The gate of Zitong City was wide open, and the guards at the gate were bored and yawned, looking at the crowd coming in and out in a daze.

If a beautiful woman passed by the city gate once in a while, the eyes of the city guards would suddenly light up, and their eyes would not stop patrolling the beautiful woman.

Most of the women who were staring at the city gate guards also turned red and trotted away.

Of course, the objects of admiration of the soldiers at the city gate were basically those women who were dressed simply, and they did not dare to stare at the ladies of large families.

Do not think that these soldiers tease women with their eyes just to feast their eyes, but if you meet a few hungry and thirsty widows, you may have a chance to have a spring breeze with them.

"It's so strange today, why hasn't Captain Hengjiang arrived in the city yet?"

When a soldier was bored, he asked the soldier next to him with some doubts.

Since Zitong is the only place to reach the Sword Pavilion, Jiameng Pass, and the front line, it is always necessary to hoard enough grain and grass here to supply the large army at the front.

During this time, almost every time at this time, the captain of the Navy Hengjiang would escort a batch of grain and grass into Zitong, but the guards did not know why there was no movement until now.

The other, a slightly older soldier, looked up at the sky and said, "yes, it's a strange day." ”

Although they had some doubts, they didn't think too much about it, and just took it for granted that Captain Hengjiang delayed the transportation of grain and grass because of something on the road.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

After another period of time, there was a sudden noise in front of the city gate, and the Yizhou soldiers guarding the gate all stretched their necks to watch.

"Captain Yokoe is finally here, but why did he change his clothes?"

The person who shouted at the people to give way was none other than Captain Hengjiang, who commanded a group of soldiers to push grain carts and drive directly to the city gate.

Today's grain convoy is very large, but the guards of the city have no doubts.

When they saw that the leader was Captain Hengjiang himself, they did not stop him, and let the grain cart into the city.

The grain convoy slowly drove into the city, and a city guard inadvertently glanced at it, and suddenly saw a small hole in a bag that was actually pierced by a soldier's blade, and he could vaguely see that there were people inside.

"Sonorous!"

The soldier was shocked, pulled out the sword in his waist in a panic, and shouted loudly: "There are people hidden in the grain cart, close the city gate, close the city gate quickly!" ”

Just when the rest of the soldiers looked puzzled, they suddenly heard a shout of killing. Afterwards, countless soldiers slashed through the sack with their sharp blades and jumped from the top of the car.

Xu Huang and Gan Ning even ripped off their disguises, shouted their names loudly, and directly led the army to occupy the city gate.

This sudden attack was completely crushed, and it didn't take long for the Guanzhong army to completely pour out of Zitong City.

After hearing that the Guanzhong army descended from heaven and occupied the city gate, the general of Zitong was immediately shocked and abandoned the city and fled.

In this way, Chi Zitong, the heart city of Guanghan County, which is the throat of the Sword Pavilion in the east and the capital of Guanghan in the west, was so easily conquered by the Guanzhong army.

When Tian Feng and the others finished counting the grain and grass in the city, even though they were all people who had seen the world, they couldn't help but let out a sound of exclamation.

Xu Huang looked at the mountains of grain and grass in the warehouse, and couldn't help but sigh: "Yizhou is really the country of abundance, just a county town of Zitong, there are so many grains and grasses hoarded!" ”

Gan Ning said: "If it weren't for the fact that grain and grass were not transported to the Sword Pavilion, Jia Mengguan, and Zhang Renjun every day, I am afraid that there would be more grain and grass piled up here. ”

Tian Feng stepped forward and held the grain and grass in his hand, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then said: "Most of these are old grains, for many years, Yizhou has not suffered any major natural and man-made disasters, and it is not uncommon for there to be mountains of grain and grass over time." ”

"If the lord can capture Yizhou and receive these grains and grasses completely, these stored grains can support the army for at least three years."

When Xu Huang and Gan Ning heard this, they all bowed slightly.

The news of Zitong's defeat had not yet reached Ruo County, and the Yizhou army, which had escaped from Guanghan County, had already taken a dry road to report the matter to Guanghan Taishou.

After Taishou was shocked to hear the news of the attack of the Guanzhong army, he felt very unbelievable.

Then, Guanghan Taishou hurriedly divided his troops into two routes, one to Chengdu for help, and the other to send messengers to Zitong, so that Zitong guards could be on guard.

It's just that the messenger he sent to Zitong is destined to fail to complete the task.

The Taishou of Guanghan County was also a scout sent by Guang, reconnoitering the movements of the Guanzhong army, and then leading troops to inspect the county every day, and the inspection of people entering and leaving was also much stricter.

Originally, there were several dangerous passes, and the Guanghan army, which had no pressure from foreign enemies, also became nervous because of the surprise attack of the Guanzhong army.

Especially after hearing that Zitong City was broken, Guanghan Taishou was even more panicked.

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

However, it was said that Zhang Ren, Liu Bi, and Leng Bao led the army to Ba County, wanting to conquer Langzhong, but they were repeatedly blocked here.

At the beginning, Zhang Ren and the others didn't think about storming Langzhong, but just scolded the battle under the city every day, hoping that Liu Bi would not be able to bear to go out of the city to fight with the Yizhou army.

However, Liu Bi had already been instructed by Tian Feng not to go out of the city to face the battle, but only to guard the city every day and drag Zhang Ren and others under the city of Langzhong.

No matter how insulting the Yizhou army is, Liu Pi always hangs up the war-free card and refuses to fight.

Later, Zhang Ren had to order a strong siege of the city, but no matter what method he used to attack the city, he was repelled by the Guanzhong army again and again, and the Yizhou army had no way to kill the city wall.

In ancient wars, the defenders of the city already had a great advantage, especially in Langzhong City, there were 20,000 elite Guanzhong troops, which aggravated the difficulty of the Yizhou army to attack the city.

The most important thing is that although Liu Bi is not a general, he has also been on the battlefield for more than ten years, and he is a veteran general on the battlefield, and he has a lot of experience in defensive battles.

In more than ten days of offensive and defensive battles, the Yizhou army left nearly 10,000 corpses, but there was nothing they could do about Langzhong City.

In the Yizhou military camp, Liu Bi's face was extremely pale, and he said hatefully: "Then Liu Bi is really a hard bone, after so many days, I haven't been able to take Langzhong and have no way." ”

Zhang Ren and Leng Bao also frowned, and they were a little irritable in their hearts.

They had long thought that Langzhong would not be easy to overcome, but they didn't expect it to be so strong. For half a month, Zhang Ren could obviously feel that the morale of the Yizhou army began to decline.

If it continues like this, I am afraid that it will not be long before the soldiers will no longer have the slightest will to fight.

Zhang Ren got up and walked back and forth in the camp, and said: "We used cloud ladders, well fences, and rushing cars to attack the city, but they were all broken by Liu Pi with the method of fire attack. ”

"I changed a few places to dig tunnels, but every time I was discovered by the Guanzhong army, my army lost troops and lost generals."

"The methods of attacking the city have been tried, but Langzhong is still unbreakable, and if it goes on like this, when Chen Wenzhao leads the army to arrive, I'm afraid it will be bad."

Several people's faces were extremely pale, they were all known as famous generals in Bashu, but they were made disgraced by an old yellow turban general, and no one would be happy.

After a long time, Leng Bao sighed: "Langzhong is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is also the elite, brave, and numerous soldiers in Guanzhong, Liu Pi is not an ordinary person, and it is reasonable that it is difficult to overcome." ”

When a few people were helpless against Langzhong, a messenger suddenly rushed over and shouted loudly: "The Guanzhong Navy has gone upriver from Zitong Water, and now it has occupied Zitong, and is attacking the Sword Pavilion!" ”

"What!"

When the three of them suddenly heard the news, they were all taken aback, and they couldn't help but cry out.

After confirming the details, Liu Bi said with a little frustration: "Is it still guessed by General Zhang?" ”

When Zhang Ren was in front of the Sword Pavilion, he had already made a guess that Xu Huang might have been in a coma, and then lured them to lead the troops to attack Langzhong.

There is also a speculation that Xu Huang may rush up from the Dianjiang River to attack Guanghan County against the Zitong River.

But when Zhang Ren said his second guess, not only Liu Bi, Leng Bao, and Deng Xian felt that there was no such possibility, but even he himself was a little weak-hearted.

Several sections of the Zitong River are too turbulent for boats to swim upstream.

The reason why Zhang Ren had this kind of speculation was because he knew that Chen Xu had captured Guanzhong at that time, that is, Gan Ning used a new warship to go upriver from Fenshui to attack Hedong County by surprise.

However, the turbulence of the Zitongshui River is even far greater than that of Fenshui, and there is no water army in the Guanzhong Army now, so everyone finally decided that the Guanzhong Army would not act like this.

Rao is like this, Zhang Ren still sent Deng Xian to lead 3,000 troops to garrison the Sword Pavilion for the sake of safety.

Leng Bao said loudly: "Now that Zitong has been lost, and the Sword Pavilion is in a critical situation, we must not continue to spend time in this place, and we must lead the troops back to help in the starry night." ”

Even if Langzhong was not conquered, Liu Zhang only lost the land of Bajun, as long as the Yizhou army can hold Jiameng Pass and the Sword Pavilion, the Guanzhong army will be very miserable if they want to seize the entire Yizhou.

Therefore, compared to the importance of the Sword Pavilion and Zitong, Langzhong, which has hoarded a lot of grain and grass, is no longer very important whether it can be conquered.

After Liu Bi was shocked, he slowly regained his composure.

He thought for a long time, and then said: "Zitong has been broken, our army's food supply has been cut off, if we can't quickly return to the army to recapture Zitong, I'm afraid it won't be long before the army will run out of food." ”

Although there was constantly grain and grass transported from Zitong in the past, the daily consumption of grain and grass by the army was also an astronomical amount.

Even if there is still some grain in the Yizhou army, there is no way to support it for a long time.

Zhang Ren's brows furrowed tightly, and after a long time, he said, "I have some ideas in my heart, I don't know if you two will approve." ”

Leng Bao and the two said, "General, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

Zhang Renping withdrew from everyone and said something, but it made Leng Bao and the two of them overjoyed and admired.