Zhang Xi doesn't have to be ashamed.

Li Dian finally withdrew his troops on his own initiative and did not launch this last attack.

It's not that Li Dian doesn't want to save people, but it's too late.

Just when Li Dian was tidying up the formation and preparing to launch the last attack, he saw that Liu Beijun suddenly appeared in the mountain road with reinforcements, and Li Dian still knew the person who led the reinforcements.

Guan Yu, Guan Yunchang.

Okay, Guan Yu has appeared, so don't ask, Xiahou is more than lucky.

At this point, if Li Dian continues to take the initiative to attack, then his brain will be flooded.

Yes, now Li Dian still has more than 8,000 soldiers, which is nearly three times more than the number of the entire Liu Bei army. But military affairs are not arithmetic problems, and it is not a matter of who has more soldiers and who has fewer soldiers.

There were still more than 8,000 soldiers on his side, but not to mention the loss of the former army and the main general, three consecutive attacks on his side were repulsed, and the opponent was only 800 people.

Originally, the morale of the army was not high, but his side had not yet attacked, but the other side came with reinforcements, how could this battle be fought.

This is just the idea of ordinary soldiers, but in the eyes of the generals, this is a more serious matter.

Guan Yu appeared at the mountain pass, people are not only here to help the defenders, they must have finished cleaning up the front army led by Xiahou Xuan, and they will come to encircle the rear army at this time.

Li Dian didn't want to be eaten as dumplings like Xiahoudun, and the most rational way was naturally to withdraw from the army.

But in fact, Li Dian was too careful.

Although Guan Yu appeared, the actual loss of Guan Yu's soldiers was also very large, after all, Xiahoudun really wanted to flee for his life, and his soldiers were really desperate.

Even if they occupied the geographical advantage and used fire to attack, the soldiers under Guan Yu's tent still suffered heavy casualties.

If it weren't for Zhang Fei suddenly taking Kou Feng into the mountain road, making Xiahou Dun mistakenly think that Li Dian on the back road had been defeated and retreated, and he had no reinforcements, Guan Yu didn't know what this battle would be like.

Therefore, it is impossible for Guan Yu to have the troops to besiege and kill Li Dian, and his appearance is to deter Li Dian, and now Li Dian obediently retreats, which also makes Guan Yu breathe a sigh of relief.

As for Xiahoudun. Guan Yu didn't catch him, and Zhang Fei didn't catch him either.

Xiahoudun finally fled into Anlin under the desperate protection of his own guards.

Once he entered the woods, it was too difficult to chase down a few people who were bent on escaping, Zhang Fei took Kou Feng into the forest to search for a while, and finally retreated because he didn't dare to go too deep.

Xiahoudun ran away, but it was not without gain, and he caught the enemy's adjutant general.

Well, Yu Ban, who was caught by the second master himself, failed to escape the hands of the second master after all.

But this time Yu Ban was arrested, and it was really not a nest.

In order to cover Xiahoudun's escape, Yu Ban exchanged helmets with Xiahoudun, and the second master thought that Yu Ban was Xiahoudun, and then chased along the route of Yu Ban's escape, and finally captured Yu Ban alive with the help of the soldiers.

Therefore, the second master still has a lot of respect for the captured Yu Ban this time, after all, what Yu Ban did did really make people pick on the thumb.

It was Liu Bei who treated Yu Ban, that was also to treat each other with courtesy, and when he saw Yu Ban, he loosened the tie and gave him a seat, and then personally persuaded him to surrender.

At this time, Yu Ban was not Yu Ban more than ten years later, he received Cao Cao's great favor, and people still have flesh, of course, it is impossible to descend.

Of course, Liu Bei will not kill, after all, Yu Ban was arrested to cover Xiahou Dun's escape, and this arrest is with the intention of protecting the Lord and Savior, and killing Yu Ban will be criticized.

Therefore, Liu Bei was entertained with delicious food and drink, and then placed under house arrest in General Zuo's mansion in disguise, as for the future, it depends on Liu Bei and Cao Cao's means.

In these years, anyone who wants to save face will abide by a little rule in this regard, so in addition to having no freedom, Yu Ban has a good life.

After repelling Xiahoudun's 20,000 army, Liu Bei was quite happy, but this time Zhuge Liang directly poured a basin of cold water on Liu Bei.

Wancheng sent troops to Xinye for two consecutive years, once Cao Ren and once Xiahoudun, both of whom were Cao Cao's confidants and favorite generals. What does this mean?!

It shows that Cao Cao has always been to the south and Liu Bei.

Cao Cao's main energy was to pacify Hebei, but he still used troops against the south for two consecutive years, if Cao Cao pacified Hebei and freed his hands, what would he do? !

Liu Bei is not a little white, after a reminder from Zhuge Liang, he immediately came back to his senses.

According to the current intelligence, Cao Cao has pacified Hebei, and the reason why he did not go south is just to solve the northern border trouble once and for all - to defeat Wuhuan.

But Wu Huan's gang of people, even Gongsun Zhan can't do it, Yuan Shao was a lackey for Yuan Shao at that time, how could he do it to Cao Cao.

Sooner or later, Cao Cao had a day to go south.

However, Liu Bei was not too nervous, as an old soldier, he had seen more crisis scenes, and he knew what he should do now.

On the one hand, it began to recruit and expand the army to make up for the losses after the war, and it was no longer possible to expand the number of soldiers to 5,000, and the supply of grain and grass could not keep up.

On the other hand, he went to Xiangyang with Zhuge Liang and explained to Liu Biao in person the judgment that Cao Cao might go south, so that Liu Biao could prepare in advance.

Liu Biao is not a vegetarian, although his ears are a little softer, but he knows more or less the priorities, and immediately ordered to start expanding the armament war, and strive to train the Jingzhou army that has not been trained for a long time before Cao Cao goes south.

It's just that Liu Biao, the pastor of Jingzhou, is also aggrieved, and the affairs of Jingzhou are not entirely up to him, and the army he can directly command and control is also limited, and many things must be coordinated by Cai Kuai's two families to advance.

Liu Biao himself didn't know when the drill of Jingzhou's soldiers would be completed, so he still hoped that Liu Bei could resist Cao's army as much as possible in Xinye and Fancheng, and create enough time for him to reorganize his army.

And Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were also a little worried when they saw Liu Biao this time.

Normal people can see that Liu Biao's body is really not as good as before.

At this time last year, Liu Bei repelled Cao Ren and came to Xiangyang to see Liu Biao, Liu Biao was still in good spirits and sat in the main hall to talk to Liu Bei, and the two chatted for an hour or two.

But now, Liu Biao already needs someone to support him before he can come out to see Liu Bei, and the meeting time has not lasted more than half an hour, and Liu Biao is already in good spirits.

Liu Biao's state made Liu Bei lament and Zhuge Liang worried.

If this is a change from the past, seeing that Liu Biao can't live for long, Zhuge Liang will not be worried. If Liu Biao continues to live, Liu Bei will not have any possibility of becoming the master of Jingzhou.

But Liu Biao's health is not good at this time, Zhuge Liang will think of Zhang Xi and the assumption that this kid said.

If Cao Jun went south and happened to catch up with Liu Biao's death, Jingzhou would be turbulent and Zhuge Liang would have a headache when he thought about it.

It doesn't matter if Liu Biao dies early or later.

Earlier, give Liu Bei enough time, as long as he can initially control Jingzhou, under the pressure of Cao Cao, the family in Jingzhou may really unite to support Liu Bei, as long as Cao Cao is defeated, then Liu Bei can officially gain a foothold in Jingzhou.

Later, let Liu Biao lead the Jingzhou family to repel Cao Cao, and then Liu Biao died of illness again, Zhuge Liang also had a way to persuade the Jingzhou family to support Liu Bei through lobbying. It's a big deal to support a puppet to take the position first, whether it's Liu Qi or Liu Cong.

But if it was really as Zhang Xi said, it was not too early or too late to catch up with Cao Cao and go south, but Liu Biao happened to die of illness. Zhuge Liang really can't help it now, he doesn't have enough time, and he doesn't have time to prepare for many things.

It has been more than half a year since he decided to go out of the mountain to assist Liu Bei, and in the past half a year, Zhuge Liang has done the most is to help Liu Bei sort out the intricate interests within the Jingzhou family, and then let Liu Bei prescribe the right medicine to marry these families.

In half a year, the effect is a little bit, Liu Bei has won the support of the Huang family, and the Pang family has also expressed a tacit attitude towards Liu Bei's interests, only Cai Kuai's two families are still relatively cold, but this is also expected.

Cai Kuai's two families were vested interests who supported Liu Biao's ascendancy back then, and when Liu Biao was still in power, it was impossible for them to give up their vested interests to participate in the redistribution of Liu Bei's group's interests.

As for Jiangxia County, this Zhuge Liang is still laying out, and he needs to have a suitable reason for Liu Bei to meddle in Jiangxia affairs openly.

But now this opportunity has not yet appeared, and Zhuge Liang still needs to think carefully about how to create this opportunity.

Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei stayed in Xiangyang for more than half a month this time, unlike last year, Xu Shu accompanied him, this time with Zhuge Liang, the head snake, the relationship between Liu Bei and the representatives of the Jingxiang family went more smoothly, and a sufficient trust relationship was established between him and his son Liu Qi.

It's not that Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei have identified their son Liu Qi, but the main thing is that they can't contact Liu Cong.

Liu Cong is only less than ten years old this year, and the big things are in the hands of the Cai family and Cai Mao, the Cai family is kind to Zhuge Liang, after all, the two families are also close, but they can't look down on Liu Bei, how can they let Liu Cong meet Liu Bei.

Liu Qi, who lacks network support in Jingzhou and urgently needs to make friends with others to consolidate his position, belongs to the cooperation between the two sides.

There were also some small things that happened in the middle, such as Liu Bei gave Liu Qi an idea, asking him to invite Zhuge Liang to dinner, and then come to the house to draw a ladder.

This matter, Zhang Xi also heard about it later, and only Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang know the reason for the matter, and Liu Qi may not know.

But Zhang Xi always felt that this matter was actually a game conspired by Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, which not only befriended Liu Qi because of this, but also made Liu Qi grateful to Liu Bei.

As for letting Liu Qi beg Liu Biao, agree to let him serve as Jiangxia Taishou. Liu Biao was very happy, but Huang Zu was not happy to have any way.

Before Huang Zu was defeated, Liu Biao had no way to appoint anyone as Jiangxia Taishou without authorization.

As for Huang Zu. Hehe, this recent life has also been quite difficult.

(End of chapter)