At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

He admired Yan Yan's integrity, but he didn't take his actions seriously. He hoped that Wu Ban would consider the people and soldiers in the middle of Shu, and not repeat Yan Yan's mistakes.

Yan Yan's 2 main force has been wiped out. Can Yu Fu's garrison, which has less than [-] men shaken, really face the [-] main force of the Wei army?

Le Jin asked Wu Ban to weigh it carefully. He gave Wu Ban two days to make a decision. Once the two days were up, he would definitely send troops to attack, and it would be too late if he wanted to surrender.

Both his patience and Wei Tianzi's tolerance have limits.

This is Wu Ban's last chance.

When the news reached Yufu, the Shu army's morale was already in turmoil, and people's hearts were fluctuating, because a few defeated troops who fled from Wu County were saying that Yan Yan was defeated, the whole army was wiped out, the battle had been lost, and they were finished.

Originally, Wu Ban treated the news as a disaster for the army, and was about to lead the troops to see the situation, but before they left, Wei Jun's letter of persuasion to surrender was delivered.

Now, Wu Ban had to believe and face the situation.

In short, those two words-it's over.

Yan Yan lost the main force in the first battle, Yufu only had a defensive force of nearly 2, and there were only more than 30 naval warships left.

Although there were still more than 5 civilian husbands and auxiliary soldiers transporting grain, Wu Ban did not have any confidence in winning the battle against the main force of the Wei army of 5.

Wu Ban still understood the difference between civilian husbands and auxiliary soldiers and the regular army. Even if these people were used as cannon fodder, they would not be worth it.

Other than that, there is no other way.

Now the news that Yan Yan died in battle and the main force has been annihilated has spread. The whole army is panicked and everyone is in danger. They don't have the courage and preparation to fight at all. The ants are like bewildered.

Two days passed, Wu Ban still hadn't made a decision, Le Jin shook his head, decided not to wait any longer, and gave the order to the Wei army to attack Yufu.

The main force of the Wei army was dispatched to attack the Shu army's Dazhai separately. The navy and infantry went hand in hand, and used catapults and land battles to break through the Shu army's formation and Dazhai.

However, the Shu army has no fighting spirit. Everyone from the officers to the soldiers panicked and their morale was low. Once contacted, they were defeated like a mountain. The number of soldiers is not difficult at all.

In this way, the dangerous disposal around Yufu County was taken by the Wei army, and the Yufu defense line run by Yan Yan before the war was basically declared destroyed. 3 people were seized a large amount of food and supplies.

Basically, what Yan Yan didn't have time to use was captured by Wei Jun.

The last remnants of the Shu army retreated to Baidi City and Qutang Pass together, and closed the city to defend it to resist the attack of the Wei army.

Afterwards, the Wei army's navy wiped out the Shu army's navy and seized control of the water, while the infantry arrived at Qutang Pass, stormed Qutang Pass, and prepared to further capture Baidi City and open the road to Shu.

The great reputation of Baidi City is not weaker than that of later generations at this moment, but the focus of Baidi City is different now and later generations.

Later generations pay attention to Baidi City because Liu Bei died here, and people at this moment pay attention to Baidi City because it was built by Gongsun Shu.

During the Xinmang period, Gongsun Shu ruled in Shuzhong. Because he found "Bai Qi" here, he regarded it as an auspicious sign of "Bai Di's revival" and called himself "Bai Di Zi" in an attempt to repeat the legacy of Liu Bang's "Red Emperor". Therefore, a city was built here, named Baidi City.

Of course, this White Emperor is not as lucky as the Red Emperor, and it is difficult for the copycat to surpass the original.

So he lost.

But Baidi City remained, and Qutang Pass still existed.

In the south of Baidi City, the Yangtze River crosses Qiyao Mountain to form Qutang Gorge. At the mouth of Qutang Gorge, there is Qutang Pass.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the State of Chu carried out many military operations here, and Qutang Pass also appeared at that time, and it has been used to this day.

Guo Jia discussed the battle situation with Le Jin at the beginning, and said that the Shu army should not be allowed to place the main force in these places without pulling them out, otherwise it would be too difficult for them to attack these dangerous areas.

Fortunately, Yan Yan did not disappoint Guo Jia, he attacked bravely.

Now Wu Ban led a group of frightened remnants and defeated generals to stand firm at Qutangguan to resist the Wei army's attack.

The Wei army set up many trebuchets and violently attacked Qutang Pass with thunder and fierce fire oil tanks. The Qutang Pass defenders had lost their will to fight and could not persist in resisting the onslaught of the Wei army, so Qutang Pass was captured by the Wei army.

As soon as Qutang Pass was lost, Baidi City faced the attack of the Wei army. The throat that guarded the road to Shu lost all its barriers and was captured by the Wei army. The Wei army in the mountains and plains.

"General, are we going to die here?"

Wu Ban's soldiers couldn't help their despair, and asked Wu Ban.

Wu Ban looked at the Wei Jun and Wei Jun's battle flags all over the mountains and plains, looked up at the sky, and let out a long sigh.

"The country is about to perish, what's the point of dying?"

After saying this, Wu Ban ordered Kaesong to surrender, stop resisting, and hand over Baidi City intact to the Wei army.

Chapter 841 .850 One Wei Jun marches straight in

After the surrender of the Shu army, the Wei army quickly entered the city and took over the defense of Baidi City.

Wei Jun confiscated the weapons and armor of the last 2000 Shu troops, took them into custody, and then disarmed Wu Ban and brought them to Le Jin.

Le Jin met Wu Ban in the official office of Baidi City.

"Why didn't you surrender before? If you surrendered with [-] troops and all the civilians and supplies, not only will you be innocent, but you will be meritorious. You will definitely be named a marquis and worship general without losing preferential treatment. Why did you resist?"

"The ancestors in the family were very friendly to the former lord. My two brothers followed the former lord into Sichuan and have been taken care of by the former lord for more than ten years. I dare not forget the kindness of taking care of me for ten years, so I did not dare to surrender before."

Wu Ban knelt on the ground and said in frustration.

"Then why don't you just fight to the end, die on the battlefield, in the name of loyalty? Surrendering at this time, not only will you not be able to get the name of loyalty, it will even be difficult to get rewards, and you will even be questioned. Don't you think this is a wrong decision? ?"

Le Jin asked again.

"The matter has come to this point. It doesn't make much sense to me whether to surrender or not. However, there are still two thousand soldiers in the city and nearly ten thousand people. I can't bear them to die with me. The defeat of our country in this battle is a foregone conclusion. People in Shuzhong Ding is greatly damaged, I just want to keep some people for Shuzhong."

Wu Ban took a deep breath: "If the general doesn't want to see me alive, please give me a knife and allow me to commit suicide to comfort the former lord."

Le Jin looked at Guo Jia, shook his head, and said: "Since you have surrendered, whether you will die or live will be decided by the emperor. You can no longer decide. I will report your matter to the emperor later. The emperor decides.

Before that, let me ask you, are you willing to lead the way for our army and persuade our army to surrender the cities and troops along the way?In this way, perhaps he could be rewarded for his meritorious deeds, so that he would not end up in a miserable end. "

"The defeated general has even surrendered. He is really a betrayer. Now that he has betrayed his master, how can he do such a shameless thing? Please detain me, general, and don't let me participate in this kind of thing."

Wu Ban knelt down and begged.

Le Jin sighed, waved his hand, and asked the soldiers to put Wu Ban down and imprison him, and put him under careful watch, after which he stopped paying attention to his affairs.

After breaking through Qutang Pass and Baidi City, the road to Shu suddenly became clear.

Le Jin and Guo Jia commanded the army to advance side by side, along the waters of the Yangtze River all the way westward, and soon conquered the entire Badong County, and then went down the river to Bajun County.

The Badong defense line of the Shu army was destroyed, and the main force was destroyed. The Wei army's marching route along the Yangtze River was also the Shu army's marching and grain transportation route.

The post stations set up by the Shu Han government along the Yangtze River for food transshipment could not resist the further advance of the Wei army. On the contrary, the food, fodder, and even some war horses and ships owned by the post stations were confiscated by the Wei army along the way, which became the guarantee for the Wei army to advance. .

However, for more than ten days, the main force of the Wei army went up the river and successively conquered Quren County, Linjiang County, Pingdu County, and Zhi County.

None of the four counties resisted. The officials abandoned the city and fled. Only a small number of local officials had nowhere to escape, so they bit the bullet and stayed and waited for the Wei army. After seeing the Wei army, they surrendered decisively.

So the Wei army marched smoothly without encountering any resistance. By the middle and late March, the Wei army's army had already approached Jiangzhou.

The prefect of Bajun and the county magistrate of Jiangzhou had already abandoned the city and fled, and the defenders in the city had long since collapsed, so the big households in the city united to take over the city. Dedicated to Le Jin and Guo Jia.

Le Jin and Guo Jia were very happy, and ordered the army to attack everywhere. They stayed in the city to hold a banquet, entertain the big households in the city, publicize the policies of the State of Wei, and lay the foundation for the State of Wei to rule the middle of Shu.

It was already March 25 when Le Jin and Guo Jia finished rectifying the army in Jiangzhou and continued up the river.

At this moment, Liu Zhang already knew the news in Chengdu.

Prior to this, in mid-March, Liu Zhang had just learned that the battle situation at Jiange Pass was unclear.

Veteran general Gao Pei and Zhonglang general Lei Tong were killed in battle due to the surprise attack of the Wei army.

At the moment, there are only [-] soldiers who can continue to fight. In just over a month, Jiangeguan has lost nearly [-] soldiers. The terrible casualty rate makes Liu Zhang tremble and Chengdu tremble.

Only then did Liu Zhang know that the Wei army's siege weapons were updated very quickly. They used trebuchets to attack the city, threw huge stones, fired oil tanks and shook the sky.

Wu Yi described in the memorandum that a boulder falling from the sky can create a deep hole in the ground, a fire tank can explode a huge flame, it can burn without any combustibles, and burn a large number of soldiers, while Zhentianlei can burn a large number of soldiers. It made a thunderous sound, extremely terrifying.

The situation at Jiange Pass is very bad right now. The Wei army's weapons are far away from attacking the city, and the Shu army's bows and arrows cannot reach them, so they cannot fight back. They can only be beaten passively.

Wu Yi urgently asked for reinforcements and generals, as well as a large number of medicinal materials and doctors, especially medicinal materials and doctors that can treat burns.

Liu Zhang greyed a lot because of this, and mobilized his subordinates to continue conscription around Chengdu, and urgently recruited civilian doctors who were good at treating burns and sword wounds and sent them to Jiangeguan.

Then Liu Zhang learned that there was no movement near Micang Mountain, and it seemed that there was no Wei army attacking, so he ordered Zhang Ren, who was stationed on Micang Road, to send [-] troops to help Jiange.

At the same time, Liu Zhang also seriously thought about the super general mobilization proposal put forward by Huang Quan before, thinking about the action of sending all men to the battlefield and letting women transport food.

There are really not many men of the right age around Chengdu who have been transferred, and there are not many men who have spread to the entire Shu County. The men in Guanghan County have all gone to deliver food to the Jiange defenders, and they can no longer be recruited. The men in Sanba Also go to deliver food to the Padang County garrison.

Some of the barbarians in the counties were bought by Liu Zhang to join the resistance army. Except for those border counties in the south of Yizhou who went their own way, the war potential in the Chengdu Plain has been exhausted.

Of course, these are the numbers registered on the household registration number. If Liu Zhang can make up his mind to suppress the tyrants and snatch the labor force, he will definitely be able to get a mobilization force equivalent to all the mobilization forces he currently has, and continue to support the war.

It's a pity that he can't do it. It's already an outrage for him to do this, and he is short of an uprising.

During the process of recruiting civilian husbands and soldiers, many Li Shu had chosen to flee to Haoqiang Manor for asylum because they could not bear the heavy work.

Liu Zhang had no choice but to call back the [-] troops from the four counties of Nanzhong to resist with all his strength.

But this kind of thinking, along with the idea of ​​super general mobilization, disappeared after Liu Zhang learned that the defense line of Badong County was destroyed and Yan Yan died in battle and Wu Ban surrendered.

The last time Liu Zhang got Yan Yan's memorial table was when Yan Yan captured Wu County.

Yan Yan wrote a memorial to Liu Zhang in a very proud tone, saying that he had defeated the Wei army and captured Wu County, and that he would march to Zigui, capture Zigui, and force the Wei army to give up their strategic intentions.

When Liu Zhang learned that he was overjoyed, he immediately sent someone to reward Yan Yan and the frontline troops, and sent them rare cattle and fine wine.

But when Liu Zhang sent out the rewards, Yan Yan was surrounded by the Wei army and died in battle. The rewards did not move forward after they arrived in Jiangzhou.

The officials in charge of going to reward the army learned that Yan Yan died in battle and that the Wei army was marching towards Jiangzhou, so they were frightened out of their wits and left the rewards in Jiangzhou. They fled to Chengdu with Jiangzhou officials. So the big family in Jiangzhou City borrowed flowers to offer Buddha, and gave it to Wei Jun.

Chapter 842 850 Two Zheng Du's strategy

After receiving the military supplies from the Shu army, the soldiers of the Wei army were very happy to eat and drink, and then marched towards Chengdu with more energy.

Liu Zhang was so frightened that his mind went blank, and the whole Chengdu was in a mess, and he no longer thought about supporting the front line.

The front line is over, the resisting generals are dead, the Wei army has marched all the way west without encountering any resistance, and the Shu Han regime is about to come to an end.

Once the situation that the main combat faction was trying to maintain collapsed, the subdued faction that was suppressed in the regime immediately raised its head.

They flocked to Liu Zhang's palace, knelt down and begged Liu Zhang to give up resistance and surrender to the Wei army, saying that the main battle would harm the country, and that if they continued to fight, the entire Yizhou people would be slaughtered by the Wei people.

Now the main combat faction has no confidence and bargaining chips that can be used to fight against the main descendant faction.

They could no longer persuade Liu Zhang to continue resisting.

Because apart from the [-] Chengdu garrison, Liu Zhang has no other mobile forces in his hands. The last army that can be mobilized is in Nanzhong. moving.

So if there is another fight now, even the cooks in Chengdu will be dragged to the battlefield to fight the Wei army, and the eunuchs around him may also go to the battlefield with him.

This is something they cannot accept.

Liu Zhang hid in the deep palace and kept crying, praying to heaven that it was not true, that it was a nightmare.

Soon he will wake up from his dream, and Yan Yan will write to tell him that the Wei army has been repelled, and Wu Yi and Zhang Ren will also bring good news that the Wei army has retreated.

But Liu Zhang didn't wake up, because he didn't sleep at all, this is the reality.

Liu Zhang's psychological defense was crumbling, and most of the main fighters fell into self-doubt and kept silent. At this moment, there were not many people trying to turn the tide.

Zhang Su, the county magistrate of Chengdu promoted by Liu Zhang, was one.

He has no talent, but as an old official of Liu Zhang, he must put on a posture to stand on the same front as Liu Zhang no matter what.

So he met Liu Zhang and put forward his suggestions to Liu Zhang.

"The people of Wei came from afar. They seem to be powerful, but they are in danger. Your Majesty should send a capable general to lead an elite army to insert behind the Wei army, attack their food roads, and cut off their food roads. The advancing Wei army will inevitably retreat. Chengdu It's safe."

Liu Zhang could think of such a well-behaved trick without any special features and no use, and Zhang Su's ability to say it was already a sign of loyalty.

But anyone can say, do it?

What kind of general is a capable general?

What kind of soldiers are considered elite soldiers?

How much is one?

How to insert Wei Jun's rear?

How to attack the grain road?