Liu Bei led the army behind, passing through the towns along the way, and after summoning those generals to inquire, his heart was furious.

You must know that at the beginning, Liu Bei was not sure that the prince of the Li Yao clan would not return to the Li Yao tribe from the way he came, but would leave Yizhou in the east direction. Although he had doubts in his heart, whether the prince of Aguidu was desperate because he felt that it was impossible to form an alliance with him and Meng Huo to fight against the New Han Army after falling out with Meng Huo in Chengdu, and then he left Chengdu without hesitation, either to return to the Li Yao tribe, or to go to join the New Han Army.

All of this was Liu Bei's suspicion, and he was in a hurry to lead the army to catch up, but in fact, he was not rude to Prince Aguidu. Instead, he wanted to catch up, to be able to leave Prince Aguidu and have a good talk with him, even if Prince Aguidu could not accept the three-party alliance in the end, Liu Bei could also reach a joint agreement with Prince Aguidu in private. In order to use the military horses of the Li Yao clan to contain the New Han army for him, he also planned to give some blood and agreed to Prince Aguidu's conditions. These, as long as he conceals them from Prince Aguidu and Meng Shu in two aspects. In this way, he can still achieve his strategic goals.

In addition, he immediately led his army to chase after him, also in order to force Meng Huo to send troops. If he stays in Chengdu any longer, Liu Bei really doesn't know what accidents will happen again, and he doesn't know when he will be able to let Meng Huo send troops. Looking at Meng Shu's condition, it is estimated that he will have to recuperate for a period of time. When the time comes, how can he repel the invading New Han army as soon as possible? That's why he made an impromptu decision, creating a tense situation. He personally led the army out of Chengdu, so far. Meng Shu had no excuse not to send troops.

And, most importantly. Liu Bei was also worried that Meng Shu would be detrimental to Chengdu, and now, if Meng Huo was allowed to stay in Chengdu, his military horses were dispatched to help him. In this way, it is more advantageous to both the monitoring of Meng Huo and the control of Meng Huo's barbarian military horses.

Seriously, in Liu Bei's heart, he hoped that he could completely own and control a barbarian military horse. Such. It will bring great benefits to his later plans.

Now, he still has to rely on Meng Huo's help, but in time, after Liu Bei has enough strength, he doesn't need Meng Huo. After all, as the number one warrior of the barbarians, the barbarian king, it is really not easy to completely control. If Liu Bei can take advantage of Meng Shu's absence in the army. Whether it is through bribery or other means, he can obtain the allegiance of a group of barbarian cave leaders and generals, and in the future. It is possible to pass through them, talk nonsense about Meng Shu, and take the entire barbarian race in his hands.

Liu Bei believed. There is no one who does not like power and wealth, the cave masters and leaders of these barbarians. Most of them were suppressed and threatened by Meng Huo, so they would recognize Meng Huo as the king of the Nanban tribe. Among them, there will definitely be many cave masters and leaders who are not convinced. In addition, the simple-minded barbarians with well-developed limbs do seem to be relatively easy to fool.

However, after chasing for two or three days in a row, Liu Bei actually failed to catch up with the prince of Aguidu, and along the way, his people also found the messenger who was killed, which made Liu Bei feel unusual.

After asking some of the generals of the defenders in the towns along the way. Liu Bei can be sure that the prince of Aguidu may not be able to talk to him about forming an alliance again. I'm afraid that he is already bent on joining the New Han Army.

But unfortunately, what made Liu Bei feel annoyed was that he also knew that his military horses were unlikely to be able to catch up with Prince Aguidu and his party. Because they left by water, and their own army, although they could also pursue by water, where could they find so many ships at one time? A number of ships were collected, but at most they could only send 10,000 to 20,000 men.

On this point, don't say that you can't catch up, even if you catch up, Liu Bei expressed deep doubts about whether these centaurs would be able to keep the prince of Naguidu, or destroy them.

Because, he has already seen the skills of the prince of Aguidu, and he has also seen with his own eyes that Zhang Ren, the first military general in Yizhou, can't beat a female general next to Prince Aguidu. Therefore, Liu Bei did not think that he could retain or destroy the group of Prince Aguidu. Unless their own army catches up with them, and surrounds them and destroys them.

Knowing that he couldn't catch up, Liu Bei calmed down instead.

He thought that since his army had already arrived in Ba County, Meng Huo's barbarian military horses would also arrive soon. If you just turn around and go back to Chengdu, it will definitely not be a good thing. It's better to simply launch an attack on the New Han Army. Anyway, this decision had already been made earlier, if it weren't for the conflict between Meng Huo's wife, Mrs. Zhurong, and Prince Na Guidu, then his army would have already been killed in Badong. Of course, this plan was already in place when he led the army out of Chengdu.

Now, he wanted to wait for the barbarian army to arrive, see if he could take over the military power of the barbarian army, and order the barbarian army to be the vanguard for himself and kill Badong first.

In this way, Liu Bei stayed in Ba County. In this way, Liu Yi and his entourage, after resting for the night, there was no Yizhou army chasing after them. Early the next morning, the fleet set off and returned directly down the river to Patong.

And Liu Bei, sure enough, also has some means. The barbarian army horses came only 50,000 or 60,000 horses. It was impossible for Meng Shu to send out all the 100,000 troops, and he himself stayed in Chengdu to recuperate from his wounds. Therefore, he sent a cave master, that is, to bring the cave master, led 50,000 or 60,000 horses, caught up with Liu Bei, and assisted Liu Bei in launching an attack on the New Han army.

This brought the cave master, but he was a simple-minded guy, Liu Bei used some means, and coaxed him to the north and south. Although he did not betray Meng Shu and defected to Liu Bei's command, he had already obeyed Liu Bei's words. In this way, Liu Bei also indirectly controlled the tens of thousands of barbarian military horses.

Liu Bei had empty mouths and white teeth, and after promising many benefits to bring the cave master, he patted his chest and promised to recapture the Badong region for Liu Bei and drive the New Han army away from Yizhou.

In this way, Liu Bei let the cave master lead his 50,000 or 60,000 barbarian military horses as the first army, and he led the rest of the military horses to slowly follow the barbarian army behind.

Let's say that Liu Yi and his entourage returned to Padang City safe and sound.

However, a battle was fought. The main reason is that Liu Yi and others did not have the release road issued by Yizhou. Now in the Padang area, the Yizhou Army and the Xinhan Army are in a tense confrontation. All roads have been blocked so that no one is allowed to enter or leave. Even the river. It's also blocked.

Liu Yi personally launched an attack on the Yizhou army on the river, opening a gap for his men and horses to pass through.

The battle was not very fierce, but it directly made the situation between the two armies more tense all of a sudden.

reported the name, Zhang Fei, Yan Yan, Huang Zu, Long Ge and other civil and military officers hurriedly welcomed Liu Yi into Badong City.

Zhang Fei, this guy, when he saw Liu Yi, looked very ashamed, and he seemed to speak softly, and he didn't dare to look up. There is no other way to this. For so long, the men and horses he led have been struggling, and their achievements are commendable, and they are a little faceless.

Liu Yi saw Yan Yan and praised him, and directly named him Zhang Fei's deputy general, commanding nearly 100,000 military horses in Badong.

Of course, Liu Yi also saw through Zhang Fei's meaning. did not blame him, but praised him, especially the thing that was able to persuade Yan Yan to surrender, saying that this was Zhang Fei's great achievement.

But. Next, some information was presented to Liu Yi to see, which made Liu Yi feel extremely bad.

It turned out that the earlier plan to let Ma Chao's Xiliang Junlin enter Yizhou from the west of Yizhou was completely bankrupt.

This one. It was also a mistake by Lewy.

It turned out that the Sichuan Pandi. It is indeed worthy of being a territory, and it is almost surrounded by lofty mountains. Not everywhere in the mountains can be traversed.

It can be seen from the information sent from Ma Chao and sent here after being crushed. Liu Yi seems to have underestimated the impact of the terrain on his New Han Army, and also ignored the difference between Ma Chao's army in Xiliang and his original elite New Han Army.

Most of the horses and horses on the Xiliang side are Xiliang's children, that is, most of the cavalry. And entering Yizhou from the southeast of Xiliang is an unlikely thing for them.

In that area, there are mountains for thousands of miles, and there are still some mountains that cover snow all year round. How did this call them the Xiliang Army to cross? Seriously, don't say that it's their Xiliang Army, even if they are the most elite mountain special operations soldiers of the New Han Army, if they want to cross those snowy mountains, I'm afraid they will die for life.

Even if it could, it would not be possible for the army to pass through, and the lone army would go deep, and when the time came, the grain and grass would be continuous, and in the mountains, they would be starved to death.

Of course, in the intelligence, Ma Chao still wanted to lead an army to forcibly enter Yizhou, but was stopped by Jia Xu, Ma Teng and others. Among them, Jia Xu proposed that it was indeed difficult for the Xiliang Army to enter Sichuan from the western mountainous area of Yizhou, and it was unlikely that it would plan to attack Yizhou with Zhang Fei's military horses. But he suggested that the Xiliang army could enter Hanzhong from the western part of Hanzhong, and the army and horses of Guan Yu and Wei Yansuo would first destroy Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and then they could enter the northern region of Yizhou from Hanzhong, and then they could kill the city of Chengdu with one horse.

This suggestion is safe, Liu Yi thought about it, and he was not in a hurry to recover Yizhou immediately, anyway, whether it was Liu Zhang in Yizhou or Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, they would all be destroyed. agreed to Jia Xu's plan and wrote a letter for someone to send to them.

In fact, Liu Yi was indeed a little dissatisfied in his heart. Because he is not in Luoyang, some wars, generals and military divisions can make their own decisions, and with a feasible strategy, there is no need to waste so much time to report to him before implementation. Now, what Liu Yi hopes more is to hear the news that Zhang Lu in Hanzhong has been attacked by Guan Yu, Wei Yan, Ma Chao and other generals and regained Hanzhong, rather than their plan and suggestion, let himself approve it.

However, Liu Yi was relieved when he thought about it.

At a very early stage, Liu Yi already had some personal opinions about the generals and military advisors of the Three Kingdoms. From beginning to end, in Liu Yi's mind, the generals with higher status were Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, and then added a more and more flexible and decisive Huang Xu. These three generals are the three good generals in Liu Yi's mind.

And Guan Yu, known as a martial saint in history, has a high opinion of him, but Liu Yi feels that his pattern is still not enough, and in some specific circumstances, he has more than enough martial arts and not enough wisdom. It seems calm, but it is not decisive enough. Otherwise, having followed Liu Bei for so many years, and he has such a strong martial arts, how could he not even have a stable territory?

Or, let's give an example. Liu Bei, with benevolence and righteousness as the foundation of his life, here, it is okay to ignore whether he is true benevolence or false benevolence. Anyway, on the surface, Liu Bei absolutely has to maintain a benevolent and righteous image. Then, many unseemly things and unsightly things have to be done for Liu Bei by his two brothers-in-law Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

If Guan Yu's pattern is long-term and resolute enough. Back then, in Youzhou, he didn't follow Liu Bei like a fart, but wanted to seize Gongsun Zhan's military power as much as possible, so that when Gongsun Chan lost to Yuan Shao, he could assist Liu Bei to take the throne and replace Gongsun Chan to occupy Youzhou.

Or, in Beihai and in Zhuzhou, Guan Yu has the opportunity to win a piece of territory for Liu Bei. In some things, or there is no need for Guan Yu to do it himself, as long as there is a hint, the people below will take action, such as when saving Beihai for Kong Rong, on the battlefield, Kong Rong was killed, then Beihai fell into the hands of Liu Bei.

This is not really a matter of loyalty.

Or another example could be given. Zhao Zilong blocked the river to save Adou. If it was Guan Yu, Guan Yu would definitely have too many concerns, and in the end he would definitely let go of Sun Shangxiang and Adou, definitely not like Zhao Yun, who did so beautifully and wisely.

Of course, these are talking about historical events, and they are talking about the wisdom of military generals.

You must know that Liu Yi left Guan Yu in Jingzhou because he planned to let Guan Yu make a great contribution and send troops to recover Hanzhong. Maybe there are difficulties, but there are no achievements yet, which is the reason why Liu Yi is a little unhappy.

Look at Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, and even Gan Ning, what they did in the north is indeed beautiful. Tai Shi Ci left the matter of Jizhou and went to the northern battlefield, which is also a problem of Tai Shi Ci's vision pattern.

Of course, this does not mean that Liu Yi denies their abilities, but that they cannot meet Liu Yi's expectations for the time being.

But this is not important, because after the unification of the Han Dynasty, Liu Yi still has to have a good talk with them to broaden their horizons. After preparing for a period of time, it was possible for Liu Yi to send them to lead an expedition to the world map again.

After Liu Yi learned of these circumstances, he simply didn't want to pay much attention to these battles, and first told Zhang Fei and other generals about the situation in Yizhou, so that they could prepare to meet the Yizhou army and barbarian army that might come to attack.

In addition, he privately talked to Zhang Fei about Liu Bei's death.

Liu Yi didn't want to hide this matter, and felt that it was better to be honest with Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and others. (To be continued......)