Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 23 A three-inch tongue, wisely retreating Dong Zhuo's remnant soldiers (3)
When Huan Fan heard this, he was not humble, took his words, and replied seriously: "According to Huan's opinion, these 270 eight students can be divided into two groups at this time: one group is led by Huan and guards here. On the head of the bridge, wait for the bandit soldiers to step forward and strangle the bridge entrance, "one man guards the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it", so that the bandit soldiers cannot attack; another group led by Zhongda hides among the thick trees, When the bandits are about to attack, listen to my orders, beat gongs and drums to boost our strength, shoot crossbows and arrows to strengthen our prestige, disturb the minds of the bandits, and make them confused about our reality, so they dare not act rashly— ——Then, Huan took the opportunity to tell them their advantages and disadvantages with a three-inch tongue, confident that they would retreat in the face of difficulties! ——Anyway, they just want to have a full meal, and they don’t really want to fight us desperately !"

"Brother Huan is such a good plan! What you see is exactly the same as Yi." Sima Yi smiled and nodded in praise, then suddenly changed the subject and asked, "I don't know who Master has appointed to lead this anti-bandit and protect the valley today? Is it Brother Huan?" Is it?"

"This... this..." Huan Fan showed embarrassment and was at a loss for words.

Sima Yi glanced at Zhou Xuan's face.Zhou Xuan glanced at Huan Fan, then lowered his head slightly, still hesitating and hawing.

Seeing this, Hu Zhao stood up and said solemnly: "Zhongda... Before leaving, master, I solemnly ordered: Today's anti-bandit protection of the valley is under your full authority, and we must obey you as we obey the master's arrangement. scheduling."

"That's good! Time is tight and there is no delay. Everything must be done according to the strategy that Brother Huan said." Sima Yi cast a very grateful look at Hu Zhao, took his words as an arrow, and immediately Commanded up, "However, I want to make a small adjustment to this strategy: Niu Jin and I will be left on the bridge, and the rest of the students will be led by Mr. Huan Fan, and they will hide in the depths of the woods. Everyone must strictly observe discipline." , not to act presumptuously, so as not to disturb the overall situation—at the same time, we must be careful, cooperate closely, and not panic, let alone act rashly!"

"Yes!" Everyone answered in unison.

"Hey... since the master has given you the power of command and dispatch, Huan must obey." Although Huan Fan was a little unconvinced, he had no choice but to nod and obey, "Zhongda, I will protect you all from behind! If the bandit soldiers forcibly break into the cable bridge, Huan will be the first to rush out to help you."

Sima Yi looked at the murderous look on Huan Fan's face, and sighed secretly in his heart: "Sun Tzu's Art of War" said: "The first is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and the next is to attack the city." Subduing the enemy is not fighting." I, Sima Zhongda, hoped to drive this group of bandit soldiers out of the valley without any harm!

He turned around to look at the top of the bridge, and suddenly remembered something, and turned his head and asked loudly to the students who were about to enter the woods to hide: "I forgot one thing just now-are there any brave students, would you like to join me?" Stay with me and Niu Jin to roast wild pheasants by the fire at the bridge head?"

"Me!" Two deep and powerful voices sounded almost simultaneously.Sima Yi took a look, and saw that one of them was Hu Zhao, and the other was Liu Yin, the dutiful son who was always willing to collect money.

He pondered for a while and replied: "Brother Hu, let's go into the woods and help Brother Huan protect us in time—Liu Jun will stay and accompany me and Niu Jin to eat roasted wild pheasants!"

Although it was hard to grab a lunch in Xihe Village outside Linglong Valley, it can be regarded as casually alleviating the hunger pain of himself and the eight or nine hundred Xiliang remnants under his command for several days, but Liangzhou Captain Han Jian I couldn't be happier.The food they snatched from Xihe Village can only be used for another half a month at most, so what should they do after this half month?When will the days of grabbing the last meal but not the next meal come to an end?
Han Jian was originally born in Xiaolian, Wuwei County, Liangzhou. He followed Grand Master Dong Zhuo to Luoyang, and it is said that he was ordered by His Majesty the Son of Heaven to "eradicate eunuchs and clear the king's side"—how excited Han Jian was at that time! !I really thought this was my chance to make contributions!Unexpectedly, the situation has changed in the past few years-Dong Taishi, who brought them to the king of Jingqin and "suppressed the emperor", was later beaten as a "rebel who steals the country". After his head was beheaded, his body was exposed to the sun in the street In three days, Han Jian and other Xiliang soldiers were also regarded as public enemies of the world, and were attacked from both sides by the court ministers and the Kanto princes!In the end, he became a bandit soldier that everyone scolded... As long as Han Jian thought of these past events, he would feel extremely depressed, and he almost wanted to hack at the sky with a knife to vent his frustration.However, in the face of his soldiers who came all the way from Liangzhou, he couldn't just let go, so he had to drag them to live by plundering, while fleeing back to their hometown Liangzhou.

While he was deep in thought, the lieutenant general Hu Meng, who was full of food and drinks at the first farmer's house in the east of the village, ran over with greasy mouth and said, "Lieutenant Han, I have some good news for you."

"What good news?" Han Jian glared at him angrily, "Don't try to make our school Wei Bai happy with some hearsay!"

"This time it's true!" Hu Meng was so excited that his face glowed red, "I heard from the farmers in the village that there is a Linglong Valley twenty or thirty miles away from this village, and there is a purple... …Zihua Xueyuan, there are three or four hundred Confucian scholars living in it. It is estimated that they must have a lot of food in there—otherwise, the army is in chaos, how can they have leisure time to study and study scriptures hungry? Thirty or forty Confucian scholars, I am afraid they will all run away hungry."

"Oh—that's what happened!" Han Jian thought it was some great news. After hearing this, he curled his lips and said coldly, "This news has been reported by some brothers a long time ago. Our school captain also asked some villagers - I heard that there lived a master of Confucianism in the Linglong Valley, a master of the outside world, with three or four hundred disciples under him, with great virtue and knowledge, you want to grab their food , I'm afraid it will be a little tricky."

"Hey! Don't care what Confucianism masters or outsiders are, after all, they are just sour talents with no strength!" Hu Meng originally wanted to call them "stinky scholars", but when he thought of the Korean school in front of him Wei was born in Xiaolian, so he didn't dare to go too far, and changed his words to "sour scholar", "Our Xiliang soldiers are invincible in the world, why are you afraid of him?"

"Sour talents should not be underestimated sometimes—have you forgotten Jia Xu, Jia Wen, our fellow Liangzhou Renshi, the mastermind of General Li Jue, Jia Wen and your lord?" Han Jian frowned, and glanced at him, "His How powerful is his strategy and his means, who can provoke him?"

"Master Jia Xu is of course a powerful character, but among these Confucian scholars there are quite a few who have vain names, so there is no need for Han Xiaowei to hesitate..." Hu Meng swallowed, still very unwilling, "let it go If you don’t grab so much food in Linglong Valley, what will you guys do if you’re hungry in the future? We still have to fight it out—we’ll grab it if we win, or run away if we don’t win..."

After hearing this, Han Jian felt that this was the only way to do it. He nodded and said, "Okay! Send the order down: leave [-] brothers in this village to guard, and the rest of the brothers will all set out in full gear and arrive at the village. That Spirit Dragon Valley, go and have a look!"

Life hanging

Half an hour later, Han Jian led seven hundred Xiliang soldiers, all the way to the cable bridge at the entrance of Linglong Valley.

Amidst the sound of gurgling water and the shadows of trees, a burly young man in a Confucian uniform in the middle of the cable bridge was leaning on the rope railing on the bridge, his eyes focused on a scroll of letters in his hand, with a serious expression on his face. Read with pleasure.Beside him, there was another young man with a rather heroic spirit standing with his sword in his hand, looking lean and tough while looking forward.

On the open space at the head of the cable bridge, a young man in coarse clothes was squatting beside a bonfire, holding a few wild pheasants on an iron fork, and was roasting them over and over carefully, as if turning a blind eye to everything on the other side.

Seeing this situation, Han Jian became suspicious, and hastily raised his right hand on the horseback, stopping the Xiliang soldiers who were marching behind them.He scanned the surrounding environment suspiciously, and seemed to notice nothing unusual, so he carefully rode forward and stopped at the end of the bridge on the other side of the cable bridge.

The burly young man leaning on the fence reading a book seemed to be awakened by the sound of horseshoes. He slowly raised his head and stared at Han Jian and his men standing on the opposite bank. Step over.

Han Jian didn't get off his horse, he just stood high above him, staring at the burly young man slowly approaching with cold eyes.

"General Han Jian, he has long admired his reputation and admired him." The burly young man walked up to eight feet in front of his horse's head and stood still, bowing slightly, "Xiaosheng Sima Yi is being polite here."

Han Jian couldn't help but secretly startled when he heard him say his name: "It's really strange! How does this kid know the name of the captain?"

Sima Yi seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, with a smile on his face, and he said slowly: "General Han probably doesn't know something: the tutor is the number one hidden master in the world today - Guan Ning, son of Xuantong. He had expected that General Han would lead his troops to meet him this morning, so he ordered Xiaosheng and the other three to wait for your arrival here."

Hearing his words, Han Jian and Hu Meng, who was standing behind the horse, looked at each other, and their expressions changed slightly: What kind of master is this Xuantongzi Guan Ning?Could it be that there is a magic calculation that is all-powerful and can predict in advance that I will come to grab food?
Sima Yi saw that all of them looked suspicious, so he raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a calm smile: "My teacher also expected that General Han came from Luoyang in the east, and he was tired from traveling all the way, so he specially prepared some thin wine, and asked Xiaosheng to respectfully invite you to release his armor." Get off the saddle and go into the valley for a while."

Han Jian looked into the depths of Linglong Valley on horseback, but saw the dense shadows of the trees, and the reality was unpredictable, so he couldn't help hesitating.

Hu Meng was not as cautious as he was. After hearing Han Jianjian's impatience, he pulled out the Xiliang long knife with a swipe, and rushed forward viciously, approaching Sima Yi, and said in a high voice: "I don't care about you!" What kind of tricks is this sour scholar doing here! Since my General Han and his brothers only come here because they think highly of you, then you, Master Guan and Master Bamboo, just get out of here obediently. You are welcome to entertain us! Otherwise, if you make me anxious, I will cut off the head of you, a sour scholar, and kick it as a ball!"

Hearing his swear words, Niu Jin standing next to Sima Yi's face darkened, touched the handle of the knife with his right hand, stepped out quickly, and stood up to protect Sima Yi, staring at Hu Meng coldly, like a cheetah about to attack. Let's go!

(End of this chapter)