Chapter 3: Soldiers Coming to CD

The heavy black broadsword and the light cyan spear clashed through the air, stirring up a brilliant spark. Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 info Huang Zhong and Li Yan stumbled over, each running forward for dozens of steps, Fang Shi slowed down and slowly turned back. That blow was the first blow they had ever come to fight. Neither side did their best, but just tested each other's strength and estimated the opponent's strength in this staggered horse. In terms of the final result, it seems that the two sides have played to a draw. Whether it was Huang Zhong or Li Yan, after the hard fight just now, their arms were faintly numb.

"That's a lot of strength." Huang Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, and his arm slid lightly against the blade of the big knife, relying on the gentle movement of the rubbing to eliminate the pain in his tiger's mouth. This Li Yan still has such strength, which is something that Huang Zhong expected. Originally, he thought that Li Yan was just a Confucian general who could lead and train soldiers, but he didn't want his martial arts to seem impatient.

"No wonder there are words that want to capture me." Huang Zhong smiled suddenly, narrowed his eyes slightly, and his face became solemn. Since entering Sichuan, he has not encountered an opponent of equal strength, which makes him inevitably have a little contempt for the generals in Sichuan, thinking that they are not enough. But at the moment, this is just Er'er is unspeakable, at least there is a Li Yan in front of him who seems to have the ability to play against himself.

"The strength is good. I don't know how good his skills are? Huang Zhong thought so, turned the war horse under him and turned around, rushed towards Li Yan's horse, who had also returned, and swung the big knife in his hand.

This knife is a slap of the knife, the knife is calm and sharp, and there is a feeling of never looking back. But Huang Zhong, who was the one who issued this knife, understood that this knife was not as heavy as he imagined. Huang Zhong is a native of Nanyang, but he has lived in Jiangling and Changsha for decades, and he is used to seeing the river and understands what the water potential is. He knew that under the general trend of the overwhelming and indomitable surge of the surging river waves, the flowing water used to compose the momentum of the river waves was still no different from usual. Water and even soft things are changeable, so there is no elongated shape. Huang Zhong has lived for a long time, and it is natural that he has integrated the water potential he has seen into his knife technique. His sword technique is as light as a weight, and there are always many lighter changes in the heavy heaviness. Just like when he swung this blow at the moment, it looked like it was just a straight and simple knife, but after this knife, Huang Zhong reserved at least a dozen hands of rear momentum, which were all formed according to the possible resistance of the person who was hostile to him, together like flowing water.

"There's weirdness." Looking at this straight knife, Li Yan couldn't help but have a mysterious sense of urgency in his heart. He had heard of Huang Zhongwei's name, and knew that he, like Zhao Yun, was one of the two generals in Li Sheng's army, and his martial arts could be described as unfathomable, so it was naturally impossible to use such a straight move against him. "There must be some aftermath in this." Li Yan was so sure, and the gun in his hand naturally had already taken on a parrying style. Of course, Li Yan, who is not stupid, also contains his own back moves in this parrying style, which is also a hidden change in his marksmanship. Right now, he wants to use such a change to resist Huang Zhong's attack.

"When ......" another crisp sound of golden iron resonated, and the black broadsword and cyan spear struck together again, no less than the first hard counterattack retransmitted to the hands of the two generals, making them feel numb for a while. But at this moment, they all chose to endure. Changing moves, their rear momentum, in the shock caused by the exchange of weapons, quickly exerted: Huang Zhong's knife changed from a downward slash to a horizontal slash straight towards Li Yan's chest, and Li Yan's spear quickly retracted vertically to block Huang Zhong's horizontal slash, and then seemed to suddenly lose half of the grasp of the upper arm of his left hand, allowing the spear in his hand to turn into a sharp spear light like a big knife straight from top to bottom to Huang Zhong's face.

This shot has a blatant name called "eagle peck", which means that the attack of this gun is like the pecking of an eagle flying down, which is irresistible. However, this irresistible is only for the average person. For a famous general like Huang Zhong, although it is a little troublesome to resist such a fierce attack, it is not impossible to do it. Immediately, I didn't see how Huang Zhong behaved, the big knife in his hand seemed to have been hit by a thousand catties of weight, and it suddenly drooped, and the tail of the knife was upturned, but when there was no room for it, he stopped the blade of the gun that Li Yan had chopped with the blade of the knife, and set it away.

The two of them once again mistook each other.

Only in the exchange of horses, they exchanged three moves, and these three moves were all towards each other's vital points, such a wonderful duel, not only made the soldiers of the two armies looking at each other extremely nervous, but even the two people who fought directly were also happy about this. At this moment, they really have a feeling of meeting good talents and sympathizing with each other.

At that moment, Huang Zhong and Li Yan turned back to each other again, and a fierce momentum entangled between them. They both looked at each other with sharp eyes, and looked at each other in a daze for a while, and finally they raised the knives and guns in their hands, without superfluous nonsense, nor did they do any meaningless shouting or the like, just urging them forward, but the two of them fought together.

It's a pestering. The two men who were together again, but they did not quickly stagger, but after they exchanged troops with each other, they used the long soldiers in their hands as short soldiers, and at a distance of about a zhang apart, they turned their horses' heads and whirled to a duel.

Forward split, horizontal slash, left knife, right knife, left oblique slash, right oblique slash, sharp stab...... One after another plain moves were used in Huang Zhong's hands, and they were coherent with each other like flowing clouds and half of them towards Li Yan. And Li Yan was not to be outdone, stabbing forward, sweeping, backblocking, vertical separation, eagle pecking, returning to the horse, firing guns, and starbursts...... In Li Yan's hands, the spear's changeable tricks have become extremely gorgeous, and in the midst of being pleasing to the eye, it is on par with Huang Zhong.

It's a good kill. Both Huang Zhong and Li Yan seem to have forgotten that this is the decisive battle between the two armies, and that there are still many soldiers watching them around them, at this moment, they only have the existence of each other in their eyes, and they only think about constantly trying to defeat each other with the weapons in their hands.

Ten moves have passed, and the two sides have attacked and defended each other without any victory or defeat......

Twenty moves have passed, and the situation is still the same......

Thirty strokes......

Forty strokes......

Li Yan gasped slightly. He found that his sustained combat power was not as good as that veteran Huang Zhong. Although at this time, from the outsider's point of view, he and Huang Zhong were still evenly tied, but Li Yan himself knew how weak he had been, and the so-called tie was the end he struggled to maintain, but in fact, he felt that as long as Huang Zhong could maintain his current combat strength and persist for another thirty moves, then he would definitely only have one defeat.

So can Huang Zhong maintain the same combat power of more than thirty moves? There seems to be no problem with Li Yan's observations. Unlike himself, who had already begun to breathe rapidly and gasped for breath, in Li Yan's eyes, Huang Zhong was only slightly flushed at this moment, and his forehead was slightly moist, and it seemed that there was nothing serious.

"Is this the difference in strength?" Li Yan was a little unwilling, but there was nothing he could do. In this heads-up, no one can save him, and he doesn't want to be saved by others, because he knows that once such a situation occurs, it will undoubtedly mean that he has lost. "That's not what I was hoping for." Li Yan clenched his teeth, and the spear in his hand once again grasped him tightly. He swung his spear like crazy, but he completely resorted to the dangerous trick of exchanging his life for his life, but he killed Huang Zhong a little unprepared for a while.

"Okay!" The soldiers of the Yizhou Army, who couldn't see that Li Yan was actually overdrawing their combat strength, saw Li Yan cheering up violently, but they cheered with joy. They shouted and waved their arms, as if they saw the appearance of the white-headed old man who was hostile to their own general and was about to be beheaded.

In contrast to their elated appearance, there was the silence of Li Shengjun's soldiers. Although they also believed in the martial arts of their own generals, they believed that the fact that suddenly appeared in front of them made them unable to turn a blind eye and almost let out an exhilarating cry. They could only be silent, and while the other party was excited, they secretly cheered for their generals in their hearts.

"What do you think of the battle between the two of them. Who will win? The voice sounded on the hillside, but it was Li Sheng, Wu Yi, and Liu Bi standing there. By this time, it had been a long time since Li Yan and Huang Zhong had been fighting, and Li Sheng had already settled the battle against Wu Yi and Liu Bi and forced them to surrender. At this moment, he was leading them to stand on this high mountain, looking down on the battle situation below, watching Li Yan force Huang Zhong back with one move, listening to the shouts of the Yizhou army in his ears, and feeling the unwillingness of this soldier in his heart, he shook his head lightly, and asked with a smile about the two generals who had just barely surrendered to him.

"Forgive me for being clumsy, but I can't see it yet." Wu Yi glanced down, but shook his head with a bad face. He seemed to see something, but his heart was still biased towards Liu Zhang, but he was reluctant to say that. Because he himself didn't want to believe that idea.

"Oh?" Li Sheng snorted lightly and glanced at Wu Yi with interest, and no longer spoke, but looked at Liu Yi, whose face was more silent. "What do you see?" Li Sheng's eyes revealed such a meaning.

"General Li Yan is only at the end of his crossbow at the moment. If he hadn't used this strength, he might have supported forty or fifty moves. But now he tried his best, and after the peak was the extreme decline, he could only hold on to about twenty moves at most. Liu Bi said emotionlessly in his indifferent voice.

"In other words, he is very likely to be killed by General Huang?" Li Sheng raised his eyebrows, and his words were extremely flat, so that people couldn't hear what he meant.

"If Veteran Huang is willing." Liu Bi's voice is still the same.

"I don't want that." Li Sheng shook his head gently: "There are not many fierce generals in our army who can fight with General Huang Lao. What is the most precious thing in troubled times? Talent. I don't want to just give up on him. ”

"Oh!" Wu Yi and Liu Bi responded in unison, but they didn't say anything more. Because they heard Li Sheng's next request: "Let's go down and take it." After fighting for so long, this matter should be over. ”

"Hmm......" They followed behind Li Sheng wordlessly, but they couldn't help but ponder Li Sheng's words in their hearts. This sentence seems very ordinary, but both Liu Bi and Wu Yi feel that this sentence has a deep meaning: "There should be an end to the matter?" Yes, my side is over, and it should be Li Yan's turn and Liu Zhang's turn next. They thought about it, but they were distracted, and their thoughts flew to hours ago:

At that time, the weather was still hazy, Wu Yi and Liu Bi fled in a panic on the battlefield, and when they relied on their own feelings, along the trail, away from the battlefield, they were surprised to find that they had run into a valley and fell into a dangerous place. In front of them was the valley road that could not be seen in the dim and confused, dark and mysterious and did not know the depth, and on both sides of them was the high slope of the mountain forest, the trees were layered on top of each other, making people involuntarily rise up a chill.

"In such a dense mountain forest, if there are really ambushes hiding in it, then what should we do?" They were worried about this, but the cold sweat on their foreheads couldn't stop falling because of this.

They had thought about sending someone up there to investigate, but they gave up on doing so. Because they have so little manpower, if they divide it again, they don't know what they should do.

"Let's move on." Wu Yi suggested to Liu Bi that there was a little bit of inquiry.

"Yes." Liu Bi nodded.

The two of them were about to walk forward, when they suddenly heard the sound of drums on the hill, and saw a row of fires suddenly lit up in the darkness, and countless figures flashed out of the mountains and forests in the brightness of the firelight, sending out "ho...... Ho" growl.

"Ambush? Another ambush of the enemy? Did they already know that we were going to lay an ambush here? Wu Yi and Liu Bi looked at each other, and their hearts were full of feelings. They were about to sprint again, to break through again, but to their disappointment, they found that the road ahead was blocked as wellβ€”the sound of footsteps sounded in the confused darkness. Although some distances were far away, Wu Yi and Liu Bi could still vaguely see a neatly lined phalanx appear in front of them. They didn't seem to be outnumbered, but they were sturdy enough to seal the road ahead. Looking at their well-equipped and morale-filled appearance, Wu Yi and Liu Bi had no doubt that if they rushed forward desperately like this, they would definitely break their heads in front of this phalanx.

"What should I do?" The two hesitated, realizing that they had been surrounded, and there seemed to be no possibility of escape.

Just when they thought they were desperate and waiting to die, Li Sheng appeared. He, like Huang Zhong, also came to the sight of Wu Yi and Liu Bi under the condition that his soldiers maintained this offensive posture. Of course, he didn't come to a place close to them, but was a hundred steps away from the position of the two, and asked in a loud voice: "Two generals, this is already a Jedi, can you surrender?" ”

"Down, how not to drop? I don't want to die yet. Wu Yi was still about to answer, but Liu Bi behind him agreed first. Although his words were very straightforward, and they were somewhat harsh in the ears of Wu Yi and others, it was undeniable that Liu Bi's words came out of everyone's hearts. None of them wanted to die, so in such a desperate situation, they all chose to surrender.

The rest is easy to say. Although it was a new body, Li Sheng was still affectionate to them, and immediately explained his strategic deployment directly in front of them, and asked them to stay by his side and directly cooperate with his actions. This is the current situation where Wu Yi and Liu Bi are following Li Sheng's side.

The thoughts were slightly retracted, but it was not that the two of them were unwilling to think deeply, but at this time, the two of them and Li Shengyou had already reached the bottom of the hill and came to the edge of the battlefield where Huang Zhong and Li Yan were fighting.

"Stop! Two of you! The two tigers will eventually be injured! About twenty feet away from the two sides, Li Sheng shouted loudly. His voice was very loud, and naturally and smoothly reached the ears of the two people who were fighting on the battlefield. Li Yan didn't know who was coming, so this shouting only caused the corners of his mouth to twitch slightly, but he didn't care about it disdainfully. But Huang Zhong, who was hostile to him, couldn't be like him. Huang Zhong heard Li Sheng's voice and understood that his lord was beside him, and he immediately became very anxious. He is already old, but the last thing he allows others to say that he is old and that he is useless. At that moment, he struggled, and the knife in his hand became more powerful with the appearance of Li Sheng. The same life-for-life style of play as Li Yan also appeared in his hands. After a few sharp knife gestures passed, the two returned to the starting point, and seemed to have returned to the demeanor when they were equal to each other.

Seeing that Huang Zhong was able to smooth out the already existing downwind situation with a little force, Li Yan secretly screamed in his heart. At this moment, his moves have gradually become messy, under the condition of Huang Zhong's strength, his strength is decreasing little by little, and under this length, what is shown in front of everyone is actually Li Sheng After yelling, Li Yan's moves gradually became scattered, such a fact.

Doesn't this mean that Li Sheng used some secret technique to influence the heads-up between Li Yan and Huang Zhong? It's despicable enough to use this kind of means. - As if they had found an explanation for the reasons of the Yizhou Army, they were clamoring on the side, frantically applauding Huang Zhong's side.

Such immoral behavior naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of Li Shengjun's soldiers. They also made a lot of noise, scolding each other loudly, cheering for their own commander with their own words and cheers. For a while, this battlefield was very lively.

"Huh? How so? I just want them to stop fighting and stop fighting, and it's unbelievable that this will happen, right? Li Sheng, Wu Yi, and Liu Bi looked at each other for a while, but there was nothing they could do but look at the future like this for the time being. Fortunately, the battle situation seems to have reached the time when the winner is about to be decided, and Li Yan's defeat to Huang Zhong is already a clear fact. Li Sheng, Liu Xuan, and Wu Yi all knew that they didn't have to wait long to see the end of the matter.

Sure enough, the two sides exchanged more than ten moves. As Li Yan's moves became more chaotic, Huang Zhong became more relaxed to deal with. He saw Li Yan's gunfire clearly. Seeing the gap between Li Yan's stabbing shots, he turned sideways, flashed the sharp tip of the gun, waved the gun under his ribs, and pulled it hard with a loud shout, but Li Yan even ripped the gun off the horse and threw it on the ground, and his long knife was already on Li Yan's shoulder, and asked sharply: "In this way, you have lost." Can it be downgraded? ”

"That's the case, how can I not surrender?" Li Yan was very acceptable to the final result, he let go of the spear in his hand, prostrate on the ground, and bowed to Huang Zhong as a surrenderer.

But Huang Zhong did not accept his bowing, but helped him up and brought him to Li Sheng. "This is the lord of my family, and if you want to worship, you will worship him." Huang Zhong said.

After hearing what Huang Zhong said, Li Yan wanted to salute again, but this time it was Li Sheng who stopped him: "The talent of the general, I have already seen it." It's too late for me to be happy that such a heroic general can take refuge in me, how can I accept such a great gift from the general? And please get up, general. Saying that, Li Sheng used great strength to push Li Yan's body straight. This made Li Yan secretly smack. Although he had never fought with Li Sheng, with the strength that Li Sheng was using to support him at the moment, Li Yan knew that Li Sheng's force was not under him, and he could be regarded as a strong martial artist.

Li Sheng treated Li Yan with such courtesy, Li Yan was naturally very happy. Although with Li Sheng's support, he did not bow down to the ground and swear to Li Sheng, but in his heart, his impression of Li Sheng was far higher than that of his former lord Liu Zhang. He really felt Li Sheng's respect for him in his every move. For this respect, he was moved, and at the moment he was very cooperative with Li Sheng's actions to persuade the team he led, and volunteered to take Mianzhu City for Li Sheng.

Li Sheng knew that Li Yan was too guarded by Mianzhu, so he did not have any objection to Li Yan's opinion at all. He believed that Li Yan was smart, and believed that it was impossible for him to surrender to himself when such a major event had been decided and there was no possibility of success in the resistance. So Li Sheng agreed to Li Yan's request. He asked Li Yan to lead the army first, and he followed behind Li Yanjun, waiting for Li Yan to present the city.

Things went very smoothly, and with the cooperation of Li Yan, the upright Mianzhu Taishou, Mianzhu fell into the hands of Li Sheng without much effort. After that, Li Sheng repaired his army in Li Yan's Mianzhu City, so that the tired army could recover its combat strength, and prepared to send troops to attack Chengdu at the same time after reaching agreement with Wei Yan in Luocheng.

Li Sheng's side was preparing for the final battle, but Liu Zhang's side fell into a panic after getting the news that Luocheng and Mianzhu had fallen. They all knew that with the fall of Luocheng and Mianzhu, the two most important checkpoints in Chengdu, Chengdu had been completely exposed to Li Shengjun's soldiers. In the next war, if it continues, in addition to the city wall of Chengdu can still be relied on, the rest can only rely on the flesh and blood of their own people to fight, and if they continue to fight like this, whether Chengdu can be kept in the end is still a question.

"What to do? It seems that the situation has reached a point where it can no longer be done. Officials in Yizhou, especially those who still have some loyalty to Mr. Liu, are despairing.

"Alas...... It's just that the city can't bear it. Why did Mianzhu fall so quickly? Then Li Yan is said to have taken refuge in Li Sheng, I really don't know if they have already discussed all this. If Mianzhu is still in my hands, we can let Liu Zhang burn all the wild valleys and warehouses everywhere, lead the people of Brazil, avoid the west of Fushui, and do not fight in deep ditches and high bases. If he can delay for time, Li Sheng will not get any benefit. Some people said this with regret.

What's the use of talking about that now? We're going to have to figure out a solution. It's not about doing all those things that are fired behind the horse. "There are also people who are so dismissive of those who regret it.

"Hmph...... What are you talking about? "Someone is angry.

"Old lord, look at what has become of Yizhou's foundation......" Some people cried.

If Shuzhong, which was divided by Liu Yan and Liu Zhang's father and son, can be regarded as an independent kingdom, then at the moment when this kingdom is about to fall, everyone's behavior is already under the despair in their hearts, showing all kinds of unexpected abnormalities.

"Alas......" Liu Zhang sighed with tears in his eyes and looked at the various postures of these ministers below, and a strange feeling involuntarily surged in his heart: "This ...... Is it the so-called Yizhou elite? Do I pick out the ministers to handle political affairs? How is it that, judging from the current situation, it is not much better than the gangsters on the street? Is it because my vision is not good and I am blinded by them, or are they acting too well, and now is their true face? Liu Zhang thought, but his heart was very desolate and sad, he thought that there was such a group of people under him, and it would be strange if he didn't perish. Alas......" He shook his head helplessly, sighed again, and swept his gaze coldly from the faces of these people one by one, and finally fixed his gaze on Huang Quan's still calm face: "Gongheng, what should we do now?" ”

"Then it depends on what the lord thinks in the end?" Huang Quan's face still had the same expression that had not changed for 10,000 years.

"What do I end up thinking ......?" Liu Zhang muttered.

"If the lord thinks of war, then I will mobilize all the people in Chengdu and around Chengdu to participate in this war. If the lord thinks of peace, then we will send someone to present a surrender table to Li Sheng now. Huang Quan said coldly, and directly put two completely different paths in front of Liu Zhang: "Whether it is war or peace, please ask the lord to decide with a word." ”

"Is it war or peace?" Liu Zhang repeated these two sentences in a distracted manner, repeatedly weighing the most important impact of the decision, and finally he broke out: "Surrender? How can I surrender? The rivers and mountains of the Han Dynasty are our Liu family, and the land in Yizhou was left to me by my father, how can I let it be taken by outsiders casually, and finally surrender to outsiders and crouch at the feet of outsiders? I have to fight, and I have to choose, because I also have my dignity. Liu Zhang said solemnly, he made his own choice.

"In this case, then please move the people of Qi County and Xindu to Chengdu, burn the county seat, and collect all the grain, grass, money and silver from the two places, so as to enrich the power of Chengdu and defend Chengdu." Liu Zhang made a decision, and the people below were shocked by their ambitions, and one of them, an official named Zheng Du, quickly offered Liu Zhang such a plan.

"What a ruthless strategy...... Zheng Du's words just fell, and everyone couldn't help but gasp: "Don't you understand that this is going to displace the people?" From ancient times to the present, rushing for such a thing, except for that Liu Bei, seems to have been infamy. Not...... We still don't mix things like this. Thinking like this, everyone was silent, and they didn't dare to express any opinion on such a matter that might affect their reputation. So their eyes were all on their own father-in-law, and they all completely put the choice of this matter in the hands of Liu Zhang.

"Well...... this" Although he said it so imposingly just now, Liu Zhang suddenly fell silent when he heard Zheng Du's opinion, he still couldn't give up his heart after all, so after thinking for a while, he still shook his head gently: "Forget it...... I have never heard of a relocated people who have avoided the enemy and still be victorious. We are still in a proper and tidy up team, so let's fight with Li Sheng in Chengdu. ”

"Well, okay!" When everyone saw that Liu Zhang had spoken like this, they couldn't think of any better way for a while, so they had to agree. Although they also knew that they would not see the last hope of holding the city like this, they had to make this last death struggle out of loyalty, out of their own beliefs, and out of their own reputation.

Chengdu's war preparedness has begun, and all people, from officials to ordinary people, have voluntarily or involuntarily participated in it. A large number of young people were conscripted, a large number of grain was confiscated, and under Liu Zhang's rare insistence, Chengdu was made to jump up with a chicken.

However, such a chicken-fly-dog jump did not last long. Only three days later, Li Shengjun's Zhao Yunbu had already led 5,000 cavalry to the city of Chengdu and began to sweep the suburbs of Chengdu, intending to clear the scouts belonging to the Yizhou army outside Chengdu. Although the number of these 5,000 cavalry was small, the momentum they created was huge. What's more, everyone in Chengdu knows that with the arrival of Zhao Yun, the vanguard, Li Shengjun's main force is definitely not far from Chengdu. The scene of the soldiers approaching the city will soon appear in front of them. They are all worried.

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