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Time flies, and five days have passed in the battle between Chen Cang in a blink of an eye.

Qiang Road, Zhou Yu's army stationed.

But at this moment, the main general's tent became the tent of the central army commander, and Li Li occupied the tent of the magpie's nest and Zhou Yu's tent.

Five days ago, as Zhao Yun led his troops back to the rescue in time, he attacked Zhang Lu's army under the city, caught the Hanzhong army off guard and his team.

In this battle, the Hanzhong Army fought bloody battles with the Western Liang Army overnight. At the last moment of deciding victory or defeat, the Hanzhong Army commander Zhang Lu was attacked and was targeted by Zhao Yun who suddenly came out from behind. Then Zhao Yun led the cavalry to Zhang Lu's patrol flag and rushed over, killing six Hanzhong generals in succession. Zhang Lu was so scared that he immediately fled.

Zhang Lu took the lead in leaving the army and fleeing alone, which directly led to the defeat of the central army's rear formation, and then spread to the front army and tens of thousands of Hanzhong soldiers who were sieging the city. With just two rounds back and forth, Zhao Yun's unshuang cavalry defeated Zhang Lu's army under the city, and the Hanzhong generals who were commanding the army to attack the city followed Zhang Lu in a hurry to escape. Then, Hanzhong soldiers who were siegeing the city and had already climbed the city tower were scattered down. The Zhajia warriors followed him and evacuated the city tower and fled in scattered.

At this moment, the city gate blocked by the Xiliang defenders suddenly opened. Ma Dai led thousands of unparalleled cavalry who were left in the city to support him out of the city to attack inside and outside, forming an internal and external attack with Zhao Yun's troops, causing Zhang Lu's army to collapse completely and flee in panic. At this point, Zhang Lu's army was defeated like a mountain, running in a hurry, and was defeated.

During the defeat, thousands of Hanzhong soldiers who climbed the city tower failed to retreat from the city tower as soon as possible, but were blocked by the Xiliang army and had no way to escape. Tens of thousands of Hanzhong soldiers were trapped under the city wall by the unparalleled cavalry led by Zhao Yun and could not break out of the encirclement. Without a way to retreat, more than 20,000 Hanzhong soldiers surrounded had to surrender and threw away their weapons. They squatted under the city wall waiting for the Xiliang army to deal with it.

In just half an hour, the battle outside the city was declared over. In addition to the more than 20,000 Hanzhong soldiers captured, the remaining soldiers fled in scattered. However, the direction of the escape was limited to the east and west sides. The entrance of the Daying Valley in the south had been occupied by the Western Liang army, forcing the Hanzhong soldiers to escape directly back to the Hanzhong border. Among them, the commander of the Hanzhong army, Zhang Lu, led the troops and main defeated troops to flee to the southwest.

After the war situation outside the city stabilized, Zhao Yun was ordered to lead the unparalleled cavalry to chase the defeated army, pursued the southwest along the Zhang Lu army, and chased them relentlessly, confiscating a large number of weapons and supplies and prisoners of war. Ma Dai and Ma Xiu brothers led more than 3,000 combat cavalry to pursue the east along the mountain road. They did not encounter stubborn resistance along the way, and chased hundreds of miles along the way. They achieved great success.

At noon, Zhao Yun led more than 10,000 iron cavalry to pursue the southwest, and finally caught up with Zhang Lu's army in a mountain stream more than 40 miles away from Chencang City, and fought with him again. The encounter in this pursuit lasted very short and the battle was not fierce. Zhang Lu's defeated army could not resist the rush of the Wushuang iron cavalry. He fled again. However, the pursuit did not end. After more than 4,000 surrendered troops were placed, Zhao Yun led 5,000 war cavalry to continue chasing the remaining Zhang Lu's army, fighting while chasing, and always bit Zhang Lu's remaining troops without resignation, and chased to Qiangdao County, southwest of Wudu County.

With one drum, Zhao Yun's troops pursued each other for two days, and chased them for hundreds of miles. They were really relentlessly. So much so that when Zhang Lu's defeated army, which had originally more than 20,000 people, arrived at the Qiang Road, there were only more than 4,000 remaining soldiers, most of which were the sage warriors of the Five Dogs of Mi Sect.

As the saying goes: blessings come unparalleled, misfortunes never come in singular ways.

The saying that disaster never goes sings alone is perfect for Zhang Lu who fled to Qiang Dao. Some people are happy and some are worried, and Zhang Lu is in trouble. Relatively speaking, Zhao Yun's troops who followed him and were in a misfortune, and they were in the door.

This is because the Zhou Yu army stationed in Wudu County, after more than a month of confrontation with the troops of Yang Ang, the general under Zhang Lu, finally started a decisive battle, but the time of the war began at the same time as the battle of Chen Cang. With the same force and the geographical conditions, the battle between Zhou Yu's army and Yang Ang's army was fierce and stalemate. The two sides fought fiercely for two days but did not decide the winner and lost. No one took advantage of it. Just when the two armies were stalemate, Zhang Lu suddenly arrived at the east gate of Qiangdao with thousands of remaining soldiers. He immediately called to open the city gate without saying anything, and entered the city without Yang Ang's knowledge. However, Zhao Yun, who had been following Zhang Lu's remaining soldiers, took the opportunity to follow him and lead his troops into the city gate, and accidentally attacked the city of Qiangdao by chance.

This huge change is undoubtedly a god-given opportunity for Zhou Yu, who is good at capturing fighter jets. How can he miss it?

So, after hearing the news, Zhou Yu immediately led a large army to the east gate, took advantage of the situation to enter Qiangdao City, and went straight to the city guard's mansion to kill, attempting to capture and kill Zhang Lu, Yang Ang and other main generals in one fell swoop.

When Yang Ang noticed Zhou Yu's army's abnormal movement, Zhang Lu, Zhang Wei, Yang Bai and others were running away, just rushed to the city guard's mansion. In front of the mansion, they met Yang Ang, the commander of the Western Front who was about to go to the city to check the enemy situation. But when he saw Zhang Lu and his party, he felt as if he was struck by lightning, his face turned pale, and his whole body was stunned, and his body was shaking and almost fell to his head.

Then, Yang Ang shouted in surprise: "No! Zhou Yu's evil thief must have led his troops to attack, followed the lord behind the scenes to attack the East Gate, and Qiangdao City is in danger!"

"Dadadada?????? Capture Zhang Lu alive, kill Yang Ang, and all the soldiers follow me to kill!"

Before Yang Ang finished speaking, he suddenly heard the sound of roaring horses and shouting to kill from the east street not far away, and the voice of the caller was very familiar. For a moment, he didn't have to think at all and knew who this very familiar voice came from. It was Zhou Yu, the commander of the Western Liang Army who had been confronted with him for more than a month.

In an instant, Yang Ang felt like he was lost, and his expression was extremely shocked. When he looked at Zhang Lu, Zhang Wei and others, he couldn't help but show anger and resentment. Unfortunately, he dared not speak out, and arranged for his personal soldiers to escort Zhang Lu and others out of the city from the south gate, but he himself had to lead the soldiers to resist the attack of Zhou Yu's army and win time for Zhang Lu and others to escape.

One hour later, the Qiangdao City, which had been defending for nearly two months, fell into the hands of the Xiliang army led by Zhou Yu. The 20,000 Hanzhong defenders stationed on the east gate and the north gate, as well as the camp outside the east gate, which formed a horn with the Qiangdao City, were also lost, and five thousand soldiers were gathered in the camp. However, the more than 20,000 Hanzhong soldiers suddenly had no time to retreat, and all became prisoners of the Xiliang army. Then the 3,000 soldiers stationed in the city were forced to surrender.

At this point, after Chen Cang's great defeat, Qiang Dao also fell with the arrival of Zhang Lu and others, and suffered another crushing defeat. After breaking the city, more than 40,000 soldiers under Yang Ang's tent finally escaped from the city. The remaining nearly 30,000 troops surrendered either by death.

With the fall of the Qiang Road, all the cities seized by the Hanzhong army in Wudu County were lost, and Yang Ang's army was defeated and dispersed. Not only that, Zhang Lu, Yang Ang, Zhang Wei, Yang Bai and others who fled the southern gate of the Qiang Road in a hurry were also faced with the pursuit of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry. Such an urgent situation prompted Zhang Lu and others to take the remaining defeated generals and dare not stop along the way and flee back to Hanzhong desperately.

Chen Cangcheng was defeated. The Qiang Road was lost. The two places were hundreds of miles apart. They gathered the 110,000 most elite soldiers and horses under Zhang Lu, but they were defeated one after another within three days. In other words, the battlefields of the Eastern and Western Fronts, which were divided into two, all ended in failure. The 110,000 Hanzhong troops either died or surrendered. In the end, less than 30,000 soldiers fled from Liangzhou alive.

At the same time, the Hanzhong soldiers spent three months and finally seized all the cities and money, grain and supplies that they had finally seized were returned to the Western Liang army, and fled back to Hanzhong in a panic. In addition, the Hanzhong army also took advantage of the large amount of money, grain and supplies they brought, and were completely defeated and completely lost.

It can be said that: he mobilized many troops and returned in a mess.

Not only that, they will face the embarrassment of the Xiliang army next, and it is still unknown whether they can protect the land of Hanzhong.

After two major defeats, Zhang Lu of Hanzhong was severely damaged and even touched the foundation, making the situation in Hanzhong County unstable and crumbling.

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Five days later, the Xiliang Army camp fifty miles away from the southern gate of the Qiang Road.

In the central army tent, Li Ligao sat in the commander's position, with a bright smile on his face.

On both sides of the tent, Zhou Yu, Fa Zheng, Zhao Yun, Wang Yue, Qubei, Cao Xing and Ma Dai were all present, except Ma Teng and Huang Zhong.

At this moment, the atmosphere of the matter in the commander's tent was very relaxed. The generals of each battalion had reported all the war damage and seizures, and the military law informed the current military situation and the offensive situation to be faced next.

Now, Zhang Lu's defeated army has returned to Hanzhong one after another, and Zhang Lu, Yang Song, Yang Bai and others also returned to Yangping Pass yesterday.

At present, after two defeats in Chen Cang and Qiang Dao, Zhang Lu's original 110,000 soldiers and horses on the east and west sides were still 30,000 infantry and cavalry. Now all troops are stationed in Yangping Pass. Yangping Pass originally had 20,000 defenders, and they are all Zhang Lu's direct troops. They have good combat power and are elite. Therefore, Yangping Pass is gathering 50,000 Hanzhong troops, occupying natural dangers and guarding the pass, which is clearly in a clear formation, trying to block the Xiliang army north of Yangping Pass and defending the enemy outside the "national gate". However, these 50,000 soldiers and horses were also Zhang Lu's last reliance, the last army, and Yangping Pass is the last barrier to protect Hanzhong.

"Hahaha!" Li Li laughed and said, "This expedition to fight Zhang Lu in Hanzhong has been quite unhappy since the war started. The two armies confronted each other for more than a month but made no achievements. Unexpectedly, everything changed in five days. Two consecutive victories have already made Zhang Lu frightened and panicked all day long. What is particularly rare is that Zilong showed his power in this battle. In the pursuit along the way, he captured Yan Pu, the chief adviser under Zhang Lu, and was the first to rush into Qiangdao City, and captured Yang Ang, the general under Zhang Lu alive in the city, which should be the first to make the battle.

In addition, Gongjin seized the opportunity of the fight in time, defeated Qiangdao City, and captured Zhang Lu's younger brother Zhang Wei alive, and made great contributions. The remaining generals performed outstandingly in this battle, worked tirelessly, fought continuously, and fought bravely, and all had military achievements. It was the previous practice, and they were rewarded together after the battle."

While laughing, Li Li waved his hand to Zhao Yun, saying that Zhou Yu didn't have to stand up and thank him, and waved to the maid to hold a banquet, saying, "The situation is very good at the moment. Next, we will lead our troops westward and take Hanzhong. Three days ago, I ordered Hansheng to lead the troops first and set up camp outside Yangping Pass. The entire army must arrive at the camp in two days to meet Hansheng, and Chen Bing is under Yangping Pass!"

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Chapter completed!