Fifty miles in front of Wudu County, the vanguard camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
Four days have passed since Wei Yan set out to attack Qishan Fort. According to the previously agreed plan, Zhang Xi began to arrange his troops and divide his troops to attack various parts of Wudu.
Actually, it can't really be said to be an attack, it should be said to be a collection.
At this time, there were not many decent defenders in Wudu County. Although it was nominally Cao Wei's territory, it had been half abandoned by Cao Wei.
During the Battle of Hanzhong, because Liu Bei captured Hanzhong and blocked the connection between Wudu County and Yongzhou, Wudu County was already in an isolated and helpless situation. Cao Cao never thought that Wudu County could still defend it.
Therefore, after Cao Cao withdrew from Hanzhong, he immediately ordered to move all the population of Wudu County to Youfufeng and abandon Wudu County.
Wudu County is basically an empty county now, and Cao Wei has basically given up. Except for arranging some county soldiers in each county for symbolic defense, there are no arrangements for local officials.
Of course, this is also related to the geographical location of Wudu County. Most of Wudu County is the territory of Qiang and Hu people. This place is either mountainous or Hu people. There is no output at all. Cao Cao would not feel bad if he gave up.
The only function is probably to serve as a warning for Qishan Road and Liangzhou direction.
Therefore, when Zhang Xi led his army into Wudu County, all he saw were barbarians occupying the county seat. As soon as Zhang Xi's army arrived, these barbarians immediately dispersed and had no intention of resisting.
After all, the Hu people are not good at defending the city, and the reputation of the mighty general Ma Chao is still there. Now Ma Chao's younger brother Ma Dai is guarding in Didao instead of his brother. At the same time, many adult men from Qiang and Hu also participated in the Northern Expedition. Under the command, he participated in the battle as a righteous cavalryman.
Therefore, these barbarians would not and would not dare to take action against Zhang Xi's army under the banner of Liu Bei Group.
Zhang Xi "captured" Wudu County almost smoothly. Except for encountering some resistance in some counties, Zhang Xi took control of the entire Wudu County according to the original plan without even a day's delay.
After occupying Wudu, Zhang Xi first sent a letter to Liu Bei in the rear to inform him of the capture. Zhang Xi was embarrassed to say that this was a victory.
Then, Zhang Xi left another 2,000 people to station in various places to maintain law and order. He led the remaining 15,000 people, with Zhang Yi as the vanguard, and marched quickly to support Wei Yan who was attacking Qishan Fort.
Zhang Xi really didn't know what the progress of the old man Wei was, whether he had captured Qishan Fort. This old man used his troops to either win a big victory or be defeated, and he never left himself a way out.
He was asked to take five thousand people, but he refused to listen, so he took his three thousand people to Lang Zhangxi. Remember, the intelligence said that the garrison of Qishan Fort was about two thousand to three thousand people.
It's hard to say whether he can capture it or not. Zhang Xi just hopes that when he marches into the army this time, he won't encounter Wei Yan's defeated army.
It took nearly three days for Zhang Xi to lead 15,000 people to cover the more than 100 miles of road march. The army was still walking on mountain roads. It was already very good to achieve this speed.
As soon as he entered the Qishan Pass, Zhang Xi saw the soldiers sent by Wei Yan. Thank God, the soldiers brought documents reporting victory.
The letter was very much in the style of that old man. There were only a few sentences in the whole letter, telling Zhang Xi that he had captured Qishan Fort and asked Zhang Xi to quickly lead his army to meet him and prepare to continue north to Liangzhou.
Zhang Xi was a little puzzled that this old man from Wei led his troops forward without directly saying hello? !
But it’s right to think about it a little bit.
Wei Yan is not a fool. He only brought 3,000 men with him. These 3,000 men will definitely suffer losses when they attack Qishan Fort. No matter how conceited he is, he will never be able to attack Liangzhou with this small number of men.
That's not to make achievements, that's to die.
But after Zhang Xi inquired about Wei Yan's messenger, Zhang Xi finally understood that although old Wei Wei was not that stupid, the actual situation was much worse than Zhang Xi thought.
Old Man Wei was lying in bed recovering from his injuries. He really couldn't lead the army on the expedition, so he sent someone to notify Zhang Xi and quickly sent someone to respond.
As for Old Man Wei's injury, he was very heroic, but also very funny.
According to the soldiers, that night, General Wei personally led the army to make a surprise attack at night and stormed the Qishanbao camp. He killed the soldiers who tried to close the door and defend themselves as if they were gods descending from heaven. He stood majestically at the gate of the camp and single-handedly Guard the camp gate.
Then General Wei was hit by an arrow.
Indeed, Wei Yan broke into the camp gate alone, and the figure standing alone at the camp gate was very shocking, but the defenders who reacted unceremoniously shot arrows at him.
Wei Yan waved his sword to resist, but in the end he was still hit by several arrows.
But Wei Yan still refused to retreat, killing more than ten people, and repelled Cao Jun who tried to seize the camp gate for the second time. He guarded the camp gate with his own strength, so that Cao Jun did not dare to approach.
Taking advantage of the little time that Wei Yan bought, Wei Yan's guards finally passed through Cao Jun's interception, rushed to Wei Yan's side, and protected Wei Yan.
The officers and soldiers of Wei Yan's army were also inspired by their general's heroic performance, and suddenly broke out with super fighting power. At this time, Cao's army outside the camp also realized that they had almost been abandoned by their general, and suddenly had no intention of fighting, and fled in disarray. In the camp.
Wei Yanjun took advantage of the situation and entered the Qishanbao camp.
At this time, Gao Gang still wanted to react. After all, there were many Cao soldiers in the camp and few enemy soldiers. The enemy reinforcements had not yet approached the foot of Qishan Fort. It was not impossible to surround and kill these Wei Yan soldiers.
But at this time, due to Gao Gang's consecutive wrong responses and the double impact of the camp gate being breached, the morale of Cao's army plummeted and they had no intention of fighting. Gao Gang had no choice but to take advantage of the chaos in the camp to Wei Yanjun was still unable to effectively control the camp. Under the protection of his own soldiers, he escaped from the Qishanbao camp and went to Liangzhou to report the news.
But Wei Yanma was guarding the camp gate alone, with more than ten arrows in his body, looking like a hedgehog.
Originally, the officers and soldiers of Wei Yan's army were worried whether General Wei was seriously injured, but it turned out that Wei Yan seemed to be in good spirits except for walking uncoordinated.
This guy was still in the mood to go down the mountain, and angrily yelled at the military captain who had just arrived, saying that if his opponent hadn't been a fool, he would have given up on the mountain.
Then, Wei Yan ordered his troops to camp under Qishan Fort, while he stayed at Qishan Fort on the mountain. At the same time, he sent a messenger to report the victory to Zhang Xi, urging Zhang Xi to advance quickly, so as not to give Liangzhou too much time to prepare.
At this point, Zhang Xi had to admire Wei Yan's martial arts. Wei Yan's performance reminded Zhang Xi of a person - Dian Wei.
However, Dian Wei guarded the camp gate alone because the protector escaped, while Wei Yan captured the camp gate alone and achieved great military exploits.
The two are at odds.
If he had to get involved, Zhang Xi even felt that in the battle with Wei Yan, some of the second masters' demeanor in taking Yan Liang's head from thousands of troops had single-handedly turned the entire battle around.
But when Zhang Xi saw Wei Yan and asked about Wei Yan's injury, Zhang Xi couldn't help but want to laugh.
Wei Yan was hit by more than ten arrows, which looked scary, but because Wei Yan was wearing very thick armor and was good at martial arts, he blocked a large number of arrows' power and speed. Therefore, although Wei Yan was hit by arrows, Many of them were skin wounds, and the two most serious arrow wounds were no more than an inch into the flesh. Most of the arrow wounds would be fine with a little bandage.
But the problem is that those two places that are an inch into the flesh are a bit hard to describe.
Wei Yan basically blocked all the arrows from the front, but the arrows from the side and back... Well, there were two arrows, one on the left and one on the right, by chance, hit Wei Yan's butt.
Now Wei Yan was lying on the bed talking to Zhang Xi.
Zhang Xi really wanted to laugh.
It's not that Zhang Xi has bad character and likes to laugh at people, it's mainly that the contrast between before and after is a bit big.
Having heard about Wei Yan's battle process before and seen the descriptions of the admiration of Wei Yan by the sergeants of Wei Yan's army, Zhang Xi could fully imagine how brave and graceful Wei Yan was under the circumstances at that time.
But this fierce general who descended from heaven like a god and captured Qishan Fort by his own strength is now lying on the bed unable to move because he was shot with two arrows in the butt? !
Well, this is a bit...well, I can't laugh, I really can't laugh. If I laugh, I will really have a mortal enemy with Wei Yan.
Another one, Wei Yan was really brave this time. He almost single-handedly captured Qishan Fort. It was a great achievement no matter how you look at it, and it can be said to be the first decent achievement since the Northern Expedition. .
Zhang Xi's taking over Wudu County means receiving it. Not only did Zhang Xi not take credit for this, but Liu Bei also didn't think taking Wudu County was credited. Anyone who is not mentally retarded can do this job.
Therefore, Zhang Xi immediately polished Wei Yan's achievements in capturing Qishan Fort and his heroic actions, and sent them to Liu Bei in the rear.
At the same time, Zhang Xi almost received the military order from Liu Bei.
Now that you have occupied Wudu, don't waste time.
Liu Bei ordered Zhang Xi to lead the front army quickly through Qishan Road and raid Tianshui County, an important town in Liangzhou.
After Tianshui County is captured, Liu Bei will have access to Yongzhou and Liangzhou. At that time, Liu Bei will lead his army to sit in Tianshui County, cut off Long, and then lead his troops eastward to seize Chang'an.
(End of chapter)
