Changban Bridge 长板桥

📖 As recorded in the classical booksBook result: Draw江湖百局秘谱

📚 Jianghu Baiju Mipu — one hundred selected street (jianghu) positions, Qing dynasty

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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?

📖 Anecdotes

다리 위의 한 사람: 장판교를 지킨 장비

조조의 기병이 바짝 추격하고 유비의 군은 도망치는 중인데, 장판교 위에는 창을 든 한 남자가 서서 대군을 노려보고 있었다. 그의 뒤에서는 다리가 곧 뜯겨나갈 참이었다. 장수 한 명이 감히 홀로 강을 건너는 길을 막아설 수 있을까? 《삼국지연의》 제42회에서 장비의 고함은 어찌나 무시무시한지, 장교 하후걸이 말 그대로 겁에 질려 죽어 말에서 떨어진다. 그 ‘고함에 놀라 죽는’ 장면은 소설가의 창작이다. 그 아래 깔린 역사는 그 자체로 충분히 극적이다. 《삼국지》 장비전에 따르면, 그는 단 스무 명의 기병만을 데리고 강어귀를…

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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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