Seven days later, Han Xuan's 30,000 troops drove to the foot of Yema Slope, and the sentry in front came to report: "Report to the general, the Sichuan army is camped on the west bank of Yuanshui, which is less than ten miles away. ”

General Yang Zhi stepped out of his horse, "General, at such a close distance, we should march quickly, and the whole army will go straight to the Sichuan army camp, and the last general is willing to be the vanguard." Yang Zhizao was dissatisfied with Han Xuan's slow marching speed, he could reach Yuanshui in four days, but Han Xuan actually took seven days, and he had to send several spies along the way, so that the speed of the march was greatly delayed, which made the generals in Jingzhou itch and suffer.

"No." Han Xuan waved his hand, groaned, and asked the soldier who reported the news: "I live in Jingnan, and I know that there is a stone slab bridge in Yuanshui, which was built by the pre-Qin Dynasty, but is it still there?" ”

"Report to the general, although the stone bridge is old, it has not been damaged by the Sichuan army."

"Yes." Han Xuan touched his goatee: "Liu Zhang knew that my army was coming, but he didn't demolish the stone bridge, there must be fraud in it, and then explore." ”

"Yes."

The cold wind was cold, blowing up the barren grass and dead leaves, and all the generals were already impatient, but Han Xuan was unmoved, he knew very well in his heart, as long as he didn't make a big mistake, the Jingzhou army captured Changsha, and Changsha was too guarded by him, he didn't want to be ambushed for the sake of greed, and would rather take it one step at a time.

The spies finally came back, and they hurriedly reported: "General, it's not good, the Sichuan army has built an embankment five miles upstream of the Yuanshui, and the Yuanshui is almost exhausted, and I am afraid that the embankment will be opened to release the water." ”

When the generals heard the words of the soldiers, they couldn't help but be shocked, and Yang Zhi also secretly said, fortunately, he did not lead the army to rush over, otherwise he would definitely die in the belly of the fish.

Han Xuan laughed: "I just said, how could the Yizhou butcher be kind enough to leave us a slate bridge, the terrain in this area will be very familiar, Liu Zhang'er is self-righteous, five miles of water storage, we can go straight to the wild horse slope, detour to the upper reaches of the Yuanshui, attack its back, and we will definitely be able to catch the Sichuan army off guard." ”

Yang Zhibai said: "General Shenwu, this time we will definitely let those who have evil intentions suffer the consequences." ‘

The Jingzhou army marched up along the Yema Slope, and Liu Zhang's handsome platform was set up on the high mountain in the south opposite the Yema Slope, drinking and eating tea with Fa Zheng, and Han Xuanjun's situation was in full view.

Fa Zheng said with a smile: "The lord is wise, Han Xuan really hit the plan." ”

Liu Zhang smiled slightly, while drinking tea while watching the Jingzhou army climb the slope from afar, when the Jingzhou army arrived at the heart of the wild horse slope, a soldier next to Liu Zhang took a red flag and held it high, immediately the north and south sides of the wild horse slope, thousands of Sichuan soldiers emerged from the top of the slope, all set bows and arrows, one by one rockets were shot into the wild horse slope, and set fire everywhere, after a while, the fire was bright, black smoke rose, and the dead grass and fallen leaves all over the mountain burned.

The Jingzhou soldiers were unexpected, and suddenly there was a big chaos, thinking that Han Xuan, who had avoided the water attack and everything was fine, was even more masterless, he never thought that the Sichuan army left the stone bridge to attack him on the water, so he naturally thought of going up the mountain to attack the Sichuan army, and then fell into the natural fire field of the wild horse slope.

From Liu Zhang's point of view, the top and bottom of the Mustang Slope are like two elongated lines of fire, the difference is that the top line of fire continues to spread downward, but the line of fire under the slope stops moving, and it depends on the soldiers to continuously shoot rockets and add firewood and grass to continue to burn.

Han Xuan's tens of thousands of soldiers were like sheep frightened by wild wolves, scurrying around in a panic on the wild horse slope, seeing the line of fire approaching step by step, the space to run was getting smaller and smaller, black smoke was billowing out, and with the mountain breeze blowing into their noses and mouths, they could hardly breathe, and they were about to turn into barbecue meat in the mountains, and some soldiers finally found an exit and all rushed towards the water.

The Jingzhou soldiers have completely lost their command, scrambling to jump into the water and swim to the opposite bank, at this moment, thousands of Sichuan soldiers suddenly poured out from the opposite bank, opened their bows and arrows, and the Jingzhou soldiers who were still in the river could not resist, and a large number of them were shot by sharp arrows, and the blood filled the slow-flowing river, turning into floating corpses and being washed downstream by the current.

"Alright, we should go down and have a look." Liu Zhang stood up and stretched.

Compared with Liu Zhang's leisure, the Jingzhou army has reached the Jedi, the fire is getting bigger and bigger, the living space is getting smaller and smaller, almost all blocked on the bank of the Yuanshui River, seeing that the fire is about to spread from time to time, Yang Zhi is unwilling to sit still, and asked Han Xuan for his life, gathering all the soldiers who can still be gathered, about more than 10,000 people, jumping down from the Yuanshui together, wanting to rely on the water nature of the Jingzhou army to break through the defense of the Sichuan army with only thousands of people on the opposite bank.

But Yang Zhi forgot that the Sichuan army was still storing water upstream, although it was not much, but it was more than enough to rush him into these disorganized soup chickens.

The rumbling sound of water sounded, and the water rolled up with white spray, and the monstrous flood mixed with dust and leaves swooped down, enveloping their bodies under the terrified eyes of Yang Zhi and Jingzhou Bing, and rolling down like a leaf along with the blood in the river.

More than 10,000 soldiers were carried away by the river in Han Xuan's frightened eyes, and Han Xuan fell to the ground in a dejected manner, seeing that the fire was getting closer and closer, and he was at a loss.

"Oh my God, what to do? What to do, oh my God. ”

Han Xuan wailed in pain, and his younger brother Han Hao stepped forward and said, "Big brother, the fire is getting closer and closer, and there are heavy bows and crossbows of the Sichuan army in front, for today's plan, there is only one way to go." ”

"What way?" Han Xuan stood up all of a sudden, staring eagerly at his younger brother, who usually had a lot of ghost ideas.

Han Hao said slowly: "Surrender." ”

"What?" Han Xuan was furious, and glared at Han Hao angrily: "What did you say?" I, Han Xuannai, a dignified Jingnan celebrity, the leader of the wealthy clan, went to seek refuge in the butcher of Yizhou? You are not only forcing me Han Xuan to go to a dead end, but also forcing all the wealthy families in Changsha to go to a dead end. ”

"Then if the big brother is burned to death now, will it make a difference?" Han Hao asked rhetorically, Han Xuan was speechless, Han Hao smiled yin: "Big brother, the surrender I said is not a real surrender, Changsha still has more than 20,000 soldiers and horses of the eldest prince, and more than 10,000 remnants of Zhang Yi's army, it is not easy for Liu Zhang to go down to Changsha, we still have nearly 20,000 soldiers here, big brother, think about it, Liu Zhang has only a few thousand people, can he absorb our 20,000 troops?" What's more, they are all from the main family of Jingbei, and they will not bow down to Liu Zhang so quickly, we are very considerable. ”

Han Xuan groaned for a while, feeling very reasonable, the smoke wafted in, Han Xuan coughed a few times, and finally made up his mind and said, "Okay, just do it." ”

Han Xuan sent a soldier with a loud voice to shout and beg for surrender to the Sichuan army from a distance across the water.

The soldiers of the Sichuan army heard it on the other side, and Shamoke said loudly: "Lord, the Jingzhou army is already a turtle in the urn, seeing that the fire has burned behind their buttocks, I don't bother to talk to them, so I just burned it and pulled it down." ”

Seeing that Liu Zhang didn't speak, Xiao Furong scolded Shamoke in a cold voice: "You talk a lot." Shamoko immediately shut up.

Zhang Rendao: "My lord, the last general also thinks that Shamoke's words are reasonable, Han Xuan is a wealthy family in Changsha, and he will not be sincere when he surrenders to the lord." ”

Liu Zhang slowly let out a breath and turned to Fa Zhengdao: "Xiaozhi, what do you think?" ”

Fa Zheng thought for a while, and said with a smile: "The lord should accept the surrender, we don't have much water to store, if it weren't for the Jingzhou soldiers scrambling to go into the water, they wouldn't be able to wash away tens of thousands of them at all, and now the water will stop, if the lord doesn't accept the surrender, the Jingzhou soldiers will be forced to cross the road, and the 20,000 people who fell into a desperate situation at that time will definitely cause casualties to us." ”

Liu Zhang nodded: "It makes sense, reply and surrender." ”