Wang Can rushed to the Meridian Valley with the army, while Huang Zhong, Pei Yuanshao, and Zhou Cang led 3,000 soldiers as the vanguard and hurried to the Meridian Valley to find out the news.

The army set up camp two miles away from the Meridian Valley, preparing to attack the Meridian Valley.

On that day, after Huang Zhong arranged the defense of the camp, he let the soldiers rest early. The night was peaceful, and no Xiliang soldiers came to attack and attack the camp.

In the early morning of the next day, Huang Zhong led his troops to rise from the village and march towards the Meridian Valley.

Outside the valley, 3,000 soldiers lined up in a neat array.

The soldiers were armed with Han swords, wearing armor, and their expressions were serious, staring at the fortifications standing at the mouth of the valley with eager expressions. Among the soldiers, the older ones want to earn more military merits and let their wives and children and parents live a good life; The younger ones want to make a career and marry a beautiful and virtuous wife.

Military merit is the motivation for soldiers to fight bravely and well.

"Beat the drums!"

Huang Zhong raised his head and roared, and the drummer with the upper body raised the drumstick in his hand and beat the war drum hard.

"Boom! Boom! ……”

In an instant, the majestic war drums sounded in the military formation, piercing through the gold and stones, reaching through the sky, and the rumbling drums entered the checkpoint, making the soldiers in the valley nervous, and Zhang Rafter was already standing on the city tower. He looked around and saw Huang Zhong, Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao, his eyes breathing fire, and he couldn't wait to break Huang Zhong's body into ten thousand pieces.

He hated, if he had been more courageous that day and led the troops to kill, then the three people standing outside the Meridian Valley at this moment were already cold corpses, how could they have the opportunity to be arrogant in front of him.

Zhang Rafter straightened his head and shouted loudly: "Huang Zhong'er, the general of the defeated army, how can he have the courage to be presumptuous in front of this general, could it be that he is impatient to live and wants to die?" ”

He was loud, but not as loud as the war drums.

The rumbling sound of war drums pierced through the sky, passing through the Meridian Valley and beyond.

In particular, the Meridian Valley is a valley road that is more than 600 miles long, deep and long, and after the drum sound is transmitted in, it keeps reverberating. As soon as Zhang Rafter's voice roared out, it was drowned out by the overwhelming sound of war drums, and those soldiers standing on the city tower all felt pain in their eardrums and did not hear Zhang Rafter's words clearly.

The drums beat loudly, making Zhang Rafter yell a few times in vain.

Zhang Rafter's face was cloudy, and there was an angry expression on his face.

Huang Zhong smiled, raised his big hand, and shouted, "Stop!" ”

Suddenly, all the drummers immediately stopped. When the drumming stopped, the whole land fell silent, and there was no sound. For a moment, the soldiers felt that the silence was so beautiful. Huang Zhong held a nine-foot long knife in his hand and rode forward, and Pei Yuanshao and Zhou Cang also followed behind Huang Zhong, slowly advancing.

This drum should have made Xiliangjun's nerves tense!

Zhang Rafter heard the drumming disappear, and seized the opportunity to shout: "Huang Zhong, you three are here to send you to death?" ”

In a word, it makes the soldiers on the level laugh.

Huang Zhong's expression was as usual, and he was not angry.

The nine-foot long knife in his hand slammed into the ground, looking at Zhang Rafter, his eyes showing a look of thought. He learned the name of the Meridian Valley guard from Wang Can, and also knew that Zhang Rafter was Zhang Ji's kindred and belonged to people who were loyal to Zhang Ji, and this relationship determined that Zhang Rafter was difficult to be rebelled against, and the only way was to provoke Zhang Rafter and let Zhang Rafter take the initiative to fight, so that hundreds of rafters would take the initiative.

Huang Zhong shouted: "Zhang Rafter, I led three hundred soldiers to scare you, it feels good!" ”

He didn't follow Zhang Rafter's words, but asked Zhang Rafter rhetorically.

If Huang Zhong continued to follow Zhang Rafter's words, he would definitely fall into Zhang Rafter's trap. Huang Zhong asked Zhang Rafter directly, but it was better, and after the words were spoken, Zhang Rafter was really angry. Zhang Rafter was bluffed by Huang Zhong vividly, thinking of the opportunity to annihilate Huang Zhong and others, but was frightened by Huang Zhong and retreated, Zhang Rafter was furious.

Zhang Rafter pulled out the war knife at his waist and shouted: "Huang Zhong, I swear to kill you!" ”

Huang Zhong lifted the nine-foot long knife, pointed at Zhang Rafter in the air, and roared disdainfully: "A puppet, what can you do to kill me?" ”

When Zhang Rafter heard this, he was even more angry. Thinking of the scene of being played by Huang Zhong, it was difficult to suppress the anger in his heart, Zhang Rafter snorted and shouted angrily: "Whoever dares to kill this liao will be rewarded with a thousand gold, and personally go to the general's mansion to ask for merit for him." "General, referring to Zhang Ji, not Zhang Xiu.

Seeing that no one was fighting, Zhang Rafter sneered: "The dignified Xiliang man, is he as timid as a mouse, and he doesn't dare to go to the battlefield?" ”

This sentence aroused the competitive spirit of the Xiliang generals.

These soldiers of Xiliang liked to eat meat, drink wine in large bowls, and advocate force. Because they have a lot of contact with foreign people, they also have an arrogant temper in their bones, and after hearing Zhang Rafter's words, they immediately fell into Zhang Rafter's agitation method and stood up to ask for battle. When Zuo Xu and Ma Zhi saw it, they both shook their heads slightly, sighing for the generals who stood up.

The two of them are quite deep in the city, and of course they will not be as easily provoked as other generals.

But he was also a general of the Xiliang Army, and when he saw the generals standing up and asking for battle, he couldn't help but slander in his heart.

Zhao Zhi also stood behind Zhang Rafter, and with his opinion, he simply ignored Huang Zhong and stationed in Meridian Valley. However, Zhang Rafter is the main general, and Zhang Rafter's orders must be obeyed. However, Zhao Zhi still stood up, hugged his fists and said: "General, the Meridian Valley is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are natural dangers in the valley to protect it, we only need to garrison it, and it is a great achievement if we don't fight!" ”

Zhang Rafter glared angrily and shouted, "Zhao Zhi, are you a Xiliang man?" is so timid, my Xiliang men are all mighty men, strong men, how can they be turtles with shrunken heads. Huang Zhongdu came to the door, we don't fight back with our fists, we still hide in the valley and can't shrink, don't talk if you're timid, no one treats you as a dumb person. ”

When Zhang Rafter spoke, the other generals also looked at Zhao Zhi with disdain.

No guts!

Unable to say boo to a goose!

This is the evaluation of Zhao Zhi by the generals of Xiliang, these generals may not have received a good education, they are not literate, and they do not know the art of war, they have a tendon in their brains, and they don't like to beat around the bush, but they can definitely be called brave people, they can solve problems by force, as long as they have a knife in hand, they can charge bravely.

Zhang Rafter looked at the generals who stood up and asked, "Who dares to fight?" ”

Several generals clasped their fists and said: "General, the last general is invited to fight!" ”

Zhang Rafter nodded with satisfaction and said, "You all go down to prepare, if one person is not defeated by Huang Zhong, they will all rush forward, and Huang Zhong must be killed." ”

This sentence immediately made several generals unhappy.

Fighting on the battlefield is a one-on-one thing. How can you not be embarrassed?

The generals despised Zhang Rafter's behavior in their hearts, but they did not say it. They went down the city tower and prepared to fight, although there were eight generals, but these people were definitely ready to fight one-on-one, and they would not rush up to fight Huang Zhong in a swarm. Zhang Rafter succeeded in arousing the heart of victory and defeat of the Xiliang army, but because of what he said just now, the generals were despised.

"Crunch!"

The gate opened, and the eight generals galloped out.

Huang Zhong saw that the eight generals rushed out, stretched out his hand to stop Pei Yuanshao and Zhou Cang, who were about to make a move, and said: "The shrimp soldiers and crabs will be shot by me, and you will deal with Zhang Rafter later." ”

After finishing speaking, Huang Zhong shouted: "Zhang Rafter, let them all go up, a group of ants are vulnerable!" ”

Huang Zhong's words were quite arrogant, but they hit Zhang Rafter's heart.

However, after hearing this, the generals who rushed out were all indignant, and one of the generals shouted: "Huang Zhong, Hugh is rampant, your grandfather is here to cut off your dog's head!" "This is a Xiliang military captain, born with a lion nose and a wide mouth, a rough face, a beard on his face, and his eyes are staring at Huang Zhong with a strong fighting intent.

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