Chapter 982: Reconsider
If he could have the opportunity to deal with Liu Zheng with Liu Bei, Liu Zhang would not refuse at all.
"Brother Xian is still smart, and I have already guessed what the cooperation is going to talk to you about for my brother!"
At this moment, Liu Bei had already heard Liu Zhang's attitude from Liu Zhang's tone.
For Liu Zheng, a common enemy, Liu Zhang will not refuse to cooperate, at least in the current situation, Liu Zhang has no choice.
Choose cooperation, that's a win-win situation.
Choosing not to cooperate is a lose-lose situation.
Liu Zhang has been besieged in this southern Zhengcheng for many days, not only is there a lack of people and horses, lack of food, grass and water, but the morale of the soldiers and horses has gradually declined a lot.
Continuing to be here and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses will only cause a worse situation.
And if they can cooperate, the urgency of the siege can be solved immediately, on the contrary, Liu Zhang still has a chance to counterattack Liu Zheng and regain the lost Shangyong.
Although Liu Zhang had already thought in his heart about how much benefit this matter would have for him, Liu Zhang did not rashly agree to Liu Bei.
After all, the stakes are very high, and he still needs to have a good discussion with his Wenchen generals.
"Brother Xuande, this matter is very important, I still need to have a good discussion with my staff, you wait here for a while, we will go down to discuss it, and then come to talk to you for a long time!"
After Liu Zhang finished speaking, he gave Zhang Lu a look, and then walked directly to the back of the hall.
Zhang Lu and his entourage, who saw Liu Zhang's eyes, also immediately followed.
Liu Bei knew that they were going to discuss, so naturally he didn't follow.
Instead, just wait here.
Then Liu Zhang led the group into the back hall.
His face suddenly became serious, and he directly opened his mouth and asked Zhang Lu on the side.
"What do you think of what Liu Bei said just now?"
In fact, Liu Zhang's heart has already made a decision, but he still wants to ask the opinions of the people around him again.
I want to see what else they have to say, and if there are other ideas, then Liu Zhang might as well refer to it.
Of course, Zhang Lu was the first to stand up against it.
"Childe, I think that Liu Bei is very weird, they have been spying on us in Yizhou for a long time, and they are even more eyeing Hanzhong, how can they have any good intentions to come to talk with us, they must want to take the opportunity to set some trap, and want to deceive our Hanzhong."
"I don't believe that Liu Bei very much, it's better not to listen to his words, otherwise it's too late to regret it."
For Zhang Lu, there is no good feeling for cooperating with Liu Bei.
Although the cooperation between Liu Bei and Liu Zhang has been strengthened, Zhang Lu's territory will become smaller and smaller, and most of the Hanzhong region is now out of his control.
Part of it was occupied by Liu Zheng, and the other part was taken away by Liu Bei's people, if Liu Bei and Liu Zhang cooperated again, the territory left to Zhang Lu would only become less and less. 、
Zhang Lu invited Liu Zhang to come, but he came to help, so he naturally didn't want to see them cooperate.
Liu Zhang heard Zhang Lu's words, his face remained unchanged, and he didn't take it to heart.
In his heart, he naturally knew why this Zhang Lu would say that.
Instead, he looked at the other people present.
Zhang Ren, Yan Yan, and Gao Pei and others.
These people are Liu Zhang's cronies, and their opinions are more agreeable to Liu Zhang's than Zhang Lu's opinions.
Zhang Ren, as the first military general in Xichuan, still has some prestige in Liu Zhang's heart, so Liu Zhang's eyes fell on Zhang Ren's body first.
"Zhang Ren, what do you think?"
Liu Zhang asked Zhang Ren.
Zhang Ren hesitated for a moment, but seeing that Liu Zhang's eyes had been falling on him and did not take his eyes away, he still opened his mouth and replied to Liu Zhang.
"Childe, in fact, in my opinion, it would be better to promise that Liu Bei would be better."
"How?"
Liu Zhang wanted to know why Zhang Ren had such an opinion.
Since Zhang Ren had already said it, he would not hesitate when Liu Zhang asked, and immediately answered why Liu Zhang said this.
"Childe, the last general is actually just standing on the configuration of our army and the enemy, now our army is in this Nanzheng City, but there are only forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses left, and Liu Bei personally visited Nanzheng, must have brought more soldiers and horses, before Guan Yu had more than 60,000 troops, much more than our army, once our army really fights with Liu Bei, it is definitely at a disadvantage, and the odds of victory are few."
"In addition, our army has seen the strength of Guan Yu's generals before, presumably Gongzi should also understand that once the battle is engaged, our army will definitely suffer a lot of casualties, and the chance of victory is almost none, then for the benefit of both sides, cooperation has become the best choice."
As a military general, Zhang Ren was able to analyze the actual situation of the two armies very rationally, and in the case of an absolute disadvantage, he was naturally unwilling to fight with Guan Yu's soldiers and horses.
After listening to Zhang Ren's words, Liu Zhang immediately nodded, and seemed to be very satisfied with what Zhang Ren said.
Liu Zhang himself had thought of this before.
"What about you, are you all the same as Zhang Ren thinks?"
After Liu Zhang saw Zhang Ren answer his question, he looked at several other cronies.
Everyone else nodded, largely without any other opinions.
After all, this is something that everyone has thought about just now, and in their opinion, it is more important for the peace talks to leave safely from this Nanzheng city than to defend Nanzheng and sacrifice their lives bravely.
After asking this circle of people, Liu Zhang's gaze finally fixed on Yan Pu's body.
Everyone else is a military general, and they may be relatively simple, but as Yan Pu, the only strategist, his words still have some weight.
"Mr. Yan Pu, what do you think about this matter?"
Liu Zhang looked at Yan Pu, Liu Zhang still attached great importance to Yan Pu, a celebrity, otherwise he would not have let Yan Pu appear, Liu Zhang would really lead his men and horses to support Zhang Lu.
It was precisely because Liu Zhang wanted to win over Yan Pu that he would agree to Yan Pu.
Yan Pu actually wanted to speak for a long time, but he never had a chance, after all, he was not Liu Zhang's adviser, but only a staff member under Zhang Lu, if he took the initiative to advise Liu Zhang, it would inevitably be some overstepping his authority.
Only when Liu Zhang asked did Yan Pu dare to speak.
"Childe, in fact, I refused this matter at first."
"That Liu Bei's identity, I don't know if it's true or not, it's very likely that this is a trap, once we fall for each other's tricks, the consequences are unimaginable, but after that Liu Bei expressed his identity, I feel that this matter may be able to be discussed."