Chapter 5 is like a bamboo, the sixth day of the first month of the twenty-sixth festival, in the morning, Baling. Flames rose into the air, and black smoke covered the sky and filled the sky over Baling.

The hussar general Zhang Ji hit his horse and ran up the high slope, looking at the fire in the direction of Baling, and was terrified.

"Command the ministries to stop at once, stop at once." Three thousand soldiers stood on the field, all of them frightened and frightened.

A breeze blew through the air, white ash fluttered like snowflakes, the smell of burnt paste penetrated the heart and lungs, and fear invaded the whole army like the bitter cold of winter.

A few scouts galloped in.

"My lord, the Qiang people burned the North Dock, and Baling fell into a sea of fire...... "The scouts were sweating profusely, kneeling in front of Zhang Jima, breathless, and couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time.

"Qiang?" Zhang Ji clenched the horsewhip with both hands, and the muscles on his face trembled violently with anger.

"Where did the Qiang people come from? Is it the Qiang people of Xiliang or the Qiang people of Northern Xinjiang? ”

"My lord, it's the Qiang people of northern Xinjiang." A scout team gasped desperately with its mouth wide open, and spoke intermittently,

"I see the General's Panther battle flag."

"Pound? Wasn't Pound in Nagato Pavilion? Zhang Ji looked back at his subordinates behind him and asked suspiciously,

"Could it be that the Qiang people of Xiliang took advantage of the current chaos to burn and loot in Beiwu and Baling?"

"Possibly." Zhang Ji's lieutenant said,

"No matter how bold Pang De is, he doesn't dare to let the Qiang people in northern Xinjiang set fire to the royal mausoleum without authorization."

"My lord, it is indeed the Qiang people of Northern Xinjiang, we will never be mistaken." The scout swore by the sky,

"The Qiang Iron Cavalry is now by the Bashui River, and the adults can send someone to take a look again." Zhang Ji looked up at the billowing smoke and dust in the sky and sighed softly.

"Forget it, don't care about the tomb, you immediately investigate in the direction of the Dao Pavilion, and get in touch with Lord Li, the general of the chariot cavalry, as soon as possible, and tell him that the North Dock has been burned down."

"Command the army and hurry towards the Bashui River." Li Dao jumped like thunder, and he couldn't wait to eat Pound raw.

The North Dock was burned, the Baling Tomb was destroyed, and Pang De was chasing after him with an army of iron cavalry, and now there was no way out except to retreat to the east of the river with the Son of Heaven and the ministers of the court.

"You forced me to go to Hedong, but I can't go." Li Wei roared loudly, leaving behind the frightened Son of Heaven and a group of ministers, and hurried to find Jia Xu.

Just now, everyone retreated in a hurry with a large army, and it was a mess, and now no one can find anyone. Li Wei didn't find Jia Xu, but collided head-on with Guo Yan.

Li Wei's eyes widened angrily, and he pointed at Guo Yan and scolded,

"It's all you bastard. I'll kill you. Guo Yan was even more furious, screaming and shouting when he lost his mind, and was about to rush forward when he drew his knife, but was hugged by Xia Yu and Gao Shuo, who followed him, left and right.

"My lord, calm down, what time is it, you can't kill each other anymore."

"He's going to kill us." Guo Yan was so angry that tears flowed out.

"Li Dao, you brute, what is Fan Chou's crime, why did you kill him? Why did you take the Son of Heaven hostage from the palace? Why did you burn Chang'an City? You madman. I knew that today, I should have killed you with Fan Chou in the first place. ”

"I didn't burn Chang'an, it's not me." Li Dao was also hugged by Yang Feng and couldn't move.

"If you hadn't threatened Chang'an City with your army, how could I have moved the Son of Heaven out of the palace? It's all you, the villain, who listened to slander and misunderstood the big thing. If I had known that you had treated me like this, I should not have saved you on the battlefield in the past. The two were accusing each other, and Wang Fang and Jia Xu hurried over.

When Wang Fang saw Li Dao, he was also furious, and he was so angry that he was about to lead people to rush forward.

"Okay, okay, don't quarrel, if we keep arguing, none of us will survive." Jia Xu glared at Li Dao and Guo Yan angrily, and scolded loudly,

"Do you think about how Taishi Dong died? You have all fallen for other people's tricks and fallen into other people's traps, can't you still be sober? Li Dao and Guo Yan gradually calmed down.

"Wenhe, Beiwu was burned by Pound, what should we do now?" Wang Fang asked.

"It's very simple, as long as we all let go of our past suspicions, shake hands and make peace, and reorganize the army, we will have many ways to reverse the situation in Guanzhong." Jia Xu pointed to the mess of soldiers and horses around him, and said angrily,

"If everyone continues to fight separately like this, and the brothers even draw swords against each other, we will be finished immediately, and everyone will go underground to accompany Master Taishi." Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Wang Fang, you are glaring at me, I am glaring at you, and no one will bow their heads first.

Jia Xu shook his head, gritted his teeth, waved his hand and said, "Since the three of you don't speak, then agree and reconcile." None of the three spoke.

"If you don't speak, then I'll speak." Jia Xu anxiously looked back at the distance,

"Although Pound is bluffing, his subordinates are all Hu people, once the situation gets out of control, the feint will turn into a bloody battle, then none of us can escape." Then he pointed to Wang Fang and said,

"You immediately regroup your army, open the way ahead, and join the hussar general as soon as possible." Then he pointed to Guo Yan,

"You immediately line up here with the army, and when the army of Lord Huangfu retreats, the two armies will join together and stop Pound's iron cavalry for as much as possible."

"Blocking the day?" Guo Yan shouted,

"Wenhe, this can't be. I and Jianshou's army together are only more than 10,000 people, how can we stop it? ”

"Stop." Jia Xu said with great certainty,

"Pound's purpose is not to pursue us, but to drive us east of the river, so as to form a flank with the general's army. But at present, the general did not know that Beiwu had been burned, nor did he know that we were retreating sharply eastward along the Weishui River, so Pang De did not dare to chase too quickly, so as not to force us to Tongguan and miss the opportunity to attack back and forth. ”

"Shall we go to Tongguan?" Li Dao asked in surprise.

"Go to Tongguan." Jia Xu said loudly,

"Have you forgotten your purpose? Your purpose is to get the general to fight with the armies of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, Han Sui, and Ma Teng. The more intense they fight, the greater the losses, the better it will be for us. ”

"The generals' army has not suffered very much losses so far, and with the addition of Huangfuhong's army and the Xiliangqiang cavalry, we should still have more than 30,000 people. When so many troops arrived at Tongguan, with the danger of the pass, they could not only ensure that the Son of Heaven was worry-free, but also avoided the battle in Guanzhong. When the general, Yuan Shao, Han Sui and others fought for Guanzhong and lost both, we can wait for the opportunity to counterattack and retake Guanzhong. ”

"The main purpose of the great general is not to be the king of Qin, but to occupy Guanzhong. He did not lead his army to cross the river for a long time, just to wait for the best time. When is the best time for him? It is when the Son of Heaven is out of danger and reaches a safe place. The Son of Heaven is safe, and the general has no scruples, and he can immediately sweep through Guanzhong with the army. Guanzhong must be, the Son of Heaven is also the general's bag. Jia Xu looked at Li Dao and Guo Yan, and sneered,

"Do the two adults think that after Guanzhong is occupied by the general, they still have the strength to resist?" Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Wang Fang suddenly woke up.

"Pang De suddenly burned down the Baling Tomb like madness and attacked the Dao Pavilion in order to drive us away." Li Dao punched into the air and said fiercely,

"It's the same with Yuan Shao, he also wants to drive us away."

"Hmph, you think you are smart, you think you can use the strategy of going south to lure the armies from all walks of life to fight and force the general into Guanzhong, but you didn't expect to fall into their trap at all." Guo Yan pointed at Li Dao and scolded,

"You idiot, since the Chang'an Mutiny last year, you have been in Yuan Shao's hands, and you haven't come to your senses until now, you ......"

"You are an idiot, if you hadn't fallen for the discord plan and threatened Chang'an with the army, how would we have ended up in today's field?" Li Dao sneered.

"None of us thought of this, who knew that the situation in Guanzhong would be so complicated?" Jia Xu waved his hand to stop the quarrel between the two,

"Actually, we should have thought long ago that the general, Yuan Shao, Han Sui and others were all coming for Guanzhong. They don't want the Son of Heaven, but they are afraid that the Son of Heaven will die at their own hands, so they will do everything possible to find a way to drive us away. ”

"But it's not too late to go." Jia Xu looked up at the sky, waved his hand and said,

"We first escorted the Son of Heaven to Xinfeng City overnight."

"Wenhe, if the general occupies Guanzhong, what will we do? What can you do to get rid of him? Li Wei, Guo Yan and Wang Fang all stood still, looking at Jia Xu with eager expressions.

This problem is too important, if there is no countermeasure, even if you retreat to Tongguan, it will be a dead end in the future.

"It is impossible for a general to occupy Guanzhong." Jia Xu didn't think about it, and blurted out,

"Although he is a leopard, there are too many wolves in Guanzhong, and he can't eat this piece of fat." The three of them were amazed and found it unbelievable.

"The leopard is gone, and the wolf in Guanzhong is also scarred in order to fight this leopard, and finally ......" Jia Xu smiled,

"Guanzhong is still ours."

"Wenhe, you didn't lie to us, did you?" Li Dao looked disbelieving,

"It's that simple?" Xu said,

"If nothing else, Guanzhong is still ours." Then he looked at Guo Yan,

"Hurry up and let Lord Taiwei and the ministers return to the Son of Heaven camp, don't delay any longer. We need to evacuate Tongguan as quickly as possible, and what we need most now is to work together. Guo Yan hesitated for a moment and waved his hand to Xia Yu, who was standing beside him,

"Send them back to the camp of the Son of Heaven. On the sixth day of the first month, the night. Pound led 20,000 iron horsemen to line up on the west bank of the Bashui River, ready to go. Huang Fuhong and Guo Yan took more than 10,000 people to line up on the east bank of the Bashui River and waited for the battle. Baling was still burning in the fire, but the fire was getting smaller and smaller, and the flames shone on the bodies of the soldiers on both sides, gradually burning the murderous aura on the battlefield to the limit. Huang Fuhong rode his horse across the pontoon bridge on the river and stopped on the embankment.

"Ling Ming, do you want to go and see me?" Wei Jun asked.

"Don't go, today we have given Huangfu Hong enough face." Tempest Sand said hatefully,

"He has been in front of us with the army. It took us a whole day from morning to evening, and we walked thirty miles. This favor is big enough, what else does he want? Did he tell us to quit Guanzhong, and we listened? Pang De laughed, turned his head and asked Liu Ming, "Where is Yuan Shao's army?" ”

"Yuan Shao's vanguard army has arrived at Changmen Pavilion." Liu Ming replied. Today he walked at the rear with the Hun iron cavalry, and only joined the army after dark.

"What about the Xiliang Army?"

"After the Xiliang army chased to the Dao Pavilion, they immediately turned around and went north in the direction of Chang'an." Liu Ming said,

"Looks like they're all waiting to clean up the mess."

"Hmph......" Pound snorted disdainfully, then kicked the horse's belly and rode towards the riverbank.

"Ling Ming, how can you set fire to the cemetery? This is a capital offense. When Huang Fuhong saw Pang De, he split his head and made an accusation.

"Do you have a general's order? Did you order it to be burned? You burned the cemetery, and you were not the only one who was convicted, but also the general, you know? ”

"I'm burning the North Dock, not the cemetery." Pound frowned slightly, and said very dissatisfied,

"If you had taken the Son of Heaven to Hedong to avoid trouble earlier, how could I have ordered the burning of Beiwu?"

"You have been convicted of the crime of burning the tomb." Huangfu Hong sighed regretfully,

"The Son of Heaven has given an order, and the army retreats in the direction of the east of the river. Now you're satisfied. ”

"Really?" Pound was overjoyed and hurriedly asked,

"Li Dao and Guo Yan, they all agreed?" Huang Fuhong nodded,

"Now that the matter has come to this, what can you do if you don't agree? When we arrived in Hedong, the Son of Heaven was safe, and then we waited for the general to sweep through Guanzhong. Pound smiled,

"I immediately urgently told the general and asked him to send a boat to Zheng County to pick him up."

"I'm afraid it's too late." Huang Fuhong said,

"The Son of Heaven rushed to Xinfeng tonight, and he will be able to reach Zheng County in two days, and the general will definitely not have time to send a boat to meet him."

"Lord Huangfu can ask the Son of Heaven to rest in Zheng County for a few more days." Pound arched his hand and said,

"I'll lead 20,000 iron horsemen here to stop the pursuers." On the eighth day of the fifth month, Zheng Cheng. Zhang Ji and Wang Fang led their troops to rush to the city.

The gate of Zhengcheng was wide open, the city was fluttering, and the soldiers were patrolling back and forth, and everything was normal. Zhang Ji breathed a long sigh of relief, and said to Wang Fang with a smile: "After Zhengcheng, walk more than a hundred miles to Huayin." As long as we get to Huayin, we will be safe. ”

"The general is still in Hedong, what are you afraid of? Are you afraid that the general will come with a large army to rob the Son of Heaven? Wang Fang waved the horsewhip in his hand and laughed,

"Wen He said, the general doesn't want the Son of Heaven, he wishes that we would go to Tongguan as soon as possible and give him the pass."

"I think Wenhe's idea is a little wrong." Zhang Ji hesitated for a moment and said to Wang Fang,

"The general led the army to fight with Yuan Shao and Han Sui in Chang'an City, and when they were both defeated, we will pick up the bargain, how can there be such a good thing in the world? What we wanted, couldn't the general have imagined? If it were you, what would you do? Wang Fang saw Zhang Ji's serious face and was embarrassed to mock him, so he lowered his head and thought about it,

"If I were a general, I would snatch the Son of Heaven first, and then kill Li Dao and Guo Yan, these bastards. When the worries are gone, I will go to a decisive battle with Yuan Shao and Han Sui. ”

"That's what I thought too." Zhang Ji said worriedly,

"Wenhe always said that the general Qinwang was fake, but the general has always respected the son of today, and he has been paying taxes to the court for the past two years. When Guanzhong was hit by a disaster, he also obeyed the will of the Son of Heaven and spared no effort to deliver relief money and food to Guanzhong. You say, how can the great general King Qin be a fake? If the general doesn't want to be the king of Qin, then what is he doing by paying taxes to the court and delivering relief to Guanzhong? The more Wang Fang thought about it, the more uneasy he became,

"Why didn't you say these words earlier? If the general quietly sends an army to occupy Huayin City or Zhengcheng City before us, we will not be able to fly. ”

"I'm just guessing." Zhang Ji sighed,

They finally shook hands and made peace, agreed to join forces, and took the Son of Heaven to Tongguan for refuge, which was already very difficult. If at this time I suddenly said that the general might ambush us in the area of Zhengcheng and Huayin City, then how could they still go to Tongguan? It's not a trivial matter, and there's nothing to fight about. Forget it, forget it, leave it to fate. Wang Fang nodded,

"Wen He avoided the important and trivialized, deliberately concealed the possibility of the general ambushing us, and tried his best to encourage us to take the Son of Heaven to Tongguan for refuge, which is probably also considered from the overall situation. But ......," he said with luck,

"Perhaps, we are unfounded, and Wenhe's guess may be right. After all, the general is a person, not an immortal, and he can't be exhaustive in everything. At this moment, drums suddenly sounded in Zhengcheng City, and three puffs of wolf smoke rose into the sky, straight up to the clouds.

Zhang Ji and Wang Fang's faces changed greatly, the two of you looked at me, I looked at you, shocked. Yu Poison rode alone and slowly swayed out of the city.

He was a school captain, and when he saw the hussar general Zhang Ji and the Zhenxi general Wang Fang, he should dismount and salute, but he didn't pay attention to his eyes to the sky.

Zhang Ji, Wang Fang and the generals of the Northern Xinjiang Army have repeatedly fought against each other. They knew most of the northern Xinjiang generals in Guanxi and Hedong, but they didn't know this person.

Zhang Ji was shocked in his heart, and felt that the general's knife had been unsheathed. He kicked the horse in the belly, and the horse neighed in pain and galloped forward.

"I'm Zhang Ji, the hussar general, whose subordinate are you?" Yu Poison coughed and looked at him.

Then he coughed a few more times, and then said slowly: "My name is Yu Poison, a small lieutenant under the general's account." Yu Poison's voice was not loud, but it was like thunder in Zhang Ji's ears, which made him frightened.

A pair of thick eyebrows suddenly wrinkled together, and a deep murderous aura suddenly appeared in his eyes. Yu Poison is the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro, and he is a rebel who shocks the world.

The general asked him to lead the army to attack Zhengcheng and block the footsteps of the Son of Heaven from going east to Tongguan.

"Long admiration, long admiration ......" Zhang Ji disregarded his identity and gave his hand as a courtesy,

"Lord Yu's name is really like thunder, see you today, three lives are lucky, three lives are ......lucky, three lives are lucky" Yu Poison was expressionless, his eyes almost narrowed into a slit, his face was full of disdain, and he didn't say a word.

Zhang Ji was very bored, his anger couldn't help but rush up, and his tone immediately became solemn,

"The Son of Heaven drove east to Tongguan, and you quickly opened the city to greet you. By the way, Yuan Shao's army has already chased to Baling, and is confronting Huwei General Pang De, you take the army to support immediately. Yu Poison sneered,

"I am ordered by the general to greet the Son of Heaven here and escort the Son of Heaven to the east of the river by boat." Then his eyes suddenly opened, and he exclaimed,

"Where is the Son of Heaven?" Zhang Ji gritted his teeth in anger, the hand holding the knife kept shaking, and he couldn't wait to rush up and cut this rampant reverse moth with a knife.

General, you are too ruthless to let a yellow turban thief escort you. You don't want to be the king of Qin, you are trying to kill the king.

Even if I die in battle today, I will not hand over the Son of Heaven to Yu Poison.

"Yu Poison, leave Zhengcheng with your army, and I will spare you from death."

"Where is the Son of Heaven?"

"I repeat, give me the way at once."

"Where is the Son of Heaven?"

"Yu Poison, since you want to die, then I will fulfill you." Poison raised his hands violently and roared,

"If you don't hand over the Son of Heaven, you won't want to go any further." Yu turned the horse's head around the poison, and beat the horse to fly away into the city,

"Close the city gate and decide ...... life and death" Zhang Ji and Wang Fang stood side by side on the high slope, looking at the various armies that were preparing to attack the city, looking very nervous.

"In this fight, we will completely tear our faces with the general, if the general rushes up with tens of thousands of troops, what will we do?" Wang Fang swallowed a mouthful of saliva hard, hesitating,

"If the Son of Heaven dies, the general can be said to have been killed by us, or it can be said that the Yellow Turban Army rebelled and was killed by the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army. Anyway, he didn't kill it, and it has nothing to do with him, so I don't think it's good to fight. If we don't fight, we can rely on the Son of Heaven to threaten the general. ”

"Don't fight? Don't you want to fight? Zhang Ji pointed to the big fluttering on the city tower, and said angrily,

"That's the Yellow Turban Army, it's the Yellow Turban Army, if we don't fight him, he will beat us. Whoever strikes first, the general will lead his army to kill, and he has already made up his mind to kill us. Javin and that bastard, this time killed us. "Scouts came from all over the place.

On the Weishui River north of Zhengcheng, hundreds of warships of the Northern Xinjiang Army are docking, including five building ships that can carry more than 1,000 people.

It was only forty miles from the ferry to Zhengcheng, and in the middle of the night, reinforcements from the Northern Xinjiang Army could arrive at the city.

In the mountains and mountains south of Zhengcheng, the banner of the Northern Xinjiang Army can be faintly seen, and I don't know if it is the ambush of the Northern Xinjiang Army or the suspicious plan of the Northern Xinjiang Army.

Zhang Ji put his hands behind his back and spun around on the hillside. Zheng Cheng was tall and strong, and the number of defenders on the city tower would not be less than five thousand.

To take the city before midnight seems to be a bit of a dream.

"Let's go back to Xinfeng City." Wang Fang sat on the grass, and the six gods had no owner.

"It's too late." Zhang Ji shook his hand,

"I'm sure that as long as Guo Yan's men leave Xinfeng City, Xinfeng City will immediately fall into the hands of Pang De." He looked up at the mountains in the distance, looked up to the sky and sighed,

"There is a strong enemy in front, there are chasing soldiers in the back, there is Weishui in the north, and there are mountains in the south, we are in a desperate situation."

"More than 30,000 of us can't keep a son of heaven?" Wang Fang casually plucked a weed from the ground, put it in his mouth and chewed it constantly,

"Now the 100,000 troops of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, Han Sui, and Ma Teng are near Chang'an, and at this time, the general still dares to mobilize 100,000 troops to fight us? If the Northern Xinjiang Army is entangled by us, and Yuan Shao and Han Sui take the opportunity to lead the army to cover up and kill, how can the Northern Xinjiang Army respond to the enemy? The general is not afraid that he will be defeated in the middle of the pass, and he will be in a state of collapse from then on? Zhang Ji smiled bitterly,

"If the general wants to kill us, he doesn't necessarily have to use force."

"We have too little food and grass, as long as the general surrounds us between Xinfeng City and Zhengcheng, we will be trapped to death in less than a month."

"If the soldiers don't have anything to eat, they will be in chaos immediately. Those thousands of Qiang people will turn against us first, the purpose of them following Han Sui to Guanzhong is to ask for money, food, and nothing to eat or drink, what are they doing with us? The second is ourselves. Everyone is already full of contradictions, when facing a life-and-death situation, who will take care of the Son of Heaven? Will you take care of the brotherhood of the past? It's strange not to kill each other, not to betray each other. When the time comes, the general will be able to annihilate us without much effort. Wang Fang looked at Zhang Ji with wide eyes, with a hint of fear in his eyes,

"The general is too ruthless." Wang Fang cursed a few words hatefully, and then chewed the grass in his mouth vigorously. Due to the force being too strong and the movement was too fast, the teeth suddenly bit on the cheeks.

Wang Fang screamed in pain and spit out the weeds in his mouth. The chewed stalks of the grass and the scarlet blood fell on the green grass, which was particularly eye-catching.

Zhang Ji and Wang Fang looked at the bloodstain and felt a shock in their hearts. Jiyi stomped his feet and shouted,

"Give me a siege."

"Urgently tell Li Dao and Guo Yan, speed up, and come to help quickly."

"Send someone over the mountain, ask for help from Tongguan, and ask Zhang Xiu to defend Huayin City at all costs." On the eighth day of the fifth month, at dusk, Hongmen Pavilion.

The sunset is picturesque. Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Jiang Wu, and Mustafa lightly rode their horses, running on the top of the mountains, laughing and talking, and were full of spirit.

"Brother Fengxian, look, they are coming......" Zhao Yun stopped at the horse, pointed to a puff of smoke and dust raised in the distance, and said happily,

"I'll introduce you to a few warriors in the desert." Pang De, Wei Jun, Liu Ming, Storm Sha and Nie Xiao galloped all the way with their own guards.

Zhao Yun and Pang De, Wei Jun and other border county generals have not seen each other for many years, and some have also broken up for a year and a half.

"Zilong, when did you arrive at Guanzhong?" Pound asked in surprise,

"Aren't you in Jizhou?"

"The general called me here, and I just came day and night without eating or sleeping." Zhao Yun said with a smile.

"When did you cross the river? Why don't I have any news at all? ”

"The general wants us to walk along the north bank of the Weishui River day and night. We deliberately concealed our whereabouts, of course you don't know. ”

"Xinfeng City has been won?" Wei Jun asked.

"Got it." Zhao Yun said,

"Tomorrow, Lord Koji will take the army to Xinfeng City to meet us."

"Where's the general?"

"The Great General is in Kansai."

"In Kansai?" Pound and the generals looked at each other in shock. Jump to