Brother Sixty-Two: No Zhou Sword

Not Zhou Jian

A round of jade plates diffused with cold brilliance, wandering among the canopy and stars that revealed the night in the darkness, like a silent aria in full bloom. As the clouds continued to fade, the bright full moon once again sprinkled its light on the earth; illuminated the way forward for Liu Bei's retreat.

"Your Majesty, be careful!" Chen shouted and threw Liu Bei off the horse; What followed was more than a dozen arrows, which shot at Liu Bei's mount.

"There is an ambush to protect Your Majesty; The rest of the people are defeated! Chen Zhi shouted; I saw him pick up the cloak that Liu Bei had fallen to the ground and put it on his body.

"Your Majesty take care" immediately took nearly 200 Royal Forest troops to continue to advance, leaving Liu Bei, who was at a loss, still standing in place; Am I really worth it, am I worth it? Liu Bei stood in place and kept asking himself. At this moment, Liu Bei no longer has the sky-high ambition that he had in the Battle of Lan Yan, but is just like an ordinary old man blaming himself.

"Your Majesty, get on your horse quickly; The enemy troops that General Chen has attracted are far away, and we will escort His Majesty back to the city to the death, so as not to let the broken brother shed blood in vain" Several Royal Forest sergeants saw that Liu Bei did not move, so they knelt in front of Liu Bei and persuaded him.

Liu Bei stared at the white-eared army that had followed him for most of his life, and his eyes were already blurred by tears, "Go back to the city" and said, Liu Bei turned over and ran straight towards the pavilion, and the Imperial Forest Army naturally surrounded him tightly in the center to avoid the dark arrows of the Wu army.

After this night, along with Liu Bei's fiasco, Lu Xun became famous in a fight; "Dudu, our army has captured nearly 10,000 people in this battle, and has obtained countless baggage, if it weren't for the extremely fast reaction of the Han army, and the death of the dead, the number should be more than this; But our army also lost 5,000, but more than 3,000 corpses were found in the camp," Sun Heng reported to Lu Xun with reverence in his eyes.

"Don't be greedy, our army is fortunate to win, if it weren't for the heavy rain yesterday that made the Han army neglect to take precautions, where might we have the opportunity to attack the camp; I said before that our army will also have casualties in this battle, and I hope that the soldiers who fell into the Yangtze River last night will survive; Why hasn't General Pan come back yet? Lu Xun asked; Obviously, Lu Xun did not take this attack on the camp for granted, but a victory in a gamble.

"General Pan's ambush of Liu Bei may have taken time in pursuit," Sun Heng guessed.

"Impossible, I thought that the Han army camp would cause chaos because of our surprise attack, so I sent General Pan to ambush Liu Bei; But there was no so-called chaos in the Han army last night, so General Pan had no chance to ambush Liu Bei at all" Lu Xun frowned and thought;

"I'll take someone to look for it on the way to the Pavilion immediately" Sun Heng saw the worry in Lu Xun's eyes, so he immediately asked for help.

"Hmm," Lu Xun responded; If something happens to General Pan, I will lose another of the talents of a general, Lu Xun thought silently.

In the city of Yaoting; Liu Bei sat on the main seat, looking at the generals who fled back from the Yidao camp with him, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, thinking that he was in high spirits in the decisive battle of Lanyan, but now he was defeated under the Yidao city. If you don't rush forward, it won't cause the camp to be empty, and you won't be able to fight back when you are attacked by the camp.

The rest of the generals were also full of helplessness, no one thought that Lu Xun would dare to cross the Yangtze River on a rainy night and attack the camp; Among them, there are also arrogant soldiers caused by successive victories, and gradually neglected to take precautions; If they could have been reconnoitred while they had crossed the river, they would have been able to ambush them all in the camp.

"Your Majesty, 20,000 soldiers of our army have now returned to the city, and the rest of the soldiers should also return to the city in these days; It's just that General Chen Zhi has no news yet," Ma Liang, who joined the army, reported.

"Uncle Zhi led away the Wu army in order to save me, and ordered: send more than a thousand sentinels, be sure to find your uncle and nephew, I want to see people in my life and corpses in my death" Liu Bei ordered angrily; Chen Zhizhi has been with Liu Bei since he followed Liu Bei in Runan, and has served as Liu Bei's chief of guard, for more than ten years, but now in order to save himself, he has fallen into danger and does not know life and death, who can say that he is not moved.

"Big brother, if Uncle Zhi really died at the hands of Dongwu; Just ask the eldest brother to give his younger brother 10,000 horses, and I will poke a hole in Lu Xun" Because Chen Zhi joined Liu Bei's forces earlier, and was Liu Bei's personal guard, the relationship between these generals is relatively deep, and Zhang Fei is anxious When he heard that Chen Zhi had no news, he naturally became impatient.

Ma Liang saw that Liu and Zhang brothers were so angry, and he also knew that the two of them were righteous, and he also clenched his fists for fear that Liu Bei would agree to Zhang Fei's request.

Just when Maleonn was ready to dissuade; "Report! Your Majesty, General Chen Zhi is back" A soldier outside the hall hurriedly ran in.

"Where's Shuzhi! Where" Zhang Fei immediately helped the soldier up excitedly.

"General Zhang, I'm here!" Looking in the direction from which the voice came, I saw a figure appear outside the gate, with messy hair, pale face, battle armor also covered with blood, and it seemed that there was a human head on his waist.

"Haha, I'll just say how the little Wu Jun can block Shu Zhi's spear, come and tell me how you fought with Wu Jun that night" Zhang Fei said excitedly.

"Uncle Zhi, you can come back, otherwise I will have to feel guilty for the rest of my life" Liu Bei finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Chen Zhi coming back.

Chen Zhi immediately walked in quickly and knelt on the ground, "The last general is late, let Your Majesty worry!" Please forgive your sins."

"Uncle is not guilty, but he is meritorious, if you don't lead Wu Jun away, I don't know, can I stand here; Hurry up, please," Liu Bei said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, the last general has brought back two things, Your Majesty, please take a look" As he spoke, Chen Zhi untied the human head and sword at his waist.

Zhang Fei and the others were not much surprised to see Chen Zhi take off his head, but when Chen Zhi took out the sword, Zhang Fei and Liu Bei were stunned. Because they all know that this sword is one of the eight swords cast by Liu Bei in Chengdu in the iron life of Pu Yuan, Jinniu Mountain, Chengdu, and the sword of Zhou was given to Guan Yu, after Guan Yu was defeated and killed, it stands to reason that the sword should have fallen into the hands of Eastern Wu, but at this time it appeared in Chen Zhi's hand.

"Where did Uncle Zhi come from," Liu Bei asked suspiciously.

"Your Majesty, can you know whose head this head is," Chen Zhi pointed to the head.

"Could it be that he is Pan Zhang, the general of Eastern Wu, or Ma Zhong" Guan Yu was captured by Ma Zhong under Pan Zhang, so Liu Bei immediately reacted.

"It's Pan Zhang; When the last general led away the Wu army, he was soon surrounded by the Wu army; The last general led the Imperial Forest Army to fight desperately, and suddenly Pan Zhang blocked the way, because when he was fighting, I accidentally saw this sword; I guessed that this person must be Ma Zhong, who killed General Guan, so he killed him in a fight, and only later did he know that he was the general Pan Zhang." Zhang Fei and the others listened in a cold sweat.

[The eight swords of the lord of Shu are the eight swords made by the craftsman Pu Yuan after Liu Bei captured Yizhou during the Three Kingdoms period, and the eight swords made by the craftsman Pu Yuan, in addition to wearing one for himself, were awarded to his three sons and four ministers such as Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun, and ordered Zhuge Liang to engrave words on the eight swords.

"Ancient and Modern Sword Records": Liu Bei, the lord of Shu, mined eight swords in Jinniu Mountain, each three feet six inches long. One is self-serving, one is with Prince Chan, one is with Liang Wangli, one is with Lu Wangyong, one is with Zhuge Liang, one is with Guan Yu, one is with Zhang Fei, and one is with Zhao Yun. And it is a bright book, all of which are corner places with orders. 】