The Formation of the Central Kingdom < The History of the Three Kingdoms> [116th]
Author: Wen Junxuan
Episode 116 - The Battle of the Two Soldiers (Middle)
"Yinping Bridgehead" is a very important landmark in this battle. In Jiang Wei's defense plan for Liu Chan, it should be to adjust Zhang Yi and Dong Yue to go north to Shouyang Pingguan, Liao Huadong to go in to guard the Yinping Bridgehead, the location of Guyang Pingguan we are already very clear, located in the westernmost part of the Hanzhong Basin, so where is the "bridgehead" of Yinping? The answer is the confluence of the Bailong River and the Baishui River, and later generations built a pass called "Yulei Pass" at this important node.
Yinping City is not located in the Bailongjiang River Valley, but in Wen County, Gansu Province, in the Baishui River Valley, a tributary of its right bank. If you go from Yinping City to the Bailongjiang River Valley, you do not need to go down the Baishui River to the yinping bridge and then turn northwest, but there is a road across the watershed to connect directly to the Bailongjiang River Valley. The eastern section of the entire line is aided by the Yangtang River Valley, a tributary on the right bank of the Bailong River, and the western section is aided by the lower valley of the Malian River, a tributary on the left bank of the Baishui River, which is now used by National Highway 212.
There is no problem in retreating into Yinping City, the key is that the Yinping Bridge is the only way for Yinping County to go to Baishui Pass, whether it is Liao Hua stationed in Yinping City, or Jiang Wei, who wants to retreat from the Bailongjiang River Valley to Baishui Pass, he has to pass through it. This is also why Jiang Wei had previously asked Liao Hua to seize the Yinping Bridgehead.
Liao Hua did not go to seize the Yinping Bridge in time, but Zhuge Xu had already arrived. Zhong Hui successfully took Hanzhong and Guancheng along the way, and invisibly also played a direct role in Zhuge Xu's military operations in Wudu County. It can be said that Zhuge Xu is in the territory of Wudu as if he were in no man's land. Zhuge Xu smoothly took the lower identification of the "Wu Street" in the history books, and then crossed the watershed between the West Han River and the Bailong River to the south, connected to the Bailongjiang River Valley at the location of Longnan City in Gansu Province, and then marched southeast along the river valley to seize the bridgehead (for the specific route, refer to the G8513 Pingmian Expressway).
This gave Jiang Wei a problem, if he cut west into the Baishui River Valley and Liao Hua joined forces in Yinping City, Zhuge Xu's 30,000 people would be locked up in Yinping City by Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu's 60,000 people after the bridge was deployed, and when the time came, it would be difficult to protect themselves. If you continue to go down the Bailong River Valley, and at the same time let Liao Hua also go out of the Baishui River Valley to the east, it is also a way for the two armies to join forces to break through Zhuge Xu's defense line. It's just that Zhuge Xu has 30,000 people, and he has already "plugged the road to the head of the bridge", and this battle will be very difficult to fight. What was even more uncomfortable was that Deng Ai's army was still assembling behind and would soon catch up.
Seeing that Jiang Wei did not return to Yinping, but followed his own route to the south, Zhuge Xu was also afraid. The position he was staying in now was a three-forked intersection, with Liao Hua of Yinping City in the west and Zhang Yi and Dong Jie of Baishui Pass in the east. In case Deng Ai did not give strength there, he would be attacked by the Shu army's three bread dumplings, and it was precisely because he had penetrated Zhuge Xu's psychology that Jiang Wei was not eager to return to Yinping City to join forces with Liao Hua, but continued to travel down the Bailong River for thirty miles.
The distance from the mouth of the Yangtang River to the head of the Yinping Bridge is about 100 Han li, this section of the river valley is narrower than its upstream and downstream, and the mountain ditch is still not connected to a high-grade highway, and at that time there was a very vivid name - Konghan Valley. Zhuge Xu had originally judged that Jiang Wei would definitely return to Yinping City and then break through with Liao Hua. Therefore, he mainly deployed his troops in the direction of the Baishui River, and now that Jiang Wei had directly broken through from the Konghan Valley, Zhuge Xu immediately decided to turn back and go up along the Bailong River Valley to meet Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei's real intention was not to break through from the front, but to move the tiger away from the mountain and make Zhuge Xu give up the defense at the bridgehead. Seeing that Zhuge Xu had been deceived, he had already returned to the army for more than thirty miles, and immediately turned into the Yangtang River Valley and retreated into Yinping City, and then rushed to cross the Yinping Bridge with Liao Hua and retreated to Baishui Pass. As a result, Zhuge Xu, who was led by Jiang Wei, was always a day away from Jiang Wei. In this case, the last thing Zhuge Xu could do was to go with Deng Aihe's army chasing from the opposite direction to receive Yinping City, which had been abandoned by the Shu army.
After entering and occupying Yinping City, Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu had differences about how to act next. Deng Ai's opinion is known to everyone, it is to prepare to go out of Yinping to find a small road to take Chengdu directly, but Zhuge Xu is not as gambleful as Deng Ai. The task received by the Long Right Army was to round up and bet on Jiang Wei, in other words, where Jiang Wei was, you were completing the military order. Now Jiang Wei retreated to Baishui Pass, and he would not make mistakes with the past.
What exactly deng Ai's "Yin Ping Trail" takes has been controversial in history. If you want to solve the mystery, you have to review the geographical structure of "Zitong County". After the establishment of the Shu Han Dynasty, the northern part of the former Guanghan County was divided into a separate system to form "Zitong County". The range stretched from Guancheng in the north to Mianzhu Pass in the south, and once Hanzhong and Wudu were lost, Zitong was the last gateway of Shu Han. In terms of water system, Zitong County includes the Jialing River system in the north and the Fu River river system in the south. The important passes are in the Jialing River system in the north, from north to south: Guancheng, Baishui, Yemeng, Jiange Four Passes, we can call it "Shubei Four Passes".
Zhong Hui is now advancing southward along the main line of the Four Passes of Northern Shu, and has now taken Guancheng and advanced to the east of Baishui Pass. Zhuge Xu followed Jiang Weibing to Baishui Pass from the north, which was equivalent to joining forces with Zhong. However, Zhuge Xu soon regretted it a little. As mentioned earlier, the Long Right Army and the Guanzhong Army were not subordinate to each other in this battle. Now that everyone has attacked a node, there is a primary and secondary problem. In order to unify the military orders, Zhong Hui directly arrested Zhuge Xu on the grounds that he was afraid of war, and then put all of Zhuge Xu's 30,000 horses under his command.
Deng Ai did not go to Baishui Pass, not because he expected Zhong to be able to do this to friendly troops, but purely because he had his own ideas. His approach was to find another way, from the Baishui River Valley across the watershed, cut into the Qinnan Valley, and then find a way through the Longmen Mountain, completely bypassing the Shu army's layers of fortification and resistance in northern Shu. As for this important watershed, because the rendering of the interpretation should also be known as "Skyscraper".
To the north of the Sky Ridge is the Baishui River Valley, and to the south is the Qinnan Valley. The difference is that the Qinnan Valley itself does not have a river running through it, but is crossed by the rivers of the Jialing River and fujiang river systems. The location of Baishui Pass is exactly stuck at the intersection of the Bailong River and the Qinnan Valley. If Deng Ai wanted to find a way to the west of Baishui Pass to enter the Fushui River Valley, he would have to cross the Skyscraper Ridge. Since the Baishui River and the Qinnan Valley intersect diagonally, the thickness of the mountains varies from east to west. If you go directly south from Yinping City, the straight-line distance from the Qinnan Valley is 55 kilometers. Really walk up, the traffic distance will be multiplied by this. If you go south from the bridgehead and cross the Skyscraper Ridge, the thickness of the watershed is less than half.
The bridgehead was already under the control of the Wei Army, and Deng Ai could completely take the next route. The skyscraper corresponding to the confluence of the two rivers of Bailong and Baishui has a separate name "Platform Mountain", and there is also a pass built by later generations on the watershed point - Hanging Horse Pass. In 1935, it was from this that the Red Fourth Front crossed the Sky Ridge and transferred from Sichuan to Gansu. What this red army walked in this lofty mountain was Deng Ai's "Yinping Trail" in that year, which was nothing more than one to enter the river and one to go out of the river, and the direction was reversed.
The southern Qin Valley, west of Baishui Pass (Baishui County), was geographically known as "Jinggu", which was called "Jinggu Road", and the entire valley was basically under the jurisdiction of qingchuan county in present-day Sichuan Province. After crossing the watershed from Hanging Horse Pass, the docking is the current Qingchuan County. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Baishui County was renamed "Jinggu County". At that time, Jiang Wei and others were dealing with the attack from the east and north sides of Baishui Pass, and they did not expect that Deng Ai would go to Jinggu Road. Geographically, Jinggu Road is equivalent to the Jialing River system and the Fujiang River system, a connecting line at the northern foot of Longmen Mountain. If you don't want to cross the Longmen Mountain from the four passes of northern Shu, it is indeed a choice to cross the Skyscraper Ridge and turn into Jinggu, and then choose the road from Jinggu to the south.
So such a road that can be walked, Shu Han is not defenseless at all? Not so, Yinping County was originally a Guanghan vassal state of the autonomous nature of the Yu people. Cao Cao acquired this mountain in 218 AD because of the surrender of the King of Yinping and upgraded it to Yinping Commandery, until it was taken back by Zhuge Liang in the Third Northern Expedition in the eleventh year. In the past eleven years, Mr. Wolong's mind will naturally plug this loophole. To this end, Zhuge Liang made two preparations: one was to establish Guangwu County at the western end of Jinggu, and the other was to build "Jiangyou E", which is commonly known as "JiangyouGuan" (Nanba Town, Pingwu County, Sichuan) at the node where Fushui crossed Longmen Mountain.
Here we should especially mention the location of Guangwu, which corresponds to the node of Qingxi Town in Qingchuan County, Sichuan Province, located between the Fushui River Valley and the Bailongjiang River Valley, and belongs to the junction of the Qingzhu River and the Jinggu Valley, and the names "Qingchuan" and "Qingxi" are derived from this (Qingxi is the old county seat of Qingchuan). The Qingzhu River, also known as the Qingshui River, originates in the hinterland of The Skyscraper Ridge. If Deng Ai stubbornly wants to challenge the high difficulty, he can go south from Yinping City in a straight line and join the source of the Qingzhu River to Guangwu.
After Jiang Wei and Liao Hua retreated into Baishui Pass, Zhang Yi and Dong Yue transferred to Yemeng Pass, which was in line with the defensive principle of resistance along the "Four Passes of Northern Shu". Soon, however, Jiang Wei decided to withdraw all his troops south to the last mountain defense line, the Sword Pavilion Fortification. Located at the southern foot of the Longmen Mountains, The Sword Pavilion is also the last section of the Shu Road, or more precisely the last Shu Road that needs to rely on the boardwalk. If the Sword Pavilion is lost again, the door of the Sichuan Basin will really open. The explanation in the history books that Jiang Wei gave up Baishui and even Ye Meng's two passes was that he had originally planned to reinforce Guancheng, but when he saw that Guancheng had been lost, Zhong Hui's army was near the east of Baishui City.
If it is only because of the loss of Guancheng, there is no need to give up the two nodes of Baishui and Ye meng, as just said, it can be resisted one by one. If Jiang Wei had heard that Deng Ai was marching towards Guangwu, he had made this decision. Logically much more reasonable. After crossing the Jinggu Valley, the Qingzhu River penetrates longmen Mountain in a southeasterly direction, and meets the Bailong River five kilometers northwest of Yemeng Pass, and immediately joins the Jialing River. This means that after entering the Jinggu, Deng Ai has the opportunity to bypass the Mamingge Road between Baishui Pass and Ye Meng Guan, and will not even be cut off by Ye Meng Guan.
Tens of thousands of troops were mobilized, even if the destination was kept secret, the direction of action was difficult to keep secret, especially shu Han had a geographical advantage in Yinping, that is to say, Jiang Wei may have made the decision to abandon Baishui Pass after learning of Deng Ai's change. Of course, even if Jiang Wei didn't know Deng Ai's actions, retreating to the Sword Pavilion was also in line with his strategic thinking. Through the defense in Hanzhong, it can be seen that Jiang Wei agrees with the thinking of "exchanging space for time". Retreating to the Sword Pavilion allows your supply line to be completely low, while lengthening your opponent's supply line. What is certain is that when the Shu army retreats strategically, it will not leave a grain for the Wei army, and it will definitely burn down the boardwalk. The resulting supply barriers to the Wei army and the time consumed were enough to offset the loss of grain stored in Guancheng to the enemy.
Facts have proved that Jiang Wei's approach has indeed played an effect on the frontal battlefield. Zhong Hui, who had been attacking the Sword Pavilion for a long time, did soon encounter difficulties in supply. After writing a letter of persuasion to Jiang Wei, but receiving no reply, Zhong Hui already had plans to withdraw. At this point, although it failed to destroy Shu, taking Hanzhong would still allow Zhong Hui to return to Luoyang with a beautiful scenery. Coupled with the Yinping and Wudu capitals taken by Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu, the geopolitical balance between Wei and Shu has been completely broken. In the next day, if you prepare to cut down Shu again, you will basically be able to solve the problem.
It was Deng Ai who tilted the balance of war further toward the State of Wei. Deng Aixuan's road is very difficult to walk, almost can be said to be no road. This was because after Zhuge Liang took Yinping City, Guangwu and Jiangyouguan became secondary defensive lines. The route from Yinping directly to Shu was not just needed by the Shu Han, and building one more road would only increase its own defensive pressure. In this case, there is no need to maintain the Jinggu Valley connecting Guangwu and Baishui, let alone cross the Skyscraper Ridge to build an official road. Letting the focus of the entire defensive line focus on one point in Baishui Pass will be more in line with the defensive needs of Shu Han.
After the establishment of Guangwu, a node stationed in Jinggu, Liao Hua became the Guangwu Shou General (Guangwu Governor), and after the recapture of Yinping, Liao Hua officially added Yinping Taishou and settled in Yinping City and baishui River Valley. When Jiang Wei wanted to connect with Qianghu through Longxi, Liao Hua expanded Yinping's control to the Bailongjiang River Valley and Qiangshui with him. It can be said that Deng Ai can think of penetrating the yin and flat into Shu, all of which are laid with Liao Hua in front.
Even if the road can be opened in theory, it is really difficult to walk. When crossing the watershed of the Skyscraper Ridge, because there was no ready-made road, Deng Ai even took the lead and rolled down the hillside wrapped in felt. Mountain roads, even if not vandalized, can quickly become thorny and impassable if they are not maintained. This made Deng Ai and his army still spend a lot of manpower to cut through thorns and build bridges and auxiliary roads after entering the Jinggu Valley. Due to the difficulty of transporting grain and grass, Deng Ai did not take 30,000 people with him, but first selected 10,000 elite troops in Yinping to open the way. After the road is cleared, the follow-up troops will follow.
Just as Deng Ai was opening the way in Jinggu and approaching Guangwu, three new situations occurred behind him. First, Jiang Wei took the initiative to abandon Baishui Pass and retreat to the Sword Pavilion; second, Zhuge Xu's troops were swallowed up by Zhong Hui. These two situations were explained before, and the third was that Zhong met with Deng Ai to prepare to find a path from Yin Ping to Shu, and he was unable to move here in the Sword Pavilion, so he sent the general Tian Zhang to lead the army to chase him. Deng Ai's rank was higher than Tian Zhang's, and it was unrealistic to want Tian Zhang to seize Deng Ai's power before the battle, just as he had seized Zhuge Xu's military power. Deng Ai saw that Zhong hui would send troops over, and the backhand let Tian Zhang make the vanguard of the front station. It's fair to say, I worked hard to build the road, and since the friendly troops are here, no matter what your real purpose is, it is always necessary to make a contribution.
The transportation distance from the location where Deng Ai cut into Jinggu to Guangwu is about 40 kilometers (less than 100 Han Li). The Shu army still had a garrison here, which in the words of the history books was "three schools of ambush troops". According to the standard system at that time, one school had 800 people, and three schools were more than 2,000 people. At this point, the second-line remaining troops obviously could not stop the attack of tens of thousands of Wei troops, and they were quickly broken by Tian Zhang.
Starting from this point in Guangwu, Deng Ai could travel 30 kilometers southwest to cut into the Fushui River Valley, appearing in the northern part of Jiangyou pass, and the road connecting the Qingzhu River and Fushui is now called the "Qingping Highway". However, Deng Ai's original plan was not to take river oil, but to arrive in Guangwu, go down the Qingzhu River, appear in the rear of the Sword Pavilion, and force Jiang Wei to retreat from the Sword Pavilion. Didn't we just say that going down the Qingzhu River can only bypass Baishui Pass and Ma Mingge Road and appear in the west of Yemeng Pass? If you must walk along the Qingzhu River all the way, it is true. The Qingzhu River crossed the Longmen Mountain in a north-south direction, and then turned east to join the Bailong River and the Jialing River.
Deng Ai's original plan was not to move east at this turning point, but to advance west along the valley towards Chengdu. West of the Qingzhu River Valley, the Han Dynasty established a Deyang County, which was later demoted to Deyang Pavilion and eventually abandoned (located in Yanmen Town, Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province). There was a road in the city (this road is now called "Zhongyan Road"), and the location of Deyang Pavilion was in a valley connecting the Qingzhu River in an east-west direction, and if Deng Ai completely walked out of Longmen Mountain along this way, he could appear a hundred miles west of the Sword Pavilion, and then go south to attack Fucheng.
Although this plan could break through the Sword Pavilion defenses, with the defeat of the Guangwu defenders, Deng Ai received an important message, that is, the Jiangyou defenders were very few and did not receive reinforcements. JiangyouGuan was subordinate to Zitong County in the administrative structure of the Shu Han Dynasty, and taking it was equivalent to opening the side gate of the Sichuan Basin. Tian Zhang and Deng Ai could use the ready-made road to go down the Fu River to take Fucheng (this road was called "Zuo Dan Dao"), and then copied Liu Bei's route to Shu and captured Mianzhu Pass south into the Chengdu Plain. The weak defense of Jiangyou Pass was a bit of a surprise, there had already been a battle in Jinggu, and it was impossible for Chengdu not to receive the news, and in the case that Jiang Wei and others would resist Zhong Hui in the Sword Pavilion, Liu Chan should quickly plug the gap in Jiangyou even if he transferred his own forbidden army.
After so many years of conquest, the State of Wei already had a clear understanding of how many troops the Shu Han had, just in the early 100,000s. After the surrender of the Shu Han Dynasty, the household registration population statistics on the offering were also "102,000 Jia Shi". Of course, during the Northern Expedition, a large number of auxiliary troops and civilians were also mobilized to support the front, so when Zhuge Liang organized the Northern Expedition, the maximum number of troops could reach 100,000. Half of them were in the north, and most of them had now retreated to the front line of the Sword Pavilion. Chengdu has no problem putting together another 20,000 or 30,000 troops to reinforce the Jiangyou front.
In fact, the army that had gone to blockade Deng Ai had indeed been sent. It was not the others who led the way, it was Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhan. He was accompanied by Zhang Fei's grandson Zhang Zun (whose father Zhang Bao died early and had no deeds in the rendition), Huang Quan's son Huang Chong, and Li Hui's nephew Li Qiu. From this, you will find an interesting phenomenon, there are generals who blocked zhonghui in the Sword Pavilion, including: Jiang Wei, Zhang Yi, Liao Hua, Dong Jie, and Hu Ji are all a generation of generals who have entered the political arena in Liu Bei's time. Among them, only Jiang Wei was liu bei's death and then entered Shu, but he was already in politics in the State of Wei. These people who were sent to the front line of Jiangyou were all after Zhonglie and belonged to the new generation of Shu Han.
It is safe to say that these loyal martyrs then voluntarily invited Them to go to the front, and if they could no longer stop Deng Ai, there would be basically no generals in Chengdu who dared to fight. Starting from Chengdu to meet Deng Ai, there are three nodes that can be fortified, from south to north: Mianzhu, Fucheng, and Jiangyouguan. After the army reached Fucheng, Huang Xu repeatedly suggested to Zhuge Zhan to quickly advance north along Fushui and fortify the mountainous area along the line of Jiangyou Pass and Zuodan Road.
At the crucial time, Zhuge Zhan hesitated. The reason why Zhuge Zhan hesitated was that fucheng's position was important, whether it was the Sword Pavilion or Jiangyou could not stand it, they had to pass through the pass of Fucheng and then enter Chengdu; second, Shu Han did not take Zuo Dandao as the center of gravity before, and there was no mature and ready-made defense system. In contrast, Fucheng has always been a very important city in Shudi, and various defensive facilities are relatively perfect. After Liu Bei took Fucheng that year, he also happily held a feast to celebrate the merits, believing that taking Fucheng would be a big deal. In other words, Zhuge Zhan hesitated whether to defend the pass or defend the city. Such a hesitation, Jiang Youguan panicked. Jiangyou shou was called Ma Miao, and seeing that there was a Wei army pressing the border in front of him, and the reinforcements from Peicheng were slow to come to reinforcements, they led the army to surrender to Tian Zhang.
As soon as the river oil was lost, the Wei army entered the valley plain area like mercury pouring into the land. Plain warfare was originally the strength of the Wei army, and as soon as the forward troops of the two sides engaged, Zhuge Zhan regretted that he had not been able to seize the favorable terrain in time. Fucheng corresponds to the current Mianyang City in Sichuan Province, on the wide Fujiang Plain, and regret cannot make the topography of this city more dangerous. Therefore, after the defeat of the forward troops, Zhuge Zhan decided to retreat to Mianzhu. The situation of Mianzhu has been introduced in liu bei's plot against Shu, and the difference between the city and the city is that Mianzhu Pass is located in the valley of the Longquan Mountains, and the Mianzhu City is located in the southwest foothills of the Longquan Mountains. The Chengdu Plain is formed by the combination of Longquan Mountain and Longmen Mountain. Since Zhuge Zhan failed to seize Jiangyou Pass and let Deng Ai smoothly get out of Longmen Mountain, then if he wanted to take risks to defend himself, Mianzhu Pass was a choice.
When Deng Ai saw Zhuge Zhan retreating to Mianzhu, he wrote a letter of persuasion and sent it over. He promised that if Zhuge Zhan submitted, he would definitely declare him the King of Langya. Langya was Zhuge Zhan's ancestral homeland, but the matter of being crowned king was a bit of a mouthful, and even Sima Zhao's ability to do the Jin Gong was still following the procedure of humility, how could he let a subordinate be king. Deng Ai did not realize that there was anything wrong with similar practices, and laid the groundwork for his own death.
Zhuge Zhan was enraged by this promise, and not only killed the emissary but also decided to lead an army to attack and fight the Wei army to the death. At this time, Zhuge Zhan believed that he could not get rid of Huang Hao, could not balance Jiang Wei outside, personally led the army and could not protect the land, and it was really a negative national favor to have these three sins. The only way to save face for yourself and your father is to fight your opponent to death. More than 1600 years later, General Zhang Zizhong, who was fond of reading the Three Kingdoms, stubbornly rushed into the enemy line and martyred the country with his body, and his mood was more or less the same.
Among all the people, Huang Chong was the least worried about the treatment after the surrender of Wei. On the same day, his father was forced to surrender to Wei, and finally became a che riding general, Yi Tong Sansi. This background did not affect Huang Chong's choice in the slightest. In fact, before Zhuge Zhan listened to him and seized the favorable terrain, Huang Chong already knew that the general trend had gone and was mentally prepared for martyrdom. At that time, he wept bitterly, not for himself, but for Shu Han.
After Zhuge Zhan ordered a decisive charge, Huang Chong did not propose any more amendments to this plan, but turned around and encouraged his subordinates. If it is purely tactical, since Zhuge Zhan retreated into Mianzhu because there was danger to defend, then he should close himself and send troops to attack zuo Dan Dao to cut off Deng Ai's grain road. The whole tactic was the same as Liu Bei's practice at Dingjun Mountain that day. It's just that it is already difficult to return to heaven, after Deng Ai controlled Fucheng, if he did not march to Mianzhu Pass, he reflexively went to copy Jiang Wei's back road. Under the attack, the Sword Pavilion could not be saved. The reason why Zhong Hui sent Tian Zhang to follow Deng Ai was that in the final analysis, he was also afraid that once Deng Ai broke through Jiangyou, he would go directly to Chengdu to grab merit and not turn around to help let him in.
Deng Ai has 30,000 people, the road has been opened must be the whole line pressed, plus there is Tian Zhang to be the vanguard, the troop strength will not lose Zhuge Zhan. In this case, fight with the opponent to the death, in case of victory there is still a glimmer of life. If you lose, then kill The Ren. The problem was that the Shu Han generals were desperate, and Deng Ai, who had always wanted to prove himself, was also desperate. In this decisive battle, Deng Ai ordered his son Deng Zhong to attack Zhuge Zhan's right flank and Shi Lu to attack the left wing.
At first, the Wei army was repulsed by the red-eyed Shu army. Deng Ai was furious, believing that success or failure was in one move, and immediately wanted to kill the two to correct the military law. The two had no choice but to turn their horses and fight again, and finally broke the Shu army. For the latter, the results were disastrous. Zhuge Zhan, as well as Huang Chong, Zhang Zun, Li Qiu, and other loyal martyrs who came with him, all of them were killed and killed, and they were not in the enemy position. As soon as the mianzhu broke, Deng Ai's army immediately poured into the Chengdu Plain. On the same day, Liu Bei plotted against Shu, and in the case of the surrender of the Mianzhu defenders, Liu Zhang's men, who had been defeated from the front, still held out for a year at Luocheng, between Mianzhu and Chengdu, and even shot Pang Tong. This time, due to the decisive battle node moving north to Mianzhu, Deng Ai easily took Luocheng. Once Luocheng is lost, the next one will be Chengdu.