Some people say that the history of mankind is actually a history of war. Regardless of whether this statement is right or wrong, China, as a country of etiquette, had already formulated a set of etiquette rules for war during the Spring and Autumn Period that all nobles were required to abide by.

Simply put, this set of rules can be divided into three steps. The first is the speech, which is to declare to people in a literary way how hateful the other party is and how just one's own side is. The second is the fighting of soldiers, which is just to encourage one's own side at the beginning.

Morale, and at the same time demeaning the other party, they engaged in verbal abuse activities, but later on, soldiers were relatively simple in doing things, so it evolved into the use of force. In the army, those with superior force usually have a high status, so they developed into fighting generals.

The third is to start the battle. After all the ceremonies are completed, the two armies have already set up their positions and begun the real charge and fight.

Later, as the war continued to progress and develop, both sides of the war began to no longer be limited by the rules and etiquette of war. In order to win, all generals no longer wanted to be like the children in the kindergarten, standing in line and dividing the fruits.

It turned out to be a fool's errand. So the tricks in war emerged at the same time. Especially with the advent of "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, the theory of trickery in war was carried forward in a theoretical manner, and the etiquette in war was completely abandoned. From then on, mankind entered the

An era of unbelief and rudeness.

But the etiquette in war has not completely died out because of this. It still exists with its tenacious vitality in different forms in the wars of the past dynasties. For example, fighting generals.

At this time, Liu Yan was sitting on the horse. He changed his usual appearance of a frail scholar. He was wearing a battle armor and a sword hanging at his waist. He looked like a Confucian general. He said to Liu Bei: "Xuande listens to the order, I order you to lead this army."

The men and horses called for formation into the city."

Liu Bei said: "Yes." After saying that, he rode away and led his 1,000 troops to the city to call for formation. In the past few days, Liu Bei, under the banner of Liu Yan, had actually recruited a lot of warriors from the country, and the number had expanded from the previous 300 to 300 soldiers.

There are nearly a thousand people now.

Liu Bei led his troops and stopped in formation 300 steps away from the city.

Zhang Fei led several riders out of the formation and ran straight to the moat, shouting and cursing: "Listen to the thieves in the city. Your grandpa Zhang is here, does anyone dare to fight with your grandpa?"

"You cowards in the city, do you dare to fight? Are you all a bunch of cowardly turtles?" After Zhang Fei finished speaking, he commanded several knights around him to yell and curse at the city.

Zhang Fei's arrogance completely angered Guan Yu, one of the generals in the city.

Guan Yu went up to the gate tower and asked Xu Kang for a fight: "Sir, please let your subordinates go down to the city and kill this black-faced ghost to sacrifice the flag for our army."

Xu Kang did not speak, just looked at Liu Yan's army outside the city and thought silently. As the saying goes, once the number of soldiers exceeds 10,000, the ground will cover the sky. Although Liu Yan's camp outside the city does not have 10,000, there are at least 8,000, forming a square formation.

Afterwards, it was really overwhelming and the momentum was astonishing. If I hadn't brought 1,000 infantry and 500 cavalry reinforcements in time, the hundreds of defenders on the original city wall would have fled without a fight.

In the past, he only knew that there was a big gap between himself and the army, but that was just an imagination of the data. Now that the real situation was in front of him, Xu Kang discovered that the gap was even bigger than he imagined. It was only due to the huge gap in numbers.

The strong pressure from his momentum was enough to overwhelm the fragile nerves of the Taiping Taoists.

Xu Kang could now clearly feel the fear of the soldiers around him. There was nothing he could do about it, because even he had the idea of ​​losing.

But then he put this idea behind him and kept telling himself that this was a war with a winner and no loser. This was a war in which he had to bet everything. Only if he won could he have a future.

Only with the capital of the Three Kingdoms can we win a place in the future competition for hegemony.

"Guan Yu, Zhao Bahu obeys the order and orders you two to lead the cavalry into battle."

Guan Yu and Zhao Bahu said at the same time: "Follow the order."

Xu Kang said again: "Brother, that black-faced Zhang Fei is so good at martial arts that he may not be inferior to me, so I must be careful."

Guan Yu said proudly: "Second brother, don't worry. If you fight alone, I won't be afraid of anyone."

Xu Kang said to Zhao Bahu again: "Master Zhao, after you leave the city, you don't have to return to the city with these 500 cavalry. They will only be stationed outside the city. If the official army is surrounded and suppressed by a large army, retreat to avoid it. If the official army attacks with all its strength,

city, then attack its flanks."

Zhao Bahu accepted the order and said: "Yes."

The heavy suspension bridge slowly lowered amidst constant creaking sounds, and the thick door creaked open.

When Zhang Fei saw someone leaving the city, he ordered his army to retreat a hundred steps to wait for the enemy.

There was a loud rumble of hoofbeats, and black-armored cavalry filed out of the city one after another. In the end, there were 500 of them.

Seeing that the opponent had a large number of people, Liu Bei was afraid that Zhang Fei would make a mistake, so he also directed the army to move forward until he met Zhang Fei.

Guan Yu jumped out of the formation and shouted: "Thief with ring eyes, why don't you come out and take Guan's sword?"

Zhang Fei shouted angrily: "Red-faced ghost, don't be so arrogant. I'll take a spear from your grandfather Zhang." After saying that, he rode out.

Guan Yu also rode up to meet him. The distance of two hundred steps passed in an instant amidst the roar of the horses. The two of them thrust out their weapons almost at the same time. The tip of the knife collided with the tip of the spear, making a crisp sound. The two weapons almost

He let go at the same time, and was again held by the two of them almost at the same time. After one move, both of them knew that the opponent's strength was not inferior to theirs, so they did not dare to be careless. Each held a blade in both hands and fought with all their strength.

I saw that Guan Yu's blade was as fierce as the sun, and it could control the sound of wind and thunder with every move. Then I saw Zhang Fei's long snake spitting out its core. It was clever and powerful, and each thrust was like a rainbow piercing the sun. The two of them shouted and shouted.

, the two war horses also neighed at each other's necks, killing each other indistinguishably, causing a whirlwind to rise from the ground and flying sand and dust. Thousands of soldiers on both sides were dumbfounded.

Xu Kang looked at the two people who were fighting desperately, and the absurd feeling in his heart became stronger and stronger. These are the famous Taoyuan brothers. Although Taoyuan is a sworn brother, Liu Bei is more like a monarch than the other two. Only Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are

The real relationship between life and death brothers. In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", sometimes Zhang Fei

Even Liu Bei couldn't persuade him when he became stubborn. Instead, Guan Yu could make Zhang Fei obey his orders with just one word. This shows that the relationship between the two is really the closest among the three brothers. But now these two brothers should have been together in life and death.

But he was desperately trying to kill the other person. Xu Kang didn't know whether to be happy or sad for a moment.

The two sides fought for more than a hundred moves, with no outcome determined. The more Liu Bei watched, the more frightened he became. Liu Bei knew very well the power of his newly recognized sworn brother Zhang Fei. When he traveled around the world, he had met many people in the world.

Although he is a stranger, he has never seen anyone with martial arts skills that can rival Zhang Fei. This is why Liu Bei did not hesitate to eat at the same table and sleep with him.

, and wanted to win him over. But he really didn't expect that Qu Shuai, a small Taiping Dao, would have such a powerful military commander. He was almost on par with his second brother Zhang Fei, who was an enemy of thousands of people. When did Taiping Dao develop to such an extent?

He was able to recruit such powerful generals. No wonder Liu Yan couldn't even defend Zhuocheng with his ability.

Liu Bei was originally full of confidence in Zhang Fei, but now he had to worry. He knew that once his second brother started fighting, he would become hot-headed and experience crazy joy and intoxication in the fierce battle.

There was no word to give up. He didn't know how Taiping Dao treated this red-faced general under his command, but he knew that he could never let his second brother make any mistakes, especially now that even Liu Yan was starting to be wary of him. So,

, Liu Bei ordered the gold to withdraw his troops.

When Xu Kang saw that the other party had withdrawn its troops, he immediately ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

So Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had to stop fighting temporarily and return to their respective formations.

Guan Yu directly led more than ten cavalry back to Zhuocheng, while Zhao Bahu led his cavalry to get out of the city gate and roared away while looking aside.

Liu Bei withdrew his troops and returned to Liu Yan, saying bluntly, "The thieves will be fierce and our army cannot win."

Although Liu Yan was angry with Liu Bei for his self-protective behavior, he also knew that now was not the time to be impulsive, so he asked him to step aside and began to order the army to attack the city.

Seeing Liu Yan's army slowly approaching, Xu Kang instead walked down the city tower and came to the gathering place of the new soldiers inside the city wall. Seeing that these people were frightened just because they heard the thunderous chants outside, he couldn't help but be glad that he didn't send any troops just now.

They went up to the city wall, otherwise they would turn around and run away without being frightened when they saw the strict formation of the army.

Xu Kang found a wooden shelf and climbed up, making sure that everyone could see him. Then he shouted to everyone: "Have you had enough to eat this morning?"

Everyone looked at each other in shock for a while, and then said: "I'm full."

"Do you want to have enough to eat every day in the future?"

"think."

"Yes. We just want to have enough to eat every day. Is this too much to ask for?"

Naturally, everyone shouted: "It's not too much."

"But it is such a modest request, but we can't do it. We farm, work hard every day, and produce so much food, but why are we still hungry? Does this make sense?"

"It doesn't make sense."

"Yes, it makes no sense at all. But this kind of unreasonable thing happens every day. Who else among you wants to go hungry every day?"

"In no mood."

"I don't want to either." Xu Kang waved his arms to increase his momentum, "But there are people who don't want us to have enough to eat. What should we do with these people who don't want us to have enough to eat?"

"Fight." After one person answered, there was a chorus of responses. Everyone below was already excited.

"That's right, fight them. Brothers, you can't lose your head with a scar as big as a bowl, but you will be a good man again after more than ten years. It is better for us to die on the wall like a hero than to die like a dog on the street.

Hundreds of times." Xu Kang said seductively: "Take up your weapons now and let us fight against these officials and bandits who want to steal our food."

"Fight it." A thousand recruits raised their arms and shouted, and even the thousands of refugees who came to help with the defense roared angrily.

"Let's go up the city wall." Seeing that his morale was ready, Xu Kang pulled all 1,000 new soldiers to the city wall to prepare for defense.
Chapter completed!