"Master Shijun, he is Liu Yuanjun's righteous son?" Zhang Wei's face was slightly frightened, and a low and hoarse voice opened his mouth.

He has always believed that Liu Yan is Zhang Lu's biggest backer, and it is precisely because of the support of Youzhou that Zhang Lu is under the watchful eye of the Quartet.

But when he heard Zhang Suo's words in vain, he suddenly panicked.

"The Heavenly Master Dao is already powerful, and now Master Shijun has completely inherited the entire Heavenly Master Dao, and he is no longer a desperate and down-and-out young monarch in the past, and he is in charge of tens of thousands of disciples of the Heavenly Master Dao, but the foundation is too shallow, and the wings are not full, and he suddenly took down the land of Hanzhong, how can he not be suspicious of Liu Yuanjun, let alone a righteous son, even his own son may not be able to tolerate it."

Zhang Suo sighed, shook his head and said: "Now Liu Yuanjun must think that Master Shijun has a different heart, so he will allow the remnants of the Mu clan to enter our Hanzhong, the purpose is to let us both lose!" ”

He sighed and said, "This time, Master Shijun can be said to have more gains than losses!" ”

"Now how are we okay?"

Zhang Wei suddenly became nervous and hurriedly asked.

For Zhang Suo, they actually grew up together since childhood, they know each other, he knows that he is a reckless man, and he can charge on the battlefield, but these brainy things are difficult to be the same.

And Zhang Suo is different, Zhang Suo is a young martial artist, a young man is proficient in literature, and Wen Taowu is proficient, and he still trusts Zhang Suo's ability in this regard.

"The matter has come to this, the rice has become a cook, we can't retreat if we want to, Shijun is a great talent to inherit the Heavenly Master's Dao, and inherited the Five Buckets of Rice Sect, the Quartet comes to vote, and the mighty Hanzhong, it is the time to show his ambitions, and he can't fall into the majesty of Shijun."

Zhang Suo took a deep breath, calmed down, and his face became decisive: "No matter who it is, if we want to threaten the status of Lord Shijun, we can only fight hard, I suggest that we immediately send troops to recapture Fangling at any cost, and we must not give any chance for them to stand firm in Hanzhong." ”

As he spoke, he spread out a topographic map on his desk, which was a leather map that marked the terrain of eastern Hanzhong.

"Either we don't fight, since we have to fight a little harder, I estimate that it is only their vanguard army that has entered Fangling County now, and the strength is not very large, the scouts have already inquired, although it is not very thorough, about 3,000 soldiers, but I guess, at most, 5,000, I have 8,000 soldiers and horses, you have 3,000 elites, and our strength is far above them."

Zhang Suo began to lay out the strategy: "And the soldiers are fast, we must be fast, we must send troops as soon as possible, I am ready to divide the troops into two ways, I will lead the main force of the army to the official road to kill, frontal attack, attract their attention, and Zhang Wei, you lead the army to the north, from the north side of the tiger and wolf mountain stream, take the small road, I have estimated, eighty miles of mountain road, walk for two days, on the third day must appear in the north city, quickly attack the inner city, under the internal and external attack, in order to quickly defeat them!" ”

"What about Shangyong City?" Xu Changshi looked a little nervous, and asked in a low voice, "Who is guarding the city?" ”

"This city may only have to ask Xu Changshi!"

Zhang Suo said with a smile.

His idea is very good, even if the mediocre forces are exhausted, there are still some mediocre squires.

This place in Hanzhong is said to be barren or not, it is the place where the ancestors rose in the past, but if you want to say how prosperous it is, you can't talk about it, and the scholars are not willing to come here, so there are not many scholars here.

But there were quite a few squire families in the counties and cities, and they occupied the most land and controlled most of the population.

If he wants to recapture Fangling County, he must use all his forces.

But the mediocrity must be guarded, the mediocrity is much more important than the Fangling, this is the gateway to Hanzhong.

If he wants to keep the mediocrity, he can only rely on the private soldiers of the squire family who chased those ones.

"Me?"

Xu Changshi frowned suddenly, and hurriedly stood up and arched his hand: "Lord County, if the army you led leaves Shangyong, and someone plots against Shangyong City, how should you deal with it?" ”

"Xu Changshi Mo has to worry, Shangyong City is as solid as a rock, and ordinary bandits can't attack it, unless someone from Ba County sends troops, if the soldiers and horses of Ba County go north, Lord Shijun has already gotten the news!"

Zhang Suo said with a smile: "So as long as you keep it well, everything will be fine!" ”

Xu Chai's face was ugly, Zhang Suo understood that he wanted to use them, the private soldiers of the Shangyong squire family, this time I am afraid that it will not work if he does not send troops, Shangyong is not Zhang Suo's mediocrity alone, or their mediocrity.

"No!"

Xu Chai gave up his hand to receive the order.

……

……

Three days later, Zhang Suotun Bingfangling County was outside the city.

"Li Ye, what's the situation in the city?"

Zhang Suo rode around the city, his eyes flickered, looking at the faintly visible figure above the city, and his expression was a touch of doubt.

The city was the highest, and the battle flag was in the wind, and the hunt sounded.

The black cloth is embroidered with gold, and the pastoral word is shining.

Then there was a battle flag with black flowers, and then the battle flags were embroidered with the word Jingping.

"It's quiet in the city!"

Li Ye handed over his hand and reported: "And in the past two days, I haven't found any Jingping Army scouts appearing, as if they are all cowering in the city, I don't know what conspiracy is brewing!" ”

"No trace?"

"Nope!"

"Did Zhang Wei's soldiers and horses cross the northern mountain range?" Zhang Suo asked.

"Three hours ago, they had already appeared on the outskirts of the North City!"

"Immediately send an order, after we attack, let them quickly send troops, take the northern city, go straight into the city, we will cooperate with him inside and outside, and break through the defense of Fangling County in one fell swoop!"

Zhang Suo was very uneasy, so although he had not yet gained a firm foothold, and had not even built a camp, he directly launched an attack on Fangling.

"Kill!"

"Rush in!"

"Erlang, kill!"

When Shangyong's 8,000 troops attacked in formation and began to launch a frontal attack on the city wall of Fangling.

And at this time, outside the north gate, there is a group of soldiers and horses are also ready to wait, they come from the back over the mountains and mountains, although they are very tired, but they are full of fighting spirit, and one by one will be proud.

"Pass my military order, start charging, half an hour, break in!"

The three thousand soldiers and horses led by Zhang Wei are the elite of the elite, the Taoist soldiers of the Heavenly Master Dao, the Heavenly Master Dao has stood for many years, and it is normal to raise the Taoist soldiers, the Taoist soldiers they raise are like the government soldiers, the son inherits the father's business, inherits from generation to generation, is loyal to the Heavenly Master Dao, and has practiced martial arts since childhood, whether it is the strength of a single soldier or the power of the military array, it is superior, three thousand Taoist soldiers, the combat effectiveness is enough to be comparable to eight thousand mediocre soldiers.

The two armies launched a charge at the same time in the north and south, thinking that they could hit the Jingping army by surprise, but they didn't expect to encounter any defense at all, and the war was surprisingly smooth, and in less than half an hour, they had already met in the city.

"What's going on?"

Zhang Wei seemed to have punched the cotton, his expression was very ugly, he stared at Zhang Suo, and asked coldly.

"We may have been fooled!"

Zhang Suo swept through the lonely streets in the city, there was not even a single figure, there was no trace of Jingping's army at all, this suddenly became a little annoyed and angry, and the uneasiness in his heart became even more frightened, he shouted and ordered: "Pass my military order, search for me, search the whole city, dig three feet into the ground and find them out for me!" ”

"Yes!"

The army began to search the city.

An hour later, above the county government hall, Zhang Suo and Zhang Wei were wearing battle armor, and Ang Rang looked at each other, and their expressions became more and more gloomy.

"Lord County, there is no trace of the thief army in the city!"

Li Ye walked up and said, "I inquired, it seems that they have left the city two days ago, entered the mountains in the northwest direction, and then there is no trace?" ”

"Northwest?"

Zhang Wei said coldly: "Could it be that they want to enter the mountains to be savages, that is the direction to Qinling!" ”

To the northwest of Fangling, from the map, it is a mountain range, and it is in contact with Hanzhong to the north.

"Maps?"

Zhang Suo's heart suddenly suddenly, and the feeling of uneasiness became more and more intense, and he shouted.

"In!"

The guards on the left and right spread out a topographic map.

"Although the northwest direction is full of mountains and forests, there are no official roads at all, but there are many mountain roads, if you find a way out, it is a small road, which can lead directly to Shangyong City!"

Zhang Suo slapped the case fiercely: "We were fooled, they went to Shangyong!" ”

"Impossible!"

Zhang Wei's eyes widened: "That mountain range, don't talk about outsiders, those of us who have been in Hanzhong for decades can't get out!" ”

"The fact that they can enter Hanzhong from Nanyang has shown that there must be people in Hanzhong to support them!"

Zhang Suo took a deep breath, calmed down, and said gloomily: "The Dongshan Plank Road is so secret, they can all find it, who can say that they don't know the terrain of Hanzhong, hurry, we have to rush back to Shangyong!" ”

"But we're tired from the road now!" Zhang Wei clenched his fists.

"Climb back!"

Zhang Suo drank coldly.

"Yes!"

Everyone received the order, and the soldiers who entered Fangling lined up to go out of the city, and turned back to the original way.

……

……

On the same day that Zhang Suo and Zhang Wei's Hanzhong soldiers and horses arrived in Fangling, a group of soldiers and horses also appeared outside the suburbs of Shangyong City.

"The terrain of Hanzhong is really nine bends and eighteen bends!"

Chen Zhi stood on a hill, looked down on Shangyong City, and said with feeling: "If it weren't for Brother Su's guidance, I wouldn't have been able to walk out, I'm afraid I would have already suffered a big loss!" ”

The reason why he felt it was because he felt that God was on their side this time, if he didn't know the Su Xin he had met, he couldn't have known so many Hanzhong roads, and sometimes one road could determine the success or failure of a war.

For example, now, because Su Xin pointed out a mountain road, he led his troops to quickly leave Fangling, and he walked to Shangyong unconsciously.

"When my uncle governed Hanzhong, he had a grand wish, that is, he hoped to pave the road in Hanzhong and establish the road in Hanzhong, so he collected a lot of topographical records!"

Su Xin said with a smile: "Although the family is destroyed, but those terrain books have been saved a lot, and I have read a lot, so for the terrain of Hanzhong, I don't expect it on my chest, but I can memorize seven or eight points." ”

"If you can capture Shangyong in this battle, Brother Su will be a great achievement!"

Chen Zhi sincerely bowed his hand and said: "When the lord leads the army into Hanzhong, I will definitely personally ask for credit for Brother Su!" ”

"Captain Chen is polite, helping you is also helping myself, I have no power to restrain the chicken, and it is impossible to avenge the destruction of the Su family, now I can only hope that Lord Minghou will be the master for me, and I can drive the Heavenly Master Dao out of Hanzhong and kill the Zhang family!"

Su Xin's eyes were full of resentment.

"Don't worry about this matter, we want Hanzhong, then we will not be able to tolerate a second person to occupy Hanzhong, Zhang Lu must die!" Chen Zhi said coldly.

"Lord Captain, there are more than 2,000 soldiers and horses guarding the city."

Zhang Shice came immediately and said.

"What?"

Chen Zhi squinted: "The troops they left behind to defend?" ”

"It doesn't seem to be!" Zhang Shidao: "It's not like a regular soldier, it's more like a family soldier!" ”

"I see!"

Su Xin opened his mouth and said: "It must be some families in Shangyong City, their troops are sent to defend Shangyong, Shangyong is their foundation, Zhang Suo wants to go to Fangling more, he must do his assistant, so let these Shangyong squire families send troops to defend Shangyong!" ”

"Trouble!"

Chen Zhi frowned: "They will soon reflect it, we don't have much time at all, at least two days, at most three days, we must capture Shangyong." ”

It's not a problem to conquer the top, but time has become the biggest problem.

"Lord Captain, our biggest problem is that there are not so many siege equipment at all, even if there are only a thousand soldiers in the city, we can use it for three or five days!" Jun Hou Mo Bao said in a low voice.

"Zhang Shi!"

"In!"

"You lead the fifth battalion and start attacking, you must be fierce enough to deter the troops in the city!"

"No!"

"Mo Bao!"

"In!"

"Give you half a day, you take the fourth battalion, give me local materials, build as much as you can, I want to attack the city tomorrow, there are enough ladders and wells!"

"Yes!"

Mo Bao commanded.

……

Knock knock knock!!!

The sound of drums shook the nine heavens.

"What's going on?"

Xu Chaichong hurriedly walked up to the city, looked over, and saw a queue of soldiers and horses approaching outside the city.

"Lord Changshi, the thief army found outside the city is approaching the east gate, and it is less than a hundred steps!"

"Where did this army of thieves come from?"

Xu Chai was shocked.

"I don't know!"

"How many troops?"

"I don't know!"

Several leaders of the government soldiers shook their heads repeatedly, and they didn't know that although the government soldiers of these squire families had a certain combat effectiveness, they were more than one grade different from the government soldiers of the Shi family.

"I don't know anything, so let's go and find out!" Xu Chai was annoyed and ashamed.

"Yes!"

Many of the generals and leaders hurried away.

"I knew something was going to happen!"

Xu Chai gritted his teeth and called a confidant: "Xu Tong." ”

"Head of the house!"

"Go and inform those families in the city, tell them that if you want to live, send me all the young men of the family to the city!" Xu Chai said coldly: "As long as we keep the mediocrity, we can keep the status of the family and the wealth of the family!" ”

"Yes!"

Confidant Xu Tong hurriedly went door-to-door to inform the squire family.

"Attack, shoot the arrows!"

The army attacked the city fifty paces down, Zhang Shi ordered, and the archers began to shoot arrows.

Woohoo! Xiuxiu!!!

Round after round of arrows are like rain falling from the sky, heading towards the head of Shangyong City.

"Hide!"

Xu Chai is a civil official, not a military general, on the battlefield, quite panicked, in the face of this fierce bow and arrow, he did not have the courage of a military general, and hurriedly hid.

"Hide!"

"Defense!"

The soldiers below also began to hide.