After Zhuo Ying and Zhang Yi came to Luocheng to assist in the war, the morale of the army's sluggishness improved slightly, but Liu Xun himself had no confidence in defending Luocheng.

After discussing with Zhang Ren, Liu Xu felt that a victory must be won to boost morale.

Zhang Ren volunteered to take advantage of Liu Bei's chance to invite battles with a small number of troops, and took the initiative to leave the city with several times the army, with more attacks and fewer attacks. After achieving a victory, he would defend the city and force Liu Bei's army to retreat.

Liu Xu trusted Zhang Ren very much and asked him to let him go. He didn't want to lead troops to fight, so he stayed to defend the city with Zhang Yi.

That morning, Zhang Ren lit up five thousand troops, led two thousand first, and Zhuo Ying led three thousand, and divided into two teams in front and back.

Zhang Ren was the front team and Zhuo Ying was the back team. Just when Liu Bei's army came to invite the battle, he went out of the city to retreat.

Not long after, Liu Bei's army was invited to fight came over. This time the one who was invited to fight was not the brave and good-for-war Huang Zhong or Wei Yan, but the military advisor Zhuge Liang led a team of unruly troops to cross Jinyan Bridge and call.

Although Zhang Ren was a little surprised and puzzled about this abnormal phenomenon, he did not have high requirements for leaving the city this time, just to achieve a big and small victory.

Zhang Ren was afraid that there were too many people to scare Zhuge Liang away, so he asked Zhuo Ying to lead the army to wait at the city gate. He led the army out of the city first and fought against Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang did not ride a horse, but rode a four-wheeled carriage, and there were more than a hundred riders on both sides. Zhuge Liang pointed at Zhang Ren with a fan and said:

"Cao Cao heard my name with millions of people and walked away! Who are you? You dare to stop my army, so why don't you surrender quickly?"

When Zhang Ren saw that Kong Ming's army was not in a unified manner, he immediately sneered and replied:

"I heard that you, Zhuge Liang, use your troops like a god, now you look like a name but not a real person. How can you surrender without fighting?" Before he finished speaking, Zhang Ren used a gun to fight for the first place, and fought for the first place behind him, and Zhuo Ying also led three thousand troops and horses and rushed out from behind the empty city gate.

When Zhuge Liang saw Zhang Ren and Zhuo Ying rushing over, his face changed and he didn't dare to fight. He abandoned the four-wheeler and set off on his horse and retreated.

Zhang Ren came from behind and walked for several miles across Jinyan Bridge. He was about to catch up with Zhuge Liang's defeated soldiers. With a cannon, two groups of troops turned out from the woods. Liu Bei's army was on the left and Yan Yan's army was on the right, and rushed to the future.

Zhang Renming knew that he had been trapped. When he was eager to return to the army, Jinyan Bridge had been dismantled and wanted to turn north to the west gate to return to the city. He saw Zhao Yun's army spread across the bank, so he did not dare to jump to the north and walked straight south around the river.

After walking for less than a few miles, he came to a scattered reeds. The cavalry entered first. Wei Yan and his army suddenly stood up from the reeds and poked them with long spears. Huang Zhong and his army were lying in the reeds and chopped the horse's hooves with long swords. Zhang Ren's cavalry fell down and were all captured by Wei Yan and Huang Zhong.

The infantry behind did not dare to continue moving forward, and Zhang Ren led the remaining dozens of cavalry to look at the mountain road south, just in time to hit Zhang Fei's ambush.

Zhang Ren turned his horse's head and wanted to retreat. Zhang Fei shouted loudly, and the soldiers rushed forward.

The mountain road was surrounded by trees. Zhang Ren's spear could not be used. He was knocked off the horse by the soldiers, pressed to the ground, and captured alive!

Zhuo Ying behind him had not had time to cross the bridge, and saw Zhang Ren from afar from the other side of the river that he had fallen into Zhuge Liang's plan. He had no intention of saving and did not want to return to the city. He led his troops directly to surrender to Zhao Yun's army.

It turned out that the head of reinforcements this time was Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi is also a child of the Zhang family. His great-grandfather Zhang Hao was once the Sikong and his great-grandfather Zhang Gang was the prefect of Guangling County. They were both very prestigious and political achievements. They were once the two patriarchs of the Zhang family.

When it came to Zhang Yi's grandfather, he did not become an official because he was not talented. Zhang Su's father rose to serve as the head of the Zhang family.

But within the Zhang family, Zhang Yi and Zhang Ren do not belong to the same faction. Zhang Ren and Zhang Su are close to each other, and Zhang Yi and Zhang Song are optimistic about Liu Bei.

Zhang Song was killed by Liu Zhang, and Zhang Yi was once recommended by Zhang Song. He wanted to avenge Zhang Song, but he was unable to do so.

Zhang Ren, recommended by Zhang Su, was highly valued by Liu Zhang. Together with Liu Xu, he tried his best to guard Luocheng and shot Liu Bei's military advisor Pang Tong.

This time, Wu Lan and Lei Tong surrendered in front of the formation, Wu Yi retreated to Mianyang, and Liu Xun returned to Chengdu to seek reinforcements.

In order to resist Liu Bei's army, Liu Zhang assembled nearly 100,000 troops in Chengdu.

Luocheng came to ask for help, but Liu Zhang could not ignore it, so he summoned his generals to discuss it.

Liu Zhang made several consecutive battles, and the major families in Chengdu were all thinking about it. Although they had not yet turned to Liu Bei, they had already wanted to wait and see, so naturally they did not want to send troops to get into evil with Liu Bei.

Therefore, when I heard that I was going to Luocheng, the major families believed that these reinforcements had gone but never returned, so they naturally did not want to send their own generals to, so they all blamed each other.

It was still Zhang Su who was in a difficult situation and took the initiative to ask Zhang Yi to fight on behalf of the Zhang family. Several other aristocratic families had to express their opinions. Only then did they gather 20,000 troops and go to Mianyang and Luocheng for rescue.

Before Zhang Yi left, the Zhang family was optimistic about the backbone of Liu Bei's faction, believing that Zhang Ren shot and killed Liu Bei's military advisor Pang Tong, and had a great grudge against Liu Bei's army. Seeing that Liu Xun retreated from Luocheng and Liu Zhang was defeated sooner or later, the Zhang family's prospects were worrying.

Therefore, they privately instructed Zhang Yi not to fight to the death with Liu Bei when he arrived in Luocheng, but instead looked for an opportunity to offer Luocheng to offset Zhang Ren's crime of shooting Pang Tong, and to calm Liu Bei's anger.

Zhang Yi was about to avenge Zhang Song, so he convinced his good friend Zhuo Ying to come to Luocheng with him.

Zhuo Ying was persuaded by Zhang Yi. He was not sure how to deal with Zhang Ren this time, so he had no intention of fighting. When he saw Zhang Ren being trapped, although Zhao Yun only had one thousand troops in his headquarters, his three thousand troops surrendered without fighting.

After capturing Zhang Ren, when Zhuo Ying surrendered, Liu Bei withdrew his troops and returned to the camp and returned to Dazhai together.

Liu Bei rewarded Zhuo Ying very much, Zhang Fei took Zhang Ren to the lobby, and Zhuge Liang also came to the tent early.

Seeing Zhang Renyi's talented and majestic, although Liu Bei also had a love for talent, he knew from Zhuge Liang that Zhang Ren shot and killed Pang Tong, so he naturally wanted to kill Zhang Ren to avenge Pang Tong.

But Zhang Ren has been captured, which is equivalent to killing prisoners. He is afraid of panic among the generals of the Shu army. Maybe he will fight to the death and refuse to surrender in the future. He will increase the loss of the army for nothing, so he said to Zhang Ren in a reproachful tone:

"The generals in Shu are surrendering in a glance. Why don't you surrender earlier?"

Zhang Ren entered the tent, but was still tied up tightly. He shot and killed Pang Tong, knowing that he could not survive, so he did not ask for surrender to Liu Bei, but instead opened his eyes and shouted angrily:

"How can the loyal ministers serve the two masters?"

When Liu Bei saw that Zhang Ren did not surrender, he was just right, but he still wanted to show his kindness and show others how to see him and leave a way out for Liu Zhang's generals who were fighting with him. He said to Zhang Ren:

"You are ignorant of the current affairs! It is still time to surrender now, and I will also forgive you for your death penalty!"

Zhang Ren could not hear the meaning of Liu Bei's words. Besides, he had no intention of living, because he knew that only when he died could Liu Bei not expose his anger to the Zhang family, so he replied loudly:

"Don't persuade me anymore. Even if I surrender today, I am not sincere and will not surrender in a long time! You might as well kill me now!"

Although Liu Bei also wanted to kill him, he was afraid of leaving the name of killing prisoners. Zhang Ren was determined to die and scolded him loudly. However, he did not want to implicate his family after all, and his words were very sensible. He did not touch Liu Bei's pain points and did not anger Liu Bei.
Chapter completed!