Chapter 14: Victory in the First Battle

Liu Bei saw that Zhang Fei did not take Zhou Cang, and did not achieve his goal of trying to demoralize the enemy, so Cheng Yuanzhi waved his army to attack again. Liu Bei saw that there were many thieves and soldiers, so he recalled Zhang Fei and planned to retreat temporarily and then think about it in the long run, but he thought that Liu Meng would lead his soldiers and horses to rush to the enemy formation, and he hesitated for a while.

Liu Bei has always had great ambitions and wants to achieve a great cause, but he knows that he is weak now, and after seeing Liu Meng and others, he naturally loves talents, and he just wanted to try to win over at the banquet, but who would have thought that he would be interrupted by the attack of thieves before he entered the topic. So now that he sees Liu Meng leading people to break into the enemy formation, he wants to lead the army to rush and kill, but he is afraid of folding inside, regardless of Liu Meng's retreat, not to mention that it will be useless to win over Liu Meng in the future, and abandoning friendly troops in front of the battle is also a taboo, which will have a major blow to his reputation.

But Liu Bei is a heroic figure after all, he gritted his teeth and said: "Second brother, third brother, Fengyi Xian brother rushed into the enemy formation, we can't abandon it, go, follow me." After speaking, he rushed forward with Guan Zhang and five hundred subordinates.

Zou Jing saw that both of them led the army to rush up, so he had to order the whole army to attack to meet the enemy. Ren Xiu'er saw that they all rushed forward, and regardless of Liu Meng's order to tell her not to engage the enemy, she rushed forward with her generals.

Besides, Liu Meng led the crowd to rush into the enemy formation, between the three Xu Chu was the arrow, Dian Wei wanted to protect Liu Meng, so the two were behind, Cheng Yuanzhi saw the enemy cavalry rushing in, and hurriedly dispatched spearmen to meet the enemy, fortunately, the enemy soldiers were loosely organized, the arms were mixed, and only more than 200 spearmen raised their guns to meet them in a hurry, and the rest were swordsmen and yellow turban thieves holding farm tools.

Liu Meng and the others are now also ready to send arrows, relying on the skill effects of Dian Wei and Xu Chu to lead the army to collide with the enemy. The enemy was knocked out under the strong impact of the war horse, Liu Meng's side of the war horse was stabbed by the spear and fell to the ground and screamed, and there were also knights who were pierced into the body by the spear and died, but the number of spearmen was not many after all, Liu Meng and the three of them tore open the defense line of the thieves after paying the price of more than 40 cavalry casualties, and rushed to Cheng Yuanzhi.

"Xu Chu is here, and the thief is dead." Xu Chu swung his knife and slashed at Cheng Yuanzhi. Who knew that a big knife suddenly appeared to block Xu Chu's attack, and it turned out that Zhou Cang returned to Cheng Yuanzhi's side. Cheng Yuanzhi saw that Zhou Cang had stopped Xu Chu, and hurriedly turned his horse back to retreat, and at this time, another thief rushed in, and for a while, he could only watch Cheng Yuanzhi escape. Seeing this, Liu Meng was also helpless, after all, the impact power of the cavalry was almost consumed so far, and it was almost successful, but the result on the battlefield would be much worse. Liu Meng secretly blamed himself for his meritorious service, which caused several people to be in danger now, seeing that the thieves around him were gathering more and more, and now he didn't know if he could escape from the enemy formation and ascend to heaven.

Just when Liu Meng was secretly annoyed, suddenly Dian Wei beside him shouted: "The thief is dead!" I saw Dian Wei take out a small halberd from behind and throw it at Cheng Yuanzhi, Cheng Yuanzhi wailed, turned over and fell off the horse. The peak turned around, Liu Meng was pleasantly surprised, how could he forget that Dian Wei had this ability, seeing that Dian Wei killed Cheng Yuanzhi Liu Meng yelled: "Cheng Yuanzhi is dead, those who surrender will not die!" "When the thieves saw that the Lord was about to be killed, the dragons were leaderless, and they turned against each other and left.

Zhou Cang saw that Cheng Yuanzhi was killed, and after blocking Xu Chu's knife, he turned his horse's head and left, there were many thieves around, Xu Chu was not in a hurry to chase him, and Zhou Cang was able to return to the thief army. Zhou Cang just wanted to gather the soldiers to fight back, but at this time, Liu Bei and others led the army to kill, and the thieves were even more panicked, and countless people surrendered their weapons and surrendered.

In this battle, more than 2,000 thieves were killed and 30,000 were surrendered. Liu Meng lost more than forty cavalrymen, and only gained more than nine hundred killing intent points, barely equal to the losses, but he didn't care, after all, he knew that what was important to him now was not how many killing intent points he obtained, but how many merits he obtained.

After everyone cleaned up the battlefield and surrendered the soldiers, Liu Yan was overjoyed when he learned the news, and immediately ordered a celebration banquet to celebrate with everyone, he himself took people to wait outside the Taishou Mansion, Liu Meng and others just walked to the front of the Taishou Mansion and saw Liu Yan with his officials at the door to greet him.

"This time, we were able to break the thief army, all thanks to the kings, and the old man is here to thank the kings for the righteous deeds of the people of the city." Liu Yan said.

Liu Bei hurriedly helped Liu Yan up: "Uncle, why should he be like this, these are all things that are within my share, and besides, this success is all thanks to Fengyi Xiandi and others, if they didn't bravely charge and kill the thief's head, we wouldn't have this big victory, what my uncle said, I deserve it." Liu Bei wanted to win over Liu Meng, of course, he would not share his credit, but instead focused on his credit to show favor to Liu Meng.

Liu Meng naturally knew what Liu Bei meant, but he also knew that he could not take refuge in Liu Bei, the so-called Tao is not the same, and when he made up his mind that he would not recruit another ordinary person to join the army until he had to, he was doomed to be impossible for anyone to take refuge in.

Although Liu Meng would not take refuge in Liu Bei, he also planned to befriend him, so he said: "Brother Xuande is serious, although I killed the head of the thief, but I myself was also deeply trapped in the enemy army, if it wasn't for Brother Xuande and Captain Zou leading the army to kill, maybe I would have died in the chaos by now." ”

When Liu Bei saw Liu Meng like this, he knew that he had no intention of taking refuge in himself, but he also had the intention of making friends, so he didn't force it.

"Don't be humble, Fengyi's virtuous nephew should be credited with the first credit, but I will also report to the court to ask for credit for you." Liu Yan said.

Everyone thanked them, and then Liu Yan led everyone to the table.

"Uncle, the thief disaster here has been solved, I heard that Zhonglang will fight Lu Zhi and the thief in Guangzong, and he used to be a teacher of Lu Zhi, and now he wants to help him, and he will set off tomorrow." Liu Bei said.

"Xuande has just returned from the battle, why don't you rest for a few days and then leave?" Liu Yan said.

"No, the war is changing rapidly, and sooner rather than later."

"Since Xuande has made up his mind, the old man is not good to stay, I will report the merits here to the court, Xuande can rest assured." Liu Yan said that he must ask for credit for Liu Bei.

"Thank you, uncle. Fengyi, how about you go with your brother? ”

"No, Brother Xuande, I lost some soldiers and horses today, and I will recuperate here for a few days before making plans." Liu Meng refused. He knew that Liu Bei was good at winning people's hearts, and if he had been following Liu Bei all the time, if he met any fierce generals and strategists, and what would happen to him Liu Meng, of course he would refuse.

"It's a pity, it's a pity, Brother Wei wanted to fight side by side with Fengyi again, but it seems that he can't do it." Liu Bei sighed.

"Don't do that, now that the thieves have not been eliminated, the two of you may have to fight together to serve the country one day, come, although today is a celebration banquet, but Xuande will leave tomorrow, it can be regarded as a practice for him, you must have fun." Liu Yan spoke, and everyone naturally stopped mentioning these things, but just toasted each other, and everyone returned happily that night.