At the Battle of Yizhou, Zhuge Liang was ordered to reinforce Liu Bei, so he led Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun up the Yangtze River, first taking the White Emperor City and Jiangzhou, and then dividing the army into two roads, one route to Zhang Fei to the north and Brazil, and then to the west to take Deyang, and the army to the east of Chengdu City; the other route zhao Yun led the army, continued along the Yangtze River, took Jiangyang County and Jianwei County, and came to the south of Chengdu.
Seeing that the counties of Shuzhong had collapsed, zhang ren, a famous general in Shu who had been holding on to Luocheng for more than a year, and Liu Xun, liu xun, the son of Liu Zhang, finally felt a little stretched, and Zhang Ren decided to take a risk, if he could fight a victorious battle, he could strengthen the confidence of Luocheng to defend the city, and if he held it for a few more years, he could always drag Liu Bei away.
However, Jingzhou's army has been driving into Shuzhong in an endless stream, even if the top level still has confidence, the low-level soldiers are already tired, this battle has been fought for nearly three years, the entire country of Er Tianfu has been tossed away, and there is no end to it!
Therefore, in the Battle of Yanqiao, Zhang Ren's army was defeated like a mountain, almost the entire army was destroyed, Zhang Ren was also captured by Liu Bei, Liu Bei admired Zhang Ren's loyalty and courage, and persuaded him to surrender, Zhang Ren was born in the cold door, it was Liu Zhang who pulled it up, of course, it was impossible to surrender, he said: "The old minister will never return to the second lord. Liu Bei sighed and could only cut Zhang Ren down.
At this point, Ren Fool also found out. Most of the natives of Yizhou did not welcome Liu Bei, such as Yan Yan and Zhang Ren, who preferred to die rather than surrender, and huang Quan, the governor of Guanghan County, Ling Wang Lian of Zitong County, and Zhang Yi, the general of Deyang Shou, also resisted behind closed doors. The people who really looked to the wind were actually the people of Dongzhou, such as the General Wu Yi of Zhonglang, the General of the Protector Army, Li Yan, the Fei Guan of the Army, and the Fei Shi of Mianzhu Ling, who almost surrendered collectively with the Dongzhou soldiers in Mianzhu. In fact, the Dongzhou people were originally the basic plan for Liu Yan's father and son to suppress Yizhou Haoqiang, but Liu Zhang later suppressed and contained the Dongzhou people in order to win over the Yizhou people, and the Dongzhou people felt that they were rejected, so they warmly welcomed Liu Bei's forces to liberate them. For example, the spiritual leader of the Dongzhou faction, the famous founder of the Yuedan Commentary, the character critic, the famous scholar of Runan, and the Taishou Xujing of Shu County, tried to escape from Chengdu over the wall and surrender to Liu Bei, but unfortunately he was captured by the defenders of the city and lost all face.
Under these circumstances, the Yizhou heroes could only withdraw their forces and resources from all over the place, and all of them shrank in the city of Chengdu, holding on to their ground and trying to make a final resistance. Therefore, by the time Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Liu Bei met under the city of Chengdu, thirty thousand elite soldiers had already gathered in The city, and Gu Shuai would spend a year. More importantly, the Chengdu heroes expressed to Liu Zhang their determination to fight to the death (the officials wanted to fight to the death). It seems that it is not so easy to take Yizhou, if Liu Zhang and others just don't surrender, then Liu Bei will have to besiege the city for at least another year to get it done. And Cao Cao was going to start attacking Zhang Lu in March of the next year, and the time was tight, and Liu Bei couldn't afford to wait!
And Zhuge Liang thought more: the Erliu War has been fought for three years, spending countless money on grain and grain, if you want to fight for another year, the people's livelihood in Bashu will not be able to eat ah, remember the tragedy of Chang'an being destroyed several times? It is because both sides of the war have finally gone crazy, and Chang'an, the world's largest capital, has now almost become a wasteland, and Chengdu, the capital of Tianfu, cannot repeat the same mistakes, otherwise what is the point of taking Yizhou?
Therefore, the most important thing in the work now is to peacefully liberate Chengdu as soon as possible and persuade Liu Zhang to surrender quickly. In fact, Liu Bei had been doing this work for a long time, probably after Zhang Fei took Ba County, and Zhao Yun took Qianwei County, Liu Bei asked Fa Zheng to write a letter of persuasion to Liu Zhang, pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of Chen and persuading Liu Zhang to be dead,but Liu Zhang completely ignored it. After Liu Bei's various armies had cleared the counties, met under the city of Chengdu, and besieged them for several months, Liu Zhang and Yizhou Haoqiang were still trapped in the isolated city, that is, they did not surrender. Even if you Liu Bei said that the sky is falling, the heavenly daughter scatters flowers, and a Lin sister falls from the sky, people just don't fall, you can do it!
What to do? You can't wake up a person pretending to be asleep, and the only way to do that is to drag him out of bed.
Therefore, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang thought of Ma Chao. As we all know, Ma Chao was once a generation of tyrants who could compete with Cao Cao; Yuan Shao's general Hedong Commandery Shou Guo Yuan, and Cao Cao's Liangzhou assassin Shi Weikang all died at his hands, and even Cao Cao almost died in his hands, so Cao Cao once said: "Horses do not die, and I have no burial ground." Liangzhou Bei yang Fu compared Ma Chao to Han Xin, a god general of this level of Yingbu. Although Ma Chao had now been defeated by Cao Cao and Xiahou Yuan and fled to Zhang Lu, there were few in the world who could force Cao Cao in his heyday to this end. This is called defeat and glory.
But what many people don't know is that Ma Chao's current situation under Zhang Lu is quite bad, Zhang Lu is engaged in a religious regime that integrates politics and religion, And Ma Chao is ignorant of these Taoist things, and he can't get along with those generals under Zhang Lu at all. More importantly, Cao Cao was about to attack Zhang Lu, and zhang Lu and Ma Chao had to leave a way back for themselves. Zhang Lu's heart was actually not resistant to surrendering to Cao Cao, so in case it didn't work, it seemed that it was also a good choice to dedicate Ma Chao to Cao Cao. And Ma Chao also knew that Zhang Lu could not resist Cao Cao at all, and now he would not leave Zhang Lu again, and it would be too late for Cao Cao to attack!
At this moment, emissaries sent by Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang arrived. The emissary was named Li Hui (李復), a native of Yuyuan County, Yizhou (present-day Chengjiang County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province), who was born in the Nanzhong clan and had been married to local ethnic minority leaders for generations. Liu Bei sent this native of South Central to contact Ma Chao, just to tell Ma Chao - I Liu Bei has received the support of the vast number of people in Yizhou, mix with me, we will create a better future together!
Pictured: Tomb of Ma Chao in Hanzhong
Ma Chao has no other way now, now the only one in the world who can break Cao Cao's wrist is Sun Quan liu bei and liu bei, if he doesn't vote for Liu Bei, what else can he do? However, he is now under zhang Lu's close supervision, and he is not able to leave without saying. In the end, Ma Chao gritted his teeth and actually left Pound And other subordinates who could fight a good war, and even left his wife and children behind, while Du and his cousin Ma Dai fled to Shuzhong.
Liu Bei received the invitation of the famous Xi Liang Ma Chao, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and even shouted without emotion: "I have Yizhou!" Zhuge Liang was sinking like water next to him: "After all, Ma Chao came alone, and his strength was insufficient, so he needed to add some materials to him." ”
More than ten days later, Liu Zhang was watching the mountain view from the upper floor of Chengdu City, and overheard the muffled sound of horses' hooves in the distance, Liu Zhang's heart had a premonition of ominous premonition, and he looked at it extremely, but when he saw the smoke and dust rolling in the north, in a blink of an eye, a cavalry of more than a thousand people had rushed to the city, and as the first jianer, his height and appearance were different from ordinary people, and he had awe-inspiring might. Liu Zhang remembered that two years ago, when Ma Chao of Xiliang led the generals of Guanzhong to rebel against Cao Cao, Cao Cao had informed the whole country of the appearance of Ma Chao and other "anti-thieves", and because Ma Chao's appearance was quite hufeng, Liu Zhang was deeply impressed - no, this person was actually Ma Chao Ma Mengqi!
Liu Zhang felt that his hand on the city wall was a little trembling, he had also served as a lieutenant of Fengche in the Chang'an Imperial Court, and he had personally seen the toughness of the Liangzhou Iron Horsemen under Dong Zhuo and Li Dai, which was definitely not a good memory. It had been almost twenty years, and he didn't expect to encounter this group of fierce thugs in his lifetime.
Ma Chao also seemed to recognize Liu Zhang, and he galloped forward a few steps on horseback, looked up at the city tower, and said loudly: "I am General Zhengxi, Linghe Zhou Mu, and Governor Liangzhou Military Ma Chao, and now I have raised an army to serve General Zuo." Now that he is alone in the isolated city and dying nearby, why bother to hold on? General Zuo came from Ben, and his old heart was attached to it, but he had no intentions. Foolish to think that it can be changed to protect the door! ”
The faces of the generals in Chengdu on the city tower changed, and they looked at each other one by one: the strength of this Liangzhou iron horse is known to the whole world; and Ma Chao's bravery and fame are not a joke! I didn't expect that this arrogant horse would actually go to liu bei? It's not fun anymore.
What everyone was more afraid of was whether Liu Bei had already received the support of Zhang Lu in Hanzhong. Because Li Hui's move to surrender Ma Chao was carried out in secret, everyone did not know that Ma Chao was a rebel and surrendered, and perhaps he was sent by Zhang Lu. Moreover, Liu Zhang had also sent two generals to help Ban and Xiang Cun to lead more than 10,000 people to detour to attack Liu Bei's rear base, Ye MengGuan, Huo Jun, who only had a few hundred people, but he was able to hold the city for more than a year, and also killed Liu Zhang's general Xiang Cun, creating an impossible miracle. It should be known that Cao Cao was already preparing to attack Zhang Lu, and Zhang Lu chose to ally with Liu Bei at this time, which was not impossible.
At this point, Liu Zhang also knew that this game was over, it was better to surrender early, and he could still save his life, so he sighed and said: "My father and son have been in the state for more than twenty years, and there is no grace to add to the people." The people have been fighting for three years, and those who have been plastering the grass and the wilderness, with Zhang's reason, can be at peace! Finally, he sent sima Zhangyi to talk to Liu Bei about the terms of surrender. Ten days later, the negotiations were finally reached, the city gate was opened and surrendered, and the Yizhou group of ministers did not weep. Liu Zhang later returned to his hometown of Jingzhou with all his possessions, and worked as a Duke of Yu for about seven or eight years, and finally died of a peaceful illness.
Of course, the more than a thousand cavalry under Ma Chao were not the legendary Western Liang Iron Horse, it turned out that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang saw that Ma Chao had become the commander of the light pole, and the deterrent power was greatly reduced, so they specially sent people to intercept Ma Chao in the middle of the road, and then let all the cavalry in Liu Bei's army secretly go north, make peace with Ma Chao, pretend to be the Western Liang Qiang Hu cavalry, and then go south. Liu Bei had been under Gongsun Zhan for many years, and he had also accumulated a bunch of Youzhou Wuhuan Miscellaneous Hu Riders, although it looked a little different from the Northwest Qiang Hu, it was still easy to deceive Liu Zhang, these southerners.