Liu Zhang ran away!

Because Chengdu really can't stand it.

The city of Chengdu is too big, and it is impossible to defend it if there are fewer people.

In the past few days, Zhang Lu's army has surrounded Chengdu and attacked from all sides.

Now there are less than 10,000 people in the city, and the four walls are more than 20 kilometers long.

According to later archaeology, the site of Chengdu in the Han Dynasty was seven kilometers from the south gate to the north gate, which means that the north and south sections of the city wall alone are fourteen kilometers.

If we add the east and west end city walls, there may be twenty or thirty kilometers of city wall sections.

Such a long defensive area, let alone 10,000 people, even if 100,000 people are put on it, it is estimated that it can be easily accommodated.

Fortunately, Zhang Lu's army was only thirty or forty thousand, and if there were tens of thousands more, Liu Zhang would not have been able to defend for so long, and it was estimated that it would have been broken a long time ago.

Therefore, a few days ago, Liu Zhang asked Zhang Ren how many soldiers there were still in the city, and Zhang Ren replied that there were less than 6,000 soldiers, and when there were still deserters, he was already shaken and wanted to escape.

Once the city is breached, with the mother-killing feud between him and Zhang Lu, he will definitely die.

It happened that Zhang Song came back, and he saw Liu Zhang's fear, so he persuaded Liu Zhang to take advantage of the rain in the past few days, Zhang Lu to postpone the offensive, and take the family scrolls and the dignitaries of the city to run south by boat from Pijiang.

Now Guan Yujun has also arrived in Zizhong, but judging from the current situation, Liu Zhang will definitely not be able to hold on before Guan Yujun arrives, so it is better to escape.

What's more, Zhang Song's words entered Liu Zhang's heart.

He told Liu Zhang that even if Liu Bei wanted to annex Yizhou in the future, at least for the sake of the friendship of the same clan, he would not embarrass Liu Zhang and his family.

If he was lucky, Liu Bei helped him defeat Zhang Lu, Liu Zhang cheekily asked Liu Bei for Yizhou, Liu Bei was embarrassed to take the opportunity to annex and return Yizhou to him, it would be better.

Liu Zhang thought so and felt that Zhang Song's words were very reasonable.

Although he is not stupid.

Knowing that Liu Bei did not send troops for a long time, it was very likely that he had the intention of annexing Yizhou.

But no matter how Liu Bei gets Yizhou, he won't kill him.

On the contrary, Zhang Lu, a family slave in this district, in order to avenge the murder of his mother and brother, his whole family was not spared.

So on July 24, Liu Zhang took the dignitaries of the city, abandoned the soldiers defending the city, and took a boat from the south gate to Wuyang along the Pijiang River.

After two days, the soldiers in the city learned the news of Liu Zhang's escape, and suddenly couldn't sit still, and chose to go out of the city and surrender.

"Hahaha."

After Zhang Lu learned of this situation, he looked up to the sky and laughed: "Liu Zhang'er, you are really cowardly, you actually abandoned the city and fled. ”

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Yan Pu said with a smile: "Once Chengdu is broken, Yizhou will belong to Ming Gong, and Liu Zhang won't be able to run far." ”

"That's not right."

Zhang Lu suddenly thought of a little and said: "He went south from Pijiang, he must go down the river, Liu Bei is still in Jiangzhou, he went to Liu Bei." ”

Yan Pu frowned, nodded and said: "This Liu Bei is indeed a hidden danger, he used the excuse of mourning for Liu Qi, and he did not make any moves in Jiangzhou for a long time, I am afraid that he also has the intention of fighting with the snipe and the clam and profiting from the fisherman." Ming Gong also needs to be careful, and he must not be allowed to succeed. ”

Zhang Lu nodded and said, "I naturally know, but we only have so many troops now, I'm afraid we can't stop him." ”

Yan Pu said: "You can't just watch Liu Beijun come over, Ming Gong can immediately write a letter to the leader of the people, once Liu Beijun makes a move, he will go south to break through Jiangzhou and cut off Liu Beijun's grain route from Jingzhou." ”

"Hmm."

Zhang Lu thought for a while and said: "Just do what Zimao wants, let's go to the city first, collect Liu Zhang's rout, and now we can have a share of the army, and if we can unite with the people and attack Liu Bei who is coming, this Xichuan will be considered to belong to us." ”

With that, with a wave of his hand, he ordered the army to enter the city.

Entering the city, Zhang Lu was still humane, restrained the troops not to harass the people, and only took Liu Zhang's treasury as a reward to his subordinates.

It's not how benevolent and righteous he is, but to spread the Wudou Rice Sect and fool the people into believing in Longhu Mountain.

If you go on a killing spree and make a bad reputation, who will still join the church?

Therefore, although the changing king banner in Chengdu caused some commotion, the people did not suffer large-scale killing and looting, and they were quite stable.

Meanwhile.

Guan Yu's army went north to Zizhong, and Liu Beijun led the army to start moving south to Jiameng Pass.

By the beginning of August, Zhang Lu didn't know that Hanzhong was gone.

Because Yang Bai, the guard of Jiameng Pass, rebelled and blocked the Jinniu Road from Hanzhong to Chengdu, so that no news from Hanzhong reached Chengdu.

So now he only knew that Guan Yu's army had arrived in Zizhong, so while contacting the people to send troops as soon as possible, he sent generals Yang Ren and Yang Ang to lead 10,000 people each to garrison Deyang and Guanghan to block Guan Yu's army.

It's just that what Zhang Lu didn't expect was that Guan Yu didn't go straight to Chengdu, but entered Qianwei as the boundary, divided into equal Zizhong, Deyang, and Sanmiao Dao, and occupied the cities along the Tuojiang River and Jialing River.

First set Badong, and then take Brazil, it doesn't look like he came to help Liu Zhang repel the invading enemy, but it looks like he came to encroach on Yizhou.

In the city of Chengdu, Yizhou Mu Mansion.

Zhang Lu sat with the strategist Yan Pu, and when they heard the news that Tanma had returned, the two of them looked at each other a little.

After being silent for a while, Zhang Lucai sighed and said, "This Liu Bei...... The world says that he is a loyal and honest man, why does he look so ugly? ”

Yan Pu smiled bitterly: "I originally thought that Liu Bei would go north directly and attack Chengdu. In this way, we only need to defend on the periphery of Chengdu, wait for the people to cut off his food route, and he can retreat from the army. Unexpectedly, he simply occupied Padang Brazil, as if he wanted to control the entire territory of Yizhou first, and then take Chengdu. ”

Zhang Lu said disdainfully: "Liu Bei is also famous, but now he looks at it, but he doesn't even want to have a face." In the name of rescuing the clan, in fact, it is embezzling the entire Yizhou. ”

Yan Pu said: "Cao Cao dominates the north and fights with Liu Bei many times, but he has never been able to eliminate him, which shows that Liu Bei is difficult. Now Jingzhou also belongs to Liu Bei, Liu Bei is determined to be in the world, he definitely wants the land of Bashu, and then seeks to seize Jiangdong, and confront Cao Cao in the north and south. ”

Zhang Lu said: "Then how can it be good now, Liu Bei has Jingzhou as the rear, with strong strength and many soldiers and horses." If he takes Bajun first, and then moves step by step, he may not be his opponent, and we will be slowly annexed by him. ”

Yan Pu pondered.

Liu Bei's move was really ruthless, which they didn't expect.

Originally, they thought that Liu Bei was stationed in Bazhou and had been waiting for Zhang Lu to break through Chengdu, so he had an excuse to defeat Zhang Lu and take Xichuan by chance.

Unexpectedly, people didn't find any excuses, and directly annexed Ba County, and now they are starting to attack Qianwei County again.

This made Zhang Lu and them very embarrassed.

Let's go out and fight.

There are not as many troops as there are, and they can't be defeated in fierce battles in the field.

Don't go out.

Yizhou, except for Chengdu, has to belong to Liu Bei.

Don't look at Zhang Lu's foreign aid, but he also knows the ability of the man.

It seems that there are many troops, but both the combat effectiveness and the degree of training are far inferior to the elite soldiers of the Han nationality.

Even if he mobilizes all the soldiers and horses, he may not be able to fight Liu Bei, not to mention that Liu Bei has more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and there are more than 100,000 in the rear of Jingzhou.

So Zhang Lu's situation is very delicate.

Chengdu alone can't control the whole of Yizhou.

However, Zhang Lu and Yan Pu definitely couldn't have imagined that Liu Bei did this in history.

Liu Bei took Xichuan and led his troops south from Jiameng Pass to attack Chengdu, while Zhuge Liang and Zhang Feibu quickly entered Shu and controlled the entire Ba County.

In other words, Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei did not want to cooperate with Liu Bei to directly capture Chengdu at all, but aimed to assist Liu Bei and quickly seize the entire territory of Yizhou, so as to achieve the purpose of occupying most of Yizhou's territory except Chengdu.

The same is true now.

Liu Bei's main army went south from Hanzhong, if Guan Yu took Chengdu directly, once Zhang Lu learned of the situation, it was possible to abandon Chengdu and flee south to Qianwei, when the Qianwei counties had no defensive force, and Zhang Lu obtained, occupying an ordinary city was better defended than the huge Chengdu city, and it was difficult to completely eliminate it.

Moreover, if there are ships from Qianwei County, they can also go down the river from Tuojiang and escape into the Yangtze River. At this time, Jiangzhou was relatively empty, and Zhang Lu's might rush to Jiangzhou, go north along the Qianjiang River, and then escape back to Hanzhong from Micang Road or Bashu.

Therefore, Guan Yu went north this time, according to the advice of the military advisor Xu Shu, to first control the cities on the periphery of Chengdu and cut off the road for Zhang Lu to flee south.

When Liu Bei's main army went south from the Jinniu Road, it was equivalent to besieging Chengdu, and Zhang Lu could not fly.

And Zhang Lu naturally didn't know this, and learned that Liu Bei didn't think about coming to Chengdu to rescue Liu Zhang now, but first controlled the entire territory of Yizhou, but he sighed at Liu Bei's shamelessness.

"Ming Gong."

Yan Pu thought about it and said to Zhang Lu: "This matter may not be a bad thing. ”

"Oh?"

Zhang Lu wondered, "Why? ”

Yan Pu said with a smile: "It is true that Liu Bei's soldiers are strong and strong, but he divided his troops into counties and scattered his forces, and he may not be able to capture Chengdu. ”

Zhang Lu was puzzled: "How can you win?" ”

Yan Pu said: "Ming Gong thinks about it, Liu Bei's army is scattered in Brazil, and there will be no troops to guard it. And his team is long, and it is relatively simple to transport grain and grass from Jingzhou to Bazhou by river, but it is not so easy to disperse other counties, which will inevitably cause logistical difficulties. ”

"Hmm."

Zhang Lu thought for a moment, nodded slightly, and said: "Okay, then first order Yang Ren and Yang Ang to garrison the city, wait for Liu Bei's army to arrive, and extend his logistics supply line." ”

At that moment, Zhang Lu did not make any reaction, and planned to continue to hold on to Chengdu.

Anyway, he controls Mianzhu, even if he can't beat Liu Bei, there is still a way to retreat from Jinniu Road to Hanzhong, so it doesn't matter if he has to go south to Qianwei County to confront Liu Bei.

It's just that what Zhang Lu didn't know was that because of this decision, he lost his last chance.

Yang Bai rebelled and blocked Jiameng Pass and Baishui Pass, resulting in the news of Hanzhong not being able to be transmitted, so that Zhang Lu did not know that Hanzhong had fallen.

If he knew, the right choice at this time should be to immediately go south and fight to the death with Guan Yu.

Since Guan Yu was now busy occupying the cities on the outskirts of Chengdu, it was better for Liu Bei to surround Zhang Lu together, so the troops were relatively scattered, and the main forces were not concentrated.

If Zhang Lu can gather all his forces, break through the blockade all the way, take advantage of the fact that the encirclement has not closed, go down the Yangtze River, and then go north from diving when he arrives in Bazhou, and escape back to Hanzhong from the Micang Road, which is no longer guarded, he may be able to fight.

Although Liu Bei actually arranged 20,000 or 30,000 garrisons in Hanzhong, these people were not high in combat effectiveness, and they were not the main force of Liu Bei's army.

But there is only one glimmer of possibility.

After all, the premise of all this is built on the premise that everything is going well.

And the thing.

It's never been so unsatisfactory.

So when Zhang Lu's fantasy Liu Beijun main force dragged a long supply line to Chengdu, at the end of August, outside Chengdu, an endless and countless army appeared on the vast plain horizon outside the northern city.

Zhang Lu was stunned!