Three Kingdoms Eschatology

When the two war elephant regiments also caught up and joined the cavalry regiment, the thousand or so light cavalry of Liang Jun had disappeared behind the horizon, leaving only billowing dust.Zhu Luojun's war horses are all inferior horses from the southern part of the body, and their speed and endurance are only [-]% of Liang Jun's light cavalry horses.It is impossible for them to catch up with these light cavalry.

Rahal gritted his teeth. He knew that the opponent was using harassment to delay his return, but there was nothing he could do about it.In front of the opponent's high-mobility elite cavalry, he can only be teased.Unless you don't leave, form a defensive formation and wait for the enemy.

Rahal asked the generals to organize the troops and continue to rush to Nan'an.In order to prevent the opponent from repeating his old tricks, Rahal had to split his cavalry regiment into several units, distribute them around the marching column to guard against the enemy, and stop and go along the way.

But even so, they encountered several harassment.In addition to Qingqi's harassment by riding and shooting, it also launched surprise attacks with vicious dogs and cheetahs, and even falcons and golden eagles attacked from the air.

In the battle elephant regiment, a war elephant was frightened by the sudden appearance of the cheetah and went mad. It rushed to the rear and overturned more than ten Zhuluo infantry who trampled to death behind them, causing short-term confusion.

At this time, Rahal was already anxious, and the other party's actions clearly showed that they were bound to win against Nan'an.

Nan'an is more important than Wuyang. Liang Jun's iron cavalry bases in Nan'an, and with a combat radius of [-] miles, it can block the land passage between the Minjiang River and the Tuojiang River.In that way, not only the people who besieged Chengdu, but also the cities along the Tuojiang River occupied by Zhu Luo's army, the food and grass supplies would also be cut off.

Chapter 221 The Bloody Battle Under Nan'an City

At the head of Nan'an City, a small cymbal tambourine suddenly sounded, which was the sound of a sentry guard warning.Because in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, a fleet of ships sailed quickly.The ships in the fleet are of strange shapes, and there are more than fifty ships in total.

After a while, Dikal came to Nan'an's east gate tower and looked out into the river.Nan'an is located at the confluence of the Minyi River, the Dadu River, and the Dadu River. Except for the north gate, it faces water on three sides.

Those ships with full sails have already approached the east bank one after another, and are unloading soldiers, horses and equipment.

Although it seems that there are not many people on the other side, there is still an infantry regiment and an assault regiment in Nan'an City, plus thousands of Calabora barbarians.But Dikal is also unwilling to risk going out of the city to fight.He immediately ordered: "Send my military order to close the city gate. All soldiers of the infantry regiment go to the top of the city and guard it strictly!"

The suspension bridge was pulled up creakingly, and the city gate was slowly closed.After the Liang army landed, they did not set up camp or attack the city, but marched to the city with their shields upright.Look for something.Moments later, they began digging ditches.Dikal was very puzzled, and couldn't guess what they were going to do.

After nearly two hours, a few horses galloped towards the north gate of Nan'an.From the outside, they were the commanding soldiers of Zhu Luo's army. The defenders at the top of the city hurriedly put down the suspension bridge for them and opened the city gate.

"Deputy general, the general ordered me to wait to inform you urgently, there are traps under the city wall..." those commanding soldiers hurriedly said after seeing Dikal.

Dikal became anxious when he heard the confused words, and asked like a cannonball: "Don't panic, tell them one by one, and speak clearly. How about the army we went to rescue Wuyang? How about the general? What happened under the city wall? What does it mean to have a trap?"

"Wuyang has been captured by the enemy, because the enemy has set up organs under the city wall before, so that the city wall can be washed down by the river. The general found that some enemies came from the waterway to Nan'an. He was worried that the Nan'an city wall would have the same problem, so he ordered We will come forward to report the news first, and the army will return to help later."

Speaking of this, Dekar finally figured things out.He immediately remembered that the incoming enemy army was digging a ditch, and he was startled.At this time, it was too late for the artisan auxiliary soldiers to check the bottom of the city wall.After thinking twice quickly in his mind, he ordered decisively:

"Pass our military order, quickly assemble the army in the city, and fight out of the city. Annihilate or drive away the enemy troops at the east gate, and prevent them from destroying the city wall!"

Following Dikal's military order, the sound of Dohera's war drums came from Nan'an City.The army was quickly assembled, a total of one assault battalion, plus three thousand Carabola barbarians and their dozen war elephants.

The Nan'an East City Gate was suddenly opened, and the suspension bridge was lowered. After more than 5000 Zhu Luo troops poured out of the city gate, they quickly lined up.The assault regiment formed two thousand-man squares, surrounded by more than 3000 Carabola light infantry and war elephants.They came to Liang Jun with overwhelming momentum.

More than a thousand Liang troops outside the city also quickly retreated to the bank of the river, and assembled to form a thousand-man square formation, with shield walls made of large shields on three sides.There are longbowmen in the middle, and five ordinary ballistas and twenty light ballistas are distributed on the side near the water.

Just as Zhu Luojun crossed the suspension bridge, he saw five black objects flying in the air, followed by a few muffled bangs.

A hole the size of a bowl appeared on the large shield of a Zhu Luo soldier, and his arm holding the shield was broken at a right angle, and a stone bullet the size of a bowl was completely sunk into his chest.

Another Zhu Luo soldier's head was smashed to pieces, and his headless body fell to the ground.Another Zhu Luobing's calf was broken by the bouncing stone bullet, and he fell to the ground holding his broken leg and howling.

Although the five ballista bombs only caused three casualties, Zhu Luobing was shocked by their tragic killing effect.Morale immediately suffered a lot.There were still nearly a hundred battles between the two sides, and Zhu Luo's bow and arrow could not reach Liang Jun.

Zhu Luo's army charged forward for more than a dozen battles, and the two hundred longbowmen in Liang's army fired heavy arrows at once.These heavy arrows, even the scales and iron armor on Zhu Luojun's generals, couldn't resist, and the screams of the arrows being injured one after another rang out one after another.The entire Zhu Luo army was in chaos.

But Zhu Luojun had a large number of people after all, and to them, a casualty of one or two hundred people was like throwing a pebble into a pond, which could only stir up a splash of water and ripples.Thousands of Zhu Luo's army as a whole still pressed towards the river like a torrent.

More than a thousand Calaborans and a dozen elephants rushed to the forefront. They had no formation, but swarmed in.When they were still twenty battles away from Liang Jun's phalanx, Liang Jun's longbowmen began to concentrate on shooting war elephants, and the twenty light ballistas also began to throw small incendiary bombs.

Twenty fist-sized fireballs streaked across the sky and landed among the crowd in Kalapora, sending up pillars of flame five or six feet high.

A heavy arrow hit an elephant in the forehead.It screamed, and its huge body fell to one side.The two Carabola soldiers on the back of the elephant fell half to death, and a Carabola soldier next to the elephant couldn't dodge in time and was crushed to death by the elephant on the spot.

Elephants themselves are afraid of fire, and these Calaboran elephants are not professional war elephants, and they are only used as livestock to drag goods on weekdays.

Therefore, under the attack of the longbow and heavy arrows and the flames, they became panicked and frantic, no longer controlled by the mahout on their bodies, and turned around and ran wildly.They rushed into the phalanx of Zhu Luo's assault regiment one after another, causing the entire phalanx to be in chaos.

At this time, the Carabola light infantry at the front was only five or six battles away from the Liang army's phalanx. They only heard a shout from the formation: "Let it go!", and hundreds of flying spears and javelins were thrown at these Carapora barbarians. .

These barbarians can only raise the rattan shield in their hands to block.But the power of the flying spear and javelin is by no means comparable to that of arrows. The flying spear pierced through these vine shields and pierced the naked upper body of the Kalaporans.As the blood rained, the Kalaborans fell in pieces.

The battle situation made Dikal, who was watching the battle from the top of the city, sweat all over his vest.Suddenly, the guard beside him exclaimed: "Deputy General, look!"

Dikal looked along the opponent's fingers, and couldn't help but turn pale with shock.In the north, Liang Jun's heavy cavalry, with more than a thousand men and horses in armor, suddenly appeared, rushing towards the area between the Minjiang River and the east city wall of Nan'an.The leader is Zhao Yun himself.

"Hurry up and withdraw!" Dekar roared in despair.But it was too late, Zhu Luojun's Manjila cymbal had just sent the signal to withdraw troops, and more than a thousand cavalrymen had already killed the city, and even Dikal, who was standing on the city wall, felt the ground tremble.

Liang Jun's heavy cavalry spread out a chain of iron chains, raised their maces, and plunged into the chaotic Zhuluo phalanx with lightning speed.I saw bodies being knocked into the air one by one by the huge war horses, the mace waving with whirring shattered numerous bones and organs, and the chain chains pulled down the crowd in pieces.From north to south, the heavy cavalry swept across the area between the city wall and the river, and the field was full of corpses and the smell of blood...

Chapter 222

Seeing the unfavorable situation in the city, Dikal was worried that the Liang army would rush into Nan'an City, so he quickly ordered: "Quick! Pull up the suspension bridge and close the city gate!".

Zhu Luobing at the head of the city turned the winch vigorously, trying to pull up the suspension bridge.But after just two turns, the cable pulling the suspension bridge was stretched to the limit, and the winch could no longer be turned.

It turned out that Zhu Luo's defeated soldiers near the city gate all rushed towards the city gate in one go.The suspension bridge was crowded with people, so naturally it couldn't be pulled up.Not only the suspension bridge cannot be lifted, but even the city gate cannot be closed for a while.

Dikar shouted loudly: "The crossbowmen fired arrows to disperse the crowd on the suspension bridge!" Before he finished speaking, twenty cavalry among Liang Jun's iron cavalry, led by a young general with a white horse and silver spear, charged up up the drawbridge.

That general was Zhao Yun. Seeing that the other party was going to close the city gate, he let the main force of the heavy cavalry continue to sweep up the remnants of the south, and he led more than [-] cavalry around him to kill at the east gate of Nan'an in the west.

They waved their spears and maces, slashing and killing the broken soldiers on the suspension bridge.In addition to crowding into the city gate in a panic, the latter jumped into the moat on both sides of the suspension bridge in a panic.

"Cut the cables!" Zhao Yun roared, and several heavy riders pulled out the sabers hanging beside the saddles, and cut off the tightly stretched cables of the suspension bridge with a few clicks.

The rain of arrows had suddenly fallen from the top of the city, clanging and hitting the iron armor of the heavy cavalry without causing any actual casualties.

At this time, the half-closed east city gate was rushed by the rout and opened wide.Zhao Yun seized this opportunity and rushed in with twenty heavy cavalry.

Behind the city gate, there are some scattered Chola infantry and Carabola light infantry.Several Zhu Luo soldiers were blocking the corridor of the city gate.Before they could react, they heard a few loud bangs, their bones hit by the war horses were all shattered, they flew into the air, and then fell heavily.

A Zhu Luo soldier standing on the side of the road saw huge war horses passing by.He didn't even think about it.With his eyes closed, he mustered up the courage to stab forward with the spear in his hand.

With a pop, his head was pierced by the tip of a silver gun.With a strong lift of Zhao Yun's arm, the Zhu Luo soldier was lifted into the air.After falling to the ground, his body was immediately crushed by the passing iron hooves.

The Zhu Luo soldiers on the side of the road who didn't dodge in time were also knocked to the ground by the mace in haste.Zhu Luojun on the corridor in front of the city gate was cleaned up in a short while.

Dikal on the top of the city saw all this, and shouted to the surrounding soldiers: "Go down to the city and stop them, and you must close the city gate!"

At the moment when Descartes spoke, the Liang army phalanx on the banks of the Minjiang River had moved to the east city gate.Those heavy riders outside the city also returned to their horses and rushed towards the city gate.

The Zhuluo infantry at the top of the city held their swords, guns, shields and crossbows, screaming and rushing down the stairs at the top of the city.Zhao Yun and more than [-] riders did not guard the gate, but parked their horses on the street more than ten battles away from the city gate.

Zhao Yun saw a large number of Zhu Luo soldiers gathered at the gate of the city.He roared: "Go!".The twenty riders immediately divided into two groups, and accelerated towards the city gate again along the left and right sides of the street.

When they got closer to Zhu Luo's soldiers, the latter just realized that an iron chain was hanging in the middle of the street, and it was swiftly sweeping towards them.Zhao Yun also followed behind the iron chain and rushed to kill with his gun.

Puff, bang, click, with a series of various noises.Zhu Luo soldiers scattered in the streets were all broken by the iron chains, leaving only a piece of wreckage.

Only the two Zhu Luo soldiers reacted quickly and squatted down in time to avoid the catastrophe.But then, one of them was kicked to the forehead by Zhao Yun's horse's front hoof, and died on the spot.The other person was also shot into the chest by Zhao Yun.

Under the impact of the huge war horse and the sweep of the big stick.Zhu Luobing on both sides of the street was also swaying, with corpses in a mess.The city gate was cleared again.

There were more than a dozen brave infantry rushing down from the top of the city. Naturally, they were not opponents.They were beheaded in less than two rounds, and Zhao Yun even picked three people in a row.

In fact, when the cavalry loses speed, the infantry has a chance to kill a small number of cavalry by relying on their numbers.

Therefore, if Zhu Luo's soldiers could rush to the city gate in time at this time, Zhao Yun and the twenty heavy cavalry would be in danger.It's a pity that the Zhu Luo soldiers at the top of the city were already terrified when they saw such a scene, except for a few brave men.They all stood still in fear.

Dikal understood this in his heart, and shouted loudly: "Be afraid of the enemy and not go ahead! Let me charge down..."

Before he finished speaking, the sound outside the city was like thunder, and the earth trembled.The main force of Liang Guo's heavy cavalry turned around and rushed to the east gate. One after another, heavy cavalry galloped into the city from the suspension bridge and galloped deep into the city.Then, Liang Jun's infantry phalanx also pressed to the gate of the city, and began to pour into the city in large numbers...

"Deputy general, we can't defend anymore. Before the enemy army controls the whole city, let's retreat quickly!" Dikal's cronies persuaded.

"After our withdrawal, what should we do with the tens of thousands of troops still in the north? How can I explain to my elder brother!" Dikal shouted with red eyes, full of tears.

"It's too late to think about this now, and it's useless for us to stay here. The most urgent thing is that you have to withdraw from Nan'an and retreat to Bodao. You can only retreat to Bodao and reorganize the defense line. This is our only choice now."

"Yeah, let's go, deputy general. It's too late if we don't go. We retreat to Bodao, and we can still find a way to meet General Rahal. If we die here, the whole army is really in danger of being annihilated! "

"Yeah, deputy general, don't hesitate any longer, let's retreat!"

The generals tried to persuade Dikal, and Dikal glanced at the city, and found that Liang Guo's spear and shield soldiers had begun to attack and kill along the stairs.He sighed heavily: "Withdraw!"

Surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Dikal boarded several ships anchored in the city, entered the Qingyi River from the south water gate, and fled towards the Shu River downstream of the Minjiang River.An hour later, Liang Jun completely controlled Nan'an City.

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It was only when the sun was setting that Rahal's army reached the east bank of the Minjiang River opposite Nan'an.Just as they were looking for the bamboo rafts hidden here before, they were preparing to build a pontoon bridge to cross the river.Two barefoot, shirtless men were running towards Rahal.

They were two Zhuluo scouts who had just swam across the Minjiang River. When they came to the elephant on which Rahal was riding, they bowed and said, "General, something is wrong. Our Nan'an City has fallen. We are from several The news that the soldiers inquired about."

When Rahal heard this, his head buzzed.After he calmed down, he asked, "What happened to the defenders in the city and my brother Dikal?"

"Most of the defenders in the city were killed and dispersed, but General Dicar and a small number of soldiers withdrew to Bodao City."

Hearing this, Rahal felt a little relieved.

Chapter 223 Communication

After Lahal learned that the Liang army had captured Nan'an City, he had no choice but to continue along the river to the southeast with the army, form a large formation of defensive cavalry on a certain riverside, and build a pontoon bridge to prepare to cross the river.

One of his trusted generals reminded Rahal: "We withdraw to the Bodao south of the Shu River, what should we do with the ministries stranded in Chengdu and along the Tuo River?"

Rahal said in a cold voice: "I have dispatched soldiers to inform the ministries to withdraw their troops. They..." Rahal didn't continue, and the second half of his sentence actually wanted to say, "Whether they can withdraw safely or not can only be left to fate."

After the Liang army occupied Nan'an, the attack range of the Liang army's iron cavalry in Nan'an could cover all land passages between the Minjiang River and Nan'an.The waterways of the Minjiang and Tuojiang rivers will also be blocked by Liang Jun's strange ships.

Therefore, the grain road from Bodao to Chengdu has actually been cut off.The Zhu Luo army north of Nan'an had no choice but to withdraw.And whether they can retreat smoothly depends on whether they can avoid the opponent's cavalry with luck.

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When the task panel of the system reminded Feng Yu that Nan'an had been conquered and he had obtained various building cards and storage card rewards, Feng Yu was leading more than a thousand people to the vicinity of Chengdu.

Of course, it was impossible for Zhu Luojun to break through the circular position built around Chengdu with such a small number of troops.Feng Yu is worried about Zhang Ren in Chengdu.I'm afraid that because he doesn't know the outside information, he can't stand it and break out rashly.At the same time, they are also worried that the morale of the soldiers and horses in the city will collapse due to the long-term siege and the shortage of food and grass.

Feng Yu is trying to find a way to get in touch with the defenders in Chengdu.However, he walked around Chengdu for a full circle before discovering that Zhu Luojun's circular position was actually a circular fortress, enclosing the entire city of Chengdu airtight.Not to mention people, it is difficult for a pigeon to fly over.

Of course, if there are really pigeon houses in Chengdu, and the pigeons with pigeon houses are taken outside the city, then they can still get in touch with the city, at least they can send some information to the city.

It's a pity that Feng Yu didn't occupy Chengdu for a long time, and it took quite a long time for the pigeons to recognize their nests, so there was no time to build a pigeon house in the city.

Just when Feng Yu was frowning, he suddenly saw a small river with autumn leaves floating on the river.A thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

This small river runs through the "big city" of Chengdu, and Zhu Luo's army's circular position will naturally not ignore it.Therefore, several wide pontoon bridges were built on the river to seal the two water gates.

The pontoon bridge is connected with the ring fortress on land as a whole.The pontoon bridge is still paved with soil and is equipped with a huge crossbow.On both sides of the floating bridge, there are bamboo horses that can be suspended in the water.

After rejecting the horses, there are tall and strong bamboo fences planted into the bottom of the water.The water in this small river is not rushing, and the river course cannot accommodate large ships.Therefore, it is almost impossible to break through these obstacles in the water with heavy ships.

Rahal's mind is very careful, in order to prevent the use of water to spread letters inside and outside the city to communicate.The water-entry part of the bamboo grid also pulls a fine net.It is impossible for slightly thick suspended matter to drift into the city along the river and drift out of the city.

The sun was setting and it was sunset.Two Viking ships suddenly broke into the upper channel of the creek.Sail and sail towards the pontoon bridge, and there are a large number of heavy cavalry escorts on the river banks on both sides of the ship.

The sound of cymbals and castanets resounded in the Zhuluo army camp.A large number of soldiers rushed to the pontoon bridge and the adjacent fortifications on both sides of the river. They stringed and loaded crossbow guns on the giant crossbows, and the crossbowmen also bent their bows and set arrows to defend against the enemy.It's just the light of the setting sun that makes them unable to open their eyes.With an order, arrows shot at the opponent indiscriminately.

The sailors on the Viking ship had already set up their large shields, tightly protecting the longbowmen in the ship.The longbowman fully draws the longbow that is higher than the human head, and shoots arrows one by one.It's just that these arrows are not heavy arrows, but ordinary arrows with a long size, and a small bamboo tube is tied to the arrow shaft.

These arrows drew long arcs in the air.They fly over a distance of more than a hundred battles.Cross over the wide pontoon bridge and the fences on both sides, as well as the floating Juma, and land in the waterway in front of Chengdu Water Gate.Then it floated up and flowed down the water towards the city...

It was already dark, but Zhang Ren's mansion in the city was not lit.Zhang Ren paced back and forth in the dark hall, although he was usually in front of soldiers, he still looked calm and composed.But actually distraught.

At the beginning, Feng Yu told him to stick to Chengdu for three or four months at most.The food and supplies in the city were also prepared according to this time.

It is now the fourth month. Although Zhu Luo's army outside the city has withdrawn most of them, they have built tight fortifications to trap Chengdu to death.The own army outside the city seemed to have no movement.In addition to the generals who were trapped in the camp, the generals under Zhang Ren also came to inquire about the situation every three days.This makes Zhang Ren not in a hurry.

Although the food and grass in the city are used normally, it is still enough for one and a half months.But just in case, Zhang Ren had to order the daily ration supply to be halved.In order to save materials, even lamp oil should be used sparingly.After all, at critical moments, lamp oil can also be used as food.

Now, Zhang Ren has made up his mind to stay there for another month, and if there is still no movement outside, he will try his best to break through at all costs.

In the darkness, Zhang Ren suddenly heard a report from a commanding soldier outside the house: "General Qi, a letter from King Liang!"

Zhang Ren was surprised and delighted, and rushed directly outside the house.While taking a roll of letter paper from Lingbing's hand, he asked suspiciously, "How did the outside send the letter to the city?"

After listening to Ling Bing's narration, he unfolded the letter paper and found that it was full of numbers without a word.He understood immediately what was going on.

He asked the soldiers to find the generals who were trapped in the camp, and the latter in turn found the officers in the camp.It turned out that the letterhead was encrypted, and the knife and pen officer took out the Four Books and Five Classics that he carried with him, counted the page numbers, rows and columns, and translated the numbers on the letterhead into words one by one.

After Zhang Ren knew all the contents of the letter, he was relieved of his long-term worries.

The next morning, he gathered all the soldiers and read out the content of the letter to everyone, so as to calm the impetuous morale of the army.The audience had just drank a bowl of porridge, and the listless soldiers visibly cheered up after hearing what Zhang Ren said.

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After the Minjiang River flows through Nan'an and joins the Qingyi River and the Dadu River, it is called the Shujiang River.Shujiang is also another name for the Yangtze River in Bashu.Bodao City is located at the confluence of Jinsha River and Shu River.It is now the headquarters of Zhu Luojun's granary, and it is also where Feng Yu plans to build a new system city.

At this time, [-] miles upstream of Bodao, Lahar's Zhuluo army had built a pontoon bridge.Thousands of soldiers, horses and war elephants pass by the bridge.

When Lahal's army crossed [-]%, Lahal made sure that there were no enemy cavalry within dozens of miles through scouting, and then disbanded the army formation at the ferry to cross the river.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Zhu Luo's army suddenly became commotion, and the soldiers beside Rahal also exclaimed.On the lower reaches of the river, there are more than ten boats going upstream, not Viking ships, but large ships...