"Thanks to the help of all the generals, I don't dare to take credit!" Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong both stood up and said very humbly. It's just that when their eyes collided unintentionally, they could see the slightest surprise from the depths of each other's eyes, Lu Xuantong's decisive withdrawal of troops, not only Cai Mao and others couldn't imagine it, but even they didn't expect it, of course, this is not to say that the other party is very smart, but it is difficult to imagine that the other party will abandon the invincible aura so easily, but in any case, since the other side has withdrawn the army, it is a good thing for them, and their goal of using the other party as a stepping stone has been achieved, otherwise if they die, the result is really unpredictable.

"Hey, don't be modest with the two little brothers, your own family knows your own affairs, without the help of the two of you, we are definitely not Lu Xuantong's opponents, let alone repel them, after I go back, I will definitely report the names and merits of the two of you to the lord, so that the lord can reuse you well." Cai Mao is in a good mood at the moment, he is already very appreciative of the talents of the two, and he looks more pleasing to the eye when he looks at the two, so he plans to be a favor and help the two of them develop well in their careers, anyway, with the talents of these two people, sooner or later they will rise in this world, and they should be considered to have a good fate.

"If that's the case, I will ask for credit for the two of you in front of the lord when I go back!" Kuai Yue on the side also smiled. For these two talented young men, he also plans to help, Liu Biao relies on Cai Kuai and the two families in Jingzhou, with his and Cai Mao's recommendation, presumably these two can get a good position in Jingzhou.

"Thank you, General Cai, Mr. Kuai, but the next (kid) is still young, and he has no plans to become an official, so just ask for credit!" Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong glanced at each other and said in unison.

The lord chooses the minister, and the minister also chooses the lord, and the purpose of their participation in this battle is to nominate themselves so that they can enhance their reputation and value when they meet the master in their hearts in the future, as for Liu Biao, it has never been in the scope of their consideration.

"Won't you serve your country?" Hearing that the two didn't want a reward, Cai Mao was very surprised, and then frowned and asked.

"It's not like that, it's just that the teacher has something to say first, this time I just came out to practice, and after I go back, I have to follow the teacher to study behind closed doors, and I can only leave the teacher when the teacher is satisfied!" Zhuge Liang bowed slightly, and said very humbly.

"Okay, since Mr. Shui Jing is very strict with you, then I won't mention the matter of applying for merit, but I still have to make it clear to the lord about your merits, otherwise wouldn't others think that I am a person who is greedy for merit?" Seeing that the other party had withdrawn Sima Hui, Cai Mao couldn't say anything more, so he put the matter aside and smiled.

"General Xie!" The two thanked each other.

After dealing with these miscellaneous matters, Cai Mao went to the banquet on the spot, announcing that he would not return if he was not drunk, in order to celebrate the repulsion of the Jiangdong Army, a powerful opponent, for a while, the entire camp was staggered, noisy and lively, as the heroes of this battle, Zhuge brothers were also poured a lot of horse urine, speaking of which, these wines are still coming from Jingnan, Jiangdong, and they used Jiangdong's wine to celebrate the defeat of the Jiangdong Army, I have to say that this is actually quite ironic.

"Liang (Tong) is not strong enough to drink, go back and rest first!" When the banquet reached its peak, Zhuge Liang and the two found a reason to retreat.

"Go, go!" Cai Mao and the others were already top-heavy at this time, waved their hands indifferently, and immediately plunged into the strong atmosphere of the banquet.

"Senior brother, don't you love this Jiangdong wine the most on weekdays, why don't you drink more today?" The two went out of the tent one after another, and Zhuge Liang saw Pang Tong walking out with him, and asked with a smile.

"Although the wine is good, but it also depends on who you drink with, if you are a confidant, it is naturally a thousand glasses are too little, if you are someone else, how can you get drunk together?" Pang Tong said and pursed his crooked mouth slightly, although he is now temporarily working under Cai Mao, this does not mean that he agrees with Cai Mao, those people in the account, except for Wen Ping and Kuai Yue, are not bad, and the rest are the most middle-aged people.

"Senior brother is still so arrogant!" Zhuge Liang smiled lightly, but his expression was full of recognition.

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Leading his own large army fleet, Lu An went south from the Yangtze River to prepare to return to Jiangdong, in the eyes of the Jiangdong generals, it is always a little gray to come back from such a defeat, but Lu An himself seems to be very open-minded, and seems to have put down the previous defeat.

"Wen Chang, don't take this battle to heart, go back and help Jiang Wan manage Jingnan together, train the soldiers, and prepare for the next battle!" The army marched on the river for more than ten days, and when it arrived in Changsha, Lu An divided the team into two and asked Wei Yan to take Jingnan's soldiers back to Jingnan first.

"The last will know!" Wei Yan arched his hand and led those soldiers from Jingnan to part ways with Lu An.

"Let's go, too!" Seeing that Wei Yan's fleet was slowly moving away on the river, Lu An sighed lightly and marched towards Nanjing County with the rest of the army.

"Lord, are we really giving up Jingzhou like this now?" Gan Ning stood next to him and asked sullenly. He has always been arrogant in the past, and among the generals, he is also the most radical in the war, but this time he retreated because of the defeat in the water battle, and he has been outnumbered and happy these days, and his mood has always been very low.

"Who said that I gave up, if I want to fight for the general trend of the world, Jingzhou is the place where I must go, but the enemy is too tenacious at this time, we have to think of a perfect strategy before attacking Jingzhou!" Looking at Gan Ning's very depressed expression, Lu An knew that this actually represented the voices of many generals under his command, so he planned to get to the bottom with them, so as to save them from talking like this all day long.

"What do you mean?" Gan Ning asked with his eyes, it was the first time Lu An had said this to him these days.

"Let's go back to recuperate for a period of time, train our troops well, and then strive to go north again within a year, and next time we must take the entire territory of Jingzhou!" Lu An clenched his fists tightly and said. The first big defeat in his life, he was more humiliated than anyone else, but because of this, he had to be ashamed and brave, and when he came next time, whether it was Wolong or Fengxiao, he would have to lie down hard.

"The next time I come to Jingzhou, the last general will definitely screw off the head of the enemy commander himself!" Hearing that Lu An had already had a plan for the next attack, Gan Ning clenched his fists with both hands, the previous ruin had already dissipated, and he was looking forward to the early arrival of that day.

After Lu An revealed to Gan Ning that he had already had two plans to go on the Northern Expedition to Jingzhou, the next few important generals all knew more or less, and these fierce generals who had suffered defeats all seemed to be in good spirits, obviously wanting to hold their breath and take revenge when the time came, and this was exactly what Lu An wanted.

After walking on the river for nearly ten days, the Jiangdong Army finally returned to Hulin Port in Nanjing County, and on the port wharf, Sun Shao Erzhang and other internal affairs officials who received the news were waiting with some scribes early, and when they saw Lu An getting off the boat, their expressions became very respectful and very neat.

"Welcome back!"

"Okay, don't do this kind of scene next time, I'm losing the battle, and people who don't know still think that I'm coming back from a victory!" Looking at the eyes of most of the people on the dock, Lu An felt a little embarrassed in his heart, so he said to these officials.

"In any case, the safe return of the lord's relatives is a major event, not to mention, although Jingzhou was not taken in this battle, the casualties of our army are not much different from the enemy's, and it is not a defeat!" Zhang Zhao said in a low voice. Of course, what he said was actually a gold sticker for the side, 160,000 people beat 100,000, the side is still the elite of a hundred battles, the main general is even more prestigious, it is just that he failed to take any city in Jingzhou, and the casualties of the side are even a little greater than the other party, which is already a big defeat, especially at this time when the whole army has retreated in disgrace, which is even more solid.

"Don't talk about this, has something happened in Jiangdong recently?" Lu An waved his hand, defeat is defeat, no matter how good he says, the result will not change.

"It's no big deal, the autumn harvest just happened some time ago, and the harvest of the people this year is also very good, especially in Huiji County, which is a rare bumper harvest." Sun Shao said.

"That's good, let's go, don't get in the way of the people here!" Lu An nodded, and rode forward on Feiyun. Huiji County is in charge of Yu Turn, and if you don't have a good harvest, it has something to do with the characteristics of that guy, and I don't know if anyone has this kind of more remote but very practical characteristics, if you have a few more, your own grain and grass will be guaranteed in the future.

As Lu An entered the city, a series of large armies behind him also followed closely in neat military columns, showing the quality of a well-trained elite soldier, from the appearance, it is difficult to imagine that this is an army that has suffered a great defeat some time ago.

Lu An occasionally turned his head and looked at his army, a trace of complexity flashed in his eyes, and somehow, he couldn't help but think of a very interesting sentence on the Internet in later generations, called It's not that our army doesn't work hard, it's really that the enemy is too cunning.

"Huh!" Lu An couldn't help laughing, this sentence is said to be a rhetoric thrown out in order to shirk responsibility after the repeated defeats of the generals of the national army, but it is a bit of the spirit of Ah Q.

But these nonsense things can not be learned, their own soldiers are elite soldiers, these are undoubted, now still defeated, then you have to find other reasons, the old saying goes, know yourself and know that the other side can win a hundred battles, now you know that the other party has a sleeping dragon and phoenix, the strength of the enemy is undoubted, and during this period of cultivation, if you can't destroy the strength of the other party, then you have to make yourself stronger than the enemy, so that you can defeat the strong enemy.

"It seems that he really can't do it anymore!" Walking slowly on the streets of the city, Lu An gradually made up his mind.

(ps1: Explain something to you, this book is here, there are always some readers who will have some questions about the value of force, here and you explain it together, in the setting of this book, the basic force and characteristics are the foundation of strength, especially the basic force at the peak, even if it is a little higher, it is a gap, and the other is like the force added to the weapon or the force added by the military division, all of which are in the air, and have a great effect when the combat power is low, and then the combat power can only be used as the icing on the cake, and it is difficult to play a role in turning the tables, This is why the protagonist's anti-Qiankun military skills were not used at all in the later wars, the first is because there is Guo Jia, a powerful military division, and the second is what is the use of wood, adding a little force reduces intelligence, for a master of the three armies, it is obviously more than worth the loss, see that there are still many readers here who will have questions, since these are not very useful, why was the protagonist able to kill Huaxiong with the reverse Qiankun at the beginning, Dou Lu Bu, at that time it was a golden finger for the protagonist, when Dou Huaxiong, the protagonist's force was almost a little, It's not too much to add a Hua Xiong who kills the enemy against the odds, when he fights Lu Bu, it is because of Lu Bu's low intelligence that the protagonist's argument has affected his fighting spirit, plus Lu Bu's character has always been soft-eared, he released water to the protagonist, and even because the protagonist said that he admired him very much, he didn't want to capture him. ）

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