Chapter Seventy-Six: A Great Victory
Huang Zhong was confident that his archery skills were unparalleled, but when he saw Lu Bu's hand, he also sincerely admired, and when he wanted to compete with him again, the flying red rabbit horse had already taken Lu Bu out of the range of bows and arrows, and more than 10,000 Bingzhou cavalry got the order and turned their heads to withdraw to Bishui Pass.
"Lu Buxiu go, and then fight with a certain ...... for three hundred rounds" Huang Zhong shouted, but turned his head and rushed towards Dian Wei.
Zhang Liao and Gao Shun listened to Lu Bu's order to retreat, and immediately wanted to give up their opponents to retreat, but their strength was not as good as their opponents, and their mounts were not as good as the Red Rabbit Horse Shenjun, and Dian Wei and Xu Chu had already received the order, once Lu Bu retreated, there was no need to pursue, and they left the two of them with all their might...... Under so many factors, the two wanted to retreat but were unable to do so.
After Huang Zhong joined the battle group, he knocked the enemy general off his horse within ten times, and several British soldiers immediately stepped forward to tie him up.
Huang Zhong and Dian Wei couldn't take a breath, and went to Xu Chu again, but under the joint efforts of the three of them, the enemy general only supported Sanhe, and was caught by Huang Zhong with a knife in the neck, so he had to abandon his weapon and admit defeat.
When Sun Jian and Liu Zhang's infantry completed the encirclement, the enemy army was already several miles away, and Gongsun Zhan's army, which was responsible for stopping the enemy, did not stop it.
It turned out that Liu Zhang liked Zhang Liao and Gao Shun for a long time, so he wanted to take this opportunity to capture the two of them, and slowly persuade them if they couldn't surrender, so he took the initiative to ask for battle, provoked Lu Bu to fight with words, and asked Gongsun Zan and Sun Jian to send troops to cooperate with him to play a play. As a result, when the fighting generals were in full swing, Lu Bu suddenly found himself in a "heavy siege" and would definitely order a retreat (Liu Zhang expected that Lu Bu was a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, otherwise he would not have been busy asking for forgiveness after being captured alive by Cao Cao. Maybe Lu Bu was not afraid of death when he resisted Xianbei in Bingzhou, but when he entered Luoyang and enjoyed the prosperity of the world, his ambition and pride also died out under the attack of sugar-coated shells), at this time, as long as Dian Wei and Xu Chu were careful and did not give Zhang Liao and Gao Shun a chance, it was very likely to prevent them from retreating, and it would not be difficult to leave the two with Huang Zhong's help. In fact, Lu Bu didn't know that whether it was the combined army of Sun Jian and Liu Zhang (in addition to Sun Jian's troops who came from the left and right, there were all the Yizhou troops except for the 3,000 people who fought with Liu Zhang), or the Gongsun Zhan army that prevented him from retreating, it was just a show, whether it was Liu Zhang, Sun Jian and Gongsun Zhan, the first thing to put was to save themselves, not to fight with the enemy, in troubled times, they all knew that if their soldiers and horses were lost, they would also lose the capital to survive in troubled times, let alone compete for hegemony in the world. The reason why Sun Jian and Gongsun Zhan agreed to send troops was that they could perform well in front of the world and have a good reputation, and secondly, they would not have to suffer casualties, so why not?
Liu Zhang met with Sun Jian and Gongsun Zhan, and after expressing his gratitude, he ordered Zhang Liao and Gao Shun to be escorted back to the camp, and he went to see Liu Dai and others with Sun Jian and Gongsun Zhan.
In the face of the congratulations of Liu Dai and others, especially Yuan Shao's flattery with ulterior motives (he wanted to hold Liu Zhang high and become the target of the public, the higher the so-called standing, the more painful the fall, and the absolute smile hides the knife), Liu Zhang didn't even dare to say that he gave most of the credit to Gongsun Zhan and Sun Jian, and casually mentioned that it was all due to Liu Dai's effective command, and praised Liu Dai and others, and everyone looked at him before they became more friendly.
Although it was daylight, in order to celebrate the defeat of Lu Bu, Liu Dai still ordered a banquet......
The banquet lasted more than two hours, and when most of the people were already drunk, Liu Dai announced the dismissal.
Liu Zhang originally planned to meet Zhang Liao and Gao Shun that day, but after he made great achievements, he became the protagonist of the banquet, and was toasted by the princes again and again.
When he woke up on the second day, he couldn't take care of eating, so Liu Zhang ordered someone to invite Xun's uncle and nephew, Guo Jia and others to visit Zhang Liao and Gao Shun in person.
According to Liu Zhang's instructions, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun were not restrained in any way, and prepared a separate tent for them, where food, water, and wine were all lacking, and they could even walk around the tent at will. Of course, Liu Zhang also sent a large number of soldiers to guard the perimeter to prevent the two from escaping.
Responsible for guarding Zhang Liao and Gao Shun was Liao Hua and his 500 British troops. Knowing that Liu Zhang had come to visit the two captives, Liao Hua hurriedly greeted him.
Liu Zhang was not polite to Liao Hua, and said directly: "Is my guest getting up?" ”
Liao Hua said: "Hui Gongzi, General Zhang and General Gao have already gotten up, just had breakfast, and are talking in the tent at the moment. ”
"You go and report it, and say that I have come to visit, hoping to meet with the two generals!"
Everyone already knew that Liu Zhang attached great importance to Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, but they didn't expect that the status of the two in his heart was so important. It is said that as a prisoner, Liu Zhang wanted to see the two, and he only needed to send a small soldier to escort them, but he came in person and did not say anything, and he did not enter the door, and ordered someone to report that he would enter to meet again after obtaining the consent of the two.
Liao Hua personally entered the tent, and faintly heard a few words of conversation coming from the tent, and immediately, Liao Hua, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun went out to greet him.
Liu Zhang raised his hand, bowed deeply, and said, "Liu Zhang, it's polite!" ”
Zhang Liao and Gao Shun said: "The general of the defeated army, I dare not accept such a big gift from my lord!" ”
Liu Zhang said: "Bear it, bear it, both of them are not good generals, and they have ......been admired for a long time."
Zhang Liao and Gao Shun said: "My lord's words make me ashamed, my lord uses soldiers like gods, retreats from Wenhou in a battle, and captures us alive, compared with adults, we are really a piece of rotten wood!" ”
Guo Jia smiled and said: "Childe, General Zhang, General Gao, don't be polite, don't you talk about it in the tent first?" ”
Liu Zhang said: "Yes, yes, I don't know if it's appropriate for me to come, if the two of you have nothing to do, can you allow me to wait in and talk about it!" ”
Zhang Liao and Gao Shun said: "This is the land of adults, I can't wait for the prisoners under the steps, adults are willing to go, if they want to live, how can we have any different words!" ”
Liu Zhang hurriedly said: "No, no, the two of you are definitely not prisoners, but distinguished guests!" ”
Zhang Liao and Gao Shun no longer said anything and solemnly welcomed the guests inside.