Chapter 124: Boosting Morale

"How many soldiers and horses are left, cough cough~" Liu Bei sat on the stone, his face was covered with dirt ash, his helmet had fallen off, his cloak was scattered, he was holding a kettle, he drank a sip of water just now, and choked.

Liu Bei's soldiers were already disheartened by Yuan Shu's note, and the soldiers passed ten, ten, hundred, thousand, thousand, and the news of Xuzhou's loss immediately became a secret that was not a secret.

When Sun Qian hurried to Liu Bei's camp with these notes, the soldiers' hearts were already ready to move, and after Liu Bei learned the truth, he immediately made a decision and immediately organized the army and prepared to return to the army.

When the army withdrew, in order to prevent Yuan Shu from coming over, he ordered Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to lead his troops to ambush Yuan Shu, and he led the main force back to Xiapi.

Sure enough, when Yuan Shu learned the news of Liu Bei's withdrawal, he immediately ordered Ji Ling to lead the army to kill, but he was ambushed by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and Ji Ling retreated in disgrace, thinking that Yuan Shu would stop at a shallow taste, but he didn't expect that after a culling failure, Yuan Shu personally led his troops and horses to implement a second culling to Liu Bei, Liu Bei and others were caught off guard, and in the face of Yuan Shu's attack, they could only rush to the battle, and they were defeated, everyone lost their armor, and even Liu Bei's own helmet was lost, fortunately under the cover of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Only then did he flee the battlefield with thousands of remnants.

The embarrassed Liu Bei fled from east to west, and the soldiers under him became fewer and fewer, and finally the army stubbornly changed from the 20,000 troops that came out of Xiapi to the current thousands of people, and they are all weak, not so much physically tired, but rather tired, it is better to be tired, the home is gone, and they have been beaten so many times, so that anyone will lose hope in life.

"Lord, there are probably about the first two thousand left!" Sun Qiandao, his face is also very dirty, not much better than Liu Bei, and there are even blood in a few places, of course it is not his own, but don't spare it.

"Hahaha......" Liu Bei listened to Sun Gan's words, and immediately laughed up, the voice resounded throughout the audience, Zhang Fei, who was squatting on the ground and bored to pull weeds, and Guan Yu, who was lying under the tree and closed his eyes to recuperate, as well as Mi Zhu, who was brushing the hair of the mount, and Liu Deran, who was cleaning up the grain and grass, looked at Liu Bei one after another.

Everyone was at a loss, not knowing what was going on with the lord.

"It's all like this, and you can still laugh!" Mi Mo wore a garland on her head and walked over with a wild flower in her hand, looking at the embarrassed Liu Bei sitting on the ground and laughing inexplicably.

With the appearance of Mi Mo, Liu Bei's laughter came to an abrupt end.

He looked at Mi Mo blankly, from top to bottom, his eyes were confused, as if he was recalling the past, and as if he was obsessed with the present. Standing in the wind is so beautiful, like a blooming lotus, fragrant, and like a green lotus leaf, verdant, he holds flowers in his hand, wears a garland on his head, Liu Bei instantly seems to have come to the Songshan school of the curtain year and Xue'er

"What is this?" Su Xue stroked the thing Liu Bei put on her head with both hands.

"This is a wreath I knitted from roadside flowers, it's very fragrant!"

"Is it pretty?" Su Xue put a garland in her hand, turned to face Liu Bei and asked playfully.

"Good...... Pretty! Liu Bei said shyly.

"Hey, what are you looking at?" Mi Mo looked at Liu Bei in a daze, and shook her hand in front of Liu Bei's eyes.

A cry of Mi Mo pulled Liu Bei back from his memories.

"I was thinking just now, maybe this failure is the benefit that God gave us!" Liu Bei looked around and looked at the people who were bowing their heads.

"What does this mean?" Mi Mo sat down everywhere.

"We lost Xuzhou, indeed, Xuzhou lost; We just lost the battle, indeed, we have failed, so some people began to languish, began to collapse, some people thought that Xuzhou was lost, our tens of thousands of troops were defeated, such a big thing happened, it was as if it had collapsed, no!! Liu Bei said in a frustrated manner, and when it came to the last word, he deliberately raised his voice.

"Not really!" Liu Bei then said loudly: "Everyone must know that people, except for birth, old age, sickness and death, there is no so-called big thing, although we lost, but this is nothing, we are at least alive, still alive, this is what we deserve to laugh at!" ”

"Do you know what kind of general is the best general?" Liu Bei continued.

The man below shook his head blankly.

"The best generals are the ones who lose more battles and often summarize them, and those who will conquer and win will either have countless failures in the past, or they are just temporary luck!"

The people below listened to Liu Bei's words and couldn't help but nod.

"Do you know what makes the best doctor?"

"Doctor Rao, who has died a lot!" Mo Mo said.

"Yes!" Liu Bei nodded to Mi Mo and said: "It is true that the more people who have died in medicine, the more skilled his medical skills will be, failure is not terrible, what is terrible is that he was frightened, and he will never be able to stand up again." What is there to be afraid of failure, the failure of this battle is just an episode in our lives, people who have not experienced setbacks are not worthy of success, and people who have not experienced hardships are not worthy of being respected by others! ”

Guan Yu got up and sat up, Zhang Fei was no longer bored pulling weeds, Mi Zhu stopped what he was doing, and everyone listened attentively to Liu Bei's speech.

"No one can succeed for a lifetime, people can fail, but ......" he looked at everyone present and shouted: "We can fail a thousand times, ten thousand times, but we must win the last time!" ”

"Yes, big brother has to be right!" Zhang Fei shouted.

Being shouted by Zhang Fei, the soldiers gradually began to become angry, those who drooped their heads raised their heads one after another, those who were crying and mourning all showed smiles, and a dead air gradually appeared full of atmosphere.

"The people present here today are all good, your followers of my Liu Bei, your trust in my Liu Bei, Liu Bei will not disappoint you in the end, and I Liu Bei will repay you in the future, and repay everyone present!" Liu Bei stood up, his instrument was lofty, and his blazing eyes revealed a convincing light.

Following Liu Bei, the soldiers also stood up one after another, raised their hands below and shouted: "Follow the lord!" Follow the Lord! Every Rao voice was drowned out in this blood-boiling shout, but everyone felt that the speech of the lord was the protagonist himself.

It was a cold wind whistling outside, and Yuan Shu in the camp tent took the letter sent by Lu Bu's messenger and looked at it in the candlelight.

In the tent, the fire was burning, it was for heating, and it was emitting steaming heat to the surroundings, and the firelight was imprinted on Yang Hong's face on the side, steaming his face hot.

"Lord, I'm a little dizzy!" Yang Hong suddenly said.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Shu put down the letter in his hand and said, "Didn't eat? ”

"No, I ate it at night!" Yang Hong closed his eyes and moved his temples with his hand.

"That's eating too much!" Yuan Shu squinted his eyes and frowned, Lu Bu is really hateful, robbed me of Xuzhou, and now he wants to come and show friendship with me, he really loves and hates.

"Go out for a walk, you might be poisoned!" Yuan Shu opened his eyes and looked at Yang Hongdao.

"Huh? Poisoning! Yang Hong stared, flames swaying in his eyes.

"It's the first time you've come to the barracks, this brazier has been burning for a long time, it will make people dizzy, anyway, everyone is like this, so after burning for a long time, I will let people open the curtain and change the air, I don't know what the specific reason is!"

"Oh, then I'll go change the air, and go out to breathe by the way!" Yang Hong stood up with difficulty, bent over, staggered to the curtain, and pulled up the curtain.

"Ouch!" Yang Hong couldn't help but shiver all over, as soon as the curtain opened, the cold current outside suddenly rushed in, and slapped on Yang Hong's face, and Yang Hong's face curled up unconsciously.

"Oh oh~" Yang Hong's mind instantly cleared up, maybe he was awake from breathing fresh air, maybe he was awakened by freezing, his upper and lower jaws trembled constantly, and his teeth made a "gurgling~" sound.

"Okay, okay, this poisonous gas didn't poison you later, but you were frozen to death by the air!" Yuan Shu covered his clothes tightly with both hands, and his head almost hid in the collar.

Yang Hong let go of the curtain and ran to the position just now, put his hands on the fire, constantly wandering in the flames, burning the back of his hands, burning his palms, and burning inside and out.

He coughed dryly and said, "The lord is really witty, my head is fine, but it seems to be a little cold!" ”

Yuan Shu glared at him expressionlessly, without saying a word.

"Oh no, just kidding, lord, it doesn't affect the work!" Yang Hong sniffed.

"That's good!" Yuan Shu leaned back, leaned on the railing, and said, "Lu Bu robbed Xuzhou, and now he wants to be friendly with us, what do you think?" ”

"Hands in favor, lord!"

"Approve of the fart, I ask you what to do?"

"Lord, we should reply to the letter to express our willingness to accept their overtures!" Yang Hong said with a disgraced face: "Lu Bu and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao have a natural hatred, isn't this exactly what we want to see, the enemy is a friend, and now Lu Bu takes the initiative to surrender, wouldn't it be a good opportunity!" ”

"Lu Bu also has no choice, without us, he will be swallowed alive by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao sooner or later!" Yuan Shu's eyes suddenly widened, and he said, "Then what should we do now?" ”

"Hit Chen Guo!"

"Chen Guo?"

"Yes, fight Chen Guo, Cao Cao was in Jingzhou some time ago, ready to conquer Zhang Xiu, I want to try the power of the son in my hand, but the power is really extraordinary, Zhang Xiu surrendered without a fight, but Cao Cao's essence worm on the brain, actually slept with Zhang Xiu's aunt in Wancheng, Zhang Xiu was angry, with the help of Jia Xu, Zhang Xiu attacked Cao Cao, Cao Cao's general Dian Wei, as well as the eldest son Cao Ang, nephew Cao Anmin were all killed, Cao Cao was defeated all the way, now is the time for Cao Cao's decline, just imagine, he can't win a Zhang Xiu, what else can he do, We should take advantage of this time to lead the army through Pei and directly attack Chen Guo, the west side of Chen State is Yingchuan County, his Xuchang nest is there, and the emperor is also there, as long as we defeat Chen State, Cao Cao will definitely panic! ”

"Cao Cao likes wives, but this has a sense of accomplishment of a conqueror, hehe!" Yuan Shu grinded his beard, and the thief smiled: "But that's the case, I don't have such a habit as Cao Agui!" ”

"Lord, do you think you should fight?" Yang Hong saw that Yuan Shu's words were not right.

"It's Cao Cao again!" Listening to Yang Hong's words, Yuan Shu muttered in his heart, he rubbed his hands, and was weighing his ability, the last battle of Kuangting, Cao Cao was really terrible, when he didn't think of Cao Cao, he couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp and cold in his back.