Han Shimou

Fan Chou heard that the man spoke fluent Liangzhou dialect, so he didn't have any doubts. After unpacking the letter, he immediately opened it and looked at it quickly. The more Fan Chou looked at it, the more frightened he was.After Zhang Ji saw it, his face was also extremely ugly.

"This is the handwriting of the military adviser. It seems that the battle situation in Chang'an is really not optimistic. General Fan, it's not too late. I'll withdraw the troops and rush back to Chang'an for rescue. If it's too late, I'm afraid Chang'an will lose something!"

"What General Zhang said is true, so you and I will immediately notify all the troops under our command to get ready and evacuate as quickly as possible when it is dark tonight!"

Fan Chou and Zhang Ji nodded at the same time, and after they agreed, Zhang Ji hurriedly left Fan Chou's camp and went back to order the soldiers to prepare to retreat.And the sergeants on Fan Chou's side are also preparing nervously under Fan Chou's command.

It's night, just after the first watch.Fan Chou and Zhang Ji each led their troops out of the camp and rushed towards Chang'an.Two hours later, Fan Chou and Zhang Ji led their troops into a valley.

At this moment, suddenly the sound of golden ringing broke out again and again, and the shouts of killing were loud.On both sides of the valley, soldiers and horses of the Lu army emerged, all holding bows and crossbows, shooting arrows at the two armies of Fan Chou and Zhang Ji in the valley road.The arrows poured down like a torrential rain. For a while, the sergeants of the Fan Chou and Zhang Ji armies were unable to react in time, and thousands of sergeants were killed by the arrows.

After several rounds of arrow chaos, there were loud rumbling noises on both sides of the valley road.A general of Zhang Jijun looked up and saw countless boulders and rolling logs falling from the sky. He was frightened and frightened. It was shattered into countless gravels and splashed everywhere. I don't know how many little soldiers were hit by the flying stones, and they all fell mad.And the logs fell one after another, and the broken wood flew and the soldiers who beat Fan Chou and Zhang Ji screamed.

"Ambush!! There is an ambush!! Hurry up and charge forward!!"

Zhang Ji didn't care about the shock, he roared desperately, and led a troop in front, braved the rain of flying stones and arrows, and galloped wildly.As for Fan Chou, who was in the rear army, he roared again and again, ordering the surrounding soldiers to maintain their ranks, and don't panic and push and accidentally injure their own army.However, under the threat of death, how can these soldiers care about him, they are all pushing and rushing forward.

When the armies of Fan Chou and Zhang Ji were in chaos, Lu Bu led Zhang Liao, Cheng Lian, and Song Xian and a group of generals suddenly appeared behind Gu Dao.

Lu Bu waved Fang Tian's painted halberd, drove the red rabbit and the horse, and the whole thing was like a scarlet thunderbolt, charging towards the rear of Fan Chou and Zhang Ji's two armies.As soon as Lu Bu rushed into the crowd, under the leap of Fang Tian's painted halberd, there was a burst of crazy blood rain.When the Liangzhou soldiers in the rear saw the coming general, their nerves, which were about to break out of fear, were all shattered at this moment.

"Lu Bu!! Lu Bu is here!!!!"

These Liangzhou soldiers shouted the name of King Yama, with endless fear.Lu Bu's expression was cold, the more he killed, the more mad he became, rushing left and right in front of the crowd, as if entering no one's land, killing people was like cutting rice, killing Liangzhou soldiers one by one.At the same time, Zhang Liao, Cheng Lian, Song Xian and other generals were also killed, and the three of them were also extremely terrifying. The direction of the killing was bound to be a one-sided massacre.

When Fan Chou and Zhang Ji heard Lv Bu's name, their hearts trembled immediately, and they didn't care about any more, and hurriedly fled forward desperately.Zhang Ji was in the front army and escaped the fastest.And Fan Chou was in the rear, and fled halfway, suddenly dared to be shaken by waves behind him, and immediately jumped to the side.

And the moment he jumped away, Fang Tian's painted halberd just stabbed at the position where he was just now.Fan Chou rolled around the ground a few times, his helmet flew away, and he looked at Lu Bu who was riding the red rabbit horse with disheveled hair, his face at this time was only terrified.

Lu Bu looked at him coldly, and Fan Chou felt his body was covered in hailstones, from head to sole of his feet.This approach of death is most tormenting.Fan Chou couldn't bear it anymore, he screamed strangely, and ran away. At the same time, he desperately ordered the surrounding soldiers to block Lu Bu.

However, it seemed that Lu Bu had no intention of killing him, and shouted immediately.

"Fan Chou!! I think you treated me like a brother in the old days, but this time I will spare your life and return your kindness. If we meet again, I will never die. Do it for yourself!!"

Fan Chou was running wildly, saving his life was the most important thing, so he didn't have the mood to respond.Facing Fan Chou's figure, Lu Bu smiled inexplicably, and rode his horse back into the crowd of Liangzhou rebels.

Lü Bu's army fought until dawn, when Fan Chou and Zhang Ji's two armies fled most of their soldiers, and more than 1 of the remaining 3000 soldiers died, and those who survived were killed by Lv Bu's army.Although these Liangzhou soldiers hated Lu Bu deeply, many of them chose to surrender under the threat of their lives, and [-] people still insisted on fighting to the death with Lu Bu's army. Lu Bu's army wiped out all of them.Lü Bu collected seven thousand remnants of the army, left some of them to clean up the battlefield, and then led the army back.

A few days later, Fan Chou and Zhang Ji led the remnant army back to Chang'an. When Fan Chou and Zhang Ji rushed to Li Cui, Guo Si, and Li Ru, they asked about the situation of the battle. , the Xiliang army will run out of food and people, and retreat on their own.Only then did Zhang Ji and Fan Chou realize that they had been tricked, and they were so angry that they took several steps back on the spot, their bodies shook a few times, and they almost fell to the ground.

"Generals Zhang and Fan, you and the others are not besieging Shangluo, why did you suddenly lead the army back to Chang'an. Could it be that something happened to Shangluo?"

As soon as Li Ru saw the faces of these two people, he knew that nothing good was going to happen, so he asked Fan Chou and Zhang Ji with a tense expression.

Fan Chou remembered that he almost died last night, and he had worked so hard to lead the army back to rescue him, but it was a pretense, he spit out a mouthful of blood with a panic, and passed out.Seeing this, several people nearby rushed into the palace to call the imperial physician for treatment.

After Fan Chou was settled down, Li urged everyone to come to an attic. After everyone sat down, Li Ru asked Zhang Ji again.Zhang Ji's face was extremely ugly, and he started talking about the false secret letter right away, and continued to talk about the ambush in the valley, where he and Fan Chou lost nearly [-] troops.

"Twenty thousand soldiers!!!"

Li Cui's eyes widened suddenly, and his whole body seemed to be bursting with anger. Seeing this, Zhang Ji quickly knelt down and confessed.At this time, Li Cui's troops were only 20. Once the [-] troops were lost, one-tenth of them would be lost!Li Cui gritted his teeth, his eyes were terrifying, and his breath was heavy.But he hadn't lost his mind yet. At this time, there were foreign enemies outside Chang'an, and Lu Bu was watching Chang'an from Shangluo. If Zhang Ji and Fan Chou were severely punished at this time, accidents would easily happen.

As a military adviser, Li Ru also understood this point, and hurried out to intercede for Zhang Ji and Fan Chou, so as to give Li a step down.Later, Li Cui suppressed his anger, and only gave some trivial punishments to Zhang Ji and Fan Chou, and let it go.

"However, this fake secret letter reminded me. Both Ma Teng and Han Sui are tigers and wolves who value fame and fortune. This time they raised their troops to attack Chang'an, and there must be someone in Chang'an secretly colluding with them. Confucianism believes that this The matter must be investigated carefully. If this person is caught, the Xiliang army is running out of food and people, and will withdraw immediately. In this way, we can concentrate our forces and fight against Lu Bu's ungrateful villain Fight to the death!"

After the punishment of Zhang Ji and Fan Chou was settled, Li Ru thought about it for a while, then suddenly opened his mouth and said.After hearing this, Li reminded his face to change, and said in shock.

"If it wasn't for the military adviser's reminder, I haven't noticed it yet. If so, I will send someone to investigate this matter immediately!"

Afterwards, Li urged dense eyeliner to pay attention to every move of the officials in the court. At the same time, he bought the servants and family members of the ministers and asked the head of the family who had contact with them in the past few months.After a few days, it was intercepted as expected.Li Cui learned from the mouth of Ma Yu's family boy that the head of the family, Liu Fan, Zhong Shao, and Ma Teng and Han Sui, were in love with each other.

Li Jue and Guo Si were furious. They collected all the good and bad from the three families and beheaded them in the city. They took the three heads and came straight to the door to give orders.Ma Teng and Han Sui saw the heads of the three men outside the city, and thought that the army's rations had been exhausted, and their internal resources were exhausted, so they had to pull out the stronghold and retreat.Li Jue and Guo Si ordered Xu Rong to lead the army to chase Ma Teng, and Zhang Ji led the army to chase Han Sui. Xiliang's army was exhausted and its morale was low.

But it is said that Xu Rong's army is chasing Ma Teng, and he keeps shouting after him.

"Ma Shoucheng, Dong Gong treated you very well in the past, but you were ungrateful and rebelled against him! The law of heaven recurs, today is the day of your retribution! Take your life!!"

Seeing that Xu Rong's army was about to approach, Ma Teng's face turned livid, and he kept calling left and right.

"The rebels are fierce! Who dares to lead the army and cut off the queen!"

Ma Teng didn't stop talking, he saw a young general with a face like a crown of jade, eyes like shooting stars, a tiger body with ape arms, a sturdy belly and a wolf waist, holding a spear in his hand, riding a fine horse, leading a group of men and horses to fly out from the formation.It turned out that the general was Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng, whose name was Mengqi. He was only 17 years old. He was a young hero, brave and invincible.

Seeing Ma Chao's majestic appearance, Xu Rong dared not underestimate the enemy, so he was about to go out to meet him.Unexpectedly, the general next to Xu Rong bullied Ma Chao when he was young and shouted loudly.

"General Xu, how can you kill a chicken with a sledgehammer. Little Huangmao, watch me stab him to death with one shot!"

After the Liangzhou general had finished speaking, he jumped on his horse to fight.Ma Chao looked cold and arrogant, he swung his spear and stabbed, within a few bouts, before Xu Rong even came to his senses, he saw that Ma Chao would stab him under the horse.Ma Chao killed one general, his power became even stronger, and he continued to kill.Another Liangzhou general saw that his brother in the same robe was stabbed to death, and rode at Ma Chao as soon as he rode his horse.Ma Chao's face remained unchanged, he rode his horse straight, the two were already close, the Liangzhou general raised his sword and chopped down, at this moment Ma Chao flashed his body, the Liangzhou general only cut into the air, two horses When they merged, Ma Chao lightly stretched his ape's arms and captured him alive.

Ma Chao pinched the general's neck with one hand, crushed his bones, and threw his body in front of Xu Rong's horse with all his strength.Xu Rong's face was sullen, and the Liangzhou soldiers behind him were all interested in seeing Ma Chao's bravery.As for the Xiliang soldiers behind Ma Chao, their morale increased greatly, and they raised their guns and shouted.

Xu Rong narrowed his eyes, not allowing Ma Chao to be presumptuous, so he rode out and killed Ma Chao together.The two guns collided at high speed, and the shadows of the guns collided violently. There were more than ten rounds in an instant.Ma Chaoyue fought more bravely, but Xu Rong became more frightened as he fought. After only a dozen rounds, his hand holding the gun lost consciousness.

Xu Rongtian was calm and cautious, knowing that he was invincible, and would never touch head-on. After a false stab, he reined in his horse and wanted to escape back into the formation.Ma Chao knew that Xu Rong intended to escape, so he moved his ape arm violently, grabbed Xu Rong's cloak with one hand, and pulled him off the horse with a sudden force.Xu Rong fell off the horse and rolled around several times, covered in dust, very embarrassed.