Zhaohua Ancient Town
When he first entered Shu, Liu Bei first spent nearly a year in Ye Meng to buy people's hearts, and then after completely tearing his face with Liu Zhang, he left Ye Meng and began to march to Chengdu, leaving only two generals to guard Ye Meng Pass, one was meng da who defected to Liu Bei with Zhang Song and Fazheng, and the other was Huo Jun, a general who had followed him when he was in Jingzhou.
After Liu Bei left, Ye Mengguan did not suffer any attack, so Liu Bei was able to concentrate his forces and fight all the way south to Luocheng, and when Liu Bei took Luocheng again, the soldiers pointed directly at Liu Zhang's stronghold, Chengdu. At this time, Liu Zhang, who was sitting in Chengdu, was already fidgeting, but he did not want to surrender, hoping to make a final struggle. Therefore, Liu Zhang listened to the advice of the chancellor Dong He: with Huang Quan as an envoy, he went to Hanzhong to ask Zhang Lu to send troops to attack Yemeng Pass, so that he and Zhang Lu could attack Liu Bei from the north and south, so that it was possible to spell out a glimmer of life.
View of the city walls
However, I have said before that Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang are feuds, and Zhang Lu cannot easily help Liu Zhang. So in order to let Zhang Lu send troops, Liu Zhang cut out 20 counties from his own territory and gave them to Zhang Lu, and Zhang Lu actually saw that there were 20 counties... He happily agreed, and Zhang Lu's general, Ma Chao (Zi Mengqi), immediately took the initiative to go to Yemeng Pass to attack Liu Bei.
At that time, Ma Chao had just been defeated by Cao Cao, and there was no way to go before he defected to Zhang Lu, and when he first arrived under Zhang Lu's account, in order to win Zhang Lu's trust, he would introduce himself.
So Ma Chao led 10,000 soldiers and began to attack Ye Meng Guan, although Meng Da and Huo Jun's ability was not bad, but it was not enough to defeat the brave Ma Chao, if he insisted, presumably Ye Meng Guan would be attacked by Ma Chao sooner or later, and Meng Da had no choice but to ask Liu Bei for reinforcements. After the news reached Liu Bei's account, Zhuge Liang thought that Ma Chaozhi's courage could only be matched by Zilong and Yide, and now that Zhao Yun had a mission to go out, it seemed that he could only send Zhang Fei.
However, Zhuge Liang deliberately said to Zhang Fei: "Ma Chaoxiao is brave and good at war, even if Yun Chang is afraid that he is invincible... General Zhang still doesn't want to go..." Zhang Fei was not happy when he heard this, and said: "When I was on the Dangyang Bridge alone, I scared off Cao Cao's million-strong army, was Lao Tzu still afraid that Ma Chao would not succeed as a child?" Insisting on being the vanguard to meet Ma Chao, Zhuge Liang saw that Zhang Fei's fighting spirit was coming, so he let Zhang Fei go to Yemeng Pass after issuing a military order, and asked Liu Bei to go with him, so as to supervise Zhang Fei and avoid Zhang Fei from coming chaotically.
Before Zhang Fei came to Ye Mengguan, he first met Ma Chao's younger brother, Ma Dai, but Zhang Fei had never seen Ma Chao or Ma Dai, so he asked Ma Dai: "Who are you?" Ma Dai said, "I am Ma Dai of Xiliang!" Zhang Fei replied dismissively after listening: "It turns out that you are not Ma Chao, then you are not your opponent, hurry back and call Ma Chao!" Ma Dai was furious after hearing this, and plotted to kill Zhang Fei, but after a few rounds of fighting, he was defeated by Zhang Fei, and Ma Dai had to return to the military camp to summon Ma Chao to fight.
Early the next morning, Ma Chao personally led his army to the front of Ye Meng Pass, and Liu Bei saw from the pass that Ma Chao was "lion helmet beast belt, silver armor and white robe", and at a glance, he was a list of talents, and could not help but praise: "People say that Ma Chao is worthy of the name." When Zhang Fei saw Ma Chao coming, he also began to shine with both eyes, and could not wait to ask for battle, but Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei to wait first, and then attacked when Ma Chao's morale was weak, but Ma Chao constantly provoked Zhang Fei, and Zhang Fei was eager to hurry down and slaughter Ma Chao, but he was still stopped by Liu Bei.
At noon, Liu Bei saw that Ma Chaojun was finally a little tired, so he sent Zhang Fei to lead 500 horses out of Guanzhong, and the two sides confronted each other in front of Ye Meng Pass. At this time, the commanders of the two armies took a step forward, and Zhang Fei first said, "Do you know your grandfather Zhang?" Ma Chao responded sharply, "My family's generations of princes, do you know you as a wild man in the village?" (Ma Chao and his father Ma Teng were also princes who divided the side), Zhang Fei must not be able to bear this, and he shot out to kill Ma Chao, and the two sides fought for hundreds of rounds and failed to distinguish between victory and defeat...
museum
Liu Bei saw that Ma Chao was indeed powerful at the closing, and once again sighed: "Ma Chao is really a tiger general!" But Liu Bei was afraid that if the two continued to fight like this, sooner or later there would be a wound, so he called for gold to collect troops, and the two sides returned to the camp. After resting for a while, Zhang Fei killed again from Ye Meng Guan, Ma Chao also rushed out of the camp again, the two began to fight together again, and it was more than a hundred rounds without winning or losing, so Liu Bei once again ming Jin to collect the troops (will not be just such a single loop it... ）...
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However, this time Liu Bei spoke: "It is late, the two generals should fight again tomorrow." However, Zhang Fei didn't seem to have enough fun killing, so he said to Ma Chao, "You can arrange torches, let's continue at night!" Ma Chao was also not satisfied with softness, saying: "Zhang Fei! Dare to fight at night? (Yes, this sentence is indeed the original text of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms...) Zhang Fei said, "If you can't be caught, Lao Tzu won't enter the pass!" Ma Chao also said: "If you can't win, Lao Tzu won't return to the village!" "It seems that these two people are really pinching up...
Old house
In the evening, the two armies lit torches in front of Ye MengGuan, letting Ma Chao and Zhang Fei continue to single out (this is how the night battle of picking lights came), while the remaining soldiers watched the liveliness from the side (it turned out that the ancient war was like this... People in the city can really play... ）。 The result of this night battle does not need to think much, it is definitely not a victory or defeat, Zhang Fei and Ma Chao agreed again: first rest for one night, the next day we will continue to fight (this is not over... ）。
Abandoned houses - inside
The next morning, when Zhang Fei was about to go out to fight the horse, Zhuge Liang suddenly appeared. It turned out that Zhuge Liang had rushed to Ye MengGuan specifically to summon Ma Chao. When Liu Bei saw Zhuge Liang, he said excitedly: "Ma Chao is so heroic, I naturally like him very much, but how can I make him submit to me?" Zhuge Liang told Liu Bei: "Zhang Lu's military master, Yang Song, is a man who is greedy for money, and first uses the treasure to buy Yang Song, let Yang Song say that Zhang Lu ordered Ma Chao to withdraw, and when Ma Chao withdrew, he could use a plan to summon Ma Chao." ”
Portrait of Liu Bei
So Liu Bei immediately sent Sun Qian (the last time this brother appeared was in the Runan chapter... He went to Hanzhong to collude with Yang Song, and Yang Song agreed when he saw so much gold and silver treasure. Yang Song persuaded Zhang Lu to let Ma Chao retire according to Liu Bei's orders, and Zhang Lu, who had always trusted Yang Song, ordered Ma Chao to return to Hanzhong. But Ma Chao wrote back: "Ye MengGuan has not yet been captured, and it is not yet possible to retreat." Zhang Lu saw that Ma Chao dared not obey the military orders, and also began to suspect that Ma Chao had the intention of rebellion.
Ma Chao vs Zhang Fei
In fact, Yang Song had always been jealous of Ma Chao's talent, plus the Western Liang Iron Horse led by Ma Chao was also extremely brave, so Yang Song had long wanted to drive Ma Chao away. After that, Yang Song constantly said bad things about Ma Chao in front of Zhang Lu, causing Zhang Lu to no longer trust Ma Chao, resulting in a complete stalemate in the relationship between the two. After Ma Chao and Zhang Lu turned their faces, they couldn't beat Ye Mengguan, and they couldn't go back to Hanzhong... Nowhere to go, not sure what to do...
On the city walls
Of course, the reason why Ma Chao came to such a field was actually planned by Zhuge Liang, and Zhuge Liang was to wait until Ma Chao was in a dilemma and then send someone to persuade him. At this time, the time had come, so Zhuge Liang sent Li Hui, a shu general who had just surrendered, to act as a lobbyist. Li Chao is a figure of the same style as Lin, who entered Ma Chao's camp and gave Ma Chao guidance without changing his color, which made Ma Chao admire, and in the end, Ma Chao decided to submit to Liu Bei, and Li Hui returned to Yemengguan with Ma Chao.
Defeat the dam
The most fundamental reason for Ma Chao's surrender to Liu Bei is because Ma Chao is really too strong... This made Zhang Lu's ministers jealous of Ma Chao, and therefore excluded Ma Chao, plus Zhang Lu was by no means a virtuous jun, and even Zhang Lu was a little afraid of Ma Chao. Sometimes, the biggest fear of being a subordinate is to make the leader think that he is more talented than the leader, especially when the leader is a villain... Therefore, it is inevitable that Zhang Lu cannot tolerate Ma Chao. For Ma Chao, finding another good boss like Liu Bei is undoubtedly a good choice.
Ma Chao's submission not only restored Ye Mengguan's safety, but also allowed Liu Bei to get another tiger general. At this point, the five fierce generals Guan Yu (Zi Yunchang), Zhang Fei (Zi Yide), Zhao Yun (Zi Zilong), Huang Zhong (Zi Hansheng), and Ma Chao (Zi Mengqi) all came to Liu Bei's account one after another, that is to say, the famous "Five Tiger Generals" finally let Liu Bei gather. In short, after relieving the danger of Ye Mengguan, Liu Bei could finally concentrate his forces to attack Chengdu, and this time, Liu Bei could also take Chengdu... However, I know what will happen later, please wait until the next one - Chengdu, and then decompose!
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