When I met Zheng Liang, I had just finished lunch. Seeing him look like a "regular army", I can't help but sigh that being a pioneer under me and being a bodyguard for Liu Bei are completely two different things, and the previous bravery is slightly rough, I feel that he is now a bit like a gentleman.

I joked with him about this, he touched the back of his head embarrassedly, and said to me: "It's not for the lord to be a guard, it's a guard, and the place where you stay during the war is safer than anyone else. ”

I shook my head lightly with a smile and said to him, "Don't be dissatisfied, you kid, I don't know how many people you envy in your current position?" General Zhao came out of this position at the beginning, and he said that it may not be that the lord is in danger, and it will be your turn to show his might! ”

Zheng Liang sighed: "That was when there were few belongings in the past, and now the lord has Jingyi and two states, and there are often 100,000 soldiers and 100 generals around him, all of them are eager to go crazy and make contributions to him, how can there be a chance for me?" ”

Hearing what he had to say, my heart moved. I waved my hand for everyone else to go down first, and when there were only the two of us left, I beckoned to him and motioned for him to come over.

Zheng Liang was a little confused by my move, but he quickly reacted, ran over to me, squatted next to me and asked, "My lord, do you have a good plan again?" ”

When Zheng Liang was not yet asked by Liu Bei to be the leader of the guards, every time I suddenly had a good idea about fighting, I beckoned him to come over as I did just now. Although Zheng Liang had been away from me for a while, he knew the meaning of the song when he heard the strings, and when he saw me greet him like this, he came over like a puppy seeing a bone.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, although I knew that it was unfair for him to do this, because as long as I didn't let him do things for me, he could return to Shu safely, and he would have a good future in the future. But for me, I had to do it better. Not only will it work better than I do, but I can also get out of it and do something that I don't feel comfortable doing for others.

So after a moment of hesitation, I still smiled at Zheng Liang, and instead of telling him what I wanted him to do, I asked him why he came here first.

In fact, if Liu Bei's personal escort came to Xiangyang from Hanzhong so far, it would definitely not be just Liu Bei who was afraid that I would think of Zheng Liang's subordinate, so it was as simple as letting him come to see me. Combined with the current confrontation between our army and Cao Jun, I can still guess a little bit about the purpose of Zheng Liang's trip, but I still want to hear him take the initiative to say it to me.

Zheng Liang didn't talk to me either, he first took a bag of tips from the small satchel he carried diagonally on his body, and said to me: "It's not because the lord is very happy to hear that General Guan has conquered Xiangyang, so I came to the labor army with what I rewarded him and conveyed the new military order to him." ”

"And what is this?" I asked Zheng Liang with a bag that looked like my husband's proprietary bag.

Zheng Liang said a little angrily: "My lord, you don't know, I heard that Kong Ming's military division said that General Guan seems to be very dissatisfied with your unwillingness to send troops to help the war, and mentioned in the document to the lord that in order to capture Fancheng as soon as possible, I hope that the lord will send you an order, so that you can hand over the command of all the armies in your hands to him and return to Wuling honestly to be your taishou." ”

I smiled helplessly, General Guan has been dissatisfied with me for a long time, I know, otherwise Guan Ping would not have brought five hundred elite cavalry to me to "transfer troops" a few days ago, I asked Zheng Liang with an indifferent look: "So the lord sent a military order to me?" Show me. ”

Zheng Liang shook his head and said: "How could the lord do such a thing to you, after all, you still have the great merit to help him take Xichuan there, not to mention the face of the military division of Kong Ming, so the lord didn't have much before leaving, but the military advisor gave me this trick in private, and asked me to come here to persuade you not to fight too much with General Guan in everything, everything must be the overall situation." ”

I opened the bag and took out the text message inside, and sure enough, the content in it was similar to what Zheng Liang said, it couldn't be some words of explanation and persuasion, and there was nothing superfluous to tell me. It seems that even if he is as calculating as Kong Ming, in the face of our army's successive victories, he did not see that Dongwu, the tiger who had been pretending to be asleep, was about to pounce soon!

Thinking of this, I suddenly realized something, and I said to Zheng Liang: "Just now you said that my husband instructed you in private, but shouldn't he be assisting the three generals in Chengdu now?" How did he get to Hanzhong? ”

Zheng Liang said: "It's not that the three generals are itchy to listen to the battle situation on the front line in Chengdu, so they have to write a letter to ask the lord to let him also fight against the Cao army, and the lord also wants Kong Ming's military division, so he asked General Zhao and Fa Zheng to replace him and Kong Ming's military division." ”

At this time, I remembered the fact that Liu Feng and Meng Da captured the Shangyong counties in history, so I asked Zheng Liang about the situation on Shangyong's side. Zheng Liang told me that Liu Bei did order Meng Da to attack Fangling from the north of the garrison, and after he captured Fangling, he also divided an army from Hanzhong to Liu Feng to take Meng Da from the direction of Hanzhong to attack Shangyong, just because now our army and Cao Jun have not yet decided the victory in Hanzhong, so Shangyong's Cao army guards are still holding on to wait for help, and he is with Liu Feng from Hanzhong to the east, and then Shangyong will separate from Fangling that has been captured by our army to Xiangyang, otherwise if it is bypassed from Shudi, it will not necessarily take long to get here.

Hearing him say this, I asked him if he had not yet arrived at the front of Guan Yu's army, and Zheng Liang said that he would come to see me as soon as he arrived in Xiangyang, and wait until he saw me to see my attitude towards the current war before crossing the river to go to the front line of Fancheng.

I can understand the meaning of Zheng Liang's words, and it is obvious that if I had not led my army to the front line in Fancheng, he might have to play the role of a supervisor, and after showing me Kong Ming's tips, he urged me to lead my troops to Fancheng with him.

I said to him: "A few days ago, General Guan Ping had already taken 7,000 men from me to the front, and as for the remaining 3,000 men, it was still a little insufficient to garrison such a large city in Xiangyang, not to mention that I still had two very urgent things to do. ”

As soon as Zheng Liang heard me say this, he suddenly remembered the mysterious energy that I had just retreated from the crowd and greeted him, he stood up all of a sudden, took a few steps back in disbelief, and asked me with surprise in his tone: "Do you want to take only a few hundred people to a surprise attack alone like you did in Wuling and Changsha before!" ”

After speaking, without waiting for me to answer, he guessed by himself: "Are you going to surprise the forbidden troops?" Can't let him get to Fancheng? Wrong! You-don't want to go directly to Xuchang and rescue the Son of Heaven! ”

I felt like I was going crazy, I also stood up with my hands on my hips, and said to Zheng Liang in a bit of anger: "Big brother, there are 20,000 reinforcements from Runan, not to mention Xuchang, and the troops left behind must have at least 10,000 or 20,000 people, not to mention, just the mountain-high city wall that Cao Cao has built and strengthened over the years, do you think you can capture it with just this little person in my hand?" ”

Zheng Liang scratched his head a little embarrassed, and when he heard that the "business" I was about to do was not as big as he thought, he said with some frustration: "At the beginning in Changsha, didn't we fight the Eastern Wu and burn down their camp?" ”

I don't bother to entangle with Zheng Liang on this issue, after all, the success of the sneak attack on the Wu army in the mountains and forests outside Changsha City was entirely because the Eastern Wu put all his thoughts on Changsha City, and a large part of the reason why I took Zheng Liang to attack the Wu army's camp was still unprepared and psychological warfare, and although the results of that battle were already very big for my very small team, but for the Wu army, in addition to making them a little angry, it actually didn't cause much loss. This is completely incomparable with stupidly taking hundreds of people to ambush Yu Ban and even to attack a big city like Xuchang.

I said directly to Zheng Liang: Don't talk nonsense with me, do you know what the new military order given by the lord to General Guan is? ”

Zheng Liang was a little stupid, but he still told me: "In order to force Cao Cao to withdraw from Hanzhong as soon as possible, the new military order given by the lord to General Guan is to break the ban and capture Fancheng, and when Cao Cao rescues him from Hanzhong, he will abandon Fancheng and withdraw to Xiangyang to defend it." ”

"Then what if General Guan captures Fancheng, Cao Cao still doesn't withdraw his troops from Hanzhong?" Although Zheng Liang said the same thing as I was worried about, I still asked unwillingly.

Zheng Liang told me: "The lord said that if Cao Cao still doesn't retreat in this way, let General Guan lead the army to Xuchang and rescue the Son of Heaven directly!" ”