When Zhao Yun received the news of being attacked in the rear, he hurriedly turned his head and rushed over. Before he could take a few steps, he heard a series of huge explosions. Black smoke rose from the sky several battles, and vaguely jumping flames. Zhao Yun even felt the earth trembling slightly.

It turned out that the dozens of baggage trucks that were attacked by Huo Jun were all fire bombs used for crossbows. After being scorched at high temperature, a violent explosion finally occurred. Fortunately, the baggage soldiers escorting the baggage trucks were all told about the danger of the materials they were transported, so no one dared to approach after the baggage trucks were ignited by the Linjiang Army. Therefore, no major casualties were caused due to the detonation of these hot bombs.

When Zhao Yun arrived at the scene, he saw that it was already in a mess. Dozens of baggage trucks had been burned to the point where only the wreckage skeletons were left. The ground was covered with broken limbs and broken arms, and corpses and heads, of course, most of them were wearing Linjiang Army soldiers' clothes.

Although Huo Jun did not cause a serious blow to Zhao Yun's army in this attack, it also forced Zhao Yun to slow down his pace of marching into Nanchang City. When passing through some places with special terrain and landforms, the scouts would repeatedly detect and let the army pass. Two days later, the Liang army's front army finally arrived at the city of Nanchang, and then set up camps far away from the Gan River.

At this time, Liu Bei and others were on the Nanchang City Tower, closely watching Liang Jun's every move. Zhang Fei asked from the side: "Why did this Liang Jun camp far away from Gan River? Isn't this quite inconvenient to get water?"

Xu Shu continued: "This is very easy to explain. The Liang army's navy must not be able to enter Pengze Lake for the time being. The day before yesterday they were sneak attacked by Huo Jun's navy and were defeated. So if they camped on the water shore, they would be worried about the sneak attack of our navy."

Liu Bei snorted coldly: "In this way, they cannot be besieged the city for the time being. They have to occupy Nanchang in a short period of time and can only attack. How is our city defense preparation progress? The city can be stockpiled enough food and grass."

Jian Yong, the responsible soldiers and logistics officer, immediately responded: "Reported to the king, the soldiers in Yuzhang County, including their direct relatives, all 18,600 people gathered in Nanchang City. After working day and night, all the city defense facilities were in place in the early stage. To this day, the city defense fortifications are still being strengthened and expanded. At present, the entire Nanchang City has not only become a huge fortress, but also a huge trap. Even if the Feng Zhe Army can attack, they will have to peel off even if they don't die! At the same time, the food and grass in Yuzhang County were also concentrated in Nanchang City. In addition to the young and strong soldiers who are serving as servicemen, the old and weak are driven out of the city. In this way, these food and grass are enough for half a year."

Liu Bei nodded in praise, but immediately thought of a question and asked worriedly: "The family members of these soldiers are outside the city, which will disrupt the morale of the army."

Jian Yong smiled strangely and said, "Don't worry, this minister knows what he knows and has already dealt with. I have issued a statement to these soldiers, lying that their relatives were all concentrated in the mountains above the Ganjiang River to settle down our army's stronghold. In this way, the soldiers can be at ease, and they dare not be ill because their young and old are in our hands!"

Liu Bei's face suddenly changed: "If these people were captured by Liang's army and shouted to the general in front of Nanchang City, wouldn't it be a turmoil for our army?"

Jian Yong felt a sense of sternness. Liu Bei's implication was that he was obviously blaming him for "handling" all these civilians secretly to avoid future troubles. Jian Yong was not unexpected, but he could not do that even if he wanted to slaughter tens of thousands of old and weak.

Jian Yong thought for a moment and replied with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry, you know, the food in the rest of the cities and villages has been plundered by ministers. Where did the Liang army get so much food to help these tens of thousands of civilians? I am afraid that they will take action to kill these civilians in order to prevent changes. In this way, I will not be famous for Linjiang and the King. If you take a step back, you will not be able to use them. These are tens of thousands of people, and they are in a messy way in the city. Who in the city can recognize their family so well?"

Liu Bei felt relieved, looked at the Liang army camp that had already been in large numbers far away outside the city, and sighed: "Nanchang is already a city of desperation, it depends on whether God can favor me Liu Bei and let us cross this threshold."

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Just as Liu Bei and others were discussing at the city of Nanchang, Zhao Yun and other generals who arrived in Nanchang City rode their horses around the city. This sight surprised them. Nanchang City had used a lot of manpower to strengthen the city defense.

They even built a barrier trench outside the city wall, with a trench of three and five feet deep and a wall of five feet wide and three feet wide. Such thick and short barriers cannot be knocked down by both the crossbows or the counterweight trench. If springboards are used, three-barrels wide and five-foot-high barriers will require at least four-foot-long super-long springboards to cross. Such a long springboard cannot be produced simply by simply processing some wood, and transporting them to the trench is also a problem.

Zhao Yun asked someone to raise a hot air balloon again. He and the generals took to the sky to observe and found that there were also many fortifications built on the top and in the city. This was a visible and invisible trap. Liu Bei still didn't know how many of them were arranged inside and outside the city. When Zhao Yun saw this, he came to at least one conclusion--Liu Bei was determined to defend Nanchang City.

Zhao Yun, who had just come down from the hot air balloon basket, immediately ordered the orders and said, "Transfer the orders of this commander to transfer a infantry battalion of Xu Rong's army and one of the light and heavy cavalry battalions to test the outer barriers of Nanchang City. In addition, he told General Xu Rong that he was just trying to attack the attack. If the difficulties were too great, stop immediately to avoid unnecessary casualties."

The inspection just now only allowed Zhao Yun to see the fortifications of the Linjiang Army, but he didn't know the combat power of the Linjiang Army in Nanchang City now, so he wanted to have a tentative attack.

As the noise of drums and trumpets rang out, the three battalions had more than 1,500 infantry and cavalry formed a formation at the south gate of Nanchang City. Xu Rong took the formation and rode his horse to the front twenty battles in front of the barrier, which was nearly forty battles away from the city wall. Xu Rong raised his throat and started calling the city to curse the formation.

Liu Bei and others in the south gate tower leaned out of the city and found that there were only more than a thousand Miao Miao.

Zhang Fei stared at him like a copper bell and asked Liu Bei for his order: "Your Majesty, let me go out and shoot him, which is just enough to increase our army's morale."

Liu Bei said expressionlessly: "Yide, you forgot that now our army only needs to do one thing, which is to defend Nanchang City to the end."

Xu Shu, who was standing beside him, said: "It's better to let General Yide take a chance. The Liang army general came with such a few troops, which must be just to find out the reality of our army. If General Yide went out to fight, he could mislead the Liang army's understanding of our army's strength. If he could still kill the enemy general in front of the formation, he would also increase the morale of our army."
Chapter completed!