The Tongbai Mountains originate from the eastern edge of the Nanyang Basin, which is where the junction of Runan and Jingzhou is located, and the two counties of Yang'an and Langling controlled by Li Tong guard the three main roads to Nanyang in the west.

If Liu Bei didn't take the three main roads, he would have to lead the army to take the thorny path, so that crossing Tongbai Mountain would be easy to cut off water and food, which was also the reason why Cao Cao and others were at ease on the western front.

Li Tong has tens of thousands of parts, and the city is used as a barrier, it is difficult for Liu Bei to take the army around it, but Liu Ye has been planning for a long time.

When Cao Cao's army appeared in Yanxian, Liu Bei ordered Gong Du, Pei Yuanshao, Zhou Cang and other Yellow Turban generals to contact the thieves in the Rushui Valley to cooperate with Guan Yu to attack Yang'an according to Liu Ye's layout.

After Li Tong transferred the defensive forces to Yang'an, Liu Bei led the main force to attack Langling, and then crossed Tongbai Mountain through the main road.

Guan Yu beheaded Yan Liang and became famous, and his personal charm rose to the top, Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao all admired his prestige, and then took refuge in Liu Bei.

Under the influence of Guan Yu's strong appeal, Qu Gong, Jiang Gong, Shen Cheng, Zhang Chi and other thieves were contacted, and nearly 20,000 thieves gathered in each cottage, and cooperated with Guan Yu's 5,000 people to go to Yang'an to fight.

These thieves are not all the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, some of them are small Haoqiang in the name of the Yellow Turban, they were originally attached to Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers in Runan, but with the death of Yuan Shu and the defeat of Yuan Shao and other reasons, the two Yuan gradually lost their influence in Runan, and the little Haoqiang were not willing to belong to the foreign Liu Bei, and they did not want to be annexed by the big Haoqiang Li Tong, so they took advantage of the chaos to occupy the mountain and try to sit big.

As the so-called whale falls into all things, the little heroes have coveted Li Tong's land and wealth for a long time, so they hit it off with Liu Bei.

Except for a few who can fight for their ideals in any era, most people make choices because of their interests.

Especially in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao controlled the Son of Heaven and threatened to represent the imperial court, Yuan Shao and Liu Bei both said that they would be edicted to beg for thieves, and no one cared about who was the righteous party and who could bring them benefits.

Working together to destroy Li Tong and divide the wealth, that is the internal needs of the little heroes, Guan Yu's appeal is only a superficial slogan, but the second master's combat effectiveness can give them the courage to 'fight local tyrants'.

The group of Kou besieged Yang'an County, and the main general was still the famous Guan Yu.

Li Tong couldn't imagine that it was Liu Ye's plan, on the one hand, he transferred the garrison of Langling County in the south to help, and on the other hand, he sent fast horses to Cao Cao for help.

Soon after the Langling garrison was transferred, the small forces scattered on the hills arrived around the county one after another to assemble, and Liu Bei also took Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others to escort their families to gather.

Liu Bei's combined army was taken aback, there were many more people than the original count, this was like Li Yunlong's attack on Ping'an's assembled troops, and there were many more soldiers inexplicably.

There were nearly 20,000 soldiers outside Langling City, counting a total of 50,000 family members of the army, and the black crowd made the guards frightened, and they abandoned the city with 500 people before the battle, so Liu Beibing took Langling without blood.

Liu Bei had never fought such an easy battle, and he couldn't help but sigh that in the days when there was no mastermind before, he really stepped on the corpses of his comrades with a knife and a gun to climb the city tower first.

"If it weren't for Ziyang's clever plan to let Bei withdraw from Runan, it is estimated that half of the soldiers would be lost" Liu Bei grabbed Liu Ye's hand, and his surging mood remained for a long time.

Liu Ye immediately reminded: "We haven't left Tongbai Mountain yet, so you must not be careless, Cao Cao chased after Xia Cai will definitely notice that the reinforcements that Li Tong asked for will also arrive at any time, and we should escort our family members across the mountain range as soon as possible." ”

"Ziyang is very right."

Liu Bei bowed his head lightly in affirmation, then waved his hand to summon Zhang Fei to his eyes, and Zhengse instructed: "Third brother, you should speed up the people of the headquarters and escort the whole army and their families first." ”

Zhang Fei was puzzled: "Leave so soon?" Don't you wait for the second brother to be together? ”

Liu Bei shook his head: "Let's stay and wait for Yun Chang, and the third brother can wait in Biyang County in front." ”

"I'm going alone?"

Zhang Fei pointed to himself and watched left and right, but the implication was not to let me fight?

Liu Bei looked at his expression and instantly understood, and then said seriously: "We may not fight after we break off, the third brother escorts the sister-in-law and younger siblings first, so that the soldiers can rest assured that they will fight, and the eldest brother can rest assured." ”

"Okay."

While Zhang Fei hugged his fists, he muttered and added: "Last time, the second brother also escorted my sister-in-law, and this time it is my turn."

Looking at the back of Zhang Fei leaving, Liu Ye sighed: "The three generals are really reckless generals, no wonder they are so close to General Long, if it weren't for the fact that Mrs. Xiahou and Mrs. Qiao were not pregnant, they might have married in Hefei." ”

"The younger siblings are still young, and Yunqi's marriage days are short, and it is normal that he is not pregnant with an heir, just like preparation"

Liu Bei's words came to an abrupt end here, he lamented that he was over forty years old, and there was also no man and half woman under his knees.

Because of the displacement in the first half of his life, Liu Bei's wives died early, and he was very lucky to survive, and he also had a few years in Xuzhou Nagant and Mi, but his stomach did not move at all.

Seeing Liu Bei's gloomy expression, Liu Ye realized that he had led the wrong topic, and immediately led in other directions: "Ahem. If you don't have a place to settle down, your children will suffer when they are born, so when you come to Jingzhou this time, you must act according to my plan, and you can't be as humble as before."

"I just want to discuss with you, Gongyou sent an envoy to Xiangyang before, only saying that I have more than 10,000 parts, and now the soldiers' families have more than 50,000 people, this is inconsistent, how can Liu Jingsheng not doubt it? If he uses this as an excuse to refuse to take him in, what can he do? Liu Bei's face was full of sadness.

Liu Ye thought for a while, and replied: "At that time, it will only be said that there are 10,000 soldiers, and the rest will be the families of the army, and the people are the foundation of the state, how can Liu Jingsheng refuse?" If he insists on refusing to stay, then he will retreat and borrow a place from him to settle down, everyone is a member of the Han family, and the king has an edict, I don't think he will go too far. ”

"It's fine."

Liu Bei was slightly relieved, and then added: "If you are not good at change, Ziyang will go with me." ”

"It's all up to the envoy's arrangement."

Although Liu Ye responded happily, he secretly thought that Jun was too modest, I have also heard about you cooking wine with Cao Cao in Huainan, how can you say that you are not good at change? ”

Two days after Zhang Fei's departure, Liu Bei immediately ordered Guan Yu to go south to Langling to converge, intending to slowly withdraw from Runan.

As for the agreement with Qu Gong, Jiang Gong and others, Liu Bei gave the newly acquired Langling to everyone, anyway, Yang'an and Langling are both county towns under the jurisdiction of Li Tong, and Guan Yu's giving up Yang'an at this time is not a broken promise.

Qu Gong, Jiang Gong and others responded to Guan Yu's call and wanted to use his prestige to directly force Yang'an to surrender, but Li Tong organized the army and civilians to actively fortify, and although the siege of the thief army was strong, none of them worked hard to attack the city.

Guan Yu explained Liu Bei's arrangement, and all the little heroes followed and moved to Langling.

Li Tong knew that he had fallen into the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, but he did not dare to pursue because of the small number of soldiers in Yang'an, after all, Liu Bei led '50,000 people' to attack Langling.

Cao Hong brought troops from Pingyu to reinforce him, and was dumbfounded by Liu Bei's praise of the troops, saying that he led 50,000 people to attack Langling, and asked Guan Yu to lead more than 20,000 troops to take Yang'an, and the total strength was more than 70,000.

Li Tong and Cao Hong only had more than 20,000 in total, so they could only slowly move towards Langling, and they had to wait for Cao Cao's main force to arrive before they dared to chase.

(End of chapter)