Chapter 744 Ending
In the third year of Taiwu, the afternoon of May 20th was difficult for many people.
Before this afternoon, both the Guo and Liu armies and the Taishan Army, which thought they were making a surprise attack from hundreds of miles away, were sure of victory.
However, the cruelty of war and the inevitable arrangement of fate made this afternoon the end of too many people.
At this moment, on the bank of Jianshui, the thousand-man cavalry army that followed Guo Si to break out was ultimately unable to catch up, and was blocked by the two brothers Li Fu and Li Bi who rushed from behind.
Because there were too many cavalry troops, the horses had no room to turn around, so Guo Si and Li Fu and Li Bi's troops all chose to dismount and fight on foot.
But whether it is a mounted battle or an infantry battle, there is no difference in the final result.
Guo Si didn't escape this time, but he didn't have anything to commend him for. He was trampled into a pulp just because his horse stumbled.
He has ambitions, means, and abilities, but so what? Destiny has arrived, and he will eventually end, even if the way he ends is such an "ordinary" one.
With Guo Si's death in battle, the fighting in the northern section of Xin'an no longer resumed. Zhao Yun led dozens of cavalry to join Xu Huang, Li Fu, and Li Bi who were approaching, and prepared to respond to the southern battlefield.
At this time, a group of knights suddenly heard shocking news.
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Xu Huang opened his mouth, brothers Li Fu and Li Bi raised their hands, only Zhao Yun asked Na Yuqi again:
"You said that Commander Guo died in battle? Was it Commander Guo?"
That Yu Xi was from the Chinese Army, a descendant of the old Taishan Army, and had a relationship with Guo Liang. At this moment, when Zhao Yun asked again, he couldn't hold it in and cried loudly:
"Yes, Commander Guo died in battle. Half of his fifty cavalry were killed trying to snatch his body. But in the end Commander Guo's head was taken away by Zhang Fei."
Zhao Yun took a deep breath. The Taishan Army has been in existence for so long, but it has never killed any general at the army level. He just defeated Liu Bei and defeated Guo Liang.
It's incredible.
But when I think about how I almost died in Zhang Fei's hands, I understand.
Xu Huang was upset when he heard Na Yuqi crying, and cursed angrily:
"Crying, can crying make Lao Guo survive? Tell me quickly, what military orders did the king ask you to bring? Where is Zhang Fei now? I have to skin him."
Zhao Yun immediately woke up after hearing Xu Huang's words. Yes, this person is from the Chinese Army. I think the king has already known about the situation before them, and now he must arrange military orders for them.
After being scolded, Na Yuqi stopped his grief and shouted the order:
"Liu Bei's troops have been completely destroyed, but the bandit leader Liu Bei and his general Zhang Fei retreated into Badou Mountain with hundreds of remaining soldiers. They are now surrounded by our army on an unknown hilltop."
After hearing this, Xu Huang became even more angry:
"Since we are surrounded, we are going to kill them. What are we going to do with these people?"
However, as soon as Xu Huang finished speaking, Yu Qi below did not dare to say anything, and after a long time he said:
"We attacked, and six gold medal warriors and eighteen silver medal warriors died. They all died at the hands of Zhang Fei, and they were still unable to attack the mountain."
At this time, Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, Li Fu, and Li Bi stopped talking.
Six gold medal warriors, eighteen silver medal warriors, what is this concept? They all died in the hands of Zhang Fei. Who is this? So brave?
Therefore, for a while, the four generals could only lead their armies to gather in the south. In the wilderness over there, an apricot-yellow banner stood facing the wind, presiding over the final encirclement and annihilation work.
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At the same time, at the foot of Badou Mountain, Xi Shen was furious.
He smashed his bag on the ground and cursed the generals around him:
"Are you all dead? That Zhang Fei was made of iron, and even with so many of you hammering him to pieces. What happened in the end? Eight gold medal warriors died? Eight! There are only eighteen in our entire Flying Leopard Army. Gold medal, you killed eight of me in one battle.”
Thinking of this, Xi Shen kicked over the table again and sat on the horse, panting.
This time it was a big loss. He arrived at the battlefield after Guo Liang's troops. The situation at that time was that Liu Bei's army was attacked from the front and back, and the position was in chaos. He could no longer hold on.
But just as he was about to reap the victory, he saw an enemy cavalry general with four to five hundred cavalry, constantly roaming the battlefield, and there was no enemy wherever he passed.
Xi Shen knew that this must be Zhang Fei, the unparalleled general in Liu Bei's army, so he chose to avoid it.
He knew very well that they would win this battle, so there was no need to fight with Zhang Fei. He Xi Shen cherished his life and did not want to die at the last moment on the battlefield.
Although Xi Shen's behavior was not heroic, his judgment was correct. As more and more Taishan troops rushed to the battlefield, the battlefield space was greatly compressed.
At this time, there were so many people everywhere, how could there be any space for Zhang Fei to move around?
So after it became impossible to do anything, he protected Liu Bei and retreated to Badou Mountain.
But at this time, Xi Shen came up and started to take advantage. He understood the gold content of Liu Bei. Instead of capturing and killing those miscellaneous soldiers, capturing and killing Liu Bei was the greatest achievement of this battle.
Maybe it's because Xi Shen's rough hair has already shown his intelligence. He always likes to use the least effort to achieve the greatest results when in contact.
This is his strength and his weakness, but unfortunately he will not realize it at this time.
As he surrounded Liu Bei and others in Badou Mountain, he also heard the sad news of Guo Liang's death in battle from Guo Liang's remaining troops.
To be honest, Xi Shen was really sad for a moment. After all, he had known Guo Liang for seven or eight years. Although they did not fight together most of the time, Pao Ze's feelings could not be faked.
But after a short period of sadness, there was endless ecstasy. He realized that this was a big opportunity, a big opportunity to gain great reputation and favor among the Lao Taishan Army group.
Xi Shen has always been incompatible with the core of Lao Taishan Army, although for those who joined during the Taishan period, Xi Shen is a member of Lao Taishan.
But Xi Shen himself knew very well that the so-called Lao Taishan brothers were those who formed an army with Juyi and Xue in the forest. Although Xi Shen joined at that time, he was a bad boy who was captured by Zhang Chong, and he was considered a different kind. .
Therefore, Xi Shen has always been unable to exert his strength in this group, but Guo Liang is different. Among the old brothers, Ding Sheng has always been more outstanding, but his performance in the series of battles in Pingyuanjin was not very good. So its reputation has declined a bit in the past two years.
But Guo Liang is undoubtedly the opposite. Both the king's behavior and daily words reveal that he will be of great use to Guo Liang. Moreover, Guo Liang's popularity is really good and he is quite prestigious among the old brothers.
And now that Guo Liang is dead, if Xi Shen can avenge him, can those old brothers not look at him differently?
This is very important for your future development.
Xi Shen thinks so, but it's not that he has already turned against him. Even a fool knows that at this time, if there are no accidents, the world belongs to the eldest wife.
And even if something unexpected happened in the battle of Kyoto this time, they could calmly retreat to the north and separate themselves. But is it possible? Can Yuan Shao and his men defeat the king? How many battles has he fought? How many times have you won? So in fact, they all know that the outcome of the war is certain.
As an amateur, you think you can beat the top experts because of your superiority?
Or as Sun Tzu said, which one has the right way? Who is capable? Which one is better, heaven and earth? Which law is right? Which of the soldiers is stronger? Which soldiers are trained? What are the rewards and punishments? This is how I know the outcome.
Therefore, the reason why Xi Shen wants to win over his old brothers is not because of any alienation, but because of the instinct of an opportunist to engage in sectarianism.
Without him, only by forming a party can we pursue selfish interests!
Therefore, Xi Shen was determined to besiege Badou Mountain. It would be better if he would not send out all his elite soldiers and generals. But the terrible reality gave him a bucket of cold water. He never thought that he would be the one who lost the army in the end.
When the battle reached this point, Xi Shen already knew that he could not surround and kill Liu Bei and others by himself, so at this time, he reported to the general that he had surrounded Liu Bei and frankly reported the losses.
Yes, Xi Shen fought for half an hour, but he didn't even send any military reports. But he didn't know how furious Zhang Chong was when he received the military report from Xi Shen.
After scolding all his subordinates, Xi Shen sat on the horse and looked at the Badou Mountain in the distance, imagining the scene of corpses strewn on the mountain road, and finally couldn't help but think of one person.
This fly is really brave.
Xi Shen loved learning, but he didn't know how to read and was unwilling to learn from scratch, so he hired an aide to read to him.
Among them, Xi Shen's favorites are "Historical Records" and "Book of Han", especially "The Biography of Huo Guang", but he can't listen to it too much, so the one he listens to the most is "The Biography of Xiang Yu".
It was precisely because of his understanding of history that Xi Shen realized that there could be such heroic figures in history.
At this time, he couldn't help humming:
"I have been eight years since I raised the army. I have fought more than seventy battles. Those who stood in my way were defeated, and those who attacked were subjugated. I was never defeated, and I conquered the world. But now my soldiers are trapped here. I will be killed in this day. It is not a crime of war. . Today I will fight to the death, and I will fight quickly for you, and I will win three times. I will break the siege for you, cut off the generals, and cut down the flag, so that you will know that it is not a crime of war to kill me."
Xi Shen looked at the Badou Mountain and clicked his tongue:
"A non-war crime? A familiar crime? Is it still my fault?"
Obviously, Xi Shen didn't know what was waiting for him.
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Zhang Chong is sad, painful, and regretful.
At this time, Guo Liang's remains had been cleaned, using only the stream water. However, no matter how everyone cleaned it, blood still continued to gush out from the wound where the head was severed, dyeing the shroud blood red.
Zhang Chong stood in front of Guo Liang. Behind him were a group of old brothers, including Dian Wei and Li Damu. They all looked at Guo Liang's broken body with sad expressions. They couldn't believe that Guo Liang would die here.
At this time, Dian Wei finally couldn't bear it anymore. He cupped his fists at Zhang Chong and said:
"Your Majesty, A Liang's head is still in Zhang Fei's hands. I will lead someone to snatch it back, otherwise A Liang will die with his eyes open."
Dian Wei's words caused a group of old brothers to ask for help, but Cai Que's eyes were red and swollen, and he said helplessly:
"Who doesn't want to kill that Zhang Fei? But damn, we people have been all over the battlefield, but we don't care about Liu Bei and Zhang Fei. Are these people flying away?"
With that said, Cai Que was about to walk out again, but Guo Zu next to him stopped him and advised:
"Stop searching, I've searched everything that needs to be searched."
At this time Cai Que finally cried. He sat on the ground and cursed:
"What should we do? Have we searched Badou Mountain? Yes, there are so many mountains there. If Liu Bei and his men run into the mountains, we won't be able to search them."
After the scolding, Cai Que cried again.
During the whole process, Zhang Chong kept his back to everyone, and he looked silently at Guo Liang, who was lying on the white cloth.
Although Guo Liang's head was not present at this moment, Zhang Chong completed the face in his mind, even more clearly than usual.
He remembered the first time he and Guo Liang met. At that time, this kid was always going against him after following Hei Fu.
If Heifu was not convinced that he was young and took the lead, then Guo Liang, a silly boy, just loves to make trouble.
But I have to say that this guy is indeed a good guy, even a little too honest. Once, he and Guo Liang lined up for a night boat trip and talked about what they would do if they had money in the future.
At that time, Zhang Chong really wanted to laugh after hearing Guo Liang's fantasy. It turns out that this kid's ultimate fantasy of prosperity is just to be like the wealthy among them, being able to eat meat and wear silk.
So when Zhang Chong said that he would be rich in the future and wanted to bring everyone in the world to be rich, Guo Liang was convinced. He thought this was the best ambition.
In fact, for Zhang Chong at that time, what was the difference between this conversation and the night chats between buddies in the dormitory during college?
But the boy believed it and never doubted it again.
Thinking of this, the corners of Zhang Chong's eyes were a little moist. Suddenly he looked at Guo Liang's right hand. There was a wooden ring on the thumb of his right hand.
Seeing this ring, countless memories washed over Zhang Chong again.
It was his first military training at Xue's wall. Guo Liang came to him and said that he had been using swords before and wanted to join the sword team instead of using a bow.
Of course Zhang Chong understood the reason behind this at that time. It was because they obtained many swords and spears from Li Jin's river patrol, but not many hard bows.
This was even more true when the Xue family wall was breached later. How could a run-down wealthy family on the run have so many good bows?
So at that time, the brothers generally wanted to be assigned to the knife team because they could get good knives, but they were least willing to be assigned to the bow team because they were all hunting bows that were inaccurate.
At that time, I was also a liar, and I started to talk to Guo Liang, saying that you can be anyone you want, and the only thing that can restrain you is your heart.
In short, a set of humanistic rhetoric that was familiar to later generations baptized Guo Liang, and he became an archer with only three twisted arrows.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chong's tears fell.
Really, the most hypocritical and selfish person is myself. I need willpower and knowledge to resist the evil in my heart, but you naturally accept all this and are loyal to it all.
Ah Liang, I promise you, I will definitely let the golden age of Huang Tian come to the world.
Since they all say that never is wrong, then I will turn nothing into something, and turn something into something that has always been the case.
After thinking about this, Zhang Chong silently took off Guo Liang's ring and put it on his right hand.
At this time, Xi Shen's Feather Cavalry also reported over.