Just after Li Jing annihilated Cao Bin in Panguling, Xiahou Yuan of Pingyuan County, who was stationed in Pingyuan County, was shocked, and while sending envoys to report the bad news to Cao Cao, he also sent scouts to closely spy on the movements of Li Jing's army, and led his troops to leave the plain and move towards Qinghe County, intending to intercept Li Jing's army and defend Yecheng.
But in the face of the huge Han army, known as 300,000, Xiahou Yuan did not dare to intercept rashly, with the 40,000 soldiers and horses in his hands is simply hitting a stone with an egg, he can only give away people's heads for nothing like Cao Bin, but he can't watch the Han army pass under his nose and go straight to the national capital, which makes Xiahou Yuan very dilemma.
While waiting for Cao Cao's instructions, Xiahou Yuan successively sent several cavalry envoys to Nanpi to order Jing Bu to lead his troops to leave Nanpi, move in the direction of Qinghe County, join forces with himself, and harass the Han army from behind to alleviate the siege of Yecheng.
The envoy quickly came to the outside of Nanpi City, but found that the 5,000 Tang army was encamped outside the city, Li Yuanba put a pair of drum urns and golden hammers under his buttocks, stared at the city gate of Nanpi like a rabbit, and scolded a few times from time to time: "The turtle grandson surnamed Jing, hurry up and release my woman, otherwise this king will be here to guard until the sky is old."
Fortunately, Li Yuanba's nature is not bad, and he did not embarrass Xiahou Yuan's envoys, and Li Siye, who stayed to accompany him, was even more afraid of affecting the Cao Wei Alliance, so he quietly reminded a few envoys: "Our King Zhao's brain is a little bad, a few people don't have to be like him, just go around the north gate and enter the city."
The envoy thanked Li Siye, circled around Nanpi and entered Nanpi City from the north gate, went straight to Jingbu's mansion, presented Xiahou Yuan's letter, and said: "General Jing, the Han army has approached Yecheng, General Xiahou ordered you to lead your troops to leave Nanpi, go to Qinghe County to meet him, and harass Li Jing in the back guerrilla attack to relieve the siege of Yecheng. ” Jing Bu stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It's okay for me to defend Yecheng, but Your Majesty should be rewarded for meritorious service and punished for mistakes, so as to serve the public."
If Nanpi didn't have my Jingbu, it would have been lost a long time ago, and the 30,000 horses in the city would have been wiped out, and I would not have been under Le Yi and Fan Li, please send the messenger back to General Xiahou, and ask him to ask His Majesty to canonize me Jingbu as the king, if Your Majesty agrees, I Jingbu will definitely go to the soup for the Great Wei State, and I will die without giving up."
Hearing that the Jingbu lion opened his mouth, he actually asked Cao Cao to make him king, and the envoy turned pale with fright: "How dare the villain agree to this, such a thing, even Cao Zixiao, Xiahou Yuanrang and other clan generals have never been crowned kings, and the general's request is really difficult for a strong man."
Jing Bu's eyes widened, and he scolded viciously: "When did Ben Jiang say that you agreed to just let you tell Xiahou Yuan, if you dare to talk about it again, you will definitely be expelled."
The envoy was so frightened that he could only salute and say goodbye, hurriedly got on his horse, and took advantage of Li Yuanba's inattention to leave the city from the Nanpi West Gate, and quickly whipped his horse in the direction of Qinghe to report to Xiahou Yuan.
After Xiahou Yuan's envoy left, Jing Bu ordered someone to lift Zhang Xiu out of the prison and release him personally, and said with a smile on his face: "General Zhang, because of the urgent military situation that day, my brother and I were short-tempered, and I looked at Haihan where I was offended."
Zhang Xiu also knew that Nanpi was now the world of Jingbu, and his arms couldn't twist his thighs, if he was against him again, he would definitely not be pleased, so it would be better to bow his head for the time being.
"The younger brother is worried about the master, and his tone has a lot of conflicts, so that he angered General Jing, Zhang Xiu is here to apologize to you" Zhang Xiu is well versed in the truth that the current affairs are Junjie, and immediately apologized to Jing Bu.
Jing Bu said with a sad face: "Because of Cao Bin's incompetence, our army fell into Li Jing's plan to lure the enemy, and the 50,000 horses of Panguling have been wiped out, and Mr.
Tong Yuan, the respected teacher, has also died on the battlefield."
Zhang Xiu had already learned the news from the jailer in prison, and at this moment he could only sigh, "Alas, the knife and gun have no eyes, the battlefield is ruthless, the master has passed away, and the younger brother can only remember the ancestors." ” Jing Bu explained helplessly: "Brother Zhang, don't blame my brother for not saving me when I see death, it's all Cao Bin's rice bucket that caused the trouble, not only killed Mr.
Tong Yuan, the respected teacher, but also killed 50,000 soldiers."
With only 30,000 horses in Nanpi City, even if they come out, it will be a gift for nothing."
"The little brother was indeed a little reckless at that time, but now that I think about it, General Jing's decision is more correct."
Regardless of whether Zhang Xiu was convinced or not, he didn't dare to contradict Jing Bu anymore.
People must bow their heads under the eaves, otherwise they will be bumped into their heads.
Jing Bu said with an angry face: "Brother Zhang, you and I were born and died, and worked hard for the Great Wei wholeheartedly, but Your Majesty reused the clansmen to despise outsiders, and reused Cao Ren, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, and Cao Bin as the main generals.
So much so that Xiahou Yuan lost his life, Cao Ren lost Xuchang and Chen Liu, Cao Bin himself became a prisoner of the subordinates, Xiahou Yuan did nothing, it was simply Huang Zhong destroying the tile kettle and thundering" Zhang Xiu was also deeply touched by what Jing Bu said, and said with emotion: "What General Jing said is true, in terms of promoting talents, Your Majesty is indeed inferior to Liu Bian, you see that Liu Biao appointed generals with different surnames such as Li Jing, Wu Qi, and Yue Fei, but His Majesty always handed over the corps to the clansmen, and could not appoint people on the basis of merit, so that the situation deteriorated. ” Jing Bu suddenly laughed loudly: "What Brother Zhang said is very true, sure enough, the hero sees the same thing, I have already made a request to Xiahou Yuan and Your Majesty, let Your Majesty canonize me as the king, and command a team of soldiers and horses alone."
If Your Majesty agrees, I will continue to serve the Wei State, and if Your Majesty does not agree, hehe, I will find another way" "Well, General Jing has made a request to His Majesty to be crowned king" Zhang Xiu's face changed, and he was a little disdainful of Jing Bu's behavior of taking advantage of the fire to rob.
Jing Bu looked full of ambition: "Now that Wei is worried about internal and external troubles, and there are many difficulties, I think Your Majesty will agree to my request nine times out of ten."
As long as Brother Zhang, you follow my brother and me sincerely, and when I will be the king of the earth in the future and dominate one side, you will be the number one general under me."
Zhang Xiu couldn't see the situation clearly now, but he didn't dare to offend Jing Bu, so he gave his hand and said: "Thanks to General Jing's attention, the little brother is willing to take your head as a leader."
"Haha, why is there still a general Jing, call me brother" Jing Bu enthusiastically hugged Zhang Xiu's shoulder, "Now the generals in Nanpi City are only you and my brothers, it can be seen that this is the fate destined by God, it is better for you and me to form a blood alliance as brothers with different surnames, and we will be blessed and share hardships, what do you think?"
Zhang Xiu hesitated: "This brother is brave, he is the pillar of the Great Wei, Zhang Xiu is just a partial general, I am afraid of insulting General Jing." ” "Hey, brother, you are too modest to say this, when you were young, you fought all over the Northland with a spear, and you were called the Northland Spear King, how can you be a nameless" Jing Bu couldn't help but instruct his own soldiers to buy sacrifices, pulled Zhang Xiu to bow together, and said some oaths such as "blessings and hardships", "not to be born on the same day, but to die on the same day, the same month, the same year", but in his heart, he had a ghost.
Jing Bu was bent on splitting the earth as the king, and wanted to be a prince under the protection of Cao Cao, but because there was no one available under his command, he tried every means to win over Zhang Xiu.
And although Zhang Xiu can't talk about hating Jing Bu, but it is not to the point of being like-minded, but people have to bow their heads under the eaves, so they can only make a righteous ceremony with Jing Bu against their will.
After swearing to Zhang Xiu, Jing Bu gathered his partial generals and captains, promoted himself to official positions, and opened the Nanpiku Mansion to reward the soldiers, and loudly encouraged the army: "On merit, I Jing Bu should be the king, if the Emperor of Great Wei does not allow it, I will uncover the rod and stand on my own, everyone will be rewarded, and each will be promoted."
These Cao army soldiers saw that the situation in Wei was getting worse and worse, and now they had milk is their mother, and they raised their weapons in response to Jing Bu: "What the general said is extremely true, we are willing to take the general's horse as the leader, and obey the order."
Jing Bu ordered to open the Nanpi Prison, release all the prisoners inside and join the army, and recruited soldiers from various households, raising more than 10,000 people before and after, plus the original 30,000 horses in the city, so that Jing Bu had 40,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and he was even more ambitious to bargain with Cao Cao.
Seeing that Zhang Xiu's mood was not high, Jing Bu continued to bewitch him: "Second brother, don't think that my brother's behavior of taking advantage of the fire to rob is despicable and shameless, if you want to get ahead in this world, you have to be black-handed and thick-skinned."
When Cao Cao killed Lu Bohao's family, he once said that I would rather bear the people of the world than the people of the world should bear me, so we must not treat ourselves badly."
"What my brother said is very true" Zhang Xiu bowed slightly, agreeing with what Yingbu said.
Jing Bu continued to throw out the killer idea: "Brother, after you took refuge in Cao Cao, you relied on your influence to gather Tong Yuan, Hu Che'er and a group of talents, as well as more than 20,000 remnants of the old army of Xiliang.
In terms of merit, he should be in a high position.
But Cao Cao didn't take you seriously at all, not only did he not reuse you, but he also used your aunt Zou as a plaything, which really made my brother chill for you."
Listening to Jing Bu mention the Zou family who was similar in age to himself, Zhang Xiu's face was blue and white, and there was an unknown story between himself and this young and beautiful aunt, but now it was separated by yin and yang, and every time I thought of it in the dead of night, I felt a pain in my heart.
At this moment, hearing Jing Bu touch his scar, Zhang Xiu's heart felt a sharp pain again, and her lips trembled slightly: "Alas, when my aunt was sent to Yecheng from Jinling by Liu Wei, I once repaired a book and asked for it, saying that I would be my aunt and mother for life, and I asked Your Majesty to send it to Daijun for me to take care of, but who knew that it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no news."
Later, my aunt was given to Lu Bu and killed by these four family slaves, which really made me have no shame to see my uncle under Jiuquan."
Jing Bu laughed and said: "Brother is right, Cao Cao, a selfish and self-interested womanizer, how can he take into account the thoughts of his subordinates, so you and I don't have to be polite to him, whether it is to fall into the well or rob while the fire is hot, as long as you can get benefits, it is the king." t1706231537: