Chapter 30: The Battle of the Sword Pavilion (I)

When everyone in Yizhou was thinking about whether to transfer the Sword Pavilion troops back to Sichuan to resist the Dong Zhuo army that suddenly appeared, Liu Yan's most beloved eldest grandson sent him the information that Jia Long collaborated with the enemy and tried to dedicate the Sword Pavilion to Dong Zhuo, which was tantamount to sprinkling a handful of salt in the oil pot, which suddenly made this already tense hall explode.

The reason for the matter is like this, five days ago in the night of the Sword Pavilion Pass, when the supervisor Zhang Song inspected the wall, he found that a minority Wudang Feijun soldier quietly sneaked back to the Sword Pavilion, the supervisor Zhang Song out of the 'duty', went up to interrogate him out of the customs what he did, but unexpectedly, the Southern Barbarian Wudang Feijun suddenly drew a knife to kill Zhang Song, fortunately Liu Yan's illegitimate son Liu Mao's personal soldiers passed by, rescued Zhang Song, and killed the Southern Barbarian Wudang Feijun into a serious injury, shouting killing' It just so happened that Liu Yan's grandson Liu Xun was alarmed, and when Liu Xun rushed to check, the southern barbarian Wudang Feijun had already choked his breath, and Dong Zhuo's reply letter to Jia Long was found from him, in which Dong Zhuo agreed to Jia Long's surrender and sacrifice, and promised to crown Jia Long as the pastor of Yizhou and the marquis of Nanzhou, and to seal the nine counties of Nanzhong to Meng Shu, the king of the Southern Barbarians, who was willing to kill horses as an alliance and never offend each other.

Liu Xun and Zhang Song were shocked when they saw the letter, Zhang Song immediately proposed that he could not publicize the matter for the time being and asked Liu Mao to discuss, Liu Xun did not doubt him, agreed to Zhang Song's proposal, ordered someone to bury the corpse secretly, and quietly found Liu Mao, the three of them combined, decided to inform Liu Yan as soon as possible, and at the same time took out the secret order that Liu Yan handed over to him when Liu Xun and others were leaving, and called the Yizhou generals to show Liu Yan's secret order behind Jia Long's back, announcing that Liu Xun himself would act as the military power, and first set up Jia Long, and now in the Sword Pavilion Pass, Jia Long can actually control the army, There were only 3,000 Wudang Feijun and a few defeated troops of Zhang Ren.

"Old Jia Long, dare to be like this?" Liu Yan was shocked and angry, his face was so angry that his face turned pale, his whole body trembled, and he scolded: "Bengong has known for a long time, and he is still obsessed with the events of the year, this time under the pretext of resisting Dong Zhuo and defrauding the military power from Bengong, just to take the opportunity to take revenge on Bengong." ”

"Lord, don't be fooled." Yizhou engaged in Wang Lei hurriedly got up and admonished: "This must be Dong thief's discordant plan, the purpose is to provoke the relationship between the lord and General Jia, General Jia is loyal to the country, and he is even more loyal to the lord, if he wants to try Yizhou, a few years ago, Yizhou County, soldiers and horses and money and grain ninety percent have belonged to him, and the lord is still far away in Nanyang, he only needs to climb the heights and shout, Yizhou belongs to him, but General Jia still takes the lord to Yizhou to take over as the state pastor, and returns to Qianwei to station, try to ask the world throughout the ages, so loyal where to find? ”

"It's not a good thing to be an adult." Zhang Su sneered and said: "I think this letter is a discordant plan of the Dong thief, let me ask my lord, how did the Dong thief know that the letter would definitely be discovered by the despised brother?" How did Dong Thief know that the letter would definitely be intercepted by the young master and the third prince? Could it be that the adults think that the young master, the third prince and my brother all colluded with Dong Thief to frame Na Jia Long together? ”

"I didn't mean that." Wang Lei hurriedly explained, Wang Lei couldn't figure out why Liu Xun, Liu Mao and Zhang Song would make unfavorable confessions to Jia Long together, if the three of them took refuge in Dong Zhuo and joined forces with Dong Zhuo to frame Jia Long, it would be too incredible.

Listening to Wang Lei and Zhang Su arguing there, Liu Yan was in a state of confusion, he also understood Jia Long's weight in the army, and he was even more jealous of Jia Long's immortal feats, and he had long wanted to get rid of Jia Long, who was more popular with the people of Yizhou than himself, but this time Dong Zhuo invaded, Liu Yan, who was reluctant to lose the throne of Yizhou Emperor, was forced to re-use Jia Long, and now all kinds of intelligence show that Jia Long's new exit from the mountain this time is not as simple as resisting Dong Zhuo's invasion, but also has greater ambitions. At this moment, in Liu Yan's heart, Jia Long had already been cut into 1,800 pieces, but it was just a headache, if Jia Long was replaced, who would be qualified and capable to take over his position?

Suddenly, Liu Xun's heroic figure came into Liu Yan's mind, when he was in Yizhou before, Liu Xun was the first military general in Yizhou, familiar with the art of war, talking about the art of war, the battle-hardened Yizhou veterans were speechless, this time after going to the Sword Pavilion, he was even more weak to break the strong enemy, if it wasn't for Jia Long's constraints, I was afraid that Dong Zhuo's fat head had been taken down. If Liu Xun is allowed to replace Jia Long, he may be able to completely defeat Dong Zhuo's main force and return to Chengdu in time.

Liu Yan was about to give an order, and the messenger quickly sent two letters, one was Liu Xun, Liu Mao and Zhang Song's joint performance, it turned out that after Liu Xun actually controlled the military power of the Sword Pavilion, in just one day, he broke Dong Zhuo's army, annihilated more than 30,000 enemies, and his own casualties were less than 2,000, and once again broke through the main camp of Dong Zhuo's army, forcing Dong Zhuo's army to withdraw for another 40 miles. The other letter is Jia Long's, Jia Long first reported to Liu Yan that the generals of Yizhou did not listen to his orders, and led the army to fight with Liu Xun without authorization, resulting in the loss of more than 8,000 soldiers, and only killed less than 1,000 enemies, and expressed his worries, thinking that Dong Zhuo's so-called retreat was just a swindle, the purpose was to induce the self-army to fight a decisive battle with Dong Zhuo's army, and the forty miles of Dong Zhuo's army's new retreat were narrow and narrow roads, which were not conducive to the attack of the self-army, and were easy to be cut off by Dong Zhuo's army, so Jia Long wanted to ask Liu Yan for a death order, Let Jia Long restrain all the generals of the Sword Pavilion by himself, and he can no longer take the initiative to fight.

"Is there anyone in the world who is so shameless? Is there anyone in the world who is so insidious and vicious? After reading the two letters, Liu Yan howled at the sky and expressed great indignation at Jia Long's shameless insidiousness.

When everyone in Yizhou was still inexplicable, Liu Yan got up and ordered: "Pass on the order of the Duke and the army of the Sword Pavilion, order Liu Xun to officially take over as the commander of the three armies, Liu Mao as the deputy marshal, Zhang Song was promoted to the staff officer of the march, and the rank of division was added, and the decisive battle with Dong Thief was fought on the same day, and the enemy was broken and returned to Chengdu immediately." ”

Wang Lei was shocked and hurriedly wanted to stop it, but Liu Yan continued: "Jia Long betrayed the lord to seek glory, collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, he should have beheaded the public, read on his previous merits, and give death!" ”

Four days later, Liu Yan's order was urgently sent to Liu Xun and others, Liu Xun was overjoyed and surprised, and hurriedly summoned Zhang Song and Liu Mao, who had recently eased up with him a lot, to discuss, after the two read the letter, Liu Xun got straight to the point: "The current situation is already very critical, an enemy army that came out of nowhere suddenly appeared in our rear, Chengdu is in danger, we must immediately fight with the main force of Dong thief, only by eliminating the main force of Dong thief, can we free up our hands to rescue Chengdu, so, this Shuai decided to make a war letter with Dong thief, and agreed to fight a decisive battle in two days, Do you have any opinions on breaking the enemy in one fell swoop? ”

Liu Mao and Zhang Song secretly glanced at each other sneakily, Zhang Song patted his ass first: "The young master is good at scheming, that Dong thief has lost several battles in a row, and he needs to win a battle to boost morale, and the young master asked him to fight a decisive battle, and he will definitely agree." ”

Liu Mao was in a complicated mood, he knew in his heart that Dong Zhuo had spent so much effort on various arrangements to induce the main force of the Yizhou Army to fight a decisive battle with him, and Liu Xun's decision, I don't know how many Yizhou soldiers would give away their lives, at this moment Liu Mao suddenly had such a thought in his heart, for my own selfishness and glory, is it worth letting so many innocent soldiers die?

Liu Mao was hesitating, and Liu Xun was already displeased: "Uncle, do you think that Ben Shuai's decision is wrong?" ”

Looking at Liu Xun's arrogant and domineering face, Liu Mao made up his mind, people are not for themselves, and the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, even if he reminds Liu Xun now, Liu Xun may not obey, not to mention that even if Yizhou is saved, he is not poisoned to death, and he will be humiliated by this arrogant nephew for the rest of his life, it is better to gamble! Thinking of this, Liu Xunyi gritted his teeth and forced a smile and said: "The virtuous nephew misunderstood, the foolish uncle was just thinking about how to celebrate the virtuous nephew, so he lost his mind." ”

Liu Xun smiled with joy, Zhang Song also replaced his usual arrogant face, and replaced it with a humble and sycophant smile, Liu Mao was also silly and dry, after the three decided on the date of the decisive battle, Liu Xun immediately personally revised the battle book, ordered someone to send it to Dong Zhuojun's camp, and shifted the topic to how to kill Jia Long.

"Young master, the villain has a plan, and he will definitely let Na Jia Long and his henchmen fall into the law." As soon as he heard that he was going to deal with Jia Long, who he hated the most, Zhang Song immediately came to his senses and proposed: "Please set up a banquet tonight, ambush the sword and axe men during the banquet, invite the generals, and after everyone enters the table, the young master will read out the lord's order in the hall, and the sword and axe hands will rush up together, and cut Jia Long and Li Quan into pulp, as soon as Jia Long dies, the flying army will have no leader, and it will collapse." ”

Liu Xun was overjoyed when he heard the plan, and immediately sent someone to arrange, that night, Liu Xun set up a banquet in the lobby of the Sword Pavilion, and invited the generals to the banquet to drink, Jia Long did not suspect fraud, and went with his henchman Li Quan, after three rounds of drinking, Liu Xun secretly made a look at Liu Mao, Liu Mao nodded and agreed, got up to arrange the knife and axe, but the small actions of the two of them were discovered by Jia Long's beloved apprentice Zhang Ren, Zhang Ren also excused himself to go to the toilet, and secretly followed him from the table.

Zhang Ren followed Liu Mao to the flower gallery on the side of the hall, and found that there were dozens of sword and axe men in ambush in the flower gallery, Zhang Ren was shocked, and hurriedly crawled to the bottom of the flower gallery, and eavesdropped on Liu Mao's words under the cover of trees, only to hear Liu Mao whisper: "Listen well, after the young master reads the edict, you will rush up together, just go and cut down that Jia Long and Li Quan, as well as that Zhang Ren, also hack to death, there must be no mistake." ”

Hearing these words, Zhang Renru was struck by lightning, and it took him half a day to wake up, and he didn't hesitate at the moment, and immediately sneaked out of the lobby of the Sword Pavilion, and quickly summoned a team of teacher Jia Long's personal soldiers to rush to the lobby with a knife and a gun. When Zhang Ren returned to the lobby again, he saw that the generals had fallen to the ground, and Liu Xunzheng was holding an official letter and shaking his head and reading: "Jia Long collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the master, the crime should not be forgiven, and he will be given death!" Jia Long is in the same party, that is, he will be executed. ”

Liu Xun's voice did not fall, Jia Long had already shouted that he was wronged, Li Quan was even more angry, his eyes were red, and he had already pulled out the sword, at this time the ambush knife and axe hand had rushed out of the flower corridor, Zhang Ren saw that the situation was critical, and he couldn't care about anything else, so he suddenly shouted, and took the lead in rushing into the hall, Liu Xun was caught off guard, and was grabbed by Zhang Ren, and then Zhang Ren's sword was also on his neck, and the Wudang Fei Army rushed in together, killing the knife and axe hands, and rescued Jia Long and Li Quan.

"Why?" Zhang Ren yelled at Liu Xun with red eyes: "Why? Our master and apprentice are loyal to our master, why do we want to deal with us like this? ”

At this moment, Liu Xun had already lost his prestige on the battlefield, trembling like a little woman in a pack of perverts, and said in a trembling voice: "It's none of my business, it's my grandfather's will." ”

Zhang Ren snatched the official document, only glanced at it and laughed wildly, "Hahahaha...... my master colluded with Nanban? Want to dedicate Yizhou to Dong Zhuo? Without the support of my master's coolies, Dong Zhuo would have drunk horses in Chengdu a long time ago, are you all pig's heads? ”

"It's none of my business." Liu Xun pleaded: "General Zhang Ren, let me go quickly, I will definitely recommend you to my grandfather for promotion." ”

"Phew!" Zhang Ren spat and said: "If our master and apprentice are greedy for promotion and wealth, we would have surrendered to Dong Zhuo long ago." Zhang Ren turned to Jia Long, who was already in tears, and said: "Master, the lord has been deceived by the villain and tried to kill you and me unjustly, we can't stand still, let's put them in prison, hold on to the Sword Pavilion first, and then try to explain to the lord." ”

Jia Long wept and shook his head, "No need, as early as the day the lord entered Yizhou, I guessed that I would have this fate, but I didn't expect that before the strong enemy retreated, the lord was about to attack." ”

"Master!" Zhang Ren chopped his feet and shouted: "Except for you in Yizhou, who can stop the army of Dong thieves?" If he, Liu Xun, commanded the military horses, he just sent hundreds of thousands of Yizhou sons to the butcher's knife of Dong thief, you don't think about yourself, but also for the people of Yizhou! ”

"Old general, General Zhang is reasonable." Li Quan also persuaded Jia Long, but Jia Long just wept and shook his head, his heart was like a knife, but he didn't say anything. It turned out that some Yizhou generals saw the chaos of the situation, and quietly slipped out of the hall to summon the army, and instantly surrounded the hall, which was a situation of internal strife.

Jia Long understood that if he didn't make a decision, the Yizhou army would immediately kill each other, and he could only cheapen Dong Zhuo for nothing. Jia Long thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Young master, Jia Long has no objection, heaven and earth can be expressed, but since the lord and the young master have misunderstood, Jia Long has no shame to stay in the army anymore, but Jia Long can't die unjustly, just take Wudang Feijun out of the Sword Pavilion and use time to prove Jia Long's innocence." "Jia Long thinks so, if he insists on staying in the Sword Pavilion, not only will his life be difficult to protect, but the Sword Pavilion will also form an internal strife, and the enemy just needs to come and receive it. Looking at the current situation, it is difficult for the Sword Pavilion to keep it, it is better to take Wudang Feijun away, retain the last trace of strength, and maybe have a chance to turn the tables.

After that, Jia Long instructed Zhang Rendao again: "Ren'er, as long as the young master lets us get out of the customs safely, you don't hurt him." Zhang Ren nodded in agreement, Liu Xun was even more happy, and promised again and again: "Okay, okay, since the old general thinks he is innocent, please go to my grandfather to defend himself." Listen, don't hurt the old general and others. Liu Xun added in his heart, lest they hurt me first.

At that moment, Zhang Ren raised his sword to hold Liu Xun, and Jia Long and others slowly withdrew from the lobby in the tiger's eye of the Yizhou army, and gathered all the Wudang Fei troops to withdraw from the Sword Pavilion to the south, when all the Wudang Fei troops withdrew from the Sword Pavilion, Jia Long, Li Quan and Zhang Ren finally withdrew, before closing the door, Jia Long sighed and said: "Ren'er, let go of the young master, let's go." ”

"Nope." Zhang Ren shook his head and said, "Master, I can't go, first, I have to drag them down, otherwise they will definitely pursue you; Second, if I leave again, the injustice of our master and apprentice will never be cleaned, and I will stay and go to Chengdu to defend myself in front of the lord. ”

"Nonsense!" Jia Long reprimanded: "If you stay, can they let you go?" Can it give you a chance to go to Chengdu? Let's go with the teacher, our grievances will be talked about later. ”

"Nope." Zhang Ren said with tears: "Master, from childhood to adulthood, I have always listened to you, today please listen to the apprentice once, you go first, I will drag them, you will have time to evacuate, if our master and apprentice can still meet alive, the apprentice will kowtow to you again to apologize." ”

The cold wind is like a knife, and the night sky of the Sword Pavilion is fluttering with goose feathers and heavy snow, dyeing Jia Long and Zhang Ren's master and apprentice into two snowmen, under Zhang Ren's repeated urging, Jia Long and Li Quan shed tears and left, before leaving, Jia Long pointed at Liu Xun and said: "Young master, Jia Long will call you a young master again, if you hurt my apprentice's life, Jia Long will take your head even if he dies!" ”

People were under the eaves and had to bow their heads, Liu Xun's usual arrogant expression was gone, and his mouth was full of sweet words, "Don't worry, old general, I will definitely send General Zhang to Chengdu and wash his innocence in front of my grandfather." ”

After Jia Long and the others left, nearly two hours later, Zhang Ren saw that the Yizhou army had no chance to catch up with the Wudang Fei Army, who was good at mountain marching, so he threw his sword and bowed: "Young master, I have offended." ”

That Liu Xunli changed his clothes back to his previous personable and domineering appearance, and suddenly punched Zhang Ren in the lower abdomen, and immediately squatted Zhang Ren down, "Dare to hold this young master hostage, come on, take it down and fight!" ”

When Zhang Ren was tortured in the Sword Pavilion, the initiator of the Sword Pavilion Mutiny, the Han Taishi Dong Boss - that is, Kang Peng, was in Wenlu's tent in high spirits, today Wen Lu was careless, and ate the soup brought by Kang Peng himself, and as a result, the whole body was hot and hot, and was succeeded by Kang Peng. had to grit his teeth and endure it, and was exhausted by Kang Peng.

Finally, when Kang Peng had vented enough, Kang Peng hugged Wen Lu in his arms and made love, and said proudly: "Beauty, let me tell you a good news, the Sword Pavilion has come to write a war book, and agreed to fight the day after tomorrow, this time you don't have to retain your strength, just take out all your martial arts, kill the enemy for the prime minister, and when you arrive in Chengdu, the prime minister will worship you and officially marry you as his wife." ”

"Phew." Wen Lu spat at Kang Peng weakly, gritted his teeth and said: "You dog thief, don't think I will marry you, I swore that I will kill you with my own hands." ”

Kang Peng didn't care about Wen Lu's stubbornness and threat, Fu Yu was stubborn enough, and in the end he didn't obediently surrender under him. Kang Peng's fat hand groped for Wen Lu's body and said with a lewd smile: "Beauty, if you want to kill your own appearance, it's not impossible, as long as you can let your original appearance die on your belly, it's also killing." ”

After speaking, Kang Peng was about to pick up the gun and get on the horse again, Wen Lu had a lot of medicinal effects at the moment, struggled to push Kang Peng away, and gasped: "Wait, I have one thing to ask you, you agreed, I will do whatever you want tonight, otherwise, don't even think about it." ”

"What's the matter?" Kang Peng said strangely: "Is the sun coming out of the west today?" You're going to beg me? Tell me, I'll promise you anything. ”

Wen Lu said in a faint voice: "Today I heard from the people in the army that the body of Jingzhou General Wen Ping was hung by you on the Xianyang City Gate to show the public, and now it is a dry corpse, you haven't let him into the ground, he is kind to me, I beg you, let him be buried for peace." ”

"Okay." Kang Peng did not doubt him, and casually agreed: "I will order him tomorrow to have him buried in a grand manner, who told him to be kind to my wife?" "The only use of Wen Ping's corpse for Kang Peng is to deter the princes who try to steal high-yield and good breeds, and now that the goal has been achieved, Kang Peng is happy to be a favor to please this mysterious beauty who doesn't know the name yet, and he didn't think of anything else.

Wen Lu closed her beautiful eyes tightly, let Kang Peng ravage her, tears quietly precipitated from the corners of her eyes, Wen Lu said in her heart: "Father, you can finally enter the ground, it is a wish of your daughter, and your daughter can rest assured that she can take revenge." ”