Now, everyone seems to feel that death is near, and who can really settle down to fight the enemy when they know that the army is in chaos, their hopes are dashed, and they will die at any time?

Just when the 100,000 Xishu army was panicked and a little overwhelmed, wondering what would happen next, and where they would go, the Celestial Empire army launched an attack on the front.

The 300,000 people of the five legions and the 500,000 people of the first legion rushed to kill like a mountain and a sea, and the momentum from a distance was enough to shock people's hearts and make people's hearts collapse.

The soldiers of the Xishu Army, who were originally discouraged because of the fire in the rear, saw that the enemy was so huge, and suddenly most of their fighting spirit melted. Subsequently, I don't know which person took the lead in fleeing first, and then this whirlwind of escape intent spread rapidly, so that when General Hu Che'er wanted to lead his troops to meet the enemy, he found that there were less than 5,000 soldiers available in his hands.

100,000 people, turned into 5,000, this huge contrast caused Hu Che'er to be stunned, at this moment he knew that the Xishu army was over.

It's just that by Liu Bei's heavy use, Hu Che'er is still very righteous, and now that it's finally time to use him, how can he retreat? Facing the Xishu army, which had only 5,000 soldiers, he raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, the time has come for us to be loyal to the emperor, everyone will kill with me!" ”

Hu Che'er led only 5,000 soldiers to fight with the oncoming army of 800,000 of the Celestial Empire. When they rushed into the army of the Celestial Empire, it was like a small boat in the sea, and they only lasted less than half an hour, and all of them were destroyed, including Hu Che'er himself, who also died in chaos among the ten thousand armies.

A person's strength is strong, but it is also limited, and there is a time when the strength is used up, this time facing the army of the Celestial Empire dozens of times that of his own, even if Hu Lier has some force, it is difficult to have the power to return to the sky in the end.

Hu Che'er died in battle, and the 100,000 Xishu army was gone, and the first and fifth army corps accelerated the speed of the march, and they wanted to take advantage of the chaos of the Xishu army to kill and deal a heavy blow to the enemy.

In fact, without the arrival of the army, Xu Huang alone with 100,000 iron cavalry had already dealt Liu Bei a heavy blow.

There were fires everywhere, and most of the soldiers in the army were recruits who had never been on the battlefield, and under all kinds of bad conditions, the 700,000 Xishu army had long been in chaos and had no will to fight.

Liu Bei was rescued from the tent by the guards, and at this time he didn't even have time to put on the imperial robe, so he retreated under the protection of the guards and the Qilin Army, leaving behind only the soldiers in chaos and the continuous military camp burned by the fire.

The barracks of more than 700,000 troops were burned by this fire. Countless of them died in the fire, and most of the soldiers who escaped fled in a panic, most of them were forcibly conscripted into the army, and now that they have the opportunity to leave, who will not grasp it? Only some veterans are still resisting desperately, but in the face of Xu Huang's 100,000 iron cavalry, all they do is to hold on for a little more time.

Subsequently, when the main forces of the 1st and 5th Army Corps arrived, the Xishu army that was still delusional and stubborn finally knew the general trend, and immediately divided the army into countless units and headed in all directions.

After Xu Shu arrived, he did not arrange people to chase after the fleeing Shu army, what he had to do now was to catch Liu Bei, as long as he could catch this person, even if the Han family was completely destroyed, those fleeing soldiers would not be threatened.

From Xu Huang's mouth, knowing that Liu Bei was heading towards Yizhou with tens of thousands of soldiers and 20,000 Qilin troops, Xu Shu immediately ordered the generals to divide the road, blocking and chasing, and Liu Bei was bound to be blocked outside Yizhou. At the same time, he also reported the good news of this battle to Tianyan to the emperor Zhang Chao.

At this moment, Zhang Chao had just taken Xicheng and captured Guan Yu. Soon received Xu Shu's battle report, and immediately he rushed towards Nanjun with 30,000 Zhangjia light cavalry and 20,000 Zhangjia heavy cavalry. He is also very concerned about whether Liu Bei can be caught.

Compared with Zhang Chao's complacency, Liu Bei at this moment was indeed pale and depressed.

Originally, he thought that he would bring nearly a million troops out of Yizhou, and he would soon be able to calm the problem of Jingzhou, and then restore the strength of Xishu. never thought that the final result was that hundreds of thousands of troops were wiped out, and only 50,000 soldiers escaped with him, including 20,000 Qilin troops.

"Your Majesty, the scouts have come to report, in front of us, a large number of cavalry of the Celestial Empire have been discovered, and our road to Yizhou has been broken." A tall general came to Liu Bei and fell to his knees with a somewhat painful expression.

The person who came was Chen Deng, the general of the Qilin Army, and at this time he also became the strongest military general that Liu Bei could rely on.

Hearing that the road to return had been cut off, Liu Bei's eyes showed a hint of sloppiness, and he knew that this time he was afraid that he would really be unable to escape from his ascension.

Liu Bei would walk so slowly, and he was blocked by Xu Shu's arrangement, completely because the camp was burned and the war horses were in chaos, which caused him not to bring enough healthy horses when he left the camp. Without wrestling, it will naturally go slowly.

In addition, Liu Bei has always fantasized about whether his soldiers can repel the pursuers of the Celestial Empire, so he walked even more slowly.

If you are slow and fast, you have the current situation of Liu Bei. And after knowing that the retreat was blocked, Liu Bei also seemed very calm, "General Chen, you ordered everyone to go down and let everyone find a high ground to camp, and at the same time prepare enough water sources to wait for reinforcements." ”

Even if you can't escape, then you can't escape, who knows if there will be any ambush on the road? Instead of walking cautiously, it is better to build defenses and wait for reinforcements to come, he believes that once his situation spreads, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang and third brother Zhang Fei will definitely come to the rescue.

Liu Bei found a high ground to settle down, and made a desperate defense, in order to persist more, waiting for the arrival of Xishu reinforcements. But at this moment, where are there any reinforcements in Xishu? Outside the city of Chengdu, it has long been the pressure of the army, and the arrows are tense.

Mianzhu was lost, Zhang Ren was captured, and only General Wang Ping escaped with less than 20,000 soldiers. And immediately behind them was Zhang Liao's headquarters of the Seventh Legion of the Celestial Empire.

If it weren't for the fact that Chengdu City strengthened the city wall several times under the guidance of Zhuge Liang and built two moats, I am afraid that the Seventh Army would have attacked the city by now.

As soon as the Seventh Army arrived on the outskirts of Chengdu, the minds of some people in the city became active again.

Before, it was precisely because of the capture of the hearts of the people in Chengdu that Zhuge Liang withdrew from Mianzhu and came here to settle the sentence, and even arrested Huang Quan, the old minister of Yizhou, and reused the local scholar Ma clan Ma Yan, which can be regarded as suppressing some turbulence in the city.

However, as the Mianzhu was broken and the Celestial Empire army pressed the border, the various voices that were forcibly suppressed began to resurge, and even intensified.

Anyone can see that Chengdu will be the last barrier for Yizhou to resist the Celestial Empire's army, which means that most of Yizhou has become the place of the Celestial Empire, and most of the world in the future will also become the Celestial Empire.

If so, what is the use of resistance? There is no other result than death.

Knowing this, people who don't want to die have begun to use their minds, and they have begun to think about how to curry favor with the Celestial Empire army, and then get their own maximum benefits.

This is the case of the Shi family, in their eyes, the so-called loyalty to the monarch is very weak. What they pay more attention to is whether their interests will be damaged and whether they can maximize their interests.

Yizhou, also known as the land of abundance, is rich in products, it can be said that the scholars here are still very rich, and even a long time ago, even some of the big clans in the Central Plains and the north will not be put in their eyes, this is the existence of confidence.

But now, because Zhang Chao is heavy on agriculture and commerce, especially the development of commerce, it has long been a different gang, such as in the Western Regions, in the northern Rus' country, there are already many caravans of the Celestial Empire. Taking advantage of these, some scholars in the Central Plains and the north have intervened in it to seek benefits. Faintly, the strength of those people has surpassed that of these big clans in Yizhou.

People who were originally inferior to themselves are now stronger than themselves, which is something that makes people angry, not to mention, even the northern warriors who have always been considered by them to be a wild land are getting stronger and stronger, and even surpassing them, which makes people even more unhappy.

Unfortunately, they saw the changes, but they couldn't do much. Although Liu Bei also began to develop commerce in the later period, because of the relationship between Western Shu and the Celestial Empire, their trade routes were very limited, most of them were in Yizhou and Jingzhou, and even if they went to Jiangdong, they could not get effective protection. The site is so small, which shows how difficult it will be to develop.

It was precisely because of the lack of strong development that they became more and more dissatisfied with Liu Bei, and finally became dissenting after Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty left Chengdu. Now the Celestial Empire's army is besieging the city, which is equivalent to giving them another hope and opportunity.

Knowing that if they couldn't make a decision and make a statement before breaking through Chengdu City, once they waited for the army to enter the city, they were afraid that they would not have a chance to come forward to curry favor, and for a while, the city sergeant's family stepped up contact.

For this kind of dark wave that happened in the city, Zhuge Liang could naturally see it clearly. But he was not very worried, as long as he was in the city for a day, the military power would be firmly in his hands. As for the Celestial Empire's army attacking the city, he would not be afraid.

Unless there is a cannon like the Eight Golden Lock Array, otherwise, it is obviously not so easy to break the two moats and the tall city walls, even if there is artillery, the Celestial Empire army will need to pay a great price if they want to enter the city.

It is with such confidence that Zhuge Liang did not feel afraid in the face of those small actions, and even let these people contact him, because he was thinking of a way to catch all these people, and only by making them defenseless could they find everyone out.