By the end of April, an army of 100,000 troops had assembled in Yidu County, which bordered Fuling. Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang rushed to Yidu, and Jingzhou Mu Guan Yu also came to see off the army in Shuzhong.

"Second brother!" didn't expect Guan Yu to come to see him off in person, and Zhang Fei was also overjoyed. The two brothers haven't seen each other for years, and they are also full of emotion when they meet again. That night, the two talked with candles until late at night, and the next time Zhang Fei led the army forward, and Guan Yu was sent directly to Yiling, and then returned to Xiangyang.

"The second general and the third general have a deep affection, although they are not personal, they are the same as in person, which is really touching!" Zhuge Liang also sighed. Zhang Fei sighed rarely when he heard this: "In the past, when the three of my brothers were clothed, they would eat at the same table and sleep in the same room. Now they are on one side, but it is difficult to see each other again. ”

"Liang is the same, the elder brother is in Jingzhou, the third brother is in Hanzhong, and it is rare to see each other for several years!" Zhuge Liang sighed.

"I still have some houses and land in my hometown in Zhuoxian, and I don't know if they are still there. When there is no more fighting, it's time to go back and see! Zhang Fei said with some nostalgia. People are so contradictory, they think about the scenery when they are ordinary, and when the scenery is enough, they want to return to the ordinary. It's just that life is so easy to be satisfied, and it is indeed a luxury to want to advance and retreat freely.

There is little gossip, but it is said that Zhang Fei's 100,000 horses and horses were assembled from Jingzhou to Sichuan, and Guan Yu also specially sent Zhao Lei, who was steady under his command, to escort grain and grass for him. With such a large-scale build-up of troops, unless Xichuan's Tanma are blind, it will definitely not be hidden. So a few days later, Liu Zhang received an urgent military message from Zhang Ren, who was stationed in Ba County.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Zhao Botao's previous calculation was unsuccessful, and now Liu Xuande has really sent troops to attack, what should I do?" Liu Zhang pinched the emergency military situation in his hand, but he was a little at a loss. At the same time, Wu Yi of Jianmen Pass also sent someone to send urgent military information, claiming that Zhao Feng sent Chen Shi and Yang Ren to lead the army to Badong and Danqu, where they raised troops in Tuntian, and had no offense with the people, and had gradually won the hearts of the people in both places. Now the plan is to send reliable generals to Brazil in case Zhao Feng attacks.

Now Liu Zhang understands what it means to beat a dog and be bitten by a dog (Liu Bei: You say I'm a dog?) ）。 Originally, he wanted to take Hanzhong, but now Hanzhong has not been taken, and Badong and Danqu have also been taken. Of course, Liu Zhang also knows that these two counties are now sparsely populated, and although he has long snatched them from Zhang Lu, he has not managed them much, and there are not many garrisons. It is not an accident that it was easily taken by Zhao Feng now. The problem is that once these two counties fall into Zhao Feng's hands, he can encroach on Brazil, and then go to the core areas of Guanghan and then Chengdu.

To say that Liu Zhang was indeed a little sluggish, seeing Meng Da so weirdly anti-water, he should have thought that something was wrong, and then he should have realized that there must be internal annihilation in Shu. It's just that so far, he is still ignorant.

Although Liu Zhang is ignorant and ignorant, Xichuan is not a fool after all. First, Zhang Ren expected the enemy to send people to defend Jiameng Pass, and now someone has begun to counterattack. He is none other than Huang Quan and Huang Gongheng, who first saw that something was wrong.

Looking at Liu Zhang, who was a little helpless in front of him, Huang Quan immediately opened his mouth and comforted: "Don't worry, my lord, although Zhang Fei is fierce, but there is General Zhang Ren stationed in Ba County, and there is nothing to do about it." As for the Hanzhong army, Jiameng Pass and Sword Pavilion are heavily guarded. Unless Zhao Botao has wings on his shoulders, he will definitely not be able to fly into Xichuan. The only thing to worry about now is internal trouble! ”

"What do you mean by what Gong Heng said?" Liu Zhang heard that there was something in Huang Quan's words, especially the sentence of internal troubles, which deliberately hinted at someone, and hurriedly asked what was going on.

Huang Quan smiled, took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Liu Zhang, and Zhang Song on the side saw it, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

"What is this?" Liu Zhang took the letter suspiciously and asked, but did not open it for a while. Huang Quan snorted coldly and said: "When Mencius volunteered to set up a Hongmen banquet and immediately surrendered to the enemy, I figured out that there was something wrong with this. As a result, last night, the defenders I sent to inspect the city caught a man and found this letter from him, which was written by Zhang Song and Zhang Beijia to the rebel general Meng Da, and made an appointment with him on how to start an incident in Chengdu in response to Meng Da! ”

"What?" Liu Zhang was shocked when he heard this, and when he opened it, he was already in a cold sweat. After reading it, Liu Zhang also threw the letter on the ground in annoyance and roared: "Come on, take Zhang Song down with me!" Someone immediately stepped forward and arrested Zhang Song. Liu Zhang looked at the short man in front of him, who was also furious, and immediately ordered someone to launch and behead. Zhang Song shouted and cursed endlessly, until a miserable scream.

"Come on, kill Zhang Song all over the house, and kill them all!" Killing Zhang Song alone obviously couldn't make Liu Zhang enjoyable, and he was still unsatisfied, so he ordered to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. Huang Quan waited for Liu Zhang's seizure to pass, and then sighed: "It's a pity that I'm still one step late, Fa Zheng's gang conspired with Zhang Song Mengda, but he said that he went to Guanghan on business under the pretext of going to Hanzhong on business, and he has already fled to Hanzhong." ”

"Righteous children, sooner or later, they will be punished together!" Liu Zhang hated and said. Looking at Huang Quan and Wang Lei, Liu Zhang also continued to ask: "I don't know what strategy you have, you can retreat from the enemy?" ”

Huang Quan thought for a while and said: "Now that Zhang Dudu is in Ba County, Zhang Fei has nothing to worry about all the way. But Zhao Feng is scheming, and now that he is in Padang and other places, he is too protective of Pang Yi in Brazil, but he is afraid that he will not be able to control him. The only way to do this is to quickly take the old general Yan Yan, who is sitting in Nanzhong, to sit in Brazil to block Zhao Feng. ”

"Old General Yan is in charge of Nanzhong, once he walks away, what if those barbarians come to attack again?" Liu Zhang was a little embarrassed. At this time, he saw Wang Lei playing: "The lord is in a panic, and a certain person will guard Nanzhong, and the Nanban will not dare to attack." ”

"Who?" Liu Zhang hurriedly asked.

"This person's surname is Li Minghui, the word Deang, and he is from Jianning Yu Yuan. This person is proficient in government affairs and knows military affairs. With him guarding Nanzhong, it is enough to resist the Nanban. Wang Lei said slowly.

"That's great!" Liu Zhang was overjoyed when he heard this; Hurriedly according to what Wang Lei and Huang Quan said, Yan Yan was transferred to guard Brazil to block Zhao Feng.

However, Zhao Feng had not yet marched for the time being, and he was waiting in Nanzheng for He Qi, who was ordered to come to help, as well as the five thousand Danyang elite soldiers. Originally, he wanted to be a flying army, but Liu Bei transferred him to Danyang elite soldiers. This Wudang Flying Army is composed of Shanyue and Nanban mountain people, and their physical fitness is extremely outstanding. When Zhao Feng pacified Shanyue and Nanban, he trained his elite into the army, and his combat effectiveness was far stronger than that of ordinary infantry. Liu Bei was full of praise, but he also regretted it: Shanyue has almost disappeared, and the Nanban has also moved into the plains.

Later, Zhuge Liang pointed out that the reason why the Wudang Flying Army was so powerful was because most of these people lived in the mountains for hunters, and their physical fitness was far superior to that of the people who cultivated in the plains. If you want to have a continuous source of soldiers, you only need a continuous source of mountain people. At his suggestion, Liu Bei ordered that under his rule, all taxes on all fields in the mountains should be halved. In this way, those tribes living in the mountains of Yangzhou, Jingnan and even Yuzhou, after seeing Liu Bei's iron fist when he exterminated Shanyue, are now also keeping to themselves. In this way, under Liu Bei's rule, there are about 600,000 mountain people, and when recruiting troops every year, they will also recruit thousands or even more than 10,000 people. At the same time, the Shanyue tribe in Jiaozhou also submitted to Liu Bei. The Wudang Fei Army and the Shanyue Army finally avoided the danger of extinction.

After Zhao Feng heard about Zhuge Liang's policy, he was also full of praise for this policy. Although he almost wiped out the Shanyue clan before, he also cut off the source of soldiers. Now, presumably, in ten or twenty years, these Shanyue and Nanban people will become a stable source of soldiers like the mountain people in Danyang, but they will not be too hostile to the Han people. Thinking about the key to this, Zhao Feng also had to sigh that Zhuge Liang's ability to deal with political affairs was indeed much stronger than his own prophetic half-ass.

However, before Zhao Feng waited for He Qi, the two uninvited guests arrived almost on the same day. The first was the immortal Fazheng, who ran from Guanghan to Brazil, and then entered Hanzhong through the ditch. After Meng Da's introduction, he came to meet Zhao Feng.

"I've seen General Zhao!" After the two met, Fa Zheng gave a deep salute.

"Why should filial piety be polite!" Although Zhao Feng is a little unhappy with the character of these people who eat inside and outside, he still has to do it in terms of face. After some pacification, Fa Zheng also told them a little miserably that Zhang Song had been killed by Liu Zhang. The difference from history is that because his eldest brother, Guanghan Taishou Zhang Su did not report and expose him this time, he was implicated and killed together.

"Yongnian is not secret, and this is inherently evil!" Meng Da also sighed when he heard this, Zhao Feng comforted the two of them a few words, and at this moment someone came to report that the Xuchang Imperial Court sent an envoy here.

"Xuchang's envoy?" Zhao Feng was a little strange, why did Lao Cao remember that he was here, but he still signaled to bring in people from the future. Not to mention him, even Meng Da and the others felt very strange. It's just that Fa Zheng's eyes rolled, as if he thought of something.

"I've seen General Zhao!" Someone who came bowed his hand as a courtesy. Zhao Feng paid attention to it, this person was probably a Confucian in his forties, with a goatee, which seemed to be a bit deceitful.

"Who's down there?" Zhao Feng frowned and asked, for some reason, this person's temperament made him feel very uncomfortable.

"In Xia Xinbi, the word George, is the long history of the King of Wei. Now I came to Hanzhong, not for anything else, but to save the general's surname! After Simbi finished introducing himself, he began to be alarmist again.

Zhao Feng couldn't help but feel a headache when he heard this guy's words. The last time I saw Kan Ze in Jiangdong, this time it was Xinbi again. However, a headache is a headache, Zhao Feng still reluctantly asked: "I don't know what Zhao is worried about?" ”

"Does the general know the story of the Marquis of Huaiyin?" Simbi asked with a smile. This time it was not only Zhao Feng, but even Fa Zheng and the others frowned when they heard this. is so straightforward to sow discord, this Simbi's brain is really not good!

The general has followed Liu Xuande for many years, and now the official is just a county guard, and he is not rewarded for his merits, but he is degraded for his faults, which shows that Liu Xuande is very suspicious of his feet. As the so-called king and suspicious ministers die, isn't it in danger? Xin Bi continued with a smile on his face, as if he was not worried about Zhao Feng's seizure. As soon as he said this, everyone in the tent stared at Zhao Feng, and saw how he responded?

"Is that all you have to say?" Zhao Feng asked after waiting for him to finish.

"My lord King Wei recruits talents from all over the world, and the general is a famous general in the world, so why condescend to Hanzhong? If the king of Wei is willing to go to Xuchang to serve the imperial court, the king of Wei is willing to play the general as the general of the expedition to the west, and the marquis of South Zheng! Governor Yongliang's soldiers and horses. Xin Bi finally said Cao Ying's chips.

Zhao Feng is now the left general of the Qi State, and his official rank is still slightly worse than the generals of the four expeditions and four towns of the imperial court. It should be said that Cao Ying's chips are still relatively high, but the problem is that Zhao Feng has no interest in joining Cao Ying at all.

Compared with Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, Zhao Feng knew that Liu Bei's trust in himself was definitely worse, and he might even be inferior to Jian Yong. Over the years, his official position has always been between the Taishou and the state pastor, neither high nor low, not embarrassing or embarrassing. And Liu Bei's attitude towards himself is also if he leaves. Maybe as there are more and more talents under his command, I'm afraid that I can only rely on my qualifications to keep messing around like this.

But even so, Zhao Feng didn't want to betray Liu Bei and switch to Cao Ying. First of all, his ambition in life is to calm the world as early as possible, and he has never cared too much about some personal gains and losses, just begging not to be cooked by rabbits and dogs. If you turn against the water now, not to mention that your reputation will be damaged, and the wives and children who stay in Jingzhou will be more than lucky. And once Hanzhong is owned by Cao Ying, it will make the general trend of the world, which was already quite clear, fall into chaos again. Based on these points, Zhao Feng will never change his court.

Looking at Xin Bi in front of him, Zhao Feng found another problem: Xin Bi used to be Yuan Shao's advisor, and later switched to Cao Ying. If only in normal times, I could have rebuked him with righteous words. But now that the two surrender factions of Fa Zheng and Meng Da are here, I can't scold him for betraying his lord for glory, which is simply pointing at the monk and scolding the bald donkey. But if you don't take a stand, it will be too easy to make associations when you say it in the future. Once someone with a heart thinks about it, it's hard to say.

With a quick turn in his mind, Zhao Feng had already found an extremely appropriate excuse. Looking at the smug Xin Bi in front of him, Zhao Feng snorted and said: "I met Cao Mengde in Xuzhou, this person is ruthless, kills people like hemp, and does not hesitate to slaughter 400,000 people in Xuzhou in order to avenge his father!" Even if Zhao is not good, he does not want to be in the company of this kind of beast. ”

If you want to say that Zhao Feng is avoiding the important, it is light, not talking about whether he is a traitor to seek glory, and turning to the old thing of grabbing Cao Ying and slaughtering the city. The slaughter of the city has a very bad reputation, and few people like to be in the company of this kind of person. Zhao Feng not only stated his position, but also took care of Fa Zheng and Meng Da's face.

"This?" When Xin Bi heard this, he was about to say it again, when Zhao Feng waved his hand, Niu Jin had already led several people to surround Xin Bi. Xin Bi's face changed slightly, and he sneered: "What, does General Zhao want to kill the envoy?" ”

"The two armies are at war, and they don't kill them. But for a person like Your Excellency who is willing to be a murderer and a lackey, there is no need to be polite! Come on, strip me of this guy's clothes, and Rao Nan Zhengcheng will show it to the public for three weeks as a punishment! ”

"Yes!" Niu Jin suddenly agreed, and several people stepped forward to take Simpila away. Simbi shouted and scolded wildly, but he still inevitably ended up running naked. It's just that what Zhao Feng didn't expect was that what he did this time was a little too shocking, so that it caused another uproar among the scholars.

Zhao Feng naturally didn't know all this now, and on the afternoon of the second day after sending Xinbi away, the five thousand Danyang elite soldiers led by He Qi also arrived in Nanzheng through the three counties of Shangyong. At the same time, Shangyong was too guarded by Lu Xun, and Xicheng was too guarded by Ma Tan.

(To be continued)