Without giving an explanation, the Jiangdong Qin Pass unilaterally terminated the deal with Wei Xu and placed scouts in the border area to restrict the crossing of personnel from both sides.

This caught Wei Xu off guard, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, half a month later, an order came from the imperial court, ordering him to lead his headquarters back to Changsha, and the officers and soldiers recruited locally were handed over to the county lieutenants to take over for local defense; and transferred the captain Fan Chou to lead an army of 20,000 to the south to exterminate Liu Bei.

In order to cooperate with Fan Chou, Li Ru sent the captain Hu Feng as the supervisor of the army, and went to Wuling County to supervise the battle, and ordered Zhonglang to speed up the march of Chang Xuan.

Wei Xu weighed the pros and cons, and finally dispelled the idea of taking refuge in Jiangdong Qinguan and Jingnan Liu Bei, obediently made the handover, and led the headquarters to return to Changsha; By this time, his headquarters had been reduced to 12,000 men, 8,000 fewer than when he set out from Changsha.

What made him even more uncomfortable was that without Liu Bei's patronage and the profits from trading with Qin Guan, he could not maintain a huge expenditure, many officers and soldiers had lost their loyalty to Wei Xu, and the officers and soldiers whose families had moved to Yuzhang County and Luling County fled in large numbers.

Wei Xu returned in embarrassment, and the number of officers and soldiers was so small that Lu Bu was greatly annoyed; You must know that the benefits that Wei Xu obtained in Guiyang County will definitely not be missing Lu Bu's share; So much so that he was very dissatisfied with Li Ru and Dong Zhuo, and felt that transferring him and Wei Xu back to Changsha was a distrust of them.

At this time, Jiangdong Qinguan successively increased troops to Yuzhang County and Luling County, and Lu Bu felt that the opportunity was coming, and applied for stationing abroad again, but was rejected by Li Ru, and he was even more annoyed in his heart.

Li Ru had reached an agreement with Jiangdong, knowing that Qin Guan was not aimed at the imperial court, so he naturally would not easily let Lu Bu and others leave Changsha, and if there was a change, it would be even more difficult to exterminate Liu Bei.

Jiangdong interrupted trade, and Liu Bei's army was very large, especially food, and there was a serious shortage.

Moreover, Jiangdong Ji Ling's army approached Qujiang County, Guiyang County, which would cut off his connection with Sun Quan's forces, making Liu Bei feel uneasy.

And Dong Zhuo intensified his attack on the three counties of Jingnan, which made Liu Bei feel exhausted.

Zhonglang General Chang Xuan was born as a bandit, although he is not very accustomed to the southern climate, but he is good at fighting in the mountains; Now the captain Hu Feng has come to be the supervisor, so that he does not dare to be lazy and preserve his strength; Although Hu Feng's level is not low, he is Li Dao's nephew, from Liangzhou, and is Dong Zhuo's descendant, Chang Feng will never dare to offend.

Chang Feng is very cunning, the large army in the front feint, sent a small force through the mountain road to the rear of Liu Pan, continuous sneak attack, even the Nanban is not an opponent, Liu Pan lost the general, retreated, Wuling County immediately did not protect.

If Wuling County is lost, Liu Bei's forces will also be surrounded, which makes Liu Bei anxious. However, Wuling County and Lingling County were separated by Xuefeng Mountain, and the army was insurmountable and unable to support.

And the captain Fan Chou is also a veteran of many years of war, leading an army of 20,000 to the south, first to incorporate the 5,000 local officers and soldiers left by Wei Xu, which made him very happy.

After familiarizing himself with the situation, Fan Chou announced the method of exchanging the land at the first level, and recruited 5,000 locals to join the army, relying on the land to motivate them to fight, and this method was indeed effective.

10,000 locals easily occupied Leiyang County and Ben County, and approached Guiyang County to govern Chenxian County.

The locals had almost run away, and Fan Chou announced that all the farmland of those who had fled had been confiscated by the government, and that he had only given a small amount of arable land to reward the local officers and soldiers, and to fulfill his promise, which boosted the morale of the local soldiers.

Fan Chou was also very happy that he had obtained both military exploits and wealth, and that he could stimulate the morale of these local officers and soldiers, so he recruited 2,000 officers and soldiers from among the local people.

The number of officers and men was increasing and the morale was high, and Fan Chou took advantage of the victory to march.

Unexpectedly, Wei Xu's greedy work ended up being cheaper than Fan Chou.

Liu Bei's arrangement of Guiyang County's Taishou Xu Sheng only had less than 10,000 officers and soldiers, how to resist? had to ask Liu Bei for help.

At this time, the two counties of Jiaozhou also cut off the connection with Jingzhou, strengthened the border defense, and made Liu Bei feel that the mountains and rivers were exhausted; It was like an invisible rope around his neck, so tight that he couldn't breathe.

Liu Bei now has no strategists around him except Jian Yong.

Lingling County Confucian Liu Ba, that is, Gao Shun ordered Zhao Yun to look for but did not find the person, has lived in Lingling County for many years, has a very great influence in the local area, Liu Bei personally visited several times, hoping to get Liu Ba's help, but Liu Ba refused.

In Liu Ba's view, the unification of the world and the end of the troubled times are the trend of the times, and the rebellion is nothing more than to increase the pain of the people, and a few more ambitious princes will be destroyed sooner or later, and it will be useless, and the court has no need to rescue, and it is better to stay away from speculators like Liu Bei.

Liu Bei had no choice but to discuss countermeasures with Jian Yong.

At present, the only banners he can play are Uncle Liu Huang and his benevolent name; In the end, it was Jian Yong who had an idea and blurted out: "Lord, the edict of the cloth!" ”

"Kenhe, what did you say?" Liu Bei didn't understand.

Jian Yong suppressed his excitement, sorted out his thoughts, and said, "My lord, we can issue His Majesty's edict and call on the heroes of the world to come to King Qin." ”

Liu Bei smiled bitterly: "We don't have an edict." ”

Jian Yong said: "Isn't it easy to make one temporarily?" ”

Liu Bei understood what Jian Yong meant, and now he had no better way but to let Jian Yong operate in his name.

In his opinion, the world has been decided, only a few counties in Jingnan have not been leveled, how can there be people loyal to Han in the world? He's just using it to raise his profile.

Sure enough, as Liu Bei thought, even if he issued the edict of the clothes belt, it did not receive actual results.

However, the negative effect is not small, Dong Zhuo learned that Liu Bei issued an edict of clothes and belts, calling on the king of the world, he was furious, and immediately ordered people to strictly guard His Majesty the emperor, reduce the number of maids, reduce expenses, and cut down several important ministers one after another to set an example.

At the same time, he sent Wei Xu Cong to attack Lingling County and increase the attack on Liu Bei, and he must not stay with such ambitious people.

The ministers of the court hated Liu Bei even more, His Majesty and the courtiers themselves were living in a difficult situation and were in a bad situation, and he also added to the fire, so that Dong Zhuo had an excuse to kill the courtiers, and he was simply looking for trouble; Someone even wrote to Liu Bei, asking him to return to the court as soon as possible, and never do anything wrong.

At the same time, these ministers also saw the general trend of the world clearly through the matter of the edict, and continued to be loyal to the Han is foolish and loyal, but to fulfill their personal beliefs and missions.

Because of the matter of the edict, His Majesty was in a predicament, so many courtiers suffered, and did not receive any positive effect, so that Liu Bei blamed himself, so that his reputation was greatly hit, under the propaganda of Li Ru, Liu Bei was regarded as a careerist by the people of the world.

At this point, many people no longer hate Dong Zhuo, the initiator, but hate Liu Bei, who made small moves, went against the general trend, the source of chaos in the world.

Of course, there are also those who don't believe in evil, for example, Lu Bu is very unhappy and in a bad mood, and he is seen in the eyes and remembered by Wang Yun who has a heart, and according to his plan, he draws Lu Bu step by step, and hopes that he will be called the key link in his strategy.

Lu Bu cooperated strongly with Wang Yun's wooing, and the two sides had a very tacit understanding.

Now that Lu Bu has completely lost confidence in Dong Zhuo, this kind of life is really not as comfortable as when he was in the state, and his fame and fortune are all empty.

If he can kill Dong Zhuo, he will make him Lu Bu famous all over the world, not for the emperor, for his own reputation, he must also cooperate well with Wang Yun.