Chapter 346 Who had the last laugh (1)
"Hurry, hurry! You can't be faster!" Liu Mang roared in a low voice as he looked at the warships that were going downstream.
"Lord, this is already the ultimate!" Gan Ning, as the chief general of the navy, was very helpless. The river channel of the Huai River was originally small, and the water flow was very smooth in some places and the wind direction was not big. Although all the warships have raised the sails and the speed has reached the extreme, Liu Mang was still not satisfied.
"Hey!" How could Liu Mang not know this, but he was anxious. None of the scouts he sent towards Shouchun came back. It was clear that this had been blocked information. Only Liu Bei's army could do this. Why did Liu Bei block the news? His purpose was beyond words. What he wanted to fight information war was to use the news of Miss Lu's disappearance. You said Liu Mang was not in a hurry!
Xu Shu is loyal and upright. Such a person makes people feel relieved, but this loyalty and uprightness is also Xu Shu's biggest weakness. Liu Ye told himself that once Pang Tong uses "Miss Lu" as a hostage, Shouchun City will definitely not be protected. So Liu Mang is anxious.
"Lord, no matter how worried you are, it will be useless!" Liu Ye also walked to the bow of the boat and comforted Liu Mang, "If you believe in Yuan Zhi, he will definitely persevere until we arrive!"
"No!" Liu Mang shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I am worried because I believe in Yuan Zhi too much! You are not unaware of Yuan Zhi. These are his advantages, but they are also his shortcomings! I am afraid, I am afraid that Xu Shu will do something to fulfill morality!" Liu Mang is really afraid of Xu Shu. Xu Shu is just too serious about his work. He is too strict with himself. Such a Xu Shu is the one that Liu Mang fears the most. In terms of strategy, Xu Shu is not inferior to Pang Tong, and even has more insights than Pang Tong, but in terms of morality, he is restrained by Pang Tong. In Pang Tong's opinion, as long as the goal is achieved, the means are nothing.
On the original trajectory, Pang Tong even managed to suppress Zhuge Liang and to allow Liu Bei to capture Bashu with justification. He even plotted himself in, using himself as bait. Even though he knew there was an ambush ahead, he still walked there. Finally, he was shot to death by Zhang Ren on Luofeng Slope, in order to give Liu Bei a good excuse to capture Bashu. Liu Bei helped Liu Zhang in Shu resist Zhang Lu's attack in Hanzhong. You, Liu Zhang, are good, not only do not thank you, but also killed my military advisor. This is unreasonable, and the people in Shu will also lose a lot of people, which also laid the foundation. Liu Bei took the foundation of Bashu, making Liu Bei proud to win the Three Kingdoms.
So Pang Tong is a person who is a perfect person to achieve his goal. It is really difficult for Xu Shu to deal with him.
During the conversation between Liu Mang and Liu Ye, the warship finally began to be included in the junction of the Huai River and Ying River. The river surface here gradually became wider. The river water became a little turbulent, and the speed of the warship became faster.
Liu Mang knew that Shouchun was not far ahead. He had also cooked the number one dish in Jingzhou here, braised turkey. However, this little turkey now forces Liu Mang to a critical moment of life and death.
"The lord is coming!" Gan Ning, where the junction of the Huai River and the Wei River, has been here many times. His naval army practices rest and rest here.
"Well!?" Liu Mang nodded, and the warship drove towards Shouchun Water Village. The closer he got to the Shouchun Village, the more his heart became, because in addition to the close door of Shouchun Water Village, there were no more people to see, and even the flag of Liu Mang's army on the Shouchun Village was gone. What does this mean! It means that there must be changes in Shouchun City.
"Lord, we, now?!" Liu Ye also looked at the Shouchun Water Village and didn't know what to do. The situation in Shouchun City is now unclear. The safest way is to avoid Shouchun and make the worst plan. He took all the warships from Lujiang County, and withdrew all the troops from Lujiang County to return to Lujiang County, and then prepared to make a comeback.
"Can't leave! The whole army is ready, let's enter Shouchun!" Liu Mang's face was very bad. Shouchun City was a place where he spent a lot of energy. It can be said that this was also the first major event that Liu Mang came to this troubled times. If even such a thing could not be completed, how could he and Liu Mang compete with those treacherous heroes? Moreover, there were Zhao Yun and Xu Shu in the city. These two Liu Mang's left and right arms. If they were lost, Liu Mang would regret it. If they were subdued by Liu Bei again, then Liu Mang would not dare to imagine Liu Bei's development, so he was reasonable and not allowed to leave.
"Lord! Now when entering Shouchun, you can only see a dark look!" It would be fine if Shouchun City was not lost. Once Shouchun had been occupied by Liu Bei, then they would be in danger in the water village. The dry village in Shouchun City is more than one end higher than the water village. In order to prevent Shouchun Water Village from being broken by the enemy, there is an inner gate. If they enter Shouchun, it may be a melee, and the sky is gradually getting late. If someone is sneaking into Shouchun, the fun will be very exciting. The most important thing is that the soldiers on the warship are a little seasick! Especially Liu Mang's city management army is a bit unbearable. When they were the Ganning warship, they rested on the shore for a day before they arrived in Guangzhou. The Black Chess Army is not much better. The two main forces are like this, and how much combat power can they be left. If you want to enter, you have to buffer it!
"You have to go in if you can't go in. Time is too late! It's too late!" Liu Mang gritted his teeth. Shouchun must not be abandoned. Even if Shouchun is gone, Liu Mang will still be led out to Xu Shu and Zhao Yun. "Brothers, can you still persevere!" Liu Mang asked the soldiers of the Black Chess Army and the Urban Management Army.
"Yes, lord!" The voice was sparse, although there was a sound but no strength, so it would not work at all.
"Lord, let our navy follow you!" Gan Ning walked to Liu Mang and said, there were still more than 5,000 Gan Ning navy troops on these warships.
"Sailing Army?" Liu Mang hesitated a little. This navy was a sharp weapon in his hand. It was to deal with Sun Ce in Jiangdong and Liu Mang's future trip to sea. Therefore, Liu Mang always regarded Gan Ning's navy as a treasure. No matter what kind of battle it was, he was unwilling to take out the navy.
"Lord, our navy has not been in a decent battle yet. Do we have to be a foul?" Gan Ning spoke with a hint of anger. His Gan Ning navy has never fought well since he came to Yangzhou. Before he had a warship, he was raising his energy and basically performed martial arts. After he had a warship, he fought at Anfengjin Ferry. The thousands of Liu Bei's navy and Gan Ning's navy were not of the same level as Gan Ning's navy. It was really boring to fight. Later, Gan Ning wanted to help Xu Shu defend the city, but was rejected by Xu Shu. So Gan Ning really had a hint of anger. It was indeed Liu Mang's ace, but you can't fight without a war. Gan Ning is a person who can't stay idle.
"Hmm?!" Liu Mang frowned. He treated Gan Ning's navy too much as his treasure. No wonder Gan Ning was dissatisfied. Now there was no one available to Liu Mang. It was time for them to see blood. No matter how hard a unit that had never seen blood was trained, it would not be a strong army.
"Okay, Gan Ning brings five thousand naval troops into the city with me! Ziyang. You and the city management black chess and the others stay on the warship just in case!" Liu Mang left a thousand naval troops to control the warship.
"I understand!" Liu Ye nodded. Liu Mang and the others entered Shouchun, and he couldn't help much. After all, he was a scholar and was not good at fighting. It's better to stay and wait!
"Gan Ning, let the soldiers prepare!" Liu Mang said to Gan Ning on the side.
"Brothers, I have work to do!" Gan Ning looked happy. He still couldn't change his gangster nature, and he was exposed when he was happy. Fortunately, Liu Mang didn't care about such things at all. If he were under Yuan Shao's command, Gan Ning might have been dismissed.
There was no trace of the Shouchun Water Village at all. Gan Ning's water army used a ladder to climb the water village and opened the gate. Five thousand water troops rushed into the water village and quickly disappeared into the distant Shouchun City.
"Two generals Xu Sheng and Chengyu, bring your urban management black chess army to the water camp!" Liu Ye watched Liu Mang leave and shouted to Xu Sheng and Chengyu, the chief generals of the Black chess army and the city management army. "Be prepared to receive the lord at any time!"
Xu Sheng and Cheng Yu looked at each other and clasped their fists and said, "Yes!"
Liu Ye looked at the direction of Liu Mang's departure. He had already made the worst plan. If Shouchun City was broken and Liu Mang was trapped in Shouchun, then he would lead the urban management and black chess armies to attack Shouchun. At worst, they would all die here in battle. No matter how heavy the losses were, they would have to rescue Liu Mang!
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Outside Shouchun City, Liu Bei's army stood four flags. Zhang Xiu had already left with his Xiliang cavalry. He went to surround the Bingzhou wolf cavalry. He arrived soon at Siyu, but there was still no movement in Shouchun City, which made Liu Bei below a little anxious.
"Military advisor, look at this!" Liu Bei pointed to Shouchun City and asked Pang Tong. In fact, Liu Bei's man had already reached his home in Qigong practice. He was very calm, otherwise he would not have defeated him again and again. But today Liu Bei was really anxious. It was the fifth chapter to ask Pang Tong, which was enough to show the importance of winning Shouchun to his strategy.
"Lord, don't worry, this time has not come yet!" Pang Tong said to Liu Bei with a smile. He was pacifying Liu Bei's heart. Pang Tong has grasped the time well, and there is only one stick of incense for a whole day. Xu Shu and Xu Yuanzhi are honest and will naturally not have more than one point, and even if he wants to fight to the death, he will give news.
The time for one stick of incense is very short, but it is very long for Liu Bei, because the waiting time is always difficult to bear, but fortunately there is only one stick of incense.
"Hmm?" Pang Tong's brows also frowned. The time has come, why is there still no movement in the city? Just when Pang Tong himself was about to be impatient, the moat suspension bridge in Shouchun City fell.
"Here you come!" Pang Tong and Liu Bei looked at each other, and both of them saw joy in their respective eyes.
Sure enough, after the suspension bridge on Shouchun's moat fell, the next one was the city gate. The city gate was opened. A white-armored general rode a war horse holding a spear, and hundreds of heavy armored horses followed him, and drove out of Shouchun City.
Seeing the visitor, Liu Bei and Pang Tong also ran towards the visitor on war horses, and the army behind him further pressed towards Shouchun City. "Zilong, come, okay!" Liu Bei, as the commander of the first army, spoke first, and clasped his fists to the general.
That's right, the person who left the city gate was Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong, the commander of the white horse Congyi under Liu Mang. The one who followed the 20,000 white horse Congyi, and now there are only more than one hundred riders left. Zhao Yun did not respond to Liu Bei's greeting but snorted coldly, expressing his disdain for Liu Bei: "Despicable villain!"
"Hey, I said Zilong, why are you doing this to my brother? Do you really think that I, Lao Zhang, can't put more than a dozen holes in you?" Zhao Yun's attitude angered Zhang Fei next to him, and he was about to fight with Zhao Yun.
"I'm afraid you won't do it!" Zhao Yun also glared at Zhang Fei with a spear in his hand.
"Yide must not be rude!" Liu Bei was in a good mood and was not willing to make trouble with Zhao Yun, and he was even more unwilling to make trouble. He recalled Zhang Fei. It has to be said that Liu Bei was really a treacherous hero. Even if he reached this point, even if Zhao Yun had seen his face clearly, Liu Bei still looked very grievance and showed his grievance, "Zilong, Bei was forced to do it. If you want to be cruel, just be cruel. For the foundation of this great man and for the people of the world, Bei was willing to bear the title of this despicable villain!"
Zhao Yun didn't want to watch Liu Bei's performance at all. He waved his spear in his hand, "General Zuo, where is my mistress?" Zhao Yun asked, and naturally someone pointed it at Zhao Yun, the carriage.
"Okay. General Zuo, Shouchun City is here! Return the mistress to Yu Yun, and Yun will leave now!" Zhao Yun said when he saw the carriage.
"Come, move the carriage to General Zilong!" Liu Bei waved his hand and ordered, and the soldiers behind him led the carriage over. From the gap in the border of the carriage, you can roughly see a woman in the carriage." General Zhao Yun, please get out of the way! Let my army enter the city!"
Zhao Yun nodded and asked the cavalry behind him to move the carriage aside. When Liu Bei was about to lead his army into the city, the cavalry beside Zhao Yun suddenly shouted.
"General, this carriage is not a mistress at all!" Although this cavalry is not familiar with Miss Lu, he also knows that his mistress is a person who is not able to be charming and is shy. But now there is no lady in the carriage. She is completely a rural woman with dry and yellow skin on her face, which is what she looks like if she has been doing farm work for a long time.
"What! Fake!" Zhao Yun lifted the carriage, really a rural woman. Zhao Yun immediately became angry, "Liu Bei, you despicable villain, where is my mistress!"
Has it been exposed? Liu Bei also shook his head, there was no way. Yangzhou had no population anymore, and such a woman was finally found, but a village woman could hide her appearance as a young lady, and was soon exposed.
"Haha Zilong, Zilong, my elder brother didn't catch your mistress at all!" Zhang Fei smiled proudly.
"Then you lied to me about Shouchun City?" Zhao Yun was extremely angry.
"We will never be tired of deceitful deception, General Zilong, there is no despicable deception on the battlefield!" This is Pang Tong's words. "Thank you for this Shouchun City!"
"Close the city gate!" Zhao Yun shouted in shame and anger. If all this was fake, the consequences would be unimaginable. The mistress did not get it, Shouchun City was also captured, and there was also the military advisor and the military advisor's life! Zhao Yun was really anxious.
"Take Shouchun quickly!" Pang Tongyi heard Zhao Yun roaring and immediately captured Shouchun directly.
"Boom boom boom boom!" Fortunately, the soldiers in the city were fast enough to hear Zhao Yun's roar, and immediately began to close the city gate.
"Well, those who block me will die!" Zhang Fei rode his war horse and rushed towards the Shouchun City Gate. It was too late, and the zhangba spear in his hand was thrown in. Fortunately, the soldiers guarding the city gate were faster, so the zhangba spear was inserted only on the city wall and failed to attack the city gate.
The gate of Shouchun finally closed, which made Zhao Yun breathe a sigh of relief.
"General Zhao Yun, do you think this Shouchun city gate can stop our army!" Liu Bei's eyes also showed murderous intent, and his tone towards Zhao Yun became rude. Under Shouchun City, Zhang Fei was too lazy to get out of the Shouchun garrison troops, so he closed the city gate so angry that Zhang Fei roared repeatedly! But the suspension bridge of Shouchun City could never be closed.
"There are no generals and hundreds of elite soldiers under your command in Shouchun City! I think when will Shouchun stop me?" Liu Bei was telling the truth. Shouchun had never been taken down by Liu Bei's army because Zhao Yun and his elite soldiers were present. Now both of them appeared under the city, and Xu Shu was no longer on the city wall. Now, relying on a group of militias and a group of headless militias, how could he be too lazy to get out of Liu Bei's army!
"Damn it!" The spear in Zhao Yun's hand was almost pinched out by himself. He wanted to go forward and fight now and directly take the central army to kill Liu Bei, but he knew he couldn't do it because there was such a Zhang Fei there!
"General Zhao Yun, just watch carefully, how did our army take this Shouchun!" Liu Bei was furious and waved his hand and wanted the whole army to attack the city.
"Report, report, report!" A scout rushed into Liu Bei's army in panic.
"Hmm?!" Liu Bei frowned and was about to scold him, but when he looked closely, the scout was not from Liu Bei's army. Seeing that the red inner armor was Zhang Xiu's Western Liang Iron Cavalry, Liu Bei suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart.
"Report to General Zuo, our lord, Lu'an, a generation of Lu'an was buried in the middle of the army, and suffered heavy losses and was trapped in Lu'an. I hope General Zuo can rescue him in time and rescue him!" The Xiliang Iron Cavalry was covered in blood, and there were enemies and his own, which meant that he rushed out after going through all difficulties.
"What~!" Liu Bei was really stunned. Zhang Xiu was ambushed? Where did the ambush come from? The only troops in Yangzhou that could make Liu Bei fear were Liu Mang's army's urban management and black chess army. But these two armies were in Guangzhou. Could he fly over?
"Lord, I'm afraid there is something wrong with Jiangdong!" Pang Tong could hear what the scout said, stepped forward and smiled bitterly and said to Liu Bei.
PS: There may be some in the evening, and school will start tomorrow! Maybe it’s too late to write so I finished it in the evening!
Chapter completed!