In the previous article, we talked about the whole year after Liu Bei entered Shu, he couldn't find an excuse to counterattack Liu Zhang, and his hair was so white that he had to spend it here and slowly grow old with Liu Zhang? It's not romantic at all.
As a result, it was the wise man Pang Tong who came up with an idea, asking Liu Bei to return to Jingzhou under false pretenses, in order to ask for 10,000 people and horses to aid, and a large amount of grain and grass as a way home. If Liu Zhang does not give, then Liu Bei has an excuse, at least on the surface.
In the past year, Liu Bei used the name of attacking Zhang Lu to eat and drink here with Liu Zhang, and he was about to eat Liu Zhang to the end. And Liu Zhang gave people, and sent money to send grain, invested so much blood, Zhang Lu finally did not even have a hair, Liu Bei also had to eat dry wipes and pat his ass and leave, and before leaving, he also had to extort a large amount. According to common sense, whoever is Liu Zhang is going to be angry!
Unexpectedly, Liu Zhang did not get angry, and promised to reimburse Liu Bei for train tickets, but the people and materials funded were halved, no matter what, it was quite interesting.
Liu Bei was speechless, Liu Zhang's brother was afraid that he was not stupid, why did you bully him or have no temper! Alas, there is no way, I had to excuse Liu Zhang's stinginess to beat him, it is really difficult to find an excuse to beat people this year, am I easy!
Therefore, Liu Bei first coaxed the Baishui guards to send Yang Huai Gaopei to send him off, and then under the pretext that Liu Zhang's aid to him to return to Jingzhou was too few materials, "blame for being rude and beheading him." Then, before Liu Zhang was aware of it, he quickly counterattacked in the direction of Chengdu.
Pictured: Yang Huai
In order to achieve the purpose of a surprise attack, Liu Bei sent Huang Zhong and Zhuo Bing's second generals to lead 10,000 troops to the south to capture Fucheng, the gateway to Chengdu, while he himself went north to Baishui Guanzhong, took the families of Liu Zhang's generals as hostages, coerced Liu Zhang's generals to join Liu Bei's army, and then led troops to meet with Huang Zhong and Zhuo Zheng. Liu Bei had thought that Huang Zhong and the others should be able to succeed quickly in a surprise attack, but when he summoned the Baishuiguan troops to go south to Fucheng, he found that Huang Zhong had fallen into a bitter battle. The elite and strong generals in Shu actually gathered in the area around Fucheng, and Huang Zhong, with less than 10,000 troops, fought hard at tens of thousands of troops of the famous generals Liu Xuan, Leng Bao, Zhang Ren, Deng Xian, and Wu Yi in Shu, and the battle was very difficult; fortunately, Liu Bei came to the aid in time, joined forces of 30,000 troops, attacked Fucheng in a big way, and finally repelled Liu Zhang's army, but Liu Bei's army also suffered heavy losses, so much so that he had to send people to Jingzhou to find Zhuge Liang Zhang Fei Zhao Yun into Shu to participate in the battle.
Everyone may think that I said this a little outrageously, because if you just look at the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" and "Huang Zhong's Biography", it seems that Liu Bei is a triumphant song all the way, and shuzhong county looks at the wind and is only right. But Chinese writing history books has a characteristic, like to specialize in the beauty of the lord, you can hardly find in the biography of the great historical figure when he is embarrassed. This requires the reader of history to be more careful and meticulous, and not to let go of any horns in the history books.
The first horn is easier to find, just in the "Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms Fa Zheng Biography", probably after the Battle of Fucheng, Yizhou engaged zheng Du said to Liu Zhang: "The left general county army attacked me, the soldiers were dissatisfied, the soldiers were not attached, the wild valley was the capital, and the army was not heavy." That is to say, after a series of vicious battles, Liu Bei's more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, who were well fed, now only had less than 10,000 troops left, and the grain and grass were heavily lost, and they could only collect the wild valleys of the villagers outside the city. At that time, if Liu Zhang was willing to follow Zheng Du's advice, move people into the city, and strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness, Liu Bei would be miserable. Of course, Liu Zhang could not obey Zheng Du, and the Yizhou powerful people who owned a large area of land could not let Zheng Du's plan succeed. So Fa Zheng asked Liu Bei not to worry, no problem!
The second horn is not easy to find, this one in the Book of Wu in the "Biography of Wu Fan", said that Sun Quan had a warlock named Wu Fan, who predicted that Liu Bei would definitely get Yizhou in the year of the Battle of Fucheng (212 AD). Sun Quan was half-convinced, but just at this time Zhaoxin Zhonglang returned from a business trip to Shudi, saying that Liu Bei was now "separated from the people, dead and half-dead, and everything will not be overcome!" "It turned out that Liu Bei was so miserable at that time, I couldn't see it at all in "The Biography of the First Lord"! Chen Shou's historical writing is really powerful! Of course, it turned out that Wu Fan was right, so he said to Sun Quan hesitantly: "The subject speaks the Heavenly Dao, and the one dai sees is the ear." "
The third horn is in the "Biography of Yuan Zhuo" in the Book of Wei: "When the state of Wei was first established, (Yuan Zhuo) was lang zhongling and performed the imperial history of the great master. Taizu was kind. From time to time, it is said that Liu Bei died, and all the courtiers congratulated him; "In July of the eighteenth year of Jian'an (213 BC), when Liu Bei was besieging Luocheng after Liu Bei had taken Fucheng, Cao Wei actually spread rumors that Liu Bei was dead, which showed that Liu Bei's war was difficult at that time, and it had reached the point of life and death.
In short, Liu Bei's entire process of taking Yizhou was quite difficult, and his situation was quite tragic, but how did things develop like this? Liu Bei immediately sent troops after killing Yang Huaigaopei, the purpose was to beat Liu Zhang by surprise, but why did Liu Zhang have already taken precautions and prepared a surprise gift for Liu Bei here in Fucheng?
It turned out that at about the same time that Liu Bei beheaded Yang Huaigaopei, Zhang Song's spy identity was exposed. Logically, Liu Bei and Zhang Songli should cooperate with each other, and there should be a fairly reliable contact person between them to communicate with them regularly. But for some reason, Zhang Song did not know that Liu Bei was deceiving Liu Zhang to return to Jingzhou, so he was anxious to get on fire and quickly wrote a letter to Liu Bei, saying: "Today's major event is about to stand, how to release this!" Then, this letter actually fell into the hands of Zhang Song's brother, the leader of the hardcore Yizhou faction and the Guanghan Taishou Zhang Su, who immediately reported the matter to Liu Zhang, liu Zhang was furious, it turned out that you had been working together to play me as a monkey, this is really unbearable, so he slashed Zhang Song with a knife, and then told the road to pass a strict defense, retreat to reject Liu Bei, and sent a large army to immediately go north to block Liu Bei's army.
The course of events is here, but between the lines, there is always a contradiction in this word, Zhang Song has not been Liu Bei's internal response for a year or two, how could he suddenly be exposed at such a critical moment? We all know that Zhang Song has the strongest brain that he has never forgotten, which can give spy personnel a considerable amount of skill bonuses, and Zhang Song is a high-powered vice governor of Yizhou, how can it be exposed so easily? And later Zheng Du's clever trick to Liu Zhang was immediately transmitted to Liu Bei, which shows that Liu Bei did not have more than Zhang Song under Liu Zhang's hands, so why didn't anyone else have an accident?
Photo: Zhang Song
Obviously, there was a problem with the contact between Zhang Song and Liu Bei, which could not help but make people think, who is the contact between them? Is there something wrong with this contact too? At that time, there was a Guanghan man named Peng Xi, who was just an ordinary civil servant (Shu Zuo) in the capital of Yizhou Prefecture, and later he was punished by Liu Zhang for shaving his hair for the crime as a prisoner of labor (disciple), such a lowly person, but finally inexplicably got the recommendation of Pang Tong fazheng, and gained Liu Bei's trust, responsible for transmitting military information between Liu Bei and the generals, and finally ascended to heaven one step at a time, and achieved the position of zhizhong. As we said earlier, Zhizhong is the third in command of a state, and this position is quite high. Therefore, Peng Xi could not help but be a little overwhelmed, and his mouth was not covered, and as a result, he was suddenly killed by Liu Bei in prison. Peng Xi, as the fastest-promoted official of the Shu Han Dynasty, was also the only high-ranking official killed for his crime, and the secrets of them must not be as simple as written in the history books!