The Shuhan Empire of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 30

another city

Zhuge Qiao followed the army all the way forward, and there were two roads from Jianping to Zigui; one was by water, and the other was by land. Since Zhang Fei's army did not have a navy, and there were not so many boats to carry them, the only way was to cross the mountains and ridges; Wherever he passed, the people were all along the way. When Liu Bei ruled Jingzhou in the past, he was kind to the people of Jingzhou; Homeland, nostalgia arises spontaneously.

If he didn't know that the Soochow reinforcements hadn't arrived yet, who would dare to march in such a hurry, the soldiers were already exhausted after three days of marching, if they were ambushed here by the enemy, more than [-] troops might have to confess here.

Jianping City; the flag of Han Emperor Liu Bei has already been planted on the top of Jianping City, and the soldiers are full of energy, and it is completely impossible to tell that they just marched over from Chengdu; it turned out that Liu Bei's army was all the way down the Yangtze River with the navy , the marching speed will naturally be much faster, and the soldiers will not appear tired due to crossing mountains and ridges.

In the conference hall; "Your Majesty, the general has led the army to capture Zigui by land, and the last general will be here to welcome His Majesty." Fan Jiang said in the center of the hall, clasping his fists

"The third brother made the first great contribution to defeating Wu. Lian Po is old and can still eat! It seems that the third brother is not old yet. He has been gone for a few days." Liu Bei was also very excited at this time.

"Return to Your Majesty, it has been three days"

"According to the marching speed of the third brother, he must be approaching the city of Zigui at this time. Zigui city has no generals and no reinforcements at this time, so it must already be in the bag."

"You and the military secretary Ma Liang go to capture Shaqu County in the south so that Ma Liang can borrow troops from the Wuxi barbarians in Wuling County."

"The last general takes orders" Ma Liang and Fan Jiang responded together

"General Fu, you led the vanguard down the river to assist General Cheqi, and then I led the army to the...

"Report, Zhuge Jin, the envoy of His Majesty Soochow Wu, has arrived." The Yulin Army suddenly came in.

"Don't let him in," Liu Bei said
"Zhuge Jin is the eldest brother of Prime Minister Zhuge. There must be something wrong here. Why did your majesty refuse to come in?" Huang Quan came out to persuade

Liu Bei hesitated for a while, "Pass on Zhuge Jin"

"The two armies are at war, you are a servant of Jiangdong, what are you doing here?" Liu Bei stared at Zhuge Jin and asked
"Your Majesty, my younger brother planned for His Majesty in Han, so I am not afraid of swords and guns. I have come here to report the matter of Jingzhou. In the past, when Guan Junhou was in Jingzhou, Wu Hou proposed marriage many times, but Guan Junhou refused. Later, Guan Junhou Hou attacked Xiangyang, and Cao Cao sent edicts to Wu Hou many times, asking Wu Hou to attack Jingzhou; Wu Hou never agreed, because Lu Meng was at odds with the monarch, and he sent troops to attack Jingzhou without authorization, which made a big mistake, and Wu Hou regretted it. This is Lu Meng's It is a sin, not Marquis Wu; now that Lu Meng is dead, let us let go of the enmity. Mrs. Sun has always missed His Majesty, and now Marquis Wu is preparing to return Mrs. Sun, form an alliance forever, and attack Cao Pi." Zhuge Jin said sincerely

"Sun Quan seized me in Jingzhou and killed my brother, how can we reconcile with an apology?" Liu Bei said through gritted teeth

"Your Majesty, please see the situation clearly. Now that Cao Pi has usurped Han and proclaimed himself emperor, you don't think about destroying it; but you come to attack Soochow, which is to sacrifice righteousness for small righteousness; now everyone in the world knows that His Majesty will restore the Han Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty. How can rivers and mountains go against the wishes of the people of the world?"

"The revenge of killing my brother! I will not share the sky! I want to stop fighting! Only death will stop me!" Liu Bei was already furious and spit out sixteen words.

"If you didn't see that you are the eldest brother of the prime minister, I would have killed you a long time ago. Go back! Tell Sun Quan to wash his neck and wait for my sword." After finishing speaking, he no longer looked at Zhuge Jin; , and went back to Jiangdong.

And everyone was also amazed, Liu Bei's words had already announced to everyone that this attack on Wu would only end with death, and I don't know if someone would make him change his mind.

Zigui City; the surrounding area of ​​Zigui City has already been covered with Han soldiers wearing white clothes, holding a white flag and holding a big banner with the word "righteousness".

"Listen, people in the city, I'm Zhang Yide from Yan, but someone dares to fight me!" Zhang Fei raged under the city.

On the top of the city, Wang Ji, who had just escaped from Jianping, said to a general beside him, "You must not go out of the city to fight, or Zhang Fei will scare away the only morale you have in defeat."

After waiting for nearly a stick of incense, no one dared to come out to fight. "Siege!" Zhang Fei gave an order. Originally, these soldiers rushed here yesterday. In order to relieve the fatigue of the soldiers, the whole army rested for a day, and now they are gaining momentum.

Suddenly there was a loud drumbeat, and the front army rushed out immediately. Wu Ban commanded the shield soldiers to fill up the moat, and the soldiers behind also carried the ladder and geared up, while Zhuge Qiao stood on a high place with Zhang Fei and commanded each other. Army mobilization.This is also the first time that Zhuge Qiao has enjoyed this kind of treatment. I saw that the soldiers of the Han army began to fill in the moat under the cover of shield soldiers. Zigui is not a big city at all, but a county town with a high terrain, so the moat is naturally not very wide. After an hour or so, more than a hundred corpses were left and the moat was finally filled.

"Second team up" Wu Ban was commanding the shield soldiers to carry the ladder, and rushed to the city wall without hesitation.At this time, the defenders also transferred troops from other city gates. At this time, there were about a thousand Wu troops guarding the west gate.

One by one, the Han army put the ladders up the city tower, and began the cruelest siege battle. Arrows, rolling stones, boiling oil,,,

"Uncle, if this goes on like this, our loss in capturing Zigui will be too great." Zhuge Qiao saw the fallen robe on the city wall.

"Do you think I don't know? I sent Liu Yong to lead [-] soldiers to the east gate last night. We will attract Wu's troops there, and we must tear through the enemy's defense here."

"Look, Wu's army is in chaos. They recruited hundreds of people to support the east gate, mistakenly thinking that the east gate is the main breakthrough, and Zigui will soon be ours," Zhang Fei said, pointing to the tower.

Although the Wu army withdrew some of its troops from the west gate, the Han army still did not climb up the tower, "Listen to my orders, and the Chinese army advances." Wu Ban also saw that the troops on the tower had decreased.

Suddenly there was another drumbeat, and the Chinese army began to charge forward. That is to say, the Han army has 600 troops to attack the city, while the Wu army has only [-] at most.

The Chinese army had rushed to the city wall and immediately erected a ladder, with a shield on top and a simple knife in its mouth, and began to climb towards the tower.

"It's him, bastard! I don't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth..." Zhang Fei looked at the attacking troops and suddenly cursed.

"Uncle, who are you talking about?"

"Look for yourself, that bastard is actually in the Chinese army, and he's still on the ladder now." Zhang Fei vaguely pointed at the city where the scuffle was fought.

Zhuge Qiao knew without looking that he was talking about Zhang Bao; "It seems that Zhang Bao was encouraged by himself, so he wanted to do meritorious service in front of his father, so that he would not fall behind me; up"

Zhang Bao dodged a rolling stone very neatly, held a shield to block the arrows that greeted him, and jumped up the tower first with a tiger leap. In an instant, five Wu Jun armed with spears greeted him; Seeing him throwing off his shield and picking up his spear, he rushed up, and because of a gap Zhang Bao broke through, the Han army behind him also climbed up the tower in an endless stream, which also marked the first step in the fall of Zigui City.

"Haha, Bosong, the city is broken, quickly follow me into the city." Seeing that Zigui City was about to be breached, Zhang Fei rode his mount and rushed towards the direction of the city gate.Zhuge Qiao naturally followed behind Zhang Fei.

On the tower, "General Wang, retreat quickly, Zigui can't hold it anymore!" The general beside Wang Ji advised
"If you want to withdraw you, I will not leave; when the governor of Lu Meng captured Jianping County, he was so majestic. At that time, he asked me to be the general of Jianping to guard the territory; now that Liu Bei enters the country, I will fight to the death. Zigui It may be the last city in Jianping County. I should stay here and let the Shu Han army know: I have only generals who died in battle in Soochow, and there are no generals who escaped." He said that these words are also the determination of Jiangdong's children not to fear death.

"Since this is the case, we will defend this city with the general even if we die."

"No! If this is the case, our army doesn't even have a single person to go back to report the news. You should break out immediately and report the situation here to Zhu Ran, the guard of Jingzhou."

"It's better for the general to break out, and I will defend the city for the general."

"I order you to go, hurry up, go right away..." Wang Jiyong pointed and cursed angrily, and then rushed into the most densely populated place of the Han army.

The generals saw that Wang Ji was already determined to "be careful, general!!!" After that, dozens of them rushed to the south gate.

At this time, Zhang Bao had already cut off the suspension bridge, and led dozens of people towards the city gate, preparing to open the city gate that already belonged to him...

In about a quarter of an hour, Zhang Fei led the army into the city gate of Zigui, which also symbolized the fall of Zigui.

(Yesterday, due to the wrong use of the browser, there was a problem with the typesetting, which has been corrected, please understand; I also hope that everyone can give me favorites and recommendations; Zhuge Qiao is very grateful)

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