At this time, Liu Xiaowei couldn't help but say impatiently,
"Of course it's not you who did it, otherwise, how can he live until now? I might as well tell you that Zhang Xu's identity is special. Those who kill him will suffer the backlash of the curse, and a cyan mark will grow on their face! "
Fang Linyan shrugged and said,
"Okay, okay, I won't keep you in suspense. After Zhang Xu escaped at that time, he was chased by the Shu Army General Liu Feng! "
"Even though Zhang Xu fled into the mountains behind Shangxi Village and avoided the terrain where cavaliers could bring out their greatest fighting power, Liu Feng did not hesitate to dismount and still chased after him with his personal guards."
"Back then, our luck was extremely bad. We were also caught in the crossfire and were chased by a group of cavalrymen. After we managed to shake them off with great difficulty, we panicked and fled. In the end, we just so happened to run into Zhang Xu. We were captured by Liu Feng and the other two and were beaten to the point of vomiting blood."
Yang Shan continued at this time,
"To be honest, we were also scared of being killed. We didn't intend to save anyone, but that bastard Zhang Xu was very sinister. We obviously didn't know him, but from afar, he acted as if he was an acquaintance, crying and asking why you were so late."
"Heh! This time Liu Feng immediately regarded us as reinforcements, and he had to kill us. As a result, after a big battle, we lost 2 brothers, and Liu Feng returned in defeat. His 2 personal guards were one step slower in order to silence Zhang Xu, so they were stopped and killed by us! "
"The topographic map of Jiangxia that we gave you was obtained from the corpses of Liu Feng's personal guards. Liu Feng should have asked him to clean them up … That's the general situation."
Hearing the words of Fang Linyan and Yang Shan, Liu Xiaowei was noncommittal. He pondered for a while, then said,
"I'm too lazy to ask if what you said is true or false. What evidence do you have?"
Yang Shan said,
"Of course. We buried Zhang Xu's body in a cave five miles west of Shangxi Village. There is a big tree in the cave that was struck by lightning. Half of it is completely withered, but the other half is very lush. Small white flowers are still blooming. You can send someone to look for it and you will know whether it is true or not."
Next, Captain Liu continued to say a few words to them, but Fang Linyan and the goat were the characters who wouldn't shed tears until they saw the coffin. They felt that they had said too much, so they kept repeating the same few sentences over and over again. They were determined not to disclose other useful information.
Lieutenant Liu couldn't do anything about the two of them. He could only casually toss the military report to them and said, "That's right.
"You can read, right? Watch carefully, I'll come back for you later. "
Lieutenant Liu stood up and walked to the front of the carriage. Together with the coachman, they entered the dense forest.
The "coachman" was wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat that was pressed low. He was the mysterious Lord behind the curtain. After the two of them walked for more than ten steps, Commandant Liu said angrily, "What are you doing?
"These two are so slippery. There are so many untruths in their words!"
The mysterious Lord shook his head and said, "The key points are not important.
"The two of them didn't leave out any crucial information, such as the whereabouts of Zhang Xu's body. They clearly told us everything."
"Another example is the origin of the topographic map of Jiangxia. The spies have already sent the news. It was indeed given to Liu Feng from Pang Degong's disciple, and Liu Feng passed it to Liu Bei. Therefore, their statement can also withstand scrutiny."
Commandant Liu sighed and said,
"But the whereabouts of the treasure … they didn't mention it at all!"
The mysterious Lord said faintly,
"The information sent back by the spies is also very clear. Zhang Xu was caught on the 7th day of the Lunar New Year, so he had actually been caught and interrogated by Liu Bei's people for 3 days. In this case, if the treasure was on him, it would have been taken away long ago!"
"Then according to my speculation, you know Zhang Xu's character. He doesn't recognize his family, and he is vicious and cunning. The treasure is likely to be hidden by him! Only at the last moment of life and death, in order to ask for help, he will take out the treasure as bait to attract people. "
Commandant Liu nodded.
"So what you mean is, those people should only know the information that Zhang Xu took out to tempt them before his death?"
The mysterious Lord said.
"Yes. Think about it, Zhang Xu had just escaped from his prison cell. His entire body was naked and could be said to have nothing on him! He could only rely on his mouth to draw a big picture! "
"Therefore, in order to persuade a group of strangers to save him, he must have taken out a bargaining chip that is incomparably precious and explained its origin clearly."
"Otherwise, the treasure may be a treasure to us, but to those who don't know, it would be nothing more than a pearl."
Commandant Liu muttered.
"But those people should only know bits and pieces of information. Even the two words' Eastern Sea 'might be something they casually mentioned. Aren't we paying too much attention to them?"
The mysterious Lord said seriously.
"No! You have to know that the 7 treasures of our sect in its heyday have almost been lost. Most of the remaining treasures can't be obtained. Only this one is still lost outside. "
"Not only that, the Merman's Pearl is recognized as the foundation treasure. With this thing, it can gather people's hearts at all times! Even when you are at the end of the road, as long as you have this treasure with you, you can revive within a year. So for it, it is not too much to be cautious! "
Commandant Liu said.
"Since this is the case, then I know what to do."
***
Just when Commandant Liu was talking with the mysterious Lord, Fang Linyan and Mountain Goat were also looking at the battle report. They were so shocked that they couldn't speak.
Because this battle report said: The Cao army's vanguard was defeated! There were five hundred casualties!
This was completely different from the historical facts!
In history, after the 5,000 elite cavalry of the Cao army rushed up, they directly defeated Liu Bei's rear army, then they chased after the enemy like a herd of sheep.
Following that, the Cao army's advance was like crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood. The only thing that prevented Liu Bei from being captured was the fact that there were too many people.
There was even a conspiracy theory that the reason why Zhao Yun could bring A 'dou out of the encirclement was because Cao Cao deliberately let them go, then he sent a scout to fish from afar. It was equivalent to letting Zhao Yun lead them to find Liu Bei.
If it weren't for Zhang Fei who roared at the Dangyang Bridge and used the legendary skill comparable to the Banshee's Howl, Old Cao would really succeed.
But what was the real situation, it was really annihilated in the dust of history.
Then the 3 continued to read. Based on what was recorded in the battle report, plus the perspective of their own contractors, they basically restored the specific process of the matter.
It turned out that in the beginning, the Cao army was indeed as recorded in history, easily breaking through Liu Bei's rear army. Thus, a large number of disaster victims were scattered in the wilderness, crying and crying. It was chaos.
But at that time, someone had carefully studied the commander of the Ferocious Cavalry, Cao Chun, and found a flaw in his character, that is, he was lecherous!
In history, Cao Chun captured Liu Bei's two daughters during this battle. In the end, he took them as his concubines. The reason for doing so was somewhat laughable.
It turned out that Cao Chun and Xiahou Yuan had a very good relationship. Xiahou Yuan was very angry about one thing, but could do nothing about it.
During the Battle of Guandu, his most beloved granddaughter, Xiahou Juan, was snatched away by Zhang Fei when she went to pray to Buddha. The poor little girl was only 13 years old, yet she was ruined by Zhang Fei.
In order to avenge Xiahou Yuan, Cao Chun's revenge was very clear. Zhang Yide, since you ruined my grandniece, I will ruin your two nieces!
Then, he got his revenge and was quickly cremated. It was probably because of these two new concubines that Cao Chun also sang every night. A leaf crossing the river depends on the waves.
In the end, he died in the prime of his life more than a year later.
The Battle of Changban was in October of 208. Cao Chun died in early 210 when he was just 40 years old.
People say that lust is a knife. Cao Chun already had a wife and concubines. At night, he had to fight with Liu Bei's two daughters to avenge Xiahou Yuan. With so many sharp knives stabbing him one after another, even an iron body would not be able to withstand it.
Of course, this was a digression. Just as the vanguard of the 5000 cavalrymen were enjoying the joy of victory, a contestant purposely brought out a beautiful woman as bait (most likely a female contestant in disguise) to lure Cao Chun into the trap.
In the end, Cao Chun was indeed tricked and led several of his personal guards to charge over.
Needless to say, Cao Chun was besieged.
Fortunately, there were no valiant generals like Zhang and Zhao among the besieging generals. Obviously, the contestant who set up this trap had limited capabilities and was not able to get Liu Bei's top generals to participate in this matter.
However, the number of generals they managed to persuade to participate in this matter was not small. Among them, the strongest was Zhou Cang, followed by Zhao Lei and Xiahou Lan who surrendered to Liu Bei after being captured.
At the same time, Cao Chun himself was a talented commander and not a talented general. His strength was only average in Cao Cao's army. What was strong was his cavalry aura!
After the three generals came out and trapped Cao Chun, the rest of the contestants who were lying in ambush swarmed forward. At the same time, there were also 70 to 80 personal guards that Zhou Cang brought along to help.
These contestants were a team and must have studied the relevant battle tactics. Therefore, they first dealt with the horses, then the people. When there was danger, the personal guards of the storyline generals would be the first to deal with it.
The Ferocious Cavalry were the elites of the world. Cao Chun's personal guards were also the cream of the crop among the elites. However, once the cavalry failed to charge, their lethality was reduced by half. At this time, they had the advantage in numbers. Therefore, the personal guards were quickly killed off.
Under such circumstances, the report stated that Cao Chun was actually able to break through the encirclement and escape with serious injuries. This was very impressive.
However, the defeat of the general was not good for the morale of the army. Liu Bei was also a veteran of the army. In addition, he also had a strong person like Zhuge by his side. He would definitely be able to seize this opportunity to counterattack.
Under such circumstances, although Cao Chun's 5,000 elite cavalry were strong, Liu Bei's generals were too. Therefore, after a round of counterattack, Cao Chun suffered a small loss and had to temporarily retreat after losing 200 to 300 cavalry.
However, the reputation of the Ferocious Cavalry as the strongest army in the world was not just for show. After the initial panic, Cao Chun led the remaining few thousand cavalry to follow Liu Bei and the others from afar.
At this time, Liu Bei also obtained a rare opportunity to catch his breath. He quickly gathered the defeated soldiers and began to recover.
In fact, the most rational thing for Liu Bei to do now was to seize this opportunity and escape first. This way, he could still save his family.
However, Liu Bei did not give up on the people and escape first. Now that he was riding a tiger, it was difficult to get off. There was no reason for him to give up on the people after defeating Cao Chun's vanguard.
These 100,000 people and supplies were all Liu Bei's assets that he had painstakingly managed in Jingzhou for seven years. He could not just give them to Cao Cao in vain.
At the same time, Liu Bei was also very clear that the remaining 4,000 Cao Cavalry were not easy to deal with. Once they rashly withdraw, there would be no capable people to cover their retreat. They would still be chased and killed like sheep.
Therefore, at the end of the report, it was said that Liu Bei was packing up his troops and retreating. However, the 5,000 vanguard were still chasing after him.
***
After reading the battle report, Liu Xiaowei also came back. He took the battle report back, then he looked at Fang Linyan and others and said faintly,
"There is a saying that war is dangerous. The situation on the battlefield changes rapidly. It can be said that anything can happen. Even General Cao Chun was careless and fell into the trap. Therefore, if you go to the battlefield, you must not act rashly. It is best to be cautious."
After hearing Lieutenant Liu's words, Fang Linyan immediately understood that the "garrison order" given by this guy was to save his life in the chaos.
The function of this thing was to gather the defeated soldiers, and the other function was to prove his identity as an officer.
In this case, even in a desperate situation, when the soldiers who captured the captives saw that he was an officer, they would feel that there was profit to be gained. They would not hesitate to cut off his head to turn in the military merit.
In this way, Fang Linyan immediately realized that although he had raised the status of the mermaid's pearl in the hearts of Lieutenant Liu and the others, he still underestimated their desire for the mermaid's pearl!
Therefore, Fang Linyan pondered for a while and said,
"Lieutenant Liu, there's something I'd like to ask you."
Lieutenant Liu originally wanted to ask him to leave, but he still suppressed his displeasure and said coldly,
"Go ahead."
Fang Linyan smiled slightly and said,
"Is there any precious treasure in this world that is originally black, but after playing with it for a few seconds, it directly turns into water blue?"
After Lieutenant Liu heard this, his face remained calm, but inadvertently, the pen in his right hand made a slight crisp sound; it cracked directly!
A voice shouted frantically in his heart,
"The mermaid's pearl will turn black when its aura is restrained after being sealed for a long time! He really knows the existence of that treasure; he really knows!! He didn't say the words Donghai casually! "
After a few seconds, Fang Linyan smiled in the face of Lieutenant Liu's silence,
"Well, it seems that you don't know, then I'll leave first."
Lieutenant Liu waited until he walked to the entrance of the carriage and was about to get off, then he said solemnly,
"So what if I know, so what if I don't know?"
Fang Linyan said calmly,
"We've just read the latest battle report, and we really feel that the risk on the battlefield ahead is too great. We're indebted to you, Lieutenant Liu, for taking care of us in many ways, and we're grateful for your kindness. Therefore, I wonder if you have anything like a carrier pigeon that we can contact you in time."
Lieutenant Liu was slightly surprised,
"Contact me in time? What does this have to do with gratitude? "
Fang Linyan said meaningfully,
"Of course it has a lot to do with it. For example, if we are about to die on the battlefield, maybe we will write down the secrets in our hearts, and then send a carrier pigeon to you."
"Of course, Lieutenant Liu, you might not be interested in these secrets, just like the bead that can change color and is as big as a soybean that I mentioned just now. But what if there's something that you're interested in and can use?"
After speaking, Fang Linyan laughed and walked away with the goat.
As a result, after the 2 walked for 50 steps, the messenger Sun Si had already run up panting, then he silently gave Fang Linyan something.
Fang Linyan took a closer look; it was actually a paper crane folded with yellow paper!
Sun Si said,
"If you have anything to say, just open the paper crane and say to it. After 10 seconds, the paper crane will return to Lieutenant Liu on its own."
Fang Linyan nodded and said,
"Okay, thank you."
***
About an hour later, the march in front of them stopped.
At this time, the sun was dazzling, and the vision ahead suddenly widened. The front had left the mountains. A river like a jade belt flowed slowly in front. This was the Ju River.
Along the Ju River, it was a relatively long and narrow plain area. At this time, the chill of winter had not arrived yet. The leaves of the vegetation were slightly yellow, and it was still full of vitality everywhere,
The light rain washed the leaves until they were bright and tender. Between the branches and leaves of the shrubs, there were even small yellow and red wild fruits. Birds were happily jumping and pecking at them. The air was so fresh that it felt like it was cleansing one's lungs. If one looked carefully, one could even smell the fragrance of the wild flowers …
But if you looked carefully, you would find that the ground below had become a cruel battlefield. The sound of killing was shocking. Every minute, every second, someone would lose their precious life!
Looking from a distance, there was a strange feeling that the world was like a chessboard, and the common people were like ants.
Immediately afterward, a messenger riding a tall horse in front came directly to Marquis Tian, who led the team in front, and shouted,
"General's order!!"
"Liu Bei's Army, Jian Yong's troops appeared on the hill ahead to set up a defense. I order you to lead the soldiers under your command to attack, destroy Jian Yong's troops, and expel them from the hill!"
Marquis Tian shouted,
"Roger!"
Then, she saw him turn his horse around and shout, "Hey!
"Boys, follow me!"
Immediately afterward, he took the lead to move forward, and the direct subordinates of Marquis Tian also followed him.
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