Red to move with overwhelming firepower: two chariots and two cannons. But Black has four pawns already across the river plus a mobile knight — small pieces that tighten like a noose, one step at a time. The classical manual Giang Hồ Bách Cục Bí Phổ (game 50) concludes: draw. One side holds the bridge, the other presses in; whoever catches the other's first slip is the one who overturns the book's verdict.
The name is a classic scene from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (chapter 42): Zhang Fei alone holding Changban Bridge, three shouts that froze the Cao generals — while the historical kernel is just twenty horsemen and a demolished bridge, as the anecdote below separates out. Take the bridge-holder's place on this board: can you hold the draw, or will Black's pawn mass flood through?
- Source
- 江湖百局秘谱 第50局
- Book result
- Draw
- Verification
- 📖 As recorded in the classical books
- Side to move
- Red to move
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Red forces
- King, Advisor ×2, Chariot ×2, Cannon ×2, Pawn ×2
- Black forces
- King, Horse, Chariot, Cannon, Pawn ×4
- FEN
5k3/4R4/5r3/p5P2/7Cc/7C1/P2p5/9/3p1p1R1/2nAKA3 w
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