Wei Yan slowly closed his eyes and pulled down the sword blade with force. At this moment, Zhang Ren, who was beside Liu Zhang, suddenly took action and opened Wei Yan's sword with a shot. The sword blade scratched his neck, leaving an inch-long wound.
Blood overflowed.
Liu Zhang never expected that Wei Yan would plead guilty alone. This unexpected feeling made the anger that had been accumulating in his chest suddenly calm down a lot. Liu Zhang secretly told Zhang Ren that if Wei Yan was willing to kill himself, he would use his gun to stop it.
But the timing should not be too early. Wei Yan relied on his talent and was arrogant, and it was impossible not to punish him. Especially thinking of Leng Bao, Liu Zhang's anger towards Wei Yan could not be eliminated no matter what, and Liu Zhang was not sure whether Wei Yan was showing off.
Wei Yan looked at Liu Zhang in shock. Before he could open his mouth, severe pain came from his neck. His face was distorted and he fell to the ground. The grass in his left hand was uprooted.
Liu Zhang glanced at Wei Yan coldly, and said with his hands behind his back expressionlessly: "It is said that military doctor Aguda, if Wei Yan cannot die, will be demoted to a commoner, and will have nothing to do with Yizhou from now on. If he dies, he will be buried on the spot.
"
After Liu Zhang finished speaking, he ignored Wei Yan who was struggling on the ground and led the generals to walk past Wei Yan and headed towards Jiangling. Aguda hurriedly led a group of military doctors to surround Wei Yan, applying medicine to Wei Yan, wrapping gauze to his neck.
The wound was too close to his head. Wei Yan only felt that the sky was darkened after losing blood for a while, and he vaguely heard the conversation between Liu Zhang and Zhang Ren coming from behind.
"My lord, is it too much to be demoted to a commoner? General Wei has made great contributions and his confession is sincere. It is better to be demoted to a foot soldier."
"Infantry? He doesn't deserve it."
Liu Zhang's tone was cold, just like when he was on the road to Brazil, but at this time, Wei Yan suddenly felt at ease in his heart. The wound on his neck was exchanged for Liu Zhang's tolerance. Commoner, this is the best result.
"From now on, I have no relationship with Yizhou."
Liu Zhang's words echoed in his ears, and Wei Yan secretly gritted his teeth while allowing the military doctors to bandage him, "With my talent, Wei Yan, I will definitely be able to make great achievements even if I start all over again. Yizhou, just watch, one day
, I will also become the General of Yizhou."
"Boss, is he having a seizure?" A military doctor looked at Wei Yan's ever-changing expression and asked Aguda strangely.
"Too much nonsense." Aguda replied coldly.
Jiangling, since the Spring and Autumn Period, has been the largest city in the entire south. It once served as the capital of the southern overlord Chu State and was very prosperous for a while. Later, Jiangling faced catastrophe. Countless temples were destroyed, and the scholar-bureaucrats' families were massacred. It fell for a time.
, until the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Jiangling re-emerged as the economic and political center of the south.
After Liu Biao moved to Xiangyang, he did not abandon Jiangling. As the waterway gateway to Jiangdong, it was also the nearest supply station for the Zigui defense line. It had always stocked countless grain weapons. This time, Wei Yan led his army to sneak attack on the Dangyang Valley granary.
, on a temporary basis, they pretended to be Jingzhou soldiers and raided Jiangling.
Since Liu Qi's army went south, in order to stabilize the defense of Zigui, almost all the troops in northern Jing were mobilized, and Jiangling was almost an empty city. Wei Yan captured Jiangling without any effort. Jiangling had a population of hundreds of thousands, 300,000 shi of grain, and 100,000 grains.
All Qiku's fine weapons fell into the hands of the Sichuan army.
As soon as the news of the fall of Jiangling and Dangyang Valley reached Zigui, it immediately caused chaos among the Jingzhou army. At this moment, Deng Zhi from Yubeli Pass led an army of 70,000 to attack the Jingzhou army, and attacked Zigui city day and night regardless of casualties.
During this period, the twelve military forts on the outskirts of Zigui were pulled out, and Zigui became an isolated city and quickly fell.
The Jingzhou army was defeated and fled. In accordance with the orders left by Wei Yan, Deng Zhi led the Sichuan army in pursuit until they reached the Yiling Mountains. Behind them was the lost Jiangling. The Jingzhou army had no way to retreat. There was a raging wind and the force had to retreat south. At this point
, Jiangling and Yizhou are connected, completely dividing Jingzhou into two sections.
In the south is Liu Qi's nearly 100,000 troops in southern Jingnan, in the north is the Jingbei camp with extremely empty defenses, and Liu Biao is stationed in the dangerous city of Xiangyang.
Liu Zhang led his troops into Jiangling City, which has a high city and thick pool. Looking at the bustling streets of Jiangling, he had to admit that Wei Yan's adventure was correct from a military perspective. If not, according to the Jingzhou strategy formulated with Fa Zheng, if everything goes well, at least
It would take another half a year for the Sichuan army to march from Jingnan to Jiangling City.
Moreover, Jiangling's defense will definitely cause heavy losses to the Sichuan army.
Liu Zhang ordered Zhang Ren to lead 3,000 troops to reorganize Jiangling's troops and feast the three armies with Jiangling's wine and food.
Now the situation in Jingzhou is basically clear. Liu Qi's 100,000-strong army is in the south of Jingzhou, and it looks menacing. However, without food and grass, it will definitely not last long. The only thing Liu Biao in the north of Jingzhou can do for Liu Qi is to provide Liu Qi with supplies through waterways.
However, the Jingzhou navy was basically stationed in Jiangxia and Hanshui rivers. It took a long time to transport supplies to Jingnan, and it could not meet the cost of 100,000 people. The isolation from Jingbei would soon make the Jingzhou navy confused.
Liu Zhang left Gan Ning in the Yangtze River waterway, and Wei Wen agreed to lead the water pirates to help. In this way, although the strength was far inferior to the Jingzhou navy, it was still possible to send clippers to harass the Jingzhou army's grain ships.
Liu Qi's army, which was short of supplies, was even worse. Liu Zhang believed that within three months, Liu Qi's 100,000-strong army would be dragged to death in Jingnan.
This period of time also happened to be a rest time for the Sichuan army, and Liu Zhang had a rare moment of leisure.
In Jiangling County Mansion, Liu Zhang held a banquet for the generals of the Sichuan Army. The generals toasted to Liu Zhang one after another, and Liu Zhang did not refuse anyone who came.
The lights were intersecting, and Liu Zhang had already drank dozens of cups. Fazheng frowned as he watched from the side. He left the table and called the military doctor Aguda. Aguda hesitated for a moment, then walked to Liu Zhang and said: "My lord, before going to Jingzhou, Mr. Zhang Zhongjing
I said that my lord's body should not drink too much alcohol, and he should exercise some restraint."
The purity of wine in ancient times was not high, but after drinking dozens of glasses of wine, Liu Zhang felt dizzy and unsteady on his feet. His face was red with wine, he waved his hands and said to Aguda with his tongue tied:
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It's rare that I'm happy today, so I'll have a few more drinks. After the banquet is over, I promise not to be an alcoholic anymore, how about that?"
"This..." Aguda was a little embarrassed. As the leader of a state and the commander of the three armies, Liu Zhang was not something that he, a little military doctor, could control. However, excessive alcoholism was indeed bad for Liu Zhang's health. Liu Zhang had been drinking too much in Japan.
I was working hard, and my mood was unstable during the military journey.
According to Zhang Zhongjing's opinion, Liu Zhang should have a good rest during this kind of leisure time. Nine hours of sleep a day is not excessive, and it cannot be used for alcoholism.
Seeing that Aguda was still standing there, Liu Zhang smiled and pushed Aguda with his hand: "Okay, okay, you go down, I will control myself."
At this time, another general came to propose a toast. Liu Zhang immediately picked up the wine glass. Aguda looked at Fazheng apologetically, shook his head and left.
Fazheng sighed. These soldiers had just experienced life and death, so he couldn't be disappointed. He glanced around and saw Xiao Furong, who was wearing white plain-waisted clothes, guessing and drinking among a bunch of barbarians, and she was using
It's a big bowl. Looking at her like that, she must have drank ten or twenty bowls.
Fa Zheng felt from the bottom of his heart that Xiao Furong was frank and innocent, and his impression of Xiao Furong was much better than other civil and military officials' impressions of Xiao Furong. However, it was precisely because of this frankness and innocence that Fazheng felt that Xiao Furong could not be the mistress of Yizhou.
The current situation once again proves this point.
Fazheng really didn't understand how Liu Zhang tolerated Xiao Furong now. If it were another man with such an indecent wife, it would be strange if he didn't drag her home and whip her.
Fazheng frowned slightly, but suddenly an idea suddenly occurred to him. He patted his forehead and walked towards Xiao Furong who was drinking and eating meat.