Chapter 1108 Mountain City

Chapter 1108 Mountain City

Chapter 1108 Mountain City (Part )

It's a good day today, the sun is shining brightly, and the waves on the river are sparkling.

But make no mistake, this is not a place for a boat trip, this is a brutal battlefield.

Of course, with such a large battlefield, there are always some more leisurely people. For example, on the Nanshan Mountain (now Cengong Mountain) on the south or east bank of the river, a group of Jin soldiers looked at the battlefield on the opposite bank and cheered loudly. The Yangtze River turns here and runs to the southwest and northeast, so it can be called the "south bank" or the "east bank."

These soldiers were also from Nanpu County, but they were in the southern part of the county and were unwilling to surrender with Guanqiu Ao. They only wanted to guard the border, so they actually sat aside and watched the battle.

They were cheering just now because a Cheng State ship accidentally hit the Stone Dragon and sank directly - the Stone Dragon is a reef located near the river bank to the west of Nanpu City. It is submerged in summer but appears in winter, blocking the river.

After the Cheng State ship capsized, the naval officers and soldiers shouted loudly, and the surrounding ships hurried over to rescue them.

The water is cold in winter. If you are not rescued in time after falling into the water, you will get seriously ill even if you don’t die.

But how could the Jin soldiers care about the lives of the Shu people? Looking at the miserable appearance of the Shu soldiers, they all laughed until an officer came over and shouted at them.

The officer did not sympathize with the Shu people. He was worried that if he laughed too harshly, the Cheng bandits would become angry and turn around to attack them.

In his eyes, the scale of the Chengguo navy on the river near Nanpu was quite astonishing.

With Nanpu as its base, more than a hundred ships of the Cheng State were moored at the "Xinfu Beach" ten miles upstream of the river. There were fewer warships and most of them were grain ships. Xinfu Beach, a sandbar in the middle of the river, was named after the woman's face faintly visible on the cliff on the north bank. There were a small amount of farmland and woods on the sandbar, and the Goddess Pavilion was built.

There is a "Yangchang Hubi Beach" in the Erli River in Nanpudong. This is also a sandbar, with knee-high weeds and lush bamboos. At this time, it was one of the gathering places for the navy of the Cheng State, with more than a hundred large and small ships.

Most of these more than 200 ships are troop and grain transport ships, and there are fewer warships. But if we ridicule them too harshly, others will come to kill us regardless, wouldn't that be courting disaster?

The people of Liang and Cheng are just fighting each other, and the people of Jin can just watch the show and not care about it.

At this time, fierce shouts and cries of killing were heard again from the other side of the river.

The Jin soldiers looked in the direction of the sound and saw more than 3,000 people attacking from the south and west sides of the city. The defenders on the top of the city also shouted and fought fiercely. Guanqiu Yin was not good at martial arts and commanding, so he let the county soldiers and the military school take charge, and he stood on the city wall and beat the drum to cheer.

The two sides fought fiercely on the city walls and outside the city, with corpses falling from the sky like rain, which made the Jin soldiers very frightened.

Some people opened their mouths wide and murmured, "If Guanqiu Yin had been so brave and if Guanqiu Gong had given away all his wealth earlier, we would have surrendered. Why did it come to this?"

"What Guanqiu Gong? Guanqiu Ao is just a thief!" Someone said, "Guanqiu Ao's wealth will not be spent for the Jin Dynasty, and Guanqiu Yin's blood will not be shed for the Jin Dynasty. If they don't surrender to Liang, when the thieves come, they will just run away and will not fight to the death."

Everyone was speechless.

"To attack a city guarded by more than 2,000 people with more than 3,000 soldiers is pure fantasy." Some people don't care about the trivial things between Liang, Jin and Cheng and the Three Kingdoms, and only judge from a military perspective: "If you can't deploy tens of thousands of soldiers at once, attack from all sides or surround three sides and leave one side, you can't take this city."

The effect of deploying more than 10,000 soldiers to attack a city at once will be different from that of deploying them in three batches, with more than 3,000 soldiers in each batch.

The former may cause the defenders to be in a panic and leave loopholes.

The latter is a refueling tactic. The defenders can respond calmly because the attackers cannot deploy their forces and cannot take advantage of numbers. They can only rely on rotation warfare to gain a physical advantage.

In the eyes of these Jin soldiers, Cheng State probably would not be able to take the city, because it could only attack from the south and west of the city, and it was unable to deploy its troops. As long as the defenders did not make unforgivable mistakes, who knew how long the fight would take.

But the thieves are probably unwilling to accept this, because they took it last time with minimal casualties and almost no resistance. It is a little difficult for them to accept that you resist so resolutely this time.

In a word, the bleeding must continue.

"We've lost! We've lost!" After an unknown amount of time fighting, the Jin army watching the battle on the south bank shouted in unison, ignoring the officers' reprimands.

The army on the north bank had already suffered a setback in attacking the city, with heavy casualties. When they heard the word "defeat" on the wind, they immediately lost their breath, collapsed in disarray, and fled to the river in a noisy manner.

"Haha!" The Jin army burst into laughter.

"If we can't take Nanpu, the Liang people will station their troops here next time and attack Chengdu." Someone made a sarcastic remark.

"Just go west from Nanpu by land. My uncle was a businessman when he was alive. He always said that Nanpu is upstream, and the river bends southward in a bow shape, which is very long and winding, so it is better to go by land."

"We will leave in the same way that Liu Xuande entered Shu."

"Kill the thief! My family escaped from Shuzhong. A thief has nothing to do with human affairs."

"The thief is angry and is about to attack." Someone suddenly shouted.

For a while, there were loud cursing sounds one after another.

The Jin soldiers who were still making sarcastic remarks just now put on their armor, drew their swords, and drew their bows and arrows.

Cheng Ze is crazy, right? You guys can just fight the Liang people, why are you attacking us?

At this time, faint laughter could be heard from the top of Nanpu City in Jiangbei...

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Another battlefield in Badong was in Yufu County, the seat of Badong County.

The Liang army was divided into two parts.

One part was composed mainly of several hundred sons of the Right Cavalry Guard, as well as Guanqiu Ao's followers and barbarian soldiers, about a thousand people, who guarded Baidi City and were commanded by Guanqiu Ao himself.

One part, about 3,000 people, was mainly composed of soldiers from Jiangling County and Jingzhou hereditary soldiers, basically all from the five counties of Nanyang. They were once the "Le Family Army" and guarded Yufu County.

Both cities are located at high altitudes.

Baidi City is located on Baidi Mountain (13 miles east of Fengjie today). It is the old city of Yufu in the Han Dynasty. It is very small, with a circumference of only about 200 steps. Gongsun Shu renamed it Baidi City.

Two miles east of Baidi Mountain is Chijiao Mountain (now fifteen miles east of Fengjie), on which is Yufu County, which is more than seven miles in circumference and much larger than Baidi City, so it is used as the county seat. The two cities are only two miles apart, connected from north to south, and support each other. Most of the houses of Yufu County residents are located in the west of the city, all the way west to Baidi City.

A road extends from the middle of this residential and commercial area, which the locals call "Maling Road". It is carved out of the mountain and has a huge drop in height, leading directly to the riverside pier.

At this time, the dock had been occupied by Cheng's army.

But they faced the same problem as Nampo, and the troops could not be deployed.

There is no difference between a hundred thousand men and a ten thousand men. In both cases, only the first thousand or so can fight.

The last time they attacked Yufu, they had suffered enough in this regard. This time it was even worse, because the Liang people did not even let them go up the mountain, and they rushed forward on this hillside path. They did not withdraw their troops until they could no longer resist.

After more than half a month of fighting, the Cheng army still hadn't been able to completely occupy this mountain road. After each hard battle, looking up at the towering Yufu and Baidi cities in the north, almost in the clouds, it was inevitable to feel discouraged.

Today is the 25th day of the first lunar month. General Li Yue (son of Li Xiong), who was in charge of the expedition, had to change his strategy and ordered the navy to land at the mouth of Dayang River.

There is the Yong'an Palace City (now Fengjie) in the west of Long, which was built by Liu Bei. Now there are no soldiers guarding it, and it has obviously been abandoned.

Cheng Jun planned to build a camp in this relatively flat area, station a large army, and then bypass Yufu and Baidi City to attack from both sides, so as to avoid continuing to fight a messy battle with the Liang people on the mountain road - the last time they came, it was obviously not so difficult to fight. Once the Liang people came, the situation changed drastically, making Li Yue extremely uncomfortable.

Once the order was given, the army immediately took action.

On the 26th, boats gathered near the beach in the river south of Yong'an Palace.

Li Yue ordered his troops to continue attacking the mountain road, and he personally directed the naval and land forces to land.

The river bank is submerged in summer and exposed in winter. It is now low water. Zhuge Liang's old fortress and even the legendary Eight Diagrams can be seen on the island, but Li Yue has no interest in it and directly lives in Liu Bei's Yong'an Palace.

This place was more than ten miles away from Yufu and Baidi. As the battle went on, they were getting farther and farther away from the battlefield, which made Li Yue feel unlucky.

But this is Bashu!

Yufu faces the river to the east, with a wall of more than 200 feet, faces the river to the southwest, and is 1,000 feet high to the northwest. When the weather is bad, it looks like a city in the clouds, which is not an exaggeration at all. People at that time even described it as "dazzling to look at."

To attack a city like this, there are only two words: climb!

On the 27th, just as Li Yue was conscripting a large number of soldiers to repair the Yong'an Palace and the camp, a navy quietly appeared on the river downstream.

On the land north of the Yangtze River, a large flag with the word "Shao" on it fluttered in the wind.

Fu An, a Di people, acted as the vanguard, passing through the mountains more than ten miles north of Yufu and Baidi, and arrived at Changqi on the 27th. This is a place name located west of Yufu and east of Yong'an Palace. The terrain is flat and there are fourteen salt springs. During the Han Dynasty, there were well salt officials in charge.

Fu An led thousands of cavalrymen and set out from Yidu. They either climbed mountains or walked on plank roads along the way. Now there are only about 700 cavalrymen left to be used - the rest have become infantry.

After seeing the road ahead suddenly become clear, he spat out a mouthful of phlegm.

Damn, I finally saw flat ground!
Some trained soldiers have already arrived near Changqi and are repairing the salt-retaining government office as a relay for the advance.

It was almost evening and the sky was about to darken. Everyone had been busy for a long time and was already exhausted.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the sound of hurried horse hooves suddenly sounded near the mountain pass in the northeast direction.

Everyone was shocked.

Some of the peasant soldiers who came from Shu were still bewildered, not knowing what had happened, but the officers who came south from Guanzhong had a drastic change of expression.

Others don’t know, and they don’t understand either?

Your mother! Where did this large group of cavalry come from?
There was a Diqiang military officer who lay on the ground, listened carefully, and said, "There may be a thousand cavalrymen, even if they are not enough, they are not far away."

The Shu people were still somewhat stunned, but the officers were already anxious, and immediately sent people to beat drums to gather the troops. At the same time, they secretly cursed the scouts for letting the enemy cavalry get close without them knowing.

But it may be too late.

The cavalry figures in the northeast have gradually emerged.

The more than one hundred riders at the front were all wearing iron armor and holding thick and long lances. They rushed forward like a wall.

More than 200 cavalrymen came from behind and arrived first, easily passing over these armored cavalry and circling to the two sides.

In the dim light, the light cavalry moved quickly around the two sides of the soldiers like ghosts.

The sound of bowstrings rang continuously, and screams continued.

This seemed to be a signal, and hundreds of soldiers exploded. After a day of hard work, they had no intention of fighting, and when they saw the large group of cavalry rushing towards them, they were extremely frightened and ran around like headless flies.

The Di cavalry were also somewhat surprised.

Thinking back to the great battle with Liang army in Hongnong, the light cavalry who were sent out to harass the Liang army's infantry all had sad faces, because it was difficult to shake the enemy's formation, and they would even be shot like hedgehogs by the infantry archers.

These soldiers in front of me are really...

The armored cavalry rushed in like a whirlwind, smashing the already chaotic soldiers into pieces, making it impossible for them to gather together again.

The battle was almost without any suspense and stopped after nightfall.

Fu An didn't even bother to calculate the beheadings. He directly ordered the production of simple torches and marched westward overnight.

(End of this chapter)