"Is there any problem with Ding Quan's death?" Chen Xi asked curiously.
Many people who know how to swim drown in the Yellow River every year. There is a saying that a good swimmer will drown in the water. If you go fishing in the middle of the Yellow River, it is not a big surprise if you catch someone.
"Do you think a shield guard with a stable shield guard and a smelted floating step can drown?" Liu Bei said with a sneer. That guy is indeed a fisherman. Liu Bei knows that guy is a fisherman. The problem is what kind of fisherman is this?
Can you drown?
Chen Xi was silent for a while after hearing this. Wait, no, Ding Quan drowned the year before last, and he also served as the gatekeeper of Nanpi City for three or four years. In other words, he was discharged from the army at least five or six years ago. He was the shield of the first year of Yuanfeng.
Wei, you transferred to Jingling Wei, right?
"In this case, there is indeed a problem." Chen Xi nodded silently. If he could drown, he might have a big problem. If the boat capsized, he could still walk from one end of the Yellow River to the other.
"Also, do you know how far it is from Nanpi to the Yellow River?" Liu Bei asked Chen Xi with a gloomy face. Chen Xi thought for a while and fell into silence.
These days, the Yellow River is not too far from Nanpi, but it is still hundreds of miles away, and there is a small river next to Nanpi. Even a fishing guy would not normally go that far to fish.
Since I rarely go to the Yellow River, I would have to be stupid to go fishing in the middle of the Yellow River. This is not how I seek death. No matter how energetic the fisherman is, he will not be so exaggerated.
After Chen Xi figured this out, coupled with Liu Bei's previous inquiry, Chen Xi now wanted to turn around and go to Leling and directly send troops over.
This is a big deal. Directly purging the middle-level generals among the veterans, Liu Bei no longer knows the local veterans. This is the basis for Liu Bei to rule the country!
Soon Sun Chang's men brought a somewhat wealthy middle-aged man, and when he saw Liu Bei, he hurried over.
"Zhang Chen? How did Ding Quan die?" Liu Bei knew Zhang Chen, so he asked directly. He didn't believe that any veteran would lie in front of him.
"Ah? Er Dingzi carried the boat and took the three of us out for night fishing at night, but the boat was capsized by a big fish. Er Dingzi refused to let go, and encountered an undercurrent again. I was the only one left among the four good night fishermen among us.
"When Zhang Chen said this, the expression on his face was complicated.
"..." Liu Bei looked at Zhang Chen. At this moment, Liu Bei realized that he might have gone astray, because he did not hear any deception in Zhang Chen's words.
"You used to go there often?" Liu Bei said after a moment of silence.
"We usually get off work at the end of Shenshi. After get off work, the four of us carry the boat and go fishing. Five years ago, we were fishing in the small river next to Nanpi, but later we found that the Yellow River is better for fishing." Zhang Chen said very much. Said awkwardly.
This is true. There were four centurions who were fishing men in Nanpi. When Ding Quan and Ding Quan were still alive, the four of them carried the boat together and ran from Nanpi City to the Yellow River after work. They fished all night and came back, and then went to work and slept during the day.
, I slept until noon and started working. In the afternoon, I picked up the boat and went fishing again.
"Wait a minute, you carried the boat from Nanpi to the Yellow River?" Chen Xi felt that he had seen a ghost today. Are you humans?
"Yes, we arrived in an hour. It's just an 800-jin boat. We four shield guards can carry an 800-jin boat..." Zhang Chen didn't think there was anything wrong at all.
As for traveling a hundred miles to go fishing, my Imperial Guardsmen have extremely long physical strength. As a Centurion of the Shield Guard, each person can carry an average of two hundred kilograms. Isn’t it just like an ordinary Guardsman carrying a twenty kilogram package? It’s normal.
Something happened? He arrived in an hour.
Liu Bei and Chen Xi looked at each other and cursed in their hearts.
In short, when Ding Quan and three others were drowned in the water while fishing at night, when the veterans from Nanpi City came to see them, they all thought that it was inevitable that the fishermen would drown. It was just that three of them drowned in one go.
Stupid enough, these three have now become negative examples for the veterans of Nanpi.
"Don't go fishing, look at you Uncle Ding, everyone is taken to make nests." Such words are often circulated among the veterans here in Nanpi.
"Are you still fishing now?" Liu Bei asked after being silent for a while.
"..." Zhang Chen was silent for a while. Could he say that he was preparing to go fishing in the Yellow River with a 200-pound boat?
Not repenting, that’s what I’m talking about...
"I heard that a lot of veterans in Nanpi have died recently." Liu Bei was sure that Ding Quan, Lin He and the three unlucky children really refused to let go and were killed by the fish trap, so he didn't bother to ask. Diao Lao was dragged by the fish.
Isn't it destined to leave? So he asked in a casual tone.
"Huh?" Zhang Chen heard this and recalled it. Recently, he only remembered that he had followed more than a dozen big carps from the Yellow River in six months. Thinking about it this way, it seemed like it was true.
Zhang Chen is not really stupid, a fishing guy is a fishing guy, but after catching a big fish, he found that the four of him couldn't hold it back, so he remembered to let go, and he also remembered to inform the three brothers to let go, which shows that these guys are still sensible, but not very good.
Pay attention to things other than fishing.
But when Liu Bei mentioned this, Zhang Chen's expression became much more solemn. It was indeed a bit abnormal to follow fourteen Yellow River carps in six months.
"In the past six months, I have accompanied fourteen large carps from the Yellow River as gifts." Zhang Chen said slowly. Liu Bei's eyes became much gloomier. He did not believe that these veterans could die of natural causes in half a year, and they were not even seventy years old.
, the older one is only in his early fifties.
"What's going on in Nanpi?" Liu Bei looked at Zhang Chen gloomily.
"I'll change my equipment and go check it out. Don't go into the city yet." Zhang Chen has a very high sensitivity to the situation. This is the intuition born from the fighting in the war.
Liu Bei looked at Zhang Chen and nodded, letting Zhang Chen go back to Nanpi City. He stood at the gate of Nanpi City. Then not long after, Liu Bei heard the shouts of killing from inside Nanpi City. Liu Bei's expression became more and more complex.
It was gloomy, and at this time, the atmosphere in Nanpi City also became tense.
But about two-quarters of an hour later, Zhang Chen ran back wearing the plate armor of a shield guard, holding a large shield in one hand and a broad sword in the other, with a lot of blood stains on his body, followed by more than thirty soldiers. Liu Bei
Looking at this scene, I felt complicated.
"Does he have a problem?" Chen Xi didn't understand, so he asked Liu Bei directly.
"He is fine, but there is a big problem in Nanpi. The city guards in Nanpi are already the private soldiers of Nanpi Prefect." Liu Bei stood at the door. There were not many people around Liu Bei at this time, and he looked unusually lonely.
, and his tone was a little more harsh.
Not long after Zhang Chen ran out from the corner with more than 30 people, a large number of soldiers followed behind him to chase the group of people, but Zhang Chen didn't look too panicked.
"Lieutenant, please retreat first." Zhang Chen greeted Liu Bei as he ran.
Although he was being hunted, Zhang Chen was not too panicked. Those who were chasing Zhang Chen behind him were the Nanpi city guards. They were all bribed by the Nanpi prefect, but their combat effectiveness was not strong, at least for Zhang Chen.
My own physical strength is fine, and the opponent doesn't even have the foundation to wear me to death.
The Jingling Guard version of the shield guard does not take will attacks, and the 180 plate armor basically does not take physical attacks. It has also been smelted to adapt itself. Just knock it down. The city guards on the opposite side are all new recruits after blood exchange. They need to be organized but not organized.
Power is only about numbers. There is nothing to be afraid of except the large number of people.
"Lieutenant? Where is the lieutenant?" Just as Zhang Chen was calling Liu Bei to run, the recruits who had no organizational skills before suddenly formed a formation, and then a middle-aged man appeared behind Zhang Chen, holding on.
The knife slashed towards Zhang Chen.
With just one strike, there were sparks and explosions, and a deep scratch appeared on Zhang Chen's shield, which made Chen Xi and Liu Bei look a little solemn.
"Zhang Chuo, do you still recognize me?" Liu Bei scolded the middle-aged man opposite.
How could Liu Bei not recognize soldiers with such strength?
Zhang Chuo, who was attacking Zhang Chen, paused when Liu Bei called him this. He was obviously at a loss. He was neither advancing nor retreating. He was silent for a long time.
After being frozen for a while, Zhang Chuo might have resigned himself to his fate. Although he also knew that what he did was a serious violation of laws and disciplines, and he also had the consciousness to attack his former comrades, but in front of Liu Bei, Zhang Chuo discovered that his
Enlightenment is a joke.
On the other side, Zhang Chen took advantage of Zhang Chuo's standing position and ran away. Whoever wants to fight a monster like Zhang Chuo should fight him. These days, there are many defense units, and basically none of them can withstand Zhang Chuoping's attack.
Yes, it is better to quickly join the Taiwei camp and let the Taiwei suppress the opponent.
"That's the Lieutenant. Surrender. You will not be punished until death." Zhang Chuo waited for Zhang Chen to run away. When he saw Liu Bei striding into Nanpi, he threw the knife aside and pierced it directly into the bluestone on the ground.
He went up and turned to greet the soldiers beside him. He knew that some of the soldiers behind him knew Liu Bei, but at most they were not as clear as him.
It's just that Zhang Chuo believed that with Liu Bei's charm, as long as he died, these people would naturally fall under Liu Bei's command.
After saying that, Zhang Chuo didn't wait for Liu Bei to come over and ask him why, he raised his right hand like a knife, and cut off the front of his head with an afterimage.
"Chuo has no face to see you." Zhang Chuo chopped himself to death with a knife, but everyone including Liu Bei heard those words.
Looking at Zhang Chuo's body, Liu Bei looked gloomy, and then looked at the city guards led by Zhang Chuo before. Those city guards were cowering like quails at this time. Zhang Chuo proved Liu Bei's identity with his own death.
These people are completely afraid to take action.
"What happened in Nanpi?" Liu Bei looked at Zhang Chen and asked. Although Liu Bei roughly knew what happened even if he didn't ask, Liu Bei wanted to know what happened in detail.
"Probably Nanpi Prefect jumped over the wall and rebelled. He dealt with a lot of veterans. I guess not many people here know Xuande Gong." Chen Xi intervened to explain.
