Chapter 409 Divine soldiers descend from heaven
Jiange, any place name with the word "ge" usually refers to a grain storage dige.

Jiange can barely be considered as such, but its grain storage scale is far less than that of Ma Ming Pavilion in the northern valley.

On the Jianshan Road, Meng Da led his soldiers to repair the plank road overnight.

At night, we could see dense torches moving on the cliffs of the northern valley, as if they were also repairing a plank road.

Meng Da asked the old soldiers nearby, pointing to the front of the torches in the distance: "How far is it from us?"

The old soldier thought without hesitation: "One bend, less than 20 miles!"

The torch shone its orange-red glow on the old soldier's face. He hesitated to speak, but finally said, "The northern soldiers are building the plank road too quickly."

Meng Da nodded gently, and immediately said to Wu Kuang's confidant beside him: "The northern soldiers have been repairing the plank road overnight, which is faster than our army. Please make a decision quickly!"

"Yes!"

The military officer named Gao Guang responded, then turned his head to gaze deeply at the fire dragon in the north, then bowed, turned around and walked quickly forward on the wooden plank road.

To the north, Black Bear was standing in front. More than 300 puppet Taoist soldiers, wearing only the uniforms they wore before they died in battle, were passing the beams, rafters and wooden boards needed for the plank road to the front in an orderly manner.

Lu Bu and Gao Shun each led a fourth-level puppet Taoist soldier to carry out inlay and reinforcement. Lu Bu, in particular, climbed and walked between the cliffs, catching the beams and rafters handed over by Dian Wei with one arm and inlaying them into the holes chiseled in the stone wall.

Later, Gao Shun commanded other level 4 puppets to reinforce and lay wooden boards, and further behind, the captured Jiameng Pass defenders carried the materials like ants moving house.

No matter how much material is brought in, ordinary puppets can transport it forward.

Black Bear also saw the team repairing the plank road in the south, but did not take any action regarding it as they were far away from each other and everything would be easy once they met in person.

In Mianzhu City, soldiers have been deployed on the city walls.

The Dongzhou soldiers were fully equipped with armor. Temporary simple bamboo and wooden awnings were built on the city walls, and bows and crossbows were placed on shelves under the awnings to prevent them from getting damp.

Torches and bonfires were everywhere, connected front and back, and Wu Kuang was enjoying the breeze on the city wall.

At this moment, he had no way to retreat. After Liu Zhang ascended the throne, he showed calmness and maneuverability far beyond everyone's expectations. If this attempt to welcome the northern troops into Shu failed, his family members who stayed in Chengdu would inevitably not escape Liu Zhang's ruthless hands.

While he was deep in thought, a group of knights holding sparse torches came to the foot of the city and shouted. Wu Yi reined in his horse and raised his head and shouted: "Uncle! Uncle!"

Wu Kuang did not dare to open the city gate, he just lowered the hanging basket.

Seeing that the makeshift hanging basket was a little small and not very sturdy, Wu Yi, with the help of his personal soldiers, wrapped a rope around his waist, made a loop at the end of the rope, and stepped in with one foot.

After he had a firm grasp, he gave a signal. The soldiers on the city pulled the rope, and Wu Yi climbed up the city wall.

Just as he stood firm and untied the rope, Wu Kuang came up to him. He put the torch close to Wu Yi's face and confirmed that it was him, then asked, "How is Chengdu?"

"The King of Liang led 3,000 men southward, intending to go to Yufu City, saying that the northern troops were unstoppable, and so he went down the river to Huainan."

Wu Yi's mouth was dry, and he continued panting: "The King of Liang is willing to give up. Shugui has led his troops to occupy Chengdu, and all the government vaults have been closed!"

As he spoke, he took out the silk book he carried with him and handed it to Wu Kuang, and continued, "Zhang Song, Wang Shang and others also intended to sell out the King of Liang. The incident happened suddenly, and Shugui only had time to command the soldiers to seal the treasury. He didn't expect Zhang Song and others to take advantage of the chaos and escape. It seems that they have already taken refuge in Luocheng. Tomorrow, if Wang Shang calls on the soldiers of Shu County and Guanghan County to gather in Luocheng, we will know the truth."

Wu Kuang flipped through the wet silk book and nodded repeatedly, "Since King Liang has abandoned us, we have no choice but to follow Shugui to respond to the general trend."

Seeing that there were no objections from his subordinates, Wu Kuang immediately turned around and shouted, "Announce to the entire army, our army has changed its flag!"

"Here!"

Seven or eight messengers shouted, each holding a torch and running around the city wall, shouting the order to change the flag.

Mianzhu is so important that everyone in Wu Kuang thinks it can be sold for a good price.

fight?

After all the hard work, aren't you still working for others?
The group of people who first came to Shu to escape the chaos were naturally uninterested in a life of war.

The opportunity is already in front of you, why bother yourself?
When Meng Da sent people to Mianzhu, the sky was already bright.

At this moment on the plank road, Meng Da did not receive any further instructions from Wu Kuang, but the plank road was about to close and connect.

So he tactfully ordered his troops to retreat, and only a dozen people crowded on the plank road to welcome them.

Because of the appearance of sunlight, the low-level puppets wearing only uniforms have been dismissed.

Only Lü Bu's less than 50 mid- and high-level puppet Taoist soldiers were repairing the plank road in front, while the surrendered soldiers from Jiameng Pass who were transporting materials were already very close to the black bear. However, the surrendered soldiers who were transporting wood back and forth were already exhausted and out of breath, and were even more terrified.

They clearly noticed that among the elite troops repairing the plank road ahead, three to five hundred were missing. Considering the terrain of the plank road and the terrifying efficiency of the repair, they realized that the road was too dangerous to repair.

They have already figured out the answer. That is, in order to speed up the repair of the plank road in the dark night, the personal soldiers of the Great Sima climbed the cliff one after another... Those elite personal soldiers who disappeared may have fallen into the mountain stream and their brains burst and turned into meat bags, or they may have been washed away by the mountain stream.

Given the terrain of the plank road, Black Bear was not afraid of these four or five thousand surrendered soldiers.

Dian Wei alone could kill his way across the plank road from one end to the other.

No matter how many unarmed surrendered soldiers there were, most of them would fall off the plank road and die after being defeated.

So when the plank road was closed, Meng Da recognized the endless surrendered troops from Jiameng Pass in the rear. These surrendered soldiers were still wearing uniforms, had disarmed, and were carrying various types of wood.

The sun was shining brightly, and the surrendered soldiers took the initiative to repair the gaps in the plank road.

Meng Da looked at the dozens of elite soldiers in armor in front of him, and then at the man in golden armor, golden helmet and golden mask standing on his horse under the green umbrella, and couldn't help feeling suffocated.

Black Bear rode forward and looked down at the other person: "Who are you?"

"I am Meng Da, a native of Mei County, Fufeng. I am here under the order of General Wu Kuang to repair the plank road in response to the Grand Marshal!"

Meng Da was also guessing, so he bowed and replied, "Who are you?"

"I am the Da Sima you are going to welcome."

Black Bear raised his hand and took off his mask, looking at Meng Da: "Lead the way."

"Here!"

Meng Da was inexplicably excited. He immediately turned around and stretched out his arms, whispering to the soldiers and officials around him. All of them were trembling with fear.

They came to their senses only after hearing Meng Da's scolding, and turned around, some almost falling off the plank road.

The dozen men trotted southward. Black Bear put on his mask again and looked back at the prisoners resting behind him: "Follow us!"

Perhaps because the plank road was completed, the resistance of these surrendered soldiers was mostly gone, and they continued to move forward carrying beams, rafters and wooden boards.

These woods were all removed from Jiameng Pass. There were no boats when attacking Jiameng Pass, so Tai Shi Wen Gong and his men cut down bamboo from the north bank and made bamboo rafts to float across the river from upstream.

It took nearly half an hour to turn out of the plank road and the mountain road.

Nearing the exit, Black Bear saw the small town of Jiange, which was also the grain storage area.

He reined in his horse and did not move. Meng Da in front of him trotted back and pointed with his arm outstretched: "Grand Marshal, there is plenty of grain in the palace, enough to supply 20,000 troops for three months!"

Seeing the Grand Marshal staring at him through the mask, Meng Da immediately said: "The defenders of Jiange are the confidants of King Liang, and they are not under the control of General Wu."

"I see."

Black Bear carefully looked at the Jianshan Pavilion that was built close to the mountain wall, turned his head and said to Lu Bu, "General, please help me capture this pavilion."

Lu Bu simply bowed, took the Fang Tian Ji from Gao Shun, and led more than 40 heavily armored infantrymen up the mountain ridge. Soon they disappeared into the dense forest in the mountains.

The subsequent surrendered soldiers filed out and piled the wood aside. These tired and frightened surrendered soldiers gathered on the slopes of nearby fields to rest, and they all looked at Jianshan Dige, a small grain storage city.

Meng Da was also looking around and waiting. Jianshan Mansion was the main grain storage mansion in the north, with a garrison of 500 people.

While he was thinking and weighing the options, he saw more than a dozen ropes hanging from the cliff, and Lu Bu led the heavy armored infantry to grab the ropes and quickly descend.

The sound of a warning horn was faintly heard, and about two quarters of an hour later, the door of the mansion slowly opened, and a dozen men in heavy armor stained with blood walked out.

Lu Bu was walking in front, with the Fang Tian Ji on his shoulder.

Tired from the fighting, Lu Bu walked with heavy steps, and the armored soldiers who came out with him stood near the city gate to rest.

The surrendered soldiers and the 300 men under Meng Da who were watching outside the pavilion looked at each other in bewilderment.

At this time, the knights with black flags on the plank road followed with their horses. Turning to the north, there were knights with black robes and black flags on the plank road, leading their horses, and there was no end in sight.

(End of this chapter)