Liu Bei ordered Huang Zhong and Wei Yan to lead 10,000 troops each to attack Fucheng.
When they were twenty miles away from Fucheng.
Liu Xun's scouts came flying to report.
Looking at Yizhou now, no one follows Liu Xun, and all the generals who are willing to follow Liu Xun have been attacked and destroyed by Liu Bei.
The isolated city of Fucheng obviously cannot be defended.
"Sir, we have no other choice now.
Yizhou has been firmly controlled by Liu Bei, the big-eared thief.
If we continue to defend this isolated city, we are in danger of being surrounded by the enemy."
Zhang Ren said to the melancholy Liu Xun .
"Then what should we do?
Should we go to Lu Bu?
Is he willing to accept us?"
Liu Xun asked Zhang Ren doubtfully.
Zhang Ren talked eloquently: "Although we had disputes with Lu Buduo when my lord was still alive, they were all normal frictions and fights between princes, and there was no actual deep hatred.
But Liu Bei and you have a grudge against killing your father and taking over your family.
Even if If the young master does not seek revenge from Liu Bei, he will definitely get rid of you.
Therefore, I think it is not impossible to seek refuge with Lu Bu.
Besides, we can also give him a big gift."
"What kind of gift?"
Liu Xun asked Zhang Ren doubtfully.
"We will evacuate Fucheng now, go to Jiange to defend, and then send envoys to contact Lu Bu.
This Jiange is our great gift to Lu Bu."
Zhang Ren replied.
"That's very good.
Fortunately, Zhengyi had the foresight to occupy the Jiange Pass in the north as soon as he came to Fucheng.
Otherwise, we wouldn't even have a way out now."
Liu Xun said approvingly.
It turned out that although Liu Bei left more than 2,000 troops to guard the Jiange when he left, the defenders of the Jiange did not know about Chengdu's incident.
Therefore, when Liu Xun and Zhang Ren first arrived in Fucheng, they sent several captains with 500 troops overnight.
Rush to Jiange.
With his identity and official seal at the time, he could easily open and close the door and control the Jiange.
In the yamen of Chengdu Mansion, Liu Bei washed his feet and was about to go to bed when the chamberlain hurriedly came to report that military advisor Pang Tong had come to see him.
Liu Bei thought that there must be something important if he came to see him so late, so he quickly welcomed Pang Tong into the hall.
The situation was urgent, and Pang Tong didn't have so many polite words and etiquette.
He said straight to the point: "My lord, I have something important to report.
Liu Xun and Zhang Ren, who are entrenched in Fucheng, have retreated to Jiange."
Liu Bei asked in surprise: "What's so strange about this?
Fucheng is an isolated city.
Once it is surrounded, there will be no room for maneuver.
It is expected that they will retreat to Jiange.
Why are the military advisors so shocked?"
Pang Tongtong patted his head and said, "It's all my fault for being negligent.
I didn't even think of this.
We shouldn't attack Fucheng first.
We should send out a surprise force to bypass Fucheng and capture the Jiange.
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Because Liu Xun is likely to attack Fucheng first."
Take refuge in Lu Bu" Liu Xun occupied the sword pavilion and took refuge with Lu Bu.
Liu Bei immediately understood.
If this was true, he would be handing over the northern gate of Bashu to Lu Bu.
Thinking of this, Liu Bei also broke into sweat and said hurriedly: "Then I will quickly order Huang Zhong and Wei Yan to attack Jiange with all their strength."
Pang Tong replied: "It's better for me to go in person, and I will lead five thousand white-eared elite troops to attack the second general of Huang Wei."
"That's very good," Liu Bei said as he summoned his troops and sent an order to mobilize the elite Bai'er troops.
After Liu Xun explained his intention to Jiameng Pass guard Wei Xu, Wei Xu immediately used the communication station in the pass to send a message to Nanzheng.
The communication station in Nanzheng then followed the channel built along the Han River to the city where the city was built.
Lu Bu forwarded the message.
Soon Lu Bu replied and ordered Wei Xu to send someone to escort Liu Xun to Nanzheng, Hanzhong, and send half of the Jiameng Pass garrison to support Jiange Pass.
When Pang Tong, Huang Zhong, and Wei Yan led more than 20,000 horsemen to Jiange Pass, Lu Bu's army to support Jiange had arrived several hours in advance.
At this time, the number of Jiange defenders reached 7,500.
The previous Jiange Pass was built to defend the enemy from the north.
Now the defenders of the Jiange Pass have spent more than a month renovating the Jiange Pass, making it suitable for defending the enemy from the south.
But after all, it is modified, and there will still be many blind spots and loopholes in defense against the enemy in the south.
While Pang Tong ordered people to build siege equipment, he personally led hundreds of soldiers to the front of the formation to check, hoping to find loopholes in the sword pavilion's defense.
Suddenly, he discovered that on the cliff on the right side of Jiange Pass, covered by vegetation, there was a vaguely raised natural stone step.
The raised stone steps extend all the way to the city wall of Jiange Pavilion.
This is a natural plank road.
If you set up a cloud ladder on this stone step, let the soldiers climb up the stone step, and then follow the stone step up to the city tower, wouldn't it be possible to capture the sword pavilion in one fell swoop?
Thinking of this, he asked the soldiers to bring the two ladders he had built first, put them up on the stone steps, and then climbed up to check them out himself.
Dozens of soldiers also filed forward.
Dozens of people moved forward cautiously on the stone steps.
One of the soldiers said to Pang Tong: "Military advisor, it's too dangerous here.
You'd better go down and let us investigate and report to you."
Pang Tong shook his head and said, "No, I won't do the survey myself.
You guys will do it.
I'm worried that there will inevitably be some omissions.
A slight omission may cause a big defeat on the battlefield.
It's better for me to do it myself."
The soldier added: "Then we can't get too close to the city wall.
I'm afraid the thieves will use arrows to shoot us.
It doesn't matter if we are hit by arrows.
If the military advisor is hurt in any way, we can't explain it to the lord, and we can't bear it." " Pang Tong laughed and said: "It doesn't matter, don't you have shields with you?
Just protect me."
Everyone continued to move forward.
Pang Tong squinted and carefully inspected this natural plank road, visually inspecting its width and the distance between each section and the city wall. distance.
When they approached the Jiange city wall eight or ninety meters away, horns whined from the top of the Jiange city.
Rows of soldiers with guns and crossbows quickly rushed to the top of the city and gathered towards the right end.
Pang Tong still looked indifferent and said to the soldiers: "It seems that we have been discovered by others.
Let's retreat now."
As soon as he finished speaking, arrows came like a sudden storm.
"Protect the military advisor!"
As a captain shouted, all the soldiers formed a circle with shields to protect Pang Tong in the middle, and then slowly moved back.
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The arrows crackled on the shields and the armor of the soldiers.
Because it was too dense, two shield-bearing soldiers were also hit by arrows in the face and fell on the spot.
The other two shield-bearing soldiers quickly made up for it.
Pang Tong was also stunned when he looked at the continuous and dense arrows.
At a glance, he saw that there were not many archers concentrated at one end of the city, and they were using crossbows that fired slower than bows and arrows.
How could they shoot arrows so continuously?
Of course he didn't know that these crossbows were the latest Lu Bu repeating crossbows.
Pang Tong was wondering when several more shield soldiers fell down.
A stray arrow came through the air and hit Pang Tong's face, and then more and more arrows shot into his body.
Pang Tong fell in front of Jiange Pass.
"The military advisor has been hit by an arrow," "The military advisor has been killed in battle," screams came from the front of Jiange Pass
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