Volume 4 Enthronement Chapter 62 Guan Gong Goes Out of the Slope Valley
In the second year of the dragon, in the first year of Zhangwu of the Shu Han Dynasty, the former general Meng Da led 100,000 troops.
Meng Da naturally did not have an army of 100,000 in his hands, in fact, Meng Da only had more than 20,000 people, but Meng Da's operation was originally to cooperate with the actions of Liu Bei's army and contain part of the military strength of Cao's army, so bluffing was naturally indispensable.
Jingzhou Muxia Hou Shang immediately sent people back to ask for help, and at this time, Cao Zhen's army had also gone to Yongzhou.
After receiving Xiahou Shang's return, Sima Yi suggested to Cao Zhen that Cao Zhen lead the army to Yongzhou first, while Sima Yi himself led 20,000 troops to Xiangyang to help Xiahou Shang solve Meng Da's worries first.
Sima Yi's origin is good. Although Meng Da falsely claimed to be 100,000, there were not so many people in fact, and this persimmon had to be picked up softly, so Sima Yi decided to solve Meng Da first. Moreover, Yongzhou is so big, it is impossible for Liu Bei to completely occupy Yongzhou in a short period of time. This also made Sima Yi think that it was not too late to solve Meng Da first and then go to Yongzhou.
Moreover, when Sima Yi followed Cao Cao's garrison before, he also did some homework on Shangyong.
The three cities of Xicheng, Shangyong, and Xincheng are connected from west to east in a line, which also gives Meng Da enough strategic depth. If Cao's army attacked, Meng Da could rely on the three cities to garrison layer by layer and wait for reinforcements from Hanzhong. Therefore, under normal circumstances, if the Wei army wants to capture the strategic location of Shangyong, the possibility of success is not great.
Normal offense can't take the three cities of Shangyong, so naturally you have to find some unconventional methods, and Neiying is a good choice, at this time, Sima Yi noticed the two brothers Shen Tan and Shen Yi stationed in Xicheng. So Sima Yi immediately sent someone to secretly contact the two brothers, Shen Tan and Shen Yi.
At this time in Xincheng, the two brothers Shen Tan and Shen Yi were kneeling in front of Meng Da.
Meng Da sent troops to Jingzhou, the so-called three armies did not move the grain and grass first, Xicheng as the rear of Shangyong, naturally there was a lot of grain and grass, so Meng Da ordered Shen Tan and Shen Yi to transport grain and grass.
Ever since Meng Da knew that this prince didn't like the Shen family brothers. began to think about how to please Adou. With the identity of Mengdadi. wants to deliberately find fault with the Shen family brothers. That's too easy. At last. Meng Da asked the two men to carry grain and grass. And then secretly make it bad.
Meng Da ordered the two of them to transport grain and grass to Xincheng within ten days. Ten days is not a small number. But Meng Da sent people to destroy the road. Deliberately delaying the trip of the two. As a result, the two brothers of the Shen family hurried to hurry. It's still two days late.
"Shen Tan, Shen Yi. I command you to wait for the grain to arrive here within ten days. But it took you two twelve days. Now the war is urgent. If it is because of the lack of food in the army, the morale of the army is disturbed. How can you two afford it! Meng Da had a calm face. Speak.
"General. It's just that I don't have to wait. In fact, the road is difficult. I'll wait day and night. It's still two days late! Shen Tan hurriedly explained.
"Difficult roads? How was the road good when my army came? It must be you two quibbles! "Meng Da is deliberately finding fault. Naturally, there is land as an excuse. Although this ploy is despicable. There's nothing technical either. But Munda is the manager. Here Mengda is the largest. It's not like Meng Da can say whatever he wants.
Shen Tan and Shen Yi glanced at each other. At this time, the two of them noticed at the same time that Meng Da was a little different today. A trace of uneasiness welled up in the hearts of both of them at the same time.
"The last general will be guilty, the last will delay the grain and grass, the crime deserves death, please forgive the general!" After Shen Yi realized that something was wrong, she rolled her eyes and immediately spoke. And Shen Tan next to him also begged for mercy.
Both of them can see that Meng Da doesn't seem to be in a good mood now, at this time, don't argue with Meng Da, the so-called heroes don't suffer immediate losses, and now they still follow Meng Da a little, it's a big deal to be reprimanded, and the most serious thing is only a few military sticks.
"Well, since the two of you are guilty, then come here, put these two people in prison for me, and wait for the fall!" Meng Da said.
The wolf-like soldiers on both sides immediately rushed over and pressed the two out.
Seeing the two being escorted out, the two generals behind Meng Da stood up at the same time.
One of these two people is Li Fu, and they are Meng Da's henchmen. And the other person is called Deng Xian, of course, this Deng Xian is not the general under Liu Zhang, the two just have the same name and surname, and now this Deng Xian next to Meng Da is Meng Da's nephew.
"Uncle, which one are you singing today! Why do you want to punish Shen Tan and Shen Yi? Deng Xian asked.
"You think that's what I meant? I'm telling you, that's what the prince meant! The prince doesn't like these two, your uncle and I naturally have to share the prince's worries! Meng Da said.
"The prince doesn't like these two?" At this time, Deng Xian had already understood the intention of Meng Da's move.
I saw Meng Da look at Li Fu beside him and said: "Shen Tan and Shen Yi committed suicide in fear of crime, and they have committed suicide in prison!" Li Fu, I'll leave this matter to you! ”
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In prison. Shen Tan and Shen Yi were locked up together.
"I always feel that something is wrong today, could it be that someone deliberately framed you and me?" Shen Tan said.
"Hmph, what's 'Mo Fei', it's simply someone who wants to frame the two of us! When I get out, I must find out who dares to oppose us! Shen Yi said.
"Are you here, General Meng Da is also a little abnormal today."
"Yes, don't you say that I forgot, Meng Da is indeed a little abnormal today. But don't worry, Li Fu, the confidant general next to Meng Da, can receive a lot of benefits from us on weekdays, and he will definitely ensure that we go out! ”
As soon as Shen Yi's words fell, the cell door was opened, and a person walked in outside, it was Li Fu.
"General Li, we're here!" Shen Tan hurriedly shouted.
Only Li Fu came to the two of them, and Shen Yi asked, "General Li, today."
Someone wants to frame the two of us, and General Li must help our brother get out of trouble
And Shen Tan also added: "Yes, after the matter is completed, my brothers and sisters will definitely be grateful." ”
"Thank you? The two of you don't have to, Li can't afford it this time! Li Fu sighed, and then said: "It's not a secret, Li came to take the lives of the two of them this time!" ”
"What?" Shen Tan and Shen Yi looked at Li Fu's serious expression and knew that Li Fu was not joking.
Thinking that the two of them were framed this time, and Li Fu came today, Shen Tan and Shen Yi naturally thought of four words to kill and extinguish. So it seems that this is also Li Fu who framed them.
"Li Fu, my two brothers have always taken you well, why do you want to frame me and me?" Shen Tan roared angrily.
"The two of you misunderstood, it's not that I, Li Fu, want to harm you, I, Li Fu, are also ordered by others, and I can't help myself!"
"What do you mean by that?"
"You better think about when the two of you offended the prince!" Then Li Fu took two large bowls of food and a large pot of wine from the cell head behind him, handed them in through the cell door, and said at the same time: "Let's eat some first, when you are full, Li will send the two on the road."
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Xiangyang.
"You say it again? Shen Yi and Shen Tan committed suicide because of delaying the transportation of grain and grass? Sima Yi asked with an unhappy face.
Sima Yi was about to use Shen Yi and Shen Tan, but it was such a coincidence that these two died at this time, and they committed suicide in fear of crime!
Sima Yi thought about it carefully, this Shen Yi and Shen Dangdi were full of loopholes. First of all, if the road is impassable, it will be fine if the Meng Da army passes, but when it comes to Shen Yi and Shen Tan, the road will be broken, and the difference between before and after is only a few days, and there is a strange feeling in it.
Moreover, although Shen Yi and Shen Tan delayed the grain and grass, the main reason was because of road problems, and they did not delay the use of grain and grass for the army. And Meng Da locked up Shen Tan and Shen Yi, and did not say that he wanted to kill the two, and the two of them could not seek their own death at all. This is the second flaw.
In addition, Meng Da's reaction was too calm. Shen Yi and Shen Tan died, but Meng Da did not say anything about it. As the commander of the three armies, his generals died, and the commander didn't even say a word, he still went his own way, and did what he had to do, as if he had never given birth to such a thing, which is absolutely unreasonable.
Sima Yi linked these three suspicions together, and finally came to a conclusion, that is, Meng Da had known the inside story of this matter for a long time, and maybe the mastermind behind this was Meng Da himself.
"Could it be that my plan has been seen through by Meng Da, so he deliberately set this trap for Shen Tan and Shen Yi to get rid of these two?" Thinking of this, Sima Yi shook his head again. If you say that your own plan is seen through by Meng Da, unless this Meng Da will be unpredictable!
"Humph!" Sima Yi snorted coldly: "Meng Da Xiaoer, even if you don't have Shen Tan and Shen Yi as the internal response, I will let you die without a place to be buried!" ”
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Slope Valley.
Liu Bei ordered Guan Yu to lead his troops out of the valley to confuse the Cao army, so that the Cao army mistakenly thought that Liu Bei's main force would come out of the valley.
The valley is only 200 miles away from Chang'an than the Meridian Valley, and between the valley and Chang'an, only the county is a barrier on the ground, and after the county, you can reach Chang'an by going straight up the river. That is to say, as long as Guan Yu can break through the county, he can directly enter Chang'an City.
And more importantly, it was Guan Yu who led the troops this time, it was not long before the flooded Seventh Army shocked Huaxia, even if Cao Zhen knew that Guan Yu was only a partial division and not the main force, he would inevitably solve Guan Yu first, after all, this sloping valley was too close to Chang'an, and Guan Yu's army was in urgent need.
After Cao Zhen came to Yongzhou, he heard that Guan Yu had left the valley, and immediately led his troops to the county to resist Guan Yu.
In comparison, Guan Yu had few soldiers, only 30,000 people, and although Cao Zhen was taken away by Sima Yi with 20,000 people, he still had 80,000 people in his hands. Coupled with some people and horses brought from Chang'an and the county, Cao Zhen's people and horses are three times as large as about Yu.
It stands to reason that this side with few people should be on the defensive, but Guan Yu didn't think so, Guan Yu heard that Cao Zhen led the army to the county, but instead of avoiding its edge, he directly led the army to Wuzhangyuan next to the county. And set up camp in Wuzhangyuan.
I have to say that Guan Yu's move is a wonderful move. Cao Zhen is now that Guan Yu has few people, and he even dared to go out of the Xiegu to garrison Wuzhangyuan, thinking that Guan Yu must have something to rely on, at this time Cao Zhen is even more sure that Liu Bei's army must also go to the Xiegu, and then arrive, otherwise Guan Yu would not dare to garrison Wuzhangyuan so swaggeringly.
Guan Yu is well versed in the art of war, so he naturally knows that his 30,000 horses are suspicious now, and the purpose is to attract Cao Jundi's attention and create an opportunity for Liu Bei to go out of Qishan. Therefore, if he is cowardly now and retreats to the sloping valley, Cao Zhen will inevitably be suspicious, and he will not be able to play the role of confusing Cao Jun at that time. That's why Guan Yu entered Wuzhangyuan.
In order to make Cao Zhen more convinced that there was Liu Beidi's army behind him, after garrisoning Wuzhangyuan, Guan Yu not only did not defend, but put on an offensive posture, and on the second day, he took Guan Ping and Zhou Cang to the front of the county to call for battle.
Guan Yu dared to come out and call out the battle so aggressively, which made Cao Zhen even more sure that Liu Bei's army would inevitably be behind, so Guan Yu dared to be so fearless. And nearly 100,000 people, 30,000 people were blocked at the door to call the battle, if there was no battle, the ground would indeed damage morale, so Cao Zhen led his generals out of the county to meet the enemy.
At this time, Guan Yu was only pressing the formation in the back, and it was Liao Hua who was calling the formation in front.
"Hmph, just a Liao Hua, dare to come out
People are going to take Liao Hua's life? Cao Zhen asked.
"The last will go!" I only heard that a general next to him stood up, it was Yang Qiu, the general of Kou.
Yang Qiu was originally a general under Han Sui, who had followed Ma Chao and Han Sui to oppose Cao, and later Ma Chao Han Sui failed, Yang Qiu surrendered to Cao Cao, and was named a liehou by Cao Cao, guarding Weikou.
Cao Zhen saw Yang Qiu's invitation to fight, and nodded. This Yang Qiu was originally one of the eight generals under Han Sui, and he was quite famous in Liangzhou, and he should be able to confront Liao Hua.
When Guan Yu was in Jingzhou, Liao Hua was the pioneer of Guan Yu's subordinates, and Liao Hua also learned some skills from Guan Yu on weekdays. And since Guan Yu dared to let Liao Hua go into battle, he was naturally very relieved about Liao Hua.
Liao Hua and Yang Qiu fought for more than 40 rounds, because Yang Qiu was more than ten years older than Liao Hua, so he gradually felt that his physical strength was a little weak, and the last one was not careful, and was beheaded by Liao Hua.
"Liao Huaxiu is leaving, take your life!" At the moment when Yang Qiu was killed by Liao Hua, a general appeared in Cao's army and went straight to Liao Hua.
This person's name is Candidate, of course, he was the same as Yang Qiu as the eight generals under Han Sui, and later he also took refuge in Cao Cao, and was also named a liehou by Cao Cao. The candidate has a good relationship with Yang Qiu, and now that he sees Yang Qiu dead, he immediately comes out to avenge Yang Qiu.
This candidate is two years older than Yang Qiu, and his martial arts are not as good as Yang Qiu, so more than 20 moves were beheaded by Liao Hua.
"Liao Hua'er, dare to hurt my general!" Zhang was angry and was about to come out of the horse, but a person flashed out from the side and stopped Zhang.
"Kill chickens with a knife, no need for the general to do it, the last general is willing to take Liao Hua's head!" Stopped Zhang and said, Cao Zhen looked at it, the name of the person who spoke was Wang Shuang!
Wang Shuang is a fierce general under Cao Zhen, with superb martial arts and infinite strength, using a sixty-pound sword. However, in addition to martial arts, this Wang Shuang is not good at the art of war, so he has only mixed with a Yamen general at present.
Cao Zhen knew that Wang Shuang was brave, so he immediately nodded and agreed to allow Wang Shuang to fight.
Wang Shuang raised his knife and rushed towards Liao Hua, and the two fought more than 40 moves, and this time it was Liao Hua's turn to be a little overwhelmed.
After all, Liao Hua has already fought twice, and his physical strength has been exhausted, and Wang Shuang on the other side is a guy with infinite strength, so gradually, Liao Hua has declined.
However, Liao Hua was much smarter than Yang Qiu's candidate, Liao Hua saw that he was defeated, and immediately made a false move, turned the horse's head and ran, and Wang Shuang immediately chased after him.
Seeing that Wang Shuang was about to catch up with Liao Hua, a loud shout came from the side: "Wang Shuang, eat me with a knife!" ”
As the voice came, Wang Shuang only felt a murderous aura envelop him, and then, a figure rushed in front of Wang Shuang like lightning.
"Look at the knife!" I saw a big knife slashing at Wang Shuang's throat, and Wang Shuang didn't care about chasing Liao Hua at this time, so he hurriedly raised his knife to parry.
“!” The sparks splashed everywhere, and Wang Shuang was forced to retreat several steps by this knife.
Wang Shuang hurriedly fixed his eyes and watched, and it was Guan Ping who came now.
At this time, Guan Ping was also slightly surprised, the knife just now was one of the killing moves that Guan Ping learned from Guan Yu, Guan Yu killed Yan Liang in one second back then, and this was the trick he used, and Guan Ping used this trick to try and do. Unexpectedly, Wang Shuang on the opposite side actually blocked it.
"That thief, eat me a few more times!" Guan Ping saw that Wang Shuang was wearing just the ordinary armor of General Yamen, and he looked down on Wang Shuang a little in his heart, so he didn't even ask Wang Shuang's name, and took Wang Shuang directly with his knife. The two immediately fought together.
Wang Shuangdi's knife weighs sixty pounds, but Guan Ping's big knife is made according to Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue Knife, which weighs eighty pounds, so Wang Shuang does not take advantage of weapons, and now Guan Ping has obtained the true inheritance of Guan Yudi, although it is not as good as Guan Yu at the peak, but looking at the world, it can be regarded as a super-first-class general.
After only a dozen moves, Wang Shuang appeared, Guan Ping's martial arts are definitely his own, if he continues to fight like this, he will be defeated.
So Wang Shuang made a false move, turned the horse's head and ran back, and Guan Ping immediately chased after him.
This Wang Shuang actually has another killer move, that is the meteor hammer, Wang Shuang knew that the face was not Guan Ping's opponent, so he immediately chose to defeat and waited for the opportunity to use the meteor hammer to sneak attack Guan Ping.
I saw Wang Shuang secretly find out the meteor hammer, and then suddenly turned around, the meteor hammer "swished", and went straight to the gate of the closed plane.
Although Wang Shuang's attack was sudden, Guan Ping was three points more powerful, only to see Guan Ping raise his knife and easily take away Wang Shuang's meteor hammer.
"The thief will dare to use a secret weapon and eat me with an arrow!" Guan Ping bent his bow and set up an arrow, and an arrow shot at Wang Shuanghou's heart.
Wang Shuang is back to Guan Ping, naturally it is not easy to dodge, plus Wang Shuang is nine feet tall, with big shoulders and a round waist, and the target is relatively large, so even if Wang Shuang desperately dodge, he still didn't dodge, this arrow finally hit Wang Shuang's shoulder, Wang Shuang screamed, and accelerated to escape back into the formation.
At this time, Zhang was about to go out of battle, but was stopped by Cao Zhen. Cao Zhen has lost three battles in a row, his morale is low, and Guan Yu, the most powerful person on the opposite side, has not yet come out, if he loses Zhang again, this loss will be great. So Cao Zhen ordered to stick to the county, and the soldiers of the three armies must not fight easily.
At the same time that Guan Yu and Cao Zhen were fighting, Liu Bei's army of more than 100,000 also left Qishan.
The situation on Liu Bei's side will be very fast, and it will be passed by in one stroke. After all, Liu Bei's strength is too strong, there are many generals, and the quality is high, so there must not be much suspense about the outcome or defeat. The next chapter returns to Chengdu and writes Adou! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next.) More chapters, support &UC e-book&! )