The fierce explosion and shouting of killing reached the ears of the Tianyi army and Jingzhou soldiers outside the north gate, which made everyone envious and anxious, and they couldn't wait for the next person to do it.

However, to everyone's disappointment, first the battle outside the west gate was silent for a long time, then it was outside the east gate, and finally when the sound of the military drum faintly sounded from outside the south gate also returned to silence, not a single soldier rushed out from the north gate. This can make the Tianyi army and Jingzhou soldiers who are waiting for the battle depressed.

Lu Xun, the military advisor who temporarily took over the post of commander of the Tianyi Army, was drinking and talking with the veteran Huang Zhong in the big tent of the Chinese army at this time, and he didn't seem so impatient at all.

Huang Zhong's interest was obviously not so high, and he said slowly: "Bo Yan, did you expect that tonight would end like this?"

Lu Xun smiled slightly, comforted Huang Zhong and said: "Old General Huang doesn't need to sigh, it doesn't matter if you don't go to this battle tonight, there will be many wars in the future that you must not be invited to participate." From the beginning of the establishment of the joint command, the two armies of our army were assigned to the north gate, which doomed our army to have no battle to fight in Chengdu, but it was also a piece of goodwill from Marshal Zhang and Marshal Taishi. General Huang Lao now has only 15,000 troops under his command, and although they are all elites who have survived a hundred battles, they cannot be easily lost; the Tianyi army still has 25,000 soldiers, but its experience in battle is still slightly insufficient compared with the vanguard army, the Kunlun army, and other strong armies that have been in battle for a long time. ”

Huang Zhong nodded, agreeing with Lu Xun's statement. He said with emotion: "Walking side by side with Bo Yan all the way has allowed me, a half-old man, to learn a lot of things, and I have truly seen the strength of the Jin army." It is really embarrassing that Bo Yan can worship the chief general in such an army at such a young age!"

Lu Xun bluntly told Huang Zhong: "Old general, I believe that it won't be long before you and many of your brothers will join our army, and when the time comes, King Pingxi, who has admired the prestige of the old general for a long time, is afraid that he will give you a position as a legion commander, haha......"

was ridiculed by a young general who was nearly thirty years younger than himself, Huang Zhong couldn't help but blush, but he didn't say anything to refute it. Over the past year or so, whether it is Huang Zhong himself or his soldiers, it is too much to get the support of the Jin State openly and secretly, if he Huang Zhong does not have a good impression of the King of Pingxi and the Jin State, it would be a bit hypocritical. The most important thing is that as a general under Liu Biao, as long as Zhao Xing incorporates Liu Biao, what scruples does he have as a general?

Huang Zhong was still a little unwilling and said: "Bo Yan, since the defenders in Chengdu City have poured out of their nests and rushed out from the east, west, and south gates, why don't we take this opportunity to lead a large army into the city, capture the Sima family alive, and occupy Chengdu City?"

Lu Xun's next answer almost didn't startle Huang Zhong to jump up from his seat. According to reliable information, tonight is the day when the Sima family takes advantage of the chaos to flee, and now only Sima Fang is left in the prefecture governor's mansion in the city, holding a flint and steel, and just waiting for our army to enter the city, he will ignite hundreds of thousands of catties of explosives buried under the city and die with us!"

"What! The old and young of the Sima family are a group of fucking crazy people!" Huang Zhong couldn't help but scold, and then he asked anxiously: "Then how can we stop Sima Fang, this old madman, from escaping now?"

Lu Xun pulled Huang Zhong, who had already stood up, to his seat, and then said unhurriedly: "The king of Pingxi planned the battle of Yizhou, and after five years before and after, how could he not prevent the Sima family from dying and fleeing?

While Lu Xun and Huang Zhong were talking, in a dark and narrow underground passage, the old and young of the Sima family and five hundred dead soldiers who had been raised for many years were quietly walking towards the seemingly endless tunnel.

The organized group of fugitives, who had walked through the tunnels for nearly two hours, had reached a distance of at least thirty miles in a straight line, and finally came out of the ground under a very hidden hill under the cover of night.

As the commander of this escape operation, Sima Yi said in a deep voice to the hundreds of people in front of him: "We are only temporarily out of the sight of the besieging army, and we are far from reaching a safe place. From now on, we will rush to the west of Heming Mountain as fast as possible, where there is a secret supply point, after obtaining supplies and resting for a while, we will hide in the Qionglai Mountains, and then continue to the west, until we climb through Mengshan Mountain, we can be considered a successful breakthrough!"

After a brief explanation, the fleeing procession of hundreds of people continued westward in the dawn light.

The Qiónglái Mountains are the easternmost edge of the Hengduan Mountains, with the Shuzhong Basin on the east side and the Hengduan Mountains on the west side, which is the boundary between the Shuzhong Basin and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The mountains here are steep and tall, the roads are rugged and difficult, and the dense forests and mountain streams are crisscrossed, and it has always been an inaccessible place.

The Sima family's choice to cross from the Qionglai Mountains to the west into the territory of the Qiang people can be regarded as a dangerous move, which is really beyond the expectations of most people.

However, although this escape route exceeded the expectations of most people, it was still targeted by people with intentions early. And the person who is eyeing this most unlikely escape route is Zhao Xing, who is fighting with the Sima family. Therefore, this seemingly seamless escape still ended in failure.

Wei Yan led 20,000 mountain troops who had been training hard for several years in the depths of the Qinling Mountains to arrive in the Mengshan area of the Qionglai Mountains a month earlier, and they had no other task than to wait for the escape team of the Sima family here.

In the Qionglai Mountains in July, the climate was pleasant, and the officers and men of the Pioneer Army Task Force wearing grass-green mountain military uniforms were deployed on a longitudinal section of a 30-mile long plane, and even if a bird flew in the sky and a snake slipped on the ground, they could not escape their observation and watch.

In the days of waiting for the escape team of the Sima family to throw themselves into the net, the soldiers were really bored, so they caught more than a dozen iron rodent beasts (the ancient name of the giant panda) that only ate the green bamboo growing on the mountainside, and then locked them in cages and raised them in captivity every day for fun. Although everyone can put this white and black, silly and cute beast in a cage to watch, the soldiers dare not snub this group of guys. The above has specially explained, these iron rodent beasts are the treasures to be sent to the Crouching Tiger Zoo, and they must be fat, fat, fat, and fat, and not one can be damaged!