Chapter 115: Acquisition of Fangling

Compared to Zhang Ji's hard guard against Mianzhu, Zhang Zhong was relatively smooth in Hanzhong.

With the support of Sheng Hong and his son, within a month, Zhang Zhong led his army to conquer the four counties of Wuling, Xianxian, Tanguan and Shangyong.

Now there is only one Fangling left. After the Fangling is captured, the entire Hanzhong area will be completely fall into Zhang Zhong's hands.

On that day, Zhang Zhong led his army of 5,000 to Fangling, and then sent an envoy to the city to persuade him to surrender. Unexpectedly, the magistrate of Fangling not only did not surrender, but also pressed the envoy to the city wall and killed him in front of him.

Seeing the messenger's head fall from the city wall, Zhang Zhong was furious and immediately ordered the siege.

The anger sounded, and the soldiers began to attack the city, but when they marched, they were exhausted, resulting in unfavorable attack.

Seeing that the casualties were too great, Zhang Zhong calmed down and ordered people to withdraw their troops and attack next time.

A rapid golden sound sounded, and the soldiers who were carrying the pressure to attack the city breathed a sigh of relief, and then retreated like a tide.

The defenders on the city wall saw them repel the offensive of the traitors, raised their weapons in their hands to celebrate the victory.

Back in the camp, Zhang Zhong asked the military doctor to treat the wounded, and sent a meticulous worker to sneak into the city to spy on military information.

After doing these things, Zhang Zhong asked someone to make some food, eat and drink enough, and took his personal guards to inspect the battalions.

...

At around ten o'clock in the evening, Zhang Zhong yawned, put down the military book in his hand, and prepared to go to bed.

He blew out the oil lamp on the table and went to bed in the dark. When he was about to fall asleep, the sound of his personal guards came from outside the tent.

He said that the detailed work sent out has been back.

When Zhang Zhong heard this, he shouted outside the reconciliation: "Come in."

A man in coarse cloth clothes walked in, saw Zhang Zhong, and bowed with fists: "I have met the general."

"Yes." Zhang Zhong nodded, as a response, and then said: "Tell me all the situations you found."

"Yes, General."

He responded carefully and told him all about his spying on the city truthfully.

"Go down and receive the reward!" Zhang Zhong waved his hand and asked him to continue to do it carefully.

He was very happy and said excitedly: "Thank you, General."

Then, Xiaozhu turned around and left the tent, and went to find the quarantine officer to receive the reward.

After leaving carefully, Zhang Zhong fell into deep thought.

According to him, the county magistrate of Fangling was named Nongdazhi. He served as the county magistrate for two years and was deeply supported by the local people.

Since the news of the rebels in Hanzhong spread here, the Agricultural University asked the merchants in the city to pay for the food, and he used the money and grain to summon righteous men to train uniformly to prevent the rebels from invading the city.

This led to Zhang Zhong's failure to conquer the city.

Although Fangling is large, it has a sparse population and a steep terrain. It is also a barrier to the entry of Jingzhou into Yizhou.

This is also the reason why Zhang Zhong led his troops to arrive.

If you attack with a strong force, you must lose huge losses before you can defeat it. If you attack with a strong force, you can only be smart.

So how to know?

This problem makes Zhang Zhong have a headache.

...

The next morning, Zhang Zhong ordered the entire army to decapitate the camp. The soldiers were very puzzled by the military order. Could it be that they would not fight?

Not only do they not understand, but even the enemy does not understand.

Then, the Song army guarding the city began to cheer. After all, the thieves retreated and they no longer had to fight to kill anyone.

Next, the city returned to its former liveliness and the people began to walk around the streets.

Of course, they would not relax like this, and they always sent people to stare outside the city. As long as there were thieves, they would go to the city to fight against the enemy just like training.

There was no news of rebels for five days. The officials and civilians in Fangling thought that the rebels had retreated, so they completely relaxed their vigilance.

Until that night, the east gate of Fangling was opened and ten men in black appeared.

“Send a signal.”

The leader ordered the person beside him.

With a "swoosh", an arrow with fire broke through the dark sky.

Then there were dense fires in front of them, from far to near, and countless people came to the city gate.

These people were the rebels who had disappeared for a while, and Zhang Zhong brought the people back to kill them.

When they entered the city, they quickly controlled the city gates, county government offices, treasury, etc....

When they entered the county government office, two personal guards pressed the Nongdazhi who had not yet woken up and came to Zhang Zhong.

"Does it be reduced?"

Zhang Zhong asked directly without any extra words.

"Bah!" Agriculture's facial distorted and said excitedly: "Thief, don't think about it!"

"Turn it out and kill it." Even though he did not surrender, Zhang Zhong did not keep him and waved his hand to let his personal guards pull him out.

Starting today, the entire Hanzhong area fell into Zhang Zhong's hands.

The next day, Zhang Zhong ordered the soldiers to destroy the entire Shang gentry in the city, to loot a large amount of money and grain, and to send people to Nanzheng.

At the same time, one thousand soldiers were left behind, and a chief general was appointed as the magistrate of Fangling County, and led the troops to Nanzheng.

Back in Nanzheng, Zhang Zhong wrote a good news, plus a lot of money and food, and asked someone to escort it to Zitong.

...

At the same time, news of Zhang Rui's rebellion in Yizhou spread to the capital, and the officials and people in the capital were shocked.

In addition to Yizhou, Xuzhou and Yangzhou rebelled at the same time, and the entire empire began to be crumbling.

Although the emperor was furious, he still sent troops to quell the rebellion.

The most urgent task is to quell the rebellion in Xuzhou first, and at the same time, urge the chief generals of Yiyang and the two prefectures to suppress it first. When Xuzhou is pacified, the court will send troops to support it.

(End of this chapter)
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