The moon hangs high, and the bright stars dot the vast Milky Way.

Under the city of Chengdu, the counterinsurgency battle, which lasted for more than a month, ended at noon today.

At dawn half a month ago, Zhang Ren, Wu Yi, Lei Tong and other generals led the new army "Dongzhou soldiers" to attack the rebel camp. Although Zhao Wei had long been wary of Zhang Ren leading his army out of the city to attack, he was still caught off guard, so that the camp was burned, most of the grain and grass were lost, and more than 20,000 soldiers and horses were killed and wounded, resulting in heavy losses.

However, although the sneak attack and robbery camp achieved very gratifying results, it was not successful.

This is because although Zhao Wei's rebels suffered a lot of casualties, the Dongzhou soldiers led by Zhang Ren and others also paid a huge price, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 600 themselves, which was also a heavy casualty.

The newly formed Dongzhou army gathered a total of more than 40,000 people, all of whom were newly recruited young and strong laborers who fled to Yizhou from Jingzhou and Sanfu in the early years. According to post-war statistics, after an unexpected battle of raiding the camp, Dongzhou soldiers lost more than 15,000 people, including 5,000 wounded soldiers.

In contrast, although Zhao Wei's rebels were taken by surprise, they were after all well-equipped and well-trained divisions for a long time, with rich experience in fighting and strong combat effectiveness. Therefore, even in an extremely unfavorable passive situation, the rebel soldiers still stubbornly resisted, fought bravely, and resisted the sneak attack and robbery of the camp by the Dongzhou soldiers, keeping them out of the camp. During the battle, the rebels suffered more than 23,000 casualties, including more than 7,000 wounded soldiers. The remaining fifteen thousand people were killed.

At first glance, the Dongzhou soldiers still had the upper hand, and the results were greater than those of the rebels. Clearly victorious. However, the rebels were already outnumbered, at first there were 100,000 people, and after half a month's siege, there were more than 70,000 people; After the robbery, there were still 50,000 troops. In contrast, the defenders of Chengdu originally had more than 20,000 men, and nearly 10,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in the previous battles to defend the city. More than half of the troops were lost; After more than 40,000 Dongzhou soldiers arrived for reinforcements, after the battle of looting the camp, the defenders only had 50,000 horses left. It is equal to the strength of the Zhao Wei rebels under the city.

Therefore, the battle of the camp was not a success, at most it was a small victory. However, it was such a small victory or a miserable victory, but it was the first victory won by Liu Zhang's army since the rebels besieged the city. Although the symbolism of this small victory is far greater than the actual result. But the impact is far-reaching. The impact on the entire counterinsurgency campaign is enormous, and its positive impact is immeasurable.

Therefore, the battle of the camp was a turning point in the Yizhou counterinsurgency war, and it was also the beginning of Liu Zhang's army from defense to offensive, which opened the prelude to the counterinsurgency war, and Zhao Wei's rebels ushered in a large-scale counteroffensive by Liu Zhang's army.

At the same time, the first victory under the city of Chengdu was deliberately exaggerated by Liu Zhang's subordinates, and then exaggerated and processed by major families and powerful gentlemen. This small victory turned into an unprecedented victory in the blink of an eye. Under such unremitting propaganda and agitation, the confidence of the county officials in countering the rebellion was greatly encouraged. It strengthened the morale of the defenders everywhere, thus exacerbating the demise of Zhao Wei's rebels.

Since then, for most of the month, the defenders of various counties and counties have fought back in an all-round way, fought to the death with the rebels, and successively repelled the rebels besieging the counties and counties, and then took the initiative to attack and clear the remnants of the rebels.

In the face of the strong counterattack of Liu Zhang's army, the excellent situation that was originally extremely beneficial to the rebels took a sharp turn for the worse, causing the rebel army of Zhao Wei, who was still stationed under the city of Chengdu, to be disheartened, the people's hearts were fluctuating, and their morale was low. Seeing this, Zhao Wei not only did not withdraw the army as soon as possible, but once again summoned the rebels from all counties to gather under the city of Chengdu, trying to make a last stand, capture the thief and capture the king first, and capture Chengdu in one fell swoop. Only in this way can he redeem his defeat; As long as Liu Zhang is captured, he will be the final victor, and then it will be as easy as finding a bag to subdue the subordinates and clans in Yizhou, so that taking charge of Yizhou is just around the corner.

It's a pity that the ideal is very plump and the reality is very skinny.

This sentence was once used for Liu Zhang and Yizhou officials, but now it should be for Zhao Wei and his rebels.

It can really be said that it is thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, feng shui is flowing turbulently, and when Zhao Yun is in decline and prosperity, feng shui falls on Liu Zhang's head.

At noon two days ago, Liu Zhang came to the city for the first time and shouted with Zhao Yun under the city. In fact, Liu Zhang wanted to re-recruit Zhao Yun and persuade him to put down his weapons and surrender to himself, so that he could avoid his death, so that his family and clansmen would not be punished by him and cause trouble.

However, it was not so much that Liu Zhang wanted to recruit Zhao Wei, but that he wanted to take the 80,000 troops under the city for his own use.

This is because Liu Zhang got accurate news not long ago that the real strong enemy facing Yizhou has appeared, and it is like a sky-swallowing giant beast that is rapidly rushing towards Chengdu, overturning the river and the sea, fierce and unstoppable. This menacing beast is hiding behind Zhao Yun's rebels at this moment, galloping all the way along the road of Zhao Yun's rebels' south, and it may suddenly appear under Chengdu at any time.

At present, this chilling news is still unknown, only a very few people know about it, but they know very little, and all they hear are some rumors that catch the wind and catch the shadows; This also includes Liu Zhang. Of course, it is impossible for Zhao Wei not to know the news that he knows, and even Zhao Wei learned the news much earlier than him.

However, Zhao Wei turned a deaf ear to this, turned a blind eye, and still led the army to trap Liu Zhang's army in the city. In this way, Liu Zhang was forced to be unable to make any defenses or emergency measures against the upcoming Sky Devouring Behemoth, and could only sit back and watch the Behemoth approach step by step, but he could not get rid of the entanglement of Zhao Wei's rebels.

In this regard, Liu Zhang's officials and Liu Zhang himself could not help but suspect that Zhao Wei was secretly colluding with this sky-swallowing giant beast that was approaching Yizhou to try to carve up the nine counties of Yizhou. Otherwise, Zhao Wei obviously knew that there was a strong enemy entering Yizhou behind him, how could he be entangled with Liu Zhang regardless of it?

But this is just speculation, groundless, and the result of subjective speculation. So far, there is no indication that Zhao Yun has had contact with the Xiliang Giant Beast, and there is no evidence to prove that Zhao Yun has taken refuge in Xiliang Li Li.

Because of this, Liu Zhang climbed to the top of the city and talked to Zhao Wei in person, trying to persuade him to wake up as much as possible, turn back the prodigal son, and join forces with himself to resist the Xiliang giant beasts, so as to keep this land of Longxing of the Liu clan, which is also the foundation of the Liu clan for more than 400 years.

It's a pity that this is just Liu Zhang's wishful thinking. To this day, it is impossible for Zhao Wei to turn back, from the moment he launched the rebellion, he has embarked on a road of no return, except to rush all the way down, there is no way back, and there is no turning back.

So in the midst of shouting, they did not speculate with each other, and they parted unhappily.

With a wave of Liu Zhang's hand, tens of thousands of troops rushed out of the city gate and launched a final decisive battle with the Zhao Wei rebels under the city. When the soldiers and horses of the two armies were almost equal, Zhao Wei's rebels did not show weakness, fought bravely, and fought with Liu Zhang's army in the dark, the sun and the moon were dark.

This decisive battle, which numbered more than 100,000 people, lasted for two days and two nights, and the officers and men of the two armies fought desperately, fighting bloodily day and night, and the battle was unprecedentedly tragic.

In the decisive battle, every other hour, tens of thousands of soldiers of the two armies were strewn across the battlefield, and the moat that was more than ten miles long was stained red with blood, and the blood was red, which was terrifying to see. The land within a radius of more than ten miles outside the east gate is full of corpses and flesh, murderous and blood-mist, so that the dense fog that appears in the morning and evening is rendered into a red blood mist, just like Senluo purgatory, which is really a catastrophe that has not been seen for hundreds of years.

Until the morning of the third day, Zhao Wei's rebels were finally defeated, because most of the troops they faced against Liu Zhang's army were Shu County and Yizhou Qingzhuang west of Shu County (Xichuan). In order to defend their wives and children and their homes, these soldiers braved death one by one, and finally repelled the rebels of Zhao Wei from northern and eastern Sichuan (collectively referred to as Dongchuan), and won the final victory of the Armageddon.

At noon, the city of Chengdu gradually returned to calm, the smoke cleared, as many as tens of thousands of corpses and wrecks were also transported away, and the devastated wilderness was releveled. It wasn't until night fell that the outside of the East Gate was completely cleaned up, but the blood-colored mist that condensed over the city could not be dispelled, and it still shrouded the huge state city.

?????? At night, the chirping of summer insects is incessant, and the cries and choks of the loss of a son or husband can be heard everywhere in the city.

Although the fighting outside the city has completely subsided, many people will not be able to sleep tonight, and it is destined to be a very unquiet night.

At about 8 o'clock in the evening, a group of seven carriages entered the city from the West Gate and slowly drove to the Wu Mansion located in the middle of Chengbei Street in Chengdu.

More than 100 gray-clothed servants followed the chariot around, approaching the gate of the Wu Mansion, and a maidservant in a green skirt walked out of the first carriage. But as soon as she appeared, the soldier who was guarding the gate of the mansion ran up to meet her with a sneer, bowed to her with a smile on his face, and then the two whispered, during which the maid pointed to the carriage and the attendant behind her from time to time, and did not know what to say.

After a short time, the maid turned back to the carriage, but did not get into the carriage again, and the janitor ran into the ear gate (the small doors on both sides of the main entrance) with brisk steps, quickly opened the door of the house, and welcomed the chariot and the servants into the house.

As more than 100 people drove into the mansion, the front yard of the Wu Mansion, which was originally silent, was suddenly brightly lit, and dozens of maidservants and servants rushed to hear the news, among which the one who walked in the front was a big man in a brocade robe and a strong figure.

Obviously, he is the master of the Wu Mansion, the Zhonglang General Wu Yi and Wu Ziyuan.

When Wu Yi took the maid and Hu Cong to the carriage where the green-clothed maid was, the maid casually lifted the curtain of the carriage, and out of it came a beautiful woman with a graceful figure, a sweet appearance, and a graceful appearance. She got out of the car, but when she saw her bowing to Wu Yi, she immediately walked to Wu Yi's side, and leaned into Wu Yi's ear as if no one was around, and whispered softly??????

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