The second master is looking at Zhang Xi now, the more he looks at it, the more unpleasant it becomes.

Before Wen Ping's full name was begged for death, he just thought about killing him to get his full name, and felt that it was impossible to persuade Wen Ping to surrender.

As a result, Zhang Xi, this kid, went up, and persuaded Wen Ping to surrender in three or two sentences.

What do you mean?!

Although the target of Wenpin's surrender was Liu Qi, it didn't matter at all.

Liu Qi's ability is not on the same level as Liu Bei at all, Wen Ping is now Liu Qi who surrendered, but in the future, Wen Ping will naturally realize who is the one who can really give full play to his talents.

Not everyone is like a second master for him, and he can not be moved in the face of Cao Cao's solicitation, and only follow Liu Bei wholeheartedly.

Speaking of this, Guan Erye was annoyed again. The second master was stimulated by the inexplicable look that Zhang Xi looked at him at the end.

You said that when you were captured by Cao Cao, why didn't you expect to have such a trick?!

What if I had come to "surrender the Han but not the Cao", would this matter become my own black history?!

The second master remembered this because of Zhang Xi's eyes, and then he looked at Zhang Xi more and more unpleasantly.

Zhang Xi said that he was wronged, it was a subconscious reaction, whether it was good or not, and Luo Guanzhong had to be blamed.

But no matter what, Wen Ping agreed to surrender and was willing to go back to Jiangxia with Guan Yu to see Liu Qi, and Liu Qi decided whether to take him in or not.

Guan Yu and Zhang Xi didn't think that Liu Qi would let go of Wenpin's old ministers in Jingzhou and not accept them, in that case, Liu Qi would be too brainless.

In any case, Guan Yu overfulfilled the task of holding on to Jingling and containing Cao Cao's middle route army, he directly broke Cao Cao's middle route army, and also surrendered Wen Ping, as well as thousands of prisoners.

These thousands of captives were actually local soldiers in Jingzhou led by Wen Ping, and only a few were Qingxu soldiers.

It's not that the Qingxu soldiers are not easy to catch, and they are all scattered, and it is not easy to catch prisoners.

The reason why there are not too many Qingxu soldiers is because Guan Yu screened these Qingxu army captives and released them all.

The families of these Qingxu soldiers are all in the north, even if they are captured, they will not stay here with peace of mind, and if they are not careful, there will be deserters, and it is likely to be large-scale deserters.

This is because of the system problems on Cao Cao's side.

According to the system established by Cao Cao, if these soldiers did not return to the army for a long time, they would be considered killed, and the wives and children of these soldiers would be forcibly arranged to remarry or reorganize their families.

The Qingxu soldiers definitely don't want to go home late and find that their wives and children have become someone else's family, so even if they surrender, they will try their best to escape.

If it is a small number, it is fine, but a large number of deserters is difficult to punish, and the other is easy to cause turmoil in the morale of the army.

So Guan Yu simply let these people go, and saved himself and his eldest brother from embarrassment.

After spending a few days in Jingling and doing a good job of reorganizing the prisoners, Guan Yu and Zhang Xi officially set up troops to return to Xiakou and reported to Liu Bei for the victory.

As for Wen Ping, of course, they also went back to Xiakou together first and met with Liu Bei.

After Liu Bei heard about Wenpin's surrender conditions, not only was he not angry, but he also praised Wenpin, saying that he was a real "loyal man", and then after a little entertainment, he specially sent someone to send Wenpin to Xiling to meet Liu Qi and wait for Liu Qi's arrangement.

After sending off the clerk, Liu Beijun immediately convened a very important military meeting.

Cao Cao went south this time, came with great momentum, retreated with heavy losses, and now fled back to Jiangling in a hurry, Zhou Yu is taking advantage of the victory to pursue, and vigorously encroaching on the counties of Nanjun, at this time Liu Bei must not do nothing, otherwise the benefits are all Jiangdong's.

Therefore, the purpose of Liu Bei's military meeting was to discuss the next actions.

At this time, Zhang Xi finally didn't have to continue to squat behind Zhang Fei, only with ears and no mouth.

His current position is in the row of civil officials, ranking fifth.

There is no way, there are still some old ministers in Liu Beijun to take care of, that is, Xu Shu, who is only ranked third, behind Jian Yong, Zhang Xi is behind Mi Zhu, which is not very normal.

What's more, Mi Zhu used to be Zhang Xi's top boss, so he always has to take care of this face.

However, when it comes to the military discussion, Jian Yong and Mi Zhu will not talk so blindly, and the ones who really play a decision-making role are Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu, and Zhang Xi, and the military generals are Guan Zhang Zhao.

At the military meeting, Zhuge Liang first talked about the combat achievements in the recent period, and at the same time, Liu Bei gave a series of rewards to some meritorious personnel.

For example, Zhao Yun was promoted to General Yamen, not a Yamen general, but a Yamen general, with a higher level than Yamen generals, and belonged to miscellaneous generals.

In the entire Liu Bei camp, except for Liu Bei is a heavy general like the Quartet general, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are all miscellaneous generals.

Zhuge Liang was also promoted from the general of the military division to the general of the military division, and Xu Shu was also promoted, and the generals of the two major military divisions were tied.

Zhang Xi also had an official position adjustment.

Now that he has returned to Liu Bei's account, he naturally no longer needs to continue to be the superintendent of Jiangxia, but has restored the position of Cao Peng, a soldier of General Zuo's Mansion, and at the same time, Liu Bei also added a military position of "Fenwei Zhonglang General" to Zhang Xi.

Zhang Xi really wants to say again, I am a civil official.

But look at the two generals in front of him, forget it, let's not say anything.

In this way, the meritorious people in the Battle of Chibi have basically been promoted in terms of official titles, and these civil and military officers who stayed in Jiangxia also have some rewards in terms of money and food. Except for Zhang Fei and Guan Yu.

Zhang Fei and Guan Yu obviously don't care about this with Liu Bei, they are brothers, the kind of brothers who are really blessed and share hardships.

After the reward was successfully awarded, Liu Bei conveyed an order from his allies to the generals under his command - Zhou Yu asked Liu Bei to send 20,000 troops to besiege the Nanjun Zhishu and Jiangling together.

It's really not Zhou Yu's kindness, and he wants Liu Beijun to get involved, mainly because Zhou Yu doesn't have enough troops now.

Although Cao Cao left Jiangling shortly after fleeing back to Jiangling and retreated to Xiangyang, he still left a part of the army and Cao Ren, Chen Jiao and others to guard Jiangling City, the seat of Nanjun Zhizhi.

And Cao Ren kept gathering the remnants of the army during this time, and now there are at least twenty or thirty thousand soldiers in Jiangling City.

And Zhou Yu has 30,000 or 40,000 people on hand.

This time it's really not that Sun Quan is not weak, in fact, after Zhou Yu defeated Cao Cao in the Red Cliff Fire attack, Sun Quan only took ten days to gather 50,000 soldiers and horses from the family.

This group of Jiangdong families, as soon as they saw Cao Cao's defeat, immediately became generous, and almost all of them reached an agreement, sending troops to help Sun Quan actually wanted to send troops to grab benefits.

But Zhou Yu didn't want these people to come over and mix blindly, so he couldn't tell if he couldn't do anything, and he didn't look back and get in the way.

It happened that Cao Cao's defeat and retreat this time was not only shaken by Jingzhou, but also by Jianghuai, so Zhou Yu suggested that Sun Quan lead the 50,000 people to Hefei in the north, and attack Huainan while Cao Jun was panicking now.

As soon as Sun Quan heard it, he understood the intention of his own governor at that time, and tacitly cooperated with Zhou Yu's suggestion, and personally led the troops to recruit Hefei Anyway, it is the soldiers of the family.

Sun Quan's reinforcements went to Hefei, so Zhou Yu only had thirty or forty thousand troops on hand, at least half of which were still naval troops.

And Cao Ren's men guarding Jiangling had at least more than 20,000 people.

In a nearly one-to-one comparison of military strength, Zhou Yu is the besieging side and Cao Ren is the defender of the city, no matter how you look at it, there is not much chance of winning.

Therefore, Zhou Yu transferred Liu Bei's men and horses over, on the one hand, according to the covenant, the two sides have the obligation to cooperate with each other, and on the other hand, Zhou Yu didn't want Liu Bei to rest like this, so he had to consume Liu Bei's strength.

Liu Bei had no choice, and he also had no choice.

If you don't send troops, you will be accused by Zhou Yu of breaking the alliance, and at the same time, you don't want to just watch the Jiangdong army attack the city. These places are eaten by Koto, but they will not be spit out again.

In Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair", Nanjun and Xiangyang are both very important places, without Nanjun and Xiangyang, "Longzhong Pair" is impossible to talk about.

Obviously, Liu Bei could not sit idly by and watch Zhou Yu annex Nanjun, and then conquer Xiangyang and occupy Jingzhou.

But send troops, Liu Bei's current military strength is also insufficient, and Zhou Yu will blame him for sending less, and if he sends too much, he will probably be regarded as a consumable by Zhou Yu.

Therefore, Liu Bei convened the military meeting to see what the opinions of his subordinates were, whether they should send troops, and how to send troops.

On the question of whether to send troops, it is easy to reach an agreement - send troops.

If you don't send troops, you can watch the Jiangdong people grab the territory, isn't it that in the end, we didn't get anything?!

Therefore, it is certain that troops will be sent out.

As for the appropriateness of sending troops, this is somewhat controversial.

Zhou Yu said that the transfer of 20,000 troops was purely in the lion's mouth, unless Liu Beijun was collectively stupid, it would be impossible to kill so many troops, so Jiangxia would be completely empty.

Xu Shu's suggestion is to send 10,000 troops, so that in the future, you can fight Nanjun, and you can still have some confidence when bargaining with Jiangdong, otherwise there will be fewer troops, and people will say that you didn't help, and symbolically give you a county seat, and eat the big head yourself.

And Zhuge Liang suggested sending 5,000 troops, but bringing more generals, such as Guan Zhang and Zhao, all ran to help the field.

The reason is that Zhuge Liang saw that the siege ability of the Jiangdong Army was not strong, especially the extreme lack of generals with experience in commanding the siege of the city, in this way, send fewer troops and bring more generals, so that Zhou Yu could see his siege ability, and by the way, he could also warn Zhou Yu, let him think about whether his soldiers could withstand the siege of Liu Beifang's generals if he wanted to annex Nanjun alone after the war.

And Zhang Xi, Zhang Xi is more inclined to Zhuge Liang's suggestion, but he is more ruthless than Zhuge Liang, thinking that it is enough to bring 3,000 troops, and he can't borrow some troops from Zhou Yu to use it.

Zhang Xi's suggestion is not whimsical.

Zhang Xi personally fought against the army led by Zhou Yu, and coincidentally, Zhang Xi was also the party defending the city, and he was very aware of the Jiangdong army's ability to attack the city.

Let's put it this way, when rescuing Wei Yan in the city of Exian County, if the person who surrounded the southern city gate at that time was not Ling Tong but Cao Ren, then Kou Feng would not have been able to kill him at all.

Zhou Yu thinks that there is a problem with the Jiangdong Army's land combat capability, but in the final analysis, the Jiangdong Army's land combat capability is not that the soldiers are not good, but that the generals cannot train or command.

So what Zhang Xi meant was to send 3,000 people over first, let Zhang Fei and Guan Yu lead the team, let Zhou Yu see what the land siege should be like, and then lend these two 10,000 enemies to Zhou Yu for use, maybe he could trick some troops from Zhou Yu's hands.

In this way, it can not only preserve Jiangxia's troops, but also show the importance of its own side, and in the future, there will be a reasonable basis in the distribution negotiations of the southern county, and the province will be squeezed out.

As for sending more people over, what if Zhou Yu directly asked the soldiers brought by Ling to attack the city?!

It is very difficult to siege the city, the Jiangxia army went to attack the city, and the loss was big Zhou Yu was happy, and the loss was small Zhou Yu said that if you don't do your best, he will be just as happy as he will be when he is assigned to talk about this after the war.

Therefore, it is inevitable that Zhou Yu will not be happy, send fewer people, you can also attack the city, I have few people, you can send some people to support me.

Liu Bei thought about it, and finally chose Zhuge Liang's suggestion.

It's not that Xu Shu and Zhang Xi's suggestions are bad, they both have their own reasoning.

But Xu Shu's one, Liu Bei is reluctant to have so many troops of 10,000 people, and Zhang Xi's one, Liu Bei thinks that he will take 3,000 people, which is a bit insulting to Zhou Yu's IQ.

So, I still choose a more compromise, Zhuge Liang's suggestion.

After a few days of reorganizing the army, Liu Bei led 5,000 men and horses, with two generals, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, two junior generals, Guan Ping and Kou Feng, and two strategists, Zhang Xi and Xu Shu, to Nanjun to help Zhou Yu conquer Jiangling.

And Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun guarded Xiakou, one handled government affairs, and the other led the army to guard.

Not only to guard against the Cao army in Xiangyang and Runan, but also to guard against Jiangdong by the way. What if Jiangdong really took advantage of Liu Bei's outings and reneged on the covenant to attack Jiangxia?!

Zhuge Liang is very cautious.

(End of chapter)