Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Zhang Shuo first reported: "My lord, I brought half of Jiang Xia's soldiers here, a total of 4000 people."

Then came Huang Zhong, Wei Yan said: "Uncle Emperor, we only brought two thousand soldiers and horses here. I hope Uncle Emperor will forgive me."

Liu Bei comforted Huang Zhong, and Wei Yan said: "Changsha prefect Han Xuan is not one of us. You can bring 2000 troops, which is quite a lot. If you bring too many people, Han Xuan will definitely find out."

At this time, Guan Yu came up and said, "Brother, since everyone is here, it will be dark soon, so let's get ready to act!"

Chapter 280 Jiangling Storm ([-])

Wei Yan asked with a slightly melancholy expression: "Uncle Liu Huang, do you think our 7000-plus soldiers can take down Jiangling? That is a big city with a heavy army."

Liu Bei comforted him calmly and said: "Don't worry, Chief Wen, we still have internal support in Jiangling City. Don't say we have 7000 people, even if we only have 5000 people, a certain person is confident to control the whole city, and you're done."

At this time, night fell, seven thousand soldiers and horses had gathered together, and people gathered in the wilderness, with torches shining brightly in their hands.Liu Bei assigned detailed tasks to the five generals one by one.It is too easy to expose [-] soldiers and horses together, so they led the troops separately and marched quietly towards Jiangling City.

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At this time, a figure stood on the top of the east gate of Jiangling City, looking at the pitch-black city below without moving.He is Su Fei, Captain of the East Gate School of Linjiang Kingdom.

Except for Su Fei's personal soldiers, the other ordinary defenders were surprised.At this time, Su Fei, a general of this rank, was supposed to be drinking and having fun with his concubine Ji in his mansion.Even if they occasionally come to inspect, they will not stay in one place for such a long time.

A light suddenly appeared in the dark city, and Su Fei raised his eyebrows, knowing that the person he was waiting for was coming.The bright light kept gesticulating in the night sky, sending out a signal.Su Fei made a gesture, and the soldiers next to him also gestured with torches in reply.

After the two sides confirmed that they were connected, Su Fei sent an order: "Open the city gate, there are our friendly troops outside the city."

The rest of the defenders felt weird, but they had to listen to what the general said.Just about to lower the suspension bridge and open the city gate.Suddenly heard a shout: "Wait a minute!"

Everyone at the top of the city turned their heads and raised their torches to follow the prestige, only to see a fat face reflected by the flames.This person's surname is Cai Mingxin, and he is the leader of the guard on duty at the Dongcheng Gate.Although he was born as a servant of the Cai family, he is still a member of the Cai family, so even though he is a small team leader, even a low-level general like Su Fei would give him three points.

Su Fei asked in a cold voice: "What does Captain Cai have to say, do you want to disobey the military order?"

Cai Xin smiled and said: "Hehe, how dare your subordinates disobey the military order. But the military order issued by the above is clearly - after the curfew is closed, if you want to open the city gate, you need the approval of the Jiangling garrison general. Even if there is no such military order, military regulations...ah!"

Before Cai Xin finished speaking, he let out a scream.Su Fei was caught off guard and stabbed the steel knife into his chest.

Su Fei stepped on Cai Xin's body, and said in a cold voice: "Those who disobey the military order will end up like this!" The fifty soldiers around Su Fei also drew their weapons.

The rest of the guarding soldiers were stunned by the sudden change, so they dared not say anything more.He hurriedly lowered the approach bridge and opened the city gate.After doing this, they discovered that at least a thousand soldiers and horses had gathered outside the city gate, and they were pouring into the city under the leadership of a big man with a long beard and a green scarf.

Su Fei cupped his fists at this person and said, "General Yun Chang, Su Fei has been waiting for you here for a long time."

Guan Yu replied: "Brother Su Fei, please lead the soldiers to guard the east gate, and the rest of our army will come in later. A certain person went to the city first to suppress the bandits!" After finishing speaking, he rushed to the city with more than a thousand white-eared elite soldiers go.

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On the street in front of the Linjiang King's Palace, a patrol team of more than fifty people was carrying lanterns and marching along the street.

The general in charge suddenly noticed that the lights in front of him were brightly lit, and when he took a closer look, he realized that a large number of soldiers were walking towards him quickly holding torches.

He immediately yelled out a series of questions: "Stop! Who? Which department? Who transferred you here in the middle of the night?" As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a strange voice, it was a weapon The sound of dragging on the bluestone slab.

Then he saw a big bearded man running towards him with a long knife behind him.The blade dragged a streak of sparks on the ground.

The soldiers behind the big man also moved their legs quickly, and ran closely behind the big man.The soldiers could be spotted even by the faint light of the fire, and their ears had been deliberately whitewashed with white ash.

When the big man ran up to him, fear replaced his astonishment, and he shouted out of his wits: "You...you want to do...", before he finished speaking, his head flew into the sky in the light of the knife.

The soldiers behind Guan Yu also attacked the opponent with their blades and spears. After hacking and stabbing, fifty patrolling soldiers fell in a pool of blood within seven or eight breaths.The surviving soldiers ran away, and before they could yell, they were overtaken by Guan Yu's soldiers and killed on the spot.

Guan Yu led the white-eared soldiers to behead three groups of patrol soldiers all the way, and rushed to the gate of the palace. The patrolling guards in Jiangling City were considered to have noticed the abnormality.Separately go to the barracks, the palace, the governor's mansion, etc., to keep the secrets informed.Another large group of defenders on patrol assembled and rushed towards the vicinity of the palace.

At this time, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, and Zhang Shuo also broke into Jiangling City with their soldiers.

Wei Yan led two thousand Jiangxia soldiers to climb the city wall, followed the corridors of the city wall to kill each city gate separately, and controlled each city gate in less than half an hour.

Zhang Shuo took the remaining [-] Jiangxia soldiers and set up posts at the key points of the streets and alleys in the city to intercept and kill all Jiangling soldiers walking on the streets.

Huang Zhong led a thousand Changsha elite soldiers to kill the Guofu soldiers in the city.Zhang Fei led a thousand white-eared elite soldiers to attack Cai Mao's governor's mansion.In the end, Liu Bei personally led the last thousand Changsha soldiers as a maneuver to prevent accidents.

The Jiangling soldiers stationed at the palace were more than [-] soldiers from the national government. They were about to close the gate of the palace with all their might, when a bright sword suddenly pierced through the half-foot gap in the door.

It is better to say it is a shovel than a stab, because the head of the big knife has no tip, only a blade that is almost curved into a semicircle.The blade shoveled down the head of a soldier who was pushing the door.

Then, the gate of the palace was suddenly squeezed open by more than a dozen white-eared soldiers. The big knife in Guan Yu's hand drew several light shadows, and several human heads fell down in the light shadows.Several bloody arrows several feet high spewed out from several headless corpses, and blood rained in the air.

Guan Yu raised the big knife in his hand to the air, and shouted in a muffled voice: "Kill!" Thousands of white-eared soldiers rushed in, and the weapons flew up and down in their hands, stabbing left and right.All Jiangling soldiers who approached them fell to the ground after being stabbed.

While Guan Yu's army was advancing bravely, more and more Linjiang Guofu soldiers rushed out from the depths of the palace.The two sides fought into a ball in the square inside the gate of the palace.All of a sudden, the sounds of fighting and shouting, the sound of weapons colliding, and the sound of arrows piercing the sky merged together, shaking the heavens and the earth.

Liu Cong, the new king of Linjiang, was awakened by this sound in his sleep, quickly got up from the bed, shouted to the left and right and asked: "What is this sound, what happened outside?" But no one inside or outside the house responded to him. The servants on duty didn't know where they went.

Chapter 281 The Storm in Jiangling ([-])

Liu Cong ran barefoot outside the house, yelling.But apart from the sound of fighting in front of the palace, no one responded to the 13-year-old child.

Just when Liu Cong was about to cry, Cai, surrounded by dozens of soldiers and several trusted maids, trotted all the way to Liu Cong.Seeing Liu Cong's expression, Mrs. Cai pressed Liu Cong's shoulder and said solemnly:

"Cong'er, now that you are the king of Linjiang, you must not lose your majesty. Don't worry, there are your uncle, the governor Cai Mao, and thousands of soldiers in this city. These rebels can't overthrow the sky. You What we need to do now is to calm down, call the chief governor to rescue him, and issue the king's order to send the state soldiers from the northern camp of Jiangling City to serve the king!"

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Cai Mao's Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is also the Cai family's mansion compound in Jiangling City, and Cai Mao's family is not the only one living there.Now it is also killing the sky.

Zhang Fei's eight-foot snake spear danced whirringly, stabbing left and right, and members of the Cai family and state soldiers stationed in the Dudu's Mansion kept falling under his spear.

Zhang Feihu shot out, piercing the chest of a servant of the Cai family, the snake spear continued to move forward, and pierced the head of a Jiangling soldier.

There are two people on the long snake spear, which is not easy to pull out.Another soldier from Jiangling took the opportunity to charge towards Zhang Fei with his shield and sword swung. Unexpectedly, a white-eared soldier jumped on Zhang Fei's back and pierced Zhang Fei's neck with a short knife in his hand.

Zhang Fei simply let go of the snake spear, drew out the first knife at his waist, and rushed forward. Seeing a spear spear coming, he dodged the spear with a flicker, and then clamped his arm, clamping the opponent's spear spear under his armpit. Next, the first knife in the right hand slashed away, the light of the knife flashed, and a human head flew into the air.

Zhang Fei had just rushed two steps, but heard a long cry: "It turned out to be you. You and your master Liu Bei are both unfamiliar white-eyed wolves. Taking you in will mess up Jingzhou!"

Accompanied by shouts, a white light rushed towards Zhang Fei.The opponent's gun was moving too fast, and Zhang Fei couldn't dodge, so he had to knock the opponent's gun barrel with his first knife.When there was a clang, Zhang Fei's first knife was actually sent flying.

Although the opponent was holding a heavy gun with both hands, he swung away the Fushou knife he was holding with one hand.But Zhang Fei couldn't help but praise: "Good strength."The opponent is none other than Cai Mao, the governor of Linjiang Kingdom.

Zhang Fei, who was already empty-handed, didn't panic. The corpses of the two people he pierced through with the snake spear didn't fall down because they were stacked against each other.Bloody spears hung beside him.

Zhang Fei grabbed the joint of the spear-blade and the barrel of the spear with one hand, stepped forward, pulled out the entire spear at one stroke, and threw the blood-stained spear at Cai Mao.

All of this happened in a blink of an eye. Cai Mao had just retracted his spear and fired a second shot at Zhang Fei.Seeing that he knocked out the opponent's first knife with one shot, he was secretly proud of himself, confident that this shot would take Zhang Fei's life.

Unexpectedly, his gun was only halfway through, but he felt a sharp pain in his chest. He looked down and saw a bloody gun barrel hanging on his chest.Zhang Fei's snake spear had pierced through Cai Mao's chest.

After a few breaths, Cai Mao's head was lifted by Zhang Fei. He raised Cai Mao's head high and shouted loudly: "The traitor Cai Mao is dead, please surrender as soon as possible. Don't blame the past, otherwise we will all be killed!"

Seeing Cai Mao's death, Zhang Fei's white-eared soldiers fought more fiercely.However, Cai's servants and Linjiang soldiers had no leader, and their fighting spirit was lost in an instant.

The soldiers of Linjiang Kingdom dropped their weapons one after another and raised their hands to surrender.On the contrary, Cai's servants were still stubbornly resisting, but they only persisted for a quarter of an hour, and surrendered after countless casualties.

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The intersection of the two main streets of Jiangling City is the most prosperous place in Jiangling City during the daytime. There are various shops and vegetable markets here, as well as a small square naturally formed.

More than a thousand soldiers formed a square formation on the square, and a man with big ears who was nearly forty years old was stationed in front of the square formation.He lowered his head, his face was expressionless, and the shouts of killing from all over Jiangling City seemed to have no effect on him.

Suddenly, the Dangdang bell rang, and the bell seemed to have endless penetrating power, resounding throughout the entire city of Jiangling.At this moment, Liu Bei suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes shot brightly.

Having lived in Jingzhou for many years, he knew very well that the bell came from the palace, and it was a signal that the situation was critical and all soldiers and horses were summoned to serve the king urgently.It means that as long as the army can hear the bell, all troops should rush to the palace immediately.

Liu Bei murmured to himself: "The most important thing now is the barracks." Then he loudly ordered the soldiers beside him: "Go and send an order to Wei Yan. The remaining enemies on the streets in the city should be wiped out, and he is required to support those who attack the barracks." Huang Zhong!"

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Phew, the old general Huang Zhong released another arrow, and a soldier of Linjiang Guofu fell immediately.The three or four hundred crossbowmen he brought also fired random arrows, shooting at the enemy troops who were trying to rush out of the barracks.On the ground at the gate of the barracks, many corpses were already lying here and there.

But in the barracks, large groups of soldiers still came like a tide.After a short period of panic, they formed an army formation under the command of the general and began to launch an organized counterattack against the gate.

The task Liu Bei gave Huang Zhong was only to block the gate of the barracks, because it was almost impossible for 1000 people like Huang Zhong to capture the barracks.

There are two barracks on the left and right of the military camp in the city. There are usually 2000 county and county soldiers and [-] state government soldiers stationed there, but there are usually two to three thousand county and county soldiers to guard the city and patrol.Two or three thousand state soldiers guard the governor's mansion and the palace.So now, there are at least [-] soldiers from the counties and counties and [-] soldiers from the national government in the camp.

Even if it was just to block the gate of the barracks, it would be very difficult for Huang Zhong to have 1000 men versus 4000 men. The crossbowmen in the camp also fought back with their bows, and arrows shot out of the camp like locusts.

Huang Zhong's [-]-[-]-sword shield hand used the shield as a wall to cover his own crossbowmen.The opposing army took the opportunity to rush out of the battalion, and collided with Huang Zhong's sword and shield hands. The two sides swung their weapons at each other and fought fiercely.When Jiangling soldiers were about to break through Huangzhong's line of defense, Wei Yan's [-] soldiers arrived in time to block the gap.

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Although Liu Bei, who was still staying at the intersection, was expressionless, he was already very anxious.He knew that within half an hour the [-] state soldiers in the barracks outside the city would arrive.

Just when he was anxious, horseshoe footsteps and noise came from the street on the right.Before he turned his head to look around, Zhang Fei rode up to him.Zhang Fei raised Cai Mao's head and shouted: "Brother, I've got it, what should I do next?"

Liu Bei smiled and said, "Yide, take Cai Mao's head and soldiers to the barracks to support Huang Zhong and Wei Yan, you know what to do!"

"Brother, I understand!" After Zhang Fei finished speaking, he led his soldiers and galloped towards the barracks.

Liu Bei said loudly to the soldiers behind him, "We can't just stay here anymore, we have to rush to the palace now, and arrest the traitor who forged the will of King Linjiang."

At this time, the bells in the palace became more and more urgent.

Chapter 282 Jiangling Storm ([-])

Linjiang King's Palace is now like a Shura field, dead bodies are everywhere, blood flows like rivers, and the air is filled with a strong smell of blood.

Those who are still alive are still fighting fiercely, and both sides are red-eyed.Although Guan Yu and his white-eared soldiers are elite soldiers, the soldiers guarding the palace on the other side are also elite soldiers selected from the national government soldiers, and their strength is twice that of Guan Yu.

After Guan Yu fought hard for half an hour, the soldiers also lost a little half.But the other party ignored the casualties, and still defended the palace gate of the inner palace one after another.

Guan Yu remembered Liu Bei's previous entrustment - to take down the palace in a short time, and couldn't help feeling anxious.As soon as he was distracted, a long spear took advantage of it and pierced into his arm with a hissing sound, so Xin didn't hurt any bones.

Guan Yu roared angrily, and swung out another Xuanyue Slash, beheading the opponent's head to the ground on the spot.Another two soldiers of the Linjiang State Mansion rushed towards him with their sabers straightened, and a few arrows shot at them, knocking them down head-on.Then Guan Yu heard a shout: "Second brother, so come!".Guan Yu was overjoyed, and turned his head to see that it was indeed Liu Bei who came to support him with more than a thousand soldiers.

The offensive and defensive sides were originally balanced, but now the attacking side suddenly increased its strength by a thousand, and the situation immediately took a turn for the worse.Liu Beibing's morale was greatly boosted.Under Guan Yu and Liu Bei's lead, they charged bravely, and the defense line of the palace defenders collapsed.The defeated soldiers either knelt down to beg for surrender or fled in all directions.

Guan Yu and Liu Bei held weapons in their hands, striding into the inner palace...

The same is true of the battle situation in the camp in the city. With the successive reinforcements from Wei Yan and Zhang Fei, Liu Bei's army's morale was greatly boosted. Instead of just blocking the gates of the barracks, they began to attack aggressively.

Zhang Fei asked a soldier to pick up Cai Mao's head with a bamboo pole, and followed him, shouting loudly as he charged, "Cai Mao is dead, please descend quickly, or the Yier tribe!"

In just a quarter of an hour, the Linjiang soldiers in the barracks were completely defeated.Some generals related to the Cai family, the Kuai family and others fled in panic over the wall of the barracks.They took off their armor and livery and disappeared into the night.Most of the soldiers threw away their weapons and knelt down to beg for surrender.

Outside the north gate of Jiangling City, a group of soldiers and horses marched, and the city tower was brightly illuminated by countless torches.They are the Guofu soldiers from the North Camp outside Jiangling City.

Because of Zhang Shuo, Su Fei controlled all the city gates, and the messengers sent by the Cai family failed to leave the city, and they did not receive the military order to transfer troops.It was only because of hearing the emergency bell in the city coming, but at this time the bell had stopped.

Before the soldiers under the city could speak, Su Fei at the head of the city asked first, "Who is under the city?"

A general of the army outside the city rode out on horseback and replied loudly: "We are state soldiers from the North Camp. When we heard the emergency bell from the palace in the city, we ordered our soldiers and horses to respond to the sound. This is Linjiang Zuo General Zhang Yun. Yes, who are you? What happened in the city?"

Zhang Yun is Liu Biao's nephew and Cai Mao's in-law.Like Cai Mao, he controls the power in the Linjiang army.Daily command of the North Camp.In fact, in extraordinary times, he can also mobilize the troops of Linjiang Kingdom on behalf of Cai Mao.

Seeing that it was him, Su Fei hurriedly cupped his hands in salute, and said respectfully: "It turned out that General Zuo led the troops here in person. The last general is Su Fei, the captain of the city gate. There is no major event in the city, except that the palace was caught in a fire just now. The servant didn't understand the rules, so he rang the bell indiscriminately. Now the fire has been extinguished. General, don't worry, let's go back to the camp to rest."

Hearing this, Zhang Yun thought annoyedly in his heart, he made a fuss in the middle of the night for a long time, so it turned out to be such a trivial matter, it's really fucking unlucky.

He steered his horse and took two steps back, and was about to lead his troops away, when a sense of uneasiness appeared in his heart, and he faintly felt that something was wrong.

Zhang Yun turned back again, and shouted loudly at the top of the wall again: "Su Fei, a certain book has to go back to the city to deal with some family matters recently. The general is here anyway, so why don't you just go back to the mansion and take care of this matter. You open the gates of the city and let this general enter the city!"

In fact, what Zhang Yun said was half true and half false.He really needs to go back to his home recently, but his biggest motivation for entering the city is to eliminate the inexplicable anxiety in his heart.

After Su Fei heard this, a frightened expression appeared on his face.Fortunately, under the cover of night, Zhang Yun couldn't see his face clearly, otherwise he would be suspicious.

Su Fei immediately regained his composure, and shouted to the people below the city: "General Zhang, wait a moment, my subordinates will order the soldiers to open the city gate." Then he turned around and whispered to Zhang Shuo who was behind him.Zhang Shuo replied tragically: "Brother, take care!"

Seeing that Su Fei agreed so happily, Zhang Yun's uneasiness disappeared.When the drawbridge is lowered, the city gate opens.Zhang Yun turned his head and said to the soldiers behind him: "Form up and enter the city with XX."

Surrounded by his own soldiers, he came to the suspension bridge first. Unexpectedly, Su Fei had brought two personal soldiers, walked out from the city gate, and met him at the other end of the suspension bridge.

"General Zhang is going to bring an army into the city, so please take care of him. Show me the relevant order. The king's order, the military order of the governor's mansion, or the tiger talisman for dispatching troops will do."

Zhang Yun was stunned for a moment, and immediately came back to his senses, Su Fei's request was also normal.It is indeed beyond Zhang Yun's authority to transfer the army from the Northern Camp outside the city into Jiangling City.

Cai Mao had given him a tiger talisman, which gave him the right to mobilize troops from all over the country in an emergency, but this tiger talisman is now kept in the barracks.

Zhang Yun was a little tongue-tied and said: "So... I didn't bring the tiger talisman with me. How about this, I can just enter the city with a hundred soldiers, and the rest of the brigade stay outside the city to wait. I will return to the mansion in a short time .”

"Thank you general for taking care of your subordinates, then please enter the city, general!".Su Fei made a gesture of invitation.Zhang Yun turned his head and said: "The personal guards will follow someone into the city, and the rest of the soldiers will wait outside the city."

After finishing speaking, surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Zhang Yun rode across the suspension bridge and entered the city gate.Su Fei followed closely behind, his underwear was drenched in cold sweat.

According to his own plan, if Zhang Yun insisted on going his own way, he would forcibly lead the army into the city.Then the defenders at the top of the city will immediately pull up the drawbridge and close the city gate.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Yun must be suspicious, and Su Fei, who was locked outside the city, would have no way out.Therefore, while the city gate was closed, he would suddenly attack and assassinate Zhang Yun.

Su Fei also thought about opening the city gate after asking Zhang Yun to agree not to bring any troops into the city at the top of the city.But that would make Zhang Yun suspicious.The opponent may even use their tricks, and after swindling open the city gate, they suddenly send troops into the city and control the city gate.

If he completely ignores Zhang Yun, it won't work, because Liu Bei has confessed that the longer the mutiny about seizing the palace should be kept hidden from the outside world, the better.Otherwise, these aristocratic families will have enough time to hook up and prepare.

In the end, Su Fei chose this bad strategy. He would rather take the risk by himself than let Liu Bei's plan fall short.