If the Han army could arrive at Huiwu two days in advance, the Pang Hui unit of the Jin army, who fled north on the Tanglang Road, would definitely not be able to escape Zhang Zhi's clutches. Unfortunately, a lot of time had been wasted to confirm the movements of the Jin army. The Han army arrived at Huiwu without any revenge. Pang Hui, who owed a deep revenge on Shu Han, had already slipped away one day, making Zhang Zhi missed the opportunity to avenge Guan Yu's descendants again.

Fortunately, Zhang Zhi was not particularly regretful about this. He just said lightly that Pang Hui would live a few more days, and then sent an envoy directly to Huiwu City to persuade him to surrender. As a result, the county magistrate Huiwu, who had only a few hundred county soldiers, did not even hesitate. He immediately led the officials out of the city to surrender, making Huiwu a second city for the revival of Yizhou after the Sancang small city on the north bank of Lushui.

However, County Magistrate Huiwu, whose name was Ma Shen, soon regretted it because after he left the city to surrender, Ma Shen was frightened to find that although the Han army brought not many vehicles, almost all the vehicles were loaded with military tents, weapons, bows and arrows, and there was almost no grain truck. Therefore, in addition to regretting surrendering too quickly, Ma Shen also had to worry about such a fatal problem - what if Zhang Zhi asked him to supply food and grass to the Han army?

The more you fear, the more you will be. After raising Ma Shen to the magistrate of Yueli County, Zhang Zhi casually asked Ma Shen: "Master Ma, there is no city now. How much food is there now? How long can it last?"

He quickly knelt in front of Zhang Zhi, and Ma Shen bowed his head in a sweat and said, "The Later General forgives his crimes, and the Later General forgives his crimes. Although Huiwu is a must-pass place to go from Yizhou to Nanzhong, he did hoard a large amount of food and grass before, when Sima Wang led the defeated troops of Jin to flee north, he had already taken away all the food he had transported before. Huiwu's grain in the city, and at most he could only last until the autumn harvest."

"It's good to persevere until the autumn harvest."

Zhang Zhi's response almost made Ma Hua suspect that he had heard the wrong ear, but Ma Hua was even more shocked. Zhang Zhi actually said: "The general will not leave you too much food, just leave two thousand boxes of instant noodles and five hundred boxes of lunch meat to prevent you. If there is too little rain this year, the grain that will not be lost. If the yield is reduced, you can contact General Zhu Xiang of the left-behind Wei County and ask him to adjust the grain for you from Jianning."

He looked up at Zhang Zhi in disbelief, and Ma Shen asked carefully: "Hou General, you are not wrong? When you are in the Northern Expedition to Yueli, you should not only not supply food and grass for you, but also leave instant noodles and lunch meat for your servants? If the grain production is reduced this year, you can also transfer grain to your servants from Jianning County?"

"Of course you heard it right." Zhang Zhi smiled slightly and said, "Our Han army has seized a large amount of food and grass from the Jin thief army. Jianning County has sufficient food storage, which can help you survive the famine. But remember, if you have enough food, don't speak up. General Zhu and the others will send someone to check. If you falsely report the famine, defraud disaster relief grain to fill your personal bags, be careful to land your head!"

"The officials dare not, but the officials dare not." Ma Shen quickly paused his head again and asked more carefully: "Hou General, can you ask more questions? What should you do about the food and grass of the Northern Expedition? Could it be that the General of the Later Congress plan to stop going north to Qiongdu?"

"This is not a problem you are worried about." Zhang Zhi refused to answer and said, "It would be impossible to manage this general well. You have to do three things for you immediately."

"Please give me the orders, and the subordinates will do their best." Ma Shen replied quickly.

"First, organize the service immediately and make every effort to buy horses and grasses from the city!" Zhang Zhi said immediately: "Second, make every effort to buy the fragrant hardwoods from the city. Third, buy dried vegetables and soaked yellow vegetables from the people, and buy as much as you can."

After giving the order, Zhang Zhi said casually: "I will buy all these things at a price of twice the market price. The expenses do not have to be borne by your county ware. I will give you lunch meat and instant noodles to exchange them for the people."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhi actually asked for something that was not worth much money among the people, and offered a purchase price of twice the market price. Ma Shen couldn't help but widen his eyes. Zhang Zhi urged: "What are you still stunned? Go and work as a businessman quickly. Before sunset tomorrow, you must buy all the things you can buy and put them outside the west gate to wait for the general to send someone to accept them. The more the quantity, the better!"

Seeing that Zhang Zhi was not like joking, and seeing Zhang Zhi arrange to transport instant noodles, lunch meat and other items into the city, Ma Shen quickly led Huiwuzhu officials back to the city and organized the servants to go deep into the people to purchase the horse materials, dried vegetables and wood designated by Zhang Zhi. Without further ado, Huiwu people who have learned the value of junk food through trade. Seeing that the Han army used junk food as money to buy these rags at a high price, of course, they were scrambling to sell them all. So on the afternoon of the next day, countless woods, horse materials and dried vegetables for emergency treatment were transported out of the city and piled up at the location designated by Zhang Zhi.

Finally, it was the third day. Seeing Zhang Zhi decisively leading the Han army to continue north, and seeing Zhang Zhi really left a lot of instant noodles and lunch meat for emergency response, Ma Shen pinched his thighs a few times and said to himself: "Isn't you really dreaming? If you knew that, the general not only didn't want me to provide food, but also left me with food in turn. I should have called it bitter, saying that there would be no food to support the autumn harvest."

The reason why Zhang Zhi tried to buy horse materials and vegetables was of course because Zhang Zhi knew very well that the capital of Qiongdu, Yueli County, would never surrender easily, and Su Qiong, Taideng and Chan County, north of Qiongdu, would definitely not surrender easily. It was difficult for his own army to obtain a large amount of supply horse materials and vegetables, so Zhang Zhicai prepared for the future and reserved some horse materials and vegetables in advance to solve the problem of Han army's war horses and soldiers supplementing vitamins.

In fact, strictly speaking, even if there is no horse material and vegetables, it will not have any decent impact on the Han army. For the long-term consideration, Zhang Zhi has discovered through experiments that the war horses will indeed have diarrhea problems after eating fried instant noodles, but eating non-fried instant noodles such as the Wugu Taoist temple has no effect. At the same time, wild vegetables and fruits are everywhere in the mountains and forests, and a piece of candies such as fruit drinks also contain VC. The soldiers are amazing because they are insufficient intake of cellulose and cannot affect their combat effectiveness. So even if the horse material and vegetables are completely cut off, Zhang Zhi is only facing the problem of rising costs of supporting the army.

Back to the point, Zhang Zhi was overjoyed. The Han army had just arrived near Qiongdu, and the scout quickly sent an urgent report, saying that Sima Wang led more than 30,000 defeated troops from the Jin army and did not withdraw directly to the Sichuan Basin. He chose to station on the spot in Qiongdu, the capital of Yueli County, and repaired the city defense in Qiongdu, dredged the moat, strengthened the walls and cleared the fields. At the same time, all the food and grass that were adjacent to Su Qiongdu and the second city of Taideng were transferred to Qiongdu, and prepared to stick to Qiongdu. Zhang Zhi laughed loudly after hearing this, and couldn't help but laugh at Huo Yi, Zhao Quan and others and asked:

"Oh no! Sima Wang's old man not only did not escape back to Chengdu directly, but also stayed in Qiongdu to defend the city with all his strength. He made it impossible for us to supply food and grass on the spot. He also pinched our grain route and made it impossible for us to go north directly. How can we attack Yizhou in the north?"

"Don't worry, the next general, it's okay." Huo Yi said gently: "The food road is broken and I can't eat rice. We can eat lunch meat. This thing is more full than rice."

"Don't, don't use lunch meat as your meal! I'm almost vomiting that thing!" Zhao Quan said quickly: "Eat every dish and every side. I'm not tired of eating this thing. After finishing it, I don't even have to wash the bowl!"

The Han army and civil and military officials next to him laughed together, and Zhang Zhi laughed for a while, then looked back at the way he came, and said to himself: "Zhu Xiang, Wang Ming, Liu Ju, Nanzhong and our family, please all of you. I really don't know when I will get in touch with you next time."

By the way, because the Han army's long journey was too long and the heavy artillery transport was too difficult, Zhang Zhi did not bring the only eight bronze cannons with him, and chose to stay in Wei County, so that the Wei County defenders led by Zhu Xiang would use it if they appeared.

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At the same time, Sima Wang, Wang Hun and others had already received news of the approaching of the Han army. As a result, Mr. Wang, who had already made sufficient preparations, was not in a hurry. Instead, he shouted: "Come on, come if you have the courage! The north and south of Qiongdu are mountains, and the east is lakes (Qionghai). There is no way to expand his troops. Only the west can attack the city. It is easier to defend and difficult to attack than Chengdu City. I have to take a look at how your Zhang Zhi child can defeat the Qiongdu city where I personally take charge of it!"

"Elder General, Qiongdu City is indeed extremely strong, but we'd better not underestimate the enemy." Wang Hun reminded with kindness and said, "Also, Qiongdu only has the Ximen to be able to be attacked. On the contrary, we should just block the corridor of Qiongdu's Ximen. In this way, even if there is any mistake in the city gate, the thief army will not be able to attack. At the same time, there is no need to worry about the internal chaos of the thief, and the internal and external forces will cooperate to meet the thief army to attack the city."

Considering that the Han army's combat effectiveness was too perverted and that the self-armed army was too dangerous to fight back, Sima Wang nodded quickly, agreed to Wang Hun's suggestion, and immediately sent people to organize soldiers to carry earth, stone and sand bales to completely block the most likely to be in danger. Finally, when he learned that the Han army was about to arrive in Qiongdu, Wang also led the Jin army's civil and military personnel to the west gate of Qiongdu, preparing to appreciate the wonderful expressions of the Han army's helplessness in Qiongdu City.

After waiting in the city for a while, the red flag of the Han army first appeared in the sight of Sima Wang and others. Then, the Han army front team, wearing bloated armor, soon arrived at the western suburbs of Qiongdu, and urgently arranged a square formation to prevent the Jin army from leaving the city to raid. Sima Wang sneered and thought about the camp site that Zhang Zhi might choose. He was also preparing to personally greet Zhang Zhi's family and the female family when Zhang Zhi sent an envoy to negotiate, so as to make anger Zhang Zhi, so that Zhang Zhi would launch an attack too early in order to take advantage of the Qiongdu City to defend against the disastrous defeat in Nanzhong.

After a while, Zhang Zhi's banner of the Han army with his claws finally appeared in the eyes of Sima Wang and others. Then the main brigade of the Han army led by Zhang Zhi also formed a formation to rest outside the Ximen City of Qiongdu. However, what surprised Sima Wang and others was that after a while, the Han army team escorted the luggage vehicle to the outside of Qiongdu City did not stop to rest. They actually chose to continue north from the Qiongdu Avenue outside the Ximen City.

"Why did the rear team of the bandit army go north?" Hu Lie spoke in a strange way and said, "Does the bandit army plan to establish a camp northwest? There is no need for this? The southwest side of Qiongdu is also open, and Sunshui can protect the water source. It is very convenient to supply and retreat. Why is the bandit army not setting up a camp at that location?"

No one could answer Hu Lie's question, and what happened next made Uncle Wang and others even more shocked. After forming a formation to cover the baggage convoy through the western suburbs of Qiongdu, the main force of the Han army and the front team actually set off in turn, and the front team was the back team, continuing north along the relatively flat and easy-to-go Jinniu Avenue, without paying attention to the Qiongdu Jiancheng, which was guarded by the Jin army.

Then, after the Han army's rear team disappeared from sight, the stunned Wang Hu Lie and others screamed, "Why did the thief army go directly north? Do they want to attack Su Qi and seize food and grass? It's impossible, their scouts are doing it in detail, it's impossible that we have transferred the food and grass from these two small cities?"

"Send scouts out of the city immediately and monitor the movements of the thieves!" Mr. Wang roared with a dark face: "Any time there is any movement, I will repay you immediately!"

The unbelievable thing that Mr. Wang, Wang Hun, Hu Lie and others were still behind. The scouts who were urgently leaving the city quickly sent a report, saying that after the Han army arrived at the small town of Su Qi in the north, they did not stop and launched an attack on the city, but still chose to go around the city and continue to go north to Taiden. Then in the evening of the next day, the scouts of the Jin army who followed the Han army north sent another report, saying that the Han army did not stop attacking Taiden, but also bypassed Taiden's small town again and continued to drive towards the north!

After hearing these reports, Mr. Wang, Wang Hun and others who were familiar with military books almost went crazy. They couldn't help but scream: "Are we crazy or Zhang Zhi'er crazy? Qiong, Su Qi, and Taideng, they just kept going north. Are he going to fight? Go to fight for the Chang County to replenish grain and grass? Chan County is not on the Changniu Avenue, so how much grain and grass can there be? Zhang Zhi'er can't even understand such the simplest principle, right?"

"Old Governor, is Zhang Zhi's son setting up a suspicion array?" Tian Zhang raised a possibility and said, "Just like Jiang Wei was playing with Zhuge Xu at the bridgehead, he pretended to cut off Zhuge Xu's food route and induce Zhuge Xu to give up the bridgehead, making us suspicious and take the initiative to go out of the city to pursue him, so that he can get the chance to defeat us in the field?"

He did not dare to evade this possibility, so Mr. Wang could only nodded and said, "With this possibility, we cannot be fooled. Arrange the scouts to continue monitoring the movements of the thieves' army. I don't believe it anymore. Zhang Zhi, a little boy, dared not even want the food road and retreat, and directly rushed into the Chengdu Plain!"

The cruel facts gradually made Uncle Wang's face turn blue, and the scouts sent out kept reporting that after the Han army crossed Taideng, they did not cross the mountains to fight the insignificant small town of Chan County (now west and east of Yue). They kept going north along the Jinniu Avenue, and were about to walk out of Yueji and enter the Hanjia County, which was located in Yizhou. When the scout finally confirmed that the Han army had entered Hanjia, Uncle Wang, Wang Hun and others were completely crazy and dizzy.

"Crazy! Zhang Zhi'er must be crazy! No matter how far the food route runs, how many days can his military food and grass be supported? He is not afraid that he will go alone and cut off the food and grass, and the entire army will be wiped out? Even if he doesn't know how to fight, it's impossible for old men like Huo Yi and Yan Yu to understand this truth, right? They don't persuade Zhang Zhi'er?"

No matter how unbelievable the roar was useless, I was afraid that Zhang Zhi, the madman, would really break into the Chengdu Plain with empty troops. I hope that the old man had to urgently summon the civil and military military of the Jin army to discuss countermeasures. Then, naturally, someone immediately suggested: "Governor, just do this. The main force of the bandit army went north alone and the troops in the south are empty. We might as well attack Wei County to rescue Zhao, and force Zhang Zhi to return to the army to save his nest!"

"I'm crazy!" Wang Hun immediately refuted: "Not to mention that with our current strength, it's hard to launch an offensive to capture Wei County. Just say that since Zhang Zhi's son dared to go so far south alone, he must have been fully prepared in Nanzhong. We will not only succeed in fighting Wei County, but will only miss the opportunity to return to Chengdu for vain."

"Old Governor, hurry back to the army to save Chengdu." Hu Lie suggested: "There are only more than 10,000 Central Plains troops in Chengdu now, and almost all the remaining troops are old soldiers from Shu, which is unreliable at all. Once Zhang Zhi'er really walks out of the mountainous areas and breaks into the Chengdu plain, the consequences will be unimaginable."

After a moment of calculation, Sima Wang quickly made up his mind and said, "Immediately return to Chengdu and send people to walk on the water. On the Mahu road, we urgently go north to contact Tong Ce and Yang Xin and ask them to increase their troops urgently to guard the danger and block the road for the bandits to go out of the mountainous areas. As long as they do this, we will attack forward and backward, and there is hope to annihilate the bandits' army in the mountains southwest of Yan Dao!"

"Old Governor, the road is too far, it's too late." Wang Hun quickly reminded.

"Try your luck, don't forget that Yan Dao is not too far from Hanjia County. As long as Hanjia Prefect Jiao Sheng sends troops to guard the dangerous situation in time, he may still be able to persist until reinforcements arrive."

Sima Wang answered casually and said quickly: "Another, sending an envoy to contact the Eastern Wu Lu Anti, just say that we have surrounded Zhang Zhi's main force in the Yueli Mountains. The Eastern Wu dog thieves will know how to do it."

Everyone sang promised, and the Literature Office quickly drafted the order for Sima Wang. Sima Wang punched the desk in front of him with a heavy punch, and roared with a dark face: "Crazy man! Deng Zaba dared to smuggle Yinping because his retreat was guaranteed, and he could retreat from Jiangyou! Zhang Zhi'er, a madman, didn't even care about the retreat, and dared to attack the Chengdu Plain directly! I have been in the army for decades, and I have never seen such a crazy person!"

When the old man let out this roar, the Han army soldiers were already under Zhang Zhi's leadership, eating instant noodles, eating lunch meat, drinking coke and chewing candy, entering the 黑博 (Hanyuan) basin, and came to the famous Dadu River River, appearing near the Jigongshan Ferry. As a result, they saw the red Han army flag suddenly appear, and none of the dozens of 黑博博 County soldiers guarding the ferry rubbed their eyes desperately, and then one after another screamed like a pig killing...

"I'm not dreaming, are you? Big Han! The Han army is back! The Han army is back! How could the Han army be back? How could it be—?!"
Chapter completed!