Su Zhe, in front of the officers and soldiers of the two armies, openly threatened to destroy Liu Biaomanmen.

What could be more humiliating?

Liu Biao was instantly furious, and it was difficult to maintain the demeanor of a celebrity, and shouted angrily: "Release the arrow, shoot this traitor for me!" ”

The crossbowmen on the left and right hurriedly pushed and shoved the civilians, trying to stand at the battlements and release their arrows.

Su Zhe took advantage of this effort, turned his horse, and calmly retreated.

By the time the crossbowmen squeezed through the crowd and bent their bows and arrows, Su Zhe had already gone and withdrawn from the land of one stone.

Liu Biao could only watch Su Zhe humiliate him, and then walked away, panting with anger, and the word crazy was written on his face.

Kuai Yue and the others on the left and right, seeing that Liu Biao was stimulated by Su Zhe to lose their bearing, they all sighed secretly in their hearts, but they didn't dare to squeak.

Xu Shu didn't give him face, and said coldly: "Then Su Zhe just said a few bad words to each other, and he angered the state pastor so easily, and the state pastor was too angry." ”

Liu Biao's body was shocked, and he suddenly came to his senses, only to realize that he had lost his demeanor and bearing, which made the soldiers look down.

After coming to his senses, Liu Biao hurriedly breathed a sigh of relief, immediately suppressed his excitement, and in a blink of an eye, he had recovered his cold and calm expression.

He grinned slightly, and laughed at himself: "Mr. Yuanzhi is reasonable, that Su thief is poor in donkey skills, so he came up to speak quickly, and it was the mansion that was filled with righteous indignation for a while, and there was a little gaffe, which made Mr. laugh." ”

Xu Shu didn't say much, turned around in a dashing manner, and calmly went down to the city with his hands down.

Liu Biao was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Sir, where are you going?" ”

"Su Zhe will never dare to go to the city today, staying in the city is just a waste of time, the grass people are sleepy, so go back to the pavilion to rest first." Xu Shu didn't look back, and walked away.

Xu Shu's attitude was obviously a little arrogant, Liu Biao saw it in his eyes, his brows couldn't help frowning, revealing a little displeasure.

Next to him, Kuai Yue praised it: "This Xu Yuanzhi is worthy of being a master disciple of the Water Mirror, and he will make the Su thief helpless with a little means, I think that although this son is not a Nine Wonders, his wisdom is better than that of the Su Thief, the head of the Nine Wonders." ”

"Jiuqi? What Nine Odds? Liu Biao looked dazed, confused by this noun that he had eaten for the first time.

Kuai Yue said: "This is also a recent rumor, I heard that a few years ago, Mr. Shuijing, Pang Degong and other hermits organized a wind evaluation organization similar to the 'Yuedan Commentary', called the 'Military Division Alliance', which specializes in evaluating the world's wise and resourceful people. ”

"These hermits traveled all over the country, visited the world's wise and resourceful people, and finally selected the nine strongest military advisors, known as the Nine Wonders."

"And Mr. Shui Jing even overrode public opinion, and gave the name of Wolong to the Su thief, and rated him as the head of the Nine Wonders."

"As for this Xu Yuanzhi, he was a ranger in his early years, and he didn't worship under the Water Mirror Gate until last year, and at that time, Jiuqi had already finished the evaluation, so this Xu Yuanzhi failed to be listed, but when I saw it today, this Xu Yuanzhi's wisdom seems to be above the so-called head of the Nine Wonders of the Su thief."

Kuai Yue's words immediately aroused everyone's discussions, all of which were about "Nine Wonders", "Military Divisions Alliance", such novelties as "Nine Wonders", "Military Division Alliance", and so on.

Liu Biao suddenly realized at this time, and couldn't help but sneer: "This mansion also said that Sima Decao overused students, only emphasizing intelligence but not conduct, and actually taught Su Thief, a disloyal and unrighteous treacherous man, I didn't expect him to be able to teach Xu Yuanzhi such a genius with both ability and political integrity, which really impressed the mansion." ”

Kuai Yue smiled: "Anyone who has great talent must have a little bit of arrogance, so it is not surprising that this Xu Yuanzhi is a little proud." ”

His words were obviously hinting to Liu Biao that he should be open-minded and not annoyed by Xu Shu's talent.

Liu Biao immediately understood, and said with a smile: "What you said, how can this government not understand, if this Xu Yuanzhi is only a promise, and this government still doesn't like it, this government will appreciate his arrogance." ”

Kuai Yue was busy praising Liu Biao's broad-mindedness, and the left and right civil and military people also joined in.

Liu Biao turned his eyes to the outside of the city, looked at the big banner with the word "Su", and sneered: "Su thief, even if you are the head of the Nine Wonders, now, you have finally met the nemesis, this mansion will see what else you can do." ”

In front of the city, Soviet troops.

Although Su Zhe had used his threats to Liu Biao to slightly boost the morale of his army, it was still difficult to stop the commotion of the soldiers.

He knew that today's army was in turmoil and it was impossible to attack Xiangyang again, so he decisively ordered the whole army to withdraw its troops and return to the camp.

Collected the troops and returned to the camp for three days, but Su Zhe did not move.

In view of Liu Biao's threatening methods, which had an impact on the recruited soldiers, Su Zhe naturally would not choose to attack before calming the spirits of the soldiers.

It's just that even if Su Zhe tried his best to reassure people's hearts, three days later, what worried him still happened.

The soldier was stroked, and there was a phenomenon of flight.

Moreover, those soldiers who fled were basically descended soldiers, and they were obviously threatened by Liu Biao, worried that their families would be implicated, so they could only choose to flee at the risk of being killed after being caught.

At the beginning, the number of fugitives was only a few dozen, but soon it rose to hundreds, and within three days, nearly 400 soldiers had fled, and the number of escapees was still rising.

In order to curb the escape of the descendants, the generals at all levels had to strictly guard against the death, and used their descendants to inspect the descendants, and intensified the patrol after dark.

Despite this, they still can't suppress the feelings of missing their relatives, and there are still people who go forward one after another, desperate to flee.

The flight of the soldiers seriously weakened the number of Soviet troops, and this kind of escape also greatly damaged the spirit and fighting spirit of those descendants of the soldiers, so that they also began to fall into a state of panic and uneasiness.

With the passage of time, the superiority of the Soviet army was gradually disintegrated by the flight of the soldiers, and the situation began to develop in a direction unfavorable to Su Zhe.

……

On that day, the Chinese army was in the big tent.

Su Zhe convened the generals to discuss countermeasures, and Fu Shou, who heard the news, also took the initiative to ask to come and observe.

"Counting the number of people this morning, more than 30 people escaped from my left battalion, and their identities are all recruited soldiers."

"I have just counted the number of soldiers, and there are more than 40 people missing, and they are all recruited and demoted."

"The right battalion is still being counted, but I estimate that at least fifty people have fled."

……

Listening to the reports of the generals, there was no good news, Su Zhe couldn't help but have a headache, and his fingertips tapped his forehead slightly.

After the report, there was silence in the big tent, and the mood of the generals was not very high.

Fu Shou glanced at Huangfu Song and hinted.

Huangfu Song said: "Su Cheqi, the current situation is very clear, your soldiers fled too much, which seriously affected the morale of our army, and it seems impossible to conquer Xiangyang, I think it is better to withdraw the troops and retreat to Fancheng before the army is not disturbed." ”

Su Zhe was silent.

It's not that he doesn't know that the situation is unfavorable, but it's just such a God-given opportunity, so he gave up and returned in vain, which really made him unwilling.

If he withdrew his troops and returned to the north, it would be equivalent to giving Liu Biao a chance to breathe, giving him ample time to quell the rebellion in the three counties of Jingnan and regain control of most of the counties in Jingzhou.

You must know that after all, Liu Biao owns most of Jingzhou and has a sufficient population, so it only takes time to replenish new soldiers and revitalize the army.

At that time, even though Liu Biao was jealous and did not dare to invade the north, there was such a powerful hostile force in the south, which was always a huge threat.

Moreover, giving Liu Biao a chance to breathe and let him recover his strength is also not in line with Su Zhequan's grand strategy of taking Jingzhou.

"Su Qing, this palace thinks that what the old general Yizhen said has some truth, although this palace does not understand military affairs, but also knows that the morale of the army is very important, and now that so many soldiers have fled, the fighting spirit of the soldiers must be frustrated, and it is really not appropriate to storm Xiangyang at this time."

Fu Shou saw that Huangfu Song couldn't persuade Su Zhe, so he had to go out to persuade him himself.

"What, the queen also thinks that the ministers should withdraw their troops?" Su Zhe looked up at Fu Shou.

Fu Shou smiled faintly and said: "In fact, Su Qing can hit Liu Biao hard, he has done well enough, even if he withdraws his troops now, Fancheng is still in our hands, this war, in the final analysis, we still win, it is better to accept it when it is good, Su Qing said." ”

After listening to her words, Su Zhe sighed lightly: "Forgive the minister, Niangniang just saw the victory in front of him, if we withdraw like this, although Liu Biao was defeated, he only lost a Fancheng, the huge Jingzhou, countless Dingkou are still in his hands, as long as those Jingzhou clans support him, it won't be long before he can piece together a large army." ”

"And ours." Su Zhe said in a rhetorical tone: "With our Nanyang County, I'm afraid we can only feed the existing soldiers and horses, if Liu Biao has a long memory and strictly guards the Hanshui defense line, what will we use to capture Jingzhou, and if we don't take the entire Jingzhou as a backing, what will we use to sweep away the heroes and support Sheji?" ”

Fu Shou was speechless, only to realize that his vision was not as far-reaching as Su Zhe after all, but he didn't expect this.

Fu Shou was also silent for a while.

Huangfu Song saw that Su Zhe's tone was a little disrespectful to Fu Shou, so he sank his face and asked: "Even if Su Cheqi is reasonable, it is also a matter of the future, so how do you plan to deal with the current crisis, you don't want to withdraw the troops, do you just sit and wait for the soldiers to flee and the morale of the army to collapse?" ”

This time, it was Su Zhe's turn to be speechless.

Huangfu Song is right, how not to solve the immediate crisis first, when the army's morale will collapse, Liu Biaoke will take advantage of the opportunity to suffer a big victory, and the results of the hard battle will be annihilated, let alone the future.

"How to solve the problem in front of you, it's really a headache......"

Su Zhe stood up and paced in the big tent, silent for a long time, and fell into deep thought.

Just when he was thinking hard, Hu Che'er entered the big tent and said angrily: "General Che Cai, I led the cavalry to patrol last night and caught forty more deserters, what do you say to deal with it." ”

Deserters, deserters again!

Su Zhe frowned, a look of disgust welled up on his face, and he was not happy to listen to it.

At this time, Li Yan said coldly: "General Che Cai, after these deserters escape, they must have fled to Xiangyang to join Liu Biao, but it will enrich Liu Biao's strength. ”

Li Yan's proposal was reasonable, and Su Zhe didn't think much about it, so he agreed directly.

Hu Che'er received the military order, and planned to turn around and go out of the tent to carry out the execution.

At this moment, Su Zhe's eyes suddenly flashed with a glimmer of light, and he shouted: "Wait!" ”