It has been several days since Liu Bang led his army to leave Chengdu. His beloved wife Lu Fei is raising her baby peacefully in the company of her sister Lu Huan. In her free time, she is learning to make female celebrities, or she arranges for servants to set up a bookcase next to the bed to read. , but I won’t feel depressed or irritated!
That day, Lu Zhi took advantage of her free time to move a chair and sit next to the couch to read. Her sister Lu Huan lightly knocked on the door and walked in slowly and said, "Sister, there is a man in black outside the door asking to see you."
"Man in black?"
Lu Zhi, who was studying, frowned slightly when he heard the words, and then a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes. He hurriedly asked Lu Yan to take the man in black to the living room, and then he simply put on a few beautiful things. clothes, and walked slowly to the living room to meet the man in black!
When the man in black saw the mistress Lu Zhi, he immediately bowed and saluted, then knelt down on one knee, lowered his head and said, "Yinhu, the secret guard of the shadows, pays homage to the mistress."
Lu Zifeng's eyes instantly turned cold. She stepped away softly and raised her right arm to signal Yin Hu to get up first!
Looking at Yin Hu's clothes in front of him, Lu Fei was very satisfied, so he softly asked him about the battle situation between Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu.
"What's the situation like at Liu Zhang's place? I heard that the traitor Zhang Lu won a lot of battles? Liu Zhang lost his troops and failed to conquer a single pass. Is this true?"
Yin Hu, a man in black, bowed and saluted, then lowered his head, glanced to the left and right, and then slightly leaned over to report to Lu Pheasant: "Liu Zhang led his army to attack Hanzhong. Unexpectedly, he was attacked by Zhang Lu during the march. He led his army in an ambush and was almost killed by Zhang Churang, a fierce general under Zhang Lu!
At that time, there were many dangers. Fortunately, seven or eight generals including Zhang Ren and Yan Yan rescued Liu Zhang and he was able to escape from Zhang Churang's tiger's mouth. "
Looking back at the battle between Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang, after Zhang Luxiong occupied Hanzhong and Shangyong, Liu Zhang followed Liu Yanzhi's order and personally led the powerful generals born and raised in Shu to attack.
I thought that the battle would end smoothly, but I didn't expect that Zhang Lu was so cunning. With the help of military advisor Yan Pu, he laid out a plan to ambush the invading Liu Zhang troops on the wide mountain road!
The leader of the ambush force will be Zhang Churang, Zhang Lu's favorite general and the most powerful general in the army. He leads more than 5,000 elite soldiers who are good at walking on mountain roads, armed with flying claws, tiger hooks, iron chains, ropes and dry food. , firearms, arrows and crossbows, ambushing between Guangyuan and Jiameng Pass.
Liu Zhang led his army into battle for the first time. Firstly, he lacked strategic practical ability and experience. Secondly, he looked down upon Zhang Lu's forces. Thirdly, he was stubborn and stubborn, refusing to listen to the dissuasion of his generals and going his own way!
This resulted in the army being defeated in the first battle. After leaving behind the bodies of some generals and more than a thousand soldiers, the disgraced Liu Zhang led the army out of Guangyuan Mountain Road in disgrace.
When Liu Zhang stationed troops outside Guangyuan Mountain Road, he immediately appointed General Zhang Ren to serve as the vanguard officer, and General Yan Yan to assist him as an adjutant. Then he appointed Zhang Song to serve as their military adviser to provide advice during the war.
As soon as General Zhang Ren took office, he sent a large number of scouts to investigate the specific situation of Guangyuan Mountain Road, and then prescribe the right medicine and lead the army to attack slowly and steadily, without giving Zhang Chu any chance to ambush them!
Zhang Churang suffered successive defeats here. After Zhang Lu learned of the situation, he arranged for him to set up traps on the Guangyuan Mountain Road. After setting up the traps, he led his army back to Jiameng Pass and defended it.
It has to be said that Zhang Churang's trap was set by chicken thieves. After Zhang Ren discovered the information that Zhang Churang led his army to retreat, he immediately ordered his soldiers to speed up the march and arrive outside Jiameng Pass as quickly as possible.
However, Zhang Ren was careful and never expected that Zhang Churang would lay a trap on the road. Zhang Ren and the others were caught in the trap and directly suffered casualties of nearly 3,000 people, including more than 1,500 minor injuries. Eight hundred were seriously injured and on the verge of death, and more than seven hundred died directly...
Forced to stop, Zhang Ren's army stayed in place for three days. After the wounded soldiers improved slightly, they continued to move towards Jiameng Pass! (Those who were seriously injured couldn’t be saved. They had to be transferred back to Shu, or they died and were thrown off the cliff. It’s extremely cruel.)
In Jiameng Pass, Zhang Churang and Zhang Lu stationed 50,000 troops waiting for the arrival of Zhang Ren and Liu Zhang. On the fifth day after Zhang Churang set up a trap and Zhang Ren led his army to be ambushed by the trap, Liu Zhang's large troops arrived one after another. Outside Jiameng Pass.
The two forces were at odds with each other. Whether Zhang Churang led his troops out of the city to fight or
Zhang Ren and others led the troops to attack Jiameng Pass, but they all suffered heavy casualties, and the battle ended hastily!
It seems that Zhang Lu's forces are having a hard time defending, but in fact their casualty ratio is far less than Liu Zhang's. Speaking of Jiameng Pass alone, Jiameng Pass was built in the lofty mountains. In front of it was the Guangyuan Mountain Road that could withstand the arrival of tens of thousands of troops, and in the back there were soldiers from Wuxiang and Hanzhong to continuously input fresh power.
It is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the mountain road is steep. The enemy forces have deployed a large number of soldiers there. Unless Liu Zhang and the others are smart, they will only rely on human lives to attack. Even if 70,000 corpses are piled outside the pass, they will not be able to conquer this pass!
The consecutive battles and victories caused the morale of Liu Zhang's army to be low, which further delayed the progress of the siege. After Liu Zhang learned that his brother Liu Bang led an army to conquer Fu Jian southward and Fu Jian was seriously wounded and died, he seemed to be fiercely angry and ordered Zhang Ren and Yan Yan to capture this pass at all costs.
As for the next result, it is obvious that Liu Zhang led his army to lose consecutive battles, and Zhang Ren, Yan Yan and other generals fought bloody battles all day long, but it was just in vain!
After finally reducing the number of enemy soldiers in the pass to more than 30,000 by fighting for their lives, one for one or even two for one, Zhang Lu dispatched more than 5,000 more soldiers from Wuxiang to support. , and then ordered Zhang Quan, Zhang Tongru, Zhang Tianxi, Zhang Shi, Zhang Mao and other generals who were in Hanzhong to lead 20,000 elite soldiers to support Jiameng Pass!
Over time, the number of troops in Jiameng Pass became even greater than before, while the number of troops here by Liu Zhang and his colleagues dropped sharply. Even during the battle, Chengdu and other prefectures and counties successively sent troops to the front. Come to support, but in the end it will be of no avail.
So far, Liu Zhang and the others have lost as many as 30,000 soldiers outside Jiameng Pass. Even eight or nine generals at the rank of captain have died, and there is no good news in the battle.
As Liu Bang was about to lead his army out of Shu to attack Dong's thieves, the burden on Liu Zhang's shoulders became heavier and heavier. If he could no longer annihilate Zhang Lu, how could he have the face to return to Chengdu and meet his father Liu Yan?
In desperation, Liu Zhang was forced to teach all his military power to Zhang Ren and Yan Yan. He knew that his ability was not enough to continue to serve as a general. Instead of living like this at the expense of troops and generals, it would be better to directly give power to capable people. , and then messed it up in the back.
Since Zhang Ren, Yan Yan and other veteran generals took over the army, their first purpose was to gather the morale of the army, and then seek opportunities to outwit them and march south to Jiameng Pass!
This pass is located in the lofty mountains and cannot be conquered without being clever!
