The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"Han Sheng, how are the statistics on the battlefield? How many people did we die?"

Liu Zheng sized it up, then set his sights on Huang Zhong, wanting to ask first what kind of losses they had suffered in this battle.

Huang Zhong's expression was not good. After he learned about the situation of this battle, his expression had been very serious. He wanted to speak at first, but he didn't have time. Now he didn't hesitate when he heard Liu Zheng's question.

"Your Majesty, the situation is not very good. General Gan Ning's 6000 troops have been completely lost, and only 4 people are left. The [-] people we sent to support also lost more than [-] people. In the battle with the enemy, nearly a thousand people were lost, and our army suffered nearly [-] casualties in this battle!"

Liu Zheng had more than 6 soldiers and horses stationed in Shangyong County, and now there are nearly 4 casualties, which is indeed a big blow to Liu Zheng.

"So many soldiers and horses were killed and injured! Damn it!"

After Liu Zheng heard Huang Zhong's report, he was so angry that he slapped his arm heavily on the chopping board beside him, making a heavy muffled sound.

Obviously he was pissed off by what happened this time.

"Your Majesty, the main reason for the incident is that our spies did not get any detailed information. At the same time, Liu Bei and Liu Zhang's soldiers and horses united together to deal with our camp, forcing General Gan Ning to be unable to resist. The current situation."

In fact, when things are at this point, Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses have already inquired about why this happened and the reasons behind it.

Even if he didn't know it, he already knew it when he saw Liu Zhang and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses appearing here at the same time on the battlefield.

The only unexpected reason for the defeat this time is how Liu Zhang and Liu Bei got together.

Regardless of this reason, it is impossible for Liu Bei's troops to deal with Gan Ning's troops in such a short period of time.

Chapter 997

"I calculated many possibilities before, but I ignored this point. Mistake! Mistake! So there is no shortage of food and grass in Guan Yu's hands during this period. Their food and grass are all from Liu Zhang's hands?"

In fact, it's not that Liu Zheng didn't think of this, but he ignored it.

Guan Yu's soldiers and horses had just fought against Liu Zhang's men and horses before. One second before, they fought to the death, but the next second, they reconciled as before and fought against the enemy together. Liu Zheng did not expect this change.

There are some accidents, even if I thought about it before, I didn't take it too seriously, thinking it was unlikely.

But that's exactly what happened.

"Your Majesty, just now we received a new piece of news from the spies under Liu Bei's army. Liu Bei, who was supposed to be in Luoyang, actually appeared in the opposite army."

When Liu Zheng was talking to several generals, Dian Wei suddenly walked over, leaned over to Liu Zheng's side, and reported the news from Jin Yiwei.

As soon as the news came out, Liu Zheng, who was still very confused, became excited again.

Turning his head to look at Dian Wei, he asked his own question.

"What did you say? Liu Bei also came to Hanzhong?"

Liu Zheng also paid attention to Liu Bei's news before. He always thought that Liu Bei was still in Luoyang, ruling the overall situation, but he didn't expect Liu Bei to also come to Hanzhong.

When the news reached Liu Zheng's ears, on the one hand, he was surprised by Liu Bei's whereabouts, and on the other hand, he was also a little surprised. Why didn't he receive any news about Liu Bei's whereabouts changes.

"Before, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and others appeared here to fight General Lu Bu on the battlefield. The person who commanded the army behind is Liu Bei. He should have been in Hanzhong for a while. Our spies probably passed the news to Yangzhou. I haven't had time to pass the news to us yet."

Dian Wei explained something, and at this time, Lu Bu seemed to have thought of something, and immediately nodded in agreement.

"That's right, that guy Guan Yu fought me when we were on the battlefield before, and Zhao Yun came after him. The two of them teamed up and almost made me capsize in the gutter. No, I'll find him next time." It's a helper, these guys never keep their promises, they say they are going to fight alone, but they call them helpers every time!"

Lu Bu was also intimidated by the combination of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun. Now that he thinks about it, he is strong enough. If he is a little weaker, he will die under the combination of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun.

With Lu Bu's affirmation, Liu Zheng was convinced that Liu Bei appeared here.

Got it, this news, in this way, many things that Liu Zheng didn't want to understand before, now he understands.

"Looking at it this way, it's normal for Guan Yu not to take back the Liang Dao in these days."

Liu Zheng didn't speak, but Guo Jia took the initiative to stand up and explain.

"Feng Xiao? What did you think of?"

"Your Majesty, Liu Bei must have appeared here before we cut off the grain road. After we cut off the grain road, Liu Bei should have gone to Nanzheng to discuss cooperation with Liu Zhang. Although they had only fought before, they have The common enemy is us, and in the face of interests, it is not impossible for them to turn enemies into friends."

"Also, before, our spies told us that Guan Yu has been besieging Nanzheng City, and there has been no change. In fact, we were careless. There is no change, which is the biggest change. Guan Yu's men are obviously short of food. , but there was no disturbance in any of the soldiers and horses, which is too abnormal, what happened this time was our own mistake, and no one else could let it go."

Guo Jia briefly explained that the reason for this defeat made the generals present feel dejected.

"Yeah, everyone should take this as a warning. Now that we know that Liu Bei and Liu Zhang have teamed up, it will be difficult for us to make some achievements in the Hanzhong area. Let people go down to clean up the battlefield immediately, and then retreat to the west city."

Liu Zheng didn't want to stay here any longer.

After losing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, they are very dangerous near Nanzheng. It is not known how many troops Liu Bei and Liu Zhang have left. Once the opponent attacks again, it will be another fierce battle.

With only more than 2 troops left, it is not so easy for him to attack Liu Bei and Liu Zhang.

When Liu Zheng gave the order to retreat, he was also thinking about some wounded soldiers under his command, otherwise if they stayed here, those wounded soldiers would only increase the number of deaths.

"It is indeed time to retreat, Your Majesty. According to my speculation, not only is Liu Bei no longer short of food, but he is also in a state of high degree of alliance with Liu Zhang. I am afraid that our battle in the Hanzhong area will be troublesome."

Guo Jia, who has never had a sad face, is also frowning this time. With him, Liu Zheng had such a big accident. Guo Jia has some self-blame. After all, the defeat was small, but tens of thousands of soldiers died. , this matter is quite serious.

"Liu Bei's food supply is still cut off by us. How can he not be short of food and grass now? Even if he can get supplies from Liu Zhang, Liu Zhang can't always provide Liu Bei with food and grass, let alone the food and grass of the [-] army. It's not a small sum!"

Gan Ning was suffocating in his heart. This time the battle had killed all the elite under his command. He still wanted to stay here to avenge his brothers. I can't hold my breath.

Guo Jia glanced at Gan Ning, walked to Gan Ning's side, and patted Gan Ning's shoulder.

"Brother Xingba, I know you are unwilling, but Liu Bei is indeed no longer short of food and grass. We got news before that there were some Ma Chao's troops in Hanzhong. It was Ma Chao who defeated Liu Zhang's main army, but this time the battle However, Ma Chao and his cavalry did not dispatch, so it can be seen that it is not that Ma Chao is not there, but that Ma Chao is busy with other things."

"If my guess is correct, Ma Chao's cavalry should go in the direction of the inclined valley and go to Chang'an to transport grain and grass."

"Huh? Why did Feng Xiao guess like that?"

Liu Zheng was very curious when he heard Guo Jia's words, but it was indeed what Guo Jia said. They knew that Ma Chao was in Hanzhong before, and they had been on guard, but this time they didn't see Ma Chao, but saw Zhao Yun instead. Liu Zheng, Huang Zhong and the others had some doubts.

"Your Majesty, Ma Chao's cavalry is definitely a killer weapon in the Hanzhong area. This kind of killer weapon has not appeared in such a big battle. Is Liu Bei negligent? Of course not, there is only one possibility, and that is the cavalry Unable to move."

Chapter 998 The Battle of Hanzhong Ends

"And what to do, even the cavalry cannot be used? There is only one possibility, to transport food and grass for Liu Bei's army."

"Before we cut off the grain road in the Ziwu Valley area, Liu Bei's soldiers and horses had only two possibilities. They fought to the death to regain the grain road, or attacked Nanzheng and robbed the grain and grass from Nanzheng's city, but we ignored it. Ma Chao’s Xiliang horses.”

"There are thousands of Xiliang war horses traveling back and forth to Xiegu, and transporting grain and grass from Chang'an to Chenggu. It is not difficult. If the speed is fast enough, it should only take more than ten days to run back and forth. That's why, Liu Zhang Joining forces with Liu Bei should have happened a long time ago, they could have done it many days ago, but they delayed for so long."

"I think it should be that in order to stabilize the morale of the soldiers and horses under his command, Liu Bei asked Ma Chao to transport the first batch of food and grass back from Chang'an before he did it."

"This can be seen from Meridian Valley in the past ten days, no one has transported the second batch of grain and grass back. Because the people who walked Meridian Valley had already learned the news in advance, it is estimated that the news came from the direction of Xiegu passed on."

Guo Jia spoke out all the guesses in his heart in one breath.

And the content of the guess is basically in line with Liu Bei's situation.

After being heard by Liu Zheng and others, they immediately understood the whole process of the incident.

Liu Zheng was obviously not reconciled.

"Liu Bei, Liu Zhang, good, good, I underestimated the enemy this time."

Liu Zheng gritted his teeth, somewhat angry at these two guys with the same surname as himself.

Anger is nothing but anger, but Liu Zheng is still very rational. Under the current circumstances, Liu Zheng can no longer stay here.

If he stays here, Liu Zhang and Liu Bei will attack more viciously, especially if Liu Bei and Liu Zhang find out that Liu Zheng is also in Hanzhong, then Liu Zheng will definitely lose his life.

Liu Bei and Liu Zhang will not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and will definitely attack here at all costs.

Therefore, Liu Zheng had to evacuate here before his whereabouts were exposed.

When the sun rose from the east, the battlefield, which had been noisy all night, was finally empty.

There used to be a large camp stretching for several miles, but now there are only some burnt firewood, discarded armor and flags, and unclaimed corpses.

There was blood everywhere, emitting a strong and pungent bloody smell.

In the sky, a few circling black birds appeared from time to time, sometimes falling down, sometimes flying up and making low-pitched cuckoo calls.

The rising sun, shining on the land from the east, dissipated the dense fog in the morning, showing the terrifying and lonely scene on the battlefield.

From the scene after these people left, it can be seen that the fierce battle took place here last night.

It's just that such a dilapidated scene can't bring much warning to people, nor can it change this chaotic world.

In a few days, in a few months, this place will be forgotten.

The bones all over the ground will only become the nourishment of weeds, nourishing a blooming flower.

West City.

After Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses returned here, on the one hand, they began to treat the wounded soldiers, and on the other hand, they immediately dispatched a large number of spies to pay close attention to Liu Bei's developments.

Once Liu Bei has plans to attack Xicheng with his army, Liu Zheng will retreat another few dozen miles and retreat the camp to Shangyong City.

But fortunately, maybe it was the battle last night that caused Liu Bei's soldiers to lose a lot, and the rest of the troops were very tired. In a short time, Liu Bei was not in a hurry to find trouble with Liu Zheng.

However, Liu Bei did not miss this opportunity, and only rested for three days. Three days later, he encouraged Liu Zhang to dispatch another 2 troops from Liu Zhang's Nanzheng City, plus Liu Bei's own [-] horses.

Leading an army of [-], they rushed straight to the west city.

Liu Zheng had just returned to Xicheng, and had some chance to breathe. He wanted to take advantage of the advantages of the city in Xicheng to compete with Liu Bei's troops again.

However, Guo Jia told Liu Zheng that it is not a good place to fight Liu Bei in Xicheng.

Xicheng is a small city, and the city wall is not strong. Tens of thousands of troops attack by force, and they are fully capable of taking it down.

What's more, they don't need to attack the city, take back the food road, and slowly consume it with Liu Zheng here, it is enough to trap the soldiers and horses in Xicheng City to death.

In addition, Liu Zheng's reinforcements, more than [-] soldiers and horses led by Sun Jian, are still on their way to fight in the west city, which is not a wise move.

In the end, Liu Zheng still chose to give in first and avoid the edge for the time being.

The army was withdrawn to Shangyong.

For the time being, don't confront Liu Bei's soldiers and horses head-on.

After taking back the West City, both Liu Bei and Liu Zhang were a little excited.

I wanted to go all out and continue to chase, and completely drive Liu Zheng's men and horses out of the Hanzhong area, but when they attacked Shangyong, they saw reinforcements from Liu Zheng's side and came from Jingzhou for reinforcements.

Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses suddenly increased by more than ten thousand troops, plus guarding Shangyong.

Shangyong is not a small town like Xicheng, but an important town.If you want to beat it down, it will not be so easy.

Liu Bei's men had no plans to attack by force, and Liu Zhang's men naturally would not be the ones who came out ahead. Both sides were waiting for reinforcements. As soon as the reinforcements arrived, they would start to attack Shangyong and regain the lost ground.

However, the war has not yet started. At this time, a bad news came from Xichuan.

Yizhou Mu Liu Yan passed away.

Liu Zhang was going to return to Yizhou to inherit the position of state shepherd, so it was impossible to stay here and fight Liu Zheng together with Liu Bei.

He wants to leave with his soldiers and horses.

Liu Bei originally wanted to continue to deploy troops to reinforce Hanzhong, and started to fight back when Liu Zheng's troops were weak, but Liu Zhang left at this time, which made Liu Bei empty of some confidence he had just had.

The old man is dead, so people can't stop going back to worship, and there is still a place to inherit. There is no way but to delay the attack on Liu Zheng first.

When the news was sent back to Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng laughed out loud, three times in a row.

This is really, God is helping him.

If Liu Bei and Liu Zhang's troops want to attack Shangyong by force, there will be no other reinforcements in a short period of time in the battle of Shangyong. It is really not easy to block the combination of the two Lius.

But now, this crisis has been directly resolved.

Liu Zheng thought about it carefully, it seems that Liu Yan in history did indeed die at this time.

Without the influence of external force, Liu Yan can be regarded as the end of his life and withdrew from the stage of history.

A generation of heroes can be regarded as having a good end.

The end of the Battle of Hanzhong is not a good result for the three parties.

Chapter 999

For Liu Zhang, in this battle of Hanzhong, he brought out tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and lost more than [-].

He lost 4 people for no reason, and his own father died when he was on his own expedition, and he didn't even see him for the last time.

Don't mention how sad it was, although in the end he joined forces with Liu Bei and took back part of the lost territory.

But this part of the territory did not come directly to him.Even if it was returned to him, he would still be under Zhang Lu's jurisdiction.

So this time, apart from losing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and killing a capable general, he didn't get any benefits.