Ten large "Yama Divine Thunder" fell from the sky, hissing and sparking, looking like ordinary big iron balls with strange appearances.

Trebuchets are not uncommon in the Three Kingdoms, and in the previous battle of Guandu in the north, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao both made a large number of trebuchets and put them on the battlefield. However, all the stones were fired, and it was the first time I had seen a scene of using iron balls as a consumption like the one in front of me.

"Haha! The Blood Banner Army's group of bandits, such a loser, it can be seen that they are all brainless fools. Everyone, hide well, wait for these iron balls to fall to the ground, and send them to the city so that you can get a few weapons to take advantage of!"

A centurion on the city wall looked at the ten large iron balls flying over with a smile, and his eyes were full of sarcasm. Latte as a stone throw, this is not a fool what else can be?

But it turns out that you are really stupid yourself when you take others for fools.

Ten iron balls exploded violently when they flew above the city wall, and they were still three meters away from the battlements. The huge explosion sounded in a row, making Gao Shun, who was standing three miles away from the city wall, feel deafening.

The screams were shouted out, but they couldn't hear them, and the unprepared defenders within 500 meters were basically deafened. And the Blood Banner Army that fought with them had already been prepared, and their ears were all stuffed with sackcloth. When they saw the iron ball flying, they all shrunk down and hid under the wall, holding their heads and closing their eyes, and covering their ears.

"Kill!"

Taking advantage of the silence on the city wall that was blasted out by the thunder of the Yama God, three cloud ladders were set up on the city wall, and behind them, a group of elites of the Blood Banner Army carrying short knives and arm shields climbed up the wall along the cloud ladder like monkeys.

When they stepped on the fifty-meter city wall that had been ravaged by ten Yama Divine Thunder, the group of thugs of the Blood Banner Army couldn't help but stir their throats and almost vomited.

The first word that came to mind for the elite of the Blood Banner Army who stepped on the city wall was "fragmented".

The severed limbs and arms were like crushed clay puppets, laid in tatters on the ground, sticking to the wall, the ground was full of minced meat, organs and blood, and the nose smelled a strong stench of burnt in addition to blood.

Remember that there were at least a hundred defenders on this section of the wall? Not a single living person was seen in the empty space now.

Three ladders, without intervention, can propel fifty people up every minute. It would take at least five minutes for the defenders elsewhere on the city wall or behind the wall to come to their aid. But the loud explosion just now had already made the defenders fall into horror and fear, and they didn't know how long it would take to come back to their senses if they wanted to support here.

Not long after, the Blood Banner Army, which found the fighters, immediately added two more ladders to this section of the city wall. In just six or seven minutes, the number of Blood Banner troops who climbed the city wall reached more than 300!

Defending a city is not the same as fighting in the field. The defending side has an absolute advantage, relying on the city walls to be condescending, and it is common for one to be ten. But once the enemy kicked the wall and gained a foothold, it was troublesome. Because the width of the city wall is only two or three zhang wide, it can't accommodate many people, and it will be too difficult to drive the enemy down again.

Gao Shun saw the situation in the distance change sharply, and the corners of his mouth turned up, he didn't expect the effect of the "Yama Divine Thunder" to be so violent. If you come to the other city walls, it is estimated that it will be easier to take Qianwei City. But when he thought of the expensive cost, Gao Shun still held back such a thought and was reluctant.

The first hole is there, like a dam with a pipe gushing. It's very difficult to re-plug it. This is especially true in the face of the Blood Banner Army, which already has an absolute advantage in individual strength.

Fifty meters, one hundred meters, two hundred meters. More and more walls were captured by the Blood Banner Army. And even if the defending generals recover from the shock of the "Yama Divine Thunder", they are no longer able to return to the sky.

When the Blood Banner Army captured the city gate and led troops into the city, Qianwei also completely jumped from Liu Zhang's territory to Liu Xie's arms.

Of the 10,000 defenders, less than 3,000 were captured, and the rest had already taken advantage of the chaos. However, it was also because it was so caught off guard that a large amount of grain and grass hoarded in the city was not taken away or burned. All of them are cheaper, and the lightly armed Blood Banner Army. At least Qianwei is enough for the grain and grass in the city, and Shun this partial division has no worries for two months.

And the news of the loss of Qianwei and the main force of the Blood Banner Army in Hancheng came to Liu Zhang's hands. After seeing Liu Zhang, he felt a flower in front of him, and he fainted with a sigh.

The first thing he said after waking up was: "Send a fast horse to Jingzhou again to ask for help, no matter what Liu Biao asks, he will agree to come down!

"My lord, it is urgent to seek peace talks now!"

"Lord, if you drag it out any longer, once Guanghan also falls into the hands of the other party, there will be no bargaining chips at all!"

Liu Zhang was furious. The scramble beat out the strategists who advocated peace talks with the Blood Banner Army. Although he is not smart enough, he is not stupid either! Now that the soldiers are in the city, what else can we talk about? Can people spit out the meat in their mouths and return it to you? In other words, he will never talk to you about a word, and when Guanghan is taken, what is the difficulty in taking Chengdu again?

In such a situation, Fa Zheng, who is in Chengdu, seems to be extremely busy. There were a lot of customers at the door, all of whom came in through the back door in disguise in the middle of the night. are all big men from all walks of life under Liu Zhang. Because Fa Zheng has released a rumor before, there are many people in the circle. At that time, he did not express his position or tell the truth, and he was waiting for the situation to become clear.

But no one expected that the Blood Banner Army would be so fierce, and in less than two months, they had already beaten Liu Zhang to the point that they had no power to fight back. Now they have handed olive branches to Fazheng, in order to keep their roots after Liu Zhang's defeat.

For these people who want to surrender, Fazheng's attitude has begun to be ambiguous. The implication is: If you want to take refuge? Yes, but you have to bring some sincerity, right? For example, secretly killing Liu Zhang? Or directly contacting the connections of various families in Guanghan to persuade the defenders of Guanghan to surrender?

The bigwigs in Chengdu have different thoughts and don't know what they are planning. None of them were willing to give a clear response to Fazheng's request. It's all a bunch of waste at both ends of the forward-looking and backward rats, no wonder they can mix well under Liu Zhang.

"Hmph! I'm still thinking about it, if I want to please back and forth, let's dream. When Guanghan City is broken, if you want to take refuge, you won't even have a door!" Fa Zheng looked at the various belongings on the table with a smile, but the corners of his mouth were gloomy sneers.

Guanghan, which is hundreds of miles away from Chengdu, is also turbulent in the city at this time. After getting the news that Qianwei was lost and Chengdu was in danger, the circle of middle-level officers in the city was also full of sorrow. And there is a child of a family in this, that is, Zhang Song. This product is a close friend with Fa Zheng, and they have a good relationship, and they have long been dissatisfied with Liu Zhang. At this time, Zhang Song had also fallen to the Blood Banner Army with Fa Zheng.

In the face of the crisis, Zhang Song also lobbied secretly, and soon gathered nearly half of the middle-level officers. Taking advantage of the fact that the general of the defending army organized countermeasures overnight, a mutiny was immediately launched. not only killed a guard, but also quietly opened the city gate, allowing the forward battalion of the Blood Banner Army, which had been lurking for a long time, to enter the city.

By the time dawn came, Guanghan, who had been shouting and killing for most of the night, finally regained relative calm. It's just that when the common people cautiously looked at the flags hanging high at the head of the city, they found that the owner had changed overnight.

Since the beginning of this winter offensive by the Blood Banner Army, in less than two months, Liu Zhang's forces in Sichuan have been compressed within the borders of Chengdu and Wenshan, and their destruction has been in the palm of their hands.

And Liu Biao's army, which got the news and wanted to cut into the base camp of the Blood Banner Army from the Xinggu line in the south to support Liu Zhang, was blocked at a fortress mouth a hundred miles away from Xinggu after crossing the mountains and mountains. The person in charge of blocking the attack was Wu Yi and the 5,000 sergeants who surrendered with him, plus 3,000 militiamen.

And if he wants to be tough, Liu Biao understands that there is no chance to take advantage of it in a month or two. Because once the main force of the Blood Banner Army takes Chengdu, there is no need to turn back at all, and it can directly cross the Danqu and Badong lines to directly attack the key places in Jingzhou. Rather than fighting like this and fighting a bad battle, it is better to retreat and wait for the change.

As a result, Wu Yi, who did not fight fiercely, confronted Liu Biao's army for several days, and then Liu Biao's army retreated to his territory.

So far, Chengdu has become an isolated city. Ten days after the Blood Banner Army was surrounded, Liu Biao was assassinated on the bed by his cronies, and all his family members and children died with him. On the same day, the gate of Chengdu was opened, and the Blood Banner Army entered the city. Completely announced that Liu Zhang's forces withdrew from the chessboard of the Central Plains. In its place was a scarlet-mottled wordless blood flag.

(End of chapter)