Chapter 157: Zhang Fei is dead
No matter what readers say, Cao Cao just left, and the plot continued to advance, after Cao Cao died, Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, and then drove away Emperor Han Xian, accepted Zen Rang, ascended the throne and became the emperor, and created the Great Wei Dynasty.
Then Liu Bei also soon ascended the throne as emperor, continued the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, and then directly announced the crusade against Eastern Wu.
The party is lively again, and they are ready for the New Year.
Uncle Liu Huang personally took Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Ma Chao, the four great generals, as well as top military advisors like Zhuge Liang, and then sent troops to Eastern Wu with 750,000 troops to avenge Guan Yu.
This not only occupies an advantage in strength, but also has a righteous name, and the imperial uncle himself officially ascended the throne as the emperor, and has become the justifiable Emperor of the Han Dynasty.
So, Emperor Zhangwu issued an edict ordering Prime Minister Zhuge Liang to stay in Chengdu to protect the prince and hold the land of Liangchuan at the same time.
Ordered the hussar general Ma Chao and his younger brother Ma Dai to assist the Zhenbei general Wei Yan in guarding Hanzhong against a possible Wei offensive from the Wei state.
After ordering Huwei General Zhao Yun to act as the rear response, supervise the grain and grass, and be in charge of logistics.
Ordered Huang Zhong to be the vanguard of the front, carrying a total of hundreds of Sichuan generals, as well as the Wuxi barbarians of Jingzhou, known as 750,000 troops, in the first year of Zhang Wu, Bingyin Sunrise Division, crusading against Sun Quan.
Although this decree and the formation of troops are different from the original plan of the group.
For example, the remaining 4 of the five tiger generals, Ma Chao did not follow, and Zhao Yunzi managed logistics, so it seems that only Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei are left who can fight in front.
However, it is not a big problem, Sun Quan has no generals on his side who can be compared with these two people.
In terms of strategists, because Zhuge Liang clearly opposed the attack on Eastern Wu, he was left in Chengdu by Liu Bei, but it was not a big problem, and there were young people like Huang Quan, Cheng Ji, Ma Liang, and Chen Zhen as staff officers.
These people's resourcefulness is also very powerful, Zhou Yu and Lu Su on the Eastern Wu side have died one after another, although Lu Meng succeeded in the sneak attack on Jingzhou, but was killed by Guan Yu's dead soul, so the current Metropolitan Governor seems to be a guy named Lu Xun.
Although this Lu Xun appeared in the previous Chibi War, he did some hands-on work, and he didn't have any outstanding performance.
At the same time, this guy is still very young, it is said that he is still a child of a big family, and the second generation who is very incapable at first glance, how can he block the thunderous blow of my Uncle Liu Huang?
Then Zhang Fei was hacked to death because he whipped the soldiers
Immediately afterwards, Sun Quan expressed his willingness to submit to the Great Wei, so he was named the King of Wu, known as the King of Wu of the Great Wei, and also gave Jiuxi, and he would usurp the throne in the future.
Wait, turn the page and go back, what was written in the last plot? Who died?
It can be described as the feeling of readers seeing this plot, that is, everyone is sitting on a train, eating a steaming, spicy hot pot, one second they think it tastes great, but the next second a dead mouse comes out of the hot pot.
Many readers don't know what they're reading after reading it, and they think they're asleep while reading a book, as if they're having some nightmare.
pinched himself more than a dozen times, and read the newly updated chapters more than a dozen times before he was sure that Zhang Fei was dead.
One thing to say, in the original work of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Fei's death was indeed extremely sudden.
One second Luo Guanzhong was still writing Liu Bei's holy decree to mobilize the army, and the next second Zhang Fei was cut off by Zhang Da and Fan Qiang for whipping the soldiers.
From Zhang Fei starting to whip Zhang Da and Fan Qiang, to the two of them cutting off Zhang Fei's head, it was over in less than 500 words in total.
500 words seems to be a lot, but this refers to the triggering from the death event, describing the entire death process, and finally successfully cutting off Zhang Fei's head, a total of only 500 words.
Before Luo Guanzhong described Guan Yu's death, starting from crossing the river in white, he also used two chapters and nearly 12,000 words to describe the whole process.
But when it came to Zhang Fei's death, there were only 500 words in total, and after Liu Xu changed to vernacular writing, it was actually about 1,000 words, less than one-third of the content of a chapter, Zhang Fei died, and the three brothers at the time of Taoyuan's three alliances were left with Liu Bei, a lonely family.
And after Liu Bei got the news, he fainted on the spot, and after being rescued, he just muttered to himself, "Oh, is Zhang Fei already dead?" My two younger brothers are gone, and I'm left alone? ”
Seeing this, many imperial uncles directly smashed their mobile phones on the ground, crying like a tearful person.
Immediately afterwards, an unprecedented huge chaos broke out in the readership of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, except for a very small number of people, almost everyone scolded Liu Xu's name in the group @, and after scolding, they left the group directly.
And although Liu Xu occasionally said a few words, every time he opened his mouth, he would be drowned out by more angry and violent scolding, and gradually, Liu Xu stopped talking.
In just one day, among the 40 2,000 people, nearly 20,000 of the 80,000 friends left directly.
This time, I can't blame the readers for their poor psychological tolerance, but Zhang Fei's death came too suddenly.
As I said before, from crossing the river in white clothes to Guan Yu's death, there were 12,000 words during the period.
If you count from the beginning of Guan Yu's attack on Xiangyang, there are nearly 25,000 words, and these 25,000 words can be regarded as a foreshadowing of death.
Because in these 25,000 words, Guan Yu expressed his disdain for Huang Zhong, punished Dr. Ren and Mi Fang, and more importantly, flooded the Seventh Army, not to mention Pang De's death, just the soul of Cao Cao's tens of thousands of troops was enough to pull Guan Yu down to Huangquan together.
So although Guan Yu's death was beyond the expectations of all readers, it was also a lot of foreshadowing, and finally recalled, a logically acceptable death, although the readers were in a state of rage at the time, but there were still a few who were really completely unacceptable, and many of them also returned.
But in comparison, Zhang Fei's death has become so glaring.
Zhang Fei's death was only 500 words in the original book, and just because he whipped two generals and then got drunk, he was directly touched into the camp tent by these two people, and then directly cut off his head and died tragically on the spot.
With such a simple and crude plot, students who have studied writing for a few years can't write such a thing, but Liu Xu used these 500 words to write Zhang Fei's death.
In the reader's feeling, Liu Xu seems to treat Zhang Fei as a soldier on the side of the road, thinks he deserves to die, and then directly kills him, even refusing to cover it up with a little more text.
Liu Xu himself was deeply touched by this when he read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the first time, and he couldn't wait to pull Luo Guanzhong out of the grave and ask him why he let Zhang Fei's death be so hasty.
Liu Xu once thought that if he wrote this plot by himself, he would have to use the content of 1~2 chapters to give Zhang Fei a detailed one-man return, and then give him one or two big battles, and finally let him die at the hands of two Xiaoxiao, so the degree of acceptance is higher.
Is it like in the original Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I didn't even catch a battle, I just beat two generals, drank and slept at night, and then I was beheaded.
Of course, after growing up and reading a lot of historical materials, Liu Xu realized that Luo Guanzhong actually wrote this with deep meaning, because he wanted to use such an understatement to tell all the latecomers who read this book not to make the same mistake as Zhang Fei again.
And Zhang Fei's death is actually not 500 words, but throughout the book, starting from Liu Bei becoming the lieutenant of Anxi County, as a result, Zhang Fei whipped the superintendent, causing Liu Bei to abandon the pass and leave, Zhang Fei's casual whipping of soldiers, often giving some unrealistic orders, and at the same time loving to drink in the army is endless, and dozens of descriptions can be found.
Of course, according to the official history, it was Liu Bei who whipped the superintendent and not Zhang Fei, so since it is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms here, then according to the plot of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
And these details throughout the book are the real cause of Zhang Fei's death, it can be said that Luo Guanzhong used the whole book to warn all those who read about Zhang Fei's death if they want to be a general, or a leader.
You must not be rash, you must not whip or humiliate your subordinates at will, and you must not still indulge in alcohol at an important juncture, although alcohol can paralyze pain, it can also paralyze a person's wisdom and perception.
This is not necessarily drinking, and all other behaviors that will cause problems with one's sanity are not allowed.
Otherwise, it will be like Zhang Fei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and once the head of the general was taken from the army. The first three roars of Nagasaka Slope frightened the general. Break Jiangzhou in the thick and fine, and interpret the veteran Yan Yan to win the army's heart. The small road in Shu defeated Zhang He, and the world was not afraid.
As a result, when he died, it was only a fluttering 500 words, and his head was cut off by two unknown people, leaving only a handful of bitter tears for future generations.
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