Peiguo is the fief of Liu Yao, the king of Pei of the Han clan. Liu Yao's ancestor was Liu Fu, the son of Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, and it has been seven generations since Liu Yao. Because it is located in the Central Plains, Peiguo has also suffered a lot of wars in recent years, during the Yellow Turban Uprising, most of the 21 counties under Peiguo's rule were lost, and only Peiguo's county was saved.

Since the Han Dynasty began with Emperor Wu and implemented the Tui En Decree system, the king surnamed Liu of the Han Dynasty has already existed in name only, although Liu Yao is the king of Pei, but he can only enjoy the moon and a guard of honor of 200 people, no ruling power, no military power, no financial power, this is a typical three-no king.

There are even some feudal kings because of the large number of heirs, and in the end they are inseparable, and finally become commoners, such as Liu Bei, who often claims to be a child of the clan, is in that situation.

As the fief of the son of Liu Xiu, the lord of Zhongxing in the Eastern Han Dynasty in history, although the fiefdom of Peiguo continued, in recent years, due to the continuous military disasters in Yuzhou, Liu Yao, the king of Pei, also lived an extremely hard life, and even because of the military disasters and natural disasters, so that in the disaster year when there was no harvest, the whole family could only sell their ancestral property to survive.

This time Yuan Shu besieged the city for several months, Liu Yao's days in the city deteriorated again, because the minister advocated surrender, the result was directly beheaded by the national captain Gao Shun, in the face of the ruthless Gao Shun, Liu Yao, the greenhouse prince, was scared like a cicada.

Peiguo City is also Xiangxian County, because it is the location of the royal city, the scale of the city is naturally much higher than that of ordinary county seats, which is also one of the reasons why Gao Shun was able to rely on the city to fight against Yuan Shu's tens of thousands of troops for several months.

But the nearly 100-day defensive battle has reached the limit for Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, who are defending the city, not because they have gone to combat effectiveness, but because the city has begun to run out of food. If there is food in the city, hold on for another year, and both of them will have faith. You must know that there are 50,000 people in the city, more than 12,000 young and strong, plus 5,000 soldiers from the county and nearly 2,000 people they brought, which is enough to arm a force of nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses.

But as the saying goes, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Even a strong general like Zhang Liao Gaoshun could not urge a hungry soldier to fight.

On the dripping city, Zhang Liao, who has been fighting in the city for several months, has become a lot yellowish and dull on his originally handsome face, and the corners of his mouth are full of nonsense.

Zhang Liao's original surname is Nie, and his ancestors are the surnames of the state, and later changed his surname to Zhang in order to avoid trouble, although the family is in the middle of the road, but Zhang Liao was famous in the county when he was a teenager, and was valued by Ding Yuan, the assassin of the state, and recruited to his subordinates to retain.

Over the years, he has followed Lu Bu, because he is clever, good at making colleagues, and he is better than ordinary people in terms of strategy and martial arts, so he is quite trusted by Lu Bu.

This time, when he went out of the town, he was appointed by Lu Bu as the prime minister of Lu, and Zhang Liao at this time, only twenty-four years old, was the youngest general among the generals under Lu Bu's account.

At the age of twenty-four, he served as the minister of state of a county, which is unimaginable in a peaceful and prosperous era, even in a troubled era like the end of the Han Dynasty, such as Zhang Liao's age, there are only a handful of people who can serve as the minister of state of a country.

Although Zhang Liao is good at making friends, light on wealth and righteousness, he admires Gao Shun, who was born as a commoner, the most.

Gao Shun can be said to be the most maverick general under Lu Bu's account, he and Lu Bu are from the same county, only one year younger than Lu Bu, nine years older than Zhang Liao, when he was in the county, Gao Shun admired Lu Bu's bravery, and voluntarily followed him to listen to the dispatch, regarded him as a brother, and ran errands before and after the saddle, just to be able to learn martial arts from him.

Gao Shun, who was born in poverty, was an orphan when he was a teenager, and he didn't even have a name, and it was precisely with this hard-working diligence that he won Lu Bu's trust and named himself Shun, which means obedience.

Gao Shun is silent, not good at words, does not like to drink, and is not close to women, but there are rewards and surplus wealth, which are distributed to his subordinates. Therefore, gradually he gathered some private troops under his tent, and the number gradually increased to more than 700 people.

Gao Shun treats these people like brothers, shares weal and woe, and empathizes, for which these people compete to serve them every time they are in battle, and are called 'trapped in the camp'.

It was with such tenacity that when Gao Shun was seventeen years old, he followed Lu Bu as a slave and servant, from a poor boy who was illiterate and had never learned equestrian martial arts, he walked out of the battlefield step by step and became the first general under Lu Bu's account.

Although he was able to come this far, thanks to Lu Bu's support, Gao Shun has become the current national lieutenant from a foot soldier, and it can be said that he deserves his name.

Zhang Liao can be said to see this in his eyes, and Gao Shun's tenacity and self-discipline are also what Zhang Liao respects him the most. For this reason, every time Zhang Liao met him, he called him his brother.

Gao Shun's height is half a head shorter than the tall and straight Zhang Liao, but he is also more than seven feet, burly and strong, with broad face and black skin, a thick black beard, sharp and energetic eyes, because he does not like words, he often gives people a sense of majesty.

"Brother Gao, there is no food in the city, we can no longer support it, and now the lord has been defeated and left, we are stubbornly defending this place, what can we do?" When Zhang Liao said this, his eyes did not look at Gao Shun, but looked at the dense Yuanshu camp outside the city, letting the rain sprinkle on his face, covering up his inner uneasiness and unwilling to live and die in the city.

"Wen Yuan, you are still young, with your ability, you can get ahead anywhere." Gao Shun glanced sideways slightly, glanced at the young Zhang Liao, stopped Zhang Liao who was trying to argue, and continued: "However, I am different from you, I was born poor, fortunately Feng Xian was willing to take me in, so that I would not die of hunger or war, Feng Xian has been up and down over the years, I have seen it in my eyes, and I have been treated coldly by him, but I have never thought of leaving him, because since the day he took me in, I have told myself that I will repay him with my life." ”

"Now it seems that if I can shed the last drop of blood for him, it may be the best place for me." Gao Shun showed a rare smile on his face, looked at Zhang Liao and said sincerely: "Tonight I led the army out of the city to fight, you took people out of the city quietly from the north, I have seen it carefully, the defense of the Yuan army in the north is the weakest, as long as you seize the opportunity, you can mix out of the encirclement, as for Yuan Shu, this person is not worthy of your refuge, this person is greedy for small profits, and he can't achieve great things, this place is not far from Xuzhou, you go to the east after you go out of the city, go to Han Ziyang, this person is not strangers to you and me, and he is a master worth attaching." ”

"Brother Gao......" Hearing Gao Shun's heartfelt words, Zhang Liao couldn't help but burst into tears, he stood on the wall with both hands, looked sideways at Gao Shun with a resolute face, and plucked up the courage to say: "Brother Gao, if you want to die together, let's kill and run out together, if you are lucky enough to rush out, we will go to Han Ziyang together, if you can't rush out, then we will be loyal to the Lord together, and it will not be in vain." ”

Gao Shun looked at Zhang Liao calmly, and the two of them stood in the rain at the head of the city, facing the heavy rain, but the blood in their hearts boiled.

"Boom!" In the gloomy sky, a bolt of lightning struck as if it tore the earth apart.

Looking at Zhang Liao, whose face was full of rain or tears, the corners of Gao Shun's mouth raised slightly, and he was silent for a long time, and nodded slowly: "Okay, then let our brothers fight side by side again, whether it is life or death will be left to God to decide." ”

In the middle of the night, when the rain stopped for a while, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao selected a thousand energetic soldiers on the dim school field of Peiguo Dongcheng, killed many war horses, and took out the stored rice wine for all the soldiers to eat.

"Brothers, the enemy army is besieging the city, and it is death to sit and defend, and there may be a glimmer of life when you rush out, today I and General Zhang are determined to fight out of the siege, are you willing to fight to the death?" Nearly half of the thousands of soldiers in front of him were his brothers who were trapped in the camp, and in the face of Gao Shun's gaze, they did not hesitate, and raised their arms and shouted: "Fight to the death." ”

"Fight to the death." The thousands of sergeants on the school ground, driven by this atmosphere, broke out one after another.

When Gao Shun was boosting morale on the school field, Zhang Liao was also saying to Liu Yao, the frightened King Pei on the side: "King Pei, when it dawns tomorrow, you can lead your subjects out of the city to surrender, these days have offended." ”

"General Zhang said with a smile, Peiguo is a feudal country of the Han family, and I am also responsible for defending the land." When Liu Yao heard this, he was also relieved. If this city is held on, not to mention that the people are going to starve to death as the king of Pei, although he said that it is the duty to defend the land, but now the Han family is dying, and they have no soldiers and no power, but the righteousness of the Han family is there, anyone who takes Pei Guo still has to respect him as the king of Pei in name, so for him, it doesn't matter who controls Pei Guo, as long as he is still the king of Pei.

"It's good that King Pei knows, after all, Peiguo is the feudal territory of the Han Dynasty, and no one can occupy it if they want to." Zhang Liao glanced at him, holding a crescent halberd in his hand, and put on his armor on horseback.

"Wenyuan, get ready to go." Seeing Zhang Liao galloping over, Gao Shun raised his eyes to look at him and greeted.

Looking at the Yuan army camp from a distance on a rainy night, there was only a hazy and swaying dark light, and there was no trace of people in sight.

When Zhang Liao Gaoshun led his troops to quietly touch the outside of the camp in the east of the Yuan army, when they saw the soldiers and horses of the Yuan army who were lax in defense, the two glanced at each other, tacitly turned over on the horse's back, and raised their voices and shouted: "Brothers, kill with me." ”

"Kill! Kill ......"

Thousands of sharp soldiers in the night, one after another burst out of the roar, brandished weapons, rushed into the Yuan army camp, completely defenseless Yuan soldiers, when they woke up from the camp tent, only to find that the camp was full of fire, and panicked soldiers, it was impossible to tell how many enemies came.

The two Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, who led the troops in front, were not merciless, and when they saw the camp tent, they set fire to it, and the enemy was cut and killed, and the department was only a thousand people, but they were interspersed with a large camp of as many as 10,000 people, and they did not encounter any stubborn resistance.

When he came out of the camp, Gao Shun looked behind him and suddenly found that his subordinates had lost more than 100 people. Zhang Liao also said with a happy face: "Brother Gao, it seems that it is really your brother who will not die, while the enemy's position is undecided, it is better for us to leave Peiguo quickly." ”

"What Wen Yuan said is that although the Yuan army is in chaos in Dongying, the Chinese army's large array is as stable as Mount Tai, and it is not moving at the moment, but I don't know the details of you and me, if Yuan Shu knows, it will be difficult for us to escape." Gao Shun raised his eyes and looked at the shouting and killing sound rising in the direction of Yuan's army's camp, and he also felt lucky, if it wasn't for today's rain, Yuan's army would inevitably come out of the camp, instead of taking a defensive posture like now.

In Yuan Shu's camp, Yuan Shu, who was drunk due to drinking with Han Lie, woke up and faced the generals who had gathered, and he was surprised and asked, "What happened to the left camp?" ”

"The last general has sent people to check, the lord is worry-free, and all departments of the Chinese army camp have been arrayed and armed." General Ji Ling replied in a deep voice.

"Whew." Yuan Shu breathed a sigh of relief, only to remember Han Lie, who was drinking with him late at night last night, and just about to ask, he saw Han Lie's tall figure and walked out of the crowd.

"Ziyang, are you okay?" Yuan Shu thought at first that it was Han Lie's soldiers and horses who had launched an attack on him, but when he saw Han Lie and Dian Wei and Zhu Huan behind him, he completely relaxed.

"Brother Highway, why is the left camp rioting, could it be that it has been attacked by the enemy?" Han Lie stepped forward and asked with concern.

Without waiting for Yuan Shu to answer, the sergeant who went to investigate reported: "The left camp was attacked by the enemy at night, and General Le was also wounded, but now the enemy has broken through the camp and left. ”

"Incompetent, incompetent to the extreme." When Yuan Shu heard this, he said angrily: "Zhang Xun and Li Fengru immediately led their troops to pursue the enemy who attacked the camp. ”

"Brother Highway, the enemy has been on the run for a long time, and the foot soldiers may not be able to catch up, so let me lead the cavalry to pursue." When Han Lie heard this, his heart moved, and he had a faint intuition that the purpose of attacking the soldiers and horses in the camp was likely to break through, not to attack Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses.

And at this time, the generals who can still attack so decisively are afraid that only the famous Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan in history are gone.

There are a thousand elite horsemen under Yuan Shu's tent, but it is his baby bump, it is his personal guard army, and it is generally not a matter of life and death, so he will not use this guard.

"So there is a good brother who works hard." Han Lie was willing to serve, but Yuan Shu couldn't ask for it.

Under the command of Tai Shici, the Xiao cavalry battalion was already assembled and ready for the first time, and as soon as Han Lie, Dian Wei, and Zhu Huan arrived, the cavalry troops roared and galloped out of the Yuan Shu camp.

Looking at the galloping cavalry, Yuan Shu couldn't help but show a trace of envy and greed in his eyes, and the lord Bo Qiao Rui said: "Lord, Han Ziyang is also a tiger, why don't you take advantage of this to take him down?" ”

"Why don't I want to, but Han Ziyang came prepared, you don't see his cavalry as a janissaries, and he has the courage of ten thousand people, if I do it easily, but take advantage of it, wouldn't it be self-defeating?" Yuan Shu smiled bitterly and replied quite self-consciously.

"Ugh." The generals on the left and right were silent.

Han Lie led the cavalry battalion to chase out fifty miles in one go, and only then did he catch up with Gao Shun and Zhang Liao's troops in the territory of Qian County on the border of Peiguo. At this time, the sky was already bright, and after running around in the rain all night, whether it was Gao Shun Zhang Liao or the sergeants of the department, they were already exhausted.

When they saw the cavalry rushing up in front of them, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao couldn't help but change their colors, the two of them had been fighting with Yuan Shu in Peiguo for several months, and they had never seen Yuan Shu dispatch cavalry, which would face the cavalry that was chasing and killing, and they were exhausted, and they could only cry out in vain.

"In front of you are the two generals Gao Shun and Zhang Liao." Just when Gao Shun and Zhang Liao thought that they were going to die, an inquiry came from the front of the cavalry army galloping on horseback, which made the two hesitate for a while.

"A certain is exactly Wuyuan Gaoshun is also." Gao Shun was bold, and walked out of the army with his sword, and along the way, his war horse had already been given to the wounded sergeant to ride, and he walked with the foot soldiers, and walked nearly fifty miles overnight.

"General Gao's name, I have been famous for a long time." Han Lie turned over and dismounted, and while alleviating the hostility and vigilance of the other party, he said: "In Xia Han Lie, because he learned that the general was killed, he rushed to help the general get out of trouble. (To be continued.) )