Du Yuan was twenty-five or sixteen years old, five big and three thick, with a short and stiff beard on a Chinese-shaped face, glaring at Liao Hua with round eyes, and casually exclaiming: "Brother Liao, General Digong is getting better and better for you, and even rewarded you with the royal wine he snatched." Lao Tzu is so big, he hasn't drunk the imperial wine yet, since someone invites him, don't drink it for nothing! Brother Bian, are you going? ”

Bian Xi is about thirty years old, his appearance is a little obscene, he is short, his body is thin, the clothes and iron armor on his body are like wearing on a skeleton, and he has a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, thief eyebrows, and mouse eyes, he heard Du Yuan's question, so he laughed twice, his eyes revealed a kind of cunning, and said slowly: "Lao Tzu has never entered the palace, and this imperial wine has not been stolen, since Brother Liao is so graciously invited, then let's go together!" ”

Bian Xi is indeed a thief, he has done theft on the rivers and lakes back then, and he is a habitual offender who commits crimes, no matter how strict the guard of the other party is, he can easily catch what he wants to steal, which is a thief. Later, he met Zhang Jiao, who traveled all over the world, and was fooled by Zhang Jiao, so he resolutely threw himself into Taiping Road. At the beginning of the uprising, he stole a lot of property from rich merchants in various places, bought horses and iron, and then had the most elite team of the Yellow Turban Army in Xiaquyang City.

Liao Hua saw that Du Yuan and Bian Xi had agreed, so he arched his hand and said, "Two generals, please!" ”

Du Yuan and Bian Xi followed Liao Hua to the room where he lived, and before he entered the door, he smelled the fragrance of wine, and in the brightly lit room, there were all kinds of dishes on a table, and the fragrance of wine was mixed with the fragrance of meat, which aroused people's five internal organs, and attracted people to salivate.

"Brother Liao, you are so expensive, it seems that you have not made less money for a while?" Du Yuan stepped into the threshold and saw such a sumptuous banquet on the table, which was even more generous than the banquet set by Zhang Jiao during the uprising, and teased while envying Liao Hua.

Bian Xi is well-informed, but there are indeed very few people who can set up such a banquet in the Yellow Turban Army, and he has not eaten such a sumptuous banquet for a long time since the Yellow Turban, and he constantly makes a smack and envy.

Liao Hua smiled and arched his hand: "The two generals laughed, in fact, this is what the Digong general meant." General Digong has always felt that the two generals have worked hard, but they have not tasted the reward, tonight is a special day, General Digong specially asked me to feast the two generals here, otherwise with me, a small flag master, how could I put on such a sumptuous dinner? Two generals, please take a seat! ”

Du Yuan and Bian Xi did not have the slightest doubt, because they both thought they were meritorious people, but when Zhang Jiao was alive, he had not tasted a reward, and the two of them had a lot of grievances, but they did not dare to show it openly, and the inevitable uprising had just begun for a few months. After the two of them sat down, they saw five pairs of dishes and chopsticks on the table, and they were curious, thinking about who else in Quyang City could go to Zhang Bao's banquet except for the two of them who were qualified?

Du Yuan's mouth was fast, and he was also a straight intestine, so he immediately asked, "Brother Liao, are there still two people who haven't come?" ”

Liao Hua nodded and said, "Yes, there are still Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao who didn't come." ”

"Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao? Who are they? I really don't understand how General Digong would also entertain these two people, Zhou Cang had voted for the Han army, Pei Yuanshao was just the steward of the room, and the two of them deserved to sit here? Du Yuan said with a big grin.

Bian Xi said: "Brother Du, don't be impatient, General Digong arranged it like this, and there must be a deep meaning in it." ”

Liao Hua said with a smile: "General Bian is still smart, although Zhou Cang has surrendered to the Han army, it is also a last resort, now that the Han army is pressing, General Digong is the time to employ people, and Zhou Cang is one of the best generals in the Yellow Turban Army, so he naturally has to try his best to win over." As for Pei Yuanshao, this is a little selfishness of the younger brother, although Pei Yuanshao is the manager of the house, but without him, we wouldn't be able to eat this delicious meal, right? ”

When Du Yuan heard Liao Hua's explanation, he was slightly relieved, and immediately said: "What the general of the earth prince says is what it is, and we will never complain!" ”

While he was talking, Zhou Cang and a short and fat big bald head walked in, and as soon as the two entered the door, they arched their hands and said, "See General Du and General Bian!" ”

"You're welcome, sit down!" Bian Xi smiled.

Zhou Cang and the big bald head sat next to Du Yuan and Bian Xi respectively, and after sitting down, the big bald head said: "This is what I specially ordered the kitchen to make according to the intention of General Digong, you all taste it, if there is anything unpalatable, just put it forward, I will improve it." ”

Liao Hua said to the big bald head: "Pei Yuanshao, pour a bar for the two generals, your craftsmanship is clear." ”

The big bald head is Pei Yuanshao, Zhou Cang's fellow countryman, a few years younger than Zhou Cang, only about the same age as Liao Hua. The family originally opened a restaurant, his father was a cook, when he was nine years old, his father was beaten to death by a bully, he was angry, killed the bully with a kitchen knife, and was arrested by the government, because of his young age, he was exempted from the death penalty, and he was punished and shaved his hair. He felt ashamed, so he left home and drifted away from home, and by chance went to the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, where he was taken in by a monk, and since then he has been a novice in the temple. Later, there was a great drought in the world, there was no surplus grain in the White Horse Temple, and the monks also had to go around to make fate, Pei Yuanshao happened to meet Zhou Cang when he came to Julu, and he heard that the yellow scarf had food to eat, so he joined the yellow scarf, because of the good food he burned, he became a man, and he also developed his chubby body now. Although he participated in the Yellow Scarf, he never kept his hair, and everyone he knew was called Pei Guangtou.

Pei Yuanshao nodded, picked up a wine jar, poured a bowl of wine for Du Yuan and Bian Xidu, and poured a bowl for Zhou Cang and Liao Hua, and then sat back in his place.

Liao Hua raised his glass and immediately said loudly: "General Du, General Bian, I don't know if I should say a sentence or not?" ”

Du Yuan and Bian Xi said in unison: "Brother Liao has something to say. ”

Liao Hua said: "Both of them are old men in the Yellow Turban Army, and they are both meritorious people at the beginning of the uprising...... But looking at the current situation, first the great sage and good teacher were killed, and then the Digong general was killed, and the hundreds of thousands of yellow scarves that swept Hebei are only the current more than 100,000 people. ”

Du Yuan and Bian Xi glanced at each other, faintly feeling that today's meal was not so simple, and they were muttering in their hearts, thinking that Zhang Bao was afraid that they had heavy troops and wanted to get rid of them.

Du Yuan said very heartily: "Brother Liao, if you have something to say, just say it, don't beat around the bush, isn't it that General Digong is worried that we will rebel and wants to cut off our military power?" ”

Liao Hua said: "Exactly! Although I don't have a close relationship with the two generals, we are brothers, and I don't want to see the two generals die on the streets......"

"General Digong wants to kill us?" As soon as Du Yuan heard the word "death", his face changed, and he said loudly, "We are all people who follow the great sage and good teacher to be born and die, there is no merit and hard work, if it is for the sake of military power, we can hand it over, but why should the general of other land kill us?" ”

Bian Xi pondered for a moment, his sensitive ears seemed to hear a very light footsteps, many people were rushing here, when the thief had been a thief for so many years, intuition was the most important, and after feeling that something was wrong, he immediately knelt on the ground. He untied his waist knife, put it aside, kowtowed to Liao Hua, and said, "Brother Liao...... No, General Liao! I'll hand over the military power, I just ask you to let me live!" ”

Before Bian Xi's words fell, he saw many knife hands with bright and dangling long knives flash out of the door, all of them were strong and strong, and quickly poured into the room, surrounding the people at the wine table.

Du Yuan's face was shocked, he never dreamed that this was a Hongmen banquet, squinted and saw Liao Hua, Zhou Cang, and Pei Yuanshao flash behind the knife hand, more than 20 knife hands surrounded him and Bian Xituan, and many knife hands with torches poured out of the door, and they gathered more and more. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately pulled out his waist knife, thinking that sooner or later he would die, it was better to kill a few people, and he would have to pull a cushion on his back when he died.

When the swordsmen saw Du Yuan draw his knife, they rushed up, only to hear a scream, Du Yuan was hacked to death by a random knife, and fell in a pool of blood, and his body was even more blurred with flesh and blood.

"General Liao spares his life, General Liao spares his life!" Du Yuan's blood splashed on Bian Xi's face, and he was even more frightened, seeing that he was surrounded by many people, he couldn't escape no matter what, so he could only blindly beg for mercy and pray that he could avoid death.

Liao Hua really didn't kill him, and immediately repelled all the swordsmen, flashed out of the crowd, pulled Zhou Cang out, and said to Bian Xi: "Bian Xi! Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao and I have secretly taken refuge in the official army, although the general Digong is out of the city, I am afraid that he will also be surrounded by the official army at this time. Are you willing to surrender? ”

Bian Xi replied again and again: "Yes, yes, as long as I don't die, I'm willing to do whatever I want!" In fact, I have long intended to surrender to the official army, but Du Yuan is in the way, even if General Liao does not kill him, I will kill him. Since everyone has the same idea, please ask General Liao to spare me from dying, and I will definitely lobby my subordinates to let them join the official army! ”

Liao Hua smiled and said: "I won't kill you, that's for this, the troops in the city are all controlled by you and Du Yuan, so I can only kill a hundred people." Wouldn't it be nice to get up and come with me to gather all the troops, and we will join the officers and soldiers together, so that we can be together again. ”

"Yes, yes, what General Liao said is, I will do whatever General Liao says, I will go and gather the whole army, but anyone who does not obey will be killed." Bian Xi hurriedly got up from the ground, bowed his head and said to Liao Hua.

Zhou Cang saw that Bian Xi had complied, so he laughed heartily and said to Liao Hua: "Brother Liao, your strategy is really seamless, my brother admires it tightly!" ”

After saying this, Zhou Cang walked behind Bian Xi with his weapon, pushed Bian Xi and walked out of the door. Liao Hua, Pei Yuanshao and the others followed, leaving only the lavish banquet in the room that no one cared about, and a bloody corpse.

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Zhang Bao took 30,000 horses out of the city, with a number of people and horses, and under the leadership of Guan Hai, he took advantage of the night to gallop forward for thirty miles.

"Stop!" Guan Hai suddenly shouted.

Zhang Baochi came to the front of the team and asked, "Guan Hai, why did you shout to stop?" ”

Guan Hai hurriedly said: "General, this place is already very close to the official army camp, we can't run so fast anymore, otherwise, the official army will be aware of it." ”

Zhang Bao thought about it, and said: "Okay, then move forward slowly, and give the order ......"

"General, the officers and troops are stationed on Niutouling, which is a high ground with slopes on all sides, and it is difficult for our army to launch a surprise attack from only one direction to get the desired effect." Guan Hai immediately interrupted Zhang Bao's words.

Zhang Bao was not suspicious, thinking that what Guan Hai said was indeed reasonable, so he asked, "What about your opinion?" ”

Guan Hai said: "The grain and grass of the official army are placed on the west side of the camp, and the defense is very tight, even if a surprise attack is launched, it is difficult to achieve major results. The general thought that the troops could be divided into four areas, and the general would first send people to attack from the east, south, and north to attract the troops in the entire battalion, so that the general would only need to send a small number of troops to burn grain and grass. Once the grain and grass are burned and the officers and troops are in chaos, our army can take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and succeed in one fell swoop! ”

Zhang Bao's face was overjoyed, and he immediately smiled: "It's really a clever plan, Guan Hai, when you retire from the official army, I will definitely reward you heavily." ”

Guan Hai said: "General, the last general is just guilty of meritorious service, only seeking the shame of Xue Guangzong, and not daring to be greedy for rewards!" ”

Zhang Bao turned his head and shouted: "Gao Sheng, Yan Zheng!" ”

Two horsemen hurriedly came from behind, and arched their hands: "What does the general command?" ”

Zhang Bao said: "The two of you each led 10,000 people, detoured back to the east and south, and when you saw that the attack was launched in the north direction, the two of you will follow me to storm the official army camp!" ”

Gao Sheng and Yan Zheng replied in unison: "No! ”

Zhang Bao said to Guan Hai again: "Guan Hai, I will give you 5,000 people, you lead the troops to launch a surprise attack from the north direction, whether Guangzong's shame can be repaid, it will be tonight!" ”

Guan Hai said: "The last general understands, please rest assured!" ”

The order was decided, and the four of them immediately separated, Zhang Bao made a detour to the west, Gao Sheng and Yan Zheng made a detour to the east, and Guan Hai led 5,000 people slowly and leisurely towards the Han army camp.

The rest of the journey was very slow, although Guan Hai had five thousand Yellow Turban troops with him, but he knew in his heart that what he wanted to do was to bring Zhang Bao and others into the ambush site, and the reason why he proposed to divide the troops was also based on the various plans formulated by Gao Fei to break through.

Today's Han army camp is just an empty stockade, the grain, grass, and soldiers have all moved to another place, although the Niutouling is also brightly lit, you can also see people guarding, but it is just a scarecrow made up by Gao Fei.

Guan Hai walked about ten miles with the five thousand Yellow Turban Army, then stopped and said to the people behind him: "You wait here for a while, I'll go ahead and see the road." ”

The Yellow Turban Army behind him didn't have any suspicion, so he stayed where he was, and let Guan Hai run forward on his horse alone.