Chen Gong, Chen Qun, Yuan Jian and others adapted to their new life in Chang'an, and in two months they would be in power. The speed at which this power rises is really fast, but there is no way to do it. However, Liu Zhang has been evaluated by officials, and he will be assessed according to different situations every year, and officials who have problems for three consecutive years may have to ......

Of course, they have a lot of things, but Liu Zhang is not light here. Xiao Pei needs someone to garrison, and when the time comes, he will attack Jiujiang so that he will not be copied back. In case Liu Bei is not honest, or if he is ordered by Cao Cao and attacks his back, won't he fall into blood mold at that time?

"The lord Xiaopei has no danger to defend, we might as well give Liu Bei. When the time comes, we will attack Jiujiang from Runan, and we can still get Liu Bei's favor. "Zheng Du doesn't want Xiao Pei at all, there is nothing here, it is better to return it to Liu Bei.

Li Ru also nodded and said: "Xiaopei is indeed not easy to defend, we might as well garrison troops in Fuyang, and then we can go straight down to Shouchun to Jiujiang." That Yuan Shu must have nothing to hide in Jiujiang, and they will definitely be defenseless when we go to Shouchun. "Although Xiaopei is very big, it does not belong to Liu Zhang at present.

Liu Zhang is very depressed, he occupies Xiaopei but wants to return it to Liu Bei? But at present, it seems that he can't hold it: "Then send a message to Liu Bei, Xiao Pei will give him up, and we will retreat to Ruyin." The envoy immediately headed towards Xiapi, to be honest, Liu Bei didn't want to defend Xuzhou at all, but stationed in Xiapi. In the land of the four wars in Xuzhou, there is no danger to defend, only Mi Zhu and Chen Deng's father and son are there.

"The second brother and the third brother Liu Zhang gave Xiapi as a brother, is it true or false?" After Liu Bei got the letter, he always felt that this matter was unreliable, how could the city that he had eaten was vomiting out?

Guan Yu thought for a while and said, "Big brother, that Xiaopei is not of much use to Liu Zhang. It seems that they are planning to return to Runan, and it is useless to just ask for a small pei, it is better to be a favor and give it to the eldest brother. But it's okay in this way, big brother, you are stationed in Xiaopei, and I am stationed in Xiapi, so that Xuzhou will be safe and sound. "Guan Yu seems to have always been stationed in Xiapi.

Liu Bei nodded and said, "If this is the case, Xuzhou is naturally worry-free." It's just that we owe Liu Zhang a favor...... "Liu Bei can't say no to this thing, it's a bit troublesome."

In the end, Liu Bei still accepted Xiao Pei, but Liu Bei was a little dumbfounded after arriving at Xiao Pei, there were almost no people here. After a closer inspection, only some of the people were old, weak, sick and disabled, and it seemed that most of the people had migrated. Zhang Fei was also a little dumbfounded, Xiaopei was still a little common man before, at least there was no problem in daily life. But after Liu Zhang occupied it, how long did it take for there to be no one left?

"There are no more people here? What is this empty city left for us? Zhang Fei was also dumbfounded, there were only a group of them left in this group now.

Liu Bei's face was gloomy: "Let's go in the garrison and talk about it, and then let the people of Xiapi come." Liu Bei's heart is wow cool, but now Liu Bei can only grit his teeth and admit it.

Zhang Fei looked around, there was no one selling anything here, and if he wanted to drink in the future, he would have to find someone to brew it himself. It's not a bit popular here, but it feels like you're in the wrong place? Especially when following Liu Bei, he can't get drunk yet.

At this moment, Liu Zhang had already decided, that is, to attack Yuan Shu, swept the generals and said: "I am going to send troops to Jiujiang, everyone will rest for three days, and after three days, they will prepare to attack Yuan Shu." "Yuan Shu should not die until next year, he seems to have been intercepted by Liu Bei when he went to Yuan Shao's place, and then died of defeat.

"My lord, although Yuan Shu has been defeated many times, there are still some forces. It is estimated that Yuan Shu can hold on for a long time, so let's go and find out the news first. Zheng Du said calmly, although Yuan Shu was defeated, he still had a few points of strength, and it was by no means that there were no soldiers at all.

Liu Zhang recognized this, you must know that Yuan Shu was defeated again when he went north, and at that time he lost most of his soldiers. The second is that there are still a few talents under Yuan Shu's hands, and if Liu Zhang wants to attack hard, I am afraid that he will lose a lot of people. If he could, Liu Zhang could watch for a while, and then slowly fight with Yuan Shu, anyway, Yuan Shu had no food source.

Liu Zhang frowned and said: "Let's look at the situation, before the first half of next year, we will take Jiujiang and Lujiang, but Yuan Shu can't waste time." "Guandu is about to kick off soon, and he has to set the foundation in the south, lest Sun Ce's kid develop too fast, and even if he has a water army, it will be troublesome.

Three days later, Liu Zhang reorganized his armaments and headed directly towards Jiujiang. In fact, at this time, Liu Zhang was worried that Liu Xun would come to the rescue of Yuan Shu, of course, this was just Liu Zhang's thinking out of a modern person. Yuan Shu is the emperor, so Liu Xun is the authentic Han family after all. If he dared to rescue Yuan Shu, I am afraid that his situation would become Yuan Shu's situation in an instant.

In fact, Liu Zhang was very speechless about the name of the place on the way from Runan to Shouchun, especially from what Shang Cai to Xin Cai and what Xia Cai was, anyway, such an tasteless place name made Liu Zhang have a stomach ache. Of course, there are also troublesome things, now that Yuan Shu's ruling strength has declined, the Taishou he originally sent to Danyang is estimated to be finished, and now I'm afraid it's already Sun Ce's? This time, if he defeated Yuan Shu, I am afraid that it will cause Liu Xun and Sun Ce to be uneasy, and it seems that they can only attack strongly, but they cannot delay in the slightest.

"Danyang is already Sun Ce, that person who inherited his father's prestige must be more or less a capable person, will he attack us from behind if we attack Jiujiang?" Liu Zhang couldn't figure out this person, just because he hadn't had a few years of fun, that person was already dead.

Li Ru nodded and said: "The tiger father has no dog, so even if Sun Ce does not have Sun Jian's bravery, it will not be too bad." When his father was still around, he was surrounded by fierce generals, but he didn't know if there were any strategists around him. If there is such a talented person, Sun Ce will inevitably take advantage of our defeat of Yuan Shu and send troops to attack us. ”

Liu Zhang frowned, to be honest, his naval army is very far away, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to fight here. I don't have a navy here, and if I really fight, I'm afraid I'll suffer a big loss: "If you let Gan Ning send a sailor over, I'm afraid it will be enough to choke." "Liu Zhang really has a headache, Sun Ce is a very brave person, especially since there are two great talents around him. One is Zhou Yu, and the other is Lu Su introduced by Zhou Yu. Neither of these men is a fool......

"Sun Ce has a strategist by his side called Zhou Yuzi Gongjin, but this person is a rare talent. This person's talent is not inferior to Guangxiao and others, although he is young, he is a rare general. Secondly, there is another person called Lu Su by his side, although this person is not a general, but he is a talented and talented person who can speak well. Liu Zhang only knew these two people, and as for the generals around Sun Ce, Li Ru knew very well.

Li Ru nodded and said: "If that's the case, it's a bit terrifying, then the generals around Sun Ce are all the generals who followed Sun Jian back then, and they are all loyal and brave." Back then, Dong Zhuo also called Sun Jian the little overlord, which was enough to prove his Sun Jian's bravery.

Zheng Du thought for a moment and said, "Lord, I think Sun Ce will attack us, but it will definitely not be Jiujiang." How many people is Sun Ce? Even though there are strong generals and many strategists, they will never cross the river. At that time, how could they resist the iron cavalry under the lord's hands? Moreover, they were stationed in Danyang because of the Yangtze River, so there was no need to attack Jiujiang. On the contrary, I think he is very likely to attack our Yuzhang, because we occupy Yuzhang and can directly approach Danyang and Huiji. "Yuzhang is a breakthrough for Jiangdong's natural insurance, but Jiujiang is irrelevant to Jiangdong......

Liu Zhang thought for a while, and it seemed that this was really the truth: "Are you saying that Sun Ce may lead the army to attack my Yuzhang?" Instead of attacking Jiujiang here? "Liu Zhang's strategy is not very clear, in other words, if he attacks others, he must find a place close to him, rather than a place far away.

Li Ru followed and said: "The lord is really possible, then if Sun Ce occupies Danyang, then relying on the natural danger and the water master and I have no way to deal with him, if we have Yu Zhang in hand, we can continue to attack Danyang, Yu Zhang is afraid that it will become a thorn in the side of Sun Ce and others." "If there is Yuzhang, then they can really rely on natural danger to defend, Liu Zhang can't beat them when he doesn't have his own navy.

"Now don't rush to send an order to Gan Ning, then when Sun Ce is sure that we will attack Jiujiang, they will send troops to attack Yuzhang." Liu Zhang is not very worried about Yu Zhang, there are Huang Quan and Gan Ning who are not vegetarians, especially Gan Ning himself asked him to form a water army. If Sun Ce can break Yuzhang with only a thousand people, then Liu Zhang will admit it when he bows his head.

"That's right, when the time comes, if we go directly to the water to support, then Sun Ce will definitely stalemate with us, but we still need to guard against attacks that may come from behind." Li Ru didn't think Sun Ce was terrible, but he was afraid that his tens of thousands of troops would be in danger if they were cut off.

Along the way, there are basically not too many people in this Jianghuai area. As for why, Liu Zhang and everyone understood it in their hearts. It's a blessing that people here haven't died. The year before last, there was a great drought here, and the people changed their children to eat, how long has it been now? Liu Zhang suspected that there might be a plague or other disease here, so he walked like this, and Liu Zhang repeatedly told the soldiers that they should never drink raw water.

The Jianghuai area, especially here, should be beautiful mountains and rivers, but there are only occasional white bones here, what are the mountains and rivers there? But fortunately, the road to Shouchun is still quite easy to walk, especially when the thieves here don't think too much about it when they see that Liu Zhang is army. Compared with Chang'an and other places, it is much more dangerous here.