Go.

This is the biggest problem faced by the civil and military personnel of the Xinye Group after Liu Bei's death.

This is not a game, Liu Bei dies in battle, Guan Yu can succeed to the throne, and the civil and military forces in the group will lose a little loyalty at most, and then operate as usual.

It's not.

Even Zhao Yun is also skeptical about whether Guan Yu can carry the banner. Chen Zhi is bent on avenging Liu Bei, which is analogous to Zhang Liang and others.

The fifth generation of the Zhang family was in Han, and Zhang Liang assassinated the first emperor Yu Bolangsha in order to avenge the revenge of Qin and destroy Han.

Each person's personality is different, and the purpose is different. Liu Bei can coordinate everyone and make everyone loyal, but Guan Yu can't.

Coincidentally, Gan Ning was also thinking about this problem.

The heavy snow in the middle of winter makes the sky and the earth white. The roof tiles of the Shinno Castle Gate Tower are also covered with thick snow. Gan Ning was wearing armor, his hand pressed on the hilt of his sword, and led a group of personal soldiers to inspect the city wall. Not long after, Gan Ning returned to the city gate tower, shook off the snow on his body, and asked his own soldiers to help remove the armor.

In the city gate tower, the trial changed the warm wine to wait for Gan Ning. Seeing Gan Ning coming back, the judge hurriedly scooped up a bowl of wine from the barrel and handed it to Gan Ning.

"Brother."

Gan Ning took the wine bowl and drank it all. Then he came to the main seat and sat down, and the judge also sat back. After the two brothers sat down, they were speechless.

Gan Ning was influenced by Guan Ping, and led hundreds of people in his department to defect to Liu Bei, and was awarded the title of captain, commanding a battalion of 4,000 soldiers.

The accompanying brother became the battalion Sima and still served as Gan Ning's deputy.

Liu Bei was very polite and virtuous, which made Gan Ning feel like a spring breeze. Liu Bei treated Gan Ning even better, crossed many people, and promoted Gan Ning to be the leading general, leading 4,000 troops.

He is one of the five infantry generals of Shinno.

Gan Ning is very grateful to Liu Bei and is willing to serve Liu Biao. In the battle of Bowangpo, Gan Ning also tried his best to fight, and he was able to leave Xiahoudun with many soldiers and horses, and Gan Ning also made great efforts.

At the end of the Battle of Bowangpo, Liu Bei led a large army to pursue Xiahoudun and forbidden. Gan Ning is even more gearing up, planning to make further contributions and follow Liu Bei to break through Wancheng.

Unexpectedly, he was defeated and sunk in the sand, and none of the generals died, but the lord died of injuries and illnesses.

Now Liu Bei died in battle, and Guan Yu succeeded to the throne. Gan Ning and Guan Yu are not too familiar, at most they have eaten together at the banquet. But Gan Ning knew that Guan Yu was not easy to mess with.

Difficult to get close to.

The generals will be much better, and the civilian officials will avoid them.

As a general, a military general, if you don't have a good relationship with civilian officials, you will also have problems. Not to mention being a prince of one side and the master of a force.

Gan Ning was very skeptical about whether Guan Yu could sit firmly in the position of General Zuo.

Speaking of this, Gan Ning was really helpless. He first worked for Liu Yan and his son, then defected to Liu Biao, then Huang Zu, and recently defected to Liu Bei.

People say that Lu Bu is a slave with three surnames, and he Gan Ning has changed his surname for I don't know how many.

Is it because it doesn't work with anyone? Or with whom and who to die? Am I Gan Ning haunted by bad luck?

"Brother, the Marquis of Hanshou is majestic and a tiger minister of the world, but in my opinion, he is not the master of the people. I think we should have found a way out early. Seeing that Gan Ning had finished drinking the wine, he added another bowl.

Gan Ning waved his hand and signaled that he didn't want to.

This wine is strong, although Gan Ning is used to drinking it, but he can't bear it for two consecutive bowls of wine.

Gan Ning nodded in agreement. But he also sighed: "I also know, but I am favored by the lord, and the lord handed over the seal to the Marquis of Hanshou before he died, and now that the lord's bones are not cold, I can't leave the Marquis of Hanshou." Let's wait and see. ”

"My brother is affectionate." The judge nodded, thinking, worthy of my brother.

After a moment of silence, the judge put down the wine bowl, got up and opened the gate of the city gatehouse, poked his head out, and said to the guard's own soldiers: "Whoever comes, block it first." ”

"No." The two pro-soldiers agreed. After that, the interrogator came to the door, came to Gan Ning's side, and asked in a low voice: "If Han Shouhou is really unbearable, who is my brother going to vote for?" ”

"If the Marquis of Hanshou is really unbearable, then he can only follow the old road and go to the Marquis of Wuhou in Jiangdong." Speaking of this, Gan Ning sighed again: "But even if you want to defect to Wu Hou, I'm afraid these 4,000 people won't be able to take it away." ”

Liu Bei bought servants, and slaves and maids were used as commoners, all of whom were bought by families. Liu Bei ordered the generals to expand their troops, all of which were recruited in Xinye.

These soldiers and horses, their families are all in Xinye.

Although Gan Ning has a very generous pension and treats the soldiers very well, the time is too short, and if he leaves Xinye, I am afraid he will not be able to take many people with him.

This is also one of the reasons why Gan Ning doesn't want to leave Xinye. After all, under the command of Liu Bei in Xinye, Gan Ning was the first time in his life to be a general, leading 4,000 soldiers.

Never before.

"Hey." The judge also sighed, and the two brothers were sullen and depressed. The situation is very good, it is the time to prepare for the palm, but the lord is sick and died.

It's really helpless, helpless.

...............

In front of another city gate tower, the city gate tower hangs the handsome flag with the word "Liu", which is as majestic as usual, but the master is no longer there, but the general stubbornly continues to hang it.

Next to the handsome flag is a flag with the word "Wei", under the banner, the soldiers are either standing guard or patrolling, in an orderly manner.

Thanks to the fact that the generals are all capable, Guan Yu is also famous, so he can restrain the soldiers and prevent the army from mutiniing immediately.

The snow was falling, and in front of the city gate tower, Wei Yan was holding an ax bare-chested and chopping firewood.

The horse was tied, the waist was forced, the axe fell from a high place, and a round piece of wood was cut in half, and after the two halves hit the ground, Wei Yan took out another half of it and continued to split.

until a log is chopped into eight pieces.

Wei Yan had been chopping firewood for an hour, and the firewood was piled up as high as a hill.

The surrounding pro-soldiers, the soldier Dou looked at Wei Yan very worriedly, everyone knew that Wei Yan was in a bad mood, but no one dared to persuade him, because they all knew the reason why Wei Yan was in a bad mood.

Under the current circumstances, if the persuasion is not good, I am afraid that it will suffer.

Although the general is usually very good to them, and he will not teach us a lesson if he is fine, but now it is not ordinary, what if the general's head is convulsed and we are whipped with a whip?

Not to mention that the soldiers were all terrified, but Wei Yan himself was very calm. Wei Yan calmly picked up the big axe to chop wood, and chopped for about a quarter of an hour.

Wei Yancai finished his journey of chopping wood, put the axe on the ground, and said, "Prepare the horse." ”

"No." The soldiers were surprised at first, and then one of the soldiers answered and hurried down. Wei Yan turned around and went into the city gate tower and put on his clothes, then walked down the city wall, turned over his horse, and came to the Hanshou Pavilion Marquis's Mansion. Guan Yu heard that Wei Yan was coming, and personally welcomed Wei Yan into the Hou Mansion, and the two came to the study and sat down.

The relationship between Wei Yan and Guan Yu is unusual, in the past, Wei Yan was called Guan Yu's brother, and Guan Yu was called Wei Yan's eldest brother.

"Lord!" At this moment, after Wei Yan sat down, he bowed his hand to Guan Yu and called the lord.

Guan Yu was taken aback, shook his head and said, "Wen Chang." ”

"The lord doesn't have to postpone. Since the old lord gave the seal to the lord before he died, then you are the lord. Wei Yan said with a serious face.

Guan Yu rarely wanted to speak again, but finally sighed.

The relationship between Wei Yan and Guan Yu is not simple.

Wei Yan was the first person to call Guan Yu the lord. But this does not mean that Wei Yan is disloyal, on the contrary, Wei Yan is very loyal, and he still hangs Liu Bei's handsome flag at this moment.

He planned to take down the handsome flag when he returned, keep it for a good life, and keep it as a souvenir.

But Wei Yan is an enterprising person, an enterprising general, he will not be like Chen Dao, immersed in Liu Bei's illness and death.

Wei Yan thought about it for a few days, chopped a lot of firewood, and finally figured this out and planned to look forward.

"My lord. Since you have rejected Liu Biao and Cao Cao, there is only one way left to go, to stand on your own. The old lord once said that taking Wancheng in the north can open the situation. When Cao Cao was crusading against the Yuan brothers, he could take the opportunity to sneak attack Xu Du to contain Cao Cao's power and save the Yuan brothers. I think you should stick to this strategy, rely on Mi's wine to gather grain, grass, supplies, train elite soldiers, and collect war horses. Next year, the crusade against Wancheng will continue. ”

Wei Yan said.

Wei Yan is an enterprising general, since he has let go of the past and devoted himself to Guan Yu's command, he naturally has to plan for Guan Yu.

He was not a giant politically, and there was no way to provide Guan Yu with a strategic blueprint with great prospects, but from a military point of view, he felt that Wancheng was desirable.

Relying on the previous battle of Bowangpo, Xiahoudun's 20,000 elite soldiers lost more than 10,000 and his vitality was greatly damaged. On the contrary, the new field army did not suffer much loss, and took the opportunity to let the recruits go to the battlefield, and they will only be more elite in the future.

One trades off the other.

Xinye's strength is already stronger than Xiahoudun.

Of course, Wei Yan also knew that although Xiahoudun was not very good at fighting, he was very reliable in defending the city.

If you want to defeat these people, it will be very difficult to capture Wancheng.

But since Cao Cao and Liu Biao are deeply defeated, they can only do this alone. The capture of Wancheng is very important, no matter how difficult it is, it must be planned.

Although Xiahoudun is very stable, Yu Ban, and Li Dian are very good, but when he really goes to the battlefield, Wei Yan is not false.

As Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, the enemy is divided.

After Xiahou recuperated, there were still 20,000 elite soldiers guarding Wancheng, and the strong attack was absolutely unstoppable, but it could lure him out of the city, or other schemes.

Wei Yan will rack his brains to find a way.

All in all, Wei Yan's idea is that the past can only be passed, and now that he Wei Yan is sitting on Guan Yu's boat, he has to find a way to make Guan Yu stand on his own feet and make contributions.

Although Guan Yu was very sad about Wei Yan's lordship, he was also very sad, because he had heard others call him the eldest brother lord before.

But for Wei Yan's proposal, Guan Yu was very much in agreement.

Wancheng must be defeated. Not to mention the importance of Wancheng, it is the generals of the Cao army in Wancheng, Guan Yu also wants to kill them one by one, because it was these people who killed his eldest brother.

"I will urge the civil officials to urgently collect food and materials, and further recruit soldiers and horses, and expand the number of soldiers and horses to thirty or forty thousand in a short period of time, even if the soldiers are exhausted, they must also conquer Wancheng."

Guan Yu said coldly.