The first to arrive at the city of Chengdu. It is the 60,000 soldiers of the North Route Army, including 30,000 in the vanguard army and 30,000 in the Kunlun army. In addition, there are more than 40 elephants and 20 "Shenwu General Cannons".

Since the Northern Route Army successfully passed through Mianzhu Pass, the three small cities of Shifang, Luoxian and Xindu that they passed along the way were all empty and did not encounter any obstacles. Thanks to the demonization propaganda carried out by the Sima family against the troops of the Liang and Jin states attacking Yizhou, the common people on the Chengdu Plain fled in all directions as early as when the Northern Route Army went south to Mianzhu Pass and the Southern Route Army entered Yuxian County in the east.

The rich and powerful dragged their families and fled to the heavily guarded city of Chengdu; ordinary families fled to the countryside and villages for refuge; and the poor and powerful forced the grassroots to simply burrow into the surrounding mountains and forests and pretend to be "wild men."

For the Sima family's despicable and shameless practices, the armies of all walks of life have already experienced it many times, so it is not surprising. Now is not the time to appease the people and resume production, the primary goal of several armies is to capture Chengdu City as soon as possible, completely wipe out the Sima family from Yizhou, and return Yizhou to a bright future.

The Northern Route Army, which had already set up camp outside Chengdu, was in no hurry to immediately launch a siege operation. The brothers of the Southern Route Army could have arrived at Chengdu earlier than them, but for the sake of the overall situation, they first marched east to block Zhang Ren's army, and then retreated to Wuyang to block the way for Sima's family to flee south.

After Tai Shici received Zhang He's letter, he left 10,000 soldiers of the Marine Brigade to guard Wuyang and guard the surrendered troops, and then took the remaining more than 30,000 troops to Chengdu, and arrived at the south gate of Chengdu four days later.

The northern and southern armies converged under the city of Chengdu, and they were still not in a hurry to make a move, they were still waiting for the arrival of the Tianyi army and Huang Zhong.

After another three days, the Tianyi Army and the Jingzhou Army, which were clearly armored and full of banners, finally arrived at the east gate of Chengdu City. After a battle outside Xiangyang, there are now only 25,000 people left in the Tianyi army, and the rest of Huang Zhong's army, which has been stationed in Huya Mountain for a year, still has 15,000 men.

Although Jingzhou only sent more than 10,000 people from Huang Zhong, it had great symbolic significance.

The Sima family launched an army of more than 200,000 to attack Jingzhou, but finally paid a heavy price for it. Although Liu Biao of Jingzhou looked weak, he could send 15,000 people to attack Chengdu at this time, sounding the final death knell for the Sima family.

The implication from this is that all the forces that have the support of the king of Pingxi can finally have the last laugh, and those who are blacklisted by the king of Pingxi will not be able to escape the fate of destruction in the end. At that time, Liu Yu in Youzhou, Ma Teng in Wuwei, Kong Rong in Qingzhou, and Tao Qian in Xuzhou were also like this, and now Liu Biao is still living a very nourishing life in Xiangyang City, but the Sima family has come to an end.

There are still 80,000 troops in Chengdu City, and in order to cope with the most difficult situation, the Sima family has hoarded enough grain, grass and firewood for the soldiers and civilians in the city to use for three years.

The three-way army besieging the city looked terrifying, but the total number of people was only 130,000, only 50,000 more than the defenders in the city. The method of using soldiers, ten is to surround it, five to attack it, and to divide it into multiple times...... Now the total number of troops outside the city is less than twice that of the defenders in the city, and they obviously do not have the number to besiege Chengdu.

To tell the truth, Zhang He and Tai Shici really didn't worry about what tricks the Sima family would play again this time! Since the three-way army had already joined forces in Chengdu, it was natural that there would no longer be a division between you and me and each other, and everyone had set up a joint command headquarters to optimize and balance the allocation of troops and firearms, thus besieging the city of Chengdu to the ground.

First of all, the twenty "Shenwu General Cannons" brought by the Northern Route Army were evenly distributed among the four guns in the east, west, south and north. There is such a powerful thing squatting ten miles away from each gate, once it starts, even if there are thousands of troops and horses blocked in the city gate hole, it will not be able to withstand a few cannon shots.

Secondly, the joint command put the 30,000 vanguard troops with the strongest combat effectiveness on the west gate where the Sima family was most likely to escape, so that the Kunlun army guarded the east gate, and the north gate was jointly guarded by the Tianyi army and Huang Zhongbu, and the south gate was naturally blocked by Tai Shici.

The decision made by the Joint Command was made after careful analysis and repeated deductions.

There is no doubt that the Sima family broke out from the south gate and caused the greatest harm, so it was necessary to lead 40,000 soldiers led by Tai Shici, who was the most feared by the Yizhou army. The direction of the Sima family's most unlikely escape is naturally the northern part of Yizhou, because to the north is Hanzhong and Wudu, and escaping there is tantamount to killing oneself. As for the east gate garrisoned by the Kunlun army, Sima Yi would not easily think about it, because even if he broke through from the east gate, there were still Gan Ning and Li Yan stuck in Yizhou under Yufu City to enter the throat of Jingzhou eastward.

The direction in which the Sima family is most likely to break through can only be Ximen now. Zhang He took 30,000 soldiers of the vanguard army who had been tested on the battlefield for a long time to guard here, with only one purpose, that is, to intercept and kill the Yizhou troops who rushed out of the city to the greatest extent, so that Wei Yan, who was ambushed in the mountains two hundred miles west of Chengdu, could completely annihilate the remnants of the Sima family that broke out without any suspense.

Of course, if the Sima family is determined to live and die with Chengdu City, it will be even better. Just use the Shenwei cannon with the Shenwu cannon and bomb Chengdu City every day. Even if Chengdu City is a fortified city built of stone and rock barriers, it cannot withstand the artillery bombardment that rains down from the sky. As long as the bombing lasts long enough, the four walls of Chengdu City will collapse like tofu scum and become ruins all over the ground.

What is strange is that even though there is a dense army outside Chengdu now, the Sima family in the city still has not made further moves, what do they think?

If you really want to talk about it, the Sima family's consideration is nothing more than a "drag" word. Sima Yi did not take the initiative to order the troops to go out of the city for a decisive battle, but he hoped that after a long delay, the Jin troops outside the city would either be infected with the plague, lack of food, or have internal strife, which would eventually add some variables to alleviate the danger in Chengdu.

Even if you really can't drag it on, relying on the streets and alleys of the city to engage in street fighting and hand-to-hand combat with the troops attacking the city is much better than risking your life to rush out and be bombed by someone's divine cannons, and it is much better to die unjustly in vain.

Once there was a street battle in the city, and the troops of the two sides were intertwined, Sima Yi would command one of the Sima family's most powerful guards to break through to the west gate. Once the Sima family successfully broke through, Sima Fang, who already had the heart of death, would light a fire rope hidden in the state governor's mansion, and let the hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder buried under the city of Chengdu be buried for everyone's funeral.

Sima Fang's current idea is very simple, the more troops who accompany him to the funeral in Chengdu City, the better, and it is best for all the troops outside the city to rush in, so that the descendants who escape from the secret passage outside the West Gate do not have to worry about the pursuers behind them, and can calmly flee west into the territory of the Tang Xuanqiang people.

PS: This chapter is especially grateful to the naughty little Xuanxuan book friend......