Zhao Yun has always been thoughtful, and for the task of escorting Li Su's envoy this time, he had considered before setting off, how to deal with it if he encountered an enemy brave general who was piercing along the way.

So he specially got the hardest bow from Liu Beijun, which had at least three stones of tension - when Zhao Yun was usually in charge of those combat missions to patrol the enemy's situation, he basically wouldn't use such a heavy bow.

Because against enemies with leather armor or even no armor, it is easy to kill and damage enemies without three stones at all. The bow is softer and saves physical strength, so that more and more frequent arrows can be fired.

For example, when he harassed Zhang Jujun at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, he shot and killed 100 people within three days, relying on a soft bow with long-lasting endurance.

It's just that I didn't expect that Zhang Ju himself was so tightly protected, and when he came to Qiu Liju to attend the banquet, he actually wore iron armor inside, so that the arrows with the three-stone strong bow and the steel cone head could not be shot with an arrow at a distance of dozens of steps.

The people who can be called emperors, sure enough, the degree of sacrifice for their lives is extraordinary.

But that's the end of it!

"Snort~" There were two soft sounds, and the two Zhang Ju guards who came towards Zhao Yun were instantly slashed by the blade of the gun, and they left as soon as they touched it, falling to the ground in a dull manner.

So much so that the guards behind who had just dismounted and wanted to help Zhang Ju back and rescue him immediately didn't even know what was going on behind them.

Because almost at the same time, Dian Wei, who was not far from Zhao Yun, also came later, and rushed forward violently, snatching out the halberd and shooting indiscriminately, shouting and shouting.

Compared with Zhao Yun's calm and low-key, Dian Wei's appearance style almost instantly drew the attention of the audience, making all the rebel guards couldn't help but wander for a second or two.

The blade and handle of the Dian Wei halberd have a certain arc, the aerodynamic shape is similar to that of the boomerang, and the flight trajectory is also rampage, flamboyant and lacks accuracy.

However, for a dense group of enemies who have already rushed to within ten paces and are about to enter close combat, it is tantamount to a weapon of mass destruction, and even if it can't hit the enemy it wants to target at first, it will fly sideways and drag, and with the sound of sharp blades breaking through the wind, it will almost always hit one person. In an instant, seven or eight people fell off the horse.

Zhang Ju's guards were suddenly a little blinded by Dian Wei's flamboyant and swift rush, and even once mistakenly thought that it was Zhang Ju who was wounded by Dian Wei's arrow just now.

There is no way, the cavalry tactics of these years are either melee charges, or roundabouts or standing still far away to release arrows, and there are very few arrows released at the moment when they are about to meet the enemy in the charge.

So when the two sides are close to between five and ten paces, all the enemy instincts are preoccupied with defending and blocking melee weapons, and who would have thought of encountering a ranged attack at very close range.

It's like the two sides have already copied out the pan and beat each other with their faces, but the opposite side suddenly took out a handful of trolls, who is going to reason with this? What a foul!

The few soldiers who were supporting Zhang Ju, hearing the shouting and fighting behind them, couldn't help but glance quickly in the direction of Dian Wei, and saw that Dian Wei was stopped at least a dozen steps away, so they didn't care, and tried their best to put Zhang Ju on horseback.

Because he was hit by an arrow in his chest and abdomen, and the front of his body was blocked by an arrow shaft, he could not lie prone on horseback, but could only lie on his back. As for whether the lumbar spine will be injured and broken by this posture, the soldiers can't care about it at such a life-saving juncture.

But even so, at the moment when they put Zhang Jugang down, they still saw a spear behind their backs, like a dragon, and the lightning shot came, through the gap between the shoulders of the two guards, through a thousand jun, straight and straight stabbed Zhang Ju, stabbed into his lower abdomen, stabbed diagonally upwards from the back, and then stabbed into the back of Zhang Ju's war horse, nailing a man and a horse together.

Zhang Ju's originally injured and unconscious face was sharply distorted, like a mad cow roaring wildly.

After a roar, his breath collapsed and he died instantly.

Zhao Yun's shot was already a desperate way of playing, at the last moment, holding the gun in one hand, holding the end of the handle of the gun, relying on the horsepower of the war horse charging at full speed, without any fancy shot, the middle palace went straight through, and after stabbing it, he abandoned the gun and drew the sword, and fought with Zhang Ju's personal guards who came back to fight.

"Your Majesty is dead!" Zhang Ju's three hundred personal guards saw that their emperor wore a transparent hole like a sugar gourd, and he couldn't die anymore, and his morale completely collapsed and was chaotic.

There were also dozens of warriors who shouted and slashed at Zhao Yun like crazy, but Dian Wei on the side had already killed more than 20 people in close combat from afar, sharing considerable pressure, and Zhang Ju's personal guards had no choice but to be incompetent and furious, and made no achievements.

Seeing this, Qiu Liju also beckoned his own soldiers to rush up and fight, and the scene was extremely chaotic for a while.

……

"Youping, you are not allowed to fight! Set up the iron shield for me! Whoever rushes five steps away from me will allow you to fight back! Call Dian Wei back! Is he crazy? ”

Li Su held a sword in his left hand, and personally held a special solid shield in his right hand to block the flying arrows in the melee.

The shield they used is also unique among the weapons of the regular army of the Han Dynasty today - the shape of the shield is similar to the oval shield used by the Danyang axe shield soldiers. However, the defense has been greatly improved, and the wood is specially selected from the best quality hard birch in the Danyang Mountains, and several horizontal iron bars are reinforced on the outside, covering about one iron sheet (two millimeters) thick.

Listening to the "aggressive" sound on the iron shield, Li Su was quite nervous at first, but stabilized after a while.

He waited very steadily for all the bowstrings to subside, and when he heard Zhao Yun come back to report his merits, he poked his head out in high spirits.

"Long history, Zhang Ju's head is here! His guards are all scattered, do you want to pursue? Zhao Yun was carrying the hair of the head, and his excitement was overflowing.

Li Su looked at it intently, just the storm just now, the casualties on the front line were so big, Zhang Ju's personal guards were killed more than 100 people on the spot, they were really brave and dead, Qiu Liju also died at least seventy or eighty elites here, and even Liu Bei's personal soldiers brought by Li Su also died four.

is worthy of being the most elite henchman guards around a warlord, and the will to fight and the degree of bloodiness are different. If you change to other troops, how can you still fight to the death after half of the people are killed.

"Don't chase, don't chase, it's the same whether these hundred or so people are killed or not, hand it over to the imperial army to deal with, quickly show me the head!"

Zhao Yun hurriedly carried the helmet and lifted Zhang Ju's head. It turned out that when Zhang Ju's body was beheaded, the strap of the helmet was still tied to the chin, so after the helmet was cut off from the front, the helmet was still tied.

Li Su sighed: "Zilong, knowing that the time was fixed yesterday, why did I send you to do it?" ”

Zhao Yun: "I don't know. ”

Li Su: "Take Zhang Ju's helmet away, wash and marinate the head alone, find a fragrant wood box to store, pretend to be killed by your own people in the tent, and don't show the appearance of dying on the battlefield."

I remember that before Zhang Ju's rebels were completely wiped out, they had to declare to the outside world that Qiu Liju was inspired by the great Han Tianwei, surrendered to the wind, and beheaded Zhang Ju's head to the envoy. Such propaganda was even more demoralizing to the rebels. As for your merits, I will repay Brother Xuande privately. ”

Li Su knew that such a thing as "the assassination of the monarch" would not hit the enemy's morale very well, and might even inspire the enemy's hatred.

But if it is a former hardcore ally, because "I am not optimistic about Zhang Ju's chance to turn the tables at all" and betrays the alliance, the confidence of Zhang Ju's remnants will be severely damaged.

Therefore, even if Qiu Liju didn't want to do it himself, Li Su wanted to create the same good news as Qiu Liju did it himself, and shake the enemy's morale.

Before the war, Li Su did not let Dian Wei serve as an assassin, also considering that Zhao Yun was calmer and not easy to fight impulsively.

Zhao Yun comprehended: "Yun understands, the lord and the long history have clear rewards and punishments. What's more, I'm just a gesture, and anyone can kill Zhang Ju today. ”

This posture is very high, and he is also very good at talking: if Pai Dianwei and Zhou Tai are also likely to succeed. The opportunity to do it was given to me, and it was the leaders who looked up to me, so what credit should I have or not.

Li Su nodded with satisfaction, believing that if he went back to speak up about this matter impartially, Zhao Yun's status in Liu Bei's mind would be raised to a higher level. After two years, Emperor Ling died, Liu Bei took his own side, and he could have the final say on the matter of promotion, and then there was an opportunity to double the compensation for Zhao Yun.

"Then clean up, we will go with the army to supervise Qiu Liju's attack on the Xianbei Suli Department tonight." Li Su said, announcing the withdrawal of troops.

……

The words were divided into two ends, after Qiu Liju killed Zhang Ju, he immediately dispatched his troops and horses to attack the Xianbei Suli Department stationed more than ten miles away in the west according to his promise, which was the last letter of surrender to Liu Yu.

As for the excuse for internal mobilization, of course, the Xianbei people want to stand on their own feet and secretly hide grain and grass for the winter. In this environment where people starve to death every day, such an excuse is enough to boost the morale of the Wuhuan tribe, who were already not in harmony with the Xianbei tribe.

There is no need to repeat the dog-eat-dog behavior between these Hu people and the Hu people to reduce the population and save food for the winter, anyway, it has nothing to do with the Han people.

I only know that there were heavy casualties on both sides this night, and several people and horses of Xianbei small tribes were completely wiped out, and the cumulative number of casualties on both sides exceeded 10,000.

On the other side, as the night deepened, in Zhang Ju's own camp, crisis and panic were gradually spreading.

Guan Yu and Gongsun Zan did not rush to the Zhang Ju camp in Lingzhi when Zhang Ju had just died—because they had to wait for the news of Zhang Ju's death to spread and ferment before they could more fully demoralize the rebels.

At this time, the more impatient, the better the effect, so that the rebels can think about it thoroughly, and maybe they can escape a considerable part of it.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, the news of Zhang Ju's death had been completely spread by the defeated soldiers of Zhang Ju's personal guards who had fled back, and the generals under Zhang Ju had killed dozens of people and tried to block the news but did not seal it.

When the time comes, according to the original military discipline, the whole army must sleep, and those who act recklessly can be dealt with according to military law.

But that night, there were still countless soldiers who were not sleepy and fled one after another, and the military justice team hung up and caught and beheaded many people, but they still couldn't stop. Later, he could only grasp the big and let go of the small, and did not care about the ordinary people who fled lightly, but just took care of the last grain depot in the battalion, so as not to steal some grain and grass from the camp before the soldiers fled.

If people want to go, they can leave, anyway, the remaining food can't be fed, as long as they leave empty-handed, no one will stop them.

It was in such confusion and exhaustion that at the beginning of midnight, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's two thousand cavalry finally arrived.

They had come to rob the camp as planned.