In Jiangzhou City, an unprecedented atmosphere of panic enveloped the first important town in the eastern part of the Shu Kingdom, and both soldiers and civilians smelled the smell of death. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

If the successive defeats of Meng Da and Li Yan in the past caused a heavy blow to the spirit of the Jiangzhou people, this time Zhang Ren's defeat made the fighting spirit of the Jiangzhou people fall to the bottom.

After all, although Meng Da and Li Yan have prestige, they are new stars after all, and their prestige is limited, while Zhang Ren is the number one general in Shu, the existence of the undefeated god of war, and his status in the minds of the Shu people is second only to Liu Zhang.

But the undefeated god of war in their eyes was defeated by the king of Great Wei again, and the defeat was extremely miserable.

Zhang Ren's myth was shattered, and the Shu people deeply felt the power of the Wei King pottery merchants, and they could not be afraid of it.

At nightfall, the screams of the wounded in the city were heard incessantly, and the panicked chattering of the common people, as well as the cries of women and children.

Everyone felt that the hands of the god of death seemed to have quietly pinched their necks, and death could come at any time.

In the night, Zhang Ren rode his horse slowly, shuttling through the streets and alleys, and in various military camps, calming people's morale and deploying defensive tasks.

The cries and sighs that sounded in his ears from time to time, and the discouragement written on the faces of every soldier and civilian, like knives, deeply stabbed Zhang Ren's dignity.

With such a heavy heart, Zhang Ren silently returned to the military palace and convened the generals to discuss the matter of dealing with the enemy.

"Ahem, General Zhang, I have already reminded you that this pottery thief is treacherous and treacherous, we can't easily fight with him, if General Zhang had listened to my persuasion, why not suffer this big defeat, alas......"

This time, it was Li Yan's turn to stand up and enjoy the fun of falling into the well.

When he was defeated by the potters before, Zhang Ren came to take over the defense of Jiangzhou, but in front of the generals, he was sarcastic.

At present, Zhang Ren was also defeated by the potters, and Li Yan did not take the opportunity to humiliate Zhang Ren.

Zhang Ren's face suddenly sank, and he glared at Li Yan fiercely, and the annoyance in his heart made him want to scold Li Yan.

gritted his teeth several times, Zhang Ren finally held back, no way, who told Li Yan that he had indeed persuaded him, and he really didn't listen.

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Ren forcibly calmed down his anger and snorted coldly: "So far, what's the point of saying these useless words, General Li has this kung fu, it's better to think about how to deal with the pottery thief's next attack." ”

Li Yan smiled and sighed: "If General Zhang is willing to listen to my advice and hold Jiangzhou with an army of 30,000, the pottery thieves will have nothing to fear even if they have thousands of troops and horses." However, now, our army has lost half of its soldiers and horses, and its morale has fallen to such a low level, and now it is only possible to hold Jiangzhou only by telling the truth to the king and asking the king to send reinforcements as soon as possible. ”

Li Yan knew that Zhang Ren did not tell Liu Zhang the truth about the defeat, so he deliberately forced Zhang Ren to ask Liu Zhang for help, at that time, maybe Liu Zhang was disappointed in Zhang Ren, and he would hand over the military power of Jiangzhou back into his hands, which was exactly what he wanted.

Zhang Ren didn't know about Li Yan's little abacus, so he vetoed without thinking about it: "Now that the king is at the critical moment of surrendering Meng Shu, he must not ask the king for help at this time, so as to affect the king's great cause of completely pacifying Nanzhong." ”

"However, if you don't ask the king for help, with the current morale of our army, how can we hold Jiangzhou?" Li Yan said-for-tat.

Zhang Ren snorted coldly and said proudly: "Even if the pottery thief wins a small victory, as long as I Zhang Ren is here, the pottery thief will not want to step into Jiangzhou half a step." ”

In the face of Zhang Ren's conceit, Li Yan smiled coldly, and said in a strange manner: "Previously, General Zhang also said that as long as you come out, you will be able to break the pottery thief, but it turned out to be the mess now, I advise General Zhang not to be too confident." ”

Li Yan's irony is quite obvious.

"Li Yan, you-" Zhang Ren was so angry that his eyes widened angrily, and he slapped the case, raising his hand and pointing angrily at Li Yan.

Li Yan didn't think so, and sat there idlely, ignoring Zhang Ren's annoyance.

Zhang Ren took a few breaths, forcibly suppressed his anger, and shouted with his sleeves: "This general is the governor of Jiangzhou personally appointed by the king, and he is the commander of the whole army, this general has decided not to ask the king for help, and to stick to Jiangzhou with the troops at hand, Li Yan, if you dare to disobey!" ”

Zhang Ren took out his official position to suppress people, Li Yan was unhappy, but he couldn't help it, so he reluctantly gave his hand, "General Li is the commander of the whole army, naturally you have the final say, how dare Yan say anything, General Li can do whatever he wants." ”

Finally subdued Li Yan, Zhang Ren breathed a sigh of relief, and then arranged a defensive task to end this unpleasant military discussion.

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Bang!

As soon as Li Yan returned to his residence, he slammed his helmet on the desk, sat down angrily, and ordered the pro-soldiers on the left and right to bring the wine.

The pro-soldiers were all startled, and they didn't dare to take a breath, so they hurriedly served the wine and waited carefully.

"Zhang Ren, you self-righteous guy, you dare to press me just because you are the boss, hmph, I'll write a seal to sue you now, I see how long you can be powerful in front of me......"

Li Yan drank all the wine in one gulp, and after venting his anger, he already had an idea in his heart, and immediately ordered the soldiers to bring pen and ink.

In a moment, Li Yan repaired a letter, ordered his soldiers to go out of the city overnight, and went to Zhu Ti to report to Fa Zheng secretly, asking Fa Zheng to take advantage of Zhang Ren's defeat to make a fuss, and it was best to incite the king of Shu to remove Zhang Ren from the post of governor, and let him control the military power of Jiangzhou.

After sending the messenger away, Li Yan's anger subsided for a while, and he drank happily.

After more than a dozen glasses of wine, just when Li Yan was half drunk, the soldiers outside the tent suddenly hurried in, saying that General Meng Da had returned to the city and was in a hurry to see him outside.

"Mengda, wasn't he captured by the pottery thief? How could he possibly come back? Although Li Yan was slightly drunk, his mind was still clear, and he didn't believe the soldier's report.

Before the words fell, one person opened the curtain and broke in directly without his communication.

As soon as Li Yan raised his head, when he recognized who the person who came in was, he froze in place for a moment, and the glass of wine in his hand fell to the ground.

The intruder, the person standing in front of the original, turned out to be Meng Guo.

"Mencius, you weren't given by the pottery thief...... How could it be...... What the hell are you ......" Li Yan was surprised and delighted, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

When the old friends met, Meng Da also felt a lot of emotion, and he was obviously ashamed in his heart, but he pretended to be arrogant and said with a smile: "Brother Li, you don't want to think about who I am, how could I be trapped by the pottery thief so easily." ”

"What the hell is going on?" Li Yan came to his senses in a trance, and hurriedly pulled Meng Da to sit down, and asked urgently.

Meng Da made a big exaggeration of how he fought the potters in Tong County, but he was deceived by Gao Pei, a traitor, and fell into the potter's strategy, and was deceived by him to open the city gate, and finally lost the battle and was captured.

Then he told how he would rather die than give in, be imprisoned by the pottery merchants, and finally how he took advantage of the Wei army's negligence to take advantage of the guards, killed several guards and soldiers, and snatched a war horse to escape from the Wei camp.

Of course, Meng Da's words are focused on describing how powerful and unyielding he is, how wise and brave he is, and how he escaped from the "clutches" of the pottery merchants.

"I see, I'll just say that your talent is so easy to be defeated by the Tao thief, it turns out that it's all because of Gao Pei, a traitor." Li Yan, who suddenly realized, showed emotion on his face, and the contempt and dissatisfaction with Meng Da in his heart before were also dissipated at this moment.

Previously, he had always complained about Meng Da's incompetence, and he was easily defeated by the potters, losing his troops and losing the face of their young and strong faction.

Listening to Meng Da's explanation today, he realized that the fall of Tong County was mainly due to Gao Pei's traitors, who deceived the pottery merchants into opening the city gate and killed Meng Da by surprise, which was not because Meng Da was incompetent.

The truth was revealed, and Li Yan's complaints and contempt for Meng Da naturally disappeared.

Besides, Meng Da belongs to the same faction as him, and now that Meng Da has returned, it is precisely because he has added a right-hand man to help him deal with Zhang Ren's house.

"Zidu, it's great that you can come back smoothly, don't you know, I'm being suppressed by that Zhang Ren now, you're here, just give me an idea, let's bring down Zhang Ren's guy together." Li Yan took Meng Da's hand and suddenly became excited.

"What's going on, Brother Li will tell me in detail." Meng Da didn't know the inside story, so he asked.

Li Yan told Meng Da in detail how he was defeated by the potters that day and complained to Liu Zhang, so he sent Zhang Ren to take over the military power in Jiangzhou, and then explained in detail how Zhang Ren was conceited in the previous battle and was also defeated by the potters.

Meng Da turned his eyes when he heard this, as soon as Li Yan finished speaking, a sneer rose at the corner of his mouth, and he lowered his voice and said: "This is not simple, Brother Li can send someone to Nanzhong again, let Xiaozhi secretly release the rumor, just say that Zhang Ren was defeated by the pottery thief, for fear of being punished by the king, so he concealed it and did not report it, in fact, he has secretly planned to surrender the pottery thief, our king, although he is a master, but the suspicion is extremely heavy, if you hear this rumor, do you think you will trust Zhang Ren, hehe......"

The more Li Yan listened, the more excited he became, and the more he listened, the more proud he became, as if he had seen the picture of Liu Zhang's suspicion of Zhang Ren, resigning from his position as governor and taking over by himself.

He seemed to have seen that when Zhang Ren was pressed by himself and forced to obey his orders, he was so angry that he was about to vomit blood.

Thinking of this, Li Yan couldn't help laughing, gave Meng Da a thumbs up, and praised: "Zidu, Zidu, this kind of secret method of rectifying people still belongs to you, I am ashamed of myself." ”

"I've won the award for my brother, who called that Zhang Ren conceited, too scared of face and didn't report his defeat to the king, this is what he asked for, I just took advantage of it." Meng Da had a grim smile on his face, a look of irony.

The two looked at each other and laughed, and the big tent was filled with an air of intrigue and schadenfreude.

Just as he was laughing, there was a sudden noise outside the big tent, as if someone was trying to force his way in.

Li Yan frowned, and was about to send someone out to ask who was making a noise, but the soldiers outside the tent hurriedly entered, shouting: "General, it's not good, General Zhang Ren Zhang suddenly arrived, and he was rushing to the big tent, saying that there was something important to see the general, and we couldn't stop it." ”

"Zhang Ren? What did he suddenly do on this big night? Li Yan's expression moved, and he looked at Meng Da.

A trace of uneasiness flashed in Meng Da's eyes, and he frowned: "I just entered the city, and he rushed over on his hind feet, I'm afraid he is coming for me." ”

Just before Meng Da finished speaking, the curtain had been lifted, and Zhang Ren, who was wearing heavy armor, broke in directly with great strides.