In 210 AD, that is, in the fifteenth year of Jian'an, the Jing-Wu War, except for Zhuge Song's design to burn down several Wu army camps, causing more than 100 casualties among Wu soldiers, there was no bloody battle that he expected.

Although the Wu army was under Changsha City and looked violent, for some reason, their desire to attack Changsha City was not high. After the first tentative siege found that Changsha City was strong and well prepared, there was not even a decent attack for the rest of the day.

Zhuge Song originally had the intention to go to Guiyang for help, but this abnormal performance of the Wu army made him very uneasy, and after thinking about it again, Zhuge Song only sent a soldier to Guiyang with his own handwritten book and rode his own horse, while he led people to continue to monitor the vicinity of the Wu army camp outside Changsha.

Of course, this kind of surveillance is actually far away, and if Zhuge Song is concerned, if he is discovered by Wu Jun, he will easily be dumpled. Therefore, it is surveillance, in fact, Zhuge Song can only see whether there are a large number of soldiers in the Wu army camp from a distance every day, and he has no way of knowing the specific situation in Wu Village.

Half a month passed like this, during which Guiyang replied that there were no soldiers to help in the county now, so they could only close the city and defend themselves, which was also expected by Zhuge Song. Just when the grain that Zhuge Song had snatched from Wu Zhai was about to run out, the Wu army actually began to pull out the village to the north. Seeing that the Wu army had withdrawn from the siege, Zhuge Song monitored outside the city for another day and saw that there was no abnormality, and then returned to Changsha City.

Ma Liang saw that Zhuge Song's face was not very good, and asked him if he was responsible for the fire in Wuzhai a few days ago, and Zhuge Song honestly admitted it. Zhuge Song explained to Ma Liang that he wanted to help defend Changsha from outside the city, but Ma Liang always had a gloomy face, and only told Zhuge Song that he would report the matter to the lord according to the truth, and asked Zhuge Song to wait for the lord to settle down at that time.

Zhuge Song's heart was on fire, he didn't expect Ma Liang to treat him like this. But in the end, he didn't dare to leave Changsha City by himself like last time. Soon the news came that Liu Bei had gathered a large army to attack Luoxian Port when Zhou Yu retreated from Nanjun, and the Wu army of Luoxian Port could not resist and asked Zhou Yu for help, and Zhou Yu came back from Changsha to help. After that, the two sides formed a confrontation on both sides of the river outside the port of Luoxian, and the Jingzhou army was much weaker than the Wu army. On the same day, the two sides formed a reconciliation, the Wu army withdrew to Chaisang, and Liu Bei reoccupied the port of Luoxian. And this is not any major news, the most important news is actually the death of Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin, the main general of the Wu army on the way to withdraw.

Zhuge Song read the novel Zhou Yu was angry with Kong Ming, although this incident happened later than he expected, but it still happened as usual. He and Ma Liang were ordered to go back to Nanjun to hand over the order, and they were always indignant in their hearts on the way, and they were angry about Chen Zhi not leading the army to Luoxian Port early, but when they were summoned by Liu Bei, they were still worried in their hearts, and they only thought about whether Kong Ming could intercede for himself later, and not be punished by Liu Bei on the grounds that he left his post without permission.

Ma Liang went straight into Liu Bei's mansion as soon as he entered the city to report, so when Liu Bei summoned Zhuge Song, Zhuge Song saw him also accompanying him as soon as he entered, Ma Liang didn't even raise his head when he saw Zhuge Song come in, he lowered his head and didn't know what he was pondering. The worst thing is that Zhuge Song didn't see Kong Ming in the house, and without Kong Ming present, Zhuge Song became even more nervous in his heart, thinking: "Could it be that Liu Bei wants to clean me up and deliberately not let Kong Ming be present, so as not to embarrass Kong Ming?" ”

Unexpectedly, Liu Bei smiled at Zhuge Song when he saw him come in, and waved his hand to let Zhuge Song sit opposite Ma Liang. Liu Bei's smile made Zhuge Song's heart feel a little at ease, but as soon as he waited for Zhuge Song to sit down, he said to him: "I heard Ji Chang say, you don't listen to the orders of me and the military advisor and are you dishonest?" didn't stay in the city to help defend the city, but actually left the city without permission to attack the Wu army? The tone was very unkind.

Zhuge Song thought to himself: "Sure enough, it's not funny, this is to clean me up!" My husband wasn't there, and there was no one to intercede for me. So he had no choice but to reply: "The subordinates are just afraid that Changsha City will be attacked by the Wu army from both sides, so they want to go and remove the threat from the west first." ”

"Is your so-called removal of the threat from the west just to burn down a few empty villages of the Wu army?" Although Liu Bei asked Zhuge Song with a smile, Zhuge Song still heard the mocking taste in his tone.

And he could only answer honestly: "The subordinate troops are limited, and there can only be so much that can be done." ”

Liu Bei fiddled with a roll of silk silk on the case in front of him and was silent for a while. Zhuge Song only felt that his heart was pounding, and the feeling of not knowing what his fate was was really uncomfortable.

At the end, Liu Bei finally sighed and said to Zhuge Song: "No matter what, the military advisor and I just ordered you to guard Changsha for ten days, although you destroyed a few Wu army camps, but you only hurt the Wu army. If in the future, everyone will not listen to the dispatch on the grounds that they have a plan, then how can I exterminate the Cao thief and restore the Han Dynasty?

As soon as Zhuge Song heard this, as soon as this big hat was buttoned, it would be difficult for him to turn over even if he had a reason to double. Originally, he wanted to mention that Chen's army was not in place on time, but looking at Liu Bei's face now, he also knew that even if he said it, he could only prove that he was a person who was good at shirking responsibility. So Zhuge Song could only listen silently without saying a word, a typical appearance of having nothing to say and letting it be disposed of.

In the end, Liu Bei's summary statement to Zhuge Song was: remove Wuling Taishou from his position, find him a place to live in Nanjun City, let him and his family move there, think about it every day, reflect on it, and wait until the military advisor comes back, and then decide what he will do in the future. It was only at this time that Zhuge Song knew that Kong Ming was not hiding out, and Kong Ming was not in Nanjun now. Later, Zhuge Song returned to the small courtyard arranged by Liu Bei for him, and learned through inquiry that Kong Ming took Zhao Yun to Chaisang to hang filial piety for Zhou Yu.

Zheng Liang took Zhuge Song's hundreds of soldiers back to the military camp that had been arranged in Nanjun before, and that night Zheng Liang brought back a news that made Zhuge Song angry: it turned out that after Chen Zhi received the order to go out in front of Zhuge Song that day, the elite of the three counties of 15,000 people did not go to Luoxian Port as stated in the previous military order. After Zhuge Song set off for Changsha, overtook their army, and went to Changsha City day and night, he returned to the city with his army! After that, they just trained in the barracks every day, and they didn't go out again at all, and Liu Bei and Kong Ming seemed to have acquiesced to this matter a long time ago, so all of this was more like a play in front of Zhuge Song!

It's just that what is the purpose of their play? Did he just let himself stay stupidly in the city and be surrounded by the Wu army until the city was broken and people died? Zhuge Song couldn't figure out the reason for this for a long time.

In the nearly two months that Nanjun City has been "thinking about the wall", Zhuge Song has been thinking about this problem. This bureau was supposed to be for Wu Jun, but in fact, no matter how you think about it, it is aimed at him. It's just that he really has such a weight on Liu Bei? For a young man in his twenties, just because Liu Bei's two brothers "won" to come to Wuling Taishou by calculating at the beginning, Liu Bei will ignore the people of Changsha City, and would rather abandon a county for Eastern Wu to occupy, but also clean up Zhuge Song, and let him spit out the position of Wuling Taishou? ”

Zhuge Song couldn't believe that this was Liu Bei's belly, and he couldn't believe that it was his own husband who cleaned up for Liu Bei's idea. If Liu Bei was such a person who was determined to repay him, how could there be so many capable ministers who would willingly follow him under his command? And Kong Ming is Zhuge Song's teacher no matter how he says, and he can also be said to be his master, how can he treat himself like this without caring about the affection between them at all?

It wasn't until one day two months later, when Pang Tong suddenly came to visit Zhuge Song's house, that he understood the reason for all this.