What kind of person is Liu Bei?

This is an issue that is destined to be controversial no matter what era it is in, because it is difficult for anyone to achieve a pure state... This naturally includes the era that belongs to Gongsun Xun.

So what kind of person is Liu Bei?

Come to think of it, most passers-by would say that Liu Bei was an ambitious tycoon.

After all, from the father-less boy who made shocking remarks to the big mulberry tree in front of his house a long time ago; to the pioneer who left his comfort zone and resolutely participated in the wave of the times; and finally to the one who stopped Huainan and held both Huainan and Huainan in his heyday.

The dragon lying on the Huai River with half of the Jiangdong region and the entire Xuzhou... From a macro perspective of this era, he is almost the inevitable person after Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao on the road of Gongsun Xun, and I am afraid he is also the last one.

People who stand in the way.

Such a person can be called a hero no matter what.

As for the subordinates and friends who have had contact with Liu Bei, I am afraid they will think that he is a man who can win people. He can really be courteous, magnanimous, and the kind of person that people are willing to die for.

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Of course, there are some people who, because of their position, think that Liu Bei is an ungrateful person, a shameless person who repeatedly goes against Gongsun Xun, who is a great benefactor to him, for his personal ambitions. This kind of person should die long ago!

If he goes further, his old friends Lu Fan and Han Dang, who are opposite him today, may come to conclusions such as "rogue style", "emotional approach", "no distinction between priorities" and "no regard for life and death".

However, if the person who has the closest relationship with Liu Bei, that is, Zhang Fei, who has followed Liu Bei for more than ten years, is asked to answer, the answer to this question may be simpler, because he knows very well that Liu Bei and himself are the same kind of people.

, they are all Yandi rangers.

It's just that Liu Bei is a ranger leader with ideas, while Zhang Fei is just an ordinary ranger who charges forward.

Between Deng County and Chaoyang County, along the Feishui River, is a plain area divided into several areas by rivers. The land is fertile and the household registration before the chaos is dense. It has always been the essence of Nanyang. However, due to geographical reasons, many classic incidents have occurred here.

Battle. Not to mention those ancient events, just say that a few years ago, Sun Jian, the fierce tiger from Jiangdong, fought here in succession, shocking China. Yuan Shu was completely defeated and Liu Biao was defeated, so that the latter hardly dared to look north from now on.

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And his strange death after the victory directly affected the overall situation of the world, and created a certain legend for this place.

It is said that Sun Wentai became ambitious and was rejected by the spirit of Guangwu, the ancestor of Cai Yang, so he died on the spot. Gongsun Xun did not come to Nanyang in person this time. According to Jiangxia rumors, it was also because he was afraid of Guangwu.

Back to the present, even if we put aside those legends of gods and monsters, ever since Liu Bei left Deng County to the north and the Yan Army hurriedly left Chaoyang to the south, the entire battlefield has been filled with a strange atmosphere... Because of Liu Bei's decisive attitude and the conflict between both sides.

The huge gap in strength is really a mismatch, but no matter how I think about it, I think it's okay.

First of all, the simplest question, will Liu Bei surrender?

Regarding this question, not to mention those who surrendered from Xuzhou, even those who came from Liangzhou understood, how could Liu Xuande surrender? Surrendering is still called emotional, and has no regard for life or death? After surrendering, is he worthy of those confidants who died in Guandu? Surrendered

Didn't his efforts in the last year, and even the nearly ten years since he left Gongsun Xun, turn into a joke?

People have to seek value in life... You can't stop fighting for it just because Gongsun Xun doesn't give them this opportunity. This is generally the case for people like Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and even Cui Yan.

In a word, if it really wanted to surrender, it would have been done long ago.

And since he can't surrender, he will naturally die... In a sense, Liu Bei is still very grateful to the young emperor of Jiangxia, because the Han Dynasty can give him a way to die that seems valuable, but may actually be more valuable.

Therefore, this battle was filled with a tragic atmosphere of suicide from the very beginning!

Faced with such a situation, the Yan army, which has an absolute advantage in military strength and is spread out on both sides of the Feishui River, will naturally have a slightly impetuous and complex mentality... The generals in Liangzhou and Hanzhong are eager to try. They have been on the edge of the world for hundreds of years.

The people tried to make great achievements from this must-win battle, and then use the dividends during Jia Xiang's reign to elevate themselves and their families to the mainstream; in contrast, the Xuzhou generals seemed a little evasive and ashamed.

Of course, I also want to make meritorious deeds, otherwise I wouldn't be so honest, but facing Liu Bei, even if the latter only served as their master for less than a year or two, they would still have the shameful mentality of betraying their master, let alone Chen Qun.

Having said that; as for Sima Yi and Han Fu, they were more calm, but Lu Fan, Han Dang and other officials who followed closely followed and personally pressed the battle, but they couldn't help but focus on the results of Liu Bei, Zhang Fei and others, as well as the future of Nanjun, Jiangxia

Wait for the follow-up questions.

For a time, the entire Yan army felt strangely restless and focused on things other than the battlefield.

On the evening of March 26, the two sides marched in one day, and the distance between them was less than thirty miles. However, neither side imitated Sun Jian's intention of marching all night.

Floating up, they just unanimously raised their troops and continued to move forward.

At this time, Liu Bei's army of 6,000 men was evenly divided into three groups without any fancy. Zhang Fei was the forward, and his deputy Zhou Li led 2,000 men in the front. Liu Bei and Jian Yongti led 2,000 troops in the middle, and Li Tong led 2,000 men.

Behind the palace, each of the three troops was two miles away from each other, heading north along the west bank of the Feishui River to meet the enemy... To put it another way, it was a so-called front-line formation.

Correspondingly, Yan Jun is a little more complicated, but only slightly.

First of all, Lu Fan followed Xun You's suggestion and assigned 5,000 Nanyang local troops to Han Dang, so that Han Dang could march early from the east bank of Feishui River with some boats, planks and other materials that could be used to build pontoons. This was convenient.

Outflanking is also a gesture to facilitate rescue just in case.

Secondly, on the west bank of the Feishui River, Lu Fan lined up 15,000 troops of the 11th Battalion and 15th Division of the former army in a long column, while he himself led as many as 5,000 Chinese troops behind to supervise the battle.

, press the formation...the military formation stretched continuously, the forwards had left the camp for ten miles, and half of the troops behind them had not left the camp.

Obviously, this is still a cautious gesture just in case, and it can also be regarded as a gesture of extreme respect for Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, because the 11th Battalion is already nearly three times the strength of Liu Bei's entire army. If the other party can really use that

After ordering troops to penetrate the 11th Battalion and then defeat his center, Lu Fan could only say that he deserved to die.

Of course, such a gesture also means that he was forced by Jia Xu's Tongquetai Q&A... Everyone knows that Lu Ziheng's appointment as Grand Sima and Governor is a very high political courtesy and a kind of preference and favor from Gongsun Xun.

Jia En, everyone knows that Jia Wenhe is a "temporary worker". However, the situation is unpredictable. Who would have thought that Yizhou would be captured in three months, and then Jia Xu would seize the opportunity of the times and make

What about that brilliant political move?

Therefore, when Gongsun Xun once again entrusted him with the achievement of ending the war in the world, Lu Fan really didn't want to make any mistakes, so as not to make the magistrate laugh.

In the morning, shortly after the sun rose in the east, the sunlight easily pierced the mist from the other side of the river, and half an hour later, the two armies directly collided with each other while their horses were galloping back and forth to deliver messages.

There was no conspiracy, no sudden inspiration, they just marched towards each other along the west bank of the Feishui River, and then met directly on the way, and a battle broke out.

Then, in a face-to-face encounter, with the troops evenly matched, the two 2,000-person troops of the Yan Army's first battalion collapsed!

The battle experience was extremely simple, even a bit boring - Zhang Yide, a mediocre Yandi ranger, led the infantry behind with his deputy Zhou Li, and only led the army's only two to three hundred bad horse cavalry. He personally attacked the front and came up. Go straight to the enemy general's flag! The first battalion commander, Dazhong Tuntian Commander Xie Zheng Xie Mingxian, before he could draw his sword, Zhang Yide rode in front of him on his own, riding on a black horse gifted by his old friend Li Jin. Easily knock the opponent off his horse with one spear, and then cut off the opponent's flag!

Seeing this situation, the deputy general Gongsun Xu might have been on the battlefield for the first time, and he was frightened and ran away. As for the Tazhong camp itself, it was composed of soldiers and horses stationed in Tazhong, many of whom were Wudu Qiang people. The general died in the battle, and the deputy general fled. , naturally also lost control, and with the two thousand enemy troops rushing towards them, the first battalion naturally collapsed in an instant.

In the whole battle, the only person worthy of sighing was Xie Yu, who came from a poor family for several generations. Because of his humble background but hard work, he was favored by Duke Yan, and he was appointed to Gongsun as his deputy. He turned around and became a person with a bright future in Yan State. According to his prudence and diligence, coupled with this great opportunity, the Xie family of Chen County evolved into a family like Yuan Yang of Han Dynasty a hundred years later. Not sure.

But it is a pity that before the family status can be promoted, Xie Zhen died innocently because of his great opportunity. There is only a wife and an infant son Xie Zan left in the family... You must know that this In this battle, the generals in Xuzhou were just a loser, but the generals in Liangzhou and Hanzhong were all vying for the first place. If it weren't for Xie Yu, who was a good general with five senses, how would his Tazhong camp be ranked first?

As soon as the war started, a battalion was easily defeated. Zhang Yide, who was wearing a heavy armor and a steel helmet, showed no sign at all. Maybe it was because of his thick beard that the surrounding attendants couldn't even see his expression clearly... And since Zhang Fei succeeded, he also Without saying much, he just asked people to report back to the rear army, and at the same time ordered the whole army to seize the opportunity and replace it with many Liangzhou horses. Then, regardless of the retreat, they continued north to meet the enemy.

Unlike the three troops of Liu Bei's army, which naturally opened a reasonable distance, the gap between the various divisions of Yan's army was very short, but there was nothing we could do about it. Who told Lu Fan to be cautious and have to form such a single-file formation?

In fact, the first battalion had already collapsed at this time, and Lu Fan's headquarters had just left the camp, but the second battalion quickly arrived in front of the battlefield and directly gathered the defeated troops.

The second battalion is a battalion in the Xuzhou Army. There are only a thousand men. The leader Kong Xiunai is the favorite general of Zhendong General Guan Yu. He was born in Taishan. He just looks down on the other generals of the Xuzhou Army. Achievements and background were then placed in the second place.

Kong Xiu saw the collapse of the front camp early, and even though he was a veteran on the battlefield, he instinctively ordered to gather the defeated army, but he still found it difficult to understand. Until Zhang Fei's flag appeared in the field of vision, and there were actually two to three hundred riders in front of him.

The man who came first suddenly realized that it was natural, but at the same time he felt happy, and then he took the initiative to rush forward, trying to organize his troops to charge head-on.

By the way, there is certainly a reason for Kong Xiu's attitude... He has been with Guan Yu for a long time and has always admired Guan Yunchang's martial arts. However, those who admire Guan Yu have a different attitude towards Zhang Fei, who is also called the "enemy of ten thousand people" by Duke Yan.

The universality is both subtle and extreme.

Some people are afraid of Zhang Yide for this, while others think that Zhang Yide is not worthy of his reputation and cannot be compared with Guan Yu. But Kong Xiu obviously belongs to the latter group. He saw Zhang Yide appearing in his field of vision in the distance, and on the other hand, he was jealous of the former camp because Zhang Yide was as famous as his Guan Zhendong.

He understood the collapse instantly, but on the other hand, he actually wanted to surround and kill Zhang Fei in order to achieve a miraculous feat!

The quality of the individual soldiers of the second battalion is actually far inferior to those of the Qiang people of the first battalion, but they are better because of their excellent discipline. Once Kong Xiu gave the order, the whole army immediately cheered up, with a few cavalry in front and infantry behind, shouting to move forward, and

Zhang Fei didn't say anything when he saw this, but he still tried his best to lead his two or three hundred horses to come first.

Between the two armies, the defeated troops of the first battalion were like waves, rolling directly towards both sides, but this caused the second round of fighting to break out very quickly.

"Where is Zhang Yide?" Kong Xiu, who was tall and strong, wearing iron armor and holding an iron spear, asked first. "Kong Xiu, the commander of the Dong command of Xuzhou Guanzhen, is here!"

And under the banner of Zhang Zi, there was a sudden response like thunder: "Zhang Fei is here!"

When Kong Xiu heard the sound, he felt a little frightened, but still relied on the large number of soldiers to move towards the direction of the sound. He caught a glimpse of the general with black helmet, black armor, black beard and white face from a distance, and then rushed straight towards him.

The two sides met each other head-on, and the two iron spears were almost swung away at the same time. It seemed like a draw... but the Xuzhou soldiers and horses behind Kong Xiu were naturally excited and inexplicable.

However, after this combination, Zhang Yide calmly reined in his horse without any hurry, but Kong Xiu was already secretly frightened to death.

By the way, he prides himself on being strong. When he was in Qingzhou, he even refused to accept Pan Zhang and only respected Guan Yunchang. But just as two iron spears came up and crossed each other, although he tried hard to hold the frame, the right arm exerting force had already been

It was so shaken that it was difficult to hold a spear.

Taking advantage of the momentum of returning to the horse, the man quickly changed hands on the horse, but he was ready to reverse the movement, then escape immediately, surround the opponent with all his troops, and wait for reinforcements behind him.

However, the two sides reunited again, and this time Zhang Yide, who had understood the depth of the opponent, did not hold any more strength. As soon as the iron spears of the two sides collided in the air, Kong Xiu's weapon was instantly released, and he could only lean on the horse's back and try to escape.

Zhang Fei, on the other hand, was bored and wanted to let him go for Guan Yu's sake, but he couldn't help but stabbed him immediately with a spear and was heartbroken.

It is pity that Kong Xiu, a brave Taishan general, died on the spot before he could achieve great achievements. It can only be said that he died at the hands of Zhang Fei, but it cannot be said that he was incompetent.

On the other side, after Zhang Yide casually killed the opponent, he also sighed, but was too lazy to pause. Instead, he directly led the two to three hundred cavalry to attack the soldiers and horses of the second battalion - after all, Kong Xiu was good at training troops.

, the discipline of their troops was excellent. Although the general died, the soldiers of the second battalion still carried out military orders under the command of several Qu Junhou, gathered the broken troops, and strangled the opposing cavalry.

But that's all.

When Zhou Li led the infantry behind Zhang Fei to arrive and caught the second battalion of soldiers and horses, Zhang Yide led the cavalry to sweep everywhere, focusing on killing the officers, and several Qu Junhou died one after another under the spear of the tiger general.

, the second battalion from Xuzhou also collapsed immediately.

However, correspondingly, this time Zhang Fei's troops naturally suffered due attrition on the battlefield.

Moreover, after finally defeating the second battalion, Zhang Fei's troops had no time to breathe when they saw smoke and dust billowing to the north. It turned out that the third battalion from Liangzhou sequence had rushed to support them. The leader was Jiang Xu, who came from a famous family in Tianshui, Liangzhou.
To be continued...