After arranging the candidates for the final battle, Liu Bei immediately began to mobilize his army and prepare to withdraw from Hanzhong.
Now Liu Bei's army in Hanzhong mainly consists of three parts, namely the soldiers who surrendered from Hanzhong, the soldiers from Shuzhong, and the soldiers who came to Hanzhong from Jingzhou for support. Among them, there are more than 80,000 soldiers in Jingzhou alone. Although they passed through After many battles, more than 10,000 people have been lost, but there are still 60,000 to 70,000 Jingzhou soldiers.
And Liu Bei planned to lead 50,000 Jingzhou troops to escape from Shuzhong, because he knew that even if he mobilized the troops from Hanzhong and Yizhou, they would be defeated because the army was demoralized. On the contrary, the Jingzhou soldiers knew that their morale was high when they returned home, so Combat effectiveness is more guaranteed.
Liu Bei also knew that time was running out. After selecting his troops, he took the 50,000 troops and began to retreat toward Bajun the next day.
Daqian Military Camp, Hanzhong.
After Liu Bei learned about the changes in Shu, Xu Wei also got the news that Zhang Baiqi had occupied Shu. He immediately summoned the senior officials of Daqian, and then excitedly said to everyone: "Zhang Baiqi captured Chengdu and captured Han Emperor, Shuzhong already belongs to our Dagan!"
When Wang Ge heard the news, he was surprised and said: "Brother Zhang Baiqi conquered Shu and captured the Han Emperor! Liu Bei will not be able to escape this time!"
The emperor has been captured, how can the Han army still have morale?
Fuyun also laughed and said: "I, Da Gan, am now as powerful as the bright sun, unstoppable. Liu Bei is just a mantis trying to block the car. This time he will be crushed to pieces by us. My subordinates are here to congratulate you on taking power. You can finally unify." The world is over."
Now Liu Bei is the only enemy of Daqian. Now this enemy will also be defeated. Fuyun and the others think that no one can stop them from taking over the world. The other senior generals of Daqian army are all very happy. They have been fighting for more than ten years. , the world will finally be unified!
At this time, a soldier rushed in and shouted: "Report to the government, there is a sudden movement in the Han army camp, and tens of thousands of troops are retreating towards Bajun!"
Fuyun laughed and said: "The ruler Liu Bei wants to escape!"
He thought it was impossible for Liu Bei to escape!
But Wang Ge immediately reacted and said: "Brother Zhang Baiqi has not yet entered Bajun. Liu Bei has gone to Bajun. He can escape by going down the Yangtze River. Even if he escapes quickly, he might be able to escape." You can also take away tens of thousands of troops, which will be very detrimental to Yang Feng's attack on Jingzhou!"
It is very difficult to go upstream from Bajun to Shuzhong, but it is very simple to go down the Yangtze River. As long as you avoid a few places with many undercurrents in the Yangtze River, it is easy to travel thousands of miles on a ship!
"We are going to wipe out all the main forces of the Han Dynasty in Hanzhong!" Xu Wei said impatiently.
Xu Wei is tired of the endless wars. Xu Wei doesn't want to waste time anymore, but is ready to completely defeat the big man in one battle!
The situation at this time is very favorable to Dagan. As long as the main force of the Han army is annihilated in Hanzhong, the victory of Dagan in the subsequent battles of Yangzhou and Jingzhou is almost certain. No matter how stubborn Liu Bei is, without soldiers, it is impossible for him to resist. .
Wang Ge immediately said: "We launch a full-scale attack so that Liu Bei cannot escape even if he wants to. At the same time, we can also spread the situation in Shuzhong among Hanzhong so that the Han army's position in Shuzhong has been captured by us. In this way, the morale of the Han army will definitely collapse. !”
Fuyun also said: "The ruler can also inform Brother Zhang Baiqi to occupy Jiangzhou in advance to cut off Liu Bei's retreat!"
Xu Wei listened to the two people's opinions and first gave orders to Zhang Baiqi, and then launched Daqian's 170,000 troops in Hanzhong to attack the Han army's front line on the Micang Mountain with a radius of 300 miles, and also attacked on the side. Bian shouted to the Han soldiers: "Chengdu has been captured, your little emperor has been captured, and now Liu Bei has fled back to Jingzhou. Don't waste your lives for Liu Bei, think about your wife and children at home!"
Daqian's onslaught was already difficult to stop. When the soldiers on the front line heard such frightening news, they were all panic-stricken. They asked their commanders to find out if Chengdu had been breached and where the general was!
Many people even thought that not long ago, tens of thousands of troops left the front line. Did the general escape at this time? The more the soldiers of the Han army thought about it, the more frightened they became. What they said about the gap between them and the general army was probably true!
Liu Pan naturally strongly denied these rumors, but he could not ask Liu Bei to come forward. Although he tried to comfort these soldiers, this did not reassure the soldiers in Hanzhong at all.
On the contrary, because Liu Bei did not show up, the fear in the hearts of these soldiers was further aggravated. Especially when these soldiers discovered that many familiar Jingzhou Army soldiers had disappeared, this rumor was even more aggravated.
What Da Qianjun said was true. Shuzhong was really captured by them. The general had already fled with the Jingzhou people, leaving only them to die on the front line!
This kind of persuasion spread throughout the Micangshan front, causing the morale of the Han army to plummet. Although there were nearly 100,000 soldiers left here, their combat effectiveness was completely gone. Facing Daqian's attack, people began to appear. Soldiers surrendered in droves, and the first to surrender were the soldiers from Hanzhong. Hanzhong was originally their home, and now 90% of the land in Hanzhong was occupied by Dagan. They had long wanted to surrender.
This act of surrender allowed the Daqian army to continuously attack the Micangshan front. Even though Liu Pan tried his best to command the army to block the advance of the Daqian army, the soldiers had no morale and their combat effectiveness was extremely low. Even under the leadership of the Hanzhong soldiers, Shu The soldiers in the army also began to surrender to the Daqian Army.
At this time, Zhang Baiqi's army had gradually advanced to Yumeng Pass. He originally wanted to block Liu Bei at Baishui Pass, but he did not expect Liu Bei to be so decisive and fled directly to Bajun. Zhang Bai rode on horseback and ordered Guan Hai to lead 5 Ten thousand troops marched south to Jiangzhou to block Liu Bei's escape route!
And he continued to lead the army towards Hanzhong.
Five days later, Zhang Baiqi's army occupied Baishui Pass, cutting off the Hanzhong army's retreat and granary.
This news reached the Micangshan camp. Facing Zhang Baiqi who came from Shuzhong, the Han soldiers could no longer deceive themselves. Everything Daqianjun said was true. The 100,000-strong army in Micangshan Completely collapsed, their defenses were as good as paper and were easily broken through by Xu Wei, and the 100,000-strong army was captured.
Liu Pan, Zhang Ren, Yan Yan and other dozens of senior generals of the Han Dynasty were all captured by Xu Wei, and the Yizhou Army of the Han Dynasty completely disappeared in the long river of history!
After Zhang Baiqi and Xu Wei met, they explained to Xu Wei the entire process of the battle in Shu. They even wanted to summon Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and others to perform a surrender ceremony for Xu Wei. The emperor and the civil and military officials performed it in person. Hundreds of people You only meet once a year.
But Xu Wei is not interested in such things. Emperor Xian is just a puppet. Xu Wei is not very excited when such a person bows to him. Liu Bei is almost the same. After all, he was his idol at the beginning. He uses Liu Bei as the protagonist to play. I have been playing the Three Kingdoms game for more than ten years, these are the memories of Xu Wei’s youth!
The other civil and military officials of the Han Dynasty were just worms to Xu Wei, and they were of no use to him! Later, they would be escorted to Jixian County for trial, and they would be given a few years to reform and repay the debt they owed to the people!
After Zhang Baiqi's good performance was over, the results of this surprise attack were naturally extremely brilliant. Maybe hundreds of years later, the allusion of "attacking Hanzhong in the open, staying in the swamps in the dark" will be left.
But there are many problems left over from this battle, especially Zhang Baiqi's acceptance of the support of the powerful nobles in Shu. They were enemies in the past, so Xu Wei could naturally uproot them mercilessly and demote them to Daqian. to guard the frontier.
But now that they are considered his younger brothers, they are barely considered their own people. It would be too much to kill them all like this. Originally, Xu Wei wanted to move 500,000 people related to the noble clans from Shuzhong to Xiliang, but now it is difficult to make the decision This is an order! At the very least, I feel embarrassed to demote someone to the frontier.
Xu Wei thought about it and appointed Zhang Baiqi as the governor of Yizhou, and asked him to completely conquer the entire counties of Yizhou and restore the territory of the Han Dynasty. From now on, it will be their land. He also ordered Zhang Baiqi to find a way Let the powerful nobles in Shu leave Chengdu. In short, Xu Wei cannot accept that they continue to stay in Yizhou. Whether they invite them openly or covertly, in short, they cannot let these local snakes roam in Shu!
However, Xu Wei later issued an order that directly put Zhang Baiqi in a difficult situation. He went into Shuzhong to collect his younger brother for fun, but now it was his turn to feel uncomfortable.
Xu Wei ignored this and left 30,000 elite troops for Zhang Baiqi. Then he occupied and disbanded part of the army. He occupied and led 50,000 soldiers to pursue Liu Bei. Even if Liu Bei was a long-distance running general, he must take advantage of it this time. Liu Bei caught it!
At this time, Liu Bei's escape route was extremely difficult. The land of Bashu was originally rugged and difficult to navigate, not to mention that the land of Bashu was now full of wealthy nobles who wanted to use Liu Bei's head as a stepping stone. They led Private soldiers harassed Liu Bei's army. It can be said that his journey was extremely difficult. He marched dozens of miles in a day.
When Liu Bei arrived at Xuanhan County, the defeated troops in Hanzhong sent news that the entire Hanzhong army had been wiped out, which made Liu Bei speed up his march.
But within three days of walking, Liu Bei got another bad news. Jiangzhou on their front line was occupied by Guan Hai of the Dagan Army. Now Guan Hai led an army of 50,000 to attack Liu Bei.
There were strong enemies in front and pursuers behind. Liu Bei wanted to die for a while! The morale of the Jingzhou army also began to collapse. A large number of deserters fled here every day, and even Liu Bei couldn't stop it.
In the end, it was Zhao Yun who proposed to divide his forces to stop Da Gan's army and buy time for them to withdraw from Ba County!
Liu Bei listened to Zhao Yun's advice and continued to divide his troops to block Xu Wei's pursuers, while speeding up to leave Bajun. But this time Xu Wei did not want to let Liu Bei go, and pursued him all the way, and now the soldiers around Liu Bei were all He was a defeated general and could not withstand Xu Wei's attack.
So when Liu Bei escaped from Yufu, there were only a few thousand soldiers and horses left with him. Compared with the 100,000 Jingzhou Army that Liu Bei brought to the Han Army, the Jingzhou Army that entered Hanzhong was completely wiped out.
But even though Liu Bei was in such a miserable state, his crisis was still not resolved. The Yuzhou Army led by Yang Feng had begun to surround Fancheng and Xiangyang, and the defense battle of Xiangyang was about to begin.
And Lei Gong in Yizhou did not want to let Liu Bei go just like this, but ordered Guan Hai to lead the army to attack Jingzhou and help Yang Feng completely capture Jingzhou!
Faced with such a crisis in Jingzhou, Liu Bei didn't even have time to grieve, so he tried to recruit some soldiers from Nanjun to garrison Yufucheng, hoping to block Guan Hai's army in Yizhou!
The reason why Xu Wei did not pursue Liu Bei's case was because there was unrest in Yizhou, and he had to go to Chengdu to frighten the powerful nobles in Shu!
This matter has to start with the separation of Zhang Baiqi and Xu Wei. Xu Wei assigned Zhang Baiqi two tasks. The first was to fully occupy the entire Yizhou. After Zhang Baiqi obtained Daqian's elite troops, he began to divide his troops into many places. , occupying the counties in central Sichuan.
And with the help of the noble families in central Shu, this task was completed very well. It can be said that the counties and counties in central Shu surrendered when they saw the flag of Daqian. This can only be regarded as a takeover, and there was no war at all!
But the second thing went wrong. Zhang Baiqi summoned the powerful nobles in Shu and wanted them to move to Sili. In Zhang Baiqi's view, these powerful nobles had made some small contributions to the great cadres, so he wanted to move them to Sili. Demoting them to the border is a bit unkind, but going to Sili, the center of the world, cannot be said to be demeaning them. This can also be regarded as uprooting their ancestral power. After going to Sili, they are outsiders, and then they are The big families are broken up and separated, so that they can become wealthy common people without causing trouble. Moreover, Sili is really good now but still lacks a population. Their arrival has greatly prospered Sili's economy.
But what Zhang Baiqi did was unacceptable to the powerful gentry in central Shu. Their bottom line was that they could hand over the land (they also knew that land was the bottom line of Daqian!). Disciples and former officials could also take the imperial examination in the Daqian court again. (At this point, they are still confident that they can beat Da Gan’s muddy legs!)
But they never expected that Da Qian actually wanted to drive them out of their hometown in Sichuan. The nobles and nobles were all like birds, relying on colluding with the local area to dominate. But when they go to a strange place, strangers will become soft Damn it, it's a high probability that your family will be in trouble.
Now the powerful nobles in Shu are no longer working. They think they have merit. What they do is simply killing the donkey. This has always been their way to deal with mud-legged people. When will it be someone else's turn to use it against them? , Lei Gong, this is too disrespectful.
So the wealthy nobles in Shu planned to teach Lei Gong a lesson and let Lei Gong see their strength. However, although Zhang Baiqi occupied the middle of Shu, the local officials had not had time to replace them with Dagan officials, and their power was still there. exist.
As a result, resistance from the people began to appear in the entire Bashu land. This made Zhang Baiqi a little helpless. If he was asked to wipe out the wealthy nobles, he could do it mercilessly, but this time he was facing resistance from the broad masses of the people. Resist.
Their cadres also attach great importance to public opinion. They cannot kill these people as rioters like the Han Dynasty. Under this situation, the unrest in Shu seems to be getting more and more intense. Zhang Baiqi feels that he has not suppressed it enough, so he can only ask Xu Wei Asked for help.