Chapter 352 The decisive battle in Hanzhong (2)
Through the rising flames, Liu Bei looked at the Yan army opposite in a gloomy look, and whispered to Fa Zheng and Zhang Fei beside him: "Send the order and be prepared. When the flames are extinguished, our army will immediately divide the troops into two groups and let Zhang Yi and Zhang Yi take half of the troops to attack the city. Third brother, you personally lead a team of troops and join the old general Yan to block Ao Lie." Ao Lie is known as a little overlord and is the most brave in martial arts in the world. Among the people under Liu Bei's command, only Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are qualified to fight Ao Lie, so Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei to resist Ao Lie. In addition, Liu Bei also had another meaning. He knew that Zhang Fei and Ao Lie had a good personal relationship. Liu Bei wanted to take this opportunity to cut off the connection between Zhang Fei and Ao Lie.
Zhang Fei said with a disgust: "Brother, let me deal with Brother Mo Han, I... I'm a little unstoppable." Zhang Fei was a straightforward person. His way of thinking was very simple. Ao Lie helped the three brothers of Liu Bei several times, especially Zhang Fei. At that time, Ao Lie had only more than 20,000 troops under his command, but he took out a thousand elite cavalry to give to Zhang Fei. You must know that the cost of the cavalry is more than five times that of the infantry, not to mention that what Ao Lie sent was an elite cavalry. After Zhang Fei got these thousand cavalry, he was able to kill Fei Ru and save the lives of Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others. From this perspective, Zhang Fei always believed that Ao Lie was the savior of his three brothers.
In the years since they came, these thousand cavalry followed Zhang Fei to fight south and north. They used their determination to be the first in every battle and their fighting spirit to be ready to die, subtly influenced Zhang Fei's thinking, allowing Zhang Fei to understand the truth that small people can also have great courage. Now Zhang Fei rarely whips his soldiers like in history. In the final analysis, it was caused by the influence of these cavalry. To this day, there were only less than 500 cavalry left at the beginning, but most of them have been promoted to officers of the middle and lower-level army. It can be said that they are the backbone of the cavalry under Liu Bei. Now that Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei to take these people to fight Ao Lie, Zhang Fei naturally felt that he could not take action.
Zhang Fei's hesitation made Liu Bei very unhappy and he rarely looked at Zhang Fei. Liu Bei looked directly at Zhang Fei and asked in a low voice: "Third brother, when did you have the kindness of a woman? Where is this place? When is it now? How can you be so worried and indecisive and misleading the country and the people? If you don't go, you won't have to call me brother again in the future." Liu Bei's words were both soft and hard, standing at the height of righteousness. He also brought brotherly love to Zhang Fei and pointed out two choices clearly, either leading troops to resist Ao Lie, or the brothers' grace was broken.
Liu Bei's determination made Zhang Fei unable to choose, so he sighed, then raised the Snake Spear in depression, and moved to the side of the formation near the Yan army with his direct 10,000 cavalrymen, and waited for the fire to be extinguished. He led his army to block Ao Lie's fierce attack.
At the same time, on the other side of the sea of fire, Ao Lie saw Zhang Fei's movements through the flames, knowing that he must have been ordered by Liu Bei and was ready to intercept him after the flames were extinguished. Ao Lie is not a ruthless person. He helped Liu Bei several times before, but in fact, he just wanted to win over Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but as he grew older and contacted each other. Ao Lie has changed his mind. He no longer had the will to win over Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but sincerely treat Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as brothers. These two are really good men in Ao Lie's eyes. Although they each have obvious flaws, no one is perfect, and flawed people appear real. Because of this, Ao Lie really doesn't want to meet Zhang Fei, or Liu Bei deliberately let Zhang Fei stand against Ao Lie, use Ao Lie to attach love and righteousness to tie Ao Lie, and buy time for Liu Bei to attack Hanzhong.
He sighed secretly, and Ao Lie knew in his heart that it was impossible to avoid facing Zhang Fei today. This made Ao Lie feel very uncomfortable, and what made Ao Lie even more disgusted was Liu Bei's trick. He knew that he had a deep personal relationship with Zhang Fei, but he let Zhang Fei stop him. With his sinister intentions, Ao Lie could no longer think of words to describe it.
The flames gradually calmed down in Ao Lie's depression. Liu Bei issued an order to advance without waiting for the flames at the edge of the battlefield to completely extinguish. Zhang Yi and Zhang Yi led nearly 100,000 Shu soldiers to rush towards Hanzhong City on the already burnt earth, while Zhang Fei led 10,000 cavalry and another 40,000 Shu soldiers to slowly block Ao Lie.
Ao Lie, with a hint of bitterness, urged him to step forward alone, looked at Zhang Fei's dark face as dark as the bottom of a pot, and said to Zhang Fei: "Yide, are you going to be an enemy of someone?"
Zhang Fei shook his head first, then nodded again, and finally smiled bitterly, raised the snake spear and pointed it at Ao Lie, and said with some loss: "Brother, I, Old Zhang, have to follow my brother's fate. Brother Mo Han, I'm sorry." Zhang Fei's words completely broke his face with Ao Lie and stood opposite Ao Lie.
"Okay, since Yide has his own difficulties, I won't say anything anymore. Let's rely on your own abilities!" Ao Lie was afraid that Zhang Fei would be embarrassed, so he stopped talking, but instead put forward the demand for a decisive battle.
Zhang Fei took a deep breath, then shouted loudly: "All the soldiers obey the orders, line up to meet the enemy!" If Zhang Fei had said this order, the 10,000 elite cavalry under his command would immediately start to operate and quickly form an effective battle formation according to the enemy situation. However, today, the elite cavalry behind Zhang Fei did not move, or they moved, but they did not form a battle formation as Zhang Fei imagined.
Leading by more than 500 middle and lower-level officers, at least 8,000 of the 10,000 cavalrymen turned over and jumped off the saddle, threw away the weapons in their hands, knelt on one knee in the direction of Ao Lie, shouting: "See lord!" Many of the more than 8,000 people had never seen Ao Lie himself, but this did not prevent them from being grateful to Ao Lie, because this cavalry was formed by the Yanzhao cavalry under Ao Lie's command at that time. Their souls belonged to Ao Lie. Although many latecomers were joined later, these latecomers were
The original team inherited the military spirit of the Yanzhao cavalry. No matter who it is, he will never forget the first person to teach himself to ride a horse and to teach himself to hold a knife. For these latecomers, the team Ao Lie gave to Zhang Fei was their mentor, their guide, and their close comrades and brothers. Therefore, the souls of these latecomers have gradually been imprinted with the unique mark of the Yan army in subtle influence, which led to this scene that has not been seen in a century. More than 8,000 elite soldiers knelt on one knee to the enemy monarch and called the lord.
"You! What are you doing? Get up, get up, get up for me!" After seeing the situation behind him, Zhang Fei shouted wildly. No one knows the character of these people better than Zhang Fei. They have experienced life and death with Zhang Fei and struggled on various battlefields together. Rather than being angry, Zhang Fei was heartbroken. He did not want to lose these old subordinates who suffered with him.
However, under the leadership of a 30-year-old lieutenant, more than 8,000 elite soldiers committed the first violation of Zhang Fei's order. They still knelt on the ground, did not get up, and began to untie the armor on their bodies. After stacking the off-putting armor on the ground, the lieutenant shouted to Ao Lie's direction: "Sergeant Wang Li, please return to the team!" After Wang Li shouted, the eight thousand cavalry shouted in unison: "We are waiting to request return to the team!"
Ma Chao behind Ao Lie had long seen that the team of cavalry was extremely powerful. He loved it very much. After seeing this scene, Ma Chao immediately rode his horse to Ao Lie and whispered to Ao Lie: "Second brother. Just allow them to come back, they are all elite troops."
Ao Lie didn't seem to hear Ma Chao's words, neither agreed nor rejected. He just looked straight at Zhang Fei's black face, as if he wanted to see a flower on Zhang Fei's black face. Seeing that Ao Lie did not respond, Ma Chao was anxious. He didn't care about the disrespect of overtaking the matter, raised his gun and kept shouting to the more than 8,000 elite soldiers in Zhang Fei's formation: "It's brother, let's go back to collect the war horses and weapons!"
The more than 8,000 elite soldiers behind Zhang Fei immediately stood up, saluted respectfully to Zhang Fei, and then walked towards Ao Lie's camp. Their steps were so relaxed, but so determined. It seemed that the years they followed Zhang Fei were just a dream, and their hearts had never left Ao Lie.
Zhang Fei, who had always been nervous, was confused and silently held the Snake Spear in his hand, but did not make any objection. He could not kill these old brothers and old subordinates who shared life and death, and he was even more unwilling to meet Ao Lie. Zhang Fei's failure to object does not mean that everyone would not object. Meng Da, who followed Zhang Fei, suddenly drew out his long sword and chopped down an elite passing by with one sword, shouted angrily: "If you escape at the battle, you sell your owners and seek honor, the military law will not tolerate it!"
After hearing Meng Da's angry shout, Zhang Fei turned around and saw an old subordinate being chopped to the ground by Meng Da, and immediately roared: "Meng Da! What are you doing?!" Meng Da sneered and replied: "Three Generals, you can't bear to kill, then this evil man will be done by someone! Forgot to tell you that the lord had already made a military supervisor before, and he is now exercising his duties as a military supervisor. If the third general has any objection, he can go to the lord." After that, Meng Da ignored Zhang Fei and ordered the Shu soldiers behind him, "Kill all these traitors, and leave no one!"
"Let's go!" Zhang Fei roared unwillingly: "Meng Da, you said they escaped at the last minute and sold their owners for honor, then what are you? When you were still working under Liu Zhang's tent, you secretly communicated with my elder brother. Speaking of which, you should be asked to beheaded!" Zhang Fei, who has always been unspeakable, saw his subordinates being killed, and his heartache suddenly became sharp and pointed at Meng Da's painful foot with blood.
Meng Da was angry by Zhang Fei's words and said with a cold face: "Three Generals, one at a time, another at a time, I hope you won't be entangled anymore, otherwise, there is reason to think that you are hindering someone from executing military law!" Meng Da was the supporter of Liu Bei's entry into Sichuan, and he was highly valued by Liu Bei. At the same time, his temper was a little proud and he was always unfavorable to Zhang Fei, who had always been more proud. Today, the grudge between the two actually broke out on the battlefield.
Zhang Fei was also angry. He thrust the spear in his hand and raised his hand to stab a soldier from the law enforcement team down. Then he immediately crossed the spear and shouted: "Who dares to kill my brother!" Under Zhang Fei's intimidation, the soldiers of the law enforcement team commanded by Meng Da lowered their heads one after another, not daring to contact Zhang Fei's vicious eyes again.
After shocking the law enforcement team, Zhang Fei turned his head and shouted at his old subordinates who had already taken off his armor, "Go away! Get out of here!" Although Zhang Fei appeared to be vicious and his tone was vulgar, how could those elites who had been with him for a long time not understand that Zhang Fei was actually protecting them? At that moment, more than 8,000 people, led by Wang Li, gave Zhang Fei a neat salute, and then turned around and continued to walk towards Ao Lie's camp.
Chapter completed!