Chapter 518: Heavy Rain
"Hahaha! General Song, please hurry up, what are you doing here? Liu Bei looked at Song Xian, who was kneeling in front of him and couldn't stop kowtowing, looked at the other party with a calm face, stretched out his hands to help him up, and said slowly.
Where did Song Xian dare to let the lord stretch out his hand to help him, and at the moment when the other party was about to touch him, his body retreated like an old dog, and at the same time he spoke again, "Lord, if you don't forgive the sins of a certain family, I will always kneel on the ground!" ”
The smile on Liu Bei's face slowly dissipated, and his dark eyes flashed a cold killing intent when he looked at Song Xian, who couldn't stop kowtowing below, but when he thought that he still needed military generals to guard the city, he could only suppress the killing intent in his heart, "Hahaha!" General Song Xian got up quickly, when did my father blame you? ”
When Song Xian heard this, he dared to stand up tremblingly, staring at the lord Liu Bei with a pair of copper bell eyes, and let the scarlet blood on his forehead flow down his cheeks quickly, even if it dripped on his body, he didn't care.
Liu Bei saw that the other party's wound was still gushing out like blood, and hurriedly shouted to the soldiers around him, "Come here as soon as possible, lead General Song Xian to the best Langzhong in the city for treatment, and be sure to stop the blood!" ”
Hearing this, the soldiers around them quickly came to the other party as if they had just woken up from a dream, and carefully helped Song Xian, who was pale, to walk towards the stairs in the distance.
Yang Hong and the others saw General Song Xian leaving, and the big stone that was raised high in their hearts could finally be put down safely, for fear that the lord would send the other party to lead the soldiers and horses under his command, and go to the camp of the big Han master Zhou Qi and Zhou Haoran at night to rob the camp, not to mention whether they can succeed, at least they know that this person will not survive to come back, after all, which of those generals they just saw is not above the strength of the other party, how can there be no generals to guard the night patrol, and going to the camp is tantamount to throwing himself into the net.
"Hey! Ladies and gentlemen, we are now besieged by the enemy, and I don't know what good way to solve the current crisis? Liu Bei looked at the busy figure in the distance, with a solemn look in his eyes, facing the gap in the strength of the generals, the gap in the strength of the troops, it is obvious that the people are not on their side, as for the location and the time, can they occupy it, thinking of these two factors, a blank look flashed in his eyes.
"Lord, the only thing we can do now is to defend the city and town, after all, the surplus grain in the city can be used for half a year, and the enemy can use the surplus grain through the barrier policy!" A military general walked out, clasped his hands into fists, bowed slightly, and said, Who is it not Cao Xing.
Liu Bei nodded when he heard this, but he didn't think so in his heart, even if he followed Yang Hong's barrier policy to transport all the surplus grain in Taiyuan County to the city, resulting in no surplus grain within a radius of hundreds of miles, but Zhou Qi'er, who owns half of the Han Dynasty, how could he be stumped because of this trivial matter.
"My lord, we don't have an advantage in terms of generals and troops, only as General Cao Xuan said, it seems that there is still hope for success in holding on to the city, or waiting for reinforcements to arrive!" As Liu Bei's current military advisor, Yang Hong also walked out at this moment and said loudly.
Everyone around saw Yang Hong speak, and one by one they echoed it like kowtow insects, and the voices of approval for a while were endless.
"Since all the princes think so, I don't know who wants to take on the task of guarding the city this time?" Liu Bei saw that everyone agreed with Cao Xing's suggestion, so he simply didn't put forward the opposite opinion, and directly said another difficult problem in front of him.
When everyone around heard that you look at me, I look at you, and for a while, no one dared to stand up and take the initiative to ask for help, so it can be seen how much fear there is in the hearts of Zhou Qi and Zhou Haoran, the big man.
"Humph!" Liu Bei looked at the appearance of everyone around him and couldn't help but snort coldly, his eyes like eagles and falcons stared at everyone for a moment, as if he was looking for a suitable candidate.
Seeing this, Yang Hong and the others turned pale one by one, and drops of cold sweat quickly dripped down their cheeks, even if the placket in front of them was wet, they didn't dare to react in the slightest.
"General Cao Xing is not as good as Ruzhen to defend the city during the day?" Liu Bei looked at it for a long time and had to stop his eyes on Cao Xing, who had just spoken, and at the same time he was dissatisfied with the number of generals under his command now, why did Zhou Qi have so many children, but he was getting fewer and fewer.
Cao Xing's pale face became even paler at the moment he heard the question of the lord Liu Bei, and he was about to open his mouth to refuse, but when he saw the other party's cold appearance, he could only swallow the words that came to his mouth, revealing a smile that was more ugly than crying, "Lord, it is an honor to be able to share your worries for you!" ”
"Hahaha! Good! Good! Good! Look at General Cao Xing, if you can think like General Cao Xing, my father will not be so embarrassed! Liu Bei saw that the other party agreed, so he laughed with satisfaction.
When everyone around heard this, they all showed embarrassed smiles on their faces, and they all echoed: "What the lord said is very true! ”
Liu Bei rolled his eyes helplessly, he really hated these sycophants under his command, if it weren't for the fact that the other party was the leader of some big families, I am afraid that he would have been pushed out and beheaded.
"Now that the daytime guards have been arranged, I wonder who wants to be the nighttime guards?" Liu Bei eliminated the distracting thoughts in his heart, and his dark eyes looked at the surroundings again, and everyone slowly spoke.
After hearing the words of the lord Liu Bei, the smiles on their faces stiffened, for fear that the next unlucky person would be themselves, but at this time, a burly military general came out of the crowd, clasped his hands into fists and bowed slightly, and said loudly, "Lord, the last general is willing to lead the soldiers and horses to defend the city, and never let the enemy take a step forward!" ”
Everyone around saw a look of surprise on their faces, for no other reason than Hao Meng, a popular man when Ding Yuan was alive, because when he stole the former Majesty's cemetery in Luoyang, the eastern capital, he was against the lord Liu Bei everywhere, and after Liu Bei became the lord of the state and merged the state, he had become a marginalized figure.
Liu Bei's eyes flashed the moment he saw Hao Meng, the smile on his face remained unchanged, and his easy-going voice sounded in everyone's ears: "Since General Hao Meng wants to guard the night, my duke naturally can't ask for it, but because the enemy ambushes and conquers the city at night, so my duke has to add a military general again, Tuoba Qin Feng, you and General Hao Meng will guard the night together, if there is an enemy who dares to attack the city, the first time to send an alarm, have you ever understood?" ”
"Understood!" The moment Hao Meng heard that Liu Bei let him guard the city at night, there was a look of surprise in his eyes, for fear that he would disappear in the next second as if he would be seen.
"Let's go back to the mansion and rest first, and if there is an enemy attack, come to support as soon as possible!" Liu Bei looked at the heads of the big families around him and said loudly.
"Yes!" When everyone heard this, they hurriedly bowed down to receive the order, and quickly turned around and walked in the direction of the stairs behind them, as if some flood beast was chasing after them.
Time passed day by day, and for some reason, since the great Han master Zhou Qi and Zhou Haoran besieged Jinyang City, there was no intention of attacking in a hurry, but instead sent a military general with a team of soldiers to stand in front of the city gate to persuade him to surrender.
Liu Bei looked at the soldiers in the distance who were trying their best to persuade them to surrender, and his brows wrinkled slightly unconsciously: "Yang Hong, why did you say that Zhou Qi'er did this, is it because Jinyang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if you want to conquer it, you will suffer heavy losses?" ”
Yang Hong frowned and formed a big Sichuan character in front of his forehead, no matter how he guessed, he couldn't think of what Zhou Qi thought in his heart, such a meaningless dispatch of troops and horses to persuade him to surrender was tantamount to a waste of time, it was better to directly dispatch those peerless generals under his command.
"Boom!" Just when Liu Bei was about to ask again, I don't know when the originally clear sky suddenly became cloudy, and he couldn't see his five fingers, as if he had been born as a demon king, giving people a depressing feeling of black clouds pressing down on the city.
Yang Hong's originally frowning brows were not soothed when he saw such a scene in the sky, but deepened a little again, "Lord, looking at such weather, I'm afraid there will be a torrential rain, so I have to prepare in advance!" ”
"Heavy rain?" Liu Bei was slightly stunned, and then as if he thought of something, he stretched out his slender palm and slapped it heavily on his head, and hurriedly ran towards the edge of the city wall, leaning over to look at Zhou Qi'er's camp in the distance.
Where is there still the figure of the other party and his subordinates, I don't know when they moved to a high mountain, obviously knowing that there will be heavy rain coming, "Yang Hong, you said that Zhou Qi'er didn't want to use..."
Before Liu Bei's words were finished, he was interrupted by Yang Hong on the side, "Lord, such a hurtful thing, I don't think Zhou Qi'er will do it, after all, doing so will cause a huge blow to this person's reputation!" ”
"Is that really the case?" When Liu Bei heard Yang Hong's analysis, the doubts in his heart did not disappear, but deepened a little again: "How come this man has heard that this person used a water attack in order to be able to conquer Shanyue Barbarian as soon as possible, if he uses it once this time, it is just a return to the old business!" ”
This time, before Yang Hong could speak, Cao Xing on the side had already taken the lead, "Lord, for Shanyue Man, it is completely because the other party is not a Han person, and the heart of the non-Wu clan must be different, so there will not be too much burden to kill, but the people in the city are all Han people, but they are the people of the Han Dynasty, how can Zhou Qi, who is the master of the horse, wave the butcher knife in his hand to his own people?" ”
"My lord, what General Cao Xing said is reasonable, the Jingzhou Army is famous for caring for the people, how to hurt the peace of the world, I will definitely not do it!" Song Xian, who had a bloody scar on his forehead, also opened his mouth and echoed... to be continued