Sword Pavilion, official office.

Zhang Fei sat there with a gloomy face, staring at a letter on the table with a pair of tiger eyes, and his mood simply fell to the bottom.

Fa Zheng was standing opposite Zhang Fei, he noticed the displeasure on Zhang Fei's face, that kind of expression told him that something was wrong, and it was a big deal.

"Lord, is something wrong?" Fa Zheng asked cautiously.

Zhang Fei didn't speak, but just pushed the letter in front of him to Fa Zheng.

The letter was sent by Meng Da who stayed in Chengdu, Fa Zheng took the letter, hurriedly browsed it, and his face was also gloomy, as he expected, something big happened, Huang Quan, Wang Lei, Zhang Song led a group of old ministers in Shu, secretly welcomed back Liu Zhang, and openly announced the surrender of the Han court, Shu County, Guanghan and other places in various counties have responded, the west of the Sword Pavilion is no longer owned by Zhang Fei, Meng Da led a small number of henchmen to escape from Chengdu, hidden in the Qingcheng Mountain, did not dare to come out, risked death to send someone to send the letter.

In addition, Meng Da also brought news that the Han court sent another army to attack Yizhou from Jingzhou, led by the chariot general Zhang Liao, Bajun Taishou and the veteran Yan Yan were killed in battle, and Zhang Liao had led the army to approach Chengdu. Even the brothers Wu Yi and Wu Ban, who were stationed on the border between South and China, led the people to surrender to the Han court.

The arrival of this letter made Zhang Fei and Fa Zheng angry, but they didn't expect that the foundation they had just established had been destroyed in just a few months.

"Lord, who else have you shown this letter?" Fa Zheng hurriedly asked.

Zhang Fei said: "It's just you!" ”

Fa Zheng sighed and said, "So I'm relieved, it's a top priority now." Messages should be blocked as much as possible. So as not to cause confusion in the hearts of the army! ”

Zhang Fei didn't speak for a long time. just sighed heavily, and finally said loudly: "I really didn't expect that Yizhou, which my husband and I worked so hard to fight, really didn't expect that it would collapse and collapse so easily, hateful, really hateful, God don't bless me." God bless me! ”

When Fa Zheng heard Zhang Fei say this, he also sighed heavily, it is really up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen.

At this moment, Li Yan suddenly broke in from the outside, with a happy look, and shouted at Zhang Fei as soon as he entered the door: "Lord, you go to the city tower and take a look, outside the city...... Out of town ......"

Without waiting for Li Yan to finish speaking, Zhang Fei hurriedly asked, "What's wrong outside the city?" ”

Li Yan said: "The Han army outside the city has fought...... They beat themselves up. A lot of people have died......"

"Is there such a thing?" Zhang Fei also swept away the haze just now, and immediately said to Li Yan. "Let's go upstairs and have a look."

On the Guancheng of the Sword Pavilion, Liu Xian and the other soldiers were all looking at each other, and their eyes revealed a look of schadenfreude.

In the distance, there was chaos in front of the Han army camp, corpses were everywhere, blood stained the land, and the two soldiers and horses were still fighting.

"What's going on outside the city?" Zhang Fei climbed the city wall and saw that the Han army camp outside was already in chaos, so he immediately asked.

When Liu Xian saw Zhang Fei coming, he took the initiative to step forward and said, "Lord Qiqi, the Han army didn't know what the reason was, so they started fighting by themselves." ”

Zhang Fei stood there, looking into the distance, but saw two extremely familiar figures appear in the crowd, he fixed his eyes and saw that the two people who were fighting were not Ma Chao and Xu Huang?

"Strange, why did the two of them fight?" Zhang Fei said to himself.

Liu Xian said: "I don't know. ”

Everyone locked their eyes on the front of the Han army camp, and this time everyone clearly saw that Ma Chao and Xu Huang were fighting hard, not only that, but the subordinates of the two people were also fighting to the death, and the two sides were hurting each other.

Not long after, suddenly from the camp out of a troop of soldiers and horses, without saying a word, directly to Ma Chao, but surrounded Ma Chao, Ma Chao's subordinates are getting fewer and fewer, Ma Chao is helpless, he was forced to take more than a thousand cavalry to kill a bloody road, want to flee around, but the way back was blocked by the Han army, the conflict did not come out, in desperation, Ma Chao could only take the soldiers and horses towards the Sword Pavilion to gallop down.

Ma Chao led more than 1,000 cavalry to retreat while fighting, all the way towards the Sword Pavilion, which made Zhang Fei, Fa Zheng, Li Yan, Liu Xian and others on the upper floor of the Sword Pavilion City very nervous, and they made the soldiers stand by and fight tightly, and Ma Chao was not allowed to approach.

Ma Chao also seemed to notice this subtle change, so he asked his subordinate General Pang De to lead his subordinates to block Xu Huang's attack for him, and he came to the city single-handedly, shouting at the city tower: "Don't release arrows!" Ma Mengqi begged to see General Zhang! Ma Mengqi begged to see General Zhang! ”

Fa Zheng, Li Yan, Liu Xian and others all moved their eyes to Zhang Fei's body, but seeing that Zhang Fei did not move at all, staring at Ma Chao outside the city for a long time, he never gave the order to release the arrows, and when Ma Chao was impatient to ride a war horse within a hundred steps of galloping on the road, there was still no movement.

Ma Chao also strangled the horse with great interest, stopped within a hundred steps, and did not dare to move forward, he suddenly saw Zhang Fei standing on the city tower, his face showed a long-lost look of joy, and hurriedly shouted: "General Zhang, Ma Mengqi is cornered, his belly and back are under the enemy, and I hope the general will take him in......"

Zhang Fei watched every move under the city, without any movement, let alone say a word, his eyes clearly saw that Xu Huang was approaching step by step with several times the strength of Ma Chao, while the cavalry led by Pang De, Ma Dai and others fell one after another, and could no longer stand up, from the initial more than 1,000 people, has been sharply reduced to more than 800 people, and the Han army is still approaching step by step, the tragic Cheng dù of the battle is not pretended at all.

At this time, Ma Chao looked back at the approaching Han army, as well as the subordinates who kept falling, and said anxiously: "General Zhang, Ma Chao is in a hurry today, and he has to surrender to General Zhang. ”

Zhang Fei frowned, glanced back at Fa Zheng who was standing beside him, and asked: "We don't know why Ma Chao and Xu Huang fought, but looking at the situation, it doesn't seem to be acting, Ma Chao is the tiger general of the world, and he is quite famous in the Liangzhou area, and he betrayed and surrendered to me in a hurry today, and the military advisor thinks, can I take Ma Chao under my command?" ”

Fa Zheng has been keeping a close eye on every move outside the city, although he doesn't know why the Han army has internal strife, Ma Chao and Xu Huang are fighting for something, but everything is so real, both sides are fighting the battlefield, that kind of life-and-death look, it can't be pretended at all.

Zhang Fei has never ordered the arrow to be released, in fact, he has already accepted Ma Chao in his heart, but he needs an excuse and needs someone else to say it for him.

Fa Zhengdao: "At this time, Ma Chao has been forced into a desperate situation, if the lord does not help, Ma Chao will definitely die, and looking at the ruthlessness of Ma Chao and Xu Huang's fighting, it seems that it is not a feint, I think that if the lord really wants to turn Ma Chao into his subordinate, this is a good opportunity." ”

Li Yan objected: "Ma Chao's wolf ambition must be unwilling to be under the lord, if he is taken in, it will undoubtedly be a problem to raise a tiger, please think twice." ”

Zhang Fei knew very well in his heart that now there was only the lonely pass of the Sword Pavilion in Yizhou, if he didn't absorb the powerful power and make himself stronger, he was afraid that as soon as Ma Chao died, it would be his turn next.

He thought about it, weighed the pros and cons, and finally was willing to accept Ma Chao, if Ma Chao helped, he might be able to recapture Chengdu, even if he couldn't recapture it, he could also take the road to Liangzhou, with Ma Chao's prestige, and then turn the world upside down in Liangzhou, it is unknown.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Fei immediately ordered: "Open the city gate and let Ma Chao and the others enter the customs." ”

"Lord!" Li Yan suddenly knelt on the ground and pleaded bitterly to Zhang Fei, "Ma Chao is a wolf, don't raise a tiger for trouble, maybe this is the enemy's strategy......

Zhang Fei didn't pay attention to Li Yan's words, and insisted on going his own way: "Open the city gate and let Ma Chao enter the customs." (To be continued......)