Baidi Chunshen

Prepare coldly.

"I really want to relieve myself." Chen Dao said as he got up: "If your Majesty refuses, I will jump..."

"..." Liu Bei pressed his hand, and was silent for a moment: "Uncle Zhi, let me tell you the truth today."

"...!?" This surprised Chen Dao. He nodded, sat down with peace of mind, and looked at Liu Bei. Although he could only vaguely see the emperor's silhouette in the dark.

I only heard Liu Bei say: "Don't disturb Imperial Physician Fan again. What's the point of not letting people over a hundred years old sleep well?"

"..."

"Uncle Zhi, I also had a nightmare." Liu Bei said, "I dreamed about Ji Chang."

"...!"

Liu Bei has always had extraordinary premonitions, and this ability to predict is often shockingly accurate.

I only heard him slowly say: "I dreamed of the Weiyang Palace banquet... Do you remember that night, all the officials gathered together, and when I was drunk, I ordered Ji Chang to dance. He still refused, insisting that I give him a dance , the prime minister played the piano for him. So we waited for the monarch and ministers to sing, and Ji Chang was dressed in a dark red brocade robe and danced lightly... Ha... It was the same outfit he wore when I first met him in the Chu Pavilion in Xiangyang."

"..." How could he not remember. It was probably the last happy meeting between them after Guan Yu's death and before the Eastern Expedition. At that time, they could still say that the dead are dead, and the living should encourage themselves. Tonight, the ministers' meeting, The three armies must be rewarded to retake Jingzhou, and after the Wu Dynasty is destroyed, the Northern Expedition will be carried out to restore the Han Dynasty.

The civil and military banquet in the Ji Han Dynasty is not like Cao Cao's place where he wrote poems during the banquet. But Liu Bei, who loves music, will sing a song when the wine is hot, and Zhuge Liang will play the piano as his companion when he is happy. Feizai will still draw this scene of peace. It is a pity that Zhang Fei died at the night banquet in the Shu Palace. He failed to paint the beautiful scenery of the emperor building, the prime minister playing the piano, and the servants dancing. Liu Bei took off the waistband by himself. Sword, Zhuge Liang also smiled and untied the sword, and the two handed the sword into Ma Liang's hands. At that time, only a few people knew that Liu Bei's sword was named Zhige, and Zhuge Liang's sword was named Lejing. Together, it is the Zhangwu double sword.

"...Ji Chang held a sword and danced. There is no fault of the maiko boy in the palace. But he danced halfway, and my building was split in two under the knock. The prime minister's qin broke and cut his wounds. I touched his finger. When I stepped forward to check, I saw Kong Ming pointing at Ji Chang. When I looked back, I saw Ji Chang lying on the ground, which had turned into a puddle of blood..."

***

In the autumn of the second year of Zhangwu, the three counties in southern Jing were turbulent, the setting sun was like blood, and besieged on all sides. After Liu Bei was defeated and returned to Baidi City, Lu Xun sent the generals of Eastern Wu to chase the defeat, quickly pacified both sides of the Yangtze River, and regained the lost land. However, the massacre in Wuling just happened. to start.

As soon as Liu Bei withdrew, Ma Liang's army in Jingzhou immediately lost foreign aid. The Wu army sent troops to encircle and suppress. The Han army and barbarians in the two counties of Lingling and Guiyang were outnumbered, and they held on for more than ten days before the city was broken. , fled into the mountains and fought guerrilla warfare with the Wu army, and the resistance fell one after the other, which made Lu Xun, Bu Zhi, Zhuge Jin and others very upset. After more than a month of cleaning up, Fang drove all the remnants to Wuling. Ma Liang led the last remnant army Retreat into the city and stick to it, and the situation will survive and die with the city. The Wu army surrounds it on all sides, and the layers are like iron nets.

The envoys sent by Liu Bei to escape the war all the way, looking for Ma Liang, finally came to Wuling, unable to enter the city. Instead, Wu Jun caught him. When the Wu people opened Liu Bei's edict, they actually wanted Ma Liang to surrender to Wu. With a sound, the envoy was sent to gallop into the city.

The envoy fled all the way, just like a refugee. When he arrived in Wuling, he was already haggard. When he saw Ma Liang, who came out to greet him in person, was as haggard as he was, he couldn't help crying. The two didn't know each other well. When the city was broken, it was like old friends at first sight.

Ma Liang knelt to listen to the edict, but he did not accept it. He stood up and looked directly at the emissary: ​​"I heard that there are people who have subjugated the country and humiliated the body. Now the big man has not yet perished, and His Majesty is still here, but the minister surrendered to the enemy and humiliated himself. Sorry, I don't understand your Majesty's words." Meaning. If you surrender to the enemy and seek to survive, Liang will still be dead.” He handed the edict back to the envoy, and smiled slightly: “The general is away, and the king’s orders will not be accepted. I hope you will return to your majesty, Ma Liang cannot follow orders.”

"Master Attendant..." The envoy cried out anxiously: "Break out! If you break out at this time, maybe you can still rush out and take the path back to Xichuan..."

"The people are poor and the soldiers are exhausted. It's not easy to break through again." Ma Liang said calmly: "And don't you see the lessons learned by General Guan. The road back to Xichuan has already been ambushed and intercepted by the Wu army halfway."

"..."

"Military is important, if you can fight, you can fight. If you can't fight, you can surrender or leave. Those who can't surrender or leave will be dead ears." Ma Liang pointed to the city and shouted endlessly. Thousands of barbarians who were wounded and died fighting, swore to defend Jingzhou: "Look .They surrendered to my great man, admired His Majesty, swore loyalty, as if water returned to the sea. They would rather die than surrender to Wu, making their fathers and wives humiliated under the tyranny of Sun Quan and reduced to slaves. Now they rely on me and hope that I will lead them to fight with the Wu army In a fight to the death, even if everything is destroyed, I don’t want to be humiliated by thieves! If I leave them alone and lose the hearts of the people, it will only make it more difficult for Your Majesty to regain Jingzhou in the future. The life and death of a good man is a small matter, but the restoration of the Han Dynasty is a big matter!”

Hearing this, the envoy knew that Ma Liang put his own life and death aside, not to show his courage. Instead, he was thinking about the long-term future after his death, the future of the Han Dynasty and Liu Bei. The death of the general has already made him sick in grief, so please let him hear the bad news again!"

Ma Liang shook his head: "Your Majesty should put state affairs as the most important thing. Even if Liang is under Jiuquan, he will pray for His Majesty to return to the old capital and unify the world."

The envoy said eagerly: "...Think about the prime minister! The prime minister is your brother and sister, and he will be heartbroken when he hears your sad news! If he meets Wu Bing on the way out of the siege, maybe they will let you go back because of Zhuge Ziyu's favor. Nishikawa..."

"Let me go is to let the tiger go back to the mountain. How will Zhuge Ziyu explain to Sun Quan? Besides, if you don't kill me and abandon the public for private reasons, even if Sun Quan doesn't care about it, he also insulted Zhuge's strong family style. Ziyu will not do it." Here, in my Ma family, there is no one who just ran away!" Ma Liang said categorically: "Life is between heaven and earth, why did you come here? One is to live up to the family, and the other is to live up to the country."

***

Under the siege of the Wu army day and night, the food in Wuling City was exhausted, and the swords and guns were destroyed. Ma Liang finally opened the city and led three thousand remnants to fight. Zhuge Liang deduced eight formations, but it was not yet complete. Ma Liang only learned that the sky was overturned and the earth contained two formations. He Since he was not an envoy to Soochow, he was with Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang. Since the Eastern Expedition, the formations he learned have been of great use.

The [-]-strong division of the Wu army was waiting in strict formation. The Buzhi commanded the troops in the center. Seeing that Ma Liang was going to fight in person, he immediately sent someone to inform Zhuge Jin, who was in command of the left army.

Wu Jun was silent, watching this big man attendant who entered Wuling alone and stirred up turmoil in the four counties in southern Jing. He did not expect that he was a scribe, not to mention that he had led the troops to flee for a long time, and he was already thin and weak. At this moment, he is only wearing light armor. He is standing on the chariot, holding the command flag. Most of the Han and barbarian soldiers under his command are tired and wounded, but they are all staring at their commander. Their ears are also pricked up. Get up and wait for the drums to sound.

Zhuge Jin was in the left army. When he heard that Ma Liang was personally leading the troops to battle, his heart was shocked. When he rode his horse, he happened to see Ma Liang on the chariot in the distance, waving the command flag, and the formation was completed. He sighed secretly. He didn't launch the attack in time, which gave the enemy time to rest. He rode his horse to the place where the Chinese army's infantry was, and sighed: "Zishan is attacking! Why call me again?"

Bu Zhi looked gloomy and restless: "Looking at the enemy's situation today, everyone regards death as home, and seeks a battle to the death. According to my plan, the poor will not be chased away."

Zhuge Jin said coldly: "Is Zishan thinking about me? Ma Jichang is no longer my younger brother."

"..." Bu Zhi was silent for a while. He and Zhuge Jin went on a study tour together, and they were old friends. At this moment, he was afraid that Zhuge Jin would not bear Ma Liang's heart, so he tried words.

The Wu army suddenly became agitated. The two quickly raised their heads to look in the direction of the Han army, and saw Ma Liang holding up the command flag and saying something. The battlefield was far away, and Ma Liang's voice was not loud. They had no way of hearing it. Only the barbarians shouted Responding, indignant and passionate, the sound shook the sky.

"---The three armies can win the commander, but the common man cannot lose the will! Even if I die, you must fight to the end!"

That was the last sentence Ma Liang uttered in his life.

Bu Zhi and Zhuge Jin couldn't hear it, but from the reaction of the Han army, one could imagine what Ma Liang said. Bu Zhi turned his head to look at Zhuge Jin, and said in a deep voice, "Please order from Ziyu."

Zhuge Jin looked at Ma Liang, and saw that he restrained the troops, did not let the barbarians rush blindly, but waited for the Wu army to attack. Although he was bound to lose, he had the determination to fight to the death, and he still adhered to the principle of the eight formations with defense as offense. Invite the enemy to launch an attack first, in order to display the maximum strength of the formation.

Even if he was going to die, he was calm and generous. This was his younger brother, and that was the reason why he couldn't save Ma Liang's life—as long as he was there, the barbarians would not surrender. Jingnan counties, never peaceful day.

"Launch an attack." Zhuge Jin took the command flag from Bu Zhi, and waved the command flag in his mouth. The [-] troops were lined up neatly, and the layers of flags surged like waves, and the battle drums were rumbling. Zhuge Jin gave another order : "The crossbowman obeys orders! Waiting to defeat the enemy's front army, see Ma Jichang, shoot and kill."

Fucking Wu Ge, he was caught by a rhinoceros armour, and the car was wronged by a short soldier. In a short time, the battlefield outside Wuling City has become a raksha hell.

The banners covered the sun, and the Han army and the barbarians faced the many Wu troops that were pressing down like dark clouds. None of them retreated. The arrows and stones fell, and the soldiers scrambled to be the first. Ma Liang was in the center and commanded the formation.

Under the whole world, is it the king's land? On the shore of the land, is it the king's ministers. This is the essence of Zhuge Kongming's eight formations. In his Ma Jichang's view, even if the world is turned upside down, he will also guard the territory of the Great Han. Until the battle is broken, straight