Three Kingdoms

Chapter 25
Fan Jiang and Zhang Da offered Zhang Fei's head to Sun Quan.Sun Quan took them in.

Sun Quan said to the ministers: "Now Liu Bei himself leads an army of 70 to attack us. The momentum is huge. How should we deal with it?

All the civil and military officials were shocked and didn't know what to do. Zhuge Jin stood up and said, "I am willing to persuade Liu Bei and advise him not to send troops. I hope the two countries will reconcile and discuss Cao Pi together." "Sun Quan immediately approved Zhuge Jin.

In the autumn of the first year of Zhang Wu, Liu Bei led an army of 70 to attack Soochow.He set up the Baidi City first, and the rest of the generals led their troops and horses to fight out of Shuchuankou.At this time, Zhuge Jin rushed to Baidi City.

Liu Bei received Zhuge Jin, and he asked Zhuge Jin, "What can you do to see me?" Zhuge Jin explained to Liu Bei, "Because my younger brother Zhuge Liang is working for His Majesty, I risk my life to explain something to Your Majesty. When Guan Gong was in Jingzhou, Marquis Wu and Sun Quan proposed to Guan Gong several times, but Guan Gong refused. Later, when Guan Gong attacked Xiangyang, Cao Cao wrote several times to ask Marquis Wu and Sun Quan to send troops to attack Jingzhou. Marquis Wu and Sun Quan never wanted to send troops. As we all know , Lu Meng and Guan Gong have always had a grudge, he used troops without permission and attacked Jingzhou, causing a big mistake, Wu Hou Sun Quan regretted it too late. This is Lu Meng's crime, and it has nothing to do with Wu Hou. Now that Lu Meng is dead, the grudge has been resolved. Plus Mrs. Shangsun misses His Majesty all the time, and wants to return to His Majesty. Marquis Wu Sun Quan ordered me to be an envoy, and is willing to send Mrs. Sun back to Shuchuan, and hand over Fan Jiang and Zhang Da to His Majesty. I will also return Jingzhou to Your Majesty. I hope that both sides Reconcile, let's attack Wei together."

Liu Bei didn't listen to Zhuge Jin's advice, and wanted to attack Soochow.Zhuge Jin returned to Soochow and told Sun Quan.Sun Quan quickly sent Zhao Zi to Xudu to ask Cao Pi to send troops to attack Shuchuan.

Cao Pi first canonized Sun Quan as the king of Wu, but he did not save Wu or attack Shu.

When Sun Quan learned that Liu Bei personally led the army and joined forces with the barbarian king Sha Moke and the Dongxi Han generals Du Lu and Liu Ning, they came to Dongwu by land and water, and couldn't help but feel anxious.He hurriedly asked the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs: "Shu soldiers are aggressive, how should we deal with the enemy?" All the officials were silent.Sun Quan sighed and said: "After Zhou Lang died, Lu Su advised me, and after Lu Su died, there was Lu Meng. After Lu Meng died, no one will send troops to fight against the enemy for me." At this time, Sun Huan was willing to lead troops to fight against the enemy.Sun Quan asked him, "What plan do you have to retreat the Shu army?" Sun Huan said, "I have two generals, one named Li Yi and the other named Xie Jing. Shu soldiers." Sun Quan said: "Although you are brave, but you are young, you must have someone to help you fight against the enemy." Huwei General Zhu Ran stood up and said: "I would like to help General Sun Huan defeat the Shu soldiers." Sun Quan approved, Send [-] soldiers and horses to Sun Huan and Zhu Ran to fight against the Shu soldiers.

Sun Huan led [-] soldiers to station at the boundary of Yidu, and divided them into three camps to resist the Shu soldiers.

Shu general Wu Ban led his vanguard troops and rushed out from Shuchuan. Wherever he went, Wu soldiers were terrified.Wu Ban's soldiers went to Yidu without bloodshed.He found out that Sun Huan was stationed in Yidu, and immediately informed Liu Bei.At this time, Liu Bei had already arrived in Zigui, and when he heard that Sun Huan was stationed in Yidu, he couldn't help being furious: "Sun Huan is an unknown junior, who dares to come to die, who is willing to fight?" Kill the enemy.Liu Bei had just finished ordering soldiers for Guan Xing, and Zhang Bao was also going to lead the army to kill the enemy at this time. Liu Bei happily ordered [-] elite soldiers for Zhang Bao.

Guan Xing and Zhang Bao joined Wu Ban to challenge Sun Huan.General Sun Huan fought against Li Yi and Zhang Bao.Seeing that Li Yi could not beat Zhang Bao, Sun Huanpi's general Tan Xiong shot Zhang Bao's horse's leg with a hidden arrow, and the horse was injured and Zhang Bao was knocked to the ground.Seeing an opportunity, Li Yi rode over to kill Zhang Bao, but Guan Xing arrived in time, raised his saber, and beheaded Li Yi.The Shu soldiers took advantage of the victory to pursue, but Sun Huan was defeated.

The next day, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao, and Wu Ban led troops into Sun Huan's camp. Xie Jing was stabbed to death by Zhang Bao, and Guan Xing captured Tan Xiong alive.Zhang Bao was very happy and killed Tan Xiong.Wu Ban sent someone to report the news of Liu Bei's victory over Wu Jun.

Shu generals Zhang Nan and Feng Xi said to Wu Ban: "Now Wu's army has been defeated, and we just took advantage of the situation to rob the stronghold." Wu Ban said: "Although Sun Huan was defeated, Zhu Ran's navy is now stationed on the Yingjiang River, and there is no loss. Nothing. If we go to sneak attack today, Zhu Ran will definitely go to the shore and cut off our army’s return route. Then we will definitely fail.” Zhang Nan said: “This matter is easy to handle. You can call the two generals Zhang Bao and Guan Xing Lead the soldiers in ambush in the valley. If Zhu Ran leads troops to rescue, the left and right armies will fight out from the valley, and Zhu Ran will definitely be defeated.

Wu Ban said again: "It's better to send soldiers to pretend to surrender to the Wu army first, let the soldiers tell Zhu Ran that we attacked Sun Huan's camp, and set fire to it, Zhu Ran will definitely come to rescue Sun Huan. Can defeat Wu Jun. "Zhang Nan, Feng Xi and other generals all said that this is a good strategy, and they will do it according to the plan.

Zhu Ran heard that Sun Huan was defeated by the Shu army, so he hurriedly led troops to rescue him.At this time, I met a soldier sent by Wu Ban. The soldier surrendered to Zhu Ran and said: "We are Feng Xi's soldiers. Because Feng Xi's reward and punishment are unknown, we are here to surrender and report the confidential military situation to the general." Zhu Ran asked:

"What secret military situation? Tell me!" Xiao Bing said, "Feng Xi is going to take the opportunity to attack General Sun's barracks tonight, and he also agreed to use fire as a signal." Zhu Ran hurriedly sent someone to report to Sun Huan.The messenger was killed by Guan Xing on the way.

Zhu Ran discussed with the generals to lead troops to rescue Sun Huan. Cui Yu said to Zhu Ran: "You can't believe everything that the soldiers say. If there is a mistake, the whole army will be wiped out. The general just guards the water fortress." I am willing to rescue Sun Huan for the general." Zhu Ran agreed, and ordered [-] soldiers and horses for Cui Yu to rescue Sun Huan.

When night came, Wu Ban, Zhang Nan, and Feng Xi divided their forces into Sun Huan's village. Fires raged in Sun Huan's village, and Wu soldiers were defeated and fled.

Cui Yu entered the valley and saw the fire in Sun Huan's camp, so he hurriedly urged the army to charge forward.At this time, Zhang Bao and Guan Xing rushed out from both sides of the valley and defeated Cui Yu's army. Zhang Bao captured Cui Yu with one move.Zhu Ran hurriedly ordered to retreat fifty or sixty li, and stationed troops in Yiling City.Wu Ban led the troops to surround Zhu Ran on all sides.

Guan Xing and Zhang Bao captured Cui Yu alive and defeated Wu soldiers.Liu Bei was very happy, and ordered Cui Yu to be beheaded, and the three armies were rewarded.Since then, it has shocked the south of the Yangtze River and boosted the morale of the army.

Sun Huan sent people to report Wu Wang Sun Quan's defeat, and asked Wu Wang Sun Quan for help.Sun Quan, the king of Wu, was shocked and asked the officials: "Now that Sun Huan and Zhu Ran have been defeated, and the Shu army is powerful, what should we do?" Zhang Zhao said: "You can appoint Han as the general, Zhou Tai as the deputy, and Pan Zhang was in the vanguard, Ling Tong was in charge of the rear, and Gan Ning was in the rear to rescue them, sending an army of [-] to resist the Shu army."

Liu Bei camped from Jianping, Wuxia to Jiekou, Yiling, a distance of more than 40 miles, and stationed more than [-] camps.Seeing that Guan Xing and Zhang Bao were brave and made great achievements repeatedly, Liu Bei sighed and said, "The generals who followed me before are all old; now that the two virtuous nephews are so brave, what is Sun Quan?"

At this time, the Shu soldiers suddenly reported that Han Dang and Zhou Tai led the troops to kill them, and Liu Bei was about to dispatch troops. Someone reported to Liu Bei: "The old general Huang Zhong led five or six people to surrender to Soochow." Liu Bei said: "Huang Zhong is not He will betray me only because he refuses to accept his old age and wants to fight hard to kill Wu Jun." Afraid that Huang Zhong would lose, Liu Bei hastily dispatched Zhang Bao and Guan Xing to help Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong led five or six people to the Shu army camp in Yiling.Wu Ban, Zhang Nan, and Feng Xi received Huang Zhong, and asked: "General Huang came all the way to us, what's the matter?" Huang Zhong said: "I have followed the emperor since the Changsha war. , fought north and south, and fought countless times. Although I am over 70 years old, I can still eat ten catties of meat, draw a bow and arrow as heavy as a boulder, and ride a thousand-mile horse to fight. Yesterday His Majesty said that we Veteran generals are too old to fight again, and now I’m here to fight Soochow, watch me kill young Soochow, and see if I’m old or not!”

At this time, the spies came to report that a general of the Wu army led the front troops to camp in front.Huang Zhong was very happy, walked out of the camp quickly, raised his knife and mounted his horse.Feng Xi and other generals advised Huang Zhong not to act rashly.Huang Zhong couldn't hear it, he slapped the horse's buttocks, and swung his knife into the enemy camp.Wu Ban ordered Feng Xi to lead the army to help in the battle.

Wu general Pan Zhang ordered his general Shiji to fight.Shi Ji bullied Huang Zhong to be old, and urged his horse to raise his gun to fight Huang Zhong.After only three rounds of fighting, Shi Ji was killed by Huang Zhong with a single knife.Pan Zhang was furious and took Guan Gong's Qinglong Yanyue knife to fight Huang Zhong.The more Huang Zhong fought, the more energetic he became.Pan Zhang couldn't beat Huang Zhong, so he ran away.Huang Zhong took advantage of the victory to pursue and returned with a big victory.At this time Zhang Bao and Guan Xing had already arrived.

Guan Xing said to Huang Zhong: "Zhang Bao and I came to help the old general under the imperial decree. Now that we have finished our work, please go back to the barracks to rest." Huang Zhong did not listen to the advice of Guan Xing and others.

The next day, Pan Zhang came to challenge again.Huang Zhong raised his sword and mounted his horse.Guan Xing and Zhang Bao wanted to help in the battle again, but Huang Zhong refused.Wu Ban wanted to help in the battle, but Huang Zhong refused.Huang Zhong himself took five thousand soldiers and horses to face Pan Zhang.After only fighting for a few rounds, Pan Zhang dragged the Qinglong Yanyue Saber and left.Huang Zhong did not let go of him, and shouted as he chased: "Don't go, dog thief, I want to avenge Guan Gong today!"

Huang Zhong chased him to a distance of more than 30 miles. At this time, there was a loud shout and ambushes: Zhou Tai on the right, Han Dang on the left, Pan Zhang in front, and Ling Tong in the back, surrounding Huang Zhong in the middle.At this time, a strong wind suddenly blew up, Huang Zhong hurriedly retreated, and Ma Zhong led his soldiers out on the hillside. Immediately fall off.Seeing Huang Zhong hit by an arrow, Wu soldiers came to attack Huang Zhong together.At this time, two armies led by Guan Xing and Zhang Bao arrived and rescued Huang Zhong.Guan Xing and Zhang Bao sent Huang Zhong safely to Liu Bei's imperial camp.

Huang Zhong was old and bloody, his arrow sores were cracking, and his condition was very serious.Liu Bei came to visit him in person, stroked Huang Zhong's back and said, "It's my fault! Old General, I'm sorry!" Huang Zhong said, "I'm just a martial artist. Thank you, Your Majesty, for coming to see me in person. I am 75 years old, and I am very satisfied. I hope Your Majesty will take care of the dragon body and wait for the opportunity to conquer the Central Plains!" Huang Zhong died after finishing speaking.

Seeing Huang Zhong's death, Liu Bei was very sad and ordered Huang Zhong to be buried generously.Liu Bei sighed: "The five tiger generals, three of them have passed away, it really makes me sad!" After speaking, he led the generals of the Imperial Forest Army General Assembly, and sent troops to eight routes, both by land and water.Huang Quan led the water army, and Liu Bei led the main force to advance along the coast.

When Han Dang and Zhou Tai learned that Liu Bei was going to fight in person, they hurriedly led troops to fight.Xia Xun of Han Dangcha challenged Zhang Bao, who was stabbed to death by Zhang Bao; Zhou Ping, Zhou Tai's younger brother, challenged Guan Xing, but was also beheaded by Guan Xing.Liu Bei ordered the Eighth Route Army to charge and kill the Wu army. Han Dang, Zhou Tai and others were defeated and fled.

Gan Ning was recuperating on the boat. Hearing the arrival of the soldiers from Shu, he hurriedly led them ashore. He happened to meet a group of barbarians.The leader of the army is Fan Wang Shamoke.Seeing that the barbarians were so powerful, Gan Ning didn't dare to fight, so he fled in a hurry.Fan Wang Shamokola drew his bow and arrow, and shot Gan Ning in the forehead with a whoosh.Gan Ning fled with the arrow, and finally died while sitting under a big tree.

Liu Bei commanded the army to take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill them. Wu soldiers fled everywhere and were routed.

Liu Bei withdrew his troops, but Guan Xing was gone.Liu Bei quickly sent Zhang Bao and others to look around.It turned out that when Guan Xing entered the Wu army's position, he happened to meet his great enemy Pan Zhang, so he urged his horse to chase and kill him.Pan Zhang was shocked and fled into the valley on horseback, not knowing where to go.Guan Xing also chased into the valley, but did not find Pan Zhang.By this time it was already dark.Guan Xing lost his way, but fortunately there was moonlight and stars in the sky, he saw a house deep in the forest.

Guan Xing came to the courtyard in front of the house and knocked on the door to lodge.An old man opened the door for Guan Xing. The old man asked him, "Who are you? What do you want?" Guan Xing said, "I am a general. I can't get out of this valley when I get lost. I want to ask the old man to send me a bowl of rice to satisfy my hunger."

The old man let Guan Xing into the house.Guan Xing saw that the candles in the hall were brightly lit, and there was a statue of Guan Gong in the hall.Guan Xing cried loudly and kowtowed to the statue of Guan Gong.The old man asked Guan Xing: "Why is the little general crying?" Guan Xing pointed to the statue of Guan Gong and said, "He is my father." Hearing what Guan Xing said, the old man immediately knelt down and worshiped Guan Gong.Guan Xing asked the old man again: "Why do you want to support my father's god?" The old man answered Guan Xing: "We admire Guan Gong very much. When Guan Gong was alive, every household worshiped Guan Gong's statue, not to mention that he has passed away and became a great god. We I hope that the soldiers of Shu will avenge Guan Gong as soon as possible. Now that the general has come to my house, this is my family's blessing!" The old man treated Guan Xing warmly, and helped Guan Xing feed his horse.

In the middle of the night, suddenly another person knocked on the door.The old man asked him who he was, and he said it was Pan Zhang, a general of the Eastern Wu Dynasty.

Seeing Pan Zhang, Guan Xing shouted: "Don't run away, dog thief!" Pan Zhang hurriedly fled to the door, and suddenly he saw Guan Gong standing outside the door.Knowing that it was Guan Gong who was manifesting his holiness, Pan Zhang yelled, still in shock, and was about to turn around when Guan Xing stabbed Pan Zhang with a sword, killing Pan Zhang.Guan Xing cut off Pan Zhang's head with a sword, took back his father's Qinglong Yanyue knife, tied Pan Zhang's head under the neck of the horse, bid farewell to the old man, rode on Pan Zhang's horse, and walked towards Taniguchi.The old man dragged Pan Zhang's body outside the house and set it on fire.

When Guan Xing came out of the valley, he suddenly heard the sound of soldiers and horses chasing after him.Guan Xing saw that it was Pan Zhang's former general Ma Zhong.Seeing that Guan Xing killed Pan Zhang and took back the Qinglong Yanyue Sword, Ma Zhong couldn't help being furious and urged Ma to kill Guan Xing.Guan Xing saw that Ma Zhong was also killing his father and enemy, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, he swung the green dragon sword and slashed at Ma Zhong.Three hundred soldiers under Ma Zhong surrounded Guan Xing.

Guan Xing is in a dangerous place.

At this time, a group of soldiers and horses came out from the northwest, led by Zhang Bao.When Ma Zhong saw Guan Xing's rescuers arrive, he hurriedly led the troops and fled.Guan Xing and Zhang Bao pursued closely.At this time, Fu Shiren and Mi Fang led troops to rescue Ma Zhong, but Guan Xing and Zhang Bao had too few soldiers, so the two generals Guan and Zhang had to lead their troops back in a hurry.Seeing Liu Bei and Zhang Bao offering Pan Zhang's head.Tell Liu Bei the ins and outs of the matter.Liu Bei avenged Guan Yu, so he rewarded the three armies.

Ma Zhong returned to the Wu army camp to meet Han Dang and Zhou Tai.Han Dang and Zhou Tai hurriedly collected the defeated troops and guarded each pass separately. Most of Wu's troops were killed or injured.Ma Zhong led Fu Shiren and Mi Fang to set up camp in Zhazhai, Jiangzhu.At midnight that night, the soldiers all burst into tears.Mi Fang heard some soldiers commenting: "We were all soldiers of Jingzhou. Lu Meng used tricks to murder Guan Gong. Now that Uncle Liu Huang is personally marching, Soochow will be wiped out sooner or later. The people Uncle Liu hates are Fu Shiren and Mi Fang, and it has nothing to do with us." Why don’t we kill these two rebels and go to the Shu camp to surrender! If that’s the case, the credit will be great!” Another soldier said softly: “Don’t worry, just wait for a good time and strike.”

Mi Fang was taken aback, and hurried back to the camp to discuss with Fu Shiren: "Now that the morale of the army has changed, our lives may be in danger at any time. Now the Lord of Shu hates Ma Zhong, why don't we kill Ma Zhong and take him down?" Where is his dog head going to surrender to Shu Lord?

Fu Shiren said: "This cannot be done. If we surrender to the Shu army again, we will definitely be killed." "Mi Fang said: "The lord of Shu is magnanimous, not to mention the prince Liu Chan is my nephew now, he will definitely take care of my face as a relative of the state and will not harm us." "The two of them had made up their minds. When they were waiting for the third watch, they rushed into Ma Zhong's camp, killed Ma Zhong, cut off his head, and surrendered to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei ignored Mi Fang and Fu Shiren's begging for mercy, and ordered Guan Xing to kill the two traitors himself.Guan Xing cut off the heads of the two of them with a knife and sacrificed to Guan Gong.

Seeing that Guan Xing had avenged his father, but he hadn't avenged his father, Zhang Bao couldn't help crying.Liu Bei comforted him and would avenge his father.

At this time, the army of Shu was so powerful that it shook the north and south of the river, and the army of Wu cried day and night.Han Dang and Zhou Tai were shocked and sent someone to seek help from Wu Wang Sun Quan.

Sun Quan also became frightened, and hastily summoned all civil and military officials to discuss a plan to defeat the Shu army.

The counselor Bu Zhi made a plan and said: "Liu Bei hates Lu Meng, Pan Zhang, Ma Zhong, Mi Fang, and Fu Shiren. Now these people are dead, only Fan Jiang and Zhang Da are in Soochow. Just catch these two people and present Zhang Da Fei's head, send envoys to return it to Liu Bei, then return it to Jingzhou, send it back to my wife, ask for reconciliation, and attack Wei together, then the Shu army will naturally retreat."

Sun Quan followed Bu Zhi's plan and ordered his men to make an agarwood coffin for Zhang Fei, put Zhang Fei's head in it, tie up Fan Jiang and Zhang Da and lock him in the prison cart, and ordered Cheng Bing to come with Sun Quan's letter as an envoy. Meet Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was overjoyed to see the envoys from Soochow captured the rebel generals Fan Jiang and Zhang Da, and ordered Zhang Bao to deal with Fan Jiang and Zhang Da.Zhang Bao cut their flesh one by one with a knife until Fan and Zhang died of blood.Zhang Bao burned the heads of Fan and Zhang as a memorial to Zhang Fei.

After sacrificing Zhang Fei, Liu Bei's anger still persisted, and he insisted on sweeping Soochow.Ma Liang said to Liu Bei: "All the enemies have been killed, and the hatred has been avenged. Cheng Bing, the doctor of Soochow, came here to negotiate a peace, and he is going to return Jingzhou and his wife. We will form an alliance forever and destroy Wei together." Liu Bei was furious: "My enemy is Sun Quan. If I reconcile with Sun Quan, I will bear the oath of the two virtuous brothers. I will destroy Wu first and then attack Wei." After Liu Bei finished speaking, he wanted to kill Cheng Bing, and all the generals under his command Hastily begged for mercy.Cheng Bing hurriedly fled back to Soochow, and said to Sun Quan: "Liu Bei does not advocate making peace. He said that he must first destroy Wu and then attack Wei. It is useless to persuade the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs to persuade him. What should we do?"

Sun Quan turned pale with shock.Kan Ze stood up and said, "Now there is someone who is the pillar of Soochow, why not reuse it?" Sun Quan hurriedly asked, "Who is it?" Kan Ze said, "In the past, Zhou Lang was in charge of major events in Soochow. After Lang there was Lu Su, after Lu Su there was Lu Meng, after Lu Meng's death there was Lu Xun. Although Lu Xun was a Confucian general, he was not inferior to Zhou Lang in his heart. He was the one who defeated Guan Yu last time. If you use Lu Xun again, you will definitely be able to defeat the Shu army. If Lu Xun cannot succeed, I am willing to take the blame." Sun Quan said: "If you hadn't reminded me, I would almost have missed a major event."

(End of this chapter)