Chapter 108: Guan Sheng's defeat

Compared with Zhao Yu's youthful vigor and lack of consideration, the two eunuchs of the palace and Dao are much more scheming.

I listened to the palace eunuch and said: "Little general, the hearts of the people in the world are not as good as before, like before, how have you heard of the strange thing that the general of the unified army killed the prison army?" But this matter came this year, and it can be seen that these generals are unreliable, so we must be more vigilant against them. That Guan Shengren is a lowly official, and he has no scruples, if he really forces him to jump off the wall in a hurry, I will wait for death to be nothing, but it will affect the youth of the little general, how can I bear it? ”

Zhao Yu listened to their words for his own sake, and immediately mistook these two eunuchs for good people, and said in his heart: "In this case, the two fathers-in-law must have a way to deal with it, and I hope to teach the boy!" ”

The eunuch said: "Guan Sheng has three armies, and we are weak, so we can't touch him for a while." You can ask the little general to return to Beijing tomorrow, submit this letter of Guan Sheng's rebellion to the imperial court, and ask the official family to send a large army to come and arrest it, and the victory of Guan will be won! ”

Zhao Yu heard this and said categorically: "In this case, the kid will set off tomorrow, even if it is harder, it is unspeakable!" ”

The two eunuchs of the palace and Dao were overjoyed: "In the end, it is a handsome son of the clan, and it is really an instant decision, resolute and resolute, and the revitalization of the country is hopeful!" ”

The plan has been decided, and the next day Zhao Yu will not pass through the Guansheng Palace and the two eunuchs of Dao, and will go south in a hurry. The two eunuchs of the palace and the Dao were afraid that Guan Sheng would be bad, so they sent a personal forbidden army to protect Zhao Yu's return to the south along the road, and even more advised: "Little general, our family is here to see the festival and hear the good news." Zhao Yu glared hatefully at the big banner of the word "Guan" in the camp and agreed to go.

Zhao Yu's heart was in a hurry, and this road was like a star-flying lightning switch. On this day, I entered Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo early and dismounted before going to the Taishi Mansion.

Cai Jing had already received the secret report from the second eunuch of the palace and Dao, and he hated Guan Sheng in his heart for not caring for himself, and privately colluded to kill the rebels of the Murong prefect's mansion, and he was responsible for his kindness in recommending him. Just as he was cutting his teeth, suddenly Zhao Yu brought ironclad evidence of Guan Sheng's thief, and Cai Jing was immediately overjoyed.

At the moment, the little general was invited to the guest room to rest, Cai Jing invited Yang Jian and Gao Yu to come, and the three of them discussed it secretly, and wiped out all the numbers of 18 million guan, but Cai Jing re-wrote a letter in Guan Sheng's tone, which said that thanks to Ximen Qing for the ancestor Guan Yu to pass on, this grace and virtue are not forgotten, and on the day the book is completed, I wish to tie the grass title ring to report the clouds - after the book is completed, it will be vigorously and resolutely, and it will be played on the same day.

When Huizong saw the "Legend of Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms" and the fake book, he was furious, and immediately passed the decree to change the text, ordering the former Flying Dragon General Yan Mei and the former Flying Tiger General Bi Sheng to select 20,000 elites of the forbidden army, go to the front of the army to help the war, and capture the rebellion nearby!

When Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, was in power, he often ordered that the military uniform of the forbidden army should not be longer than his knees, and those who dared to buy fish, meat and wine into the camp were punished. In addition, a system of taking turns guarding the border was formulated, so that the forbidden army was accustomed to the hard work of climbing mountains and wading through rivers, and reduced their attachment to the hometown of their wives and children. Moreover, because there are many days in the garrison outside and few days in the camp, the soldiers of the forbidden army have few children and have enough food and clothing. Even the garrison troops in the capital had a rule when receiving grain - the garrison in the east of the city had to go to the warehouse in the west of the city to receive food, and vice versa. Moreover, it is not allowed to hire chariots and horses, and it must be borne by the sergeants themselves - Song Taizu once personally climbed the right city gate to supervise the forbidden army's food.

Suppressing the pride and laziness of soldiers by making them work hard is also a method of military training. At that time, the soldiers of the forbidden army did not envy the glitz of the outside world in life, and were content with hard work and easy to command.

But when the tiredness reached the Huizong Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army dropped sharply. In order to install countless generations of officials, the forbidden army continued to expand the number of people who were promoted from the box, and for a while, the mud and sand were all on the ground, and it really responded to that sentence - the temple is small and the monk is big, the pond is shallow and the king is more than eight, and the forbidden army is filled with indiscriminate people, and even has a position like the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, and there are not only real officers like Lin Chong, but also mediocre talents like Chen Hong, the head of the pine cake sect.

But although the forbidden army is dying, the soul is still lingering. The battalions led by the Flying Dragon General Yan Mei and the Flying Tiger General Bi Sheng barely maintained the tradition of the old forbidden army. After all, the emperor is also afraid of death, and he also needs to have a team of people under him who can suppress the scene at a critical moment.

Now this unique forbidden army has come to Liangshanbo.

The two eunuchs of the palace and the Dao had secretly received a letter from their masters and knew the effect of this pill, so when Guan Sheng came out of the camp, they were full of impatient schadenfreude.

After inviting Yan Mei and Bi Sheng to sit in the camp, Guan Sheng pleaded guilty and said: "Guan Mou wasted national funds and failed to defeat the enemy, resulting in three years of food and two reinforcements, which is really the crime of Guan Mou's incompetence!" ”

Yan Mei asked, "But I don't know how General Guan fought with the Liangshan bandits?" ”

Guan Sheng said: "When I first arrived, I still had a few battles, and I didn't distinguish between victory and defeat; But since the three strange sons Ximen Qing returned to the mountain, Liangshan always did not hand over the troops, only paddled the water for the pool and defended himself, the young general wanted to fight hard to find, wanted to enter the road, is distressed! ”

Bi Sheng said: "Today's reinforcements are coming, Liangshan will be aware of it." Why don't you write a war letter and send it to his army and invite him to fight tomorrow? It is rumored that there are many elite soldiers and fierce generals in Liangshan, and the young general is now about to make an opponent with him! ”

The palace eunuchs applauded again and again: "With such a heroic spirit, the Liangshan Mountain is fixed!" This war book must be written! ”

So everyone wrote a war book and sent small soldiers to the edge of the water to shout. Not long after, Xiaobing also reported that after Liangshan received the battle letter, Ximenqing replied that "tomorrow's decisive battle" - Yanmei Bisheng was overjoyed.

When they went down to rest, the two eunuchs of the palace and Dao invited Yan Mei and Bi Sheng to their tents to talk. Bi Sheng said with a smile: "Then what Guan Sheng said is it difficult to fight, I will fight in Liangshan as soon as the battle book is issued here, what is so difficult?!" ”

The palace eunuch said: "Guan Sheng's gang and Liang Shan hooked up, so naturally they want to say that it is difficult to fight, so as not to really make a move and hurt the relationship between them." We have a plan here - when the enemy is faced tomorrow, the two generals don't have to go out, we just force Guan Sheng to go into battle. When the time comes, he will not give in on the spot, raise his hand mercilessly, if Guan Sheng dares to deceive in front of the eyes of the two generals, he is really killing himself! ”

Yan Mei listened and applauded: "Good plan! Tomorrow, first calm the internal ghosts, and then break the external enemy, it is not too late! ”

Bi Sheng smiled: "Then let Liangshan be proud for a long time!" ”

Nothing was said all night. At dawn on the second day, the two soldiers and horses were in formation, and a white horse flew out of Liangshan first, and the general immediately shouted: "Ximen Qing, the son of Sanqi, is here, please speak to General Guan Sheng!" ”

The two eunuchs of the palace and Dao listened to the great joy, and said in their hearts: "I was thinking about finding some excuse to force Guan Sheng to go into battle, and this Ximen Qing took the initiative to come to the door - this can be said to be a lot of help from those who have attained the Tao!" ”

So the Taoist eunuch smiled at Guan Shengpi and said with a smile: "General Guan, Liangshan Ximenqing personally ordered the general, how can we break the spirit here?" Please also ask the general to show his might, the first to be the head of Ximen Qing, and then to offer the Chongning Zhenjun Temple, so that the general's martial name can be spread all over the world! ”

Guan Sheng immediately snapped: "Get the order!" "First ordered Xuanzan and Hao Siwen to hold down the position, and then urged the war horse to come to the front to find Ximenqing to fight.

When the two were separated by a zhang, Guan Sheng pulled the knife with one hand, pointed his left hand to Ximen Qing, and shouted: "Sanqi Gongzi, today ** Rong is in battle, you can know that there must be a confrontation." Come on, come on! Guan Mou heard the majesty of your happy forest ring early, and you and I will fight, which also opened Guan Mou's eyes and taught him how to use his methods! ”

Ximen Qing smiled: "You want to fight? Then let's fight! Although the martial arts are sparse in the lower part, among the thousands of troops and horses, the mouth knife is also regarded as nothing-but before the war, there is still something to say about the "Legend of Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms". ”

As soon as he heard this, Guan Sheng's accumulated anger couldn't help but weaken by half, and asked hesitantly: "Does Childe know how to write next?" ”

But I heard Ximen Qing sigh and said: "If you write directly to order the ancestors to surrender to Cao, but you have exhausted the integrity of Chongning Zhenjun, how can this be made?" ”

Guan Sheng's heart was also tight, and he said in a low voice: "That's right!" I also hope that the son of Sanqi will be superborn and a little affectionate. ”

Ximen Qing was in good spirits, and Daxiao said: "At this time, the sea is crossing, but it is showing the true character of a hero." It's not talented, but there is a solution! ”

Guan Sheng listened, he didn't know what the details were, the seer smiled, and asked, "But I don't know what the solution is?" ”

Ximen Qing said with a beautiful voice: "This new chapter is called 'Three Things of the Tuntu Shanguan Convention' - Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan were lobbyists for Cao Cao, and counted the three crimes of Guan Gong. What are the three sins? When Liu Zhijun and Guan Gong were righteous, they swore to live and die together, and today the envoy was defeated, but Guan Gong sacrificed his life to die, and took the oath of brotherhood, and his crime was also one; Liu Envoyjun entrusted his family to Guan Gong, Gong Ru died in battle, how could the second lady be lonely? This sin is also two; Guan Gong has both civil and military resources, but he does not want to keep a useful body and serve the country, but he only wants to do his job for a while, and he dies in vain, and his three crimes are also! ”

Guan Sheng groaned: "What should I do? ”

Ximen Qing said again: "What kind of person is Guan Gong? How can you be imprisoned for these three sins? Now I will say - you have three sins, I have three covenants! If I can do it, I will remove my armor; If he does not allow it, he will be willing to suffer three sins and die! β€”β€”In the past, he swore an oath with the envoy to support the Han family, and now he will descend, and the Han will not descend to Cao, and he will be about one; The second sister-in-law asked General Zuo to support him, and he should not be disturbed, and he was about two; But knowing the whereabouts of Uncle Liu Huang, no matter how many miles away, he should resign, and he will be about three! If one of the three is missing, it will not be surrendered! - Say so, but I don't know what General Guan Sheng thinks of it? ”

When Guan Sheng heard this, he had already thrown his knife and dismounted, bowed to the ground, and sighed: "The ancestor's reputation has not decreased but increased, and it is all made by the pen of the three strange sons - although Guan Mou is in armor, he must bow to the whole body!" ”

As soon as this gift was given, the army was shocked. But he heard Ximen Qing say: "In front of the two armies, the place where the corpses are erected, not the place where the etiquette is preached, so I asked General Guan to pick up the knife and get on the horse." ”

After Guan Sheng restarted his troops and mounted his horse, Ximen Qing changed color and said: "The good words have been said, now we should do our own martial arts, and let you see how the prince means!" As he spoke, he urged the horse to cross the knife and kill Guan Sheng.

Two horses intersect, two knives at the same time. Guan Sheng had a thought in his heart: "If I miss and hurt the three strange sons, who should write the biography of the ancestors?" Under the thought of being strange, the big knife in his hand was a little unable to swing out, and he could only block the frame for a while, and suddenly fell under Ximenqing's offensive.

After twenty or thirty times, Guan Sheng sighed in his heart: "That's it! The Three Wonder Sons are worthy of their name, and they have really been taught by the Master and instructed by the masters. Look at his knife attack Shi Jing, punctual strict, Teng Jiao Qi Feng Jian did not have half a flaw, that is, I went all out to attack him with a fast knife and a heavy knife, and I don't know who killed the zuihou deer. ”

After another twenty battles, seeing that Guan Sheng lost the opportunity and retreated under the suppression of Ximenqing, Ximenqing suddenly shook a knife, jumped out of the circle, shook his head and said: "General Guan has a lot of scum at this time, so he took the opportunity to defeat you, and it is not considered a merit!" After saying that, he walked away. The golden drum in the Liangshan army turned, and the military horses gradually retreated with the order, and the troops were withdrawn.

Yan Mei, Bi Sheng and others, seeing that although the Liangshan military horses retreated, the forerunners were not impatient, and the apse was not afraid, and there were echoes from the front and back, left and right, and there was no chance to take advantage of it. Although Yan Mei and Bi Sheng were newcomers who were eager to make meritorious contributions, they had the intention of being caught in conflict, but they did not dare to act rashly at this time.

Look at the retreat of the Liangshan people, Guan Sheng also collected the horses and returned to the camp. But he didn't prevent Yan Mei from drinking, left and right, and caught Guan Sheng.

Guan Sheng shouted: "Not guilty! Yan Mei sneered: "I have been watching the battle for a long time today, can you bully me?" Today, when you have a conversation with Simon in front of the Qing Formation, there must be treachery hidden in it, otherwise why would you suddenly bow down to him? After worshipping, you and the other two in order to cover the eyes and ears of the three armies, and fake a fake killing, from beginning to end, it is Ximenqing's main attack, you take the defensive position, I don't believe it, with the courage of the big knife to win, even can't fight back? But how long do you want to lie to me? If you don't catch it at this time, you will become a trouble! ”

Hearing this accusation, Guan Sheng was speechless. At this moment, I heard two shouts: "Leave people under the knife!" "Xuanzan and Hao Siwen have already come to the saddle and dismounted, and they are exempted from Guan Sheng.

Yan Mei shouted: "You two, it must be some ugly Jun Ma Xuanzan and Jing Mu Qian Hao Siwen!" As Guan Sheng's adjutant general, he betrayed the master and collaborated with thieves, you should report to the prison army and subdue him together. It's two cowhide strong faces! Someone's coming! Strip these two with me and take them down, and be in the same place with Guan Shengjian! ”

At this time, there were already eunuchs under the palace and the second eunuch of Dao who carried their hands on their shoulders, and copied a lot of accusations from Guan Sheng, Xuanzan, and Hao Siwen's account - the first of which was naturally the book "The Biography of Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms" on Guan Sheng's desk, and the others were varied, and there were all kinds of treasures, all of which were temporarily lent out by the eunuchs and grandchildren to lend usury.

"Your Excellency, this is all found in the tent of these three people, and it must be ironclad evidence that they accepted Liangshan's bribes!"

Yan Mei saw that the stolen evidence was clear, where are there any words? The next shout: "Come on! Put these three rebels and thieves in prison with me! "This is exactly what it is:

There is no wind to fly, and the wings are damaged by the rain. But I don't know what will happen next, and listen to the next breakdown.