The night of taking Guangling City finally ended in a complete chaos and firefighting.

Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were ragged and smoky, and when they finally met at the fire, they almost didn't dare to recognize each other.

Zhang Fei fought bloodily for a day and two nights, although he was brave and blessed with the belief of revenge, but in the end, he inevitably suffered a few minor injuries, and the physical and energy overdraft was too serious.

The moment he saw Liu Bei appear, he could barely hold on.

"Big brother! I lost Xiapi, but I helped you take Guangling away! I just killed the arsonist soldiers and rescued a few warehouses of grain here. ”

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei for a long time, but fortunately, the other party was already dark, and no matter how violently it was smoked, the change was not too big.

Liu Bei stretched out his hand and wiped the cigarette ash several times, and he didn't know if he wiped it off in the dark, and finally choked and patted Zhang Fei's back gently: "These are all trivial things, go back and recuperate quickly...... If you can win Guangling, you should be the first...... Second time, the eldest brother will not blame you for Xiapi in the future. ”

Zhang Fei was forgiven, and the depression in his heart was finally resolved. As soon as this tone relaxed, he was a little dizzy, and finally muttered modestly: "But I still lost my sister-in-law...... Even if you take Guangling, you can't get your sister-in-law back......"

As he spoke, he fell headlong,

Liu Bei was shocked, hurriedly took a try, and found that he was still angry, but he fainted.

"Quickly carry Yide back to rest, and the doctor will take care of it!" Liu Bei was busy and asked his soldiers to find a stretcher and carry Zhang Fei away-

Of course, there were no stretchers in the Han Dynasty, so this was also what Zhuge Jin had ordered to do in the past few days, which was nothing more than two bamboo poles and a thick linen. What is missing is just an idea, and there is no technical difficulty.

Zhuge Jin brought these stretchers, firstly, considering that the number of troops that could be used in Zhang Fei's surprise attack in this battle was very small, and he needed to cherish every combat power.

He thought a little about some easy-to-get battlefield rescue equipment, and wanted to improve Zhang Feibu's ability to continue the war without effort.

Second, Zhuge Jin was also inspired at that time, afraid that if he crossed the river in white clothes all the way and was intercepted and inspected, some people would question why he was obviously a merchant ship, why did he transport so many suspected siege ladders.

That's why Zhuge Jin invented the stretcher, anyway, that thing is two bamboo poles like the siege ladder, which is nothing more than the stretcher cuts off the bamboo and covers it with cloth in the middle. As long as the siege ladder is not assembled and the rungs are dismantled and transported, it can be completely explained as a "semi-finished stretcher that has not been cut and assembled".

In this way, they disguised themselves as "merchants selling medical equipment", and by the way, they sold boiled cloth rolls and bandages.

Not to mention, when Zhuge Jin passed by Biling County at the mouth of the Yangtze River three days ago, he really encountered a patrol ship of Sun Cejun, so he was confused by this explanation.

The only thing worth regretting is that the junior colonel Sun Ceshuijun, who was in charge of the inspection, seemed to be quite knowledgeable and interested in stretchers, and felt that it was indeed convenient to treat the wounded, and said that he would give advice to the lord when he went back, and suggested that he should also make this kind of thing in the army.

At that time, Zhuge Jin slandered: Your Han Dynasty has no patent rights, and any person will copy a good idea when he sees it, and it will be bleached in vain...... But he couldn't help it.

Unexpectedly, the first person with a head and a face to save after the stretcher came out was actually Zhang Fei, who was injured and unconscious.

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Zhang Fei was injured and unconscious, Liu Bei's situation was actually not much better, although he was not injured, but he also marched frantically for two days and two nights, and only rested on the boat for a while.

After completely clearing the city of remnants of the enemy and controlling the situation, it was already dawn the next day.

Liu Bei didn't have time to enjoy the joy of victory, he couldn't support it a little, and he returned to the newly occupied mansion and fell asleep, waking up in the afternoon.

Liu Bei slept very deeply, but his spirit did not dare to relax, and finally he heard a little noise, and immediately woke up.

Liu Bei rubbed his eyes, saw that there was no one to serve him left and right, and returned to the front hall of the mansion, only to see Zhuge Jin with Erlang's legs crossed, sitting in the position of the prince of the mansion shaking a pu fan, and a few pieces of paper and wooden slips were scattered in front of him, and he did not tidy them up.

Seeing that Liu Bei was awake, Zhuge Jin stretched his waist helplessly: "The general has not woken up, and these urgent but unimportant details, they will come to me to report, and they can't push it off."

In the early morning, Liu Xun finally led the rout army to Guangling, in order to be safe, the defenders of the north gate shouted loudly, and shot it away with random arrows, no problem, right? ”

Liu Bei hurriedly said: "It's handled very well, this kind of emergency military situation, Yide and I haven't woken up yet, and it's the safest thing to run away." Liu Xun is such a waste, if you want to go, we don't want to stay, it is a great luck to be able to take Guangling.

Last night was my rudeness, Mr. was an outsider, he was involved, and he had such a grace to reinvent our army, but he couldn't thank Mr. in time for his achievements......"

Zhuge Jin didn't care about these details, and pushed those pieces of messy paper and wooden slips towards Liu Bei:

"This is the inventory surplus of Guangling Mansion that was just counted by the military commissar before noon, because it is not very urgent, and they didn't dare to disturb the general, so they asked me to take a look at it first......

Liu Bei immediately said: "What is this overstepping, Mr. is so kind to our army, you can see anything you want, but you are prepared to bother Mr. again and again......"

After all, so far, Zhuge Jin is still a "guest", and he was involved in this series of things.

All this has only passed for a total of twelve days - today happens to be the twelfth day of Zhuge Jin's crossing.

Liu Bei didn't forcibly keep him to give him an official position before, at that time Liu Bei felt that he was in danger, so he didn't dare to drag Zhuge Jin into the water, but just talked to Sichuan Zi to express his heart.

So Liu Bei felt from the bottom of his heart that he should be polite to the other party, this was not his subordinate, but a guest and benefactor.

After sighing in his heart, Liu Bei was not slow at hand, so he took the account pushed by Zhuge Jin and glanced at it a few times,

He was impatient to look at the details, and went straight to a rough look. And when the total number came into view, Liu Bei's mood that had just improved couldn't help but sink again.

"Why is there only this point left in the grain storage of the Guangling Mansion? We originally planned to take Guangling, maybe we can eat our army for three or five months!

Now that's left, I'll only eat it for a month or two at most, right? Well, when you don't go to war, you can save some food, almost two months. That's more than half less than expected! ”

Zhuge Jin was expressionless and pushed forward another piece of paper that Liu Bei had ignored, and there were some confessions obtained from torturing Yuan Jun's prisoners, but Liu Bei was anxious to see the conclusion just now, so he ignored it.

Zhuge Jin could only outline the leader to help Liu Bei sort out and explain: "When the general was asleep, I asked a few prisoners - it was a fluke, these prisoners were not captured in the city, but I took some risks yesterday evening, and let the merchant ships of Zizhong's family raid and rob the enemy ships at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Hangou, and then the prisoners came back."

Yesterday afternoon, at least hundreds of ships sailed out of Guangling County through the canal, and I only hated that I only had 300 sailors and personal guards given by Zizhong at that time, and I was unable to intercept them under the guise of a white-clothed merchant traveler, so I could only flee far away at first.

Finally, when the enemy fleet was almost exhausted, and the sky was completely dark, I suddenly killed the horse pistol, and took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to capture two or three boats that had fallen behind at the end. The ship was full of military rations,

The officers on the enemy ship confessed, saying that they were originally subordinates of Zhang Duo, a thief in the water, and that Liu Xun, who had just been brought in by Liu Ye, a famous man from Lujiang, had just taken refuge in Liu Xun and helped Liu Xun to take charge of water transportation and escort.

Other details, these little minions don't know, and they can't be tortured, after all, the highest status of the captured person is only a tun long - however, I can surmise that this move to let Zhang Duo retreat in advance to preserve his strength and return the military rations must have been done by that Liu Ye. ”

The captives captured by Zhuge Jin confessed to the news that "Liu Ye was in Guangling City at that time", but they just couldn't know whether the specific idea was from Liu Ye, and they didn't know the decision-making process.

But for a prophet like Zhuge Jin, with this bit of information, it was enough for him to speculate that his brain was complete, and he was sure that the enemy's sudden change of tactics yesterday afternoon, from resistance to conservative stop loss, must have been Liu Ye's idea.

Liu Bei listened to Zhuge Jin's introduction, but was stunned again.

There is a wise man in the enemy army, and he is annoyed that he has made a stumbling block.

I was also deeply shocked by Zhuge Jin's clever calculation, which could think of so many as soon as he saw the enemy's transport fleet, and boldly verified and captured a few ships for questioning, and finally was able to reverse extrapolate the truth from such a little clue.

Ziyu is not only strategic, but also has amazing insight, reasoning and figuring out details are not superior abilities.

"Is that so...... Alas, I didn't expect that although Guangling took it, it still didn't completely solve the problem in the end. Liu Bei couldn't help but be depressed, and the initial ecstasy last night also dissipated a little.

Zhuge Jin patted him on the shoulder: "The general doesn't have to be decadent, everything has advantages and disadvantages." Liu Ye's move can be regarded as a mixed pros and cons for our army. ”

Liu Bei was also depressed for a while, and he didn't have time to think deeply, after listening to Zhuge Jin's words, he immediately gave up his hand to ask for advice: "Be depressed for a while, my mind is in a trance, and I can't understand the reason, and please ask Mr. to make it clear and solve my doubts!" ”

Zhuge Jin pointed to the pieces of paper and said neatly: "Liu Ye Mingzhe protects himself and knows that the biggest disadvantage to our army is that Liu Xunjun's grain storage was robbed and transported away, and in the end, Chen Lan's fire burned about 20% of the inventory.

At present, the inventory in the hands of our army is only about 40 percent of the original inventory, which is at least less than the original plan for more than two months, and this is the biggest drawback.

However, Liu Ye asked Zhang Duo to avoid the battle and not go all out, which was beneficial to our army on the frontal battlefield, I estimated that if the four or five thousand people of Yuan's army at that time were fighting with all their might, plus the two thousand enemy troops who arrived one after another, it would add up to 7,000 people.

If they had chosen to fight hard at that time, Yide's martial arts might have been spared, but the thousand cavalry he brought would definitely be exhausted. The general's reinforcements also had to pay at least 1,000 more casualties in order to win a crushing victory and take Guangling.

Now it is equivalent to that both sides have retained more troops, and the general has taken the city with two or three thousand fewer casualties, which is 'saving people and losing food', and Liu Ye is betting that the general will not be able to get enough supplies to tide over the difficulties immediately, so he wants to win the final comeback in the future with food and morale collapse.

If the general has a way to solve the problem of military rations, and solve the problem of the soldiers in Xiapi County being homesick and their families being held in the hands of Lu Bu, then the general will be able to turn the crisis into safety, and even achieve better development than Liu Ye's desperate resistance to the end.

It's all up to the general's ability to deal with it. ”