At the beginning of July of the fourth year of Yong'an, Anyang.

The autumn rain fell sparsely for three days in a row, as thin as a needle, as light as a cow's hair, like smoke and fog, like a floating catkins in spring, and like a gray curtain woven between heaven and earth, falling on the face of the cold silk, and even a little cold to the bone, just like Liu Bei's mood at this time.

Liu Bei rode on the standing horse, but his mood was extremely regretful, and he no longer had the demeanor that he had when he first pointed out the country. He had just returned from the Flying Eagle Valley, and he was still immersed in the frustration of stealing chickens and rice.

He originally wanted to play Cao Cao and Guo Jia in the palm of his hand with his full stomach of flowers, but he didn't know when he became the second senior brother who climbed the courtyard wall, and he was beaten upside down by them;

He originally wanted to take advantage of Wang Li's unpreparedness and take Yiyang as his own, and then use Yiyang as a base to radiate from all sides, while stabilizing his foundation and expanding his territory at the same time, but he didn't want his second brother Guan Yu, the general he relied on the most, to die because of this;

He originally wanted to reunite the people to avenge Guan Yu, and by the way, he made Wang Li's Huahuayuzhou mess with him, and he might be able to win in the chaos and get a glimpse of life, but who knew that if he didn't check and fell into Wang Li's gang again, he not only got nothing, but lost Liang Gang, Zhang Da and Fan Qiang, three generals.

He originally thought that the strong man would break his wrist and be able to immediately swing Jingzhou after paying the lives of Liang Gang and more than 10,000 soldiers, but he didn't expect that the situation in Anyang was also not optimistic, and it could be described as internal and external troubles.

The morale of the soldiers was low, the people were reluctant to leave, and the sound of Wang Li's army rolling iron hooves had already come out outside Anyang City.

"Lord, Mr. Wen Ji has sent more than 100,000 people from Anyang and Yixian to the outside of the city, and I also ask the lord to leave the city immediately, I'm afraid it will be too late in a while!" Liu Bei was still pondering, and Zhuge Liang walked quickly to his side, interrupting his thoughts.

Liu Bei raised his head, his mood was slightly relieved, and then he felt a little uneasy in his heart, and hurriedly asked: "General Liang can't return because of me, how are the two gentlemen Wen Ji and Yuan Xiu feeling?" ”

"Don't worry about the lord, there is no certainty of victory in the life and death of the battlefield, Wen Ji and Mr. Yuan Xiu are very clear about this, they are both loyal and stable people, you can rest assured that the people will be handed over to them!" Zhuge Liang arched his hand towards Liu Bei, and gently explained in Liu Bei's ear.

"And General Liang and him have no deep friendship, in the past, when they were under Yuan Highway's account, the three of them didn't have much intersection, just because of Yuan Highway's deployment, they gathered together by accident, but in fact, the emotions were not deep."

"Hey, it really hurts Liu Mou's heart that General Liang can't rush back!" Liu Bei nodded, a fine light was fleeting in his eyes, he got up and patted Zhuge Liang on the shoulder, "Let's go, presumably Wen Ji and the others have been waiting too long!" ”

After saying that, he turned over and galloped out of the city, and escorted Yan Xiang, Jin Shang, Mi Zhu and hundreds of thousands of people with Zhang Fei, Ji Ling and Guan Ping's soldiers in multiple ways, and marched in the direction of Xinyang one by one.

Hundreds of thousands of people are unwilling to leave their hometowns, how can they be swaying in the wind and rain because of Liu Bei alone? Before he left the city, he had just reached the mountain col and heard the wailing and crying of the crowd.

Liu Bei frowned, and was about to use his life's talent to say a few warm and exciting words, when a drum sounded in front of him, the wind suddenly rose, the dust rose to the sky, and a group of people and horses turned out from behind the col.

The first member of the general stopped in front of the mountain col, and a bright silver gun in his hand pointed obliquely at everyone: "Uncle Liu Huang has been friends with the lord for many years, why didn't he say hello when he left today?" Don't you look down on my father-in-law? ”

Liu Bei was taken aback, they were already hurrying and hurrying, but they still let Zhao Yun and them catch up in front, and they were speechless for a while.

Zhang Fei had already stepped forward and shouted: "Zhao Zilong, my second brother's revenge has not yet been avenged, you dare to come alone?" Hmph, others are afraid of you, but I Zhang Fei didn't grow up as a vegetarian! ”

"Of course you Zhang Sanye are not vegetarians, who in this world doesn't know that you are a butcher who sells pigs and slaughters sheep?" Zhao Yun looked up to the sky and smiled, leaning forward and backward with a spear, and then closed his eyes and pressed towards Zhang Fei.

"Zhang Sanye, don't say that Zhao bullied you, etc., if your brother dares to take a step forward today, Hugh said that Zhao has a certain way of soldiers and horses, it is to send a ten-way army, and it is not a difficult thing for my lord!"

"You!"

As soon as he heard the words selling pigs and slaughtering sheep, Zhang Fei was furious, and with a spear of the snake, Liu Bei hurriedly stepped forward and held it down, staring at Zhao Yun with a fierce look, and opened his mouth to reprimand.

"Zhao Zilong, Yun Chang is harmed by you and others, Liu cares about the overall situation of the world and the safety of the people, voluntarily gives up hatred temporarily, quits Yuzhou and no longer quarrels with you, what do you want? Don't you really think that Liu is afraid that you can't wait? ”

"What else do we want? This should be Wang asking Xuande Gong yourself, right? With a loud laugh, Zhang Liao, Yan Liang, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning and Zang Hong hugged Wang Li from behind the col, stood on the hill, and looked at Liu Bei and his party lightly.

"Liu Xuande, the other time, when Wang was not in Yuzhou, you secretly attacked Yiyang and Xinxi to stir up the storm, and then assassinated the court angels with the intention of framing them, in a vain attempt to take advantage of the chaos to carve up the Central Plains.

But no matter what, after all, you can be regarded as the legacy of Gaozu, why do you want to go against the grain today, hold the people of my two counties hostage by force, and go to Jingzhou with you to suffer the hardships, hunger and cold of leaving your hometown? General Ben asks you, what do you really want? ”

"Fart!" Before Liu Bei could answer, Zhang Fei had already jumped out, "My brother is the emperor's uncle today, and the name of benevolence and righteousness is all over the world, and the people here admire my brother who is unwilling to succumb to your cruelty and obscenity, and voluntarily follows my brother, how can you force it?" Wang Deyu, you don't have a special reversal of right and wrong, and your mouth is full of feces in black and white! ”

Wang Li was not angry, and smiled faintly: "Zhang Heizi, you and your brother once borrowed Wang's Qinghe, and you also served under Wang's account for a while, Wang does not blame you for being ungrateful, but you know better than anyone else what Wang is doing."

Since you keep saying that the people are all voluntary, and Wang will not argue with you, either you will let your brother come to confront you, or you will simply pick some ordinary people out and ask them to see how many of them are willing to go to other places with you? ”

Although Zhang Fei didn't understand Zhuge Liang's strategy very well, he had some understanding of the people's so-called voluntariness.

It's just that I think that the eldest husband is informal, for the sake of the world and for the sake of the brother, and the common people just moved from Yuzhou to Jingzhou to another place to continue to beg for life, and they didn't want their lives, so they didn't say much all the time.

After Wang Li's question, Zhang Fei was suddenly dumbfounded, and his face was as red as Guan Gong, but Guan Ping immediately stepped forward and scolded: "Wang Deyu, you are so special that you pretend to be a saint in front of Lao Tzu, and my uncle has never treated the people badly, they follow voluntarily, what do you have to do with it?" Don't talk nonsense, Wang Deyu is here, Lao Tzu is going to kill you alive today to avenge my father! ”

Guan Ping's voice was impassioned, but Liu Bei heard it with a trembling heart, lest Wang Lizhen wave his big hand and ten thousand troops together, and his nephew, third brother, and his dream would be completely explained here.

Fortunately, Wang Li is not Liu Bei, Guan Ping's words fell into his ears, but he just saw someone let out a fart and smelled a sound, and his face was still light and light: "Liu Xuande, this general patrols the world on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and I can't see the people suffering, nor can I see the people displaced."

Thinking of the feelings of the past, General Ben can still not care about today's affairs, General Ben will give you a thin face, if you no longer hold the people hostage, General Ben will give you three hours, let you go to various places freely. Otherwise, the punishment of dividing the corpses of the five horses will be set for you! ”

The words are sonorous and powerful, and there is no doubt about it.

Liu Bei seemed to have taken off his pants in public, his face was red and blue, and his heart was tormented like boiling water, and he suddenly heard Zhuge Liang muttering from afar, "Han Xin has also been humiliated by his crotch in the past", and he was suddenly shocked, raised his head and looked at Wang Liqing's muscles soaring: "What do you say?" ”

"The big husband is hard to chase after the horse, Wang guarantees his reputation, if you Liu Xuande leaves, Wang will not pursue within three hours!" Wang Li glanced at Liu Bei with contempt and nodded slightly.

"Okay, I hope your former general is still the same man who made a promise! Soldiers, leave this place with this state! Liu Bei was ruthless, shouted at everyone, and took the lead with Zhang Fei and others to run to the side of the mountain pass.

……

"Lord, do you really let them go?" Gan Ning looked at the col and there was no trace of Liu Bei and the others after the col, and his face was unwilling, "Is such a good opportunity to be let go in vain, this is too cheap The villain of the big-eared thief!" ”

"How can such a person be worthy? How can hundreds of thousands of living beings suffer such a great calamity because of me? Wang Li patted Gan Ning's shoulder and bowed his head, "Don't worry, this Liu Bei was just released by me on my own initiative, can he still jump out of my hand?" The top priority is to go and settle the people properly! ”

Gan Ning was stunned, Guo Jia had already come to his side with a long smile: "Liu Bei was attached to Han Fu and Han Fu died, and he lived in Tao Qian and Xuzhou fell, and now let him go to Jingzhou, just to borrow his style as a pit master, and let him go to explore the way for the lord first!" ”

After that, he stepped forward and stood with Wang Li, quietly enjoying the scenery on the horizon.

I don't know when, the autumn rain has stopped, a round of red sun emerged from the clouds, the warm sun swept on the body, warm, the clouds stubble after stubble spread in the sky, like a flock of sheep grazing on the prairie.

The two looked at each other and smiled: Looking back at the place where the eagle was shooting, thousands of miles of twilight clouds were flat.