Chapter 39: The Battle of Chengdu (4)

The fighting has stopped for two days, and the physical fatigue of the soldiers and civilians in Chengdu has also rested from the continuous fighting in the past few days, but everyone's tense nerves have not relaxed in the past two days. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Because the enemy army has not attacked the city in the past two days, the people who have been helping the soldiers to defend the city at the head of the city a few days ago have also left the city wall, after all, they don't know the special soldiers, and they also have many other things that they need to deal with, so now there are no ordinary people above the city wall in Chengdu, only soldiers.

At this time, the city of Chengdu has been far more than the city of Chengdu built by Zhang Yi of the Qin Dynasty, but it is still divided into Taicheng and Shaocheng, the two cities are connected to the east and west, of which Taicheng is the seat of the government at that time, that is, the administrative center, Shaocheng is mainly a gathering place for merchants, that is, the economic center, and the two cities show a heavy city structure. At this time, Chengdu City has a total of 18 gates, including nine gates of Taicheng and Shaocheng, the north of Taicheng is Xianyang Gate, Shuomen, and the south of Jiangqiao Gate; The Yang City Gate and Xuanming Gate in the south of Shaocheng, the Shiqiao Gate and the Zhixi Gate in the west, and all the city gates are built with gatehouses, which shows that Chengdu is quite prosperous at this time.

However, after this period of war, even the prosperous city of Chengdu can not withstand the devastation of the war, and it has been obvious that the city has shown a dilapidated appearance in the past few days. The once bustling streets are now deserted, with only the occasional pedestrian rushing by, and the shops on both sides of the street are mostly closed.

As soon as he finished breakfast, Liu Xun led some guards to patrol the city wall. After the end of the battle of Luocheng, Liu Xun returned to Chengdu, due to the fiasco in Luocheng, Liu Xun in Chengdu for a period of time after the whole person opened up a little decadent, it is estimated that the defeat of Luocheng hit him a little too big, but after all, it is the young lord of the entire Xichuan, after a period of decadence and reinvigorated, this period of time Liu Bei attacked Chengdu, Liu Xun did not spend less effort on defense. Although he was defeated in Luocheng, he also accumulated a lot of experience in defense, you must know that war experience is too important, and now Liu Zhang has no generals, plus Liu Xun is Liu Zhang's son The future lord of Xichuan, so now Liu Zhang has put the burden of defending Chengdu into Liu Xun's hands, Liu Xun did not disappoint, and he performed extremely well in the battle a few days ago, and he had a general demeanor.

Although the enemy army did not attack the city in the past two days, Liu Xun knew that the defense could not be relaxed at all, so he basically stayed on the city wall during the day in the past two days, and the commanders and soldiers should put more stones and arrows in those places. When the soldiers saw that the young lord had been on the city wall, their hearts were half relieved.

Outside Chengdu, Liu Bei's military camp.

At noon on the second day after Shi Yuan set out from Ruocheng with the army, he came to Liu Bei's military camp outside Chengdu. As soon as I walked to the gate of the barracks, I saw Liu Bei, Jian Yong and others walking out of the military tent and walking quickly towards the gate of the barracks. At this time, Ma Chao and Ma Dai were standing behind Shi Yuan, and Shi Yuan saw the lord walking towards him quickly, and hurriedly walked towards Liu Bei.

"Strategist, I haven't seen you for many days, I miss it very much!" Liu Bei said from afar before he walked to Shi Yuan's side.

"Lord!" Shi Yuan also hurriedly shouted.

Liu Bei walked in front of Shi Yuan and glanced at both sides, good guys, the two tiger generals stood on both sides of Shi Yuan, and their figures were very burly. Because he had already received the news from Shiyuan, Liu Bei also knew who these two tiger generals were at this time, but it was better to be famous than to see each other, Liu Bei only felt that the world's praise was less than one ten-thousandth of this person after seeing the real person.

"These two generals must be Ma Chao and Ma Dai! It's really two tiger generals, with you helping our army, it's like a tiger with wings! Liu Bei said happily, and then faced the person standing on Shi Yuan's left and said:

"This is General Ma Chao, who once fought a decisive battle with Cao Thief in Tongguan and killed Cao Thief to cut off his beard and abandon his robe! General Tsushima has been admired for a long time! Come, the general will come with me to the tent. After speaking, Liu Bei grabbed Ma Chao with one hand and Shi Yuan with the other, and the three of them walked towards the military tent together.

After entering the military tent, everyone sat down in turn, Shi Yuan sat in the first position of Liu Bei's right hand at this time, but what was surprising was that Liu Bei's first person to do his left hand turned out to be General Ma Chao, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan and other generals sat behind Ma Chao in turn, which shows how much Liu Bei values Ma Chao. However, at first, Ma Chao resolutely disagreed to sit in this position, and later agreed to sit in this position under the strong persuasion of Liu Bei and Shi Yuan.

Ma Chao saw that Liu Bei valued himself so much, and said gratefully:

"Fortunately, the military advisor and General Li Hui ordered me to return to the Ming Lord, and now the haze in my heart has also disappeared, which is really happy!"

"General Ma Chao was a hero at that time, invincible in the world, and now he is working with me Liu Bei, and I am very happy. When the matter of Xichuan is completely settled, I will work with the general to avenge your father, General Malao. Liu Bei said.

Later, Ma Chao and Liu Bei talked about some things about the battle with Cao Cao and some things that happened after the defeat, and Liu Bei lowered his head and sighed after listening to it.

"Lord, Lord Jian Yong has already told me in Luocheng that the lord has encountered some problems in attacking Chengdu, and now I have a strategy to take Chengdu." Shi Yuan saw that the atmosphere was a little wrong at this time, and hurriedly said next to Liu Bei.

"Oh, that's great, now this Chengdu city is really giving me a headache! I didn't expect Liu Zhang's defense to be so tenacious. Liu Bei said with some surprise, I guess he didn't expect Shi Yuan to think of a strategy to break Chengdu so quickly!

"Lord, this strategy is mainly based on attacking the heart, attacking the city below, and recruiting Liu Zhang as the best. But looking at the current situation, it should be impossible to recruit Liu Zhang now. Therefore, tomorrow we should send troops to continue the siege of the city, and we should send our most elite troops up to give the city of Chengdu the fiercest attack, and we should be afraid of Liu Zhang. In this way, we can have an advantage in our hearts, and it will be easy to persuade Liu Zhang to surrender. Shi Yuan said to Liu Bei.

As soon as Shi Yuan finished speaking, he saw someone standing up below, Shi Yuan looked at it, it was the strategist Fa Zheng, and Fa Zheng, who only listened, said at this time:

"My lord, the strategy of the military advisor is inappropriate. Now the people in Chengdu are also defending the city, if the siege of the city tomorrow will definitely cause great harm to the people, which will have a very bad impact on the name of benevolence and righteousness of the lord, so please consider it carefully. ”

In fact, before Shi Yuan came, Liu Bei had already listened to Fa Zheng's suggestion, surrounded Chengdu without fighting, and then waited for Shi Yuan's arrival, but what Liu Bei didn't expect was that Shi Yuan's suggestions were the same as the suggestions of several generals, all of which were to attack Chengdu, and they had to be very violent, to be honest, Liu Bei was also a little puzzled by this, and what Fa Zheng stood up and said at this time was exactly what Liu Bei wanted to say, so after Fa Zheng finished speaking, Liu Bei, Fa Zheng and everyone in the military tent looked at Shi Yuan, It's all about listening carefully to why Shi Yuan is doing this.