"I can clearly distinguish between rewards and punishments by Yide, and I will be free of worries when I lead troops."

After dawn, Liu Bei personally climbed Dingjun Mountain, inspected the captured camp, and climbed the top to look east, and couldn't help but sigh.

Zhang Fei fought bloody battles, smashed generals at the last battle, and killed dozens of enemy soldiers. Liu Bei was not surprised or surprised.

Only he was very pleased that Zhang Fei was able to lead the Danyang soldiers who were not familiar with him and let the soldiers obey orders. After capturing the camp, he was very pleased.

It seems that Zhang Fei cannot learn lessons forever after making mistakes every time, but he can still do it for two years of injury. Basically, the shelf life of caution after each injury is so long.

"Brother, you underestimate me too much. I corrected it when Zhang Ju's man was injured. This time I was injured by Yan Xing and led my troops." Zhang Fei proudly said on the side that this was all basic operations and there was no need to come up with it.

He couldn't help but follow Liu Bei to look behind him, but he couldn't see Nanzheng City no matter how he looked. He couldn't help but complain: "What are you looking at? I've been staring at the east side for so long. I heard that Nanzheng is still fifty or sixty miles away, and I can't see here."

"I'm happy, I can see it in my heart." Liu Bei put his hips on his hips with a high spirit, his chin was so strong that even his beard was blown up by the mist.

"Yangping Pass, Dingjun Mountain is all under my control, and Hanzhong is already in my hands! Although Zhang Lu claims to have 20,000 troops in all places, it is the same number of troops that our army can fight. But without any danger, it is up to those rice thieves and ghosts, haha."

When Liu Bei's army entered Sichuan, there were 30,000 troops, but 3,000 people died in Yangpingguan attack. Dingjun Mountain, Mamingge Road, and Xiguan Post Office. The losses were added up everywhere. Those who died in battle and were seriously injured were incurred. There were also one or two thousand people who suffered losses.

This is just a death in battle. Including minor injuries that require rest, and those who are not accustomed to the local environment and cannot fight, there are also 5,000. Therefore, Liu Bei said that only 20,000 troops left in the Han army to fight is very pragmatic.

Despite this, he was already very confident in the subsequent swallowing of Zhang Lu.

But there is no need to hurry in the future, so there is no need to trade life for time in order to quickly take down Nanzheng. You can move forward slowly and take steady steps.

Lu Su, who followed Liu Bei to inspect the mountain, never got the chance to speak. He was relieved when he heard this and quickly encouraged: "The general can use both urgently and mercifully to the soldiers. This is a blessing for the court and the blessing for the three armies."

Liu Bei pointed to the foot of the mountain: "The army has been repairing for three days, so there is no need to advance rashly. In these three days, just occupy and rectify the Huangsha County at the foot of Dingjun Mountain, clear out the rice thieves and offer wine, and don't ask about the rest. We wait for Yun Chang to withdraw our troops and return. Calculate the day, give Yun Chang three days and rushing on the road. It should be enough.

Three days later, we divided our troops into Xu Jin, bypassed Nanzheng from the north, collected Baozhong, Chenggu and Nanxiang along the way, and surrounded Nanzheng within ten days. Then we issued an edict to determine the rise of the remote small counties, including the golden and the red bank. Nanzheng could slowly siege it."

The yellow sand, Xingshi, Golden, and Chian mentioned by Liu Bei are the four small counties with less than 5,000 households in the nine counties in Hanzhong. That is, the kind that the county chief can only set "county magistrates" but not qualified to set "county magistrates". They are all on the edge of the Hanzhong Basin, upstream of the Han River tributaries, and are very remote.

Anyway, after entering Yangping Pass and controlling the commanding heights, you can get the enemy because of the grain, so you don’t have to worry about the trouble of crossing mountains and transporting grain.

To put it bluntly, it’s like after Deng Ai passed Jiangyou, he didn’t have to rush to fight Chengdu. As long as he snowballed the rich Chengdu Plain, he could fight more and more troops and get richer the more he fought.

It’s just that Liu Bei is not a time traveler. He doesn’t know Deng Ai’s existence, but the principles of military tactics are the same.

Lu Su quickly answered the order and reminded him: "If Zhang Lu knew that he would not be able to defend Nanzheng in the end, and he was afraid of being surrounded, so he fled early?"

Liu Bei narrowed his eyes: "I haven't even looked at the terrain carefully. If he wants to escape, where will he run?"

Lu Su took out the map and pointed at it, "The Nanbao River flows into the Han River from south to north, which flows through the city of Nanzheng. The source of the Nanbao River is at the main ridge of Yushan. Only more than ten miles south of the main ridge is the main source of the Dangqu.

If Zhang Lu wanted to escape from a dangerous place to defend himself, he would definitely go to the source of the Baoshui River in the south, then cross the main ridge of Yushan, enter the Dangqu and then go downstream, occupying various Brazilian counties."

The "Yushan" mentioned by Lu Su is the Daba Mountain in later generations. To be precise, it is the section of Daba Mountain in the southern part of Hanzhong County. The Qinling Mountains in the north and Daba Mountains in the south are originally a basin surrounded by mountains.

The reason why "Rain Mountain" is named is because the folds on both sides of this watershed are very symmetrical. Whenever a river with rainwater gathering is formed in the depression of the north slope, a river will also be formed in the symmetrical place of the south slope.

Dangqu is both a river and a county name in Brazil.

As a river, Dangqu is the Qujiang River in later generations. The Qujiang River, Fu River and Jialing River are the source of the Jialing River. These three rivers will eventually merge in Dianjiang County, Jiangzhou (later Chongqing Hechuan, the place name "Hechuan" is derived from the three rivers converge here), becoming the complete Jialing River, and then injecting the Yangtze River into Jiangzhou.

Lu Su was worried that if Zhang Lu was placed in the Dangqu water system, the Brazilian area had a complex terrain and ravines, he would probably not be able to catch him for a while. At that time, you would not have to cross the border and chase him to Dianjiang County. Only where the three rivers merged can you completely clear the thieves?

So from a purely military perspective, in order to completely calm the hearts of Hanzhong people as soon as possible, it is better to completely encircle Nanzheng as soon as possible and prevent Zhang Lu from running away.

But Liu Bei had other plans in his mind.

When he left Luoyang, he also saw that Emperor Ling of Han was weak. As long as he knew a little about medical treatment and looked at his complexion, he knew that it would be the last few months.

This is not the only way Liu Bei would think of it. The reason why Dong Zhuo in history was recalled and appointed as the governor of Bingzhou after Chen Cang was relieved was not going north when he went to Hedong was because it was about the end of February when Dong Zhuo arrived in Hedong, more than a month later than Liu Bei's death. Then Dong Zhuo also saw that the emperor was sick and wanted to gamble and stay in Hedong.

Moreover, Li Su gave Liu Bei advice. When Liu Bei became the leader of the Zong Zheng Shaoqing, he also highly suspected that Liu Yan had a lot of evidence of his usurpation.

If Zhang Lu had pacified so soon, he would have only one Hanzhong County at hand. At most, the two passers-by counties in the Qinling Mountains occupied by him when he came, and the two passers-by counties in the Qinling Mountains occupied by him. With these three poor counties, he would completely turn against Liu Yan. Even if he had the title of the court at that time, it would be difficult for Liu Yan to rebel.

It is better to be more steady and continue to expand your territory and strength in the name of fighting Zhang Lu, and also have more time to farm in Hanzhong to make preparations.

The loss of food transport over the Qinling Mountains was too terrifying. The reason why this attack on Yangping Pass was able to hold on was because it took only half a month to take Yangping Pass (it began to count from leaving Chen Cang and march south into the mountains, not from military combat)

But in order to deal with Shu County in the future, you have to harvest the grain from the Hanzhong Basin last season, and then use the grain from Hanzhong to defeat Shu County.

Liu Bei was also ruined by Li Su. He closed his eyes and thought for a while, and sighed: "We should still give priority to compassion for the lives of soldiers. If the dog is too anxious, he will jump over the wall. If the pursuit of Zhang Lu is too urgent, he will attack and break through with the remaining 10,000 or 20,000 troops. Our army's besieged city on the side of Nanzheng may not be able to stop him, and there may be many casualties and injuries.

If he wants to leave, we will surround three and one, and try our best to weaken him. As long as we surround three and one, Zhang Lujun will definitely have no intention of fighting and just want to escape. At that time, we will follow and kill, and Zilong's Wuhuan cavalry can be used, so our army will definitely suffer few casualties."

Liu Bei didn't say a word that he wanted to raise a bandit and respect himself, but he only said that he loved the lives of soldiers.

But Lu Su was also the first person in later generations to dare to say such a ruthless saying, "The Han Dynasty cannot be revived, and the Cao thief cannot be removed." So he immediately understood the leader's thoughts.

"The general surrounds three and one missing one. This is what the subordinates and the general think about this. The subordinates advised the general to surround and kill completely, because they were afraid that Zhang Lu is good at using ghosts and gods to incite people's hearts. If they can kill them, then the counties in Hanzhong can use them immediately for me.

If he insisted on it, he was afraid that he would still give spiritual support to the people who were deceived by evil words in Hanzhong, which would make the people confused about the difficulties of the court and the general and would not be able to use them wholeheartedly for the general."

This problem is also very realistic, because by relying on confusing warlords who are intriguing people's hearts, killing their spiritual leaders is miraculously effective in breaking up distortions and breaking spiritual sustenance. Lu Su also considered this and believed that he should be surrounded by two evils.

Liu Bei thought about it and decided to take a gamble: "Two years ago, when I was in Luoyang, I heard Boya and Liu Yan discuss the root cause of Zhang Jiao Huang Teng's cause. Boya said that the people were confused by the evil theory of ghosts and gods, mostly because they did not understand arithmetics. For example, Zhang Jiao's behavior, if the people were clear about the "probability", they would not blindly believe it. I think Boya must be good at breaking these ghosts and gods.

When Yun Chang rescues Boya, our army will definitely be able to find a way to win the benefits of the thief, without being harmed by the thief. It is like a medicine for tigers and wolves. The medicine is fierce and has a backlash. A famous doctor can use the way of harmony between the king and the minister, and use auxiliary materials to remove the nature of tigers and wolves and retain the effect. Isn’t it beautiful?”

Lu Su couldn't help but admire: The lord's trust in Brother Boya is too exaggerated. Brother Boya hasn't been saved yet. He hasn't even discussed this issue with him. The lord blindly believes that Brother Boya will definitely come up with a countermeasure to "reconcile the king and the ministers"?

However, perhaps Liu Bei felt that even if he could not achieve "harmony between the king and the minister", he would rather take this powerful medicine with this side effect.

"Since that's the case, wait for General Guan to save Brother Boya. Su is willing to wait and see and see his noble arguments." Lu Su no longer persuaded him.

...

Three days after that, the army completely rested and rectified according to Liu Bei's requirements, and then departed from the north to Nanzheng, occupied Baozhong, and surrounded Nanzheng County on the west, north and east sides, and then continued to march along the Han River to Chenggu.

This clearly temporarily gave way to the side facing Nanbaoshui, directly south of Nanzheng County, and allowed Zhang Lu to escape.

On the other hand, Li Su finally returned to Mianyang County where Liu Bei was stationed on the fifth day after Yangping Pass fell.

Those who followed him back were Zhao Yun and Dian Wei, as well as hundreds of elite guard soldiers.

When Liu Bei heard that Li Su had arrived, he was almost insatiable. He walked more than ten miles from Mianyang and went forward to greet him outside Yangping Pass.

"Does your good brother be fine in this trip?" Liu Bei checked himself and confirmed that Li Su was not injured at all. Then he found a problem, "Why didn't Chang Yun come back with your good brother?"

Li Su put away the folding fan and bowed and replied: "I learned from Yun Chang that Zhang Wei was captured and sent to the gate to attack the morale of the Mi thief. He knew that Yang Pingguan and Mianyang must have fallen into his brother's hands. His brother's military strength is comparable to Zhang Lu, so it is definitely impossible to destroy Zhang Lu with one blow.

Moreover, I worked with Yun Chang to capture many prisoners of Banyan. Only then did I learn that Zhang Lu had a close conquering Banyan this year. If he escaped, he would definitely go south to Brazil. I thought Brazil was steep and could only go down along the three rivers.

So I discussed with Chief Yun and asked him not to go back and forth. At the end of the Maming Pavilion Road, he would invade Jiameng County, which was on the verge of Jialing River. If the brother went south to Brazil, he would be led by the brother to lead the army south along the Dangqu, and Chief Yun led his troops to go south along the Jialing River. He would attack in a row and attack, and he would definitely wipe out Zhang Lu and Banyan Man north of the Dianjiang River."

Liu Bei heard a little chill: "I... I just started to make a decision a few days ago. I wanted to let Zhang Lu go south to Brazil. My brother was in the dangerous situation of Maming Pavilion. He knew my intentions..."

Lu Su and Zhuge Jin next to him were even more stunned.
Chapter completed!