"General Liu, please quickly send troops to assist Kong Shijun!"

After hearing the news, Huang County Magistrate Wang Xiu was the first to request that troops be sent to assist Kong Rong.

Wang Xiu was Xiaolian recommended by Kong Rong, and was appointed as the chief secretary by Kong Rong, and then appointed as the county magistrate.

It can be said that Kong Rong was Wang Xiu’s benefactor, and of course he wanted to rescue him.

Liu Bei was very hesitant.

Yuan Tan led 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack, while Kong Rong only had 5,000 or 6,000 state soldiers. He now only had more than 4,000 soldiers, and the total number was only 10,000. It was not easy to defeat Yuan Tan.

Moreover, there are many bandits in Donglai County. If I take away all the more than 4,000 soldiers and horses, Guan Hai, who was defeated with a grudge, and the bandit leader Cong Qian and others who are entrenched in Mouping, will they take the opportunity to capture them?

Huang County?

If Huang County is occupied, he will lose Donglai County, and all previous efforts will be in vain.

However, what made Liu Bei hesitate the most was that he had just written to Yuan Shao, stating that he did not want to be his enemy, but now he wanted to send troops to help Kong Rong, so how could he make Yuan Shao trust him?

After offending Yuan Shao, even if he can defend Qingzhou now, if Yuan Shao personally leads an army to attack one day, he will not be able to stay in Qingzhou.

"Master Mingfu, don't hesitate. Yuan's troops have arrived in the plain. If it's too late, Master Kong will be gone!" Wang Xiu urged again.

Jian Yong and Mi Zhu didn't say anything. They also had the same worries as Liu Bei. Let's not talk about whether they can save Kong Rong. Even if they can save Kong Rong, if they offend Yuan Shao, it will be difficult to develop in Qingzhou in the future.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Mi Fang, Liu Zheng and others had no opinion on this matter. Anyway, they would listen to Liu Bei whether to send troops to assist Kong Rong.

Li Ye, the meritorious officer, was also unconvinced. In his heart, he even hoped that Liu Bei would not send troops.

If troops are sent to assist Kong Rong, the thieves will not be suppressed, and the thieves may come to capture Huang County, which is not a good thing for him.

Liu Bei looked around and finally set his sights on the young and handsome military advisor Zhou Xing.

"General Liu, don't hesitate! Go rescue Kong Shijun first, and it won't be too late to come back and destroy the thieves."

Wang Xiu saw that Liu Bei had been hesitant and understood what the other party was worried about, so he continued to persuade: "Although Yuan Shao is powerful, Kong Shijun has appointed the general as the prefect of Donglai. He is kind to the general. How can the general sit idly by and not save him?"

!If the general doesn’t save him, even if Xiu is alone, he will go to help you!”

In order to get Liu Bei to send troops to rescue, Wang Xiu even resorted to moral kidnapping.

"Save, of course we must save!"

Liu Bei said quickly, if he didn't say anything, he would be known as ungrateful.

"Master Fu, we only have 4,000 soldiers and horses, but Yuan Tan came with 20,000 soldiers and horses in a fierce manner. How can we rescue them? Does Master Fu not care about the people of Donglai County?"

Li Ye, a meritorious scholar, followed suit and brought out the people of Donglai to speak out in an attempt to retain Liu Bei.

"Control, of course you have to!"

The speaker is Zhou Xing.

Liu Bei was immediately secretly happy, and the military advisor's words showed that he already had a good plan.

"If we bring soldiers and horses to rescue Lord Kong, how can we defend the city? If the city cannot be defended, and bandits come to attack, the people will surely suffer!" Li Ye said.

Zhou Xing smiled slightly: "We can rescue Kong Shijun and defend the city at the same time."

"There are only four thousand soldiers and horses, how can we take care of both?" Li Ye asked again.

Zhou Xing replied: "My lord can personally lead three thousand soldiers and horses to assist Kong Shijun. Guan Sima will lead a thousand soldiers to stay in Huang County. Guan Sima is guarding the city. Even if the bandits come together to attack, they will not be able to break the city."

Guan Yu gently stroked his long beard and listened silently. At this time, his face was slightly proud. He completely agreed with the military advisor's words. If he defended the city by himself, even if all the bandits from Donglai gathered together to attack the city, they would not be able to break it. Regarding this, Guan Yu

Very confident.

"Besides, Li Gongcao is concerned about the people of Donglai. With the army and the people working together, it is not difficult to defend this city. The difficult thing is how to rescue Kong Shijun." Zhou Xing continued.

"Yes, if you only lead 3,000 troops, how can you defeat Yuan Tan's 20,000 troops?" Li Ye quickly agreed.

Wang Xiu was very anxious and said at this time: "With the wisdom of Zhou's military advisor and the courage of Zhang Sima, there are tens of thousands of thieves in Guan Hai, why can't they be defeated in the same way! Although Yuan Tan has 20,000 troops, as long as we are here

If you set off and go quickly, you can join forces with Kong Shijun and hold the city together, so that Yuan's troops will be helpless!"

Li Ye retorted: "Yuan's soldiers and horses have arrived in the plains, but we are far away from Linyi and the mountain road is difficult to travel. How can we reach Linyi before Jizhou's soldiers and horses? Even if we can arrive in advance, Yuan's army will

If they come here, they will not retreat easily. What will happen if they besiege the city for a long time?"

"Then we will fight to the death and defend Qingzhou!"

"No, we should know the trend and act accordingly. Now the trend is in the Yuan family. If you follow it, you can survive, but if you go against it, you will perish!"

"You...you are devoted to the Yuan family, and you are in vain to be a scholar of Qingzhou!"

Wang Xiu pointed at Li Ye and was shaking with anger.

Li Ye smiled: "Haha, I am from Qingzhou, so I can speak for the people of Qingzhou. When Kong Shijun was in Qingzhou, he only saw famous people from famous families, but not poor people; he only knew how to talk, but he didn't know the suffering in the fields. Ren

When the tax was collected a little late, he killed five postal supervisors at once, which made the officials and the people resentful. It is for this reason that there are so many bandits in Beihai and even Qingzhou!"

"On the other hand, although the Yuan family is not the most virtuous, they have many soldiers and horses, and they can control thieves. The thieves can be controlled and the people can be safe. If this can be done, what's wrong with letting the Yuan family win Qingzhou!"

Wang Xiu was speechless for a moment after being rebutted.

Li Ye is right. When Kong Rong was the prime minister of Beihai, he killed five postal governors in one day because of the slow collection of rent and taxes.

The postal supervisor is an official of the county government, responsible for supervising the county administration of the counties in the county. A county can be divided into two to five postal supervisors depending on its size, such as the eastern postal supervisor, the western postal supervisor, etc.

A Ministry Postal Inspector oversees two or three counties, and must be from other counties.

Although the position is low, the power is not small.

When Liu Bei was the captain of Anxi County, it was difficult to meet the postal supervisor, so Zhang Fei would beat the postal supervisor in anger.

The duty of the postal supervisors was also to urge the counties to collect land rents and taxes. However, the people of Beihai were already in dire straits and could not collect all the rents and taxes in time. Kong Rong was so angry that he killed five postal supervisors in one day.

It can be seen that Li Ye, as a county official, must not be happy with the prefect who killed the county officials indiscriminately, and he had not received any favors from Kong Rong. No wonder he wanted to speak for the Yuan family and opposed Liu Bei's sending troops to assist Kong Rong.

Melted.

"No matter what, Xiu will go to the aid of Kong Shijun even if he dies! If you don't go, I will go myself! Humph!"

Wang Xiu couldn't talk to Li Ye, so he thought it was useless no matter how much he said, so he snorted and walked out.

Zhou Xing quickly called him out: "Uncle, wait a moment, General Liu will lead his troops to go with you tomorrow to assist Kong Shijun."

Wang Xiu is a talented person, and he is so loyal and grateful. Zhou Xing does not want Liu Bei to lose him.

"Yes, as the military advisor said, I will lead three thousand soldiers and horses tomorrow to assist Kong Shijun. Don't be anxious, uncle, he will go with us tomorrow." Liu Bei also said quickly.

By now, Liu Bei has decided to send troops to assist Kong Rong. Although he doesn't know how to save Kong Rong without offending Yuan Shao, he thinks that the military advisor must have an idea.

"Do you really mean what Mr. Fu said?" Wang Xiu stopped and asked.

Liu Bei said seriously: "Shuzhi doesn't believe what I say?"

"Okay, then I'll go back and prepare first, and I'll go with the governor tomorrow." Wang Xiu said and left the prefect's mansion.

"Ming Fujun really wants to lead troops to aid Kong Shijun?"

The meritorious officer Li Ye didn't seem to believe what Liu Bei said, or he didn't want to believe it.

Zhang Fei roared angrily: "Hey, my eldest brother always keeps his word, but when has he ever deceived anyone?"

Li Ye understood that Liu Bei was determined to go, so he stopped talking.

Jian Yong, Mi Zhu and others had nothing to say. Anyway, they would do whatever Liu Bei said now.
Chapter completed!