Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun came to see Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was overjoyed when he saw the two coming back: "Yide and Zilong, it's good that you two come back safely." ”

Zhao Yun bowed and said: "There is a labor lord who is concerned!" ”

Zhang Fei said: "Big brother, Zilong saw that Cao Jun was chasing urgently, so he went to delay. Let the big brother run well. Well, good retreat. ”

Liu Bei smiled bitterly: "Cao Mengde is really ruthless, this time the soldiers and horses were completely damaged. The rest of the people were scattered. ”

Zhuge Liang persuaded: "Don't worry, the lord still has more than 10,000 sailors at General Guan's office. Gongzi Liu Qi also has nearly 20,000 elite soldiers. There is still a picture. ”

Liu Bei said: "Since this is the case, then let's retreat to Jiangxia!" I wonder where Childe has gone? ”

As he was talking, his subordinates reported: "Mi Zhu brought his son Liu Qi to come." General Kwan is also there! ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed and said, "Great." ”

Liu Bei took the remaining soldiers and horses and the people, and he would fight with Liu Qi and Guan Yu. Liu Qi connected to Liu Bei and said, "The little nephew is late."

Liu Bei said: "Sone is polite, Childe sent troops to help, Liu Bei is already grateful."

Liu Qi said: "Gan Ning has already led 3,000 troops to take Jiangling, why don't you go with my uncle."

Liu Bei said: "Cao Cao's army has already pounced, and it will be useless to go to Jiangling again, it is better to go to Jiangxia for the time being, and then make plans."

Zhuge Liang said: "Lord, if Gan Ning takes Jiangling, the prince will go to Jiangling to succeed Jingzhou as pastor, so justifiably announce the ownership of Jingzhou, so as to order Jingzhou and resist Cao Cao." In addition, he sent people to the four counties of Jingnan, Yidu, Yiling and other places to announce the succession of Liu Qi's son, and spread the news to all directions. Such a popular desire will be beneficial to our recovery of Jingzhou in the future. ”

Liu Bei nodded and said good, and ordered Guan Yu to lead the troops to transport the remaining people to Jiangxia for resettlement first, and then come to converge. Since he came to Jiangling with Liu Qi, Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Liang.

Gan Ning led 3,000 soldiers and horses as the vanguard to attack Jiangling, on the way, Liu Bei sent an envoy to ask for help, Liu Qi changed the route to the north, to aid Liu Bei, so that Gan Ning went with him, Gan Ning hurriedly came to see Liu Qi and said: "I heard that Gongzi is going to give up attacking Jiangling. ”

Liu Qi said: "Exactly, my uncle brought more than 100,000 people, and the journey was slow, so I was invited to go, meet the people, and retreat to Jiangxia."

Gan Ning said: "In this case, Jiangling must be attacked, otherwise it is impossible to place more than 100,000 people with the grain stored in Jiangxia alone, and Jiangling is stationed with a large number of equipment and baggage. ”

Liu Qi pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "In this way, there will be Captain Laogan." Gan Ning took the order.

Gan Ning traveled on the Yangtze River all the year round, predicted the fog and said God help me, take advantage of the fog on the river, calculate the time of opening the city, personally lead a hundred people to Jiangling City, quietly walk, wait until dozens of steps to the Jiangling City Gate, the soldiers and horses defending the city only found out.

Gan Ning held a sharp blade in his hand, killed the defenders, occupied the city gate, and the three thousand men and horses behind him went straight into the city.

When the Jiangling Shou arrived, Gan Ning killed several people and shouted: "I am the governor of Liu Qi, the eldest prince of Jiangxia, when Liu Biao left, he let the eldest prince take the throne, the eldest and youngest are orderly, Liu Cong usurped the throne, do you dare to join him and look for death?" ”

Jiangling Shou was shouted that he couldn't distinguish between truth and falsehood, and he didn't know what to do, but he didn't know that Gan Ning looked down on Liu Biao, so he called Liu Biao's name, but between the noise, he couldn't hear it really, so he was shocked by Gan Ning's momentum. Gan Ning took the opportunity to break through the crowd and capture the Jiangling guards. The rest will fall.

After Gan Ning surrendered to the Jiangling guards, he occupied the granary and the arsenal. Gan Ning received all the large and small warships, and Gan Ning summoned the people and fishermen to drive the boats to prepare to meet Liu Bei.

Halfway through, Liu Qi's front army came. informed Liu Bei of the defeat of the army, and said: "Gongzi Liu Qi is going to Jiangling to succeed to the throne, we have made preparations early."

Gan Ning immediately mobilized the people to transport all the grain, cloth, weapons, and armor from Jiangling to the riverside, surrendered the soldiers and horses, and waited until Liu Qi came to see if they were willing to go to Jiangxia, so they took their families with them, and released them if they were unwilling.

However, Liu Qi is the eldest son of Liu Biao, and these surrenderers will surrender without accident. summoned the Jiangling clan Haoqiang and informed Liu Qi to come to the throne, but all the major families knew that Cao Jun was coming, and they all made excuses not to come.

After Liu Qi arrived, he inherited Liu Biao's title and official title, and the whole city reported it, and sent people to Yiling, Yidu, Jingnan and other places to inform him.

Then the materials were fully transferred, and Guan Yu's army also came to help. Tens of thousands of people in Jiangling heard that Cao Jun was coming, and voluntarily followed them to Jiangxia, and Liu Bei brought them all back.

Two days later, Tanmalai reported that Cao Cao's army was less than 100 miles away from Jiangling.

Liu Bei and Liu Qi withdrew from Jiangling after packing up, and the grain that could not be taken away was distributed to the people, and the weapons and armor were destroyed so as not to be used by Cao Cao.

When the boat left the ferry, the vanguard of the Cao army had already arrived from afar, and at this moment, a child on the shore ran along the riverbank, desperately shouting and waving, Liu Bei couldn't help but say when he saw it: "Isn't that doubtful?" ”

Gan Ning said: "Let you know, and the last general will go to pick him up." ”

Liu Bei said: "Okay, Xingba be careful." ”

Gan Ning immediately untied a small boat and sailed to the shore like an arrow, and Cao Jun also saw the child and urged the horse to come.

Gan Ning took the first step and picked up the child, Cao Jun stretched his bow and arrows, and Gan Ning picked up a wooden plank to protect himself and the child, and rowed away from the shore.

Cao Jun stood on the shore and shot arrows, but the wind direction was northerly, Gan Ning's boat quickly left the range of bows and arrows, Gan Ning put down the plank, took out the big bow, opened the bow and set up arrows, and killed a Cao army cavalry with one arrow, and a series of more than ten arrows, all of which fell down without the string.

Cao Jun panicked for a while, and Gan Ning laughed and left. Gan Ning returned to the big boat, Liu Bei waited for him, only to see that the child's face was pale.

Liu Bei hurriedly said: "No doubt, why are you here?" ”

The child got up and straightened his clothes, first bowed to Gan Ning, and then said: "My uncle Liu Xian, because I want to go to Xinye to see Xuande Gong, my uncle does not allow it, and brings me to Jiangling for house arrest, I don't know anything outside, thanks to the fact that I accidentally heard that Liu Qi's son was on the throne, so I wanted to escape, but the guards did not allow it, so I falsely claimed that the city would be plagued by soldiers, and Cao Jun was going to attack the city, I am afraid that it would be difficult to go out then, I have a friend, I am afraid that something will happen to him, and I want to invite him to take refuge in his home, and I want the guards to go with me, stay on the street, quietly bypass the servants, and hide, I didn't want to be too tired and fell asleep in the hiding place, so I arrived a little late. ”

Liu Bei couldn't help but say: "Do you know that you almost died in the hands of Cao Jun, and you are still saying an understatement, if it wasn't for Xingba to save you, you would have died a long time ago." ”

Zhou Budo said: "No, if Xuande Gong doesn't care about me, the Cao army cavalry will capture me alive, and they won't shoot arrows, they asked me, and I said that I was Liu Xian's nephew, and that someone had robbed me of my precious jade." They'll definitely take me to my uncle, and I'm still fine. ”

Everyone was dumbfounded, Liu Bei nodded and said, "You can meet me, it's really providential." Then they went to Jiangxia together.

Everyone rushed to Jiangxia and met Lu Su from Jiangdong.

Zhuge Liang reported and later saw Liu Bei and said: "The soldiers under him came to report, and Jiangdong Lusu came to ask for a meeting." ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he said, "What does Jiangdong mean by coming here?" ”

Zhuge Liang said: "It must be related to Cao Cao's southward journey, you can meet with him, and the camera acts." ”