Fifteen days later, outside the city, Cao Wei's camp:

Coach Deng Ai was pondering with a stack of bamboo slips in his hand.

Five days have passed since the agreed opening time with Liu Yong, and there has been no movement in the city, and Deng Ai has a feeling of being deceived.

"Yicheng Hou has arrived!"

Outside the door of the Chinese army's camp, two samurai didn't have time to run in and shout.

Deng Ai looked up and just saw Sima Banru breaking in with a long sword in his hand.

Sima Banru was the second son of Sima Zhao, the king of Cao Wei and Jin, and the younger brother of Sima Yan, the later lord of the Western Jin Dynasty.

Because at this time, Cao Wei Emperor Cao Chao had already become a puppet, and the power was firmly controlled by the Sima family, and the dispute for the heir was becoming more and more obvious between the Sima Ban Confucian brothers. Sima Zhao was worried that this would make the brothers unhappy, so he personally assigned Sima Banru to accompany Deng Ai on the expedition, first, so that this second son, who did not learn and did not know how to learn, could be trained, and second, he could have some capital in front of Sima Yan in the future. However, what Sima Zhao didn't expect was that he secretly took his concubine Lin Yuniang with him.

"Greetings to Master Hou." Deng Ai hurriedly put down the bamboo slip, and before he could get up, a white light flashed in front of him, and Sima Banru's long sword split the table in front of Deng Ai.

The flying sawdust almost scratched Deng Ai's face.

"The life and death of this Hou Ai's concubine is unknown, you don't want to go to the army to rescue, but you hesitate here, what do you want?" Sima Banru pointed his finger at Deng Ai and shouted.

Deng Ai frowned, staring at the long sword in Sima Banru's hand.

"Chengdu City is not big, and there are 30,000 forbidden troops stationed, even if the subsequent lord Liu Chan can't surrender on time, when its grain and grass are exhausted and the army's morale is chaotic, our army can win without a fight, why should Hou Ye be in a hurry?"

"Presumptuous!" Where could Sima Banru listen to Deng Ai's words, "When his food and grass are exhausted, won't Benhou's concubine also starve to death?" ”

Deng Ai sighed lightly.

Thinking about how brave the Sima family is, how could they come out with such a rebellious son?

Sima Banru's long sword rose horizontally, and the cold blade actually pressed against Deng Ai's throat.

"If you don't capture the city today and save my concubine, Benhou will cut off your dog's head!"

Deng Ai shook his head and smiled bitterly, but he didn't speak.

The sound of horses' hooves stopped outside the camp, and a leader of the Central Protector strode in.

Deng Ai squinted his eyes at Sima Banru and pushed away the long sword in front of him.

"Master Hou is angry, let me think about the siege of the city."

Seeing Deng Ai's extremely contemptuous expression, Sima Banru thought to himself: This guy is also very brave, he can't really kill him, right? Reluctantly, he sat down on a chair on the side with his sword.

The leader of the Central Protector was holding a feathered arrow in his hand.

"The patrol colonel found this arrow, presumably it was shot by the Shu army in the city, and there was a letter on it, please General Deng take a look."

"Bring it in." Deng Ai said.

The middle guard did not move, and Sima Banru had already strode forward, and grabbed the feather arrow in his hand.

Deng Ai smiled bitterly.

The white ayako wrapped around the arrow was unfolded, and although the words on it were large, most of them were blurred.

The letter was written by Liu Yong himself, and the recipient was Sima Banru.

With a "snap", Sima Banru threw the white ayazi in front of Deng Ai.

Deng Ai bowed down to pick it up, and before he could straighten his waist, Sima Banru's long sword had already rested on the back of his neck again. However, this time, Sima Banru did not ask him to march into the city to attack the city, but to retreat thirty miles.

"In order to ensure the safety of Benhou Ai's concubine, General Deng, please order the withdrawal of troops immediately."

Deng Ai slowly got up and threw the white ayako in his hand on the ground.

"There are capable people around the queen of Shu Han, and he used a woman to force the general to retreat? Hou Ye must not be fooled. ”

A strand of hair was cut off from the top of Deng Ai's head by Sima Banru and fell to the ground.

The Zhonghu army was shocked, and pressed one hand on the hilt of the sword under the ribs, but was stopped by Deng Ai with a wave of his hand.

"Benhou is the son of the King of Jin, could General Deng have the intention of rebellion?" Sima Banru didn't want to pay attention to the murderous aura on the face of the Zhonghu Army, and scolded Deng Ai loudly.

Deng Ai looked at his strand of hair.

"Pass the order, the soldiers will retreat for thirty miles, and they should not be taken lightly along the way, and strictly prevent the Shu army from taking the opportunity to cover up and kill."

The middle protector was a little hesitant, and was kicked in the lower abdomen by Sima Banru.

"Quickly pass the order, and the violator will be killed!"

Chengdu City:

Liu Yong and Qi Fang, who had basically recovered from their injuries, stood there, watching Cao Wei's soldiers outside the city hurriedly put away their tents.

"Without His Majesty's command, the city cannot be opened." Qi Fang instructed several soldiers standing at the gate of the city.

The soldiers lay down in the cracks of the city gates, and there was a lot of discussion.

"Cao Wei's troops retreated, and they were ready to attack at this time, why did Your Majesty not move?"

"There must be another scheme."

"Maybe Your Majesty was frightened by Cao Weijun's courage and missed the opportunity, and the enemy army returned, wouldn't we sit back and wait for death?"

A samurai on horseback came on a flying horse and pointed at the boulder piled up at the gate with a long knife in his hand.

"Don't discuss Your Majesty's thoughts, remove the stones quickly, and be ready to go out of the city to chase the enemy at any time."

The enemy troops stationed closest to the city gate had also withdrawn for five or six miles, and a sudden burst of war drums tore through the noise of the enemy's retreat.

All the soldiers in the city and under the city were stunned by the sound of war drums.

A fire flickered in the city.

The warrior urged his horse to the gate and slashed the latch with his sword.

In an instant, the entire Chengdu city was like a volcano that suddenly erupted, with the opening of the city gate, I don't know where countless Shu soldiers poured out, and the neighing of war horses accompanied by the shouting of soldiers did not know how many tense nerves were broken.

A flaming horse rolled out of the city like a burning flame.

The general on the horse wore a silver bronze helmet on his head, and a dark gold halberd flashed several black cold lights.

"You wait as fast as possible to follow Your Majesty's side, and you must not lose anything." Qi Fang followed closely behind the general, shouting loudly to the guards who were following him.

Four guards followed Liu Yong.

Cao Wei's army did not expect to encounter the sniper of the Shu army on the way to retreat, and in the blink of an eye, the Shu army poured out from both sides of the cramped path, and dense crossbow arrows rained overhead, and occasionally used a thunderbolt (invented by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao when they joined forces in Guandu) to shoot huge stones in the air.

100,000 Cao Wei troops were attacked on their backs and were divided into several sections.

There were countless people who broke their legs and hands, and the wails instantly became one.

There was blood everywhere, the corpses of soldiers everywhere, the hooves of the war horses trampling on the ground, and the splattered dirt turned blood red.

"Your Majesty, be careful!" A guard Pegasus stood in front of Liu Yong and was shot in the chest by an arrow.

The Shu army was like a lion that had been locked in a cage for several days, suddenly released, and found the prey in front of it, and its burst of combat power was enough to kill all external forces that tried to block it in an instant.

There were not many guards left around Deng Ai, and he had already been hit by several arrows, but fortunately, the power of Zhuge Repeater's crossbow was far less powerful than that of bows and arrows.

It was at this moment that he saw the light of a fire not far ahead.

That is where he hoarded grain and grass, and it can also be said to be the lifeblood of his army of 100,000.

The banner was cracked, the war horses were servants, and in the blood in the sky, Deng Ai seemed to smell the dangerous breath of imminent annihilation.