Zhang Fei, who was mixed in the crowd, was a little dumbfounded when he saw the hanging basket put down from the city, which was different from what he had expected. What can you do by going up on your own? Although he was confident in his bravery, Zhang Fei was not arrogant enough to think that he could take Ximen with just this little man under his hands. After going up, he killed Cai Mao and Zhang Yun? If it was the original Jingzhou army guarding the west gate at this time, it would have been possible to use this to deter success, but how could the Tiebi Army be in turmoil because Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, the two temporary officials, were killed.

"What do you mean, General?" Zhang Daniu loudly questioned Cai Mao in the city.

"The city gate should not be opened lightly, if you want to enter the city, then sit in the hanging basket, and I will order someone to take you into the city." Cai Mao also explained loudly.

"Isn't it troublesome for the general to do this? The gates don't need to be opened, as long as the passageway is opened to allow me to wait in, it won't take much time. Zhang Daniu still suggested to Cai Mao with a glimmer of hope. Just didn't wait for Cai Mao to speak, Zhang Yun on the side had already said angrily: "Bold, you blindly want to open the city gate, what is your intention?" ”

"The villain didn't dare, he just felt that making a hanging basket was time-consuming and laborious...... Zhang Daniu hurriedly explained.

At the same time that Zhang Daniu was trying to find an excuse to persuade Cai Mao to open the city gate, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, who were waiting for the news, also received the current report, and learned that Cai Mao refused to open the city gate, but just let people put a hanging basket to pick up people, Liu Bei couldn't help but be a little disappointed, the city gate was not opened, and the third brother would not help even if he entered the city, but it was easy for people to see through. Zhang Fei deliberately hid in the crowd of more than 200 people and it was not easy for people to find out, but if he sat in the hanging basket, Cai Mao and Zhang Yunke knew Zhang Fei.

"Military advisor ......" Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang, hoping that Zhuge Liang could think of a way. Zhuge Liang was also helpless, he didn't expect Cai Mao to suddenly become so shrewd, but the top priority at the moment was to deceive the city gate. After a slight groan, Zhuge Liang said to Liu Bei: "Lord, you can order Chen Zhi to lead his troops to make a feint attack and force Cai Mao to open the city." ”

"Uncle Zhi, go quickly." Liu Bei nodded and instructed Chen Zhidao.

Chen Zhi agreed, immediately ordered 5,000 soldiers, and rushed to the west of the city to kill him. Zhang Daniu, who was arguing with Cai Mao, was secretly happy when he saw this, and hurriedly said to Cai Mao: "General, the enemy is coming, please open the city gate quickly and let us enter the city." ”

Even if it is a peacetime, Cai Mao will not care about the life or death of the defeated soldiers under the city when he encounters this situation, let alone now. Zhang Daniu's deliberate delay had already made Cai Mao suspicious, and he was secretly glad that he had listened to Kuai Yue's opinion before, how could he open the city gate because of Zhang Daniu's words.

"The city gate will not be opened, you wait to go around the city as soon as possible, and Hugh will delay your own life here." Cai Mao shouted loudly to the soldiers under the city.

Zhang Daniu still refused to give up when he heard this, and led everyone to mourn under the city, but Cai Mao's performance at this time was hard-hearted, unmoved, and secretly ordered Zhang Yun to select five hundred crossbowmen to standby.

Chen Dao's soldiers and horses were getting closer and closer, and seeing that they were about to rush to the city, Cai Mao no longer paid attention to Zhang Daniu and others, who had turned their pleas into insults under the city, and commanded the soldiers in the city to start firing arrows to attack Liu Beijun, who was approaching.

"Lord, Mingjin let the three generals come back, it seems that the plan made before Liang has failed." Zhuge Liang looked at the west gate of Wancheng and said to Liu Bei helplessly.

Liu Bei was also very depressed at this time, and when he heard Zhuge Liang's reminder, he nodded slightly and ordered Ming Jin. Hearing the sound of gold, not only Chen Zhi led his troops to retreat, but Zhang Daniu and others, who had been lying under the city, also began to retreat. Seeing this, Zhang Yun couldn't help but scold: "Sure enough, there is fraud!" Come on, release arrows with me, and Hugh will let go of these things that eat inside and out! ”

Five hundred crossbowmen who had been secretly prepared immediately stepped forward to release arrows, before Zhang Daniu and others in order to seek realism, there were not a lot of protective gear on their bodies, and at this time they had not run far, this time they were suddenly attacked, and most of them were shot and killed in a hurry, and more than 100 people fell one after another, which revealed Zhang Fei who was hiding in the crowd before.

"Uncle, look, it's Zhang Fei!" Zhang Yun's eyes were sharp, and he recognized Zhang Fei's big black man at a glance. At this time, Cai Mao was also excited, and urged repeatedly: "Release the arrow!" Shoot the arrows! Shoot this guy! ”

Zhang Fei had his own soldiers around him who sacrificed his life to protect him, and finally returned to his home camp unharmed, while Zhang Daniu, who was responsible for deceiving the city gate, was not so lucky. He was originally the captain of Wei Yan's own army, but Liu Bei did not succeed in recruiting Wei Yan, so he recruited Zhang Daniu according to Zhuge Liang's suggestion. I thought I could make a great contribution this time and experience what it was like to be a general, but I didn't want to lose my life here.

"Yide, are you hurt?" Liu Bei hurriedly asked with concern after seeing Zhang Fei return safely.

"The eldest brother is relieved, the younger brother is fine, but I feel a little aggrieved in my heart." Zhang Fei replied a little depressed.

Not to mention that Zhang Fei felt depressed, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang also felt this way at this time. This Cai Mao did not follow the arrangement of the script, which is indeed a headache.

"Big brother, since you can't deceive the city gate, let's storm it. This Ximen is Cai Mao and Zhang Yun's two soft eggs, and the younger brother is confident that he can win this door. Zhang Fei asked Liu Bei for battle.

"Yi De Mo is in a hurry, this matter needs to be considered in the long run." Liu Bei did not agree, and comforted Zhang Feidao.

“…… Big brother, is there something wrong? Seeing this, Zhang Fei asked tentatively.

"Uh...... Before you returned, Cao Cao's messenger arrived. ”

"Cao Cao's messenger? Who is it? What do you do now? Zhang Fei asked puzzled.

"Three generals, now that the court is powerful, no prince can resist alone. The princes of the five roads in the world, Cao Cao has already contacted Hebei and Jiangdong, and naturally wants to draw our Jingzhou over. Zhuge Liang explained to Zhang Fei for Liu Bei.

"Oh, what does the big brother think?" Zhang Fei looked at Liu Bei and asked.

"Hmm...... Third brother, to be honest, I am a little embarrassed for my brother now. There are a lot of grudges between Cao Cao and our brothers, I think if it wasn't for Cao Cao, you and I might have occupied Jiangdong, but now, the overall situation is important, if we sit and watch Cao Cao fall, maybe our brothers are the next target of the imperial court. ”

"Big brother, what's so embarrassing about this? You also said that the overall situation is important, and our feud with Cao Cao can be calculated slowly in the future, and the most important thing at the moment is not to let the power of the imperial court continue to grow. ”

"Well, the third brother has a point." Liu Bei nodded.

……

Whoever achieves great things is not informal. Cao Cao knew that Liu Bei's enmity with himself would definitely end with a one-man game, but he also knew that Liu Bei would not refuse to join forces with him against the imperial court at this time. In general, ambitious people can also tell whether others are ambitious or not. Cao Cao was an ambitious man, and he also saw that Liu Bei was not a fuel-efficient lamp. The reason why Liu Bei was calculated at the beginning was that Cao Cao did not expect that the strength of the imperial court would recover so quickly, and second, Cao Cao had already seen Liu Bei's strength and knew that if he was allowed to develop in Jiangdong, he would definitely compete with him for the Central Plains in the future. And what's even more terrifying is that Cao Cao is worried that Yuan Shao in Hebei and Liu Bei in Jiangdong will join forces to deal with him, and Cao Cao can't cope with it no matter how capable he is.

But now it is not what it used to be, the imperial court has now become Cao Cao and Liu Bei, the biggest enemies who are trying to achieve their hegemony in this troubled world, to put it simply, Liu Xie is good, Cao Cao and Liu Bei must be sad, in order to avoid being sad, Cao Cao and Liu Bei must and can only join forces to deal with Liu Xie first.

It was not the first time Xu You had come to see Liu Bei, and he also knew what Cao Cao's purpose was in sending him to see Liu Bei at this time. The same purpose as when Xu Yu came to Jingzhou for the first time, Cao Cao still hoped that Jingzhou could harass Liu Xie's rear at this time, even if it was not a real fight, as long as Liu Xie's rear was unstable, then they would be much better.

But the problem is that Liu Bei is not stupid, and he will not be fooled by Xu You casually to solve Cao Cao's worries. He knew very well that Cao Cao was asking for himself at the moment, although he couldn't sit back and watch Cao Cao finish playing, but he could take the opportunity to blackmail him, and it was still okay to ask for some benefits for himself and export his evil anger by the way.

Fortunately, Xu You got Cao Cao's instructions before he came, and expected that Liu Bei would definitely use the topic to make things difficult for himself, in the face of Liu Bei's unreasonable request, Xu You did not let go, and in turn threatened Liu Bei, if he sat back and watched Cao Cao fall, then Cao Cao would simply surrender to the court, and at that time Liu Bei's life or death would not matter to him Cao Cao.

Liu Bei was amused by Xu You's words. Since his debut, Liu Bei has always been a scoundrel with others, when has he ever been relied on? You must know that Liu Bei's idol is Gaozu, who is Gaozu? Liu Bangye. And Liu Bang's personality, in modern times, is a black-skinned scoundrel, and he has nothing to do with good people anyway.

Cao Cao dared to play a scoundrel with Liu Bei, in Liu Bei's opinion, it was Confucius's family name selling in front of Confucius, and he couldn't help himself! But fortunately, there is still a Zhuge Liang next to Liu Bei who focuses on the overall situation, and he will not watch Liu Bei mess around. Just when Liu Bei was about to compare with Cao Cao who was a scoundrel, he stepped in to stop him.

After some bargaining, the two families agreed that Liu Bei would send troops to attack Sizhou to ensure that the rear of the Han army would be restless, and after the imperial court withdrew, Cao Cao needed to hand over Yuzhou to Liu Bei as a reward. At present, Yanyu Erzhou is basically controlled by the imperial court, and it is still unknown whether Cao Cao can recapture it.

"Military advisor, why do you want Yuzhou?" After Xu You left, Liu Bei couldn't help but ask Zhuge Liangdao.

"Lord, if this is not the case, how can Cao Cao fight against the imperial court with peace of mind?"

"Then we really want to attack Sizhou for him?" Liu Bei asked again.

"The lord is confused, it's just a raid, and it's not a siege of the city and the county, just order a member to lead hundreds of rangers to wander around in Sizhou, and our target is not here."

"Yes, yes, we have to save our strength to take Bashu, and we don't have time to accompany Cao Cao here." Liu Bei nodded again and again.

Seeing Liu Bei's optimism, Zhuge Liang couldn't help sighing, and gave Liu Bei a preventive shot in advance: "The lord is not too happy, although the energy of the imperial court is in the Central Plains at the moment, it can also defend Bashu tightly, and it was too simple to think about it before." The imperial court is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and there are many talents, and if we want to seek Bashu, I am afraid it will be more difficult than we wanted at the beginning. ”

"Strategist, what is your opinion...... Don't take Bashu? ”

"You still have to take it, but you can't just rely on the people all the way to Jingzhou, this matter has to be considered, and when you take this Wancheng, you will talk to the lord in detail."

"Okay, then the military advisor, you have to bother."

……

If you can't outwit, you can only attack. Now that the third general Zhang Fei has arrived, with his martial bravery, as long as he is allowed to rush to the city, it will be very difficult to drive him out of the city. Zhuge Liang didn't plan to use tricks this time, he still looked down on Cai Mao, thinking that Cai Mao could see through his plan today, but he just took shit luck.

That night, under the leadership of Zhang Fei, 5,000 Liu Bei's army attacked the city at night, and under the cover of dozens of newly built catapults, Zhang Fei led people to carry ladders to storm the west gate guarded by Cai Mao.

"Uncle, we're about to run out." Zhang Yun found Cai Mao, who had personally gone into battle, and shouted urgently.

Cai Mao was furious when he heard this, and shouted: "If you can't keep it, you have to keep it, Zhang Yun, even if you die, you kid will die here!" ”

"Uncle......" Zhang Yun was obviously stunned, as if he knew Cai Mao in front of him for the first time, Cai Mao in the past was not this style of acting. Seeing that Zhang Yun was stunned, Cai Mao couldn't help but lower her voice and explained: "Shuyu, do you think you and I have any other choice now?" Besides the imperial court, who else will take us in? ”

"But Zhang Fei's offensive is very urgent......

"What's the panic, I've ordered someone to rush to the south gate, and it won't be long before reinforcements arrive. Think about it, if you and I lose this West Gate today, how will we gain a foothold in the DPRK in the future? When there is no need for idlers today, the original Cai family can no longer provide you and me with any help, at this time, we don't rely on ourselves, who do we rely on? ”

Cai Mao's big truth finally made Zhang Yun recognize the reality, these days with the middle and low-level generals of the Han army, Zhang Yun has obviously felt that he is inferior, those generals, mostly rely on real combat exploits, from a small soldier to today's position, not like Zhang Yun relies on nepotism. Zhang Yun is also a seven-foot man, and he also has self-esteem, so he naturally wants to be recognized by others with his skills. After listening to Cai Mao's words, Zhang Yun also let go, drew his sword in his hand and fought with Liu Beijun who climbed up to the city.

Zhang Fei finally climbed to the head of the city, the fierce word Zhang Fei was not called in vain, and before he could gain a firm foothold in the city, Zhang Fei swept the eight snake spears in his hand, swept out a clearing around him, followed by a tiger roar, and killed into the crowd, and the pro-soldiers who climbed up one after another also followed, constantly expanding the control area of Liu Beijun at the head of the city.

"Squeeze them down!" Seeing that the city was not safe, Cai Mao couldn't help but hurry to roar, and his roar also attracted Zhang Fei's attention. As soon as he saw Cai Mao, Zhang Fei couldn't help but show a cruel smile, and shouted: "Cai Mao! Come on! ”

Seeing Zhang Fei rushing to his side, Cai Mao couldn't help but be a little frightened, others didn't know how terrible Zhang Fei was, but as the governor of the Jingzhou Navy Army, he had a deep understanding of Liu Bei's left and right hands. I wanted to run, but I couldn't open my legs, Zhang Fei arrived in the blink of an eye, and Cai Mao could even see the beard on Zhang Fei's face clearly.

Just when Cai Mao was about to die, someone rushed out from behind him and intercepted Zhang Fei's way. Zhang Fei didn't care, but he didn't want this guy who was killed halfway to be so good at martial arts, he could only fight with him.

"Who are you?" Zhang Fei asked in surprise. I never knew that Cai Mao had such fierce generals under him, if he knew about it earlier, he would definitely have to come to the door to make friends.

"Zhang Fei, in vain, my head of the family called you a hero, but I didn't expect it to be a frog at the bottom of the well, and I don't even know your grandfather Ma Chao." Ma Chao continued to attack while taunting Zhang Fei, but Zhang Fei was already so angry that he was like thunder. The person in front of him, named Ma Chao, was much smaller than himself, and he dared to call himself grandpa.

"Grandson, let your grandfather teach you how to be a man today!" Zhang Fei scolded angrily.

Zhang Fei and Ma Chao are all hot-tempered masters, and they will do it if they don't agree. When a life-and-death struggle started at the head of the city, the head of the city was centered on the two of them, and no one dared to approach within a radius of more than ten meters.

"General Cai, why are you stunned, and you still don't organize people to drive Liu Beijun out of the city?" Cai Mao was shocked by Ma Chao's appearance, and suddenly an inquiry came from behind him. Looking back, I saw Kuai Yue appearing with a middle-aged scribe.

"De Jue can't be rude, this is the Liangzhou pastor of the imperial court, Mr. Jia Xujia." Kuai Yue was worried that Cai Mao would say the wrong thing, so he hurriedly introduced Cai Mao.

Cai Mao couldn't help but be startled when she heard it, as the Han family was revitalized again, the names of those civil ministers and military generals around Liu Xie also spread all over the country. On Liu Xie's side, the most famous Wenchen is the Situ Xun Yu Xun Wenruo of the current dynasty, and in second place, he is neither Zhong Yu Zhong Yuanchang, who was born in a big family, nor Xun Yu Xun Gongda, who is an uncle and nephew with Xun Yu, but Jia Wenhe, a Liangzhou Mu Jia who has been in Xiliang for Liu Xie for many years.

Liu Xie can solve the problem of the Xiliang Qiang people so quickly, among which Jia Xu has contributed a lot, and it is rumored that if it were not for the old ministers in the court to occupy a position, Jia Xu is now at least one of the three dukes, and the reason why Liu Xie did not transfer Jia Xu to the center of the court is that he does not want to wronged Jia Xu.

Cai Mao didn't dare to be rude to Jia Xu, a celebrity by his side today, and after hearing Jia Xu's words, he hurriedly confessed and ordered Zhang Yun to take someone to drive Liu Beijun who went to the city down the city, but he himself did not leave and still stayed by Jia Xu's side.

"Mr. Jia......" Kuai Yue said to Jia Xu, not wanting Jia Xu to interrupt without waiting for Kuai Yue to finish speaking: "Different degrees, don't see the outside, just call me Ziwenhe." ”

"In this way, Kuai Yue is rude. Wenhe, how did you come here? Didn't I hear that the lord asked you to go to the palace to serve? Kuai Yue asked, Cai Mao also asked with the same concern.

"Alas~ Wen You died unexpectedly, the lord was worried that there would be changes in Wancheng, so he sent someone to summon me halfway, so I and Ma Chao came to Wancheng to help defend the city, and the lord had only one request for us, Wancheng must not be lost." Jia Xu sighed and explained to Kuai Yue.

Kuai Yue nodded when he heard this, and was about to ask Jia Xu again if he had any suggestions for defending Wancheng, but saw Jia Xu suddenly shouting at Zhang Fei, who was fighting fiercely with Ma Chao: "Zhang Yide, are you still fighting here, regardless of your brother's life?" ”

Zhang Fei was interrupted by Jia Xu, and couldn't help but subconsciously look outside the city, and sure enough, as Jia Xu said, his own camp outside the city, I don't know when it caught fire, although my brother's army has begun to retreat, but seeing that the fire in this formation is very large, it is estimated that it cannot be extinguished.

Seeing that there was no hope of seizing the city, Zhang Fei had no choice but to retreat, but before leaving, he didn't forget to say cruel words to Ma Chao: "Grandson, grandpa will teach you another day." ”

"Grandpa is here waiting for his grandson to come back." Ma Chao also scolded back unceremoniously.