Shaanxi County Xiliang Niu Auxiliary Army Battalion.

Because of an unintentional hurricane, the brazier in a tent in the rear camp was blown over, causing a fire, and even detonating the entire Xiliang army. Originally, because of Dong Zhuo's death, the Xiliang Army came to the imperial court, and the army's morale was already unstable, and the rumors of 'punishing the Xiliang people' in the past two days were all over the camp, and everyone's uneasy heartstrings were also stirred by this fire, restless, and everyone couldn't do it themselves, and it was out of control. The rear battalion was in chaos first, and it soon spread to the left and right battalions, and then to the large battalion of the Chinese army, and even to the entire army of the front battalion. General Niu Fu was supposed to stand up at this time, but because of the panic in his heart, at this time, he was wrapped in gold and silver, and invited Hu Chi'er and others to prepare to flee east.

It's a pity that General Niu Fu walked with Hu Chi'er without knowing whether he was alive or dead, and he was simply looking for death by himself. He Hu Chi'er was still a little grateful to Niu Fu, however, this gratitude did not make him feel any compassion for him. After all, he knew that in the face of great calamity, if he couldn't do a good job of remedy, then he would inevitably repeat the mistakes of Niu Fu in the end, and he would inevitably die. So, he resolutely slaughtered Niu Fu, cut off his head, divided his gold and silver, and prepared to go to Chang'an to ask Wang Yun for forgiveness.

Niu Fu's side is dead, and the tens of thousands of horses and horses of the Xiliang Army are unpresiding, and if the chaos continues, it will inevitably cause great trouble. At this time of turmoil, Jia Xu, the most popular captain under Niu Fu, came forward at the right time to save the building from falling. Of course, he didn't come forward to provoke this beam, but to give this beam to others and let others provoke it for him. What he could think of was, of course, the general Zhang Xiu, who was still living under Niu Fujun.

He has been secretly observing Zhang Xiuqi for a long time, and he is relatively satisfied with him in short. It is not easy to think that a young general like him on the battlefield can still endure and take refuge under the general Niu Fu after the death of his uncle Zhang Ji, and if he is not determined, he will definitely not be able to do this. And this is also the first prerequisite for a person to do great things. Of course, the reason why Jia Xu chose Zhang Xiu was not a hasty decision, but he had already been 'found' before this. After all, Jia Xu is the most able to observe people, before that, Zhang Xiuzhi's investment, Dong Zhuo's death came, when he saw Niu Fu's series of actions, he knew that Niu Fu was not a person who could achieve great things, and he was also faintly worried about this. It was also when he was worried that he saw the existence of Zhang Xiu under the account, and immediately compared Niu Fu and Zhang Xiu in his heart, and came to the conclusion that Zhang Xiu was stronger than Niu Fu.

Thinking about it, although Niu Fu has a great reputation in the Xiliang army, he is not a lord who can wait. And although Zhang Xiu is under the fence and his qualifications are quite tender, he is the nephew of Zhang Ji, the general of Xiliang, and he can still get a little light, and it is not difficult to succeed. In view of this, he had already faintly 'searched' Zhang Xiu at that time, and regarded him as the backbone of the Xiliang Army after Niu Fu. Thinking that Niu Fu has escaped without a trace now, he also happened to 'support' Zhang Xiu and invited Zhang Xiu out to preside over Xiliang's military affairs.

He didn't have time to think about it in the tent, and considering Zhang Xiu, he immediately got up and walked towards the Zhang Xiu garrison camp with his men and horses.

Speaking of which, when Zhang Xiu came, because of Jia Xu's introduction, Niu Fu wanted to give Zhang Xiu some face, although Zhang Xiu was only a few hundred, he gave them enough food and grass, equipped with complete weapons and armor, and asked him to station his men and horses near the Chinese army of Niu Fu's army, thinking that he was entrapded. However, since the news of Dong Zhuo's death came and Niu Fu killed Dong Yue, Zhang Xiu was uneasy, afraid of causing Niu Fu to be jealous again, so he asked to move the army to the corner of the left army, away from Niu Fu's Chinese army, which made him feel at ease.

Na Jia Xu turned around all the way, and it was inevitable that he would encounter one chaotic army after another. However, fortunately, Jia Xu has a high reputation, and he usually treats non-commissioned officers in the army very well, so naturally there are few people who dare to cause trouble with Jia Xu easily. It was because those two groups of people were dissuaded by Jia Xu that they listened to Jia Xu's words, temporarily settled down, and accompanied Jia Xu to protect him all the way to Zhang Xiu's camp.

Not to mention, all Jia Xu saw along the way were chaotic troops and crowds of people running in chaos, but when he arrived at the Zhang Xiujun camp in the corner, it was like entering a paradise, it was actually silent, and it had a sense of tranquility. There was such a force that wanted to take the opportunity to attack Zhang Xiu's camp, but he didn't want to take it because Zhang Xiu was stubborn and didn't dare to take it by force, so he led his troops away. Zhang Xiu defeated all the men and horses here, but he didn't dare to open the camp to go out to pursue, let alone cause trouble, so he only asked the others to strictly guard the gate and not open it easily, and the soldiers were all included in the inner camp.

Speaking of which, although Zhang Xiujun has been incorporated into Niu Fu's Xiliang Army system, because he is a 'guest army', he has not completely mixed with Niu Fujun. Niu Fu's Xiliang army had a large camp, but he set up another large camp within Niu Fu's army camp to settle his men and horses. And because of the restrictions on the movement of people and horses around his large camp, it is natural to set up a small gate to separate it from the Niufu Military Region. Although it is said that this gate is not as big as the gate of the former army, it is also a system of its own, and it is generally easy and difficult to break through with the defense of horses and other things.

Na Jia Xu raised his eyes to see Zhang Xiujun's condition, and nodded slightly, very satisfied. He left all the men and horses behind, and only brought his cronies and soldiers to Zhang Xiujun's gate together, and stationed his name in the horse. In that tent, Zhang Xiu, Hu Che'er, Gao Shan and others stared at each other, worried because the current situation of the Xiliang Army was unknown. They were discussing how to deal with it under the lamp, when they suddenly saw another soldier coming into the tent, and everyone's faces changed.

Hu Che'er didn't say a word, turned around with a fat body, and asked with a snort: "Is there another rat generation attacking my camp?" Hum! Fuck these bunnies don't give them some color to see, and they think we're easy to bully! General, this time you rest, it's enough for the car and Takayama to go over and clean them up! After Hu Che'er finished speaking, Gao Shan next to him picked up a knife and was about to walk out with Hu Che'er. Only the soldier was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "General, don't worry, this time someone is not attacking my camp, but someone is looking for General Zhang Xiuzhang by name." ”

"Looking for me?"

Hu Che'er and Gao Shan were stunned, and looked at Zhang Xiu together, Zhang Xiu also frowned together, and couldn't think of who was looking for him for a while, so he asked, and the soldier quickly told him that he was Mr. Jia Xu. When Zhang Xiu heard this, he was also shocked in his heart: "Now that the Xiliang Army is in chaos, shouldn't Mr. Jia Xu help General Niu stabilize the army's morale at this time, how can he come to me?" Speaking of automatic chaos, I have been restraining my subordinates from going out, even the gate is also closed, there should be no handle to be caught by him, right? ”

Although Zhang Xiu was shocked in his heart, coupled with the shouting of Hu Che'er and others next to him, his heart was suddenly uneasy, but when he thought about Jia Xu, although he was usually cold and ignorant, he had no ill will towards him, and he had helped him because of divination before, thinking that he would not be unfavorable to him, so he ignored everyone's speculation and hurriedly ran to the gate to meet Jia Xu. Na Jia Xu didn't say anything all the way, and when he arrived at Zhang Xiu's tent, he withdrew from everyone and only talked to Zhang Xiu alone.

Seeing that Jia Xu had a cold face, he didn't know why he came, and he didn't speak for a long time, and he was very anxious, and he didn't know what he was going to discuss when he left him. Only everyone retreated, and Jia Xu suddenly said: "Presumably the meaning of the people coming from the imperial court, General Zhang, you must have heard of it, I don't know how General Zhang thinks I, a Xiliang person, should deal with myself?" ”

Zhang Xiu, of course, has heard the news of the imperial court in the past two days, and he is also faintly uneasy about it. But what can he do about this, since he has voted for Niu Fu, in addition to maintaining due composure and trying to restrain people during this critical period, what else can he do? Can he get out of Niu Fu immediately because the catastrophe is about to come? I'm afraid that if he does this, the court hasn't done anything to him, and he will be killed by Niu Fu. So if you mess around at this time, it's no different from looking for death by yourself.

Thinking about it, it was the chaos in Xiliang tonight, in order not to arouse Niu Fu's suspicion, he closed the gate tightly, and did not dare to let a person out, that is, the chaotic army came to attack him, in addition to sticking to it, he didn't even have the courage to pursue, but he was afraid of being implicated in this matter for no reason, so as to give Niu Fu a handle. This matter could not be more keen, but this matter was suddenly asked by Jia Xu, Zhang Xiu's heart was also jumping suddenly, seeing that it was impossible to avoid, he could only prevaricate two sentences, and said: "I have also heard of the meaning of the imperial court, but now that I am serving under General Niu's account, everything is only General Niu's horse, General Niu will do what he does, why does Mr. Jia need to ask me?" ”

The corners of Jia Xu's mouth were slightly together, and he stretched out his hand to twist his beard, probably, he could also guess that Zhang Xiu would answer like this.

He glanced back at himself and suddenly said, "If General Niu is excluded, you can ignore him and let General Zhang make your own decisions, General Zhang, what will you do?" ”

"Uh......"

Zhang Xiu was taken aback, Jia Xu's question seemed to be indifferent, but it was extremely vicious, which made him even more faintly uneasy. He asked this, is this what Niu Fu meant? Does Niu Fu want him to trick him? Dare to be affectionate, is Niu Fu trying to use the excuse of tonight's turmoil to eradicate him as well? He didn't speak for a while, and secretly looked at Jia Xu with his eyes. At this time, I saw that after he asked Jia Xu a word, it seemed that he had nothing to do with him anymore, he actually twisted his beard with his hands, his eyes were slightly closed, and his head shook slightly, as if he was enjoying this moment of tranquility.

"Poof!" "Poof!" "Poof!" ……

There was only a violent heartbeat.

After Zhang Xiu observed Jia Xu for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up. He thought of the general manager Jia Xu treated him before, whether it was introducing him to Niu Fu or bribing the servants for him, there was nothing that was not helping him. Come to think of it, if he wanted him to die, he didn't have to think about it at all. And now that he is under the fence, General Niu Fu is suspicious, and others don't want to see him, who else can he believe except for him? His face suddenly turned red again, and he only scolded himself for not having other thoughts before, and he actually suspected that Jia Xu would harm him. Come to think of it, if Jia Xu can't believe it, who else can he trust in the Niu Auxiliary Army?

As soon as he figured this out, he had no other concerns, and took out the ideas that he had thought about in the past two days, and said to Jia Xu: "Ahem! If I was asked to do it, it would be nothing more than a 'kill' word! The first point, judging from the meaning of the imperial court, they are bound to punish my Xiliang people, even if they don't have this meaning, it's almost the same. If he asks me to disband the soldiers and horses on the spot, once they are disbanded, the Kwantung soldiers and horses will inevitably pounce on them, and then we will die without him; Second, in today's situation, it is a death to be captured, and it is also a death to resist, just like the predicament of King Chen Sheng back then. Thinking about it, King Chen Sheng still climbed high and shouted in this situation, and said, "Wait for death, what about the dead country?" How magnificent! Thinking that he is a small tun chief and dares to resist the tyrannical Qin, are we not as good as Xiliang people? If you want me to say, I will sit and wait to be killed, it is better to 'uncover the rod' and kill back to Chang'an, and it is not certain who will kill the deer at that time! ”

"What a deer kills someone's hand!"

Jia Xu's eyes finally opened again, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "I understand what the general means, but if you 'rise up' at that time, I don't know if you dare to take the lead in being this 'King Chen'?" ”

When asked by Jia Xu, Zhang Xiu almost blurted out yes, but he quickly woke up and hurriedly said: "Mr. Jia said that he laughed, how can I, Zhang Xiu, have this head?" However, if General Niu is willing to act, I, Zhang Xiu, will naturally be the first to second, and invite myself to be the vanguard and go west to Chang'an! "Speaking of killing Chang'an, in fact, Zhang Xiu's heart also jumped suddenly, his face turned red, and he suddenly realized that this 'killing Chang'an' is really not child's play, and if he doesn't do it, he will hang up his head. Even if it is killed, it is best for this head to be led by others, and you must not be this bird. Thinking that Chen Shengwang was majestic back then, but he died early, it was still not very cost-effective to think about it.

Then Jia Xu is a ghost, just look at Zhang Xiu's face and know what kind of ghost he has in his heart. He smiled and said, "General Zhang is reluctant to take the lead, probably because his subordinates are too few and dare not act rashly, and this is not to blame General Zhang." If General, your subordinates suddenly have tens of thousands of more men, I wonder if General Zhang can consider it? ”

"Tens of thousands of horses?"

Zhang Xiu's heart jumped suddenly, thinking that he had misheard. Thinking about it, even when his uncle Zhang Ji was victorious, more than 10,000 people died, and now there are tens of thousands of more people all of a sudden, what is this concept? You know, there are only a few hundred people in his hands at present, which is a hundred times more, how dare Zhang Xiu imagine? He rubbed his tongue and said, "This and this...... Mr. Jia, don't make fun of me, I ......"

Suddenly, Jia Xu's face stiffened, and he said, "General Zhang, do you think I, Jia Xu, am someone who likes to joke?" ”

Seeing Jia Xu's serious expression, he Zhang Xiu also reacted at once, and hurriedly said, "No, no! It's my fault, of course Mr. Jia can't make this joke with Xiu. But...... ......However, "However, he still thinks that Jia Xu is joking with him, there are tens of thousands of horses in plain vain, where do they come from?" If he was timid before, it was because the capital in his hand was not strong enough, and once there were tens of thousands of horses, it was not unthinkable to attack Chang'an.

When Jia Xu saw Zhang Xiu's expression, he twisted his beard and said: "General Zhang, you don't need 'but' or 'but', if you can't see these tens of thousands of horses, you will naturally not dare to make this decision and say this big thing." However, since you know what you mean by the general, you are a believer in the general, and you will naturally not leave the words behind you after you win the people. In this way, I'll tell you directly, in fact, it's not difficult to get these tens of thousands of horses, and now is an opportunity, it depends on whether you have the ability to collect it, general. Of course, if you want to successfully complete this matter with the prestige of the general, I am afraid that it will be difficult to do it for a while, and Xu will also secretly help the general from the side. ”

Zhang Xiu was stunned for a while when he heard Jia Xu say this, and suddenly heard the lively sound outside the tent, and couldn't help but move, and looked at Jia Xu hesitantly: "Jia ...... Mr. Jia, the tens of thousands of horses you are talking about are not outside the camp...... Those people outside the camp, right? ”

Jia Xu smiled and nodded with him: "The general guessed right, it's them!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Xiu's body moved, and he shook his hand again and again: "This can't work!" You can't do it! This is General Niu's subordinates, even if it is for embroidery, he doesn't dare to touch it easily! When Jia Xu heard this, he smiled and said: "Yes, it is indeed General Niu's men and horses outside the tent, but now General Niu has abandoned the army and left, and now the three armies are ownerless, and it is necessary for a person with courage and courage like you to lead!" I think you should know this iron lump general in my hand, right? Yes, this is the talisman for transferring troops, with him you can directly control this team, what are you still stunned for? Trying to ask me how I got it? In fact, it is not difficult to say, but it was General Niu who left in a hurry and accidentally left it in the tent, which I picked up. Now, I'll give it to you, and you have to take it. ”

Jia Xu said, handed over half of the talisman to Zhang Xiu, and said: "Of course, it is really difficult to command these tens of thousands of horses with the general's current position. I think that as long as Chang'an is broken and Wang Yun'er is killed, it will not be difficult for the general to do whatever official position he wants, and don't forget to return it to Xu at that time. ”

Half a talisman, a big seal pinched in Zhang Xiu's hand, Zhang Xiu's whole person was like a tight bow, and he didn't dare to move. His eyes were wide open, and he felt like he was all dreaming. He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly saw Hu Che'er running in outside the tent and said to Zhang Xiu: "General! Checkmate! Come out and take a look, two or three more rebels have been killed, how to deal with it, please ask the general to give orders! ”

Zhang Xiu glanced at Jia Xu, but Jia Xu smiled: "General Zhang, this is the time for you to establish your authority, what are you still doing in a daze?" ”