When I returned to Nanjun, I was always a little depressed when I thought about Shana. Qing'er is not an eventful woman, she just accompanies me to talk about other things, plays chess with me under the tree in the courtyard, and relaxes my boredom. Because the marriage contract with Shana was not my intention after all, after a long time, I slowly let go, thinking that it would be good for both of us.

Because of the rebellion of the Pingwuling barbarians, Liu Bei gave me a captain of Changshui, in Liu Bei's army, this kind of official position can lead 5,000 soldiers alone, although it is not as good as the Taishou who I liked very much before and did it very comfortably, but with what Pang Tong said to me before, I am still more sure that Liu Bei will use me in the next battle into Shu, so I didn't say anything, and gladly accepted the order.

Sure enough, a few days later, Liu Bei called me and handed me over the four thousand newly recruited recruits. For training soldiers, I am not good, although Zheng Liang is brave, he can teach a few people martial arts, this is already a thousand-level soldier, how can he be competent.

I told me about my concerns, Liu Bei and Kong Ming laughed, Liu Bei pointed at Kong Ming and said to me, "It seems that your apprentice has not completely graduated from the school!" How about another ride, sir? ”

Kong Ming smiled happily: "Okay, good, good, Song'er, anyway, now Cao Cao is busy dealing with Ma Chao, Dongwu thinks that we are going to attack Cao Cao together, Jingzhou has no major events for the time being, from tomorrow, Mr. will teach you how to train soldiers!" ”

The reason why Eastern Wu abandoned the bone field they carefully plotted against was precisely because Kong Ming wrote to Lu Su and asked him to persuade Sun Quan Jing Wu's soldiers to take advantage of Cao Cao's army to confront Ma Chao at Tongguan at the same time, and Sun Quan, who coveted Xuzhou, did not hesitate to abandon the bone field, and assembled the whole army to Lujiang to prepare to attack Shouchun.

I heard Kong Ming's meaning, because he wanted to turn his back on Ma Chao and Sun Quan, and not attack Cao. Although I knew that this would be the case for a long time, I still couldn't help but want to persuade Liu Bei.

You must know that now Cao Cao's army is in Tongguan, and the Xiliang soldiers are brave and eager to win. In the romance, the two sides confronted each other in Tongguan for a long time, and Xu Huang's smuggling on the west bank of the Yellow River successfully disturbed the military spirit of the Xiliang army, so that Ma Chao and Han Sui could only resist the enemy separately, which made Cao Cao succeed. When I was still in modern times, I had always had doubts about Liu Bei's delay in sending troops. At this time, while Kong Ming was talking about the three families attacking Cao, he planned to find out.

Thinking of this, I saluted Liu Bei and said, "The lord is willing to let Mr. teach me, and Song'er is very grateful." But Song'er has something unclear, and I hope the lord will solve his doubts! ”

"Yo Yo Yo, sir, look, your scholar still needs others to solve his doubts, this is really rare!" Liu Bei replied with a smile: "Song'er, if you don't understand something, just ask, as long as I can help you, I will definitely help you!" Liu Bei said this with a smile on his face, obviously I have always been very unruly in front of him, I have something to ask to teach him, which makes him very happy.

I respectfully said to Liu Bei: "Thank you, lord! What Song'er doesn't know is exactly what my husband just said? ”

"Oh?" Liu Bei asked a little strangely, "What did Kong Ming say?" ”

"It's what my husband just said, now Cao Cao's army and Ma Chao are facing each other in Tongguan, and Sun Quan is gathering troops and wants to besiege Shouchun."

Liu Bei and Kong Ming glanced at each other when they heard this, and they both restrained their smiles, waiting for me to continue.

I then said: "Now that Cao Cao's army is outside Tongguan Pass, and Xiangyang is separated by Han Shui, it is only a lonely city, why didn't our army send troops to Xiangyang to drive Cao's army away from Jingzhou, and then the three joined forces to attack Xudu and rescue Your Majesty?" ”

Liu Bei lowered his head and was silent when he heard this, Kong Ming sighed and said to me: "Song'er, it's not surprising that you have this insight, just in the past few days, not only you, the three generals, Zilong, but even Yun Chang, who is far away in Jiangxia, have sent books to take Xiangyang." ”

"Then why is the lord unwilling to send troops?" I asked Kong Ming.

Kong Ming sighed: "It's easy to send troops, but this soldier can't send them!" Kong Ming saw that I was puzzled, so he asked me, "Song'er, do you know how many people there are in our army now?" ”

I thought about it for a while, and replied honestly: "I don't know the details, but I think there are 100,000 people!" ”

Kong Ming nodded and said to me: "You don't have to hide this from you, when our army was in Jiangxia, the whole army was less than 30,000 people, and when we captured Nanjun and recovered the four counties of Jingnan, there were not many casualties, and the number of soldiers was only 40,000 or 50,000, and the newly recruited soldiers were less than 20,000, but there were already 100,000 people. But there are many people, there are many places to guard, the four counties of Jingnan are newly attached, and Dongwu has been eyeing the tiger, and the last time 15,000 people were transferred to Nanjun, the lord and I have made a lot of determination. So the garrison of the four counties had gone twenty thousand men. Next, the large and small passes in Jiangbei, the port passes, and the small cities on the main roads, scattered the guards, and scattered another 20,000. Jiangxia and Nanjun live across the river, Cao Cao in the west, Sun Quan in the east, and become a pinched attack, so Jiangxia's soldiers also have 20,000. That is to say, now there are only 40,000 soldiers available to the lord, including 15,000 soldiers from the four counties, and 5,000 newly recruited soldiers, with strong combat effectiveness, and only 20,000 soldiers can be transferred by the direct subordinates of the lord plus Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun! ”

Kong Ming paused here when he said this, and then continued: "According to the report of the spies, although the main force of the Cao army is outside Tongguan Pass, Cao Cao has 30,000 troops in Xiangyang City guarded by Cao Ren, and there are no less than 20,000 troops led by Fancheng Manzhong in the north of Xiangyang City, that is to say, even if our army completely believes in Dongwu now, does not leave the garrison in Nanjun, and goes all out to attack Xiangyang, it is still inferior to the military strength of Cao Jun's two cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng!" ”

"But the lord has clearly agreed to attack Cao with Ma Chao and Sun Quan!" I said unwillingly.

"Soldiers, although they are treacherous, they have to do what they can. Eastern Wu hastily attacked Shouchun, and it was difficult for the troops to exceed 50,000, and Cao Cao's troops left in Shouchun were estimated to be no less than 30,000 according to Liang, even if Sun Quan attacked Shouchun City, not to mention Cao Cao's return to the army, even if Xuzhou and Runan sent some reinforcements, Sun Quan would be helpless! Therefore, even if we attack Xiangyang and Sun Quan attacks Shouchun to respond to Ma Chao, then Cao Cao can still order two fortresses to defend to the death, exhausting our army, and when he finishes cleaning up Ma Chao and returns to the army to fight with us, we can only retreat without a fight, and we can't even hold our own territory! ”

At this point, I have nothing to say. Unexpectedly, now our army in the six counties of Jingzhou is actually so limited in strength under the strong momentum.

Kong Ming saw that I was silent, so he said to me seriously: "It is precisely because I knew this that the plan I proposed to the lord at the beginning was based on the capture of Yizhou. Yizhou is dangerous and the people are rich, when Yizhou is taken, and then Hanzhong is taken north, the number of troops used to defend will be less than the total strength, and there are more soldiers available, which is the time to really fight with Cao Thief. The lord and your 4,000 recruits have accounted for most of the recruits in the city, and you are still young and already burdened with heavy responsibilities, so you must learn from me the method of training and using soldiers in the future, and do not let down the importance and trust of the lord and me! ”

I silently shed tears for Ma Chao in my heart, this kid was really played by Liu Bei and my husband. I guess if Liu Bei hadn't written to him saying that he would send troops together, with his strength, even if he had the revenge of killing his father, he would never have dared to go against Cao Cao head-on. However, Kong Ming's words are also reasonable from our standpoint. I knew that Ma Chao would be played, although I was a little sad and couldn't do anything for him, but it was always a long time, so I could only accept it.

In the following days, I learned how to train with Kong Ming, and sometimes Zhang Fei would join when he came back from his patrol, plus Zhao Yun and Chen Dao and others drawn from the four counties of Jingnan, although it was hard, it was not boring, and I learned a lot of things that were very useful to me. When the news of Ma Chao's defeat on the front line of Tongguan came, it was the sixteenth year of Jian'an, October of 211 AD, and at this time, a special guest came to the city of Nanjun, his name was Fazheng.