Less than thirty miles away from Luocheng, Zhang Fei rode his horse to Liu Bei and said: "Big brother, Tan Ma Lai reported, Yizhou General Zhang Ren led 20,000 troops into Luocheng, blocking the return of our army. ”

Liu Bei groaned slightly, sat on the back of the horse and shouted, "Bring the map." Chen Dao, the commander of the Bai Yu elite soldiers who was responsible for Liu Bei's safety, immediately took out a pile of folded silk cloth from his arms, and then beckoned to call over two Bai Yu elite soldiers, spread out the map on their backs, and presented it in front of Liu Bei's eyes.

This map was secretly given to Liu Bei by Zhang Song, called "Topographic Map of Xishu", which recorded the topographical distribution and troop deployment of various counties and counties in Yizhou. After looking at the map in front of him for a while, Liu Bei suddenly turned his head and said to Pang Tong: "Military Division, there are two roads to Luocheng, one is a big road, the road is smooth, presumably Zhang Ren has already set up an ambush here; The other is the trail, which is rugged but so hidden that few locals have walked it. The meaning of preparation, please take the small road to lead the troops, prepare on the road to attract Zhang Ren's attention, I don't know what the military adviser wants? ”

Pang Tong looked at Liu Bei, his heart was quite moved, and he said to Liu Bei: "As the lord said, there are many dangers on the road, and the lord should not take the danger lightly, so let Tong take the road." ”

Liu Bei patted Pang Tong on the back, and said with emotion: "The wisdom of the military division is better than that of the heavenly people, if there is no military division, can Beiyan have today's achievements?" The city is the barrier of Chengdu, and if you capture the city, Chengdu will be broken soon, among them, the military division has made great contributions. The military division is the confidant of Bei, the Jingzhou army can do without Liu Bei, but it must not be without the military division, and I hope that the military division is sympathetic to the Jingzhou soldiers, please take the path. With that, Liu Bei turned over and dismounted, handed the reins of Lu Baobao, who was sitting down, forward, and continued: "The path is difficult. The horse that was prepared went over the mountains and mountains like walking on flat ground, and asked the military advisor to change horses. ”

Pang Tong hurriedly turned over and fell off his horse, and hurriedly said: "The lord is on the main road to conquer, how can he not have this Lu horse?" Tong never dared to accept the gift of the lord. Liu Bei shook his head and said with a benevolent face: "The military advisor is the backbone of the Jingzhou army, if the military advisor makes a mistake, he will never go back to Jingzhou to see the people under his rule." The military advisor doesn't need to say much, please change horses. ”

Pang Tong couldn't twist Liu Bei, so he had to agree to Lu who transferred. After that, Liu Bei took off the golden armor on his body again. Personally draped it on Pang Tong's body, helped Pang Tong put on his clothes and armor neatly, and then personally helped Pang Tong to climb on the back of Lu's horse. Liu Bei's series of actions made Pang Tong grateful, almost shed tears, choked up and said to Liu Bei: "Thank you for the lord for giving the horse and the armor, the lord will definitely live up to the high expectations of the lord, please take your time on the road, and you don't have to fight with Zhang Ren." Just attract its attention, and you will definitely take the city and repay the great favor of the lord! ”

Seeing the back of Pang Tongtong's pedestrians gradually moving away, the benevolence on Liu Bei's face slowly disappeared. Instead, there is endless insidiousness, and this insidiousness is not completely presented on Liu Bei's face. And it was fleeting again. "Zizhong, send someone to Ruocheng to leak the news to Zhang Ren, and say that this mansion will surprise the city from the small road." Liu Bei whispered to Mi Zhu beside him.

At first, Mi Zhu thought he hadn't heard clearly. He looked at Liu Bei incredulously, trying to make sure if he had heard it wrong. Unexpectedly, in the gentleness on Liu Bei's face, there was a hint of murderous intent, and he repeated what he had just said. Mi Zhu was sure that he had heard correctly, and hurriedly turned around to arrange manpower. It wasn't until Mi Zhu finished doing what Liu Bei ordered that he suddenly understood in his heart that the "bitter meat" of this bitter meat trick turned out to be the initiator Pang Tong!

When Mi Zhu returned to Liu Bei's side, Zhang Fei was asking Liu Bei the question in his heart: "Big brother, if you reveal the news to Zhang Ren, won't that make the military advisor very dangerous?" Liu Bei glanced at the direction in which Pang Tong disappeared with a slightly regretful gaze, sighed, and replied: "Third brother, this is politics, and politics is the most ruthless and cruel thing in this world. You won't understand. ”

Listening to the questions and answers between Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, Mi Zhu suddenly found that Liu Bei's approach did not seem to be as simple as using Pang Tong to implement the bitter meat plan, which must involve a lot of secrets. But Mi Zhu didn't ask much, he knew the Tao, some things, or the less he knew the Tao, the better, so that he could live longer.

Pushing a talent like Pang Tong out of the way to implement the bitter meat plan, Liu Bei actually has his own ideas. First, Pang Tong's status in the Jingzhou army is second only to Liu Bei, it can be said that he is the second person in the Jingzhou army, such a heavyweight is killed by the Sichuan army in an unknown way, Liu Bei will justifiably accuse Liu Zhang of treachery, and then wave his troops to crusade against Yizhou. Second, Pang Tong has already helped Liu Bei plan the overall situation, as long as he can successfully take Luocheng, Yizhou will be equivalent to falling into Liu Bei's hands, plus Jingzhou in the south, Liu Bei's wings have been completed, and he no longer needs Pang Tong's assistance. Third, Luocheng is the key to this battle, and a series of strategies formulated by Pang Tong before have begun to play a role, only the last step is missing, Liu Bei wants Pang Tong to help him attract Zhang Ren's firepower while acting as a bitter strategy, and then take Luocheng in one fell swoop. The last point, and the most important point, Liu Bei is a complete hypocrite, on the surface benevolent and moral, but in fact he is cunning and insidious, Pang Tong is very familiar with Liu Bei, every decision Liu Bei makes, there is Pang Tong's plan in it, in order to prevent his true image of a hypocrite from leaking out, Liu Bei had to let Pang Tong become a dead man.

Not long ago, Lu Baoma and Jin Jia, who were given to Pang Tong, and personally helped Pang Tong to get on the horse, and other intimate actions were deliberately made by Liu Bei, in order to confuse Pang Tong, so that Pang Tong's smart brain was immersed in gratitude, and the temporary short circuit was willingly for Liu Bei to die. Of course, Liu Bei's mood at the moment is also complicated, without Pang Tong's help, he will never have today's achievements, after taking Yizhou, there are still a lot of wars behind, Liu Bei is actually reluctant to Pang Tong, just treated Pang Tong's intimacy, most of it is from the heart, but who made Liu Bei an unborn hero? Reluctant to let the child catch the wolf, give up a Pang Tong, in exchange for a large number of Yizhou talents, Liu Bei thinks that this deal is still very cost-effective. So, Liu Bei resolutely decided to sacrifice Pang Tong to achieve his imperial dream.

In the city, Zhang Ren soon received the news deliberately distributed by Mi Zhu, and said in shock: "The road west of the city, even most of the locals don't know the road, how did Liu Bei know the way?" If Liu Bei is really allowed to copy the small road and get close to the city, our army's defense line on the main road will be useless! Buds. Quickly go and inform Lei Tong, take back seventy percent of the sergeants who are deployed on the main road, and go to the small road with a certain person to deploy defenses! ”

Under Zhang Ren's order, or under Pang Tong's strategy, or under Liu Bei's insidiousness, Lei Tong, who was deployed on the main road outside Luocheng, quickly gathered seventy percent of his troops, and then rushed back to Luocheng, and then under the leadership of Zhang Ren, they rushed to the small road to set up an ambush.

Zhang Ren and the others had just laid an ambush in a place called Luofengpo on the path, and the spies in front came to report. It is said that a large group of Jingzhou troops are marching along the path in the direction of Yucheng, and the leader is wearing gold armor and riding a white high-headed horse, which is extremely powerful.

Zhang Ren, Lei Tong, and Ling Bao glanced at each other, and said in a low voice: "This person must be Liu Bei without a doubt." Later, when they enter the ambush circle, we don't have to go down the mountain to fight them, just shoot them with bows and arrows! Ling Bao and Lei Tong nodded, and then dispersed, conveying Zhang Ren's order step by step.

Soon. A group of people appeared on the path, and the leader was just as the spy described, with white horses and golden armor, and Liu Bei's outfit was the same. However, because of the distance, Zhang Ren and others, who were hiding halfway up the mountain on both sides of Luofeng Slope, could not see the faces of the people who came, causing Zhang Ren and others to mistakenly take Pang Tong for Liu Bei.

Pang Tong rode on the Lu horse. With 5,000 Jingzhou troops, he quickly marched along the path, and soon came to the ambush circle of Zhang Ren and others. A sergeant pointed to a stone tablet not far away and said to Pang Tong: "Commander, look. There is a stone monument there. When Pang Tong heard this, he looked in the direction pointed by the sergeant and saw an ancient stone tablet engraved with three eye-catching characters: Luofengpo!

Seeing these three words, Pang Tong's heart suddenly sank, and an ominous feeling hit his heart. Pang Tong's road name is Feng Xiao, but here it is Luofeng Slope, which is obviously a sign of bad luck. Furious, Pang Tong hurriedly turned his head to observe the surrounding terrain, only to see that the mountains on both sides of Luofeng Slope are dangerous, the trees are mixed, and now it is the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, the branches and leaves are very lush, it is very easy to hide soldiers, even if there are 20,000 people hidden on the mountain, there are no signs of trees from the appearance. Previously, Pang Tongyi was immersed in gratitude to Liu Bei, and he didn't carefully observe the surrounding terrain, resulting in such a dangerous place easily!

"Retreat! Hurry back! Pang Tong hurriedly grabbed Lu's reins and beckoned the five thousand soldiers behind him to retreat. However, Pang Tong's shout was already late, and just when Pang Tong ordered to retreat, Zhang Ren, who was hiding on the mountain, gave the order to shoot at the same time. More than 20,000 arrows and crossbows broke through the air, completely covering the already narrow path under the rain of arrows. The 5,000 Jingzhou troops could not move at all due to the narrow terrain, and in crowded places, they could not even raise their shields in crowded places, so they could only watch as those deadly arrows fell overhead, ruthlessly taking away the lives of themselves and their companions.

Pang Tong's side, more than a dozen guards immediately surrounded Pang Tong, raised their shields to shield him from the arrow rain, but the arrow rain was too dense, only ten breaths of time, the guards around Pang Tong were shot, exposing Pang Tong's figure, and then, a large number of arrows shot down towards Pang Tong's head, Pang Tong was hit by more than ten arrows, and Lu Ma, who was sitting down, was also shot into a hedgehog, and a man and a horse fell weakly in a pool of blood. Fortunately, Pang Tong's body was wearing Liu Bei's golden armor, this armor was extremely strong, and the rain of arrows that broke through the air had lost its strength after shooting through the armor, and most of them were barely pierced into Pang Tong's body less than an inch, and only three arrows were deeply pierced into Pang Tong's left shoulder, lower abdomen and thigh, even so, if Pang Tong was not treated in time, he would still die due to excessive blood loss.

At the moment of crisis, a tiger roar cut off the rain of arrows of the Sichuan army, making most of the Sichuan army feel confused: "Stop!" You have all fallen for Liu Bei's tricks, that guy has already led the army to Luocheng, and the Jingzhou army in front of you is just an abandoned son thrown by Liu Bei! ”

With this tiger roar, Dian Wei's majestic figure appeared at the foot of the mountain on the other side of Luofeng Slope, and after crossing the mountains and mountains like a child, Dian Wei finally arrived with five thousand tiger wrestlers, but he was still a step too late and failed to stop Liu Bei's conspiracy. Dian Wei carried the Splitting Halberd, and while walking towards the path, he asked Hua Tuo beside him in a low voice: "Mr. Yuanhua, if Mr. Wenhe handed it to me, I didn't shout wrong just now, right?" Hua Tuo smiled and praised: "General Dian's memory is amazing, such a complicated sentence, he actually remembers it word for word!" ”

Dian Wei's thick nerves made him not understand the meaning of Hua Tuo's words at all, as long as he didn't shout wrong, and the other Dian Wei didn't bother to pay attention to it at all. Raising the Splitting Halberd on his shoulder, Dian Wei roared again: "I am Dian Wei, the general of the eight good generals under the command of King Yan, have you all heard what I said just now?" ”

Halfway up the mountain, Zhang Ren stood up and shouted at Dian Wei and asked, "Why do you believe your words?" Why believe Ao Lie's words? This is the land of Yizhou, not the six northern states! ”

At this moment, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came, and a wounded Sichuan army Pegasus came, and while galloping on his horse, he shouted loudly: "General Zhang, we have been tricked!" Liu Bei has already attacked the city, General Liu Bi, has been killed......" After saying a word, the Sichuan army suddenly fell off the horse, obviously because of the injury and galloping on the horse, he had exhausted all his life.

The shouting of this Sichuan army was like a thunderbolt that shocked Zhang Ren and the others for a long time. Pang Tong, who fell to the ground with an arrow, also woke up at this moment, it turned out that he was sold by Liu Bei, Liu Bei used himself as a gunman to attract Zhang Ren's attention, but he himself took the opportunity to seize the city, at this moment, Pang Tong completely understood Liu Bei's intentions, Liu Bei wanted to keep his mouth shut forever, so as not to shake off his unsightly things.

Suddenly, Pang Tong felt that his heart hurt so much, even more painful than the dozen arrow wounds on his body! He tried his best to give advice to Liu Bei, but in the end, he ended up like this. Pang Tong's eyes gradually began to dilate, and the characteristics of life were gradually leaving his body, or rather, his heart was dead, and he murmured in his mouth: "The birds are all gone, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, the lackeys are cooking, the lord, Liu Bei!" You...... What a ruthless ......."

Just when Pang Tong was desperate to close his eyes, Hua Tuo, who had a kind face, appeared in Pang Tong's sight and said softly to Pang Tong: "Young man, don't despair, your life is your own, and no one has the right to take it away." You still have a long way to go, and you have more to shine on. (To be continued......)