The Three Kingdoms

Shangyong City.

Outside the city, in a camp tent, Zhang He propped his hands under the wooden frame, bowed his head slightly, and looked at a large and detailed sand table in front of him.

"Zhao Zilong, you are really ruthless!"

This large sand table is the detailed topography of Hanzhong. He has been looking at the sand table since Zhao Yun disappeared a few days ago.

"You have wounded soldiers, cavalry, and infantry, and you can hide them for a while!"

Wanting to find Zhao Yun, Zhang He racked his brains, but to no avail.

The only thing he can understand is that Zhao Yun's goal is Nanzheng.

But the road between Shangyong and Nanzheng has ups and downs, countless mountain streams, and a Ziwu Valley with nine twists and eighteen bends in the middle. Even if millions of soldiers and horses smashed in, he might not be able to search for people. come out.

"General, Lieutenant Cao Xiu led the order of General Zhang Xiu to lead [-] troops to reinforce us!" A lieutenant entered the big tent to report.

After the battle of Shangyong, Zhang He suffered many casualties and was short of troops, so he asked Zhang Xiu for reinforcements.

"Please come in!" Zhang Yun's eyes lit up when he heard the words, slightly surprised.

Although he asked for reinforcements, he didn't expect that Zhang Xiu would agree, and even more he didn't expect that it would be the general of the Cao family, the most outstanding Cao family Qianliju among the second generation of the Cao family.

"promise!"

It didn't take long for this burly lieutenant to lead a heroic young man in.

"Cao Xiu pays homage to the General Protector!"

Cao Xiu looked at Zhang He's back, bowed slightly, and gave a military salute.

"A place in the military, there is not much red tape, you don't need to be polite!"

Zhang He turned around, raised his head slightly, and looked at this heroic young man with a playful smile on his lips: "Among the generals of the Cao family, basically they wished for my death, but they didn't expect that there would be soldiers and horses willing to reinforce me! "

He was killed by Cao Ren in battle, and many generals of the Cao family wanted to eat him, but Cao Cao did not disappoint him. Just because of this, he was willing to sell himself to fight for Cao Wei.

"General Zhang fought for the great Wei. You have never betrayed, never made a mistake, and have never committed any crimes. As the general of Cao Wei, I, Cao Wenlie, naturally have a duty to reinforce the general!" Cao Xiu said brightly.

The generals of the Cao family and the Xiahou family did hate Zhang Yun, but he didn't think that Zhang Yun's actions were wrong.

Zhao Yun had already made it clear that he was going to fight. If he backed down half a step, all the soldiers and horses he returned by now would have become martyrs all over the place.

Cao Ren's death, speaking of it, was just fate. Cao Ren was already considered a good general, brave and resourceful, not lacking in prudence, but he met a Zhao Zilong.

To die on the battlefield can only be said to be his destiny as a general.

"Hehe, good!" Zhang He couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard the words, and looked at Cao Xiu with more and more appreciation, and said, "You are worthy of being His Majesty's thousand-mile steed. This kind of heart, this vision, is very good!"

Cao Xiu can be regarded as the brightest one among Cao Wei's younger generation. Cao Cao once praised him as the thousand-mile horse of the Cao family.

"General Zhang has won the prize. Wen Lie still needs to learn more about the battlefield from General Zhang!" Cao Xiu said modestly.

Zhang He is definitely a famous general. Taking the battle of Shangyong as an example, he wondered if he could not achieve Zhang He's calmness and resoluteness.

"Come!"

Zhang Yun waved at him, then pointed to the sand table, and said, "Look at the sand table, Zhao Yun is on it now, but you can't find him like this, do you have an idea?"

"The general means that Zhao Yun's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses have lost their traces?" Cao Xiu frowned slightly when he heard this.

"That's right!"

Zhang He nodded: "Zhang Lu's heavy troops are now placed around Hanshui and Dingyuan Town, blocking the way of Nanzheng, and my troops are in Xicheng and Shangyong, which can be regarded as blocking Zhao Yun here, but Zhao Yun has been since After highlighting my encirclement, I lost track!"

"There is only one possibility, he is broken into pieces!" Cao Xiu said.

"You are very smart!"

Zhang Yun nodded in agreement with his guess, and said, "But we need to know where he assembled his troops. Even if tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are broken up, they cannot completely cover up the traces, but there are too many traces, so I can't find Zhao Zilong's middle ground." Army, their goal is clear, it must be Nanzheng, if he does not take Nanzheng, his battle is meaningless, and sooner or later he will be consumed by me!"

"With tens of thousands of Wu troops, food and grass should be a big problem!"

"Support war with war!"

Zhang He said: "A few news just came that in this area of ​​villages and towns, they were looted three feet, and the granary that Shangyong was also emptied back then is enough for them to support for half a month!"

"Then he won't be able to support it for long. He must win one of the surrounding cities to replenish logistics!" Cao Xiu said affirmatively.

"well said!"

Zhang Xi's eyes were sharp, he stared at the several cities on the sand table, and said: "Now, what I have a hard time deciding is, which city does he have his eye on?" To be continued.

[Text 8, Chapter Seventy, Last Stand]

Crescent Mountain.

This is an ordinary mountain next to the Han River. The shape of the mountain is like a crescent crescent erected, so it is called Crescent Mountain by the locals.

Crescent Moon Mountain is not high above sea level, nor is it very dangerous. Between several high mountains on the left and right, one end is close to the Han River, and the other end is close to the more dangerous terrain in Hanzhong, the Meridian Road.

In terms of terrain, this mountain is relatively easy to ignore, and at the same time, it is less than a hundred roads away from Dingyuan Town, which is controlled by Zhang Lu's heavy army.

So subconsciously, no one thought that there would be enemies here, but the elite soldiers of a regiment of the Wu Army appeared here quietly.

On the hillside, the soldiers rested back to back in a small forest.

General Zhao Yun of the Wu Army stood with his hands on his back, standing tall and straight on a cliff, looking at the surging Han River below, with a cold and gloomy expression.

"Plans are worse than changes!"

There was a trace of sadness in Zhao Yun's expression inadvertently, and there was a faint killing intent deep in his eyes.

"General, we have searched all the nearby villages, but we haven't found much food, and we have exposed our whereabouts. It is estimated that the Hanzhong Army in Dingyuan Town will find us soon!"

Ling Tong stood behind him, reporting in a low voice.

"Discovered again?" Zhao Yun looked indifferently, but there was no surprise.

"It's because the subordinates are incompetent. I didn't expect the people in Hanzhong to react so strongly. It's hard for us to attack them, and we even injured six soldiers!"

Ling Tong said in shame.

It is easy to say to support war with war, but it is difficult to do. They can't do anything to the common people who have no weapons.

"It seems that I still underestimated Zhang Lu a little bit!"

Zhao Yun sneered, and said: "He has been able to sit firmly in Hanzhong for many years, and he is not useless. At least he has done a good job in the hearts of Hanzhong people. In this respect, he is probably not much worse than our Great Wu!"