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After waiting for two months in Shangyong, both Gan Ning and Wei Yan were a little impatient. Just this morning, Wei Yan sent a personal soldier to inform Gan Ning. When there was news in Xiangyang, Gan Ning rushed to Yongnan City impatiently.

Wei Yan nodded, "General Gan, please speak in the room."

The two of them sat down in the official room. Wei Yan took out a letter and handed it to Gan Ning and smiled and said, "This is the order that Xiangyang just sent. The governor of the state has taken Yizhou and ordered us to conquer Shangyong."

Gan Ning took the letter and read it, and couldn't help but breathe a long sigh, "I finally waited for this moment."

At this time, Wei Yan asked again: "How should we coordinate the action next?"

Gan Ning pondered for a moment and said, "It is easy for me to break through the blockade from the water. I should take Shangyong City first to avoid alarming the snake."

Wei Yan nodded, "Since that's the case, I will withdraw my troops first and then get in touch with Meng Da."

At noon that day, the Jingzhou army, who had been confronting each other for nearly two months, finally evacuated Shangyong City and retreated towards Xiangyang. An abnormality in Yongnan City was immediately discovered in Shangyong City.

There were more than 15,000 Hanzhong Army in Shangyong City, led by General Meng Da and Yang Ang. Meng Da was nominally the main general, and Yang Ang participated in the coordinated defense. But in fact, Yang Ang had higher military positions than Meng Da, and he had much deeper qualifications in the army. He was appointed as the commander of Weixing County. This time, Yang Ang brought 10,000 people from the defenders of Shangyong City, which was actually his subordinates.

Meng Da brought 5,000 people from Nanzheng, which was Meng Da's army. Therefore, in Shangyong City, Meng Da and Yang Ang each commanded part of the army, almost each of them in their own formations.

Meng Da hurried to the top of the city. He had just received news that the Jingzhou army had shown signs of withdrawing. He helped him look at Yongnan City on the battlements.

Sure enough, the Jingzhou banner planted on the head of Yongnan City had disappeared, and Meng Da suddenly became nervous. This was the signal they had made an appointment. Once the Jingzhou army retreated eastward, it would mean that the action had begun.

Because the two armies confronted each other, their patrols could not be sent out, so the Jingzhou army was asked to withdraw first and let the patrols in Shangyong City go out, so that the two armies could have a chance to contact.

Meng Da returned to his official room. He wrote a note, called one of his own soldiers, and told him: "I will send soldiers out to patrol. You can mingle in the patrol and go out together, find the Jingzhou army to the east, meet Wei Yan, and give him this note."

The personal soldier took the note and put it away carefully, nodded and said, "Don't worry, General, there will be no mistake."

Meng Da immediately sent out ten patrols to go out of the city to inquire about the news. He had just arranged the patrols, and then a soldier came to report, "General Yang has an urgent matter to ask for a meeting."

"Please come in"

Soon, Yang Ang quickly walked into Meng Da's official room. Yang Ang was about forty years old, tall and fierce. He was a veteran of the Hanzhong Army. He followed Zhang Lu from Yizhou to Hanzhong to suppress the rebellion. After Zhang Lu stole Hanzhong, he followed Zhang Lu, slowly promoted to the position of Weixing County Commander.

The situation in Shangyong was quite complicated this time. First, Meng Da was the main general, and led 5,000 people to attack Shangyong. He was immediately appointed as the commander of Shangyong County. However, due to the large-scale counterattack of Jingzhou army, Zhang Lu was afraid that Shangyong would be in trouble, so he ordered Yang Ang to lead the garrison of Weixing County to aid Shangyong and participate in Shangyong's defense.

Of course, Zhang Lu had another deep meaning, that is, Yang Ang was proud of his achievements and was a little unruly. Zhang Lu took advantage of this opportunity to assist in defense of Shangyong and transferred Yang Ang from Weixing County, and then appointed his brother Zhang Wei as the governor of Weixing County and led his army to garrison Weixing County.

This invisibly replaced Yang Ang's power in Weixing County, so Yang Ang was always unhappy and led his army to Shangyong. He did not obey Meng Da's command and did his own thing.

Yang Ang also heard about the withdrawal of the Jingzhou army, and rushed to discuss with Meng Da. Although his status and qualifications were higher than Meng Da, Meng Da was the commander of Shangyong and had to rely on Meng Da for the money and grain supply of Yang Ang's 10,000 troops. Therefore, he was more polite to speak to Meng Da.

"General Meng, I heard that the Jingzhou army has retreated eastward and the Shangyong crisis should also be resolved. I plan to lead my army back to Weixing County, so I want to discuss with General Meng whether I can provide me with a month's military ration."

At this time, Zhao Yun's army had just captured Nanzheng City. Of course, they did not know the incident in Nanzheng City, but Yang Ang knew that Zhang Wei had been transferred back to Nanzheng by Zhang Lu. Now that Weixing County has no troops stationed, he wanted to take the opportunity to return to Weixing County and regain his territory. However, he was worried that there was insufficient food and grass, so he came to ask Meng Da for food.

Meng Da was shocked. Yang Ang actually wanted to withdraw his troops. This was not possible. If these ten thousand troops left, how could he explain to the provincial governor that he must stabilize him first?

He thought for a while and said, "If Yang Duwei wants to go back, of course I will not stop him. The food and grass will be served as the most. Can't you ask Yang Duwei to wait for the sky? After my patrol comes back, the Jingzhou army will indeed retreat. Then I will practice it for Yang Duwei."

Although Yang Ang didn't want to wait any longer for a day and was eager to return to Weixing County, Meng Da made sense. Under the pressure of money and food, Yang Ang agreed, "Okay, I'll wait for the sky again, Queen of Heaven, I will say goodbye to General Meng."

The navy of Ganning and Wei Yan's army both evacuated Shangyong City about fifty miles away, and just left Shangyong County, within the boundary of Fangling County. This gave Mengda the opportunity to send patrols out of the city. At night, Wei Yan was reading a book in the tent. Wei Yan's personal soldiers hurriedly led a Hanzhong army patrol to the tent of the tent and reported: "Report to General Wei, General Meng has sent people."

"Please come in"

Wei Yan put down the book, and he was waiting for Meng Da’s news. When the curtain was lifted, his personal soldiers led the newsman sent by Meng Da into the big tent. The newsman knelt down on one knee and bowed, took out Meng Da’s note, and presented it with both hands, "This is General Meng’s handwritten letter, please let General Wei read it."

The personal soldiers handed the note to Wei Yan. Wei Yan took it and opened it and read it. Meng Da said on the note that he was going to annihilate Yang Ang's army and asked the Jingzhou army to enter the city in time to avoid chaos. The time to enter the city was set at the Xu hour the night after tomorrow.

Wei Yan nodded, "You go back and tell General Meng that everything will be done according to his plan, and I will appear outside the city on time."

The soldiers who reported the news gave a bow, then said goodbye and left.

Wei Yan pondered for a moment and immediately wrote a letter to his personal soldiers and said, "Go to General Gan's fleet quickly and hand it to him."

It was soon the afternoon of the day. The patrol soldiers came back to report to Meng Da that the Jingzhou army had evacuated Shangyong County, which meant that Shangyong's alarm was temporarily lifted. Yang Ang once again sent someone to urge Meng Da to deliver the money and grain, and he wanted to return to Weixing County.

Meng Da then set up a farewell banquet in the county government office, and invited Yang Ang and his twelve trusted men to come to the banquet to go farewell to them.

At night, the county yamen was brightly lit, Meng Da set up five tables of banquets to entertain Yang Ang and his confidant generals. He invited the gentry and virtuous figures from Shangyong City to accompany him, and invited a team of dancers to entertain him. During the meal, the sound of meat and wine, the sound of silk and bamboos, and the posture of the dancers was graceful. A group of soldiers brought the dishes and wine like flowing water. Everyone laughed and noisy, and it was extremely lively.

Meng Da raised the wine bowl and smiled and said, "Thank you to Yang Duwei for your assistance for more than a month, and help me defend Shangyong. General Yang will leave tomorrow morning. This bowl of wine will express my respect, I will do it first."

He picked up the wine bowl and drank it all, raised it high, and everyone cheered in unison. Yang Ang and his men drank a lot of wine. They were half drunk, and they couldn't help but glance at the graceful dancers. They hadn't touched the women for such a long time. They were about to leave, and everyone was relieved and began to feel distracted.

Meng Da knew it well, and after a moment of thinking, he suddenly had a way to deal with these guys, so he laughed and said, "If Brother Yang doesn't dislike him, let these dancers accompany Brother Yang and the brothers tonight and it's my intention."

Yang Ang was overjoyed and smiled and said, "Thank you, brother, come and I will respect you a bowl of wine."

Everyone drank for a moment, and then a personal soldier stepped forward and said to Meng Da, "It's still a quarter of an hour away."

In other words, there was still a quarter of an hour before the agreed time. When Meng Da saw that the time was approaching, he asked someone to take the dancers and the gentry down. He stood up and smiled at Yang Ang and the generals, saying, "A moment is worth a thousand gold. The dancers are already waiting at the back door. The war horses and entourages are also at the back door. Let the soldiers see that it is not good. Take them from the back door. I will send the money and food tomorrow morning."

Yang Ang smiled and said, "Thank you for your good intentions." He winked at the confidant generals. All the generals were burning with desire, and they drank the wine in the bowl and stood up to say goodbye.

They walked towards the back door drunk. As soon as they walked into a yard, the front and back doors suddenly closed. Yang Ang was stunned. He suddenly found that the walls on both sides were full of soldiers holding crossbow arrows. He suddenly woke up. "No," he shouted, turned around and ran away, but it was too late. An arrow shot through his back heart. Then the walls were shot at the walls, shooting Yang Ang and his twelve confidants to death in the yard.

Seeing that Yang Ang and his confidant general were dead, Meng Da immediately led dozens of confidant soldiers to ride horses to the east city gate. At this time, the defenses of the east and west city gates of Shangyong City were all replaced by Meng Da's confidant soldiers. Meng Da whispered: "The city gate opens."

The east city gate rumbled open, and soldiers raised torches on the top of the city and waved them. It was already the time for Xu. The agreed time was up. Wei Yan led 10,000 troops to ambush outside the city. When he saw the torches on the top of the city, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered the army to enter the city.

More than 10,000 Jingzhou soldiers rushed into Shangyong City. Wei Yan took the lead. He saw Meng Da in the firelight and laughed and said, "Congratulations to General Meng for making great contributions."

Meng Da bowed and said, "Yang Ang and his confidant generals have all been killed. General Wei asked to go directly to the camp to collect and reduce the soldiers, and there would be no resistance."

Wei Yan nodded and turned around and ordered: "The army entered the Western Army camp to collect surrendered soldiers. Those who dared to resist should be killed on the spot."

All night, Shangyong City was in chaos and tension. Since Yang Ang and his confidant generals were killed, the Jingzhou army did not encounter fierce resistance. In addition to killing Yu Ming's stubborn resistance, they completely controlled the situation. The next morning, Gan Ning also annihilated all the Qian Hanzhong troops responsible for intercepting the Han River.
Chapter completed!