Chapter 329: The Victor's Self-Blame
Xiahou Yuan's shout not only reminded Zhang Ji, but also reminded Guan Yu.
He immediately lay down on the horse's back, abandoned the straight line, took the earthworm route instead, and rushed in the direction of Liu Bei.
At this time, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei had already followed the opening he tore open and killed towards the northwest corner.
It's just that the Xiyuan Army fought bravely and had already killed Liu Bei and Zhang Fei again.
"Third brother, don't break off, rush!"
Passing by Zhang Fei's side, Guan Yu roared loudly.
He was followed by two generals of the imperial army, and Zhang Fei would inevitably fall into it if he continued to fight and retreat.
When Zhang Fei heard this, the spear swept across the area, and immediately turned the horse's head and Guan Yu rounded.
The two quickly caught up with Liu Bei, one left and one right responsible for opening the way.
"Brother, don't continue to fight, withdraw quickly, we can't control everyone!"
After Liu Bei turned back again to rescue the soldiers trapped in the enemy army, Guan Yu finally couldn't help but shout.
The imperial army has completed the change of formation, and at this moment it is encircling and killing from all directions.
If Liu Bei saves a few more soldiers, I'm afraid all of them won't be able to leave.
"They gave up their lives to follow me, how can I leave them alone!" Liu Bei looked up to the sky and sighed.
"Brother is confused!" Zhang Fei pounded his chest and smashed the horse in a hurry.
"Brother, let's go!" Guan Yu shouted again.
Under the successive urging of Guan and Zhang, Liu Bei reluctantly glanced at his subordinates who were engulfed by the enemy, and turned the horse's head with difficulty, "Go!" ”
After Liu Bei stopped continuing to turn back, the speed of the three of them instantly became much faster.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei opened the way in front, but the soldiers behind them did not continue to reduce their numbers significantly.
Liu Bei, who had been paying attention to the soldiers under his command, suddenly realized that it seemed that it was because of his continuous return that the soldiers were surrounded and killed by the imperial army one after another.
This discovery made Liu Bei, who was already sad, spit out a mouthful of blood directly.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Guan Yu asked anxiously.
Liu Bei's face was gloomy, he waved his hand, and shouted, "I'm fine, go quickly!" ”
"Third brother, you take your brother with you, and I'll open the way!" Guan Yu shouted.
"Good!" Zhang Fei responded, turned around and grabbed the reins of Liu Bei's war horse, and galloped forward with two horses.
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Zhang Ji led the army to cover up and kill for nearly 20 miles, and then he reluctantly chose to give up.
"It's really a fierce general!" After meeting with Xiahou Yuan, he praised from the bottom of his heart.
Xiahou Yuan glanced at Zhang Ji's right arm, which seemed to have been stained with blood, and said, "You better take care of your arm first, lest it be too late, and you won't be able to use a knife from now on!" ”
Zhang Ji raised his right arm and shook the blood that was still falling like gurgling water, "It's not in the way, it can't be broken!" ”
Xiahou Yuan sent someone to summon a military medicine practitioner to treat the wound on Zhang Ji's arm on the spot.
"The last person who pressed me to beat me like this was Yinglin, I didn't expect Liu Bei, a general under the account of an unknown person, to be so difficult!" Zhang Ji couldn't help but say again, "Damn, I almost died!" ”
He especially remembered Guan Yu's move to return to the horse!
If it weren't for Xiahou Yuan's timely rescue, he would have lost his life at most with that knife, and he would have no arm at least.
"Guan Yunchang and Zhang Yide are indeed fierce generals. I can't boast of being able to chisel through our army's array like a plow, and the whole world will definitely not exceed the number of ten fingers, but both of them can, what a fierce general! I don't think we're ashamed to be like this! Xiahou Yuan jumped off his horse and sat down beside Zhang Ji.
Zhang Ji glanced at it and said, "We're not ashamed, but you can't just rest, right?" Lanling has been down, just do what you have to do, don't accompany me! ”
"I'll take a break, you're with me?" Xiahou Yuan scolded with a speechless smile.
"O'...... I really thought so. The corners of Zhang Ji's mouth hooked slightly, and he lay down directly on the cold grass, looking up at the red sun that had been on the three poles, and let the doctor stitch it on his arm.
Today was a rare sunny day and it was warm.
"If it weren't for the tenacity of the general's prison armor, our army would have lost one or two thousand soldiers in this battle. In Liangzhou, we didn't have such a big loss in the face of an enemy who was several times our size, but Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who led less than a thousand cavalry, actually cut us into this, I was thinking...... We're still not strong enough. Zhang Ji muttered, "This battle is indeed not ashamed, but I feel worthy of His Majesty's trust." ”
"Countless money and food, all the best armor and weapons for the prison were given to us, but in the face of a group of miscellaneous soldiers, we were defeated! Don't say that if you take Lanling City, we will lose this battle. ”
Xiahou Yuan's eyes were deep in thought, and he bowed his head quietly, but he did not object, but said: "There is no doubt that we are indeed defeated. ”
"This is a soldier who will be a nest of bears, and a general who will be incompetent, and the three armies will be exhausted. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are both rare generals, and Liu Bei's escape in this battle depends on them. ”
"But now is not the time to blame ourselves, but to think carefully about how we can target these two."
Zhang Ji's eyes drooped slightly, and there was a lack of fierce luster in his eyes, and he said: "Liu Bei must flee south to Pengcheng, and our army still has a chance to meet them." Don't engage the enemy in close combat, don't catch and kill, can't be led by their nose, trap them with their elites, and shoot them with arrows! ”
These are all mistakes they made in this war.
Reflecting on one's own body after the war and finding the shortcomings in the battle is a compulsory course for all officers and men in the West Park Army.
Although Zhang Ji is a demoted general, he has heard this many times enough.
Although he may not necessarily do it, he is now almost as conditioned as Xiahou Yuan and the others.
Xiahou Yuan was stunned, "You ...... But it's a bit of a no-talk about martial arts. ”
"The decisive thing about war is victory or defeat, what kind of morality and martial virtue are you talking about? This should be said by an incompetent scholar! Zhang Ji refuted.
Xiahou Yuan lifted a tear on the back of his hand, and seemed to look at it with some curiosity, "I just think that a fierce general like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei shouldn't be such a humiliating death." ”
Zhang Ji laughed, "It's not humiliating to catch and fight, but I'm worried that it will be the two of us who will die without humiliation!" ”
Xiahou Yuan also laughed, and patted the doctor who was still stitching up Zhang Ji's wounds, "Just give him a similar meaning, he can't die, I'm still waiting!" ”
The doctor was sweating profusely, and said with a wry smile: "General, the medical skills of sewing wounds have only been learned for a long time. Please wait a minute, General, I'll be ready soon. ”
Xiahou Yuan glanced at the wound on his arm, which was about a finger long and had not been sutured, and scolded, "Those who are not good at learning! Find a needle, I'll do it myself! ”
"General, you can't do it, if you pierce or stitch the blood together, it will leave the root of the disease in the future." The doctor hurriedly persuaded, "It's better to ask the general to wait a little longer, and the humble post will be fine immediately." ”
"Can't wait, give me the needle!" Xiahou Yuan said, and roughly lifted the piece of flesh on the back of his hand, "If it weren't for the obstruction of this wound, I wouldn't have paid attention to it." ”
Zhang Ji, who had an impatient temperament, was lying down steadily at this time, and persuaded Xiahou Yuan, "Why are you in a hurry at this time? If you poke the knife in your hand, you will have no chance to fight the battlefield in the future. ”
"That's fate, too. Just this little wound on the back of the hand, what kind of disease are you afraid of, bring the needle! Xiahou Yuan shouted.
The doctor couldn't help it, so he had no choice but to put the needle through the thread and hand it to Xiahou Yuan, and personally told Xiahou Yuan to pull the skin and flesh on the edge to sew it, don't pull it too deep, and use a way that is easy to take out.
"Trouble!" Xiahou Yuan scolded, squinted his eyes, and picked up a needle in his left hand to stitch up his wound.
But as soon as the needle poked down, he howled out of his throat.
"Why does it hurt so much?!" He yelled.
Zhang Ji, who had been clasping the turf with his left hand, laughed out loud when he saw this, "Damn, it hurts, you think this is the head of the owl?" A knife goes down, and nothing feels like anything? ”
Only then did Xiahou Yuan notice the movement of Zhang Ji's left hand, and slowed down for a while before saying, "You are quite bearable!" ”
He had just poked himself with a needle, but Zhang Ji's right arm had been densely sewn.
"Come on, let Zhuang Yuan see me!" Xiahou Yuan shouted.
"Whoa!"
After Zhuang Yuan, who was covered in blood, came over, Xiahou Yuan handed him the needle and thread, and bit a wooden stick in his mouth.
Seeing this, the doctor hurriedly taught Zhuang Yuan again.
He was really worried that Xiahou Yuan would be blamed for something if he continued to toss like this.
After listening to the doctor's advice, Zhuang Yuan didn't say anything, pinched the needle and started drying.
The threading of the needle is like a war, and it goes fast.
The wound almost stretched across the entire back of Xiahou Yuan's hand, but Zhuang Yuan only took a few breaths to sew it up.
The doctor had just given Zhang Ji two stitches, and he was going to take a look at it uneasily.
But when he turned his head, he was stupid all of a sudden.
"Sir, may as well take a look, is that so?" Zhuang Yuan still has more respect for the healer, and arched his hand and said.
The healer looked at it in a daze for a moment, and said to Zhuang Yuan, "Otherwise...... Captain Zhuang sewed General Zhang's together? ”
"The eyesight of the lowly job is not very good, and it is a little difficult to see."
"Nothing to do!" Zhuang Yuan responded very simply.
But Zhang Ji was a little nervous in an instant, "Wait, wait, are you sure he can?" ”
The healer nodded affirmatively, "Captain Zhuang can understand it at one point, and he is steady and fast, which can make the general less painful!" ”
"Boy, you can be steady, I know that there is a blood vein on my arm, which is very important." Zhang Ji said nervously.
Although the healer is very sure of Zhuang Yuan, he still believes in the identity of the healer.
"General, don't be nervous, your bloodline has been broken, otherwise there wouldn't be so much blood." The healer said.
Zhang Ji: ......
It took him a long time before he asked, "Then if this thing is broken, will there be any root cause?" ”
He is normally very aggressive, rough and unobtrusive.
But in this matter, he was more cautious than Xiahou Yuan.
"There will definitely be a root cause. Later, the lowly post will prepare some medicine for the general, which should be taken internally and externally, which should not affect normal operations. "The general need not be too worried. ”
"Can't die!" Xiahou Yuan looked at Zhang Ji's mother-in-law's mother-in-law and couldn't stand it anymore, "On the battlefield, your war horse will always rush in front of others, but now you are frightened by this little wound, it's incredible." ”
"If I don't leave any patients, I can rush to the front on the battlefield and be the head of all armies, you don't understand!" Zhang Ji said.