Chapter 424: Ten Days of Siege
On the battlefield of Yizhou, in the camp of the Han army, Ao Lie looked at the flying pigeon on the table with a complicated mood, and his heart was both happy and worried. This flying pigeon biography was written by Xu Huang in Morse code, which recounted Guan Yu's merits in the Jizhou battlefield to kill the generals and retreat from the enemy, and it was precisely because of Guan Yu's martial courage that the 300,000 Cao army returned in vain, avoiding the defeat of Xu Huang's department, and insisting on the reinforcements of Zhang He in Yecheng and Guo Huai in Bingzhou.
As soon as these two reinforcements arrived, Cao Cao wanted to capture Jizhou, there was almost no possibility, and the battle fell into a stalemate, it depends on who can hold on longer, whose grain and grass have problems first, then who is equivalent to losing, the Han army is fighting at home, the grain and grass transportation line is much closer than the Cao army, and several large states in the Northern Han Dynasty, under the governance of several political masters, the grain and grass have basically been all self-sufficient, and a large state like Jizhou is a land rich in money and grain, so this battle, Ao Lie had already foreseen the result, as long as Xu Huang and Zhang He did not make fatal mistakes, Cao Cao would definitely not be able to take advantage of the slightest, and it was simply impossible for famous generals like Xu Huang and Zhang He to make fatal mistakes at the same time.
While getting rid of the hidden dangers in his heart, Ao Lie was not only happy, but also annoyed by Guan Yu's request. Guan Yu would rather not take any credit, and even be willing to regard himself as Ao Lie's prisoner of war, in order to let Ao Lie let Liu Bei go again after breaking through Chengdu City, which has already touched Ao Lie's bottom line. The last time in Jiameng Pass, Ao Lie in order to take care of Zhang Fei's emotions, and at the same time in order to let Cao Cao live in peace, he had already let Liu Bei go once, and now Cao Cao has no threat, Zhang Fei has also been willing to completely serve Ao Lie, Ao Lie really doesn't want to spare Liu Bei, let the tiger return to the mountain, it is enough to do it once. If you do it again, you will not be responsible for the lives of your subordinates.
However, the person who asked Ao Lie this time was Guan Yu, just like Zhang Fei, it was impossible for Ao Lie to ignore Guan Yu's request, and this time he could drag Cao Cao into a stalemate in the battle, so that Jizhou was safe and sound, Guan Yu also contributed to it, and it was reasonable for Ao Lie to agree to Guan Yu's request. This made Ao Lie's heart fall into an unprecedented entanglement.
In the extreme entanglement, in the end, Ao Lie decided to let Liu Bei go again. As the saying goes, a thousand armies are easy to get and a general is hard to find, a general like Guan Yu is not just a monarch who can be fortunate enough to recruit under his command, especially after carelessly losing Jingzhou, Guan Yu is much calmer than before, and is transforming into a generation of famous generals, in order to make such Guan Yu wholeheartedly serve himself. Ao Lie decided to take a risk and let Liu Bei live for a while longer. As a result, Ao Lie ordered to delay the attack and surround the city of Chengdu. Cut off the drinking water in the city, he began the tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, and he wanted to use this method to force Liu Bei to surrender the city. Then in front of all the surrendered troops, he promised Guan Yu's request in public. And this siege was ten days.
The time has entered the end of the year. In the cold winter, although the cooling in Chengdu is not bad, but it is also relatively cold, Ao Lie's siege plan, so that Chengdu not only has a crisis of water being cut off, but also makes the soldiers and civilians in the city unable to resist the invasion of the cold, heating things can not be transported in, the charcoal in the city is doubling at a tenfold price every day, for a while, the scene of soaring prices abounds, the Shu soldiers in the city, starting on the seventh day of the siege, there is no firewood that can be used to make a fire for cooking, and have to eat cold food to satisfy hungerFor three consecutive days, the body temperature of the Shu soldiers dropped to freezing point along with their hearts, and their desire to live far exceeded the desire to fight against the Han army.
Liu Bei saw the plummeting morale of the soldiers in the city, but there was nothing he could do, not to mention others, even Liu Bei himself couldn't bear it anymore, and he was used to living a life of fine clothes and food, and now Liu Bei was no longer able to eat the coarse tea and light rice that he used to use, not to mention, these coarse tea and light rice were still cold and had no temperature. From thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, this sentence was most perfectly interpreted by Liu Bei.
On the tenth day of the siege of the Han army, the Shu soldiers in the city finally mutinied, and nearly thirty percent of the Shu soldiers killed the generals in the army and Liu Bei's cronies, and then rushed to the north gate of Chengdu, opened the city gate, and surrendered to the Han army. Even though the rest of the Shu soldiers wanted to stop these mutinous comrades, they couldn't stop those comrades whose desire to survive was infinitely magnified with their tired bodies, but many people were pulled by the mutinous comrades and fell to the mutinous camp.
After the Chengdu city gate was opened, Ao Lie immediately ordered the troops to enter the city, controlled all the city gates and barracks in Chengdu, and then took Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and the elite of the bloody killing army, and went straight into Liu Bei's palace.
When Ao Lie walked into the main hall of the Hanzhong Palace, he saw Liu Bei holding his body and trying his best to put on a dignified appearance, sitting on the throne of the King of Hanzhong, dozens of civil and military ministers loyal to Liu Bei surrounded Liu Bei's side.
After seeing the situation in front of him clearly, Ao Lie shook his head and sighed: "Liu Bei, to this day, are you still holding on to your throne and refusing to let go?" Could it be that the title of King of Hanzhong is more precious than your life? ”
Liu Bei held the two armrests of the throne with both hands, and said weakly: "Yan thief, how can you understand the ambition of Lone Heart?" Lone is a relative of the Han family, Lone will not lose this glory until he dies, Lonely, it is for the Han Dynasty, as long as Lone still has a breath, he will never let the prestige of the Han Dynasty be swept away! ”
Liu Bei's words, if someone who doesn't know the inside story listens to them, they will definitely think that Liu Bei is a hero who is about to die, but in the ears of Ao Lie and Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun behind him, the taste has completely changed, what is a swollen face and a fat man? What does it mean to die without regret? Liu Bei is! is obviously reluctant to hold the power in his hands, but he has compiled a basket of high-sounding reasons to deceive people, which is really pitiful and ridiculous!
Ao Lie lost interest in continuing to talk to Liu Bei, waved his hand at Liu Bei without interest, and said slowly: "You can go, Yun Chang pleaded with this king, let this king let you go once, and this king has already agreed to him." ”
Liu Bei thought that he would definitely die, but suddenly when he heard Ao Lie say this, a force burst out of his body, and he suddenly stood up from the throne, stared at Ao Lie, and asked, "Really?" Are you sure you want to let the orphan go? ”
See Liu Bei's performance. Ao Lie was even more bored with him, and even Zhang Fei behind Ao Lie lowered his head and never looked at Liu Bei again, as if Zhang Fei never knew Liu Bei again. Liu Bei relied on Guan Yu's courage to kill the enemy, in exchange for such a chance to live, in exchange for the credit of Liu Bei's life, he knew that it must be very dangerous with his heels, but Liu Bei did not ask about Guan Yu's situation at all, which showed that in his eyes. Guan Yu's life or death is no longer important, only his Liu Bei's own life is the most precious. Compared with Guan Yu's unhesitating transfer of credit to Liu Bei, Liu Bei's style at this moment is too despicable.
waved his hand to Liu Bei coldly, and Ao Lie popped out five words from between his teeth: "Get out!" Get out now! ”
Although Ao Lie's words were cold, in Liu Bei's ears, they were like the sound of heaven, and he could live. That's better than anything else, Liu Bei didn't care much about Ao Lie's cold words.
Struggling to get down from the throne, Liu Bei walked out of the main hall without looking back. Ignoring the dozens of ministers in the hall who were still guarding him at a critical moment, it seemed that they were all lifeless wood carvings, and they were not worthy of Liu Bei's slightest attachment at all. Dozens of ministers in the main hall, under Liu Bei's actions. It really turned into a wood carving, and they looked at Liu Bei's back one by one in disbelief. The king of Hanzhong, whom he had previously sworn allegiance to, would have left them so easily......
Just as Liu Bei was about to step out of the main hall, Ao Lie suddenly said, "Xuande! You have two good brothers, they are the ones who have given you the possibility to continue to live, but at the same time you have been reborn, you have also lost these two good brothers forever, this king asks you, have you ever regretted it? ”
Zhang Fei, who had been keeping his head down, immediately pricked up his ears after hearing Ao Lie's words, although it was impossible for him to return to Liu Bei's side, but he wanted to hear from Liu Bei's mouth that he still regarded himself as a brother, however, Liu Bei's answer completely destroyed the only glimmer of hope in Zhang Fei's heart: "Ao Mohan, Lone can tell you that Lone was born to live for the revitalization of the Han Dynasty, and in order to revitalize the Han Dynasty, anything, Lone can give up!" The potential meaning is undoubtedly to show that he has severed the relationship between Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in his heart, or in other words, anyone who has a relationship with Ao Lie is a thief in Liu Bei's eyes, and Liu Bei represents the orthodoxy of the Han family, and the Han thief is not separate!
With a long sigh, Ao Lie glanced at Zhang Fei and saw that on his dark face, the muscles were constantly trembling, it can be seen that Liu Bei's words just now hurt Zhang Fei too deeply, although this is not the first time Liu Bei has hurt Zhang Fei.
The hall fell into silence, no one said a word, Liu Bei was in such silence, and finally walked out of the hall, leaving the place where he had been giving orders for several years, and walked towards the south gate of Chengdu City, he wanted to rush to several counties south of Chengdu as soon as possible, gather people there, and continue to fight against Ao Lie's Han army to the end.
After walking out of the Hanzhong Palace, Liu Bei staggered towards the south gate, several years of luxury life, has made his body no longer as solid as it was at the beginning, not to mention that he has been hungry for several days, so his steps are more vain, there is a possibility of falling at any time, in this case, it is not far from being starved to death.
Coincidentally, just when Liu Bei was about to lose his support, a group of rout troops wearing Shu soldiers' clothes and armor ran over, they were a team of fish that slipped through the net, and they were afraid of being killed after being caught by the Han army, so they escaped in groups. When Liu Bei saw that there were still two war horses in this routed army, he hurriedly shouted: "You, bring those two horses to Lone, and after leaving the city, Lone will reward you heavily!" ”
More than a dozen Shu soldiers were defeated, you look at me, I look at you, a moment later, a Shu soldier dressed as a squad leader came over, looked at Liu Bei carefully, and suddenly kicked Liu Bei to the ground, and scolded angrily: "You said you are the king of Hanzhong, you are?" Lao Tzu is still the regent! Damn, don't delay the time, brothers, don't pay attention to him, let's hurry up, the Han army will catch up in a while, and we won't be able to leave. ”
As he spoke, the squad leader led the war horse and trampled on Liu Bei, who had fallen to the ground, and walked straight in the direction of the south gate. The two Shu soldiers who followed the squad leader squatted down and came to Liu Bei, looking at Liu Bei curiously, Liu Bei saw them approaching, held back the pain on his body, and said to them: "Lone is really the king of Hanzhong......
Without waiting for Liu Bei to finish speaking, the two Shu soldiers stretched out their fists at the same time and hit Liu Bei's head hard, making Liu Bei dizzy for a while, and plunged into the mud on the road. One of the Shu soldiers said vaguely: "Bullshit King Hanzhong, it's strange to believe you, third child, hurry up, search on him to see if there is anything valuable, our brother also needs to be entangled when he runs, and he doesn't look like a person with no money." ”
Liu Bei buried his head in the mud in humiliation, letting the two nameless people search for his body, he wanted to resist in his heart, but he couldn't exert the slightest strength, humiliation and unwillingness, and Liu Bei was drowned in an instant...... (To be continued......)
PS: PS "I'm sorry.,Today's update is late.,Da Kun has been too busy lately.,I can only change it today.,Fortunately, it's a big chapter of nearly 4000 words.,It's a little bit of make up for everyone.。