Chapter 263: The Dead Wither (2)
On this day, Liu Yuan's second army will hunt north of Shouchun.
Liu Beijun imitated Han Xin's attack on Zhao in the past, and took the battle against the water, in order to show that he was brave enough to break the thief and would die if he retreated.
Liu Bei's side took Liu Bei to supervise the rear army, Guan Yu to supervise the front army, and Zhao Yun as the vanguard.
As for Yuan Shu's side, Yuan Shu also personally pressed the formation in the rear, leading the whole army with the general Ji Ling.
The two armies set up their own formations and confronted each other for a long time, but they never made the first move.
Liu Bei shouted and wanted to talk to Yuan Shu.
Yuan Shu was about to get up and meet Liu Bei in front of the battle, but the general Ji Ling stopped him, "Now that the big war is imminent, why should the lord go out to meet him? I know that the lord and his father were friends in the past, but now it is a battle between life and death, and Liu Bei may not use some poisonous methods. May the Lord have the lives of the three armies on his mind."
Yuan Shu didn't care, "If you change someone else, Xu Hou will do what you said, but Liu Xuande will never be like this." If I don't go to meet him in front of the battle, I will weaken our morale. Besides, after this battle, no matter who wins or loses, I'm afraid it will be difficult to see each other again."
Ji Ling couldn't be dissuaded, so he could only sigh helplessly.
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In front of the two armies, Yuan and Liu looked at each other from a distance.
Liu Bei looked at the Yuan family opposite.
Compared with when he was in Luoyang, the authority in Yuan Shu's hands has long been far from being comparable to the original, and the ghosts in the road who were ridiculed in the past have long been famous all over the world.
Yuan Shuyuan himself was extremely thin, and after not seeing him all these years, he seemed to be thinner.
While he was looking at Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu naturally looked up.
When he was in Luoyang, he knew that those who drank at the same table in the wine house back then would be promising, but he didn't expect it to be so promising.
At that time, Yuan Shu's greatest wish was just to one day suppress the original and become the face of the Yuan family.
Who would have thought that today, even if he is the Son of Heaven, he will dare to look at it on tiptoe.
As long as today is better than the old man on the other side.
Liu Bei retreated to guard the cavalry and stepped forward alone.
Yuan Shu was stunned, but then he didn't know what to think, laughed, and stepped forward like Liu Bei.
In the past, the old people were opposite, and the two horses were only seven or eight steps apart.
Yuan Shu smiled: "I haven't seen you for many years, you are still so big, if I am ruthless, I can't say that this battle will end before it starts."
Liu Bei shook his head and smiled: "Others don't know, don't you know your own family, when you were in Luoyang, you competed in swordsmanship, did you ever win?" To tell you the truth, I actually had a lot of spare hands at the beginning, and I said that I could beat you five or six, but in fact, I was deceiving you, and I could actually beat you a dozen."
Yuan Shu laughed and scolded when he heard this, as if he had returned to the time when he was unscrupulous.
It's just that both of them know that they can't go back.
Now that the knot of death has been concluded, the only way to solve it is to die.
Liu Bei took out two jars of wine from his horse's bag, and asked Yuan Shu with a smile which altar he wanted.
He chuckled softly, "Taste? I brewed it with my own hands, even if you Yuan Highway are high and powerful in these years, you will definitely never drink a more authentic daughter than this."
Yuan Shu casually pointed to an altar, and Liu Bei threw the wine to Yuan Shu.
He slapped the mud seal open and took a sip first.
Seeing this, Yuan Shu no longer hesitated, and began to drink.
After taking two sips, Yuan Shu sighed, "It's still the taste of the past, but it's not the taste of the year anymore."
Liu Bei didn't say anything, just drank silently.
Yuan Shu said with a smile: "I still remember when you were in Luoyang, you once got drunk after drinking, and laughed that the people who drank in the wine house at that time would be famous all over the world in the future. At the time, I didn't take it to heart, but now I have to say that you have a really good eye."
Back then, in the Qingping Wine House, who were the drinkers at the same table?
At the beginning of Yuan Shao, Yuan raised troops to resist Dong Zhuo, raised troops to the west, and shocked the world. Even if he is temporarily defeated by Liu Bei now, he still occupies the huge land of Jizhou.
Yuan
Shuyuan Highway, at its peak, occupied the land of Sanzhou, Jiangdong Menghu as its wings. Almost monopolize the south of the world.
Han Yue Han Wenyue, renamed Han Sui, is now helping each other with Ma Teng, separating the land of Liangzhou, and sitting on the strong army of Xiliang.
Fu Xie and Fu Nanrong, although they had already died in the rebellion in Liangzhou, they could still hear the name of their loyalty and martyrdom in the land of Liangzhou.
Cao Cao and Cao Mengde, although they are now panicked like a lost dog, but in the world, whether they are friends or enemies, without exception, they all agree with one thing, that is, this person is indeed a rare hero.
Yuan Shu glanced at the mud leg in front of him who had gone to Luoyang from Youzhou in the past.
After many years, the young man who went to Luoyang alone and had nothing to do now occupies several states and is famous all over the world.
Liu Bei said with a smile: "I didn't let go of it at that time, it was just casual words, life has its own opportunities, who can say it accurately?"
Yuan Shu nodded, raised his head and took a sip of wine.
He raised his hand to wipe the wine stains from the corner of his mouth, and said with a smile, "Xuande invited me to see him, is it just to drink with me?"
Liu Bei shook his head with a smile, he shook the remaining drinks in the wine jar, "Highway, you won't win. It is better to surrender here, so that the people in Shouchun City will not suffer from the war, and you and I will not need to meet each other with swords."
Yuan Shu suddenly laughed when he heard this, pointed his finger at Liu Bei, and said with a smile: "After so many years, Xuande, you are still so naïve. There are many things in this world, where can you do what you want? You want me to surrender, why don't I want you to surrender? It's just that don't say that you and I are not reconciled, how can the people under you and me agree? Xuande, there are many things in the world, and when they come to an end, I can't help myself."
"What's more, my Yuan Shu thinks that I am not under you Liu Xuande, you can win over Yuan Benchu, but you may not be able to win over Yuan Highway."
Liu Bei nodded, "On the battlefield, you and I are divided between life and death."
Yuan Shu laughed, threw out the wine jar in his hand, turned the horse's head and left.
Liu Bei Jiang raised his head and drank all the wine in the wine jar, stunned.
Over the years, he has occupied Qingzhou and risen too quickly, so Yuan Shao is still the model of the world, and Yuan Shu has not been the dry bones in the grave.
After a few moments, he threw the jar out of his hand and rode away.
The old people in the past walked against each other.
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On the frontal battlefield, the two sides had already clashed, and Ji Ling dragged Guan Yu's front army with a military formation.
Ji Ling's formation is mainly defensive, and the formation is extremely tight, and for a while, the two sides have nothing to do with each other, and it is a stalemate.
At the time of the stalemate between the two sides on the frontal battlefield, an army had already changed into the armor of the Qingzhou Army that it got out of nowhere, and mixed into the Qingzhou Army under the banner of the Qingzhou Army.
Unlike other princes, the armor and clothing in the Qingzhou army were all uniform cyan, and only with Qingzhou's financial resources could they support this.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Qingzhou army was all focused on the frontal battlefield, this group of people suddenly came out, probably wanting to capture the king first.
As long as Liu Bei is taken, the overall situation of this battle is decided.
And the leader is the son of Sun Jian, Menghu of Jiangdong, who stayed in Yangzhou and never left, Sun Ce and Sun Bofu.
Sun Ce has already held his will to die here, and his trip is not only for Yuan Shu, but also for his own family.
If he can really kill Liu Bei today, the Central Plains will definitely be in chaos at that time, and he can also buy more time for Sun Quan and Zhou Yu and others in Jiangdong.
This military horse showed its figure, without too much hesitation, and went straight to Liu Bei.
Sun Ce charged ahead, regardless of the damage, and successively broke through several blockages of the Qingzhou army along the way.
When he broke through, there were only dozens of horses left around him.
Sun Ce took the lead, wielding a spear and being as brave as a tiger.
At this time, Liu Bei was immediately on a high slope, with guards around him, but there were only hundreds of people.
Seeing that army and horses were killed, his expression remained unchanged, and he just looked at Jia Xu on the side, "This son is brave, the only one who can have such a skill under the highway must be the son of Jiangdong Menghu."
Jia Xu also exclaimed at this time, "Sure enough, the tiger father has no dog."
In terms of fighting in battle, Sun Ce's skills are indeed far beyond ordinary people.
Liu Bei said with a smile: "Born in Jiangdong, so good at fighting, and the current situation, it reminds me of an ancient."
In the past, on the bank of the Wujiang River, he broke through the siege, and still broke the formation alone, killing the enemy and returning.
Jia Xu nodded, "This son is indeed quite similar to the overlord back then."
At this time, Sun Ce had already led the more than ten cavalry troops who rushed out of the battle formation with him to the bottom of the high slope.
Looking up slightly, he knew that the person under the Qingluo umbrella on the slope must be Liu Bei.
Jia Xu smiled and said, "This son is brave, why don't you avoid it?"
Liu Bei looked at the young man under the high slope and was slightly silent.
He suddenly said, "After all, he is the son of an old man."
Jia Xu still smiled, "The lord cares about friendship, but this son is here to take the lord's life."
At this time, Sun Ce had already rushed towards the hillside.
Liu Bei nodded, then turned his head slightly and looked at the two behind him.
Two generals in armor stood behind him.
One is Tai Shici, who had fought with Sun Ce at the beginning, and the other is Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, who had just arrived from Bingzhou.
Liu Bei smiled and said, "Ziyi, Wen Yuan, could you capture this person alive?"
Tai Shi Ci was speechless, he had fought with Sun Ce that day, and knew that this person was not bad.
It is not easy to capture this person alive.
And he will never say anything.
Zhang Liao pulled the corners of his mouth, he has been on the border of Liangzhou all the year round, and he has been under Lu Bu for a long time, so he has developed a domineering temperament, "Even if I am alone, I can capture this person alive."
Liu Bei smiled, "You go together."
The two generals roared away with their own soldiers behind them.
Liu Bei no longer pays attention to this place, even if Tai Shici alone is enough to match Sun Ce, plus a Zhang Liao, it is not difficult to capture Sun Ce alive.
He turned his head to look south, looking in the direction of Shouchun.
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On the frontal battlefield, the two armies faced each other.
Zhao Yun personally led the front army, rushed to kill in the front, even broke the music, and Lei Bo counted the army.
is happy, and Lei Bo is dead.
Ji Ling formed a formation with an army and approached Liu Beijun.
Guan Yu ordered the whole army to retreat temporarily, and then the whole army turned against the water, and if the thieves were not broken, they would die to inspire people and greatly shock morale.
The first army was killed, although the strength was not as good as Yuan Shu, but it was still a big defeat of Yuan's army.
Zhao Yun entered and exited the formation several times, tearing a gap in Ji Ling's main formation.
Guan Yu personally led the guards to attack, and the Yuan army was routed and scattered.
The main general, Ji Ling, never retreated, still standing in the main formation, holding the big banner in the army, trying to collect the fleeing soldiers.
Until he saw the red-faced man who had rushed in front of him.
It's a reunion of old people again.
Ji Ling's expression was a little dazed, the two of them first met when they were still on the Wushi Mountain outside Luoyang City, and he was defeated by Guan Yu several punches at that time.
In the blink of an eye, many years later, they met again on the battlefield.
Guan Yu grabbed the reins and asked in a deep voice, "Ji Ling, now that the general trend of Yuan Highway has gone, why not descend it?"
Guan Yu actually never liked to talk too much on the battlefield.
As soon as he came to the battlefield, he should be conceited of life and death, and secondly, not everyone was worthy of him Guan Yunchang opened his mouth to say a few words.
The reason why he is willing to say a few more words to Ji Ling today is nothing more than for the sake of his old man.
Ji Ling smiled and planted the Yuanzi banner in his hand on the ground, "When you and I first met in Luoyang, you followed Xuande, and I followed my lord. After many years, it is still the same. In those days, you often spoke to me about loyalty. It's just the word loyalty, can you only talk about the long term? If you and I are reversed today, Yun Chang, what will you do?"
Guan Yu was silent for a long time, and finally nodded, "What you say is reasonable, and only in this way can you be worthy of being my old friend."
Ji Ling smiled suddenly, took off the spear on the horse, and clenched it tightly with his right hand, "After many years, I don't know your Guan Yunchang's martial arts
Was it better than it was then? Yun Chang, I have practiced hard all these years, and it has already been far better than when I was in Luoyang."
Guan Yu also laughed, "If you say that you are invincible in the world, wouldn't it make you heartbroken."
Ji Ling laughed, "Still so arrogant, don't accidentally lose in my hands."
He said no more, and turned his head to look behind him.
There is no road.
Ji Ling bowed his waist slightly, then suddenly grasped the reins, sat down and shot straight out like an arrow, heading straight for Guan Yu.
Guan Yu sighed in his heart, but he also rode his horse towards Ji Ling.
Old friends in the past, walking in the same direction.
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The front army of the Yuan army was defeated, and the front army was wrapped in the rear army, and all of them lost their will to fight.
Although there are many military horses under Yuan Shu, they include soldiers and horses from Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou, and Sanzhou.
When the power is gained, it is naturally easy to say, but once the army is defeated, it is like a mountain of defeat, and the whole body is moved.
The defeated army retreated towards Shouchun like a tide.
In so-called wars, sometimes a partial defeat will lead to a total rout on the entire battlefield.
At this time, there were only a few dozen personal guards left around Yuan Shu.
"General Hou, while the Qingzhou army has not yet surrounded us, let's flee quickly." A guard spoke.
Yuan Shu looked at the chaotic army that was defeated like a mountain, and said with a smile, "Who would have thought that it would be defeated so easily. I am the son of the Yuan family of the fourth and third dukes, how can I escape? And where can you flee?"
He turned his head to look at the dragon chair behind him again, "This chair, you helped me give it to Liu Xuande, and it should be regarded as a parting gift from me. With his temperament, he is indispensable to give you a bright future."
The guards around him fell to their knees.
Yuan Shu just waved his hand, "Let's all go out, I'm really tired."
As everyone left, Yuan Shu drew his knife out, looked at the blade, and suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help laughing.
It turned out that neither he nor Yuan Shao had won.
A moment later, there was silence in the tent.
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At night, in Shouchun City, which was captured by the Qingzhou army, Liu Bei was looking at the extremely arrogant dragon chair placed in front of him.
In the past, Yuan Shu sat on this dragon chair, but he couldn't hold the dragon heads on both sides of the dragon chair.
Liu Bei took a few steps forward and sat on the dragon chair, with his left and right hands on his sides.
Just right.
He exhaled, raised his head slightly, and looked at the moonlight outside the hall.
The higher you rise, the more you wither.