Chapter 360: Scholars for Confidants

The matter of the battlefield, everything is between lightning and flint, from Huang Qi's sneak attack on Guan Yu to Guan Yu's reflexive pursuit and killing him, it didn't take long, and it seemed very fast in the eyes of everyone.

When the rebels saw Huang Qi's flying head, they were shocked to realize that Huang Qi had been killed by Guan Yu's merciless sword, which immediately quieted down the rebel soldiers in the rear......

"Qu Shuai!"

"Thieves are looking for death!"

"Kill this fang!"

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Huang Qi's henchmen who had just arrived saw that their Qu Shuai was killed like this, they couldn't help but feel sad, and several people shouted and shouted to kill Guan Yu, after all, Huang Qi was very good to them, otherwise they couldn't help but know that Huang Qi was a bit of a wretch, and they had been loyal to each other.

Guan Yu raised his eyebrows coldly, the long beard under his chin danced in the wind, and when he saw those soldiers shouting and rushing towards him, he only remembered who he had killed. That person is the Qu Shuai who they sneaked into the cottage to guard the first cottage, it seems that his name is Huang Qi, I heard Mr. Qin say that he is the clansman of the thief leader Huang Sui, but I didn't expect it to be a big fish.

Of course, Huang Qi is a big fish but Guan Yu guessed it himself, after all, when Qin Chuan sneaked into the village at that time, he was only briefly introduced to Fuquan, and Guan Yu heard it very briefly beside him. And Guan Yu's guess was only from the news that Huang Qi was a member of the Huang Sui clan, if Guan Yu knew that Huang Qi was sent here at this moment, it is estimated that there would be no next move for him.

The soldiers on the other side who were going to fight hard, of course Guan Yu was not afraid, and he beckoned the left and right to fight together, and at this moment, he would not ask them to single out in this crowded mountain road. It's not that he can't be defeated, but the countless rebels behind those soldiers put him on guard, and no one can guarantee that those rebels will continue to join the siege of him.

I saw that Deguan Yu's big knife was waved out one after another, and the five soldiers who rushed were like paper paste, and they couldn't parry Guan Yu's attack at all, and they were cut down by two people on the ground, and the other three soldiers were beaten back again and again, and they were swept away in front of him in an instant. Taking advantage of this gap, Guan Yu quickly ran to the place where Huang Qi's head fell, and directly stabbed it into Huang Qi's fallen brain, and then raised it, shouting at the rebel soldiers who were still shocked in the distance, but still approaching him: "The head of the thief Huang Qi is here, and now the 200,000 heavenly soldiers of the Han Dynasty have arrived, if you don't surrender at this time, when will you wait?" ”

The 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Han army have arrived......

Saying this, Guan Yu himself was in disbelief for a while, and secretly said that the rumors that his coach chose to spread at that time were too good to blow, but to be honest, this momentum was very strong, at least after Guan Yu said it, he still made the other side pause.

In fact, Fuquan set up a plan to spread rumors about the number of Han troops at that time, which was just bragging, and as far as it was concerned, the most important thing was to delay the time for the rebels to come to help, so as to win enough time for the Han army to burn food. And deliberately exaggerating the troops, even to the point that they don't believe it, is actually just fooling the rebels in the future, after all, the more exaggerated the number of troops, the more difficult it is for the rebels to rescue immediately, at least until the news is confirmed to be true or false.

On the whole, this point is not bad, at least the rebel commander Qu Shuai who came to the rescue, after hearing it for the first time, although he obviously did not believe that the Han army was really attacking 200,000, but he still thought that the Han army had at least tens of thousands of soldiers. After all, when they didn't know that the Han army pretended to be a rebel to sneak in, the rebels saw that the grain and grass were burned, and thought that their own tightly guarded cottage was actually breached, and they all thought that the Han army must have tens of thousands of people to respond, both inside and outside the village, so although they sent troops to rescue the grain and grass in the mountains, they still left a certain number of soldiers to guard the cottage, for fear that the Han army would cooperate with the outside and directly break the cottage.

Of course, at this moment, with the evolution of the battle situation, the rebels have already guessed that there are thousands of soldiers of the Han army who burned the grain and grass, especially the rebel soldiers who put Fuquan in front of them and entered the mountain, and they understand that this Han army is a rebel army who pretended to take food and sneaked in, so for Guan Yu's shock, after they were a little surprised, they simply ignored it or still moved forward to fight, obviously Huang Qi's death was nothing to them at all.

Guan Yu was surprised that the rebel soldiers in front of him ignored him, but he didn't have time to think about it, if Huang Qi, as a member of the Huang Sui clan, couldn't deter the rebel soldiers, then he could only lead the remaining more than 100 soldiers under his command to continue to defend to the death, and Fu Quan didn't give any other orders, he had to stay here, even if he died in battle, he couldn't retreat.

It's just that just as Guan Yu was about to continue to delay the speed of the rebels' advance, the crossbowmen behind him all shouted: "General, there are no arrows." ”

The sound came into Guan Yu's ears like a thunderbolt from the sky, making his face extremely cold, but for the rebels in front of him, the voice was like a heavenly sound, only to see that the momentum of the rebels changed suddenly, their eyes showed more bloodthirsty breath, and their footsteps moved towards Guan Yu and the others in a hurry.

Indeed, the reason why Guan Yu was able to block the rebels so "easily" was not only because of the narrow terrain of the mountain road, but also because of the dense bows and crossbows of the Han army. Compared with the more sporadic arrows of the rebels, the dense rain of arrows of the Han army took the lives of many rebel soldiers who came to fight with the Han army, and the rest of the people who could rush into the Han army formation, and the number of people who were desperate with Guan Yu and others was also very small, naturally for the Han army with a fierce general like Guan Yu, the rebels would not cause them too much damage.

But now, there are no arrows, which means that the Han army has no long-range weapons to rely on to make the rebels fearful, and they can only fight the rebels hand-to-hand if they want to stop the rebels. And once it is hand-to-hand, it is obvious that the rebels who have the advantage in numbers have a great chance of winning, and they can continue to fight the Han army, step by step, until Guan Yu's soldiers are consumed.

"Woohoo! Do you want to die? Anyway, the scholar is used for the confidant, and the woman is the one who pleases herself, and I have a great grace to keep it, and treat me as a national soldier, and today is the time for me to repay the national soldier. Guan Yu thought that it would be difficult to be good today, and remembered all the things that Fuquan had done to him in the past, and couldn't help but shout from his heart.

Then his eyes were cold, even if the rebels in front of him wanted to kill him today, he would have to pay a certain price, he Guan Yu always had to die, and he had to die as he deserved, even if he couldn't become the name of the world, he had to settle his worries for the monarch.

Now, these surging rebels in front of him are what his lord is worried about, and it is something that he Guan Yu must solve, even if he can't solve it, he will die on the way to solve it.

At that time, Yu Yu, the grandson of Bi Yang, a chivalrous man of the Jin Kingdom, gave Fan and Zhongxing as ministers, but he was not reused, so he joined Zhibo and gained favor. Later, Han, Zhao, and Wei divided the land of Zhibo, among which Zhao Xiangzi hated Zhibo the most, and used Zhibo's skull as a drinking vessel. The man dies for the confidant, and the woman is the one who pleases herself. I will avenge the revenge of the Zhi clan. In order to show his belief in avenging his lord Jun Zhi clan to the death, he even worked hard for this oath all his life, and never changed his original intention.

After Yu Rang expressed his intentions, he decided to kill Zhao Xiangzi, but Zhao Xiangzi was really the king of a country after all, and it was so difficult to assassinate him. After that, Yu Rang thought about it and could only "change his name, become a prisoner, enter the palace to paint the toilet, and want to stab Xiangzi", and was released in an attempted manner, and then "paint his body to be strong, kill his eyebrows, punish himself to change his appearance, and beg for the beggar", so self-harmed, so that he came to the point that "his wife does not know, and said: 'The appearance is not like my husband, and his voice is even like my husband'", and then "swallowed charcoal and changed his voice", and since then he has really become another person, and what he did was only to be able to assassinate Zhao Xiangzi, the enemy of the lord Jun Zhibo, Just to avenge the Lord.

Although in the end, Yu Rang's several assassinations were unsuccessful, and he failed to avenge his lord, and in the end, he could only stab Zhao Xiangzi's robe with a sword, so as to use the assassination robe instead of assassinating Zhao Xiangzi, leaving behind the eternal story of "drawing the sword and jumping three times, calling the sky to strike: 'And you can report to the uncle'". But there is no doubt that this emotion is admirable, so that even if Yu Rang assassinated Zhao Xiangzi, the monarch of Zhao State, the loyal people of Zhao State wept and felt sorry for him after hearing about Yu Rang's deeds.

Now, Guan Yu quoted what Yu Rang talked about in his words, and he has made clear his intentions, and today is the time when he Guan Yu has been ordered to gamble, be loyal to the Han Dynasty, and be loyal to the monarch, "Although there are thousands of people, I will go." The king treats me as a countryman, and I should repay him as a countryman! You treat me as a passerby, and I repay it as a passerby! You treat me with mustard, and I should repay him with revenge!

This is his Guan Yu's ambition, serving the monarch, and even if there are all difficulties ahead, he will not fall into his will.

The rebels' offensive this time was not as chaotic as before, after all, there was no threat of bows and crossbows, and they could have a hand-to-hand fight with the Han army without any scruples. At this moment, their faces are full of vengeful anger, and they want to slaughter the wave of Han troops in front of them that have made them lose face, so as to eliminate the hatred in their hearts. Even the commanders of the various departments in their rear no longer urged them to put out the fire at this time, but instead shouted for them to kill these Han troops, which was really Guan Yu's hundreds of people blocking thousands of rebels and making the rebels lose face.

Seeing that the rebels on the opposite side were gathering fiercely this time, and the offensive was getting closer and closer, Guan Yu was holding a long knife in his hand, and he was already ready to make his last words to the left and right, but he heard a shout from the rear: "Yun Chang, quickly retreat!" ”

The voice Guan Yu is familiar with, it is the voice of his Hedong Township Party, the younger brother Xu Huang, he should have stayed by the side of Taishou Fuquan all the time, and now that he is here, it means that Taishou is here, in other words, this is Fuquan's order.

Thinking about things clearly in his mind for a moment, Guan Yu hurriedly shouted left and right: "Withdraw!" After speaking, he did not leave immediately, but waited for the arrival of the rebels with a knife, he cherished his soldiers, retreated at this time, naturally he would not be the first to retreat, and if he wanted to retreat, he would not retreat until all the soldiers under his command retreated.

Of course, if Guan Yu does not retreat, his own soldiers will not retreat, and on the side of the Han army, there will soon be a scene where Guan Yu led a few people to support the remnants of the wounded soldiers for more than 100 people. Seeing this, the rebels over there naturally would not ignore the retreat of Guan Yu's troops, after all, if Guan Yu was allowed to retreat calmly, how could their anger be dissipated?

The rebels sped up their pace to pursue, and for them, the few soldiers brought by Guan Yu in front of them were just mantis arms as a car at this moment. It's just that just as the rebels were howling and attacking, the arrows in the sky suddenly came, and this time, there were more arrows than Guan Yu had sent out to block them, completely covering the positions of hundreds of people in front of the rebels at once.

"Ahh Ah......" The cries of countless rebels rang out one after another, and the rebels who were lucky not to be hit by the crossbow behind them saw that their companions in front of them fell to the ground one after another, with countless arrows stuck in their bodies, looking at the number of those arrows, it is estimated that even if these people do not die, they will have half a life left.

Just when these rebels lost their minds for a short time, there were loud "killing" sounds in front, and I saw that there seemed to be thousands of Han soldiers howling towards them, and with their offensive came another suffocating rain of arrows and arrows, obviously the reinforcements of the Han army arrived. Of course, the reinforcements of the Han army will not be other troops, but only nearly 1,000 soldiers who stayed in the valley in Fuquan to burn the grain and grass of more than 120,000 soldiers of the rebels.

The rebels' grain and grass have been completely burned, so there is only one thing for Fuquan next, that is, to drive away the rebels from other places and break through before reinforcements arrive.

In the Han army's formation, Fu Quan looked at the front with cold eyes, and said to the herald soldiers around him: "Order Xu Huang and Yan Yan's troops to quickly break through the rebels in front, and after Huang Zhong's troops are broken, order all departments not to fight and break through with the army." ”

"No!"

The benefits of having a new force are obvious, not to mention that at this moment, the rebel soldiers who have already worked hard to break through Guan Yu's department at night, with bows and crossbows on them, and the elite of the Han army who have just finished setting fire and are in high spirits, those rebel soldiers were stunned at once, and they couldn't withstand this wave of offensive of the Han army like a tide.

Soon, there were soldiers in the rebel army who collapsed and retreated, facing hundreds of people, they couldn't break through with thousands of them, and now the Han army has thousands of people, where can they fight?

Seeing this, Fu Quan hurriedly ordered all the troops and horses to drive the defeated soldiers on the spot, not to rush and kill too much, because there was only one direction for these rebels to flee, that is, the three camps they passed through when they came.

Just as Fu Quan had long observed, the three camps were strong on the outside and weak on the inside, attacking from the inside, the wooden gate could not resist much at all, and now he was just going to use these rebel defeats as a weapon to break through the walled city.

"Jinyang's grandson Yu let the matter know the uncle, the uncle favored, and Zhao Xiangzi killed the uncle, Yu let escape from the mountains, saying: 'Woohoo! The scholar is used by the confidant, and the woman is the one who pleases himself, and I repay the wisdom of the family. ’”…… Then he fell on his sword and died. On the day of death, when the people of Zhao heard it, they all wept.

Excerpt from "Warring States Policy: Zhao Ce"

The former Zeng Zi said to Zixiang: "The son is so brave? I have heard of the great courage of the master. Self-reflection does not shrink, although brown and broad, I do not worry; Shrinking from self-reflection, although there are tens of millions of people, I will go. ”

Excerpt from "Mencius: Gongsun Chou Shang"