After Liu Bei learned the news, he said to Xun Yu: "Chen Gongtai is a wise and resourceful man, I am short of food, what can I do about it?" Liu Bei originally wanted to be crushed with his strength, but he didn't expect to be thought of by Chen Gong to come up with such a plan, which would harm him.

Xun Yu thought for a while and said: "For today's plan, it is better to make Yide abandon Puyang, retreat to Dongwuyang, and then join forces with Ziyi to first take Jibei and Taishan County." In this way, the food road can be guaranteed. "Jibei, Taishan County and the northern part of Dongjun are all close to Qingzhou, so it is convenient to transport grain, and there is no need to worry about being attacked by the Yanzhou army. It's just that in this way, the plan to raid Chen Liu has to be abandoned.

Liu Bei looked at Jia Xu again, and Jia Xu smiled and said, "If the lord can rely on me, he can break Yanzhou." ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed and said, "Wenhe is coming quickly." ”

Jia Xu said: "Yanzhou burns grain, what does it have to do with our army, every time you take a city, you can drive the people of Yanzhou to the south, so that they can eat the Yanzhou army." In this way, Yanzhou can be flat. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, his face darkened. Jia Wenhe, ah Jia Wenhe, it's true that people say that you are a poisoner. You are making it clear that I don't care if the people of Yanzhou live or die. The Chen Palace set fire to the grain and threw the people to me. You asked me to ignore it and drive the people directly to the Chen Palace......

Liu Bei said: "No, the people of Yanzhou are also Han people, so there is no reason." ”

Jia Xu laughed and said: "Cao Cao didn't listen to the orders of the imperial court, and the people of Yanzhou provided him with rent, which is against the people." The life and death of the rebel people, why should the lord care. ”

Liu Bei said in his heart, the world has been in turmoil for decades, and I don't know how many people have done that unjustly killed ghost in the past few decades. Those who died on the battlefield and those who died on the way to escape are countless. If I do this again in Yanzhou, look at a few guys in Yanzhou, they are all black-hearted people. At that time, they don't care about the people of Yanzhou, but they are afraid that they will starve all over the land again. No, no, no. I can accept that I die in battle, and I can't force people to death alive.

After Liu Bei categorically refused, Jia Xu didn't care, and fortunately didn't say that the lord would directly drive the people of Yanzhou to attack the city.

Liu Bei ordered Zhang Fei to retreat from Xun Yu's strategy, no longer intending to go south, but to clear the northern part of Dongjun, and then raise troops into Jibei. After Zhang Fei listened to the order, he abandoned Puyang, led the army to Dongwuyang, took Chen Gong's family in his hand, and then wrote a letter to Chen Gong, ordering him to surrender, otherwise he would behead his wife, children and mother.

Chen Gong got the letter, was silent for a while, and then sent a letter to Zhang Fei: "I have heard that those who rule the world with filial piety do not harm people's relatives; Those who give benevolence to the world will not be worshipped. Gong Jiu heard the virtue of the king of Zhongshan and the prestige of the general. Whether the wife of the palace and the old mother exist or not depends on the general. ”

Zhang Fei got Chen Gong's letter, and with a hey, in front of Chen Gong's wife and children, he pulled out the saber at his waist and inserted it again. And so on several times. He didn't really want to kill Chen Gong's family, but he was pushed back by Chen Gong like this, and his heart was really unhappy. Seeing that Chen Gong's wife and children were afraid, Zhang Fei said in his heart, why should the eldest husband embarrass women and children. So he left the Chen Mansion and ordered to send the Chen Gong family to the Chen Palace camp, out of sight and out of mind, since he couldn't kill it, he simply sent it away.

Chen Gong was sure that the Han army would not harm his family, but he didn't expect the Han army to send his family back. Looking at his wife and children who were crying with joy, Chen Gong sighed in his heart, Zhang Yide is also a righteous man.

Guan Yu was in Jiujiang, when he heard the smoke of Yanzhou, he ordered Gan Ning and others to strictly guard the river defense to prevent Yangzhou from moving, and at the same time, he wrote to Liu Bei and asked if he wanted him to attack Yu and Yan from Xuzhou?

After Liu Bei received the letter, he thought about it seriously and gave up. Yangzhou Zhou Yu and Lu Su are matched to guard the river, and they have already emerged at this time, there is no big war, and small-scale friction occurs from time to time. Guan Yu's pressure in the south is not light. In addition to dealing with Yangzhou, Guan Yu also had to strictly guard against Yuzhou. Don't use the troops there. I have countless soldiers in the north, if I can't win a Yanzhou, wouldn't it be a joke?

When the Yanzhou war came and went, Cao Cao was also in Yizhou.

After the loss of Jiameng Pass, Cao Cao's soldiers divided into two routes, one side attacked Zilu and Fuxian along Jiameng Pass to the south; On the one hand, he attacked Baishui Pass to the north, so that Hanzhong and Baishui Pass were connected.

Jiameng Pass was lost, and Baishui Pass was unexpectedly attacked from behind, and after holding on for a long time, it also fell. At this point, the north gate of Shu County has been completely opened.

Liu Zhang sent people to help again and again, but it turned out that bad news came one after another. Zilu fell, Fuxian fell, and Cao's army was not far from Mianzhu......

When he heard that Cao Cao was about to arrive in Mianzhu, Liu Zhang and the ministers were already completely confused. As soon as Mianzhu is lost, the next thing is Yuxian, and then down, it is Chengdu. So someone made a suggestion: "The Cao army is strong, the Han army is far away in the north, and the Qinling Mountains are dangerous, so they can't come to help, so it's better to surrender." ”

Although the person who proposed to surrender was forked out by Liu Zhang, and his head was almost cut off. But the concept of surrender took root in the hearts of Liu Zhang and the ministers.

Zhang Song, Liu Zhang's other driver. After witnessing the chaos in the temple, he sighed all the way back to the house. In the middle of the line, I suddenly heard a voice from the side of the road: "Brother Ziqiao, why are you so worried?" ”

Zhang Song looked over and saw two old acquaintances standing beside the road, looking at him with a smile on their faces. Zhang Song said: "Filial piety, Zidu, how can you wait here." ”

These two people are Fa Zheng and Meng Da. The two of them are from Fufeng Yi County, and because they avoided the war, they entered Shu from the Qinling Mountains. It is really difficult for outsiders to get a good position in Yizhou. Fa is the grandson of Fa Zhen, a famous man, and after coming to Yizhou, it took a long time for him to get the position of the new capital order. Meng Da is even worse, but he is a lieutenant in the army.

The two of them did not have a good time in Yizhou, and later heard that Liu Bei was slightly set in the pass, and Guan Liang and the group were defeated. Thinking that since the chaos in his hometown has calmed down, he should simply go home. Guanzhong was in the midst of all kinds of waste, I went there by myself, and found Liu Bei to recommend himself, even if it was a county order, it was better than being angry in Yizhou. So they made an appointment together and abandoned the official and left. I also remembered that after many years in Yizhou, only Zhang Song treated them very well. After saying goodbye this time, I didn't know what year it would be to say goodbye, so I entered Chengdu again and came to see Zhang Song. On the side of the road, he saw Zhang Song sighing while walking, so he called out.

Zhang Song saw Fa Zheng and Meng Da, and his heart was happy, so he introduced himself into the mansion and sat down to talk. learned that Fa Zheng and Meng Da had abandoned their official positions and wanted to return to Guanzhong in the north. Zhang Song sighed: "It's okay." Today's discussion in the palace, Cao Cao's army has reached Fu County and will reach Mianzhu. Yizhou has been a place of right and wrong, and it cannot stay for a long time. It is also a good thing for the two virtuous brothers to return to their hometowns in the north. ”

Fa Zheng and Meng Da knew that Cao Cao was attacking Hanzhong and Ba County, but they didn't know that Cao Cao had already attacked Guanghan County. The two of them are not natives of Yizhou nor Dongzhou people who entered Sichuan with Liu Yan, they have always been excluded by these two groups, and they have resigned a few years ago, because no one told them that Cao Cao had just passed the New Year, and they had already succeeded in the surprise attack on Jia Meng.

Hearing Zhang Song's words, the two couldn't help but be shocked, how could this be? So he hurriedly pulled Zhang Song and wanted to ask what was going on.