"What, Shigu, Yuguan and more than 20 cities have been lost? None of the five thousand men came back, what did they do for food!"

In Xingyuan County, Han Bao was roaring in the camp, and the generals below dared not come out.

Han Baozheng was brave and brave when he was young, and had great martial arts skills. Later, he served as an escort under Meng Zhixiang's troops. In 934 AD, Meng Zhixiang proclaimed himself emperor in Sichuan, named Shu, and established the capital of Chengdu.

Baozheng was promoted to Fengwangku envoy. In the same year, Meng Zhixiang died, and his son Meng Chang succeeded to the throne. He also appointed Han Baozheng as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council and the envoy of Xuanhui North Court.

When Han Bao learned that Xingzhou was lost, he had a bad premonition. There was no natural danger around Xingyuan inland. If the Song army attacked, once the battle was defeated, the Song army would advance straight in without anyone to be the one.

He looked at the map in front of him and suddenly his eyes lit up. Xixian has a unique geographical location. It is surrounded by mountains and the city can be formed to take care of itself. It is a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

"Come on, send our military orders, and the entire army will be transferred to Xixian County, and lined up to wait for the Song army. If they come, let them taste the power of this general!"

In Xixian, Zhao Kuangyin looked at the Shu army formation in front of him, and a hint of disdain appeared in his eyes.

After experiencing a stop in Xingzhou, he had basically figured out the reality of the Shu army. As Guo Hao said, the Shu army looked powerful on the surface, but in fact, it was vulnerable.

However, he also discovered a phenomenon, that is, the Shu army often performs well on small-scale operations, but the Shu army is not the opponent of the Song army on large-scale operations.

This phenomenon shows one thing, that is, although the Shu army could not defeat the Song army, it was not because of the soldiers, but because their generals were greedy for life and fearful of death and hesitant, which led to the vulnerability of the Shu army.

Now the 30,000 troops of the Shu army are lined up in Xixian, which seems to be solid. However, the defending generals Han Baozheng and Li Jin are not opponents of Zhao Kuangyin, so the Shu army will definitely be defeated in this battle!

"Come on, beat the drum, attack!"

Zhao Kuangyin saw through the enemy's reality and did not know the truth. He had been wasting enough time before, so he had to make up for the time he wasted before.

With Zhao Kuangyin's order, 30,000 Song troops attacked the formation. Han Bao was shocked when he saw the Song army so direct.

In front of the two armies, the performance of the chief general is very important. If the chief general is calm, his subordinates will not be guilty, but Han Baozheng's terrified expression made his subordinates a little nervous.

A rain of arrows fell, and a large area of ​​Shu army fell, but this was not over yet. Then there were explosive packs falling in the Shu army's formation.

After being with Guo Hao for a long time, the generals are most willing to fight tough battles, especially this kind of large formation, the explosive pack is extremely powerful.

It’s not that many people can be killed, but that the panic caused by the explosion will affect the morale of the enemy. As long as the morale of the enemy dissipates, the battle will be won half.

"General, the sky-shaking thunder that Your Majesty invented is really useful. Unfortunately, the number is too small. If there are more than a hundred, if we don't need to take action, all the enemies will die."

Yang Ye sighed on the side, and Pan Mei smiled and said, "You need to say that if this is the case, what do we generals do? Anyone can win the battle."

For some reason, the two of them always quarreled along the way. In fact, there was no major conflict between them. It was normal for quarrels or even fights in the army, but Zhao Kuangyin saw it.

This was not because he noticed it, but Guo Hao had specifically instructed him to pay attention to the two of them when fighting, especially Yang Ye, and not let them cooperate.

Zhao Kuangyin didn't understand why Guo Hao said that, but Guo Hao never said empty words. He must have a reason for saying that.

"Okay, don't talk about it. Your Majesty's shocking thunder is good, but if you use it too much, it will hurt the sky. Your Majesty said that it is not that he is reluctant to use it for us, but that this thing is too dangerous and improper operation can easily hurt ourselves.

Moreover, Shu is full of Han people, so we cannot kill too much. He is now asking the Ministry of Works to study a new weapon, which is said to be used to deal with the enemy in the north in the future!”

Zhao Kuangyin interrupted the two of them's argument, and they seemed to understand something in their hearts. Isn't the enemy in the north the Liao Kingdom?

But all the generals were very curious about what the new weapon was.

With the long-range strike, the formation in Xixian was quickly broken, and the Shu army suffered heavy casualties, but the Song army did not suffer much casualties.

"Come in, be honest!"

Three days later, two soldiers came in. Han Bao was walking in with a disheveled face and looked embarrassed, staggering and not falling.

Zhao Kuangyin sat in the upper position, looked at the two enemy generals below, and smiled and said, "It is already very good for the two generals to be able to block my general for so long. Our Majesty said that as long as you are willing to surrender, he will pardon your previous actions."

"Bah, if you want to kill, you will kill! Why are you pretending to be a good person!"

Han Baozheng looked unhappy, and Zhao Kuangyin didn't care. Many people died in this battle, and the rest fled. Now that the main general was arrested, he was not in a hurry to pursue him.

"What does General Han say? It's a good bird to choose a tree to live in. Since the Lord of Shu sent you here, it means that you are still capable. My Lord is generous and kind, and will attract talents from all over the world. General Han can consider it."

After saying that, they didn't wait for the two to say anything, so they asked someone to take them down. In fact, they were ranked first in Shu Kingdom, but they could only be considered ordinary in Song Kingdom.

However, Guo Hao's plan for the future is useful even for people with average abilities. After all, it cannot be relied on Zhao Kuangyin but a few others in unification. There are many generals needed in the future. He has no time to train, so he can only find some that are still acceptable.

After the Battle of Xixian, in order to prevent the Song army from advancing south, Han and Li Yu's troops burned the plank road and retreated to Jiameng, which is the northeast of Jiange in later generations.

At this time, Wang Zhaoyuan and Zhao Chongtao led their troops to defend Lizhou City and the key points of the Big and Small Mantianzhai to the north, blocking the Song army.

Lizhou is on the east bank of the Jialing River, surrounded by mountains and steep terrain, which is a key place to enter Shu. The Song army was unable to enter directly because the plank road was cut off.

While the Northern Army was striving for progress, the Eastern Army was not idle either.

Liu Guangyi led the Eastern Army into the Three Gorges, broke into Sanhui, Wushan and other villages, killed Shu generals Nan Guanghai, etc., captured Yuan Dehong, commander of Zhanzhaodu, and annihilated more than 12,000 infantrymen, captured more than 200 warships, and marched towards Kuizhou with victory.

Kuizhou was the Yehun of Badong. The Shu army set up a Suojiang floating bridge in the east of the city, and placed three wooden fences on it, and lined up cannons in the river, which made it very strict in defense.

Liu Guangyi's army advanced three miles east of the floating bridge. In order to avoid the real and attack the weak, he left his boat to land, seized the floating bridge, cooperated with water and land, and broke through the defense line of the Shu army in one fell swoop.

Gao Yanqiu, the governor of Kuizhou, believed that the Song army came from a long way, and the advantage was to fight quickly and should be firmly defended.

The military supervisor Wu Shouqian refused to follow, and led more than a thousand troops to fight rashly and returned in a defeat. Zhang Tinghan, commander of the Song Ma Army, led his army to pursue and broke into the city.

Gao Yanqi failed to fight and burned himself. After the Song army occupied Kuizhou, they went up the Jiangxi area and conquered ten thousand yuan, Kai, Zhong, and others, and headed straight to Rongcheng.

Looking at the Jiange in front of him, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but think of Li Bai's poem, but he didn't have Guo Hao's habit, otherwise he would have to write a poem.

Zhao Kuangyin was a pity for Guo Hao for a while, but he didn't know that if Guo Hao was really here, he might not be able to write a poem, because he knew only one poem about Shu, that is Li Bai's "The Road to Shu is Difficult".

Zhao Kuangyin led his troops to repair the plank road and entered Xiaomantianzhai; he led his main force to detour from the narrow path of Luochuan, southeast of Jiachuan.

The two armies met in depth and captured the bridge. Then they divided their troops into three groups to attack Damantianzhai, defeating the elite Shu army and capturing the Yizhou Governor Wang Shenchao and others.

Wang Zhaoyuan and Zhao Chongtao led their troops to fight, but were defeated in all three battles. Then they crossed the river at Jubaijin, burned the floating bridge, and retreated to Jianmen. The Song army occupied Lizhou.

蜀军大营中,王昭远如丧考妣,孔明月在一旁神情漠然,因为冷笑,她早知会是这个结果.

"Mei'er, are there any good solutions there? I'll listen to you this time."

Kong Mingyue said coldly: "I advised you several times before, but you didn't listen, so that the Song army could see through the reality of our army, and then he would fight three times in a row.

Now that our army has been defeated in all three battles, we have lost all morale. We have lost the opportunity to boost morale. Even if Wu Hou is alive, he will be unable to make a comeback!"

“武侯在世,也回天乏术……”

Kong Mingyue's words seemed to give Wang Zhaoyuan an excuse. Although he compared himself to Kong Ming, he was not Kong Ming after all. He regretted it at this time. Maybe what Kong Mingyue said was right.

After more than a year of fighting, most of the Shu army were passively defending and rarely took the initiative to attack. This caused the Song army to become more and more powerful.

Kong Mingyue's several persuasions were all asking for an initiative, but it's a pity that she is a woman and no one listened to her.
Chapter completed!