Zhuge Liang was also anxious because during this period, Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu had easily captured the six counties of Youzhou like autumn wind swept away fallen leaves, and the forces of Cao's army in Jizhou were also in a complete defeat. Liu Yu's time to resolve the battle in Hebei was shortened by half a month to one month than Zhuge Liang expected.

There is not much time left. According to the current situation, under normal circumstances, Zhuge Liang did not have the slightest confidence to capture Shangyong County before Liu Yu returned to Guanzhong. Therefore, Zhuge Liang had to think of another way to speed up the city breaking.

Zhuge Liang thought of a plan and decided to give it a try, so he sent someone to pretend to be Qingyiwei and Xu Huang's subordinates to "break through" and go to Hanzhong County for help.

It turned out that Zhuge Liang knew that the Qingyiwei was the source of information from the Qin army. When he was in Jiangling, Zhuge Liang had captured two members of the Qingyiwei. He interrogated many things with his own talent.

Hanzhong County.

If only Xu Huang's "subject" came to ask for help, the Hanzhong County Governor Yang Huai might not have been trapped, but there was information from the "Qingyiwei" to confirm that Shangyong County was indeed in danger. Yang Huai immediately got trapped and hurriedly drew 15,000 from the 20,000 Qin troops in Hanzhong County to go to Shangyong County to support Xu Huang.

When passing by Weixing County, the prefect Zhang Kui also drew two thousand Qin troops from Weixing County to accompany him, because in his opinion, once Shangyong County could not be defended, if there were five thousand defenders in Weixing County or three thousand remaining, it would be better to increase the defense of Shangyong County and try to defend Shangyong County as much as possible.

In this way, Yang Huai and Zhang Kui took 17,000 Qin troops to support Shangyong County.

During the march, Yang Huai smiled at Zhang Kui and said, "General Xu Huang has more than 20,000 defenders who can still defend Shangyong County for more than a month. Now with our 17,000 new forces, it is impossible for Zhuge Liang to defeat Shangyong County."

Yang Huai and Zhang Kui are not great generals, but they can be appointed as the governor of a county and the governor of a county, and the difference between the two is not much. Yang Huai has the combat power of Xu Huang for about twenty rounds, and Zhang Kui has the combat power of Xu Huang for about ten rounds, so he can be considered a middle-level general.

One day later, the two led their troops to the northwest side of Shangyong County.

As agreed, after they arrived here, Xu Huang would take the initiative from the city and cooperate with them to lead reinforcements into the city.

However, this was Zhuge Liang's plan at all. Xu Huang, in Shangyong County, had no idea that Hanzhong County and Weixing County had sent reinforcements, so how did he send troops from the city to cooperate with the support?

Therefore, when Yang Huai and Zhang Kui arrived at the "Agreed" place on the northwest side of Shangyong County with 17,000 Qin troops as reinforcements, they were not waiting for Xu Huang to attack from the city to cooperate with the connection to enter the city, but the siege of tens of thousands of Jingzhou troops who had already ambushed here.

"Kill!" Huang Zhong and Zhang Ren attacked from both sides at the same time.

Yang Huai and Zhang Kui were shocked, and 17,000 Qin soldiers were not in a position to defend, and were caught off guard, and the formation was in chaos in an instant.

"What's going on?" Yang Huai and Zhang Kui were confused.

When this happens, either Xu Huang has surrendered to Zhuge Liang, or they have fallen into the trap.

Soon, Yang Huai concluded: "It must be that we were trapped! Shangyong County can still be defended, and General Xu Huang did not send anyone to ask for help."

The reason why he firmly believed it was the latter because Yang Huai had been under Xu Huang's command for two years. He knew Xu Huang's temperament very well. He would rather die in battle than betray Liu Yu and surrender to Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei.

"What should I do?" Zhang Kui asked in a panic.

Yang Huai gritted his teeth and said, what else could he do? He could only fight a bloody road, or continue to Shangyong County City, or retreat to Weixing County and Hanzhong County.

The two led their troops to fight towards Shangyong County City, but were intercepted by Huang Zhong.

"Vehicle Huang Zhong is here!" Huang Zhong took Yang Huai and Zhang Kui came to fight.

"Old man!" Yang Huai gritted his teeth and cursed.

So the two had to fight Huang Zhong first.

In the 20th round of battle, Zhang Kui was killed by Huang Zhong with a knife.

Once Zhang Kui died, Yang Huai was even more unlikely to be Huang Zhong's opponent. He fled in horror.

Yang Huai wanted to retreat to Weixing County first and then to Hanzhong County. Unfortunately, he was intercepted by Zhang Ren after a few miles and had to fight with Zhang Ren. The rest of the Qin army had no leader and were killed in a mess, and soon showed a complete defeat.

Zhuge Liang was watching the battle with his feather fan in one place, and he smiled and said, "This battle is settled!"

After all, it was a genius. His carefully planned strategy attracted the Qin army reinforcements of Hanzhong County and Weixing County. How could he let the reinforcements of the two counties escape? From Yang Huai and Zhang Kui's trap, the end of this battle was already destined.

Inside the city of Shangyong County.

When Xu Huang heard the shouts of killing on the northwest side, he was extremely puzzled: "Where is the army coming from fighting with the Jingzhou army?" So he sent people out of the city to investigate.

It was learned that Hanzhong County and Weixing County jointly sent reinforcements.

Xu Huang was shocked: "I have never asked for help. Why did Hanzhong County and Weixing County send reinforcements? This must be Zhuge Liang's plan! Once these reinforcements sent by the two counties are completely wiped out by Zhuge Liang, the defenses of the two counties will become extremely weak! Isn't the situation a big deterioration?"

Never let that happen.

Xu Huang hurriedly led 10,000 Qin troops out of the city, trying to open a gap to connect the reinforcements from the two counties into Shangyong County. As long as these reinforcements are saved, there will be enough troops available in Shangyong County. Even if Wei Xing and Hanzhong counties are empty in defense, Zhuge Liang would never dare to bypass Shangyong County and attack the two counties.

Unfortunately, Zhuge Liang had already reached this point and set up an ambush. Xu Huang was ambushed as soon as he left the city. After several attacks, he could not break through the defense line of the Jingzhou army and opened a gap, but instead he was surrounded. If he dragged on, he might be blocked outside the city and wiped out the entire army. So he had to fight to the death and retreat to the city temporarily. However, the battle also caused nearly 3,000 troops outside the city.

There were not many defenders in the city, and the loss was nearly 3,000, and the defense was even weaker. Xu Huangxin was bleeding.

Outside the city, Yang Huai could not escape the same fate as Zhang Kui.

He wanted to retreat to Weixing County but failed to fight with Zhang Ren. His martial arts were far inferior to Zhang Ren. After twenty rounds of fighting with Zhang Ren, Huang Zhong came again. Yang Huai fought with two, and was killed by Huang Zhong in two rounds!

Once Yang Huai died, the Qin army was completely defeated.

Huang Zhong and Zhang Ren led the army to siege and kill according to Zhuge Liang's order. They surrounded and killed for a whole day. Nearly 9,000 Qin troops were killed and captured more than 7,000 were captured. Only two or three hundred people were left to escape successfully, and the entire army was wiped out.

Afterwards, while Weixing County was left with only three thousand defenders, Zhuge Liang ordered Zhang Ren to lead 5,000 Jingzhou troops to attack and capture Weixing County.

After taking over Weixing County, Hanzhong County was opened, and Hanzhong County, which had only 5,000 defenders, was also weak in defense. Zhuge Liang only needed to send more than 10,000 troops to advance straight in to easily capture Hanzhong County.

However, Zhuge Liang did not do that.

Huang Zhong asked: "Military advisor, why didn't he march straight into Hanzhong County?"
Chapter completed!