Prologue: Peach Blossoms Fall

The dust has fallen on a big war. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Cao Cao and Liu Bei were both seriously injured and "I don't know whether they live or die", which can be regarded as a lose-lose result for this war. After that, Xiahoudun escorted Cao Cao back to Yuncheng and summoned people to heal Cao Cao's wounds, and Liu Bei's men also fled to Dingying with Liu Bei, who was injured and arrowed, and seemed to be closed. The area of Runan temporarily settled down for the lives of their respective princes, and Xiao County also fell silent because Cao Cao was injured and had no new orders. For a while, the vigorous war came to an abrupt end, and there was no sound.

After three days like this, Cao Cao, under the careful care of his subordinates, although his speech was a little leaky, he quickly woke up. He couldn't move, but his head was still clear. After hearing Xiahoudun's repeated reports on the situation, Cao Cao was almost sure that Liu Bei had been injured, and this injury was definitely much worse than the one he was currently bearing, and he might have fallen into a dangerous situation of life and death right now.

"If that's the case...... the thought in Cao Cao's heart turned, "Liu is seriously injured, even if there is hope of recovery, he is slowly recovering at this moment, and at this time Liu Bei can't be angry, can't have intense emotions." If it is placed in normal times, according to Liu Bei's temperamental personality, it is easy to do, but at the moment...... I don't believe that Liu Bei, who attaches great importance to brotherly feelings, can continue to remain calm after seeing Guan Yu's head. Liu Bei is dead, after you get Guan Yu's head. Cao Cao thought so, but he finally gave an order: "Let Xiao County's total begin." I want Liu Bei to see the head of his second brother before he dies. As for you, take this opportunity to surround Dingying as soon as possible, I think it will become Liu Bei's graveyard. ”

"Nuo ......" Xiahoudun and the generals who rushed to protect Cao Cao gave up, but they went down quickly. Although they were also very worried about Cao Cao's body and wanted to guard Cao Cao's side, Cao Cao now issued such an order to ask them to put the overall situation first and seize the time to eliminate Liu Bei. This is also something that there is no way to do, "Disobey Cao Cao's orders?" "It's something they can't even think of.

Cao Cao's order was conveyed, and everything naturally proceeded very quickly, and five days later, Cao Cao's army surrounded the small Ding Yingcheng, but did not attack the city, but only guarded it in all directions to prevent Liu Bei's army from breaking through. Although Cao Cao's army surrounded Dingying was only 30,000, Liu Bei's army in the city was more than 40,000 people, but they didn't dare to go out of the city. This also made everyone in Cao Cao's army believe the lord's judgment on Liu Bei: "Liu Bei is already seriously injured and in danger." ”

Since this was the case, they naturally had no more doubts about Cao Cao's order, and they quickly arranged everything properly. Because he was worried that the troops would not be able to hold on, Cao Hong, who was appointed by Cao Cao as the commander-in-chief of the entire battle, even mobilized the Tuntian soldiers on the Yanzhou side, and in the ten days that followed, nearly 100,000 Cao soldiers had gathered under Dingying City - Cao Cao's war potential further surprised the world.

At the same time that Cao Cao's Cao Ren troops were besieging the city of Dingying, Xu Huang's troops, who had received the order, also began to launch a strike against Guan Yu's army trapped in Xiao County. At this moment, Guan Yu's army has been surrounded in Xiao County for more than a month, although the food of the army has not been eaten up, and they have not yet reached the point of starvation, but the morale of the whole army has dropped again and again. And with the arrival of the LΓΌ Meng army, the news that the land of Huainan was conquered can no longer be held. Some people in Guan Yu's army continued to flee because of this, and by the moment Xu Huang launched a general attack, there were less than 2,000 Guan Yu's army left in the city.

The general offensive launched by Xu Huang went very smoothly. Guan Yu's army, which was already exhausted and demoralized, could not defend Xiao County at all, and only let Xu Huang's men and horses break into the city in less than an hour after the attack began.

The city could no longer be defended, and Guan Yu naturally thought of breaking through. Since the west of the city is where Xu Huang is in charge of himself, thinking of Xu Huang's force that is enough to drag him down, Guan Yu naturally won't touch Xu Huang's hard stubble. After considering the current situation surrounded on all sides, Guan Yu chose Dongwu in the south as his target: first, he hated Dongwu's betrayal very much, and wished he would kill more Dongwu dogs at this moment; Second, Guan Yu, who has been dealing with Dongwu for a long time, knows very well the strength and weakness of Dongwu, and naturally understands that the weakest among the four sides of the siege at this moment is the south that Dongwu is responsible for.

"Go here......" Guan Yu roared, with his eldest son Guan Ping and dozens of people rushing out of the south gate, the Qinglong knife in his hand continued to go forward and dared to block his way to the Dongwu soldiers who dared to greet him, but he used the power of the Qinglong knife technique and his own horse fast but he was forced to kill a bloody way in the formation of the Dongwu army, and there was no one in the middle of the battle.

"General...... What to do? Guan Yu has almost broken through our defenses. Seeing that Guan Yu was so powerful and his own defense line was so dangerous, although he knew that his own General Lu Meng definitely had a solution to this, the guards around Lu Meng still couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Let him break through. For Guan Yu, I have already stepped into the monstrous fishing net, but Guan Yu can't escape any of these big fish. Despite his strong strength, his head is not very bright. Different from the panic of the guards, Lu Meng was very calm at this moment, he watched Guan Yu kill his battle formation, and instead of a trace of regret on his face, the corners of his mouth arced into a chuckle. He directly ordered the guards beside him: "When General Ma Zhong sends Guan Yu over, you will directly cut him off and send his head to General Xu Huang." ”

"Ah......? Why? The guards around Lu Meng were puzzled by this: "If we catch Guan Yu, then Guan Yu's head will undoubtedly be our trophy." Why should we send such loot to Cao Cao's side? ”

"For the sake of the lord's reputation." Lu Meng replied with a smile.

"Huh?" For such an answer, the guards were even more puzzled.

"Although the lord claimed to have attacked Liu Bei on the orders of the imperial court, before we handed over Guan Yu's head to the imperial court, most people in the world considered us to be unrighteous traitors. In order to reverse this perception, we naturally have to do something. Just like what I'm commanding now. Lu Meng explained with a smile.

"I see." The guards nodded.

Everything was as planned by Lu Meng, and Guan Yu had no way to escape from Lu Meng's net. Soon after Lu Meng discussed this matter with his guards, everyone saw their deputy general Ma Zhong escorting two tall men over, one of them was nine feet long and about fifty years old, with phoenix eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, a face like a heavy tree, a long beard fluttering, a golden armor on his body, and a green robe on his cover, although his body was a lot embarrassed at the moment, but the momentum of not being angry and arrogant was still amazing, who was not Guan Yu.

Although Guan Yu has been captured at this moment, the tiger power on his body is still there, and he has been caught all the way, scolding everyone in Dongwu, but still no one dares to underestimate him. He was escorted in front of Lu Meng, Ma Zhong insisted that Guan Yu kneel for Lu Meng, but Guan Yu always stood upright, his strength was much greater than Ma Zhong, but Ma Zhong had no way to take it.

"Alright......!" Seeing Ma Zhong's anger that had not subsided, Lu Meng smiled slightly, but he stretched out his hand to stop Ma Zhong's actions, "Why are you angry with Guan Junhou." Just let him go. Now he can't do anything other than scold, and after a while, he can't even scold, why do you care about it anymore? ”

Lu Meng's words were not harsh, nor were they rude and barbaric, but the mockery and disdain in his words still deeply pierced Guan Yu's heart. Guan Yu stopped, not scolding, just looking at Lu Meng with resentment, which had a lot of intentions to devour Lu Meng alive. For Guan Yu's actions, Lu Meng was not afraid, so he laughed proudly in front of Guan Yu. At this moment, he is the winner, and Guan Yu is the loser.

Lu Meng smiled, and Guan Yu opposite him also smiled, but with Lu Meng's insolent smile, he had a feeling of being an upstart, unlike Guan Yu's smile, which gave people a chilling feeling.

"What are you laughing at?" Suddenly, Lu Meng stopped his smile and asked Guan Yu.

"Laugh at you......" Guan Yu said coldly.

"What's so funny about me winning you, do you think it's just my luck?" Lu Meng asked puzzled, he felt a little timid, in front of Guan Yu's still unstoppable sneer.

"Naturally, you do not rely on luck, but on betrayal, by conspiracy. It is the devil who is one foot high, the road is one foot high, and evil cannot prevail after all. You have captured me, but you have not captured my son, and I believe that he will one day avenge me and behead you. I'm just one step ahead, and you're just following behind. Guan Yu said with a smile. At this moment, he has a very open view of death, although he has a little feeling that he can no longer follow his eldest brother to fight the world in the future, but he has never been afraid of death.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ You! Lu Meng was suffocated by Guan Yu, but he was furious. Guan Yu's call undoubtedly hit the most vulnerable place in his heart. Although he had never said to outsiders and the lord that it was not wrong for him to attack Liu Bei, in the bottom of his heart, in the deepest part of his heart, he still felt that his behavior was an unrighteous act of betraying the lord. This is a standard imprinted in the depths of the soul, and it is the judgment of the whole society on righteousness. Even though Lu Meng showed that he didn't care about this on the surface, on the inside, he still cared a little about this. Guan Yu's call just now undoubtedly directly touched his heart. He should be ashamed, but he knew that he couldn't be ashamed, so he turned this shame into his anger towards Guan Yu, and he couldn't help but shout loudly: "Kill him, kill him." I don't want him to dangle in front of me. ”

"Yes......" Several soldiers didn't know why their general suddenly became so angry, but they still obeyed Lu Meng's order and dragged Guan Yu and Zhou Cang down. Within a quarter of an hour, three trumpets sounded, but it was Guan Yu and Zhou Cang's heads that fell to the ground.

According to the initial order, Lu Meng handed over Guan Yu's head to Xu Huang, and then planned to get up and return to Eastern Wu, without daring to have other thoughts. After all, this is Xiao County, which is already Cao Cao's hinterland, and it is not impossible for Cao Cao to leave all his people here, for his own safety, for the safety of these elite soldiers of Eastern Wu, of course, Lu Meng has to leave quickly.

It's just that just as he was about to leave, he was stopped by someone sent by Xu Huang.

"If you want to go, you can leave Guan Yu's body for me." Xu Huang said with a vote of people on the road with an axe in both hands.

"Why? I have already given you Guan Yu's head. Lu Meng was vigilant, but he asked unwillingly: "This time, it was our Dongwu who killed Guan Yu, and we have to give us some proof." The heads are given to you, do you still need a body? ”

"Exactly." Xu Huang nodded heavily: "Although Yun Chang is my enemy, he is also my friend. Everyone, including the prime minister, didn't want Yun Chang's body to be torn apart. ”

"You ......" Lu Meng saw that there seemed to be no room for turning back: Cao Cao's 70,000 troops over there had already been arrayed and pressed up. At that moment, he knew in his heart that if he didn't agree with this matter, it was very likely to be destroyed by Xu Huang. This is not what he wants, he values his own life, and even more values the lives of these soldiers around him, he is absolutely unwilling to fight Xu Huang without such a navy.

"Then I'll give it to you." Lu Meng gritted his teeth, but reluctantly agreed. This is also something that there is no way to do, after all, at the moment, Cao Cao's strength is too strong.

handed over Guan Yu's body to Xu Huang, and Lu Meng led the army to retreat. Perhaps because of the unwillingness in his heart, after he turned around and walked a few steps, he turned around and glanced at Xu Huang resentfully, and the resentment in it was needless to mention. He thought that this glance was very hidden, but he didn't want Xu Huang to be a keen-eyed person, but his self-righteous hidden glance fell into Xu Huang's eyes very clearly.

"The other party is hating himself." Xu Huang understands this, but he doesn't care. Because he already knew that the harmonious relationship between his side and the Jiangdong side would disappear after today. "At that time, when I meet this Lu Meng on the battlefield, I must be the enemy and me. If you want to help the lord accomplish the great cause, then the whole world is an enemy. For this, Xu Huang has been prepared for a long time.

Led the army back to Xiao County, Xu Huang sent someone to quickly send Guan Yu's head to Cao Cao along with the body. Although he understood that Cao Cao was going to use Guan Yu's head to force Liu Bei to death, it was somewhat disrespectful to his friend Guan Yu, but since he was Cao Cao's subordinate at this moment, there was nothing he could do.

"I only hope that the lord can bury the clouds after completing all this." Xu Huang sighed, and he could only think like this. His mission here has been completed, and he only leads the army to follow Cao Ang back to Xiapi. At the beginning, Cao Cao gave him an order: after eliminating Guan Yu, he would be responsible for the entire eastern defense line. Therefore, he did not need to take his army to Runan to join Cao Cao.

In this way, he slowly led the army east, and only halfway through, Xu Huang heard the news that the lord Cao Cao had conquered Dingying. β€œβ€¦β€¦ It is said that the lord used Guan Yu's head to kill Liu Bei angrily, and did a very strange thing after capturing Dingying. It was the messenger Xin Ping who came to report the news to Xu Huang, and when he saw Xu Huang's focused appearance in front of him, he couldn't help but play a trick.

"What did you do?" Xu Huang was naturally curious about this.

The lord ordered Liu Bei's head to be removed and hung on the city tower for three days, and then ordered someone to take off Liu Bei's head and bury it with his body and Guan Yu. At the time of the burial, the lord used the gift of the king. And asked for an edict from the emperor, Liu Bei was the king of Huainan, and Guan Yu was waiting for Hanshou Pavilion. The lord even personally carried Liu Bei's coffin. Xin Ping said with a smile. He looked at Xu Huang as if he wanted to see a surprised expression from Xu Huang.

But Xin Ping was disappointed, Xu Huang's face was not surprised, but showed a look that should be so. This kind of appearance has been seen by Xin Ping in those military advisors under his lord Cao Cao. He didn't care about them, but now Xu Huang actually showed such a knowledge, which made him feel curious: "Gongming understands the intentions of the lord?" He asked, surprised.

"It's right for my lord to do this." Xu Huang nodded and said with great certainty.

"How?" Xin Ping became more and more curious. In his opinion, a military general like Xu Huang should not be very good at understanding such a problem, how can it be ......

"The lord beheaded Liu Bei and hung the city for three days, because Liu Bei was the enemy of the court, and the lord was rebellious from righteousness to commanding the world. As for burying Liu Bei with princely gifts and crowning Liu Bei as the king of Huainan, I think the lord is respecting Liu Bei......" Xu Huang slowly said his judgment, but when he just said that "the lord is respecting Liu Bei", he was hurriedly interrupted by Xin Comment on the side.

"Wait...... Didn't the lord always think about eliminating Liu Bei? How can you say that the lord is respecting him? Xin asked puzzled.

"Sometimes one's enemies are one's own confidants. It's too stupid to look at the enemy, isn't it even stupid to look at yourself? Have you forgotten that the former lord and Liu Bei were cooking wine in Xuchang and talking about heroes? Xu Huang naturally has his own set of understanding of this, and he firmly believes that his understanding is not wrong.

"I see." Although the answers he got from different people were a little different, Xin Ping still made a look of sudden realization.

This can be regarded as a correct reason, after all, individuals look at the problem from different angles, and the conclusions drawn are also different. However, Xin Ping knew that his lord's mind was not as simple as these people said, and he may have included all the reasons that these people said: including Jia Xu's conspiracy, Xun Yu's yang conspiracy and Xu Huang's righteous sentiment at the moment.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ By the way, where is the lord now? Is it Wancheng? Xin Ping thought so, and suddenly heard Xu Huang ask like this, and then he came back to his senses.

The lord returned to Xuchang and ordered Zhang Jaw to go to Chang'an to return to Wancheng for Xiahou Yuan to be responsible for the conquest of Zhang Fei. At this moment, under Wancheng, generals including Xiahou Yuan, Xiahoudun, Cao Ren, Cao Hong and other generals have been gathered to surround Wancheng with an army of 100,000, and Zhang Fei can't escape. Xin Ping said with a smile.

"I see." Xu Huang nodded in understanding, stopped talking, and seemed to be thinking about something.

At this time, Cao Ang, who had not spoken beside him, suddenly spoke, and he asked in a little surprise: "Doesn't my father have any arrangements for Xiangyang?" Or are we going to just give Xiangyang to Soochow? ”

"The matter of Xiangyang, the lord means that he will talk about it after he obtains Wancheng. Soochow is now suppressing the affairs of Huainan. Although Huainan has fallen into the hands of Eastern Wu, it has gradually become unstable due to the fact that Eastern Wu killed Guan Yu. The chaos of all sizes has not stopped for a quarter of an hour since Lu Meng returned to the teacher. Now it depends on whether Lu Meng will pacify Huainan first, or whether we will capture Wancheng first. Alas, this place in Wancheng has been rotated several times in our hands or Zhang Fei's hands over the years. People say that Zhang Fei is just a general, but at this moment, it is not the same thing. Xin Ping smiled and explained Cao Cao's current deployment of Wancheng, which was a very practical and helpless deployment. Although Xin Ping did not explain it directly, everyone could still hear that Jiangdong Lu Meng's army was in full trouble in Huainan, and Jia Xu must have secretly operated it.

"Hah...... Since this is the case, then I hope that Miao Cai can break Zhang Fei as soon as possible. Alas...... It's a battle of dragons, but I can't go to it. Xu Huang sighed slightly, but he was a little disappointed. In his heart, Liu Bei's Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are among the most powerful generals in the world, and now that Guan Yu is dead, there is only such a Zhang Fei left, and he can't support it anymore. It can be said that the battle against Zhang Fei was a battle between several fierce generals in the world, and such a battle was very rare, and he was also a fierce general because he couldn't go because of his own mission, which was really a pity for him.

"This ......" Xin Ping shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this, but his eyes were a little confused: "What's the pity?" Isn't the weaker the enemy, the better? However, I still hope that General Miaocai can quickly solve the enemy in Wancheng. It's best to get it done before the arrival of Soochow, the location of Xiangyang is so important, I don't want it to be occupied by Soochow like this.

"Well, everything now depends on Wancheng." Xin Ping thought so, but his eyes were biased to the west, he thought of Zhang Fei's prestige, and couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart: "The current Wancheng is already a Jedi, I don't know what Zhang Fei will do under such a Jedi,"

What's the solution? What else can Zhang Fei do. After learning the news of the murder of his second brother and eldest brother, he had become even more irritable, and he no longer used any brains, just thinking about rushing to Xuchang to break Cao Cao's body into pieces. As for whether he can rush over and return safely, he no longer does what he thinks.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ I do not seek to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but to die on the same day and month of the same year...... Big brother, second brother, please stay a while, wait for Yide, I screw off Cao Cao and Sun Quan's heads, and I will go underground to accompany you. "On the hall of Wancheng Taishou Mansion, there was already a white cloth, white paper was all over the sky, Zhang Fei was crying here, setting up a mourning hall for Liu Bei and Guan Yu, and worshipping Liu Bei and Guan Yu in the northeast. Because, with sadness in his heart, Zhang Fei couldn't help but cry loudly as he spoke. Although he usually looks like a tough guy and rarely shows weakness, crying at the moment is also earth-shattering. In the past, the scenes of the three brothers were close to their hearts, and the scenes of fighting for a "noble" goal appeared in his heart one after another, some of them were ordinary memories, but at this moment when he thought about it, he deeply realized the strong brotherly love. He cried loudly, and shouted loudly, because he had already ordered his subordinates not to disturb him, he was alone in this mourning hall and cried so much that he finally fell asleep, until the next day, when the dull drum beat came into his ears, which woke him up.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Fei, who woke up, roared angrily.

"General Qiyu, the Cao army under the city is calling for battle!" The sound of Zhang Fei's soldiers reporting sounded outside the hall in a panic.

"Cao Jun is here?" Zhang Fei grinned, "It's just right to be so self-sufficient, I'll go to them again if I save it." As he spoke, his eyes widened, and a sense of pride revived in his body again. He ordered loudly: "The whole army is assembled on the school grounds. ”

The soldier of "No......" hurried away. Immediately, the drumbeat of everyone was remembered on the school field, but it was all Liu Beijun from Wancheng who stood in unison for a while.

"This time I'm afraid it's our last battle." Zhang Fei rode a black horse to the front of the sergeants, and said something like this with his naturally loud voice: "The eldest brother is dead, and the second brother has also been killed by them." I'm afraid it's already in a place where our three brothers don't gallop all day. In today's battle with Cao Jun, I thought I had the determination to die. After all, the forces of Eastern Wu and Cao Wei are so strong, and I don't have the confidence to lead you to fight again. This is a battle to the death, and I just want to be able to make it happen, and I have no regrets. You are just ordinary soldiers, but you don't have to be with me. That's all for you. ”

Zhang Fei's words were not many, but they caused a profound repercussion in the hearts of the soldiers. They all knew the news that their lord and the second general were gone, but they never thought that the situation would be so bad. At that moment, some of the people left the team timidly, but more people gathered under Zhang Fei's banner. They have all received some benefits from Liu Bei, and at this moment they are willing to lose with Liu Bei.

Zhang Fei counted these people carefully and found that there were about 20,000 of them, but he also smiled with satisfaction.

While he was laughing, he suddenly heard another voice in the crowd asking himself: "General, it's just that our people are dead." But the little boy is still there, and it is unknown if the general has a way to settle them. ”

"Hehe......" Zhang Fei laughed: "Don't worry, I've already let them go to Xiangyang." With us guarding here, Xiangyang will not suffer any damage for a while. Moreover, I also gave Liu Feng a suicide note, once we can't keep it here, he will follow the situation on this letter. Didn't they Jiangdong and Cao Cao both want Xiangyang? I'm not going to let them get to this place so easily. You know, we're not completely without allies in this world. ”

"Got it." When everyone heard Zhang Fei say this, they understood a little. At the moment, it is also resolute. They followed behind Zhang Fei and went out from the open gate of Wancheng in this way, and they actually shook Xiahou Yuan's 100,000 army with a force of 20,000 people. For a time, the sound of screams all day long, the sound of swords everywhere, the wind and sand blew, and the blood mist was raised.