At this time, Liu Bei could only find Yang Song, a local snake, and said: "Liu Shi's 30,000 troops are already attacking Yangping Pass. Wei Yan and others have suffered more than half of their casualties. Now they have come to ask for help, but Yizhou's army is still attacking. It will be difficult for Meng Pass to support Yangping Pass in a short period of time!" Then Liu Bei said solemnly: "So now Yangping Pass can only rely on your private soldiers to support it!"
"General, there are 30,000 troops in Hanzhong. Even excluding the 5,000 defenders at Yangping Pass, there are still 25,000 defenders all over Hanzhong. Isn't this many troops not enough for the general to arrange his troops?" Yang Song was full of grievances when he heard this. They welcomed Liu Beibu just to resist Da Qian. Why now they are not only required to provide money and food, but also private soldiers. The main force has become their own, so why are they relying on Liu Bei!
Liu Bei heard Yang Song's dissatisfaction, so he explained: "In order to prevent the large-scale invasion of the Qian army, Zhang Lu built a large number of fortresses on the roads leading to Guanzhong and in dangerous places. Guanzhong leads to Hanzhong. Tens of thousands of troops were deployed on the four roads in Guanzhong. Now Zhang Baiqi launched four armies in Guanzhong to attack Hanzhong. Although 400,000 was Zhang Baiqi's boast, he still had 100,000 troops, so I decided to 15,000 troops were dispatched to support various mountain villages in Hanzhong, delaying the march of Da Gan’s army.”
In fact, the Hanzhong Army has already fought with the Daqian Army. Zhang Baiqi and his four armies are already clearing the Han Army on the four roads including Chencang, but Liu Bei is not worried at all because Liu Bei has sent Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Chen Dao. , Wen hired him as a guard general to stop the large army.
The shortest of these four roads is more than 600 miles, and the longest is thousands of miles away. The terrain is undulating along the way. Even if the Daqian army is strong, it will not be possible to break into Hanzhong without fighting for a year and a half. If Liu Bei keeps sending In the case of reinforcements, Zhang Baiqi's army would not even be able to enter Hanzhong. It's just that God's calculations are not as good as those of man, and there is a problem at the most dangerous Yangping Pass, which disrupts Liu Bei's overall plan!
"I thought that with the dangerous Yangping Pass, we could defend the Daqian Army for 2 months. After this time, the weather turned cold, and there would be heavy snow in the sky. Even the Daqian Army would not be able to defend it in such weather. After the launch, we will have half a year to train the young people of Hanzhong, and at the same time, the elites from Yizhou and Jingzhou can also come to support Hanzhong."
Then Liu Bei sighed: "It's a pity that we all underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Daqian Army!"
He said that Liu Bei showed Wei Yan's battle report to Yang Song. After reading it, Yang Song looked embarrassed. Only then did he realize that it was his second brother who defeated the 3,000 defenders of Yangping Pass, so that Wei Yan had no more troops to guard Yangping Pass. It was not enough and the morale of the defenders plummeted, so Wei Yan asked Liu Bei for help.
Liu Bei assured Yang Song: "In ten days at most, 30,000 reinforcements from Shu will come to Hanzhong to support Yangping Pass, so Yongnian's private soldiers will only have to fight for ten days at most!"
But even if he knew the current predicament of Hanzhong, Yang Song did not want to send his family's private soldiers to the battlefield. They had used up all their private soldiers. How could their family be protected? Then they would really become lambs to be slaughtered!
Looking at the embarrassed Yang Song, Liu Bei really wanted to get angry. If he had any choice, he would not want the private soldiers of Yang Song and other noble families. The combat effectiveness of the Hanzhong Army was already extremely low. How could the private soldiers of these wealthy families be so good? No matter where he goes, especially when he is fighting against the most elite Da Gan Army in the world. Even if he commands the elite troops in Jingzhou, he may not be sure to defeat the Da Gan Army.
Liu Bei has been fighting against Da Qian's army in these years. Although he lost more than he won, he also summed up some experience in dealing with Da Qian's army.
When fighting against the Daqian Army, the more soldiers the better, but the more refined the better, and the soldiers must not complain, otherwise they will be won over by the Daqian Army and become their people. Like the original Jizhou Army, the soldiers were forced to conscript The common people were so attracted by the Daqian army that they became the main force in the destruction of Jizhou clans. Sili and Yuzhou had 300,000 troops, as well as strong cities like Chang'an City and Luoyang City, but because of Yuan Tan, a prodigal son, the Yuzhou army was They were so resentful that they didn't even stop the army for half a year!
Therefore, in these years, Liu Bei has been using elite soldiers trained by himself in his battles with Da Gan Army, and the generals are also good generals selected by him. Obviously, these two points are not owned by the private soldiers of Hanzhong clan, but now Liu Bei has no choice. After all, these private soldiers have been trained for many years, and they are still Yang Song's confidants with some combat effectiveness. However, the Hanzhong young men he just recruited not only have no combat effectiveness, they are also Zhang Lu's die-hard supporters. With them, Liu Bei is worried that they will not be defeated. The defeat of Qian's army means opening the gate of Yangpingguan and enlarging Qian's army into Hanzhong!
Liu Bei saw that Yang Song had hesitated for such a long time and said angrily: "You are actually reluctant to part with your own private soldiers forever, so I will recall my subordinates back to Shuzhong. Without the strength, Hanzhong cannot resist the large army, so I will keep Hanzhong." It’s useless!”
When Yang Song heard Liu Bei say that he wanted to give up Hanzhong, he said anxiously: "General, Hanzhong is also the land of the Han Dynasty, and we have been loyal for generations. How can the general give up on us? Isn't it just that we need troops to defend the Han Dynasty?" Gan Jun, this soldier is from our Hanzhong clan!"
Liu Bei looked at Yang Song who was running out in a hurry and sneered: "Sure enough, the habits of these people have not changed at all. They are just like donkeys. If they are not led, they will go backwards!"
Then Yang Song summoned the powerful nobles in Nanzheng, and Liu Bei also came to the scene, and even told them what happened at Yangping Pass, telling them that without reinforcements, Yangping Pass would definitely be breached by Liu Shi, and Hanzhong would definitely be destroyed. Qian occupied it. If such a war situation really happened, he would have no choice but to leave Hanzhong with his personal guards and go to Bajun and Guanghan Army to garrison to prevent the large Qian army from attacking Shuzhong.
Hearing that Liu Bei wanted to escape, the noble families in Hanzhong panicked. Liu Bei could escape, but they could not escape from their land, shops and Wubao. So under Yang Song's initiative, the noble families around Nanzheng tried to find a way He gathered an army of 10,000 for Liu Bei and handed it over to Liu Bei.
After having these 10,000 people, Liu Bei asked Liu Pan to lead this army to support Wei Yan. At the same time, he also asked these noble families to find ways to gather the power of the entire Hanzhong family. This army of 10,000 people may not be enough to stop Dagan's army. .
He solemnly said to the heads of Hanzhong clan clans present: "Everyone must be prepared for Hanzhong to become a battlefield. Now you are reluctant to arm your own troops. When the Daqian army invades Hanzhong, your money and food may become the spoils of the Daqian army. By then you will find that it is already too late to arm a large army. This is not to be alarmist. This kind of thing has happened many times in Hebei and the Central Plains, and there will be no exception when the Qian army invades Hanzhong!"