Chapter 161: Persuading Xu Huang (Seventh Update)
In this battle, the Kwantung Coalition Army fought bravely to kill the enemy, and the Xiliang army lost its armor and unloaded its armor, and the blood flowed like a river, and it collapsed for thousands of miles, causing the Xiliang soldiers to lose nearly 20,000 people, and their morale dropped sharply.
Pei Qing led the army to chase for more than ten miles, and then stopped chasing, but ordered the army to go slowly to Shangyu City, after all, there are still tens of thousands of troops stationed here, plus some who escaped from the battlefield, it is estimated that there can be 20,000 people, so many people are stationed, and it may be difficult to overcome the 7,000 Bai Yu army of Chen Zhi alone.
When Pei Qing came to the city, he found that Chen Zhi was leading the crowd to attack the city, and outside the east gate of the city, an enemy general was commanding the army to respond calmly, this army was also infantry, and the combat power was not as good as Chen Zhi's Bai Yu army, but no one escaped, all of them were struggling to resist, and what was especially surprising was that the general in the enemy army charged at the front, relying on his own courage and the tenacious will of the soldiers under his command, and resisted Chen Zhi's attacks wave after wave.
"Who is this person? To have such a ability is really a rare talent. Seeing that the general was well-organized and not chaotic, Pei Qing's eyes were full of admiration, and he secretly decided to capture him today no matter what, and try to surrender.
So Pei Qing immediately issued an order, let Liu Bei and Zang Ba lead the army to detour through the north gate to attack Shangluo City, but Pei Qing led everyone to quietly detour to the south gate, and then entered the east city gate after storming the south gate, and went out of the city to go around the back of the army led by this enemy general, and completed the encirclement of this army with Chen Zhi.
In fact, at this time, in addition to the general who was still resisting, there was not much strength to dare to resist, after seeing Pei Qing's banner, many soldiers did not dare to resist at all, they saw that there were no siege soldiers at the west gate, and they had already fled through the east gate, and even the main general in the city did not think about restraining the generals, leaving the one who was still fighting for him, and fled directly under the protection of the soldiers.
So Pei Qing and Liu Bei attacked Shangluo City very easily, after breaking the city, Pei Qing didn't care about the people and the prisoners, anyway, there was Yin Zhongkan in the army who was good at this, and he didn't bother with it, so he directly led his fierce generals Xu Chu, Fan Lin, Huang Zhong, Xie Yingdeng, Deng Dang, Zheng Chang and other generals to spare the East City Gate, and directly completed the siege of the enemy general who led the troops to resist.
The enemy general was originally a little difficult to support under Chen Zhi's onslaught, but now seeing that the other party came with reinforcements again, not only broke through Shangluo City, but also completed the siege of them, he suddenly knew that there was no point in resisting stubbornly, and couldn't help but sigh and said: "Pity me Xu Huang didn't fight here, how unfair is the sky?" ”
After finishing speaking, Xu Huang pulled out his saber and was about to commit suicide.
However, at this moment, only two sharp sounds of breaking the sky suddenly came from the left and right, and then only a sound was heard properly, the saber in Xu Huang's hand was shot by two feather arrows at the same time, Xu Huang's hand holding the knife was violently shaken, and he involuntarily let go, only to hear a proper sound, and the knife fell to the ground.
At the same time, a young voice said, "Sure enough, ginger is still old and spicy." General Huang, your archery skills are so skillful, the last general is ashamed of himself. ”
Then I saw a slightly old voice say, "Why should General Yingden be modest? You're the blue. ”
"Hehe, if it is accurate, the last general may dare to reluctantly say that he is in the same ranks as the general, but if it is about strength, the last general is ashamed of himself, this arrow down, it is obvious that the old general is more powerful than your arrow, which can be seen from the direction of the fall of the knife, the last general also has self-knowledge, dare not boast, in the future, you should ask the old general for advice......"
Xu Huang listened to the conversation between Huang Zhong and Xie Yingdeng, and couldn't help but get angry, and said loudly: "I, Xu Huang, know that I will die, so I wield a knife to kill myself, and you two flew arrows to shoot down my saber, and they praised each other, so humiliating me, what good is it for Yu and you?" ”
At this time, I heard a person behind me say: "General Gongming said this is really a misunderstanding I waited, Pei Qing in Xiahedong, and the general were originally fellow villagers, I have long heard of the general's prestige, but I didn't have a chance to see it, but I didn't want to meet today, but I didn't think it was in this situation, the general is a loyal and righteous person, when he knows that Li Dao Guo Yan is a national thief, how to work for them?" Even if he wins, he will only be a national thief in the future, so what good will it be for his name? As the so-called good ministers choose trees to live in, virtuous ministers choose their masters and do things, where can Li Dao Guo be a mediocre person, where can he be assisted by a talent like a general? Although Qing is not talented, but he is under the edict of the Son of Heaven, and the people of the world are supported by the people, and the righteous teacher drives out the traitors, and the Han family helps the Han family to serve the Son of Heaven, this is a righteous move. In this way, it can not only save one's life, but also make meritorious contributions, and the husband and wife will be honored, and it will be obvious that future generations will be famous for eternity, isn't it beautiful? ”
Xu Huang was shocked when he heard this, in fact, he was committed to Yang Feng, the general of Li Dao's department, and he was also forced to do so, after all, he was from a humble background, and there was no way to advance, and his previous suicide was even more unavoidable, and he died like this without having anywhere to show his ability, how could he be willing? Now when he was desperate, he knew that Pei Qing admired him so much, how could he not be surprised? So he slowly turned around, bowed to Pei Qing and said, "How can you shake what virtue?" It is so favored by the envoy, if you don't know what to do, I'm afraid that the heavens will not be able to see it, so that the king is above, please accept the shaking, and in the future, I am willing to go to the soup for the king, and I will not give up. ”
Pei Qing was overjoyed when he heard this, he got off the horse, quickly came to Xu Huang, helped him up with his own hands, and said with a smile: "How lucky is Qing to be able to get the help of Gongming?" I have to be public, like a tiger with wings. ”
Pei Qing walked in front of Xu Huang without any weapons on his body, which was actually very dangerous, because once Xu Huang had any different intentions and suddenly made trouble, then he was likely to have some accidents, but on the one hand, Pei Qing was confident that his grappling fighting skills were unparalleled in the world, and it was no problem to entangle at close range, and at the same time, he also believed in Xu Huang's sincerity, so he boldly did so.
Pei Qing's move frightened Xu Chu and Xie Yingdeng and other guards, they followed Pei Qing closely, looked at Xu Huang carefully, and always prepared, once Xu Huang had any plans, he immediately rushed forward as fast as possible, even if he used his body to block the sword, he absolutely wanted to ensure Pei Qing's safety.
However, Xu Huang was moved by Pei Qing's actions, he didn't expect Pei Qing to take such a big risk for himself, and secretly sighed in his heart that Pei Qing would not be able to repay him for this kind of kindness in his life.
Later, Pei Qing worshiped Xu Huang as the captain of Guiyi, and ordered a banquet to be held that night, one is to celebrate the capture of Shangluo City, to clear the obstacles for the future attack on Chang'an, and the other is to celebrate the good general like Xu Huang.