Just when Liu Bei thought that everything was ready, as long as he could get rid of Cao Ren's pursuers and go to Changsha along the way, he would be able to turn over as a serf and sing, but he didn't realize that in these piles of people he was coercing, there were Deng Ai, Cen Qi, and more than a dozen Changsha soldiers disguised as people.

They spread the gospel from Changsha on behalf of Kou Yan, and after the mission was completed, they did not return to Changsha, but lurked in Xinye. The new task they were given was to be Kou Yan's eyes and ears, waiting for the battle of Xinye to begin, and guiding and protecting the vast majority of the people who were willing to take refuge in Changsha.

At this time, they disguised themselves as ordinary people and mixed in with the fleeing crowd, watching many ordinary people blindly listen to the lies of Liu Bei's group and be displaced. There are too many people, and the soldiers of Xinye can't take care of them at all. There was no one to feed and drink them, no one to care for their afflictions. At first, Cen Qi also thought that Liu Bei's move was a great act of kindness, but it turned out that he saw a big wave of refugees like hell on earth, and he finally believed Deng Ai's words: "This person is vicious. ”

Deng Ai's wisdom was fully demonstrated in this mission. He first took advantage of the opportunity of spreading the gospel to map all the main roads and forest trails on the road from Changsha to Xinye, including mountain roads and waterways, and sent them to Changsha. After Cao Ren mobilized his troops, he persuaded the village chief of Deng Village in the name of Kou Yan to stay in Xinye with the whole village.

In fact, Kou Yan didn't ask him to do these things, but he still did it silently. Cen Qi, who was walking with him, was surprised to find that this child was very precocious, but his **-year-old appearance had a calm heart in his thirties and forties. Originally, he didn't talk much because of his stuttering, but now he has added a bit of sophistication and fortitude to his words, and they shouted inconspicuously in the crowd, and Zhang, Zhao and Chen had rubbed shoulders with them several times without knowing it.

Cao Ren thought that Liu Bei would flee for his life, but he didn't expect Liu Bei to choose such a way to escape. You must know that now is the most chaotic time in the troubled times, the three kingdoms have not yet been formed, and the heroes have risen together. Population is the most valuable resource for each force, and there is no one.

Population represents tax revenue, represents productive forces, and represents the army, which is a visual indication of the strength of power. Therefore, every hero who aspires to compete for the top of the game attaches great importance to population resources. Cao Cao is certainly no exception. He unified the north and developed tuntian in order to protect and develop the population resources of the north.

In his order to Cao Ren, it was very clear that the people in the south should not be killed or injured, that their production and living conditions should be maintained, and that no misery should be allowed to occur. Cao Ren kept this in mind, and when he saw Liu Bei taking such a way to escape, he couldn't help but curse two words in his heart: shameless.

However, the other party is such a shameless person, he just did this, what can you do with him? Seeing that Liu Bei used the people as a cover and did everything possible to obstruct his pursuit, Cao Ren hated it so much that he couldn't do anything. The speed and impact that the cavalry was proud of turned into a disadvantage in the face of the crowd, and although the dragoons were all good riders, there was still the embarrassment of losing control of the horses after being disturbed.

However, Cao Ren is Cao Ren after all, and the dragoons are not in vain. Although they couldn't catch up with Liu Bei immediately, they could always bite each other's tails, so that he had no time to take care of anything else, so he could only flee with wolves.

Zhang Fei and Chen Zhi protected Liu Bei on horseback and galloped in front of him, and behind them were the two thousand soldiers brought out by Xinye, these two thousand people were the most elite part of the corporal soldiers of several generals, and the rest of the soldiers were abandoned by Liu Bei because they wanted to maintain the order of the people or other reasons.

He felt the sound of the enemy's horses' hooves behind him getting closer and closer, and he thought that his soldiers were all foot soldiers, and it was difficult to resist, and his heart was even more panicked. Moreover, he and Zhang Feichen were riding thousands of miles of good horses, and they deliberately slowed down in order to take into account the running speed of their soldiers, and he felt that if he continued like this, he would be caught up sooner or later.

So, he simply gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, anyway, when he arrived in Changsha, he wanted something, and it was a pity that the two thousand men and horses behind him were sacrificed. He said to Zhang Fei on the side: "Third brother, this Cao Ren is really powerful, it seems that we will not escape the doom this time, you listen, the sound of horses' hooves is getting closer and closer." ”

Zhang Fei looked back when he heard this, and sure enough, the yellow dust raised by the galloping horse could be seen getting closer and closer in the distance. He decisively dropped a sentence: "Don't worry, big brother, you go first, I'll resist for a while." ”

After speaking, he swung his spear, took his subordinates, and selected another 500 foot soldiers for Liu Bei. Liu Bei secretly sighed recklessly, he meant to let the soldiers block it and not let Zhang Fei personally block it, where are the soldiers to watch, the master will be so desperate? But as soon as Zhang Fei said this, he couldn't open his mouth again and insisted on letting the soldiers go to death, so he had to nod and be careful.

After a while, Liu Bei said the same thing to Chen Zhi again, but fortunately, Chen Zhi was more brainy, and did not let Liu Bei vomit blood, and the five hundred soldiers stayed behind with a great spirit of sacrifice. At this point, there were only 1,000 soldiers left behind Liu Bei, and the escape continued. He didn't know that compared to Cao Ren in the back, the person who really wanted his life was not far ahead.

Turning his gaze back to Changsha in October, Cao Cao promulgated a document on the front foot to fight against him, and Deng Ai on the back foot sent a map of Xinye. While admiring Deng Ai's natural talent, Kou Yan suddenly gushed out a desire buried at the bottom of her heart, she wanted to go there to see in person, to see the nightmare of herself and her sister, to see if there were still corpses and bones piled up there, if she still couldn't escape the arrangement of fate and met that devil-like man, then come to test whether she had gotten rid of the entanglement of those nightmares and been reborn.

She wants to go to Xinye in person, and she can't drink what her teacher says, let alone tell her senior brother. It is absolutely impossible for these two people to agree. There is no way, so it can only be done quietly.

Xu Shu was nervously following the situation on Xinye's side, completely unaware that his female disciple was going to have trouble again. Kou Yan announced that he had stopped his routine morning meeting, saying that he would go to several surrounding villages to inspect the autumn harvest and winter storage, and would not return until about a month, and asked Xu Shu and Jiang Wan to take full authority to handle the affairs of the county.

Xu Shu thought that she chose to escape in order to avoid dealing with Liu Bei's affairs in person. After all, if she is here, whether Liu Bei stays in Changsha or not, she must make a decision herself. And this is very likely to lead her to see the person she least wants to see in this life. So, she chose to leave. It was up to herself, an outsider, to carry out her orders, drive Liu Bei to Jiangxia, and throw it to Liu Qi to deal with.

He thought so, so he didn't ask the apprentice about the specific schedule, nor did he ask Kou Feng to accompany him, but sent him to do something else. Kou Yan picked a hundred guards himself, and went to the military camp outside the city in his own name to borrow two hundred archers, and ordered to conceal the matter. With this group of 300 people, he embarked on the journey back to Xinye.