Chapter 41: The Calm Before the Great War I
It has been ten days since he followed Liu Bei to Xinye City, and since he saw the battle between Zhang Fei and Xu Chu, Zhou Yukun was very yearning, so he instructed Guan Yu and Zhang Fei every day, hoping to learn something. [Ran^Text^Library] Guan and Zhang are also not stingy with Zhou Yukun, and often accompany him to train together.
However, the consequence of this situation is that Yuan Xinwen, who was left out in the cold, was very angry. Yes, she was very, very angry. Because she went back to Wu once and found Zhou Yukun again, she didn't have much time to spend alone with him, and she still had a lot of questions to ask him to solve the doubts in her heart. However, he was so busy that he rested all day except for training, and what he said to himself was nothing more than a few polite greetings.
On this day, Liu Bei suddenly called everyone together. Zhou Yukun was surprised to find that there were so many more people around at some point, and only one of them Zhou Cang had seen him. After Liu Bei's introduction, Zhou Yukun also remembered them. There are three people who look like strategists, Xu Shu, Jian Yong, and Sun Qian; There are two generals: Guan Ping and Liu Feng.
"The main reason for calling everyone here this time is to tell you about a major event that has happened recently. Cao Cao, who had already killed Yuan Shao five days earlier, had won a complete victory. In these five days, he led his troops to clean up the remnants of the party in Yuan Shao's territory, and it was expected that the north would be completely unified within these two days. Liu Bei uncharacteristically showed a serious expression.
Xu Shu asked with a solemn face: "Lord, what do you mean ......?"
Liu Bei nodded: "Yes, with my grudge against Cao Cao, he expects that it won't be long before he leads his troops south." And my Xinye City is on the border of Cao Cao's territory, and he can almost blink an eye to appear under the city. My small city in Xinye was originally a place where Liu Biao lent me a temporary residence, and there were only a few thousand soldiers, how could I resist Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops. ”
Zhou Yukun looked at Liu Bei with a surprised expression, he didn't expect that Cao Cao, who looked unserious, would be so powerful, and he would wipe out Yuan Shao in just a few days. What Zhou Yukun couldn't guess was that Cao Cao's first contribution to this battle should actually belong to him.
Sun Qian proposed: "My lord, otherwise we will retreat for the time being to avoid Cao Cao's edge." ”
"Retreat? Regardless of where we can evacuate, even if we can leave, do you want to abandon the city with these innocent people and flee like in history? We are desperate to survive, and they are the ones who have suffered many casualties, and in the end we are not putting the cart before the horse. Liu Bei frowned and rejected his proposal.
Xu Shu also persuaded: "Lord, I also recommend evacuating." However, the evacuation cannot be blindly evacuated, we can secretly let the people leave, but on the surface, we have to fight to the death, swear to the death and deal with them, and buy enough time for the people to evacuate. After the people left safely, we evacuated as quickly as possible, Cao Cao must have been suspicious at first and did not dare to chase after him. By the time he came to his senses, we were already far away! ”
Liu Bei thought hard with some embarrassment. "The plan is good, but I still have two questions. First, where is the destination of our evacuation, we must not run from place to place, leaving the people without a fixed place to live. Second, as I mentioned before, we don't have enough troops, only a few thousand, how can we deal with Cao Cao's elite cavalry? ”
Xu Shu smiled lightly: "I have also thought of these two points of the lord, the first point, we can send a person to Jingzhou City as a lobbyist, I believe that Liu Biao will not ignore his own people; As for the second crucial point, I have also sent a letter to Ma Teng in the northwest, hoping that they will send troops to help, because I remember that the lord had a friendship with General Ma Teng. ”
Liu Bei suddenly laughed and said: "Yuan Zhi is really the first to anticipate the enemy, he has already been prepared, and it is in vain for me to meditate here to retreat from the enemy." As for the fact that I have an old relationship with General Ma Teng, I hope they will agree to help us this time. ”
After that, Liu Bei asked everyone to prepare for the big battle, and began to prepare a series of matters intensively. Since Zhou Yukun didn't understand these things at all, he didn't get involved, and it would be embarrassing if he didn't help but add to the chaos.
Guan Yu saw that Zhou Yukun had been wearing ordinary cloth clothes and silk pants, so he was ready to tailor a pair of armor for him, after all, when he was about to go to the battlefield, how could the general fight if he didn't have armor.
Two days later, Zhou Yukun, who was familiar with fighting in armor in the courtyard, suddenly heard a noise outside, so he walked to the front yard curiously. When passing a corner, Zhou Yukun was careless and pretended to be full of arms with the person opposite.
I only heard an exclamation of "ah", and a familiar scolding voice came: "Which guy hit the old lady, don't you have long eyes?" ”
Zhou Yukun shouted that it was not good, how could he meet this guy here, it is better to run quickly. Thinking so, he was about to anoint the soles of his feet and disappear without a trace, when he heard an even more piercing shout from this man: "Ah!! It turned out that you were the stinky one who begged for food, and the old lady finally caught you, and the last account was not settled with you! ”
It turned out that this person was Ma Chuling, who fainted before and was sent to the infirmary by Zhou Yukun. Where did Zhou Yukun dare to explain, he just ran away, and Ma Chuling immediately got up and chased after him when he saw this.
So, a chase that continued the previous one started again. After running for a while, Zhou Yukun reacted, why did he still run, last time he was afraid of her because his injury was not healed, why was he still afraid of her this time when he was in good condition!
Zhou Yukun braked suddenly, stood in place, and shouted: "Stop, wait!" ”
Ma Chuling didn't listen to him, and when he saw Zhou Yukun stop, he took a leap directly and pounced on Zhou Yukun. Seeing this posture, Zhou Yukun discovered for the first time that this girl was really a tiger, and her movements were amazing!
In a daze, Ma Chuling had already pounced on Zhou Yukun, wrapped his legs around his waist, strangled his neck with both hands, and stuck him so hard that he couldn't move. Then, Ma Chuling twisted his body in the air, and even threw Zhou Yukun out of his heel, and fell heavily to the ground.
At this time, Zhou Yukun's heart was in tears, he thought that he would not be as embarrassed as before, but he didn't expect to be thrown to the ground by her again. Calculated carefully, I seem to have been defeated by her three times, and each time she was pressed to the ground, does this girl have any bad habits?
Ma Chuling rode on Zhou Yukun, she wanted to hammer him hard with her fists, but she saw that he was wearing armor and had nowhere to start. In desperation, she could only tightly strangle Zhou Yukun's neck and kept muttering: "Let you peek at me, let you peek at me......"
Zhou Yukun was so strangled that he couldn't breathe, and rolled his eyes. Vaguely, he saw a group of people walking together, one of whom was the handsome and handsome Ma Chao. He stretched out his right hand with difficulty and made a difficult voice: "Master...... Elder brother...... Save...... I! ”
In the distance, Ma Chao's face changed, and he shouted angrily: "Yunlu, what are you doing, hurry up for me!" A girl, how can she not know to pay attention to behavior and manners! ”
Ma Chuling was so frightened that he immediately let go of his hands, jumped up from Zhou Yukun, and pretended to be aggrieved. "Brother Ma Chao, he bullied others first!"
"Dare to quibble? Hurry up and apologize to others! ”
Liu Bei next to him didn't know what was going on, but looking at Ma Chuling, a petite and cute little girl, it shouldn't be her fault. "Brother Ma Chao, maybe it's really my subordinates who did something wrong, this little sister may have been wronged!" Ma Chuling nodded with tears in his eyes.
Ma Chao was unmoved, and said to Liu Bei seriously: "Lord Liu Bei, you don't know, my sister is stubborn and unruly by nature, only she is looking for trouble with others, and no one else dares to mess with her!" Moreover, I also know the person she bullied, it is the junior brother who my uncle accepted before! ”