After Yu Yi finished reading the letter, he sighed: "Who knows me! Master!" So he took out a paper and pen and wrote a reply. There were only a few simple words, the content was: Wait until the time is right. When the reply letter was taken away by the messenger, Yu Yi recalled the process of people persuading him to become emperor, and thought, "Since ancient times, people who do not listen to persuasion will probably not end well. Now top advisers such as Kong Ming and Jia Xu are persuading If I replace the eldest brother, I will not be as kind as a woman."
At the front line, Zhang Bao and Guan Xing were rushing to go on the expedition. The First Lord said: "It's good for you two to go together, but you must be cautious and don't act randomly!"
The two of them bowed, then left, joined the vanguard, marched together, and formed a formation. When Sun Heng heard that the Shu army had arrived, he gathered the defenders to resist. The two formations faced each other. Sun Heng took Li Yi and Xie Jing to the center of the gate flag and saw two generals walking out of the Shu army, both with silver helmets and silver helmets. Armor, there is a flag behind them. On the top is Zhang Bao with an eight-point steel spear, and below is Guan Xing with a machete.
Zhang Bao saw the person opposite and cursed: "Sun Heng, you kid is going to die soon, how dare you resist us?"
Sun Heng also scolded: "Your father is already a headless ghost, and now you come to die again. It is really unwise!"
After Zhang Bao heard this, he was furious and rode straight towards Sun Heng. Behind Sun Heng, Xie Jing rode up to fight. The two fought for more than thirty rounds, but Xie Jing could not defeat him and had to be defeated. Zhang Bao took advantage of the momentum to pursue, and Li Dissatisfied that his own people were defeated, he quickly stepped forward to fight, and fought with Zhang Bao for more than 20 rounds, with neither victory nor defeat.
Tan Xiong, the lieutenant general of the Wu army, saw that Zhang Bao was extremely brave and Li Yi could not win, so he fired a cold arrow, which happened to hit the horse that Zhang Bao was riding. Near the flag, he was unable to do anything, so he knocked Zhang Bao to the ground and died on the spot.
Seeing this, Li Yi swung a big ax and chopped off Zhang Bao's head. Suddenly a red light flashed. Li Yi's head was chopped off and rolled on the ground several times. Blood flowed from around his neck. It turned out that Guan Xing Seeing Zhang Bao being overthrown by a horse, he was ready and stepped forward to rescue him. He happened to encounter Li Yi coming over. He shouted and killed him under the horse. He saved Zhang Bao and took advantage of the situation to cover up the killing. Sun Heng was defeated. Each of them ordered their troops to retreat.
On the second day, Sun Heng came again with his troops and horses. Zhang Bao and Guan Xing fought out together. Guan Xing stood in front of the horse and wanted to challenge Sun Heng to a duel. Sun Heng was furious and hurriedly went up to fight and fought with Guan Xing. After more than thirty rounds, they were not strong enough and could only return to their own camp. The two continued to cover up the kill. Wu Ban led Zhang Nan and Feng Xi to kill all the way. Zhang Bao took the lead bravely and entered the Wu army. He happened to meet Xie Jing. Zhang Bao raised his hand and shot him to death.
The Wu army had no commander and was running in all directions. After the Shu army was victorious, they did not pursue them and instead withdrew their troops first. On the way back, he didn't see Guan Xing. Zhang Bao was very surprised and said: "If something happens to Guan Xing, I will definitely not live alone." After that, he rode on his horse and went around to look for him.
Suddenly, a man came towards us with a knife in his left hand and a living person in his right hand. Zhang Bao asked, "Who are you catching?"
Guan Xing smiled and said: "I was fighting in the rebel army just now, and I happened to meet your enemy, so I went to capture him!"
Zhang Bao looked carefully and saw that the man was Tan Xiong who had fired the cold arrow that day. Zhang Bao was very happy and returned to the camp together. He killed him personally and sacrificed it to the dead horse. Then he sent someone to write down the battle situation and report to the First Lord. .
In this battle, Sun Heng lost many main generals such as Li Yi, Xie Jing, and Tan Xiong. He felt that he was not strong enough to resist the opponent, so he wrote to the King of Wu, hoping to get rescue.
Shu generals Zhang Nan and Feng Xi said to Wu Ban: "We have won a great victory today, and we are taking advantage of the situation to rob the camp."
Wu Band said: "Although some of Sun Heng's soldiers died, Zhu Ran's navy is still camping on the river and has not used its strength. Now we are going to rob the stronghold. What if we encounter the navy coming ashore and blocking our way back? Is good?"
Zhang Nan said: "This matter is very simple. You can let two generals Guan Xing and Zhang Bao ambush in the valley with five thousand troops each. If Zhu Ran comes to rescue and the troops on the left and right come out together, we will definitely win." !”
Wu Band said: "If that doesn't work, you can first send soldiers to pretend to surrender as surrendering soldiers, and then tell Zhu Ran about the robbery of the stronghold. Zhu Ran will definitely come to the rescue when he sees the fire, and then we will ambush the troops." Attack, then great things can be accomplished!" Feng Xi was very happy after hearing this, and acted according to the plan.
Zhu Ran heard that Sun Heng had lost his army and was about to come over to relieve him. Suddenly, there were a few soldiers on the roadside who wanted to board a boat to surrender. Zhu Ran asked about the situation and replied: "We are all soldiers under Feng Xi's camp. Because his rewards and punishments are unknown, we specially Come surrender to the general and report their secrets.”
Zhu Ran said: "What secrets do you want to report?"
He replied: "Tonight, Feng Xi and others are going to lead their soldiers to rob General Sun's camp. They have agreed to raise a fire as a signal."
After Zhu Ran heard this, he immediately sent someone to inform Sun Heng. The man was killed by Guan Xing on the way. Zhu Ran discussed and prepared to lead his troops to rescue Sun Heng.
General Cui Yunan advised: "You cannot believe the words of a small soldier. If there are any omissions, both the navy and the army will be destroyed. The general can stably guard the navy camp. I am willing to go there in the general's place."
Zhu Ran followed this suggestion and asked Cui Yu to go to the rescue with 10,000 soldiers and horses. That night, the Shu army was divided into three groups and went directly into Sun Heng's camp. Fire broke out on all sides. The Wu army was in chaos and they were all looking for a way out. run.
Cui Yu was on the road when he suddenly saw a fire. He quickly urged his troops to move forward. Just after he turned a mountain, suddenly there was a loud drum sound in the valley. Guan Xing on the left and Zhang Bao on the right attacked from two sides. Cui Yu knew that he was ambushed. When he was about to escape, he happened to encounter Zhang Bao and captured him alive in just one round.
Zhu Ran knew that the situation was very critical, so he could only move the ship back fifty or sixty miles. Sun Heng fled with the defeated army and asked his general: "Where can we leave from here with strong cities and abundant food?"
He replied: "To the north of here is Yiling City, where you can station troops." So Sun Heng led the defeated army towards Yiling. Just as he was about to enter the city, Wu Ban and others had already chased him and surrounded them everywhere.
Guan Xing and Zhang Bao escorted Cui Yu to Zigui. The First Lord was very happy and ordered Cui Yu to be beheaded and rewarded the three armies. The battle was so majestic that the generals in the south of the Yangtze River were very frightened.
The soldiers sent by Sun Heng told the King of Wu about the rescue. The King of Wu was very surprised. He called all the civil and military officials to discuss it overnight and said: "Now Sun Heng is trapped in Yi Ling, Zhu Ran has also been defeated, and the power of the Shu army It’s very big, what should I do?”
Zhang Zhao said: "Now that many of the veteran generals have passed away, and there are still more than a dozen people alive, why should we be afraid of Liu Bei? We can order Han Dang to be the general, Zhou Tai to be the deputy general, Pan Zhang to be the vanguard, and Ling Tong to be the vanguard. After joining forces, Gan Ning came to the rescue and raised 100,000 troops to resist."
