Faced with the new master's bad habits, Han Baozhen "remonstrated" against them. Meng Chang suddenly came to his senses and released the girls home that day, and then rewarded Han Baozhen with several kilograms of gold as a reward.
Although Han Baozhen sided with Meng Chang, he was by no means a villain who followed the trend and flattered others. Those who dared to admonish the emperor on the word "sex" were true warriors.
Pang Fucheng is also a direct descendant of Meng Zhixiang from Hedong. During the war between Sichuan and Sichuan, Pang Fucheng was ordered to garrison Langzhou. Due to Dongchuan Dong Zhang's pig teammate, the most important pass in Shu - Jianmen Pass - was occupied by the army of the Later Tang Dynasty at the beginning of the game.
At the critical moment, Pang Fucheng moved forward decisively, took a small path to the sword pavilion, rushed to build watchtowers, and broke out in fierce battles with the vanguard troops of the Later Tang Dynasty. Then he personally led the death squad to the top of Beishan Mountain, sneaking around behind the army of the Later Tang Dynasty, and then attacked with great fanfare. The army of the Later Tang Dynasty mistakenly believed that it had fallen into the Shu army's trick of luring the enemy in, so they retreated in a hurry without daring to go deep, thus losing valuable fighter opportunities. As a result, the two rivers also got a chance to breathe, reversing the decline of Jianmen Pass, and finally made the Shi Jingtang's expedition to Shu returned without success.
Pang Fucheng was brave and resourceful. Even when Jianmen Pass was lost, he still blocked the famous general Shi Jingtang at Jianmen Pass, so that he did not dare to enter Shu. He eventually returned without success, laying the foundation for Meng Zhixiang to dominate the two rivers. , became the founding father of Later Shu.
At this point, it can be clearly seen that Han Baozhen and Pang Fucheng are both the founding fathers of Hou Shu and direct relatives of Meng Chang. The two of them traveled with the surrendered general Zhang Qianzhao. The meaning of this... everything is unexplained.
Zhao Kuangzan of Chang'an suddenly returned to the Central Plains, and the opinions of the three Shu armies were divided. Among them, only Zhang Qianzhao of the middle group insisted on advancing and wanted to compete with the Later Han Dynasty to complete the actual control of the Kansai area before the Central Army of the Later Han Dynasty arrived; while the other two groups were more conservative and cautious, advocating an immediate retreat. Preserve the strength of Hou Shu.
2. The butt determines the head
Establishing extraordinary achievements and opening up territory for Shu was Zhang Qianzhao's only chance to make a comeback, so he did not hesitate to take relatively large risks.
Li Yangui, who was in charge of the East Road, was also the founding father of Hou Shu and a direct descendant of Meng Zhixiang from Hedong. He agreed with Han Baozhen, Pang Fucheng and others that he did not seek merit but no fault, so he insisted on retreating.
Amid the quarrel, Zhang Qianzhao's army was forced to stay in place to watch the development of the matter. As a result, Li Yangui's 20,000 troops were killed by Wang Jingchong's thousands of soldiers and horses.
Of course, Li Yangui could not hold on any longer and had no choice but to retreat into the Qinling Mountains and back to Shu.
After Li Yangui retreated, Wang Jingchong immediately took advantage of the victory and came westward to attack Zhang Qianzhao in the middle. At the same time, Fengxiang Hou Yi also announced his return to the Later Han Dynasty, closed the city gates tightly, and refused the entry of the Hou Shu army. Zhang Qianzhao's middle route army was about to fall into a dilemma.
Zhang Qianzhao wanted to take another gamble. After all, Wang Jingchong only had a few thousand men, and Hou Shu had an absolute advantage in military strength.
"Do you want to leave?" Han Baozhen and Pang Fucheng led their troops and immediately retreated to the west, joined forces with He Zhanxin on the West Road, and retreated into Shu together. He left Zhang Qianzhao in Baoji.
3. Crisis of trust
Pay attention to the details of this retreat: He Jianshei on the West Road was also a surrendered general from the Central Plains. When Han Baozhen and Pang Fucheng retreated, they did not follow the original route and retreat south from Dashan Pass. Instead, they went to the West Road to "join forces" with He Jianshei. In fact, the successive regrets of Zhao Kuangzan and Hou Yi set off a crisis of trust within Hou Shu, which created doubts and wariness about the revolutionary beliefs of Zhang Qianzhao and He Xianjian. Han Baozhen and Pang Fucheng claimed to "reunite", but in fact they coerced and "escorted" He Xianjian back to Chengdu.
The east road suffered a disastrous defeat, the middle road collapsed, and there must be no more trouble on the west road. Meng Chang also highly praised Han Baozhen and Pang Fucheng for their adaptability and adaptability. Although they failed to achieve success, the two veterans deserved praise for their overall and overall perspective.
Zhang Qianzhao, who was in Baoji, was alone and weak, so he retreated southward with hatred.
Wang Jingchong commanded the local armies from Fengxiang, Longzhou, Pizhou, Jingzhou, Yanzhou, Fangzhou and other places to intercept and block the attack. He caught up with Zhang Qianzhao's retreating army at Dashan Pass, captured 400 officers and soldiers alive, and returned with a great victory.
Due to the temporary regrets of Zhao Kuangzan and Hou Yi, Hou Shu's Northern Expedition failed to gain any benefit, but also lost a lot of troops, horses and equipment.
What Zhang Qianzhao lost was not only an opportunity to turn around, but also Meng Chang's trust in him. It should be said that he would never have another chance to prove himself.
Zhang Qianzhao was disheartened, and even more resented Han Baozhen, Pang Fucheng, Li Yangui and other direct generals of the Later Shu for excluding and ostracizing the "Gang of Surrendered Generals". In despair, filled with resentment and unwillingness, he died of worry and anger on the way to withdraw his troops.
Meng Chang was still very sad about Zhang Qianzhao's death. He not only carried out posthumous gifts, titles, and posthumous titles in accordance with the regulations, but also built a unique and luxurious cemetery outside Chengdu for him. This place is located in today's Chengdu City, and the place name is "Swan Baodan".
Many years ago, the locals didn't understand why such a strange place name was passed down. Everyone thought that a local oval loess pile with a radius of one mile was shaped like a swan egg, hence the name. It wasn't until 1977 that an accidental event led people to discover the secret of this loess pile. It turned out to be an ancient tomb!
Through the study of epitaphs, archaeologists quickly determined that the owner of this ancient tomb was Comrade Zhang Qianzhao.
When Wang Jingchong defeated Li Yangui in Ziwu Valley, Liu Zhiyuan, who was seriously ill, named Wang Jingchong the inspector of Fengxiang, giving him the status to handle Kansai affairs. In this way, Wang Jingchong could legitimately handle the Fengxiang Hou Yi issue.
But when Wang Jingchong repulsed the invading army of Hou Shu and led his troops to Fengxiang, Liu Zhiyuan had died and the new king Liu Chengyou came to the throne.
If Liu Zhiyuan's judgment was true, Hou Yi headed both sides, and when he saw the decline of the Central Plains, he defected to Later Shu; when the Later Han Dynasty gained the advantage over Hou Shu on the battlefield, he returned to the Later Han Dynasty; and when Wang Jingchong arrived with his troops, he returned to the Later Han Dynasty. He was dilly-dallying and delaying his visit to Bian in every possible way.
According to Liu Zhiyuan's secret order, Wang Jingchong should decisively kill Hou Yi. In fact, after Wang Jingchong entered the city, the first thing he did was to send his men to control each city gate so that they could kill Hou Yi at any time.
Of course, Hou Yi knew his situation. After urgently discussing countermeasures with his staff, he believed that a good man should learn from Zhao Kuangzan if he did not suffer the immediate consequences. He quickly went to Bianzhou to plead guilty and admit his mistakes, and to admit weakness and coercion, without losing his glory and wealth.
So Hou Yi sent his aide Cheng Wo to lobby Wang Jingchong.
