As soon as Wen Zheng's words fell, he heard Zhuge Liang reprimand: "Hugh is talking nonsense, this official only corresponded with Cao Ren the day before yesterday, and he knew that he was safe in the army, how can you believe the rumors in the army yesterday?" Now that the heart of our army has just stabilized, but you are talking so nonsense, trying to disturb our army's heart again, could it be that Zhou Yu sent a meticulous work? ”

In fact, Zhuge Liang didn't want to break through, but with his cautious character, he knew that with the thousands of people under his command, he couldn't succeed at all, and he didn't even have a certain grasp of it, and now he has proved to all the soldiers that Liu Bei is still alive, if he breaks through at this time, the secret will definitely be leaked, so he doesn't dare to have such a thought at all now, and just looks forward to giving him a few more days to prepare calmly, and then find a way to break through.

But these few days are enough for him to stay here forever, because Ma Chao broke through Tongguan, Cao Ren retreated to Fenglingdu, Cao Cao is urgently mobilizing troops and horses, preparing to recapture Tongguan, and now Cao Hong has led the vanguard army to set off first, Zhou Yu also got Liu Qi's order, asking him to completely end the battle in Xinfeng within three days at any cost, capture Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, and then immediately lead the army to support Tongguan.

Of course, Zhuge Liang didn't know Zhou Yu's plans, but he already knew that Zhou Yu had stepped up the offensive, so he would continue to create rumors in the army and make him tired of coping, but he couldn't explain this to the soldiers, so he loudly reprimanded Wen Zheng.

But Wen Zheng just looked at Liu Bei fixedly, and when he saw that Liu Bei didn't say a word, he couldn't help but feel anxious, and hurriedly walked a few steps closer, and cried to Liu Bei: "Lord, why don't you speak?" What the last general said is true, because the last general has seen Niu Jin with his own eyes, and he has also seen Niu Jin's head. Even the last general personally checked that Niu Jin's head would never be fake, so Cao Ren's defeat was absolutely true news, and the last general also heard that Zhou Yu had already made up his mind. In the next three days, we will launch a general attack on our army, and I ask the lord to make a decision as soon as possible, so as not to wipe out our army. ”

At this time, Wen Zheng could no longer care about Lu Fan's explanation to him, but loyally planned for Daqin and Liu Bei, and even told the news that he heard from Zhou Yu's army that he was about to launch an attack.

Speaking of emotion, Wen Zheng actually reached out and pulled Liu Bei's sleeve.

Zhuge Liang didn't expect Wen Zheng to make such a move, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he immediately rushed forward to prepare to push Wen Zheng away.

But he is just a scholar, how much strength can he have? It can't be compared with the strong man Wen Zheng in the army at all. was inadvertently bumped by Wen Zheng, and his footsteps staggered back several steps.

At this time, Wen Zheng had already pulled Liu Bei's sleeve, and at the same time grabbed Liu Bei's arm, just about to say something, he suddenly felt that the place he touched was cold and hard, not human muscles, and couldn't help but ask in shock: "Lord, what's wrong with your arm?" ”

Zhuge Liang on the side turned pale. He shouted, "Stop him and drag him aside." ”

But the other soldiers who noticed something strange rushed up. They all stepped forward to surround "Liu Bei", and Gao Xiang, the general of Zhenbei, boldly grabbed the arm of "Liu Bei", and immediately exclaimed like Wen Zheng, and then after some careful identification, he confirmed that it was "Liu Bei" in front of him. It's just a wood carving.

"Why is the lord in front of you just a wood carving? Where are the lords? Gao Xiang's face was gloomy, looking at Zhuge Liang, who was pale in front of him, he no longer had the same respect as in the past, and asked coldly.

"What? It turned out to be a wood carving! Where is the real lord, could it be that Zhuge Liang really killed the lord. And then take over the power with this wood carving? Many soldiers looked at Zhuge Liang suspiciously, expecting him to give everyone a satisfactory explanation.

Zhuge Liang shook his head slowly, and said with a wry smile: "Now, this official has to tell you the truth, the lord has already died three days ago. This is the last order of the lord, let me wait to help the prince, lead the army back to the state, revitalize the foundation of the Great Qin, the lord of the military and the prince of the country and the prince of the country to entrust the lonely official, and then ordered Zhong Xuan, Jian Yong, Mi Zhu, Zhao Rong four people to assist, to protect the son, the official in order not to leak the news of the death of the lord, so as to cause turmoil in the army's heart, this is the idea, the secret is not mourning, covering up the news, and it took three days to make the wood carving of the lord, but I didn't expect to fall short, our army finally inevitably collapsed. ”

Looking at Gao Xiang and Wen Zheng and the others with a sluggish face, Zhuge Liang said again: "I, Zhuge Liang, can swear to the sky, I have never thought of arbitrarily exercising power, I just want to help the lord and the prince achieve hegemony, and be a virtuous minister who has done his best to die, but what's the use of telling you these things now?" The lord died of illness, Cao Ren has been defeated, and our army only has these thousands of weak brigades left, and it is absolutely impossible to break out of Zhou Yu's encirclement with these horses, even if they rush out, what can they do? Since Cao Ren was defeated, maybe the entire Tongguan has been obtained by Ma Chao, do you think we can break through the Tongguan guarded by Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry again? Even if we have this strength, where will the grain and grass come from? Ladies and gentlemen, Great Qin has collapsed, so let's fend for yourselves. ”

"Sangkook." Seeing that Zhuge Liang no longer had the intention of persevering, Zhong Xuan, Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, and Zhao Rong all burst into tears, with a painful look on their faces. Now that the will is officially announced, they can loudly shout Zhuge Liang's official name granted by Liu Bei, but now they find that this Xiangguo can actually no longer do it, because the entire Great Qin is about to collapse.

And Gao Xiang and Wen Zheng didn't expect that things would develop to the current situation, and they were all ashamed.

If it weren't for their eagerness to organize people to force Zhuge Liang, I'm afraid that Daqin would be able to last for a few days, but now that everyone has learned the truth, whether it is the death of Duke Qin or the news of Cao Ren's defeat, it has already made the army's morale uneasy to the point of no return, and the soldiers in the army may not be able to do anything to these high-ranking officials of Daqin, but they will definitely fend for themselves, after all, in the absence of any hope, not any sergeant commits suicide as heroically as the Baier soldiers.

"Xiangguo, it's all our stupidity, we actually did such a stupid thing to dig our own graves, please Xiangguo punish us, even if we are killed, we will never have the slightest resentment."

Gao Xiang, Wen Zheng and the other soldiers who instigated the trouble were full of remorse, burst into tears, and sincerely asked Zhuge Liang to punish them.

But Zhuge Liang said with a wry smile: "The matter has come to this, what is the use of punishment?" What's more, even if you don't wait for today's matter, Daqin won't be able to support it for a few days, Cao Ren is defeated, how can Ma Chao not come to Zhou Yu's aid and completely defeat our army first? Maybe Liu Qi made a plan from the beginning, the reason why he trapped us here was to lure Cao Ren to send troops, and then take advantage of the victory to occupy Tongguan, so this matter is not to be complained, okay, now all the qiē has been clarified, you go and surrender to Zhou Yu's camp, this official will never stop you. ”

"Xiangguo, we don't surrender, we'd rather die with Xiangguo." After all, Gao Xiang was young and impulsive, blurted out these words, and then swung his sword down, intercepted the soldiers who had left one after another, and roared loudly: "The matter of eating the king, the matter of loyalty to the king, you are all paid by the Duke of Qin, why are you so unloyal?" ”

But I heard several sergeants under his command say: "General, people die for money, birds die for food, we are just ordinary sergeants, and we can't even support ourselves with this little food in our hands, so how can we say that we are loyal to anyone?" General, let's take a look, the same sergeant, what kind of treatment is there for the Chu army? Even if they die, they don't have to worry about family affairs, Duke Chu has even arranged for their children, if our army can have such treatment, we will have no complaints even if they die. In fact, it is very rare that we have been able to persist until now. ”

"Damn, you traitors." After Gao Xiang finished speaking, he couldn't help but step forward with his sword, wanting to kill the sergeant on the spot, but was stopped by Zhuge Liang and said: "General Gao, forget it, in fact, what they said is right, they are just ordinary soldiers, and the food and salary we offer is indeed not enough for them to sell their lives, they can hold on to it until now, and it can be regarded as the end of benevolence and righteousness, you let them go." ”

Gao Xiang was stunned when he heard this, although he was still unwilling in his heart, he had no choice but to let these sergeants leave.

Seeing that Zhuge Liang did not intervene, the other soldiers also saluted Zhuge Liang one after another, and then left silently.

After a while, Gao Xiang suddenly shouted loudly: "Wen Zheng, just now you still have the righteousness to protect Xiangguo with your own life to break through, why have you changed your mind now?" People who don't believe in changeables, what's the matter? ”

I saw Wen Zheng's face pale, and he waved at Zhuge Liang and the others, and then said ashamedly: "Xiangguo, princes, please forgive the last general, the last general has an old mother in his family, a wife and children, and the last general will not dare to die." ”

After saying this, Wen Zheng bowed his hand to everyone again, and then left with a guilty face.

"How can a man be so shameless?" Gao Xiang scolded one after another: "Who doesn't have parents, wives and children? But if we all have such thoughts, how can there be people in this world who are loyal to the dead? ”

Next, Gao Xiang looked at the scattered crowd again, and shouted loudly again: "Zong Pre, how can you betray the Lord so much for Hu Ben Zhonglang?" Shouldn't you be like all of you? ”

But seeing that Zong Pre was silent, he covered his face with his hands and left in a hurry.

After that, Deng Fang, Liu Yan, Li Shu and others left one after another, and the military camp of thousands of people was left in less than half an hour, only Zhuge Liang, Zhong Xuan, Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, Zhao Rong, Zhuge Jun and Gao Xiang were left, as well as dozens of their personal soldiers and maids in the Chinese military tent and Liu Chan in his arms.

These people were all silent, the last loyal ministers of the Great Qin, they decided to do the last thing for their lord, that is, to publicly mourn for the Duke of Qin, and to report to the court, for the title of the Duke of Qin, and at the same time ask the son Liu Chan to inherit the title of Duke of Qin.

Even if he dies, the prince should die as a hereditary Duke of Qin! (To be continued......)