The armies of Gao Beidu went down to Brazil, wanting to migrate their people to Hanzhong, and the near army stopped the canal, covered its head, and swung the stone, and refused to fly for more than fifty days. Fei Led more than 10,000 people, from his Dao invited the Gao army to engage, the mountain road was narrow, and they could not save each other before and after, and the fly broke through. Guo abandoned Mayuan Mountain, retreated from the middle road with more than ten of his men, led the army back to Southern Zheng, and Batu was secured. - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Zhang Fei and Zhang Gao, one is a five-tiger general, and the other is a five-son general. If they meet, what kind of wonderful duel will happen?
The historical background of the Battle of the Canal
In the nineteenth year of Jian'an (214 AD), Liu Bei captured Yizhou, and Zhang Fei was appointed as the Taishou of Brazil. Bashi County, located in the northeast of Yizhou, bordered Hanzhong, and although Liu Bei captured most of the counties of Yizhou, Hanzhong County, which was the northern part of the "gateway to Yizhou", was still in the hands of Zhang Lu. This Zhang Lu was the leader of the Wudoumi Sect and established a theocratic separatist regime in Hanzhong, and liu Zhang, who had invited Liu Bei to enter Yizhou and Chengdu, had become a major threat to Liu Bei's clique because of the threat of Zhang Lu. Bashi County, which could attack Zhang Lu to attack Hanzhong and retreat to defend Shu land against Zhang Lu, naturally became the most important strategic point before Liu Bei's clique captured Hanzhong. Therefore, Liu Bei appointed Zhang Fei as the Taishou of Brazil, and let him use it as a stronghold to advance into Hanzhong County, thus controlling the entire Yizhou. After Liu Bei appointed Zhang Fei as the Taishou of Brazil, while preparing to capture Hanzhong by force, he sent people to persuade Zhang Lu to surrender, but Zhang Lu said: "It is better to be a slave of Cao Cao than to be a guest of Liu Bei." Refusing to accept the persuasion, Liu Bei had to make Zhang Fei ready to take Hanzhong by force.
However, Liu Bei still took a step slower, and only a year later, Cao Cao took Hanzhong in one fell swoop, took Zhang Lu, and left Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Guo, and Xu Huang to guard Hanzhong, and in this way, the Yizhou portal was wide open, and Liu Bei's group was still competing with Sun Quan's group for Jingzhou. After the Shu Han clique learned of Cao Cao's occupation of Hanzhong, it hastily signed a pact with Sun Quan, known in history as the Xiangshui Alliance. Hanzhong fell into the hands of Cao Cao, Zhang Fei's Brazil, became an outpost against the invasion of Cao's army, once Brazil was lost, Liu Bei's clique was in danger of extinction, before capturing Hanzhong, it was necessary to defend Brazil, so Zhang Fei's task was very heavy.
Soon after, Cao Wei's famous general Zhang Guo (張郃) invaded Brazil, one of Cao Cao's "Five Sons of Liang Generals". History:
He knows the variables, is good at handling the camp Chen, and anticipates the terrain of the battle, and is not as good as the plan, and Zhuge Liang is worried about it. - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Many years later, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, Ma Mo Street Pavilion was lost, it was defeated at his hands, Zhang Gao was a famous general that even Zhuge Liang was jealous of, Zhang Fei faced such a powerful opponent, how would he deal with it?
Zhang Feiwei shook Tangqu County
Zhang Fei was in The County of Basir, and received information that Zhang Gao had invaded Brazil, and Zhang Gao was already marching along the Tangqu River at this time, occupying Tangqu County in the southeast of Langzhong, and was constantly plundering the population to migrate to Hanzhong. Zhang Fei did not panic in the face of such a crisis moment, nor did he rush to dispatch troops to fight a decisive battle at Zhang Gao, but first sent spies to investigate intelligence. "Sun Tzu Plotting" says: "Those who know each other and know themselves will never lose a hundred battles." Zhang Fei was worthy of being a famous general who knew the art of war, and he investigated and learned that Zhang Gao's army camp was in the area of Mengtou and Dangshi.
Zhang Fei had long known about the terrain of a generation in Brazil, and was very happy to learn that Zhang Gao had deployed like this, and his heart was really helping me! Originally, the area where Zhang Gao was stationed was surrounded by water on three sides, and there was only one passage in the north, and Zhang Gao deployed the base camp here mainly in consideration of the fact that this place was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was very convenient to store materials and plunder the population, as long as the northern road was defended, it was impossible for anyone to break through the camp, which was originally inferior to Zhang Feijun, but "the army is impermanent", as long as the tactics are properly used, the advantages and disadvantages can also be transformed into each other.
Don't you think that if you block the mouth, I can't do anything with you? Well, I'll plug it for you. Zhang Fei led his army to block the Northern Dao day and night, at this time Zhang Gaobu was like a turtle in an urn, Zhang Fei repeatedly provoked Zhang Fei and attracted Zhang Fei to engage him, but Zhang Fei was dead set on blocking his mouth and not engaging Zhang Gao, Zhang Fei and Zhang Gao confronted each other in this way, and finally Zhang Gao finally lost his breath and left the camp to send troops to forcibly open the passage, but Zhang Fei secretly crossed the mountains and appeared behind Zhang Gao, and in this way, the connection between Zhang Gao's strong attack troops and the large camp troops was cut off. Zhang Hao could not save each other before and after, and could only abandon the large army, and retreated back to Southern Zheng under the cover of more than ten people under his command, and his soldiers naturally fell either dead or surrendered.
Zhang Fei shined in this war and won a great victory in the Tangqu Canal, which not only defended Bashi County, but also made the whole of Yizhou peaceful, and also identified the basis for Liu Bei's group to seize Hanzhong County in the future. To this end, Zhang Fei also deliberately used a spear to carve the text of "ImmediateLy Ming" as follows:
General Han flew, leading tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and the first of the great thieves was Zhang Gao in Bahuan, and Li Leming.
bibliography:
Chen Shou's Romance of the Three Kingdoms