No matter what the readers think, Cao Cao simply left, and the plot continued to advance. After Cao Cao died, Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, and then drove away Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, accepted the abdication, ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, creating a new era. The Wei Dynasty.
Then Liu Bei quickly ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, continuing the Han orthodoxy, and then directly announced the crusade against Soochow.
The emperor's uncle's party became lively again, and they were ready to celebrate the New Year.
Uncle Liu personally led the four great generals Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Ma Chao, as well as top strategists like Zhuge Liang, and sent an army of 750,000 to Soochow to avenge Guan Yu.
Not only did this give him an advantage in strength, but he also had a righteous reputation. The emperor's uncle himself officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and became the legitimate Emperor of the Han Dynasty.
As a result, Emperor Zhang Wu issued an edict, ordering Prime Minister Zhuge Liang to stay in Chengdu to protect the prince while guarding the land in both Sichuan.
He ordered the hussar general Ma Chao and his younger brother Ma Dai to assist the Zhenbei general Wei Yan in guarding Hanzhong to resist possible Wei offensives.
After ordering Huwei General Zhao Yun to serve as a rear guard, he would supervise the grain and grass and be in charge of logistics.
Huang Zhong was ordered to serve as the front vanguard, carrying a total of hundreds of Sichuan generals and Wuxi barbarians from Jingzhou, known as an army of 750,000, to set out on Bingyin day in July of the first year of Zhangwu to attack Sun Quan.
Although this imperial edict and the formation of troops are different from the original plan of the group of friends.
For example, among the remaining four tiger generals, Ma Chao did not follow, and Zhao Yunzi was in charge of logistics. It seemed that the only ones who could fight in the front were Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei.
But the problem is not big. Sun Quan has no generals who can compare with these two people.
As for the counselors, because Zhuge Liang clearly opposed the attack on Soochow, he was left in Chengdu by Liu Bei, but the problem was not big. There were also young people like Huang Quan, Cheng Ji, Ma Liang, and Chen Zhen as counselors.
These people are also very resourceful. Zhou Yu and Lu Su in Soochow both died one after another. Although Lu Meng succeeded in attacking Jingzhou, he was killed by the soul of Guan Yu after his death, so the current governor seems to be a guy named Lu Xun.
Although this Lu Xun had appeared in the previous Battle of Chibi, he only did some low-level work, and he did not 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. How can this second generation, who seems very incompetent at first glance, be able to block the thunderous strike of my Uncle Liu Huang?
Then Zhang Fei was hacked to death for whipping the soldiers.
Immediately afterwards, Sun Quan petitioned Cao Pi and expressed his willingness to submit to the Wei Dynasty, so he was named King of Wu, known as the King of Wu in the Wei Dynasty, and was given Jiuxi. He might usurp the throne in the future.
Wait, turn the page back, what was written in the previous plot? Who died?
This can be described as the feeling of readers after watching this plot, that is, everyone is sitting on the train, eating steaming hot pot with mouthfuls of spicy food. One second they thought it tasted great, but the next second they all started eating hot pot. A dead mouse came out.
Many readers don't know what they saw after reading it, and they think they fell asleep while reading and had a nightmare.
I pinched myself a dozen times and read the newly updated chapter a dozen times before I was sure that Zhang Fei was dead.
There is a saying that in the original work of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Fei's death was indeed extremely sudden.
One second, Luo Guanzhong was writing Liu Bei's imperial edict to mobilize the army, and the next second, Zhang Fei had his head cut off by Zhang Da and Fan Qiang for whipping the soldiers.
From Zhang Fei whipping Zhang Da and Fan Qiang to the two of them cutting off Zhang Fei's head, it ended in less than 500 words.
500 words may seem like a lot, but this refers to starting from the death event, describing the entire death process, and finally successfully cutting off Zhang Fei's head. There are only 500 words in total.
Luo Guanzhong previously described the death of Guan Yu, starting from crossing the river in white clothes. He used two chapters and nearly 12,000 words to describe the entire process.
But up to Zhang Fei's death, there are only 500 words in total, and after Liu Xu switched to writing in vernacular, it was actually only about 1,000 words, less than one-third of the chapter, Zhang Fei died, Of the three brothers in Taoyuan, Liu Bei was the only one left.
After Liu Bei got the news, he fainted on the spot. After being rescued, he just murmured to himself, "Hey, is Zhang Fei dead? My two brothers are gone, and I am left alone." Yet?"
Seeing this, many of the emperor's uncles directly smashed their mobile phones on the ground and cried like a tearful person.
Immediately afterwards, an unprecedented chaos broke out among the readers of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Except for a very few people, almost everyone cursed @Liu Xu in the group, and immediately left the group after the curse. Leave.
Although Liu Xu occasionally said a few words, every time he opened his mouth, he was drowned out by more angry and violent curses. Gradually, Liu Xu stopped talking.
In just one day, out of 40 groups of 2,000 people and a total of 80,000 group members, nearly 20,000 people left directly.
This time, we can’t blame the readers for their poor psychological endurance. It’s just that Zhang Fei’s death came too suddenly.
As I said before, from crossing the river in white to Guan Yu's death, there are at least 12,000 words.
If you count from Guan Yu's attack on Xiangyang, there will be 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 innocent souls of tens of thousands of Cao Cao's troops were enough to pull the strings. They followed Guan Yu to the underworld.
Therefore, although Guan Yu's death was beyond the expectations of all readers, it also had a lot of foreshadowing. In the end, thinking back, it was a death that was completely acceptable logically. Although the readers were in a state of rage at the time, what was really completely unacceptable was still there. A few, many of them came back.
But in comparison, Zhang Fei's death became so dazzling.
Zhang Fei's death was only 500 words long in the original novel, but it was only because he whipped two generals, got drunk, and was easily touched into the tent by the two men, and then cut off his head and died tragically. on the spot.
With such a simple and crude plot, no student who has studied writing for several years would be able to write something like this, but Liu Xu just used these 500 words to write about Zhang Fei's death.
In the reader's mind, Liu Xu seemed to regard Zhang Fei as a soldier on the roadside, thinking that he deserved to die, and then directly killed him without even using more words to cover it up.
Liu Xu himself was deeply touched by this when he read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the first time. He wanted to pull Luo Guanzhong out of the grave and ask him why Zhang Fei's death was so hasty.
Liu Xu once thought that if he wrote this plot himself, he would have to use 1 to 2 chapters to give Zhang Fei a detailed solo response, and then give him one or two battles, and finally give him He died at the hands of two young men, so the level of acceptance was at least higher.
Is it like in the original novel of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, where he didn't even win a battle, but just beat two generals, drank wine and slept at night, and then was beheaded.
Of course, after growing up and reading a lot of historical materials, Liu Xu realized that Luo Guanzhong actually had a profound meaning when he wrote this, because he wanted to tell all those who would read this book through such understatement that Don't make the same mistake as Zhang Fei again.
Moreover, Zhang Fei’s death is not actually 500 words, but runs through the whole book. From when Liu Bei became the captain of Anxi County, Zhang Fei whipped the postal supervisor, causing Liu Bei to abandon the pass and leave. Zhang Fei whipped the soldiers at will, There are dozens of descriptions of his behavior of often issuing unrealistic orders and loving to drink in the military.
Of course, according to official historical records, it was Liu Bei who whipped the postal supervisor, not Zhang Fei. Since this is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, let’s follow the plot of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
These details throughout the book are the real cause of Zhang Fei's death. It can be said that Luo Guanzhong used the entire book to warn everyone who reads Zhang Fei's death if they want to be a general, or a leader.
You must not act on impulse, you must not whip or humiliate your subordinates at will, and you must not still indulge in drinking at important moments. Although alcohol can numb pain, it can also numb a person's wisdom and perception.
This is not necessarily about drinking. All other behaviors that will cause problems with your own sanity are not allowed.
Otherwise, it will be like Zhang Fei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, where thousands of troops once took the general's head from it as if it were nothing. The first three roars of Changbanpo frightened the general to death. The rough and the fine broke through Jiangzhou, and the veteran Yan Yan won the morale of the army. The defeat of Zhang He on the small road in Sichuan shocked the world, so don't be afraid.
In the end, when he died, he only had 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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