【Retreat from Gaotang】

Jian Yong saw that Liu Bei had made up his mind, and knew that it was useless to persuade him again, so he nodded casually, frowned and asked, "Then Xuande, since you have decided to stay, there is no reason for all of us to leave, but for now, 1,000 soldiers and horses against 20,000 soldiers and horses, have you figured out how to fight?" ”

At this time, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and the others also looked at Liu Bei dryly, hoping that this backbone can give you a specific implementation plan to solve this crisis.

Liu Bei's heart is also a mess, the reason why he wants to stay is because he doesn't want the people here to be raped and plundered by the thief army, he doesn't want their wives to be separated, he wants to protect them, but his strength is so weak, it is so unbeaten, like a candle in the wind, in the face of the 20,000 thief army, he will be destroyed in an instant. But so what, it's not shameful to be weak, it's shameful to see the people being humiliated and indifferent, it's shameful that the people are facing danger and don't care, Liu Bei paced back and forth in the house, suddenly stopped and said: "Mobilize the people, unite the strong...... Yun Changyide, without further ado, you guys go to the barracks to prepare first. ”

"Yes!" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei hurriedly got up and agreed, and the two of them hurried to the barracks.

"From Jinan to the plains, the thief army is not so fast, and it is still 20,000 Rao troops, and the action is even slower, we have to be ready, the city wall should be repaired, the strong should be compromised, the people can mobilize one is one, and extraordinary times do extraordinary things, and there must be no chaos inside!" Liu Bei was still pacing back and forth in the house at this time, his hands on his hips, frowning and constantly thinking about a solution.

"Otherwise, the matter of serving Haoqiang will be handed over to me and Deran, I don't think it will be like this, in order to be able to negotiate successfully, we will allow them to obtain some privileges in Gaotang County in the future, in exchange for bargaining chips?" Jian Yong proposed.

"Privileges? What privileges? Liu Bei wondered.

"Is it to reduce the punishment for crimes, and to do things in ordinary times, if it is not too serious, the government will turn a blind eye and so on?"

"This proposal has after-effects!" Liu Bei took a deep breath.

"After all, the thieves are close at hand, if they don't cooperate, when the thieves break through the city, the cost of loss is far more serious than the sequelae, promise them privileges, then they can be negotiated, now so, we can find a chance to regain this power afterwards!"

"Brother, I'll see it, let's give them privileges!"

"That's fine, that's all!" Liu Bei sat down helplessly and sighed deeply, but he didn't expect that he still compromised with Haoqiang in the end.

"Report!" The soldier ran from the door in a panic.

"What's the matter with such a panic?" Liu Bei was a little unhappy when he saw that these soldiers were so panicked when they came to report one by one.

"Lord Qiqi, there was a riot at the east gate of the city, hundreds of mobs gathered at the east gate, they smashed and looted everywhere, and shouted that the enemy army was coming, and asked the guards to open the city gate and let them out."

"What! How would the people know that an enemy army was coming? Jian Yong's eyes widened and he said in surprise.

"I don't know!"

"Have you sent troops to help?" Liu Bei asked.

"Yes, as soon as we saw the situation, we sent people to ask for support, and Lord Guan and Master Zhang have already led the army over!"

"This doesn't seem simple, could it be that the enemy spies spread the news in the city and deliberately incited the people in the city to riot and riot?" Liu Deran looked at Liu Bei vigilantly.

"If this is the case, this is a premeditated war, it seems that this enemy army is no longer the army led by Zhang Bao in the past." Jian Yongdao.

"Now that Yun Chang and Yide have passed, the situation at the East Gate should be resolved quickly." Liu Deran said: "As for the enemy army, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, so let's do the current thing!" ”

"Well, whether it's premeditated or not, let's go to the east gate first." At this time, Liu Bei took Jian Yong and Liu Deran to prepare to go to the East Gate, he planned to pacify the people first, and by the way, he carried out the mobilization work of the war there. ”

"General Qiyu, a total of fifty people."

"Fifty people blocking hundreds of mobs is not for you." Liu Bei walked along.

"That's what we're supposed to do, sir." The soldier laughed.

"How many people have run away?" Jian Yong asked casually.

"Not a single one of them ran." The soldier said this with a smile on his face, as if he meant to invite merit.

At this time, Liu Bei suddenly stopped, turned around and asked, "Aren't you running away from them?" Why can't even the fifty of you beat it? ”

"This ...... It seems a little strange to hear you, my lord, that when our guards were maintaining law and order, they could have opened the door and ran out on their own, but they didn't do that? The soldier scratched his head and said blankly.

"On the one hand, they instigated the news of the enemy army, and on the other hand, they created a riot, shouting that they wanted to run out, but they didn't run when they had the opportunity to run, Xuande, will you have a fraud here?" At this time, Jian Yongdao.

Liu Bei lowered his head and paced back and forth, pondered for a moment, and suddenly raised his head and said: "Xianhe, you hurry up to the east gate, let Yun Chang and Yide deal with the affairs of the mob, and immediately lead the army to the west gate, the enemy army is very likely to take advantage of this time to attack the west gate." ”

At this time, Liu Bei had a fear in his heart, if the mob was instigated by the spies sent by the thief army in advance, then just like Xianhe, there must be fraud in it, they want us to focus our attention and the army on the east gate, and then go out and not easy to attack it, and fight to the west gate, by that time, everything is already too late, just now the soldier reported that there are still three miles to come, this may be a large army of the thief army, his vanguard is likely to be hidden and rushed to here, Damn it!

Liu Bei clenched his sword, and unconsciously a cold sweat broke out in his hands: "Deran, go and mobilize the remaining troops, all of them will be concentrated at the West Gate, go quickly!" ”

"Report!" Before Liu Deran could leave, he saw a soldier galloping over on a horse, shouting: "Report to my lord, I don't know where about 5,000 thieves came out, they suddenly attacked the West Gate, we were caught off guard, and the city gate was about to be breached!" ”

"What!" Liu Bei's eyes widened and he shouted in surprise.

"My lord, what are we going to do?" The soldier asked hurriedly.

Liu Bei forcibly stabilized his mind and said: "Deran, go and lead the troops, you take me to the city gate, fuck, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that he can't kill them." ”

"Yes!" Liu Deran and the soldier agreed at the same time.

Liu Bei and the soldiers hurriedly ran to the west gate, only to see that many young and middle-aged people had taken the initiative to run to the city gate to help resist the thief army, at this time he drew his sword and shouted loudly: "Brothers, don't retreat, swear to defend your homeland!" ”

As soon as the soldiers on the city wall saw their commander personally go into battle, everyone was suddenly full of energy and morale, but there were too many archers of the thief army, every time a bow and arrow came over, the air felt dim, and then there were a lot of corpses around him, and the soldiers on the city wall came less and less, and the thief army climbed up the city wall one by one with the help of a ladder, Liu Bei held the sword in his hand, saw one kill one, I don't know if he killed ten or twenty, he only felt that he couldn't exert his strength up and down, and suddenly several soldiers shouted to Liu Bei: "My lord, The walls are about to be occupied, so let's take them down. ”

After listening to the soldiers' words, Liu Bei looked around, and found that the number of enemy and our troops on the city wall was quite different, at this time Liu Bei stabilized his mind and ordered: "Retreat while fighting, go down to the city tower, and retreat in the direction of the east gate." ”

With Liu Bei's order, all the soldiers withdrew from the city tower one after another, and the city tower was occupied by the enemy, and then the enemy opened the city gate, and thousands of cavalry rushed in a row.

The city was lost, Liu Bei ran desperately to the east gate with his soldiers at this time, and the sound of people being killed could be heard everywhere behind him, and soon he saw Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Liu Deran, Liu Bei shouted at them from afar: "How many troops are there?" ”

"There are four hundred in total, the general is on his horse."

"The gates are gone!" Liu Bei got on the horse.

"What to do, General, it's too late!"

Liu Bei shuddered and took a breath of air full of blood, there are still four hundred troops left, is this the end of this war......

Liu Deran watched from a distance that the enemy's cavalry was about to rush over, and when he saw that Liu Bei was not moving, he shouted loudly: "General, withdraw, we are not their opponents, so everyone will die." ”

"Xuande, let's start all over again." Jian Yong pleaded.

"Withdraw!" Liu Bei finally shouted loudly, he felt that he was really incompetent, watching the people suffer, but he had no power to fight back, the good to protect the people, the good to defend the homeland, the good to not give up the people, he felt that he couldn't live with the teacher, he couldn't live with Xue'er, he couldn't live with the villagers and elders in Gaomi County, he Liu Bei failed them, let down all the people who were optimistic about him, Liu Bei helplessly left tears......

"Retreat to the east gate, quick!" Guan Yu Zhang Fei shouted at the soldiers: "Big brother, you go first, and Yide and I will break off!" ”

"Be careful, brethren, go!" Liu Bei drank horses and left Gaotang County with people.

At the same time as Liu Bei's army defeated the plain, Dong Zhuo's monopoly in Luoyang, Kyoto, angered many scholars, Dong Zhuo's arrival was undoubtedly to steal the victory of the scholar class to launch a coup d'état, Luoyang City's relatives, eunuchs and bureaucrats The battle between the three was to make a wedding dress for Dong Zhuo, the warlord of Xiliang, and how could the scholar class give up, and an anti-Dong alliance initiated by the bureaucracy and the scholar clan was brewing.

【Dong Zhuo's troubles】

Luoyang Xiangguo Mansion.

The high and deep courtyard is particularly quiet, and in the pavilion, there is a person who falls asleep in Hanhan, and from time to time makes a snoring sound like thunder.

"Well~hmm~" A mosquito kept surrounding his face at this time, and the sound of humming could be regarded as disturbing the sleeping man, he kept waving his hand on his face, and due to the excessive force, the whole person turned over and fell heavily from the couch of the gazebo.

"Hey~ my waist, come on, help me up!" He shouted with his hands on his own.

"Sangkoku-sama, are you okay?" As soon as a person walked into the courtyard of Xiangfu, he heard Xiangguo calling.

"Oh, Li Ru, you're here, what's wrong with our family lately, I'm always dreaming the same thing, hey~ I don't know if it's good or bad!" Li Ru helped him up and sat down on the couch again.

This person is Dong Zhuo, the leader of the Xiliang warlords, he is physically strong, but his appearance is uninhibited, his face is resolute, and his face is full of beard, but the years have already carved the vicissitudes of life on his face.

And Li Ru is Dong Zhuo's strategist, he has a thin figure, a long face and eyes, and what is even more impressive is his beard.

"Lord Xiangguo doesn't know what kind of dream you had, so let Xiangguo make you sad for it?" Li Ru picked up the book that Dong Zhuo had dropped on the ground while he was sleeping.

"Do you still remember the war when we chased down the rebels of Han Sui Bianzhang and went deep into our family alone?" Dong Zhuo drooped his head, continued to lie down and closed his eyes, and at the same time waved his hand to Li Ru and motioned for him to sit down.

"Of course I remember this, that war can be called a great work of your art of war, Lord Xiangguo!" Li Ru found a place and sat down.

"That year, I raided Bian Zhang, Han Sui's troops, killed him by surprise, this battle is a big victory for our family, they later defeated Yuzhong, our family saw a rare opportunity, and immediately led the army with Zhou Shen and others to pursue the deserters. Because the Qiang people's power in Jincheng is omnipresent, there are troops stationed everywhere, our family blindly went deep into Xiqiang, and committed the taboo of "poor Kou do not chase", in the process of chasing, was surrounded by tens of thousands of Qiang people, our army was completely caught in the division and encirclement of the Xiqiang troops Zheng because the rear reinforcements could not arrive in time, within a few days, our food and grass were exhausted, and the besiegers not only did not retreat in the slightest, but attacked more fiercely. When Dong Zhuo came here, he could clearly feel that his breathing was still trembling.

"Give us that bit of fruit, we're too lazy to move!" Dong Zhuo pointed to the plate next to him.

"Yes, Sangkoku-sama!" Li Ru got up and said.

"No, no, how can I let you get fruit for our family, where are these damn servants dead, come on!" Dong Zhuo saw a maid holding a sable cicada crown coming over, so he said to her: "Bring fruit to our family and feed it to our family!" ”

"Yes, sir!" The maid put down the sable crown and fed the apricots on the plate to Dong Zhuo one by one.

"At that time, the army led by Zhou Shen and others had been defeated, so our family ordered the soldiers to build a high embankment in the river to cut off the upstream water, and our family ordered the soldiers to catch fish and shrimp in the dam, our family is to let the Xiqiang generals think that our army's food has been exhausted, so they have to rely on catching fish and shrimp to satisfy their hunger, so that they can relax their vigilance, hehe, in fact, the real purpose of our dam is to confuse the enemy, as a cover, and then wait for the opportunity to retreat quietly. When Hu Bing and Qiang Cai heard that our army had fled, they all came to pursue, but because the river was too deep to cross the river, our family was finally able to escape! ”

"Lord Xiangguo is clever!" Li Ru hurriedly flattered, and then said with a look of incomprehension: "Then Lord Xiangguo, I don't know what this has to do with your dreams?" ”

"Hey~ I always dreamed in my dreams that the dam built by our family suddenly collapsed, and this long water swept our family to 108,000 miles, and our family drank a stomach of water in the water, unable to breathe, unable to breathe, if it hadn't fallen down just now, our family felt that they couldn't wake up!" Dong Zhuo said with a sad face.

Li Ru frowned at this time, raised his eyelids, and said: "Lord Xiangguo, this dream is all reversed, you are in danger in your dream, and you will definitely succeed in reality!" ”

"Hey~ In this reality, our family has a headache, the bureaucrats and the clan are false and wronged with our family one by one, on the surface, they are obedient and respectful to our family, but secretly they are even more reluctant for our family to die early, in a word, if you don't give our family face, how else can our family recruit and kill them? Damn it! Dong Zhuoyue became more angry: "Maybe now they are plotting how to counterattack our house, fortunately, Feng Xian is here, by the way, to Feng Xian, why didn't I see him here today?" ”

"Lord Fengxian came here just now, and when the slave saw that you were sleeping, she asked him to go back first!" The sable maid on the side lowered her head and said.

"Oh, so, what's the matter with him?"

"No, I just came to see you!"

"Well, I know, you Wenyou, now that Yuan Shao has run away, the fourth generation and the third duke, the shelf is big, and he looks down on our family, but our family is not as knowledgeable as him, so our family will give him a face, let him be a Bohai Taishou, among these young people, that is, Cao Cao Cao Mengde can still be used, you find time to help me get closer to him more, and I will have to reuse him in the future!"

"Cao Mengde, I don't feel reliable!" Li Ru was embarrassed.

"Why is it unreliable, our family gave him all the troops in the West Park before, gave him a promotion and gave him power, didn't he accept it, our family dug his heart into him, he couldn't be inconsistent with our family!"

"This ...... I won't come up at the bottom, anyway, I'll just go to explore in the future! ”

"Well, then there will be work!"