Chapter Seventy-Two: Sending Troops to Fight Wu

Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Zhao Guang, at most, he sighed twice while practicing martial arts. Unexpectedly, Zhao Yun saw the rapid progress of Zhao Guang's martial arts, and he was relieved, but also had the idea of pushing the child again.

On the day Liu Bei ascended the throne, a big feast was held, and Zhao Yun took the opportunity to bring Zhao Guang over. When Liu Bei was full of interest, he took the opportunity to meet him, "Your Majesty's joy for a thousand years, the great cause will be accomplished, and you are employing people." However, Weichen is old, and his muscles and bones are no longer capable of the past. Ashamed, Juxian did not avoid relatives, and recommended a brave general for His Majesty, who was the dog Zhao Guang. ”

After speaking, he asked Zhao Guang to take a few steps forward and kneel in front of Liu Bei. Liu Bei drank a few glasses, slightly drunk, and no longer formal, pointed at Zhao Guang and asked Zhao Yun with a smile: "Why does Aiqing prefer her young son?" I remember that your eldest son, Zhao Tong, was just a petty officer in your army who escorted grain and grass, but how did you solemnly recommend this young son to me? ”

Zhao Yunzheng said: "Weichen promotes meritocracy, don't dare to be biased." The eldest son, Zhao Tong, has mediocre qualifications, and he can't handle the grain and grass under my account, how dare he recommend it to His Majesty! The youngest son, Zhao Guang, is really talented in martial arts, and his marksmanship, bows and arrows are all blue, so Wei Chen has the courage to recommend it. ”

Liu Bei laughed, "Why is Zilong so serious, I'm just joking with wine." Zilong has always had a clear distinction between public and private, and he is fair, how can I not know? In this way, since this son is outstanding in martial arts, he will stay by my side and become a royal forest guard first. Let him go to Shuzhi to report there, okay? ”

Zhao Yun was overjoyed, his son Zhao Guang was left by Liu Bei as a guard in the imperial forest, naturally he had a bright future, and hurriedly pulled Zhao Guang to kneel and thank him. Zhao Yun didn't bow twice, but was pulled away by Liu Bei and accompanied him to drink and talk about the relationship. Zhao Guang honestly kowtowed and quietly retreated.

Shuzhi is Chen Zhi, Chen Shuzhi, who served as the commander of Liu Bei's guards all the year round, and his name was only second to Zhao Yun, known for his loyalty and bravery, and he was Liu Bei's most trusted person. He is currently the commander of the Imperial Forest Guards, and Zhao Guang can report to him directly.

In this way, Zhao Guang became a glorious royal forest guard. This job is also very simple, not busy or tired, just stand solemnly at the gate of the palace with a halberd in hand on duty every day. The advantage is that you can see the emperor and the minister of civil and military affairs every day, and the disadvantage is that as long as the emperor does not go out to drive the expedition in person, it is basically difficult to have the opportunity to make great contributions.

In the early days of this day, Liu Bei began to bring up the old things again, saying that he would raise troops to conquer the country, cut down Eastern Wu, capture Lu Xun and other traitors, and avenge the second master of Guan Gongguan.

As soon as he finished saying this, Zhao Yun didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he immediately stepped forward to oppose it. In fact, this matter should not be opposed by Zhao Yun the most, and a large number of civil officials are waiting to be admonished and opposed. Zhao Yun, as Guan Yu's fourth brother, is indeed inappropriate to speak out.

But Zhao Yun is an upright person and has a good personality. As a result, they spoke out against it. What he means is that the current national thief is Cao Pi, not Sun Quan. If you want to fight, you should fight Cao Pi first, not Sun Quan first.

That's right, but it shouldn't be Zhao Yun. Zhao Guang stood guard outside the hall with a halberd, and frowned when he heard it. No wonder Zhao Yun can't be promoted, and he is only now a ragtag tiger general.

Liu Bei was also a little annoyed when he heard this, and said angrily: "Sun Quan hurt my brother Guan Yu; and Fu Shiren, Mi Fang, Pan Zhang, Ma Zhong and these traitors, I all have a gritted tooth hatred, and I want to eat their flesh and destroy their clan, Fang Xue hates! Why do you come to stop it? ”

Zhao Yun lost his temper again, and retorted: "These people have a grudge against Your Majesty, this is a personal grudge. Cao Pi has an enmity with the world, and it is a public enmity. Your Majesty can't do it for the sake of public service! ”

Zhao Yun's words directly made Liu Bei not know what to say, so he had to say angrily: "I don't avenge my brother, although there are thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, what is the price?" ”

Liu Bei insisted on his own opinion and ordered an army to attack Eastern Wu. On the one hand, he went to Wuxi to find the leader of the Tusi and borrowed 50,000 soldiers, who were good at fighting in the mountains. On the other hand, he sent an order to Zhang Fei in Langzhong, moved Zhang Fei to be the general of the chariot cavalry, the commander of the school, the marquis of Xixiang, and the pastor of Langzhong, so that Zhang Fei could prepare and march together.

Liu Bei was preparing to drive the expedition in person, and was admonished by Zhuge Liang and hundreds of civil and military officials, and when he was hesitating, Zhang Fei heard about it, and rushed over from Langzhong, hugging Liu Bei and crying bitterly. Hearing Zhang Fei crying like this, Liu Bei made up his mind to drive the expedition in person.

Zhang Fei had just left, and Zhao Guang found an opportunity to kneel down and admonish Liu Bei when he passed by. Liu Bei thought that he was going to persuade himself not to go to the expedition like Zhao Yun, but he didn't expect Zhao Guang to say something else.

"Your Majesty, I heard that Zhang Sanye was in Langzhong, and when I heard that Guan Gong was killed by Dongwu, I cried every day, and my clothes were wet with blood. The generals will be persuaded by wine, and when they are drunk, their anger increases. up and down the account, but if there is a transgressor, he will be scourged; There are many people who have been whipped to death. Now that he has received His Majesty's promise, he will inevitably return to Langzhong and try his best to reorganize the army. The third master was anxious, whipped his subordinates, and after the beating, he was drunk in the camp and was defenseless. In case the villain has a grudge, plots against him, and assassinates the third master, then it will be dangerous! ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he was shocked into a cold sweat. As Zhao Guang said, it is indeed very likely to happen. In case Zhang Fei is unlucky, he is the only one left in the Taoyuan Three Knots.

Liu Bei said: "What you said is not unreasonable. Is there a solution? ”

Zhao Guangdao: "Your Majesty only needs to send a competent person to assist the third master, on the one hand, to admonish him, and on the other hand, to protect him." That's it! ”

Liu Bei nodded and said approvingly: "You are worthy of being the son of Zilong, thoughtful, calm personality, not bad!" ”

Liu Bei accepted Zhao Guangzhi's suggestion and sent Guo Youzhi to Langzhong with more than a dozen imperial forest guards to assist Zhang Fei in handling affairs. Later, Guo Youzhi came with the news that Zhang Fei's subordinate Fan Jiang Zhang Da was dissatisfied with Zhang Fei's whipping and plotted to assassinate him, but fortunately he was discovered by the guards and saved Zhang Fei's life. Since then, Zhang Fei has handed over trivial matters to Guo Youzhi, and his temper has been reduced a lot.

When Liu Bei received the recital, he was terrified, and suddenly felt Zhao Guang's foresight, so he promoted him to the captain of the imperial guard, with the rank of captain. Zhao Guang was promoted like this!

In the end, Liu Bei decided to let Prime Minister Zhuge Liang protect the prince to guard the two rivers; The hussar general Ma Chao and his younger brother Ma Dai helped the Zhenbei general Wei Yan to guard Hanzhong as a Wei soldier; Hu Wei general Zhao Yun is the back, and he also supervises grain and grass; Huang Quan and Cheng Yi are staff officers; Ma Liang and Chen Zhen are in charge of the documents; Huang Zhong is the pioneer of the front; Feng Xi and Zhang Nan are deputy generals; Fu Tong and Zhang Yi are lieutenants of the Chinese army; Zhao Rong and Liao Chun are the queen. Zhang Fei led an army of 50,000 in Langzhong and made a detour to attack the southern part of Jingzhou. Hundreds of Sichuan generals, and Wuxi generals, etc., a total of 750,000 soldiers, selected the first year of Zhangwu in July Bingyin Sunrise Division.

Liu Bei issued an edict to make Wu Ban the vanguard, and ordered Zhang Bao and Guan Xing to escort him. The land and water marched together, the boat rode in two rows, and the mighty and mighty went to Wu Guolai.

Sun Quan was frightened when he heard this, and sent Zhuge Jin as an envoy to come to Liu Bei to stop the army. As a result, there is no natural fart.

Sun Quan had no choice but to follow Zhang Zhao's suggestion and write a letter to Cao Pi to claim his vassal, and Cao Pi gave him a knighthood, but there was no other support at all.

In the end, Sun Quan had to raise 50,000 sailors, army and horses, named Sun Huan as the governor of the left capital, and Zhu Ran as the governor of the right capital.

The two armies fought, and Sun Huan lost his troops and retreated to Yiling. The city was surrounded by the Shu army on all sides. Since then, the majesty has shaken, and the generals in Jiangnan have all been frightened.

Sun Huan asked for help from King Wu, King Wu was shocked, and ordered Han Dang to be the main general, Zhou Tai to be the deputy general, Pan Zhang to be the vanguard, Ling Tong to be the queen, and Gan Ning to save the response, raising 100,000 troops to refuse.

The two armies faced each other in Yiling, and Huang Zhong fought bravely to kill the enemy, but he was ambushed, wounded by an arrow, and unfortunately killed.

Liu Bei folded Huang Zhong, grieved in his heart, and led the Imperial Forest Army to the Yaoting, the generals of the conference, divided the army into eight routes, and advanced by land and water. The waterway ordered Huang Quan to lead the troops, and the first lord led the army to march on the dry road. In mid-February of the second year of Shi Zhangwu.

Several battles before this were fought by the vanguard army, and Zhao Guang, as the captain of the imperial guard, led the troops to guard Liu Bei's side. Not to mention fighting, I haven't even seen the enemy army. This time, it's finally time to face the enemy head-on.

Han Dang and Zhou Tai heard that Liu Bei was coming, so they led the army out to meet the battle.

For a while, the two armies faced each other, the flags were spread high, the swords and guns were like a forest, and Zhao Guang was full of blood, when had he ever seen such a big formation!

At this time, the door flag of the Shu army camp was opened, and Zhao Guang hurriedly followed the military flag, and the soldiers were divided into two columns, lined up, and escorted Liu Bei out of the battle. I saw the yellow Luo pin gold umbrella cover, the left and right white Huang Yue, the gold and silver festivals, around the front and back, Liu Bei is in it.

The opposite coaches Han Dang and Zhou Tai also stepped out accordingly, shouting at this side: "Your Majesty is the lord of Shu today, why should you take it lightly?" If there is negligence, how can I regret it! ”

Zhao Guang pondered that the distance between the two sides was too far, otherwise he could give him a sneak attack.

At this time, Liu Bei stretched out his hand and pointed at the other party and scolded: "You wait for Wu Dog, hurt my hands and feet, and swear not to stand between heaven and earth!" ”

After Liu Bei finished scolding, a military general immediately rushed out from the opposite side, with a spear in the ranks, and was rushing to this side. Zhao Guang was happy in his heart, and he finally came to life. Felt out the iron gall bow, hurriedly took the carved arrow, straightened the swallowtail, put on the tiger tendon string, and was pulling the bow and shooting the arrow, Guan Xing had already rushed forward with a big knife.

Zhao Guang suddenly hesitated, it was not good to rob others. However, at this moment, another military general rushed over from the opposite side. Zhao Guang was ecstatic in his heart, so I don't blame him.

Immediately, the bow opened like a full moon, the arrow went like a meteor, and an arrow flew out, hitting the door of the previous general. This person is Xia Sui, who just came out and was killed before he was registered.

The latter general was startled, and hurriedly turned the horse around, but Zhao Guang was fast, and another arrow hit the back of the heart and fell off the horse. This person is Zhou Tai's younger brother Zhou Ping.

Guan Xing was extremely depressed, and as soon as he swung his knife and rushed over, his opponent fell to the ground with a bang. I chased after the other one, but before I could take a step, the opponent fell to the ground again.

Guan Xing shouted, directly waved his sword, and rushed towards Han Dang and Zhou Tai. Han and Tuesday hurriedly retreated into the main formation.

Seeing this, Liu Bei pointed his whip, and the Shu soldiers covered up the past, and the Wu soldiers were defeated. Corpses were killed all over the field, and rivers of blood flowed.

"Twelve stones, five hundred steps!" Liu Bei exclaimed: "In the past, Lu Fengxian only used a ten-stone bow, and the range was only three hundred steps. You are far superior to it today, and you are really a hero! ”