Chapter 56: Gambling against Zhang Xiu
At noon, Hu Li was woken up by Huang Xu from his sleep, it turned out that it was time to eat, and after Hu Li simply washed up, he came to the hall and finished lunch with the four members of the Huang family. After eating, Huang Zhong said goodbye to Hu Li and was about to continue packing his bags, but Hu Li stopped Huang Zhong, and Hu Li said to Huang Zhong: "General Huang, I will go to Qixian with you, and let Mrs. Ling, Huang Xu and Wudie pack up and go north first, as long as they don't follow the crowd when they are on their way, I can easily find them through the vision of the golden eagle, and catch up with them when we finish our work, what does General Huang think." ”
"Everything is arranged by the Lord." Huang Zhong replied that of course Huang Zhong would not have any objections to this trivial matter.
After Huang Zhong explained the situation to his wife and two children, Hu Li and Huang Zhong rode to the city of Qixian County. A day later, Hu Li and Huang Zhong arrived at their destination. When the two came to the city, Huang Zhong suddenly bent his bow and arrow, and an arrow shot at the banner of Zhang Zijiang at the head of the city. This move immediately alarmed the defenders of the city head and the city gate, the soldiers at the head of the city looked at the banner of the word general, found that there was a note tied to the bow and arrow, hurriedly took down the note and looked at it a few times, and then turned their eyes to Hu Li and their horses, at this time I happened to see more than ten defenders of the city gate holding weapons to besiege Hu Li and the two who dared to release arrows at the city gate, but after a while they were knocked to the ground by Hu Li and the two with their bare hands, Hu Li and the two clapped their hands, looked at the city, and rode away.
However, he said that the soldier at the head of the city who got the bow and arrow tied to the note shot by Huang Zhong went to the mansion of Zhang Xiu, the guard of the city, after reading the note. After arriving at Zhang Xiu's mansion, the soldier handed the bow and arrow and a note to the guard at the door, and after a while, the guard came out and let the soldiers waiting at the door enter the mansion. The soldiers hurriedly saluted when they saw Zhang Xiu when they entered the mansion, and as soon as they finished saluting, they heard Zhang Xiu ask eagerly: "Where are the two thieves on horseback now?" Can you see the horses they are riding? ”
"Back to the general's words, the two thieves on horseback injured the more than ten soldiers at the city gate and then walked away, as for the horse they were riding, the villain saw clearly, a yellow horse is very ordinary, not at all comparable to the general's mount, the other horse is full of fur like charcoal, the horse is extraordinary, the shoulder height has reached about two meters, although the villain has never seen what the red rabbit horse looks like, but the horse is definitely a BMW in ten thousand." The soldier replied honestly.
"Okay, that's enough, I'll go and get the reward, you can go down." Zhang Xiu instructed lightly, and when the soldiers went down, Zhang Xiu muttered excitedly: "Someone rushed to send me a BMW, with a shoulder height of two meters, I have never seen such a strong horse, just from the appearance of the BMW, it must be a BMW, it is really happy to fall from the sky, haha." After muttering to himself for a while, Zhang Xiu shouted: "Come on, invite Mr. Jia, I have something important to discuss with Mr. Jia." ”
It turned out that Hu Li asked Huang Zhong to shoot up through the bow and arrow, and the note read: "There is a peerless horse, far better than Lu Bu's red rabbit, today a certain is willing to use this peerless horse as a bet, please compete with General Zhang, if a certain luck wins, please give a hundred gold to make a certain return to the north." If General Zhang wins, he is willing to offer a peerless horse. If General Zhang was timid and brought hundreds of guards, he had to leave and look elsewhere, and he only waited for the general for a day, and I don't know if General Zhang would dare to come and take this peerless horse. This is Hu Li heard Huang Zhong say that Zhang Xiu has the name of the Gun King of the North, and Zhang Xiu is very confident in his martial arts, so Hu Li made this bet and took the strengthened red rabbit horse as a bet.
After a while, Jia Xu was invited by Zhang Xiu's personal soldiers, and after the two saw each other, Zhang Xiu handed the note to Jia Xu, Jia Xu looked at it for a while, frowned, and said to Zhang Xiu: "This horse is really a peerless horse?" The general has already decided to go? ”
"The soldiers at the head of the city said that the horse's hair was as red as charcoal, the horse was extraordinary, the shoulder height reached about two meters, and I had never seen a horse about two meters high at the shoulder. Since the thief sent the peerless horse to the door, how can I Zhang Xiu not take it, I came to Mr. to discuss with Mr. how many people to take? Zhang Xiu couldn't hide his excitement.
"Since the thief said in the letter that the general was not allowed to bring hundreds of people, then the general should bring a hundred guards, which should be the biggest bottom line of the thief. But the general is the commander of a city, how can he easily get into danger, it is better to let Hu Che'er pretend to be a general, and then bring a hundred guards to take them down directly. Jia Xu saw that Zhang Xiu was decided, so he frowned and thought for a while before replying.
"No, what if Hu Che'er, a reckless man, hurts my BMW, and if the thieves recognize me Zhang Xiu and know that we are cheating, with the speed of the BMW, Hu Che'er will definitely not be able to catch up with them. Therefore I have to go, but I will bring Hu Che'er as my personal guard, and as for the number of personal guards, as Mr. said, plus Hu Che'er has brought a hundred people. There are only two people on the other side, is it that Lu Bu can't be resurrected, I will let Hu Che'er take the opportunity to surround them when I fight against the thieves, and after the successful encirclement, we will rush up, I don't believe that I, a hundred elites, can't deal with the two of them. Zhang Xiu said undoubtedly.
"The general has to send someone to investigate the surrounding situation first, and the general has to wear armor, if what the other party says is false, please ask the general to focus on the overall situation, don't be greedy for the BMW, return to the city immediately, I will personally stay in the city to meet the general." Jia Xu said to Zhang Xiu.
"Thank you Mr. for reminding me, Zhang Xiu will be able to bring the BMW back smoothly." After Zhang Xiu finished speaking, he took the hundred guards who had been assembled, including Hu Che'er, to bid farewell to Jia Xu.
After Zhang Xiu left, Jia Xu frowned and fell into deep thought, although Jia Xu intuitively felt that these two people were cheating, but he couldn't figure out how the other party could threaten Zhang Xiu when there were only two people, even if those two were Liu Bei's righteous brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two ten thousand enemies, but Zhang Xiu had Hu Che'er and ninety-nine personal guards who sacrificed their lives to each other, and they definitely had time to escape back to the city only twenty miles apart, and the other two could not be unscathed in the face of a hundred people besieged. Could it be that the other party wanted to transfer Zhang Xiu to take the opportunity to attack the city, but just now the scout came to report, and there was no movement of the army within a radius of dozens of miles, not even a caravan. Could it be that I'm Jia Xu thinking too much, the other party is just extremely confident in his martial arts, and simply wants to win some entanglements through gambling battles. Jia Xu, who couldn't figure it out, had to send a sentry after Zhang Xiu left to closely monitor Zhang Xiu's movements, and at the same time Jia Xu personally climbed to the top of the city and asked the guards not to allow anyone to enter or leave, so as not to let the thieves make the plan into the city.