658 soldiers were divided into two routes
With Yan Yan's order, the people in the hall all looked at each other, not knowing what to do, but no one moved.
Seeing this, Yan Yan said angrily: "The old man is brave and champions the three armies, and his martial arts are outstanding, how are you compared to me?" The old man has already surrendered, what are you waiting for? I only counted three and had to make a decision right away! One ......"
Without waiting for Yan Yan to count to two, a group of people in the hall walked in one direction as if they were swarming, and they all chose to surrender.
At the same time, a group of people walked in from the outside of the hall, the leader was wearing iron armor, wearing an iron helmet, a cold face, short beard, and a pair of tiger eyes.
As soon as Li Yan walked into the hall, he went straight to Zhang Fei's side, and bowed his hand to Zhang Fei respectfully: "Li Yan is one step late, I hope the lord will forgive me." ”
Zhang Fei nodded slightly and said, "It's okay, it's just right, it's not too late." ”
Immediately afterwards, Li Yan arched his hand towards Yan Yan and said, "Old General Yan, don't come to harm?" ”
Yan Yan also responded politely: "Thank you General Li for your concern, the old man is fine." ”
At this time, Fa Zheng beside Zhang Fei said loudly: "Okay, now that all the people have gathered, then the next step, we should prepare well." ”
Li Yan suddenly glanced at the people behind him, but saw that the two people behind him were carrying a sack, and then poured out all the contents of the sack, and everyone looked at it. They were all amazed. Because what poured out of the sack was a living human head. It's still all bloody, and it doesn't seem to have been dead for long.
After Zhang Fei saw it, he asked, "General Li, are these heads ......?"
Li Yan said with a smile: "These heads are the generals of the Brazilian Army and the Padang Army, and on the way here, I also took their heads as a meeting gift to the lord." In addition, the Brazilian army and the Padang army are leaderless. They have all surrendered, and now they are gathering in Langzhong with my army, and they are ready to attack at any time with the order of the lord. ”
After Zhang Fei heard this, he was really happy, but he always felt that this incident came too suddenly, completely beyond his expectations. He turned his head to look at Fa Zheng, and when he saw a smile on the corner of Fa Zheng's mouth, he knew that this must be a plan that Fa Zheng had already decided.
In fact, this incident was indeed planned by Fa Zheng. Fa Zheng has long been in contact with Li Yan and has a deep friendship. When the Dongzhou soldiers were slaughtered, Li Yan escaped by luck, and then he had a grudge against Liu Yan and Liu Zhang's father and son. But for years, he couldn't find the right opportunity to make a difference.
This time, Fa Zheng chose Zhang Fei as the lord, and entered Shu along the way, naturally he would not forget his old friend Li Yan, so he wrote to Li Yan early, and then arranged a qiē in advance. In accordance with Fazheng's arrangement, Li Yan took advantage of Liu Bi and Deng Xian's plan to attend Yan Yan's birthday, and led the army to suddenly attack the Brazilian Army and the Padang Army, killing all the main generals, leaving no one behind, and subduing the Brazilian Army and the Padang Army to make them submit, which is why there is this scene now.
It can also be said that from the moment Zhang Fei entered Shu, a big drama directed by Fa Zheng quietly kicked off, and in this big play, although Zhang Fei is the protagonist in name, the real driving force behind the scenes is Fa Zheng. Moreover, in order to wait for the arrival of this day, Fa Zheng does not know how long he has waited, in order to formulate this series of plans, and he does not know how many brain cells Fa Zheng has consumed.
Yan Yan and Li Yan are both famous generals in Sichuan, they surrendered to Zhang Fei one after another, and the rest of the people naturally have nothing to say, and they are also fed up with Liu Zhang's rule, and they are extremely eager to change a Ming master in their hearts.
At this time, Zhang Fei's arrival just catered to everyone's mentality, plus most of these people present were Yan Yan's old subordinates, and some rich gentry didn't want to go against Yan Yan, so in order to save their lives, they could only choose to surrender.
In the hall, the original tense atmosphere disappeared, Zhang Fei ordered people to clean up the corpses and bloodstains, and then meet everyone again as the lord.
The original banquet suddenly became a conference hall, and Zhang Fei told everyone his true intention of entering Shu, that is, to seize Yizhou, completely drive Liu Zhang from power, and then use the place of Yizhou to prepare to compete with the world.
Then, Zhang Fei asked Fa Zheng about the next plan, and Fa Zheng told Zhang Fei and everyone that they should quickly seize the city with lightning speed, as long as they capture the city, it is equivalent to opening the door to Chengdu, Chengdu will be in no danger to defend, and then there will be a great plain with a flat river.
However, if you want to capture the city, you must first capture Zitong, Fuxian, and Mianzhu along the way, but in this way, it will inevitably attract the attention of the Sichuan army, and the Sichuan army will definitely set up a heavy defense in the city, and Zhang Fei will have to start a decisive battle with the Sichuan army.
However, Fa Zheng had a plan to attack the east and the west, he built two routes, led by Zhang Fei Yan Yan and others to attack Chengdu from the front, that is, along Zitong, Fuxian, Mianzhu all the way to attack, frontal containment of the main force of the Sichuan army, and then Li Yan led the Dongzhou soldiers to detour to Qianwei County and attack Chengdu from behind.
When the main force of the Sichuan army is attracted to the city, Chengdu will inevitably be empty, Li Yan can take advantage of the void, directly capture Chengdu, kill Liu Zhang, as long as Liu Zhang dies, Chengdu is occupied, the Sichuan army will have no fighting spirit, abandon weapons and surrender.
This strategy is also the only strategy that Zhang Fei can adopt at present, after all, Zhang Fei's troops are small, if he really competes with the Sichuan army, the Sichuan army relies on the advantages of the terrain and sticks to the pass, I am afraid that it will not be able to capture Chengdu in a year or two. And Zhang Fei can't afford to spend so much time in the war, after all, he is on someone else's territory, and he is a lone army, once the Sichuan army and the people of Sichuan join forces, then it will be difficult for Zhang Fei to gain a foothold in Yizhou.
After listening to Fa Zheng's analysis, Zhang Fei felt that what Fa Zheng said was very reasonable, so he decided to adopt Fa Zheng's construction.
"In addition, the lord should strengthen military discipline, all the soldiers in the army, without receiving orders, are not allowed to move around at will, after entering the city, can not take a stitch and thread of the people at will, in addition, but also to restrain the army, only strict military discipline, in order to show the difference between our army and the Sichuan army, in order to get the real welcome of the people, but also to gain a foothold in Sichuan." Fa Zheng added.
Zhang Fei said: "What the military advisor said is very reasonable, so do what the military advisor says." The rest of the generals must strictly restrain their subordinates, and later I will work out military discipline with the military advisors, and if anyone violates it, no matter who it is, they will be killed! ”
After hearing this, the rest of the people also expressed their agreement with this point of view, and only in this way can the difference in this army be revealed. They are all Shu people, and they naturally know better than anyone what the Sichuan army did in Yizhou.
The Sichuan army is very strong, and the people and local officials avoid it.
And the Sichuan army is arrogant, since Zhang Ren took over the entire Sichuan army, gangs and factions often happen, Zhang Ren's descendants are the best, followed by Liu Xu, Deng Xian, Leng Bao and other subordinates, and the rest of the relationship with Zhang Ren is slightly worse, then it can only suffer, once you meet Zhang Ren's lineage, you can only keep your head down and stay away.
Although Zhang Ren is both civil and military, his desire for power is too heavy, and his subordinates are also very arrogant.
Among the more than 100,000 Sichuan troops in Yizhou, there are 30,000 of Zhang Ren's descendants, about 50,000 of them are dependent on Zhang Ren, and the rest are not related to Zhang Ren, or they are released or stationed in places, whether it is weapons and equipment, or clothing, food, housing and transportation, they are not as good as Zhang Ren's descendants. In addition, there are still cases in the army that deduct military salaries.
Of course, these things were not perceptible to Zhang Ren, who was in a high position, even Leng Bao, Liu Xuan, Deng Xian and others, who were friendly with him, did not dare to tell Zhang Ren such a thing, for fear of angering Zhang Ren.
Therefore, Fa Zheng asked Zhang Fei to strictly enforce military discipline.
Seeing that Zhang Fei agreed, Fa Zheng continued: "In addition, there is one more thing that I think should be able to try. ”
Zhang Fei asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Fa Zheng said: "Among the people who came with Liu Bi and Deng Xian, there is a person named Leng Sheng, this person is the son of Leng Bao, the governor of Baishui, Leng Bao is also a famous general in Sichuan, brave and good at fighting, brave and resolute, although his personality is a little violent, but he is not bad, maybe he can try to win it over." Although there are many talents in Shu, but there is a lack of famous generals, Leng Bao is an out-and-out Shu people, and the Leng family is a big surname in Shu, if you can get Leng Bao's heart, then it will be of great help to the lord to gain a firm foothold in Shu in the future. ”
Yan Yan also took the opportunity to say: "Lord, the old man also thinks that he can try to persuade Leng Bao, although this person's martial arts are not as good as mine, but it is also desirable, and this person is more than ten years younger than me, and now he is in the prime of life, whenever there is a war, he is always the first to charge into battle, and he is a pioneer material, if he can persuade him to come and surrender, it will be equivalent to Zhang Ren missing another arm, and maybe he can also borrow Leng Bud to join forces inside and outside, and kill Zhang Ren." As long as Zhang Yi dies, there will be no one in the Sichuan army who can resist us, so we can drive straight in. ”
Zhang Fei said: "In that case, then who is the most suitable person to convince Leng Bao?" ”
"Leng Bao once served as a military Sima under my subordinates, and I have a friendship with Leng Bao, so it is most suitable for me to go." Yan Yan volunteered. (To be continued......)