"You guys, is there any other way to get back from that Lu Xuantong?" At this time, Liu Biao gasped and asked with the last trace of numbness. Although he didn't report any hope himself, he had to ask, otherwise there would be only one way left to surrender.

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, but no one can have an idea for a while, but some people proposed to bring some treasures to negotiate peace, but they were directly denied by everyone, the Jiangdong Army has been conquered twice in a year, and the military money and food consumed alone are innumerable, how can they give up the most critical Jingzhou for what treasures.

"It seems that my Jingzhou is really going to give it up!" Seeing that everyone couldn't discuss a solution, Liu Biao sighed and said with a bit of a dead heart.

"If the lord is really unwilling, Liang has a last resort!" Seeing that Liu Biao seemed to be desperate, Kuai Liang hesitated for a moment, but still stood up and said.

"Zirou say it quickly!" Liu Biao seemed to grasp the last straw and said hurriedly.

"Although there is not much left in my Jingzhou army, but the rich families in Jingzhou are some private soldiers and family members, all of them add up, but they can also make up tens of thousands, and the rest of the Jingzhou army is together, there are still 100,000 people, so although the strength is still tens of thousands behind the Jiangdong army, but according to the city and defend it can also be reluctantly tried, if we can hold on to the Jiangdong army's food and grass, then we will win!" Kuailiang Road.

"I see!" Liu Biao suddenly realized, according to Kuai Liang, he could really gather tens of thousands of troops in a short period of time, so he finally had a little hope, but after thinking about it, Liu Biao said with some worry: "Those are the private soldiers of our Jingzhou wealthy family, not in the ranks, how many families will be willing to use their own private soldiers to help?" ”

"These lords don't have to worry, if it is the princes of other families, this matter will definitely not be successful, but Lu Xuantong will commit, the wealthy families in Jingzhou will never be stingy, after all, Lu Xuantong's reputation among the family has long been notorious, once Lu Xuantong really enters Jingzhou, he will definitely engage in the so-called new policy to seize the family property and land of all the families, and forcibly dismiss the private soldiers, so that the families might as well fight." Kuai Liang explained.

"What do you think?" Liu Biao nodded slightly, and then asked the people in the audience, almost most of these people are from families, and many of them are directly the patriarchs of a certain family, just ask them to explore.

"Mr. Zirou is reasonable, and we have no objection!" Everyone in the audience did not object. As Kuai Liang said, in the hope that when Lu Xuantong arrives and takes everything away, it is not enough to take out those private soldiers to fight, there is finally a glimmer of hope.

"Okay, since that's the case, then Zirou will take full responsibility for contacting the family, and it's best to contact all the families within these two days, so that they can send the family's private soldiers to help as soon as possible, and I won't treat them badly afterwards!" Liu Biao looked at Kuai Liang and asked the other party to take full authority to handle the matter.

"It is naturally incumbent on the Lord to share worries, but although this policy can only be regarded as a way to be regarded as a way, there is a prerequisite to meet in order to implement this policy!" Kuai Liang arched his hand and spoke again.

"What conditions, as long as I can repel Lu Xuantong, I will do my best to do it!" Liu Biao said very boldly.

"Throw away all the cities on the front line, and withdraw all the troops to Xiangyang in these two days!" Kuai Liang said calmly.

After that, without waiting for Liu Biao to answer, Kuai Liang said again: "There are two advantages to doing this, first, private soldiers are private soldiers after all, and when they are together, they can only be said to be a rabble, but now Lu Xuantong's army is coming at any time, we really don't have time to train those private soldiers, and if we lose it, it will be different, Lu Xuantong has always been a good name, and he will definitely spend some time to appease the people in the city when he goes down to the city, so that our army can also buy time, and can do some simple exercises on those private soldiers and add more combat power."

Second, even if our army finally gathers all the private soldiers and remnants, it will be too difficult to defend the elite Jiangdong army under those small cities with low walls and the power of a great victory. Kuai Liang said.

"Okay, I'll write a letter to Cai Mao, ask him to withdraw all the troops to Xiangyang, and then ask him to bring the private soldiers of those families in Jiangxia, Jiangxia and other places don't want it, and give it to Lu Xuantong!" It is a matter of survival, Liu Biao was not reluctant at this time, and directly agreed to Kuai Liang's proposal, anyway, as long as he survived this wave, there would always be a day when he would take it back in the future.

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After Lu An won a big victory, he rested in the camp for a few days, and then began to march to Jiangxia again, along the way, his mood was very relaxed, and he did not have any doubts about whether he could take Jiangxia, with the last bit of defeat of the Jingzhou army, it was impossible to stop the Jiangdong army under his command that was full of morale, and as long as the last remnant of Jiangxia was defeated, then Liu Biao's last little bit of protective power was not there, and Jingzhou could be said to be in his bag.

With a feeling of anticipation, the army marched for several days in a row, and then came to Wuchang City, the seat of Jiangxia.

"What's going on?" As soon as the army drove to the bottom of the city, Lu An discovered a rather strange thing, there were only a few dozen defenders on the wall of Wuchang City, and they seemed to be wounded, belonging to the wounded soldiers.

"Surrender, General Lu, we surrender!" Without waiting for Lu An to think deeply, several defenders on the city wall saw the Jiangdong army coming, and directly opened the city gate, and shouted loudly.

"You bring some people in and have a look!" Such an abnormal situation made Lu An a little cautious, and for the sake of insurance, he asked Chen Wu on the side to bring five hundred people in to feel the situation, and if there was anything wrong, he quickly withdrew.

"Yes!" Chen Wu nodded, and immediately brought some of his troops into the city, and after a while, their figures appeared on the head of the city, and after talking to some of the wounded soldiers left on the city wall, Chen Wu shouted loudly: "Lord, Cai Mao has led the army to retreat the night before, this city is already an empty city, and only hundreds of wounded soldiers with limited mobility are left!" ”

"Dizzy, actually play this hand!" Hearing the truth of the facts, Lu An felt a little speechless, he really didn't expect that this was actually an empty city, which made him as suspicious as Cao Cao.

"It's strange, since this Cai Mao didn't send a surrender table, it means that Liu Biao still wants to resist, but Jiangxia is the gateway to Jingzhou, why did he withdraw from Jiangxia?" Zhou Yu on the side was a little puzzled at this time.

Wise as he was, he couldn't figure it out for a while, although Jiangxia is not a prosperous place, but it is a passage to Jingzhou, this Liu Biao threw Jiangxia, wouldn't he want to expose the counties of Jingzhou to Jiangdong's soldiers?

"I think this is because they feel that they can't resist us with their current military spirit, so they take the initiative to retreat, so that they can retain some of their last strength a little!" Guo Jia said. Although I don't think that the remaining 50,000 Jingzhou troops will be able to resist the edge of the Jiangdong Army if they recover their morale, they can't keep the enemy from thinking so, and it seems that only such an explanation can work at this time.

"Let's go in first, no matter what tricks Liu Biao and they want to play, with the current strength of our army, we can crush them in a dignified manner!" Lu An actually didn't quite understand the other party's approach, but since this Wuchang City is an empty city, then occupying it first is the king, as long as his own strength is hard and he doesn't make two mistakes, he is afraid that the other party will not be able to play tricks?

Brought the army into the city in an orderly manner, perhaps because the Jiangdong Army has always had a good reputation, and some people can be seen wandering the streets along the way, although they have a lot of awe for their army, but at least they did not avoid it.

This makes Lu Anxin feel a strange sense of satisfaction, his efforts for so many years have not been in vain, although he has hated the world's family, but the people in the world have finally heard some of their own reputation, otherwise with this troubled world, the people will hide in their homes and refuse to come out when they see the city change hands.

After controlling the four gates of the city, ruling out the possibility of the enemy playing tricks, Lu An reiterated that the soldiers should not disturb the people, so he let them relax and rest, and he himself also found the mansion of the former Jiangxia Taishou, that is, Huang Zu, and stayed inside.

According to Lu'an's consistent rules, every county, the household registration of the people of the whole county will be re-registered, and a notice will be posted to appease the people first and express their goodwill.

It will take a few days, but since he wants to rule here, Lu An naturally won't care about this, anyway, the people here are all his Jiangdong people, and it is completely justified to appease the people in his own territory.

Not only him, but other princes will generally do the same every time they capture a place, after all, the city changes hands, it is easy to cause panic among the people, and the necessary pacification is essential, of course, there are also those who do it absolutely, and they will directly do the slaughter of the city or conniving at the soldiers to burn and kill and plunder, but obviously Lu An will not fall to that point.

In this way, after staying in Wuchang City for two days, some work was almost done, and Lu An was ready to go on another expedition, but the day before the expedition, a very unexpected person came to visit him.

"Enlighten the lord, there is a person named Shan Fu outside the door who wants to ask to see the lord, saying that there is a big event that he wants to tell the lord, I don't know if the lord sees it or not?"

"Shan Fu? Isn't that Xu Shu's pseudonym? Listening to the name reported by the guard, Lu An was slightly surprised, and couldn't help muttering to himself.

"Let him in!" Although he didn't know what Xu Shu was going to tell him, Lu An would naturally not refuse to meet him with such a talent.