Chapter 27: Zhang Jiao dies
A golden sun was embedded in the blue sky, and a white cloud was like a lone sail on the blue sea floating in the clear sky. Twenty miles outside Guangzong City, Liu Bei's three brothers rode forward with hundreds of villagers, and got Jicheng's advice, they took down hundreds of war horses in Jicheng's camp, and made a detour to the north gate to intercept Zhang Jiao.
There was a valley twenty miles to the north, the road was narrow, and it was a good place to ambush, and Zhang Liang came from here with 50,000 Yellow Turban troops to support Guangzong, so Zhang Jiao would definitely escape from the north.
After several people took Xiang Yong into the valley to ambush him, Zhang Fei opened his mouth and asked, "Big brother, will Zhang Jiao really escape from here?" Will that villain really run away? ”
Without waiting for Liu Bei to answer, Guan Yu took the first step and said: "Third brother, you can't say this about General Hou in the future, General Hou is kind to us, and we must treat each other politely when we see each other in the future." ”
Zhang Fei asked puzzledly, "Why?" He was just afraid that I would really do it, so he would give us hundreds of horses, so how could it be considered kindness? Thinking of the way no one looked down on his eldest brother in his eyes, I wanted to beat him up. ”
Guan Yu said again: "Third brother, you misunderstood. ”
Liu Bei continued: "General Hou deliberately targeted us like this because he had a bad reputation and didn't want to implicate us. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to help us like that. Not to mention that the third brother, you contradicted him unreasonably before, so the third brother, you misunderstood the general. ”
Zhang Fei asked even more puzzled: "But so many people say that he has no one in his eyes, and he is in the company of eunuchs, and he appoints women as officials." What he did was outraged, and everyone was scolding her. We don't know him well, so why should he help us? ”
Liu Bei: "I don't know about this, no matter what, he did help us, we have to write down this situation." ”
Guan Yu: "Through today's events, I don't think General Hou is like what is rumored outside. I think he cares about the big man, otherwise he wouldn't let go of Zhang Jiao and choose to capture the prisoner. Didn't we hear that he had a conflict with General Huangfu over the matter of being captured? At that time, General Huangfu wanted to kill the Yellow Turban Army prisoners, but he stopped him before the conflict broke out.
These days, we have also heard a lot of things about General Huangfu, every time he wins the Yellow Turban Army, he does not leave prisoners, and all of them are killed. We also all know that these Yellow Turban soldiers were forced to rebel, and before that they were just ordinary people, and they would not rebel if they had a full meal. ”
Although Guan Yu is arrogant, but Ye is not a person who does not distinguish between right and wrong, in recent months, it has been rumored that Jicheng will win, every battle will be won, and the captives will be treated preferentially, Qingzhou has undergone earth-shaking changes in a few months under his management.
Qingzhou, where the people used to have a poor livelihood, has become more prosperous than Jizhou, and the people are not as clothed as before, and their hungry faces are yellow and thin. Now I dare not say that every citizen can be fed, but I have not heard that the people starved to death.
Liu Bei also agrees that if he can do so much for the people, he will never be a bad person, and if he doesn't deal with himself, he will also do it for others to see. He helped himself because he was a relative of the Han family, which shows that he was loyal to the Han family.
Zhang Fei listened to Guan Yude's explanation and felt that Ji Cheng seemed to be different from the outside, and said: "After Zhang Jiao is solved, I will go to Qingzhou and Liaodong to have a look, if he really loves the people like a son, I will personally come to the door to ask for guilt." ”
Without waiting for Liu Bei to say anything, he heard the scout come back and report that more than a thousand Yellow Turban soldiers were escorting a carriage and fled here. The three brothers immediately separated, took their respective positions according to the previous plan, and attacked as soon as the carriage arrived.
After waiting for a quarter of an hour, the Yellow Turban Army escorted the carriage to the valley, and after entering the ambush site, Liu Bei ordered an attack, and most of the Yellow Turban Army was stoned to death.
Guan Yu rode in front and rushed towards the Yellow Turban Army, while Zhang Fei appeared behind to kill the Yellow Turban Army.
"Swear to protect the great teacher to the death, and fight a bloody way to escort the great teacher away."
Those who escaped with Zhang Jiao were all Zhang Jiao's diehards, even if Zhang Jiao was terminally ill now, they had to defend desperately, so they were ambushed by Liu Bei and killed most of the people did not flee, and supported the carriage to meet Guan Yu.
The front and rear flanking attacks, coupled with Liu Bei commanding the archers to shoot the Yellow Turban Army at a high place, the camp of the Yellow Turban Army was disrupted, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei soon approached the carriage. Liu Bei also asked the archers to put down their bows and arrows, pick up their weapons, and rush down.
As he rushed down, he shouted: "Put down your arms and surrender, you can spare your life......"
The war ended an hour later, not a single Yellow Turban Army surrendered, all the Yellow Turban Army was killed, and there were only more than 100 of the more than 500 people brought by Liu Bei's three brothers.
Although the losses were heavy, Liu Bei and the others thought it was worth it, because they found Zhang Jiao who still had one breath left in the carriage, and Zhang Fei cut off Zhang Jiao's head.
Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei to put away Zhang Jiao's head and said, "Don't deal with the battlefield, lest Dong Zhuo catch up and grab the credit." Let's get out of here first, and then find a chance to join up with Vice Admiral Lu. Let them help us repay the credit. ”
Zhang Fei: "Big brother, why don't you look for General Hou?" ”
Guan Yu: "If General Hou helps us report the credit, it will arouse suspicion, then what General Hou has done before will be in vain." ”
Zhang Fei was a straight person, and said with a displeased face: "Since we know that General Hou is not that kind of person, why can't we drink her to make friends?" Why care what others say? ”
Liu Bei: "Third brother, if we do this, we will live up to General Hou's wishes." General Hou wants us to have a good reputation and get the support of more scholars, so that people will join us, and it will be easier for us to recruit troops.
If we want to gain a foothold in troubled times, Liu must have a good reputation, and when we have the strength, we can secretly help the general enough to repay the kindness of the general. ”
At this time, the three brothers no longer doubted Ji Cheng, they firmly believed that Ji Cheng was going to give them a future, and they didn't want them to be burdened by fame. I was very grateful to Ji Cheng, so Liu Bei felt that he couldn't live up to Ji Cheng's kindness.
Zhang Fei is still very unconvinced, the general can ignore his reputation, why can't he be. However, he has always respected the two sworn brothers, so he didn't say anything more.
Liu Bei and the others left for more than an hour, Dong Zhuo really rode over with more than 1,000 Xiliang Tie, and scattered out to look for it, but unfortunately they didn't find it, so they could only return in vain.
Guangzong was successfully captured, Zhang Jiao escaped, Zhang Bao was beheaded by Dong Zhuo, and Ji Cheng took 100,000 prisoners. After that, Ji Cheng returned to Qingzhou with the captives, and asked Vice General Lu and Dong Zhuo to go back separately.
Liu Bei's three brothers took Zhang Jiao's head to find Deputy General Lu, and Deputy General Lu was also willing to repay them for their merits. Immediately let people go to Luoyang with Zhang Jiao's head, Liu Bei and they didn't worry about escorting the people arranged by Vice General Lu to Luoyang!