Xiao Furong hugged Liu Zhang's waist tightly with both hands, and gently lay on Liu Zhang's shoulder, Liu Zhang drank the slightly hot tea little by little, looked at the tattoo of the quilt, and thought about the things in his heart.

At this time, Fa Zheng walked in, slightly happy, Xiao Furong hurriedly loosened some and tidied up the hair on her forehead.

"The lord, Hanzhong, Shangyong, Yubei, Jingnan, people from all over the world come to help."

"Oh?" Before going to Shirakawa, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, he ordered troops and horses from all over the country to come to help, but he didn't expect to arrive so soon. Liu Zhang turned over, hastily put on his clothes, and strode towards the hall.

In the hall, three heroic generals and a woman in white stood.

"The last general, Qin Ci, led a thousand soldiers and horses from Wuling to help, and is willing to be the vanguard of the lord."

"The last general, Yang Ren, led 10,000 soldiers and horses from Shangyong Hanzhong to come to the aid to strengthen the prestige of our army."

"The last general, Deng Zhi, led an army of 20,000 to Baichuan, and accompanied the army with a large number of samples of siege equipment newly made by the craftsman battalion to help the lord take Xiangyang."

The white woman stepped forward, her slender white palms arched her hands: "Guiyang Fan Lixiang, lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to come, willing to cut the enemy's vital point with the sword of the lord." ”

Fan Lixiang is dressed in white silk, dignified and solemn, and her daughter's delicate face is outstanding among the generals.

"Haha, ridiculous, your 20,000 peasants are also called soldiers and horses, and they are also blades, laughing at me, Miss Fan, go home and plow the fields, hahaha."

The people of the three counties of Jingnan and the people of Deng Zhi walked all the way from Jiangling, it may have caused some kind of discord, as soon as Fan Lixiang finished speaking, Deng Zhi's deputy general Qin Ming laughed disdainfully, and Deng Zhi immediately glanced at him, told him to shut up, and bowed respectfully to Liu Zhang.

Deng Zhi surrendered in Brazil, Liu Zhang was unconscious, when he woke up, the army had already gone to Jiameng Pass, and later Deng Zhi was ordered by Wei Yan to command 80,000 troops in Jiangling, after Zhang Ren entered the city, Deng Zhi in order to avoid suspicion, he asked to unload all the military power and return to the town of fish.

Liu Zhang has never seen Deng Zhi, and Deng Zhi has never seen Liu Zhang, but I heard from the rumors that Liu Zhang has a bad temper, and he is cautious as soon as he enters Baichuan, this Qin Ming is usually very smug and shapeless, but he didn't expect to be so presumptuous in front of the lord, Deng Zhi's heart was raised, he raised his eyelids and glanced at Liu Zhang, and saw that Liu Zhang was not angry, so he relaxed slightly.

"Why are the forces of Hanzhong and Shangyong so small?" Liu Zhang glanced at Fan Lixiang, who did not have any change in expression, and even sketched a smile at the corner of his mouth, Liu Zhang did not pursue Qin Ming's rudeness, and turned his head to ask Yang Ren.

"Back to the lord, Wu Ban Taishou because of a piece of land in the Qiang conflict with the Qiang people, that land originally belonged to my Yizhou jurisdiction, after Zhang Lu rebelled, the Qiang people ceded the Qiang people for grazing, now Wu Ban Taishou has sent troops to occupy, in order to prevent the Qiang people from retaliating, do not dare to tamper with the soldiers of Hanzhong, please forgive the lord."

"Then it'll be fine."

Liu Zhang waved his hand, let out a sigh of relief, he was in a good mood, and a rare smile appeared on his face, with the four-way reinforcements, the available strength of the Sichuan army exceeded 100,000 again, and Xiangyang could bite even if it was a stone.

"Each of you will go back and set up camp, and all of them will be dispatched by General Zhang Ren."

"Yes."

"Miss Fan stays."

Fan Lixiang was walking out of the house, heard Liu Zhang shouting, turned around, Liu Zhang said: "This official remembers the agreement with you, you have made three merits, this official now officially gives you the Changsha Taishou, Chen Ying as the Guiyang Taishou, and Xing Daorong as the Lingling Taishou, all under your control, how about it?" ”

All the generals were shocked, Fan Lixiang's official position is probably the largest among all local officials, Chen Yingxing Daorong is Fan Lixiang's confidant, what kind of domination, this is completely the direct command of the three counties, and the weight of the seal is incomparable.

But after thinking about it, if it weren't for Fan Lixiang, Jingnan would not be Liu Zhang's at all, and Liu Zhang couldn't come to conquer Jingbei so easily, and it was reasonable to entrust the three counties to Fan Lixiang, not to mention that the 20,000 peasant army had no one to control except Fan Lixiang.

Except for Qin Ming's nose and Fa Zheng's eyelids moving, no one else objected.

"Thank you, Lord." Fan Lixiang didn't look at everyone's faces, and promised loudly.

The four generals left, Liu Zhang glanced at the weather outside and was about to return to the room, Fa Zheng suddenly said: "Lord, I heard General Zhang Ren say that you want to send troops to Xiangyang in two days?" ”

"Did he look for you?" Liu Zhang turned around.

Fa Zheng nodded, Zhang Ren knew that he couldn't persuade Liu Zhang, so he came to find himself, these generals and himself already knew that once Liu Zhang decided something, it would be difficult to change it, but some things had to be said.

Fa Zheng remembered the mission he had positioned himself, a king should be sharp and decisive, but he couldn't let Liu Zhang's decisiveness turn into stubbornness, so some words that were inconvenient for the generals to say, he had to say.

"Xiaozhi, what do you think?"

"The lord's worries are not unreasonable, if the rain is still not slow after three days, and the Xiangjiang River rises, we may not be able to reach Xiangyang for a month, and we have a good opportunity to cross the river in vain, but now we have as many as 50,000 people to help, even if we don't count Fan Lixiang's 20,000 peasant rebels, there are 100,000 people in total, even if the worst is the worst case, a month later, we will send troops to Xiangyang, Xiangyang is either a recruit or a sailor, and it will definitely be captured, not to mention, such a heavy rain lasts for more than three days, it is indeed contrary to common sense."

Liu Zhang breathed a long sigh of relief and said slowly: "There are many dreams at night, how can it not be a mediocre person who disturbs himself, this official seems to be in prison, okay, listen to you, wait for the heavy rain to slow down before marching the army, but the production of pontoon bridges and bamboo rafts cannot be stopped." ”

"Yes." Fa Zheng bowed down and bowed.

Liu Zhang returned to the house, and at this time, a soldier came, bowed down on one knee, and presented a bamboo slip: "Lord, Yizhou Zhou does not doubt the letter." ”

"Zhou Budo?" Liu Zhang suddenly turned around, to be honest, although Liu Zhang promised to send troops after the rain eased, but his heart was still up and down, Liu Zhang blamed his own psychology on the fear of Xu Shu, but it always lingered, now Zhou Budo letter, Zhou Budo genius, if there is a good strategy, he will be able to give himself peace of mind.

Liu Zhang took the bamboo slip and quickly unfolded it, but the excitement on his face gradually faded and slowly turned into disappointment, and then he sighed boredly, Fa Zheng came over and asked, "Lord, what did Zhou Budo say?" ”

Liu Zhang handed the bamboo slip to Fa Zheng: "See for yourself, he sent letters from afar to ask me to spare his uncle Liu Xian." ”

Fa Zheng glanced at the bamboo slips, thought for a while and said to Liu Zhang: "This is also an opportunity, I heard that Liu Xian is not driving for Jingzhou, we can secretly send someone to communicate with him, maybe we can cooperate with the outside." ”

Liu Zhang nodded, and he would not suffer a loss if he communicated, but with the lesson of Yang Song last time, Liu Zhang did not think that Liu Xian, who was born in a family and was in a high position, would take refuge in him.

It's just that Zhou Budo sent such a letter all the way to this, just for this? Although it is reasonable, Liu Zhang always feels that Zhou Budo has that head, and it will not be so simple to do one thing.