Chapter 89, The Capture of *
Let's say that Wen Chou led the troops to force Zhang Pre back to their camp, and then retreated with the soldiers and horses. Halfway back, Wen Chou ordered the army to lay in ambush on both sides of the road, waiting for Zhang Yu to come again. The army obeyed the order, blindfolded the horse's mouth, wrapped the horse's hooves, and quietly ambushed the roadside.
Sure enough, before anything came to fruition, a team of people appeared in their eyes again, under the banner of Zhang Pre. Wen Chou ordered the soldiers to wait quietly and not to attack, and let Zhang Yu pass. This time, he listened to Song Huan's words and did not return to the camp, but directly attacked the enemy's camp. They are now in a state of taking the initiative to sneak attack, for their own camp, the guards must not be sensitive, at this time to rob the camp, they must never have imagined, it is bound to be done in one fell swoop.
Waiting for Zhang Yuan's army to pass, Wen Chou led the army quietly out and took Zhang Yuan's camp directly. When I came to the gate of the camp, I only saw a few guards guarding, and there was no army patrolling and guarding, and it was also quiet inside, with occasional lights, and I could see that there were not many soldiers guarding in poor spirits.
Wen Chou took the bow, took out the arrow, pulled the bow with the arrow, and with a whoosh, shot one of the guards to death, and when the other was about to call, Wen Chou shot him to death with another arrow, and the soldiers couldn't help but secretly praise Wen Chou's fast hand speed and accurate arrow.
Wen Chou didn't feel very embarrassed in his heart, in his opinion, killing such a guard was not a matter at all. Seeing that the guards were successfully shot, Wen Chou shouted loudly and ordered the army to rush and kill. The soldiers were ordered to enter Zhang Yuande's camp like a flood beast.
The army entered, quickly cut down a few guards, burned the camp tent with torches, shouted to the sky, and went in to fight. But when they entered the tent, they were astonished, and there was not a single soldier in it, and the whole tent was empty.
"Oh no, I've been tricked." Wen Chou secretly said that it was not good, and ordered the troops to withdraw quickly. But the army has not moved, suddenly heard a drum, the fire on all sides rushed to the sky, and there were flames inside and outside the camp, and below was the sound of Zhang Yuande's soldiers holding torches and shouting to kill.
Wen Chou was about to rush out, only to see a team of centaurs flash out on the left, the first general, it was * Zhang Yuan, and there was also a rush of killing on the right, killing a pair of centaurs, the first one, with a slightly pale face and a handsome appearance, it was Zhang Yuan's younger brother Zhang Yu.
Wen Chou was shocked and asked, "Why are you here?" Didn't you go and attack my barracks? ”
Zhang Zhen smiled and said, "General, you have been tricked." I didn't bring that pair of people with me, but I just asked people to go under the banner that I was hungry. We know that we will follow the strategy of the strategists, so we know that you will come to attack our military camp, and we have been waiting for a long time again. ”
Zhang Yuan also stepped forward at this moment, and said with a smile: "General Wen, you are now surrounded by us, and there is no way out, why don't you quickly dismount and surrender, and don't fight the trapped beast again." ”
Wen Chou said angrily: "What if I fall into your ambush, how can I, Wen Chou, be a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death." With that, he gave an order and asked the soldiers to rush and kill, and he went straight to Zhang Yuan. When Zhang Zhulu saw it, he wanted to quickly catch Wen Chou with his brother, but he was entangled by Wen Chou's two deputies and couldn't get out. Zhang Yuanyan only took Wen Chou from himself, and he was also vigorous and shot at Wen Chou. The two fought in the chaotic army, you come and go, no one falls behind, occasionally there are uninteresting soldiers to rush to kill, they are all easily cut down by people, for the two heads-up situation, the slightest effect on the situation.
Touch! The two shots faced each other, bursting with sparks. Zhang Yuan withdrew his gun, felt a tingle in the tiger's mouth, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This Wen Chou really deserves to be the first fierce general by Yuan Shao's side, and the two are so good." ”
Wen Chou naturally admired Zhang Yuan's strength, seeing that his physique was not as strong as his own, but he was really a good material when he played with a gun, which also stimulated his fighting spirit. The two fought with horses, and the battle was still undecided for hundreds of rounds.
The battle lasted until the sky was dark, and half of the 2,000 soldiers of Wen Chou's army were killed and half surrendered, and Wen Chou was also encircled and captured. When it was dawn, Wen Chou was pressed into Zhang Yuan's tent, and the rest of the soldiers were also waiting there. Seeing Wen Chou being brought in, there were serious expressions on his face.
Wen Chou came in, very disdainful of everyone, when he saw that Xu Tu was also there, he couldn't help but scold, saying that he was an undoubted person, thinking that the lord Yuan Shao treated him well, why did he defect to the enemy army like this, he was really an ungrateful person, he couldn't be killed, he was really dead.
Xu Tu smiled slightly: "It's not that I'm not benevolent, it's just that you don't need to let it go, and you're arrogant." If you had listened to me, why would you have ended up like this now? I'm afraid that we have already arrived in Liaoxi and have already captured Liaoxi. Even if it doesn't work, we won't fall into such a realm at this moment, at least we can't help General Zhang, and General Zhang can't help us. But it's ridiculous that you just didn't listen to my schemes, and now you blame me. ”
Wen Chou scolded: "An ungrateful and ignorant villain dares to speak so wildly. If you hadn't revealed the situation of my army, I wouldn't have ended up like this. If I don't accept it, I just don't accept it. ”
Zhang Yuanha smiled, stepped forward to help Wen Chou up, and said, "General Wen is really not convinced? ”
Wen Chou said angrily: "If it weren't for the ungrateful villain who told you about our situation, you wouldn't have tricked me like this, of course I'm not convinced." ”
Zhang Yuan nodded and said, "What you said makes sense, but you can't blame Mr. Xu, you can only blame you for using Song Huan's strategy without using his scheme, in other words, he caused you to fall into such a world." Okay, since you're not convinced, then I can let you go now, you can reorganize the army and horses to fight me again, as for whether you succeed or fail at that time, you can't blame Mr. Xu, is it feasible? If not, I'll have you pushed you out and beheaded right now. I think the general is brave and died like this, it's a pity, I, Zhang Yuan, am a military general, and the general is a person all the way, and I am naturally reluctant to give up, and the man meets an opponent like you. Now I'll let you go, and you can leave. "Talking about loosening the ties for Wen Chou.
Wen Chou shook off the rope on his body and asked, "You really let me go?" ”
Zhang Yuan nodded, signaling that he could leave at any time, of course, if he wanted to sit down and drink a glass of water or something, he could do so. Wen Chou snorted and said, "Thank you for your kindness." But even if you let me go today, I won't be grateful to you in my heart, it's not that you defeated me, but that I was framed by my own people, and when we meet on the battlefield in the future, I won't show mercy because you let me go today. If you are afraid, you can kill me now, or you will regret it later. ”
Hearing Wen Chou speak like this, the generals present were all indignant, even if he was not grateful, he still spoke wildly, everyone wanted to be angry, but was stopped by Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan said: "I know that General Lu Dao is not convinced." That's right, this time I used Mr. Xu's strategy to catch you, but next time, you don't care whose skills I use, once I meet you, I will try my best to fight, and my subordinates will not show any mercy. ”
Wen Chou snorted and said, "That's fine." After speaking, he flicked his sleeves, looked at Xu Tu fiercely, cursed a few words, and turned around and walked towards the door.
Zhang Yuan shouted: "General and slow? ”
Wen Choutou didn't reply and asked, "What?" Regretted it? Then you can arrest me, if I frown or beg you for mercy, I am not a good man. ”
Zhang Yuandao: "I know that General Lu Dao will not frown, but I just want to tell you that your weapon is still with me, and I want you to bring it, of course, if you want to leave these broken copper and iron, we can also help you deal with it." ”
Hearing Zhang Yuan say that his weapon was actually broken copper and iron, he was very angry in his heart, and turned around and said fiercely: "I will use this broken copper and iron to take off your head one day." ”
Zhang Yuan smiled and said nothing, and ordered someone to exchange Wen Chou's things for him. Wen Chou took it, snorted and walked out of the city, not far, Zhang Yuan stopped him again, and before Wen Chou was angry, Zhang Yuan told him that he wanted to return his mount, and as for his immortal soldiers, he couldn't let him take them.
Wen Chou stepped on his horse and said, "I hope you don't kill my soldiers, I will rescue them one day." ”
Zhang Yuan said: "We will treat them well." General, you just go back and try to think about how you can defeat our army, if you can't, then take the army back to your Jizhou, don't come again, remember, I won't let you go next time. ”
Wen Chou snorted and said that he would not let go of Brother Zhang Yuan, and specially told Xu Tu to take care of his health, because he must take his head with his own hands. Xu Tu smiled and replied: "I will take good care of my head and wait for the general to take it, but the general must also protect himself before taking my head, and don't take my head before I am in a different place." ”
Wen Chou scolded a few more words, and then he clamped his legs and rode away.
After Wen Chou left, Xu Tu said quietly: "Wen Chou will go back this time, Song Huan will die." Pity Song Huan, he was a good plan, but he died because of me, and I really felt a little guilty about him. I also have some friendship with him, and it's really unbearable to watch him die like this. ”
Zhang Yuan comforted: "I don't kill Boren but Boren dies because of me, I will feel guilty for such a thing." However, in this troubled world, no one can say for sure their own life, especially following a good lord, this is the most important thing. Whether Song Huan dies or not, it depends on his life, and we can't change anything. ”
Xu Tu nodded, but he still couldn't help but sigh, hoping that Song Huan could see through Wen Chou's violence and leave early. However, Song Huan is foolish and loyal, and he will not leave, and now that Wen Chou is defeated, he naturally blames Song Huan for not working, and if he doesn't kill him, I'm afraid that it will be difficult to calm the hatred in his heart, and Song Huan's death is nine times out of ten.
Let's say that Wen Chou rode back, and met an army on the way, and it was really Song Huan and other lieutenants who came with the army. They knew that Wen Chou had not returned overnight, and later the spies reported that Wen Chou and his subordinates were not caught. That's why Song Huan led the army to save Wen Chou.
Now that they met on the way, Song Huan asked, "General, weren't you arrested?" ”
Wen Chou said: "That's right, I was arrested, but I'm back." ”
Song Huan said excitedly: "The general is brave, he can escape from the enemy, the general is safe, right?" ”
Wen Chou snorted: "You naturally hope that I am sick, right? But I'm really fine. Ignoring the black line on Song Huan's face, he slowly returned to the camp with the army. Song Huan was stunned in the distance, and followed the back of the troops for a long time. He has a hometown, seeing Wen Chou's face displeased, and he is so angry with Song Huan, he feels wrong in his heart, with his understanding of Wen Chou, this time Wen Chou loses the battle, and some people will definitely be held responsible, and the mastermind of this attack is Song Huan, I am afraid that Wen Chou will blame him. So he said to Song Huan:
"Look at the general's face, very displeased. We don't know how he came back, but his heart was full of anger. I see that he has a special hatred for you, and has already pressed his hand to the sword at his waist many times when he has spoken to you. I think you'd better leave quietly, or the terror general will be against you. ”
Song Huan said: "I have followed the lord for many years, and I have worked with General Wen for a long time, they will definitely not do anything to me." It's normal for him to be in a bad mood when he loses the battle, so why are you suspicious? ”
The man said: "Ask the general's temperament, you also know that he has no mercy for the people under his account, and he will kill when he says to kill, I think that when he just worshiped the general, there were several times when he sent troops unfavorably, he killed a lot of strategists and good generals, and even the lord blamed him that time, but he was still the same later, once he lost the battle, he would kill people to vent his anger and put the responsibility on the heads of others." This time he failed, and he will not stop there, he will definitely kill people to vent his anger. And you are the strategist of this sortie, you must be the first to bear the brunt, you better leave. ”
Song Huan said with a smile: "Brother is too worried, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and I also know that when I asked the general about killing, it was indeed someone who fornicated with foreign enemies to cause him to be killed." I asked myself if I was innocent, why did he kill me? ”
"There is no excuse for the crime you want to add, besides, you have some friendship with Xu Tu, and he is now in the local camp, you say that the general does not suspect who you suspect? And you also saw his attitude towards you just now, you better leave quickly, you have to stay and die in vain. ”
Song Huan didn't listen, and taught his fellow villagers a lesson, saying that he was indiscriminately doubting his generals, which was a big mistake, as people in the same camp, they should understand each other and help each other, instead of suspecting that this was wrong in their hearts and that they might rebel. When his fellow villagers heard this, they couldn't help but shake their heads and sigh, and said quietly: "I hope your idea is right." ”
Sure enough, Wen Chou returned to the army and immediately asked someone to tie up Song Huan, at this moment Song Huan was a little surprised, and asked why this was, what was wrong with him, and he wanted to tie himself up.
Wen Chou shouted angrily: "Bold Song Huan, are you cooperating with Xu Tuli and deliberately framing me?" ”
Song Huan argued: "General, please be clear, I, Song Huan, am loyal to the lord and wholeheartedly plan for the general." This defeat is really Xu Tu's cunning, he knows our situation, and then he sees through my plan, general, this fault is not mine. ”
Wen Chou scolded: "If you're not, aren't you still in me?" You have fornicated with foreign enemies and framed us, and you should be punished for your crimes. Someone came, dragged him out of the city and beheaded him, and showed the corpse to the three armies all over the place, so as to set an example, and those who defected to the enemy will be set without mercy. ”
The guards got the order and pressed Song Huan out of the room, and Song Huan shouted while struggling: "General, I really wronged me, I have always been loyal, how could I do such an unrighteous thing." General, if you leave me alive, I promise that I will be able to arrest Zhang Yuan, Xu Tu and others to show my center. ”
Wen Chou was cold, and asked the soldiers to quickly push it out and behead it. Song Huan cried and shouted, saying that he was really innocent. The other generals couldn't help but feel sad when they saw Song Huan crying, but no one dared to intercede, they all knew Wen Chou's character, and when he interceded at this time, he would think that the intercessor also had an outside heart and would inevitably be killed.
Song Huan was pushed to the door of the tent and stopped by a person, who was really a fellow who persuaded him to leave before. This person knelt down and saw Wen Chou, saying that Song Huan really shouldn't be killed, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, when he followed Yuan Shao for a long time, Yuan Shao also praised Song Huan for his loyalty from time to time, but now the situation is unknown, and he said that he had a different heart when he was defeated, and it was really difficult to convince the public.
This guy was originally pleading, but his rhetoric was fierce, and he kept using Yuan Shao to suppress the ugliness. Genshi made Wen Chou furious, and directly ordered him to be pushed out and beheaded. When this person heard this, he didn't panic, and said that he was willing to use his life to illustrate Song Huan's life, and if he won at that time, he would give himself less incense, candles, money, and paper.
Wen Chou laughed angrily: "I will win." After saying that, he ordered them to be pushed out of the city and beheaded. None of the people present dared to intercede, but secretly said in their hearts that this guy was really stupid enough, and it was okay to plead, but he didn't look like he was pleading at all, it was more like threatening Wen Chou, this is not looking for death or what.
After the two were killed, their corpses were indeed displayed all over the three armies, and then they were thrown into the mountains to be bitten by wild dogs, and everyone could not help but feel ashamed. Those with good intentions couldn't bear to see their bones gone, so they secretly dug a pit and buried them.
Wen Chou's move was soon reported to Zhang Yuan's army, after listening to the report, Zhang Yuan was also ashamed, this Wen Chou is really violent and impermanent, even if he kills people, he actually threw it in the mountains and let wild dogs bite it, it is really excessive. Xu Tu sighed even more, he couldn't imagine that Song Huan would really be unable to escape death, and he would catch up with his fellow countrymen.
"General, now that Wen Chou is doing this, he will definitely order the soldiers to fight to the death with us, he didn't launch a fierce attack before, he just wanted to fool our army more, and now that he is enraged, he will definitely let the soldiers fight bravely. And now his army is afraid of him, and there is no way back. Moreover, they have 15,000 elite soldiers, but our army is less than 6,000, and if they fight them strongly, they will definitely suffer losses, so they can only be caught by stratagem and let them retreat. Xu Tu said.
Zhang Yuan nodded and asked him what plan he had. Xu Tu said this in Zhang Yuan's ear, Zhang Yuan was stunned at first, and then clapped his hands again, saying that this plan is very good, and it will definitely make Wen Chou return.