After Hu Che'er got Yang Xiu's reply, he didn't dare to delay in the slightest, rode a war horse, and rushed to the public security at night. Since Dongting Lake is located downstream of the public security, if you take a boat upstream, it will delay the day, and it is not as fast as taking the land route.

A day and a half later, Hu Che'er dragged his tired body and finally arrived at the public security, and as soon as he entered the city, he hurriedly handed Yang Xiu's letter to Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu opened the letter, and after reading it in a hurry, a faint smile appeared on his face, and he said slowly: "I see, it's ......."

After that, Zhang Xiu asked Hu Che'er to rest, after all, Hu Che'er had been running around for so many days, and he was already exhausted.

Then, according to Yang Xiu's strategy, Zhang Xiu began to make some arrangements. First of all, he sent a messenger to contact the barbarian king Shamoke, saying that he would allow the barbarian king Shamoke to surrender, and that he would attack Zuotang County in Wuling County in three days, so that Shamoke would introduce Zhang Fei into Zuotang County no matter what, and then let Shamoke cooperate with Zhang Xiu, come to the inside and outside, attack Zhang Fei together, and take his head.

According to the contact information left by the barbarian envoy before, the envoy quickly contacted Shamoke, and then handed Zhang Xiu's letter to Shamoke, after Shamoke read it, he agreed to the messenger, and then personally sent the envoy out of Lu, and asked the messenger to reply to Zhang Xiu, and he would bring Zhang Fei to the city of Zuotang County according to the agreement.

After Shamoke sent away the messenger sent by Zhang Xiu, he immediately took this letter to Zhang Fei and dedicated Zhang Xiu's letter to Zhang Fei.

"General, this is Zhang Xiu's reply, please take a look at it!" Shamoke came to Zhang Fei and respectfully handed over Zhang Xiu's reply.

Zhang Fei took the letter handed over by Shamoke. After a quick glance. He asked, "Have you agreed?" ”

"Everything is according to the general's orders. All yes. Shamoko said.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, if you can successfully kill Zhang Xiu this time, you will be the first merit, and when the time comes, your reward will be indispensable." Zhang Fei said happily.

Shamoko said even more happily: "Thank you, General! ”

"Well, you go down and get ready. Tomorrow we will set off and go to Tang County. ”

"Whoa!"

After Shamoke left the hall, Zhang Fei hurriedly took the letter to Fa Zheng, and handed Zhang Xiu's letter to Fa Zheng, asking Fa Zheng to help him get an idea.

After reading Zhang Xiu's letter, Fa Zheng didn't notice anything unusual in the letter, so he said to Zhang Fei: "If Zhang Xiu really takes the bait, then he will definitely be able to capture him in one fell swoop this time." But I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of just in case, Yanwang Zhang Yan has a lot of talents. If you don't have it, someone will see through this plan. For the sake of safety, I think the general should be prepared with both hands. ”

Zhang Fei nodded. Hurriedly asked: "Sir, what to do, I will listen to you, you just have to tell me." ”

Fa Zheng said with a smile: "I'm just responsible for giving advice to the general, transferring troops and dispatching generals, and I still rely on the general, I don't want others to misunderstand, saying that I am a dove occupying the magpie's nest, and I am mainly anti-guest." ”

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "As long as Mr. has a clever plan to help me win the battle all the time, Zhang will willingly listen to Mr. Yu." ”

Fa Zheng also laughed and said: "The general is the master, I am the planner, during this period of giving advice to the general, please rest assured that the general will definitely spare no effort to help the general." ”

Immediately afterwards, Fa Zheng told Zhang Fei what he wanted, and asked Zhang Fei to use dough to make a human head exactly like him, and then hand it to Shamoke, and then let Shamoke carry his dummy head to trick Zhang Xiu into the city, and then ambush him.

The real Zhang Fei, with the elite of his subordinates, ambushed outside the city, if Zhang Xiu successfully took the bait, he would not move, and after Zhang Xiu was killed, he would lead the army out and attack the rest of Zhang Xiu. If Zhang Xiu did not enter the city, Zhang Fei led the army to kill him, and joined forces with the Shamo Keli in the city, surrounded Zhang Xiu near the city gate, and ambushed him.

Zhang Fei was very happy with the two-handed preparations that Fa Zheng said, and when he decided to do it according to this strategy, he then gathered his subordinates and began to give some orders, and gathered troops and horses early tomorrow morning and prepared to set off for Tang County.

And Zhang Xiu, who was far away in the public security, was also actively planning everything, while patiently waiting for the return of the envoy, while ordering Hu Che'er, Hao Zhao and others to actively prepare for battle.

In fact, from the very beginning, Zhang Xiu was suspicious of Shamoke, because Shamoke was a barbarian, and he had also had contact with Shamoke. In addition, the content of the letter is also very literate, how can a vulgar barbarian write such words? For this reason, Zhang Xiu also specially asked the barbarian envoy who wrote the letter, and the barbarian envoy insisted that the letter was written by Shamoke.

From this point on, Zhang Xiu knew that the surrender of Shamoke was definitely a conspiracy.

However, Zhang Xiu didn't know how to deal with it, so he wrote a letter to Yang Xiu and asked Yang Xiu for advice. Yang Xiu also replied, at least in Zhang Xiu's opinion, Yang Xiu's strategy was much more clever.

In Yang Xiu's reply to Zhang Xiu, there are dense words, but in general, there are only four simple words, that is, "the plan is calculated". The rest are specific details of the operation, how to arrange it, and so on.

In other words, Yang Xiu's reply to Zhang Xiu was a specific battle plan, and for this reason, Zhang Xiu also sent someone to investigate Tang County, and the terrain results were almost exactly the same as what Yang Xiu said. So, Zhang Xiu admired Yang Xiu very much, thinking that Yang Xiu could strategize without leaving home.

But in fact, the reason why Yang Xiu knew the terrain of Wuling was also the result of asking Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong has been in Jingnan for a long time, and he knows the terrain well, so this battle plan also has half of Huang Zhong's credit.

After Zhang Xiu got Shamoke's reply, he immediately ordered all the soldiers and horses, and led the elite soldiers and strong generals with Hu Che'er and Hao Zhao, a total of 10,000 horse infantry troops.

In the sixteenth year of the Eastern Han Dynasty (40 AD), Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty divided the predecessor of Gong'an County, Xiaoling County, into two, and established Zuotang County in the south, and the north still belonged to Xiaoling County.

But in fact, the people of Zuotang County and Xiaoling County have always felt that they are a family and have never been separated. However, due to the geographical advantages of Xiaoling County, the economic development of Xiaoling County is relatively fast, and the development of Tang County is slower.

The county seat of Zuotang County is not too far from Gong'an County, and it was not until Zhang Xiu led the army to arrive here that he knew what Yang Xiu would choose the ambush location here.

The city of Tang County is dilapidated, easy to attack and difficult to defend, the people in the city are less than 1,000 households, the city is narrow, and it is not suitable to garrison troops, even if someone is defending the city, it can also be captured in one go.

Most of Zhang Fei's army was gathered in Linyuan City, the county seat of Wuling County, and the area north of Wuling was Zhang Fei's weak zone, which was blocked by mountains, so it was not very convenient to walk, and there was no water system that could lead directly to here, so he could only reach here by walking.

Therefore, it takes two days to arrive in Zuotang County from Linyuan City.

And Zhang Xiu arrived in Zuotang County three days in advance, and 10,000 elites were ambushed in advance on the road from Linyuan to the county seat of Zuotang County.

From Linyuan to Zuotang County, there are only two roads, one is to take the waterway, but it belongs to the upstream of the river, and the other is the land route, but it needs to go over the mountains and mountains, and when entering the county border of Zuotang County, there is only one road to pass, this road is a narrow canyon, which is replaced by the locals as the Snake Valley.

Zhang Xiu ambushed all his troops in various hidden positions in the Snake Valley, waiting for Zhang Fei's army to arrive. As soon as Zhang Fei's army arrived, he immediately launched an attack, not giving Zhang Fei's army any respite.

To put it bluntly, this war is not Zhang Fei and Zhang Xiu's, but Fa Zheng and Yang Xiu's, they are just executors, and the people who really plan are Yang Xiu and Fa Zheng, this war is a contest between two wise men, who wins and who loses, will directly depend on the future of Jing Nan.

On the evening of the second day when Zhang Xiu arrived in Zuotang County, Zhang Fei led the army to Zuotang County. At the head of the team were 20,000 barbarian soldiers led by the barbarian king Shamoke, followed by 5,000 elite soldiers of Shanyue led by Zhang Fei.

Zhang Xiu's scouts hurriedly informed him of Zhang Feijun's movements, and after Zhang Xiu learned about it, he was also overjoyed, and ordered Hu Che'er and Hao Zhao not to care about the 20,000 barbarians, let them go, and deal with Zhang Fei at the end.

The Snake Valley stretches for more than ten miles, is the narrowest place in this area, can only accommodate three people to walk side by side, both sides are steep cliffs, look up at the sky at the bottom of the valley, can only see a line, so it is also called a line of sky.

The area around Wuling is originally vast and sparsely populated, and at night, it can show the desertion here.

The cold moon hung high in the night sky, like a silver hook, hanging above everyone's heads, and the white moonlight shrouded the vast mountains, and the mountains were indeed lonely, and occasionally one or two owl calls were heard, and there was no other sound.

Zhang Fei walked at the entrance of the Snake Valley, looked up at the steep cliffs on both sides of the Snake Valley, and felt that this was a dangerous place.

Suddenly, Zhang Fei turned his head to the soldiers beside him and asked, "What is this place?" ”

"This place is called the Valley of the Snake." The knowledgeable soldier replied.

"Snake Valley? The weapon I use is called the Zhangba Snake Spear, and the martial arts I practice are also called the Spirit Snake Marksmanship, and this place is also called the Snake Valley, how can I be so related to the snake? Zhang Fei thought to himself, and he actually laughed, feeling that this place seemed to be prepared for him. (To be continued......)