There was a loud bang in the middle of the night in Wuyang City. The explosion killed Chen Shi, shocked Meng Da, and also alarmed Tai Shici and Li Ru outside Wuyang City.

During the day, Li Ru carefully paid attention to Gan Ning's expression and felt that he seemed to have something hidden in his heart. After Gan Ning left, Li Ru reminded Tai Shici to pay attention to Gan Ning's unauthorized actions. Tai Shi Ci is also a thoughtful person, and he felt that Li Ru's reminder was very reasonable, so he sent someone to secretly pay attention to the movements in Gan Ning's tent.

When Gan Ning left the big tent and went straight to Tucheng with dozens of soldiers who had surrendered from Yizhou, Tai Shici learned the news. Regarding Gan Ning's disobedience to the yin and the disobedience of orders this time, Tai Shici understands in his heart. Sometimes, there are some things that you know are dangerous and irrational, but you still need to do them, and only because you do them will you feel at ease. In the face of conscience, the rules and regulations seem not so important, and the key is that the thoughts of good and evil that come from the heart are the most difficult to conceal, and there is no need to conceal them.

Since Gan Ning insisted on going, Tai Shici did not send people to stop him, but immediately ordered all the armies to prepare for the siege of the city at night.

As it turned out later, these preparations made by Tai Shi Ci were very timely and useful.

After the assassination of the main general Meng Da and the deputy general Chen Shi, the defenders in the city fell into a panic, but they did not fall out of the city, and all chose to flee for their lives. At this time, there was a loud cannon fire outside the city, which completely frightened the originally chaotic defenders in the city, and Gan Ning and his brothers hid in the dark to fan the flames, so they scared away the Yizhou defenders in the city in a short time.

Although the Yizhou defenders in the city fled, the more than 10,000 old and weak women and children on the earth city could not quickly move to the city. The bad idea that the Sima family came up with is really perverted, the earthen city built around the south side of Wuyang City still has no ladders for the people to go up and down, after the original earthen city was repaired, the people were transported up with large equipment in the ladder and the well fence, and now the black light is blind for a while, how can it be transferred.

Besides, now the people in Tucheng are still bewitched by the Sima family, and they have a deep prejudice against the attacking Yinan Route Army under the city, even if the soldiers moved the tools to go down the city such as ladders, the people of Yizhou may not be willing to buy it. In case they were as strong as the people in the Tucheng outside Fushui Pass, and wanted to jump down with the soldiers in their arms, it would be really a trouble.

Finally waited for dawn, Gan Ning and the others climbed from Wuyang City to Tucheng Weizi again, and then began to persuade hard. After some persuasion, the people in the city gradually became hostile to the Jin army under the city, but they were still very vigilant. So Gan Ning shouted to the city again, and asked all the Yizhou soldiers who had previously switched to the Jin State to come to Tucheng to help with the work.

So many Yizhou disciples came forward to testify, and the lies that the Sima family slandered the soldiers of the Jin State as "cruel as wolves, eating human flesh, sleeping on human skins, burning and killing yin and plundering all kinds of evil" were exposed one by one, and the people in the city were taken one by one, helping the old and the young to leave.

After all the people on the Tucheng Waizi were safely transferred, Tai Shici waved his hand, and the gunpowder that had already entered the foundation of the Tucheng was quickly ignited by the soldiers.

The Yizhou soldiers who watched all this under Wuyang City had an idea in their hearts, that is, fortunately, these villagers met the benevolent and righteous Jin troops, and they really knew how to cherish the lives of the people. If the inhumane subordinates of the Sima family were replaced, just for the sake of military merit and war victory, they could completely ignore the safety of the people in the city and directly use explosives to blow up the city together with the people. In this way, the destruction of Wuyang City is only in the evening, so why let the army wait outside the city for a few days.

After the army captured Wuyang City, it could drive all the way to Chengdu without any obstacles. The distance of one hundred and fifty miles, according to the marching speed of the Jin troops, can be reached in three days.

At this time, the morale of the three troops attacking the South Route Army was like a rainbow, and they would run towards Chengdu at the fastest speed just waiting for Tai Shici's order. But what people didn't expect was that Li Ru called out to Tai Shici and suggested that the army not go to Chengdu, but turn to Yuxian, two hundred miles northeast of Wuyang. As soon as Li Ru's proposal was put forward, it was opposed by many generals.

Obviously, the troops attacking Yizhou are now divided into the north road and the south road, and everyone is marching to Chengdu by comparing the race to Chengdu, no matter which side takes the lead in capturing Chengdu, it is the first achievement. Now Li Ru's suggestion is tantamount to asking everyone to transfer the big fat meat that they are going to eat in their mouths to the North Route Army, which will of course be fiercely opposed by everyone.

However, when Li Ru expressed his speculation and thoughts, everyone fell silent. Because what Li Ru said is very reasonable, and he thinks about the problem from the overall situation of the entire Yizhou strategy.

Li Ru said: "If the Sima family can take the people as hostages in Wuyang and hinder the speed of our army's march to Chengdu, they will definitely use such means at Fushui Pass and Mianzhu Pass north of Chengdu." Our army was able to quickly capture Wuyang, all thanks to Xingba's wit and bravery, but looking at the attack on the North Route Army, there were no Shuzhong generals like Gan Junchang, I am afraid that they are still blocked from entering the Chengdu Plain. ”

"The reason why our army is progressing so rapidly this time is because the main force of Yizhou was transferred to Jingzhou. Now that Chengdu is in danger, the Sima family will definitely urgently recall Zhang Ren and the Yizhou East Route Army to resist desperately. If we do not take the first step to stop the Yizhou East Route Army returning to the west outside the Chengdu Plain, it is very likely that we will face the dangerous situation that the Northern Route Army has not yet arrived in Chengdu and the Southern Route Army will be attacked by Zhang Ren. ”

"In view of this, I suggest that the Southern Route Army quickly go to Yuxian, the only way for Zhang Ren's army to retreat to Chengdu, where the hundreds of thousands of Yizhou troops under Zhang Ren's command will be stuck to the death, so as to provide time for the attack on the Yibei Route Army, so that it can arrive at Chengdu as soon as possible and complete the final fatal blow!"

Tai Shici listened to Li Ru's analysis and said, "It's still thoughtful and thoughtful. If we only covet short-term interests and ignore Zhang Renjun, who has retreated westward, it is very likely that we will fall short in the end! The attack on Yizhou is a matter of the lord's domination of the world, so how can we only think about our own gains and losses? I agree with the opinion of the military division, and the three armies will immediately withdraw their camps and march in a hurried northeast direction, and within four days they must occupy Yuxian, build defensive positions, and make preparations for a decisive battle with the Yizhou East Route Army!

The generals resolutely obeyed the orders of the commander Tai Shici and immediately led their troops into action.