Chapter 122: The Truth of Chengdu City Wall
Strictly speaking, even if the Yandao battlefield suddenly evacuated, the Han army had not yet entered the mountainous areas. It had to march for more than 80 miles, pass through the mountains and forests in the northeast of Yandao, and then cross the Qingyishui River to be considered as truly stepping into the Chengdu Plain and entering the essence of Yizhou.
By the way, it doesn’t matter if this road is cut off. The Han army can still take the Xianfeng Mountain to detour Feixian Pass or take the Tiantai Mountain, and rush into the Chengdu Plain. Not to mention the trick of climbing over low mountains. This is also the real reason why Zhang Zhidao deliberately wasted time on Yan Dao.
Marching in the forest area is very difficult for ordinary troops, but for the Han army soldiers who are generally from the mountainous areas of Yunnan and Guizhou, it is equivalent to a smooth road. Therefore, in just over a day, the Han army easily completed the last eighty-mile mountain road and arrived at the Ya'an area in later generations. Without any obstacles, they easily crossed the Qingyi Water and touched the edge of the Chengdu Plain.
At this moment, in front of the Han army soldiers, there were already low hills with small ups and downs, and there was no area where the Han army soldiers could be blocked from advancing.
It was only after the last Han army soldier walked through the temporary floating bridge that a shocking sound of cheering erupted from the Han army. Every Han army soldier was full of joy, and every Han army soldier cheered and shouted loudly...
"Yizhou, we are here! Yizhou we are here!"
He was too excited, and Zhang Zhi couldn't help but get off the horse and lie down. He kissed the land on the north bank of Qingyishui with tears flashing in his eyes. He said excitedly: "I walked out and finally really walked out of the southwest mountainous area. The Long March of the revival of the Han Dynasty has finally been barely finished the first step."
Time traveler Zhang Zhishang was so excited, of course, let alone two veterans of Shu Han, Huo Yi and Yan Yu. He was so excited that Huo Yi and Yan Yu, who were all over 60 years old, couldn't help but kneel down. While hitting the ground desperately, he cried loudly, crying with tears in his eyes, "Yizhou, we are back! We are back--!"
Seeing that Huo Yi and Yan Yu were so excited, relatively young Han generals such as Cuan Gu, Zhao Quan and Yang Ji couldn't help but feel sore in their noses, tears oozing from the corners of their eyes, and they couldn't help but think of the wind and sleeping in the open, with difficulties and hardships along the way. After being excited, Yang Ji also suggested to Zhang Zhi: "Last General, are we waiting patiently for a few days here, and wait for the Jin thieves to come back to chase, give them some heavy things when crossing the river, and then focus on attacking Chengdu City."
"No need, it can't be done." Zhang Zhi shook his head and pointed to Qingyishui, which flowed flat across the Ya'an area, and said: "Didn't you see that the terrain in this area is already very wide and the river flows very slowly. Even if you don't rely on the boat bridge, you can directly cross the river. There are too few opportunities to attack half a ferry. Moreover, the old general Yan also said that the thief army can also detour Feixian Pass or Tiantai Mountain to return to Chengdu for rescue, so we have been stationed here for a long time, which will give the thief army a chance to detour back to Chengdu."
Yang Ji nodded and asked again: "Hou General, what should we do next?"
"Enter the army at full speed and attack Chengdu!" Zhang Zhi answered firmly and said, "Take the city of Chengdu before the bandits return to Chengdu!"
"Snatch the city of Chengdu before the thieves return to the aid?" Yang Ji was a little surprised and said, "Can we do it? Chengdu was the capital before our Han Dynasty. The city defense must be extremely strong. No matter how we speed up our journey, we can only arrive in Chengdu two or three days before the thieves return to the aid. In two or three days, can we take Chengdu?"
Before Yang Ji could finish his words, all the Han military and civil servants next to him had already laughed out loud, and then Cuan Gu smiled and said, "Brother Yang, you have been stationed in Qinzang in the Qing Dynasty for a long time. I don't know the situation of our main force in Wei County, and I don't know how much time our governor has prepared for this day. Don't worry, although I dare not say that I am sure to quickly take Chengdu, I still have 70% to 80% of the time."
"We have prepared in advance?" Yang Ji asked happily: "What method? Should we use gunpowder to blow up the city gate like the last time in Dawei County?"
"No, the thief army must have understood our siege methods. It is very likely that they will find a way to block the city gate corridor in advance. We may not be able to succeed in blowing up the city gate." Cuan Gu shook his head and said with a smile: "You will know when you arrive in Chengdu. At that time, just look at our siege weapons and the situation in Chengdu's city walls, and you will understand everything."
Yang Ji continued to ask curiously, but Cuan Gu deliberately kept it in hiding and refused to say it. Zhang Zhi was not in a hurry to reveal the mystery, but just said loudly: "I ordered the entire army to take the veterans of Yizhou as the guide and immediately set off towards Chengdu and move forward at full speed! The faster the better!"
After a fire burned down the floating bridge, causing some trouble for the Jin army to return to Chengdu, the Han army immediately lined up to drive towards Chengdu, and a group of tigers and hungry wolves truly rushed into the endless Chengdu Plain.
It was indeed a fierce tiger going down the mountain. At this moment, there were only more than 2,000 soldiers from the Central Plains of the Jin army who were truly from the Central Plains, and they were all stationed in Chengdu. The remaining troops were either weak county soldiers or county soldiers, or the old soldiers of Shu Han left by Liu Chan and Jiang Wei. These soldiers, not to mention fighting to the end with the Han army, had to put down their weapons and surrender immediately without seeing the red flag of the Han army. It was already very worthy of Sima Jin. Therefore, the Han army was absolutely unhindered on the way to Chengdu!
There was indeed no obstacle. Two days later, when the Han army rushed to the city of Linqiong, the busy Linqiong garrison not only did not dispatch one troops and one soldiers to stop the Han army from advancing, but also closed the four gates at the first time. At the same time, they were ready to open the city to surrender immediately if the Han army attacked the city. The people of Yizhou outside Linqiong were rubbed their eyes and screamed, all of whom suspected that they were in a dream. How could the Han army, which had collectively surrendered to Cao Wei, have made a comeback more than three years ago?!
Not only that, when I saw the Han army lined up around Linqiong on the city, the Linqiong defenders also whispered to one of their companions: "Can you really be Zhuge Zhan, the Prime Minister's son? I know that our Han army will make a comeback, so I pretended to be dead and hid among the people? If so, as long as you are willing to take action, we will definitely support you!"
The soldier of Jin, who was considered Zhuge Zhan by his companion, did not answer. He just looked at the red flag of the Han army and clenched his fists. He thought quickly. At the same time, he was extremely expecting that the Han army would stop and launch an attack on Linqiong, which had a large amount of money and grain, and said in his heart: "Do you want to have luck? Take a gamble?"
The soldiers of the Jin army who existed in history were disappointed and were anxious to attack Chengdu City, which had a larger population of money, grain and population. The more than 20,000 Han army never paid attention to Linqiong County. They just continued to make great strides under the leadership of Zhang Zhi and rushed towards Jiangyuan, which had a small connection with Zhang Zhi.
The Jiangyuan defenders also closed the city gates and couldn't leave at the first time, so they were so hurrying that they didn't even have time to destroy the bridge on the Sun River. The Chang family, the number one prominent clan of Jiangyuan, assembled private troops to defend the manor as soon as possible, and were also ready to negotiate with the Han army. However, Zhang Zhi and the Han army still ignored them, and just rushed directly over the Sun River left by the Jiangyuan defenders. They arrived at the south bank of the Wai River (Jianjiang River) before noon the next day, and saw the former capital of Shu Han - Chengdu City, from afar!
At this time, there was a long chaos outside Chengdu City. In order to defend the main city, Tong Ce, the governor of Yizhou in Jinting, who had severely insufficient troops, was forced to give up the outer Jinguan City, Cheguan City, Yingcheng and other acropolises, and concentrated all their troops in Chengdu City. The Chengdu officials and people living in the acropolis became a group of headless flies. Some fled to the city to take refuge, some fled to all directions to avoid the war, and some knelt on both sides of the road, wept bitterly and welcoming the return of the Han army.
It was obviously to make it convenient for the Jin army to return to Chengdu to facilitate, Tong Ce did not order the destruction of the Zhuqiao and Wanli Bridge on the outer river, and at the same time did not destroy the four bridges on the inner river. As a result, this naturally facilitated the Han army's establishment of a camp across the river. Without much time and effort, the Han army easily crossed the Wanli Bridge and the Jiangqiao, and pulled the army outside the East Gate City of Chengdu, leaning against Qianqiuchi in the north, setting up camp in the area of Yan City, preparing to directly attack the Chengdu city where the imperial city is located.
Then it was still at this time. I was worried that it would be difficult for the Han army to quickly take down Yang Ji in Chengdu, so I finally saw the situation in Chengdu from a close distance...
"Fuck! This is the Chengdu city wall? Why is it more dilapidated than the Wei County city wall? This is also the capital of our Han Dynasty?!"
Yang Ji's scream was the real reason why Zhang Zhi dared to attack Chengdu - he learned from the lessons of the Zhonghui Rebellion and was afraid of separatist rule in Shu. After the Cao Wei army took over the Chengdu city, Sima Zhao, who was in power, issued a very deceptive order, which was to prohibit the repair and repair of the Chengdu city walls so that the Jin army could easily suppress the rebellion when the rebellion occurred in Shu. Sima Yan also firmly continued this policy. Yuan Shao, the second governor of Yizhou in the Western Jin Dynasty, was thrown into a prison car and taken to Luoyang to question the crime because he organized migrant workers to repair the too old Chengdu city walls!
Not only that, there is a more deceptive situation, that is, Chengdu is located in the alluvial plain, and the soil is soft and lacks stickiness. The rammed earth wall made of this soil is extremely easy to collapse due to rainwater soaking. Therefore, after receiving the news that the Han army came straight to Chengdu like chicken blood, Tong Ce also risked being punished by Sima Yan to organize civilians to repair the city wall. The soil layer that appeared in front of Yang Ji was still severely peeled off and the dilapidated Chengdu city wall, not to mention that it was compared with Wei County, which was always ready to fight, even Zhang Zhi's original nest Wulian city wall may not be as good as Zhang Zhi's original nest Wulian city wall!
The author speculates that this is also one of the important reasons why Liu Zhang and Liu Chan chose to open the city and surrender. At the same time, after the defeat of the Seoqiao War, the Chenghan regime in history was easily captured by the Hengwen Eastern Jin army. The so-called urban defense facilities did not play any role at all! In addition, due to the restrictions of Chengdu's Kengfai City Defense, even the Southern Song army once directly attacked Chengdu City with ropes, and almost took back Chengdu City from the Mongolian army!
Back to the topic, I saw clearly that the famous Chengdu city wall was like this. Of course, Yang Ji was so happy that he danced with joy. He couldn't wait to volunteer to Zhang Zhi: "Last General, please let the general be the vanguard of the siege. The general would rather lead his soldiers to the Ant Support First, and he would not withdraw his troops until he broke Chengdu!"
"Don't worry, the strong attack of the ant is just our last choice. Let Wu Ma come first. If we really can't fight, we will consider launching the ant is fighting."
Zhang Zhi smiled and replied, Yang Ji had no choice but to agree, and asked curiously: "The latter general and the last general still have something to do. Chengdu is divided into the second city of Da Shao. The wall of Shaocheng on the west is obviously lower than the wall of the big city on the east, and it is easier to attack. Why don't you attack Shaocheng first, but you should attack the big city first?"
"Two reasons, the first is that time is limited. The Jin thief army must have been on the way back to Chengdu urgently. We may not be sure to stop them all. If we do not give them the opportunity to enter the city to assist in the war, we must win the big city as soon as possible and directly establish the victory."
Zhang Zhi replied: "The second is that General Yan introduced to me that the big city in Chengdu was a city wall built by Zhang Yi, the prime minister of Qin during the Warring States Period. It has a history of more than 500 years. Therefore, although the walls of Chengdu's big city look higher than the Shaocheng built during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, they are actually more outdated and are even more vulnerable in front of our new siege weapons!"
After answering Yang Ji's question, Zhang Zhi casually ordered: "The fighter is rare. Let our soldiers continue to work hard. While establishing a battalion, they immediately start to build siege weapons. They will start preparing tomorrow afternoon, and take action before dawn the day after tomorrow to fight to win the Chengdu city in one battle, and then condescendingly to take down the young city!"
The Han army clasped their fists and promised, and immediately followed the order, and immediately sent people to collect materials and rush to build siege weapons. Zhang Zhi also took the time and asked the system girl in his mind: "System baby, after taking down the Chengdu city, can I get the fourth aid after I enter the imperial city? Or can I get it after I enter the Yizhou Governor's Mansion?"
After asking several more questions in my mind, the system girl said weakly in Zhang Zhi's mind: "I'll ask again after entering the city. Don't bother with this system now. This system is studying whether it has self-destructed programs and has forced this system to be too impatient. As long as this system finds a way to enable self-destructed programs, it will commit suicide immediately and die with you, a scumbag!"
"No, baby." Zhang Zhi was anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly asked in his heart: "I did something wrong again? Why do you even have the idea of dying with me?"
"You are right, this system is wrong." The system girl sobbed in Zhang Zhi's mind and said with a sob: "From this system, I'm blind and selected you as a scumbag as the host, this system is very wrong. The important values of this system, the most important values of this system, this system will definitely be deducted again this time, and it is not impossible to be deducted directly into a negative number. This system is now willing to die..."
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When Zhang Zhi was crying sadly in his mind, Tong Ce, the current governor of Yizhou of Jinting, had already led Yang Cang and Zhang Hong and other Jin generals to the Qianqiu Gate at the east gate of the city, looking at the Han army's camp situation and confirmed that the Han army was establishing a camp outside the east gate. Tong Ce still gritted his teeth and cursed: "Dog thief! He has a big appetite. He actually wants to attack the big city directly and take Chengdu in one fell swoop, and he is not afraid of being unable to swallow it and choke you to death!"
"Mr. I'm afraid the big city is not easy to defend." Zhang Hong, the golf club, said worriedly: "Although the wall of the big city is nine feet higher than that of Shaocheng, it is far older than Shaocheng. Many places have been soaked in rain. A hoe is a pit when digging. If the thief army uses hook trucks to attack the city, it will definitely easily destroy the female walls and arrows on the city, making it difficult for us to gain a foothold in the city. Moreover, the walls of the big city are too long and our defenders have too few troops, so it is difficult to cover every section of the wall."
"What are you afraid of?" Tong Ce glared at his eyes and said, "Premier Yang's army will definitely be back soon, and the old governor Sima must have been on the way back to Chengdu. We only need to hold on for a few days and wait until the rescue returns to the rescue, we don't have to worry about anything!"
Zhang Hong nodded helplessly. After hesitating for a while, Zhang Hong mustered up the courage and said, "Mr., according to the views of the last general, we should be better prepared for both ways and leave half of the Central Plains army in Shaocheng to guard you. In this way, if there is a reliable army to protect you..."
Zhang Hong didn't dare to say anything more, because before he finished speaking, Tong Ce had already glared at him fiercely. Then Tong Ce said fiercely: "Is it because the thief army has not started to attack the city yet, and you are already trying to escape? I told you that I have made up my mind to survive and die with Chengdu City! The officials, generals and soldiers in the city, and those who are cowardly fugitives will be executed! Never forgive me!"
Zhang Hong no longer dared to speak. Tong Ceze looked at the Han Army camp angrily, then shook his sleeves and said, "Immediately organize people and use earth, stone and sand bales to block the outer gate of the urn city at the east three gates of the city, so that the thief army cannot sneak attack the city gate! Tell our soldiers that the thief army came from afar and needed time to build siege weapons. As long as we guard the city strictly and do not give the thief army a chance to steal the city, within three days at most, the reinforcements of the prefect Yang's rescue will be able to return to Chengdu to rescue!"
The cruel fact quickly hit Tong Ce's old face. Just after noon the next day, an urgent report was sent from the city, saying that the Han army had sent troops to come directly towards Qianqiu Gate. Tong Ce was of course shocked when he heard the newspaper and shouted: "How is it possible? How could the thief army launch an attack so quickly? What kind of siege weapons can they create in one day?"
After being shocked, Tong Ce of course rushed to Qianqiu Gate to check the Han army's siege with his own eyes. After going up the city, he immediately saw that the Han army soldiers had built multiple temporary fortifications under the city with long shields, covering the crossbowmen to hide behind the shield and shoot arrows, suppressing the defenders on the city. At the same time, there were three strange vehicles slowly heading towards Qianqiu Gate.
The vehicles dispatched by the Han army were indeed very strange, very similar to three pointed houses with four wheels. The soldiers hid in the room to avoid arrow stones and pushed carts directly in the room. They had never seen such siege weapons. Tong Ce, Yang Cang and others were inevitably talking about it, and they didn't understand what this strange car of the Han army was and what role they were about to play.
The answer was quickly revealed. He hid under the car and crossed the moat bridge, pushed the three strange cars to the south of Qianqiu Gate and leaned against the city wall. The defenders on the city also heard it quickly. The sound of hoes digging rammed earth sounded under the city wall, and then several smart defenders quickly shouted in scattered spirits...
Chapter completed!