The sky gradually brightened, and Liu Bei opened his eyes, only to find Guan Yu looking haggard. He couldn't help but wonder, "Second brother, do you have something on your mind?"
Guan Yu hesitated and said: "It's nothing, I just didn't sleep well last night."
Liu Bei and Guan Yu spent many times more time together than his own women. No one understood Guan Yu's temperament better than him. He couldn't help laughing and said: "You are not brothers, but you are better than brothers."
Brother, is there anything on your mind that you can’t tell me?"
Guan Yu felt a little ashamed, and said with cupped hands: "What the elder brother taught you is that the younger brother knows that he is wrong. He dare not hide it from the older brother, because the younger brother has taken a fancy to a woman."
Liu Bei laughed loudly and said: "When the male is the first to marry, the first is the female. What is there to be embarrassed about? It's just that I don't know whose girl is so lucky to be favored by my second brother."
Guan Yu lowered his head and murmured: "It's a pity that she is already a married woman."
Liu Bei asked about the situation, pondered for a moment, and said seriously: "Why should a man worry about not having a wife? My second brother must not do anything unworthy of morality."
Guan Yu promised: "Eldest brother, don't worry, I am not a ignorant person."
In the next few days, Cao Bao and Qin Yi returned to the military camp and became deputy generals of the Xuzhou Army. Guan Yu also seemed to be focused on military training. However, whenever he saw Qin Yi, Guan Yu's face changed.
He would have a strange expression, and thanks to his red face, even if he was a little excited, others wouldn't be able to tell much about it. But Liu Bei knew very well that Guan Yu
Guan Yu still couldn't let go of that woman in his heart. Especially at night, when the two of them were sleeping at the same table, the happy conversation no longer existed. Guan Yu was often distracted secretly, and sometimes he didn't even hear what Liu Bei was saying. Liu Bei saw this.
He was anxious in his heart, Guan Yu was his support in fighting for the strongest position in the world, it was not good to stay in this state all the time, he had to find a solution.
Although Guan Yu was in poor condition, the five hundred "substitute" officers were all focused on the training ground as if they had taken stimulants, training the seventy soldiers under their command until they screamed, Xuzhou
The face of the army has completely changed.
Liu Bei saw the fierce fighting spirit of the soldiers on the training ground and nodded with satisfaction. He glanced at Cao Bao and Qin Yi who were standing next to Guan Yu. He suddenly had a plan in mind and said, "General Qin."
Qin Yi went out early and came back late these days. He crawled and rolled with the soldiers. Not only did he lose weight, but he was too tired to stand up every day when he came home. He looked at the flowery Du Xiuniang standing in front of him.
, even if he wants to have an intimate relationship, he has more than enough intentions but lacks the energy. However, Qin Yi doesn’t
Regret. Guan Yu promoted him to the position of deputy general. He took home more military pay than before, and his family's living conditions gradually improved. His mother's illness also had money to pay a doctor to treat his mother's illness. His gratitude to Guan Yu was overwhelming.
From the bottom of my heart, I really want to perform well.
"The general is here!" Hearing Liu Bei calling him, Qin Yi hurriedly raised his hands and stood upright, waiting for Liu Bei's further orders.
However, Liu Bei did not give the order directly. Instead, he pointed at the soldiers who were training hard in the school field and said: "General Qin, do you think these soldiers would be able to fight against Cao's army if they were placed a few days ago?"
Qin Yi said without hesitation: "If there were some powerful soldiers on that day, they would have taught Cao Cao how to come back! This is all due to General Guan."
Liu Bei smiled slightly and said: "I heard that Zuo Rong, the governor of Pengcheng, was burning and killing people in Guangling. As a shepherd of Xuzhou, how could Liu ignore it? General Qin, Liu ordered you to lead three thousand elite troops to Guangling immediately.
, wipe out Zuo Rong and this gang of gangsters, and bring peace and prosperity to the people of Guangling!"
Qin Yi was stunned for a moment. As a military general, being able to get the opportunity to lead troops alone on an expedition shows that the lord's trust in him should certainly be considered a good thing. But the problem is that Zuo Rong has more than ten thousand elite soldiers.
, it is said that the war horses alone were three to four thousand, but Liu Bei only gave him a total of three thousand men. Qin Yi was really not sure whether such a small number of men would go to suppress or die.
Seeing Qin Yi's silence, Liu Bei's face suddenly darkened, and he said calmly: "General Qin was hesitant to even clear up Zuo Rong, and he said that when facing Cao Cao, he would never come back."
Qin Yi hurriedly laughed and said: "My lord has misunderstood. The general is not familiar with the roads in Guangling and is thinking about who to look for as a guide."
Liu Bei's face immediately turned cloudy, and he nodded and said: "General Qin will take care of the guide. Liu will make arrangements for you. Reinforcement is like putting out a fire. The people of Guangling are being slaughtered. There is no time to delay. You go back
Pack up, gather your troops, and set off immediately."
Qin Yi muttered in his heart, there is no time to waste, it’s not like you just found out today that Zuo Rong committed murder and arson in Guangling. Of course, he could only keep these words in his heart, but he kept saying the promise, bowed his hands, and went to count the troops.
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Guan Yu looked at Qin Yi who was leaving in a hurry, and the beautiful figure of Du Xiuniang holding the baby appeared in front of his eyes. He couldn't help but said: "Brother, I only gave him three thousand troops. Isn't it a little too little? Otherwise, let me do it myself."
Take a walk."
Liu Bei secretly thought, isn't this arrangement all for you? However, he knew that Guan Yu had a very high-spirited nature, but it was difficult to express such words to him, so he had to wave his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, I have other arrangements for my brother. General Cao,
You lead 10,000 troops to pick up the troops and set off in three days."
Cao Bao's leg injury has not fully recovered. In order to maintain the Cao family's status in Xuzhou, he has to force himself to come to the school grounds every day. Although the area under the general stage has been cleaned, the dark red blood stains are still vaguely visible.
It was there that his nephew Cao Jin was split into two pieces by Guan Yu, and he dared not speak out in anger. Now, when he heard that Liu Bei asked him to lead troops to Guangling, Cao Bao breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, he finally didn't have to
Look at Guan Yu's face again. He couldn't wait to leave now. He couldn't wait for three days. He quickly accepted the promise and walked down to the school field to order troops.
Liu Bei didn't even secure his position as Xuzhou Mu, so he had no energy left to collect intelligence from various places. His understanding of Guangling was still limited to the news brought back by the envoys, but he didn't know that Zuo Rong had now fled to Jiangnan, and was
Gan Ning personally served as the executioner and beheaded him in public. Guangling and Wu Commandery were now a busy scene.
Mi Zhu, Zhang Zhao, and Zhang Hong have all crossed the Yangtze River again, arrived in Guangling, and began to recruit people from Guangling, Pengcheng and other places. Just in case, except for Zang Ba and Xu who came to Wujun with them, just in case
In addition to Sheng, Gan Ning sent Huang Gai to lead 300 navy soldiers to follow them and serve as guards. Without receiving orders from Liu Xin, he could only send so many soldiers to fight across the river.
Except for Zang Ba and Huang Gai, all of these people are from various counties in Xuzhou. Zang Ba also served as the prefect of Langya for a period of time and still has a certain appeal in Langya. Mi Zhu, Zhang Zhao, and Zhang Hong are also all This group of celebrities from Xuzhou launched a call in Guangling, and soon the responders gathered. Many temporary camps have been set up along the Guangling River on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Although Xuzhou only has five counties under its jurisdiction, it has a household registration of one million and a population of close to five million. You must know that when Liu Xin first arrived in Xiangyang, the entire nine counties of Jingxiang only had a population of six million. Of course, With development over the years, Jingzhou's population has now exceeded nine million.
Cao Cao's army did not just massacre in Xuzhou. Cao Cao's army would restrain those who offered the city to surrender. Even so, the three counties of Langya, Donghai, Pengcheng and Xiapi County still suffered serious damage. It is estimated that The number of people who died under Cao's army would not be less than 300,000.
Because the phantom secret agent promptly spread the news about Cao Jun's invasion and the fact that Jiangxia and Wu counties had refugee camps, more people were able to flee their homes in advance and save their lives. However, most people chose to flee to Jiangxia.
From Xuzhou to Jiangxia, you need to pass through Qiaojun and Runan, which are Yuan Shu's territory. Not all princes regard population as an important resource like Liu Xin. On the contrary, many princes regard large numbers of foreigners as important resources. The people who moved over, especially those who had fled and were penniless, were regarded as a burden and the source of trouble. Yuan Shu had the same idea. He ordered many checkpoints to be set up to prohibit the people of Xuzhou from passing through Qiaojun and Runan. .
Although some people were lucky enough to escape the checkpoints and came to Jiangxia, more people were forced to return to Xuzhou. Therefore, to this day, the refugee camps in Jiangxia only accommodate more than 5,000 people who escaped from Xuzhou. .
In fact, for ordinary people, living in troubled times, they just want to survive. Whether it is a refugee camp in Jiangxia or a refugee camp in Wujun, as long as they can have a bowl of food to eat and can continue to survive, it will not matter where they go. Same. The reason why so many people chose to flee to Jiangxia was that they would rather risk being raped by Yuan Shu's army, and even the young women would be humiliated, than flee to Wu County. There is only one reason. It was the roaring Yangtze River that lay in front of them.
The Yangtze River is a natural chasm, not only from a military perspective. It is also difficult or even more difficult for the people fleeing to escape. Over the past few days, with Mi Zhu and others paying the shipping fee, five hundred people have gradually gathered on the riverside. Many fishing boats and merchant ships only transported 100,000 people intermittently. However, Mi Zhu, Zhang Zhao, and Zhang Hong, the three Xuzhou celebrities, had truly extraordinary appeal. In just two days, they transported hundreds of thousands of people to the river in Guangling County. At the side, more than 400,000 people who had fled from various counties gathered at once, and many people were also coming one after another after hearing the news.
However, the speed of delivering news from various places under Liu Xin's jurisdiction was actually much faster than that of Liu Bei. After Gan Ning personally beheaded Zuo Rong, Yu Fan sent out meteor fast horses, traveling day and night, to deliver the news here to Xiangyang. , and report every day without any hesitation.
At this time, what was in front of Liu Xin was the urgent military information that Yu Fan had sent from Wu County for two consecutive days. The military information on the first day reported that Mi Zhu, Zhang Zhao and others went to Jiangbei in person to organize refugees to cross the river.
The military situation for the next two days has already reported that Jiangbei has gathered.
The number of refugees there is more than 100,000. It will take at least a day and a half for these military information to be transmitted from Wu County. According to this calculation, it should be the fourth day of Mi Zhu's trip to Jiangbei. It is not known how many people have gathered there.