Xu Shu didn't know that he was only using it to make Zhang Xiu and Liu Bei's coalition forces slow down a little bit. How could they know that not only failed to stop Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu's coalition forces, but accelerated the attacking speed of these two forces again.
"Kill, kill, kill!" On Shouchun City, Xu Shu repelled the first wave of Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu's allied forces attacking the city, but Xu Shu was not happy at all, because in the east outside the city, a raging fire was burning. It used to be the most prosperous place in Shouchun City, that is Liu Mang's industrial area, but now it is about to be reduced to ashes under the fire. This fire was not only caused by Liu Beijun, but Xu Shu himself endured the pain Let the soldiers under his command set the industrial area on fire, because Zhang Xiu's Xiliang iron cavalry was too fast. It was still in Baohe half a day ago, and then galloped outside the industrial area half a day later, directly hitting Xu Shu by surprise. Fortunately, Zhao Yun General Zhao Zilong's hundreds of white horses are circling from Yi, otherwise, I am afraid that this industrial area will be thrown into Liu Bei's hands, then at that time, Xu Shu will really become a sinner of Lu Bu's army, because in this industrial area There are many things that haven't had time to be moved into Shouchun City yet.
But now is not the time to think too much, Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu's army will never let it go, the day is not dark yet, there will definitely be a second and third attack, he Xu Shu needs to lead his soldiers to defend this Yangzhou The last slice of paradise.
"Hmph, it really is Lu Bujun's plan to drive a wedge between General Zuo and my Xiliang men!" Zhang Xiu sneered while looking at the former capital of Chu and Han, where Yuan Shu was once the emperor. He suddenly attacked Shouchun before today and was about to directly take down the gate of Shouchun. Who knew it was stopped by another cavalryman. Although there are not many people. However, most of them were elites, so they failed to break through. However, Zhang Xiu finally discovered the strangeness from the cavalry of this team, and completely solved the knot between him and Liu Bei.
"No matter how scheming Lu Bujun is, he still won't be able to escape the eyes of General Yangwu, haha!" Liu Bei also complimented Zhang Xiu for a while, and it took a long time to see the two go from being gluey to being incompatible, and now being good friends. A lot of it happened.
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Yesterday, night, Zhangxiu Day Camp
Zhang Xiu has already made up his mind. Tomorrow morning, he will pull up an army to leave Yangzhou and return to Wancheng, and let Liu Mang's army and Liu Bei's army in Yangzhou go dog-eat-dog. After returning to the army, he will directly attack Liu Bei's Runan, and come to report the previous two thousand Xiliang The revenge of the loss of the iron cavalry, if you are lucky, you can also ambush Liu Bei and completely send Liu Bei into the gate of hell. If this strategy is implemented, then Liu Bei will really be out of luck. One could really be played to death by Zhang Xiu.
Zhang Xiu could imagine that Liu Bei and Liu Da'er, who was assisted by the little turkey Fengchu Pang Tong, could also imagine that Liu Da'er had invested such a large amount of money under Zhang Xiu. Abandoning the boss Liu Daer, and even trying to rob the boss’s house, this behavior is really bad. If it was Lu Bu or Sun Ce, he would directly pull up the troops and fight with Zhang Xiu, but he is Liu Bei, he can endure what ordinary people can’t bear Things, so Liu Bei came to Zhang Xiu's camp that night.
"What? Liu Bei's visit?!" Zhang Xiu was just about to go to sleep, when a messenger came and reported that someone from outside the camp had visited, saying that it was General Zuo, Liu Bei and Liu Xuande.
"My lord, why did you see him Liu Bei? If you want me to tell you, we will leave tomorrow with our troops and let him fight alone. We will directly stab his lair! Let him ambush me and plot against the lord! "Hu Che'er next to him was not satisfied. Hu Che'er was not only Zhang Xiu's lieutenant general of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but also Zhang Xiu's personal guard captain, so whenever there was news, Hu Che'er would know.
"Huh!?" Zhang Xiu was frowning, his eyes were flickering like the candles in the tent, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Suddenly he asked the messenger, "Who are Liu Bei and Liu Daer here?" ?!"
"Well, including Liu Bei, there are three people in total! One scribe and one general," the orderly replied without daring to hide everything.
"Three people?! Haha, this Liu Bei seems to be dying! My lord, don't worry, look at me, Hu Che'er, I will gather soldiers and horses to arrest this little Liu Bei and send it to the lord. This way, the lord can not only kill After Liu Bei was ashamed, why not get his tens of thousands of troops!" Hu Che'er immediately went to find soldiers and horses to kill Liu Bei directly, and wanted to swallow Liu Bei's moves.
"Kill Liu Bei? Take his army?!" To be honest, Zhang Xiu was really moved. The white-eared heavy armored infantry under Liu Bei's command made him, who owns the Xiliang iron cavalry, even salivate. This is not the key, the key lies in Liu Bei's military rations, those are what Zhang Xiu is really excited about. If he can get Liu Bei's military rations, Wancheng may not have to worry about money and rations for several years or even decades. After all, what Liu Bei has in his hand is a Most of the money in Yuzhou was that Liu Pi confiscated the homes of those aristocratic families who did not have time to escape from Yuzhou. That savings can be described as extremely rich.
But then Zhang Xiu's fiery heart began to cool down again, "Let Liu Bei and the others come in!"
"My lord? What are you?!" Hu Che'er didn't understand. My lord, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! After killing Liu Bei, we can monopolize his parts, and we can even attack Shouchun and win Yangzhou and Hebei. Yuzhou, together with our Wancheng, we are one of the best princes in the world!" Hu Che'er is a Qiang, with a simple mind and well-developed limbs, but he still understands the importance of the territory and the army in this troubled world .
"Hey!" Zhang Xiu sighed, why didn't he want to just kill Liu Bei and annex his trilogy, but he couldn't do it, not because Zhang Xiu didn't want to, but because the messenger said, this time Liu Bei came There are only three people here, one Liu Bei, one scribe, and one general, but there are more than a few who are loyal to Liu Bei under Liu Bei's command, from Chen to Zhang Fei, which one is easy to deal with, even if that general is one of them, There is another person left. If he kills Liu Bei, the remaining general will not fight himself. At that time, I am afraid that not only will he not be able to eat the food and swallow Liu Bei's army, but he will also beat himself into it because of killing Liu Bei. . This is really a big loss.
"My lord!" Hu Che'er was still persuading.
"Wait!" Zhang Xiu stopped the messenger. Hu Che'er was overjoyed, thinking that the lord of his family really wanted to understand that he was going to kill Liu Bei and annex Liu Bei's soldiers and horses. But Zhang Xiu's next sentence really made Hu Che'er give up.
"There's no need to invite them, I'll meet them in person!" Zhang Xiu began to get dressed, anyway, since he didn't want to kill Liu Bei, he had to look good on the surface, Liu Bei was General Zuo anyway, It is much bigger than his General Yangwu.
In front of Zhang Xiujun's camp, there were exactly three people, one of whom had that iconic look with thick eyebrows and big ears. Isn't it Liu Bei and Liu Daer? There is another one that seems to have merged with the night in the dark night, isn't it the black pig skin Pang Tong? The remaining one who has grown up and turned regular is also full of heroism. It is Liao Hua, a 5,000-strong general in Liu Pi's army. Liao Hua is holding a package in his hand.
"This embroidery really deserves to have occupied Wancheng for so long, and the camp layout is full of sophistication!" Liu Bei could only take a closer look at the layout of Zhangxiu's barracks at the door. Isn't the entire barracks placed together? Together, it is a triangle, showing a trend of confrontation, two big camps guarding another big camp, and the three camps complement each other. No matter which camp was attacked, the two camps on the side could react quickly. This is one point, and there is also the arrangement of the sentries on this embroidery, which is basically a clear sentry at five steps, and a dark sentry at ten steps. With the capital left by his uncle Zhang Ji, he was able to dominate Wancheng for so long, but now it seems that he is still very capable, otherwise it would be impossible to trick Cao Cao and almost kill Cao Cao.
"My lord, look there!" Pang Tong's small eyes were very sharp, and he could see many cloth bags at a glance.
"Cloth bag?!" Liu Bei frowned. The cloth bag is not for carrying ordinary things. There is only one thing in the cloth bag, that is grain and grass, and the cloth bags along Pang Tong's arm are obviously empty. It's a used grain bag.
"Fortunately, my lord is wise and ready to go deep into the tiger's den. If not, I'm afraid the embroidered army may be completely withdrawn tomorrow morning!" Those food and grass bags need to be collected when they are used up. After all, cloth bags can be regarded as a kind of Strategic materials, but now they are thrown on the ground casually, which means that this embroidery army is already preparing food. These were not cleaned up when the food and grass were poured out to make hot food.
"Hey!" Like Zhang Xiu, Liu Bei also sighed. If he had enough strength in his hands, if Liu Bei was born as a soldier like Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, with six aunts and seven aunts, and the support of so many brothers , Is he Liu Bei like this? If he occupied Yuzhou and Yangzhou like Yuan Shu, with an army of 300,000, he might have achieved hegemony long ago, but he is not Liu Bei, he is just a straw sandal seller, so he has to work harder than any princes, but In the end, what he got was not as much as other people's. In order to get more, in order to fulfill the hegemony in Liu Bei's heart, he can only endure what ordinary people cannot bear, and can only do some things that may be life-threatening.
Just when Liu Bei was still feeling, the lights in the camp were brightly lit, and people all the way rushed towards Liu Bei.
"Protect the lord!" Liao Hua hurriedly pulled out the saber in his hand, and protected Liu Bei behind him.
"Huh?" Pang Tong and Liu Bei frowned together. Could it be that this picture is really brainless? Want to play with yourself to the end? He didn't know that no matter whether he killed himself or tied him up, the result was Liu Beijun and Zhang Xiujun's endless death. Just when Liu Bei's face was cloudy and cloudy, a hearty voice came from the fire dragon "Mr. Xuande, I didn't know that Mr. Xuande entered the camp in the middle of the night, and he was late to greet you, so I apologize to Mr. Xuande!"
Hearing this voice, Liu Bei felt at ease, and naturally echoed, "Where is it? It's because Bei disturbed General Yangwu's rest late at night. It's because he didn't prepare well!" into Zhang Xiu's camp.
"Liu Bei thief, why are you still here? Do you want to see if our lord has been killed by you?!" Compared with Zhang Xiu's politeness to Liu Bei, Hu Che'er next to him was not so polite, and he choked when he came up Sound Liu Bei.
Liu Bei didn't answer Hu Che'er directly, but took a look at Zhang Xiu, and saw that Zhang Xiu didn't block anything. It was known that Zhang Xiu was still resentful of Bai Ri's Xiliang iron cavalry being ambushed.
"Hehe!" Hu Che'er is Zhang Xiu's lieutenant general, although his status is not small. But not bigwigs. Naturally, there is no need for Liu Bei to respond to him in person, what kind of person is naturally suitable for what level he is, Pang Tong stepped forward and clasped his fists and said with a smile, "General Hu Che'er, my lord and I are here late at night, except for discussing important matters with General Yangwu. In addition, there is an apology from General Yangwu!"
"Apologize?! Hehe, what is the crime of Xuande Gong!" Zhang Xiu said with a haha, which shows that what seems to be a rhetorical question is actually an affirmative sentence, and you, Liu Xuande, know that you are wrong. How do you admit your mistake.
"General Yangwu, my lord is not strict in teaching, and made his general Liu Pi wield a knife against his allies for the sake of credit. So my lord was furious after knowing the truth and has already punished Liu Pi," Pang Tong said to Zhang Xiu.
"Hmph, it's not that you are singing together, what you are going to deal with is not me, Hu Che'er, and those two thousand Xiliang men, but my master!" Hu Che'er said still relentlessly.
"This is why General Hu Che'er is worrying too much!" Pang Tong stepped forward and said to Zhang Xiu. He knew that Hu Che'er was just a lieutenant general, and only by persuading Zhang Xiu could he really dispel Zhang Xiu's idea of withdrawing troops, "Don't hide it from General Wu. Our army did encounter a cavalry before meeting General Hu Che'er, and it was a heavy armored cavalry! They were the ones who killed more than 2,000 light infantry Yuzhou troops of our army!"
"Who would believe it?!" Hu Cheer simply refused to buy it. Nonsense, he almost died in the ambush circle, Hu Che'er would be a ghost if he had a good impression of Liu Beijun.
"General Zhang Xiu, did you get a scout yesterday?!" Pang Tong asked Zhang Xiu straight to the point.
"Yes!" Zhang Xiu wouldn't hide such a small matter, it doesn't make any sense.
"Did the scout not say anything after being caught and killed, but only when he finally couldn't take it anymore, did he tell the general that there was such a grain transport team going to Shouchun from Lujiang to Shouchun by official route!?" Pang Tong continued to ask. Zhang Xiu didn't speak, but his expression told Pang Tong that this was correct.
"Don't you think it's strange to the general?! Why didn't you say the last thing before but said it?!"
"What's so strange about this? Does everyone say it like your vendor Qiu Rong? That scout is a man, and I, Hu Che'er, admire him!" That scout named Feng He was tortured by Hu Che'er himself, Hu Che'er The son even beat him to pieces, and even burned his lower body with a branding iron, but the man just kept silent until finally he couldn't take it anymore, so he told the news.
"Then that's right, my master and General Zhang Xiu both got the trick?!" Pang Tong directly said that both of their armies got the trick, in order to divert the conflict between the two.
"Successful? I fell into your scheme! Let my two thousand Xiliang men die for no apparent reason!"
"General Hu Che'er, I want to ask, did the scout you captured tell you when the food delivery team will arrive?!"
"Probably the end time!" Hu Che'er thought for a while and said.
"General Hu Che'er, the scout captured by our army told us it was noon!"
"Isn't it just that the time is different! What's the difference? It's just an hour difference! The food transport team is still there, and what we received was an ambush from your army!"
"Of course there is a difference, the difference is huge!" Pang Tong said the key point, "If it is a cavalry in an hour, you can kill a back and forth, and the heavy armored cavalry we met before is not Xiliang iron cavalry at all. They pretend to be Xiliang cavalry. Liang cavalry used this grain truck as a bait to attack our Yuzhou army. Could it be that they retreated when the Yuzhou army arrived, and at this time, General Hu Che'er just arrived with two thousand Xiliang cavalry under your command? What do you think they will think! They thought that you and the fake Xiliang iron cavalry in front of you are in the same group, and they are here to grab credit, and they will naturally do some outrageous things to ambush you in order to save your life!" During Shouchun, Xu Shu's plan was almost done. It was indeed Feng Chu who could guess to such a degree by relying on clues.
"When you said that, I also remembered. Before that, those grain trucks had the smell of blood, and there were traces of horseshoes running over, but how do you explain that the sentence after that was not Zhang Xiu?! It seems that the person in front of you shouted !" Hu Che'er then saw Liao Hua standing beside Liu Bei, isn't this the one who Liu Bijian said was not Zhang Xiu!
"General Hu Che'er, General Liao Hua needs to explain this to you personally! Liao Hua!" Pang Tong called out to Liao Hua.
"General Hu Che'er, please forgive Liao Hua for not knowing that it was General Hu Che'er who made the move. I was in a hurry at the time. My whole point is that the previous wave of cavalry was not Zhang Xiujun. We killed the wrong person. , but it was already too late on the battlefield!" Liao Hua knelt down and cupped his fists towards Zhang Xiu and Liao Hua. "Whether it's killing or cutting, let General Hu Che'er deal with it!" It turned out that Liao Hua was carrying a basket on his back, which was full of thorns.
"I'm going to kill you!" Is it over if you kill the wrong person? Hu Che'er was so anxious that he drew out his weapon and chopped Liao Hua.
"Hu Che'er, back off!" Zhang Xiu suddenly shouted.
"My lord?!" Hu Che'er didn't understand, the enemy who killed two thousand brothers was right in front of him, how could he not kill him to take revenge!
"Back off!" Zhang Xiu repeated again and Hu Che'er reluctantly stood aside. "People are not sages and sages can be infallible. General Liao Hua can recognize his mistakes and correct them, that's good!" Kill Liao Hua ? Zhang Xiu also wanted to kill Liao Hua, but would killing Liao Hua end the matter? Killing Liao Hua would only lose one of his big bargaining chips for nothing. Since Liu Beijun killed the wrong person, he would naturally have to compensate. As for the compensation method, it depends on Liu Bei's sincerity. How much is a head of Liao Hua worth
Pang Tong was smiling in his heart, and Zhang Xiu's expression and reaction were all under Pang Tong's control. This is a troubled world, and human life is measured by money. To deal with Zhang Xiu, who is greedy for money, he will naturally feed him "two thousand The Xiliang man was killed, and my lord was very sad, so not only returned two thousand horses and two thousand pairs of heavy armor, but also selected two thousand strong men from Qingzhou's elite and handed them over to General Yangwu to complete the part. !" These two thousand war horses made Liu Bei's heart bleed, they are here in the Central Plains, and it is very difficult to get horses. A good horse can be sold for hundreds of gold on the black market, and even a property as big as Jiangdong It's just a Yuzhou iron cavalry!
"Hehe, I'll take two thousand horses and two thousand pairs of heavy armor. I won't take love from this man!" Zhang Xiu unceremoniously accepted the horses and armor. As long as he has these, he will return. Go to Wancheng and let people go to Xiliang to recruit thousands of people. However, even if Liu Bei is willing to give it to him, he would not dare to take the troops given by Liu Bei. Don't make dowry for others at that time. After finishing speaking, he looked at Pang Tong with flickering eyes, he would not be satisfied with these things, they were what he deserved in the first place.
"Also, in order to provide pensions to those brothers who died in battle, my lord is willing to pay five thousand gold, three thousand gold to general Hu Che'er, and the remaining two thousand gold to those soldiers who died in battle!" The five thousand gold was given directly Going out, Liu Bei's treasury was almost all embroidered by Zhang, with tens of thousands of gold back and forth.
"There is still 10,000 shi of grain and grass, as the distribution of military rations that the two armies cooperated with each other to win the Lujiang River and transport them to Shouchun. "Those grain trucks are full, only one or two thousand shi. How can there be 10,000 shi? What Zhang Xi did.
"Hmph, do you think you can buy my lord with money!" Hu Che'er continued to choke. Zhang Xiu was a little annoyed at Hu Che'er.
But Pang Tong still had a smile on his face, this smile looks good now, but it made Zhang Xiu a little scared after a while, "General Hu Che'er, don't be angry, we have taken down the culprit and let General Hu Che'er deal with it! "
"The culprit? This Liao Hua?!" Hu Che'er said disdainfully.
"No!" Pang Tong shook his head, "Liao Hua invited the culprit out to General Zhang Xiu!"
"Yes!" Liao Hua nodded, and took out a package from the back basket. The package was round, and Liao Hua took it out directly, and removed the cloth on it to reveal the contents inside.
As soon as the thing came out, Zhang Xiu took a deep breath. It was a big head, the blood was still flowing on the head, his face was ferocious, his expression was that kind of unwillingness, and there was also a kind of regret. Isn't this head just white? Liu Pi who asked Liu Bei to call the shots in Liu Bei's army every day! (to be continued..)