Chapter 580: Plunder
"Hehe, my lord, this Liu Bei knows you very well!" Zhang Liao on the side said to Lu Bu with a strange face.
Lu Bu didn't answer immediately, he glanced back at the territory of Yuzhou, and couldn't help but snort coldly, "Rack!" The war horse under his crotch flapped and ran.
Zhang Liao also looked at the lord in front of him and couldn't help but smile and shook his head, Liu Bei is really familiar with this lord of his own family, and knows Lu Bu's temper, that is, a person who doesn't care about the consequences, as long as he is comfortable, where can he control other people's thoughts, although Lu Bu's character makes these heroes disdainful, because if they can't bear it, they will make a big plan, because only by enduring what ordinary people can't endure can they do what ordinary people can't do.
But I have to say that Liu Bei and Cao Cao are really afraid of such a Lu Bu, and if Lu Bu is annoyed, then it is bearable, this is the so-called strong and afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal is afraid of not dying.
Lu Bu such a letter made Liu Bei really well-behaved, if this really provoked Lu Bu, would he still want Runan City, so Liu Bei was scared and his heart was empty, in order to make Uncle Lu Bu happy and to let Uncle Lu rest assured that he actually opened the gates of Runan City This is to tell Lu Bu, I don't have any idea to stop you, if you want to go, just go.
It is also a strange thing to be able to be robbed of the city and have to let people leave, but what can Liu Bei do, he has no way, he can only be beaten passively and smile.
"If Liu Bei knew that the lord had changed, would he cry!" Lu Bu's civil and military forces wanted to know very much, if Liu Bei knew that the current Lu Bu was no longer the stunned man who didn't care about anything at the beginning, he would think so, he also had scruples now, and the letter he gave Liu Bei was actually mostly intimidating. If Liu Bei really sent troops to intercept it. Then Lu Bu will definitely leave these people in Yuzhou.
Yuzhou Runan Prefecture Pastoral Mansion.
Liu Bei has already brought his family back. Because he knew that Runan was no longer in danger, at least for the time being.
Liu Bei was walking around the mansion, and the rest of his Mrs. Gan on the side looked at her husband with such an uneasy look and didn't know how to comfort him.
Finally, there was movement outside the mansion, it turned out to be Guan Yu, Guan Yu got off the war horse and sent the war horse to the guards who led the horse on the side, and actively walked towards the mansion.
"Big brother!" Guan Yu saw Liu Bei, and Liu Bei also greeted him.
"Big brother, this Yangzhou army is too uncharacterized!" Guan Yu's face was very ugly, which made Liu Bei feel shocked.
"Second brother speak slowly!"
"Big brother. You don't know, this radius of hundreds of miles, basically ten rooms and nine empty, the whole Yuzhou is afraid, I'm afraid. Guan Yu was a little speechless and stopped, he rode alone, along the way, Yangzhou can be regarded as very thorough, ten rooms and nine empty, basically the people have been relocated by him. Only those who really couldn't run were given some food and grass to stay.
Now the people who can really stay in Runan are the people in Runan City, and the other people have been taken away by the Yangzhou army.
"I see!" Liu Bei knew that it was not good. But he didn't expect it to be so bad that Cheng dΓΉ was completely sweeping. How many people can be in Runan City, there are only 80,000 people in the city.
"The people of all four continents seem to be bewitched by this Yangzhou army, they only care about their immediate interests, but they can't imagine how much the eldest brother suffered and tired for them at the beginning." Guan Yu was a little annoyed, especially the people in Dingcheng, most of those people came from Xuzhou, it was Liu Bei who took pity on them to save them from the clutches of Cao Cao in Xuzhou, and now they abandoned their eldest brother one by one.
"Second brother, don't say it!" Liu Bei waved his hand and shook his head and said, when he brought the people from Xuzhou, it was just to make Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry not pursue, you really think that Liu Bei is so kind, with these people, Liu Bei is good to escape with white ears and heavy armor, otherwise he would have been chased by Cao Cao and eliminated, only by hiding among the people, in this way, can Cao Cao have scruples and dare not kill.
"Report, report to the lord!" Just when Liu Bei was distressed, a herald came over there, and he knelt down in front of Liu Bei.
"What's the matter?" Liu Bei frowned and asked.
"Back to the lord, outside the city, thousands of people outside the city want to ask the lord to take him in." The herald said to the lord Liu Bei.
"Thousands of people?" Liu Bei and Guan Yu were all stunned, and Guan Yu on the side laughed, "Hmph, those people have a little conscience, knowing that the eldest brother is the one who saves them, what is the future of leaving with that three-surnamed house slave, they will inevitably become starving." β
"Big brother, there won't be any fraud in this, right?" Guan Yu was a little puzzled, would this Lu Bujun be so kind to leave these thousands of people, or did these thousands of people come from other places?
"Huh? Let's go, let's see! "Thousands of people, such a scale still needs Liu Bei to go out in person, Liu Bei's face also has a happy color, which shows that he still has a heart, although there are no hundreds of thousands of people, but thousands are also meat, no matter how small the insects are, they can eat it.
Liu Bei went out with a smile, but after going out and seeing the people at the city gate, his face was completely stinky.
It's not that these thousands of people are fake, these thousands of people are all honest people, but this age seems to be a little older, they are all seventy or eighty years old, or they are directly some wounded soldiers who are missing arms and legs and were forcibly discharged by Liu Bei.
"What a good person, a good person!" Liu Bei's face was really pale.
This Lu Bu not only took away the people of Yuzhou, but also gave him those old, weak, sick and disabled who couldn't leave, and Liu Bei directly packed them and sent them over.
"Master, master, Uncle Liuhuang, open the door, open the door, let's go in!" The people under the city were banging on the city gate there, because there were thousands of people, so the captain of the city gate was afraid that there would be spies among them, so he closed the city gate.
"Big brother, shall we open the city gate?" Guan Yu looked at Liu Bei and told the truth, Guan Yu was also very angry, he could see that the thousands of people under the city were the people. It's totally cumbersome. These old, weak, sick and disabled people not only cannot be used for the army or open up wasteland. Instead, they need food to feed them, Guan Yu knows that this city gate can't be opened, but he can't bear these people.
Open the gates? After opening the city gate, these thousands of people will be fed by him Liu Bei, and there are still 30,000 soldiers and horses in his Runan City to feed, how much grain and grass does he Liu Bei have? These people don't have the ability to work, they just open their mouths to eat, but if they don't open this city gate, he has a reputation for Liu Bei's benevolence. That's the end of it.
These thousands of people don't have too many packages on them, and at most they only have a few days' rations, if these thousands of people starve to death under the city gate of Runan, he Liu Bei will wait for a complete reputation.
Liu Bei was struggling, and some of the people below shouted loudly, "Lord Liu Jingzhou, it's okay to open the door, we were a soldier for you at the beginning, and we have done our best, my lord, you can open the door!" "If you sleep in the wilderness in this weather, you're going to freeze to death.
"It seems that there are still our retired wounded soldiers on the main kilometer side!" Some of the soldiers had sharp eyes, and they really found some former robes.
All right! It's not just the old and the weak. Even the sick and disabled are here, and they can be quit the army by Liu Bei, a miser. It must be some who can't fight anymore, otherwise they would have been used by Liu Bei to enrich the troops.
"Open the gates!" Liu Bei thought for a while, and then gritted his teeth and said this.
"My lord, this is a burden to open the city gates, no, no, where are these people going?" A bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled, you can't let him go into the city and leave it there, so let's arrange food and houses for them, and some old ones have to be taken care of, otherwise once they are magnified, then he Liu Bei is not benevolent.
"And the grain and grass in the city?" The captain of the city gate means that there is not much food and grass in the city, so he simply does not open the city gate.
"Didn't you hear what I said! Open the gates. Liu Bei shouted loudly.
"Yes, yes!" Seeing that his lord was angry, and his own mention was also kind to be a donkey's liver and lungs, he naturally didn't dare to say more, and with a wave of his hand, he asked his subordinates to open the city gate and let these people enter in turn.
Liu Bei also wanted to prevent these people from entering the city, but he couldn't do it in front of the public, so many soldiers on the side were watching, especially the wounded soldiers inside, if this was done too much, the people's hearts and minds would all be scattered.
So Liu Bei naturally wanted to let these people enter the city, this dumb loss, he was determined, and he could only endure it.
"Where has the messenger of the Blessed Father?" Liu Bei asked his subordinates on the side.
"According to the time, it should have passed Yuzhou, entered the Yangtze River, and was in the Xinye generation."
"Good! I hope that the public will benefit from this trip! "Liu Bei is now relying on Sun Gan to photograph the envoy of Jingzhou, if he succeeds, Liu Bei will not lack food and grass, naturally these thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled are not a problem, but if not, then it is no wonder that he Liu Bei.
Lu Bu's army retreated in an orderly manner, although it was not able to take Yuzhou, but Lu Bu learned this time from Yuzhou can be regarded as raging, Yuzhou's population of 700,000, Lu Bu brought back at least 400,000.
The remaining 300,000 people were not only conscripted by Liu Bei, but also Nandun City was wiped out, and Cao Cao also took a lot away when he left, and now Liu Bei has 30,000 soldiers and horses and 80,000 people left, and the city is left in Runan, and other places have basically become ruins.
No matter how desperate Liu Bei is, he will only be able to survive with 50,000 soldiers and horses at most, and Liu Bei will no longer have much of a threat.
Just wait for this time to calm the crisis in Lujiang and then come back to Yuzhou.
Xu Shu can be regarded as busy in Shouchun, with a population of 400,000, it takes a lot of time to arrange accommodation and the like, as well as the statistics of household registration, fortunately, there is no shortage of grain and grass in Yangzhou now, otherwise, the 400,000 really can't afford to raise.
Lu Bu's army went non-stop towards the Lujiang River, and the Chengguan army was gathering in the direction of Xinye, and when it really started, Lu Bu's army was ready to attack the mainland of Jingzhou, so that they could hand over Liu Mang, the king of Shu.
And our Shu king, Liu Mang, and Liu Hanyang, are still savages in the mountains. (To be continued......)