Chapter 11 The Sunset on the Long River Section 32 Since Zhang Ren and Yang Ren led the army to retreat to Bashu, Han Yi was in a predicament, he was unable to attack Jincheng in the west, even when the Hexi Qiang cavalry and the northern Xinjiang iron cavalry were fighting the north bank of the Yellow River, he could only watch the great fighter plane quietly glide past him.

Liu Bei brought more than 40,000 troops to Liangzhou, plus thousands of troops from Wei Duan of Wudu County, plus more than 20,000 troops of Xiliang, Bashu had to supply grain and grass for about 70,000 troops, and the amount of grain and grass that Wudu County could supply was too small to be negligible.

Bashu could not afford it, and Liu Zhang ordered Zhang Ren and Yang Ren to withdraw their troops, and also reduced the number of people to save money to the greatest extent.

In this case, the Xiliang army can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, let alone travel thousands of miles to recover the border fortress.

The anger of the Xiliang soldiers grew, and Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi and others kept complaining, thinking that Han Yi had misheard the words of Yang Fu and Wei Kang at the beginning, and thought that Liu Bei and the Bashu people would help him drive away the Qiang people and recover Liangzhou County, but now it seems that these are all lies.

The purpose of Liu Bei and the Bashu people was only to occupy Longxi and Longnan to ensure the safety of Bashu, and they had no intention of helping the Xiliang people to recover their territory, and the Xiliang people were fooled.

Han Yi also regretted it, seeing that the soldiers were starving, angry, and demoralized, he had no choice but to be cheeky and send Ling Ru and Zhang Ji to secretly rush to Chen Cang to ask for help from Huangfu Li and Pang De.

Huangfu Li and Pang De ignored their past suspicions and played the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court would accept Han Yi's repentance, help the Xiliang people at this critical moment, and then pull the Xiliang people over.

At that time, the situation in the court was relatively tense, and the great Sima Xu Rong accepted Han Yi's plea for the safety of Gyeonggi and begged the eldest princess to give an order to appease him.

The Xiliang army got the food and was safe for the time being, but the matter was immediately learned by Liu Bei, Wei Duan and others, and they questioned Han Yi.

Han Yi repeatedly explained, saying that this was his expedient measure. Liu Bei was not at ease, worried that the capricious Han Yi would give him a knife in the back, so he hurriedly sent Yan Yan, Cao Bao, Pang Tong, Li Jun and others to lead the army to Hanyang to garrison, so as to see the Xiliang people and block the westward advance of the Northern Xinjiang Army.

The contradictions between Han Yi and Liu Bei and Wei Duan are getting bigger and bigger, and the conflict is becoming more and more intense. The Xiliang general said that Liu Bei did not give us food or help us attack the Qiang, and in turn pointed fingers at us and asked us to help him block the Northern Xinjiang army.

Why is he? The Son of Heaven and the imperial court in Xiangyang are not as good as a bag of grain in our eyes. It was this bag of grain that detonated the contradictions between the two sides.

The amount of food that Chang'an gave to the Xiliang army was not much, only enough for the Xiliang army to make a living, but the armies of Yan Yan and Cao Bao were also hungry and barely supported, and this food naturally became the object of contention between the soldiers on both sides.

Yan Yan hoped that Han Yi could give him a little food, but Han Yi flatly refused, saying that if you take the army back to Wudu, the soldiers will be able to eat enough, so why stay in Hanyang and starve?

Yan Yan was helpless, and entrusted Yang Fu and Wei Kang to persuade him. Han Yi was hesitant to save face, but Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi and the others couldn't stand it.

They surrounded Yang Fu and Wei Kang, pointed at their noses and cursed. At the beginning, I listened to your words and fell for your discordant plan, so that we Xiliang people rebelled in the nest and pushed the Xiliang people into the abyss.

Now we are not only unable to recover the western frontier, but we are not even able to eat. We brazenly ran to Chang'an to beg for some food like begging for food, and you came to grab it again, are you human beings?

Is there still a little bit of humanity? Liu Bei is your father, you want to die for him like this? Han Yi stood up to dissuade him, saying that everyone is from Xiliang, don't turn against outsiders for the sake of outsiders.

Yang Qiu pointed at his nose and scolded, who wanted to kill Ma Chao in the first place? Who is it? Now if you listen to Yang Fu and Wei Kang again, don't blame our brothers for being ruthless and unjust, turning their faces and denying people.

Speaking of this, Han Yi had no choice but to pull down his face and drive Yang Fu and Wei Kang out. Yan Yan was furious, believing that Han Yi was capricious, and took refuge in Chang'an, so he decided to attack and kill the Xiliang army, but his troops were insufficient, and he asked Pang Tong for advice.

Pang Tong said that since the death of Bian Zhang and Han Sui, there are no smart people in Xiliang, and we only need to set up a small divisive plan to make Xiliang people kill each other and be defeated.

That night, Cao Bao led a team of men and horses to ambush on the mountain between Yicheng and Wangyuan City, and at noon the next day, under the banner of Weikang's Wudu Army, attacked the grain convoy of the Xiliang Army.

When Han Yi heard the news, he was furious, and rushed to Wangyuan City with a team of personal guards, intending to turn against Wei Kang and snatch the grain back.

Wudu's army was stationed in Wangyuan City, but before Han Yi could reach Wangyuan City, he was attacked by Cao Bao.

This time, Cao Bao took a team of thugs dressed as homeless people, and took advantage of Han Yi's defenselessness to launch an attack.

Han Yi was shot and killed on the spot. Han Yi's death angered the Xiliang soldiers, and Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi and others ignored the dissuasion of Ling Ru and Zhang Ji and led the army to Wangyuan.

Ling Ru and Zhang both believed that Yan Yan had killed Han Yi, in order to make the Xiliang people kill each other, and then help Liu Beiquan take Liangzhou.

They quickly strengthened the defense of Yicheng, and ordered Cheng Yin, Liang Xing, Liang Qing and others to assemble a large army and keep a close eye on Yan Yan's army to prevent them from taking the opportunity to attack and kill and profit from it.

The general of the chariot cavalry, Lu Yi, urgently summoned Yushi, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Pang De, Wei Jun, Hua Xiong, Huangfu Li, Ma Chao and others to discuss.

First of all, it is necessary to determine the truth of the matter, if Han Yi is really dead and Hanyang is in chaos, then the Western Expeditionary Army must attack immediately.

One took the opportunity to recover Hanyang, the second was to keep the Xiliang army, and the third was to besiege and kill Liu Bei and Wei Duan's rebels. But if this matter is false, it is a trap set by the Xiliang people and the rebels, then the Western Expeditionary Army will be ambushed if it rashly attacks, and it will be defeated in the first battle, which will be too great a blow to morale.

Huang Fuli thought that this matter was true, and he should send troops quickly. So far, because the imperial court has been using troops against the rebellion in the south, the rebels obviously did not pay enough attention to the Han army's attack on the western frontier.

In addition, this time the army gathered in Chencang, and the movements of various departments were very secret, and the rebels may not know that there were heavy troops in the area of Chencang.

If they knew for sure that the Chang'an Imperial Court was going to attack the western frontier this year, they would definitely not dare to make such a risky plan, and this kind of plan to lure the enemy would be too clumsy.

Sima Yi, Jiang Ji and others have a negative attitude towards this. As early as the beginning of this year, Yang Song, the Taishou of Hanzhong, sent someone to secretly rush to Chang'an, presented a list of crimes, asked to surrender the city to Shun, and made an appointment to attack Wudu County and kill Liu Bei.

At that time, the imperial court was not sure of Yang Song's sincerity, and sent people south to Hanzhong via the Meridian Valley to explore Yang Song's true purpose.

The imperial envoy returned earlier this month and confirmed that Yang Song had been extremely resentful of Xiangyang because he had failed to obtain a seal from Xiangyang because of his meritorious efforts in killing Zhang Lu.

In addition, Liu Zhang, considering the safety of Bashu, tried to transfer Yang Song out of Guanzhong several times, which made Yang Song feel deeply in crisis, so he decided to take refuge in Chang'an.

The imperial court then sent people south to Hanzhong to discuss with Yang Song about attacking Liu Bei. If all goes well, the envoy will return to Chang'an around mid-June, bringing back Yang Song's things to fight together.

Therefore, the time of the army's westward expedition was set at the middle of June. If the Western Expeditionary Army were to attack now, and in the case of a scuffle between the armies of Hanyang, it would be very likely that Yan Yan's army would escape our encirclement and withdraw to Wudu, and the number of rebels in Wudu would reach more than 30,000.

And the number of troops we attacked Wudu was 40,000, and there was no advantage at all in terms of troops. Once the army fails to conquer Hechi and Xiazhi, and cannot quickly cut off the rebels' retreat to the East Wolf Valley and Baogu Road, then the rebels can retreat to the Yangping Pass line at any time to ensure their retreat.

We have no way of knowing Yang Song's offensive and defensive strategies at this time, but one thing is certain: our early attack on the western frontier and the rapid withdrawal of Liu Bei's army to Wudu County will make the situation in Hanzhong suddenly tense.

For the sake of Hanzhong's safety, Yang Song may categorically give up the idea of taking refuge in us, and instead concentrate on helping Liu Bei hold Wudu County and secure Hanzhong.

"In our opinion, Yang Song's main purpose in taking refuge in Chang'an is to keep Hanzhong, but Hanzhong now has Zhang Ren's army, and if he wants to cooperate with us to attack Liu Bei, he must first solve Zhang Ren. Therefore, his plan may be to ask us to send an army to secretly enter Hanzhong from the Baochuan Road and the Meridian Road, and besiege Zhang Ren together with the Hanzhong army. solved Zhang Ren, and cut off Liu Bei's way back to Hanzhong, so that Liu Bei could be encircled and annihilated in Wudu County. Jiang Ji explained,

"Therefore, I don't think it is appropriate to dispatch the army at the moment and let all sides in Hanyang fight. If the Xiliang army is completely annihilated, the rebels of Yan Yan and Wei Kang will also be greatly damaged, and with their strength, they will not be able to stop our attack at all. In addition, even if they withdrew to Wudu County at that time, it would be useless, because we had already joined forces with Yang Song to kill Zhang Ren and cut off Liu Bei's retreat, and they were doomed. Jiang Ji's suggestion was approved by some generals, but Lu Yi, Huangfu Li, Pang De, Ma Chao, Hua Xiong, Fu Gan and others, who were born in Xiliang, resolutely opposed it.

Jiang Ji's suggestion has a fatal point, that is, will Yang Song let the Han army enter Hanzhong? If he was unwilling to let the Han army enter Hanzhong from the plank road, and the Xiliang army was completely annihilated, then the battle of the Western Expedition would be greatly affected.

In the imperial court's strategy of the western expedition, the Xiliang army was an important force to pacify the western frontier, and without the Xiliang army, the battle of Pingqiang would be even more difficult to fight.

In fact, Yang Song has more troops than Zhang Ren's army, and he can completely solve Zhang Ren alone.

In addition, once the Han army enters Wudu, Zhang Ren will not sit idly by, and will definitely unite part of the Hanzhong army to support it quickly.

Therefore, Koji Yi and others believe that Jiang Ji's speculation lacks sufficient basis. If Yang Song's purpose is to defend his Hanzhong, then he may go back on his word and stick to the front line of Yangping Pass, neither will he join forces with us to implement the strategy of attacking and killing Liu Bei, but may secretly support Liu Bei to defend Wudu, so that Liu Bei and us can fight to the death, and he himself will take the opportunity to fishermen to profit.

Hanzhong is not Liu Bei's only way to retreat, Liu Bei can also take the West Han River, Yinping Road and other dangerous roads to return to Bashu.

Once Liu Bei is defeated, Bashu will also be in danger, and in this case, the importance of Hanzhong is self-evident.

And Yang Song can take the opportunity to coerce Xiangyang to get the seal, and he can't be the king of Hanzhong, at least he can be a prince of Hanzhong.

Fu Gan thinks that Yang Song is unreliable, since he can kill Zhang Lu, why can't he deceive Chang'an?

Huan Fang had a fierce argument, and the focus of the argument was whether to keep the Xiliang army. Lu Yi slapped his palm on the table and said loudly: "The main purpose of the Western Expedition is to stabilize Western Xinjiang, not to capture Wudu and Hanzhong, so there is no doubt that the Western Liang Army must be protected." Passing on my order, the three generals Pang De, Ma Chao, and Wei Jun immediately led the iron cavalry westward to help the Xiliang army attack and kill the rebels. If my decision is wrong, I am willing to bear all the blame. "Eight hundred miles of fast riding to send Koji Yi's recital to Chang'an overnight.

On May 26, the general Pang De of Zhengxi, the general of Xiangwu, Wei Jun, and the general Ma Chao of Huqiang led 10,000 iron cavalry and quickly killed Liangzhou.

On May 27, the imperial court issued an order that all units of the Western Expeditionary Army immediately attacked, and the Son of Heaven and the general led the Tiger Benyu Forest Army to follow.

On May 28, the Che cavalry general Lu Yi and the former general Yu Shi led the Northern Army's Yue cavalry, Hu cavalry, infantry battalions and Huangzhong Qiang iron cavalry to Liangzhou.

On the same day, the left general Yan Liang and the right general Wen Chou led the four battalions of the Northern Army's Zhongli, Tuncai, Huben and Shesheng, as well as the four battalions of the Zhen Army General Huaxiong, Wufeng General Liang Baiwu, Huwei General Sima Yi, and Huya General Wei Yan to cross the Yunvan Pond and reach Dasanguan.

This army was originally led by Zhao Yun, the general of the right guard, but because Cai Yong died of illness and there was a funeral in his family, the commander of the army was immediately changed to Yan Liang.

On May 29, the war drums of Yicheng, Wangyuan, and Shangqi were like thunder, and the three armies were entangled together and fought bloodily.

Yang Qiu completely lost his mind, and the overseers stormed Wangyuan City, and ordered Bian Yan and Zhou Yi, who were stationed in Shangqi, to lead troops to come to the aid and attack left and right.

After Bian Yan led an army to the city, he made contact with Wei Kang and Yang Fu in the city as quickly as possible.

But no matter how Wei Kang and Yang Fu explained, no matter how Bian Yan dissuaded them, Yang Qiu, these veterans of Xiliang, couldn't listen to it.

Han Sui died, Han Yi also died, the people of Xiliang lost their support, where is the way out? After Yan Yan received Wei Kang's request for help, he didn't say a word and led his army to attack Yicheng.

Ling Ru, Zhang Ji and others had already prepared, one held the city, and the other launched a blockade outside the city, and all their anger was poured out on the bloody battlefield.

Pang De led the army to kill, and 10,000 iron horsemen crossed Shangqi in a mighty way, rushed through Wangyuan, and killed Yan Yan overwhelmingly with the momentum of thunder.

Yan Yan was shocked when he got the report, and ordered Cao Bao to stop the attack, and he led the army to retreat quickly into the Tiger Valley, and retreated to Wudu County from the path.

Cao Bao was outnumbered and killed by random arrows, and all 3,000 men and horses were annihilated. Tens of thousands of troops surrounded Wangyuan Castle.

Under the persuasion of Pang De and Ma Chao, Yang Qiu calmed down a little and led the army back to Yicheng. Wei Kang and Yang Fu led the army to surrender.

On May 29, the Han army walked out of the Dasan Pass, crossed the Huangniuling to the Huanghua River, and collided head-on with Zhang Fei's army.

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