Taking advantage of Zhou Yu's siege of Jiangling, Liu Bei adopted the opinions of Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yi and others, and divided his troops into two routes to directly capture the four counties in the south of Jingzhou.

In fact, at this moment, Liu Bei's troops did not have much, and the four counties of Wuling, Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang were originally owned by Liu Biao, and they were intimidated by Cao Cao's power before the Battle of Chibi and returned to the imperial court.

However, Cao Cao was defeated by the Sun-Liu coalition army in the Battle of Chibi, and Zhou Yu also began to lead his troops to storm Jiangling, which led to the fact that the four southern counties of Jingzhou had actually been completely cut off from the area occupied by Cao Cao, forming a situation of trusteeship.

In this way, Liu Bei took advantage of the victory of Chibi and pulled the banner of the Sun-Liu coalition army, although he was still at a disadvantage in terms of troops, but it caused great psychological pressure on the four counties.

Standing behind Liu Bei is Liu Qi, who played the imperial court to list Liu Qi as the assassin of Jingzhou, and there are also many old Liu Biao departments in the four counties of Jingnan, and now that the son of his former boss is here, the possibility of stubborn resistance in the state that the situation is stronger than others has been minimized.

At this time, Liu Bei's army was divided into two routes, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yi led 3,000 men and horses to the south immediately, and the first target was Wuling County, which was the closest to them.

On the other hand, Liu Bei personally led the troops, with Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, and Zhao Yun, down the river and directly to Changsha.

Liu Qi, who was the main general on the surface, stayed in Jiangxia, and he seemed to have been infected with a disease a while ago, and his health had been bad, Liu Bei went to see him once before leaving, but he couldn't say two words and was interrupted by Liu Qi's violent coughing, and he had no choice but to pray for his nephew in his heart.

However, it was said that Zhang Fei and Zhao Yi took 3,000 men and horses and went straight to Wuling with joy.

Wuling's Taishou is named Jin Xuan, in Zhao Yi's impression, this person's qualifications are mediocre, his sense of existence is extremely low, and there are no generals under his hands who can take it, and this battle should be easy to win.

"Hehe~ Hongfei, I have heard, this time in Dongwu, you are in the limelight, and you have robbed all the credit of the military division, and this time you will definitely reward you if you win the four counties of Jingnan."

Zhang Fei was riding on a jet-black horse, and his mood seemed quite good.

Zhao Yi also rode a war horse and walked beside Zhang Fei, and said with a smile: "It's all luck, and there are also military advisors behind me who give me ideas, by the way, Third Master, I don't know how you want to fight this Wuling?" ”

Zhang Fei scratched the rough tandem nonsense and said: "How to fight?" Just Wuling, like a chicken and a dog, let's go directly to the city and force the Taishou to surrender. ”

Zhao Yi nodded, but he didn't feel inappropriate about Zhang Fei's simple and crude method, because he himself felt that although they were not superior in numbers, they were on their side except for the number of people.

Wuling was completely isolated and helpless, coupled with low morale, there was no backbone that could be handled, and the surrender of Kaesong was indeed their best choice.

As long as they successfully take Wuling, they can also use this as the center to radiate their power to the surrounding Yiyang, Liandao, Xiaoling and other places, of which Yiyang can connect Changsha, Xiaoling Port leads to the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake, and the connecting road can go directly to Chengyang and Lingling to the south.

It can be said that the four counties of Jingnan are connected to each other, entrenched in the four corners around Hengshan, and are self-contained.

In fact, Zhuge Liang originally decided to take the four southern counties with this plan, Liu Bei drifted for half his life, sending people under the fence, how can he let it go now with such a good opportunity?

At the same time that Liu Bei's soldiers were killing the four southern counties in two ways, in Wuling City, which bore the brunt of the attack, Taishou Jin Xuan was sweating profusely and was anxious.

"Then Liu Bei has already sent troops south, and our Wuling County will bear the brunt of it and become his target, do you have a good strategy to retreat from the enemy?"

In front of Jin Xuan, there are only two henchmen under him, Gong Zhi and Jin Yi, the latter is still his son, which shows that the lack of talents in Wuling is not groundless.

Gong Zhi took a step forward, frowned and said: "My lord, that Liu Bei and Sun Quan have just defeated Cao Cao in Wulin, and their morale is booming, and Liu Bei has Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who are enemies of 10,000 people, and the lower officials also heard that in the battle of Changbanpo, there was a young general named Zhao Yi who could also use witchcraft, and even injured several generals under Cao Cao, and even Gao Lan, one of the four court pillars in the north of the Megatron River, was beheaded by him under the horse, and it was a one-stroke killing!" After the report of the exploration horse, it was Zhang Fei and Zhao Yi who approached my city this time, both of whom had the courage to be unsuitable, so my lord, let's open the city and surrender. ”

"What? Surrender? Gong Zhi, who are you? Soft bones, wretched bones! My Wuling soldiers and food are all ready, and the city is strong, even if he sends Zhang Fei and that Zhao Yi? We already have an advantage in defending the city, and we have many more troops than the other side, so how can we surrender without a fight? ”

"My lord, if the four southern counties can be united and support each other, they can still have the strength to fight, but now we are fighting separately, and Prime Minister Cao Cheng and Wulin have been defeated, and they can't spare their hands to help us at all.

"Shut up! Gong Zhi, before you beat you, you will grow up with other people's ambition and destroy your own prestige, what is your intention? Needless to say, whoever says that I will cut off someone's head if they say that they surrender before fighting! ”

"This ......"

Gong Zhi saw that Jin Xuan was bent on going his own way, so he didn't say anything more, but he knew better than anyone how many catties and taels Wuling City had, and he didn't want to follow Jin Xuan to die inexplicably.

waved everyone away, Jin Xuan only left his son Jin Yi, who said with a bitter face: "Father, I think what Gong Zhi said is true, we don't need to fight hard with Liu Bei, it's better to open the city gate, maybe we can keep our current position." ”

Jin Xuan pestle tilted his forehead and whispered, "How can I not see through the current situation? But don't forget, we betrayed the old master and surrendered to Cao Cao first, and now we want to surrender Liu Bei from Cao Cao, how can we be looked down upon by people so repeatedly? If it spreads, won't the heroes of the world laugh at our father and son as domestic slaves with three surnames? ”

"Yes...... Father, the soldiers in my city lack training, and the soldiers Zhang Fei brought are all veterans of a hundred battles, even if there are not many of them, we can't compete with them. ”

Jin Xuan stroked his beard under his forehead, pondered for a while, and said, "Son, come here, and give you a task for your father." ”

Jin Yi didn't know why, so he had to get closer.

"My father thinks so, even if we want to surrender, we can't surrender without a fight, we must let Liu Bei know that we still have the strength to fight in Wuling, and we are not at the mercy of others, now, you take my token and some gold, silver, grain and grass to meet a person, and let him help our army from the flank when Zhang Fei is attacking the city.

In case that Zhang Fei has hatred and comes to slaughter the city, then my father and son will be self-defeating, so that the person will be more vocal, but in fact, he can only wander around and harass on the periphery, do you understand? ”

Jin Yi originally thought that his father was an old stubborn and wanted to defend Wuling, but now he knows that Jiang is still old and spicy, even if his father is in Wuling, he has not made any military achievements, but he still has a lot of research on the art of drilling camps above the officialdom.

"Good father, the boy is going, the man you are talking about is the king of the barbarians entrenched in the mountains, right?"

Jin Xuan nodded and said: "It can only be him, I heard that the barbarian king Sha Moke recently lost to a group of bandits who fell into the grass, and the entire barbarian tribe became a subordinate of the people, although that group of people is powerful, but after the grass is a coarse, they must be in urgent need of money and food, and we are now sending it over to solve their urgent need, there must be no reason to refuse, you can set off, without further ado." ”

"It's the father, the child will do it!"