Chapter 386: Win-Win
Seeing Liu Bei turn over and fall off the horse, Guan Yu let out a long roar, his momentum soared unprecedentedly, the angry phoenix's eyes widened, the eyebrows of the lying silkworm were raised high, the light of the Qinglong Yanyue Knife was flourishing, and in the slight tremor with a wonderful law, the Canglong entrenched on the Qinglong Yanyue Knife seemed to come to life.
A knife is slashed out, there is no knife whistling in the wind, there is no momentum of thunder, there is just one word: fast.
The knife over there was raised, and this side had already arrived at Xu Ji's Ten Thousand Spear Shadows.
A knife slashed the true body of Xu Ji's silver spear. Surprisingly, there is no metallic sound.
Xu Ji was taken aback, at this time, his old strength had been exhausted and the new strength had not yet been born, and Guan Yu in front of him was very wrong, the sword just now was obviously higher than Guan Yu's martial arts, but I was afraid that he had reached the realm of Lu Bu.
Could it be that Liu Bei was stimulated because he fell off the horse?
The shadow of the gun dispersed, Xu Ji twisted his wrist, and forced him to do his best again at the risk of internal injuries. Xu Ji knows that the most important thing in the duel is spirit and momentum, and now Guan Yu's strength due to grief and anger is really not underestimated, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault, Xu Ji decided to focus on defense.
Guan Yu's characteristic is that he is sharp and cannot last, if he burns his brain because of Liu Bei and fights with himself, once the sharp qi passes, it will be the death of this martial saint in the future. And if he can still support it, he will definitely take advantage of the situation to kill Liu Bei. Although Xu Ji himself also knew that he was no better than Guan Yu, Guan Yu was difficult to last, and his strength was not enough to support him.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Xu Ji withdrew the silver spear, Guan Yu turned his horse's head and turned over and galloped towards Liu Bei. Xu Ji was overjoyed, patted the horse and then chased after him.
Horse fast yourself. It's a few steps away, and that's the time. You can use the trick of sneak attack to kill the assassin king on the battlefield.
The happiness in my heart cannot be expressed in words.
After only a few steps, three words flashed in Xu Ji's heart: dragging the knife meter. Immediately solemn and immediate.
Xu Ji secretly scolded himself in his heart, it was really careless. Guan Yu would not have a trick to prevent assassination. put away the silver gun and looked at the side that had come to Liu Bei. Guan Yu, who was about to hide in the belly of the horse and prepare to get Liu Bei up from the ground, shot a bow and arrows like lightning.
The eagle arrow carried a cold glow, like lightning rushing straight to the heart of Guan Yu's back!
"Bang --!" A bang. Just when the eagle arrow was about to shoot on Guan Yu's back, the tip of a huge spear was extremely accurate between Guan Yu and the eagle arrow.
The eagle arrow was shattered by the spear. The person who came was Zhang Fei.
This seems to be the overlord in the world, the peerless tiger general stared at Xu Ji with red eyes at this time, as if he was about to swallow Xu Ji, and said to Guan Yu without looking back: "After I come to break it, I will not kill this thief and swear not to return it!" ”
At this time, Guan Yu had already calmed down and shouted to Zhang Fei: "Big brother, let us retreat, Yide can't mess around!" ”
Zhang Fei licked his lips and said, "I know." If I can't kill Xu Ji within ten moves, I will retreat. After saying that, he shouted, like thunder on the ground, and the eight snake spear spears in his hands attacked Xu Ji like the Yangtze River.
Xu Ji was taken aback when he saw that it was Zhang Fei. Turning his head to look at Li Yan and Wei Yan, he saw that Li Yan was immediately speared in the chaos, his eyes were wide with anger, and the corners of his mouth were bloody, staring at Zhang Fei, but he couldn't move a step, while Wei Yan was already kneeling under the horse. The long knife in his hand was on the ground, and there was a pool of blood in front of him.
I didn't expect Zhang Fei to be so heroic. With the martial arts of Li Yan and Wei Yan, they can't fight both! But Zhang Fei would not leave the injured two alone, and went straight here. It seems that Liu Bei also saw it when he was injured, so he was aroused to be ferocious. will be furious and make a move to injure two people, maybe it is a shock. Zhang Fei's strength is too great.
In the blink of an eye, the Zhangba snake spear was already in front of him. Xu Ji's strong self-attack at this time was the time when his qi and blood were surging, but he knew that at this moment, his momentum must not be weakened. So he smiled slightly, and once again forcibly lifted a mouthful of strength with a fishy sweet taste. Then the silver spear in his hand flickered, and a little silver light burst out. Yi Ran was not afraid, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Liu Bei is dead, Liu Bei is dead!" ”
After years of fighting, Xu Ji has become more and more calm, and will never abandon major matters in order to compete with others, even if he wants to fight in person, it is mostly for the sake of the war situation, Xu Ji's initial martial arts practice is just to prevent someone from assassinating himself again in the future, but he did not expect that he could not avoid going to the battlefield in person to fight for his life in the end. But at this time, Xu Ji didn't have time to repent.
Although Xu Ji also understood that Liu Bei was not the only leader among the enemies, he was quite influential. And at this time, the quick battle is the first, Xu Ji will definitely not be able to support the heavy hand of the angry Zhang Fei.
What's more, the army led by Zhang Ren must have regarded Liu Bei as the master. And Zhang Lu's army and Liu Bei's army have been running in for so long, and they should also know how powerful Liu Bei is.
Although the arrow he had just now was nine out of ten, Liu Bei dodged after all, and he didn't know if he wanted Liu Bei's life, but it didn't matter, now that Liu Bei fell, he shouted like this, the enemy would be in chaos, and even Ma Tengjun would be implicated and unable to gain a foothold and retreat. Sure enough, when Xu Ji and Zhang Fei were quite virtuous, it was the trained and virtuous phantoms who immediately began to shout in every corner of the battlefield: "Liu Bei is dead, Liu Bei is dead!" ”
Zhang Rendi's army and Zhang Lu's army looked around in panic, and finally found that Guan Yu was holding a person in his arms, it was Liu Bei, who was in chaos, and shouted together: "Liu Bei is dead, Liu Bei is dead!" ”
It was already a little unable to resist Xu Ji's army, so it became even more chaotic. Many soldiers began to throw down their swords and guns and fled in all directions, and the pressure on Xu Ji's army suddenly lightened, and began to chase the enemy behind.
At this time, the Phantom showed superior qualities, and they shot the cavalry one after another, then turned on their horses, and began to wreak havoc on the enemy's horses.
The purpose of the Phantom is simple: to disrupt the enemy.
Ma Chao, who was fighting with Dian Wei, immediately felt that something was wrong, gritted his teeth and roared, and smashed Dian Wei's double halberd with a silver gun, and his strength was unprecedentedly strong. Dian Wei screamed: "Good come! He was about to wait for Ma Chao's next attack, although he knew that Ma Chao would leave and go straight to his father, who was fighting Zhang Liao
Dian Wei integrated Ma Chao to fight to a hearty place, where was Ma Chao willing to leave so easily? In the back, he screamed again and again: "Ma Chao." You wait for me! ”
Helplessly, the horse walked ahead of the foot, and there were many Xiliang cavalry behind who rushed up desperately. Dian Wei was furious. Furious, the iron halberd in his hand flashed with cold light. actually used it as a machete, killing people like hemp for a while, and the heads of the earth flew into the sky. One by one, the headless corpses sat on their horses, turned into human fountains, and then fell under the horses.
Ma Chao couldn't care so much at this time, and when he came to his father's side, a flash of light flashed in his eyes. With a silver spear, Zhang Liao was forced to retreat, and said anxiously to Ma Teng: "Father, what should I do?" ”
Zhang Liao didn't care so much, and saw Ma Chao with his back to him. Although he knows that he is not the opponent of this person, how can he not use such a good opportunity? Therefore, without saying a word, a shot stabbed Ma Chao in the back. Ma Chaowei flicked the horse over, and pushed the silver spear in his hand outward, pushing away the spear that Zhang Liao had stabbed. While talking to his father, he fought against Zhang Liao. But the silver spear in his hand is still wonderful.
Ma Teng had already been panted by Zhang Liao, and said to Ma Chao: "I'll stop this thief, I'll ask Mr. Pang Tong." Then he turned his horse and left.
Ma Chao nodded yes, turned his head and glared at Zhang Liao angrily and shouted: "Zhang Liao'er, I was killed by me in Shenling for a while, and I lost my armor. Now you dare to get an axe in front of my Ma Chao, watch me take your life today! Look at the guns! Zhang Liao reluctantly blocked Ma Chao's shot, and his heart was bored.
Zhang Liao attaches the most importance to reality, and his concept of war is almost the same as that of Gao Shun, who is thousands of miles away. The success or failure of personal honor and disgrace is simply insignificant. Victory in a war is what counts. So in the face of Ma Chao's questioning, Zhang Liao didn't care about it at all, and said sarcastically: "It's ridiculous! If you use a gun, don't you allow others to use a gun? If so, when you confront my lord and General Chen. How about throwing a gun and admitting defeat? ”
Zhang Liao's words are intended to show that Ma Chao's marksmanship is not as good as Erer, and there is a certain gap between Xu Ji and Chen Zhi. To provoke Ma Chao, of course. In fact, Xu Ji's eyesight and realm have arrived, but his strength is not enough to support him and a military general of Ma Chao's level to fight for a long time, but no one present knows this. And Ma Chao was furious when he heard this, and shouted: "The skills are not as good as people, why bother to speak quickly!" And at this time, the silver spear in his hand stepped up the attack. I can't wait to stab Zhang Liao under the horse with one shot.
Zhang Liao took a shot, and said sarcastically while firing back: "Although Your Excellency's marksmanship is wonderful, it is difficult to block the mouth of the people of the world, and it is even more difficult to block the marksmanship of my lord!"
Ma Chao was so angry that he almost fell off the horse, knowing that he couldn't tell the other party in his tongue, he simply gritted his steel teeth, and a shot in his hand turned into a heavy snow that swept towards Zhang Liao. Zhang Liaodeng felt difficulty breathing. However, Zhang Liao is not weak. Of course, he will not give in, so he will concentrate and fight back.
Ma Teng came to Pang Tong's side at this time and gasped: "Mr. Pang Tong, what should I do?" ”
Pang Tong was extremely calm, although he saw Liu Bei fall off the horse, he was not panicked at all, he was overjoyed to see Ma Teng coming back, and said to Ma Teng: "General Ma Teng, I'm waiting for you to come back!" I don't expect Xuande Gong to be dead yet, otherwise Guan Yunchang would be kneeling under the horse and crying bitterly, but Xuande Gong is only afraid that he will be seriously injured at this time, which will have a great impact on General Zhang Ren and General Zhang Lu. Ma Teng was convinced by Pang Tong's remarks, and said respectfully: "Ma Teng knows, Mr. is reasonable, then, will the plan be released?"
Pang Tong sneered slightly: "General Ma Teng might as well make all the soldiers in the audience shout: 'Ma Teng is here, Xu Ji Xiao'er is rampant!'" That's it. ”
Ma Teng was slightly stunned, and immediately understood Pang Tong's intentions, so he rode away.
At this time, Guan Yu had already come to Pang Tong's side, and his phoenix eyes were already blood-red, and he choked up on Pang Tong: "Sir? Pang Tong wanted Guan Yu to miss the horse's position, took Liu Bei's hands, looked at Liu Bei's wounds carefully, and said with a sigh of relief: "It's so dangerous!" Fortunately, the lord's chain gold armor has excellent defense. Otherwise, it will be dangerous now, Brother Yun rest assured, Pang Tong is also a person who is proficient in medical skills, and he dares to guarantee with his head, the lord is just stunned by the strength of the arrow, although the injury is serious, but there is no danger to life. ”
Guan Yu calmed down a little.
At this time, someone had already carefully picked Liu Bei up from Guan Yu's arms. Guan Yu knew that his brother was no longer in trouble, so he looked at Xu Ji, who was fighting with Zhang Fei, and said hatefully: "Xu Ji, I will kill you today!" ”
Pang Tong said: "Brother Yun, no! The so-called 'gentleman's revenge.' Ten years is not too late', and you must not spoil the great affairs of the lord because of the anger of the moment. Now the battle situation is not favorable to our army, Yun Chang should be self-respecting! ”
Pang Tong's words woke Guan Yu up. Su Rong should be, Pang Tong said coldly: "Senior Brother Yun should go back to our army's camp at this time and order another army to come out, so as to stabilize the situation." ”
Guan Yu nodded and left in response. Pang Tong looked at Xu Ji, nodded and sighed: "Xu Ji, Jia Xu, you really live up to your reputation, this time it is my Pang Tong's carelessness." Next time, I will never let you go! Hum! ”
At this time, Ma Teng had already ordered his subordinates to shout in accordance with Pang Tong's strategy: "Ma Teng is here, Xu Ji Xiao'er is rampant" and immediately received miraculous results. Calmed down the chaotic scene a little. But it's still not good for them. The scales of victory were already on Xu Ji's side.
Not long after, Guan Yu led a new force to come, and relieved a lot of pressure. At the same time, on the other side of the Weishui River, another army came in, and there was a big "Pang" written on it, which was Pound's army.
It turned out that Pang De was ordered by Pang Tong, and once the army was withdrawn, he hurriedly returned to the Ma Chaoda battalion, the purpose was of course to enhance his own attack power, but unexpectedly, he encountered Liu Bei's side defeated and wanted to retreat.
So the three parties saved together. It was only then that Liu Bei's side stabilized. Xu Ji saw that he couldn't take much advantage of the attack. He waved his hand. Command the generals not to pursue any further.
The two sides each withdrew their troops and slowly retreated.
Zhang Fei was unwilling, but the military order was difficult to disobey, so he could only throw a few spears at Xu Ji as if he was venting. It can be regarded as symbolically alleviating the hatred for Xu Ji in his heart.
Xu Ji also knew that he couldn't help Zhang Fei in a short time, and at this time, he was close to running out of oil, and his mouth was full of fishy sweetness. If it weren't for the fact that he might vomit blood before the battle, Xu Ji knew that this was obviously a sign of extremely serious internal injuries. If you really want to fight, I'm afraid that before Zhang Fei can make a move, he will already die. So he waved his silver spear and covered the army and left. Yes. Both sides committed nearly 50,000 troops, and each suffered casualties in the melee. Although Xu Ji's side took a big advantage, the number of dead reached more than 2,000, and the injured were more than 4,000, not including the lightly injured. Even the shadow that Xu Ji is proud of, there are hundreds of injured people, but fortunately, the number of deaths is not very large, otherwise Xu Ji will be in pain.
But the biggest trouble is that after this battle, Xu Ji returned to the camp and was sick in bed, in this battle he took turns to fight Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and several times self-inflicted himself in order to compete with these two, but in the end, although he barely blocked it, he also ended up with an internal injury. Fortunately, Chen's marksmanship means "water", and his luck naturally contains the meaning of "endless, endless" flowing water, so although he is seriously injured, he is not unable to control, and he can get up and act after just one night, which is why Xu Ji dares to take such a risk. But Xu Ji secretly made up his mind in his heart, if there is such a thing in the future, he will never go into battle in person to find someone who is uncomfortable, and now Xu Ji's reputation is not small, and such a move is not a shame, after all, as the lord, he should naturally have the appearance of the lord.
Of course, the price of the other party is not small, Liu Bei's life and death are uncertain, and Zhang Lu's generals are all injured. Xu Ji's side is stronger except for himself. But Li Yan was shocked by Zhang Fei and burst into the tiger's mouth, and he was slightly injured, fortunately he had a wonderful marksmanship to protect himself, unlike Wei Yan, his martial arts are characterized by hard encounters, so he suffered a big loss under Zhang Fei and fell unconscious. The high fever did not go away, and it was obvious that he had very serious internal injuries. Xu Ji was a little saddened.
However, what satisfied Xu Ji was that he had effectively stopped Pang Tong's ambition to attack Chang'an, and if Jia Xu expected it, the army in front of him would soon retreat.
Sure enough, that night, a plain silk was hung in the camp opposite, and the whole army was plain, announcing that Liu Bei was dead. Of course, Xu Ji and Jia Xu would not be fooled, and unanimously decided that the assassination was Pang Tong's plan to lure the enemy into going deeper, and he must have wanted to trick himself into robbing the camp at night.
However, Xu Ji would not be cheap Pang Tong, he sent three thousand phantoms to use the Divine Arm Bow and rockets to projectile them outside the opponent's camp, and threw fire in the surrounding dense forest, and immediately burned an ambush. It caused a great chaos in Liu Bei's camp, and when Pang Tong sent the Xiliang cavalry out of the camp to shoot at the shadows, the three thousand shadows turned around and left, not fighting with them. The leader of the other side hated the arrogance of the shadows, and pursued them in the rear, but before they could run far, they were in turn ambushed by the shadows of another thousand people who were lying in ambush on both sides of the road.
Of course, Pang Tong would not give up so well, after the defeat of this Xiliang cavalry team, Pang Tong immediately ordered Ma Chao to lead a group of up to 3,000 Xiliang cavalry to attack Xu Ji's camp at night, hoping to take advantage of the paralyzing psychology that Xu Ji might have from a small victory. Jia Xu had already expected this step, and ordered Dian Wei to lead a cavalry to block the attack soon after the shadow retreated. Ma Chao saw that the other party had already taken precautions, and saw that the opponent was Dian Wei, so he had no intention of fighting, and the leader withdrew.
After tossing like this all night, Pang Tong suffered another dark loss.
Subsequently, after Pang Tong learned the exact news of Chang'an, he led the army to retreat on all fronts and retreated to Hanzhong. As for Liu Bei's life and death, there is no follow-up. But it seems that he survived, which makes Xu Ji cry out a pity.
Ma Teng and Han Sui naturally retreated.
Li Dao Guo Yan was lonely and could not speak, and heard that the Xu Wei Department of the Yanzhou Army sent troops to attack Qinchuan, and got the news that the imperial court intended to recall Lu Bu and entrusted him with a heavy task to recruit himself, knowing that Lu Bu was in the north and could attack Anding and Shicheng at any time, where would he dare to fight here?
Leave part of the army to defend Hanxing, and then retreat on all fronts. Xu Ji took advantage of the victory to pursue, and after a small contact battle, Yicheng and Shen Ling returned to Xu Ji's hands again.
This is an expected result, after all, the first task of Pang Tong and Zhang Ren is to deal with Liu Yan. Fighting with Xu Ji now will not do him any good, as long as he guards Hanzhong and blocks Xu Ji.
Xu Ji knew that for a long time, there would be no war here, but Xu Ji didn't want Liu Bei and the others to be so comfortable. However, in front of him, the siege of Chang'an was immediately resolved.
Liu Bei doesn't want to fight, why does he want to fight? It is only right to spare energy to eradicate dissident forces in the court. It's a win-win.
As for dealing with Liu Bei, intrigue and intrigue are indispensable.
After the news reached Chang'an, the entire imperial court immediately burst into joy, and Xu Ji's prestige increased sharply. Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu are even regarded as heroes who protect the country. When Xu Ji led the army back to Chang'an, the gate of Chang'an City was wide open, Liu Xie led the civil and military officials out of the city to greet him, Xu Ji and others dismounted to greet him, and when he landed outside Chang'an City, he knelt down and shouted long live.
Liu Xie, every meritorious servant, personally helped him up, and even Wei Yan, who had just woken up and was lying on the Yanzhou carriage to recuperate, received extremely grand condolences.
Especially for Xu Ji, Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu, they are very affectionate. Looking at Liu Xie's intimate attitude towards Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu, Xu Ji was wonderful.
When he was watching Liu Xie's excellent performance, Yu Ban came to Xu Ji's side and whispered to Xu Ji: "Lord, a guest has come to Chang'an." ”
Xu Ji looked at Yu Ban and said in his heart: Guest? Could it be Xun Yu?
No, how could it be so fast? Guest? So who could it be? (To be continued......)