"Zhang Fei led the army to fight? How many soldiers and horses are there? ”

While asking casually, Tao Ying quietly moved the chess pieces in the corner of the chessboard, and Lu Su on the opposite side immediately found out, and quickly grabbed Tao Ying's hand and asked Tao Ying why he cheated every time he played chess, Tao Ying denied it, and the herald who knelt in front of the case on one knee replied with a fist: "Back to the lord, about five or six hundred, about twenty cavalry, and the rest are all infantry." ”

"If you give the order, you don't have to pay attention to Zhang Fei's fighting, no matter who you are, you are not allowed to go out of the village to fight." Tao Ying instructed without looking back: "Besides, send more scout sentries to the northwest to see if there are any enemy ambushes." ”

The herald took the order, Tao Ying and Lu Su continued to argue about whether the chess pieces were secretly moved, but Deputy Director Tao's little tricks were quickly exposed, Lu Su, who has a superhuman memory, pointed out more than 30 previous drop points in turn, proving that the chess pieces had indeed been moved, Deputy Director Tao did not blush and admit that it may be his sleeve that drove the chess pieces, and then regretted more than 30 moves in one breath, and asked to start again from this chess piece that was accidentally driven by the sleeve, Lu Su of course refused, the two were arguing, Xu Chu, Tao Ji, Sun Guan and Xu Sheng and a group of Xuzhou generals came to the big tent of the Chinese army and asked for orders to go out of the camp to fight Zhang Fei.

"Lord, Zhang Fei is fighting and scolding outside the camp, I don't know why the lord ordered the camp to be closed and not to be released, and I am not allowed to fight?" Xu Chu was the first to shout: "The last general asked for an order to lead an army of 1,000 to fight the ring-eyed thief who came to the door to die, and cut off the head of the ring-eyed thief and come back to present it to the lord." ”

"Second brother, let me go." Tao Ji also hurriedly said: "The junior brother led the gentleman's army out of battle, and kept it so that the ring-eyed thief couldn't run away alone!" ”

"Third general, the Junzi Army has won enough battles, so let me lead the Wind Feather Army into battle." Xu Sheng also came to fight, and many Xuzhou generals who didn't know the height of the sky also volunteered to fight Zhang Fei.

"Can't play." Tao Ying finally turned around, crossed his legs and said to the generals, "Don't you think it's strange? Our army has more than 10,000 people, and the Xuzhou ace teams such as the Junzi Army and the Fengyu Army are also in Fanghe Battalion, how dare Zhang Fei only bring five or six hundred people to die? If my expectations are correct, this must be the enemy's plan to lure the enemy, after Zhang Fei's team, there will be ambushes, rash battle, will inevitably be hit! ”

"My lord, please rest assured." Yuan Zhong, a veteran from Xuzhou, came out of the ranks and said: "Today's sentry horse is in charge of the last general, and the last general dares to take the head of the head to guarantee, within a radius of thirty miles from the camp, there is no enemy ambush soldier!" The generals of our army scouts are also the two sons of the last general, if the sentry is wrong, please behead the heads of the father and son of the last general! ”

"Second brother, the terrain to the north is open, the road is wide, and it is not so easy for the enemy to ambush." Tao Ji retorted unconvinced, and then analyzed: "Besides, the ring-eyed thief has always been short-tempered, and the second brother, you threatened in front of the Cao thief's envoy that if you don't kill the big-eared thief, you will never withdraw your troops, maybe the ring-eyed thief just couldn't hold his breath when he heard the news, and he came to the door with five or six hundred people to send him to death." ”

"Really?" Tao Ying turned his cunning triangular eyes to calculate, and at the same time, because Zhang Fei's fiery temper impressed Tao Ying, Tao Ying was inevitably a little shaken, "Is this really the case, the ring-eyed thief can't hold his breath and comes to the door to die?" If so, it's a great opportunity to cut off one of the big-eared thief's arms. ”

"My lord, why don't you go to the gate of the camp to see with your own eyes and see if the enemy lures the enemy?" Lu Su put forward a new suggestion, Tao Ying was very satisfied when he heard it, and Tao Ying finally stayed at the moment, leading Lu Su and Xu Chu to the front of the camp to observe the movement.

In front of the camp gate, there was indeed a team of five or six hundred Liu Beijun fighting in the distance of the camp gate, and Zhang Fei's unique loud voice was also clearly audible, scolding Tao Ying's whole family with a broken gong-like voice, and scolding Tao Ying's ancestors for eighteen generations one by one. Hearing these vicious curses, the thick-skinned Deputy Director Tao and the calm and calm Lu Su didn't care, but the generals in Xuzhou were furious, and they asked for orders to go out of the camp to fight, but Tao Ying refused to agree to anything, and also climbed the Zhaimen sentry tower, raised the primitive telescope made by himself, and condescendingly observed the enemy's movements.

At this time, Zhang Sanye, who was quite rough and fine, saw the generals gathered in front of the Xuzhou camp, and guessed that Tao Ying must have been there in person, so he shouted loudly: "Ungrateful Tao Ying thief, don't you want to take the heads of the three Taoyuan brothers?" Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide are here, the rats who are not afraid of death, although they come to fight! Zhang Feixiang is on the head, see who can cut it off?! ”

"Fan Jiang and Zhang Da can cut it, but it's a pity that these two don't know where they are now." Tao Ying muttered in his heart, ignoring Zhang Fei's so-called evil words and provocations - this swearing word in the Three Kingdoms Era, Deputy Director Tao really never paid attention to it, but patiently observed the enemy team, but what puzzled Tao Ying was that Zhang Fei's five or six hundred people did not have anything suspicious, and at the same time, the rear of the enemy team was also unfazed, there was no dust and smoke flag in the distance, and there was no place where a large number of soldiers could be hidden, so Tao Ying was inevitably more suspicious, "Could it be that Zhang Fei really came to the door to die?" ”

"Lord, the terrain is open, and there seems to be no ambush." Lu Su next to him also said: "At least within ten miles of the north, there can be no ambush, I think we can fight, our army has been stationed in Fang and stationed for nearly a month, and there has never been a battle, the military spirit has been a lot of slack, fighting a battle, it is also good for boosting the morale of the army." ”

Tao Ying nodded slightly, agreeing with Lu Su's judgment, but Deputy Director Tao's suspicious cunning was not covered, and after a little calculation, Tao Ying said: "It's better to be cautious, so let's get the crossbowmen ready, and wait for me to fly over and rush to the camp, and try to see if he really comes to lure the enemy." ”

"Poor General Zhang Yide, you can ask for more blessings." Lu Su, who had seen Tao Ying's scolding methods during the battle with Sun Ce, quietly muttered, and then conveyed Tao Ying's order to let the Xuzhou army arrange strong bows and crossbows behind the fence and prepare for a sneak attack, and a large number of archers and crossbowmen were arranged in place, and Deputy Director Tao also opened his mouth and scolded............ "Zhang Fei dog thief!" Your uncle Tao Ying is here, you kind of come over and fight me to the death! If you don't dare to come, you are lacking calcium since childhood, lacking love when you grow up, grandma doesn't hurt, and uncle doesn't love! The left face is underpumped, the right face is under-kicked! The donkey sees the donkey kicking, and the pig sees the pig stepping on it! You are disloyal, unfilial, unkind, rude, and impertinent, short-lived, and heartless! If you don't learn to be cheap! There are so many cheap moves, you are the cheapest! If you don't learn iron, you should learn silver! You smile brightly, the wolves are hanged! Your gentle bark, chickens fly and dogs jump! Your chic stop, the smell is permeating! You're sweating with excitement, lice are suffering! You don't dress up, it's uglier than a ghost! As soon as you dress up, you scare the ghost into paralysis! ”

"Hahaha!" Even if Lu Su has already learned Tao Ying's poisonous tongue kung fu, he has always been steady and calm, and he can't help but be amused by Tao Ying's series of scoldings, and the Xuzhou generals under the sentry tower are even more smiling, many people laughed out of tears, laughing hurt their stomachs, but Tao Ying on the sentry tower didn't even blink his eyelids, and continued to foam at the mouth and scold, "Zhang Fei dog thief, were you thrown out three times when you were born, but only caught twice?" Your teeth are like the stars in the sky, bright in color, far apart! Your mother took you shopping, and others asked: Auntie, how much did you buy this orangutan?! ”

"Tao Ying thief-! Thief - - ! ”

The provocation and scolding war unfortunately ran into Deputy Director Tao, poor Zhang Sanye was considered to have poured eight lifetimes of blood mold, not only failed to anger Deputy Director Tao whose face was thicker than the city wall, but Zhang Sanye, who took the lead in provoking the scolding war, was provoked to thunder, under the smoke of the seven orifices, Zhang Sanye threw off the Yan General Eighteen Cavalry who came up to block, raised the Zhangba snake spear and moved the war horse, and rushed to Tao Ying's side desperately, roaring like thunder in his mouth, "Tao Ying thief!" Death! Liu Beijun's soldiers behind were all shocked, and hurriedly rushed over.

Of course, the Tao army crossbowmen who were ambushed behind the fence quickly told Zhang Sanye not to scold Deputy Director Tao, Xu Sheng waved the flag, thousands of Tao army crossbowmen fired arrows together, poor Liu Beijun soldiers waved a round shield and fell to the ground with arrows, Zhang Sanye also hit two arrows in a row, fled back in embarrassment, retreated beyond the range and continued to scold, the Xuzhou soldiers behind the fence thundered, and frantically laughed at Zhang Sanye's inability and Liu Beijun's embarrassment.

"Still won't go? Is it really to send you to death? Or is it resolute to lure the enemy? Tao Ying blinked his triangular eyes and calculated, and suddenly saw several Liu Beijun soldiers who were seriously injured by arrows rolling in a pool of blood, Tao Ying suddenly had a plan, got off the guard tower and called Xu Chu, and instructed Xu Chu: "Zhongkang, you lead a thousand troops out of the camp to fight Zhang Fei, but remember that Xu Zhan and Xu are not allowed to chase, if Zhang Fei is defeated, no matter how good the opportunity is, without my order, you will never chase!" Otherwise, military law is engaged! ”

"Order!" Xu Chu happily went down to organize the army, and Tao Ying called the veteran general Yuan Zhong again, pointing to the wounded soldiers of Liu Beijun who were rolling in a pool of blood and ordered: "Old General Yuan, after General Xu goes out of the village to fight in a while, you will immediately lead people to arrest those few enemy wounded soldiers and interrogate them why Zhang Fei came here alone for the purpose of fighting." If you ask for a confession, report it to me immediately, but remember, interrogate them separately and don't give them a chance to collude. ”

"No." Yuan Zhong respectfully agreed, and muttered in his heart: "Our new envoy in Xuzhou is really cunning and suspicious, and even pays attention to details such as preventing collusion, the old lord has been gentle and pure all his life, how can he give birth to such a cunning son?" ”

In a moment, Xu Chu led the army out of the camp with a Xueliang steel knife in his hand, and Zhang Fei's team just had a pair of circles, and without saying a word, he slapped the horse and danced the knife to kill, Zhang Fei didn't speak, and raised the Zhangba snake spear to fight with Xu Chu to do a place, Tao Ying led the generals to watch the battle at the camp gate, and Yuan Zhong also took more than a dozen people to capture a few Liu Beijun's wounded soldiers, and interrogated the military situation without mentioning.

Xu Chu and Zhang Fei's fighting generals, naturally one of the pinnacle duels in the Three Kingdoms era, the two generals in the formation of knives and spears, fighting endlessly, when the real knives and knives are the power to open the mountain, the spear and spear are also the potential to break the stone, the horse's hooves are howling everywhere, at present, a rage should shed blood, the shout shakes the heavens and the earth, and the murderous atmosphere fills the bullfighting cold! The soldiers of Xuzhou, who only saw that the fighting generals had always been weak, were dizzying, and their hearts trembled, and the well-informed Liu Beijun soldiers were also amazed, and they all said that the vicious battles they had seen in their lives were nothing more than this.

When General Xu Zhang fought for seventy or eighty rounds, Yuan Zhong also came to Tao Ying with the prisoner's confession, and reported to Tao Yingzuo: "Lord Qiqi, the confession has come out, and several prisoners have confessed that Zhang Feipifu brought troops out of the camp to fight with our army last night, and several prisoners said that the ring-eyed thief is angry, but the lord has repeatedly threatened to cut off the head of the big-eared thief, and asked the big-eared thief to fight with our army and was refused, so he quietly led the men and horses of the headquarters to the south overnight to fight with our army. ”

Because he was brainwashed too deeply by Luo Guanzhong, Tao Ying, who knew Zhang Sanye's violent temper, heard such a confession, and immediately believed it, and ordered without hesitation: "Tao Ji and Sun Guan listen to the order, you each lead the people and horses of the headquarters out of the camp, Sun Guanbing is divided into two ways to outflank the two wings of the ring-eyed thief team, Tao Ji, you take the gentleman's army out of the camp from the west gate, and go back to copy the back of the ring-eyed thief!" ”

"No!" Tao Ji and Sun Guan happily hugged their fists and agreed, and quickly went down to lead the men and horses of the headquarters who had already assembled and stood by to fight, and Lu Su smiled and said: "Lord, General Zhongkang is fighting happily, I'm afraid I will complain about the lord again." ”

"Wronged him again, I only want to win, I don't like to take risks." Tao Ying replied with a smile.

After another moment, Sun Guan took the lead in leading three thousand Langya soldiers out of the camp, and the soldiers were outflanked by Zhang Fei's team on both wings in two ways, Zhang Feijun, who only had five or six hundred people, was terrified and screamed, Zhang Fei was also a little flustered, and turned around and left, Xu Chu, who was killing the surname, did not hesitate, and immediately raised troops to chase, Sun Guan, who had not yet completed the bag, refused to miss the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and he also chased the soldiers without blinking his eyelids, and Tao Ji, who came out of the camp from the side door, was even more greedy for merit, and also led Tao Ying's most precious gentleman's army to chase and kill. Seeing this scene, Tao Ying scolded Xu Chu for resisting the order, so he had to quickly send a fast horse to order the troops, ordering Xu Chu, Sun Guan and Tao Ji not to chase after them, so as not to be ambushed.

After receiving Tao Ying's order, Sun Guan and Tao Ji had no choice but to stop the pursuit, but Xu Chu said that he couldn't pull anything, and said that he would come back and ask Tao Ying for the guilt, Tao Ying scolded loudly, but also had to leave Lu Su and Xu Sheng to guard the camp, and personally led Tao Ji and Sun Guan to lead the army to chase Xu Chu, intending to pull back the most capable and irritable Xu Chu of the Xuzhou army.

Chased out more than 20 miles in one breath, and finally grabbed Xu Chu's horse reins, and when Tao Ying, who was thunderous, was about to whip Xu Chu who was about to whip Xu Chu who was chasing after the order, the dust and smoke suddenly rolled in the northwest direction, and more than 2,000 infantry rushed over, and the first two generals were none other than Liu Bei and Guan Yu, who hated each other with Deputy Director Tao, and Liu Bei shouted from afar: "Third brother!" Third brother! Are you okay?! ”

"The big-eared thief is here too?" Tao Ying's heart jumped, and he said secretly: "Could it be that the big-eared thief found out that Zhang Fei led the troops out of the camp without permission, and hurriedly came over to lead the army to rescue him?" If that's the case, it's a great opportunity to expand the gains. However, you still have to be careful that there is an ambush. ”

At this time, Liu Bei's rescue troops had merged with Zhang Fei's defeated army, probably seeing that Zhang Fei was safe and sound and only slightly injured, Liu Bei immediately ordered a retreat, and ordered Guan Yu to break off, and pulled Zhang Fei to lead the army to the north and run. Seeing this scene, Tao Ying first drank and wanted to chase and kill Xu Chu, and then shouted at Tao Ji: "Take the gentleman's army, shoot the big-eared thief rear army with arrows, catch a few enemies who were injured by arrows, and stop the pursuit immediately!" Bring the captives, and I will interrogate them myself!" ”

Tao Ji agreed loudly, raised his knife and ordered, led the neatly formed gentleman army to charge up, and constantly pulled the bow and shot the fleeing Liu Beijun, Guan Yu behind the palace is the master who has suffered countless losses of the gentleman's army, knowing that in this open terrain and the hypocrite army entanglement is looking for death, saying that he did not dare to turn around and fight, but led the army to flee desperately to the north, even the soldiers who were injured by the arrow did not dare to rescue, Tao Ji also quickly caught the Liu Beijun soldiers who were injured in the legs, and sent people to quickly send them to Tao Ying who was scolding Xu Chu.

"Say!" Tao pointed at the two captives with a horsewhip and shouted, "When will you send your troops?" Why send troops? Tell me honestly, spare you from dying, dare not answer, dare to tell lies, I promise to make you regret being born in this world! ”

"General Hui, we are soldiers who came out after the second watch last night." One of the captives replied tremblingly. Another captive also rushed to say: "Our lord found out that the three generals had led troops out of the camp without permission, and heard that the three generals were coming to fight with the Xuzhou army, and he was worried about the safety of the three generals, so he hurriedly took everyone in his headquarters to chase after him." ”

"Bold!" Tao Ying was furious, whipped down with a horsewhip, and bluffed: "Death is on the verge of death, and you dare to tell lies?" You are clearly colluding with the Cao thieves, the Cao thief army has arranged an ambush in front, and you have come to lure our army to jump the trap! Come on, drag these two dog thieves down and cut them to death with a knife! ”

"No!" The soldiers on the left and right agreed, and they came forward to drag people, and the two unlucky captives were so frightened that they were scattered, struggling to kowtow desperately and shouting grievances, and one of them also urinated on the crotch of his pants on the spot, crying: "General! Checkmate! We didn't tell a lie, we really came out after the second watch last night to save the third general, and we didn't have a team of Cao thieves behind us. ”

"It seems true. Even if the thief received the news, it would be difficult to arrange an ambush in this open area in a hurry. Tao Ying pondered in his heart, first waved his hand to let the soldiers release the two unlucky prisoners, and then turned to Xu Chu and shouted: "Bastard, your chance to make meritorious service has arrived, chase me!" I can't cut off the heads of thirty enemies in this battle, go back and see how I clean you up! ”

"Don't worry, my lord, I will cut off at least fifty of the heads of my enemies and come back to you!" Xu Chu happily agreed.

"Someone, give Tao Ji an order, outflank from the open area in the west, block the way of the big-eared thief, and force the big-eared thief to jump to the east to Surabaya!" After personally arranging the tactics of the Junzi Army, Tao Ying turned to Sun Guan next to him and said with a smile: "General Sun, it seems that the opportunity to avenge Brother Ling has come, chase after me, don't let the big-eared thief slip away again!" Soldiers, kill! Capture the big-eared thief alive! ”

"Capture the big-eared thief alive! Kill! The order was conveyed, Xu Chu and Sun Guaner, a total of more than 4,000 Xuzhou soldiers under the command of General Sun Guan, cheered together, and chased Liu Beijun together, Deputy Director Tao, who has always cherished his precious life, also chased at the forefront for the first time, and kept thinking excitedly, "I don't know if Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang, who are stationed in Jinxiang, have the courage to send troops to intercept them, it should be possible, at least they will not let the big-eared thieves hide in their camp and flee for their lives, but don't chase too much, at most to Yuan Shaojun's Jinxiang camp, you must also collect your troops, otherwise, If you don't do it, you'll meet Cao Thief's team. ”

Deputy Director Tao ordered the Junzi Army to outflank the west's tactics are very vicious, Surabaya in this area is a diagonal line that flows from the northwest to the southeast, Liu Beijun whether he is fleeing due north or due east, he has to be blocked by Surabaya, only to the northwest or due west has a glimmer of life, but after the terrifying Junzi Army outflanked the west, it also blocked Liu Beijun's line of life, Liu Bei led the army to break through to the west several times, and was killed and injured by the endless bows and arrows of the Junzi Army. The Xuzhou army behind also took the opportunity to shorten a lot of distance, and finally Liu Bei had no choice but to turn around and retreat northward.

After chasing nearly 20 miles in this way, Liu Beijun's team finally appeared in front of the surging Surabaya, although Yanzhou has been in drought for many years, the water in the river is not abundant enough, and the water level is low, but it is enough to block Liu Beijun's way. Seeing this situation, Liu Beijun's team suddenly sounded a desperate scream, and the Xuzhou army behind was like thunder, people stepped up and whipped, and rushed up with a fierce swoop, and poor Uncle Liu Huang was cornered, so he could only rush all the way to the narrow area surrounded by large forests and river embankments, and the Xuzhou army continued to chase and kill without hesitation, and the gentleman's army that could not cross the woods went north around the forest to block Liu Beijun's northwest road. Tao Ying, who has always been calm, also rarely grinned, "Big-eared thief, this time I'll see how you run." ”

At this time, something happened that made Deputy Director Tao feel bad, when most of the Xuzhou army was lured into a narrow area surrounded by river embankments and woods, Liu Beijun, who had been fleeing for his life in a hurry, suddenly stopped beside the Surabaya River, and quickly turned around and lined up with his back. Seeing this scene, Tao Ying, who was extremely cautious and cautious, quickly reined in his war horse, first ordered the army to stop, and then hurriedly looked left and right at the terrain, but it was okay not to look at it, and at a glance, Deputy Director Tao's little face turned white - the left side of the Xuzhou army was a dense large forest, and the right side of the Xuzhou army was the surging Surabaya and the long embankment!

"Go to a few people and see if there are any ambushes under the embankment?" Tao Ying's face turned pale and shouted, "There are still woods, go and investigate immediately!" ”

"Hahahahaha! Tao Ying thief, you also have today? Do you have today?! ”

Without waiting for the Xuzhou soldiers to follow the order, the three peach brothers not far away from the opposite side had already come out of the crowd, and Uncle Liu Huang, who hated each other with Deputy Director Tao, looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, "Tao Ying thief, I know that you are cunning!" It's a pity that no matter how cunning you are, no matter how clever you are, this time you finally fell for me! ”

Laughing wildly, Uncle Liu Huang raised the double-strand sword in his hand and sent out a signal, and the gong sounded immediately in Liu Beijun's team behind, and then, the Yuan Shaojun team of the brigade surged out of the woods on the left side of the Xuzhou army, and under the river embankment on the right, countless Yuan Shaojun soldiers also stood out, and on the embankment behind Liu Beijun, countless Yuan Shaojun banners also appeared!

"Yuan Shaojun? How is Yuan Shaojun?! "Deputy Director Tao was spinning for a while, and he never dreamed that it would be Yuan Shaojun, who had been friendly with the Xuzhou army on the battlefield in Yanzhou, to ambush him.

"Tao Ying thief!" Zhang Fei also laughed wildly in his world-famous loud voice, "Don't expect your leper dog hypocrite army, they also have ambush soldiers over there!" ”

"There must be an ambush behind me, right?" Poor Deputy Director Tao almost didn't cry, and secretly said in his heart: "It's over, I've finally been tricked!" This time, not only will I be invincible, but my head may also be hanging! No, I'm still young, and there are still many beautiful women waiting for me to comfort, I don't want to die! ”

(To be continued)