▲Wei Yan
In the sixteenth year of Jian'an (211), Liu Bei led Pang Tong, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Huo Jun, Zhuo Bing, and others into Shu, and Liu Zhang personally led 30,000 infantry cavalry and Liu Bei to feast and drink for more than 100 days in Fucheng, providing a large number of supplies for Liu Bei to go north to attack Zhang Lu and supervise the White Water Army, at this time Liu Bei had a total of 30,000 horses.
Liu Bei first went to Ye Meng tun to stay for more than a year, and instead of recruiting Zhang Lu, he spread grace and bought people's hearts. In the case of the seizure of Yizhou, Pang Tong proposed three strategies.
▲Liu Zhang
In order to pretend to return Jingzhou, Zhongce first captured yang Huai and Gao Pei, annexed his troops, and then attacked Chengdu; the next strategy was to return to the White Emperor's city to meet with the Jingzhou troops and gradually capture Yizhou, and Liu Bei chose the middle strategy.
At this time, just as Cao Cao was conquest of Eastern Wu, Sun Quan asked Liu Bei for help, so Liu Bei wrote to Liu Zhang, saying that the most urgent task was to rescue Eastern Wu first, and then try Zhang Lu, taking the opportunity to ask Liu Zhang to allocate 10,000 soldiers and military supplies, but he only allocated 4,000 soldiers and half of the supplies, Liu Bei hyped up Liu Zhang's not, aroused the hatred of his subordinates for Liu Zhang, and did a good job of pre-war mobilization for the conquest of Yizhou.
▲Zhang Song
Zhang Song's brother Zhang Su, the Taishou of Guanghan Commandery, learned of the plot, and for fear of causing trouble, he denounced his younger brother Zhang Song, and Liu Zhang arrested Zhang Song and executed him, and at the same time issued documents to the guards of various passes to cut off contact with Liu Bei.
Furious, Liu Bei summoned the white water generals Yang Huai and Gao Pei, accused them of being rude to their guests, beheaded them, annexed his troops, and then attacked Fucheng from the south. Only Zhonglang remained to guard huo junzhen at the city of Yemeng (present-day Zhaohua District, Guangyuan City, Sichuan), with a total strength of only a few hundred men.
▲Ye Meng Guan
YeMeng Pass formed a triangle with Baishui Pass and Jianmen Pass, becoming one of the three barriers to enter Yizhou from Hanzhong, and was the northeast gate of Yizhou and a military strategic point.
After the Hanzhong warlord Zhang Lu found out the news, he quickly sent his troops to lure Yang Shuai to Lu Huo Jun to jointly defend the city, in fact, he wanted to occupy Yemeng Pass, and Huo Jun categorically refused: "The head of the villain can be obtained, but the city is not obtainable." Under the awe of its justice, Yang Shuai slipped away.
▲Zhang Lu
Liu Zhang also knew the importance of Ye Meng Pass, if he occupied Ye Meng Pass, then Liu Bei would be attacked on his stomach and back in the south, and was in a very unfavorable situation, so he sent the generals To Ban and Xiang Cun to lead more than 10,000 people up along the Lang River to besiege Ye Meng Pass.
At this time, yizhou's million population, calculated according to the ten percent ratio, Liu Zhang's army should be at least 100,000 troops, Liu Bei's total is only 30,000, in the number of troops is obviously at a disadvantage, otherwise it would not only leave a few hundred people, the town guard Ye Mengguan.
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▲ Li Yan
In the eighteenth year of Jian'an (213), Liu Zhang sent Liu Xuan, Ling Bao, Zhang Ren, Deng Xian, and Wu Yi to stop Liu Bei at Fucheng, but liu bei was defeated and Wu Yi surrendered. Liu Zhang also sent Li Yan and Fei Guan to command the Mianzhu armies to block Liu Bei, and Li Yan and Fei Guan led the people to surrender, and the war situation changed, which was beneficial to Liu Bei.
In order to make a quick decision, Liu Bei simultaneously ordered Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, and Yue Yun to lead troops up the Yangtze River to support, and taishou Yan was too defensive in Jiangzhou. Zhuge Liang sent Zhao Yun to send troops through the outer water to pacify Jiangyang and Qianwei, and Zhang Fei to pacify Brazil and Deyang.
▲Zhuge Liang
Zhang Ren and Liu Zhang's eldest son Liu Xun retreated to Luocheng (雒城, in modern Guanghan, Sichuan), Liu Bei led an army to attack, Zhang Ren was killed in the attack, Liu Xun could not hold out, and Pang Tong led his army to attack and was killed by a stray arrow.
At this time, Ye MengCheng was besieged for more than a year, but Huo Jun still insisted, and when the enemy was lax, he chose elite soldiers to attack, defeated the enemy, and immediately cut off Xiang Cun's head to eliminate Liu Bei's worries.
In the nineteenth year of Jian'an (214), Luocheng was besieged for nearly a year before it was conquered, liu Bei nai, Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yunhui were all besieged, and with the addition of Ma Chao, Liu Zhang soon left the city and surrendered.
▲ Huo Jun
After Liu Bei entered Yizhou, in order to reward Huo Jun's merits, he divided Guanghan Commandery into a new Zitong Commandery and appointed Huo Jun as the General of Zitong Taishou and Pei. Huo Jun served three years in office, died at the age of forty, and was buried in Chengdu. Liu Bei was extremely distressed and sorry, and said to Zhuge Liang: "Jun, a good soldier, has made meritorious contributions to the country, and wants to do it." So he personally led hundreds of officials to the hanging sacrifice and stayed in the cemetery, and Huo Jun's position in Liu Bei's mind could be imagined.
Huo Jun was a native of Zhijiang, Nan Commandery (南郡, in modern Zhijiang, Hubei), and was originally a subordinate general of Liu Biao, who surrendered to Liu Bei after Liu Biao's death. In terms of military ability in defending the city, not only the Five Tigers of the Shu Han Dynasty could not catch up, but also one of the best in the Three Kingdoms, if they did not die young, their achievements should be more brilliant, perhaps the posterity is not the Five Tigers General but the "Six Tiger Generals".
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