Zhuge Liang did not hesitate to suggest that Uncle Liu Huang take over a task that seemed to be cannon fodder, and Uncle Liu Huang, who obeyed Zhuge Liang's words, did not hesitate at all, and he led his 5,000 troops out of the camp very happily, all the way east to fight against the Xuzhou army, and after the Xuzhou scouts found out about this movement, they immediately sent the news back to Xuchang and sent it to Deputy Director Tao.

In view of the fact that the Jingzhou army has crossed the river and the battle is about to begin, at this time, Deputy Director Tao left Gao Shun and Fu Yang to guard Xuchang City, and has moved to the camp outside the city in order to fight at any time.

"What's the hurry?" In the face of the generals' scramble to be the first to ask for help, Deputy Director Tao, who had already accepted Jia Lao's suggestion to lure the enemy with poison, was not in a hurry, and smiled at Zhao Yun and Lu Mian, who took the initiative to ask for battle: "There are only five thousand enemies, so you can use my Xuzhou Iron Cavalry?" Don't raise up those Jingzhou water monkeys, it's enough to send 3,000 infantry to meet them! ”

Smiled and waved his hand to let Zhao Yun and Lu Mian retreat, Deputy Director Tao pointed to Qin Yi, the commander of the Xuzhou infantry in the back, and said with a smile: "General Qin Yi, this battle is handed over to you, how about taking 3,000 infantry out of the camp to meet the incoming enemy?" ”

"No!" Qin Yi, who was left by Lao Tao Qian to Deputy Director Tao, immediately hugged his fists and agreed, and then took the initiative to ask without waiting for instructions: "Lord, can the last general be defeated or won?" ”

"Huh? How do you know? "Deputy Director Tao Yileng.

The Xuzhou civil and military forces present all laughed, and Qin Yi himself smiled even more bitterly, and said with some embarrassment: "My lord, because every time the last general leads the army to battle, he is basically defeated but not allowed to win." ”

The generals of Xuzhou laughed wildly and won even more, Deputy Director Tao was also a little embarrassed, and said with an embarrassed smile: "I really forgot, it seems that every time it is General Qin, you take the position of luring the enemy, and you are indeed wronged, but General Qin don't care, next time I will pay attention, if there is such an unlucky messenger, I will definitely not hand it over to you again." ”

"Thank you, Lord." General Qin Yi, who has sparse martial arts in all eighteen ways, doesn't really care about such an unlucky messenger repeatedly, and after thanking him, he just pleaded again: "Lord, I heard that the Jingzhou thief who came to lead the army this time is Liu Bei's big-eared thief. ”

"Of course, I ......." Deputy Director Tao agreed casually, but stopped abruptly halfway through the words, and exclaimed, "Big-eared thief? Is it the big-eared thief who led 5,000 troops to Xuchang? ”

Qin Yi and several Xuzhou generals all nodded, and Deputy Director Tao was immediately furious, and hurriedly shouted at the Xuzhou sentry detective who came to report the news: "Since you know that the big-eared thief led the army to fight?" Why did you only report that 5,000 Jingzhou infantry had come east? ”

"It's ......." The sentinel who came to report the news was stunned, and then quickly knelt down on one knee and pleaded guilty: "The last general is guilty, the last general just reported the number and type of the enemy, and forgot who the enemy general was, and the lord didn't ask who the general was later, and the last general said that the lord didn't care about this matter, so he didn't add." ”

Deputy Director Tao recalled it carefully, and found that he was indeed a little negligent just now, and did not notice that the sentry agent forgot to report who led the enemy, and then also forgot to ask the name of the general. Under the slap on the forehead, Deputy Director Tao first blamed himself for his carelessness against the enemy, and then shouted to the sentry detective: "Okay, since I have also had this incident, then you should have been punished with twenty rods for the crime of ominous words in reporting the enemy's situation, but I will only punish you half now, and go down to receive ten military sticks!" The next time you report the enemy's situation, if there are any more words that are unknown, omissions and omissions, double the responsibility! ”

The unlucky sentry agent sang the promise honestly, and went down to receive the military law in despair, and the Xuzhou civil and military forces in the big tent were also silent, and they didn't dare to laugh easily, but Jia Lao Poison said quietly: "Does the lord want to give up the plan to lure the enemy?" Seize this opportunity to get rid of Liu Bei's three brothers? ”

Deputy Director Tao nodded and said solemnly: "Yes, if we can seize the opportunity to kill one of the three brothers of Liu Guan and Zhang, it will be far better for our army than the 30,000 Jingzhou water monkeys under the command of Cai Mao and Huang Jie, and if we can get rid of Zhuge Liang again, it will be even better for our army than to get half of Jingzhou." ”

Jia Lao Poison was silent, like other Xuzhou civil and military personnel, he didn't understand why Deputy Director Tao would attach so much importance to and beware of a Zhuge Liang who had just debuted? Over there, Deputy Director Tao couldn't explain this reason at all, but quickly ordered: "General Qin Yi, you still lead three thousand infantry out of the camp and line up five miles west of the camp to meet Liu Bei's team. ”

Qin Yi sang the promise again, but Deputy Director Tao told him uneasily: "Remember, be sure to bite the big-eared thief, if you can fight with the big-eared thief team, it's better, you don't have to think about how much to pay, as long as you can hold out until our reinforcements arrive, I will credit you!" Go ahead and hurry up. ”

Qin Yi solemnly agreed, and immediately rushed down to organize the team to attack, and Deputy Director Tao quickly ordered: "Zhao Yun, Tian Xiang, Xu Huang, Lu Mian, you immediately go down to organize the cavalry of the headquarters, and assemble in the camp gates on the north and south sides of the camp, and when you hear the sound of cannons in the camp, you don't need to ask for an order, immediately go out of the camp to reinforce the battlefield and flank the big-eared thief team!" If the big-eared thief is defeated and flees, you and the others will immediately and resolutely pursue it, and you must completely annihilate the big-eared thief team! ”

Zhao Yun, Xu Huang and Tian Xiang and other generals agreed, and they also rushed away, and Deputy Director Tao pointed at Tao Ji, who was already eager to try, and shouted: "Tao Ji, you led the gentleman's army to assemble in the back camp, and when you heard the sound of cannons, you immediately left the camp through the back door, and went back to cut off the big ear thief to return home!" If necessary, hand-to-hand combat can be done at any cost! ”

Tao Ji, who hated Uncle Liu Huang so much that his eggs hurt, agreed loudly, and rushed out with a jump, and Deputy Director Tao ordered: "Xu Chu, Wei Yan, Tai Shici, Yin Li, the four of you immediately lead the men and horses of the headquarters to assemble at the main gate of the camp, led by me personally, and when it is confirmed that General Qin Yi has succeeded in luring the enemy, you and others will immediately follow me to lead the army to attack!" Go to the big-eared thief to settle old accounts and new accounts! ”

The four generals suddenly agreed, and also rushed out to organize the soldiers and horses, and Deputy Director Tao arranged for Ma Zhong to assemble his own guards and prepare the cannon, and then explained to Jia Lao Poison and Liu Ye and others: "Mr. Wenhe, Mr. Ziyang, after our army attacked, the battalion will be handed over to you, although it is still early now, and there may not be a need for night fighting, but in order to prevent accidents, please also prepare things for night battles, so as not to be caught off guard when night battles are necessary." ”

Several Xuzhou strategists agreed together, and then Liu Ye smiled and said: "In addition to guarding the trapped camp of Xuchang, our army can definitely be regarded as elite this time, if the big-eared thief can know that he will enjoy such treatment, I am afraid that he will not even dare to have the courage to fight with General Qin Yi, the often defeated general of our army, and he will have to turn around and flee for his life immediately." ”

"That's why I asked to gather troops and horses inside the camp, just because I was afraid of scaring away the big-eared thieves." Deputy Director Tao sneered, thought for a moment and said: "By the way, in order for the army to leave the camp and attack as soon as possible, I will order the army to destroy part of the fence at the main gate, and the gentlemen also need to prepare to repair the fence." Jia Lao Poison and Liu Ye and others sang the promise, and they also immediately started to prepare for the arrangement.

……………… Uncle Liu Huang, who didn't know that the danger was approaching, was laughing, and he was also admiring Zhuge Liang's foresight, because the scouts sent by Uncle Liu had already reported, and Deputy Director Tao, who had always been greedy and insufficient, really didn't plan to go all out to meet the self-army, but just sent the famous defeated general Qin Yi in Xuzhou to lead an army of 3,000 out of the camp, and was welcoming the self-army, and then the Xuzhou camp immediately closed the gate of the wall, and no soldiers left the camp, obviously only planned to use the 3,000 infantry under Qin Yi to perfunctory Uncle Liu, Uncle Liu Huang, who was still a little worried, was completely relieved, and he also had more confidence in winning this battle.

Zhuge Liang, who is suspicious and cautious and far above Deputy Director Tao and Boss Cao, is not without the well-known Deputy Director Tao and has a back, but the terrain in this area is too open, there are not even a few hills, and the forest of trees was cut down by Cao Jun, Yuan Shaojun and Xuzhou Army in the war some time ago, and there is no place to ambush at all, so Zhuge Liang can be sure that even if Deputy Director Tao makes a move, it must be from the reinforcement side, as long as the army reacts in time and moves quickly, will definitely be able to evacuate the battlefield before Deputy Director Tao's follow-up launch.

There is a more critical point, it is destined that Zhuge Liang cannot completely anticipate Deputy Director Tao's thoughts, that is, Zhuge Liang does not know Deputy Director Tao's vigilance and hostility towards him, and feels that Deputy Director Tao will definitely not pay too much attention to himself now, and he still has the opportunity to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger! - But this is not surprising, the current Zhuge Liang is not only young, but also has no reputation and special outstanding, except for a detailed deputy director named Luo Guanzhong Dashen, I am afraid that Cao Laoda, who is on a par with Deputy Director Tao in terms of deception, has encountered such a situation, and he has to fall into Zhuge Liang's calculations.

At this time, there was scout news from the front, saying that Qin Yi's team was only five miles out of the camp and no longer advanced, and had already begun to line up to meet the enemy, Liu Huangshu heard the news and said that Qin Yi was preparing to withdraw to the camp for convenience, and no longer let the army move forward cautiously, and chose to immediately urge the team to rush forward, preparing to rush to the battlefield before the Xuzhou army made other reactions. And when he hurriedly traveled several miles to the battlefield, Uncle Liu Huang suddenly laughed, it turned out that the defeated general Qin Yi was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he actually set up a fish scale array with very weak defense, pushed the soldiers to the front as cannon fodder, and hid in the rear of the battle formation, putting on a posture that was convenient to escape at any time.

Seeing such an enemy formation, Uncle Liu Huang, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, was invincible with the fierce generals under his command, and immediately shouted: "Fight the flag, cloth the Yanyue array!" ”

The banner waved, Liu Bei's soldiers quickly set up the formation, and the cautious and suspicious Zhuge Liang had already woken up and exclaimed: "Oh no! We may have been tricked! ”

"Medium? What's the plan? Uncle Liu Huang, who had had enough of Deputy Director Tao's suffering, was shocked.

"The enemy has few soldiers but sets up a fish scale formation, not to defeat our army, but to entangle our army!" Zhuge Liang pointed to the front with a feather fan, and said with a grim face: "The defense of the fish scale array is weak, but it is conducive to impact, and it is the most convenient formation to entangle the enemy's team to start a melee, and the enemy's commander is a famous general who often loses, and he does not want to defend but tries to fight to the death, obviously trying to entangle our army and buy time for his follow-up reinforcements!" ”

Uncle Liu Huang's face changed greatly, but the war drums were already sounding in the Qin Yi team on the opposite side, three thousand Xuzhou soldiers shouted and charged, and General Qin Yi also led the team of pro-soldiers to charge up, constantly yelling in his mouth, "Soldiers, rush up!" Entangled with big-eared thieves! Protect me, protect me! Entangle the big-eared thief! Protect me! ”

At the same time, in the rear of Qin Yi's team, seeing Qin Yi's team charge, the Xuzhou scouts who were ordered to pass the order also immediately lit the wolf smoke, and once the artemisia and firewood that had been poured over the nitrate were ignited, a straight black smoke immediately rose, which could be seen for ten miles. Deputy Director Tao who was hiding in the Xuzhou camp saw the signal, and did not hesitate to order the firing of the cannon, after a cannon sound, the Xuzhou army immediately attacked from all sides, Zhao Yun and Xu Huang led the cavalry rushed out from the north and south camp gates, Tao Ji led the gentleman's army from the back camp to kill, Deputy Director Tao led the main army from the front, in order to get out of the camp conveniently also simply knocked down a large fence, the total number of soldiers and horses on the four roads exceeded 30,000, and they were all the first-line elite of the Xuzhou army, or a roundabout charge, or a straight line forward, Mighty slaughter to the battlefield five miles away.

At this time, Qin Yi's team had rushed to the front of Liu Beijun's formation three hundred steps away, and the first two Qu teams rushed into the dense place of Liu Beijun's team without hesitation, and started a melee with Liu Beijun, and the Xuzhou army behind was constantly surging, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei on the left and right wings of Liu Beijun were also unceremonious, and immediately led the army to kill left and right, and attacked the two wings of the Xuzhou army. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also happily took the lead, desperately slashing and killing the poor Xuzhou soldiers, and once staged the real Three Kingdoms mowing the grass, so that the heralds sent by Uncle Liu did not even have a chance to find their heralds.

Forced to be helpless, Uncle Liu had to order Mingjin during the melee, but after Mingjin rang, the emperor's army was suddenly in a dilemma, withdraw, the enemy has rushed to the front, turn around is to let the ass out for the enemy to cut, if you don't withdraw, it is a violation of the military order, paradoxically, the emperor's army not only could not quickly withdraw from the battlefield, on the contrary, there was chaos and was entangled more tightly by the Xuzhou army. In addition, although General Qin Yi himself has eighteen kinds of martial arts, he is a certain second in front of Guan Erye and Zhang Sanye, but the Xuzhou soldiers under General Qin Yi are more competitive than the soldiers of the Imperial Uncle Army, not only have rich experience in the battlefield, but also have strong combat effectiveness, taking advantage of the chaos of the Imperial Uncle Army, the rush is even more fierce, not only more effectively entangled the Imperial Uncle Army, but also took the opportunity to kill and injure a lot of Imperial Uncle Army officers and soldiers.

Just a little delay, the Xuzhou cavalry with strong mobile force has rushed to the near place, Zhao Yun's team is in the south, Xu Huang's team is in the north, one left and one right outflanked and killed the Huang Shu army team, it was also at this time, Guan Erye and Zhang Sanye, who were able to kill, found that the situation was not right, and quickly went separately to meet the Xuzhou reinforcements, as a result, Guan Erye was caught by Xu Huang and Lu Burma joined forces, Zhang Fei also met Zhao Yun, and the battle was turned upside down and did not distinguish between victory and defeat, and the gentleman's army, which was more terrifying in mobility, had rushed to the back of the Huang Shu's army, Desperately shoot the soldiers of the Imperial Uncle Army who turned around and fled for their lives with bows and arrows.

The main force of the Xuzhou infantry, which numbered more than 20,000 people, under the personal leadership of Deputy Director Tao, easily ran a mere five miles away with a charging attitude, and the Wei Yan team that played the vanguard rushed to the battlefield almost like a fly, and rushed into the melee battlefield without hesitation, desperately slashing and killing the frightened Huangshu soldiers, the poor Huangshu soldiers may be regarded as first-class soldiers in the Jingzhou water monkey team, but in front of the Xuzhou elite who have been trained in countless bloody battles, But it is simply the object of abuse, a Xuzhou elite soldier can completely suppress two imperial uncle soldiers to fight, two Xuzhou soldiers can cut an imperial uncle army team to pieces, the imperial uncle army collapsed almost instantly, including the elite soldiers under the command of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and the collapse speed was not slower than that of the Chinese army.

Seeing such a scene, Uncle Liu Huang was about to go crazy, and he couldn't wait to rush to Deputy Director Tao and shout, "What are Nima's hands hitting me with such a heavy hand?" I'm just here to test your partially, I'm inconsequential cannon fodder! Nima's hand beat me so hard, do you still want to annihilate the 30,000 Jingzhou troops under Cai Maocaobao? ”

"I underestimated the pottery thief's hatred for the lord!" This is Zhuge Liang's wail, but Zhuge Liang obviously wronged poor Uncle Liu, if he hadn't gone out of the mountain eight years ahead of schedule, Deputy Director Tao might not have been so ruthless to Uncle Liu.

No matter how much you can't figure it out, it's too late, the main army led by Deputy Director Tao has already arrived at the battlefield in an endless stream, and joined the battle without hesitation. And seeing Deputy Director Tao's handsome flag, Uncle Liu Huang was also completely desperate, so he could only lead Zhuge Liang to perform his best life-saving trick on the battlefield, throw down the team that was still in the fierce battle, and lead the team that could still be commanded by his side, with the rolling yellow sand behind his buttocks, it was like flying and fleeing for his life.

However, Uncle Liu Huang wants to escape this time, it is not as easy as in the past, the speed of maneuvering is not at all below the speed of Uncle Liu's escape, the team of the gentleman's army, has already detoured back to the rear of the emperor's army, the heavy cavalry is rare to enter the close battlefield early, rushing to kill the large number of defeated soldiers of the emperor's army, and the light cavalry is to greet the emperor's army soldiers with bows and arrows, and also specially pick horses to ride and greet the emperor's uncle's soldiers in armor, one arrow is more ruthless than an arrow, and one arrow is more accurate than an arrow, so that one after another the grassroots generals of the emperor's army fall off their horses and die, It also made one after another the generals of the Imperial Uncle Army wearing armor fall to the ground with arrows, and the ranks of the Imperial Uncle Army that lost their command were even more chaotic.

The situation on the battlefield is completely one-sided, and the Xuzhou army, which has an absolute advantage in quantity, quality, and experience, is completely like an adult beating a child, beating the poor imperial uncle army, and also slaughtering the officers and men of the imperial uncle army who are almost helpless like killing pigs and sheep, and killing the imperial uncle army to the point that the corpses are all over the field, and the blood is flowing all over the ground.

The slogan of capturing the big-eared thief alive has sounded in the pursuit team, and the soldiers of the collapsed Imperial Uncle Army have fled all over the mountains, and the soldiers around Uncle Liu Huang, who is riding a war horse, are already getting fewer and fewer, but there are still more than 20 miles away from Cai Mao's camp, but it is also difficult to escape Uncle Liu, who is experienced in escaping, after jumping off the war horse, Uncle Liu quickly took out two sets of ordinary soldiers' military uniforms from the package behind the war horse, and while changing his military clothes more quickly, he instructed Zhuge Liang: "Kong Ming, quickly, You also change into the clothes of ordinary soldiers, I will take you to retreat, don't ask for war horses, riding horses is too conspicuous. ”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhuge Liang finally silently dismounted and prepared to change his clothes, and said sullenly while dismounting: "Lord, Liang swears to the sky, from now on, he will never let you suffer such ......a grievance again, ah!" ”

"What's wrong?" Uncle Liu Huang was shocked, and hurriedly picked up Zhuge Liang, who had fallen off the war horse, to take a closer look, Uncle Liu Huang's face suddenly turned white, because the ankle of Zhuge Liang's right foot, I don't know when a feather arrow had been inserted, and the arrow of the stray arrow went straight into the inside of the joint, destroying the joint structure, although it was not fatal, but the right foot was completely wasted!

"Lord, Liang's leg is crippled, let's go." Zhuge Liang, who was proficient in medical skills, also understood his injury, and forced a smile to ask Uncle Liu Huang to go first, but tears still oozed from his beautiful eyes.

Uncle Liu Huang wanted to throw Zhuge Liang away and flee for his life, but considering Zhuge Xuan's favor in front of Liu Biao, as well as the power behind the Zhuge family, Uncle Liu Huang still silently cut off the arrow shaft, quickly put on the clothes of an ordinary soldier for Zhuge Liang, and then put Zhuge Liang on the back of the horse, took the reins of the horse and said with a wry smile: "Kong Ming, let's go, whether we can escape depends on our luck." ”

Zhuge Liang shed tears, nodded, choked and said: "Thank you, if you can go back alive this time, Liang will definitely find this justice for your lord." ”

Uncle Liu Huang's luck and experience in escaping for his life was indeed not covered, and he didn't flee directly to the west with Zhuge Liang, but he just picked out the sparsely populated places and got out of the chaotic battlefield, so he immediately put Zhuge Liang down his horse, and fled on foot with Zhuge Liang on his back, and fled into the grass when he was pursued by the Xuzhou army, and also drilled into the water diversion ditch dug by the people of Xuchang several times, making it full of mud, and it was not easy to attract the attention of the Xuzhou army, but the Xuzhou army was still stupid and only cared about chasing and killing the Huangshu army brigade, still didn't pay much attention to the soldiers of the Imperial Uncle Army who fled alone, so they gave Uncle Liu another chance to escape.

The too open battlefield gave Uncle Liu the opportunity to escape, and the unscrupulous Cai Mao and Huang Shot also helped Uncle Liu a lot, after receiving the news of the defeat of the Emperor Uncle Army, Cai Mao and Huang Shot did not leave the cannon fodder of the Emperor Uncle Army, and sent nearly 10,000 troops to respond, as a result, although the Jingzhou army was rushed to collapse by the morale of the Xuzhou army in only a moment, but it increased the chaos of the entire battlefield, so that Uncle Liu Huang was carrying Zhuge Liang on his back. Still by luck escaped to a dense place far from the battlefield, and dug two shallow pits for himself and Zhuge Liang to lie in, covered Zhuge Liang with weeds and mud, and finally ordered: "Kong Ming, cover our faces with weeds and mud, only our noses to breathe, as long as we hold on until dark, we will hopefully return to the camp." When Cai Mao and they evacuate the river, it doesn't matter, I will have water and dry food. ”

Zhuge Liang hummed lightly and agreed, gritted his teeth again, and said in his heart: "Tao thief, wait!" ”

(To be continued)