When the Shu soldiers left the city, the Jingzhou soldiers had already eaten and rested for half an hour.

When Huan Meng received the military report, he immediately led the army straight forward, traveling for about several miles, to the bank of the river in the south of the city.

A bridge across the river.

This bridge is called the Tsui Bridge, also known as the Yili Bridge.

Unlike the usual arch bridges, this bridge is an overhead suspension bridge made of woven bamboo cables.

Chengdu is known as "Erjiang Erqi City, Nine Bridges with its Flow", there are two rivers surrounding outside the city, above the two rivers, there are now a total of nine bridges. - In the earliest days, it was not the Nine Bridges, but the Seven Bridges, which were built from the hands of Li Bing, the Taishou of Shu County of the Qin State during the Warring States Period, corresponding to the Big Dipper in the sky. In the early and middle of the Qin Dynasty, the seven bridges were added on the basis of the seven bridges, so there are now nine bridges.

The Huan Meng soldiers arrived in the south of the bridge, and many of the Shu soldiers who came out of the city of Chengdu were already on the shore.

The follow-up Shu troops continued to pass through the bridge and lined up with the south bank.

On the mighty river, the river breeze is blowing, and the north side of the dangling bridge is seen in the distance, the bamboo forest is lush, the grass and trees are vigorous, and the flowers are all over the field, and can not cover the majestic Chengdu city wall; On the bridge, the soldiers are like ants; On the south bank, tens of thousands of Shu soldiers were waiting for them.

Huan Meng was shocked to realize that the cavalry who probed the enemy's situation and his military report, "the defenders were about more than 10,000 people", but they were wrong.

What the cavalry saw should only be the forward of the Shu soldiers out of the city.

Only at this time, there were already tens of thousands of Shu soldiers on the south bank.

If you add to that those who are crossing the bridge and those who are waiting to cross the river on the other side of the bridge, I am afraid that there will be no less than 20,000 or 30,000.

Li Dang must have come out of the city, and everyone came to fight a decisive battle with Huanmeng.

Huan Meng summoned the cavalrymen who reported the enemy's situation to come close and asked, "Is this more than 10,000 people?" ”

Military law: Those who investigate the enemy's situation is unclear, or falsely report the enemy's situation, shall be beheaded in accordance with the law.

The horsemen's faces were as white as earth, and they fell to the ground, not daring to squeak.

Huan Meng said in his heart: "This hundred and ten horsemen are the daring soldiers in our army. Now that the enemy is outnumbered, it is not appropriate to kill lightly and damage our combat strength. Calmly and slowly, he said, "For the time being, I have spared the crime of falsely reporting the enemy's situation; The war is imminent, and Xu Er and others will make meritorious contributions. ”

More than 100 cavalry responded awe-inspiringly.

Yuan Ziqiao watched the Shu array in front of him for a long time, galloped back to Huan Meng's side, and said: "Shu is full of people, you should take advantage of its halfway to attack it!" ”

Huan Meng had also been observing the Shu array for a long time, he pondered for a while, and said: "The Shu soldiers have set up a total of three formations on the south bank: left, center, and right. I see it as having the most foot soldiers and the strongest formation; And the left formation was dominated by cavalry. Our army is small, and if it strikes it, its left flank will come to attack us; If you strike them to the right and left, they will come against me. Uncle Yan, which time do you say it's better to attack it first? ”

Yuan Ziqiao had a plan and said: "It is precisely because of the small number of soldiers in our army that we should be vigorous. The captives are in the middle of the battle, where their main general Deng Hun is, as long as this formation can be broken, the captives will be defeated! It is the upper position of the attack. ”

Mao Husheng agreed with Yuan Ziqiao this time, and also thought that he should attack the Shu soldiers in the middle of the battle.

He volunteered and said, "Your Majesty, please supervise the fine cavalry and prepare for battle on the right to prevent the cavalry from the left from attacking." ”

In a few words, the plan was agreed.

Huan Meng immediately made a decision, so he ordered the drumming to be beaten, divided into hundreds of cavalry, and supervised by Mao Husheng to protect the flank of the main force; 5,000 armor soldiers, paid Yuan Ziqiao, and ordered him to attack the middle of the Shu soldiers. Huan Meng himself, together with Xie Zhi and other wingmen, led the remaining infantry of more than 2,000 people as a reserve and deployed the rear.

The heavy drum beat thundered.

The foot soldiers of Huanmeng's main formation sat on the ground and the cavalry dismounted to maintain the physical strength of the people and the horses.

Mao Husheng led hundreds of cavalry, rode out of the column, hovered on the right, and always paid attention to the movements of the left formation of the Shu army opposite.

Yuan Ziqiao still didn't wear armor, just a hakama.

When the 5,000 warriors allocated to him by Huan Meng came to a halt, he rode his horse and galloped in front of the formation, giving lectures.

Standing in the front row, all of them were armored foot soldiers, all of whom were the elite of the Huanmeng army, and their eyes followed Yuan Ziqiao, and they heard Yuan Ziqiao say loudly: "We will follow Ming Gong and cut down Shu for thousands of miles." Since entering Shu, our generation has conquered all the battles, invincible, both Kepengmo and Li Li three times. The prestige of our army is famous, and Shu Yu looks at the wind and escapes! Chengdu is on the other side, and the day of success is today! Although the captives are prosperous, they are still crossing the river, and we only need to break through them, and it is expected that they will collapse without a fight! Gentlemen! ”

Inspired by the victories of the past, the soldiers were still high in fighting spirit, despite being outnumbered, and responded in unison: "No! ”

Yuan Ziqiao turned his horse to the side, made way for the soldiers to advance, drew his sword, pointed at the center of the Shu army, and ordered: "Enter!" ”

The drums became more and more vigorous, and 5,000 Jingzhou soldiers, under the leadership of the generals and colonels of various departments, took steps forward and attacked the middle of the Shu army hundreds of steps away.

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Under the city of Pengmo.

Thousands of Shu soldiers flocked to the city.

The Jingzhou soldiers at the head of the city guarded, bows and crossbows fired in unison, throwing stones to resist.

However, Yashi was blocked by the big basket held by the Shu soldiers.

There are many bamboos in Shu, these big baskets held by the Shu soldiers are all made of bamboo, the shape is like a half-boat, each basket can cage five people, and the arrow stone can not enter.

Seeing that the vanguard of the Shu soldiers had arrived under the city, more Shu soldiers were in an endless stream, and they also crossed the moat, getting closer and closer to the city wall, Sun Sheng and others were all panicked.

In the end, there were too few guards, and the total number of soldiers was less than two thousand, but they had to defend the walls on all four sides, and cut out the reserves, and on average, on each wall, the strength of the defenders was at most three or two hundred, and the face was more than two thousand enemies. Once the Shu soldiers broke into the city, by the time they began to climb the city, it was estimated that it would be difficult to hold the city no matter what.

Sun Sheng hurriedly spoke and said, "General, don't let Shu captives enter the city!" Those who are captives, bamboo baskets, can be burned with fire! ”

Zhou An accepted his suggestion and ordered the guards to light the pheasant torch and throw it under the city.

However, unexpectedly, the bamboo basket was semi-circular, and the top was quite smooth, and most of the pheasant torch had just been thrown away, and most of them had slipped and fell to the ground.

Seeing that the fire attack on the city was useless, the Shu soldiers were full of morale, and they even shouted to charge.

And the swift and brave one had set up the ladder and climbed upwards.

Zhou An was in danger, pressed the battlement, probed out, looked down, carefully observed the bamboo basket used by the Shu soldiers for a while, and found that there was a gap between the bamboo strips woven into the bamboo basket, so he had a countermeasure, and ordered to say: "Put the hook on the torch and throw it into the gap!" ”

There aren't that many ready-made hooks, but that's fine.

Sun Sheng urged the people to fold the wire, or bend the long needle, and soon made hundreds of new hooks.

Hook with pheasant tail torch.

When they were thrown into the city, there were still pheasant torches that slipped to the ground, but more pheasant torches stayed on them by hooking the gaps in the bamboo baskets. The paste on the pheasant tail torch flowed and soaked the bamboo basket, and the flames sparked, and soon a fire ignited. The Shu soldiers under the bamboo basket hurriedly discarded the bamboo basket. Without the shelter of the bamboo basket, the Shu soldiers could not cope with the rain of arrows and rolling stones at the head of the city, so they had to retreat.

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