The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 753 Chapter 752
Jiange, official office.

Zhang Fei sat there with a gloomy expression, his tiger eyes fixed on a letter on the table, his mood almost fell to the bottom.

Fazheng was standing opposite Zhang Fei. He noticed the displeasure on Zhang Fei's face. That expression told him that something happened, and it was a big deal.

"My lord, is something wrong?" Fazheng asked cautiously.

Zhang Fei didn't speak, but just pushed the letter in front of him to Fazheng.

The letter was sent by Meng Da who stayed in Chengdu. Fazheng took the letter and glanced through it in a hurry. A group of ex-Central Shu ministers headed by them secretly welcomed Liu Zhang back, and openly announced their surrender to the Han court. Counties in Shu County, Guanghan and other places responded one after another. The west of Jiange was no longer owned by Zhang Fei. After leaving Chengdu, he hid in Mount Qingcheng, not daring to come out, and risked his life to send someone to send a letter.

In addition, Meng Da also brought news that the Han court sent another large army to attack Yizhou from Jingzhou, led by the chariot general Zhang Liao. Has led the army approaching Chengdu.Even the brothers Wu Yi and Wu Ban who were stationed on the border between South and Central China led their crowd to surrender to the Han court.

The arrival of this letter made Zhang Fei and Fazheng very angry. They never expected that the foundation they had just established would be destroyed in just a few months.

"My lord, who else have you shown this letter to?" Fazheng asked hastily.

Zhang Fei said, "Only you!"

Fazheng sighed, and said, "I'm relieved now, the top priority now is to block the news as much as possible, so as not to cause chaos in the army!"

Zhang Fei didn't speak for a long time, but he sighed heavily, and finally said loudly: "I never expected that Yizhou, which my husband and I worked so hard to conquer, would collapse so easily. It's so hateful. It's really hateful, God doesn't bless me, God doesn't bless me!"

When Fazheng heard Zhang Fei's words, he also sighed heavily. It's really up to people to plan things, and God to make things happen.

At this moment, Li Yan suddenly broke in from the outside, with a happy expression on his face, he shouted at Zhang Fei as soon as he entered the door: "My lord, hurry up and have a look on the tower, outside the city...outside the city..."

Before Li Yan could finish speaking, Zhang Fei hurriedly asked, "What happened outside the city?"

Li Yan said: "The Han army outside the city is fighting...they beat themselves, many people have died..."

"Is there such a thing?" Zhang Fei also swept away the haze just now, and immediately said to Li Yan, "Come on, let's go to the tower to have a look."

On the Guancheng of Jiange, Liu Xian and other soldiers were all looking out, with a look of gloating in their eyes.

The front of the Han army camp in the distance was in chaos, corpses were everywhere, the land was stained red with blood, and the two soldiers and horses were still fighting non-stop.

"What happened outside the city?" Zhang Fei climbed up the city wall and asked immediately when he saw that the Han army camp outside was in a mess.

Seeing Zhang Fei coming, Liu Xian stepped forward and said, "My lord, the Han army didn't know why, so they fought on their own."

Zhang Fei stood there, looking into the distance, but saw two very familiar figures appearing in the crowd, he took a closer look, the two people who were fighting were not Ma Chao and Xu Huang?
"Strange, why did the two of them fight?" Zhang Fei said to himself.

Liu Xiandao: "I don't know either."

Everyone locked their eyes on the front of the Han army camp. This time, everyone could clearly see that Ma Chao and Xu Huang were fighting hard. Not only that, but their subordinates were also fighting desperately, and both sides hurt each other.

Not long after, another group of soldiers suddenly came out from the camp. Without saying a word, they directly charged at Ma Chao and surrounded Ma Chao. The number of troops around Ma Chao became less and less, and Ma Chao was helpless. He was forced to lead more than a thousand cavalrymen to kill a bloody road, and wanted to flee in all directions, but the return route was blocked by the Han army, and the conflict could not be resolved. In desperation, Ma Chao had no choice but to take his soldiers and horses towards Jiange Pass. Get off the Mercedes.

Ma Chao led more than a thousand cavalry to retreat while fighting, all the way towards the Jiange, which made Zhang Fei, Fazheng, Li Yan, Liu Xian and others on the Jiange tower extremely nervous, and asked the soldiers to stand up for battle. Ma Chao approached.

Ma Chao also seemed to be aware of this subtle change, so he asked his general Pang De to lead his men to block Xu Huang's attack for him, and he came to the city alone, and shouted to the tower: "Don't shoot arrows! Ma Mengqi Please see General Zhang! Ma Mengqi please see General Zhang!"

Fazheng, Li Yan, Liu Xian and others all turned their gazes to Zhang Fei, but seeing that Zhang Fei was motionless, he stared at Ma Chao outside the city for a long time, but he never gave the order to release the arrows. When the road was within a hundred steps, there was still no movement.

Ma Chao also tactfully reined in the horse, stopped within a hundred paces, and did not dare to approach any further. He suddenly saw Zhang Fei standing on the tower with a long-lost look of joy on his face, and hurriedly called out: : "General Zhang, Ma Mengqi has nowhere to go, and is facing the enemy, I hope the general will take him in..."

Zhang Fei watched every move under the city without any movement, let alone a word. His eyes clearly saw that Xu Huang was approaching step by step with a force several times that of Ma Chao, and Pang De, Ma Dai and others led However, the cavalry fell one by one and could no longer stand up. From the initial number of more than 1000, it has dropped sharply to more than 800, and the Han army is still approaching step by step. It's not fake.

At this time, Ma Chao looked back at the approaching Han army and his subordinates who were constantly falling, and said anxiously: "General Zhang, Ma Chao is in a hurry today, so he had to surrender to General Zhang. I will do my best to assist the general, and ask General Zhang to give Ma a way out!"

Zhang Fei frowned, looked back at Fazheng standing beside him, and asked, "We don't know why Ma Chao and Xu Huang fought, but judging from the situation, it seems that Ma Chao is not acting. General Zhihu, who is quite famous in Liangzhou, betrayed and surrendered to me today because of urgent matters, the military adviser thinks, can I take Ma Chao under my command?"

Fazheng has been closely watching every move outside the city. Although he doesn't know why the Han army had internal strife, and why Ma Chao and Xu Huang fought again, everything is so real. They are all fighting hard, that kind of life-and-death look cannot be feigned at all.

Zhang Fei never gave the order to release the arrows. In fact, he had already accepted Ma Chao in his heart, but he needed an excuse and someone else to speak out for him.

Fazheng said: "At this moment, Ma Chao has been driven into a desperate situation. If the lord does not help, Ma Chao will undoubtedly die, and seeing the fierceness of Ma Chao and Xu Huang's fight, it seems that it is not a feign. I think that if the lord is real I want to make Ma Chao my subordinate, this time is a very good opportunity.”

Li Yan objected: "Ma Chao is ambitious, so he must not be reconciled to being under the lord. If he is taken in, he will undoubtedly be raising a tiger. Please think again, lord."

Zhang Fei knew very well in his heart that there is only Jiange, a lonely pass left in Yizhou. If he does not absorb powerful forces and make himself stronger, he is afraid that if Ma Chao dies, it will be his turn next. .

He thought about it, weighed the pros and cons, and finally he was willing to accept Ma Chao. With Ma Chao's help, he might be able to regain Chengdu. It's unknown if the world is turned upside down.

Thinking of this, Zhang Fei immediately ordered: "Open the city gate and let Ma Chao and others enter."

"My lord!" Li Yan knelt on the ground suddenly, begging Zhang Fei bitterly, "Ma Chao is a wolf with ambition, so don't feed a tiger into trouble. Maybe this is the enemy's plan..."

Zhang Fei ignored Li Yan's words and insisted on going his own way: "Open the city gate and let Ma Chao enter."

(End of this chapter)