Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 203 Various Surrenderers

By the end of April, an army of [-] was assembled in Yidu County, which borders Fuling.Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang rushed to Yidu, and Mu Guanyu of Jingzhou also came to see off the army that was conquering the central Shu.

"Second brother!" Unexpectedly, Guan Yu would come to see him off in person, and Zhang Fei was also overjoyed.The two brothers haven't seen each other for several years, and they are filled with emotion when they meet again for the first time.That night, the two talked by candlelight until late at night. The next day, Zhang Fei led his army forward, and Guan Yu sent him straight to Yiling before returning to Xiangyang.

"The second general and the third general have a deep and meaningful relationship. Although they are not in person, they are the same in person. It is really touching!" Zhuge Liang also sighed.Zhang Fei sighed in a rare way when he heard the words: "In the past, when the three of my brothers were commoners, they ate at the same table and slept in the same room. Now they each sit in the same town, but it is hard to see each other again."

"The same is true for Liang. The elder brother is in Jingzhou, and the third brother is in Hanzhong. It is rare to see each other for several years!" Zhuge Liang sighed.

"I still have some houses and land in my hometown in Zhuo County. I don't know if they are still there. When the war is over in the future, I should go back and have a look!" Zhang Fei said with some nostalgia.People are so contradictory. When they are ordinary, they think about the scenery. When the scenery is enough, they want to return to the ordinary.It's just that life is so easy to be satisfied. It is really a luxury to want to advance and retreat freely.

Gossip less, but it is said that Zhang Fei's 10 horses gathered from Jingzhou to enter Sichuan, and Guan Yu also specially sent Zhao Lei, who is a prudent under his command, to escort him to transport food and grass.Such a large-scale military build-up, unless Xichuan's scouts are all blind, it is absolutely impossible to hide it.So a few days later, Liu Zhang received an urgent military message from Zhang Ren who was stationed in Bajun.

"Gentlemen, Zhao Botao's calculations did not work out. Now that Liu Xuande has sent troops to attack, what should we do?" Liu Zhang was at a loss as he grasped the emergency situation in his hand.At the same time, Wu Yi from Jianmenguan also sent someone to send an emergency military message, claiming that Zhao Feng sent Chen Shi and Yang Ren to lead troops into Badong and Dangqu, where they raised troops and did nothing wrong with the common people. They have gradually acquired the two places People's hearts.For the current plan, they still need to send reliable generals to garrison Brazil to prevent Zhao Feng from attacking.

Now Liu Zhang understands what it means to beat a dog but to be bitten by a dog (Liu Bei: You say I am a dog?).Originally, they wanted to capture Hanzhong, but now Hanzhong has not been captured, and Badong and Dangqu have also been captured.Of course, Liu Zhang also knew that these two counties were now sparsely populated. Although he had snatched them from Zhang Lu a long time ago, they had not been governed much and there were not many garrisons.It is not surprising that Zhao Feng easily captured it now.The problem is that once these two counties fall into the hands of Zhao Feng, he can nibble away at Brazil, and then to Guanghan, and then to Chengdu and other core areas.

To say that Liu Zhang was indeed a little slow to react, seeing Meng Da's strange betrayal, he should have thought that something was wrong, and he should have realized that there must be a traitor in Shu.But so far, he is still ignorant.

Although Liu Zhang is ignorant and ignorant, Xi Chuan is not a fool after all.First, Zhang Ren expected the enemy to take the lead and sent people to defend Jiameng Pass, and now someone started to fight back.He was none other than Huang Quan and Huang Gongheng who were the first to see something was wrong.

Looking at Liu Zhang who was at a loss in front of him, Huang Quan immediately opened his mouth to comfort him: "My lord, don't worry, although Zhang Fei is fierce, but General Zhang Ren is stationed in Bajun, so forgive him. As for the army coming from Hanzhong, Jiamengguan and The sword pavilions are heavily guarded. Unless Zhao Botao has wings on his shoulders, he will definitely not be able to fly into Xichuan. The only thing to worry about right now is your internal troubles!"

"What do you mean by Gongheng?" Liu Zhang heard that there was something in Huang Quan's words, especially that the phrase "internal trouble" was intended to allude to someone, so he hurriedly asked.

Huang Quan chuckled, took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Liu Zhang. Zhang Song's expression changed drastically when he saw it.

"What is this?" Liu Zhang took the letter in doubt and asked, but did not open it for a while.Huang Quan snorted coldly and said, "That day Mencius volunteered to hold a banquet at the Hongmen, and he surrendered to the enemy immediately. I figured out that something was wrong. As a result, last night, the guards I sent to patrol the city caught a man and searched him. It was Zhang Song and Zhang Biejia who wrote this letter to the traitor general Meng Da, and made an appointment with him to respond to Meng Da by raising an incident in Chengdu!"

"What?" Liu Zhang was shocked when he heard the words, and when he unfolded it, he was already in a cold sweat.After reading it, Liu Zhang threw the letter on the ground angrily and shouted, "Come on, let me take Zhang Song down!" Immediately someone stepped forward and arrested Zhang Song.Liu Zhang looked at the dwarf in front of him, who was eating inside and out, and was also furious, so he immediately ordered someone to push him out and behead him.Zhang Song kept yelling and cursing, until there was a scream, and then everything was silent.

"Come here, kill Zhang Song's entire family, old and young!" Obviously, killing Zhang Song alone was not enough to satisfy Liu Zhang, and he was still unsatisfied, and then ordered to cut the weeds and root them out.Huang Quan waited for Liu Zhang to lose his temper, and then sighed: "It's a pity that I was one step too late. That guy Fazheng conspired with Zhang Song and Mengda, but he fled to Hanzhong on the pretext of going to Guanghan on business the day before yesterday."

"You child of no righteousness, sooner or later you will be punished!" Liu Zhang said bitterly.After looking at Huang Quan and Wang Lei, Liu Zhang also continued to ask: "I don't know what strategy you have to retreat from the enemy?"

Huang Quan thought for a while and said: "Now that Dudu Zhang is in Berkshire, Zhang Fei is nothing to worry about all the way. But Zhao Feng is a scheming man, and now he is in Badong and other places, with Pang Yi, the prefect of Brazil, I am afraid We can't control him. The only plan now is to quickly call the old general Yan Yan who is in Nanzhong to be in Brazil to block Zhao Feng."

"Old General Yan sits in Nanzhong, once he leaves, what should we do if those barbarians come back again?" Liu Zhang was a little embarrassed.At this time, Wang Lei said: "My lord, don't panic. If someone recommends a person to guard Nanzhong, the Nanman will not dare to invade."

"Who is it?" Liu Zhang asked hastily.

"This person's surname is Li, his name is Hui, and his style name is De'ang. He is from Yuyuan, Jianning. This person is proficient in government affairs and understands military affairs. With him guarding Nanzhong, he is enough to resist the Nanman." Wang Lei said slowly.

"It's so good!" Liu Zhang was overjoyed when he heard the words, and quickly followed what Wang Lei and Huang Quan said, and recruited Yan Yan to guard Brazil to keep Zhao Feng out.

However, Zhao Feng has not marched yet, he is waiting in Nanzheng for He Qi, who was ordered to come to help, and the five thousand Danyang elite soldiers.Originally, he wanted to be Wudang Feijun, but Liu Bei transferred him Danyang elite soldiers.This Wudang Flying Army is composed of mountain people from Shanyue and Nanman. Their physical fitness is extremely outstanding, and they can cross mountains and ridges like walking on flat ground.After Zhao Feng pacified Shanyue and Nanman that day, he organized and trained their strong men into the army, their combat effectiveness was far stronger than that of ordinary infantry.Liu Bei was full of praise, but he was also a little regretful: the mountains were almost extinct, and the southern barbarians had also moved to the plains. Such an army was fighting one less than one, and it was inevitable that they would be exhausted.

Later, Zhuge Liang pointed out that the reason why the Wudang Flying Army was so powerful was that most of them were hunters living in the mountains, and their physical fitness was far superior to that of the people farming on the plains.If you want to have a continuous source of soldiers, you only need to have a continuous source of mountain people.At his suggestion, Liu Bei ordered that under his rule, all the land in the mountains would be taxed by half.As a result, those tribes living in the mountains of Yangzhou, Jingnan and even Yuzhou, after seeing Liu Bei's iron fist when he wiped out Shanyue, are now keeping their own place.In this way, under Liu Bei's rule, there are about [-] mountain people, and when recruiting troops every year, thousands or even more than [-] people will be recruited.At the same time, the Shanyue tribe in Jiaozhou also surrendered to Liu Bei.The Wudang Flying Army and the Shanyue Army finally avoided the danger of extinction.

After Zhao Feng heard about Zhuge Liang's policy, he was also full of praise for this policy.Although I almost exterminated the Shanyue clan before, I also cut off the source of soldiers because of this.As it is now, presumably in ten or twenty years, these Shanyue people and Nanman people will become a stable source of soldiers like the mountain people in Danyang, but they will not be too hostile to the Han people.Wanting to understand the key to this, Zhao Feng also had to sigh that Zhuge Liang's ability to handle political affairs was indeed much better than himself, a half-assed foresight.

But Zhao Feng hadn't waited for He Qi, but the two uninvited guests arrived almost on the same day.The first one is Fazheng, who survived the catastrophe. He ran from Guanghan to Brazil, and then entered Hanzhong through Dangqu.Introduced by Meng Da, he came to meet Zhao Feng.

"I have met General Zhao!" After the two met, Fazheng saluted deeply.

"Why is filial piety so polite!" Although Zhao Feng was a little displeased with the character of these people who pick on others, he still had to work hard to save face.After some reassurance, Fazheng told them that Zhang Song had already been killed by Liu Zhang.The difference from the history is that this time his elder brother, Zhang Su, the prefect of Guanghan, did not report him, so he was implicated and killed together.

"Yongnian does not keep secrets, this is a disaster!" Meng Da sighed endlessly when he heard the words, Zhao Feng comforted the two, at this moment someone came to report, the Xuchang court sent an envoy here.

"An envoy from Xuchang?" Zhao Feng was a little surprised, why did Lao Cao remember that he had come, but he still signaled for someone to come in from the future.Not to mention him, even Meng Da and the others felt strange.It's just that Fazheng rolled his eyes, as if thinking of something.

"I've seen General Zhao!" The visitor bowed his hands in salute.Zhao Feng took a closer look, this person was probably a Confucian scholar in his forties, with a goatee, he looked treacherous.

"Who's next?" Zhao Feng frowned and asked, for some reason, this person's aura made him feel very uncomfortable.

"Xinpi, whose alias is Zuozhi, is the long history under the account of the king of Wei. Now I came to Hanzhong, not for other reasons, but to save the life of the general!" After Simpi introduced himself, he began to alarmist again.

After hearing what this guy said, Zhao Feng couldn't help feeling a headache.The last time I met Kan Ze in Jiangdong, this time it was Simpi again.But the headache was a headache, Zhao Feng still reluctantly asked: "I don't know if Zhao's life is in danger?"

"Does the general know the story of the Marquis of Huaiyin?" Xin Pi asked with a smile.It wasn't just Zhao Feng, even Fazheng and others frowned when they heard this.Just so bluntly sowing dissension, this Simpi's brain is really not good!
"The general has followed Liu Xuande for many years, but now the official is only a county guard. He is not rewarded for his meritorious deeds, but degraded for his faults. It shows that Liu Xuande is very suspicious of his subordinates. As the saying goes, if the king doubts his ministers, he will die. Isn't your subordinate in danger?" Simpi smiled. He continued, seemingly not worried about Zhao Feng not having a seizure.As soon as he said these words, everyone in the tent stared at Zhao Feng, and wanted to see how he would respond?

"Is that all you want to say?" Zhao Feng asked after he finished speaking.

"My lord, the king of Wei, accepts the talents of the world. The general is a famous general in the world. Why bother to condescend to Hanzhong? The king of Wei said beforehand that if the general is willing to go to Xuchang to serve the court, the king of Wei would like to play the general as the general of Zhengxi, Nanzheng Hou! Governor Yongliang's soldiers and horses .” Simpi finally said Cao Cao’s bargaining chip.

Zhao Feng is now the left general of the Qi state, and his official rank is still slightly worse than the imperial court's generals of four campaigns and four towns.It should be said that Cao Cao offered a relatively high bargaining chip, but the problem was that Zhao Feng had no interest in joining Cao Cao at all.

Compared with Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, Zhao Feng knew that Liu Bei's trust in him was definitely lower, maybe even worse than Jian Yong.Over the years, my official position has been dangling between the prefect and the state shepherd, neither high nor low, neither embarrassing nor embarrassing.And Liu Bei's attitude towards himself is also indifferent.Perhaps with more and more talents under his command, I'm afraid that he can only continue to hang around like this with his seniority.

But even so, Zhao Feng didn't want to betray Liu Bei and switch to Cao Cao.First of all, his ambition in life is to bring peace to the world as soon as possible. He has never cared much about his personal gains and losses. He just hopes that he will not be cooked by a dead dog. He has a big family business, and he is not afraid of not having a source of income.If he turned against the water now, let alone his reputation would be damaged, the wives and children who stayed in Jingzhou would also be in bad luck.And once Hanzhong is owned by Cao Cao, it will plunge the already clear world situation into chaos again.Based on these points, Zhao Feng would never change his family.

Looking at Simpi in front of him, Zhao Feng discovered another problem: Simpi was once Yuan Shao's counselor, but later switched to Cao Cao.If it was normal, I could justly reprimand him.But now that the two capitulators, Fazheng and Mengda, are here, I can't scold him for betraying the master and seeking glory. It's just pointing at the monk and scolding the donkey.But if you don't express your position, it will be too easy to cause associations if you say it in the future.Once a caring person thinks about it, it's hard to say.

Turning his mind quickly, Zhao Feng had already found an extremely appropriate excuse.Looking at the complacent Simpi in front of him, Zhao Feng snorted and said, "Cao Mengde and I met in Xuzhou. This man is ruthless and murderous. He did not hesitate to slaughter 40 people in Xuzhou to avenge his father! Even if Zhao is unworthy, But I also don’t want to be with this kind of beast.”

To say that Zhao Feng is avoiding the important point is to ignore it, not to mention whether he betrayed his master for glory, and turned to grabbing the old matter of Cao Cao's massacre of the city to make a big fuss.Things like massacres have a bad reputation, and few like to be with such people.Zhao Feng not only stated his position, but also took care of Fa Zheng and Meng Da's face.

"This?" After hearing this, Xin Pi was about to say something more, when Zhao Feng waved his hand, Niu Jin had already led several people to surround Xin Pi.Simpi's face changed slightly, and he sneered and said, "What, General Zhao wants to kill the envoy?"

"The two armies are at war, and you don't kill them. But you don't have to be polite to such a morally corrupt person like your Excellency who is willing to be a murderer, a raging dog, and a running dog! Come on, take off this guy's clothes for me, Rao Nanzheng The city will be shown to the public for three weeks as a punishment!"

"Yes!" Niu Jin suddenly promised, and several people stepped forward to drag Simpir away.Simpi yelled and cursed, but it was still inevitable that he would be run naked.It's just that what Zhao Feng didn't expect was that what he did this time was so shocking that it caused another uproar among the scholar-bureaucrats.

Of course Zhao Feng didn't know all this now, the next afternoon after sending away Xin Pi, the five thousand Danyang elite soldiers led by He Qi also arrived in Nanzheng via the three counties of Shangyong.At the same time, Lu Xun, the prefect of Shangyong, and Ma Di, the prefect of Xicheng, also followed.

(End of this chapter)