Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 181
"Guan Yun sent troops to Hanzhong, and Zhao Botao sent troops to Xichuan?" Cao Pi and Cao Zhang were also somewhat surprised after reading the information handed over by their father.

"What do you think about this?" Cao Cao asked with a smile, looking at his two sons expectantly.

"Guan Yunchang is the tiger general of the world, and Zhao Botao is full of tricks. The two join forces and attack Zhang Lu from both sides. He will definitely lose!" Cao Zhang said after a moment of thought.

"Not only that, once Hanzhong falls into the hands of Liu Bei, Xichuan will be in its hinterland. Liu Zhang is a weak man, and since Xichuan is already in his hinterland, Liu Bei will get it sooner or later. Liu Bei has now occupied the land of the five states, and is also part of the Sun family. I was also wiped out by it, with the vast sea behind me, so I have no worries. In this way, it will be much more difficult for us to fight against it again." Cao Pi didn't just think about the battlefield.

"Well!" Cao Cao was quite satisfied with the judgment of the two sons, and then asked: "What do you think we should do under such a situation?"

Cao Zhang and Cao Pi pondered for a while, and finally Cao Zhang said: "You can mobilize the troops in Guanzhong, and take Hanzhong when Guan Yu and Zhang Lu are both wounded, so as to eat Xichuan in the future!" Cao Pi also nodded.

"Although my son's plan is good, there is an even better one!" Cao Cao stroked his beard and smiled. At this moment, someone from outside the tent came to report that Jia Xu and Liu Bao had something to see.

"Shan Yu, Wen He, what's the matter?" Cao Cao hurriedly ordered them to come in and talk.After the two of them settled down, Liu Bao was the first to say excitedly: "Wei Gong, someone under my command came to report just now, and they have found a small road that can go directly to Danhan Mountain!"

"Okay!" Cao Cao was overjoyed when he heard the words, and then excitedly said: "Shan Yu quickly go to rectify the army and horses in the headquarters, and I will send troops tomorrow to wipe out this bunch of Xianbei and low breeds!"

"Yes!" Liu Bao cupped his hands, and happily returned to the camp to rectify the army without mentioning it.Cao Cao looked at the back of Liu Bao who was going away, and suddenly said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, after this battle, the Xianbei clan may be extinct, and the Xiongnu will also be seriously injured. It may be difficult for the alien race in northern Xinjiang to make a difference. .”

"In 100 years, it will be safe; after [-] years, it will be unpredictable." Jia Xu said plainly.

"What does Wen He say?" Cao Cao couldn't help but wonder.

"Ah!" Jia Xu also sighed in a rare way, and then said bitterly: "Xu was born in Xiliang, so he knows a lot about these alien races. These years, he is like a wolf, and he will always come to invade. Minggong wiped out Xianbei today. And the Xiongnu, but a hundred years later, after four generations, these alien races have regained their vitality, and they will surely cause disasters again. Whether they will lose their spirit like the Minggong is beyond our ability to predict."

"So that's how it is!" Cao Cao nodded, and then said with a smile, "I, Cao Mengde, should be content to be able to keep the people safe for 100 years." At this moment, the tent door was opened again, but Cao Zhen looked excited. came in from outside the camp.

"My lord, General Yuan Rang sent someone to send an urgent report!" Cao Zhen handed an urgent official letter to Cao Cao.

"Zidan, have you peeked at it?" Although Cao Cao said something reproachful, he still had a smile on his face.

"My lord, I'm overjoyed!" Cao Zhen said with a smile while acquiescing.Cao Cao opened it and looked, even if he could hold his breath, he couldn't help standing up excitedly.

"Father, what's the matter?" Cao Zhang and Cao Pi couldn't help but wondered.

"Yuan Rang has conquered Zhuojun, Shanggu and Daijun, and Yuan Tan led his army back to Liaodong!" Cao Cao said excitedly.

"Why so fast?" Cao Zhang couldn't help asking in wonder.One must know that these cities, Yuan Tan, were also heavily defended, so why were they lost so quickly.

"Yuan Tan colluded with Xianbei before, and at this time he has lost the hearts of the people of Youzhou. Tian Yu, the prefect of Zhuojun, and Xia Houlan, the governor of Daijun, all turned their backs. Yuan Rang took these two cities without bloodshed. The counties of Shanggu, look forward to the wind Surrender." Cao Cao said with a chuckle, and then sighed: "It's a mistake, Yuan Tan can only return to Liaodong now. In his whole life, at most he will be a Gongsun Du."

"Now that Hebei has been pacified, why doesn't my father send his army to the south and fight Liu Bei to the death to rule the world?" Cao Zhang was a little excited and asked hastily.

"No hurry, wait until Wen Ruo restores the people's livelihood in Hebei. Besides, taking advantage of Xianbei's vital energy, we should go ahead and suppress. By the way, Zidan, call Qianshao." Cao Zhen hurriedly promised to go without mentioning .

Since Qian Shao joined Cao Cao, Cao Cao didn't arrange any important official position for him for a while, but now he heard Cao Cao summon him, so he rushed to see him. "Zijing, I will now enlist you as Wei Guo Zhenbei General. I will train the more than [-] Xianbei captured these days to form a cavalry army with me. You will lead it and fight for me in the future!" Cao Cao ordered. .

"Thank you Duke Wei for your kindness!" Jianshao was overjoyed when he heard the words, and quickly kowtowed his thanks, and went to rectify the army without mentioning it.At the same time, Cao Cao also ordered the three armies to assemble, and he personally led them to merge with Liu Bao's Huns army and horses, and followed the path that Liu Bao had explored to attack Danhan Mountain overnight.

Not to mention that Cao Cao was furiously mobilizing his troops in Saibei at this time, and Guan Yu's [-] troops in the western city of Hanzhong finally came to the city after marching for another day.What made Guan Yu quite satisfied was that although the road was rugged and narrow, there was an open land in front of Xicheng City.Even if it is inconvenient for the army to attack the city, it is more than enough to get dozens of trebuchets.

Guan Yu thought so and did the same.Not long after, eighty trebuchets were set up under the Xicheng city, and then the soldiers accompanying the army began to assemble them, and then went to the surrounding mountains to collect stones, preparing to attack the city.

"General, what are they going to do?" Yang Ren looked at the actions of the Jingzhou Army in some inexplicable way and asked Zhang Wei.Yang Ren did not go to Shangyong with the army in the previous battle, so he knew nothing about the trebuchet.

"No, they want to smash rocks!" Zhang Wei looked at the trebuchet that was gradually assembled, and suddenly remembered Shangyong's terrifying trebuchet, which could throw hundreds of catties of large stones hundreds of steps each time. outside.Zhang Wei only saw the appearance of the trebuchets on the Chengguan from a distance. Today, these trebuchets were disassembled and mounted on vehicles for the convenience of carrying in the valley road, and now they are assembled.Before installing it, Zhang Wei failed to recognize the trebuchet for a while, but now that it was assembled, Zhang Wei immediately realized what the Jingzhou army wanted to do.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Wei realized another terrifying problem: Xicheng is not big, and his [-] troops are nestled here. Once the stones hit the sky and cover the sky, the casualties will definitely not be covered.

"Hurry up, send the order down and get ready for battle!" Zhang Wei said in a trembling voice.Yang Renzheng couldn't figure it out. At this time, all the trebuchets had been assembled, and the first batch of 80 trebuchets started smashing at the same time. Stones worth [-] yuan and a hundred catties flew towards the head of Xicheng City in the dumbfounded eyes of the guards. .

"Crack!", "Bang!", "Ah!".Various voices followed. "Pa" is the sound made by the stones hitting the defenders, smashing the living people into meat sauce in an instant, making such a sound; "bang" is the sound made by those stones that did not hit the living people, hitting the city wall Blunt sound; "Ah" is the scream of those who were not hit by the vital point and were about to die.

In the first batch of stone rain, hundreds of people in the city had already lost their lives.The stones were too big, and although some of them missed their targets, those who hit them were often killed by several people together. On average, one stone definitely killed more than one person.

"What?" Yang Ren was considered a battle-tested man, but he was also unable to react to this sudden blow.At this moment, the second round of stone rain came again, and there was another burst of howling ghosts and wolves above the city.

"Little Zhang Wei curled up his army in this small city, and really let our army's trebuchets be used as live targets!" Guan Yu said with some disdain as he glanced at the dejected defenders on the top of the city.

"Fortunately, Zhang Wei was the one who saw our army's trebuchet in Shangyong that day, so he didn't make any preparations at all. To act like this is really suicidal!" Zhuge Jin also shook his head.

To say that most of the Hanzhong army are believers of Zhang Lu's Five Dou of Rice Dao, and they are absolutely not afraid of death in a war.Otherwise, Zhang Lu doesn't have any generals to show for him. How can the Yizhou army with the famous general Zhang Ren have nothing to do, and can only dare to attack when the defense is empty?But now this trebuchet is really too scary, often when a stone comes down, it will smash people into a meat sauce.Such a tragic scene, don't say that you are a five-dou rice Taoist, or a fairy Taoist, you will vomit after seeing it.

"General, what should we do?" Yang Ren asked anxiously after the third round of stone rain.Being pinned down naked can only fight but not fight back. This kind of battle is almost impossible.In fact, the direct casualties caused by the three rounds of stone rain were very limited, there were only about [-] people in general, compared with the [-] defenders, it was really a drop in the bucket.But the blow to morale is absolutely fatal.

"Bo Jian, you lead the people down the tower first, and only send a thousand people to guard each time to prevent excessive casualties. Wait until today, and then make plans!" Zhang Wei couldn't come up with any good ideas for a while, so he could only order Let's use this stupid method to reduce casualties first.Looking up at the sky, it was only noon at this time, and there was still something to be endured today.

After the stones were pounded, the not-so-solid city wall of the west city was a little loose. Zhang Wei also hurriedly ordered people to strengthen the city wall at night and clean up the dead bodies and rubble on the top of the city.

"A total of 140 soldiers were killed today, and more than [-] were seriously injured and unable to fight anymore!" After counting the number of people, Yang Ren reported to Zhang Wei with a pale face.Although he didn't send out special agents, Zhang Wei also knew that none of the Jingzhou army who attacked the city today died.

None of the siege soldiers died, and more than 1000 defenders died. Not to mention that Zhang Wei, a Hanzhong bumpkin, had never seen this kind of weird battle, even the well-informed Cao Mengde, a veteran in the battlefield, rarely encountered it.What's more terrible is that after Zhang Wei proposed to defend in shifts, the defenders who were sent to the top of the city knew that they were going to die, and they were unwilling to die.It was not until Zhang Wei led his personal guards to urge him that he reluctantly went to the city.Although Zhang Wei is not a man of far-reaching wisdom, he also knows that if this continues, the morale of the army will inevitably be unstable.

"Bo Jian, you led the army overnight and set up a stronghold in the western mountain col, and guarded each other with the west city, so as not to crowd here and get smashed." Zhang Wei thought for a while.

"Alright!" Yang Ren couldn't think of any good solution, so he could only do it first.After a pause, Yang Ren suddenly suggested: "General, why don't you steal Guan Yu's camp at night?"

"Guan Yu is a famous general in the world, how can the camp be defenseless?" Zhang Wei frowned, not too impressed with Yang Ren's proposal.

"Guan Yu's army has come here from afar, so they may not be prepared. How will we know if we don't try?" Yang Ren said with some unwillingness.

"Since that's the case, Bo Jian, you can send a school lieutenant and lead an army of [-] people to try it out." Zhang Wei was still more cautious and 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 for people to go to the stronghold, not to mention stealing the camp.

On the other side, Zhao Feng's 5000 troops finally arrived at the seat of Yizhou's seat, Chengdu in Shu County, after a long trek on the mountain road on the 29th.

"General Zhao, I have been waiting for you for a long time!" Before arriving in Chengdu, Zhao Feng saw a large group of people lined up in front of him, waiting for him for a long time.The one in front of him was a big fat man, and he walked forward with a smile on his face.The court uniform on his body is the same as Liu Bei's. Obviously he is the Lord of Yizhou, Shu Gong Liu Zhang.Looking at his appearance, Zhao Feng never believed that he was a shrewd person.

"Zhao came here, how dare Duke Shu wait for a long time!" Although Zhao Feng was slandering in his heart, he still had to do some superficial things in the face of this local snake.In case I offend others, my little manpower is not enough for others to put between their teeth.While being polite, he hurriedly rushed forward to salute.

"Haha!" Liu Zhang was quite approachable, stepped forward to help Zhao Feng up, took his hand to board his chariot together, and entered Chengdu together to show off.As for the troops in Jingzhou, Liu Zhang arranged wine and meat to reward the laborers.

"Haha, this buddy is too sincere!" Zhao Feng saw that Liu Zhang was not guarding against him at all, and felt almost helpless in his heart.A group of people came to Liu Zhang's mansion of the Duke of Shu. Liu Zhang had already ordered someone to arrange a sumptuous feast for them.

"General Zhao is too weak to be crowned, and he has already become a third-rank member of the court, and he is a famous general who has been on the battlefield. Ping Jiangdong, Lu Bu, and even the Prime Minister Cao who swept Hebei, suffered a big defeat under the general's hands. You are so young and promising!" After sitting down, Liu Zhang also complimented him.

"Don't you dare? It's all because the lord is wise, and that's all for letting the last general get some credit!" Zhao Feng's thick skin is rare in the world, and he couldn't help but feel a little hot in the face of such praise.After saying a few words of compliments, Liu Zhang also introduced the main figures in Shu to Zhao Feng.This banquet Liu Zhang gave Zhao Feng enough face, except for the veteran Yan Yan who guarded Nanzhong who was not present, all other important officials in central Shu were present.The celebrities mentioned in the book, such as Huang Quan, Zhang Song, Fazheng, and Zhang Ren are all there.But seeing that Zhang Song is really short, Zhao Feng estimates that he is less than 1 meters, which is almost the same as Guo Xiaosi in his previous life.There is also Zhang Ren, known as the No.55 general in Chuanzhong, who is only about 1 meters tall and has a beard on his face.But his knuckles are thick, his muscles are knotted, his eyes are piercing, and he can tell he is a veteran in the battlefield.

After drinking for three rounds, after the mutual flattery came to an end, it was Zhang Ren who took the initiative to get up and asked, "I don't know how many troops and horses General Zhao brought with him when he marched into Hanzhong this time?"

(End of this chapter)