In the pleading voices of dozens of officials, Ugong Zhaolie's anger decreased slightly, and he glared at Yang Xiu and shouted: "Zhongqing pleads for you, and Gu will avoid the big mistake you committed this time." www.biquge.info However, the capital crime can be avoided, but the living crime is unforgivable! I ordered Yang Xiuguan to be demoted by one level and punished with 20 rods, so as to set an example! In the future, if anyone who retreats from the army lightly will be beheaded!"

Yang Xiu looked at Ugong Zhaolie steadily, and only after a long time did he kneel down and salute Ugong Zhaolie and said, "Minister...... Thank you for the king's grace not to kill. Subsequently, two Tiger Guards stepped forward, set up Yang Xiu, took Yang Xiu to the open space of the military academy field, and beat the twenty boards fiercely. Yang Xiu was originally a literati, how could he have suffered such a heavy responsibility? Before he could receive ten sticks, he had already fainted in pain, and by the time the twenty military sticks were finished, Yang Xiu's back was already covered with flesh and blood, and then he was taken back to the camp where he lived like a dead dog by the Tiger Guards.

In fact, this is also Yang Xiu's own suffering, he usually relies on his own cleverness, always likes to guess Ugong Terulie's thoughts, and every time in public, Unomiya Terulie's inner thoughts are made public, and over time, Yang Xiu's approach has caused Unomiya Terulie's dissatisfaction. On the surface, Ugong Zhaolie has been praising Yang Xiu's talent and intelligence, but in fact, Ugong Zhaolie has already looked at Yang Xiu unpleasantly. Ugong Terulie has a changeable and suspicious personality, as a superior, what he doesn't like the most is that his subordinates can peek into their own minds, if Yang Xiu can be like Guo Jia, after peeking into Unomiya Terulie's thoughts, he can solve problems for Ugong Terulie, arrange some things for Unomiya Terulie that he is not good at, or block some things for him that he verbally promised, but in fact he didn't want to do that, then Ugong Terulie might be very serious to Yang Xiu; , on the contrary, he was complacent, repeatedly showing off in front of people, and told Unomiya Terulie's thoughts in a straightforward manner. With the ability to guess Ugong Terulie's thoughts, and Guo Jia is simply one heaven and one underground, it is not surprising that Umiya Terulie took the opportunity to kill Yang Xiu.

That night, several officials who had a good personal relationship with Yang Xiu came to visit him in Yang Xiu's tent, and one of them inadvertently said that the secret word of the patrol soldiers tonight was "chicken ribs", Yang Xiu couldn't help but smile and said: "I'll just say, I understand the king's thoughts best." How could he guess wrong? The king had actually decided to withdraw from the army in his heart, but he was embarrassed to give the order directly in front of everyone during the day. After a few people go back, they can pack their luggage, and the king will soon retire from the army, so as not to panic when he arrives. ”

After hearing Yang Xiu's words, one of them hurriedly covered Yang Xiu's mouth and said in a low voice: "During the day, you suggested retreating, and the king almost beheaded you." You don't repent, but you speak this nonsense!"

Yang Xiu slapped away the hand covering his mouth, and said with a smile: "'Chicken ribs', it's a pity to abandon it if it's boring to eat." The king used chicken ribs as the code words of the patrol soldiers, and he must have seen the current situation of our army very clearly, our army is really in a dilemma at present, and the king is just worried that the withdrawal of the army will cause a low morale in the army. But don't worry, within three days, the king will definitely order the army to retreat!"

Yang Xiu's explanation. The other people suddenly realized, so after comforting Yang Xiu a few more words, they left in a hurry, each returned to his tent, and began to pack his luggage and prepare for the retreat.

After careful inquiry, he learned that Ugong Terulie used 'chicken ribs' as the meaning of the code word, and hurriedly began to pack up and prepare to withdraw at any time.

However, it was said that Unomiya Terulie couldn't sleep at night because of the fiasco during the day, and he couldn't sleep after lying on the bed for a long time, so he simply put on a piece of clothing and walked out of the Chinese army's tent and began to patrol around the camp, but unexpectedly found that nearly half of the soldiers were packing their bags, as if Umiya Teruleu had given the order to withdraw the army.

Furious, Unomiya Terulie called Unomiya Ren over and reprimanded him fiercely. Ugong Ren didn't dare to hide it, so he relayed Yang Xiu's words to Ugong Terulie. After hearing this, Ugong Zhaolie was furious, pulled out the Yitian Sword and cut off the table, and said angrily: "Lone is suitable to say that he will retire from the army?! Yang Dezu is unrepentant, and he has repeatedly disturbed the hearts of our army, and he must not be spared this time! Yugong Ren! You immediately lead the Tiger Guards to capture Yang Xiu, and immediately ask for beheading!"

Ugong Ren has been following Ugong Terulie for more than 20 years, knowing that Unomiya Terulie is really angry, he also knows that when Unomiya Terulie is angry, no matter who persuades him, Unomiya Ren had no choice but to give a military salute to Unomiya Teruje, and then turned around and walked out of Unomiya Terulie's Chinese army tent, and went straight to Yang Xiu's tent with thirty Tiger Guards, and dragged Yang Xiu, who was directing the scholar to pack his bags, to the military academy field, and then the Tiger Guard cut off Yang Xiu's head with a knife, put it in a tray and sent it to Ugong Teruje. Ugong Terulie pointed at Yang Xiu's head and scolded for a long time, only then was he relieved, and ordered Yang Xiu's head to be buried separately from the corpse, so that Yang Xiu ended up with a miserable end without a corpse.

Although Yang Xiu was beheaded, the difficult situation that Ugong Terulie is facing now has not improved because of this. On the second day, Yuan Qi ordered 800,000 elite soldiers to rise up from the village, advance forward for five miles again, and set up camp less than ten miles away from the Wei army's Dazhai, continuing to maintain the coercion of the Wei army's officers and soldiers. In this regard, Ugong Terulie was helpless, so he could only order more guards, and patrol back and forth within five miles of the camp day and night to prevent Yuan Qi from leading the army to launch a surprise attack. As long as the morale of the two sides cannot return to the same starting line, Unomiya Terulie will definitely not rashly launch a counterattack, because he knows that when the morale of the enemy and us is very different, he can only hold on and never engage the enemy.

What Unomiya Terulie thinks in his heart is exactly what Yuan Qi thinks in his heart. It's just that the two have different stances on the issue. Ugong Terulie wanted to revive the morale of the army in the short term and strive to close the gap with the soldiers, while Yuan Qi wanted to keep the morale of the Wei army suppressed, so that they would always be at a low point and unable to launch a counterattack.

Therefore, on the third day of the confrontation between the two armies, Yuan Qi once again ordered to advance five miles, directly approaching the Wei army's Dazhai to set up camp, the two Dazhai were only three miles apart, and each other could even clearly see each other's every move in the camp. The distance of three miles has entered the edge of the range of the red-clothed ballistas, and the hundreds of red-clothed ballistas displayed in the Yan military camp have already been loaded with crossbows, scattering a terrifying cold light in the direction of the Wei army's camp. However, Yuan Qi did not give the order to activate the red-clothed ballista, and his purpose in putting the red-clothed ballista out was not to cause damage to the Wei army, but to further disintegrate the will of the Wei army to fight. Let's ask, surrounded by red-clothed ballistas, who in the world can sleep peacefully?

The soldiers of the front battalion of the Wei army, after spending a day trembling and worrying, did not get the order of Ugong Terulie to withdraw the army, and when the night came, they were bitter one by one, and they did not even dare to go into their tents to sleep, lest they were in their sleep, and they were taken away by the red-clothed crossbow shot from the air. As a result, in the direction closest to Dazhai in the Wei army camp, there was a scene rarely seen in a hundred years, groups of Wei soldiers gathered together, set up several layers of thick wooden planks five feet above the ground, and put seven or eight shields upside down on the wooden planks, and then sat together in crowds, staring at the dark night sky with wide eyes, and the tent that was supposed to be for them to rest was empty.

At the same time, looking up at the night sky, there is also Yuan Qi.

Yuan Qi tilted his head and looked at the night sky intently, as if there was something special in the night sky that attracted him. Zhuge Liang, who was standing beside him, also looked up at the night sky several times, but he didn't see anything, and there was not even a star in the dark night sky, which made Zhuge Liang, who was the best at watching the stars at night, feel that the night sky tonight was really boring, and he really didn't understand what Yuan Qi was looking at so distracted.

After a long time, Yuan Qi withdrew his gaze looking at the night sky, and said slowly: "Kong Ming, are you wondering, what is so-and-so looking at?"

Zhuge Liang replied honestly: "Yes." ”

Yuan Qi turned his head to look at Zhuge Liang, showed a smile, showed two rows of neat white teeth, and said mysteriously: "Actually, I didn't look at anything." Just now, I was just wondering if Unomiya Terulie would also be standing under the same night sky as us, and he was also looking up at the night sky. If he's watching, guess what's he going to see in the night sky?"

Without waiting for Zhuge Liang to answer, Yuan Qi seemed to ask, and said as if talking to himself: "The night sky is as dark as ink, and there is not even a star, this may make Ugong Zhaolie feel a little lonely, right?" After a pause, Yuan Qi's tone suddenly turned to affirmation, and he said seriously: "Guandu is a good place." At that time, a certain person was in the north, and Ugong Terulie was in the south, and they jointly attacked Yuan Ding, and he defeated Yuan Ding's southbound troops in Guandu, thus establishing the status of the overlord of the Central Plains. Now, it's time for Guandu to once again become a place of new witness to history. ”

Zhuge Liang listened to Yuan Qi's words word for word, and after pondering for a moment, he arched his hand to Yuan Qi and said, "Liang understands." Please rest assured, Ryo will definitely try to force Unomiya Terulie to Guandu and start a decisive battle with him there. Guandu will surely become the main battlefield of another battle, and this time, it will be us who will decide the world in the battle of Guandu!"

Yuan Qi smiled, his smile was filled with endless confidence: "The victory in the first battle of Guandu belonged to Ugong Teruo, where he won more with less, and fought the most beautiful battle in his life, and now, so-and-so is going to completely defeat him in the place where he became famous! Guandu is the best place for him to bury his bones!"