Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 201 The Mantis Catches the Cicada Oriole Behind
Two days later, Nanjiang City.

"Here we come!" Lei Tong whispered, but saw a group of people approaching from a distance, only a few hundred people.At first, one person did not wear any armor, but only an ordinary brocade robe.He didn't bring any big weapons, only a long sword on his waist. It was the prefect of Hanzhong, Zhao Feng and Zhao Botao.

"General Zhao, you've worked hard all the way!" Meng Da stepped forward to salute Zhao Feng, Wu Lan and Lei Tong followed. "Brother Wu, Ye Chang has many dreams, do you want to do it now?" Lei Tong asked in a low voice.

"No, there are so many people watching here, if you do something, it will hurt the innocent, and there will be nothing to say in the chaos." Wu Lan looked around at the people who flocked to watch the excitement, there were thousands of people at least. Man, it's obviously not suitable to do it here.

"I've been waiting for a long time, everyone!" Zhao Feng stepped forward to reply with a smile on his face.The three of them, Meng Da, only met once when they were in Chengdu. Wu Lan and Lei Tong had some contacts after they settled in Hanzhong.Just looking at Meng Da's appearance, but seeing that he has a very elegant temperament and a clean appearance, he doesn't seem like a repetitive person, which surprised Zhao Feng.

But think about it, how can a real [-]-year-old look like a villain.Think about that traitor Wang, who was actually one of the four most beautiful men in the Republic of China.Compared with him, Meng Da's morality is really far behind.

"General Zhao is here, the city of Nanjiang is full of splendor!" Meng Da said these unnutritious nonsense, and then began to grandly introduce some people who were present today to Zhao Feng.Apart from Wu Lan and Lei Tong, some local figures from Nanjiang City also came, and Zhao Feng greeted them one by one.

The crowd surrounded Zhao Feng and his subordinates, and they came to the Nanjiang city government office where the banquet had already been set up, and the guests and hosts sat down separately.Since Meng Da hosted the banquet instead of Liu Zhang, he was the one who took the main seat.Following his order, all kinds of dishes and rows of kabuki dancers also came up. For a while, the wine was mixed, the singing and dancing were peaceful, and Meng Da contributed to the fun, the atmosphere was very lively.

From the last reception banquet in Chengdu and this banquet in Nanjiang, Zhao Feng immediately came to a conclusion: In terms of eating, drinking and having fun, Liu Bei is no match for Liu Zhang!

"General Zhao, please!" Meng Da persuaded him with a smile on his face.In terms of adjusting the atmosphere and being good at dancing, Meng Da is far superior to Wu Lan and Lei Tong.These two obviously couldn't let go. Although they were at the banquet, they often lost their minds and seemed absent-minded.Sometimes when I see myself looking at them, I force a smile, but this only makes them look more abnormal.

What Zhao Feng didn't know was that after Meng Da explained the matter to them yesterday, the two also had trouble sleeping and eating.If these two people were battle-tested people, even if they didn't do too many ambushes on the battlefield, they would see them a lot.But this kind of Hongmen Banquet was the first time, and it was very unprofessional.In addition, they knew very well that Zhao Feng was amazing, and they knew that they might not be able to handle Zhao Feng with their own abilities, so they were even more uncertain.The two of them were not very calm people, and when they had no idea in their hearts, the uneasiness showed on their faces.

On the other hand, Meng Da didn't show any anxiety on his face at all, and he even adjusted the atmosphere with ease.This is not surprising, if he is as impatient as Wu Lan and Lei Tong, how can he act repeatedly.With Meng Da's vigorous promotion, the banquet entered a small climax from the very beginning.

After drinking for three rounds, Meng Da put down the wine bottle in his hand, cleared his throat and said, "General Zhao is here, Meng Da and my lord are both honored. Right now, you are here, and there is an important matter. General Zhao discuss it."

"General Meng, but it's okay to say!" Zhao Feng felt that Meng Da was about to start, so he said calmly.

"Thanks to General Zhao for his righteousness and extermination of Zhang Lu Yaodao for my lord. However, Duke Shu is the shepherd of Yizhou, and this Hanzhong belongs to Yizhou. I also ask General Zhao to hand over Hanzhong to my lord as soon as possible!" After finishing speaking, Meng Da will Drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.

As soon as these words came out, the noisy banquet suddenly fell silent.Except for a few insiders, the locals who were invited to the banquet did not know about it.Seeing Meng Da suddenly say such words now, the quick-witted person suddenly realized that today's banquet might not be as simple as a thank you.

Putting down the wine glass in his hand, Zhao Feng said slowly: "Since the Duke of Shu has this intention, he should obey it. However, Zhao is currently the prefect of Hanzhong. Doesn't the Duke of Shu want me, Zhao, to dismiss me from office?"

"Uncle Liu Huang knows how to use people well. General Zhao is under the command of Uncle Huang. Why don't you have a chance to show your ambition?" Meng Da replied with a smile.

"But the ownership of the land of Hanzhong is related to my lord's plan for the Northern Expedition. Unless my lord agrees, Zhao will never dare to evacuate Hanzhong!" Zhao Feng said calmly, but his tone was extremely firm.As soon as everyone heard this, they knew that there was no room for discussion.

"In this case, according to Duke Shu's wishes, we can only invite the general to Chengdu to negotiate!" After Meng Da finished speaking, he threw the wine glass in his hand to the ground.The knives and axes who had been ambushing for a long time rushed out immediately, and more than a hundred people were waiting in line, with their swords out of their sheaths, surrounding Zhao Feng, Niu Jin and other Hanzhong people in the core.

"Niu Jin, it's okay, put the knife away!" Zhao Feng signaled Niu Jin to put the knife back into its sheath, stood up slowly, poured a glass of wine in his hand, and walked slowly to the center of the hall.Everyone was not nervous when they saw him caught in the sword, they all secretly admired him: no wonder he became famous all over the world at such a young age, his courage is really amazing.

"General Meng, the reason why I, Zhao Botao, marched into Hanzhong was to avenge my lord's past revenge, and to get rid of serious troubles for the Duke of Shu. I sat in Hanzhong that day, and it was also agreed between the Duke of Shu and my lord. Zhao asked himself to sit in Hanzhong Afterwards, I never had any involvement with Xichuan, and even ceded the city of Nanjiang to the Duke of Shu. Why did the Duke of Shu want me to withdraw from Hanzhong today? It is not out of the question if I really want to withdraw, why not send an envoy to Shouchun to discuss with my lord , but here is a Hongmen banquet. Such a treachery, are all the people in Xichuan so ungrateful?" Zhao Feng said slowly, as if he didn't care about the swords that were close at hand.His voice was so high that everyone in the hall could hear him clearly.After hearing this, many officials in Xichuan felt that their faces were dull.

"Don't blame General Zhao, and Meng Da doesn't want to do this, but my master insists on taking back Hanzhong, so I have to do this. Please forgive me, General!" Meng Da said with a "difficult" face.

Zhao Feng knew that he and Meng Da were acting now.Although Meng Da intends to join Liu Bei, and is ready to betray the water with himself.But if the truth is revealed so quickly, and people can see that you have colluded with each other beforehand, then Meng Da himself will inevitably bear the notoriety of being a traitor and seeking glory, which is what he doesn't want.So now, Zhao Feng needs to build a ladder for him so that he can get away from Liu Zhang decently.At that time, people will only say that he understands righteousness, not selling out for glory.

"So, General Meng doesn't want to be our enemy anymore?" Zhao Feng asked intentionally.

"Don't say I don't want to. No one here wants to be an enemy of the general. I hate Huang Quan and Zhang Ren. For their own selfishness, they go against the sky and instigate the Duke of Shu to be an enemy of the general. I can't help it!" Meng Da sighed.After hearing Meng Da's words, Wu Lan and Lei Tong couldn't help but nodded silently.

"General Meng, General Wu, and General Lei, the three are also well-known figures in Xichuan. Now the Duke of Shu is deceived by the traitors, so he did such things. The Duke of Shu and my lord are brothers of the same clan. Zhang Luzhi was also working together. Even if there is a misunderstanding now, it must be clear in the future. Why don't the three of you stop for the time being, and make plans after the misunderstanding is resolved? If the three of you do something wrong on the spur of the moment, then In the future, this account can only be borne by the three of you!"

Zhao Feng's words were soft but hard, and what he meant at the moment was the crime of falling out with Liu Bei, the three of you can't bear it.It's not just him, even Meng Da, Wu Lan and Lei Tong are very clear about this.Meng Da didn't want to be an enemy of Liu Bei at all, and Wu Lan and Lei Tong didn't have enough to eat, so they were very hesitant after hearing this.The difference is that Wu Lan and Lei Tong are genuinely hesitant, while Meng Da is pretending to be hesitant.As for the rest of the people, they are at a loss and can only wait and see.

Just when the atmosphere was oppressive, I saw a person rushing to the entrance of the hall, looking at the clothes, he was a small school delivering letters, and seeing the posture of swords and swords in the hall, he was trembling and didn't know what to do.Meng Da hurriedly ordered someone to call him over and asked him what was the matter.

"My lord's urgent letter!" The man tremblingly handed a letter to Meng Da. Meng Da opened it and looked at it, but it was Liu Zhang who urged him to kill Zhao Feng as soon as possible, and then immediately joined Jiameng to close Wu Lan and Lei Tong. The [-] Sichuan troops rushed to Hanzhong.After the thing is done, there will be a big reward; if the thing fails, come and see me.Meng Da was furious after watching this, and said, "Facing Zhang Lu, I have been tolerant and retreating for more than ten years, and there is nothing I can do; facing the allied forces, I am so aggressive, and I want to repay my kindness? Although I, Meng Da, am not talented, this mediocre lord doesn't bother to protect him! "After speaking, he threw the letter on the ground, full of resentment.

Wu Lan frowned and stepped forward to pick it up, but also shook her head and sighed, feeling very disappointed with Liu Zhang; after Lei Tong saw it, she sat down and said nothing.The rest of the people at the banquet circulated it one after another, and they were also full of sighs.Everyone agrees that Liu Zhang's speech is really unreasonable.Zhao Feng noticed that Meng Da, who was filled with righteous indignation at first, had a flash of light in the corner of his eyes.

This letter drafted by Zhang Song instead of Liu Zhang eventually became the last fuse that caused everyone's dissatisfaction with Liu Zhang.Seeing that the time was ripe, Meng Da said loudly, "Everyone, the Duke of Shu is unjust and will repay kindness with revenge. I, Meng Da, don't want to be that ungrateful person. Now Emperor Liu is in charge of the five states, treating people with kindness and righteousness, and recruiting talents. Why don't I give up waiting?" This mediocre lord, how about going to seek refuge with Uncle Liu Huang?"

"That's right!" Many of the guests nodded, and Wu Lan and Lei Tong looked at each other and were indeed not in a hurry to make a statement.At this time, it was Zhao Feng's turn to speak. He cleared his throat, and Zhao Feng said first: "It's rare that you all understand the righteousness. Zhao is very grateful. My lord recruits talents from all over the world. You are all heroes in Sichuan. Why worry about it?" Don't you want to show your grand plans?"

Nanjiang is on the front line of the battle between Hanzhong and Xichuan. How dare the big families put their family property here. The local rich families who attended the banquet today are just some well-off families. Not a big official.Hearing Zhao Feng's words, he immediately felt that his official career was promising, and his mood immediately brightened.

After a long while, one person said: "Everyone, the Duke of Shu is innocent, and he will repay his kindness with revenge. I am willing to serve Uncle Liu Huang and live up to what I have learned in my life." Zhao Feng recognized this person as Fei Shi, the magistrate of Nanjiang County. Similar to Jiang Gan.This man, Zhao Feng, still has some reflections. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he was the one who replaced Liu Bei and canonized Guan Yu as General of the Five Tigers.At that time, Second Master Guan was a little upset, and it was only because of him that he persuaded him.To be able to convince the arrogant Guan Erye, this guy is really good at opening his mouth.

After Fei Shi opened his mouth, the rest of the people stopped working for Liu Zhang, and under the leadership of the "awe-inspiring" Meng Da, they all announced that they would leave Liu Zhang and join Liu Bei.Zhao Feng looked at the people who turned back in an instant, and secretly sighed in his heart.This Liu Zhang really made Shuzhong very angry, and now there are dozens of people here, but there is not even one who is loyal to him.

Not to mention that Meng Da and Zhao Feng felt secretly refreshed, but this superficial article still needs to be done.Now Zhao Feng came forward to guarantee that these people would benefit from defecting to Liu Bei in the future.After some appeasement, everyone put down more than half of their hearts, and then went back in peace, leaving only Zhao Feng, Meng Da, Wu Lan, Lei Tong and Fei Shi and other five people.

"Four, it's rare that four of you understand righteousness so well. Feng Zi should speak clearly about this matter in front of my lord. It's just that Duke Shu has turned against us now. I don't know what good strategies you have to deal with?" At this point, Zhao Feng didn't know what to do. Nothing to hide.Now that you have turned against each other, let's make it clear.The so-called coping is a more polite way of saying it. In fact, it is how to confront Liu Zhang.

"General Zhao, there were originally 2000 guards at Jiameng Pass. Today I only left [-] guards to guard the pass. The rest were transferred to Nanjiang City for today's business. In addition, Da also brought thousands of soldiers and horses. , plus the general’s Hanzhong army horse, why don’t we take the opportunity to attack Chengdu and raise troops to question the crime?” Unlike Wu Lan and Lei Tong, Meng Da quickly adapted to his role as a surrenderer, and even began to plan for the counterattack. He really deserves to be the second and fifth senior of the Three Kingdoms.

"That's right, I have sent someone to report to my lord on a flying horse, and let him send troops from Jingzhou to attack Chengdu together!" Zhao Feng thought for a while.The four of them saw that Zhao Feng had already achieved this step, and knew that it was difficult to let go of this matter now, and they themselves had no turning back, so they could only accompany him all the way.

"The general guarding Jiameng Pass is my lieutenant general. Let's take Jiameng Pass first!" Wu Lan thought for a while, and immediately led the troops from the headquarters to join the [-] troops brought by Zhao Feng and the [-] troops brought by Meng Dana. The army merged into one and went to Jiameng Pass to kill.

"Huh?" After rushing to Jiameng Pass not far away, but seeing that the flags and drums on the pass were quiet, and there was no one at all, Wu Lan was also very puzzled.After driving the horse forward to the gate, Wu Lan also shouted loudly: "I am Wu Lan, open the city gate quickly!"

"Hahahaha, how slow General Wu came!" Following this burst of insolent laughter, a flag and a guard suddenly appeared on the originally silent Guancheng, and the two generals also laughed out loud.At the same time, more than a hundred bows and crossbows were aimed at Wu Lan, and the latter only had time to let out a scream before being shot into a hedgehog.

(End of this chapter)