The whole Shouchun suddenly became busy again, and all the barracks started to move. The black chess army, the trapped camp and the state wolf cavalry all gathered in the city. It can be said that the current Shouchun has gathered Lu Bu's army. Eighty percent of the combat power can fight a battle.
"What's going on! The Xiliang iron cavalry attacked the city!" Liu Mang asked after putting on his battle armor and getting on the city wall of Shouchun.
"My lord!" Cheng Yu and Huang Xu clasped their fists at Liu Mang when they saw Liu Mang's arrival. The Xiliang iron cavalry suddenly appeared under the city wall. Fortunately, it was already late and the gate of Shouchun city had been closed. , otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.
Although the sky was dark, the Xiliang iron cavalry under the city was holding torches. Thousands of people looked at the torches, "What the hell is Hao Shao in Guangzhou doing! Why didn't you send someone to report! There is also information, Yang Hong Why didn't there be any movement beforehand?" Liu Mang was really angry, not only at Yang Hong, but also with Hao Shao from Guangzhou. Such a Xiliang cavalry invaded the hinterland of Yangzhou In the middle, it is impossible that there is no movement, but he abruptly ran under the gate of Shouchun. If this is not dereliction of duty, what is it! There was no news from Yang Hong's intelligence, not even Hao Shao who brought Gwangju. You must know that Xiliang cavalry must pass through Gwangju if they want to enter Yangzhou.
In fact, Liu Mang wronged them, and both Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu were beaten away. Now Yang Hong is mainly responsible for the information on Sun Ce in Jiangdong and Liu Biao in Jingzhou. Naturally, the information on Nanyang County is much less, and then Yang Hong ran away again. Lujiang picked up Yuan Fang. How can it be possible to care about these information any more, and a vacuum will naturally be formed, and Hao Shao in Gwangju is even more wronged. Thousands of Xiliang iron cavalry passed by his Gwangju gate, he had already discovered it, and he even sent some scouts to investigate, but the war horses left in Guangzhou are all rough horses, how could they outrun those Xiliang iron cavalry? What about the good Xiliang horse! So the final result is that the Xiliang iron cavalry has all run to Shouchun, and the informant from Hao Shao is still on the way.
"Well done, since you dare to come. I definitely want all his Xiliang iron cavalry to stay in Shouchun City!" Liu Mang said coldly, because there are thousands of Bingzhou wolf cavalry in the city, and the city management is trapped in the black chess three ways. Heavy armored infantry. It was enough to encircle and wipe out the Xiliang iron cavalry outside the city.
Hearing Liu Mang's angry words, Cheng Yu and Huang Xu couldn't intervene, so they could only tell Liu Mang the news about the city now. . After the Xiliang iron cavalry under the city arrived, not only did they not attack the city, but instead set up all the torches, fearing that no one in Shouchun would know about them, they still stayed under the city for a long time, which made Cheng Yu very strange.
"No siege?!" Liu Reck frowned. What exactly did the Xiliang iron cavalry want? Liu Reck looked at the torches outside the city, and it was getting late. It should be preparing to set up camp and attack the city tomorrow! It seems that this embroidery is really not dead.
Liu Mang will not give these Xiliang iron cavalry a chance to live until tomorrow, "Cheng Yu passed on my military order. Let the black chess, trap two battalions, go out from the gates on both sides, and make an ambush behind the Xiliang iron cavalry for me, wait for me Order the three roads to attack!" Liu Mang is going to leave this road of Xiliang iron cavalry behind, and tomorrow he needs to send troops to the various princes to buy food and grass, so it is impossible to delay it.
"Yes! The last general takes orders!" Just as Cheng Yu and Huang Xu half-kneeled and clasped their fists away, a dozen or so riders suddenly walked out from the city. All of these dozens of riders were holding torches, heading towards Shouchun's city wall. rushed over. The Xiliang cavalry force behind them also moved.
The Liu Mang army in the city will naturally respond when the enemy makes a move, "Prepare the bed crossbow!" Once again, the bed crossbow was installed on Shouchun City. This bed crossbow is really effective in defending the city, so after Gwangju Except for Liu Wei who took away dozens of planes, the others stayed in Guangzhou and taught to Hao Shao. I believe that Hao Shao, the king of defense, the little prince Jiandun, will definitely be able to show his talent of iron and steel.
The range of the bed crossbow reached 700 paces, within 500 paces, even a giant shield and heavy armor could be shot through.
"Slow down!" Liu Mang frowned as he looked at the dozen or so Xiliang iron cavalry rushing towards the city. If he wanted to attack the city, it would not be the dozen or so cavalry that appeared, but the whole army would attack the city directly, so there was no need for bed crossbows. Moreover, Liu Wei looked at the dozen or so cavalrymen, and by the light of the torches, he could still see the human appearance. Among the dozen or so people, there were only two military generals, one scribe, and even a child! The others are all men in armor, but it can be seen that they are all personal guards. This siege cannot use scribes and children! So he must have come to chat.
"Let them come forward!" Hearing Liu Mang's words, the bed crossbow on the city was retracted again, and a dozen or so riders from the city came towards the moat with peace of mind, and beat their horses to stand on the moat.
"On the top of the city is His Royal Highness Liu Mang and Liu Ziyang!" A scribe below the city suddenly asked loudly. "We are the Xiliang iron cavalry under the command of Nanyang Yangwu General Zhang Xiu!"
"This king is the king of Shu," Liu Mang also responded to the cry of the scribes in the city. Although he was proclaimed a holy king by the Han emperor and respected as a holy king, he must never call himself a holy king. The title of Wang, "Why is Zhang Xiu not convinced by the defeat of Yangzhou, and is going to send you to die again!"
Zhang Xiu's Xiliang iron cavalry was played twice by Lu Bu's army. The first was an ambush in Guangzhou, and then it was ambushed by Lu Bu again. According to the possibility of Zhang Xiu's good face, he will really come back for revenge.
"Don't dare, dare not!" The scribes below greeted hurriedly.
"Don't dare? Don't dare, why did you appear in my Yangzhou? Why didn't you dare to force me to enter Shouchun City?!" Liu Wei snorted coldly at the scribes below, no matter who it is, no one likes to be beaten by the enemy here.
"His Royal Highness, I didn't want to be an enemy of His Royal Highness when I came here this time, but I wanted His Royal Highness to uphold justice, return my Xiliang iron cavalry, and return my innocence to General Yangwu!" The scribes under the city continued Answered with Liu Mang.
"Return your innocence and uphold justice?!" Liu Mang really didn't understand what happened to this embroidery. He and Zhang Xiu are enemies, why are they acting like subordinates now, you must know that although Liu Mang has the title of prince. But how many people in this world will buy it.
"Where is Zhang Xiu! Let him come out to talk to you!" Liu Mang didn't understand, so he wouldn't talk too much. Maybe there was a fraud in it, so he just asked Zhang Xiu to come out and talk to him. Cheng Yu has already beaten the city wall, and the black chess army and the trapped camp should also be sent out to go around. As long as there is enough time, the Xiliang iron cavalry under the city will be the turtle in the urn.
"My lord, General Yangwu, already. Has already returned!" The scribes under the city did not speak, and a warrior next to him spoke first, and there was even a slight cry of this man while speaking.
"Go back?!" Did he return to Nanyang Wancheng? Then what justice do you want from Liu Mang? Could it be that Zhang Xiu and Liu Bei are at odds and started a war? Zhang Xiu couldn't beat him and asked for help? This is not a joke. Leaving aside the fact that Zhang Xiu and Liu Bei's army are in the honeymoon period, you must know that Liu Bei even joined the white-eared heavy armor soldiers in order to save Zhang Xiu, and the general Chen Dao beside him also died in the chaos. Zhao Yun begged in front of him. Zhao Yun buried it himself. Moreover, Zhang Xiu's Wancheng is militaristic, Zhang Xiu is stronger than Liu Bei in terms of force, Zhang Xiu can lose 20,000 Xiliang cavalry, because the 20,000 is not all he has, but Liu Bei is different, Bai Er is heavy A is his elite.
"My lord, this embroidery should, should be dead!" Xu Shu reminded Liu Mang.
"Dead!" Liu Mang was stunned. How could Zhang Xiu die? Liu Wei didn't believe the news at all. Because Lu Bu clearly stated Chen Gong's plan before, one tiger in the mountain is worse than two tigers fighting each other. Killing Zhang Xiu will not only make Nanyang Wancheng and Lu Bu's army completely feud, Any other benefits, but on the contrary, Liu Bei was able to annex Zhang Xiu's Wancheng in the name of revenge for Zhang Xiu. So for Zhang Xiu, the only thing to do is to destroy his Xiliang iron cavalry, and chop off Zhang Xiu's claws that extended into Yangzhou to teach him a lesson.
Instead of destroying Zhang Xiu, it is better to change the target, put all your energy on Liu Bei, rely on Zhang Xiu as a bait to lure Liu Bei, and destroy Liu Bei's white-eared heavy armor. Even if Liu Bei does not save Zhang Xiu, Lu Bu will Figured out a way to let Zhang Xiu escape back to Nanyang.
So it is impossible for Zhang Xiu to die, but now the people in the city tell Liu Mang that Zhang Xiu is dead, and Liu Mang is the first to not believe it.
But something happened that made Liu Wei unbelievable. He only heard the scribes in the city clasping their fists and saying, "I, Jia Xu, brought my young Zhang Lei, and I came here to join His Highness the King of Shu. I hope His Highness the King of Shu can see that he is an official of the Han Dynasty Come on, you can take me in!"
"Jia Xu, Zhang Xiu's counselor! Zhang Lei, Zhang Xiu's son?!" Liu Mang responded subconsciously, but then he was suddenly startled.
"He, what did he say! Jia Xu! Jia Xu?!" Liu Mang was stunned suddenly. "You are Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe?!" Liu Mang's voice was full of disbelief.
"Huh?!" Hearing Liu Mang's voice, the two scribes present frowned. One of them was Xu Shu who was next to Liu Mang. Xu Shu had never heard of Jia Xu's reputation, but that reputation was really not that good Jia Xu's labels include Dong Zhuo's remnants, treacherous officials of the Han Dynasty, and incompetence and selfishness.
Because Jia Xu was promoted by Dong Zhuo when he was in Dong Zhuo. Although he didn't make much credit, he was also regarded as Dong Zhuo's remnants by those who claimed to be righteous, just like Cai Wenji's father, although he was not in the same class as Dong Zhuo, he was promoted. Wang Yun got into the big prison and was tortured to death because Dong Zhuo had promoted Cai Wenji's father and wanted to help Dong Zhuo withhold the corpse, so Wang Yun regarded it as a thorn in his side and executed him.
Similarly, Jia Xu ran fast or he would die, and then he was a traitorous official of the Han Dynasty, because he encouraged Li Jue and Guo Si to gather troops and attack Chang'an, so that Emperor Han was played and applauded by the two for many years, which made the great man's prestige lost.
Xu Shu is not the kind of stubborn person, so naturally he won't pay attention to the remaining traitorous ministers, but what he cares about is the latter two evaluations, incompetence and selfishness, Jia Xu's incompetence is because of whoever he is under, whoever Victory and defeat, Dong Zhuo's use of Jia Xu, died, and Li Jue and Guo Si's use of Jia Xu also died! Zhang Xiu used Jia Xu to make a boundless water in the land of Nanyang County. So everyone thinks that Jia Xu is incompetent!
There are also selfish ones. Jia Xu ran away again and again before her lord was defeated. If this is not selfishness, what is it!
But now the lord of his own family, hearing this name, made Xu Shu frown in such a gaffe.
"Huh?!" Another frown was Jia Xu from the city. Jia Xu's frown was because he didn't understand why His Royal Highness the King of Shu would lose his composure when he heard his name! Does this His Royal Highness King Shu know himself? Impossible, Jia Xu has never met Liu Mang at all, even if Liu Mang knows that he exists, he is defined as incompetent and selfish!
Jia Xu couldn't help laughing at himself, incompetent and selfish? It's not that Jia Xu is incompetent, he just doesn't want to show his talent! This will only increase casualties and troubles, neither Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Guo Si, nor Zhang Xiu are the ones who can unify the world! Giving advice to such a person, just like Chen Gong back then, the final outcome is nothing more than a dead end, Jia Xu didn't want to do that, so he directly chose not to speak, not to waste time!
Selfish? Who can not be selfish! It's just that Jia Xu's selfishness is based on his own innocence, who would die selflessly! As long as no one offends Jia Xu, Jia Xu doesn't want to be an enemy of others, right
Jia Xu looked at the King of Shu on the city wall. He was waiting for Liu Mang's reply. If there was anything wrong with Liu Mang, then Jia Xu might have chosen another path. (to be continued..)