"Fifty ???"

Ma Yan's expression was as frantic as if I wanted him to lay eggs.

And I spread my hands helplessly: "I only have a total of 100 people under me to share half of you, are you too little?" ”

"You, you—" Ma Tan was so angry that he stammered a little, and he said to me with a look of anger and depravity, "What is the difference between using fifty men to engage the opponent's forward and sending them to death?" ”

"Then with 5,000 men out of the city and 100,000 enemies, are you sure you will come back alive?" I'm not welcome, using his previous wild words to block him here.

"I'm sure I'll win! I would like to make a military order! Invincible to military law! Ma Tan stood up suddenly, and his eyes looked like they were about to be destroyed.

But the more he did this, the more I couldn't let him go, I smiled and shook my head and said to him: "If you are defeated, I will be finished, and where can I have the ability to engage in military law for you." ”

"Alas! The shaft is not enough and conspiracy! Ma Tan was depressed, and he no longer cared about etiquette, and went by himself.

I looked at his distant back and smiled slightly, I instructed a manservant next to me to find Zheng Liang and Jiang Xiaoyu, the soldiers can only rely on the generals, in the process of waiting, I slowly conceived in my heart that I just had a prototype plan, the last time I calculated Shana, it was because of the first time I went into battle Many things were not well considered, if it wasn't for Zheng Liang at that time, I'm afraid I would have been a prisoner of the barbarians now.

After Zheng Liang and Jiang Xiaoyu arrived, the two of them had completely different expressions.

Needless to say, the excitement on his face was all in the air, compared to the panicked others in the city, the 100,000 barbarians didn't seem to be an undefeatable monster at all, but it was completely a big gift from the other party, just like the military merit given to him by the other party. As for Jiang Xiaoyu, his expression was much calmer, and he didn't look excited or afraid, he didn't care about it. I even suspect that he was willing to join the army and follow me at the beginning, not because he liked the military career much, made more military achievements, and got ahead, but compared with following me, he hated his son to inherit his father's business and be a father-in-law.

I think if I had adopted Ma Tan's "middle plan" before, Zheng Liang would have been very willing to follow Ma Tan, of course, with Ma Tan's current reputation, it is difficult to say whether Zheng Liang would listen to him. In the long history, countless tragic examples have taught me that when the enemy is strong and we are weak, being too belligerent will only make me die faster, while the few successful examples tell me that in the case of a huge disparity with local strength, being able to endure and stand up is the king.

Of course, according to Ma Tan's "next plan" to forbear, Guang Ting is too cowardly, and he will also be despised by countless people, including Zheng Liang, who was already quite convinced of me before.

In order not to lose Zheng Liang's convincing of me, and to let my future Ma join the army be willing to be my staff member and give me ideas, I decided to open up.

And the first step is to personally take someone to Gong Zhi and tell him that I want to escape!

Yes, you read that right, with the barbarian army overwhelming the border, the first step in the clever plan I came up with was to flee the county.

When Gong Zhi heard that I was leaving, his eyes almost didn't come out of his sockets. As a county guard, when the enemy soldiers invaded the territory, he actually decided to abandon the city and flee, and there were still conditions for abandoning the city and fleeing, I told Gong Zhi that for my safety, in addition to my 100-man personal guard, he would also send 500 soldiers to escort me to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

He listened to me say to him in disbelief: "Even if the river surge will affect the reinforcements crossing the river, it should be no problem for me to go back to Nanjun alone, no matter how brave the Wuxi barbarians are, they will never chase me to Nanjun, not to mention the surging river, how can their little bamboo row be able to force it to cross?" At that time, I don't have to go back to Nanjun, I just need my hundreds of people to wait along the river on the north bank, and if the barbarian soldiers dare to force the crossing, I just need to wait on the north bank to bury their corpses! ”

It took Gong Zhi a long time to recover from the shock, and he was helpless no less than Ma Yan, who was teased by me before, and he said to me with a sad face: "You are hiding on the north bank of the river and sit back and relax, but what about the people of Wuling County?" If you lose Wuling City and the people of the whole county suffer, are you not afraid that the lord will condemn you? ”

I walked up to him, put my arm around his shoulders affectionately, and said to him, "Master Gong, you're a layman, aren't you?" The barbarian king wants to arrest me as a son-in-law, and it's not you? In other words, it wasn't because he wanted to break Wuling City and catch me by the way, but because I was in Wuling City, he went straight to the county seat. When the time comes, when I leave the city, I will make the pomp and circumstance more obvious, so that the people of the county will know that I have fled to Nanjun for fear of the barbarian king. When the barbarian king comes and sees me running away, he can't catch up with me, and he has face, and when the time comes, you can send some gifts to his military tent and send them to talk to him, and he will almost certainly retire by then! ”

Gong Zhi listened to my words, thought about it for a while, and said to me with a sigh: "Lord Taishou is reasonable!" It's just that this won't be good for your reputation in the future! The lord may also be to blame when he returns. ”

I said in my heart, Gong Zhi, you don't pretend to be here with me, in fact, you would have liked Liu Bei to remove me, and you still sit in this position of being too guarded.

But after all, I still have to transfer 500 people from him, and I can't tell the truth at this time and scold him for fake mercy, so I have to compliment him and say: "In fact, Song'er has been in office for so long, and he has already seen that he is not capable of being able to guard any county, and I do this for the sake of the people of a county, if the lord is to blame, this Wuling County will depend on you at that time!" ”

Gong Zhi hurriedly humbled and said that some lords and others would know that after this limelight passed, they would definitely go to Nanjun to welcome me back to be the Taishou.

After he finished speaking, he would immediately take me to the barracks to order troops, and said that he would definitely choose a battalion of the most elite soldiers to escort me back to Nanjun, and I also promised that once I returned to Nanjun, if the barbarians still surrounded Wuling City and did not retreat, they would die to admonish Kong Ming's military division and let him send troops to relieve the siege as soon as possible.

After the power of the five hundred soldiers was in hand, I almost immediately split the five hundred into ten teams and put them into the ten ten-person teams before me, so it seems a bit reversed, so let's put it this way, that is, I promoted the previous ten captains of the ten-person team, including Zheng Liang, to the captain of the sixty-person team, and all the previous generals and colonels of the five hundred soldiers were left to Gong Zhi for him to make other arrangements.

Gong Zhi was not embarrassed by this matter except for some curiosity, I knew that this matter was very simple for him, these five hundred people should be a parting gift to me, as for the original army structure, he only needed to use the generals I left for him as the basis, and recruit another five hundred people to rebuild.

For him, it's just a matter of spending a little more money.

But for me, the qualitative leap achieved by having a hundred sergeants in command compared with having six hundred sergeants in command, even if the war has not yet begun, has already been manifested on the march by the scale of the contingent.

There are two ways to go from the county seat to Nanjun, one is to go north out of Gong'an Port and go ashore at Jiangjin Port, and the other is to go west to Dongting Port, enter the Yangtze River through Dongting Lake, and go to Wulin Port to Jiangling. Compared with these two roads, there is no doubt that the north is closer to the Gong'an Port, and my original plan was to go to the Gong'an Port first and then look at the situation to decide on the next move.

But just when I led the army out of the city, Tanma suddenly came to report in a hurry, saying that the barbarian king was afraid that I would flee from Wuling County, and had ordered Shamoke to lead the vanguard army to Wuling day and night.

However, when Shamoke arrived outside Taoyuan County, he led the army to station, and no longer ventured, and seemed to wait for the follow-up troops to arrive before continuing to march towards the county seat.

When I heard this, I decided not to go north to Gong'an Port first, and I took my 600 men west to Dongting Port on the grounds that it was no longer safe to go north.

The Taishou who fled from the enemy would inevitably be pointed at by the people in the city, and I didn't care so much at this time, but just urged the troops to advance to Dongting Port as soon as possible. Dongting Port is located in the west of a county called Hanshou, Guan Erye was once named Hanshou Pavilion Marquis, I don't know what it has to do with this Hanshou County, from the county town to Dongting Port along the way belongs to the remnants of Xuefeng Mountain, hills and valleys, mountains and forests, if it is an ambush, it can be said that there are many better locations, but I don't know if Shamoke can go straight through the county seat of Wuling County in order not to let me escape, and go deep into such a dangerous place to chase me.