The distance from Wancheng to Jiangxia is about 600 miles, but due to the heavy mountains and rugged roads, Chang Yuchun's army can only walk about 40 miles a day, which makes Chang Yuchun, who is bent on taking the lead, very annoyed!

"Our army has been walking for eight days, and it has only been three hundred miles away until now, and Yue Pengju's army has already reached the foot of Xiangyang City. If this continues, how can we get the first credit? Chang Yuchun immediately crossed his sword and loudly urged the team to speed up the march.

Xu Shu reined in Xu Xing, followed Chang Yuchun around, and said: "General Chang, the road from Wancheng to Xiangyang is smooth, and the distance is close, if you are taken the first credit by Yue Dudu, it is reasonable to break Xiangyang first." This mountain road is rugged and steep, and if the march speed is accelerated, I am afraid that many sergeants will accidentally fall off the cliff, causing unnecessary casualties, but the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Chang Yuchun frowned and glanced at Xu Shu, he didn't say anything, but he was very impatient in his heart.

"Yue Fei is a fake public and private, why did he let me attack Jiangxia, while he himself went to attack Xiangyang? You see what kind of deputy generals are arranged for me, Yang Qilang, who has a stubborn personality, first with the imperial court and then with Dong Zhuo, and finally returned to my Eastern Han Dynasty with the third surnamed slave Xu Rong, and the arrogant Cheng Yanjin...... Who are these people? Why did Gao Chong, Yang Zaixing, and Gao Changgong, who were both obedient and brave and good at fighting, follow him? ”

"This Yue Fei deliberately assigned me a few disobedient or useless generals, deliberately slowing down my attack on Jiangxia, so that I could take Xiangyang in advance, and use someone I often used to set off his soldiers like a god!"

Chang Yuchun rode a horse and walked in the army, and the more he thought about it, the more irritated he became, "This Yue Fei saw Li Jing winning every day. Promoted to the general of the Eastern Expedition, I was very jealous when I thought about it. and knew that he couldn't compare to Li Jing. So if you want to use someone from me to set off his majesty, I just don't let you get your wish! ”

Come to think of it. Chang Yuchun ordered loudly: "The whole army must speed up, and you must travel sixty miles every day to camp and rest, otherwise you will march overnight!" We must take Jiangxia before Yue Pengju breaks through Xiangyang! ”

At this time, it was the middle of June, the sun was like fire, and the soldiers braved the scorching sun to climb the mountain roads and mountains, and they were miserable.

"This is often peeled in order to compete with Yue Dudu. I don't care about the lives of the soldiers. It is only 300 miles from Wancheng to Xiangyang, and it is a flat and wide gallop road, what kind of road are we walking under our feet? Uphill and downhill, rugged, steep places where the carriage needs manpower to carry over, how can it be compared with Xiangyang? ”

After a day's hard work, the nickname of "often peeling" spread throughout the army, and almost everyone knew the name of often peeling.

"Bold, who dares to slander the general? I really ate the heart of a bear and a leopard gall! ”

Chang Yuchun was furious when he learned about it. He ordered the march to be stopped, rested on the spot, and marched again after the culprits had been identified.

instructed the cronies on the left and right: "Wait for me to find out, which one is slandering the general?" If you can't find out. No one needs to eat! If there is a clue, I will be tortured. I am often the chief general of the three armed forces, how can I allow the subordinates to slander? Will not stand. What about winning? ”

If brutal tactics are permitted, find out the origin of the gossip. It's not a difficult thing to do. Chang Yuchun's cronies were ordered to show off their might in the whole army. used both soft and hard, and soon found the culprit of slandering Chang Yuchun.

"Arrest these guys who slander the master!"

The captain who has the same surname as Chang Yuchun is often in the depths of Chang Yuchun, and at this moment he has a rare opportunity to show his majesty, and immediately ordered to take people with arrogance.

These people are Xu Rong's old subordinates, who have followed Xu Rong to fight in the south and north since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, so they naturally refused to give in, and immediately confronted Chang Zai's gang with tension: "What evidence do you have that we slandered General Chang?" ”

"Yo-he...... I've come to get people on the orders of the Lord, and I'm here, see? ”

Chang Zai was furious and shook the command talisman in his hand, "Disobeying military orders is a capital crime!" Where are the left and right, take down all these people for me, whoever dares to resist will be killed on the spot! ”

Disobeying military orders is a big crime, and fighting in the army is also a big crime, Xu Rong's several old subordinates didn't dare to make too much trouble, and were beaten by Chang Yuchun's personal soldiers, and they were all brought to Chang Yuchun with a blue nose and swollen face.

"Pull them all down for me, and I'll be heavily punished with eighty military sticks!"

Chang Yuchun didn't ask, and gave the order directly. Regardless of whether he is the initiator or not, he will kill the chickens and monkeys, deter the soldiers of the three armies, and see who dares to brush his tiger whiskers?

"The villain is wronged, we did scold General Chang a few words, but we are not the initiator! Please, General, be gracious! ”

Eighty military sticks are not a joke, and after being beaten down, you have to peel off the skin if you don't die; Not to mention making contributions, it is unknown whether they can get out of this mountain forest alive. Xu Rong's subordinates immediately softened and knelt on the ground together to forgive.

Chang Yuchun has been inexplicably angry these days, and today he was nicknamed again, and he was really unhappy in his heart if he didn't vent it, and he turned a deaf ear to Xu Rong's begging for mercy, but instead intensified his words: "Left and right, hit me, beat me hard!" Life or death! ”

"No!"

Chang Yuchun's cronies agreed, pressed several of Xu Rong's subordinates to the ground, took off his pants, and wanted to be dealt with by military law.

"Be merciful!"

In the midst of the noise, Xu Rong, who got the news, took more than a dozen personal soldiers to push aside the crowd and rushed over from behind.

After asking what happened, Xu Rong accompanied Chang Yuchun with a smiling face and pleaded guilty: "Hehe...... I think General Chang, you have misunderstood, these old brothers have been with the last general for many years, and I think they still know the difference between respect and inferiority. If you think about it, you don't dare to take the initiative to slander you, general, and I hope that General Chang will look at Rong's thin face and forgive my brothers, right? ”

Chang Yuchun is cold and arrogant, and his relationship with his colleagues is not very good, and the entire Han court has a good relationship with him, only Qin Qiong and Ling Cao are not thin, and Chang Yuchun does not pay attention to other people. Not to mention Xu Rong, who was demoted to the status of a general.

"Military law is ruthless, don't you know? You're just a mere general, what kind of face do you have? Ben will not cure you for the sin of restraint and no way, count you as burning high incense! "Chang Yu Chun Leng is aggressive towards Xu Rong, completely ignoring the friendship of colleagues.

"You ......"

was humiliated by Chang Yuchun, Xu Rongzhi felt the reverse flow of qi and blood, and his whole body trembled, but he was helpless. I could only watch the ruthless military stick hit my body hard, and my face felt a hot pain.

Eighty military sticks were beaten, one person was killed on the spot, and the other few were also dying, and the three souls went to the seven spirits, and only the qi that came out did not enter it. Xu Rong knocked out his teeth and swallowed blood, waved his hand and signaled his cronies to carry his men back, ten years in Hedong and ten years in Hexi, it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge!

With Xu Rong out of a bad breath, Chang Yuchun passed the order, and the whole army continued to rush forward, and it was not allowed to set up camp if it was not enough to go sixty miles. With the turmoil just now, no one dared to publicly slander Chang Yuchun, but one of them greeted the eighteenth generation of Chang Yuchun's ancestors in his heart.

In the evening, the army of 70,000 came to a rugged section that did not rely on the front of the ridge and did not rely on the slope, and the sheep intestine trail was surrounded by hills and ravines, and it was not even possible to camp on the spot. Either go on hard, or retreat fifteen miles, and set up camp in the wider and flat area that had been walked two hours earlier.

Xu Shu, who joined the army, rode over and said: "General Chang, it is already dusk, the road ahead is rugged, and traveling at night may cause unnecessary casualties." In my opinion, it is better to order the army to retreat fifteen miles, and wait until tomorrow dawn to pass through this precipitous area, right? ”

If he turned back, wouldn't Chang Yuchun slap himself in the face, so he could only give an order: "Ben General has already ordered that if he can't walk enough for sixty miles, he is not allowed to set up camp." All of them lit torches, marched overnight, and set up camp after today's march of sixty miles! ”

"Alas!"

Seeing Chang Yuchun riding away from the horse, Xu Shu could only shake his head helplessly. Although Chang Yuchun fought bravely, he was really a big step behind in dealing with people.

This mountain road is rugged and stumbling, and there is a cliff of more than ten zhang under the feet, and the 70,000 troops light the torches and walk through carefully.

It's just that no matter how bright the torches are, they can't keep up with the light of the day, although the Han army is more careful, but there are still people from time to time who stumble and fall off the cliff, making a miserable scream, which makes the soldiers behind look creepy.

The army of 70,000 marched forward with a hard head, and in an hour and a half, 20,000 men passed through this dangerous path. But just 20,000 people, at least more than 100 people fell off the cliff, and there were dozens of horses and vehicles.

Cheng Yanjin and Yang Qilang couldn't help but be angry, and came to Chang Yuchun to reason: "If this black light blind person moves forward again, the innocent casualties will inevitably be even more heavy." Whether you change your mind or not, we will never go forward again, rest on the spot, and be on our way after dawn! ”

Chang Yuchun also knew that his stubbornness had brought about the consequences of Yan zhòng, and said with a pale face: "Ben Jiang just wanted to take Jiangxia as soon as possible, who would have expected the road to be so difficult." Since this is the case, please trouble the two of them to lead the rest of the men and horses to rest on the mountain road, and Chang Mou led the 20,000 people who crossed the dangerous road to continue to move forward, looking for an open place to set up camp. ”

At this moment, it is already difficult to ride a tiger, and tens of thousands of troops are walking on dangerous paths, whether they advance or retreat, they will cause innocent casualties, and they can only rest on the spot. The soldiers leaned against the mountain wall, sitting or standing to rest, and wanted to lie down and sleep for a while, but they couldn't think about it.

Chang Yuchun, Xu Rong, Xu Shu, and Zhuge Liang led 20,000 people who crossed the dangerous path to continue to move forward in the dark, and walked seven or eight miles before finding a wide area, and Chang Yuchun ordered to set up camp.

The night was dark, Xu Rong was furious, and immediately took up the pen to repair two letters, and sent his cronies to Xiangyang and Jinling secretly, respectively, to impeach Chang Yuchun to the Son of Heaven and Yue Fei, one to accuse him of abusing the soldiers, and the other to accuse him of being greedy for merit and rash of human life. (To be continued......)