Meng Shu really didn't expect that things would develop so fast, how long has it been? The alliance between him and Liu Bei, this primary and secondary role has been reversed.

Now, it was Liu Bei's turn to enter his Nanban territory to help him fight against the New Han army.

However, it is the same, when he formed an alliance with Liu Bei, Liu Bei was also obviously wary of him, and now, he naturally has to be wary of Liu Bei. Meng Shu had just led his army to loot Chengdu, and he was naturally afraid that his Nanban region would be plundered by the Yizhou army. In that sentence, I don't do bad things in my life, and I am not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. said that this is the case, Meng Shu himself did something bad first, so he naturally had to guard against Liu Bei a little.

But the question is, can Liu Bei call on so many Yizhou troops to follow him and leave his hometown and enter the Nanban region as he wishes?

Obviously, Liu Bei is too taken for granted. also includes those mysterious masters sent by Sima Zheng, that Jing Lao, they are all a little too taken for granted.

The next day, Meng reached an agreement with Liu Bei as a result of his own discussions with his subordinate tribal leaders and generals. They could allow Liu Bei to lead his Yizhou army into the Nanban region, but they could only let Liu Bei lead 200,000 Yizhou troops in.

In addition, an area was also demarcated, so that Liu Bei's military horses could only be allowed to guard the activities in the area from Zhuti, Xichang, Luzhou, Huichuan, Lujin Pass, and Shakou to Jianning in the south of Yizhou, and could not go further southwest.

Zhu Ti, in fact, is near Zhaotong City in Yunnan in later generations. Xichang is the Anning Plain of the Western Sichuan Plateau, which is the second largest plain in the Sichuan and Shu regions of Yizhou. It is the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan. Xichang City is also an important cultural trade exchange center between Yizhou and Nanban region. A very important town.

Luzhou is located in the southeast of Sichuan Province, at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Tuojiang River. The regional central town at the junction of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Chongqing is also a very important city.

Aikawa. It is a county seat in the west of Yizhou, but the attribution power has long belonged to the Nanban.

Lujin Pass is not far from Jiaozhou Jianning, separated by the Hushui River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, and its geographical location is also quite important.

These areas basically include the defense of the New Han Army attacking Yizhou, the defense of the New Han Army attacking in the direction of the Li Yao people, and the defense of the New Han Army in the direction of Jiaozhou. It can be said that Meng Shu suddenly pushed Liu Bei to the defense line that bordered the New Han Army and that there was a possibility of war.

Liu Bei's heart. I don't know how many times he secretly scolded Meng Huo because of these conditions, but Liu Bei has no choice now, he must accept the conditions put forward by Meng Huo, so that he can retreat. At the very least, the defense line from west to east, including a few fairly good towns for him to develop his army, has more or less its own foothold.

In this way, Liu Bei could only reach a unanimous agreement with Meng Shu with bitterness. Of course. Liu Bei also demanded that Meng Shu's army should also divide his troops to defend these cities together, and it was impossible to rely only on his Yizhou army to block the attack of the New Han army. Meng Shu also agreed with Liu Bei's opinion. promised to send a certain number of military horses to each city to cooperate with Liu Bei's actions.

An agreement was reached. Liu Bei led tens of thousands of military horses to follow him, who were originally chasing and killing Meng Shu, and officially crossed the Yangtze River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, together with Meng Huo. Enter the county town of Juti.

Liu Bei and Meng Shu combined, the military horses of both sides. First, build a strong defensive line in Zhuti to block the southward advance of the New Han army from Yizhou. In addition, he planned to wait for Liu Bei's summoning army to assemble in the county seat of Zhuti, and then continue to send troops to the rest of the cities in the south to defend them.

A few days later, tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers in Padang City fled back with 30,000 or 40,000 horses, bringing very bad news. Of course, no matter what bad news it is, Meng Huo's heart is still relatively happy, because his men and horses have finally been enriched again, with these 40,000 barbarian troops fleeing back, so that Meng Huo's strength is not inferior to Liu Bei too much, so there is no need to worry that Liu Bei will be unfavorable to him and pose a threat to him.

In fact, considering the relationship between dividing troops to assist Liu Bei in guarding various cities, Meng Shu actually had an army of more than 200,000 people, and he did not let the cave master of the unified army to Zhuti in a county area southwest of Zhuti. When the time comes, Meng Shu will wait for Liu Bei's army to arrive, and Meng Shu will plan to send a small number of military horses from those barbarian armies to help Liu Bei. With Liu Bei on the front line, Meng Shu didn't want to invest his troops to confront the New Han army head-on.

However, although Meng Shu waited for his fugitive army to come back, Liu Bei did not wait for the Yizhou army he imagined. Moreover, the bad news that was waiting for made Liu Bei feel even more chilled and desperate.

First of all, in the direction of Hanzhong in the north of Yizhou, it had broken through Yangping Pass and led the army to kill the new Han army in the Guanghan area at the northern end of Yizhou, and only rested for two or three days, and then its army went straight into Chengdu and had already killed the city of Chengdu.

This, also mainly because Meng Shu plundered in Chengdu, causing Liu Bei to completely lose control of Chengdu City, and the news that Liu Zhang had regained control of the whole city of Chengdu reached the ears of Guan Yu and Ma Chao, and they knew that the opportunity could not be lost, so they immediately gathered an army of 100,000 troops, ignoring other Yizhou towns first, and went straight to Chengdu.

In addition, in the east of Yizhou, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and other generals suddenly divided their troops into two ways and killed Ba County directly from the deep mountains and forests, which directly caused Liu Bei to leave the Yizhou army stationed in hundreds of miles of mountain roads and defeated the whole army, so that the two generals easily captured Ba County. Along the way, the two generals captured countless generals of the state army, most of whom saw that the opportunity was wrong, and under the call of Yan Yan and other generals, they changed their course and returned to the New Han Dynasty. Now, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun have also sent troops to Chengdu respectively, and I believe that they will be under the city of Chengdu with Guan Yu, Ma Chao, Wei Yan and other generals in the near future.

Liu Bei never imagined that the advance of the New Han Army would be so fast. He also thought that at least there would be a period of time for him to gather the Yizhou military horses.

In fact, unless Yizhou does not allow the New Han Army to open a breakthrough, no matter who it is, as long as it opens a breakthrough into Xichuan, then Xichuan is basically equivalent to falling.

The reason why the land of Sichuan and Shu has always been in a corner is that it is surrounded by mountains. And most of them are dangerous roads, which are extremely difficult to navigate. Plus. There are not many roads in and out of the Nishikawa stream, and it is very easy for Nishikawa's military horses to defend. But. As long as it is cleared all the way, then the army can crisscross in Xichuan, the country of Tianfu, this plain and territory, and it will be unstoppable at all.

In fact, in the history of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei entered Sichuan, and at the beginning he was in a stalemate with the Yizhou army in terms of opening up the road for a period of time, and later, once the channel was opened. The whole of Yizhou fell in one fell swoop, and Liu Zhang had to surrender and give his foundation to Liu Bei.

Even in later generations, this is still the case, most of the military horses of Xichuan and the enemy army who want to attack Xichuan are in those dangerous road passes and the enemy country, stalemate for a long time, until the enemy opens the road, then there is no difficulty in capturing the entire Yizhou.

Earlier, Liu Bei quietly evacuated from Padang. When he returned to Ba County, he led a total of nearly 100,000 military horses back to Chengdu or wanted to support Yangping Pass. In this way, he actually led this part of the army horse to Juti County. He asked Elder Jing and a group of personal soldiers and generals to go to collect the Yizhou army that had been loyal to him. They wanted those men to lead the generals to Juti County to join him.

However, he did not see his army and horses coming.

This made Liu Bei feel a little bad.

Liu Bei didn't know about his reputation. It really stinks. Meng Huo's army plundered Chengdu and did evil deeds against the city of Chengdu. It spread throughout Yizhou at the fastest speed. The people of Yizhou, first of all, scolded and hated Meng Huo, these southern barbarians. For those people who were miserably harmed by the southern barbarians, they were unjust and held their grievances. Slowly, someone mentioned that the Southern Barbarians were introduced to Yizhou by Liu Bei, the governor of the three armies of Yizhou, who lured wolves into the house and eventually harmed the people of Chengdu.

One spread ten to hundred, and now everyone is scolding Liu Bei, anyway, Liu Bei is in Yizhou, and he has really become a person who everyone is angry with.

In this way, when Jing Lao and others, as well as Liu Bei's personal soldiers and generals, went to various towns in Yizhou to collect the Yizhou army, intending to take them to the Nanban region, there were basically no soldiers from Yizhou to respond to them.

The matter has been laid out, Liu Bei and those barbarians, and Meng Huo are the same as the raccoon dogs, it is clear that the Southern Barbarian military horses attracted by Liu Bei have caused such a big disaster to the people of Yizhou, this Liu Bei actually got together with Meng Huo? When everyone was hating them, who wanted to be in the company of those Southern Barbarians again? Who wants to listen to Liu Bei's orders, which everyone hates? As long as there is still a little concept of right and wrong in his heart, and a little concept of justice, who wants to follow Liu Bei again?

What's more, now that the New Han Army has entered Xichuan, and the Yizhou Army is distributed in various towns in the Yizhou region, Liu Bei has already arrived in the towns on the border between the Nanban region and Yizhou, and he is not there, who wants to casually listen to some people's orders and continue to follow Liu Bei?

Also, you must know that for the Yizhou sergeants, Yizhou is where they grew up and lived, and almost all of their Yizhou sergeants are Yizhou's children. Now, Liu Bei sent people to let them abandon their homeland and run away with Liu Bei to the territory of the murderous barbarians, how many Yizhou soldiers can abandon everything and blindly follow Liu Bei?

It can be said that except for a few generals and soldiers who have a fairly close relationship with Liu Bei and have inseparable major interests, basically no one is willing to follow Liu Bei anymore.

It's hard to leave your homeland, what are you doing with Liu Bei in the Nanban territory? This is the point that has already made Liu Bei's plan go down the drain.

What's more, that is, the New Han Army entered Yizhou, but it did not pose any threat to ordinary people. Although the New Han Army has not yet exercised substantial rule over the entire Yizhou region, it depends on the fact that the New Han Army and the ordinary people have not committed any crimes, and the army has passed all the way, paying tribute to those people along the way, and caring about their livelihood matters. In contrast, who would want to leave their homeland?

Not only that, some of the sergeants of the Yizhou army, who had already followed Liu Bei to Zhuti County, found that the situation was not right, and followed Liu Bei to the Nanban region, and it would be difficult for them to return to Yizhou to reunite with their relatives again. Especially when Liu Bei ordered the sergeants to prepare to arrange the defense line and beware of the New Han Army that might be killed from Yizhou, the soldiers below did not contribute to the work, and the people's minds returned. Among his army, deserters have already begun to appear, and they have fled back to Yizhou in groups.

Such a situation was indeed unexpected by Liu Bei. In addition, there is a greater difficulty in front of Liu Bei, that is, the Yizhou military horses below him, after all, are not barbarian troops, when they order the soldiers below to loot money and grain, how can they succeed in the face of their own Yizhou people? Some of them were forced by military orders, and it was really difficult to carry out Liu Bei's orders, so the entire army and horses fled back to Yizhou together. In addition, such as Jing Lao and others, because they couldn't even gather the relationship between the military and horses, they had no way to scavenge money and grain in Yizhou, and there were no people, and there was no food.

Just when all kinds of difficulties were in front of Liu Bei, worse news came again. Chengdu actually surrendered to the New Han Army, Liu Zhang, Huang Quan and other generals, soon after the New Han Army soldiers came to the city of Chengdu, surrendered to the New Han Army, and let the New Han Army enter Chengdu City.

"Liu Bei! What about the military horses you are talking about? What about your provisions? This king does not care, and this king is not responsible for the food supply of your military horses. In addition, the towns that were promised to be defended by your garrison will not need you to send troops. You can lead your army and horses to defend the county town of Juti. This king will have to go to the rest of the cities to fortify them, and he will not fight with you here. "Meng Huo has reached the limit of patience with Liu Bei.

Meng Shu felt that he had been deceived by Liu Bei. If he wants to be a soldier or not, if he wants food or not, what qualifications does he have to be on an equal footing with him? Plan the future of your clan with yourself? In the end, the New Han Army had to have its own tribal military horses, and this Liu Bei was unreliable at all.

Liu Bei was squeezed by Meng Shu, his face turned blue and white, and he was in an unprecedented embarrassment.

Now, if Meng Huo clearly does not let his military horses go to other cities, then it means that the tens of thousands of horses he has now will be pushed by Meng Huo to the forefront of the hostility against the Xinhan army on the Yizhou side, which is equivalent to being cannon fodder for Meng Huo in vain, but he will not benefit him at all.

You must know that Liu Bei's original intention is not to sincerely help Meng Shu resist the attack of the New Han Army. Instead, he planned to take advantage of the Nanban region to develop in the southwest. If Meng Shu trapped his military horses in Zhuti County, then how could he cross the Nanban region and retreat along the retreat and transfer route of the former ancient Shu Kingdom?

Therefore, Liu Bei felt that he must go to the more southern areas of the Nanban region. Only by preserving the strength that is not much, hiding behind the Southern Barbarian Army, and fleeing when the opportunity is wrong, only in this way does Liu Bei feel that he still has a chance. (To be continued......)