Chapter 431: The Pawn of the Strong Outside and the Dry in the Middle
Sun Wei naturally knew that with his skills, if it was to take Zhang Fei's attack hard, not to mention three rounds, I was afraid that it would be difficult to parry one round, so he took the initiative to attack, and the action of retracting the knife once was considered one round, and he was ready to finish the "three rounds" before the other party reacted.
Sun Wei's plan is very good, and he is also very fine, because if he "wins" like this, Zhang Fei, who has always respected himself, will indeed not be able to pull his face to kill him again, but he underestimated Zhang Fei's reaction.
As early as when Sun Wei shouted "first round", Zhang Fei had already reacted in time, the fifty or sixty pound snake spear in his hand rotated like an embroidery needle, and before Sun Wei could shout "second round", the spear accurately hit his throat and cut his throat.
Sun Wei's eyes widened, full of fear and disbelief, and he fell straight to the ground.
Seeing this, Cao Wei, who originally thought that he would be able to pick up a life, immediately knelt down in front of Zhang Fei with a dead face, kowtowed and said: "General Zhang, spare my little life, I will definitely be a cow and a horse for you in the future, and swear to die to repay you." β
Unexpectedly, Zhang Fei sneered: "Be a cow and a horse? I wouldn't have dared to use it, if one day your cow went crazy, wouldn't it kill me? If one day your horse goes crazy, will you throw me to the ground? Besides, Ben will always be jealous and hateful, and he will be clean, how can he be in the company of a filthy guy like you? If you really want to die to serve, there is still a chance, and that is to die now. β
After Zhang Fei finished speaking, the snake spear in his hand was like lightning. quickly stabbed into Cao Wei's heart, so that Cao Wei died without even snorting.
After Zhang Fei ordered the burial of the loyal and righteous man Li Ju, and announced that Cao Wei and Sun Wei rebelled, and for a while all the generals in the county were convinced, and the people were grateful to Dai De, known as Zhang Qingtian.
Zhang Fei seized Gongxian, the last stronghold that went to the Tiger Prison, at lightning speed. He obtained a very large amount of materials, including food, cloth, equipment and armor, etc., although the weapons and armor were much worse than those of the soldiers in his army, but they were much better than the soldiers who brought their own weapons and equipment.
In order to ensure the victory of the war, Zhang Fei decided to sell the captured enemy weapons and equipment to the government soldiers at a low price, and let them owe them temporarily without interest if they really had no money.
In this way, the 20,000 soldiers suddenly had a sense of changing guns and being reborn. They were armed with sophisticated weapons, dressed in the armor of later generations, carrying strong bows and crossbows, and their weapons were magnificent, and they looked no different from the well-armed and well-trained regular soldiers of Cao Wei.
In the following time, Zhang Fei settled the local officials and people, and selected a small official with a high prestige and good reputation to temporarily serve as the county order, and selected an official suitable for the county and the county lieutenant. Let them temporarily preside over the affairs of the county, and then report to Liu Qi for approval.
Liu Qi listened to Zhang Fei's clever words and threatened. forced Cao Jun to surrender in Kaicheng, and as a result, he used tactics to force Cao Wei and Sun Wei, who had bad deeds, and buried the news of the loyal minister and righteous man Li Ju, he couldn't help laughing: "Haha, Zhang Yide is bold and careful, although he is a fierce general. But he also knows how to use tricks, and he is even more jealous and hateful, and he actually staged such a wonderful story, which is really happy. The order went down, and Zhang Fei captured Gong County. Stabilize the people and reward millions of dollars as a reward. β
After hearing the news, all the civil and military officers under his command were also very happy, and bowed down together and said: "The king has a unique vision and knows people well, which is the root of our victory." β
Although Liu Qi was not carried away by sycophants, he still couldn't help but feel a little fluttery when he heard the heartfelt congratulations from the ministers.
At this time, Zhang Fei naturally didn't know that Liu Qi, who had always been shrewd, would be fluttering under the praise of the ministers, of course, even if he knew, he would not react, he now left Fan Qiang to lead 3,000 troops and 1,000 people from the headquarters, blockade the treasury, guard Gong County, meet the commander Lu Meng, and prepare to lead the main army to set off early the next morning to go to the tiger prison.
The tiger prison belonged to Chenggao County at that time, and it was named after the rumor that King Mu of Zhou had kept the fierce tigers in captivity here. Tiger prison south even Songyue, north of the Yellow River, mountains staggered, since the natural danger, a husband when the pass, ten thousand people do not open, since ancient times for the soldiers must fight for the place, the Qin Dynasty had set up a pass here, that is, the famous tiger prison pass in later generations, to the Han Dynasty it was changed to Gao County, the first year of Zhongping, in order to guard against the Yellow Turban Army, set up a revolving gate pass here, because it is located in the tiger prison, it is also called the tiger prison pass in later generations, this pass is one of the eight passes in Luoyang. It is famous, firstly, because of the dangerous geographical location, and there is no danger to defend to the east after this pass, and secondly, because the story of the three heroes fighting Lu Bu in the romance took place here.
Of course, in the real history, there is no story of the Three Heroes fighting Lu Bu, so for Zhang Fei at that time, there was actually no impression of this place, but Zhang Fei knew that if he wanted to take down Chen Liu, he had to take down the Tiger Prison first.
Zhang Fei urged the army to march all the way, and the eighty-mile journey took a day's effort, and he set off early in the morning, and came to the Tiger Prison before dark.
In order to ensure the safety of Luoyang, even if Chen Liu's fundamental place is Cao Cao, it is almost impossible to rebel, but Cao Cao has also laid 10,000 heavy troops here, and this pass is precipitous, and 10,000 heavy soldiers are guarded here, even if there are 100,000 troops, it is difficult to break through.
Therefore, it is almost impossible to storm this level, and it can only be used by tricks.
Zhang Fei did not give the order to attack, but ordered the soldiers to set up camp and rest for the night.
Early the next morning, Zhang Fei ordered his soldiers to come to the city to scold.
The guard of the tiger prison is the son of Cao Cao's famous general Dian Wei, whose father was deceived by Zhang Xiu's Hu Che'er of a pair of iron halberds in order to protect Cao Cao, and then was killed by the rebels. Cao Cao thanked Dian Wei for his merits, worshiped Langzhong, and later worshiped Sima, and then later moved the capital to Luoyang, so he ordered him to be the commander and responsible for guarding the tiger prison.
In fact, at that time, Cao Cao sent Dianman to guard the Tiger Prison just to accumulate some credit for him, so as to further improve his official position, and he did not expect that one day he would face a large-scale invasion of the enemy, and as a result, such an arrangement led to the inevitable death of Zhan Dianman.
Although Dian Man does not have much actual combat experience, martial arts are also very ordinary, but his temper is like his father in general like a fire, as soon as he heard that the Chu army was scolding the formation under the pass, he immediately decided to personally go out of the city to fight, to teach the enemy a lesson, fortunately by the long history Huang Shu persuaded to stop, this is to give up, but still sent the deputy general Fang Zhao to lead two thousand soldiers and horses to meet the battle, as a result, Fang Zhao's army was not stable, it was attacked by Zhang Fei's army, Fang Zhao could not resist, immediately led the army to retreat, but he did not escape a hundred steps, was caught up by Zhang Fei's horse, a spear pierced the chest, and then raised it high with a spear, slammed it on the ground, and then stepped on the horse, and saw Fang Zhao let out a terrible scream, and there was no more sound.
And the 1,000 soldiers led by Fang Zhao didn't have time to run away, and were slaughtered by the soldiers of the Chu army who were like tigers and sheep.
Dian Wei saw that Fang Zhao was killed, and a thousand soldiers were also killed, and immediately ordered the soldiers on the city to release arrows, but unexpectedly the Chu army soldiers under the city held bows and arrows and also shot, although their archery skills were quite inferior to their own, but with the advantage of more people, they had already made up for the lack of archery, only to see arrows like flying locusts, the Wei soldiers on the head of the city fell one after another, even those soldiers who were lucky enough not to die, did not dare to shoot arrows, all of them were frightened and hid behind the female wall, dodging the enemy's arrow rain.
Seeing that his soldiers were so weak, Dian Man was furious in his heart, and just wanted to shout at them, when suddenly he heard a sharp sound of breaking the air in his ears, and then he felt a pain in his ear, and then a hot liquid connected to his face, and when he touched it with his hand, it turned out to be blood on his hand.
At this time, Dianman knew that he had brushed shoulders with death, and he couldn't help but be terrified. He saw with his own eyes today that the enemy general Zhang Fei's bravery is no less than his father, and the soldiers of the Chu army are more strong and naughty than these other sergeants, plus the arrow just now, he has already turned pale with fright, and he does not dare to shout that he wants to go out of the city to fight anymore, and now even if there is no Huang Shu's hard persuasion, he will definitely not go out of the city to fight again.
After that, Zhang Feiri ordered people to scold the battle under the city, but Dianman turned a deaf ear and ordered the soldiers to retreat in the city and not to fight.
Zhang Fei didn't expect Dian Wei's son to be so cowardly, and he would be weak like this after a battle, which made it even more difficult for him to attack the city.
Although LΓΌ Meng's army was about to arrive, Zhang Fei was eager to make meritorious contributions, and he wanted to capture the tiger prison before LΓΌ Meng arrived, so he was naturally quite impatient.
After some thought, Zhang Fei decided to attack the city by digging tunnels.
Although this is the most customary siege method, and it is also the most difficult siege method to make meritorious contributions, Zhang Fei still decided to give it a try, because from the battle that day, he could clearly see that the main general was just a son-in-law, who liked and disliked combat experience, and the soldiers under his command were also ruffians with lax military discipline and lack of training, which was quite inferior to other government soldiers under his command, plus the Tiger Prison Pass was built on the mountain, and it was not so easy to dig tunnels, and the enemy army naturally knew this, so they would not be guarded, And this is precisely his chance.
Fortunately, there were many "engineers" in his pioneer battalion who were good at opening roads and building bridges, and these soldiers had tools such as axes and chisels, steel drills, etc., and it was not impossible to dig a tunnel in a mountain with few stones and a lot of soil.
After thinking about it, Zhang Fei made up his mind and quietly issued an order. (To be continued......)