Chapter 166 Situation

In the spring of the 20th year of Jian'an, in the 215th AD.

King Liu Bei of Hanzhong launched the army in Sichuan, and took Ma Chao and Zhang Fei as the vanguard, and went out to Qishan and reached Longxi. Liu Bei sent Pang Tong's strategy to drive the army to Jicheng and take Tianshui. Then, using this as the foundation, spread the front lines widely, and the soldiers were connected directly to Jincheng south of the Yellow River.

Therefore, the Wei army was few and wide in the land, and was defeated by Liu Bei's army and could not resist it. They had to send documents to Chang'an to request rescue.

On this day, Liu Bei recruited civil and military officials in Tianshui City to discuss matters. At that time, Pang Tong advised, "The front line has been laid. Just wait for the Chang'an troops to arrive here and drag them down, so General Xue can lead the strange troops from Ziwu Valley.

The rear of our army went straight to Liangzhou in the northwest, with vast cities and sparse soldiers and horses, and no generals guarding him. Why not let the king send a general to lead some soldiers and horses to the northwest to visit Liangzhou?"

When Liu Bei heard this, he looked around. Seeing that all the generals were eager to try, he said to Pang Tong: "The military advisor thought, who should be the general?"

Pang Tong said: "General Ma lives in Liangzhou for generations. The soldiers and civilians in Liangzhou are all intimidated by his reputation. This time, General Ma should be the general."

Before the sound fell, Ma Chao said, "I will finally settle down and take all the land of Xiliang and offer it to the king!"

Seeing that Ma Chao had responded, Liu Bei smiled and said, "If Meng Qi goes, Xiliang can be settled! Who else can Meng Qi help?"

Ma Chao listened to Liu Bei's words and was about to say: "Just just need a brother to accompany you." But before he could say it, he heard Zuo Jin shouting: "I am willing to help General Ma with his arm!"

When everyone heard the sound, they all turned to look, and saw a veteran with white hair and beard standing in the hall, which was undoubtedly Huang Zhong.

When Liu Bei saw that it was Huang Zhong, he hurriedly said, "The old general is old. He did not want to take the old general to accompany him when he went to the expedition. But Zihan recommended the old general to Gu. Then Gu led the old general to go north with the army.

I wanted to ask the old general to follow him alone, but now the old general wants to lead his troops to fight, but I am afraid that the old general will not be able to fight for a long time when he is old.

Huang Zhong said: "Although I am old, I am still not old! Now I am following the king to the north, so I want to do my best to help the king succeed. As a general, how can I hide in the back formation for a long time?" After that.

He called two bows on the left and right, and the soldiers on the left and right followed him, and took two bows on the three stones and handed them to Huang Zhong's hand.

Huang Zhong raised the two long bows side by side and pulled the two bow strings with his hands. The bow string was pulled into a full moon by Huang Zhong, but he still had no intention of letting go.

Everyone heard Huang Zhong's roar, and then the sound of the bowstring breaking sounded in the hall, but all the two bows were torn by Huang Zhong.

Let's look at Huang Zhong again. His face was swollen and red. He stood in the hall, gasping heavily, but he was still erecting his back and doing nothing.

Seeing Huang Zhong like this, Liu Bei knew that he would definitely lead his army to fight. So he thought in his heart: "This time Ma Chao led his army to attack various parts of Xiliang, there were no pass cities with heavy troops.

There is no famous general who guards Xiliang. I think there will be no danger with Huang Zhong's martial arts." So nodded.

He agreed to Huang Zhong's feelings and said to him: "Since the old general is willing to go, he will take the old general to be Meng Qi's deputy general to help Meng Qi pacify the northwest as soon as possible."

When Huang Zhong saw Liu Bei responding, he said happily: "I will definitely live up to the king's entrusted!" Then he turned around and returned to the class, but he had just used his strength and had not yet recovered his energy.

Then Liu Bei assigned everyone tasks. After everything was done, another soldier came to report, saying: "The prefect of Chang'an, Xu Huang, personally led the troops of Yongzhou to Qinchuan, and then Hao Zhao led the troops to guard Chen Cang."

When Liu Bei heard the news, he laughed and said to Pang Tong: "Now that Xu Huang's troops are all out, he can make people urgently report to Zihan and make him advance!"

When Pang Tong heard this, he smiled and replied, "Your Majesty, don't be in a hurry. Now Xu Huang has just arrived. The subsequent troops are still on the road. If General Xue leads his troops out at this time, Xu Huang will hear that. He will lead his troops back urgently.

Then, when Xu Huang confronts our army and cannot escape from behind, General Xue can lead his troops to Chang'an."

Liu Bei said, "But he was so anxious!" He discussed with Pang Tong for a while, how to set up defenses here and who should command troops there.

As he was talking, Liu Bei suddenly frowned and said, "Zihan's strategy is very easy. It's just that the three soldiers and horses are very far apart. How should we convey messages to each other?"

Pang Tong shook his head and said, "Tong once asked General Xue in the past. General Xue just said, "Before acting, the day of the uprising is agreed upon. Regardless of success or not, you should lead troops to the city of Chang'an before making any decisions."

When Liu Bei heard this, he frowned and said, "In this way, if there is any mistake during this period, will Zihan and Zilong be in danger?"

Pang Tong said: "General Xue's plan is already extremely risky. There is no way to solve this problem, so everything can only rely on the ability of the general to guide his troops to respond to the situation.

I think this is how General Xue asked to lead this army in person!" Liu Bei nodded when he heard this, just looking at the map and dazzled...

In the spring of the 20th year of Jian'an, Xu Huang, the prefect of Chang'an, received many urgent reports, saying that King Liu Bei of Hanzhong led more than 100,000 Sichuan troops to invade, and now he has seized Jicheng, Tianshui and other places. Later, he sent troops to Jincheng, and his troops are heading straight to the hinterland of Yongzhou.

Xu Huang received the report and hurriedly gathered civil and military personnel to discuss. Finally, Hao Zhao led some troops to guard Chen Cang, while he personally led a large army to defend Qinchuan, so that Liu Bei's army could not break into the hinterland of Yongzhou.

He also asked Cao Hong to lead some troops to run to An Ding to intimidate Xiliang. If Liu Bei's army wanted to divide his troops north, he would lead Cao Hong out to An Ding to attack his flanks. At the same time, he hurriedly compiled books and wrote a letter, causing people to rush to Xuchang at night with the books.

Everything was allocated, and the troops were immediately mobilized, and the generals were dispatched at the same time, leaving only a few guards in various places, and the others gathered in Qinchuan.

By February, the Cao army in Yongzhou gathered at the Qinchuan to Chencang line and confronted the Sichuan army of Hanzhong Liu Bei. During this period, they had dozens of battles. Although they had won and lost each other, the front line had never changed. The battle situation on the Western Front was so stalemate.

At that time, Cao Cao was about to mobilize his troops to Wancheng to fight against Guan Yu. He was about to go out to fight, and two emergency military information were delivered one after another. One was written by Xu Huang, which detailed the details of Liu Bei leading the army out of Qishan and invading Yongliang.

The other one comes from Yangzhou. However, all the troops and horses in Jiangdong were released, with Zhou Yu as the chief governor and Cheng Pu as the deputy governor, and he led his troops to the north. Zhou Yu sent Cheng Pu to confront Zhang Liao, but he led his troops to attack Xuzhou.

Now several cities in southern Xuzhou have been in the hands of Zhou Yu, and the documents of emergency hit the Xuzhou capital like snowflakes. The head of Xuzhou mobilized troops to prepare to go south to meet the enemy, while sending people to hold the documents of emergency to Xuchang to come at night.

As soon as Cao Cao connected several high-tempered documents, he was shocked and annoyed. He was anxious and angry, but he started to suffer a headache. He lay on the bed and couldn't get up all day long.

Unable to do so, he had to gather several people to discuss at the edge of the bed. Cao Cao looked around on the bed, looking from left to right, and from right to left, and finally said: "Now, Liu Bei and Sun Quan's families have joined forces and divided into three armies to invade our borders, which is really a worry and anxious.

However, according to Gongming's military information, Liu Bei led his troops to Qishan, which was unwise. Now he was blocked by Gongming's Yongzhou troops in Longxi. Although he could get a temporary place, after his food was exhausted, he would be left alone.

And Yang and Xu were the only one guarding the commander of Wen Yuan. Now that Jiangdong is full of troops and horses, Zhou Yu is the commander, it is not easy to resist. We should ask the general to lead the troops and horses to help him."

Looking around, he finally said, "My son Huan Ke leads the army to Yangzhou to help Wenyuan resist the Wu army northward."

Yan Luo, and a person close to him quickly responded.

Cao Cao nodded on the couch and said, "Wenyuan has the help of Zihuan. Although he cannot retreat to the enemy, he can also protect the east road without any danger. Although Sun Quan is heading north, his troops in the south are not good at fighting in the north. Therefore, although his army's offensive is fierce, it is not a great enemy.

His ability to go north was all relying on the momentum of uniting with Liu Bei, and he just waited to destroy Liu Bei's army, and Sun Quan retreated without fighting."

Speaking of this, he took a breath and slapped his forehead with his hands. But his head was so painful that he couldn't help but now he couldn't support it. However, before he finished his order, he had to hold on. After he breathed a sigh of relief, Cao Cao said again: "The only thing he is afraid of is Guan Yu's army.

This army came fiercely. If it was asked to seize Wancheng, it would be able to reach Xuchang. If so, we would be able to cover it all. It is not enough to worry about both the east and west. Although the eastern front cannot retreat to the enemy, it is only a temporary pain. As long as Gongming drags it on the western front for a few months, it can retreat to the enemy.

Now only the army in Jingzhou is the only one who knows how to retreat. The only way to do this is to resist the army.

Looking at the left and right, but seeing that there was no one in the left and right civil and military affairs, he could not let him go, so he could only say, "However, Guan Yu was a powerful general in the world, and there were help from others like Xu Shu, who were helping him, which was unstoppable for ordinary people.

Gu Xianshi asked Yuan Rang to lead his troops and horses to go first, and asked him to defend the city and not be able to fight, which was because he was afraid that his son would follow his filial piety and would be in the world.

I was alone and I was going to lead my troops south to defeat this army, but I was not able to move forward because of the headache and the disease. I also reported urgently from both sides, but the troops had to be divided into one point. Now..."

After saying that, he said with a yellow beard on his finger, "First lead my son Wen to Wancheng to block Guan Yu's army. Wait until the east and west lines stabilize, the lonely headache will improve, even if he goes to Wancheng in person to break Guan Yu's army."

First, Cao Cao responded quickly with his hand: "I will definitely not let my father down, and I will definitely tell Guan Yu that he will not be able to enter the gate of Wancheng."

The next day, Cao Cao's two sons led their troops out. Cao Zhang led most of the troops to Wancheng, while Cao Pi led another troops to Yangzhou...

At this moment, Xue Bing, Zhao Yun and Wang Ping led their troops and horses to the Ziwu Valley.

Wang Ping was the leader and walked in front of the army, Xue Bing followed him, and Zhao Yun led two thousand chariots of grain to the back. The army had been running for two days, and the road was still flat, but it had no big impact on the march.

Xue Bingyu immediately laughed and said to Wang Ping: "If the journey of Ziwu Valley is so easy to walk, I am afraid that I will be secretly staying under Chang'an City for half a month." But he said that he went too early and did not know that the inner circle could not open the city gate in advance.

Wang Ping heard Xue Bing's words and said with a smile: "General, you have just entered the valley, but you will not be able to leave so easily after tomorrow. At that time, you can't even ride a horse."

Xue Bing smiled and said, "I said, if this Ziwu Valley is so easy to do, how could Cao Cao not have a soldier on this road?"
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