【Painful Price】

"Digong General" Zhang Bao led an army of 20,000 to advance towards Zhuo County. According to Zou Jing's instructions, Liu Bei and Liu Ziping each led 1,000 soldiers and horses to ambush in the woods on both sides of the valley, and Zou Jing led 2,000 cavalry to meet Zhang Bao at the mouth of the valley.

The whirring cold wind kept blowing, especially in this outlet, and the cold in the valley was even more urgent.

In the forest, everyone present is participating in the war for the first time in their lives, at this time everyone is holding their breath, no one dares to make a sound, everywhere is audible breathing, accompanied by a highly tense atmosphere, everyone is holding the weapons in their hands, although the air is cold, but unconsciously, everyone's palms have a lot of cold sweat.

No one knows what will happen next, whether the enemy is fierce or not, whether they can fight it, whether they can survive this war, and what reward will we get if we win this time...... All kinds of thoughts flashed through almost everyone's minds at this moment.

At this time, at the mouth of the valley, Zou Jing stared into the distance. The cold wind blew on his face like a thousand knives, blowing his face apart, and his cheeks were already flushed, but he seemed to be indifferent, for his attention was already highly focused on the enemy situation ahead.

After a long time, the soldier who was on the side with his ears on the ground got up and said, "General Qiyu, they are here!" ”

After listening to this, Zou Jing unconsciously raised his head to observe, only to see that the originally calm earth in front of him suddenly became dusty, and he muttered in his heart: Good guy, it's finally here.

At this time, he turned around, drew his sword, raised it high, and shouted: "Brothers, the thief Zhang Bao has appeared in front of our eyes, everyone listen to my order, tell you to fight, you will beat Lao Tzu hard; Tell you to withdraw, you will run desperately for Lao Tzu, you are all big men, don't drag me with mud and water, do you hear clearly! ”

"Hear me clearly!"

"In this war, all your efforts will not be in vain, and those who have made meritorious contributions to the enemy will be rewarded heavily; Those who retreat from the enemy will be beheaded; Those who don't listen to the generals will be killed! ”

"Yes!"

After speaking, Zou Jing turned around and waited for Zhang Bao's army to slowly approach, and waited until a stone's throw between the two armies, Zhang Bao raised his hand and signaled the whole army to stop advancing.

The large number of people is really extraordinary, Zhang Bao's military head is wrapped in a yellow scarf, and each department is holding a black and yellow background flag with the word "earth", with the cold wind constantly fluttering, the crowd is noisy, as if it is showing off its might.

"Hey, isn't this the son of the 'Digong', what, do you want to come to Youzhou to die?" Zou Jing's purpose this time is to make Zhang Bao angry, and second, to make Zhang Bao underestimate the enemy, anger will make people lose their minds, and underestimating the enemy will make people arrogant, and the arrogant soldiers will be defeated.

At this time, Zhang Bao looked up at Zou Jing's department, estimated that there were only more than 1,000 people, and then he was disdainful, and said: "This nameless rat generation of the Han Dynasty has a loud voice, a madman, the Han Dynasty is exhausted, and the common people are so miserable under his rule, why do you have to work for the dog emperor and die in vain, it is better to obey my Taiping Dao, and not lose the glory of being an official and entering the knighthood." ”

Zou Jing listened to Zhang Bao's words, and laughed: "Now this thief is full of confidence to speak, amazing, grandson, Han and thief are not separate, I am the minister of the Han Dynasty, you are the thief of the Han Dynasty, how can we have a common word, today, if you want to live, you will obediently take these yellow sons and yellow grandsons of yours back, if you feel tired of being crooked, your grandfather Zou Jing will make fun of your dog head here today, go back to invite merit and reward, take your head, go back to exchange for gold and silver wealth, beautiful women, wouldn't it be happy, hahaha......"

When the soldiers behind Zou Jing heard Zou Jing's scolding methods, they all laughed.

"Fuck, how dare a soldier of more than a thousand people be so arrogant, wait for me to capture you alive, and see if you smile or not, brothers, give it to me!" With Zhang Bao's order, groups of yellow turban thieves set out in groups, shouting earth-shattering, Zou Jing couldn't help but be shocked by this aura, but if you look carefully at the actions of this army, there is no order, and the composition is also a variety of people, men, women, old and young, kitchen knives, wooden sticks, hoes and wooden forks. Zou Jing thought to himself that although this army was large in number, it was all composed of peasants, and they had not undergone strict training in combat, so they fought with great strength and strength.

At this time, Zou Jing didn't care so much, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Brothers, defend your homeland and kill with me." With a trumpet sound, the whole army of 2,000 cavalry set out, the two armies greeted each other, the sound of fighting, shouting, and the neighing of horses were intertwined, some thieves were cut down by the volunteers, some were stabbed to death by the thieves, some were turned over on their backs, some were knocked off by horses, and everyone was splashed with blood.

The front row of troops was killed, and the back row followed, with corpses all over the place, piled up one after another, and this terrain was obviously no longer suitable for the cavalry of the Han army. Moreover, although the volunteers were well-trained, after all, there was a huge disparity in numbers, and seeing that they were about to be drowned in the crowd of thieves, Zou Jing shouted loudly: "Retreat, retreat!" Zou Jing hurriedly said as he slapped the horse with his sword.

Zhang Jiao saw that this man was still talking big just now, and now he was like this dog, and shouted with contempt: "Chase me, don't let this dog run away, chase me." Zou Jing ran into the canyon, thousands of thieves also poured into the canyon together, the canyon road is narrow, there are many people but can not stretch out, Zou Jing led the army to run desperately, fortunately his cavalry mounts are Xiliang horses, strong body, running fast, the horses of the thief army behind are obviously not the opponent of the Han army.

At this time, Liu Bei and Liu Ziping, who were ambushed on both sides of the valley, saw that the thief army was halfway through, so they drew their swords one after another and shouted: "The drummers beat the drums to help, and I will kill the rest!" ”

The thief army saw that countless troops suddenly rushed down on both sides of the canyon, and the shouts shook the heavens and the earth, so they suddenly stopped the pace of pursuit, stood in place and looked around, panicked, the front of the thief army saw that the waist was attacked, and immediately turned back to rescue, Zou Jing saw this, and shouted to the brothers: "Kill me back!" ”

Zou Jing's subordinates covered up the past from behind, causing chaos in the front of the thief army. Zhang Jiao saw his army running around, and shouted loudly: "Stabilize me, steady, and those who dare to run again, kill!" But once the army's heart is chaotic, where is it good to say good, at this time Zhang Jiao can no longer control his army, seeing that the general trend has gone, he ran away with his own soldiers.

When Liu Bei saw Zhang Jiao running away, he wanted to lead his troops to chase him, but when he looked back, the soldiers around him were scattered everywhere, everyone was busy fighting, and there was a lot of crying and shouting, and Liu Bei's order was completely drowned in this fight. When many thieves saw that the commander had run away, or they had been frightened, or they were too tired to resist, they all knelt down and begged for mercy and surrendered, but this volunteer had already killed red eyes at this time, where could he stop, anyway, if he saw someone with a yellow scarf on his head, he would kill him, whether you were kneeling or standing, whether you were an old man or a child, whether you were a man or a woman.

Suddenly, Liu Bei's eyes stayed on a young man wrapped in a yellow scarf, and after a closer look, isn't this person the same person as before, his body has grown a lot, but at this time he was covered in blood, his face was bloodless, he knelt on the ground, dumbfounded, it was obvious that he was frightened by the scene in front of him at a young age. Liu Bei wanted to walk over, but just as he was about to call him, he saw a volunteer soldier slashing at him with a knife, and Liu Bei hurriedly shouted: "Stop, don't cut!" But it was too late, and Chang Sheng was cut down by this volunteer on the spot.

Liu Bei ran over in a rage, kicked down the volunteer soldier, glared at him, and roared in his mouth: "You bastard, he has already surrendered, why are you cutting him!" ”

The volunteer stared red-eyed, and wanted to roar back, but when he saw that it was the general, he also held back the fire and found someone else to kill.

At this time, Liu Bei hurriedly hugged Chang Sheng: "Chang Sheng, child, wake up quickly!" ”

Chang Sheng heard someone calling him, reluctantly opened his eyes, and said tremblingly: "It's the big brother, Chang Sheng's mother is gone and was killed by the officers and soldiers...... Changsheng is so cold, so scared, Changsheng misses his mother so much...... Big brother ......"

"Don't be afraid, big brother is here, no one will bully you anymore...... Changsheng, Changsheng......" accompanied by the longing for his mother, accompanied by the fear of others, and accompanied by the helplessness of the world, at this time, the teenage child was forever "asleep".

Liu Bei was holding Chang Sheng like this at this time, his eyes were dull, his limbs were weak, and he was paralyzed on the ground, if it weren't for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's eyes to kill the Yellow Turban thief who came to kill Liu Bei, Liu Bei would have died in Huangquan, "General, general, big brother, big brother...... What's wrong with you, you're going to be killed by the Yellow Turban Thieves like this. ”

Liu Bei didn't care about what was going on around him, he just muttered to himself: "Hehe, what a yellow turban thief, what is a thief, what is a people, now a thief is also a people, and the people are also thieves, this result is not a sin created by the court and government itself, everything the people do is just for a bite to eat, are they wrong, what are they wrong." The people take food as the sky, and the court doesn't give the people food, do you want them to take the initiative to wait for death one by one, hehe, Chang Sheng's death, Xue'er's death, whose fault is it...... A thousand mistakes, not their fault, nor ours, but the fault of the imperial court, I don't want to fight this battle! ”

The war finally ended with the victory of the Zhuojun rebels, at this time everyone was cleaning up the chaos left by the war, looking for war materials, the mountains were full of corpses, there were old people, children, women, everyone, Liu Bei was alone with Chang Sheng, and buried him with his own hands.

【Decline of Karma】

Lao Jun faced the alchemy furnace, meditating cross-legged alone, constantly chanting incantations in his mouth, and the empty alchemy room also came from time to time from the alchemy furnace The painful moans of the karmic demons came out of the alchemy furnace.

"Laojun, hehe~ You are really scheming, cough cough~" The karma golem is an old man who is desperately ill, telling in pain.

"Karmic demons, the world has experienced this uprising, and the long-standing resentment in the hearts of the people has also dissipated a lot at one time, you were originally gathered by resentment, without resentment, what are you capable of?" Lao Jun squinted his eyes and said calmly.

"Hehe, Lao Jun, do you think that an uprising can make me submit, you are too self-righteous!" The karma demon sneered: "This uprising is doomed to failure, and my weakness is only in the previous period, once it reaches the end of the war, the victors will massacre, oppress and torture the losers, and at that time, the resentment will beat for me again!" ”

Lao Jun still had his eyes closed, and he didn't speak at this time.

"What? Laojun, are you afraid? The karmic demon shook his body, causing the flames in the alchemy furnace to shake with it: "The time is almost over, my children and grandchildren in the human world have also grown up, it's time to come out and do business!" ”

"Karma demon, you are too angry, I will definitely bring peace and tranquility back to the world!"

"Cut, stubborn! It's up to you! ”

"The Tao is natural, so that the order of the world can work in harmony with nature, so that it can be coordinated and orderly, and it will last for a long time, you and I can wait and see!"