"Trail the Pingnanzhong and capture the thief Zhang alive! Trail the Pingnanzhong and capture the thief Zhang alive!"

With loud slogans, under the leadership of the former governor of the Dinghai Shenjian Sima Wang, on the tenth day of the second month of the third year of Yanxing, 90,000 Jin troops swore to march south from Chengdu, officially kicking off the second Sima family's large-scale military use in the Nanzhong region.

This is also the largest military operation launched by the Sima family after Cao Wei destroyed Shu. Many Cao Wei generals who made great contributions in the battle to destroy Shu were also participated in this southern expedition as generals of the Jin army. Hu Lie and Hu Yuan, who once defeated Zhong Hui and Jiang Wei, effectively imitated Tian Zhang, who bypassed Jiang Ge and defeated three Shu Han ambushers; Xiahou Xian, who intercepted Jiang Wei and persisted in surrendering the Shu army; Xun Kai and Li Fu, who surrounded the two cities of Han Le, made it difficult for the Shu army to emerge; and the revenge tiger Pang Hui who killed Guan Yu, can definitely be regarded as a gathering of generals and a prosperous talent.

The generals were famous generals in the late Three Kingdoms, and their soldiers were also strong soldiers. Most of the soldiers of the Jin army who participated in this southern expedition were Cao Wei heroes who had participated in the battle to destroy Shu and ransacked Chengdu. They were well-equipped and experienced, with countless elite soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was definitely the first-class. Even if they encountered the same number of elite soldiers of the Eastern Wu, they would dare to guarantee that they would definitely gain the upper hand.

By the way, if Sun Shiwan encountered such an army, even if Sun Shiwan gave Sun Shiwan and two hundred thousand troops, he would definitely be just running away with his tail.

Sima Wang, the chief general of the Jin army's royal division, was also an absolutely competent commander. Even though he was over 60 years old, Sima Wang still flatly refused his subordinates' intention to ride in a car. He insisted on leading his army south on a war horse without high bridge saddles and stirrups. He also led his personal soldiers to patrol the Jin army and personally inspected the military appearance and momentum of the Jin army soldiers.

The results of the inspection made Sima Wang very satisfied. Even though he knew that the road to the south was difficult and long, the soldiers of the Jin army were generally firm, full of fighting spirit and full of confidence. Sima Wang was happy when he saw this and asked a Jin army soldier who shouted a loud slogan: "What's the name? Where did it come from?"

"Report to the old governor, the villain's name is Wang Heng, and the wise man on Tianshui!"

The young master Wang Heng answered neatly and looked extremely resolute. Sima Wang was quite happy when he saw it and asked again: "Do you have confidence in this southern expedition?"

"Report to the old governor, there is!" Wang Heng replied without thinking: "The villain followed General Qian to attack Zhang Zhi's rebel thieves. After General Qian was unfortunately defeated and died in his country, in the past nine months, the villain has been thinking about it day and night, hoping to lead the army to the south again, plague Nanzhong, capture Zhang Zhi alive, and avenge Zheng Qian! This time, he followed General Qian to revenge. The villain would rather serve as Yifuxiandeng. He would not be a human being without destroying the thief army!"

"Hahahahahahaha!" Sima Wang laughed with satisfaction and ordered casually: "Well, I'll reward him with three hundred dollars!"

Wang Heng quickly thanked him, but when Sima Wang's personal soldiers handed Wang Heng three 1000 coins left by Zhuge Liang to Wang Heng, Wang Heng roared in his heart, "Maid raised it! Nai Weng doesn't want such a worthless 100 coins. Nai Weng wants new money from Nanzhong! Now in Yizhou, the new money from Nanzhong is valuable! It can really be used as one hundred coins!"

Of course, Sima Wang didn't know that Wang Heng was actually very reluctant to give him rewards. He led the soldiers of the Jin army to sleep in the open air. Sima Wang just rode his horse all the way south and quickly walked out of the Sichuan Basin and entered the Nanzhongshan District in Yueli County. After more than ten days, he arrived at Qiongdu, the capital of Yueli County, and met Zhang Yu, the prefect of Yueli, appointed by the Jin court. As for Gong Deheng, the prefect of Yueli, who was left by Shu Han, who of course had been transferred to other places for posts due to his background.

When he saw Zhang Jae, Sima Wang was of course asking about the reaction of the Han army at the first time. Zhang Jae quickly answered truthfully: "Report to the old governor, the news I received yesterday that the bandit army had closed the Qin Zang border city. Yang Ji, the thief general who guarded Qin Zang, also abandoned the city with his army and various supplies, and retreated to the direction of Guchangwei County."

"The bandit army voluntarily gave up Qin Zang?" Sima Wang was slightly stunned and asked again: "What about Lushui? Is there any movement in Lushui? Has the bandit army sent troops to block the Lushui ferry?"

"Report to the governor, no." Zhang Yu replied: "The Lushui Ferry has always been under the control of our Sanslit garrison, and there has never been a soldier from the bandit army approaching the Lushui Ferry."

"Strange thing, how could Zhang Zhi'er take the initiative to give up Qin Zang and even want the Lushui Ferry?" Hu Lie next to him said strangely: "It is impossible for him not to know the terrain of the Lushui Ferry? There only needs to deploy five or six thousand troops there to block our southward steps for a long time?"

"There is only one explanation." Sima Wang guessed the answer and said, "Zhang Zhi'er has concluded that we will really go south in two groups, so he wants to concentrate his troops and let him have enough troops to stick to Wei County, so his main force can free up his hands to defeat us one by one. So this time you go south on Tanglang Road and encounter the main force of the thief army. "

"The last general is not afraid." Hu Lie immediately replied: "If you really meet the main force of the thief army on the small road, the last general will be determined to defend and not fight, and buy time for your main force, the old governor."

"Yes, you can only do this." Sima Wang nodded and asked Zhang Yu again: "Zu Wen, what's going on in the Dianchi Lake? Has Zhang Zhi's son already moved food and grass in the Dianchi Lake area?"

"Report to the old governor, there is no investigation yet." Zhang Yu hurriedly replied: "But the lower officials have arranged a reliable detailed work to sneak into the Dianchi area to inquire about the news. The old governor will definitely receive their investigation on the southward road."

Sima Wang nodded and said, "Good life guarding Qiongdu and protecting the food route for me. I don't know how long this battle will take. Whether my food route is unobstructed depends on your performance."

After reminding this, Sima Wang did not even advance to the city, and led the Jin army to continue to stride southward. After nine days, he successfully arrived at the Huiwu City, who planned to divide the troops. Then, it happened that on this day, Xizuo, who was sent to Nanzhong, also met the Jin army's southern expedition army and reported to Sima Wang in person the movements of the Han army they had heard. The Han army actually ignored the Dianchi area, the only grain-producing land in Nanzhong. It did not urgently transfer food and grass, nor did it give the food to the people like the last time. It simply burned down the ships built by the Han army on the surface of Dianchi Lake and withdrew the troops originally stationed in Gu Chang Fugong.

As evidence, God has not seen such a strange thing before visiting the old man for decades. In the absence of time, the enemy did not seize the enemy and transferred food and grass. He just simply shrank his troops and gave the only grain-producing area without any resistance. This kind of great thing that a pie from the sky is gone. I hope the old man has never seen it, not even heard of it.

The generous concessions of the Han army almost made Mr. Wang give up his idea of ​​dividing his troops south. However, considering that Zhang Zhi was so desperate to shrink his troops, he must have been trying to defeat them. At the same time, he used a side army to lure the main force of the Han army into the Tanglang Road, which would definitely be very beneficial to the main force to attack the Jiancheng of Qiwei County. Mr. Wang thought about it over and over again, but still decided to act according to the original plan, asking Hu Lie and his son to lead the side army to divert the way east, cross the river to capture Tanglang, and then head along the south path.

What was even more magical is still behind. Just as the Jin army began to divide the troops, on the side of the Sancang, since a handwritten letter written by Zhang Zhi to Sima Wang was sent by Zhang Zhi to Sima Wang, Sima Wang took it in surprise and looked carefully. Then he was stunned to see that Zhang Zhi actually wrote in vernacular on the letter:

"Old Governor Sima, don't spend any effort to divide the troops. Even if you divide the troops, I will not send troops to the northern line to confront your partial division and waste time. I will only stay in Wei County and wait for your army to join forces before launching a decisive battle. So let's save some effort and take your 90,000 rabble directly to the Qiniu Avenue. I will wait for you to fight in Wei County. I will meet you in Wei County. I will come to Wei County. "

After reading Zhang Zhi's letters, Wang Hun and Hu Lie and other Jin generals were all speechless. Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhi would confess to this point directly. At the end, Wang Hun had a sudden inspiration and hurriedly said: "Old Governor, is this a provocation plan for Zhang Zhi's son? He was afraid that we would see him shrink his troops and guess that he would resolutely adopt various tactics of defeat, temporarily changing the plan and concentrating his troops south, so he deliberately tried to get and motivate us to divide the troops?"

Sima Wang didn't say anything, and then gritted his teeth and said, "Segment of troops resolutely! Although Zhang Zhi'er also has the option of concentrating his troops to defend Wei County, when he saw that we really divided the troops, he would not be able to make any decisions to defeat each other. As long as we can use partial divisions to entangle his main force, it will definitely be much easier to win Wei County!"

In this way, when Zhang Zhiming had already confessed his tactics, in order to win the hope of easily defeating Wei County, the Jin army still tied the bullet and went south in two directions. At the same time, during this period, the dream of Wang Lao's attempt to take the initiative in tactics was lost. He could only go south carefully, for fear that the Han army would stick out the surprise troops and catch them off guard.

Not only that, after learning from Qian Hong's last defeat, and after leading the main force of the Jin army to Sankan, Wang Wang was very careful to leave 3,000 troops to protect the Lushui Ferry and prevent the Meng family from sending troops to cut off his food route. - By the way, Wang Wang Wang also took it for granted that the reason why the Han army was able to hold on to the Lushui Ferry last time and survived until Qian Hong was short of food and was in chaos, was definitely because the Meng family secretly made trouble behind the scenes and sent food and supplies to the Han army through the Qingshou Shui Road.

After passing the Lu River, the road became much easier. However, because it was impossible to judge the intention of the Han army, the Jin army not only did not speed up the advancement, but instead changed the 40-mile a day to 30-mile a day, almost step by step towards Wei County. The morale of the military that the Jin army had finally boosted before was also greatly affected, and the confidence to win began to shake slightly - there was no way, the commander was so careful, and the soldiers must of course be more careful.

Let’s put it short. Even Sima Wang felt incredible, the progress made by the Jin army in the next step was far beyond his expectations. First, Qin Zang, who had already withdrawn the Han army, surrendered voluntarily, and then Gu Chang also surrendered. At the same time, regardless of the envoys sent by the Jin army to contact the city, all the cities in the Dianchi area were all surrendered in a glance, almost allowing the Jin army to capture the only grain-producing area in Nanzhong without any effort.

What was even more outrageous was still behind. Three thousand troops were left to protect the grain roads in Guchang and to collect grain and grass. When more than 50,000 Jin troops carefully arrived near Tongse (Ma Long), which was only more than 60 miles away from Wei County, the main force of the Han army stationed outside Wei County not only did not take the opportunity to fight, but also County Magistrate Tongse sent people to send surrender to the surrender, and asked the Jin army to enter Tongse with a smile, and gave the city to the Jin army without hesitation.

——Of course, because of the close distance, the food of Tongse has been completely transferred by the Han army. At the same time, the Han army's family in Tongse also fled to Wei County early to avoid the war, and the Muma in the north of Tongse was similar. As for the Cuan family's old nest, they had long been deep ditches and high bases, and the whole people were soldiers, and they were always ready to defend the city and fight to the death.

Unfortunately, the more generous the Han army gave in, the more cautious Sima Wang was more worried. In addition to sending people north to contact the Jin army's partial division who was still struggling on the road, he quickly ordered the Jin army to immediately go deep into the ditches and build a solid camp to prevent Zhang Zhi, who was famous for his sneak attacks, from changing his bad habits, and quietly came to kill himself off guard.

Finally, after Tongse carefully stationed for more than ten days, when Hu Lie successfully brought the partial army to meet with the main force, Sima Wang's heart, which had been hanging tightly in his throat, returned to his stomach. Hu Lie reported to Sima Wang in confusion that he was on the southward road. Although Tanglang Road was rugged and narrow, many places were suitable for establishing a camp to stand firm. He had prevented the partial army of the Jin army from moving south for a long time, but he did not encounter the Han army's soldiers and soldiers blocking it, let alone the main force of the Han army that must have appeared.

"I underestimate this Zhang Zhi child." Sima Wang sighed: "I didn't expect this traitor to be so calm and would be willing to let go of the tactics of defeating them in order to prevent us from letting our side troops go through the path in vain."

"Don't worry, old governor, we don't work hard." Hu Lie hurriedly said: "Since we have already met, we should go to Wei County, right? The road in Nanzhong is too difficult to walk, and our food and grass transportation is too difficult. It's better to fight quickly and decide quickly."

Sima Wang nodded. Just as he was about to agree, he never thought that there were personal soldiers outside the tent who came to the newspaper, saying that the Han army sent an envoy to send a letter from Zhang Zhi to Sima Wang. When Sima Wang quickly took the letter and read it carefully, he saw that Zhang Zhi was still writing in vernacular language: "Old Governor, when you received this letter, your army should have already met, right? You should come to Wei County, you have already been hungry and thirsty for the younger generation. Come on. Of course, it doesn't matter if the old Governor wants your partial teacher to rest for a few days. You can wait patiently. Let's see who can't calm down first."

He tore Zhang Zhi's letter to pieces with great anger, threw it on the ground and trampled it hard with his feet. He looked at the old man with rare roar, "Zhang Zhi, I'm so insulting me! Do you really think you are a village man in Zhuge who is reborn again, and dare to take the initiative to fight with weak troops?! He ordered the entire army to load the food, grass and supplies into the vehicle, and to drive the camp eastward tomorrow, and go to Wei County to fight to the death with the Zhang Zhi thief army!"

Even though he roared, when he was really leading his army westward, Mr. Wang, who had been cautious all his life, was still very careful when he walked, especially when he passed by the area of ​​Liaogushan, which was suitable for ambushing, Mr. Wang sent hundreds of scouts up the mountain and into the forest to carefully explore. He repeatedly confirmed that there was no ambush before he was advancing eastward carefully. It took more than a day to pull the army to the southern suburbs of Wei County, where the terrain was open, and he saw the Han army camp also established in the Nanmen City, Wei County.

That's not all. I was worried that the Han army would take advantage of the unstable opportunity of the army to launch a sneak attack. After finally arrived at the battlefield, Mr. Wang quickly ordered the soldiers to set up camps in deep ditches and high places. However, what Mr. Wang never dreamed of was that as soon as his camp started construction, scouts rushed from the north and reported to Mr. Wang: "Report to the Governor, a large number of soldiers of the thief army are gathering in the camp. At the same time, the banner of Zhang Zhi's rebel thieves has appeared outside the camp, as if he was going south to fight our army?"

"What?" Sima Wang was stunned and blurted out, "This is a decisive battle? Our army just arrived in Wei County and was in full swing. Zhang Zhi'er dared to launch a decisive battle directly? There are strong cities and camps to defend, and we can consume our army's aura by defensive wars. We can even be more anxious for a decisive battle than us? Does Zhang Zhi'er understand the war?"

"Old Governor, God-given opportunity!" Hu Lie immediately said: "We come from afar, and it is most taboo to delay the war and lack food and supplies! Since Zhang Zhi's son took the initiative to go out of the camp to die, we should seize this opportunity to fight to the death and use his military advantage to annihilate Zhang Zhi's thieves' army in one fell swoop!"

In fact, there is no need for Hu Lie to persuade him. As soon as the Jin army arrived in the southern suburbs of Wei County, there was no time to establish a camp. The Han army launched a large-scale movement to fight south. If the Jin army did not fight resolutely, could it be possible to throw away food, supplies and escape from the way of life? So even without any mental preparation in advance, Sima Wang ordered without hesitation: "Tell the entire army to gather and prepare for war immediately, and set up the crane wing formation to wipe out the enemy in full!"

Even though he was caught off guard, relying on long-term rigorous training and years of accumulated rich experience, more than 80,000 Jin troops were ready for pre-war preparations, quickly gathering the vehicles with food and supplies behind the formation, and arranged 10,000 troops to protect them. The other 70,000 troops quickly arranged a crane wing formation suitable for surrounding the enemy. Sima Wang led more than 50,000 main forces to arrange a square formation in the center and established a central position. Hu Lie and his son led 12,000 infantry and cavalry to the right, and used the relatively open space of the right wing to exert the powerful power of the cavalry. Xun Kai and Tian Zhang led 12,000 infantry to the left, so as to double-team with Hu Lie and his son, and completely surrounded the troops, which was definitely far inferior to the Han army.

The Han army dispatched the small number of troops to fight. It was still expected by Wang Ye, Hu Lie and others. A scout soon discovered that although Zhang Zhi led the army to battle, he only brought only 20,000 infantry, and he did not even see the cavalry. At the same time, the Han army had arranged a cone formation early to keep the array and slowly move south, and directly disclosed that the Han army would adopt the offensive tactic of the central breakthrough - in fact, Zhang Zhi only used this formation tactic.

After waiting patiently for a while, the Han army, which had relatively few troops, finally appeared in the vision of the Wei army soldiers. As a result, after gradually seeing the basic situation of the Han army, Sima Wang, Hu Lie and other Jin generals who had not fought with the Han army did not care at all. They couldn't help but ridicule Zhang Zhi for hitting the stone with eggs and shaking the tree with a fence. They dared to use such a little force to launch a head-on decisive battle.

However, contrary to these ignorant generals and soldiers of the Jin army, similar to Du Xin and Wang Heng, who had suffered great losses in the Han army, gradually changed their faces. Their faces began to turn blue, then gradually turned white, and then developed like dead gray. The legs and whole bodies couldn't help but tremble slightly...

Unbelievably rubbed his eyes hard and looked at the Han army again. Du Xin, who was barely able to speak in front of Sima Wang, groaned in despair, "My God! I'm not dreaming, right? If I weren't dreaming, how could I fight this battle?!"

"Don't be afraid." Wang Heng also patted his chest and comforted himself in the crowd of Jin soldiers, and said secretly: "It should be said that it is a good thing. As long as you don't make a fool of yourself, you can eat candy and instant noodles again. I haven't eaten it for almost a year, and I really want to eat it."
Chapter completed!