Zhu Nao

When it was daylight, the wet soldiers sat dejectedly in the open space, like a group of bereaved dogs.

Ma Shu finished counting his remaining troops not far from the shore.To his surprise, he lost far less soldiers and horses than he thought.

It stands to reason that they fled in a rout and completely lost the ability to resist. If the enemy deliberately pursued them, their losses would be immeasurable.But instead of killing them all, the Shu army didn't even chase Huaishui, which is very strange.

Ma Shu was wondering what to do, when a person came galloping from a distance, he was the soldier he sent back to the Huainan camp to report.

"General Jianwu," the soldier's face was pale, and he leaned into Ma Shu's ear and whispered, "It's not good! The battalions stationed in Huainan surrendered to the court yesterday!"

Ma Shu turned his face abruptly, and hurriedly pulled the soldiers to a place where there was no one else, and then asked: "Really? All surrendered?!"

The soldiers hurriedly told Ma Shu the information they had just inquired about.Ma Shu arranged a total of three groups of people in Huainan.Yesterday they all surrendered to Liu Jingfeng.They no longer have a camp in Huainan.

Ma Shu's complexion was pale, his eyes were red, and he was not completely dry when he got up from the Huai River, so he looked like a water ghost fished out of the water.

The soldier tremblingly said: "General, why don't we also..."

"Impossible!" Before he could finish speaking, Ma Shu glared at him viciously.He said coldly, "Only you and I know about this matter, don't tell anyone else! Otherwise, you and your whole family will die!"

The soldiers were frightened and dared not speak.

Ma Shu's current situation is really that the house is leaking and it is raining overnight, and he is attacked on both sides and lost on both sides.Now he finally understands why Tian Chou just drove him across the river instead of killing them all - Tian Chou hoped that he and Chen Guojun would kill each other!

At this time, if it were someone else, those with strong bones would have found a tree and hanged themselves to death; those with weak bones would have knelt down and begged for mercy, and maybe they would have survived.But Ma Shu is a person who does not believe in fate. He insists on fighting until the last moment, how does he know that things will not turn around one in ten thousand?Even if he can only bring a few more people to be buried with him, he will never give up easily!

Thinking of this, Ma Shu took a deep breath, turned his head to cheer up his morale.

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Liu Jingfeng woke up, and then heard that the Shu army had won a big victory in Xuzhou last night, and Ma Shu led the defeated soldiers to flee back to Huainan.

Liu Jingfeng couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

After tossing for a long time, Xuzhou returned to the hands of the Shu army. What did Chen Guo get?There was an internal strife for no reason, and a lot of people died.

Liu Jingfeng asked: "Did the Shu army chase the Huai River?"

The spy shook his head: "No."

Liu Jingfeng couldn't help being surprised.This Tianchou is quite a gentleman?In the past few days, he thought that he might have to face the Shu army, and he didn't sleep well, so he wrote several letters to Xie Wuchen miserably, explaining everything about his funeral, fearing that he would never see Xie Wuchen again.

Liu Jingfeng asked again: "Where is the horse beam now?"

The spy said: "We camped near the Huaihe River."

If Xie Wuchen were here, he would definitely order someone to attack Ma Shu's remnant army immediately, and he must not let Ma Shu live another day.But Liu Jingfeng doesn't like killing by nature, and Ma Shu is his brother-in-law after all, so he still wants to take care of his life.

Liu Jingfeng said: "Send someone to Ma Shu's troops and say surrender. As long as they are willing to put down their knives, I will save their lives."

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Half an hour later, Liu Jingfeng sent someone to surrender to the south bank of the Huaihe River.After about an hour, the messenger returned.

"Liu Xiaowei," the messenger said, "Ma Shu is willing to surrender, but he is worried that his crimes are so serious that the court will not let him go. No matter what I say, he will not believe it. He expressed the hope that he can have a face-to-face meeting with Liu Xiaowei. .”

Liu Jingfeng frowned: "This horse harness..."

He thought about it, but he could understand it.To be honest, even Liu Jingfeng himself can't guarantee that he can really save Ma Shu's life, he can only coax Ma Shu not to do more wrong things first, and then find a way to deal with it after returning to court.Ma Shu is extremely cautious, and doubts are inevitable.

Liu Jingfeng said: "Okay, then I'll meet and talk with him. You go there again and discuss with him how to meet."

Liu Jingfeng's personal soldiers persuaded: "Grand Liu, why bother? Now that Ma Shu's defeat is certain, there are only a few remnants left. We will send troops directly to force him in front of him, so we don't believe that he will surrender dishonestly."

Liu Jingfeng shook his head and said: "No, no, what if he gets cornered and jumps over the wall in a hurry, and fights with us again, wouldn't it cost a lot of lives for nothing? It's better to sit down and talk about things that can be discussed. "

Liu Jingfeng never thought that Ma Shu might be bad for him.Although Ma Shu had troubles with many people in Chen Guo's court, but Liu Jingfeng was kind and he had no grievances or enmities with anyone!As Ma Shu's eldest brother-in-law, he had protected Ma Shu a lot in the past, and he didn't expect Ma Shu to remember his kindness, at least he wouldn't repay him for his kindness, right?

Liu Jingfeng has made up his mind, it is useless to persuade his soldiers, so he can only do as he wants.

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Soon, the two sides agreed on the way and place to meet.

During the daytime of the next day, Liu Jingfeng brought a few guards to the open countryside, preparing to meet and discuss with Ma Shu.

Liu Jingfeng arrived a little earlier than the agreed time, but after the agreed time, a group of people arrived late.When the team came before him, Liu Jingfeng found that Ma Shu was not among them at all.

He frowned and asked, "Where's General Jianwu?"

The leader of the Huainan soldiers said humanely: "Grand Liu, the army suddenly has an urgent matter to deal with, and General Jianwu got stuck and couldn't walk away, so he sent us to talk to Duke Liu first."

Liu Jingfeng was taken aback and felt displeased.It was obvious that Ma Shu insisted on meeting him in person, but when he came, Ma Shu only sent a few men down. Could it be that he was fooling him?

"Why do you have to do it now? Since General Jianwu didn't talk to me sincerely, then I'll go back first!"

After he finished speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave, but several Huainan soldiers hurriedly asked to stay: "Don't go, Mr. Liu! Just wait a little longer, General Jianwu will come right away!"

Liu Jingfeng was dubious and hesitant: "If General Jianwu hasn't come after a stick of incense, then I won't accompany you!"

The two sides stalemate for another stick of incense, Ma Shu still did not show up, Liu Jingfeng got on his horse and was about to leave, Huainan soldiers begged again: "Grand Liu, wait a little longer! It's coming soon!"

Liu Jingfeng was extremely displeased, and couldn't bear the other party's entanglement, so he was delayed for a cup of tea.At this moment, he had already sensed that something was wrong. He was afraid that Ma Shu would play some tricks, so he refused to wait any longer and hurried back to the camp.

Seeing Liu Jingfeng insisted on leaving, the faces of those Huainan soldiers changed, and they rushed forward to arrest him!

Liu Jingfeng was taken aback, but fortunately his guards were very loyal, and immediately drew their swords to fight: "Mr. Liu, go!"

Liu Jingfeng didn't dare to wait any longer, he quickly got on his horse and ran away surrounded by the two of them.

When Liu Jingfeng returned to the vicinity of his barracks in shock, he first heard the sound of killing, crying, and screaming.He turned pale with fright, and quickly moved closer, only to see that the barracks were in a mess, his subordinates were retreating hastily, while the brave Huainan army was chasing after the army and biting frantically!

Liu Jingfeng suddenly felt as if someone had poured cold water on his head, tremblingly said: "What's going on?! What's going on?? Ah! How could it be like this??"

The battle situation is so dangerous, and the army has completely lost order, even if Liu Jingfeng goes to command, there is no way to pull back the fleeing army.His guards didn't dare to let him risk approaching, and hurriedly surrounded him and fled around the long distance, and went to the rear to find the army to join.

It wasn't until it was getting dark that Liu Jingfeng finally found a team of his own and several officers several miles away.

He asked the officers what happened. Unexpectedly, the officers were shocked at first when they saw him, and then became very excited.

The officer reported: "Lieutenant Liu, not long after you left today, someone suddenly shouted in the army that Captain Liu had been killed by General Jianwu! Everyone was terrified, and the barracks fell into chaos. At that time, the Huainan army led by the rebel Ma Shu suddenly rushed into the barracks, killing anyone they saw! We were attacked by surprise, and we had no time to react, and everyone thought you were dead, so you lost your fighting spirit, so..."

Only then did everyone understand what was going on, and howled and cursed: "We have all fallen into that bastard Ma Shu's trap!"

It turned out that when Liu Jingfeng sent someone to ask Ma Shu to surrender, Ma Shu was overjoyed, but it wasn't because Liu Jingfeng promised to save his life—he knew Liu Jingfeng very well, and Liu Jingfeng also knew him well. It's just good at making peace and mud.Even if Liu Jingfeng wanted to be considerate to him, he could not decide this matter, and the court of Chen Guo couldn't let him go—Ma Shu was overjoyed because he thought of a good way to fight back.

On the surface, he agreed to peace talks, so that both Liu Jingfeng and Chen Guojun put down their guard, and he tricked Liu Jingfeng to the suburbs, while he himself led troops to lay an ambush near Chen Guojun's camp.Not long after Liu Jingfeng left the camp, he sent someone to the barracks to shout, "Lieutenant Liu was killed by General Jianwu!"

Although Liu Jingfeng has military power in his hands, he is not a warlike person, and many of his officers are playboys who are on good terms with him.This army itself was not good at fighting, and when they heard that Liu Jingfeng had died, everyone lost their backbone, and was defeated by the small Huainan army in an instant.

After the army fled, it quickly fled in all directions. What Liu Jingfeng encountered was only a small team of about a hundred people, and they didn't know where the others fled.

When Liu Jingfeng learned the whole story, he was really shocked, angry and regretful, and he couldn't figure it out: "I tried my best to treat him, but he treated me like this! What a madman! I said that I can save their lives, those Huainan soldiers Are they all crazy? Why are you willing to die for Ma Shu?!"

The officers were filled with righteous indignation: "Ma Shu must have lied to them!"

The reason why Liu Jingfeng was not wary and believed that he could persuade the remnants of Ma Shu to surrender was because he said before that the troops stationed in Huainan went smoothly.He thought that people were all the same, and that no one wanted to fight to the death, especially civil war.But he ignored that he was so successful at that time because Ma Shu was restrained by the Shu army in Xuzhou.How could it be so easy once Ma Shu was in command?

Just as the officers expected, Liu Jingfeng's emissary went to see Ma Shu and promised to save the lives of the soldiers, but Ma Shu turned his head and lied to the soldiers that it was his spy in the Chen army who sent him the news. It is said that the imperial court has made a decree to kill all Huainan soldiers and their families!The desperate Huainan army had no way to retreat, but under the grief and indignation they were extremely brave, and killed Chen Jun to the brim.

Now that the battle has been fought like this, Liu Jingfeng knows that it is more dangerous for the scattered small groups of soldiers to stay in Huainan, and they may be caught up and eaten by the horses at any time.He had no choice but to order: "Go and find the people nearby, and if you find them, let them leave Huainan and reunite in Luzhou."

The author has something to say: Shu Jun: We can fight horses in three days

Ma Shu: I can beat Chen Jun away in two days

Chen Jun:? ? ?