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"My brother is seriously injured so far, it's all the fault of my foolish brother, I hurt you!"

In the camp tent on the left side of the Chinese army marshal's tent, Pang Tong stood in front of the couch and watched with the army Langzhong bandaging Xu Shu's wounds, and after the wounds were treated, he waved his hand to retreat from his relatives and Langzhong, crying with tears in his eyes and blaming himself, his face showed endless remorse, and his intestines were really remorseful, so that he cried bitterly in front of Xu Shu. There is also a bit of regret and indignation in the remorse.

"Ahem!" Xu Shu, who had a pale face and chapped lips, coughed before he could speak, and when he stopped coughing, a smear of blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, adding a color to his pale cheeks.

Pang Tong sat on the edge of the bed and supported Xu Shu's left shoulder, patted his back gently, and persuaded softly: "Brother Yuan, don't say much, save some strength, and it's important to recuperate from your injuries with peace of mind." The elder brother is seriously injured, he can't talk much, and he doesn't have to worry about the military situation. Indeed, Xu Shu's injuries were extremely serious, and he had lost so much blood and strength that it was difficult to even speak.

Xu Shu raised his left arm and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, then gently swung his left hand, took a deep breath, calmed down his rapid breathing, and said weakly: "Shiyuan doesn't have to blame himself, this matter has nothing to do with you, blame the foolish brother for being negligent and rash against the enemy, so there will be today's disaster." Ahem??????" As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Shu coughed up a mouthful of blood, so that the words stopped abruptly. This was due to the fact that his emotions fluctuated too much, because his injuries were too severe.

Just now, the soldier pulled out three broken arrows from him, two of which were in the calf, and the remaining one was in the left chest. The arrow pierced the lobe of his lung, causing him to vomit blood. Dyspnea. But this is not the most fatal trauma, what really made Xu Shu become the person who is about to die now. It was because his entire right arm was cut off shoulder to shoulder. After an ordinary person loses an arm, if the rescue is timely and handled properly, he will not die; After Xu Shu was injured, not only did he not get timely and effective treatment, but he fled for his life in a hurry. Although he bandaged the wound afterwards, he still had to hurry, so he bumped all the way, and the wound could not be coagulated at all to stop the bleeding, and it kept oozing blood. So it goes. It is already a miracle that Xu Shu was able to return to the camp alive. Perhaps, it was his persistent and firm belief that supported him to return to the camp, and when his wish was fulfilled, it was when this body ran out of oil and dried up.

"Brother, don't say it anymore, your body matters. After my brother recovers, can you and my brother have a long talk? Seeing Xu Shu in such pain, Pang Tong was extremely heartbroken, the pain was like a knife, and he once again dissuaded Xu Shu from saying more. Recuperate with peace of mind. As he spoke, Pang Tong took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the blood stains from the corners of Xu Shu's mouth.

Xu Shu shook his head slightly, grinning sadly: "Shiyuan doesn't need to persuade again, there are some foolish brothers who don't say it at this time." I'm afraid I won't have a chance to say it again. The reason why the foolish brother has been able to survive until now is to return to the camp to recover his life, and to tell Shi Yuan about the whole story of this trip. ”

"This ??????" Pang Tong shed tears before he spoke. Choked up and said: "Foolish brother listens to his brother's teachings, brother, please speak." ”

Xu Shu shook his head again. He said slowly: "It's not a teaching, but I have found some clues." Maybe it will be of some use to Shiyuan. Pang Tong's voice changed, his eyelids twitched a few times, but he didn't interject. He couldn't bear to interrupt Xu Shu's words.

"Brother Yu led the army to attack Yangzhai City this time, and it was very smooth all the way to go, and it only took three days and three nights to sneak into the west gate of Yangzhai City, and sent Zhou Tai to sneak into the city in advance, thinking that it should be ??????" Xu Shu spoke very slowly, but he spoke in detail, and told Pang Tong about the sneak attack on the West Gate that night.

Wei Yan underestimated the enemy, and was beheaded by the enemy general Guan Yu under the horse under the three-in-one. As soon as Wei Yan died, the morale of our army was frustrated, and many soldiers were afraid to move forward, neither advancing but retreating, trying to withdraw from the city gate. At this moment, the enemy general Guan Yu led a thousand elite iron cavalry, 7,000 foot soldiers and more than 10,000 civilian young and strong generals, and instantly scattered our vanguard front army, and then rushed straight to the Chinese army led by me. I knew that I was invincible to Guan Yu, so I ordered my own guards to shoot Guan Yu in one fell swoop, but I didn't expect that Guan Yunchang was very good, and hundreds of archers couldn't stop him by firing arrows together. In desperation, I had to swing my sword to fight, but I was shocked off the horse by Guan Yu's sword, if it weren't for the desperate rescue of the personal guards, I was afraid that I would have become a ghost under Guan Yu's knife. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Shu paused, and after taking a sigh of relief, he continued: "The foolish brother has read all the books of war, although he does not dare to say that he is proficient in all the art of war in the world, he is not a mecresh talent. Knowing the way of outwitting the strong and capturing the weak, he led the army to fight and retreat, and ordered the rear army to withdraw from the city gate, set up an ambush outside the city, set up a crossbow, and killed Guan Yu and other Western Jin Dynasty generals. I don't think about it, there are also masters in Guan Yu's army, and they are masters of the art of war who are very good at using soldiers. When Guan Yu led the army to kill the soldiers of our army, this person suddenly appeared, strictly ordered to stop Guan Yu from going out of the city to chase and kill, and instead ordered him to lead his troops to exterminate the Jingzhou soldiers scattered in the city.

However, just when I thought that Guan Yu would not lead the army out of the city to chase and kill, and was about to lead the troops to retreat, Guan Yu suddenly led the army out of the city gate, which caught me off guard, and the army of more than 10,000 people suddenly fell into chaos and fled in a hurry. The enemy general Guan Yu did not chase with all his strength, but ordered the soldiers to fire arrows in unison, and all rockets, until then I understood, it turned out that Guan Yu led the army out of the city not to chase and kill our soldiers, but to burn the tens of thousands of stones and grass carried by our army. ”

“?????? At noon the next day, Brother Yu led his army on a detour to Cao Ren's camp outside the north gate to contact Cao Ren to discuss the covenant. When Cao Ren learned that our army's sneak attack on Ximen had suffered a heavy setback, he spoke lightly and did not take the foolish brother in his eyes at all. The foolish brother immediately brushed his sleeves away, and sent a cavalry of 500 people to run back and forth on the official road outside the south gate that night, pretending to be the cavalry under the tent of Zhou Yu of Yuzhou to come to Yangzhai City for reinforcements, deliberately letting the scouts under Cao Ren's tent see it, and hunted and killed more than 100 Cao army scouts. The next day, Cao Ren really hit the plan, sent his own soldiers to invite the foolish brother into the tent, and took the initiative to mention the covenant, but the grain and grass carried by our army had been burned by Guan Yu's army, and Yangzhai City had not yet fallen, so how could there be grain and grass to exchange war horses with him.

So the foolish brother falsely claimed that the grain and grass were trapped in the city, and if Cao Ren could capture Yangzhai City, he could naturally get the grain and grass. And the foolish brother promised him that after this battle, he would compensate him with 100,000 stones of grain and grass. Cao Ren did not allow it. He claimed that he had to see grain and grass in order to exchange it, otherwise the covenant would be null and void. We'll talk about it later. Forced into desperation, the foolish brother used the Jingzhou army to withdraw from Nanyang to blackmail Cao Ren into submission, telling him that if he did not fulfill the covenant, our Jingzhou army would immediately withdraw from Nanyang, and then try to reconcile with the Western Jin Dynasty, and even form an alliance with the Western Jin Dynasty. Cao Ren was shocked when he heard this, the more than 100,000 troops under his command have penetrated deep into the hinterland of Sili, if our army withdraws from the battlefield and no longer participates in the war, the more than 100,000 troops under the account of Zhuge Liang in Nanyang will go north to encircle and annihilate his Wei army. After some negotiations. Cao Ren finally relented, and handed over to me the 15,000 war horses that had been prepared, but this man was not good at stubble, and claimed to wait until our army delivered the grain and grass before handing over the cavalry equipment to us. At this point, the foolish brother could only accept it when he saw it, no longer entangled with him, and the next day on the fifth watch, he led the army to quietly leave Yangzhai and return to the camp. ”

"The foolish brother thought he had a plan, but he expected that the army left Yangzhai City for less than half an hour. But on the way, he encountered a 5,000-strong Shuofeng Battalion Iron Cavalry under Zhou Yu's command. After an encounter, there were less than 10,000 of the more than 13,000 soldiers left under the foolish brother's account, and this Xiliang cavalry seemed to have another mission and did not like to fight. After a charge, he went straight to Yang Zhai City. However, half an hour later, the enemy general Guan Yu led a thousand iron cavalry to chase and kill, and he did not fight hard with our army. One blow and left, but always followed behind our troops. Wait for an opportunity to sneak attack. The arrow wounds on the arm and body of the foolish brother were given by Guan Yu?????? Wei Yan and Jiang Qin both died under Guan Yu's knife, and Zhou Tai was killed by crossbow arrows. ”

listened attentively to Xu Shu's story. Pang Tong faintly felt that it was no accident that Xu Shu's army was repeatedly intercepted and killed by the Xiliang army, and it seemed that the Xiliang army deliberately did it. In addition, when Xu Shu led the army back to the camp, there were less than 5,000 soldiers and horses, which means that most of the 25,000 cavalry he led was lost, and all of them were destroyed by the Xiliang army. There's something strange here! But this is not what Pang Tong is most concerned about, compared to it, he is more concerned about what Xu Shu wants to say and what he finds.

"The Xiliang army is brave and good at fighting, which the foolish brother deeply understands. Now that my brother is seriously injured, I wonder what my brother has found? Pang Tong asked.

Xu Shu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Although Yangzhai City is a big city, the defenders are only 25,000 people. With this bit of soldiers and horses, the Yangzhai defenders stubbornly blocked the strong attack of the Cao army and the 130,000 troops of our Jingzhou army, and held on for three days, and the city still did not fall. At first, the foolish brother didn't know what was going on, but it wasn't until the night of his departure from Yangzhai that he learned that there were more than 40,000 young men in the city who took the initiative to defend the city. With such a city full of soldiers, even if we have more than 100,000 troops, we will not be able to capture Yangzhai City. What the foolish brother wants to say is that Li Li of the Western Jin Dynasty was lenient and benevolent, the officials ruled the Qingming, and he valued the people lightly for the scholars, which won the hearts of the people. I don't know if Shi Yuan has ever heard that 'the will of the people is the will of heaven', what the people want, how can we go against the sky? ”

“?????? This is one of them. Second, on the way back to the camp with the army, Brother Yu learned that Emperor Li Li of the Jin Dynasty led a strange army to attack Guandu, the rear grain and grass camp of Cao Ren's army, and succeeded in one fell swoop, burning all the grain and grass baggage of Cao Ren's army. What does it mean, Shiyuan will not not know. In the opinion of the foolish brother, Cao Ren's army will be wiped out this time, perhaps at this time, Cao Ren's army has been completely annihilated by the Xiliang army. Shi Yuan should know that Cao Ren has mobilized 220,000 troops this time, which is half of the soldiers and horses under the command of Emperor Cao Cao of Wei. If the Wei State perishes or survives, then my Southern Han Dynasty will inevitably be difficult to support alone, and sooner or later it will be exterminated by the Western Jin Dynasty. ”

"Third, it is also the most reassuring thing for the foolish brother. Brother Yu led the troops deep into Yuzhou this time, and vaguely felt that the matter of our joint Northern Wei troops seemed to have been expected by the Jin State, but they pretended not to know, and waited for the net, but they did not trigger it. After our two countries sent troops, Li Li took the initiative and invisibly formed a combined encirclement of our Jingzhou army and the Cao army of the Northern Wei Dynasty, in an attempt to annihilate all the soldiers and horses of the two countries in the territory of Sili.

It's a huge conspiracy. First lead the snake out of the hole, let our two countries move first; Then the army of the Western Jin Dynasty showed weakness and divided troops to block it; When the time is ripe, he will strike a thunderous blow again, and then attack the enemy, annihilating more than half of the soldiers and horses of the two countries in one fell swoop. If Cao Ren's army is really annihilated by the Xiliang army in one fell swoop, then our Jingzhou army is very likely to follow in the footsteps of Cao's army.

The foolish brother was seriously injured and thought of a bold speculation, this is a big net woven with the Xiliang Iron Horse as a rope, and my Southern Han and Northern Wei countries will not move, and the Western Jin Dynasty will not move; Once we take the initiative to jump out, we will unknowingly fall into the net, and the commanders such as Zhuge Liang, Guo Jia and Zhou Yu are the fishermen who collect the net. Emperor Li Li of the Jin Dynasty is the controller of this big net, firmly in control of the situation in the world, when he led the army to conquer the Quartet, he has cast a big net, and now this net is finished, just wait for our two countries to jump out, and the two major vassal states will be wiped out. ”

said everything in his heart in one breath, Xu Shu didn't say anything anymore, slowly lay down with the help of Pang Tong, slowly closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep??????

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