On the narrow mountain road by the Dangqu River, countless Banhua barbarian soldiers roared and retreated into the jungle, leaving behind smoked grain bags and ships. Hundreds of grain transport soldiers were killed and ran away in a hurry. Zhang Fei led thousands of elite soldiers back, but he didn't catch a single hair.

Another Han army's grain team was robbed.

"The enemy who is killed in heaven has no choice but to run away. Fight with your grandfather for a day!"

Zhang Fei was so angry that he roared repeatedly, wanting to let his soldiers enter the jungle and chase him, but he was afraid that he would step on the pit because he was not familiar with the terrain, or be ambushed by the poisonous Arrow Bamboo Mechanism.

After suffering such a loss for two or three times, Zhang Fei gradually gained experience, but he was inevitably caught by the strange attacks of the barbarians. So much so that after more than 20 days of advancing, even the node of Hanchang County in Bazhong has not been conquered.

Because the waterway along the way was not available, Zhang Fei didn't know that his second brother Guan Yu's army had already defeated Yan Yan and settled the three counties in the Jialing River Basin, and went up to Mengtou, Dangshi and other places in Dangqu. The straight-line distance from Zhang Fei was less than 200 miles, and the waterway mileage was only 300 miles.

The remnants of Zhang Lu, as well as some barbarian chiefs who followed Zhang Lu, and even the Ganning tribe who was now hired by Zhang Lu, were blocked on both sides of this 300-mile-long Dangqu River section, with three counties, Hanchang, Dangqu and Mengtou, plus Xuanhan County on the tributary on the east side of Dangqu.

In the four counties, the remnants of Zhang Lu's direct descendants and Gan Ning were entrenched, and the surrounding mountainous areas also had to operate the five surnames of the Manchu tribe. Obviously, the rebels had a difficult life, and they had less savings and lacked money and food supplies. Only the hunting, gathering and farming of the Manchu tribe could slightly subsidize military supplies.

The terrain of the canyon along the Dangqu is very narrow, and the two sides have large forces but cannot be deployed, so the battle front is very short when the two armies meet, and no matter how many people there are, they can only be used as a tactic of adding fuel to the oil.

In history, Zhang Fei and Zhang He fought here with this hit, because as long as you can find a position where there are forks to ambush and intercept the enemy, and after half of the enemy's army is cut off, the number of soldiers in the rear will not be able to exert combat effectiveness even if there are more soldiers in the front. Later, Zhang He was cut off the contact between the rear army and the command center by Zhang Fei in the Dangqu, and all the personal soldiers of the command center were dispersed. After Zhang He led dozens of cavalry to cross the mountains and escape, the rear army abandoned by Zhang He became fat.

Unfortunately, Zhang Fei and Zhang He are fish that don’t understand the local terrain, so they can only learn while fighting, and at least they are the same starting line. But this time the opponent is the natives of Banyan Barbarians. If they have to be familiar with and utilize the terrain, Zhang Fei was exposed to eight streets, so that fighting these barbarians without famous generals is N times more difficult than beating Zhang He.

When I was robbed of food for the first time, I could be said to be careless. I felt that the front army was advancing all the way, and the road behind it was all the sphere of influence. I didn't expect that the barbarian soldiers would suddenly go around the strange mountain.

After learning his lesson, Zhang Fei brought at least two or three thousand soldiers to escort the grain fleet at a time. But in this way, because the water upstream of the Dangqu is too shallow, there are often shallow sections with reefs, and civilians need to unload grain and pass by the beach. Then, the barbarians took advantage of the soldiers' assistance in carrying grain and beach. The boat could not move quickly and rushed out of the mountains.

As long as you find the terrain and cut off a gap between Zhang Fei's escort force and the civilians, Zhang Fei can only be blocked in a narrow place, unable to use his strength, and watch the rear team be chopped and killed, and then the barbarians disappear into the mountains.

Zhang Fei’s only gain was to add another one on the originally sketchy map - there is also a lateral valley/slow slope to ambush the troops at this location! Be careful when you walk here next time!

Only when the war reached this point did the two armies fully realize that fighting, attacking tough and field battles in the mountainous areas of Brazil were not the most painful.

The city here is not strong. It would be nice to have a rammed earth wall of two meters high in the county. Some counties do not even have city walls, but only sharp wooden stakes. If the Han army really focused on attacking the city, Hanchang and even the Dangqu would have taken it down long ago.

The most painful thing is logistics.

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On April 15, Zhang Fei finally stocked up another batch of grain and went to the front line Hanchang to launch a new round of fierce attack on the valley entrance in the north of Hanchang City.

Just before siege, he waited for a group of reinforcements of about 3,000 people from the rear.

It is not surprising that there are reinforcements, but what makes Zhang Fei panic is that his elder brother Liu Bei also left Nanzheng, put down many affairs of the people's politics and state affairs in the rear, and came to the front line.

Li Su and Lu Su were also with Liu Bei.

Zhang Fei was very embarrassed: "Brother! Don't worry, it was a small boat before, and the upstream was dangerous. It was not easy for me to store grain in batches. Now I have finally stocked up enough military rations in Hanchang for two months. I just took down all these counties in one go. How can you take action yourself? Look at me! Boya, too, why don't you persuade my brother to a little?"

Li Su smiled and said, "Brother, you just spent money to buy the five surnames Banyan Man and Gan Ning, and like Yun Chang, you also used evidence of collusion between Zhang Lu and Liu Yan to destroy the determination of the court officials in these counties to follow the thief. How come the attack on the hearts these days has not worked at all?

Three days ago, we received a report from Chief Yun from Maming Pavilion in Nanzhengdu. He said that Yan Yan, the county magistrate of Langzhong, had officially surrendered, and promised to help Chief Yun persuade the descending counties. Maybe Chief Yun had reached Dianjiang and cut off Zhang Lu's retreat to Jiangzhou. He was just waiting for you to attack him from front and back."

Zhang Fei curled his lips: "Those crimes of collusion between Zhang Lu and Liu Yan are useless! I also asked the soldiers to speak out and preach, but no one listened at all! Yan Yan from the second brother had no chance to confess to Zhang Lu personally, so he would be deceived by your forged secret letter.

Here, Zhang Lu is in charge of the enemy. Wouldn't he clarify it personally? If you have a nose and eyes, can someone like Zhang Lu have a personal experience rebuttal in detail?"

Zhang Fei's words make some sense. It seems that he has been thinking these days.

Li Su stopped refuting and embarrassing him when she heard this.

The reason why he insisted on taking a look with Liu Bei recently was that he was afraid that Zhang Fei would delay the progress of the battle for too long and affect Li Su's return to Beijing to report his duties - calculating the days, in history, Emperor Ling of Han collapsed a few days ago. After Emperor Ling died, He Jin was in power for only a few months. Li Su was still hoping to report the victory to the court during the window period when He Jin was in power.

After all, the reward edict issued by He Jin in the name of Emperor Shao of Han was always worth more than that of Dong Zhuofa.

In history, He Jin was in power for only four months, and he was burping in August. There was still time left on the way from Hanzhong to Luoyang, so he had to get Zhang Lu's head to report within more than two months.

If you miss the window period and take a Dong Zhuo edict in the future, you say "I will be punished by the rebel Liu Yan", then Liu Yan will have the confidence to directly say that this is "using the emperor and treacherous ministers to instigate his orders" and you will "clear the emperor's side" and you will be punished by Dong.

Then Liu Bei will fight Liu Yan again, wouldn’t he become a “assistant Dong”? Such a person cannot be lost.

It was useless to frame the letters, and Li Su was not discouraged. He then asked why spending money to win over Ban Yanman and Gan Ning was temporarily invalid.

Zhang Fei had no choice but to complain: "Boya, these barbarians were deceived too deeply by Zhang Lu, and they didn't know what they wanted. They always felt that Zhang Luxu's promise of "paying five dou of rice and having multiple guarantees for the rest of his life" was more valuable. What can I do? I think it's better to fight a war to defeat them first, and then slowly enlighten them to teach them. This is different from the second brother. The barbarians whom the second brother won over were not Zhang Lu's priests and hindered them.

As for Gan Ning, I also tried my best to inquire. I heard that he was extremely frivolous in his nature and killed people, and was hiding his life. When making friends with local officials, he only saw whether the other party treated him solemnly. If the official was willing to make a fuss and treat him with courtesy, he would help you go through fire and water. But if the official did not pay attention to it and was disrespectful to the etiquette, he would backfire and kill the official.

At the end of last year, Nagan Ning happened to commit a major case. The prefect of Naba County openly insulted his reputation. He actually sneaked into Jiangzhou and directly killed the prefect! So much so that there is no prefect of Ba County to this day.

But after Liu Yan entered Shu, he had already killed many famous children from the four Shu Confucian clans. For example, Ren An, the nephew of the Shu Confucian clan, who was as famous as Dong Fu, was killed by Ren Qi, the prefect of Jianwei County, by Liu Yan, as well as the prefect of Guanghan of the Zhao family among the four Shu Confucian clans, and Jia Long, also the prefect of the state.

Gan Ning killed the prefect of Ba County and happened to help Liu Yan kill the dissidents, so Liu Yan felt that Gan Ning could use it, and as the governor of Yizhou, he actually pardoned Gan Ning himself. This made Gan Ning, who had never seen the world, feel very proud and publicly said that he would die for Liu Yan. He threw the money into the river and showed off his flaunt. If he wanted to impress him, he would probably have to fight a war first."

Liu Bei had never understood Gan Ning's situation before. After hearing what Zhang Fei said, he felt that such a person was not difficult to win over: "Oh, it's a pity that Liu Yan first took his heart. Otherwise, what's the difficulty? Isn't it just that drinking and eating meat with a gentleman without distinguishing his superiority and inferiority with a gentleman? Have you ever neglected the knight since I started the army?"

Liu Bei asked himself that he was best at making friends and winning over gangsters.

Who made Liu Bei himself, and even Guan Yu... have all been born in that kind of family. Liu Yan wants to win over the heroes with Liu Bei, so he is even younger. I can only say that Liu Yan is lucky.

Li Su was listening to the jokes between the Liu and Zhang brothers, and gradually got a plan in his heart.

It’s not impossible to recruit surrender, but you must be convinced first. It’s not possible to just greed for money.

If peace is achieved through struggle, peace will exist; if peace is achieved through compromise, peace will perish.

He couldn't help but refer to the example of Zhang Fei defeating Zhang He in this area in history, and naturally thought of the tactic of "using narrow terrain to cut the enemy into several segments, and then destroying the enemy's command organization, resulting in the collapse of the remaining troops."

He couldn't help but remind Zhang Fei: "Yide, you have been here for more than 20 days. Why didn't you think about imitating Banyan Man when fighting in a narrow valley, the ambushing troops cut off the enemy and defeating each section? How good did you do when you cheated on Banyan Man? You can't learn and use it now?"

Zhang Fei cried out: "I am not familiar with the local terrain. How do you know where to hide troops on the hillside? Where is there a fork in the road beside the valley? To cut off the enemy, you must first ambush the enemy's waist?"

Li Su spread his folding fan and shook it a few times: "It may not be necessary. As long as we combine the shallow terrain and water and land cooperation, we can cut off the enemy's army without familiarizing ourselves with the terrain - for example, we use the main force to consume and confront the enemy along the valley, and we also take a boat with a small number of elite soldiers and go downstream. When we arrive in the enemy's formation, we suddenly rush to the beach and land to break the enemy horizontally, and cut off the enemy. Isn't that okay? It's just that Banyan Man's method of cutting off the enemy's enemy, and you can walk on the river surface of the Dangqu."

Zhang Fei: "I can't beat Gan Ning even if I walk on the river!"

It is not as familiar as Banhuan when walking on a mountain road, but not as familiar as Gan Ning when walking on a river.

The problem seems to be back.

Li Su considered the difficulty of the two options and felt that the terrain problem was indeed more difficult to solve, so he decided to find a way to seize the power of river control.
Chapter completed!