Chapter 36: Betrayal
PS: The reason why it was not updated yesterday was that there was a power outage ....... When the old wolf has money, he must change to a place without power outages...... )
Time returned to the day after the decisive battle of the Sword Pavilion, although Zhang Song was full of reluctance, but under Kang Peng's strict order-and the position that Kang Peng promised Jia Xu, Zhang Song had to reluctantly take four henchmen and carry Zhang Ren, who was tortured by Liu Xun unconscious, on the road to find Jia Long.
A day after departure, Zhang Ren woke up from a coma, Zhang Song and several confidants had already colluded with each other, and when Zhang Ren was still wondering how he was carried out of the Sword Pavilion, Zhang Song threw himself in front of his stretcher and cried: "General, the Sword Pavilion is over, and our army is also finished." Crying so sadly, as if the Yizhou Army was not betrayed by him Zhang Song, his family and him were also the same dog, crying to death, just like the destruction of the main force of the Yizhou Army was not caused by their master selling the lord to seek glory.
Zhang Ren was startled, struggled to sit up, and asked hoarsely, "Don't drive Zhang, what's going on?" What about the young master? What about the third son? What about the rest of the brothers? Why are there only a few of us? ”
Zhang Song cried with a handful of snot and tears: "The day before yesterday, when the general was unconscious, Young Master Liu Xun did not listen to the golden and jade words of the generals, nor did he listen to the bitter persuasion of the villain, and insisted on going out of the customs to fight a decisive battle, but he was ambushed by Dong Thief, which led to the annihilation of the whole army, and Young Master Liu Xun was also martyred. Seeing that the situation was critical, the villain gathered the defeated army and returned to the pass, wanting to wait for help, who knew that Liu Mao coveted the position of Yizhou Mu, and suddenly made it difficult to control the Sword Pavilion, and dedicated the Sword Pavilion to the Dong thief, and wanted to dedicate the general to the Dong thief, the villain had no choice but to take a few loyal family members and desperately rescued you......"
Before Zhang Song's nonsense was finished, Zhang Ren had already screamed, vomited blood and fainted, Zhang Song was startled, he was not really worried about Zhang Ren's life or death, but he was worried that after Zhang Ren died of anger, he would not be able to complete Kang Peng's task - then his position as Dong Zhuojun's military advisor was not a chicken and a chicken? At that moment, Zhang Song hurriedly rescued Zhang Ren with his family, but fortunately, the whiplash wound on Zhang Ren's body had been coated with the wound medicine prepared by Hua Tuo, and the wounds were already closed, but he was in a coma due to his impatience, and he woke up after pinching for a while.
"Why?" Zhang Ren woke up and immediately cried loudly, crying and screaming, "Why? Why? Why the whole army? Hundreds of thousands of children in Sichuan! Why did Liu Mao surrender? He is still the son of the lord, why should he surrender? ”
Zhang Ren cried sadly, and Zhang Song also shed a few tears with a fake smile, and then persuaded Zhang Rendao: "General, you have to mourn, at the moment Yizhou is in danger, the general must take care of his health, we have a chance to make a comeback, general, if you have any more longs and two shorts, we will have no chance." ”
Zhang Song comforted him for a long time, Zhang Ren held back his tears, and thanked Zhang Song for saving his life, Zhang Ren said: "Zhang Ren is shallow in learning, Wen can't be Anbang, Wu doesn't take the country, Yizhou wants to have a chance to turn over, you must find my teacher, only he has this ability." ”
Zhang Song was overjoyed, and said in his heart that I was waiting for you. Zhang Songxi said: "This is the best, General Jia is indeed the pillar of Shuzhong, and he is the only one who can turn the tide." Zhang Song deliberately changed his worried look again, "It's just that the lord fell for Dong Thief's discord plan and forced General Jia away, I don't know where the old general has gone, so how can we find it?" ”
Zhang Ren thought for a while, and then said: "I know my master's temper, although he was forced away by the master's misunderstanding, he will definitely not ignore the millions of people in Sichuan, just like that, I think my teacher is likely to lurk between the Sword Pavilion and the Yizhou Basin, and will not go far." Zhang Ren has been completely deceived by Zhang Song, thinking that Zhang Song, like him and Jia Long, is a true loyal minister of Yizhou, and confessed all his thoughts to Zhang Song. But Zhang Ren didn't expect it......
Zhang Song heard this, and said in his heart, should you also take refuge in Mrs. Dong, how can it be the same as Mrs. Dong's analysis, thinking that Mr. Jia Long will not enjoy the glory and wealth, and prefer to eat in this barren mountain and wilderness? Although Zhang Song didn't understand Jia Long and Zhang Ren's stupid thoughts, he still pretended to be overjoyed, so he took Zhang Ren to find Jia Long along the way.
In the next few days, the pampered Zhang Songke had enough of suffering, and followed Zhang Ren, who walked on his own after his injury was slightly healed, over the mountains and mountains, and walked on the desolate mountain roads, dense forests and cliffs, and picked up the uninhabited and dangerous mountains to find Jia Long. Zhang Song complained to Zhang Ren more than once, wanting Zhang Ren not to be stubborn and take the avenue to find Jia Long, but Zhang Ren insisted that Jia Long would not take the avenue and would only choose the rugged mountain road to ambush. Zhang Song was helpless, for the sake of the high-ranking officials in the second half of his life, he had to follow Zhang Ren, thirsty to eat a handful of snow, hungry to chew a few pieces of coarse dry food or half-baked animal meat, and trek through the lofty mountains at the southern end of the Qinling Mountains. Zhang Song wanted to pick a few times, but he thought that he could be in a position below one person and above ten thousand people in the three states of Yongjiliang, the richest state today, and gritted his teeth and persevered.
Hard work pays off, on the fourth day of the first month of the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Ren and Zhang Song and others came to the territory of Langzhong, where the junction of the Qinling Mountains and the Sichuan Basin, although the terrain is not as steep as the Sword Pavilion, it is also high and dense, and there are rapids and rapids of the Dianjiang River, which is also a dangerous place for soldiers to ambush.
After noon, Zhang Ren and others walked to the foot of the ditch mountain, Zhang Ren said to Zhang Songyan: "Don't drive the adult, the teacher will say at the end of the past, there are three mountains in Langzhong that can ambush soldiers and are not easy to find, one is Mengtou Mountain, one is Dangshi Mountain, and one is this Danqu Mountain, and we came along the road, the teacher even gave up the dangerous place like Wakou Pass, and the rest of the ambush place, there is nowhere else except these three mountains, so Zhang Ren concluded that the teacher must ambush one of the three mountains. ”
Zhang Song looked at the strange rocky and dense Danqu Mountain, and no longer had the strength to go up the mountain, and sat on the ground with a sigh, "General, Xiaosheng is a literati, and now his feet are full of blood blisters, so please ask the general to go up the mountain to check, Xiaosheng is waiting for the general here." ”
Zhang Ren saw that Zhang Song was indeed too tired, he felt guilty in his heart, and was about to agree, when suddenly the snow was churning on the flat ground all around, and more than a dozen sergeants with animal skins and bamboo pipes jumped out of the ground, and shouted for the first person: "Who are you waiting for, what are you doing here?" ”
Zhang Ren looked at it fixedly, and said happily: "Brother Li Quan, I'm Zhang Ren!" Li Quan and the others also recognized Zhang Ren, jumped up with cheers, hugged Zhang Ren, and hit each other, as if they could vent the excitement in their hearts.
"Brother Zhang, how is the Sword Pavilion now?" After calming down the joy of reunion, Li Quan immediately asked Zhang Ren about the situation of the Sword Pavilion, since he was forced to evacuate the Sword Pavilion that day, in order to avoid possible pursuit, the Wudang Feijun has been picking deep mountains and old forests, deserted wilderness walking, although successfully evaded Liu Xun's meticulous work and Dong Zhuojun's secret agent tracking, but there is no chance to receive news from the outside world.
At the mention of the Sword Pavilion, Zhang Ren's expression immediately darkened, and he hung his head silently, Li Quan was taken aback, hurriedly grabbed Zhang Ren's shoulders, and asked, "Say it quickly, how is the Sword Pavilion?" What happened to the hundreds of thousands of brothers in Sichuan? Zhang Ren shook his head painfully, tears flowed down uncontrollably, Li Quan's face turned pale, and he muttered, "The whole army has been wiped out?" Zhang Ren didn't answer, nor did he deny it, seeing this scene, Li Quan still didn't understand, just like Zhang Ren heard the news for the first time, he cried loudly, crying, tearing people's hearts and lungs, "Hundreds of thousands of brothers, that's it?" I don't believe it! ”
Li Quan took the lead in crying, and the Wudang Feijun he brought also cried bitterly, and the other Wudang Feijun who rushed to hear the news also hid their faces and cried after learning the bad news, and there were even brothers and sons in the Wudang Feijun in the Sword Pavilion Army who cried and fell to the ground, and in an instant, the crying under the mountain shook the sky.
Zhang Song also shed a few tears with a fake smile, and saw that Zhang Ren and Li Quan were still crying to death, and he was impatient, so he persuaded him: "The two generals mourn, let's see General Jia first, and we can discuss countermeasures." ”
Only then did Li Quan find that Zhang Song was also beside him, and said angrily: "Aren't you Liu Xun'er's henchman?" You also have a share of the matter of forcing the old general away, and you still have the face to see the old general? After that, Li Quan raised his knife to kill Zhang Song, but Zhang Ren quickly stopped him, "Brother Li, you misunderstood, Zhang Beijia also fell into Dong Thief's discord plan, so he was fooled to cooperate with the narrow-minded Liu Xun, and then Zhang Beijia woke up in time to dissuade Liu Xun from fighting with Dong Thief, but Liu Xun didn't listen to Don Else's golden and jade words, which led to the fiasco of the Sword Pavilion, and later if Zhang Beijia didn't sacrifice his life to save him, the foolish brother would have fallen into the hands of Dong Thief again." ”
Li Quan will be suspicious, but he has always believed in Zhang Ren, and he put away his knife and hugged his fist at Zhang Song and said: "Don't drive the adult, the villain is blinded by lard, and he is offended, and I hope that the adult will forgive me." Zhang Songna, who was scared half to death, dared to blame, but he secretly admired Jia Xu's foresight in his heart, if he didn't bring Zhang Ren out, not only would his life be difficult to protect, but he was afraid that he wouldn't even be able to find this desolate Danqu Mountain.
There was nothing else to say at the moment, Li Quan immediately took Zhang Ren and others up the mountain, and after passing through a large area of dense forest, Zhang Song and the others came to a cave close to the peak, Li Quan shouted before he reached the cave, "Old general, old general, who do you see coming?" ”
"Who's coming?" The old Jia Long slowly walked out of the hole, but it was like being struck by lightning, he couldn't believe his eyes, Zhang Ren didn't say a word, just slowly walked to Jia Long and knelt down, hugged Jia Long's legs and cried loudly, Jia Long was also an old tear, caressing his beloved's hair, tears rolling down.
"Kid, how did you escape? How's the situation at the Sword Pavilion? Jia Long didn't believe that Liu Xun would be so generous at all, and he was more concerned about the situation of the Sword Pavilion. Zhang Ren choked up and said: "The apprentice was rescued by Zhang Beijia, Sword Pavilion, Sword Pavilion ......"
When Zhang Ren cried and finished talking about the fiasco of the Sword Pavilion, Jia Long's hair stood on end, his eyes widened angrily, he drew his sword and angrily split the rock on the cave wall, and suddenly sparks splashed, and the hard rock was split off a large piece, Jia Long roared: "Dong thief, you are so ruthless!" Hundreds of thousands of sons and daughters in Sichuan, if Jia Long does not avenge you, he swears to be so stone. ”
"Master, this enemy will also be avenged." Zhang Ren knelt on the ground and cried: "But we still have 3,000 people now, and there are hundreds of thousands of Dong thieves, how can we report it?" ”
"Stand up, I don't have a kneeling apprentice!" Jia Long shouted angrily, Zhang Ren's heart sank, wiped his tears and stood up, Jia Long pulled him to the cliff in front of the cave, pointed to the bottom of the mountain and said: "See, three miles down the mountain, it is the avenue leading from the Sword Pavilion to Brazil. If the Dong thief wants to enter Sichuan, he must take this official road, we are ambushed here, just wait for the Dong thief army to arrive, you can smash the Dong thief army camp from the side, take the head of the Dong thief, only Dong thief is dead, the thief army is leaderless, and it will break itself without a fight. Jia Long paused and said: "If Dong Thief's Chinese army is tightly guarded, and our army has no chance to take advantage of it, we will let his Chinese army go over, and when the grain and grass of his rear team arrives, a fire will burn his grain and grass, and Dong Thief will have no food, and he can also break it." ”
Zhang Ren was overjoyed when he heard this, Zhang Song was even more overjoyed, and said in his heart No wonder Taishi Dong is so taboo about you, it turns out that you really have a poisonous plan to destroy Taishi's plan! When Zhang Song was thinking about how to report Jia Long's strategy and hiding location to Kang Peng, Zhang Ren told Jia Long about his boasted brave and resourceful exploits, Jia Long did not doubt him, grabbed Zhang Song's hand and said sincerely: "Zhang Don't drive, Jia Long used to misunderstand you, today I know that the loyalty of Lord Don't Drive can be seen from the sun and the moon, and I hope that Don't Drive Lord Don't take it to heart." ”
Zhang Song agreed vaguely, but in his heart he was thinking about how to ventilate the news to betray Jia Long's master and apprentice and Wudang Feijun again, at this time Jia Long ordered: "Wudang Feijun listens to the order, since the Sword Pavilion has been broken, it will not take a few days, Dong Thief will pass by here, from today on, all the Wudang Feijun will be lurking, and they must not contact the outside world, in case Dong Thief will carefully explore the movements of our army." According to Jia Long's order, all the sentinels arranged by the Wudang Fei Army in various places returned to Danqu Mountain, leaving only a few people on the top of the mountain to monitor the movements under the mountain, and the others all hid in the deep mountains and old forests, so as not to give outsiders a chance to find out their whereabouts - but it also made Jia Long unable to know about the great changes that had taken place in Yizhou.
Sure enough, as Jia Long expected, in the next few days, Dong Zhuojun's scouts passed by in groups, and even more scouts went deep into the dense forest to investigate carefully, repeatedly counting porcelain, but unfortunately the Wudang Flying Army has been walking the mountain road for a long time, and lurking in the deep mountains and old forests is even better, clearing all the traces that may be exposed cleanly, Dong Zhuojun's scouts have not found any clues in several explorations. It's just that Zhang Song suffered, he wanted to rush out of the dense forest several times to report to Dong Zhuojun in detail, but with Wudang Feijun soldiers by his side, Zhang Song never had the courage to joke with his life.
Five days later, Zhao Yun's troops, the vanguard of Dong Zhuo's army, passed by, and according to Jia Long's order, all the Wudang Fei troops shrank and hid their tracks to let Zhao Yun's troops pass. The next day, Dong Zhuojun's former army Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu's troops passed by, and the Wudang Fei Army still stood still. On the third day, Dong Zhuojun's Chinese army finally arrived, and in the team that could not be seen at a glance, there was a three-zhang long handsome flag in the middle with the word 'Dong', and one of its subordinates was a black armor and black horse, fat as a pig, it was Dong Zhuo, the commander of the Xiliang Army and the Taishi of the Han Dynasty.
On the top of the mountain, Zhang Ren looked at Kang Peng from afar, his eyes were about to burst into flames, and he said eagerly: "Master, it's Dong Zhuo, the world counts him so fat, no one can fake him!" Li Quan also said anxiously: "Old general, let's do it, the brothers are ready." ”
"No way!" Jia Long shook his head and said: "Dong Thief's Chinese army is too numerous, at least 100,000 people, and look at the banner, Dong Thief's righteous son Lu Bu is also in the formation, we are not his opponents, and now rushing down, it's just an egg hitting a stone." ”
"Pass my orders." Jia Long instructed: "Let go of the Chinese army of Dong thieves, and wait for their grain and grass to come back before doing it, and the effect will be the same." Although Zhang Ren and Li Quan were unwilling, they had to follow the military orders. Zhang Song was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, seeing that the opportunity to betray Wudang Feijun was in front of him, but he couldn't contact Dong Taishi, could he just let the cooked duck fly away?
Suddenly, Zhang Song had an idea and said to Jia Long: "Old general, Zhang Song has a plan, or he can adjust Lu Bu and let the old general succeed with one blow." ”
"What's the trick of not driving?" Zhang Ren asked first, Jia Long and Li Quan also turned their eyes to Zhang Song, during this period of time, Zhang Song has completely won Zhang Ren's trust, and even won the trust of the Wudang Feijun.
"The great enemy of Yizhou, Dong thief!" Zhang Song said impassionedly: "Slaughtering more than 100,000 athletes in my Sichuan, this revenge will not be avenged, what face will I have to meet my brothers under Huangquan in the future?" Zhang Song was willing to go down the mountain alone, pretending to be a Dong thief, and lied to Dong Thief and said, old general, you are hiding in Dangshi Mountain, which is more than ten miles away from here, and Dong Thief hates the old general to the bone, so he will definitely send Lu Bu to lead the army to capture the old general. After the tiger leaves the mountain, the old general, you can take advantage of the void to kill, take off the head of the Dong thief, and avenge the son of the Sichuan Zhonglang! ”
Zhang Ren and Li Quan were overjoyed when they heard this, but Jia Long was moved: "Although this plan is wonderful, but no matter whether it succeeds or fails afterwards, don't drive an adult, you will no longer have a chance to live." ”
Zhang Song's face was serious, as if he was very noble, and said: "Dong thief and Sichuan people don't share the sky, Zhang Song can exchange one life for another, and his wish is enough." ”
In the Wudang Flying Army up and down tears like rain, Zhang Song walked down the Danqu Mountain, just out of the dense forest, Zhang Song was surrounded by more than a dozen Dong Zhuojun scouts, Zhang Song immediately changed a smile, "Brothers, I am your future military advisor, take me to see Dong Taishi, Jia Long's old man's Wudang Flying Army, is hidden on this Danqu Mountain." ”
To find out what happens next, see the next chapter, "The End of Heroes"