Chapter 304 Good friends turn against each other
"Come on, General Yangwu, I'm here toast you!" The Liu Bei army camp outside Baohe was very happy. How could he not be happy? This time they ambushed the Bingzhou wolf cavalry, which is known as the world's number one cavalry. Although they could not wipe out the Bingzhou wolf cavalry, they also left nearly 3,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry. There were only 5,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry, and now most of them are here. It can be said that the Bingzhou wolf cavalry was abolished. The war horse armor of those Bingzhou wolf cavalry was pulled down by Liu Bei. With this batch of war horses, Liu Bei could also form a small heavy armored cavalry. The cavalry's mobility is too strong. In the plains, they are even more of the nemesis of light infantry.
It would be better if Zhang Xiu could be conquered in front of him. If he could not be conquered, Liu Bei would also have a mobile cavalry.
The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry lost its combat power. It can be said that one of Liu Bei's confidant troubles was eliminated. The mobility of the cavalry was a heart-wrenching illness of Liu Bei. If the war was good, it would be a big fun to insert such a heavy armored cavalry. Before, Liu Bei and Lao Cao were almost killed by the tiger and leopard cavalry. Although his white-eared heavy armor was not as good as the tiger and leopard cavalry, he could not catch up with others. He could only passively accept the enemy's attack and could only defend himself. This kind of fighting style is very frustrating and was led by others. Now the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry has been abolished. How could Liu Bei be so unhappy! So as soon as he withdrew his troops and returned to the camp, he held a big banquet and invited Zhang Xiu.
"General Yang Wu, he is really a tiger father without a dog son. Your uncle Zhang Piaoqi is a hero of the past. The Western Liang Iron Cavalry is invincible under his command. General Yang Wu doesn't let your uncle be stronger than Zhang Piaoqi, whether in commanding military or martial arts. If Zhang Piaoqi has knowledge in the spring, he will definitely be able to rest in peace!" Liu Bei raised his wine glass and flattered him. Zhang Piaoqi was talking about Zhang Xiu's uncle Zhang Ji. Although Zhang Ji is capable, he still cannot reach the level of invincibility. He is just a deputy general in the Western Liang Army, in Huaxiong.
Niu Fu, after these generals of Xiliang died, Zhang Ji gradually came to the stage, and later the death of Dong Zhuo made the Xiliang army in chaos. Only then did Zhang Ji have the opportunity to take charge of the army alone, attack Chang'an with Li Jue and Guo Si, and others, and finally got the title of General of the Han Dynasty. In fact, he was a bandit and rebel, which made the Han Emperor hated him. If the Han Emperor, who was far away in Xudu, knew that his beloved Uncle Liu boasted about his imprisonment and abused his rebel, he would not know what he would think.
Zhang Ji died in a frustration. He actually wanted to attack Liu Biao, Jingzhou, with no food and grass, and finally died under the city. His nephew Zhang Xiu replaced his military power, and turned around and surrendered Liu Biao. He helped Liu Biao protect the northern gate of Jingzhou and was a guardian dog for so many years. If he hadn't had a Jia Xu in his hand, he would have known how many times he would have been destroyed.
Liu Bei beat Zhang Xiu very happy when he took a horse. He quickly shouted, "Where, where! General Zuo has passed the words."
"Hey! If General Yangwu hadn't shown his power today and brought his five thousand elite cavalry, how could Lu Bu escape!" Liu Bei continued to boast again. This is the high-end point of Liu Bei's flattery. If you have always said that you are good, then you will naturally get tired of listening to it too much, and you may still be bored. But Liu Bei compared people with him Zhang Xiu, what is Lu Bu? As the saying goes, among the Taoists, Lu Bu is a red rabbit. Lu Bu is a god of war, although there are so many people.
The military general and scholar expressed disdain for Lu Bu, but they were truly envious and jealous. Lu Bu was not only handsome, but also had high martial arts power. The most important thing was that Lu Bu grabbed Mrs. Diao Chanren, the first beauty in the Three Kingdoms, as his wife, and was a typical representative of the tall, rich and handsome man of the Three Kingdoms. It was fake to say that he was not jealous, but now Liu Bei compared Zhang Xiu and Lu Bu, and said that Lu Bu was fleeing when he saw Zhang Xiu looking at the wind. How could he not let Zhang Xiu be successful?
"Hmph!" Zhang Fei was dissatisfied at the bottom. How could Zhang Xiu be able to take Lu Bu alone? If Zhang Fei and Chen Dao had not joined the battle, what he might have seen now was Zhang Xiu's head, rather than being so successful. His brother kept boasting about Zhang Xiu and forgot about him and Zhang Fei and Chen Dao brothers. When Zhang Fei was about to stand up and talk about it for two points, Chen Dao on the side pulled him away. "Three generals, don't ruin the lord's affairs." Chen Dao looked at Zhang Fei and shook his head. Zhang Fei had no choice but to sit down and drink.
"Hahahaha!" Zhang Xiu laughed. "If General Zhang Fei and General Chen Dao were not under General Zuo's command, how could Xiu achieve such a record? So come, Xiu first respects the two generals!" As he said that, he drank the wine bowl in his hand in one gulp.
"You know what you are right!" Zhang Fei murmured in a low voice, and stood up with Chen Dao and drank the wine in the bowl.
Just when everyone was having fun, a personal guard walked in and said, "Report to the lord, General Liu Pi, the governor of Yuzhou, asked for a meeting!"
"Liu Pi?!" Liu Bei frowned, "He still has the face to come back!" Zhang Fei spoke before Liu Bei spoke. His brother asked him to find Liu Pi before, but the news he got was that Liu Pi came immediately, and the second time he was directly that Liu Pi was not in the army. Now, the war here is over, and this Liu Pi is coming!
"Brother, let me go and fight back!" Zhang Fei was so angry that he was so angry, and with the drinks, he naturally became more and more energetic.
"Lord, let General Liu Pi come in!" Pang Tong, who was beside him, suggested to Liu Bei, that he was counting on controlling Liu Pi, and that it was impossible for Liu Pi to be kicked out of Liu Bei's circle of power. In this case, what else would Pang Tong, who had no military power, have to do?
"Okay, let him come in!" Liu Bei waved his hand and asked his personal guard to pass Liu Pi in. Liu Pi's incoming made everyone present stunned, because the bloody smell on Liu Pi's body was too heavy, and his bloody smell was even stronger than the soldiers present who had just participated in the ambush, which made him feel disgusting.
Moreover, there were flesh and blood on the armor of his body, and you could tell at a glance that he had only returned from a war.
Before Liu Bei could speak, Liu Pi thrust over there and knelt down in front of Liu Bei, "Lord, lord, you have to make the decision for me! lord!"
"Hmm?!" A bad feeling flashed in Liu Bei's heart. "Stand up and talk!"
"Lord, lord yesterday. The scout in our army captured Lu Bu's scout. From the scout of Lu Bu's army, we learned that the food and grass in Shouchun was insufficient. Lu Bu from Lujiang would escort a batch of food and grass on the official road to Shouchun. Because of the urgent time, the general specially asked his general Liao Hua to take two thousand soldiers to ambush the official road. After that, the general then brought five thousand soldiers and horses to the palace to take down this batch of food and grass! "Liu Pi dared not hide the truth in front of him.
"Shouchun is short of food? Lu Bu transports grain? The grain transport team walks on the official road?" These are three questions. The first question is that Shouchun is indeed short of food. Not only Shouchun is the entire Yangzhou. Here we can know from the mouths of some cities and the surrendered generals. Lu Bu transports grain? Everyone present looked at each other. There is really a possibility, because they ambushed Lu Bu's Bingzhou wolf cavalry. The grain transport team walked on the official road. Didn't Lu Bu's Bingzhou wolf cavalry just walk on the official road? But did they not see military rations?
Looking at everyone's thinking, Liu Pi continued to say such a plan under the lamp. In this way, a scene suddenly emerged in everyone present's minds, that is, Shouchun's military rations were insufficient and Lujiang was distributed. However, the food and grass were not transported at all, and naturally needed the protection of the army. Lu Bu's army was dragged down by Sun Ce from Jiangdong, and it was impossible to send troops alone to escort. The only one who could escort the food and grass without knowing it was Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, which was fast. He could fight back and forth in Shouchun, Lujiang before the enemy reacted, but the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry could not set off with the grain transport team. This would delay the speed and may limit the outbreak of the cavalry.
So there was such a dark plan to let the grain transport team take the lead, and the Bingzhou wolf cavalry followed. It would be fine if the grain transport team was safe all the way. If the grain transport team was attacked, the Bingzhou wolf cavalry behind could completely get the battlefield at speed and forcefully break out.
Everyone present nodded. There were many experts in Lu Bu's army. Unfortunately, his Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was discovered by Liu Bei's spies as soon as he left Wancheng. He was plotted by Pang Tong. His grain transport team was also caught by Liu Pi and scouted, which was exposed. Otherwise, the grain transport team would have really arrived in Shouchun during the period when Liu Bei's army encircled the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry.
"General Liu Pi, this is a great contribution! The lord thought where the general had gone before the meeting. Who knew that the general had made such a contribution for the lord, it was really a blessing!" Pang Tong first broke the atmosphere of thinking and clasped his fists at Liu Bei and said, "Lord, I should reward General Liu Pi with a drink." Pang Tong was a potential subordinate who was protecting himself everywhere.
"When you are rewarded, you are rewarded, and someone will add a seat to General Liu Pi!" If what Liu Pi said was true, then Liu Pi really made contributions. Shouchun City lacked enough food and grass, and this batch of food and grass for help was gone, so Shouchun City would be even more unable to hold on.
The wine and seats were moved over, but Liu Pi did not dare to sit down or drink.
"What's wrong? Liu Pi! Is the wine given by my elder brother not good? Do you disdain to drink it?" Zhang Fei was so loud that he didn't deal with the Yellow Turban bandits very much, and even the two merchants from the Mi family looked down on him.
"The last general dare not!" After being squeezed by Zhang Fei, Liu Pi hurriedly knelt down again. "The last general, the last general!" Liu Pi looked like he wanted to speak but stopped.
"General Liu Pi, what's the problem with you? The lord is here, what can I discuss with you!" Pang Tong remembered that as soon as he entered the camp, Liu Pi seemed to be asking Liu Bei to make the decision. Then he said this ambush. Generally speaking, generals are reported by good news but not bad news. Happy is always in front of worries. But this time Liu Pi did not have the joy of getting credit, but a kind of fear, which shows that there is something in it!"
"Last general, last general!" Liu Pi couldn't say it because the person involved, General Yang Wu, Zhang Xiu, was right beside him. He looked at Zhang Xiu and lowered his head.
"Oh!" Liao Hua next to him couldn't even get in. Now that he saw his master as he was so cowardly, he was hit by the doorstep. You are still worried about this and that "Report to the lord, our army suffered more than 4,000 casualties in this ambush battle!"
"More than four thousand?" A total of 7,000 people were taken out, with more than half of them killed or injured. Is there any enemy troops in this grain transport team? Didn't the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry be sniped by them?
"Who are you?!" Pang Tong asked everyone's doubts. Because he had never seen Liao Hua, his level was not enough to reach the level of the main account to discuss matters, so no one knew "the last general was the five thousand generals of Liao Hua. Liao Yuanjian, the governor of Yuzhou, under the command of General Liu Pi, the governor of Yuzhou."
"Lord, generals. Our army suffered such casualties, thanks to General Yangwu's subordinates!" Liao Hua's words made the atmosphere present suddenly wrong. Zhang Xiu, who had been watching the show, became the protagonist in the show.
"Liao Hua, what are you talking about?" Pang Tong hurriedly stopped Liao Hua. Zhang Xiu is now a friendly army and a person Liu Bei is determined to fight for. Compared with Liu Pi and Zhang Xiu, even if Liu Bei doesn't want Liu Pi, he will not offend Zhang Xiu.
"The General of the Mo was not talking nonsense! The General of the Mo was ambushed the Lu Bu army's grain transport team. He suffered less than a hundred casualties and got a thousand stones of food and grass, but before the General of the Mo was clear, Zhao Long, a general under General Zhang Xiu, came to ask for it! The General of the Mo was kind and told General Zhao Long that if he needed food and grass, he could be told to General Yang Wu that if he needed food and grass, he could be unified with General Yang Wu. This was the credit we took. However, Zhao Long was very kind on the surface. He suddenly killed a rebellion while the General of the Mo was not prepared, and two hundred elite Xiliang cavalry were caught off guard. Two thousand soldiers and horses were killed and injured. Fortunately, General Liu Pi led the back team to fight out, otherwise the General of the Mo was not back!" Liao Hua's words stunned everyone present.
Grab credit? Grab credit from friendly forces and even use a knife to kill so many people. No matter how you say it, it is unreasonable. They all look at Zhang Xiu.
Zhang Xiu was also a little embarrassed. After all, he brought several personal guards in this camp. If there was a real conflict, he would definitely be the one who was unlucky. "Is the food and grass what General Liao Hua said transported on the official road?!" Zhang Xiu had not heard it just now and found that his head pointed at him. Then he remembered that his army seemed to have received such a scout. When he learned that there were military rations transported from Lujiang to Shouchun, he sent Hu Cheer and two thousand Western Liang cavalry to investigate. If there was, he would rob him. If there wasn't, it didn't matter.
"Yes, it's that Hu Cheer!" Liu Pi also became excited. "Then Zhao Long killed nearly 2,000 people in the Yuzhou army and would not give up. Then General Yangwu, your deputy general, Hu Cheer, came out again, and brought two thousand elite Xiliang cavalry, which caused our army to die in battle and be injured more than 700." Anyway, it has been offended, so let's showdown and talk.
Two thousand Western Liang Iron Cavalry led by Hu Cheer? The eyes of Liu Bei's soldiers who were present at Zhang Xiu also changed. This was the rhythm of killing people and killing people. It was still above the official road, and the open area was not enough for two thousand heavy armored cavalry to charge.
"Well, does the barbarians of Xiliang bully my Liu Bei army without anyone?" Zhang Fei's loud voice was everywhere.
"Yide!" Liu Bei scolded.
"Hmph, I dare to ask General Liu Pi, the governor of Yuzhou, if my deputy general Hu Cheer led his troops to fight, how could you survive? He could still escape with three thousand soldiers?!" Zhang Xiu expressed this question, not that Zhang Xiu looked down on Liu Pi, but that once the light infantry was not prepared in the open area, it would be a massacre. Two thousand heavy armored cavalry could fight against 20,000 light infantry.
Yes, yes! Everyone looked at Liu Pi and Liao Hua again. Liu Pi lowered his head in the eyes of everyone, but Liao Hua was looking at each other with Zhang Xiu. This courage made the military generals around and Liu Bei look at Liao Hua even more.
"Report to the lord, I lost the loss of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry after ate the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, so it is impossible to eat it again. So in order to survive, I ambushed the two thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry with the grain transport team as bait!" Liao Hua said to Zhang Xiu.
"Hmm!" Ambushing the Western Liang Iron Cavalry? This is not a joke. At that time, normal people should have thought of escaping. After all, light infantrymen on the official road are not the opponents of heavy armored cavalry. Only a few people know that it is difficult to escape by escaping. And this young general like Liao Hua actually knows ambushing!
"Ambushes? How much does our Western Liang Iron Cavalry lose," Zhang Xiu asked proudly. More than 5,000 light infantrymen ambushed two thousand heavy cavalry?
"Our Yuzhou army died and injured 2,300 people. The Western Liang Iron Cavalry, except for more than a hundred cavalry, broke out of the encirclement, and killed the rest!" Liao Hua said the result of this battle word by word.
"What!" Everyone present was not calm, and they had not fought an ambush battle. In front of Chen Da, Zhang Fei, with all the Qingzhou army and the white-eared heavy armored soldiers, and Zhang Xiu's 5,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, fought an ambush battle. The target of this ambush was the Bingzhou wolf cavalry. Several large armies were all out, and less than 3,000 people were killed. However, Liao Hua, with the 5,000 Yuzhou Yellow Turban Army, ambushing the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, who also had heavy armored cavalry, actually made less than a hundred cavalry escape! The contrast between the front and back was too great, and everyone looked at Liao Hua differently. This person was a good general.
"Good killing! Haha, haha! Brother Liao Hua, I, Zhang Zhang, support you!" Zhang Fei smiled. In the past few days, the elder brother respected Zhang Xiu, which made Zhang Fei very unhappy. Moreover, the Western Liang Iron Cavalry were all Qiang people, which made Zhang Fei even more uncomfortable. If it weren't for the friendly forces, they would have killed him long ago.
"Hu Cheer, where is Hu Cheer!" Zhang Xiu was really angry. He might not care about the two thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but he had to care about Hu Cheer. Hu Cheer had been following Zhang Xiu for a long time. It can be said that Hu Cheer was equivalent to Zhang Xiu's younger brother. He followed Zhang Xiu since Zhang Xiu learned his skills. Later, Zhang Xiu surrendered to Liu Biao and killed Cao Cao. It can be said that this was all thanks to Hu Cheer's wholehearted help. So Zhang Xiu was excited and came forward to mention Liao Hua and Liu Pi.
"What do you want to do, what do you do!" Zhang Fei stood up and stood in front of Zhang Xiu.
"Get out!" Zhang Xiu's face was murderous intent, and Zhang Fei was not showing any weakness. Zhang Fei killed no less than Zhang Xiu. Liu Bei frowned and he didn't know what to do. If it was really just as Liu Pi said, then the mistake was in the Western Liang Iron Cavalry. If Liu Bei dealt with Liu Pi Liao Hua, it might make the soldiers under his command feel disappointed. If it was not dealt with, the people with Zhang Xiu would really break up. Maybe it would be a big battle. Liu Bei began to make up his mind to let Zhang Fei and Chen Dao kill Zhang Xiu first in the central army tent. Just when Liu Bei was about to make up his mind to kill Zhang Xiu first and then deal with Zhang Xiu's Xiliang Iron Cavalry under his command.
"The disaster is wrong, the disaster is wrong!!" A messenger stumbled in and ran in. "The disaster is wrong, lord, lord, our camp is surrounded!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!