Chapter Ninety-Five: Fengxiang Falls, Don't Use the Hidden Dragon
The people of Fengyi were very dissatisfied when they saw that Yongya lured the wolf into the house and dedicated the city to the Wei people. Yongya gathered the people together and said: "Fengyi is the capital of the first king of Wei, and it is reasonable for Wei to send troops to seize it, and you must obey orders." The fathers and elders protested: "Pei Gong let your boy guard the city, but you buy the lord to seek glory, what a villain who forgets his righteousness!" Aren't you afraid that Pei Gong will come and kill you? Yongyan said: "The first emperor said that there was a son of heaven in the southeast, which was a sign of the prosperity of the Wei State, if anyone did not be a subject of the Wei State, I would kill him first!" And the people were shocked. Wei Bao saw that Yongya was doing well, so he asked the King of Wei to make Yongya a general and the Marquis of Fengyi. He also ordered that all Pei Gong's family members should be taken care of and that no contact with outsiders should be allowed.
Wei Bao came to the public hall and ordered Fan Hao to be brought up. After a while, Fan Hao was brought. When Wei Bao saw that Fan Hao was tied into a zongzi, he laughed and said, "The butcher is really a good amount of wine!" Fan Hao said angrily: "Wei Gou, it's not your own family that makes you bad, you kid can enter Fengyi?" Wei Bao said: "Now that you have surrendered, you can be the general of the Great Wei State?" Fan Xu glared and scolded: "Phew! Dog thing, let the master descend to you? There are no doors! Wei Bao said: "If you don't surrender, I'll kill you!" Fan Xu said: "Kill the master, the master is also a happy ghost." Wei Bao said: "Liu Bang is a Ga Pavilion Chief, are you worth dying for him?" Fan Xu said: "My brother is specifically against the Qin people!" It's not like you, a rat generation, just knowing that cannibalism is really a bastard who can't achieve enough and has more than enough to lose! Wei Bao was furious and was about to kill Fan Xu. Yongya hurriedly persuaded: "General, slow down." Fan Hao is Liu Bang's brother-in-law, if he kills him, Liu Bang will come desperately. It's better to leave him as a hostage, so as to contain Liu Bang. Wei Bao listened to Yongya's words and temporarily imprisoned Fan Xu.
Ning Jun saw that Wei Bao had already occupied Fengyi, so he resigned and said: "I came to help the general capture Fengyi, the goal has been achieved, I have to go back now, please take care of the general." Wei Bao wanted to leave Ning Jun as a staff officer, but Ning Jun resolutely refused to agree and left. Ning Jun came to Xue County and saw that Pei Gong was still besieging the city, so he wrote a letter and shot into the city. The sergeant picked up the letter and showed it to the county guard, who was overjoyed to learn that Wei Bao had captured Fengyi, and immediately prepared to hunt down Pei Gong when he withdrew his army.
Fan Xu was very tightly guarded by Wei soldiers in prison, his hands and feet were tied, and he wanted not to report to his eldest brother, he didn't know that Wei Gou had occupied Fengyi, so he accosted the guard sergeant and said: "You tied me up for a day, and my legs and feet were numb, why didn't you untie me up?" Wei Jun said: "You are a tiger, don't dare to loosen your ties!" Fan Xu laughed and said: "I'm not a tiger, I'm a pig killer." Your general wants me to be the general of Wei, and now I have figured it out and am going to see him tomorrow. When I become a general, the first thing I will do is to kill you first! The sergeant asked, "Why did you kill us?" Fan said: "You rats, you are so unreasonable to Lao Fan, shouldn't you be killed?" The sergeant said: "Tie you up to the general's order, we can't disobey it." Fan Xue said: "Obviously, you tied me up, what does it have to do with the general?" The sergeant was scared and asked what he could do not kill. Fan Hao said: "You guys hurry up and make meritorious service now, I will not only not kill you in the future, but also give you a promotion!" The sergeant asked how he could do it. Fan Hao said: "Untie me first, and then bring some wine and rice." When I become a general, the first thing I will do is to give you a promotion! The sergeant said: "It's okay to give you wine and food, but you don't dare to loosen the tie." Fan Hao said: "Quickly get the wine and rice for me to eat." "Wei Jun brought food. Fan Xu said: "If I don't untie the rope, how can I eat?" The sergeant scrambled to feed Fan Xu, but he didn't dare to untie the rope. After Fan Hao finished eating, he said that he was going to again. So the sergeant brought him a toilet. Fan Xu said: "You tied me up like this, how can I pull it out?" The sergeant moved his hands together and carried Fan Xue to relieve his stool. Fan Hao smiled again and said, "I'm done, you still have to wipe your buttocks." Who knew that Fan Hao had just pooped, and the smell was incomparable, and Wei Jun ran out of the prison gate with vomit. Fan couldn't move and scolded the dog. A Wei soldier had no choice but to cover his nose, walked in with a knife, cut the rope, and released one of Fan Xu's arms for him to deal with by himself.
Fan Xu freed his hand, completed the formalities first, then put on his pants, ordered the toilet to be taken away, and then lay on the grass bunk without moving. After a long time, Wei Jun saw that Fan Hao had no intention of escaping, so he walked in and came to talk. Fan Xu suddenly grabbed Wei Jun and said, "Hurry up and loosen the tie for Lao Tzu, otherwise I will strangle you!" Wei Jun was so shocked that he had to untie the rope. When a sergeant saw that the situation was not right, he ran away. Fan Hao hurriedly picked up the rope and lassoed the sergeant, who immediately fell to the ground. Fan Hao dragged him to him again and asked where Wei Bao was. The sergeant was horrified: "Don't kill me!" Fan Xue said: "I won't kill you, you can tell me where your general is?" The sergeant said, "The general went out of the city to fight, and he was not in the city." Fan Hao asked again: "Where are the teeth?" The sergeant said, "It's at home." Fan Hao pushed the jailer away, walked out of the prison, snatched a knife from the jailer's hand, and ran straight towards Yongya's house. All who saw it were stunned.
Fan Hao came to the door of Yongya's house, and when he saw someone guarding him, he couldn't help but say something, and slashed it with a knife, and the Wei soldiers fell to the ground one after another. Fan Hao killed everyone, slammed the door and went straight in, shouting: "Get out and see me what betrays the Lord for glory!" Fan screamed a few times, only to see an old woman walk out with a lantern. Fan Hao recognized her as Yongya's mother, and wanted to go up and kill her. Seeing this, Yong's mother was so frightened that she knelt down and begged for mercy: "Master of the Fan family, you kill me now, I have no complaints, but I am also wronged!" When Fan Xu heard this, he angrily reprimanded: "Your son betrays the Lord and seeks glory, and I want to kill him, where is he?" Yongmu said: "Since Wei Bing entered the city, he has no face to see me, and I don't know where he is." Fan Xu came out and grabbed a sergeant and asked him about his black horse and weapons. The sergeant replied, "The horses are in the backyard, and the big is under the manger." When Fan heard that the horses and weapons were there, he turned around and ran into the backyard. Sure enough, when he saw the black horse and the big Yue, he hurriedly ran over and picked up the big Yue, untied the reins of the horse, and led the horse out of Yongya's house. After Fan Hao came out, he rode a horse to kill the government office. When the guards saw that Fan Hao was coming, they stepped forward to stop him. Fan Hao wheeled up the big axe, and all those who stood in the way hung up, and then broke in. Yongya and Wei General Zhang said that when they heard that Fan Hao had come in, their souls were scattered, and they hurriedly slipped through the back door.
Fan Xu didn't find Yongya, and scolded in his mouth: "I will kill you if you betray the Lord for glory!" After shouting a few times, I saw a large number of Wei troops surrounding them, and Yongya and Zhang Shuo were also neatly dressed and came to fight Fan Xu. Fan Xu was worried that he would not be able to get out of the city and did not dare to fight, so he turned his horse's head and went to the east gate to kill. The Wei soldiers couldn't stop him, so they left the city. Fan Hao went out of the city and didn't dare to see Pei Gong, so he went straight to Pei County to discuss with Ji Xin.
Fan Hao came to Pei County with a smoke, and went straight into the county office, shouting: "Fourth brother, take revenge!" Avenge! Ji Xin was sitting in the county office, and when he heard the sound of Fan Huo's fire, he didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly got up to greet him. Fan Hao had already broken in, and said with a face full of shame: "Fourth brother, I lost Fengyi!" Ji Xin was shocked and hurriedly asked what was going on. Fan Xu told the story in detail. When Ji Xin heard this, he was very shocked, and angrily scolded Yongya for betraying the Lord for glory. Fan Hao shouted: "Fengyi was lost by me, you give me a soldier and horse, I will take the city back!" Ji Xin said: "Fifth brother, the matter has come to this, it's useless to be anxious, I'll write to the eldest brother first, and then you Shoupei County, I will go to Fengyi in person, reprimand Yongya, and ask him to return Fengyi to us." "Fan Hao didn't follow, he had to take it himself. Ji Xin said: "Pei Gong's family is also in Fengyi, if you take it by force, the Wei people will harm them." Only then did Fan Xue calm down.
Ji Xin asked Fan Hao to guard the city, and he ordered five hundred soldiers to come to Fengyi City, and saw from a distance that the city was already covered with the banners of the Wei people, so he shouted Yongya to come out and answer. After a long time, Yongya came to the city and said, "Brother, forgive the younger brother for offending!" I can no longer serve Pei Gong. As the saying goes, 'A good bird chooses a tree to perch on, and a virtuous minister chooses the lord to serve.' 'The foolish brother saw that Pei Gong was a Ga Pavilion chief, and he would follow him to drink the northwest wind in the future, so I surrendered to the Wei State, please forgive me! Ji Xin persuaded Yongya: "Don't insist on going your own way, return Fengyi to me quickly, otherwise Pei Gong will not give up." Yong Tooth there is willing to return. Ji Xin wanted to attack the city, but he was afraid that they would hurt Pei Gong's family, so he had to retreat to Pei County.
Ji Xin's messenger came to Xue County and reported the situation to Pei Gong. When Pei Gong heard that Yongya had dedicated Fengyi to the Wei people, he was so angry that he said, "This eats something inside and outside, Lao Tzu must have picked his skin!" In a fit of rage, he drew his sword and cut off a piece of the corner. Xiao He persuaded very rationally: "Even if Pei Gong has the anger of the sky, he can't subdue the betrayal. Now King Zhang Chu is still waiting for us to rescue Zhou Wen, we should immediately go back to rescue Fengyi first, and then go to reinforce Zhang Chu. Pei Gong stomped his feet and scolded Yongya for being a dog, a bastard, shameless, and a white-eyed wolf, so he gathered the soldiers and told Yongya about the surrender of Wei. When the brothers heard that Yongya had rebelled, they were shocked. At this time, Pei Gong also withdrew immediately because of his mother's new funeral and worried that something would happen to his old father. Afraid that the county guard would chase after him, he let Cao Wushu and Lu Juan lead an elite army to ambush in the middle of the road.
Pei Gong galloped all the way and came back to Pei County, and Ji Xin went out of the city to greet him. Fan Hao hid far away and didn't dare to come out. When Pei Gong entered the city, he dragged Fan Xu out of the dark room, and when he saw that he was eating and drinking, he severely accused him of not being a drunkard and dereliction of duty. Fan was ashamed of himself, and he was about to wipe his neck with a sword. Pei Gong snatched the sword and reprimanded him for not showing any interest. Fan Hao remorsefully said: "Please give me a soldier and horse, and I will kill Yongya!" Pei Gong then gathered all his troops and horses and rushed towards Fengyi.
When Yongya heard that the settler was coming, he hurriedly went to the city to watch, only to see Pei Gong sitting on a tall and sturdy chariot, throwing a long sword in his hand, and went straight to the city. After stabilizing his position, he shouted, "Yongfang! You dog, what point is Lao Tzu sorry for you, stabbing me in the back? Yongya replied very ashamedly, "Please calm Pei Gong's anger." Listen to me: Fengyi was originally a place where the king of Wei migrated, and now the Wei state has come to take over, which is a matter of course, and the king of Wei is a descendant of the royal family, so I dedicated the city to the Wei state, just to earn a few more money to support the family, and there is no other meaning. Pei Gongdao: "What nonsense! Fengyi is my hometown, the place where the brothers raised their troops, what does it have to do with the Wei State? If you follow Lao Tzu, will you starve to death? Hurry up and give me back the city, and I'll spare you from dying!" Yongya said: "The current King of Wei and the general Wei Bao are both descendants of the first King of Wei, and their bloodlines are noble, how can you compare with him?" I'm really worried that nothing will come of it after me? Let's not talk about this far away, we don't want to worship the marquis, my family is still waiting for dinner, and I'm afraid that you won't even be able to drink the northwest wind in the future? Little brother, I also advise you to return to Wei together, and the king of Great Wei will definitely worship you as a general in the future! Pei Gong was furious and said, "Okay, brother? Since I can't give you glory and wealth, you can go with others, but you can't give the city to others? ”
Wei General Zhang said to Pei Gong: "Liu Bang, you are a small pavilion chief, and you dare to compete for territory with my Great Wei State?" You don't want to think about how many pounds and taels you are? Pei Gong said angrily: "Wei Gou, take advantage of people's danger, I'm going to break your neck?" Zhang Shuo laughed and said, "Am I afraid that you won't succeed?" "I'm going to fight. Yongya persuaded: "Generals, Pei is just angry, if they play with their lives, we are not opponents at all." Before the words fell, it annoyed a person behind Zhang Shuo, who shouted: "Liu Bang is just a pavilion chief, a village man in the mountains, what are you afraid of?" I am willing to go out of the city to capture him alive, and then capture Xiao He alive. If you can't win, cut off my head! Zhang said that when he looked back, he saw that it was the brave general Bai Jie, so he agreed to let him fight. Yongya repeatedly dissuaded him, and Bai Jie became even more domineering, so he led thirty or fifty sergeants out of the city. Suddenly, I saw a tall man, with a long beard and a beautiful beard, and a bronze face and green clothes, and came to the front of the battle with a sky-opening knife. Bai Jie didn't know who this man was, so he let his horse go straight over. Just as he was about to ask, his horse ran a little faster, and was already cut in two by the other party. The person who beheaded him was none other than Pei Gong's general Cao Shen. When Wei Jun saw that the lord was about to be beheaded, they were all stupid. Seeing this, Zhang Shuo urgently ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and then closed the city gate.
Fan Xu had already attacked the city at this time, and he wanted to attack the city directly, and first caught General Wei and broke his stomach. Suddenly, I heard a bang at the head of the city, and a volley of arrows was fired. Fan was furious, and used his shield to block the arrows and attacked upward. Pei Gong drank the order to catch Yongya alive. The Wei army resisted, but it was no match for Pei's army. In a short time, Fan Hao was about to climb the ladder. Suddenly, Zhang Shuo tied Mrs. Liu to the head of the city and shouted: "If you attack the city again, you will cut down the old thing first!" When Pei Gong saw that his old father was tied up outside the women's wall by Wei Jun, he cried out in pain: "Father! When Fan Hao saw it, he didn't dare to attack again, so he had to retreat from the city. Wei General Zhang said that he was relieved when he saw that Fan Hao had retreated, so he strengthened the guards, and then said to Pei Gong: "Liu Bang, you are a big family, if you dare to attack the city again, I will cut down the city one by one!" Pei Gong wanted to cry without tears, so he had to order to retreat.
That night, Yongya said to Zhang: "Liu Ji is a filial son, and now that he is in the event of his mother's funeral, he will definitely go to his mother's grave tonight to guard the grave!" If we had laid an ambush around the tomb in advance, we would have captured him alive! Zhang said that he was very happy, so he took the initiative to bring a group of soldiers and horses out of the city in advance to ambush.
Seeing that he couldn't save his family and fellow villagers, Pei Gong was very upset, so he took down the people. After nightfall, he quietly brought a dozen people to the grave of his mother in Zhongyangli, first wept and sacrificed, and then sat and napped. The attendants did not dare to speak. Until late at night, suddenly a drum sounded, and the sound of killing on all sides was loud, only to hear the Wei army shouting together: "Capture Liu Bang alive!" Pei Gong got up in a panic and saw that countless Wei troops had surged around, and the leader was the Wei general Zhang Shuo, and the entourage surrounded to protect Pei Gong. Pei Gong shouted: "Don't want me to die here!" As soon as the words fell, a group of men and horses in the southwest corner arrived like a hurricane, and the leader rushed straight in, and the Wei army fell to the ground one after another. If you look closely, it's Fan Xu. Pei Gong's entourage shouted: "Pei Gong is here, General Fan is here to protect!" ”
It turned out that when Xiao He arrived at night, he suddenly found that Pei Gong was missing, so he hurriedly sent people to look around. Fan Hao thought that Pei Gong would go to the tomb, so he immediately brought a group of men and horses to come, and happened to encounter the Wei army besieging Pei Gong, so he killed him, and met Zhang Shuo on the front, so he raised his sword and cut it down. Zhang said that he greeted each other and killed a few rounds, Zhang said where was Fan Xu's opponent, and he fled. Fan Hao was worried about Pei Gong, so he didn't chase Zhang Shuo, and ran over to inspect Pei Gong. Pei Cheng folded his arms and groaned. Pei Gong said: "If it wasn't for my brother who arrived in time, I almost died!" Zhang said that guy, when he saw that you were killed, he shot an arrow at me, ouch! Seeing that the arrow had hit Pei Gong's left arm, Fan Hao hurriedly helped him to mount his horse and walk towards the barracks. At this time, Xiao He and the others also rushed together. Everyone met, and Pei Gong described the thrilling scene just now to everyone. Xiao He was shocked and returned to the camp. Xiao He hurriedly asked the military doctor to inspect the arrow wound, and it turned out that the flesh and skin were injured, and it was no big deal. The medic bandaged it. At this time, it was already October weather, and the cold wind blew all night, and there were snowflakes in the sky. The soldiers were so cold that they only shivered, and finally survived until dawn.
Unexpectedly, Pei Gong suffered from the wind and cold again this night, coupled with an arrow wound, and he couldn't afford to get sick. At this time, Cao Wuxian suddenly sent someone to report, saying that the county guard Yin Zhuang saw that Pei Gong had withdrawn his army, so he led the Qin army to chase after him, and was killed by his ambush army when he came to Qi County. When Pei Gong heard the good news, his mood was a little better.
The next day, Pei Gong's condition did not improve, so Xiao He comforted: "Now the county guard is dead, but the Wei army is eyeing it, and I am very worried that they will attack Pei County." Now that your family is in the hands of the Wei people again, we can't fight to the death. Tanma came to report again, saying that Zhang Chu's Zhou Wen was trapped by Zhang Han in Mianchi, and the situation was very dangerous, if Zhang Han won, then the Qin army would kill Shandong, the current situation is becoming more and more unfavorable, we still go back to Pei County to hold on, and we can't lose that place again? Pei Gong said: "We raised troops, but we didn't expect that the Wei people would come to seize our territory, and they didn't know who the public enemy was?" It's sad! Xiao He also felt the same way, and said: "If heroes from all walks of life can be like you, things will be much easier!" Pei Gong ordered Cao Wuxian, Lu Xuan, and Lu Shizhi to guard Qi County, as foreign aid, and the rest of the troops returned to Pei County.
A few days later, the sergeants came to report that Wei Bao and Zhou Shi had advanced eastward one after another, had occupied Huling and Xue County, and then stormed Qi County. Hu Ling's guard Zhou Ke and others, as well as Cao Wuxian and others in Qi County, all suffered defeats and fled back together. When Pei Gong heard the report, his expression was calm, and he let out a long breath and said, "Alas! The city we took from the Qin people is now being robbed by others, isn't our cause going well? "My intuition was in a trance, and my condition was even more serious. Seeing this, Xiao He asked the doctor to treat Pei Gong's illness while strengthening his defense and comforting the people.