Chapter 5 Towards Unification Section XXXVII
Suddenly, the Third Division led by Liu Bei came out ghostly from the right side of the Liangzhou soldiers and pounced on the bare right flank of Xiliang without a sound. Behind him, he followed closely behind the Wolf Cavalry Legion.
It turned out that Liu Bei and the Xiliang soldiers who were chasing each other bypassed the battlefield, so they contacted the wolf cavalry with the military number, got rid of the entangled wolf cavalry and quickly returned, flanking the Xiliang soldiers who were immersed in the joy of chasing, and Liu Bei also turned around to face the battle. Taking advantage of the attention of Li Dao and others to be attracted by the frontal battlefield, Liu Bei entered the Xiliang army formation.
"Beat the drums, blow the trumpet, ride the thunder, raise the gun." Gao Shun shouted at the right time, and the heavy cavalry with powerful assault capabilities completed the final blow.
The defeated right-wing Xiliang army fled back into the camp, but Qingzhou followed, and the overwhelming cavalry jumped over the outer trenches of the camp and rushed into the camp.
Li Dao and others gathered a group of soldiers and horses and tried to defend the camp to resist, but in less than a few minutes, as Guan Yu broke into the enemy camp after crushing the enemy army, Xiliang's soldiers and horses were crushed.
Immediately, the battle was transferred to the tent room of the Xiliang military camp, to the playground, to the general hall, and Li Dao and others intercepted the pursuers three times, but they were scattered three times, and the corpses were killed everywhere. The morale of the victorious soldiers in Qingzhou and Yanzhou was like a rainbow, and nothing could stop them.
In the end, the Xiliang soldiers were all killed, and seeing that the cavalry was pouring in more and more, the defeated soldiers roared in unison: "The camp can't hold it, run for your life!" ”
As a result, tens of millions of people seized the camp again and fled, the campfire was trampled out, the baggage carts were overturned, the camp tents were torn down, the camp fences were trampled into pieces, people trampled on people, people pressed people, piles of corpses blocked the road, and then people had to step on the corpses of their own people to advance.
The Xiliang army abandoned the warehouses and baggage, the camp, and all the burdens, and fled.
Dong Zhuo's old army commanded by Li Dao can be called the four elite iron cavalry at that time, they started from Xiliang, experienced the Xiliang rebellion of Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou, Bian Zhang, Han Sui and others, experienced the war with the Qiang people, experienced the battle to exterminate the Yellow Turban, and experienced countless battles, no matter which one can be called a hundred battles. But at this moment, they are running away, like a pack of panicked rabbits, being relentlessly chased by wolves.
At this time, the bull tribesmen who were unwilling to be spectators rushed out of the Xu Shu camp to intercept them. These bull tribesmen originally lived in the cold north, and in this winter battle, the tribe did not lose many non-combat troops. They were all extremely powerful, wielding half a car of ** tomahawks and slashing all the way viciously, piercing the vanguard of the Xiliang soldiers fleeing for their lives, and becoming the last straw that broke the camel's back.
So, in the interception and outflanking of several cavalry routes, hundreds of thousands of Xiliang soldiers lost their souls and had no way out, they dropped their weapons, knelt on the ground, and cried and begged: "We surrender!" We surrender! Spare your life, let us live! ”
At the same time, the Qiang, Qian, Xianbei, and Di soldiers still maintained the only soldier honor in the Xiliang Army, and they all fought to the death, and none of them surrendered......
After chasing for more than ten miles, Liu Bei stopped and stood on the battlefield. At this moment, there is no suspense about victory or defeat, and the soldiers are capturing everywhere, reaping the fruits of their victory, and as the commander-in-chief, they cannot compete with their subordinates for the spoils of war.
On the battlefield, the soldiers of the three states of Qing, You, and Hebei rushed back and forth, and the cavalry was like a wandering dragon, interspersed with sprints in the rout group of troops all over the mountains, this wandering dragon sometimes pounced and rushed straight to the heart, and sometimes divided several tentacles, encircled and outflanked.
The corpses of the Xiliang soldiers meander on both sides of the avenue, weapons, flags, and armor are discarded, and the team is full of panic, chaos and terror.
"Alas, after teaching them for so long, they still don't understand that although beheading and capturing are scored equally, they can bring them five years of labor income after capture, and five years are all money. These bastards. Liu Bei muttered indignantly.
The guards surrounding Liu Bei snickered unnaturally, just now, they were also trying their best to kill. However, Liu Bei's complaint can only show that he is not clear about the truth, for the vast majority of Qingzhou soldiers, their lives are enough to support their families, and they don't care about the labor income of the prisoners at all, not to mention that one person can't take care of many prisoners.
"Bastard, the prisoner's labor, the government still has to take half of it to compensate for the military expenses, and go down with a knife...... That's the property of the government, the order goes down, and those who descend will not die, who dares to spoil the property of the government, will be severely punished according to the law. Liu Bei ordered distressedly, and immediately, he added: "Let them drive the captives here, I will take care of them, if any of you still want to make some military achievements, go and collect the captives quickly." ”
At sunset, Zhang Fei withdrew his troops first and returned, shouting in his loud voice all the way: "Big brother, I have accumulated enough points this time, I am killing happily, a team of more than 500 people surrendered to me, haha, 500 people, I will give 100 to my subordinates, and there are 2000 points left." ”
Guan Yu followed, and Liu Bei asked with concern, "How many kills?" ”
Guan Yu narrowed Danfeng's eyes and smiled to himself: "Kill three hundred and capture more than 100 people." ”
Zhang Fei then said happily: "Second brother, I am better than you this time." ”
Standing on the battlefield, Liu Bei nodded with satisfaction: "The saint should be satisfied now." Alas, the world is in turmoil, and the saints and ministers don't think about how to make the rule and change the law in order to survive, but they are full of only thinking about how to maintain the etiquette of the court and maintain the dignity of the court - this etiquette is not shallow. We are fighting so hard to kill the enemy, if it is normal, this is a great sin of high merit. Hmph, when I go back, I have to think about how to please the saint, what kind of world is this***? ”
Guan Yu was silent, and Zhang Fei shouted: "Big brother, if you don't agree, you will go." ”
Liu Bei's face sank like water and did not make a statement.
A soldier flew up and reported: "Lord Qi, a woman was found in the camp, and she said that she was a Song nobleman in the palace. ”
Liu Bei hurriedly ordered: "Song nobles? Whether she is true or not, it is up to the Holy One to judge. Hurry up and send it up, don't slack off. ”
After hesitating, Liu Bei beckoned to the soldier uneasily: "Slow, I'll go in person and escort her back to Hangu." Second brother, third brother, come together. ”
Running cautiously all the way back to Hangu, the emperor and the ministers were still waiting in the city tower, at this time, Cao Cao had finished the battle and stood beside the emperor. Liu Beiyi did not disarm and reported the military situation to the saint: "Your Majesty, our army has won a great victory, except for a small group of enemy troops who fled to Jingzhou in the south, the rest of the Xiliang soldiers and horses were wiped out. The sergeants searched for the captured palace maids and ministers in the enemy's camp tent, and found a woman who claimed to be a Song nobleman. ”
The strong smell of blood on Liu Bei's body made the saint cover his nose: "Aiqing has worked hard, please change Aiqing first." ”
Liu Bei's heart was abrupt, he raised his head to check the situation, and saw that Yang Biao was retracting his hand from the saint's side, Liu Bei understood, and then anger surged - they were worried that Song Guiren had been in the army for many days and his body was unclean, so he had the intention to deny it.
"Your Majesty, since the Han Dynasty, whenever you can't defeat a foreign race, you will take my Han lady as a gift, it is for 'harmony', and the policy of harmony has been more than 300 years. Is there anyone who doesn't come to kill the Han people? Using the blood of a woman to make a man reluctant, it has no effect in the end, and this is a real warrior's humiliation.
Dong Zhuo destroyed the Luoyang Palace, Li Dao destroyed the Chang'an Palace, the two capitals were ruins, and the Yanhan was wooed. Li Dao is guilty of the same as Dong Zhuo. I heard that in the past, Li Dao hijacked the emperor's car, and once promised Qianghu to be a palace maid, and thousands of Qianghu people later spied on the imperial tent, shouting around the tent, threatening my emperor: 'General Li has allowed my palace people, can he be awarded now?' Royal prestige, swept away.
The people of this palace are displaced, only to get rid of suffering, and their hearts are to our emperor. Does my emperor want to be careful about the hearts of the people in the cold palace? War, that is the fight of warriors, has nothing to do with women, why should you blame women for separation. The world is full of smoke, and the saint should be good at soothing, caring and cherishing like a child, how can he make the soldiers cold with the gift of Confucianism and discourage the people with lofty ideals in the world? The heart of Weichen's fist, please enlighten the saint. ”
The emperor glanced at Yang Biao, and then at Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who were standing behind Liu Bei. They all had a reserved smile unique to their life-saving benefactors on their faces, held their chins high, put on a deliberate pretend of humility, and silently reminded the ministers with their eyes: "Lao Tzu, I am brave and good at fighting, invincible, wise and martial, magnanimous, regardless of previous suspicions, accidentally saved the emperor's life, but remember to be grateful to Dade!" If you dare to be ungrateful, hum ......"
Thinking about the ferocity of the Qingzhou soldiers, the emperor reluctantly spoke: "Qing's words are very good, so according to what the general said." ”
Groups of prisoners were being taken into the prison, and countless merchants who had arrived overnight were like flies smelling of meat, surrounding the officers of the Works Department who had taken over the captives, waving tinkling money bags in an attempt to buy off the captives' five years of hard labor. The war seemed to have calmed down in the short term, the emperor returned to the imperial capital, the Sili market was about to open its doors to them, the major factories were facing the dilemma of lack of labor, and the goods that had been backlogged before were brought to Nanyang by the clerks, and now they urgently needed labor to expand production.
On the wall, the emperor and the Song nobles recognized each other and shouted relatively.
Under the wall, a sharp voice suddenly remembered in the group of captives: "To be a slave for five years? I am a minister of the minister, a child of a family, who dares to take me as a slave? ”
Then a voice rushed out of the captives and shouted to the castle tower: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am Shangshu Jia Xu Jia Wenhe." I have persuaded Li Dao and Guo Yan to let His Majesty return to the east, and I have persuaded the Qiang soldiers to force the palace maids, I have made great contributions to the country, and I hope Your Majesty will save me. ”
Jia Xu, when Liu Bei heard this name, he walked to the side of the city tower and looked down with his hand on the female wall. Zhang Fei leaned close to Liu Bei's ear and whispered, "Big brother, this is the one who surrendered to me with five hundred soldiers." ”
Jia Xu is known as the head of the four major military divisions of the Three Kingdoms, but his wisdom is like an ominous owl, hovering over the bones of the corpses.
"Hengzhu is a death, why not gather the army first, and simply go to Chang'an to avenge Dong Zhuo. If it is a fluke, it will coerce the Son of Heaven to order the world, how majestic; If that doesn't work out, it's not too late to flee to the northwest homeland. Jia Xu's enlightenment, full of hooligan wisdom, instigated Li Dao and Guo Yan to hijack the emperor's car, and Jia Xu's plan has actually caused the Han Dynasty to be in a state of no return. Now, he is doing evil in front of the emperor again, playing the role of a flower messenger, persuading the Qiang soldiers to further ask the emperor for palace maids.
Behind a murderous robber, he looks like a scribe, committing heinous crimes while successfully evading the fingers of a thousand people? As a traveler, sometimes taking refuge in the countryside, sometimes dodging in the hall of a certain prince, it is simply a wandering crime. said scheming, and even dared to let Cao Cao bow down; In his later years, he served as a lieutenant in Cao Pi's court, and his power was thriving, and he was a respected Confucian scholar.
In fact, Jia Xu's life can be summed up in two sentences: always take refuge in the strongest; Always step on others to climb up.
The emperor raised his hand and was about to speak, when Liu Bei let out a cold snort from the end of his pen with disdain: "Who is taking care of the captives?" The captives rushed out of the queue without permission, and no one controlled them? Where are the military judges? All demerits. ”
A soldier rushed out of the queue in annoyance, picked up his leather whip, and whipped it down several times, hitting Jia Xu and rolling all over the ground.
Cao Cao stepped forward and clenched his fists: "Duke Xuande, Jia Wenhe is also a minister." This person's talent, stooping to work, I'm afraid it's too much. It's better for Xuande Gong to give him to me, and I am willing to exchange thousands of captives for this person. ”
Liu Bei shook his head and thought secretly: "Guo Jia can give it to him, and even Zhuge Liang can give it to him, but Jia Xu, an extremely dangerous figure, must not come to Cao Cao." ”
"In the past, Dong Zhuo was killed, and Li Dao and Guo Yan wanted to disband the troops and flee separately. However, it was this Jia Wenhe who persuaded Li Dao and others to 'kill one to make one's capital, and kill two to earn one', so there was the kidnapping of the emperor's driver. He is in danger of chaos in the country, planting evil consequences, the Han family is in danger here, I am about to settle accounts with him, Brother Meng De, I have made up my mind, please mention it again. ”
The emperor was reminded by Liu Bei, and patted the back of the chair with his hand, resentful.
Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song bowed their heads slightly in agreement, and Yang Biao and other civil officials turned around and turned their ears to Jia Xu's wailing.
Liu Bei turned his head to discuss with Zhang Fei: "Third brother, how much do you plan to sell this person?" I'm going to buy it and torture him in the future. ”
Zhang Fei said in a snort: "If the eldest brother wants it, it doesn't hurt to take it." ”
Liu Bei shook his head: "Killing on the battlefield, capture is what you deserve, I don't want to set this precedent and take your prisoner for nothing." Say, how much does it cost? ”
Zhang Fei rolled up his sleeves and said excitedly: "Since the eldest brother said so, I'm not welcome." Just now, Brother Cao said that he was willing to give out 1,000 prisoners, so why does the eldest brother have to add more, right? ”
Guan Yu didn't say a word, turned his head and went downstairs, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were still bargaining. After a while, Guan Yu walked up to the city tower with a person's head: "Big brother, although this person is so vicious, but if the eldest brother wants to insult this person, I am afraid that the scholars will not understand, so as to slander the elder brother, and now I have killed him to relieve my brother's worries." ”
Zhang Fei jumped up: "Second brother, I have already talked to my brother about the price of a small island, a thousand gold coins, and a thousand prisoners, you bring a dead man's head, how can I sell it to my eldest brother?" ”
Lu Zhi watched the three brothers talk more and more unlikely, sighed, and bowed down to ask the emperor for instructions: "Your Majesty, the twilight is getting thicker, and the wind is strong in the city, please go back to the house and rest." ”
The ministers had this intention, pulled up the emperor, and quietly went down to the city, Cao Cao followed all the way, leaving the three brothers still arguing over who should pay on the city tower......
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