Chapter 301: Liu Bei's counterattack
When people are in a desperate situation, they behave differently, some are depressed, waiting for the last moment of their lives, some are hysterical, doing the craziest thing in their lives, and some are calm and calm, knowing that they are invincible and have to fight to the death.
Liu Bei belongs to the third party, knowing that the general trend has gone, he still refuses to admit defeat, and after Guiyang will raise his health for a period of time, he gathered 30,000 horses and rushed to Changsha, putting on a posture of being a trapped beast. On the way to Changsha, Liu Bei met Zhang Fei's father and son, and also knew the bad news from Zhang Fei's mouth that Changsha had just been lost. However, Liu Bei did not take Zhang Fei's suggestion to retreat to Guiyang, but took Zhang Fei as the vanguard, wanting to recapture Changsha while the Han army was not gaining a firm foothold.
Hearing that Liu Bei was in person, Zhao Yun did not dare to slack off, and on the one hand, he ordered someone to quickly report the matter to Liu Xie, who was taking Zhuge Liang to show up in Xiangyang, and on the other hand, he strengthened the city defense and prepared to hold on.
If you want to talk about Liu Bei's enemies, there are many. This is normal, if anyone has no enemies to worry about in this life, then there is no point in living in this life. In this Changsha city, Xu Shu had an enmity with Liu Bei. It's not a personal vendetta, I think that since Xu Shu debuted, he has repeatedly suffered losses in the hands of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, and it is impossible to say that Xu Shu does not hate Liu Bei.
Fortunately, Xu Shu is not a reckless man who ignores it when his mind is hot, and in the face of Liu Bei's personal arrival, he still remains calm and discusses with Zhao Yun how to defend the city. Although it is not difficult to solve Liu Bei alone with the current strength in Changsha City, the battle of Chibi, Liu Bei's main force is almost lost, at this time Liu Bei's 30,000 people, most of them were only in charge of Tuntian soldiers in the past, and they have never been on the battlefield, and the time they hold a hoe in their hands is far longer than the time they hold a weapon.
And in addition to the tuntian soldiers, the rest are those barbarian mercenaries. However, Liu Bei did not spend any money to requisition these barbarians this time, Liu Bei scared those barbarians, saying that Liu Xie, the son of the Han Dynasty, would definitely settle accounts with these barbarians who "aided and abused" after the war. And those barbarians were also scared of being killed by the Han army from Yizhou before, so they believed Liu Bei's words. In order to save their lives, they had to give everything they could to help Liu Bei defeat the Han army.
A grasshopper on a rope will be unlucky together.
Zhao Yun didn't take those barbarians seriously, the biggest advantage of the barbarians was that they were familiar with jungle warfare, and they used the familiar environment to surprise the sneak attack, but since Yan Yan appeared with the Yizhou army, the advantage of the barbarians was negated. You are familiar with it, there are also familiar people on the side of the Han army, and compared to the poorly equipped barbarians, the barbarians from the Southern Barbarian Bashu are more than one grade higher.
Arrange troops, the barbarians are not used to it, and they don't like it. But now if you want to attack Changsha City, you must use it if you don't like it or not.
Taking advantage of the gap in making the ladder, Liu Bei took Zhang Fei to the outside of Changsha City to call the battle, wanting to meet Zhao Yun, who had not been seen for many days. For Zhao Yun, Liu Bei values it very much. It's a pity that Liu Xie was asked to cut off Hu halfway, otherwise there would be one more general under his command who can stand alone.
In fact, this is Liu Bei thinking too much, as far as his entrepreneurial path is concerned, Zhao Yun will not have any chance to show it even if he follows him. Think about Zhao Yun in history, he has been a captain of the guards all his life, and he has almost no chance to lead the troops alone. When Liu Bei was young, he had to take care of Guan Zhang first, and when he finally made his fortune, he had to take care of those who had just descended. There are no five tiger generals in the official history, Liu Bei got Hanzhong and proclaimed himself the queen of Hanzhong, and the four generals on the left and right were sealed, Guan Zhang is an old man who has been following him, accounting for two places, Huang Zhong is the representative of Jingxiang's generals, and he must also take care of it, and after Ma Chao is the general, he can't say that he can't say that he is not a general, and in the end he can only wronged Zhao Yun and did what kind of protector.
Zhao Yun's following of Liu Xie can be said to be a turning point in his life, Liu Xie is the Son of Heaven and has the power to confer official titles, and Lu Bu did not surrender at that time, Liu Xie needs a general who can compete with Lu Bu by force. There is one Huang Zhong who is not safe, but with one more Zhao Yun, Liu Xie is not afraid of Lu Bu's forced persecution.
And if you want to talk about Zhao Yun's ability to lead troops, to be honest, it was really not good at the beginning. Of course, this can't be blamed on him, think about his experience, no one has taught him the art of war at all, although Tong Yuan is respected as a spearman, but at best he is a hero with a super high force value, and the art of war is probably not what the old man Tong is good at.
After Zhao Yun defected to Gongsun Zhan, he was only the first uncle of Bai Ma Yizhong, and he led a few hundred people at most, so that he could lead thousands of troops and horses at once, which was a killing.
If Zhao Yun follows Liu Bei, I'm afraid that he will end up being a high-level bodyguard. But he followed Liu Xie, and Liu Xie, out of love for Zhao Yun's martial arts and character, was also very concerned about Zhao Yun's acquired cultivation. If you don't know how to arrange troops, you can learn it, and if you don't know how to play the art of war, you can learn it.
Why did Liu Xie let Sima Yi serve as the military advisor of the Han Anjun, in order to provide Zhao Yun with a teacher who could be consulted at any time. And Sima Yi also appreciates Zhao Yun's studiousness, as long as Zhao Yun asks, he also knows everything and says everything. This time, Liu Xie transferred Sima Yi from the Han An Army, firstly, to use Sima Yi to deal with Zhuge Liang, and secondly, to test the results of Zhao Yun's studies over the years, and so far, Zhao Yun's performance has satisfied Liu Xie.
"Zilong, would you like to go down to the city?" Outside the city, Liu Bei shouted to Zhao Yun at the head of the city.
Zhao Yun frowned when he heard this, and was about to open his mouth to refuse, when he heard Xu Shu on the side speak: "Zilong, at this time, Liu Bei opened his mouth to ask you to go down to the city for a while, the purpose is nothing more than two, one is to see if you can surrender, and the other is to take the opportunity to divide the trust between you and the saint." If you go down to the city to meet him, I guess he will do something else when you get back to the city. ”
Zhao Yun was skeptical, but seeing Xu Shu's determined face, he nodded and went down to the city, just at this time, the defense in Changsha City was still a little unfinished, and he could buy a little time when he went out of the city to meet Liu Bei.
"Liu Yuanjun is okay?" Zhao Yun sat on his horse and saluted Liu Bei, who was more than twenty steps away.
"I have Lao Zilong to worry about, I don't want to say goodbye back then, and today you and I meet on the battlefield." Liu Bei replied with a salute, and said to Zhao Yun with emotion.
"Liu Yuanjun, now Zhao Yunnai is a general of the imperial court, and you are obsessed with being an enemy of the imperial court, so it is not appropriate to come to reminisce at this time."
"Huh...... Why is Zilong so ruthless. I also know that you are not what you used to be now, but if it wasn't for the Holy Lord's intervention, I am afraid that you would be one of my henchmen today. Liu Bei was not annoyed at all, and said with a smile.
"If Liu Yuanjun just wants to say this to Zhao Yun, then please forgive Zhao Yun for not accompanying him."
"Zilong is slow, Liu is looking for you today just for one thing, and I hope Zilong can answer me honestly." Seeing this, Liu Bei hurriedly got down to business.
"Envoy, please speak."
"If there was no saint back then, would Zilong be willing to revive the Han family with me?"
“…… Liu Yuanjun, although this world is the world surnamed Liu, this Liu is not the other Liu. Replace Jun with one heart, even if Zhao Yun is confused for a while, he will wake up in the future. ”
“…… In this way, Liu knew. Thank you Zilong for helping me out. Liu Bei nodded, saluted Zhao Yun with a fist, and turned the horse away. Seeing this, Zhao Yun also returned the salute and prepared to return to the city. But just as Zhao Yun turned around and was about to urge the horse back to the city, Liu Bei, who had left first, suddenly turned around and shouted at Zhao Yun loudly: "Zilong......"
As soon as Zhao Yun turned around and wanted to ask, he heard Liu Bei continue to shout: "Everything is left to you." After speaking, he didn't wait for Zhao Yun to react, and urged the horse to leave.
What's up to you? Zhao Yun was a little puzzled, and when he returned to Changsha City, he saw that Xu Shu had been waiting for a long time, "Zilong, as I expected, then Liu Bei wants to see you with bad intentions." ”
"Yuan Zhi, how can you see it?" Zhao Yun asked puzzled.
"Zilong, you are really sincere. Think about it carefully, Liu Bei suddenly shouted when he was leaving, what did you say to you? Seeing this, Xu Shu reminded Zhao Yundao.
“…… He said I'll leave everything to you...... What's wrong? ”
"yes, what's up to you? What did he ask you for? ”
"Where do I know where to go?"
"That's right, you don't know, I don't know, I'm afraid Liu Bei's purpose is to make you and me suspicious. You are a general in the army, but you meet with the enemy thief chief, and when you leave, the thief chief also says that everything is left to you, if you change people, will you suspect that you have a private agreement with the thief chief? ”
"Hey~ Xu Yuanzhi, you're not kind, didn't you ask me to see Liu Bei?" After Zhao Yun reacted, he accused Xu Shudao dissatisfiedly.
"Zilong, of course I know about this, and I believe that you won't have any agreement with that Liu Bei in private, but Liu Bei didn't know that you listened to my persuasion to go to see him, and I didn't know that the discordant plan he wanted to make had been discovered by us. If I'm not mistaken, you'll receive a letter from him in the next two days, and there will be many signs of alteration on it. Xu Shu said to Zhao Yun with a determined face.
Zhao Yun will be suspicious of this, he has been with Sima Yi for a long time, and he is a little immune to those whimsical ideas. Although Xu Shu is Sima Yi's classmate, in Zhao Yun's eyes, Xu Shu is not as good as Sima Yi. After all, in the process of dealing with Liu Bei, Sima Yi has never suffered losses, and Xu Shu has suffered several losses in succession.
But since Xu Shu is so sure, Zhao Yun will not splash Xu Shu with cold water. Anyway, time can prove everything, Xu Shu also said that Liu Bei will send someone to deliver the letter, which is a matter of the next two days, just wait.
Liu Beijun outside the city was not in a hurry to attack the city, and Xu Shu also told Zhao Yun with great certainty that he did not need to worry about the defense of Changsha in the past few days, at least until Liu Bei's discordant plan did not completely fail, he would not be in a hurry to attack the city.
Liu Bei was not in a hurry to attack the city, and Zhao Yun naturally would not be in a hurry to kill Liu Bei. He had already ordered someone to fly the pigeon to pass on the message to Liu Xie, the son of heaven in Xiangyang, and only waited for Liu Xie's reply to decide on the next move. As Liu Xie's confidant general, Zhao Yun was very aware of Liu Xie's dissatisfaction with Liu Bei. The Han clan is considered a family, but this "family" always wants to occupy their own family property, and no one will feel comfortable in this matter.
Although Liu Bei's surname is Liu, he is no longer a relative of the Han family. Now it is Liu Zhang who is the head of the court, and Liu Zhang has honestly accepted his fate since he was taken back by Liu Xie, and he no longer dared to have any thoughts that he should not have. Liu Xie saw that he was obedient, just in time for Liu Hong to report his illness, so he asked Liu Zhang to overcome this shortage. And with Liu Xie's hint, Liu Zhang, a spineless person, dared to resist, and very neatly crossed Liu Bei's name from the family tree.
Losing the identity of the Han clan didn't have much impact on Liu Bei. Now that the Han family is orthodox and prosperous, the attraction of his side branch has been greatly reduced. Who would give up the opportunity to hug the orthodox thigh and rush up to hug him Liu Bei's thigh?
The Han family is orthodox, and Liu Bei has no chance to have it in his life. But he has soldiers in his hands and a group of loyal followers, so it is not difficult to occupy Jingnan and take Jiaozhou to be a local emperor in a corner of peace. But Liu Xie will not sit idly by and watch him divide one side, and there will be a battle between the two sides, and judging from the current situation, it is not good for Liu Bei.
Chibi lost, the elite in Liu Bei's hands was seven or eight, and the remaining ones who could still be used to fight against the Han army that came by victory were far from enough. It is unrealistic to expect an ally Sun Quan, although Sun Quan's loss is a little smaller than Liu Bei's, but it is still a big injury, and now Sun Quan is a mud bodhisattva who crosses the river and is difficult to protect himself, not to mention Sun Quan's personality, how can he have the spirit of sacrificing himself. If it weren't for the fact that the imperial army was also ready to clean him up, he would still do something that fell into the ground.
Fortunately, Liu Xie didn't plan to make any discord against Sun Liu, Sun Liu's main force had already finished playing, and with the strength in Liu Xie's hands at this time, there was no problem at all with flat pushing, so why bother to fight wits and courage with Sun Quan.
Liu Xie thought so and did so. After "forcing down" Zhuge Liang, Liu Xie issued an order for a general attack on the whole army, in addition to Sima Yi staying by his side to listen to the use, Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, and Jia Xu have rushed to each army to act as the mastermind, Lu Xun, Tai Shici and other sailors have not been idle these days, and have been using warships to transport troops to the south bank, Ma Chao, Pang De, Zhang Liao and other generals have successively crossed the river and began to attack the city in different directions. And Sun Quan not only has pressure from the land, but also from the sea, his brother Sun Ce is leading the naval army to attack Fuchun with his close friend Zhou Yu, once Fuchun is taken, the next is Wu County, and as soon as Wu County is lost, Sun Quan is really about to go.
Sun Quan didn't have time to care about Liu Bei's life or death, and in order to save himself, he even wanted to sell Liu Bei to the imperial court in exchange for his own safety. But the problem was that Liu Xie not only did not cooperate, but also asked Xue Zong, who was assigned by him to go to the peace talks, to bring him an ultimatum.
When a person is under a low eaves, the consequence of not bowing his head is to bump into his head and break the blood flow. But no one knows what Sun Quan thinks, in the eyes of many people, Sun Quan, who is very knowledgeable about current affairs, seems to have taken the wrong medicine this time, not only cut Xue Zong, who was ordered by him to go to the peace talks, but also threatened to fight Liu Xie to the death.