"Little strategist, someone is here indeed!"
Sitting high on the gate of Mawei Town, Dongfang Jing raised his head. Across the flash floods in the depression, he saw dense crowds of people moving in front of him.
The long sound of horses neighing echoed endlessly in the rain.
tread.
A general riding a horse with a long saber, looking extremely angry, stepped out coldly from the separated queue.
"Your Excellency, is that Dongfang Jing?"
"Exactly, I will sit here and ask the general to come and take my head." Dongfang Jing said calmly.
"Okay!" Zhang Yuan shouted angrily, his face full of anger.
"General Zhang, be careful of fraud." Zhuo Yuanzi was nearby and reminded him hastily.
After hesitating for a while, Zhang Yuan finally did not give the order to let the army wade into the water. Instead, he calmed down and asked General Pi to pass the order and the army retreated ten miles.
"Coming and leaving, the general is like a slutty lady in the Qing Dynasty, making people pick and choose, and then discarding them like worn-out shoes." Dongfang Jing's tone was still extremely calm.
Zhang Yuan turned around and widened his eyes.
"General Zhang, don't be provoked!" Zhuo Yuanzi looked shocked.
Zhang Yuan held the long saber and gritted his teeth until blood oozed from them.
"retreat!"
"General Zhang has ordered the army to retreat!"
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Sitting on the wooden wheel, Dongfang Jing sighed.
"After all, he is a general and has not been provoked. Han Jiu, have you recovered the body?"
Han Jiu, with his chest hair dangling, ran over in a hurry.
"Little strategist, there are too many floating corpses. The bodies of the two Zhang family generals have not been found yet. However, little strategist, what should we do if we find them?"
"Take a bamboo pole and put the human head on the tip of the pole... The dead person is the most important. This will harm the heaven and earth, but I can't care about it."
After someone pushed the wooden wheel cart a few more steps, Dongfang Jing lowered his eyes and looked at the scene below. In the battle of Mawei Town, the 30,000 Liang army was almost completely wiped out. Only a few deserters were able to escape closer to the shore.
"Han Jiu, what's going on with Chen Zhong?"
"Military advisor, we're almost here."
"Very good."
…
Mawei Town, ten miles away.
Without spending too much time, Zhang Yuan withdrew from the area in front of Mawei Town with 20,000 Liang troops. I was worried that the crippled military advisor would attack with water again, so I had to choose a high and flat peak as a place to camp.
This flat peak has only one entrance and exit, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
"General Zhang, it's still the same sentence. We only want to have no faults, and we can't force meritorious service." Zhuo Yuanzi was worried and repeated it again.
He joined the army as a staff officer, and his biggest task was to be on guard against the tricks of the lame champion.
"Commander Zhuo, I understand." Zhang Yuan looked at the knife in his hand with a deep tone.
Zhuo Yuanzi breathed a sigh of relief, "General Zhang is eager for revenge, and I understand that. But as long as the lord captures Bailu County, there is no need to worry about this lame man surviving."
"Commander Zhuo, I told you, I understand everything!" Zhang Yuan said calmly, dragging his knife and walking towards the camp.
Standing in the wet, Zhuo Yuanzi suddenly felt that his body was freezing.
At dusk, under the gloomy twilight, the mountain breeze blew, and the torches embedded in the hut would jump and sway from time to time, dragging out all kinds of strange shadows.
Zhang Yuan did not dare to be careless. The Liang army of 20,000 people was arranged in a circular formation and camped in piles. Three thousand night patrol soldiers, led by a Liangzhou general, patrolled intensively back and forth along the Pingfeng where they camped, five miles away.
Before falling asleep, Zhang Yuan held the military book in his hands and only flipped through a few pages when he suddenly remembered the tragic death of his two brothers.
"If one day, I, Zhang Yuan, break through Yuguan, I will definitely massacre one hundred thousand households in Shuzhou to avenge my two brothers!"
Zhuo Yuanzi, who was beside him, was holding a tea cup and did not persuade him. He lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.
"In today's situation, the chance of the Shu people stealing the camp is low. Tomorrow morning, the general can arrange fortifications and start building strongholds. Only three horned forts need to be built, and there will be no fear of the Shu people. Furthermore, here The terrain is flat, and the general still has ten thousand Liang cavalry, and the power of the cavalry cannot be underestimated."
"My lord, it's time to go to Prancing Horse Beach and fight against the common thieves——"
Zhuo Yuanzi's voice suddenly stopped.
He put down his tea cup and hurried out of the military tent.
"Who is playing the funeral music!"
"Commander Zhuo, the people of Shu are in mourning!"
"A funeral?"
"The lame military advisor from Shuzhou put the heads of two generals of the Zhang family on bamboo poles and came to mourn them!"
Zhuo Yuanzi looked shocked. How could he not know that this was a conspiracy to anger Zhang Yuan?
"The cripple bullied me too much!" Zhang Yuan stood up with the knife in his hand, his face roaring.
"General Zhang, don't be irritated!" Zhuo Yuanzi said earnestly, like an old master who was giving guidance.
Zhang Yuan gritted his teeth and hurriedly walked out of the military tent. Sure enough, when he raised his eyes, he saw a funeral band walking forward.
Two human heads were hung on bamboo poles, and the outline of their faces could be vaguely discerned.
The three thousand Liang Army patrolmen also closed their array and nervously stopped in front of the camp.
"My military advisor asked General Zhang to come and collect the body." A voice rang out from the funeral band.
"Be careful of fraud." Zhuo Yuanzi frowned.
Zhang Yuan didn't know it. He raised his head and looked at the head on the bamboo pole, feeling another wave of sadness in his chest.
"If General Zhang doesn't take it, we will take it back. It can be seen that wild dogs are infested in Sichuan. Don't be surprised if General Zhang's two brothers are chewed into the belly of wild dogs."
Zhang Yuan staggered and wanted to step out, but was blocked by Zhuo Yuanzi.
"General Zhang, don't be provoked! This is a plan to provoke the general! Could it be that General Zhang can't even see through such a clumsy little plan?"
"Of course I know, but there are my two brothers there!" Zhang Yuan held the knife and trembled uncontrollably.
"General Zhang, please calm down. The people from Shu who are in mourning are only two or three hundred, so they must be deceitful. If we leave the camp, we will be ambushed!"
"If we weren't too far away, I could not wait to use my bow and shoot these Shu people to death!" Zhang Yuan gritted his teeth.
"It stands to reason that the crippled military advisor is also very wise, but I don't understand why he would use such a clumsy way to provoke the general." Zhuo Yuanzi said in a deep voice.
Zhuo Yuanzi raised his head and looked at the Shu people who were still mourning outside the camp. After pondering for a while, he suddenly thought of something and his face turned pale.
"General Zhang, quickly send out your soldiers and continue to patrol around the camp!"
The cavalry that was originally patrolling at night were suddenly attracted by the funeral procession on the road. Thinking that a war was about to break out, they hurried back and blocked the camp.
"Commander Zhuo, what does this mean?"
"Oh, this is a highland with flat peaks. If the Shu people block the way downhill, we will be in great trouble!"
"Military advisor, the Shu army is still at Yuguan."
"General Zhang, it's a secret plan! The lame military advisor's intention is not to anger General Zhang, but to conceal the army!"
…
Chen Zhong led a team of ten thousand people and marched in the dark night. After a pause, he raised his head and looked at a flat peak not far ahead.
"The little military strategist made a clever calculation. The front army was attacked by water. Zhang Yuan, the rear army, was afraid that the water would be like a tiger, so he would camp on the high ground."
"Go around, block the way down to the peak, and cooperate with the military advisor's plan!"
"You gentlemen, please don't forget that our Shu people's ambition to protect our land is subject to death or life!"
A long procession of ten thousand people walked around Pingfeng in the dark night, wielding halberds and wearing armor, with a look of death on their faces.
