of the city with a series of tricks, set up an ambush to annihilate him in one fell swoop, and thus capturing Nanzheng. Zhang Lu's generals Yang Bai, counselor Yan Pu and Yang Song all died in the turbulent army. The land in Hanzhong was all obtained by Zhao Feng.

"You Chang, how about the casualties of our army?" In Hanning Hou's mansion in Nanzheng, Zhao Feng asked Ma Yan, who was responsible for cleaning the battlefield and counting the number of casualties.

"The two armies are fighting, and death and injury are inevitable. There are 2,598 soldiers killed in our army, and 320 people are seriously injured. It is not known how many of them can survive. Another 740 people were slightly injured, but they were fine. The Hanzhong army killed 4,187 people, surrendered and captured 5,524 people, and hundreds of wounded are still counting!" Ma replied. "

"Hmm! Youchang is very careful now!" Zhao Feng saw that Ma Yan had calculated the numbers so accurately, and he also knew that it was inseparable from his previous knocking. But it's right to be meticulous, but there is no need to be critical. At present, Zhao Feng continued to on demand: "In the future, this kind of casualty figure can be accurate to 100 people. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" Ma Yu nodded, and then Zhuge Jun rushed in happily and said, "General, Zhang Lu was captured by Niu Jin and is escorting here!"

(to be continued)