Chapter 242: Jiangdong's Secret Letter
On the city wall of Chengdu, two figures standing side by side looked down on the camp of Huang Zhong's army in the distance, looking very depressed.
"Righteousness, we have been besieged by Yuan Shu's army for nearly a month, how long can you hold out?" Wu Yi looked at the seemingly ordinary, dignified man beside him with awe, and said in a calm tone.
Heroes come out of troubled times, and fierce generals come out of adversity. When Liu Yandu felt that the general trend had gone, Zhang Ren, a little-known young general, stood out in the battle to defend Chengdu, and turned the tide and stabilized the situation in one fell swoop, so that several attacks by Huang Zhong's army returned and stabilized the hearts of the people in Chengdu.
Zhang Ren's ability is that Wu Yi, a great general, is eyed by, but this kind of good general only served as a hundred generals before! Wu Yi really didn't understand what the situation was with the group of generals who led the troops? Fools?
Under this desperate situation, Liu Yan burst out with amazing courage, and he who had always been cowardly actually stood on the battlefield and supervised the battle on the city wall. And it is precisely because of this that Zhang Ren, a good general, was discovered by Liu Yan.
There is no way, anyone who sees the suppressed side of their own soldiers on the battlefield, and only a force of no more than 100 people under the leadership of a fierce general is extremely brave, constantly rushing left and right to help friendly troops, will understand that this person must be a good general.
Although Zhang Ren has an ordinary appearance and average temperament, his ability is real. As Zhao Yun's senior brother, even though Zhang Ren is good at leading soldiers rather than martial arts, his second-rate level martial arts are still not comparable to the group of weak chicken generals in Yizhou, and his martial arts are also vividly reflected on the battlefield.
Liu Yan is now like a person who is about to drown, and as soon as he finds Zhang Ren's life-saving straw, he grabs him to death. After the end of the battlefield that day, he was named a hussar general, commanding more than 40,000 troops in Chengdu.
Didn't Liu Yan only have 20,000 troops left? How did these more than 40,000 troops come from?
Naturally, Liu Yan came from the family again. Since the annihilation of the army outside the city, Liu Yan was completely driven to a dead end, and once again repeated the old tricks, forcing the family to provide more troops. He knew that the family must still have hidden secrets, so he was more decisive. came up and directly wiped out a few small families that were not pleasing to the eye.
got an army of nearly 10,000 from it, and then the rest of the family scraped together an army of more than 10,000 under Liu Yan's deterrence, and in this way they made up the current team.
"As long as the lord doesn't give up, I can keep going." Zhang Ren said firmly.
The soldier died for his confidant, and Liu Yan's hasty and crazy actions in the face of a desperate situation still moved Zhang Ren abnormally, and he was directly promoted from a junior general to a hussar general, what a great trust! Zhang Ren now has a kind of determination to go to the soup for Liu Yan.
Wu Yi glanced at Zhang Ren casually: "Now that most of our army has been killed or wounded, I'm afraid the remaining soldiers will not be enough to support it for a long time!" ”
He couldn't see that Zhang Ren was close to the limit now, and he could only survive until now by relying on his extraordinary will. In the past month, Huang Zhong has been attacking the city day and night, although it is thunder and rain, but the gap in the strength of the two armies has made the losses suffered by Chengdu too serious, Zhang Ren has not been down the city wall for a month, most of the time is in command of the battle, and from time to time he has to personally go out to fight the fire, he is exhausted.
Zhang Ren was silent in the face of Wu Yi's inquiry, how could he not see the current situation? No matter how brave he is, with the group of negligent soldiers in Yizhou and the miscellaneous soldiers of the family, it is already the limit to be able to hold Chengdu for a month. Now every battle is in danger of the whole army being defeated, and if it were not for the constant support of his armed forces, Chengdu would have changed hands long ago.
"If Chengdu City is broken, what are you going to do?" Finding that Zhang Ren was silent, Wu Yi asked.
"Take Your Majesty out of the encirclement!" Zhang Ren said calmly.
"Then what if Your Majesty refuses to go?" Wu Yi knows the current situation, and he knows Liu Yan's character even better, in this case, Liu Yan can't choose to run away in disgrace, and he can't run away. The biggest possibility is to take the family under his command to burn the jade together.
Zhang Ren was silent again, his eyes slightly sinking at the Liu Ziqi in his hand, and countless complex emotions flashed in his eyes. Why hadn't he thought about it? It's just that he hasn't continued to think about it, he doesn't want to see this scene.
"Your Majesty has no way back now, but he still has concerns. The family and the prince! If the hussar general is loyal to His Majesty, why doesn't he help His Majesty fulfill this last wish? Wu Yi looked directly at Zhang Rendao.
"What does the general mean by that?" Zhang Ren's heart sank, and he asked rhetorically.
"The general is not a reckless person, he should understand His Majesty's heart!" Wu Yi said without changing his face.
"Your Majesty's greatest hatred is not Yuan Shu, it is understandable that the princes are fighting each other, but the family has done too much. Presumably the generals also understand! ”
"So the general misses me?" Zhang Ren is not so easy to fool, he is not the kind of military general who has a bad brain. If the four-dimensional data is turned into four-dimensional data, Zhang Ren's force and intelligence are above eighty, which can be called brave and strategic.
Zhang Ren would not be fooled by Wu Yi so easily. said a thousand ways and ten thousand, Wu Yi must have his own careful thoughts when he said this.
"Since General Zhang Ren is so loyal to His Majesty, then I will make it clear." Wu Yi lowered his voice: "The Yizhou family is now a mortal enemy with His Majesty. Your Majesty also knows that now that the general trend has gone, what he is worried about is his own future, mainly His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so it is imperative to get rid of the Yizhou family. ”
"Do you need Ren's help with this?" Zhang Ren hesitated. Even if he is as upright and fearless as him, he understands the horror of the family, and it is difficult to offend the family, but he is willing to do this stupid thing even if he thinks of Liu Yan's kindness to him.
"No, you don't." Wu Yi smiled: "The general and I are His Majesty's entrusted people, so naturally we can't do such a hateful thing." ”
"But the lord alone?" Zhang Ren said worriedly.
Wu Yi waved his hand: "You are too worried about justice, the city of the monarch is not something we can imagine." Do you really think that the lord is so laissez-faire that he doesn't leave any back? The matter of destroying the family will be solved by the lord himself, and there is no need for us to intervene. ”
"Then what are you looking for me, General?"
"Prince Liu Zhang!" Wu Yi said solemnly. Although he was not very loyal to Liu Yan in the first place, it was just that his father had a good relationship. But there is no way, now he has only two ways to come to Yizhou, either to accompany the Yizhou family to die, or he has to be willing to be Liu Yan's pawn.
"Your Majesty knows that this battle will be lost, so he entrusts the prince to you and me, and needs us to surrender to Jiangdong after the defeat, and protect the prince for the rest of his life."
Zhang Ren frowned: "The general is joking!" How could Koto allow the existence of the crown prince? I can't wait to take the prince out of the siege and find another place. ”
Wu Yi shook his head helplessly: "Looking for another place?" Where else? You also see the strength of Koto. The road to Hanzhong has been blocked, and the land of the Southern Barbarians is a life of death, is it difficult for the general to take the prince to those small barbarian countries? Do you think this will be alive? ”
"That can't let the prince kill himself!" Zhang Ren said angrily: "How can I, the general of Yizhou, grovel and sell for glory?" ”
"Be righteous and do not be angry." Wu Yi hurriedly looked left and right, and found that there were no soldiers nearby, so he breathed a sigh of relief and whispered: "Defecting to Jiangdong is not a way to die, on the contrary, it is the only way for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to live." And this way of life needs to be opened by generals. ”
"What do you mean?" Seeing Wu Yi's solemn face, not nonsense, Zhang Ren calmed down a little and asked.
"There is a secret envoy in Jiangdong to send a letter to Your Majesty, if the general can vote after the city is broken, as long as the lord and his family do not mess around, they will not touch a small hair of the lord's house." Wu Yi said with a solemn face, and there was a hint of bitterness in his tone.
"What?" Zhang Ren's eyes widened.