Ji Han Liu Zhang

There are two roads from Shu County to Ba County, one is by water and the other is by land.

The waterway goes from the Tuojiang River to the Yangtze River, and then down the Yangtze River to Bajun Jiangzhou. It is quick and convenient and the journey is relatively easy. If you go by land, you have to climb over mountains and ridges, and then pass through Guanghan County. Berkshire.

Compared with the land route, the water route is naturally superior and is the best choice for travelers from Shujun to Bajun.

'pity. Zhao Wei secretly sighed with regret. Although in his mind, the waterway is far superior to the land route, and it stands to reason that the waterway should be chosen anyway, but the Tuojiang River is impassable. To go down the Tuojiang River, you need to pass through Junzhen Niutang. , there were 5000 Dongzhou soldiers in Niuchangtun, and the captain who guarded Niuchang was Liu Sui.

As outsiders, the Dongzhou soldiers were loyal to Liu Zhang, the herdsman of Yizhou, and the Dongzhou soldiers could only survive by clinging to Liu Zhang.As a disciple of Liu Yan, the former Yizhou shepherd, the school captain Liu Xu was not very outstanding in personal talents, but Liu Xu was able to hold on to the important town of Niuchang, and his loyalty was needless to say.

Zhao Wei had thought about it before, if he led his troops down the Tuojiang River, he would be blocked by Liu Wei at Niuchang. Liu Wei might not be able to defeat him, but if he held on, Liu Wei's talents were more than enough.

Therefore, to be on the safe side, Zhao Wei gave up the idea of ​​going down the Tuojiang River and instead considered passing through Guanghan County to reach Pasir Anhan.

Just passing through Guanghan County to reach Pasir Anhan also requires passing through the Tuojiang River. To be precise, you need to cross the Tuojiang River.

Regarding crossing the Tuojiang River, Zhao Wei has already planned it. He has an old friend stationed at a ferry of the Tuojiang River. If he comes in person and comes to persuade him, he can safely cross the Tuojiang River and go to Bajun. .

When Zhao Wei and his party of more than a hundred riders arrived at the ferry, they saw Li Yi and a group of Zhao clan's troops who had already arrived at the ferry. In the morning, in the name of strengthening the foot strength of the soldiers, this group of people arrived here early. At the ferry.

"General Zhao Zhonglang and that dog Li Si refused to let us cross the river at any cost. The reason was that he couldn't make the decision without the order from the Prefecture Mufu. Moreover, that guy was guarding the camp gate of the ferry station and wouldn't let me go forward. Opportunity." Li Yi, the captain with some white hair, immediately jumped up from the bed where he was sitting cross-legged when he saw Zhao Wei arriving, trotted all the way to Zhao Wei, vomited his bitterness to Zhao Wei, and said clearly that the people stationed at the ferry Li Si’s stubbornness.

Speaking of the sore point, Li Yi even said angrily: "If General Zhao Zhonglang hadn't given you the order, according to my past temper, I would have sent troops to attack... It's just a small ferry camp with no more than a thousand soldiers. Where is my opponent, where is Li Si, a little captain, acting arrogantly in front of me."

It was bad news to hear that Li Yi was blocked by Li Si and could not cross the Tuojiang River freely, but Zhao Wei's face did not show any bad mood. He said to Li Yi with a warm face: "Principal Li Don't be impatient, Lieutenant, wait until I come forward and talk to Li Si."

After saying this, Zhao Wei rode his horse forward and came to the gate of the camp where the ferry was stationed. He shouted into the camp: "Captain Li, please come out and see me."

The ferry camp was not very big, so Zhao Wei shouted loudly. Lieutenant Li Si, who was nesting in the Chinese army's tent, heard this familiar voice and showed doubts on his face for a moment. He was wondering who was in the camp. Call him out.

After just a moment, Li Si's eyes lit up, and his whole face showed a happy look. He was sitting on the bed without putting on shoes, but he didn't even bother to put on shoes. He put his feet on the ground and walked towards the entrance of the camp. .

Li Si, who rushed to the gate of the camp, saw Zhao Wei riding on a horse from a distance, and his guess about the visitor was confirmed. At this time, his face not only showed joy, but also looked overjoyed. He took even bigger steps and ran all the way. He rushed to the gate of the camp in a few breaths, while cursing at the soldiers guarding the gate.

"You lazy guys, didn't you see who it was?... This is General Zhao Zhonglang, a benefactor of a certain person. How dare you neglect General Zhao Zhonglang like this, without notifying him and not opening the camp gate. I will go get twenty army sticks.”

When the soldiers guarding the camp gate heard Li Si's threatening words, they immediately opened the camp gate in a hurry to prevent the twenty army sticks from falling into place.

As soon as the camp gate opened, Li Si rushed to Zhao Wei. At this moment, his face no longer had the harshness of teaching the soldiers, but only a smile like the spring breeze and rain: "Mr. Zhao, that gust of wind brought you here. Come on, don’t you always stay in Chengdu? Why do you have the time to come to my boring ferry today?”

Zhao Wei stroked his beard and asked with half-closed eyes: "What do you mean by this, I am someone who is not meant to be here?"

"No, no." Li Si's face tightened, and he waved his hand quickly, explaining to Zhao Wei hurriedly: "Come when you come, come when you come, come when you want, morning, noon, night, you can come whenever you want. When the time comes, I am always ready to entertain you, Mr. Zhao... It’s just that you are always coming, so it would be better if you could send someone to inform me first... No, no, it would be better if you inform me so that I can make some preparations."

"Li Yi arrived here early. He didn't tell you, do I want to come here?" Zhao Wei asked.

Li Si looked a little embarrassed now. He stretched out his hand and scratched the back of his head: "I said it, I said it, but Captain Li said he needed to cross the river and asked someone to provide a boat. This was just empty talk. There is no state pastor. The clerk of the government, I was guarding the ferry, and I couldn't let Captain Li cross the river... Later, Captain Li said that you were coming, but Captain Li's behavior was a bit strange, and I was half-believed in his words, but... I didn’t expect that Mr. Zhao would actually come here.”

Zhao Wei did not continue to question Li Si on this point, but instead said, "If I want to cross the river now, there will be no paperwork. Do you want to let me cross the river or not?"

"This..." Li Si's face was a little tangled, but after a moment he gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement: "Mr. Zhao wants to cross the river, so I will naturally give in."

Hearing this, Zhao Wei's face relaxed slightly. He stopped talking about crossing the river and talked about the past: "I still remember that in the past years, you held the position of Governor of Hundreds. You were good at martial arts, but your talents were somewhat buried... …”

"I owe this to you, Mr. Zhao. If it weren't for you, given my background, I would only be able to hold the position of governor of a hundred people until my death, and I would never be able to climb to the position of captain." Li Si continued to Zhao Wei. After finishing his words, he expressed his gratitude to Zhao Wei.

"Well, you remember." Zhao Wei nodded with a gentle face and continued: "Speaking of which, you have held the position of Captain for many years, and you still hold the position of Captain. Over the years, I have been unable to be promoted... It's a pity that I hold the position of Hede Zhonglang General. His position is very high, but his powers and responsibilities are not heavy, so I can't promote you one or two."

"Mr. Zhao." Li Si's words were choked with sobs, and his face was touched. He was touched that Zhao Wei still remembered him, and had never forgotten that he was a martial artist from a poor family. He was even more touched by Zhao Wei's promotion of him in the past.

After feeling that the atmosphere was in place, Zhao Wei looked solemn and said: "Captain Li, do you want to be a captain for the rest of your life...Now that you have a fortune that is astonishing, it depends on what you do."

Although Li Si was a warrior, he also had a brain. When Li Yi led his troops here, he felt something was wrong. When the army crossed the river, most of them took the ferry where Niuqiang was. The ferry there was large and spacious, and he guarded it. There were few large armies passing through this ferry. Secondly, he was stationed here and did not receive any written notification that Li Yi was coming.The sudden arrival of Li Yi made him a little panicked, causing him to forget the difference in identity between him and Li Yi, and closed the camp gate to act businesslike.

Now, after the arrival of Li Yi, Zhao Wei, the general of Hede Zhonglang, has actually arrived, and listening to the profound meaning of Zhao Wei's words, anyone who is not a pig-headed person knows that Zhao Wei is going to cause trouble. Taking advantage of Yizhou When Mu Liuzhang was not in charge of the overall situation in Chengdu.

Li Si had a confused look on his face. What Zhao Wei was going to do might not be a good thing, and his wife was still in Chengdu as a hostage.

"Captain Li, what are you still thinking about? Today is the day for a man to gain fame and wealth." A sharp shout came from behind Zhao Wei.Li Si looked around. He only paid attention to Zhao Wei in front of him, but did not observe the identities of the knights surrounding Zhao Wei. With just one glance, Li Si recognized the identity of this person - the third young master Liu Hao.

Unlike Liu Zhang, who had only been in Yizhou for a short period of time and rarely saw visitors after arriving in Yizhou, Liu Hao followed Liu Yan to Shu and helped Liu Yan secure his position as a shepherd in Yizhou. In the hearts of some civil and military officials in Yizhou, he was Being recognized as the next candidate for Yizhou Mu carries a lot of weight, and there are few civil and military officials in Yizhou who do not know Liu Hao.

"Young Master." Li Si didn't have time to think too much, he raised his hands and saluted Liu Hao.At the same time, he leaned down and thought about why Liu Hao appeared here. He had heard rumors from Chengdu that Liu Hao was in a state of semi-imprisonment. But seeing Liu Hao and Zhao Wei walking together, he was afraid that something big had happened. .

"Li Duwei, I am about to leave the town of Ba County, and there is still a shortage of civil and military personnel under my command. You are willing to serve as a school captain under my command."

"I can be your guarantee."

Liu Mao's words were like stone honey, soaking into Li Si's heart and arousing Li Si's desire for power. Coupled with Zhao Wei's guarantee, Li Si's face wavered.

But when Li Si thought about it, he remembered his wife who was held hostage in Chengdu, and his expression became a little uncertain.

After a while, Li Si made up his mind. There is no need for a real man to have a wife. Fame is the most important thing. He bowed down and said, "But it depends on the prince's orders."

Seeing Li Si prostrated, Liu Hao and Zhao Wei looked at each other and smiled, and then Liu Hao comforted Li Si a few words, especially considering that Li Si's wife and children were in Chengdu as hostages, and Li Si followed them, and nothing good could happen to his wife and children now. Under the circumstances, it was said that he was looking for a woman from a noble family to be his wife. This made Li Si, who came from a poor family, overjoyed and decided that Liu Mao was the master.

Time waits for no one. Now that Chengdu does not know when it will notice Liu Mao's escape and send people to pursue him, crossing the Tuohe River is the first priority for Liu Mao and Zhao Wei.

Li Si, who was determined to take refuge with Liu Hao, immediately moved diligently. In order to obtain the position of captain that Liu Hao promised him, he called on his subordinates, untied the cables of the ships under his control tied to the shore, and prepared to carry Zhao Hao's men. Go to the other side.

Just then, a group of knights came from a distance. When Liu Hao saw this, his eyebrows arched and a smile appeared on his lips. He was wondering if Wang Sheng, who was leading more than [-] knights, killed Wu Ran. That bitch is back.

But Liu Mao's idea came to nothing, and what came back was a group of people who were chasing the knight leader who was spying on him for Liu Zhang.

Thinking that the knight leader who had managed to escape had been killed, Zhao Wei squinted his eyes. After he saw the person clearly, his own biased thoughts were revealed in his heart.

But things often go unsatisfactory. What came to inform Zhao Wei was that the knight with an arrow in his back actually fled all the way to the camp of the knight captain Zhang Ren, forcing them to give up the pursuit.

Zhao Wei was able to keep his composure, but when Liu Hao heard the news, he couldn't help but panic. He looked at Zhao Wei with a panicked expression: "Mr. Zhao, what should we do?"

"Master, don't panic. The pursuers won't be able to get here for a while. Let's cross the river quickly." Zhao Wei calmly comforted Liu Hao, and then he called Li Yi and asked Li Yi to lead the cavalry to Chengdu. Direction investigation, any news will be reported as soon as possible.
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'Captain, Captain. "Liu Mao's loyal dog Wang Sheng kept chanting the word "duwei" in his heart, and at the same time commanded the cavalry beside him to come forward, intending to attack and kill Wu Ran who was guarded by a group of infantry in the middle.

Originally, Liu Hao planned to personally lead people to kill Wu Yuan, but Zhao Wei dissuaded him and asked him to give up the idea and went to the ferry of Tuohe River with Zhao Wei, so Liu Hao sent Wang Sheng and twenty riders to the river bank. Bian killed Wu Ran and made an empty promise to Wang Sheng as a captain.

"Wang Sheng, is it you? How dare you cause trouble." As a woman, Wu Ran was in the middle of a war, but she showed no fear. She recognized the identity of the leader, who was a subordinate of her husband Liu Hao, and she shouted sternly One sentence.

When Wang Sheng heard this, he first sighed with emotion. Even when the beautiful lady in front of him shouted and asked, her voice was so beautiful that it made him feel like listening to fairy music.

Then Wang Sheng, who was sitting on the horse, looked down at Wu Ran's face from a distance. He couldn't help but lick his tongue, and a burning sensation rose up in his lower abdomen.

'What a pity, what a pity. Wang Sheng felt that it was a pity that he did not have the opportunity to kiss such a beautiful and graceful Wu Ran, who was also a lady from a wealthy family.

Suppressing the desire in his heart, Wang Sheng decided to get down to business. He must know that after killing Wu Ran and getting the post of captain, he would have any woman he wanted.He responded to Wu Ran's shouting and asked, and his words were very arrogant: "It's the villain... I want to teach the lady to know, so as not to be an unjust ghost. It's not the villain who wants to kill the lady, but the young master who wants to kill the lady."

After hearing Wang Sheng's confirmation that Liu Mao was the instigator, Wu Ran was a little dazed and her face became blank. She smiled bitterly, but soon her face became firm. She was completely different from Liu Mao.

Zhang Ba, who was ten feet tall and eight inches wide in waist, held a wooden shield in one hand and a ring-shou sword in the other, commanding his soldiers to form a circle and guard Wu Ran firmly in the middle.

The cavalry led by Wang Sheng did not rashly attack the infantry who formed a circle. They were only light cavalry, not heavy cavalry with armored cavalry. What's more, the current cavalry did not have stirrups for support.

This group of cavalrymen only held spears and relied on the speed of their horses to rush towards the infantry forming a circle. When the two parties approached, they used spears one inch long and one inch strong to stab the formation. If the infantry misses a blow, they will rein in their horses and run away before making the next charge.

When Zhangba saw the charging cavalry, he put down the ring-shou sword in his hand and inserted it into the ground. When the cavalry spear came at him, he glanced at an opening and dodged to grab it with one hand. He stopped the spear thrust by the cavalry.

The cavalryman who thrust out the spear subconsciously tried to pull back the spear held by Zhangba, but the cavalryman only felt that the spear in his hand seemed to be inserted into the trunk of a big tree, and he could not move at all. Neither can we advance, nor can we retreat.

"Get off the horse with me." Zhangba yelled angrily. He used his hand as big as a cattail leaf to lift the spear upwards, and lifted the cavalryman who was holding the spear firmly off the horse. The cavalryman fell to the ground with a thud. I fell down and became dizzy.

Zhangba picked up the ring-headed sword stuck on the ground, strode forward, and without waiting for the other cavalry to react to the rescue, he killed the cavalry on the ground with one blow. Then he shrank back, and then used his tall body to kill the cavalry. The noble lady Wu Ran came to protect her.

Zhangba's move made all the cavalrymen show signs of retreat. They just sat down on their horses and did not dare to step forward to fight with their spears. (End of chapter)