Chapter 23, a body is a guts

Before Zhao Wei called the army, in fact, there were rebellions all over Yizhou, among which the Ba people Shen Mi, Lou Fa, and Gan Ning wanted to attack Liu Zhang, and fled to Jingzhou to rely on Liu Biao after the defeat. Among them, Gan Ning Gan Xing fought bravely and bravely, and he had a very good temper with Zhang Fei, and Liu Bei was also thick and treated like a cronie. Gan Ning was a water thief when he was a teenager, and he grabbed Zigui from Chengdu to Jingzhou along the Yangtze River, because he was gorgeously dressed and hung with a bell on his waist, he was called "Jinfan Thief", so the terrain along the Yangtze River, the ferries around the country, that is very familiar. At this moment, he proposed to secretly cross from Yufujin and attack Nan'an City, and Liu Bei immediately agreed.

Although the Jingzhou army went to Nan'an by land, the Yangtze River was close to it and could not be abandoned, and it also recruited some small boats to carry grain and straw materials - although it was necessary to pull the fiber upstream, it was always much more labor-saving and cost-effective than carrying it by vehicle. So Gan Ning and the other three generals used more than 30 small boats to pull them to the north of Yufujin first, and then put them down the river to take the west coast.

However, Yufujin is an important ferry port, and Yizhou will naturally not be unguarded. As soon as the ship approached the shore, a round of arrows came, and although the Jingzhou soldiers were covered with large wooden shields, they also overturned forty or fifty people in an instant. Gan Ning was furious, holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, he shouted violently, and rose into the air, jumping more than a foot away like a big bird soaring, and fell to the shore. The Yizhou soldiers came to the enemy with spears, and were swept away by Gan Xingba's horizontal shield, overturning four or five people early, and then marched into battle with a knife, cutting an enemy captain into two sections.

When the Yizhou soldiers saw this kind of bravery, they all panicked. The queue was scattered. Lou Fa, Shen Mi and others took the opportunity to gather the ship and land on the shore to disperse the enemy soldiers. Immediately, Lou Fa said: "The enemy knows that I have landed on the shore, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to attack the city again, so it is better to camp on the road and cooperate with the ferry, and only cut off the way back." ”

Gan Ning shook his head: "I have boasted about Haikou in front of General Liu's tent, if I attack the city and fail to win now, it is fate, and if I don't attack cowardly, what face will I repay to General Liu?" Brothers can camp here right now. With Ning hundreds. Attack the city! Lou Fa and Shen Mi didn't listen to the persuasion, so they had to go straight to the city of Nan'an at night with his hundred warriors who were good at climbing.

The commander of Nan'an knew that there were enemy troops behind him, but on the one hand, he sent people to investigate. It's only a thousand. and have been encamped. He wanted to cut off his own way back, so he agreed to go out of the city and attack the next day; On the other hand, Liu Bei was in a hurry to attack the south of the city at night, so he was forced to concentrate all his main forces in the south of the city. Gan Ning Department. In the past, the water thieves who followed it across the river were good at taking passenger ships with rope hooks, boarding and looting, so they threw them on the city wall with rope hooks, and climbed up in the dark.

Seeing that Gan Ning was holding a long knife in his mouth, taking the lead, and was close to the city, suddenly there was a shout from the city, and the torches were burning, shining like daylight, and several Yizhou soldiers with long hooks came to Zuning. A good Gan Xingba, turned his head away, let him come over to hook, and then left the rope with both hands, each holding a hook body, and jumped with his strength, and he had already climbed to the city. Before he could gain a firm foothold, he took out a long knife from his mouth, broke more than a dozen hooks with one knife, and killed two people in a row. Taking advantage of the chaos, the troops also entered the city one after another, and soon dispersed the defenders.

Gan Ning's body was wounded several times, and the blood of the enemy soldiers was splashed, dyed all red, like a bloody person, he still assigned his subordinates, cut the lock, and beckoned Lou Fa and Shen Mi to enter the city to respond. Then he jumped down from the city and went all the way to the south of the city to kill.

The guards were shocked when they heard the news and hurriedly led the army to fight in person. Gan Ning was halfway to kill, and saw a yellow horse rushing out of the firelight, and the general was about forty years old, with a long beard on his bare face, and his eyes were about to split, and he made a long lance in his hand, and he stabbed his chest. Gan Ning beckoned his subordinates to set fire to various places in the city, so as to disturb people's hearts, he danced his knife and killed the next general.

When he came to the lance, Gan Ning raised his knife to the side, and felt that his arms were sore, his steps staggered, and he said in his heart: "Who is this person, so strong!" "Don't dare to be contemptuous, and fight a twelve-point mental battle. However, the enemy is on the horse, with a long lance in his hand, and the armor is complete, but Gan Ning is stepping down, only a ring-headed knife, in order to climb the city conveniently, he only wears half of the soft armor, and he has been fighting for a long time, and the blood is through the clothes, and he feels unable to support it after two or three combinations.

Gan Ning refused to waste his life, so he used a trick to deceive the enemy, and jumped into the black field next to the road. The enemy will be reluctant to give up, and he will chase after him. Gan Ning only cared about running to the compact houses and narrow roads, and the enemy generals were tall and large, and it was not easy to chase them in the city, so he had to call his subordinates to surround them on all sides.

When he was in a critical situation, he suddenly heard an earth-shattering scream in the south of the city, and said: "The city is broken!" The enemy general was shocked, and he wanted to save the south gate after giving up Gan Ning. Gan Ning turned defense into offense, killed several soldiers in a row, rushed close to the enemy general, and bent down to cut off his horse's feet. The enemy general hurriedly escaped the reins, and could not help but rush to the crown in anger, shouting: "I will die in the city today, and I will take your life!" "Stand up and stab Gan Ning again.

Gan Ning made two more moves with him, the blood on his body flowed a lot, his arms gradually became weaker, and he was about to turn around and flee again, when he suddenly heard a loud shout not far away: "Xingba, fly to help you!" Immediately, a shadow of a lance was like a thunderbolt of lightning, and it went straight to the back of the enemy's heart.

The general was so shocked that he gave up Gan Ning for the second time, and turned sideways to block it. The two lances intersected, and the huge force came, and the general couldn't help but tremble his arms, and his left hand was shaken open, and the long lance was separated. The man who came took the opportunity to urge the horse to crash over, so he lightly stretched his ape arm on the horse's back, grabbed the belt, pulled it off the saddle bridge, and threw it into the ground. The Jingzhou pawns who had already broken through the city rushed up, held it firmly, and tied it up.

Gan Ning gasped for breath, raised his eyebrows and greeted: "Yide, if it weren't for Qing to come to the rescue, I would be dead today!" ”

It was Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide, the fierce generals under Liu Bei, who saved Gan Ning and captured the enemy generals alive. Xingba made this first contribution, and was about to ask for a reward from the lord, how could he die here?! ”

Liu Bei led the army into the city of Nan'an, counting the casualties, which were also quite heavy. Zhao Yun entered the county office in advance, and then sent someone to report to Liu Bei, and the Yun county order had been hanged. Liu Bei sighed, ordered a good life to be reined, buried the body, and the subordinates and family members of the county order could not be collided.

Liu Bei sat in the county office, Gan Ning and Zhang Fei came to pay the order, Liu Bei personally held Ning's hand and praised: "Xingba is all guts!" "Let people help them down, so that they can be wrapped in wounds and healed. Immediately ordered the guards to come, but after the general went to the court, he looked at Liu Bei angrily, and let the generals scold, but he just stood tall and refused to bow down.

Zhang Fei scolded: "Who are you? The army is coming, why dare to refuse to fight without surrendering?! That general said hatefully: "A certain is Liu Yizhou's account under the Zhonglang General Yan Yan is also." Qing and others have no form, invade our state, but there are decapitated generals in our state, and there are no generals! ”

Pang Tong said with a smile on the side: "My lord was sent by Liu Jingzhou and invited by General Zhao to attack Liu Zhang, who usurped Wang Li, He Yun invaded Ruzhou?" Although the world is big, its lord is the only one, that is, the Son of Heaven, Liu Zhang inherited the legacy of his ancestors, and he could not keep it, and he should be virtuous to live in it, so as to Shao Han Tong. You seem to have read a book, but you think that the princes of Zhou and Ji are competing with each other? It's ridiculous and generous. ”

Yan Yan was depressed when he heard this, but he still refused to bow his head. Zhang Fei was furious, and without waiting for Liu Bei's order, he immediately called to push out the fang and behead it. Yan Yan snorted coldly: "If you cut off your head, you will cut off your head, what is anger!" ”

Liu Bei hurriedly stopped Zhang Fei, came over in person, untied Yan Yan, and said: "I am not here to seek to seize Yizhou, but to save the people of Shu from fire and water. The general's loyalty and bravery, the knowledge of the know, if you want to assist, you must be a general, if you do not want to assist, you can return to Chengdu immediately, send a message to Liu Jiyu, so that he is prepared. ”

In fact, this is very ridiculous, the two armies are facing each other, and the main general of the other side has to know his intentions, and pretend to say that I didn't mean to fight you. However, Liu Bei also knew that he could only command three or four thousand Jingzhou soldiers, and there were more than 10,000 new soldiers. Either Liu Zhang was busy attacking Zhao Wei and left him enough time to calm down and accumulate strength, or as Zhang Song had offered, he could enter Chengdu City in peace and security to seize power - as Pang Tong persuaded him to take Chengdu directly, Liu Bei agreed on the surface, but in fact he didn't dare to think about it.

Therefore, Liu Xuande believes that his most important job at the moment is to buy people's hearts, so as to gain a firm foothold in Shuzhong, and then see the changes in shape, either fighting or peace, or advancing or defending. He deliberately put on a benevolent and courteous face to persuade Yan Yan, which is exactly this intention.

Yan Yan was originally a Shu person, and since he tied his hair, he has fought more than 100 battles, and he has been steadily promoted by virtue of his military exploits, but after entering the middle level, he suddenly hit the glass ceiling and was firmly suppressed by Dongzhou Shi. This time Liu Zhang sent him to help defend Nan'an, Yan Yan proposed that the Jingzhou soldiers were very sharp, and I am afraid that there are less than 10,000 people to resist, Liu Zhang said Okay, then I will add some soldiers to you, and make up enough 10,000 people...... Yan Yan was so angry that he wanted to ask for it again, but he was ridiculed as cowardice by the Dongzhou soldiers. Originally, this guy came with a fire in his belly, but now he is a prisoner, but seeing Liu Bei so gentle and humble, he is very different from that Liu Zhang, as soon as his heart is soft, his will to die will disappear, and he will surrender Liu Bei on the spot.

After getting Nan'an and collecting Yan Yan, Pang Tong immediately persuaded Liu Bei to advance quickly, and before Liu Zhang could react, he went straight to Chengdu. However, Liu Bei really didn't dare, so he had to delay under the pretext that the sergeant was tired, in fact, he wanted to wait for Zhang Song to deliver new news. Pang Tong repeatedly persuaded the army to march, but Liu Bei was only perfunctory, and Xu Shu did not advocate rash advance, so the army rested in Nan'an City for seven days.

On the eighth day, the city finally reported that an envoy had come from Chengdu. Liu Bei ascended to the hall and called the messenger, and saw that it was not Zhang Song who came in, but a strange thin man, in his thirties, with thin eyes and long beard, and his spirit was quite strong, and he seemed to be arrogant. After boarding the hall, the thin man didn't speak, just looked Liu Bei up and down, Liu Bei was about to ask, but the other party suddenly fell to the ground.

Liu Bei was taken aback, and said in his heart that the envoys came and went, do you need to make this big gift? He hurriedly came down to help him and asked, "Why is this so?" The thin man pointed to his heart and said bluntly: "Qiao Youye, meet the lord." ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed and hurriedly asked for his name, and the man replied: "I am also a Fufeng person, and I am currently the captain of the Yizhou Military Council, and my surname is ......" (to be continued......

PS: I had a cold for more than a week, and finally I had a fever...... Dizzy, I really can't write...... Sorry, I'll take a day off sick tomorrow.