said that it was persuasion of peace, but in fact, all the generals understood that this was just a glimmer of face for General Liu Bei.

Cao Cao will allow Liu Bei to be a rich man, or even a noble official, but he will never let Liu Bei take charge of the army anymore.

For Liu Bei, this is equivalent to a lifetime of struggle, and it is no different from killing him.

Lu Zhaoxin was straightforward: "What kind of joke did the little military master say." The Jiangdong army has been defeated, and Xiakou City is the last reliance of Liu Bei's house, and he has been deployed in the city for more than two months, how can he persuade him to surrender? ”

Li Dian also analyzed: "If the Jiangdong Army is undefeated and the Sun-Liu Alliance is still there, Liu Xuande can transport the soldiers to Fankou, which is controlled by the Jiangdong Army, but now that the Jiangdong Army is defeated, Liu Xuande can only defend Xiakou, how can he surrender." ”

Zhuge Liang smiled: "What if Xuande Gong still has a way back?" Will it fall? ”

Yu Ban squinted his eyes and said, "His back road, will he descend to Jiangdong?" ”

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said: "If I were Xuande Gong, there would be three plans for today. The next strategy is to descend to the grandson to seek capture, enter Jiangdong, and be a fighter. ”

Yu Ban not only was not angry, but nodded and said: "Yes, one mountain does not allow two tigers, he descended to Jiangdong, he can only be guarded by Jiangdong and become a lackey, which is better than guarding Xinye for Liu Biao." With his ambitions, he certainly didn't want to. What about the middle policy? ”

"The middle strategy is to stick to Xiakou, rely on the city to strengthen the people, persist for a year and a half, wait for the Jiangdong Army Cheng Demou Department to take Hefei, lose the west and take the east, and then build the Sun-Liu Alliance."

The four characters of the west and the east are lost, which leads to the contemplation of the generals except for the road moves.

Li Dian laughed: "In this way, Zhou Yu is really at a loss." From Jiangxia to Hefei, there are mountains and rivers in between, and we can't pass by land, so our army can only take the waterway, but he dug the Yangtze River, and our army's ships were destroyed, and the waterway couldn't go. If you return to Xiangyang, you will make a detour from the north and support Hefei I don't know what time it will take. The Jiangdong Army's capture of Hefei is just around the corner. It's a pity......"

The generals were shocked, but they didn't expect Zhou Yu to be so vicious.

Lu Zhao said with a big grin: "It's a pity what's the use of having no last resort, how can General Beifu turn the tide?" ”

Zhuge Liang nodded with a smile: "After all, people are not as good as heaven." ”

Thinking of that day, if there was no Cao Wu retrograde blocking the river embankment, and Zhuge Liang not revitalizing the right-wing army, then Zhou Yu's 5,000 remnants would encounter even more remnants of the Cao army, which would eventually turn into a massacre, and how many of the hundreds of thousands of Cao troops would survive?

Zhao Yan asked, "What does Mr. think, what about Liu Xuande's best policy?" Surrender to our army and become a rich man? ”

Zhuge Liang shook his head: "I once talked with Xuande Gong and knew that he had an old relationship with Cangwu Taishou Wu Ju, so for him, the best policy is to abandon Xiakou, burn Xiakou and grain, trap the people of Xiakou, and block the road of our army." He went south to Cangwu, seeking to make a comeback. ”

Lu Zhao sneered: "Which one is Cangwu Taishou, I haven't heard of it!" What is the future of the barren land of Cangwu? This Liu Bei is really desperate. ”

Zhuge Liang smiled but said nothing.

He said that this was the best policy, but he just chose a better one among a bunch of bad schemes, Liu Bei was at the end of his rope, and if he didn't want to be a rich man, the best ending would be to go to Cangwu Taishou and linger for a while.

The difference between this and sticking to it is just a few more years to live. But in Liu Bei's heart, it is no longer a good strategy to stick to it.

Zhuge Liang deeply admired Cao Wu, the general of Beifu, and laid the foreshadowing as early as Longzhong, and later put Mi Fang back to strengthen the foreshadowing.

Liu Bei was in distress, and the first thing that came to mind was not to defend to the death, but to Longzhong, there was still a way back, so he would not be desperate.

But the waterway of the Yangtze River was intercepted by Cao Jun, and the land route was intercepted by Jingzhou, why did Liu Bei enter Sichuan? This back road is actually a dead end!

Li Dian had already seen through this, and frowned: "But if Mr. wants to persuade him to surrender, it is not among the three strategies?" ”

"Yes, I just want to give Xuande Gong another way in addition to the three strategies."

Zhuge Liang's eyes were scorching, Liu Bei favored him, although he didn't have much kindness, he was not willing to deal with Liu Bei.

The soldier died for his confidant, and the general of Beifu, Cao Wu, had no ambition on the surface, but Zhuge Liang couldn't help but think about him.

Since you are a staff member, you must be thoughtful. Now Cao Cao is alive, and Cao has no grace. In case Cao Pi seized power after Cao Cao's death, Cao Wu would have to be able to restrain the other party.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun are all fierce generals in the world, if Liu Bei can enter Beifu, then ......

So he had to find a way to persuade Liu Bei.

It's just that this consideration should not be spoken of by the generals.

While talking here, Zhang Liao and Zhang He's building boat had already sailed out of the hidden location.

Tonight is the night of the bright moon again, the fifteenth is getting closer and closer, and the moon is getting brighter and brighter, and the two fierce generals know that when the building boat appears in the field of vision of the defenders of Xiakou City, the battle has already begun.

However, although torches were lit at the head of Xiakou Castle, not a single arrow was fired at them.

"Something is wrong......"

Zhang Liao has been fighting for many years, and he is already frowning.

He looked to the other side, and Zhang He's fleet also stopped.

Such a large building ship pressed down, and the defenders couldn't see it? No warning or archery attack?

There is a fraud!

He also ordered the soldiers to stop.

After this stop, only the sound of the water crashing against the ships was left outside Xiakou City, and there was no human voice other than that.

Zhang Liao narrowed his eyes and stared at the head of the city, but there was not a single defender in sight.

It's a scorching oddity.

Could it be that the other party predicted that they were going to make a surprise attack, so they made a counter-surprise attack?

Or is the opposing army already out of the city, waiting until they are re-encircled?

This kind of counter-offensive, if there is no flood, then this is a wonderful plan. But now, the flood is besieging the city, and Liu Bei's fleet has gone to support Zhou Yu, what kind of anti-bag?

Zhang Liao glanced sideways again, but Zhang He still didn't move.

What a ......

Should it be said that he is calm or scheming, although Zhang He is extremely capable and has high force, Zhang Liao and he only sympathize with each other because they are both generals, and they actually do not agree with his cautious state.

In contrast, Zhang Liao is bold and careful, everyone is here, and he can't just freeze here.

Xiakou is too important, Liu Bei has been preparing here for too long, and Zhang Liao doesn't want to besiege and attack for a year before taking it.

I can't say it, so he can only move first.

Lou Chuan moved again and pressed towards the head of Xiakou City.

The whole process is still quiet.

As a result, all the way to the city wall, the head of Xiakou City still did not respond.

Zhang Liao gritted his teeth and commanded the building boat to lean against the wall, and sure enough, as he thought, because of the flood, the building boat was like a ladder, and it was easy for the soldiers to climb to the top of the city.

Zhang Liao watched cautiously, and a small group of soldiers who landed in the city turned around, scratched their heads and stood at the head of the city and reported: "General, is there really no one?" ”

"No one?"

Zhang Liao was puzzled.

Just when attacking the city, their scouts had probed Xiakou, and Liu Bei had been consolidating the city's defenses, which was something that everyone knew.

Among the people of Xiakou, there are many people who came from Xinye with Liu Bei, and there are not so many people in the city, so they live outside the city, but they are willing to help Liu Bei work and thicken the city defense.

Breaking through Xiakou should have been an even more difficult battle.

"Broken like that?"

Zhang Liao personally set foot on the head of Xiakou City, and it still felt very unreal.

The people outside the city are gone, which is normal, and when the flood comes, they flee for their lives.

What's going on with the defenders of the city gone?

Not long after, Zhang He also came up to the city, but the defenders were still nowhere to be seen.

Zhang Liao couldn't help it, he got out of the city, stood in the half-human-high city of Zeguo, looked at the rows of streets, and frowned.

Zhang He stood side by side with him.

This Xiakou City is quiet, and it is actually a city without defenders.

But when I looked closely, there were fires burning on top of the houses, and there were people taking refuge on the roofs.

"Search, ask! Find out what the hell is going on! ”

Zhang Liao finally shouted, and the shout pierced the silence of the night sky.

……

Bang dang dang......

The vehicle was driving on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and in the dark, Chen Zhi relied on the brief memory of his stay on the south bank to direct the soldiers forward, and he looked at the carriage in the center and frowned as well.

There were only four people in the carriage.

Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun.

Zhang Fei looked angry, heyed for a long time, and didn't say why.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu closed their eyes and ignored him.

Zhao Yun wanted to speak several times and stopped, as Liu Bei's guard, no one knew better than him what Liu Bei had done in the past two months.

Liu Bei spent almost all of his time consolidating the city defense of Xiakou, and Gongzi Liu Qi felt that this city defense was their last fire, but Zhao Yun could clearly perceive that Liu Bei's mind was to regard Xiakou as the last grave of his horse for decades.

He spent two months preparing a huge funeral for himself, trying to use this fortified city to fight hundreds of thousands of Cao troops.

But now everything is different.

When Guan Yu and the others withdrew, Liu Bei did not change his mind to defend it.

Mi Fang generously stated that when Longzhong should be implemented, Liu Bei did not change his mind.

Seeing with his own eyes that there were only one or two thousand people left in Zhou Yu's ship, when he passed the summer pass and did not enter, Liu Bei gritted his teeth and sighed, but he still wanted to hold on.

The moment the flood rose, Liu Bei still didn't change.

But when a scout fled back and told Liu Bei that Cao Jun was going around to help the disaster, Liu Bei suddenly changed his mind.

Of the more than 10,000 Xiakou defenders, Liu Bei only brought the most elite 2,000 people, as well as Liu Qigongzi and Guan Zhangzhao and other generals.

The rest were placed among the people by him, and they were not allowed to resist.

Two thousand elites crossed the Yangtze River and headed south this evening.

The Jiangdong Army was not notified, nor did they go to Nanchang, Chaisang and other places in Jiangdong, so they continued to go south in the wilderness of Jiangdong.

Zhao Yun finally couldn't help but say, "Lord, let's just abandon Xiakou City without firing an arrow?" ”

Liu Bei opened his eyes, his eyes were red, as if he had cried silently.

"Zilong, what do you think Kuang Fu Han needs is needed?"

Zhao Yun was stunned, but he didn't expect that not only did he not answer, but also asked himself an irrelevant question.

He pondered: "Of course, it is a wide range of soldiers and good strategies, and these two things are indispensable. ”

Liu Bei smiled bitterly: "These two are important, but we don't have them." Therefore, we can only go to the third item, which is the ...... of people's hearts."

"The ...... of people's hearts"

Zhao Yun chewed on these two words in a low voice.

Zhang Fei was also angry, and said angrily: "Big brother is merciful, the world knows it, you don't want the people of Xiakou to suffer, so you abandon the city, I am already puzzled, but why don't the military rations hoarded in Xiakou be burned?" Why don't the people stop them? Isn't this a cheap enemy for nothing? ”

Liu Bei nodded: "It's cheaper for the enemy." ”

Zhang Fei was even more anxious: "Then big brother, since you know, why do you want to do this?" ”

Guan Yu, who had been silent, spoke at this time.

Guan Yu twisted his beard and said: "I don't burn grain and grass, so that the people can have a way to survive in the flood." The purpose of not letting the people stop the enemy is to prevent the people from being killed or injured by Cao's army. Hearing that Cao Jun rescued people and left, it was because only in this way could the people of Jiangxia not forget the goodness of their eldest brother and remember Cao Jun's goodness. It's all for the sake of righteousness! ”

Zhao Yun was silent, and Zhang Fei was still angry: "The people, the hearts of the people, the eldest brother is just for benevolence and righteousness, so he has fallen here!" ”

Liu Bei closed his eyes, as if he didn't want to say any more.

This benevolence and righteousness finally made the three generals in the car return to their hearts again, and will spread throughout the whole army through their mouths.

However, the whole army is only 2,000 people.

Zhao Yun sighed, thinking to himself, when he fled to Jingzhou in embarrassment to join Liu Biao, there were more people than this.

He silently picked up a map from the corner and looked at it again, it was the map of Jingzhou.

A long black line was drawn on the map.

If Zhuge Liang is here, he will be surprised, because the place where the black line has been drawn is indeed Cangwu Taishou Wu Ju at the beginning, but later, he actually made a big circle in Cangwu and went to Yizhou from the vast mountains and rivers!

If Cao Wu saw it, he would be even more surprised, such a very bold detour has only been seen once in the history he is familiar with!

Liu Bei abandoned the city, but he did not burn the grain and grass, and did not destroy the city.

Liu Bei went south, but he did not defect to Cangwu Taishou.

He was going to take 2,000 people on a long march of 10,000 miles, and finally arrive in Yizhou, persuade Liu Zhang, defeat Zhang Lu, obtain Hanzhong and Yizhou, and restart Longzhong!

However, Cao Wu and Zhuge Liang are not here.

So they don't know how terrible this person who closes his eyes is.

This forty-seven-year-old man, who has traveled all over the north and everywhere, is full of strength.

This person who has never forgotten Kuang Fu Han has a voice echoing in his heart.

Alone with the people to cross the river, from Xinye to Xiakou, the invitation to buy is for the hearts of the people of Xinye. Lone struggled to strengthen the defense of Xiakou, and invited to buy it for the sake of the hearts of the people of Xiakou. Lonely does not send a knife or arrow, does not burn grain and grass, abandons Xiakou, and invites to buy it, but it is the hearts of the people of the world!

He Liu Xuande, for the sake of the people, can do anything, two months of hard work, easily give up.

This will be a stepping stone for him to enter Sichuan, and it is also the foundation for his rise again! It is the way to return to the heart of the world in the future!

Liu Bei didn't use the top, middle, and bottom strategies, he himself was the strategy.

The best policy!

After benevolence and righteousness abandon Xiakou, everyone in the world will know that he, Liu Xuande, is the most benevolent and righteous lord in the world!

Kuang is supporting the Han family.

Those who are benevolent and righteous are the Han family!