The night was deep, and groups of black shadows escaped from the Heyang Shu army camp.
They held bamboo sticks in their mouths, wrapped straw in their horseshoes, and discarded all the luggage bottles and cans.
These Shu troops tried to take advantage of the night to quietly cross the hilly areas and retreat to the Shujiang Valley.
In order not to make the target too large, the general in charge divided the soldiers into several groups.
This is the first group.
After two hours of arduous march, they finally returned to the Shujiang Valley after climbing over several hills and ridges hundreds of meters above sea level.
Going further forward was the Shujiang River, a section of the Yangtze River, and then they could return to Jiangzhou by walking upstream.
However, these more than a thousand men did not know that they were being targeted as soon as they left the camp, and Lu Bujun's scouts were following them.
At that moment, they marched up the Shujiang River for a moment, and then they found a large number of kidnapping horses approaching them.
These kidnapper horses came from the Lu Bu military camp in the Shujiang Valley.
After receiving the report from the scout flying cavalry, they immediately came to intercept and kill them.
There is no suspense about the outcome of the battle.
These Shu soldiers, who had been without food for many days, could not withstand a blow from Lu Bu's cavalry.
In just a moment, the Shu army was defeated.
On the wasteland of the Shu River Valley, dozens of Shu soldiers panted and ran towards the hilly areas to the west.
But the dozen or so cavalry horses behind them caught up within a moment.
The horse-killing steel knives were held horizontally in the hands of the cavalry, and there was no need to swing the sword.
When the horses galloped in front of the fleeing Shu soldiers, with the help of horse power, the sharp blade could easily cut off the opponent's head.
Only a dozen of the dozens of Shu soldiers were killed in an instant.
Six or seven of them could no longer run away.
They lost their swords and guns and resigned themselves to their fate by squatting on the ground and breathing heavily.
The remaining four or five soldiers of the Shu army were about to flee into the mountains and forests.
Several Lu Bu's cavalry shouted loudly and were about to ride their horses to kill, but they were stopped by the leading centurion.
The centurion looked at his subordinates' confused expressions and said, "My lord has ordered us to send some troops to report to the Shu army who are still in the camp."
Most of the first batch of more than a thousand Shu troops who explored the road were killed on the spot, and a few were captured alive.
Only a few returned to the camp.
The remaining Shu troops huddled in the camp, both generals and ordinary soldiers, realized at this time that there was no chance of safely retreating to Jiangzhou.
The Shu army in the wild, especially on the plains, was unable to resist Lu Bu's army with its tiger and wolf cavalry.
A few days later, these Shu troops formally surrendered to Lu Bu.
Not long after, the Shu army stationed in the Jiangjin camp was also forced to surrender to Gao Shun.
After receiving reinforcements from the rear, the Eastern Route Army from Fangling captured Fengjie, which is located in the southwest and strangles the throat of the Xiajiang River.
At this time, Liu Bei in Jiangzhou was already a turtle in the urn.
But at this time, Liu Bei no longer cared about these, because he was terminally ill and was about to leave this world.
Liu Bei summoned Zhuge Liang to his sickbed to give his final instructions.
"Prime Minister, I, the emperor who has been the emperor for a hundred and ten days, are about to pass away.
I have fulfilled my responsibilities to the Han Dynasty.
However, man cannot defeat heaven, and the Han Dynasty will perish.
God's will is like this, so what can I do?"
Zhuge Liang said quickly: "Your Majesty, please don't say this.
Your Majesty will definitely recover.
As long as your Majesty is here, there is hope for the revival of the Han Dynasty.
Don't say that we haven't really decided the outcome with Lu Bu yet.
Even if we are defeated, we are still You can retreat to Nanzhong and Jiaozhou."
Liu Bei weakly raised his arms and waved to interrupt Zhuge Liang's words, and then said weakly: "Prime Minister, there is no need to comfort me, I know my illness myself.
After I left, Prince Liu Chan was entrusted to the Prime Minister.
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This son is young and stupid by nature.
If the Prime Minister can help him, he can help him.
Otherwise, the Prime Minister can take his place.
In addition, it is up to the Prime Minister whether we fight, make peace or surrender."
After Zhuge Liang heard this, he was shocked and said loudly: "Why did your Majesty say this?
If I don't try my best and be loyal to my chastity, I should die to apologize to Your Majesty."
After Liu Bei heard this, Then he felt relieved and summoned Liu Chan again, asking him to worship Zhuge Liang as his second father on the spot.
Two days later, Liu Bei died in anger, and Liu Chan ascended the throne.
All soldiers and civilians inside and outside Jiangzhou City wore sackcloth and mourned.
At this time, Cheng Lian's three thousand elite cavalry, the vanguard of Lu Bu's army, were only fifty miles away from Jiangzhou City.
On the Jialing River, sails lit up the sky, and more than a thousand large and small warships covered the surface of the river, rushing toward Jiangzhou.
In the palace of the Prime Minister of the Shu Han Dynasty in Jiangzhou, the soldiers reported to Zhuge Liang: "Lü Bu sent an envoy to Jiangzhou, saying that he wanted to see the Prime Minister."
Zhuge Liang said without thinking: "Bring him to see me."
The envoy was Zhang Song, who had accompanied Wei Yan to surrender to Lu Bu.
Zhuge Liang was a little surprised when he saw it was him.
He snorted and said, "So it's you.
Why do you want to find out the truth?"
Zhang Song laughed awkwardly and said: "Song is here on the order of my lord, to persuade the prime minister to follow the general trend and surrender."
Zhuge Liang interrupted him with a loud shout and said: "Surrendering you and other rebellious ministers is simply a daydream.
Besides, I have more than 40,000 elite troops, which are enough to fight against the thief Lu."
After saying that, his eyes flashed with light and he shouted: "Come here, pull this disobedient person down and behead him."
Zhang Song was horrified and said: "Zhuge Liang, you don't understand the rules.
If the two countries are fighting, don't kill the envoy.
Oops."
Several soldiers came forward, picked him up, and punched him in the cheek.
Broke a few teeth and silenced him.
Only then did Zhang Song know that Zhuge Liang was serious, and he begged for mercy loudly: "Prime Minister, have mercy on me, have mercy on me."
After a while, a bloody human head appeared in front of Zhuge Liang.
The news of Zhang Song's murder soon spread back to Lu Bu's camp.
Lu Bu smiled knowingly.
He had expected this result.
It would be better if he could persuade Zhuge Liang to surrender.
If he could not persuade him to surrender, it would be better to use Zhuge Liang's help to get rid of Zhang Song, an unreliable surrender minister.
"Pass the order to the isolated army.
Early tomorrow morning, the entire army will march to Jiangzhou and surround Jiangzhou City."
He ordered the soldiers.
But he glanced at the sand table in the big tent, thought of something, and immediately stopped the soldiers who were about to go out to deliver the order, and said, "Wait a minute, I have something to explain."
In Jiangzhou City.
Zhuge Liang frowned and thought.
The scouts deployed outside Jiangzhou had sent him a warning.
Lu Bu's army was advancing along the Jialing River by land and water, encircling Jiangzhou.
Jiangzhou City is sandwiched between the Jialing River and the Shu River.
Lu Bu's army, which has absolute naval superiority, only needs to cut off the land channel to the southwest to completely surround Jiangzhou.
Moreover, at this time, the Shu armies in Badong and other counties in southern Sichuan had been defeated and conquered one by one by Lu Bu's East Route Army and Gao Shun Army, leaving Jiangzhou without any foreign aid.
Just as Lu Bu was blockading Jiangzhou, the 40,000 Shu troops stationed in Jiangzhou City and surrounding fortresses had truly become turtles in a urn and could only fight with trapped animals.
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Unless Zhuge Liang wanted to fight Lu Bu to death, he would not be able to defend Jiangzhou with an army of 40,000.
He only thought about it for a moment and had an idea in his mind.
Now strategically, the Shu army can only survive by retreating to the remote Nanzhong and avoiding the powerful Lu Bu.
But in terms of tactics, if you want to successfully withdraw from Jiangzhou, you must first delay Lu Bu's encirclement of Jiangzhou.
So he ordered: "Call General Zhao Yun to see me
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