Zhang Liao took the letter into his arms and said thoughtfully: "Actually, Wei Xu is still a general, when he was under General Lu, he fought with me for many years and made a lot of achievements. If he is truly obedient, it may not be a good thing for the prime minister. ”

Xu Huang said: "Then it shouldn't be now, right?" You should know that Xiangyang City is a lonely city, once it falls, we will all die without a place to bury, and I will never allow Wei Xu to enter the city. Not even if it's just him. He wants to bring the army in unless I'm dead. ”

"Gongmei, don't talk angry. This matter still has to be considered in the long run. Let's talk about it again? ”

"Nothing to discuss, I don't agree!" Xu Huang simply got up and left.

"Okay."

Xu Huang disagreed, and Zhang Liao couldn't make his own decisions.

If you really want to talk about it, Xu Huang is the commander of the army, he is just a vanguard.

Zhang Liao replied with a letter and rejected Wei Xu.

"Kong Ming, Zhang Liao replied, he has already rejected Wei Xu's surrender. It seems that Zilong is right, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang don't dare to take this risk. Liu Bei held Zhang Liao's reply in his hand.

After Zhuge Liang read the letter, he was not as pessimistic as Liu Bei, on the contrary, he was even more hopeful, and said: "The lord takes a closer look at this letter, what can he see? ”

Zhuge Liang handed the letter back to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei read it carefully a few times, and finally tried to say: "This is Zhang Liao's handwritten letter, from the tone of his writing, it seems that he is very optimistic about Wei Xu, and he doesn't want to refuse, but again. ”

"That's right!"

Zhuge Liang said: "Zhang Liao values Wei Xu very much, and is willing to believe in Wei Xu's sincerity, but Xu Huang did not agree, and Zhang Liao was forced to reply and refuse." I hope that the main actor will perform a play, so that Zhang Liao will make up his mind to take Wei Xu in. ”

"What's the play?"

"Bitter Meat Trick."

Zhuge Liang didn't say the plan clearly, but the three words of bitter meat made Liu Bei's eyes shine.

Night.

Liu Bei found Wei Xu, said a lot of righteous and awe-inspiring words, and cried in front of Wei Xu. This is Liu Bei's usual trick, in the name of benevolence and righteousness, to do shameless things. Wei Xu was moved by him and agreed to use the bitter meat meter.

then

Zhuge Liang beat the drum and gathered the generals, and threw Zhang Liao's reply in front of Wei Xu: "Wei Xu, you dare to betray the lord?" Do you still want to return to Zhang Liao? ”

"Wronged, wronged, this must be the enemy's strategy, they want to sow discord, the last general's loyalty to the lord, heaven and earth can be learned, please believe in the last general." Wei Xu's acting skills are not bad at all.

The generals in the tent were confused.

Zhang Fei, Chen Zhi, Liu Feng, Zhang Mad and others all knew that it was Zhuge Liang who asked Wei Xu to surrender, why do they want to ask Wei Xu now? It doesn't make sense.

Of course, there are many generals who don't know the inside story.

They naively thought that Wei Xu really surrendered to Zhang Liao and was caught by Zhuge Liang.

Liu Bei sat on the main seat, clasped his hands, and said nothing.

Zhang Fei didn't have a bright light in his mind, and after a pause, he also began to believe that Wei Xu betrayed Liu Bei, because Zhuge Liang said so, he believed that Zhuge Liang knew everything and would not wronged Wei Xu.

Suddenly, Zhang Fei was furious: "Son of a bitch, you dare to betray my eldest brother!" ”

He ran over in three steps and two steps, kicked Wei Xu's body, kicked Wei Xu out more than a foot away, and almost knocked out of the tent.

Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were shocked

But in order not to destroy the plan, he endured and did not stop Zhang Fei.

It was still Zhuge Liang who was smart and shouted: "Wei Xu, your letter to the enemy has been solved by me, and the evidence is conclusive and cannot be denied." Someone came, tied up Wei Xu, beat fifty military sticks with a cane, and guarded him. Tomorrow gather the army and behead it in front of all the sergeants! ”

"No."

Several soldiers ran over and controlled Wei Xu.

It's called bundling, but it's actually protection.

Because Zhang Fei was allowed to come, it only took a few kicks, and Wei Xu was kicked out.

Wei Xu was dragged out of the tent and hit fifty military sticks heavily.

The sticks were empty, and the skin of the straight hit was opened, and the fainting passed.

After that, he was thrown into a camp tent and guarded by heavy soldiers.

All this happened within half an hour, and there were no less than 1,000 soldiers participating in the onlookers, as well as many prisoners of the Cao army who had just surrendered, and they were all Wei Xu's old troops.

After dark.

According to the plan, more than 2,000 soldiers rushed to the place where Wei Xu was being held, wanting to forcibly take him away, and had a fierce battle with the soldiers stationed there.

This is a planned battle, the two warring parties, without a dead hand, are touched by the back of the knife to the body, and fall and fake their death. The entire battlefield, not much blood can be seen.

But

Just as the plan was well underway, an unexpected thing happened.

The more than 10,000 Cao troops who had surrendered to Liu Bei were very dissatisfied with Wei Xu's cane, and when they saw that someone went to the rescue, but they couldn't fight the enemy, they participated in the battle on their own.

From this moment on, it is no longer acting.

Thousands of people began to fight and fight with real guns.

Liu Beijun, who was stationed around, saw that the situation was out of control and hurriedly came over to suppress it.

The more people gathered, the more they gathered, and gradually formed a big scuffle.

After Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang received the news, they left the battlefield and went to the lookout of the right battalion to watch the battle. Liu Bei was anxious and said: "Kong Ming, the situation is out of control, should we give up the plan and suppress it with all our might?" ”

"Wait, the situation is not out of control."

"Isn't that out of control? If we continue to fight, the casualties will be very large. ”

"But it may attract Xu Huang and Zhang Liao!" Zhuge Liang said: "The lord still remembers that the minister said that fighters often appear in accidents, and they are fleeting. ”

"Do you want to seduce Xu Huang and Zhang Liao in this way? That's too much to pay, isn't it? If they don't come, won't we shoot ourselves in the foot? ”

Liu Bei felt that this approach was unreliable and unwise.

"Please give the minister an hour's time, and the minister will guarantee that the casualties will not exceed five thousand, and it will be the loss during the siege." Zhuge Liang desperately wanted to give it a try.

This is the opportunity to eliminate Xu Huang and Zhang Liao and conquer Xiangyang, and it is also the only chance.

"What are you going to do?" Liu Bei asked.

Zhuge Liang said: "The veteran battalion of General Yide, the Bai Wei soldiers of Chen Dao, and the Danyang soldiers of Zhang Mad have all been transferred to the rear camp to standby. Gather the remaining troops, about 7,000, and fight with the surrendered troops. Until Xu Huang and Zhang Liao appeared. ”

Whew

Liu Bei was nervous with cold sweat on his forehead, but he had to make a decision.

"Go ahead and do it! After the war is over, I will re-persuade the surrendered troops who participated in the war as the lord, and may punish the military advisor slightly, please forgive the military advisor. In the end, he still chose to believe Zhuge Liang.

"Your Ministers obey."

Zhuge Liang went to arrange.

Soon.

The 4,000 veteran battalions under Zhang Fei's account, the 3,000 Baiwei soldiers under Chen Zhi's account, and the 2,000 Danyang soldiers under the original Tao Qian's account (those that were later made up have actually been disrupted many times).

These more than 9,000 soldiers are the most elite troops in the barracks.