Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Liu Zhang sent a messenger to call Zhang Lu in Langzhong, Brazil. As expected by Liu Zhang's mother, the latter failed to obey and go to Chengdu.In fact, the Huang family had already sent someone to tell Zhang Lu not to venture out of his control area under any circumstances.

Liu Zhang immediately designated Zhang Lu as a rebel, and sent troops to Qingcheng Mountain to arrest Huang.

Surrounded by a team of personal guards, before Zhang Ren arrived at the mountain gate, dozens of Taoist disciples had already stopped here with their swords.

"Bold! This is the holy land of the heavenly masters personally sealed by the king of Shu. How can you allow us to trespass with weapons!"

Zhang Ren sneered and said: "A certain is ordered by the current king of Shu to arrest Huang Shi, the rice thief and demon girl. Anyone who dares to resist will be killed!"

These dozens of Taoist priests not only did not step aside, but formed a sword formation instead.Zhang Ren sneered and stepped back.Then, in Zhang Ren's army, the crossbowmen who had already formed an array shot dense arrows at these dozens of Taoist disciples like a downpour.

Although these Taoists moved left and right and swung their swords left and right to block.However, more than half of the people were shot through their bodies by arrows and fell to the ground dead.Immediately afterwards, rows of Shu soldiers swept towards them with guns, and spears like forests pierced them.

A Taoist stepped on the shoulders of others, soaring into the sky, ready to take Zhang Ren's head.When he fell down, he found that there was already a mountain of spears and knives under his feet, and he was stabbed into a honeycomb by the spear blade in an instant, piercing the opponent's gun barrel.

Seeing that the blocking rice thieves were wiped out, Zhang Ren pointed his sword in the air and shouted: "Follow me!" A large number of Shu soldiers followed him and rushed up the mountain along the mountain road. .

On the mountain road, all the disciples of Qingcheng Mountain who attacked Zhang Ren along the way were killed, and there were corpses strewn all over the mountain road.

At this time, a group of people suddenly appeared in front of the mountain road and stopped Zhang Ren.The leader is a woman, with beautiful lips and beautiful eyes, and a moth belt in brocade clothes. This person is Huang Shi.

She said coldly to Zhang Ren: "Zhang Ren, don't kill my Taoist disciple again, I will follow you to see Zhang Lu."

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In Zhuyang, Feng Yu patrolled his territory as usual.He stopped by the pier, watching ships full of salt, sugar and potato chips leave the pier, they will be exchanged for a large amount of gold and silver and supplies needed by the Liang Kingdom.

At this time, a personal guard hurriedly came to report to Feng Yu: "Report to Your Majesty, Zhang Lu is here."

Feng Yu thought Ling Bing was wrong at first, and checked it out: "Did Zhang Lu send a messenger here?"

"My Majesty, Zhang Lu himself has come and is waiting for His Majesty's summons at the building in Zhuyang."

Feng Yu wondered in his heart: "What's urgent about Zhang Luneng that he needs to come in person?" He immediately ordered: "Go back to the palace!".

In King Liang's palace, after listening to Zhang Lu's narration, Feng Yu realized that Liu Zhang was the new king of Shu, and he had started to attack Zhang Lu's five buckets of rice.

Feng Yu thought that Zhang Lu wanted to help him resist Liu Zhang by himself, and said awkwardly: "You want to help you resist Liu Zhang alone? But this is difficult to do alone. In Brazil, the second county of Bazhong was assigned to Shu by the imperial court. China, Liu Zhang's crusade against you is the internal affairs of his Shu kingdom. If you intervene, you will definitely be wronged, and you will violate the White Horse Alliance last year. You should know that you stand alone in the world with faith..."

Zhang Lu was very anxious at this time, and he didn't care about so many etiquettes. He interrupted Feng Yu's words and said, "King Liang, this time a certain person came here not to ask Liang Guo to send troops to intervene in Shu, but to ask Liang Wang to save my mother's life!"

As he spoke, he fell to his knees with a thud, and kowtowed to Feng Yu.

Chapter 189 Zhang Lu Saved His Mother

Seeing that Zhang Lu lost his composure, Feng Yu quickly helped him up and said, "Gong Qi doesn't need to be like this, let's talk when we have something to say."

After Zhang Lu told Feng Yu the news about his mother, he continued, "I knew that the King of Liang could not use troops against Shu, so I didn't dare to have such extravagant hopes. But I knew that the King of Liang had saved Liu Zhang's life back then. A certain I implore the King of Liang to come forward and persuade that Liu Zhang to release my mother. After that, I am willing to obey the King of Liang's errand."

Seeing Zhang Lu crying bitterly, Feng Yu's heart softened, so he had no choice but to agree: "Don't worry, Gong Qi, I will do my best to protect your mother. I will write a letter and contact Liu Zhang."

After Zhang Lu thanked him again and again, he left.Feng Yu immediately edited a book and sent a messenger to send it to Liu Zhang.

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In the Shu Palace in Chengdu, Liu Zhang was about to leave the palace, but was stopped by his mother Shu Guotai.

"Zhang'er, are you going to let that bitch go?" Liu Zhang took a closer look, and saw that his messenger was standing dejectedly behind his mother, and immediately understood what was going on.It must have leaked the news and was intercepted by his mother.

Liu Zhang sighed and kowtowed to the Matriarch of the Kingdom of Shu, before explaining: "Back then, a certain brother and several brothers suffered in Chang'an. Thanks to the help of the Marquis of Zhuyang at that time and the current King of Liang, they returned to Shu safely. Like the two brothers, they have already died at the hands of bandits. So back then, my son promised Feng Yu that he would pay him back."

Shu Guotai said: "So now Feng Yu wants you to let this bitch die, and you agree? But don't think about it, he and this bitch are neither related nor related, why would he sell her or her son so big?" Face? Doesn't he have any intentions?"

Liu Zhang wondered, "What does mother mean?"

Guotai sighed and said: "You are already the lord of a country, you have to use your brain in everything. Zhang Lu is still entrenched in Brazil, Bazhong and Bazhong counties. These two counties are the gateway to the northern border of our Shu Kingdom. Feng Yu helped Zhang Lu like this Busy, it must be for the purpose of seizing these two counties. Once Liang Guo's forces are allowed to infiltrate Bashu, the consequences will be disastrous."

Liu Zhang wondered: "Then the mother wants her son to be a person without faith and righteousness. So, how can my son win the trust of the world in the future?"

Guotai sneered and said: "You can also ask Feng Yu for a condition. Let him persuade Zhang Lu to withdraw from the two counties of Bazhong and Bazhong in Brazil, and return these two counties to our Shu Kingdom. If it is done, we will release him soon. If so If he refuses to agree, then you are not considered a breach of faith."

Liu Zhang thought about it for a while, and then agreed: "Forget it, just do as mother wants."

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After Feng Yu received Liu Zhang's letter, he found Zhang Lu who was still living in the post house.In order to wait for Feng Yu's reply, Zhang Lu has lived in Zhuyang for more than half a month.

During this period, the Shu army did not stop attacking Bazhong, Brazil.The War Pond newspapers were sent from the front line to Zhang Lu, but Zhang Lu didn't seem to care about it, and only cared about his mother's safety.

"Gongqi, Liu Zhang, the king of Shu, has returned to Gu. He expressed his willingness to release your mother, but..." Feng Yu paused after speaking.

Zhang Lu immediately said, "Please speak frankly, King Liang, as long as Zhang Lu can be released to my mother, I am willing to agree to any conditions."

"He wants you to cede Brazil and the two counties of Bazhong, so that your celestial masters will also withdraw from the land of Bashu."

Zhang Lu was silent for a while, and said with a little worry: "I can agree to this condition, but it's just like this, and the Taoist governments can be disbanded on the spot. But how should I, my mother, and the direct disciples of the Taoist sect be arranged, and who is willing to take us in?" ?”

Feng Yu asked: "How many direct disciples are there in your Taoist sect?"

"Up to and including 500 people."

Hearing this number, Feng Yu laughed and said: "It's easy to handle. There is a mountain in the north of our Zhuyang, named Wudang. There are beautiful mountains and clear waters, surrounded by clouds and mist. It is no worse than your Qingcheng Mountain and Heming Mountain. It is a good place for cultivating Taoism. I am here How about building a few Taoist palaces for you and placing you there?"

Zhang Lu was overjoyed and said to Feng Yu: "This couldn't be better, thank you King Liang for your kindness!"

Feng Yu's face suddenly became solemn, and he continued: "However, what Gu Chou said before, after you practice Taoism in Wudang, you must follow the laws and regulations of our Liang Kingdom to spread Taoism. You must not use teaching to gather people and confuse people's hearts. Otherwise, don't blame Gu Don't show affection in advance."

Zhang Lu was shocked, and kowtowed: "Zhang Lu never dares to disobey King Liang."

Half a month later, a large train came to Zhuyang. It was the Huang family who had been released by Liu Zhang, and hundreds of direct disciples of the Celestial Master who had withdrawn from Basiliba.Accompanied by a queen and a concubine, Feng Yu personally met Zhang Lu's family, mother and son, in the palace.

Feng Yu, who was on the throne, saw Zhang Lu enter the palace with a young man and a young beauty.The young man Feng Yu knew it was Zhang Lu's younger brother Zhang Wei, but the woman didn't know who it was.When she was wondering, the young woman bowed profusely and said, "Lady Huang has seen the king."

Only then did Feng Yu know that she was Zhang Lu's biological mother Huang!I was amazed.He had long known the beauty-preserving art of the Qingcheng Mountain Taoist Gate of the Celestial Master's Way, but in his imagination, it was better maintained than ordinary people, similar to those star artists who were better maintained in the original world.

But he never expected that there was no trace of aging on Huang's face.With her son, they are not like mother and son, but brothers and sisters, and they are brothers and sisters with a large age difference.It was only then that Feng Yu suddenly realized, no wonder Liu Yan was fascinated by her.

When Feng Yu was exchanging greetings with Zhang Lu's family, Cai Yan and Wei Lier learned that Huang's mother was Zhang Lu's mother, who was nearly sixty years old.

Wei Lier leaned on Cai Yan's shoulder, bit Cai Yan's ear and whispered, "Oh my god, sister, is this an old goblin?" Shi, trying to verify whether she used makeup.It was only at the end that he admitted that this was the real face of others.

After Zhang Lu's family left the palace, Cai Yan and Wei Li'er pestered Feng Yu, asking him to ask the Huang family to come to the palace often to teach them the art of retaining beauty.

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Zhang Lu's family, as well as the direct disciples of Tianshi Dao, were placed in Wudang Mountain not long ago.Another urgent letter from Chengdu was sent to Liang Palace.

Feng Yu saw that it was Liu Zhang who sent it, and he was suspicious: "Isn't the matter of Tianshi Dao settled? Why is there another urgent message? Could it be that Liu Zhang is going back on his word?"

He opened the letterhead and read it, his brows gradually frowning.This is a letter asking for help.

For some reason, more and more barbarians poured into the Central Shu Plain from the direction of Nanzhong.From the previous situation of not listening to the orders of the official government of the Shu Kingdom and not obeying the law, it has developed to the point where they attacked the cities where the Han people gathered and looted with open fire.

A few days ago, the main force of the Shu army was transferred to Brazil to attack Zhang Lu.As a result, the two cities in the south were successively attacked by barbarians, and the loss of population and property was insignificant.It may be that the Nanman was inspired by this "great victory", and the Nanman rebellion intensified. Now the Shu army is difficult to deal with, so they ask the Liang army for assistance.

Chapter 190

In the crisp autumn season, an endless army marched on the Central Shu Plain.They are Zhao Yun's army who came to support Shu at the invitation of Liu Zhang.In addition to the headquarters of Zhao Yun's army, Feng Yu also dispatched a battalion of Banman and two teams of mountain scouts to follow Zhao Yun under the leadership of Shen Yi.

With a whip, Shen Yi pointed to a stretch of city walls exposed in the sky, and said to Zhao Yun, "General, the city of Chengdu lies ahead!"

"I am the messenger of the Kingdom of Shu, and I have come here to inform the general. The king has personally greeted the general outside the city of Chengdu. Please prepare your troops and horses, and follow me."

When Zhao Yun's army approached, he saw that there was already a sea of ​​people outside the city of Chengdu, with drums and music beating together, and a road paved with yellow sand leading directly into the city.Zhao Yun jumped off his horse in a hurry, because Liu Zhang, king of Shu, greeted him in person...

After Liu Zhang hosted the banquet for Zhao Yun's generals, the two sides began to talk about business.

Zhao Yun first asked: "Dare to ask the King of Shu, what was the situation in the Nanzhong area before, and can you introduce one or two for the end."

Of course Liu Zhang himself was not familiar with this, so a relevant official from the Shu Kingdom could only answer the question on his behalf.

It turns out that during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Bashu also suffered from the military disasters of Taipingdao and rice thieves.During the Zhongping period, refugees from Jingzhou who entered Shu from the Xiajiang River brought in the great plague.The population of Bashu has also been greatly reduced like the population of the Central Plains.

At that time, before Liu Yan entered Shu, the Yizhou government at that time had moved the Han people from Nanzhong to Bashu to fill the population vacancy in the central Shu plain.

In the Nanzhong area, there are few Han people in the first place, and they mainly gather in the administrative offices and cities of the counties.As a result, except for Yongchang, Zhuti, and Zangke in the seven counties of Nanzhong, which also have symbolic government offices, the other four counties have actually been abandoned.

Later, when Liu Yan entered Shu, Dong Zhuo was in chaos, and the princes were fighting.The Zangke county government was actually controlled by a certain clan of Wuling County in Jingzhou, and finally Qielan and most of the county land belonged to Liu Biao.And Yongchang County in the far south has lost contact, and only Zhuti County in the whole South Central still has soldiers from the Shu Army.

Up to now, Zhuti County, the seat of Zhuti County, has also been occupied by Nanban.So far, Shu lost the entire Nanzhong.

Zhao Yun continued to ask: "Did your country ever capture the rebellious Nanman? Did you find out the reason why they moved north to the Central Shu Plain?"

Liu Zhang responded immediately: "General Zilong, we in Shu have done this from the very beginning. We didn't capture many prisoners, but the sources were extremely complicated. There are Wuman, there are prostitutes, there are Baipu, Baipu Yue, Southwest Qiang, etc. Even Ailaoyi far in the south, and Wulingyi originally distributed in Jingzhou in the east.

According to the captured prisoners of various ethnic groups, they were all attacked by other barbarians, could not stand on their original homeland, and were forced to move north.But the barbarians who attacked them were various, not the same barbarians.Some even were attackers themselves, and attacked others in the process of moving north. "

When Zhao Yun heard this, he remembered what Feng Yu had said to him before he left.He asked again: "Among these captives, are there barbarians that you have never seen?"

Liu Zhang shook his head and said, "Although these barbarians are of various kinds, they are all Southern barbarians native to the southwest. There is no race that we Han people have never seen. Even if Ailaoyi is so far away, the Han people in Yongchang County fought against them back then. Cross-talk."

Zhao Yun continued to ask: "Then did these captives say that their tribe was attacked by other unknown barbarians?"

Liu Zhang didn't answer, but his subordinate Huang Quan, who was in charge of Nanzhong affairs, answered on his behalf: "General Zilong doesn't know something. These Nanman usually live in a closed barren land, and they know little about things two hundred miles away from where they live. So, to them, most of the rest of the race are unknown aliens."

Liu Zhang's general Zhang Ren was impatient when he heard this. He thought that Zhao Yun's question was for the purpose of ruling Nanman in the future.He yelled: "General Zilong, the top priority is to quell the Nanman rebellion in central Sichuan. Let's wait for the management of the Nanman rebellion. Let's discuss things on the battlefield now."

Seeing that he had obtained the information Feng Yu wanted, Zhao Yun immediately changed the topic to the battle situation in the southern part of the Central Shu Plain.

The Kingdom of Shu currently has nearly 2 troops, but apart from the more than 3 garrison troops guarding more than [-] cities, there are only more than [-] mobile troops left.

Now gathered in Han'an, Nanman in the south of Jiangzhou has seven large groups and more than 278 small ones, with a total population of [-] million.These southern barbarians did not distinguish between soldiers and civilians, they fought together, from young children of thirteen or fourteen years old, to sixtieth old men, all were driven by the chiefs of the tribes.

Therefore, although the equipment of the Shu army is better than that of the Nanman, and it is advantageous to fight on the plains.But the Shu army still couldn't cope with the situation of being outnumbered, so they asked Feng Yu, king of Liang, for help.

At present, more than [-] Shu troops are divided into three divisions, stationed in Han'an, Jiangzhou, and Nan'an respectively, to passively defend Nanman.These three cities are characterized by waterways connecting the hinterland of the Central Shu Plain.Moreover, they can rely on the Yangtze River waterway for access to each other.

For example, Nan'an is at the estuary of the Minshui River, and there is a Minshui waterway leading directly to Chengdu.Han'an is on the bank of the Tuo River, and like Nan'an, it connects to Chengdu on the top and the Shu (Yangtze River) River on the bottom.Jiangzhou is located at the confluence of Jialing River and Shu River.Therefore, the transportation of grain, grass and luggage in these three places is very convenient.

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Seven days later, Zhao Yun's army marched into Han'an City.This is the northernmost city among the cities captured by the barbarians.They looted all their belongings and left in a hurry.Then the city was re-occupied by the Yan Yan Department of the Shu Army who rushed over.

After Zhao Yun entered the city, looking at the ruins on both sides of the road, he could imagine how tragic the scene was.When Zhao Yunxing arrived at the government office, he saw a gray-bearded veteran waiting for him at the door.

Zhao Yun jumped off his horse, cupped his hands and said to him, "This must be General Yan Yan. Someone is Zhao Yun from Liang Kingdom."

Yan Yan stroked his white beard with his hands, looked Zhao Yun's eyes up and down, and said with a smile: "I have been waiting for General Zilong here for a long time. I wanted to attack the Nanman a few days ago, but I have too few troops, and I am afraid that the Nanman will attack again after the attack. City, take my lair. Now that General Zilong is looking after the old man’s house, I can rest assured to go out and kill him as often as possible!”

Zhao Yun was taken aback when he heard his words, and said in his heart: "How dare my army of thousands of people come all the way here just to look after your house?" But he still agreed: "Old general, let's go to the mansion to discuss in detail. "

Only then did the two enter the government office hand in hand.The wall of the government office has collapsed, and there is a big gap, and most of the houses that have been burned by the fire have also collapsed.Only one relatively intact house was simply repaired and used as the lobby of the government office.

The two sat down on the bamboo chair, and Yan Yan began to introduce the situation of the enemy and ourselves near Han'an to Zhao Yun.

Chapter 191

At noon, a newly built Nanman village on the bank of the Tuojiang River was already filled with smoke.The women built a firepit and began to cook meals.

Outside the stockade, the Nanmans were still driving cattle, horses, livestock, and slaves to plow the land that had just been burnt out.Many of these slaves were Han Chinese who had just been captured recently.

In the distance, the horn sounded suddenly, followed by the tremor of the earth and the sound of galloping horses.The barbarians in the field panicked, cracked their leather whips, and drove the cattle, horses and slaves to hide in the stockade.In the distance, thousands of war cavalry are rushing forward under the leadership of a gray-bearded veteran.

This person was Yan Yan, Zhao Yun couldn't stand him, so he had to agree to guard Han'an for him, and let him lead four thousand Shu troops to attack the barbarian tribes south of Han'an.

When Yan Yan rushed to the front of the village with his cavalry.His three thousand infantry were still advancing in the form of a marching army in the rear.Most of the barbarians have been hiding behind the bamboo wall.However, there were still a few barbarians who were reluctant to part with cattle, horses and slaves, and did not hide in the village in time, and were beheaded one by one by Yan Yan's cavalry.

As Yan Yan approached the stockade, arrows, mostly bamboo arrows, rained down on his troops.Although these bamboo arrows could not pierce the armor of the Shu army, the war horses could not bear the pain caused by the bamboo arrows.One after another the horses screamed and neighed.Many Shu army riders were weighed off their horses.

Yan Yan pointed at the stockade with a spear in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Climb the dead first, go!" More than fifty riders rode out from the cavalry formation, and rushed towards the stockade against the rain of arrows.

When they rushed to only five or six battles away from the wall of the stronghold, more than thirty people had been shot and fell off their horses.The remaining dozen or so riders threw out a kind of hook one after another.Grabbing the top of the bamboo wall, Qiqi galloped in the opposite direction.

Just listening to the sound of "hula la", the wall of the village that lasted for thirty or forty battles was neatly pulled down to the ground.The Shu army rode their horses and rushed into the gap.

Suddenly, Yan Yan saw that the frontmost warrior sank into the ground.Startled in my heart, I suddenly understood.While desperately reining in his horse, he warned loudly: "You guys, be careful! There are horse traps on both sides of the wall!".

Before he could finish his sentence, several people had already sunk in front of him, and screams were heard.The Shu soldiers who fell into the horse pit were pierced by the bamboo sticks at the bottom of the pit.At this time, the rain of arrows in the stockade had already shot towards the gap densely.Another large number of cavalry soldiers of the Shu Army fell to the ground with arrows.

Yan Yan knew that if he used cavalry to storm the Nanman camp at this time, he would suffer heavy losses, so he had to order the troops to withdraw, and with the remaining [-] cavalry, they turned around and joined the infantry in the rear.

Half an hour later, the three thousand infantry of Yan Yan's rear army finally rushed over.Without further ado, they first surrounded the barbarian village on all sides.Just waiting for Yan Yan's order, a full-scale attack was launched.

At this time, in the village, a barbarian leader with a mustache was standing safely on the watchtower, watching the soldiers of the Shu army outside the village.He couldn't help but let out a sneer, and said in his heart: "You guys will see me later."

It turned out that this barbarian village was originally a bait for handsome Ah Huinan, and it was deliberately set up less than sixty miles away from Han'an, waiting for Yan Yan to attack.

Yan Yan glared at the small village with a maximum of 2000 people in front of him.I thought to myself, that the elite of my five thousand Shu army could not be defeated in one go.

"Pass down my military order, swords and shields in front, cavalry in the rear, the whole army will attack!" Yan Yan shouted loudly.

Following his order, the drums and trumpets of the Shu army blared loudly.Three thousand infantry attacked Nanman Xiaozhai from three sides.When approached, the two sides began to shoot arrows at each other.