Zhang Hong fought and retreated, although Tian Zhang's persecution was very tight, but Tian Zhang's army was relatively numerous, military discipline was scattered, Tian Zhang tried his best to maintain the formation was not chaotic, but he was never able to catch up with the Dongyu army, and could only eat ashes behind the Dongyu army!

The Dongyu army was small in number, and all of them were elite and determined, and even fought two ambushes under the leadership of Zhang Hong, which caused a lot of losses to Tian Zhang's army, which made Tian Zhang a little timid and cautious, for fear of being attacked by Zhang Hong again. On the contrary, it gave the Dongyu army a chance to breathe, and did not let Tian Zhangjun eliminate it.

On the way, Liu Gui also woke up from a coma, although he was unable to ride a horse because of internal injuries, he still had no strength and could not ride a horse, but there was no problem in commanding the army and giving orders.

Xi Zhicai's cold illness was still somewhat improved, but because of the bumps along the way during the evacuation, he did not recuperate properly, and began to have a high fever again, and he is still unconscious.

The doctor said to Liu Gui: "Mr. Xi's illness still lies in recuperation, otherwise if it continues like this, the condition will definitely worsen, and even if the Daluo Immortal comes, there will be no way to return to heaven!" ”

Liu Gui and Zhang Hong were gloomy, and they could only urge the army to hurry up.

Zhang Hongdao: "General, now the lord's army must be near Liaocheng, we'd better send someone to contact the lord, with the support of the lord, we can not only get out, but also hope to annihilate the enemy army behind." ”

Liu Gui's body was a little weak, lying on a stretcher, carried by two soldiers, Liu Gui covered his chest and said: "When we evacuated from Liaocheng, we already expected that Chu Ying would reoccupy Liaocheng, and now I hope that the lord has defeated Chu Ying!" ”

"The general rest assured, a certain has already sent a sentry to Liaocheng to investigate! We'll find out soon! Zhang Hong said.

"That's good."

Liu Gui slowly felt a little tired in his body, slowly closed his eyes, and after a while, the sound of snoring sounded in the ears of the soldiers around him.

Zhang Hong rolled his eyes, beat his horse and went to the front army.

......

"Lord, General Liu Gui's sentry asks to see you!" Zhang Qiuming came to pray.

Liu De was discussing some things with Xu Shu, and when he heard Zhang Qiuming's report, he was quite overjoyed and said: "After such a long time, I finally got in touch with Uncle Gui!" Fast! Call him in! ”

The sentry rider walked in with a dusty face, knelt on one knee, and bowed his hand: "In front of the Bo Changshi under General Liu Gui, meet the lord!" ”

"Get up and speak!"

Liu De looked at Shi Qian's dry lips and said to Xu Hu: "Bring a bowl of water to Uncle Shi!" ”

"Thank you, my lord!" Shi Qian hurriedly bowed and thanked him.

"Goo-goo-goo!" A large bowl of water was instantly drunk by Shi Qian, and Xu Hu asked, "How is it?" Would you like another bowl? ”

"No, quench your thirst! Thank you, Captain Xu! Shi Qian waved his hand and said to Xu Hu.

"Shi Qian, you will tell me in detail about the current situation in Dongfu!" Liu De is now eager to know everything that happened in Dongfu.

"The Lord of the Enlightenment..."

Relying on the strategy of hiding from the sky and crossing the sea, Guan Yu quietly slipped out from under Tian Zhang's nose and attacked Yang Zichuan's main army.

Xi Zhicai suffered from a cold illness and could not afford to be seriously ill.

Liu Gui stubbornly guarded the camp tent and was severely injured.

Liu Gui's troops have been reduced from 2,000 to more than 800, and Tian Zhang is still in hot pursuit, vowing to take Liu Gui's head.

When Liu De heard the first thing, he was quite approving, but when he heard that Xi Zhicai was seriously ill, his expression suddenly became nervous, and when he heard that Liu Gui was seriously injured, Liu De couldn't sit still.

"What!"

Liu De's eyes widened, the corners of his eyes were about to tear, and he asked loudly, "How is Uncle Gui now?" ”

After the death of Liu De's grandfather Liu Shang, Liu Gui was the only one of the four generals who maintained 100% loyalty to Liu De.

Don't forget, before Liu De crossed over, his predecessor was just a weak scholar, not good at martial arts, unable to lead troops, fond of songs, and often wandered in the land of Flower Street and Willow Lane, Liu Shang had long lost the mind to let Liu De inherit his position.

If such Liu De is allowed to inherit the position of the city lord of Dongyu, I am afraid that Dongyu will have been destroyed by Donghu long ago.

Liu Shang originally wanted to hand over the position of city lord to Zhang Tianlang, but Zhang Tianlang finally gave up and burned the handwritten letter left by Liu Shang, and there were many factors that prompted Zhang Tianlang to give up taking over Dongyu City!

Liu Gui is one of the most important factors, according to Zhang Tianlang's understanding of Liu Gui, Liu Gui will never allow anyone other than the Liu family to inherit Liu Shang's position, that is to say, only Liu De can inherit Liu Shang's position.

Liu Shang's handwriting may not necessarily be in charge.

At that time, the enemy was current, Zhang Tianlang was also quite a traditional person, and his patriotic thoughts deeply affected him, and the king here refers to the Liu family, although he has outstanding ability, but he does not have the courage to sit in that position, he is more afraid of being accused by the people of Dongyu, accusing him of bullying the young and seizing the throne.

After all, the people of Dongyu have been deeply favored by Liu Shang for decades, and they have long acquiesced to the status of the Liu family in Dongyu.

This is also what Liu De has always emphasized, even if he fails, as long as he does not die, he can turn over.

The children of Jiangdong are talented, and their comeback is unknown.

The Jiangdong here can be replaced by Dongyu...

There are also some factors, Zhang Tianlang saw the changes after Liu De's serious illness, and became more resolute and resolute, perhaps, let Liu De inherit the position of city lord, things will develop in a better direction.

Zhang Tianlang finally gave up taking out Liu Shang's handwritten book, but burned it, and then assisted Liu De to ascend to the position of city lord.

Therefore, Liu De was able to inherit Liu Shang's position, and one-third of the credit was Liu Gui's.

Does Liu De know about these?

Know!

Liu Gui's feelings for Liu De are absolutely not hypocritical, and Liu De is the same.

Now that he heard that Liu Gui was seriously injured, why wasn't Liu De anxious?

"Lord Qi, General Liu Gui was only injured internally, but his life is worry-free, please rest assured." Shi Qian hurriedly said.

"That's good!"

Liu De was relieved when he heard that Liu Gui was fine.

continued to say to Shi Qian: "Shi Qian, where should General Liu Gui go now?" How far are we? ”

Shi Qian looked at the Yanzhou map hanging in the center of the big tent, pointed to one of the places and said: "Lord, according to the following estimates, according to General Liu Gui's speed, we should have reached this position by now, and we are only about three days away." ”

Liu De nodded and said: "Shiqian, order you to rush back immediately, tell General Liu Gui that I will set up an ambush here, let General Liu Gui lead the enemy here, and we will annihilate the enemy army with one blow!" ”

Liu De estimated the distance and pointed to a location.

"I understand it below!"

Shi Qian answered, time was pressing, and he didn't dare to stay longer, so he immediately said goodbye to Liu De and rode away.

Liu De also instructed the generals to prepare early, and early tomorrow morning, set off from the village, and lay an ambush at the location pointed out by Liu De, preparing to attack the incoming enemy.

It's night.

Liu De's big tent is still lit. The candle flame swayed gently in the breeze.

Liu De sat on the bed, not knowing what he was thinking, it can also be said that he had insomnia...

"Lord!"

Liu De heard the voice and looked up, it turned out to be Xu Shu.

"Strategist, what's the matter?" Liu De looked at Xu Shu and opened his mouth to ask.

"Shu Te is here to solve the Lord's doubts!" Xu Shu bowed his hand and bowed.

"It's still the military advisor who understands me!" Liu De shook his head and smiled bitterly, nodded and admitted that he had a lot of things to say in his heart, and these words had been pressed in his heart for a while.

"According to the current situation, although Yang Zichuan still has tens of thousands of troops, he has fallen into passivity, lack of food and grass, unstable military morale, generals killed in battle, surrounded on both sides, seemingly powerful, but in fact already extremely weak." Xu Shu said.

"But Yang Zichuan still has a chance to turn the tables, that is, the army of the Yang family in Beiping outside Jinyang Pass, General Yan He was able to hold out for two months, and now more than half a month has passed, we don't have much time left, we must fight Yang Zichuan as soon as possible!" Liu De still remained sober and said calmly.

This was the news he had just gotten from Shiqian, and when he first heard the news, Liu De suddenly realized that this was Yang Zichuan's biggest capital.

"What the lord said is very true!"

"But I will never give Yang Zichuan a chance to turn the tables!" Liu De stood up and said, "It's time for Yang Zichuan to pay the price!" ”

After hearing this, Xu Shu said: "When Yang Zichuan is defeated, although our alliance with General Guo is still there, there will be a battle sooner or later!" ”

Liu De also knows this situation, although he can get along peacefully and be intimate now, it is because of Yang Zichuan, the great enemy, if Yang Zichuan is defeated, then the battle between Dongyu and Dongfu will immediately come to the fore!

Liu Dedao: "Although the battle with Yang Zichuan is not too long, and it is even more insignificant compared with the famous battle in history, but this battle directly used up all the grain, grass and ordnance reserves of our Dongyu, and the soldiers also suffered heavy losses, and it will take at least a year or two to gradually recover, but does Guo Zidong give us this time?" ”

"What's more, we have such a large territory, but there are no talents to manage it at all, it is very easy to recruit those ten county towns with Mr. Xun's ability, but who should we send to govern? Now those county orders are either mediocre and inactive, or greedy for life and afraid of death, our government decree reached the bottom, and it was a blessing to have one out of ten or two! ”

"Our current forces can't control such a large territory at all, and there are a lot of bandits in Yanzhou, and exterminating the mountain bandits will make us tired of dealing with them!"

"And Liaocheng, don't look at the families in Liaocheng who are now surrendered to me, but if Guo Zidong's soldiers come to the city, I don't know how many families secretly communicate with Guo Zidong, after all, Guo Zidong is the real family! In line with the interests of these great families. ”

Liu De may have been holding back for a long time, and he told Xu Shu everything he wanted to say.

"Lord, if today is controlled by the family, but there are a large number of loyal and brave people, poor scholars, and virtuous people in the field, and now only by issuing a recruitment order again can we solve our current crisis!" Xu Shu admonished Liu De, "The family is all their own selfishness, and they will never really help us, only by issuing a recruitment order, with the reputation of the lord, there will be a large number of poor scholars to take refuge." ”

"The military advisor is right! It's just that a certain person issued a recruitment order in Dongyu back then, and the impact was not more than three or five counties, which led to the family's verbal criticism, and when a certain defeated Yang Zichuan issued a recruitment order, I'm afraid these families will really go crazy! Liu De thought of the faces of those big families, and couldn't help but smile and said, "And they will be more inclined to Guo Zidong!" Guo Zidong will safeguard the interests of the family! It's not good for us. ”

"Those great families are nothing but the wailing of hyenas! Although it is not beneficial to us in the short term, in the long run, it is definitely beneficial and harmless, and the lord does not want to be constrained by the family in the future!

Besides, how can the children of the family who really have real talents and learning care about those poor children, they will only be loyal to those masters who can really let them display their talents! Compared with the children of the poor family, the family has too many resources, even if it is a middle-aged person, relying on these huge resources, it can become the pillar of a country. ”

Xu Shu said.

"What the military advisor said is reasonable, and when Yang Zichuan is defeated, he will issue a recruitment order to invite the world's heroes and talents!" Liu De waved his hand and made a decision.

"The lord is wise!"

Xu Shu bowed and said: "Lord, the minister still has one thing!" ”

"Strategist, please."

"The minister has two friends, Shi Tao and Meng Jian, both of whom are talented in a state, quite familiar with government affairs, and have the ability to govern the country and the people.

Liu De felt a little familiar when he heard the names of these two, but he didn't think much about it, since he was Xu Shu's friend, his ability would not be too bad, so he smiled and said: "Even if you are a friend of the military advisor, you must have great talent!" If these two come, they will be appointed as officials! ”

"Thank you for your two friends! The minister had already written to them, and the lord would soon be able to see both of them. ”

"Then so-and-so is waiting for you!" Liu De and Xu Shu glanced at each other and laughed.

......

Under Dongfu City, Yang Zichuan's army does not know when the news that Liaocheng has been broken began to spread, and for a while, people's hearts fluctuated, and the combat power was even lower, more than half of Yang Zichuan's army were people from Liaocheng and its nearby counties, and now when they heard the news that Liaocheng was broken, where could they still sit.

The violent brothers Dong Zhen and Dong Zhen even arrested several soldiers who talked about this matter and sentenced them to death.

But the undercurrent is surging, and the Dong brothers are quite satisfied with their masterpiece, but how long can order maintained by killing people last?

"Mr. Cui's strategy is really powerful, Yang Zichuan's army won't last long!"

Guan Yu looked at Yang Zichuan's rather quiet camp at the head of the city, and praised Cui You.

"General Guan praised it falsely!"

Cui You said modestly and said: "Now, we are waiting for General Anbei to lead the army to come, and we will attack Yang Zichuan's army on both sides!" If I were Yang Zichuan, I would definitely keep consuming, and when Jinyang was broken, we couldn't give him time to delay! I wonder when General Anbei will arrive? ”

The last sentence asked Guan Yu.

Guan Yu turned his head and glanced at Cui You: "My lord will be here soon!" ”

"I hope so..."

Cui You nodded, and then went down to the city.