Chapter 53: The Battle for Unification (11)

"Second brother! Second brother! Zhang Fei's anxious roar was already accompanied by a crying sound, and the war horse under his crotch had already galloped with all his might, but Zhang Fei still felt that it was too slow, and kept kicking the horse's belly to urge the war horse to be faster, but it was just that Fan Jiang, Zhang Da and Zhang Fei's direct troops behind him were afraid that Zhang Fei would be in danger alone, so he had to chase with all his strength, so as not to encounter an accident for Zhang Fei.

"Fuck off! I don't care about you! Chased out more than ten miles, Zhang Fei finally caught up with the Dong Zhuojun who chased and killed Guan Yu's undead, the tiger roared again and again, Zhang Fei's spear danced like a storm, where the whirlwind went, Dong Zhuojun scattered like dead branches and fallen leaves, when there was no one to join the general, especially those few ghost hunters were more miserable, a little careless, there were two ghost hunters killed under Zhang Fei's spear, the other Taoist priests were so frightened that they scattered, and they didn't dare to chase Guan Yu's undead, at this time other Liu Beijun had also arrived, killing this Dong Zhuojun in one go. And not far away, Guan Yu's undead has already stood,

"Yide! Third brother! Guan Yu's undead spirit threw aside the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife, opened his arms and shouted and rushed towards Zhang Fei. Zhang Fei cried and laughed, also threw down the spear, and rushed towards Guan Yu's undead with open arms, "Second brother! Second brother! ”

"Third brother, third brother!" "Second brother, second brother!" When Zhang Fei and Guan Yu's undead hugged each other, Zhang Fei cried loudly, leaning on Guan Yu's arms and crying like a child, "Second brother, second brother, I miss you so much, I miss you every night." And Guan Yu also stroked Zhang Fei's head with his left hand and whispered: "Third brother, why doesn't the second brother miss you?" ”

It's okay that Guan Yu didn't speak, but as soon as he said it, he revealed his stuffing, and Zhang Fei immediately wondered: "Second brother, why did your accent change?" It turned out that the soldier who was selected from Dong Zhuojun's soldiers to pretend to be Guan Yu did not know how to say good words in Shanxi, and after a night of practice, he only learned the three sentences of "Yide save me", "third brother" and "farewell", and when he said other words, he immediately revealed his stuffing. Confused, Zhang Fei struggled to straighten up and wanted to take a closer look at Guan Yu's appearance, but it was too late, the fake Guan Yu stabbed the dagger that had been hidden in his right hand into Zhang Fei's lower abdomen!

"Ahh Zhang Fei burst out of divine power in pain, and punched the Guan Yu in the air, far away, when Zhang Fei looked at the lower abdomen again, he found that the dagger that was nearly a foot long had been more than half of the lower abdomen, and the blood flowing out of the wound was still black, exuding a pungent fishy smell, it was obvious that this dagger was poisonous. The physical blow is nothing to Zhang Fei, the second brother who misses him day and night turned out to be a killer sent by the enemy to pretend, but this mental blow is the most deadly for Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei looked at his lower abdomen with black blood and stood for a long time, and finally cried loudly.

"Kill this villain pretending to be the second general!" Fan Jiang and Zhang Da and others in the back were so angry that they were angry, cursing and pounced on the fake Guan Yu who was still struggling on the ground, at this time, Zhang Fei's troops were killing loudly all around, and Dong Zhuojun poured out together before and after, and surrounded Zhang Fei's troops in an instant. The fake Guan Yu took the opportunity of Liu Beijun's panic to flee back to the camp holding the ribs broken by Zhang Fei, and a military doctor had already taken him down for treatment.

Sima Yi pointed at Zhang Fei with a horsewhip and laughed: "Zhang Fei is a traitor, you have fallen into my plan, quickly dismount and surrender, but spare you from death." It was only at this time that Zhang Fei woke up from the shock, roared, drew his sword and pounced on Sima Yi, this time he suffered Fan Jiang and Zhang Da and others, and abandoned the main general and left, which was a capital crime, so he had to drive the army forward again, trying to rescue Zhang Fei, and was forced to give up the plan to break through. In front, Sima Yi saw that Zhang Fei had been tricked again, and was secretly happy, and immediately retreated, and Wei Yan and Sun Ce had already killed on the left and right, catching Zhang Fei who was dying and struggling.

In the melee, Zhang Fei, who was angry at the bullfight because of his brotherly feelings being used by Sima Yi, was like a tiger, but he was both seriously injured and poisoned, and only relied on a fierce courage to fight with the enemy Wei Yan.

"Three generals!" Fan Jiang, who was fighting with Sun Ce, rushed over with red eyes, who knew that after Sun Ce let him go, the tail of the steel gun in his hand suddenly hit his waist, almost shattering Fan Jiang's kidneys, Fan Jiang screamed and fell off the horse, and was captured alive by Dong Zhuojun's soldiers, Zhang Da next to him was so frightened that he fled for his life, Sun Ce was willing to let go, Pegasus caught up, grabbed Zhang Da with one arm from behind, shouted, strengthened his arm, stunned Zhang Dasheng, and threw him back to the formation to be bound.

In a moment, Zhang Fei, Fan Jiang and Zhang Da, the three generals of Liu Beijun, were captured alive by Dong Zhuojun, Liu Beijun's soldiers were suddenly in chaos, many soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered on their knees, and in the distance, Gan Ning's troops had stopped Liu Beijun's troops who rushed to meet them, and Zhang Fei's troops, who were heavily surrounded, saw that there was no hope of escaping, and more soldiers surrendered on their knees, and their weapons were quickly confiscated by Dong Zhuojun.

Sima Yi was silent about the surrender of Zhang Fei's troops, and when Dong Zhuojun wiped out the stubborn Zhang Fei's troops, when Wei Yan and others asked him how to deal with the prisoners, Sima Yi said coldly: "Three years ago, Jia Junshi once issued a nirvana order in Jizhou, and did not accept the surrender of Zhang Fei's troops, have you forgotten?" "Three years ago, Jia Xu once issued a killing order to Dong Zhuojun's entire army on Yecheng against Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong's troops, to avenge the soldiers of Dong Zhuojun's second army who rescued the main force of Dong Zhuojun.

"Kill them all!" Wei Yan made a head-killing gesture at Dong Zhuojun and ordered.

"Fight with them!" The captives of Zhang Fei's troops erupted into a call for resistance, but they had no weapons in their hands and faced the heavily armed Dong Zhuojun, which was tantamount to an egg to a bone. In less than half an hour, the headquarters of 5,000 Zhang Fei was slaughtered by Dong Zhuojun, the captured Zhang Fei was poisoned and unconscious, Fan Jiang and Zhang Da were frightened and turned pale with earth, when Dong Zhuojun's soldiers went to kill them, they were stopped by Sima Yi, "Wait, they are still useful, temporarily detained, and then killed." The two of them had just escaped with their lives, and Sima Yi sent Wei Yan to pick up the troops back to Ganning, and the army slowly returned to the camp.

After Dong Zhuojun collected his troops and returned to the camp, Liu Beijun was able to approach Zhang Fei's troops who were completely annihilated, and what he saw was naturally the broken corpses all over the ground, and the Guan Ping troops who came to meet Zhang Fei rummaged through the corpse pile, and never found Zhang Fei's body, in the evening, Guan Ping had no choice but to return to the city to hand over the order, Zhuge Liang was shocked when he heard the letter, "The three generals are reckless and impulsive after being drunk, and they have been poisoned by the enemy, so quickly send someone to send a letter to the king, please make a decision." ”

Tai Shici and others cried and agreed, and were about to go down to arrange, but outside the door they reported that Zhang Fei's partial generals Fan Jiang and Zhang Da had returned, and also brought Sima Yi's letter to Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang urgently ordered to summon them, and after a while, Fan and Zhang came in crying, and cried to Zhuge Liang about Zhang Fei's murder and poisoning, and presented Sima Yi's letter, Fan Jiang also cried: "Sima thief asked me to tell the army, the poison in General Zhang's body can only last for more than ten days, and General Zhang's life and death depend on the words of joining the army." ”

Zhuge Liang remained silent, Zhan Xin looked closely, the letter was written by Sima Yi himself, Dong Zhuojun asked Liu Beijun to fight a decisive battle in Xiaoyaojin ten days later, if Liu Beijun went to the appointment on time, Dong Zhuojun would first return Zhang Fei to Liu Beijun regardless of victory or defeat, if Liu Beijun refused, then Liu Beijun could prepare to collect Zhang Fei's body. After Zhuge Liang finished reading it, he was noncommittal, but Tai Shici and Guan Ping were furious after reading it, "Sima thief, you are so despicable!" ”

"In the field battle, our army, which is dominated by infantry, has no advantage, and the area around Xiaoyaojin is mostly plains, and the iron cavalry of Dong thieves is almost invincible in the world on that terrain, and it is difficult for our army to win a decisive battle between the two armies." Tai Shi Ci analyzed, but Tai Shi Ci was still a little puzzled, "Why did Sima Xiao Thief agree to fight a decisive battle in ten days?" After such a long time, does he want to play any conspiracy? ”

"The naval army led by Pang Tong is approaching Shouchun." Zhuge Liang replied with a gloomy face: "Sima traitor is buying time for Pang Tong, as long as Pang Tong wins Shouchun, the return of our army will be cut off, Sima traitor can easily wipe us out and put a big brick on his position as the prince of King Kang." ”

"Reply to Sima traitor, promise him a decisive battle, no matter what, it is important to save General Zhang first." Zhuge Liang said lightly, Zhang Fei is Liu Bei's righteous brother after all, and he is one of the pillars of Liu Beijun's edifice that is about to collapse, so Zhuge Liang can't tolerate Zhuge Liang's disagreement with Sima Yi's conditions. But Zhuge Liang turned to Fan Jiang and Zhang Da again, and said with a change of color on his face: "As a deputy general, the lord will be captured, you will not give up your life to rescue, but instead surrender to the enemy and steal your life, and you should be beheaded according to the law!" ”

As soon as Zhuge Liang's words fell, several swords and axes had already held down Fan Jiang and Zhang Da, and the two of them couldn't stop struggling and shouting, "Wronged, wronged, we are not surrendering to the enemy, we are being held by the enemy, and we have to be captured." Fan Jiang and Zhang Da were not only wronged, but Tai Shici also interceded for them, "Joining the army, although Fan and Zhang are at fault, but at the moment, the enemy is not good, please let them make meritorious contributions." ”

"For the sake of General Taishi, spare you from dying." Zhuge Liang hated and said fiercely: "But the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped, drag it down and whip each fifty horsewhips, and use the military law." ”

As in history, Fan Jiang and Zhang Da, two unlucky eggs, were whipped by a horsewhip, and they couldn't stop crying for their father and mother, and finally finished smoking, it was late at night, and the two were carried back to their residences to rest. Yongzhan was captured and beaten by his own family, the two were naturally unconvinced, Fan Jiang said to Zhang Da: "Zhuge Liang's reward and punishment are unfair, it's good to save Zhang Fei, if you can't save it, I will die and have no place to be buried." The Xuzhou army is at the end of the road, so I might as well go to the Xiliang army. ”

"Good is good." Zhang Da said in a low voice: "But we are all Zhang Fei's subordinates, and today you have also seen that the Xiliang Army does not accept the surrender of Zhang Fei's troops, but I am afraid that if we surrender in the past, it will also be a death." ”

"What if we sacrifice the city of Hefei?" Fan Jiang said gloomily: "Ten days later, Zhuge Liang's thief will lead the army to a decisive battle with Dong Zhuojun, during which the defense will definitely be lax, if we open the city gate during that time and let Dong Zhuojun enter the city, do you say Dong Zhuojun will still kill us?" Can you not reward us again? ”

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On the night of the next day, when Dong Zhuojun's scouts were routinely sentry under Hefei City, Hefei suddenly shot an arrow, and Dong Zhuojun's scouts saw that there was a letter tied to the arrow, so they didn't dare to slack off, so they immediately picked up the arrow and flew it into Dong Zhuojun's camp. Seeing Dong Zhuojun's scouts walking away, Fan Jiang and Zhang Da, who were shooting arrows in the city, breathed a sigh of relief, and were about to go back to the house when they went down to the city, when they were suddenly surrounded by dozens of Liu Beijun soldiers, the first one, but it was Guan Ping, the general of Liu Beijun.

"What did the letter to the thief Sima say?" Guan Ping sneered: "Zhuge is like a god when he joins the army, I expected that you would communicate with the enemy army, let's go, I have been waiting for you for a long time to join the army." ”

After some torture, Fan Jiang and Zhang Da quickly explained the agreement between the letter and Dong Zhuojun, Zhuge Liang was overjoyed, and hurriedly arranged for someone to pretend to be Fan Zhang and the others, and waited for Dong Zhuojun's reply in the city the next night. As Zhuge Liang expected, Sima Yi quickly replied after receiving the letter from Fan and Zhang, agreed to the surrender of Fan and Zhang, and agreed to send Wei Yan's troops to cooperate with Fan Jiang and Zhang Da to dedicate the city on the day of the decisive battle.

In the blink of an eye, it was October 25 of the ninth year of Chuping, and there was only one day before the day of the decisive battle. The countermeasures I adopted were that our army was divided into three routes, one was to lead a general to lead the newly recruited army to make a noise, and to Xiaoyaojin to play with Dong Thief's army; The other way stayed in the city to ambush, and after the main force of Dong Thief entered the city, he suddenly closed the city gate and annihilated all the enemies who entered the city! ”

"The killer weapon of our army will be the third way." Zhuge Liang looked at the generals and said: "The third route is composed of a total of 5,000 cavalry of our army, and when the army of Dong thieves is dispatched, the camp will be empty, and the cavalry of our army will take this opportunity to kill the enemy camp and burn the enemy's grain and grass. ”