Sword Pavilion, due to the invasion of the Southern Barbarians, the people who fled to the north to here, driven by the soldiers of Shu State, gradually became accustomed to using spears to stab the enemy troops attached to the city.

This move was a strategy that Zhuge Liang had no choice but to implement after seeing Jiangdong driving the captives of the Southern Barbarian Wu Clan to attack the city, constantly consuming the lives and energy of the soldiers of Shu and the materials of Shu.

Although these are the people of Shu, it is also a very heavy loss to die, and it will also damage the reputation of the monarchs and ministers of Shu, but if these people are not allowed to go to the city to fight, the sword pavilion will be broken in a few days, and Shu is not guaranteed, but to catch these people up to the city can reduce the loss of Shu soldiers, and also allow Shu soldiers to take turns to rest and maintain the strongest combat power, Shu may still have hope, the lesser of two evils, so Zhuge Liang used this strategy.

But even so, due to the inevitable continuous loss of the backbone of the Shu army mixed with the people, the crisis continued to spread.

With a bang, several Wu clans jointly threw a large stone on the top of the city, and the stone shattered and exploded, beating several defenders of the city into a blur of flesh and blood, but it was no worse than a catapult, and almost at the same time, the enemy soldiers on the ladder had already climbed to the city wall.

The Nanban Wu clan is already good at climbing, on weekdays, they can easily climb hundreds of meters high cliffs on the mountains in the south without the help of any tools, and now with the help of the ladders built by Jiangdong, it is even more efficient.

"Kill!" The Nanban general hurriedly stared at a dark red vision, puffed up his remaining breath, and led his soldiers to pounce on him personally.

"Kill!" Shu Guo Zhuge Liang's subordinate Zhang Wei also roared loudly, and the soldiers also let out a huge roar, rushing towards these Nanban soldiers who climbed up, and the two teams of people collided together, and suddenly set off blood flowers, at this juncture of fighting, stabbing and stabbing and stabbing everything. Even if he has armor, he is still stabbed by knives from time to time, and blood is splashed.

Zhang Wei has always had courage, and at this time, he broke out with an incredible liliang, which was simply unstoppable, everywhere he went. The sword light was swept down, and it was the famous master in the Southern Barbarians, but after fighting with him for a few moves, he was slashed out.

Clearing all the Wu soldiers who climbed the city wall from the city wall, all the soldiers of Shu felt that the pressure in front of them was empty, Zhang Wei was even more gasping for breath, looking around, only to see that there were only five hundred soldiers left with him, and half of them had been lost. The 5,000 soldiers who went to the city of Shu this time, but there were less than 1,000 people left, and the losses were more than half, these people were all scarred and forced to support themselves, and the casualties of the people who were forcibly driven to the city were several times that of the regular soldiers of Shu.

Looking at the smoke of the battlefield, listening to the shouts of killing that gradually grew louder, watching the hill formed by the corpses of the enemies at the foot of the staggered pile had reached the general height of the city wall, and watching the flowing blood gather into a stream. Spreading into the distance, Zhang Wei couldn't help but feel a wall in his heart.

As a general in the Shu army now. He was deeply valued by Zhuge Liang, and he knew very well in his heart that with this wave of losses, Shu had damaged more than 10,000 soldiers in a few days, and now there were only more than 10,000 soldiers left, and the people who could be caught nearby were basically caught on the head of the city and died, and the people within a radius of 100 miles could not be replenished at all. Today, there are probably only more than 10,000 people left.

How could more than 10,000 exhausted and injured soldiers and more than 10,000 old and weak women and children be able to resist the tens of thousands of Southern Barbarian Wu Clans in the distance, let alone the hundreds of thousands of energetic Wu troops who had been raised for several days.

"Such resistance. Is there any point in such a loss?" Zhang Wei couldn't help but ask himself in his heart.

Suddenly, there was a commotion behind, and a group of soldiers in leather armor and several generals in armor strictly escorted one person to climb up to the top of the city.

But it was Zhuge Liang, his face was solemn, as soon as he got to the city, he looked around, and saw the soldiers and people of the Shu army covered in blood, who were gasping one by one, holding a knife and resting for a while, surrounded by corpses.

Seeing these soldiers and people seeing him, their faces were full of awe, but one by one they tried to pick up the stone, opened their bows and arrows and attacked the new wave of Wu army that began to rush up below, but they struggled a few times, but more than half of them failed to open their bows and failed to pick up the stones, but a small half of them exhausted a trace of Zuihou's strength, sat on the ground with their butts, and lay on the ground and the wall tiredly, even Zhuge Liang couldn't let them move anymore.

"Get up, get up, get up quickly!"

"Don't stop attacking!"

......

Several generals continued to shout and curse loudly, whipping the soldiers of the Shu army who had exhausted their strength and could not participate in the attack, and even some generals began to kill the people who could no longer move, in order to stimulate these people to move, but the effect was not good.

Seeing this scene, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but sink in his heart, although he had infinite resourcefulness, but in the face of such a powerful gap between the enemy and me, in the face of the absolute strength gap, in this kind of city defense war, it was not of much use.

"How's the situation? Can you still hold on?" Although Zhuge Liang saw that the state of these soldiers had already exceeded the limit, he still couldn't help asking.

Zhang Wei took a deep breath and said in a hoarse voice: "Prime Minister, even if we are tired of being like this, these warriors and ordinary people are far inferior in cultivation to us, but they can't support it for a long time. ”

Zhuge Liang also knew that what Zhang Wei said was the truth, and sighed and said: "You have just been replaced for less than two hours, but it is not good to order the other two teams to come up to replace you immediately, so that the soldiers are holding on." ”

After that, Zhuge Liang couldn't bear to continue to look at the tragic situation in the city, as well as the Jiangdong camp opposite, shook his confidence, turned around and retreated from the city.

"Prime Minister, this time Dongwu will attack the Sword Pavilion at any cost, according to the current situation, if there are no reinforcements, I am afraid that I will not be able to hold it, once the Sword Pavilion is broken, there is no possibility of turning over. At this point, you have to plan ahead. Li Yan, who followed Zhuge Liang, couldn't help but speak.

Zhuge Liang said: "How to plan, although we seem to have a way to retreat in the rear, but the hundreds of thousands of troops of Dongwu are outside, and the danger of Sword Pavilion cannot stop the army of Dongwu, even if we retreat, we will definitely not be able to hold it when we retreat to Jiameng Pass."

And once we give up the Sword Pavilion, the Eastern Wu army will definitely pursue immediately, relying on more than 10,000 remnants and more than 10,000 old and weak people, I am afraid that we will not be able to support it for a day, so now it can be said that we have no way to retreat......"

Li Yan said: "Then relying on this remnant soldier, I'm afraid that if I hold it for three days at most, I won't be able to hold it." ”

"Do you want to persuade me to surrender to Soochow?" Zhuge Liang thought in his heart, he couldn't help but be furious, and his heart suddenly became murderous, but he fixed his heart, and said with a smile: "Now you can't retreat, you can't defend, what tricks does Master Li have to teach me, please say it!"

Li Yan glanced at Zhuge Liang, and suddenly realized that he was in great danger, he was a very smart person, he knew that he could not back down at this time, and he almost didn't even think about it, and said: "I don't dare to teach, but I am a little foolish to give you a detailed opinion!"

Immediately, Li Yan bowed his hand, smiled bitterly, and said: "At this time, I am afraid that there are only three routes for you to choose, the first is to surrender to Dongwu, give up the Sword Pavilion, and then do the vanguard of destroying Shu for Dongwu, persuade to surrender along the road, and even persuade Prince Liu Chan to surrender, this road, not only will your life be saved, I am afraid that glory and wealth will be indispensable in the future." ”

Hearing that it was indeed persuasion, Zhuge Liang Meiyu jumped again and again, and the killing intent was even worse, but seeing that Li Yan seemed to have other ideas, he did not necessarily have to persuade him to surrender, but he still said: "Second?"

"Second, naturally, it retreated. Although it is impossible to retreat with a large army, if the prime minister takes a few hundred elite soldiers and important officials and retreats immediately, the remaining army and people are led by one or two generals, and the prime minister will naturally be able to escape. ”

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but say: "After sending someone to break off, is Lord Li willing to sacrifice himself to fulfill me?"

Li Yan smiled and said, "Li Yan is not talented, but he is willing to exchange himself for your life." ”

"Hmph, you are willing to stay, I still can't believe it, if I only leave on the front foot, and you take these tens of thousands of people to Dongwu on the back foot, then wouldn't I be in a more dangerous situation?" Zhuge Liang secretly thought in his heart, but he said: "It's really touching that Lord Li has this heart, but if we retreat like this, even if we can escape back to Hanzhong, we will be destroyed by Dongwu in the near future, what is the difference between sticking here and sticking here?"

Li Yan said with a smile: "It depends on how Prime Minister Zhuge chooses, as long as he leaves his life, there are two ways to go." ”

Zhuge Liang said: "Oh, but I don't know which two roads are they?"

Li Yan said: "The first one, naturally, is to find a place to be incognito, and no longer ask about any great causes, if you can escape the search and pursuit, you will definitely be able to live the next life in peace......"

Seeing that Zhuge Liang frowned when he heard this, Li Yan continued: "...... If you are not willing to choose this road, then you can also choose a road of zuihou, leading Shu to take refuge in Wei, with the talent of the prime minister, you will definitely be able to be reused by Wei, and you will also have some glory and wealth. ”

Hearing this, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but say angrily: "Speaking of which, it is better to persuade me to surrender, glory and wealth, who are you and Zhuge Liang? You dare to say such a big rebellious remark, don't you think I dare to behead you?"

As soon as Zhuge Liang's words fell, he saw Li Yan suddenly burst out, and in an instant, he grabbed Zhuge Liang beside him in his hand, and a bright sword suddenly drove on Zhuge Liang's neck.

When Zhuge Liang heard this, he immediately said angrily: "Li Yan, you dog thief, what are you going to do?"

Li Yan said: "I have a very good relationship with Meng Da, but after each is the master, I will no longer contact him, I don't want you to dare to risk my reputation and handwriting to write to him, so that he is in a dilemma, but it is trapping me in injustice, and even more in danger of my brother Meng Da, I have long wanted to kill you." It's just that you are a talent, and after you descend to the Wei State in the future, you will still have the opportunity to support each other, so you will give up. (To be continued......)