Liu Xie originally planned to take Deng's mother and son to Xinye to wait for the army to come and converge, but he got an urgent report on the way, saying that Xiangyang had sent 5,000 troops and was going straight to Xinye non-stop, and the general headed by Zhang Fei was Zhang Fei.

At this time and then, in order to hunt down Zhang Fei, Liu Xie did not have many people around him, after all, Zhang Fei had already been chased away at that time, and there were few people left around him. But now the situation has changed, and Zhang Fei took 5,000 people back to Liu Xie to settle accounts. The hero doesn't suffer the loss in front of him, and Liu Xie is not stupid, of course he won't choose to fight Zhang Fei at this time, and without saying a word, he immediately retreated to Wancheng with people.

Halfway through, Liu Xie met Ma Chao's Fubo Army. When Ma Chao learned that Zhang Fei led 5,000 troops to provoke, he immediately became very excited, and asked Liu Xie to fight, hoping to meet Zhang Fei. The previous battle in Wancheng didn't make Ma Chao happy, and this time he had to fight hard.

"Don't worry, you can fight some battles, not only Zhang Fei, but Liu Bei also has a Guan Yu under his hand who is also a member of the ten thousand enemies, you first raise enough strength, and when Zhao Yun, Sima Yi and others arrive, this time I will completely solve Liu Bei."

"Clean the portal?" Ma Chao asked with a smile.

"Well, sort of. Meng Qi, you go down first, remember my words, you can fight the battle, and when the battle is over, those nomads in the north will also find an opportunity to clean up. ”

“…… Lord, are those aliens starting to be restless again? Ma Chao asked curiously.

"It's hard to say, it's prepared." Seeing that Liu Xie refused to say more, Ma Chao stopped asking. turned around and withdrew from the camp to prepare to follow what Liu Xie said, first raise enough strength before talking about anything else. At this time, Ma Chao was not as cold as in Romance or history, and the Qiang people revered his martial arts and called him General Shenweitian, and Ma Chao also became unsightly and empty-eyed because of this title. But when it comes to working under Liu Xie, there are not one or two fierce generals who can fight with Ma Chao, and when it comes to arranging troops, it is also not one or two who can defeat Ma Chao.

When there is pressure, there is motivation! Among his colleagues who are as masters as clouds and strong as forests, Ma Chao has learned to introspect, and he is no longer touted and becomes fluttering but unable to find direction. He learned to think, he also recognized his own shortcomings, and since he led the Fubo army alone, he has learned to be humble.

When people become wiser, they understand advance and retreat. This time, the opponent is Liu Bei, a member of the Han family, after King Jing of Zhongshan, but Liu Bei, a member of the Han family, can be regarded as sitting at the end. As a member of the Han family, he took the initiative to attack the imperial court, which was not only a crime and a rebellion, but also a betrayal of the Han family surnamed Liu.

And what's more serious is that Huang Zhong died. As a person who has learned to think, Ma Chao knows very well the weight of Huang Zhong in Liu Xie's heart, and it can be said that the entire Han Dynasty, the minister who can weigh more than Huang Zhong, is probably only Xun Yu. Even Zhao Yun and Pang De, who have followed Liu Xie's side for many years, cannot be compared with Huang Zhong.

Liu Xie was in an embarrassing situation back then, and it was the loyal assistance of Huang Zhong and Xun Yu that helped Liu Xie tide over the difficulties at that time. As the saying goes, it's easy to put the icing on the cake, but it's hard to send charcoal in the snow. Liu Xie is not a kind-hearted person, and he naturally values Huang Zhong, who helped him back then. Regarding this point, it can be seen from Liu Xie's entrustment of Bashu to Huang Zhong.

Ma Chao does not envy Huang Zhong, how much you pay can get in return. At the beginning, countless people had no hope in the Han family, and it was Huang Zhong who stood unswervingly by Liu Xie's side. Now that Huang Zhong is dead, Ma Chao can even imagine that in the next battle, Liu Bei and his subordinates may not think about what will happen.

Liu Bei, it's dead!

Liu Xie didn't know what Ma Chao was thinking, and he didn't bother to think about it. He is not worried that Ma Chao will rebel, not to mention that Ma Chao's relatives are now under the rule of the imperial court, but Ma Chao himself, he has no reason to rebel. If you want to be promoted and make a fortune, you can rely on your own skills to earn it back on the battlefield, and a fool will choose to rebel at this time.

"Deng Ai, are you going to Chang'an with your mother, or are you staying here to watch the war?"

"Master, Xiao Ai wants to accompany her mother to Chang'an." Deng Ai replied when he heard this.

"Well, that's fine. You're still young, and staying here won't help me much. After going to Chang'an, remember to listen to your mother's words, and memorize the three books I gave you, and then I can introduce famous teachers for you. ”

"Yes, Master, Xiao Ai remembered." Deng Ai nodded heavily.

"By the way, Master, don't shout this for the time being. Although I have no problem accepting you as an apprentice, I have to consider your safety, and it is easy for you to attract jealousy from your master. After all, there are still many people in this world who are prone to pink eye, and I am not in Chang'an, and I can't take good care of you. ”

"Oh, what is Xiao Ai shouting?"

"Hmm...... Let's call the lord with your uncle. ”

"Yes, little Ai will see your lord."

"Good." Liu Xie smiled and stretched out his hand to rub Deng Ai's head, and continued to advise: "You are still young now, and you don't know that people's hearts are sinister, so you must have a teacher to think carefully for you." Don't worry about your life after you and your mother arrive in Chang'an, I will order someone to find your mother to partner in trading, your mother usually only needs to be responsible for watching the store and selling goods, and you don't have to worry about other things, so that you can have more time with your mother. ”

"Little Ai, thank you for taking care of your father-in-law."

"Huh...... Go down and accompany your mother, and wait for a night's rest to go on the road after dawn tomorrow. ”

"Yes, Xiao Ai retired." Deng Ai learned to see Ma Chao's appearance of saluting Liu Xie, bowed to Liu Xie, and then withdrew from the camp.

After Deng Ai left, Liu Xie suddenly found that Jia Xu was also looking at Deng Ai's departing back, so he asked curiously, "Wenhe, what are you looking at?" ”

“…… Lord, please forgive the minister, the child named Deng Ai just now, no matter how you look at it, the minister doesn't think he is extraordinary. Jia Xu replied when he heard this.

"Hmph, if you can see that, that's."

"In that case, why does the lord take good care of that Deng Ai?"

Of course, Liu Xie would not tell Jia Xu that the reason why he took care of Deng Ai was because this Deng Ai might be the famous general in history who performed the feat of destroying Shu in Wancheng. In the face of Jia Xu's question, Liu Xie said a few nonsense words, even if it was perfunctory, and Jia Xu also knew that the lord in front of him had a very accurate vision of people, maybe there was some potential in that Deng Ai that Liu Xie could see.

In order to prevent Jia Xu from continuing to ask about Deng Ai, Liu Xie changed the topic and asked: "Wenhe, while Zhong Da and Shiyuan are not here, what do you think of the current situation?" ”

Seeing that Liu Xie was asking about business, Jia Xu didn't continue to think about Deng Ai. For Liu Xie's inquiry, Jia Xu had already prepared. At the beginning, Liu Xie entrusted Wancheng to Jia Xu, hoping that Jia Xu could deal with Zhuge Liang, but he didn't want Zhuge Liang to make a false shot, and seeing that he couldn't take advantage of Wancheng, he hit the idea to Bashu.

Huang Zhong died, and the Han An army was annihilated, and it would be unreasonable to say that Jia Xu had no responsibility at all. In order to "atone for his sins", Jia Xu did his homework before Liu Xie came, and now when he heard Liu Xie's inquiry, he hurriedly explained the issues he had considered for these days to Liu Xie one by one.

"The reason why Liu Bei dared to abandon Wancheng and plot against Bashu, according to the minister's opinion, is probably because he thinks that the lord wants to eliminate Cao Cao and cannot do it in a short time. Jingnan is underpopulated, although there are barbarians to supplement, but after all, it is a drop in the bucket, and the barbarians do not obey discipline, which is also a trouble for Liu Bei. Bashu has always had the reputation of the country of abundance, and in the past, Qin was able to destroy the six countries, and it was also after getting the money and grain of Bashu that he had that confidence. ”

Jia Xu paused when he said this, and when he saw that Liu Xie did not speak, he continued: "The minister once heard that when Liu Bei was recruiting Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang presented Liu Bei with Longzhong, and the key to it was to seize Bashu as a foundation. Liu Bei, only by taking Bashu can he be qualified to fight against the imperial court, and he can't do it with Jingzhou alone. ”

"The latest news says that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang have led an army to close Fuling, and once Fuling is breached, Bashu will open its arms to Liu Bei, so our current purpose is to hurt Liu Bei and make him have to retreat from Bashu."

"Lord, it's not that the minister wants to say frustrating words, Liu Bei's attack on Bashu this time is probably a ruin, just attacking Jingzhou, I'm afraid it won't make him turn back. Chen even suspected that he was ready to lose Jingbei. There are many passes in the north of Bashu, which is conducive to the defense of Bashu by the imperial court, but it also gives Liu Bei the convenience of holding Bashu. At the moment, the guard of Xiangyang is Guan Yu......"

"Wait, you said Guan Yu is in Xiangyang?" Liu Xie interrupted Jia Xu and asked.

"Yes, after Huang Zhong's death, Guan Yu led his army north to Xiangyang, which was obviously to buy time for Liu Bei to attack Bashu."

"That is to say, Liu Bei entered Shu this time, neither Guan Yu nor Zhang Fei, so who is the pioneer general who entered Shu?"

"The pioneer is Chen Dao, and Liu Bei personally leads the headquarters in the center."

"Chen Zhi ......" Liu Xie knew that Chen Zhi was a person and heard about it from Deng Zhan. He is strong in martial arts, and he is more proficient in the method of military training, and the elite white soldiers around Liu Bei are under his command. Carefully calculated, Liu Xie robbed a lot of talents who should have been active under different main accounts, among which Cao Cao's side was the most serious, while Liu Bei's side was Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun and Wei Yan.

Huang Zhong was recruited by Liu Xie from the beginning, and Wei Yan took the initiative to take refuge, one of them is now dead, and the other was locked up in Jingnan's prison by Liu Bei with Hu Che'er. The rest of Zhao Yun ...... Liu Xie believes in Zhao Yun's character, although Zhao Yun met Liu Bei in Youzhou at the beginning, but after working together for all these years, Zhao Yun will not go to Liu Bei because of Liu Bei's call. Zhao Yun's home is on Liu Xie's side, his wife and children live in Chang'an, how could he abandon his family and business for Liu Bei, a hypocrite, it seems that he thinks too much.

"Lord, what's wrong with you?" Jia Xu saw Liu Xie suddenly shaking his head, and couldn't help but ask.

"It's fine, I thought of something else. You go on to say, since you think that Liu Bei will not withdraw from Bashu because of the loss of Jingbei, how can you make him retreat? ”

"Hmm...... Two aspects to start, one is to order the local officials of Bashu to stick to the help, and now those passes from Bashu to Guanzhong are still under the control of the imperial court, and it is not difficult to mobilize reinforcements from Guanzhong in the past. As long as Liu Bei can't be Bashu for a day, then we will have enough time to calculate him. ”

“…… Who are you going to calculate? ”

"I have heard that although Liu Guan Zhang is not a brother, he is better than a brother, and the minister wants to know that when Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are in danger, Liu Bei chooses his hegemony or his brother?"

"Guan Yu, Zhang Fei...... These two people are loyal to Liu Bei, and it is almost impossible to say that it is impossible to surrender. Then we won't bother with that, Wenhe, but what specific plans do you have? Liu Xie thought about it and agreed with Jia Xu's opinion. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are indeed loyal to Liu Bei, not to mention that Zhang Fei, but that Guan Yu was captured by Cao Cao in the romance, and Cao Cao really had nothing to say about Guan Yu, and even treated Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan of his own family so well. But Guan Yu, after learning of Liu Bei's whereabouts, he left without hesitation. From Cao Cao's point of view, Guan Yu is a white-eyed wolf who can't be fed, and there is no point in wooing him, but he will raise tigers for trouble.

Liu Xie didn't plan to recruit Guan Yu, because he knew that this Guan Yu had an arrogant temperament, don't look at himself as the Son of Heaven, it is estimated that in Guan Yu's eyes, he also belongs to the kind of master who is not worth looking at. Liu Xie didn't plan to learn from Cao Cao to be bored, so he was naturally not so interested in recruiting Guan Yu.

And Liu Xie has always been suspicious of Guan Yu's ability. After all, Guan Yu in later generations can be praised so highly, and the praise of the world accounts for a large factor. The martial saints of the Chinese military family are not only related to Yu, Chi You, Xingtian, Jiang Shang, Sun Wu, and Yue Fei have all been worshiped as martial saints. And when Guan Yu officially took up his post, it was after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs. The Manchus seized the Han people's country, and in order to consolidate their own rule, they naturally had to find a way to implement a policy of ignoring the people. And before Guan Yu, it was Yue Fei who was regarded as a martial saint by the Han people, and the Manchu people just had no brains, and they would not continue to serve a person who killed his ancestors and killed him as a martial saint. Yue Fei will be regarded as a martial saint, that is because of his loyalty to the country, and this is exactly what the Manchus do not need, they are a foreign race, and if they want to rule the Han people, they naturally cannot continue to preach Yue Fei's loyalty, and Guan Yu's righteousness has become a substitute used by the Manchus to weaken the resistance of the Han people.

Liu Xie didn't know how big Guan Yu's ability was, but he didn't think that Guan Yu was like the Three Kingdoms general Kuiyuan who boasted in later generations. In terms of personal martial arts, Lu Bu, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, and Dian Wei can all be on par with Guan Yu, and when it comes to commanding in battle and dispatching troops, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang can also suppress Guan Yu.

Liu Xie has no masochistic tendencies, he doesn't have the interest of finding a prisoner and dragging him like an uncle. Guan Yu's life and death all depend on his own luck, he lived a fluke, he deserved to die, Liu Xie didn't plan to let Guan Yu go because he was famous in later generations.

Three days later, Liu Xie hadn't gone to find Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's bad luck, but Zhang Fei took the initiative to bring someone to the door. Zhang Fei was very arrogant, and it may also be that he was taking 5,000 people to call for battle outside the camp of the Han army. Liu Xie couldn't help sneering when he learned about it, turned his head to Ma Chao and said, "Meng Qi, your business is here, how are you resting these days?" ”

"Don't worry, the last general is worried that there is nowhere to vent this strength." Ma Chao replied loudly.

"Okay, then our monarch will go out to meet that Zhang Fei, so that he knows that he is not only the only one in this world, but also a Jinma Chao who can compete with him."

Ma Chao is a fierce general, and as a fierce general, there are few who will be cowardly. With Liu Xie's consent, Ma Chao couldn't help but be overjoyed, just as he just said, he didn't do anything except practice martial arts in the past few days, so he waited for the army to go south to find Zhang Fei to compete, but he didn't expect that he hadn't gone to Zhang Fei yet, and this Zhang Fei took the initiative to send it to the door.

"The is rampant, and Ma Chao is here." Ma Yu shouted loudly.

Ma Chao is very handsome, or he would not be called Jin Ma Chao by later generations, and Zhang Fei's appearance is ...... From the perspective of later generations, it's actually not ugly, it's just a little darker. In the eyes of later generations, it is a sign of health for people to be black, but in the eyes of ancient people, it is ugly.

Extraordinary people will be born with strange appearances, what is strange appearances? Either handsome and earth-shattering, or ugly and miserable. And the appearance of the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang is definitely not handsome. Liu Bei's appearance According to historical records, the big ears are hanging down the shoulders, and the hands are over the knees, which means that the earlobes can touch the shoulders, and the hands can touch the knees without bending down. It is often said that earlobes are blessed, but Liu Bei's earlobes are also too big, which can be comparable to the Buddha, and his hands are over his knees...... Anyone who has ever been to a zoo and seen a gorilla should be able to understand it.

And Guan Yu's most significant appearance feature is probably a big red face, other people's faces are either white or yellow, and the miserable ones are black, but Guan Yu's face is red, as if he has done something bad and people are caught. As for Zhang Fei's appearance, it has nothing to do with beauty anyway.

Generally speaking, good and bad, beautiful and ugly are often opposites. When the ugly Zhang Fei saw the handsome Ma Chao, his heart suddenly became unbalanced, and he couldn't wait to stab that handsome face with a spear.

"Little white face, don't be a rabbit minister, run to the front of the embarrassment. Come on, let your third grandfather teach you a lesson, so that you can embroider and spin at home with peace of mind in the future. "Zhang Fei is not the first time to meet Ma Chao, the two have fought in Wancheng at the beginning, and Zhang Fei naturally knows Ma Chao's ability. But before the two armies were arrayed, Zhang Fei didn't come back to be close to Ma Chaotao, so naturally it was difficult to hear anything.

", Hugh wants to show off his tongue, and it is not certain who will teach whom." Ma Chao raised his gun and pointed it at Zhang Fei, urging him to step forward.

Seeing this, Zhang Fei also clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the horse under his crotch was like a fast arrow off the string, and went straight to Ma Chao to kill. The two fought in front of the two armies for a while, and the people who watched were enthusiastic, and Liu Xie even personally beat the drum to cheer for Ma Chao.

After all, Ma Chao is young and vigorous, and he still looks like a nobody after fighting with Zhang Fei for nearly a hundred years, but on the other hand, Zhang Fei seems to be a little unbearable.

", do you want to go back and rest and come back?" Ma Chao looked at Zhang Fei with a mocking expression and asked.

"Hmph, little white face, don't be too complacent, your third grandfather hasn't moved yet!" Zhang Fei was furious when he heard this, glared at Ma Chao angrily, and stabbed Ma Chao with the eight snake spears in his hand......