Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

The sun slowly set in the west, and the bloody battle outside the pass continued. After paying a huge price in casualties, the Tang army had successfully broken through the enemy's two lines of defense and pushed the front line to the entrance of the village. The bows and catapults from the other side of the Ju River could not reach here at this time, but the Shu army at the entrance of the village was still resisting stubbornly.

"What should we do if we can't defeat him before dark?"

Seeing such heavy casualties, Xu You no longer had the confidence he had before. Sweat dripped down his forehead, and he walked back and forth with his hands clasped together, feeling very anxious.

This is just the first village. There is another pass behind here. If we fail to capture it, all the soldiers will have sacrificed their lives in vain. Moreover, according to the report from Feiying, Liu Bei's 5,000 vanguards are almost reaching Hanzhong, and the situation on Taishi Ci's side is not very good. If we wait for two more days for Liu Bei's vanguard to come back and still fail to capture this place, Taishi Ci and his men will either retreat to Ziwu Road or be surrounded by the enemy. As for Liu Xiong and his men, there will be no possibility of escape.

"Then let's continue the fight at night!" Zhang Mo remained steady as a rock and said in a deep voice, "There's no way back. We must take Yangping Pass in one fell swoop!"

She was also worried and anxious, but she couldn't panic and couldn't show any intention of retreat. If she couldn't win this time, she would suffer greater and more tragic casualties in the future.

Historically, the State of Wei mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to destroy Shu. If Jiang Wei had not gone to Dazhong to farm and his troops had not been able to return in time to provide support, if he had not made strategic mistakes, and if Liu Chan had not been indecisive, the State of Wei might not have been able to conquer Hanzhong. Before Deng Ai and Zhong Hui, Cao Cao had personally led a large army to attack Hanzhong, but not only did he fail, he also killed Xiahou Yuan there.

Compared with Cao Wei, although her military strength is not large, this time Liu Bei led his troops to Nanyang, and everyone's attention is focused on Yanzhou. In addition, Liu Bei has just entered Shu not long ago, his foundation is not stable, and his strength is not strong. This is really a great opportunity.

Judging from the current progress, the Tang army's capture of three passes in less than a month is already very fast.

Xu Chu asked, "Why not use oil first?"

Wang Yi helpfully answered, "Weren't we planning to attack Yanzhou earlier? All the oil has been shipped there, leaving only a small amount of conventional equipment here. There's also a wall behind, so we have to save it for the attack later."

She used to think that the terrain of Liangzhou was complicated enough, but she didn't expect that the mountain roads in Shu were truly winding, with layer upon layer of winding roads. The big checkpoints were like this, and the small checkpoints outside Yangping Pass were also like this. After this village was taken down, there was another village outside the pass wall that echoed the one on the city wall. This was because the princess sent Liu Xiong to take a small path to the back of the pass to hang a part of the defenders, otherwise even if another 50,000 people came, they would not be able to take it down.

The sun had already set behind the western hills. With the unremitting efforts of the Tang army, the first village was finally captured. Zhang Mo replaced the tired soldiers in front and sent the reserve army to continue advancing towards the wall.

Looking at the surging Tang army, Sun Qian on the top of the city was scared silly.

The Tang army had only broken into one camp, why was he so stupid?

There were two reasons. One was that he was shocked by the Tang army's fearless spirit. The other was that he saw the word "Zhang" embroidered with gold thread on the central army's banner fluttering in the wind behind him.

Zhang He's military flag was also embroidered with the word "Zhang", but Sun Qian and he had been looking at each other at Yangping Pass for several years, and he knew very well that his "Zhang" was embroidered with red thread, while this one was embroidered with gold thread. Apart from the King of Tang and the Queen, who else in the Tang Kingdom could embroider a military flag with gold thread?

He probably already knew who was commanding the campaign against Shu. She was a woman who had dared to go to the border to fight the Hu people at the age of thirteen, and had defeated Zhang Yan, Qu Yi, Ma Teng and other powerful generals of the time when she was in her twenties.

No wonder, no wonder she was able to capture Yinping, Qiaotou and Baishui at lightning speed, no wonder she was able to quietly conjure up an army behind her, no wonder she dared to attack Shu with only tens of thousands of people, because if she really had this ability, how could she possibly defeat her?

The word "Zhang" embroidered with gold thread sparkled in the afterglow of the setting sun. The shining light was like knives stabbing into Sun Qian's heart. His heart beat uncontrollably, making it difficult for him to breathe.

There were sounds of fierce fighting in front of and behind the pass, and as the sun withdrew its last rays of light, a splash of light appeared on the city wall. It was the light of burning oil thrown up by the enemy's catapults. Along with the lights came bursts of black smoke and a pungent smell, which was completely different from the tung oil used in previous sieges.

"What is this?" a soldier asked in horror as he touched the unburned oil that had hit the wall.

This thing is black, feels sticky, and has a very pungent smell.

"This, this is not tung oil!" said another soldier.

"Cough, cough, cough..." A soldier downwind was choked by the black smoke and coughed repeatedly. He covered his mouth and nose and stumbled upwind, shouting as he ran, "This smoke is, it's poisonous! It's poisonous!"

Not only him, many soldiers thought that this special pungent smell was poisonous. In addition, the commander Sun Qian did not say a word at this time. Instead, he stood there with a pale face and trembling hands and feet. The people around him also felt scared when they saw this. This atmosphere of fear quickly spread among the soldiers. More and more people ran upwind. The defenders on the city wall who had been unable to attack the city became panicked because of a few cans of oil.

At this time, Sun Qian's heart was indeed filled with endless fear, but not because of the black smoke, but because of Princess Tang.

The human instinct when facing danger made him subconsciously want to escape, but the mission he shouldered and his loyalty to Liu Bei stopped him in his tracks. How could he escape at this time?

He was responsible not only for the gains and losses of Yangping Pass, but also for the gains and losses of Hanzhong. Moreover, Baishui Pass had been lost. Once it was breached, the entire Shu would be lost. So even if he died, he would use his body to buy more time for his lord.

He forced himself to remain calm and shouted harshly, but it had little effect. The soldiers, thinking the black smoke was poisonous, did not dare to stay on the downwind side.

At the foot of the city wall, Zhang Mo spotted the gap on the southern side of the city wall at a glance, and understood the reason after a moment's thought.

She pointed to the city wall south of the Mian River and shouted, "Send a team across the river and attack there!"

Zhao Yun asked, "Let me take the men!"

Zhang Mo glanced at him, nodded, and assigned him to lead 500 soldiers.

The city wall of Yangping Pass is the same as the former Juyi Village, built along the water. Walls are built on both sides to the foot of the mountain. There is also a gate on the south side for the convenience of communication with the city. A bridge is built between the two walls to connect them. However, because the Mian River is relatively wide, it is impossible to build a hard bridge in the era without reinforced concrete, so they can only be connected by a floating bridge. In order to prevent the enemy from attacking from the river, iron spikes are nailed under the floating bridge, and there are also movable sharp forks on the wall against the river.

Zhao Yun led his men into the water from upstream, using the cloud ladder as a raft. After crossing the river, they passed through the delta where the Ju River and the Mian River meet, crossed the Mian River again, and rushed down the city wall along the road under the mountain. At this time, it was completely dark, and no one on the top of the city wall discovered them.

Sun Qian was still loudly urging his soldiers to the south wall. However, at this time, ladders had already been set up on the wall. Zhao Yun took the lead and was the first to climb to the top of the city wall. He rushed directly to the pontoon bridge to block the Shu army on the other side.

The silver-white spear stabbed left and right, and the Shu soldiers rushing over were knocked off the bridge one by one. Zhao Yun stood firmly at the head of the bridge, with the momentum of one man blocking the way for ten thousand.

With him resisting, more and more Tang soldiers climbed up to the top of the city wall. Liu Xiong behind the pass noticed the situation here and also attacked the southern pass. With a heavy and sharp creaking sound, the last checkpoint of Yangping Pass was breached.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but the war was not over yet, because Sun Qian still had more than 5,000 soldiers who had not collapsed, and the Tang army had only opened a pass in the south. At this time, the Tang army had only about 12,000 soldiers left, and they were exhausted after a day of fighting. Sun Qian still had hope of repelling the Tang army and blocking the pass again.

Seeing that the south city gate was opened, he decisively abandoned all defenses on the city wall and the camp outside, and transferred his troops to the south to fight the Tang army head-on. As long as they could hold out until tomorrow, when Zhang Fei's reinforcements arrived, this already battered Tang army would surely be defeated.