A field battle by Poyang Lake was lost at Cha Rong. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He lost to his unfamiliarity with military orders, and to the effects of the Great Purge that he had deliberately provoked in the army. Since the Battle of Poyang Lake, the morale of the Charong army has been low. Although the backbone of the Charong army did not lose much, the gloomy atmosphere that existed in the army made Charong, who did not know much about military affairs, understand that he could not continue to fight at the moment.

Unable to fight, Cha Rong chose to retreat very consciously. He escaped from Zhongling and returned to Yuzhang. Originally, he wanted to rest in Yuzhang for a while, ready to fight Liu Xuan again, but under Liu Xuan's step-by-step pressure, he couldn't hold Yuzhang at all.

At this moment, rumors in the army have arisen again. Not only did he continue to circulate the original topic, but he also took the retreat from the battlefield as a note that he was a cowardly coward. Having discovered that the killings did not stop the rumors from spreading, this time his cronies were mobilized to conduct a detailed investigation into the entire incident. They finally found out that all this turned out to be Liu Xuanjun's Xu Shao making trouble behind.

What to do? Cha Rong was a little flustered. He knew Xu Shao's name, and understood that this guy who was famous for his skill in connoisseurship had an extraordinary ability to attack the heart, and he would never let go of his weaknesses. Although he had wiped out most of the evidence for these weaknesses, and had devised the words to explain them, the immorality of these things was a fact, and they weighed down on Charong's heart like a heavy boulder. No matter how you explain it, it is impossible for Charong to explain everything clearly. Therefore, he especially felt the horror of Xu Shao's attack.

In desperation, Charong had no choice but to retreat again. He withdrew from Yuzhang City, crossed the cadres by boat, and headed towards the west city where Zhuge Xuan was stationed.

Cha Rong's escape made Liu Miao very unexpectedly enter Yuzhang City without blood. Of course, the surprise here is just the opinion of the common people. And Xu Shao of Liu Xuanjun and his sovereign Liu Xuan both took such a change for granted. Because the morale of the Charong army is very low, it can be said that the fighting spirit has been completely lost, all of which is the result of Xu Shao's attack. Liu Miao understands all this very well.

"Sir, let's hurry up and chase Charong." Liu Miao asked Xu Shao. After taking down the Yu Zhang, he did not forget that the enemy had not been completely destroyed, and after entering the city, he immediately ordered the troops to assemble in the west of the city, and prepared for the pursuit.

"No need. My lord, I think it's better for us to rest in Yuzhang. Xu Shao shook his head lightly and persuaded Liu Miao not to pursue Cha Rong.

"Why? Charong's main force didn't suffer much damage, and he still had more than 10,000 people. Liu Miao looked at Xu Shao suspiciously. He didn't understand the purpose of Xu Shao's persuasion: "Isn't it good to pursue the enemy and finally destroy the other party?" ”

"Not good, at least not right now." Xu Shao looked at Liu Xuan's puzzled appearance and smiled lightly, and explained: "Charong's army is in turmoil, even if he has the ability to regain control of his subordinates, it will take a certain amount of time. It can be said that he will not be able to make any impact on us, at least in the short term. For us, the most important thing at the moment is not to solve the small trouble of Charong, but the big trouble of Sun Ce. I heard that Sun Ce had expanded his army to about 20,000 troops, and he was assisted by Jiangdong talents. At the moment, they are not rushing to chase after them, but are consolidating their territory step by step, and I think such actions are the biggest threat to us. We must cultivate well and wait for Sun Ce's arrival. ”

"But the east is ......" Although Xu Shao said it was very reasonable, Liu Miao was still worried: "What if Charong fights with Sun Ce, what if we raise troops?" Before I saw this unrighteous villain die, my heart was still uneasy. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, this matter can be left to Zhuge Xuan to do." Xu Shao squinted his eyes and smiled.

"Oh? Charong's army has 10,000 people, and Zhuge Xuancai has only 3,000 people, can he do it? Liu Miao was a little worried. He was afraid that Zhuge Xuan would not be able to destroy Cha Rong, but would be annexed by Cha Rong. After all, he knew that Cha Rong had put down his arrogance when he went to Xicheng before retreating: "First collect and merge the troops of Xicheng, and then shame on you." ”

"Zhuge Xuan can't lead troops to fight, but if he engages in some schemes or something, he can still be competent. The method we used before, Zhuge Xuan also plans to use, and he has more ways than us. I heard that one of Zhuge Xuan's generals was related to the instructor of the part of the Zharong army that was the most snobbish. Xu Shao explained with a smile.

"In that case, then I want to see what Zhuge Xuan plans to do again." Hearing Xu Shao's explanation, Liu Miao calmed down and waited to see what happened in Xicheng.

Cha Rong wanted to capture Zhuge Xuan's troops in Xicheng for a long time. Although there were not many of them, there were also three thousand, which was undoubtedly a great temptation for him. Of course, before capturing the army, you have to kill Zhuge Xuan first. This is what Charong has always done, because Charong always thinks that only the troops he is in charge of are worthy of confidence. He didn't want to see the kind of independent force under his command.

Charong's army lost nearly half of its men in the field battle at Poyang Lake, and then fled in the retreat, which can be described as heavy losses. But even so, when preparing to attack Xicheng, Cha Rong's troops were still around 10,000, and his main force, the Futu Sect, did not lose much, much higher than Zhuge Xuan's 3,000 people. Therefore, Charong is very confident that he can capture Xicheng.

However, when he confidently marched towards Xicheng with his army, the former army sent a horse to report: "Zhuge Xuan's army withdrew from Xicheng yesterday. ”

"What? actually let Zhuge Xuan run away? Although Zhuge Xuan's evacuation means that he will enter Xicheng without losing a single soldier, Cha Rong who received the news was not happy at all, he almost gritted his teeth and said: "Damn Zhuge Xuan slipped faster than a rabbit, why didn't I know before, he was so good at running?" ”

In desperation, Charong had no choice but to let his team enter Xicheng first, and at the same time launch a search in Xicheng. It didn't take long for Cha Rong's front to be full of valuable materials, but the inhabitants and troops of the city had left, and even those who remained in the city were only more than 3,000 people, even if they were counted as old, weak, sick and disabled. It is simply not enough to organize into a strong army. Moreover, Cha Rong himself was also suspicious of those untrained soldiers after the recent battle in Poyang. He no longer thinks that ordinary people can go into battle as soldiers as long as they are armed.

"Bastard Zhuge Xuan, why don't you leave the army behind?" Looking at these yellow and white things in front of him that reflect dazzling brilliance, Cha Rong can't lift his temperament at all. As soon as he thought of Zhuge Xuan's escape, he was annoyed, and he frowned tightly and ordered: "Let all troops send me scouts to search for the whereabouts of Zhuge Xuanjun." Damn, if you don't find out Zhuge Xuan's team for me, you don't want to mix it up. Cha Rong was furious, and unexpectedly said a few rough words in front of the cadres.

After the anger, Charong took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. He turned around and prepared to discuss with the military cadres he had recruited about what to do with the loot in front of him. While these shiny things are dismissive to some people, they are the best things to use to tie people together. After the last purge, Cha Rong intends to let his soldiers relax a little here to repair his prestige in the army.

Suddenly, a piece of news came up. It was the news from the collection team of the Charong army in the city: "Zhuge Xuan's nephew and his righteous son have been found!" ”

"What? Zhuge Xuan's nephew and righteous son? His mind was full of anger towards Zhuge Xuan, and he stood up and gave an order excitedly: "Bring these two little guys to me." ”

"Yes!" The herald's jaw head brought Zhuge Liang and Li Sheng to Cha Rong after a while.

Looking at the two handsome young men in front of him, Cha Rong was silent for a while, and then squinted his eyes and asked, "You are what people call Zhuge Xuan's nephew and righteous son." Why don't you introduce yourself? ”

"My name is Li Sheng, and I am the righteous son of Lord Zhuge . Next to him is Zhuge Liang, the nephew of his father-in-law. In the face of Cha Rong's inquiry, Li Sheng opened his mouth before Zhuge Liang could answer.

"Oh! I see. The expression on Cha Rong's face was still a little gloomy, and he stared at Li Sheng and Zhuge Liang: "Why don't you run away?" ”

Zhuge Liang swallowed his saliva, and after calming down his mood, he opened his mouth with a little fear: "I am a monk, and the victory or defeat of the battle really has nothing to do with me." Originally, I only planned to stay alone, but my brother was not at ease and insisted on staying with me. As he spoke, Zhuge Liang stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Sheng, with a helpless look on his face.

"Oh? It's really a brotherhood. However, you say you are a monk? Hearing Zhuge Liang say this, he couldn't help but feel a little in his heart. He just escaped from Yuzhang City, and he was forced to come here, and he never achieved his original goal, so of course he was not in a good mood. Although he was curious about Zhuge Liang at this moment, there was malice in his curious eyes.

Such a malicious gaze obviously alerted Li Sheng, and he stepped forward first, and used his body, which was obviously half a head shorter than Zhuge Liang, to Zhuge Liang's side. Although he was also bare-handed at the moment, the fearless spirit he showed from himself made Cha Rong's malicious gaze shrink slightly, and people couldn't help but take a step back.

"What a horrible little imp." Cha Rong was taken aback by Li Sheng's actions. He clearly felt the dull murderous aura emanating from Li Sheng's body, which was the murderous aura that only soldiers who had experienced a bloody battle. Such a murderous aura is felt in such a detachment, which makes Cha Rong really uncomfortable.

At this time, Zhuge Liang's answer also came: "Yes." I'm a monk. However, because of his lack of age, he is not allowed to shave his ordination, and now he is practicing and studying various doctrines and scriptures. ”

"Oh? Not old enough? Cha Rong was slightly stunned, and then blurted out, "How old are you?" ”

"Fifteen." Zhuge Liang replied simply. Perhaps a little shy, he lowered his head slightly, but the expression on his face was extremely calm. He was large, and naturally exuded a confident aura, which did not make people feel that he was only fifteen years old.

"Fifteen?" There was some disdain in Cha Rong's eyes, and he continued to ask Zhuge Liang: "You said you are cultivating, what kind of cultivation is it?" He smiled coldly and walked around. At this moment, the backbone of the Charong army was gathering in the square of the Xicheng City Tower with a tired face, and most of them looked at everything in front of them with a little numbness. The only one who can laugh is Cha Rong.

"I'm studying the Tao Xing Prajna Sutra by Master Zhi Lou Jiaji." Zhuge Liang still replied calmly.

"Oh? Then you can explain it. Well, right here. Cha Rong said in a cold nasal voice, his voice revealing a trace of disdain for Zhuge Liang.

The translation of the Tao Xing Prajna Sutra by Zhilou Jiayu is a rather peculiar Buddhist classic. It uses the concept of emptiness (i.e., the view that everything is empty) to explain Prajna (enlightenment of wisdom), and injects strong philosophical elements into the original teachings of Futu, which had a strong sense of mantra, and becomes a different existence from the mainstream at that time.

Charong, who has always lived directly as the leader of the Futu sect, has not seen many of the classics of the Futu. He seems to be using a few actions to use the Futuk cultists to do something for himself. However, even so, Cha Rong also understood that the "Tao Xing Prajna Sutra" was a classic that was at the forefront of Futu science at that time.

"You're so angry, kid. Before the milky smell dried, he said that he was studying such a profound classic? Hmph, see if I don't slaughter you. At this moment, Cha Rong already had the idea of killing Zhuge Liang and Li Sheng to demonstrate.

Since the beheading of Xu Yuan, the people around him have been worried and afraid of Cha Rong. All this, at first glance, in the eyes, there is a pleasure in the heart: everyone knelt on the ground, but he was the only one who stood tall and proud of the world, and no one dared to disobey him, what a glory this was. He felt that his horrific purges seemed to be working. However, the defeat on the shore of Poyang Lake and his forced abandonment of Yuzhang City seem to be due to the excessive fear of his subordinates. Therefore, Cha Rong deliberately relaxed the tight reins slightly, hoping to increase his momentum a little.

It's just that in terms of employing people, it is impossible to relax directly like this. Charong knew that he needed to tighten the reins again before he could relax. This is common sense to loosen the reins. Cha Rong glared at Li Sheng and Zhuge Liang viciously, he wanted to target these two fifteen-year-old boys who had a relationship with Zhuge Xuan. First, he made a tactical tightening demonstration against his subordinates, and second, he vented his disgust with Zhuge Xuan in his heart.

"It is said that hell has the so-called sword mountain and sword sea, if you talk nonsense, be careful of being pushed into hell." Cha Rong pulled out the long sword on his waist and plunged straight into the soil, shouting loudly to Zhuge Liang. Preaching and hell are two different things, but Cha Rong just wants to use this to scare the two teenagers in front of him.

"It's kind of scary." Zhuge Liang and Li Sheng both felt his killing intent from Cha Rong's eyes that were red from blood congestion. Although they had expected such a situation in advance, and had also laid out corresponding measures in this western city, they were completely surrounded by "enemies" at the moment, and the two of them couldn't help but tremble. But even so, they don't regret staying at all. Because for them, whether they can defeat Charong depends on the moment.

The two teenagers held back their chestnuts and slowly looked around. I saw that among the crowd, only Cha Rong sat with his legs spread, and the others behind him were either sitting cross-legged or sitting upright, which are all popular sitting methods at the moment.

"Let's start preaching." Charong stood up, pulled out the sword stuck in the ground, gripped the hilt of the sword, and opened his mouth viciously.

Li Sheng tightly protected Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang swallowed his saliva and opened his mouth, his lips trembling uncontrollably. At first glance, one side of his cheek was crooked, and the expression on his face became even more hideous.

"Everything we see as real with our eyes is not in reality. They are all void, just because we think they are real, they become real......" Trying to calm his nervous mood, Zhuge Liang began to say on his own. Although he had not studied the scriptures for a long time, he had read them very carefully and was able to understand the meaning of them quite deeply.

"Wait!" Cha Rong interrupted Zhuge Liang's sermon with a loud shout, and in the worried eyes of everyone, he raised the sword in his hand above his head: "I can see you now, a fifteen-year-old big man, is this also illusory?" Isn't it an entity? That's what you think? He asked with a murderous look on his face.

"Yes!" Zhuge Liang nodded vigorously, but reluctantly took a step back under the approach of Charong.

"Since there is no entity of you in this world. Then you don't live in this world? Then I'll make you like this, and make you an illusory corpse. Cha Rong gritted his teeth and said, took another step forward, and the sword in his hand was about to be chopped down one after another.

"Ahh Zhuge Liang closed his eyes in fear, waiting for the sound of the sword swinging down. However, the roar did not occur, for he was pushed away and fell heavily to the ground. "Be careful!" It was a loud shout from the person who pushed him away, and Zhuge Liang recognized it as Li Sheng's voice.

"Kill!" Zhuge Liang fell to the ground and opened his eyes, but saw Li Sheng holding a short sword and fighting with Cha Rong. From time to time, Li Sheng let out an unusually loud shout, which was obviously the sound of him telling everyone in the ambush in Xicheng to act together. Today, Charong will be eliminated, this is a plan that Li Sheng has long proposed. For this plan, he made a lot of preparations, including using himself and himself as bait to get close to Charong.

Gradually, the shouts of killing came to mind everywhere in Xicheng, and there was a faint billowing smoke coming out of the city, and it was obvious that someone was fishing in the troubled waters and setting fire. Cha Rong was forced to get close to Li Sheng, who was holding a long sword, and he retreated again and again, although his sword was very long and sharp, but the advantages of the long sword at close range could not be brought into play. It was difficult for him to resist the short sword flying up and down in Li Sheng's hand, if he hadn't dodged well, he was afraid that he would be killed by Li Sheng in a few clicks. It must be known that Li Sheng's swordsmanship was learned from Xu Ding, and Xu Ding is the transmission of Wang Yue's lineage, which is most conducive to fighting on foot between singles, and it is not something that a third-rate military general like Cha Rong can resist when he dismounts.

"What are you still sitting there for, why don't you come up and help me kill these damn guys." Cha Rong felt that he might die if he continued to fight, so he immediately became ruthless and fought a few swords from Li Sheng, and got a chance to breathe and give orders to his subordinates loudly. He wanted to be rescued by these people.

However, a loud voice completely shattered his illusions: "Charong child, do you still want to be saved?" ”

About 200 archers came out of the vicinity of the houses around the tower. Among them, there is a gold-armored general holding a hard bow, which is Huang Zhong of the Zhuge Army.

The people and horses in ambush sacrificed their lives, which made Cha Rong's heart become cold and cold. And then, the words of those backbone officers under him drove him into the bottomless abyss, and gave him a taste of what it means to be a betrayal.

I saw that those who were originally sitting on the ground stood up and surrounded Zhuge Liang. One of them, a thin, gray-haired old man, staggered out and shouted with all his strength: "At first time, everyone is not convinced. We unanimously decided to leave him. We want to go to Lord Zhuge Xuan, please help us convey it. ”

"Understood." The blood on Zhuge Liang's face recovered slightly, and he nodded lightly.

Seeing that his subordinates had turned their backs on him, Cha Rong couldn't help but be shocked. He panicked, and the sword in his hand could no longer resist Li Sheng's dagger, and was finally hit in the back by Li Sheng in a backward turn.

The severe pain made his face red, his eyes were red as if they were on fire, his mouth was wide open, but the whole person did not move, and there were some hoarse voices that seemed to be moaning in pain. He was strangely still, his eyes staring but not focused, not looking at anything at all. After a while, dark red blood flowed from the right lip, seeping from the jaw down the Adam's apple and into the collar. The throat that had been agitated slowly became soothed. With a "bang ......", his body fell forward with a bang, and the hair on the back of his head was scattered and scattered.

He ...... He's dead? After everything was over, Zhuge Liang walked out of the crowd, looked at Charong's lifeless corpse and asked tremblingly. Although he was safely protected by everyone in front of him, and he didn't see the fierceness of the battle between Li Sheng and Cha Rong, he only had to listen to the voice to understand what kind of tragic picture the fight between the two was. He felt the thrill in it, and it made his heart skip a beat.

"Dead." Li Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and said a little tiredly.

Everyone dispersed, and only a team of dozens of soldiers left by Zhuge Liang, Li Sheng, and Huang Zhong to protect the two of them was left on the huge Chenglou Square. Now that Charong is dying, the officers who have taken refuge in Charong's army naturally have to rush to various places in the city to restrain their soldiers. And Huang Zhong also went with them, and it would take the efforts of both of them to stop the fighting in the city.

Zhuge Xuan returned to Xicheng in the afternoon after the battle, along with his family and Wei Yan, the captain in charge of his safety.

"You've done a great job this time." Zhuge Xuan, who returned to the county government conference hall in the city, said with a smile to everyone in the hall.

Today's seemingly coincidental result is in fact the embodiment of a series of arrangements. It is only because of the mutual secrecy between the two sets of arrangements that the thrill ahead:

In order to deal with Cha Rong, Zhuge Xuan began to arrange two sets of plans at the same time under the advice of Li Sheng and Zhuge Liang, one literary and one martial.

The text refers to the persuasion and co-optation of the officers in the Charong army. It doesn't take much effort at all. After the Poyang Field Battle between the Charong Army and Liu Xuanjun, the soldiers of the Charong Army had deeper doubts about their main general. Because Tai Shici's rumors on the battlefield made everyone regard Cha Rong as a weak villain, so they no longer trusted his leadership skills.

Later, under the lobbyist sent by the Zhuge Army, Xu Ding's sharp words and enthusiastic emotions, the largest part of the Charong Army, that is, Xu Hai, the captain of Jingkou, agreed to become the internal response of the Zhuge Army. He used his connections and got in touch with Xu Ji, a cousin of Zha Sheng and Yuzhang, to completely convince the backbone of the Charong army. Everyone agreed with each other that as soon as they crossed the Ganjiang River and contacted Zhuge Xuan, they rebelled against Charong and took refuge in Zhuge Xuan.

Originally, they needed to contact Zhuge Xuan before going to Xicheng to act in unison. However, due to the emergency alert carried out by Charong for fear of Liu Xuanjun's sneak attack, Xu Ding, who was in charge of the passage on both sides, could not return to Xicheng immediately. Zhuge Xuan's side had to think that Wen's plan had failed, and that there had to be another way to solve the Chalrong threat-that was Wu's plan.

The so-called Wu's plan was entirely in charge of Li Sheng. Although his identity was that of a mere acting county Sima, after he convinced his stepfather Zhuge Xuan and the two generals Huang Zhong and Wei Yan who commanded the army in his own way, the matter was already completely in his hands.

He recalled the scene about the tunnel war he had seen in the movie, and used the power in his hands to get the people of the entire Xicheng to participate in digging the cellar.

During this period, he also followed Zhuge Liang's advice: "Spread bad words about Charong throughout the city, and make him as terrifying as possible, so that all the people will be afraid of Charong's arrival." After that, we will stir up the hearts of the people of the whole city and bring them into our complete control. ”

This was a pretty powerful suggestion, and Li Sheng listened to it, and he grasped the hearts of the people in the whole city. The work of digging the cellar was completed at an unprecedented rate. After receiving the news that Wen's plan might fail, the final preparations for Jiangwu's plan became Li Sheng's most important task at the moment.

He put Wei Yan in charge of his father-in-law's safety, and let the people of the whole city and a thousand soldiers and horses withdraw from the city first. This is to ensure that in case the plan does not work as well as expected, and can only cause a considerable degree of chaos to the Charong army, then they will break into the city and deal the final blow to the Charong army.

As for the 2,000 people who remained in the city, General Huang Zhong was in charge of hiding in various parts of the western city. Of course, not all of them are hidden in the cellar, but some of them. There are not many, just a few hundred people, but they are all elite parts, dressed as local residents of Yuzhang to cope with the arrival of the Charong army.

In order to make the plan more seamless, in order to cope with the possible search of Cha Rong, Li Sheng proposed a plan to use himself as bait to attract Cha Rong's attention. He originally planned to do this alone, but he didn't want Zhuge Liang to intervene.

"Let me stay, Brother Sheng." Zhuge Liang's big man posted to Li Sheng's front and pleaded.

"No, I can't. It's dangerous, and you don't know how to fight. Li Sheng refused without thinking about it. He thought that Zhuge Liang would give up like this, but he didn't want him to get a satisfactory answer here, so he went over there to ask his uncle Zhuge Xuan to go.

"Uncle, I want to stay." Zhuge Liang's way of making a request is still so direct.

"Why?" Zhuge Xuan asked.

"I want to increase my knowledge and help Brother Sheng." Zhuge Liang said sincerely.

"How do you help him?" Zhuge Xuan felt very strange: "You are powerless." ”

"But I know the classics, maybe I can use this as Brother Sheng to delay some time." Zhuge Liang spoke of his strengths.

"Well, then." Zhuge Xuan thought for a while and agreed, and at the same time he called the general Huang Zhong and entrusted him: "Please be sure to take care of them." ”

Things were decided in this way, and what happened next went more or less according to the pre-planned plan. Although there are some minor problems, such as the crisis that occurred in the middle of the way, it can be regarded as a thrilling past. Things went pretty smoothly anyway. Therefore, in the hall after the war, Zhuge Xuan said to them like this: "This time you have done a very successful job!" ”

Now that the matter of Charong has been resolved, the next step should be to discuss how to play against Liu Xuan, who occupies Yuzhang City.

That's not an easy enemy to deal with. Although the Zhuge army after the incorporation of the Charong army already had considerable strength to fight with Liu Xuan.