Liu Biao died of illness, and his concubine Liu Cong succeeded Jingzhou, and within a month, Cao Cao really entered the south. Liu Bei led his army to Fancheng, but he didn't know that Liu Cong had ordered someone to surrender to Cao Cao. It wasn't until Cao Cao's military horse arrived in Wancheng that Liu Bei received the news from someone sent by Liu Cong.

With a mouth but it is difficult to say that he is depressed in his chest, and under his indignation, he beheaded the envoy sent by Liu Cong with a sword, and led the army to the city of Xiangyang to question. But he only saw a cold city wall and a soldier with a bow and arrow, and Liu Cong didn't come to see him at all.

Liu Bei looked blankly at the soldiers on the city wall, the bows and arrows of those soldiers were aimed at him, as if if he didn't leave, the next moment would be ten thousand arrows.

He still remembered what Liu Biao said to him, if you are willing, I hope you can help Cong'er, but now it is not a matter of whether he is willing or not.

Under the city, Liu Bei nodded, and whispered, as if he had explained to himself: "This is a troubled time." ”

After saying that, he pulled his horse and led the army to withdraw.

When Liu Bei withdrew, many people in Jingzhou abandoned Liu Cong and accompanied him, and in the end, there were more than 100,000 people.

"Liu Bei led the people east?" Cao Cao sat under his tent, heard the report from Xiao Qi, lowered his eyes, and looked at the map on the table.

After groaning for a while, he said: "When the tiger prison was closed, I knew that he was not a thing in the pool, and it was really a mistake to fail to keep him in Xuzhou. ”

There were people sitting in the tent, Cao Cao put away the map in his hand, and smiled again: "But with 100,000 people, how far does he think he can go?" ”

Indeed, if Liu Bei just withdrew with his military horses, it would not be easy to catch up with him.

However, now with 100,000 people, I am afraid that the daily journey is only more than ten miles, and I can catch up with them in a day or two.

Once caught up, the 100,000 people will not be able to fight but will become a drag, and they will collapse as soon as they rush, and the army will not be able to succeed, and it will definitely be defeated.

Liu Bei knew this, and he took the people to withdraw, and he didn't know whether it was benevolence or wisdom to do so.

But this is also the reason why Cao Cao treats him differently, such courage is not something ordinary people can have.

Cao Cao sat up straight and raised his eyes.

"Then chase it, this time I will not let this Liu Bei go again."

Night.

Liu Bei ordered the military horses to stop and trim on the side of the road. Many of the people were women and children, and they could no longer walk after a day's walk, and there was no way to continue their journey. And on this day, they only traveled ten miles.

A bonfire was lit, Liu Bei sat by the bonfire with a frown, it had been seven days since they had withdrawn from Xiangyang, but they had not gone far at all. Cao Jun may have already arrived in Xiangyang, and if he came to chase them, he should be able to catch up with them in a few days.

He raised his head, and by the light of the fire, looked at the dotted bonfires on the road in the distance, and the people who were huddled by the campfires, and sighed helplessly.

With a sigh, a person sat down beside Liu Bei: "What is the lord sighing about?" ”

Liu Bei looked at a young man in a white robe, his face loosened a little, but he still said with a sad face.

"Kong Ming, I'm wondering if I can really take them to Jiangxia safely."

The young man named Kong Ming smiled slightly and replied.

"If the lord thinks that something can't be done, wouldn't it be better to abandon them and go?"

Liu Bei was stunned, smiled wryly and waved his hand: "Kong Ming, do you know that I won't be like this." ”

On the winding road, clusters of bonfires stretched into the distance, and although the flames were not bright, they were connected in a line and illuminated the entire road.

Looking at the distant firelight, Liu Bei said.

"If they believe in me and dare to move with them, why don't I dare to go with them?"

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Cao Cao pursued Liu Bei in the east, and at the same time was worried that Liu Bei would take Jiangling first, so he specially asked Gu Nan and Guo Jia to attack Jiangling with thousands of cavalry, and if Liu Bei attacked the city, he would stop him before him.

Before leaving, Gu Nan specially found Cao Chun, who led the tiger and leopard cavalry under Cao Cao's account, and said a word to him.

If Cao Cao asked him to chase Liu Bei, don't believe the suspicious army.

Cao Chun seemed to understand whether he understood or not, but he also responded first.

Dusk is approaching, and the wind is hunting, sweeping across the road like a burst of crying. The people of Jingzhou followed Liu Bei's military horses, their steps slow, and they were exhausted from many days of traveling.

Liu Bei, who was walking in front, suddenly heard a sound, and before he could react, flags appeared on the surrounding mountain roads. The flag swayed in the wind, and a single character obscured the dim light in the distance. Along with it came the deafening sound of marching, at least more than 10,000 people.

Cao Cao sat on a chariot, looked at the people of Jingzhou and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses below, stood up, and the red cloak draped behind his back moved with the wind.

pacified this Jingzhou and exterminated this Liu Bei, the world is not far away.

He raised his hand, and in the wind, he gave an order: "Enter the battle!" ”

The war drums sounded in an instant, and before Liu Bei had time to order the soldiers and horses to line up, the people behind him were already in chaos, and the soldiers and horses were scattered among the people and could not be deployed for a while.

The sound of galloping horses was like thunder, and the sound of war drums seemed to be heavy in the sky, and Cao Jun rushed down in one fell swoop, and when he saw the man in military armor, he swung his sword and slashed down.

And the people were in a mess and fled in all directions.

Liu Bei's ears were buzzing, and he could barely hear the voices on either side, all he knew was that a team of men and horses were rushing towards him, and the blades in his hands flashed with bright white light.

"Big brother." A very soft voice seemed to be called in the distance, and this was the first voice Liu Bei heard in his ears.

Then all kinds of sounds poured into my ears again and again in an instant, and there was no end to it.

"Big brother!" The voice rang out again in a chaotic voice, this time close, right next to him, and he turned his head.

It was Zhang Fei who stood beside him, lifted the spear in his hand and stabbed down a rushing Cao Jun, and yelled at Liu Bei: "Big brother, go away!" ”

As he spoke, he slapped the war horse under Liu Bei with one hand, and the war horse immediately ran up and took Liu Bei away.

Seeing Liu Bei walking away, Zhang Feicai gritted his teeth, looked at the formation, and waved the spear in his hand hatefully and retreated.

There were wails and cries on all sides, mixed with screams, horses' hooves trampling, wheels rolling, and war drums rattling.

The people who are running have no idea where they are going to flee, or perhaps it is just instinct to tell them to escape, to escape from this place in order to survive.

In the midst of the chaotic crowd, one or two people fell to the ground, but no one would pull them, no one would even look at them, only their feet stepped over them, and soon they were silent.

The horse, which had lost its owner, went on a rampage in a panic and hit a half-old child, whose hooves trampled on the child's chest, and the child twitched twice and then stopped moving. It was still a chaotic sound, and there was no change in the surroundings, just the cry of a woman.

Everything is in response to that sentence, this is a troubled time.

"Poof!" The spear pierced into Cao Jun's chest, and a white-clothed general came out of the chaos, his white armor stained with a little blood.

Looking back, he didn't find Liu Bei, nor did he find Liu Bei's family.

He clenched his spear in his hand and was about to kill it again, when he suddenly heard a call.

"General, General."

The white-clothed general followed the sound and saw a person wearing Liu Beijun's armor and falling to the ground with a painful look on his face.

"Why are you here?"

The soldier clutched his leg and said with difficulty.

"General, I am a soldier who drove the car for the master's mother, and just now Cao Jun came out, the horse was frightened and fell me off the car and broke my leg."

The white-clothed general's brows furrowed and hurriedly asked, "What about the master mother and son, you can see the lord?" ”

The soldier swallowed.

"The master's mother and son-in-law were dragged into Cao's army and disappeared, and the lord's father was covered by General Zhang and went to the east."

The general was silent for a moment, jumped off his horse, pulled the soldier into a bush and said.

"If you stay here, you may be able to escape Cao Jun."

As he spoke, he led his horse, turned and raised his spear into the chaos of the mountain road.

"General." The soldier looked at the white-clothed general stunned: "You, do you want to go back?" ”

The sound of the wind in the mountains is like a cry ringing in the ears, mixed with the voices of the chaotic army, Cao Jun is chasing and killing Liu Bei's remnants everywhere, and there are countless people who abandon men and women and leave.

"The master's mother and son-in-law are still in Cao Jun, I should go back."

The white-clothed general turned over his horse and lifted his spear.

"But general, Cao's army has tens of thousands." The soldier said.

The general glanced back at the soldier and suddenly asked.

"Do you know the righteousness of the white horse?"

The soldier couldn't answer.

White Horse Yi from the famous outside of the earthquake, white horses bloody, three thousand cavalry can be called Xianbei Wuhuan dare not enter.

But now, he is the last person left.

"Where righteousness goes, life and death go hand in hand."

The general said something that the soldiers couldn't understand, this was the call sign of the white horse's righteous servant, which once resounded outside the Saiwai.

And Liu Bei is the righteousness he recognizes.

When the words fell, the general's legs clamped the horse's belly, and the white war horse galloped, and the white cloak rolled up, revealing the appearance of the troubled times.

The call sign is still there, but I don't see the white horse back then.

But as long as the righteousness and courage in this chest are still there, the white horse righteousness is there.