"Lingjun, Lu Bu's army has set up camps at four gates outside the city." A personal soldier reported to Li Yan. "Well, I know, prepare for the car. Today I will inspect the city defense." Li Yan responded calmly.

Liu Bei left three thousand of the most elite soldiers for Li Yan. When Lu Bu's army approached, Li Yan urgently recruited two thousand soldiers in the city. Now there are 5,000 troops in the city, and there are nearly 10,000 civilians mobilized to the top of the city. With Chengdu's tall and strong city wall, Li Yan had nothing to worry about.

The carriage was driving at a slow speed on the bluestone road. Li Yan checked the various barracks in the city, the piles of wooden rocks, the granary, the kitchens that supply food for the defenders on the city, including the Water Gate. Finally, he climbed the city wall and saw that the soldiers on the wall were full of energy and were ready for the battle, he nodded with satisfaction.

Then Li Yan looked out of the city again. Over the past year, there were no crops planted in the fields outside Chengdu City. The fields were covered with half a human-tall artemisia. Now these artemisiae have been removed and replaced by tents that connect the sky and the earth. It was Lu Bu's army, and Li Yanmao estimated that there were about 30,000 troops.

Li Yan was nervous at first, and then he laughed inwardly, "It's not a simple matter to transport grain from Hanzhong to supply so many troops thousands of miles away." Lu Bu's current situation is indeed the case. Although he captured Luocheng and Mianzhu, they were like Chengdu. They did not produce any grain in the past year, and the storage of grain was only enough for a small number of troops in the city to eat for more than a year. If they were given 70,000 or 80,000 to 80,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,

Although it is supported by the Jialing River Waterway, it is really difficult to transport such a large amount of grain from Hanzhong to Shuzhong through the Shu Road. Therefore, Lu Bu must capture Chengdu as soon as possible, and ensure that the granaries in the city are not destroyed. In this way, the grain stored in Chengdu can be enough to attack the Shu army until there is a harvest next autumn.

The sun sets very early in winter, and it’s completely dark not long after dinner. The sky in Bashu is always so gloomy, and it’s another night when the light of stars and moons is gone. In the camp of Lu Bu, hundreds of black-armored iron guards were ready to go. Lu Bu picked up the wine to see them off. The hundred armored soldiers picked up the wine bowl and drank it all. Then, with Lu Bu, they threw the pottery bowl on the ground and smashed it to pieces.

An hour later, they sneaked into the banks of the Funan River near the city wall and went down into the cold river water. The Funan River is a tributary of the Min River, passing through Chengdu City, and its entrance and exit are the Water Gate of Chengdu City. Soon, the iron guards with several bamboo floats tied on their bodies had already sneaked into the Water Gate.

At this time, the Lu Bu army at the east gate and the north gate suddenly began to clamor, and the huge rocks shot by the catapult continued to hit the Chengdu city wall, making a huge impact sound. Countless rockets flew towards the head of Chengdu city like flying fire stars. The stone bombs fired by the crossbow cannons flew into the city from time to time. The Shu army guarding the city thought that Lu Bu was about to attack the city, and the sound of drums and shouts suddenly rose.

Tiewemen in the Funan River took the opportunity to approach the water gate. In order not to hinder the water flow, the gate on the water gate had a water outlet, but it was blocked by an iron fence made of iron bars as thick as eggs.

There were Shu soldiers on both sides of the city head of Shuimen and the Funan River on both sides of Shuimen. But now, because of the noise of Lu Bu's army pretending to attack the city and the cover of the darkness, they did not find this small enemy in the river channel under Shuimen.

Several iron guards took out an object and moved it repeatedly on the iron bars. This was a hacksaw made of wuz steel, which could completely cut off this kind of iron bar. Half an hour later, several iron bars broke in response to the sound, and several iron guards grabbed one end of the broken door and used the leverage effect to make it bend it together. Several small mouths appeared on the iron bars that had just enough for one person to pass through.

The Xuanjia Iron Guards ran through the gate one by one and drifted downstream along the Funan River, that is, the city. There were steep high embankments on both sides of the Funan River that had just passed the Water Gate, and there were patrolling Shu troops on it. It was impossible for Tieweimen to get ashore from here. Only by drifting downstream for more than a hundred meters can there be a suitable landing location.

When almost all the guards entered the river channel, a patrolling Shu army soldier on the river bank still noticed the abnormal movement in the river. He threw a torch to the center of the river channel. The passing flames made him see clearly that someone in the river channel!

"The enemy attacks! Someone is in the river! Someone is coming in through the water gate!" He shouted loudly, and the Shu soldiers on the river bank threw the torch towards the Funan River, and they also began to shout loudly.

Arrows shot into the Funan River channel one after another, but this was completely blind shot. The river surface was pitch black and the target could not be seen clearly. More than ten iron guards landed first, and dozens of Shu soldiers came towards them. The guards waved the horizontal swords made of Uz Steel, and quickly solved these people. More and more iron guards climbed the river bank.

Hundreds of iron guards began to attack the city tower of the Water Gate. The swords and guns of the Shu army could not enter their dark armor, but their horizontal swords were invincible and could easily cut off the opponent's spearhead and blade. These powerful killing gods left behind the bodies of Shu army soldiers.

The guards rushed to the top of the Shuimen city and slashed and killed them. In a moment, more than 50 Shu troops on the top of the city were all killed, but a large number of Shu soldiers rushed over from both sides of the city wall. The guards quickly separated the two ends of the city wall corridor and blocked them. More than a dozen other guards rushed into the city tower, shook the winch hard, and opened the water gate. The reason why the guards did not attack other ordinary city gates was because Lu Bu estimated that the other city gates had been blocked by sandbags, and it was useless to occupy them.

In the Funan River outside the city, a bamboo raft went down the water and quickly passed through the water gate. The bamboo raft was loaded with soldiers from Lu Bu's army, and the front was still the Xuan Armored Iron Guard, the subordinate Dian Wei's army, then Mo Dao Hand, and then the sword and shield heavy infantry. At this time, Li Yan had already received the news and hurriedly mobilized the Shu army from the rest of the place to come.

Many Shu troops gathered on the embankments on both sides of the Funan River near the Shuimen and began to shoot arrows in the river, but they were immediately attacked by the forward Xuanjia Iron Guards who had already arrived. Dian Wei also got ashore and led two hundred subordinates to slash and kill. Although these Shu troops were also elite veterans, they had never seen tiger and wolf army like the Iron Guards and Dian Wei tribes. After fighting for a while, they were injured a lot and lost all their fighting spirit, and they all collapsed everywhere. The Xuanjia Iron Guards did not chase them, guarding the embankments on both sides of the Funan River to ensure that the main force behind them passed through the Shuimen smoothly.

Dian Wei led his subordinates to the top of the city. The iron guards at the top of the city fought with the Shu army one after another. After Dian Wei joined the battle group, these Shu soldiers were even more terrified. No one dared to step forward again and retreated one after another.
Chapter completed!