The sky gradually brightened, Liu Bei opened his eyes, but found Guan Yu's haggard face, and couldn't help but wonder: "Second brother, what do you have in mind?" ”

Guan Yu said: "It's nothing, it's just that I didn't sleep well last night." ”

Liu Bei and Guan Yu stayed together for more than many times compared to his own woman, and no one knew Guan Yu's temperament better than him, so he couldn't help laughing and said: "You are not brothers, but you are better than brothers, what thoughts can't you say to your brother?" ”

Guan Yu didn't feel a little embarrassed, and arched his hand and said: "The lesson of the eldest brother is that the younger brother knows that he is wrong. Don't dare to hide it from the eldest brother, the younger brother has taken a fancy to a woman. ”

Liu Bei laughed and said: "Men should get married, women should get married, what's so embarrassing about this." It's just that I don't know whose girl has such a good fortune to be able to get the favor of my second brother. ”

Guan Yu lowered his head and snorted: "It's a pity that she is already a married woman." ”

Liu Bei asked about the situation, pondered for a moment, and said, "Why does the eldest husband have no wife?" The second brother must not do anything that is detrimental to virtue. ”

Guan Yu promised: "Big brother, don't worry, the little brother is not a person who doesn't know the severity. ”

In the next few days, Cao Bao and Qin Yi returned to the barracks successively and became the deputy general of the Xuzhou army, and Guan Yu also seemed to be focused on the army's drills. However, whenever he saw Qin Yi, Guan Yu's face would have a strange expression, and thanks to his red face, even if he was a little excited, others couldn't see much clue. But Liu Bei knew very well that Guan Yu still couldn't let go of that woman in his heart. Especially at night, when the two of them slept at the same table, the scene of talking happily in the past no longer existed, Guan Yu often wandered secretly, and sometimes he didn't even hear what Liu Bei was saying. Liu Bei saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, Guan Yu was his strongest support in the world, it was not okay to always be in such a state, he had to come up with a solution.

Although Guan Yu's condition was not good, the 500 "alternate" officers threw themselves on the training ground one by one as if they had taken stimulants, training the 70 soldiers under their respective commands to scream, and the Xuzhou army had a completely new look.

Liu Bei saw the fierce fighting spirit of the soldiers on the training ground, nodded with satisfaction, and glanced at Cao Bao and Qin Yi who were standing beside Guan Yu, and suddenly had a plan and said, "General Qin." ”

Qin Yi has been going out early and returning late these days, crawling and rolling with the soldiers, not to mention the loss of weight, he is so tired that he can't straighten his waist when he returns home every day, looking at Du Xiuniang standing in front of him, he wants to make love but he is not enough. However, Qin Yi did not regret it. Guan Yu promoted him to be a deputy general, he brought home more military pay than in the past, the living conditions of the family gradually improved, and his mother's illness also had the money to ask a doctor for treatment, his gratitude to Guan Yu was from the bottom of his heart, and he really wanted to show it well.

"The last general!" Hearing Liu Bei call him, Qin Yi hurriedly stood upright, waiting for Liu Bei's further orders.

However, Liu Bei did not give an order directly, but pointed to the soldiers who were training hard in the school field, and said: "General Qin, do you think that if these soldiers were placed a few days ago, they would be worthy of fighting with the Cao army?" ”

Qin Yi said without thinking: "If there are some male soldiers that day, I will definitely be able to teach Cao Cao to come and go!" This is all the work of General Guan. ”

Liu Bei smiled slightly and said, "I heard that Pengcheng Taishou Zhenrong burned and killed the people in Guangling. Liu, as a pastor in Xuzhou, how can he ignore it? General Qin, Liu ordered you to immediately lead 3,000 elite soldiers to Guangling, clear out this gang of bandits, and return the people of Guangling to a bright future! ”

Qin Yi was stunned for a moment. As a military general, being able to get the opportunity to lead the troops alone shows that the lord's trust in him should of course be regarded as a good thing. But the problem is that Zhen Rong has more than 10,000 elite soldiers under him, and it is said that there are only three or four thousand war horses alone, but Liu Bei only gave him a total of 3,000 people.

Seeing that Qin Yi was silent, Liu Bei's face suddenly became gloomy, and he said lightly: "General Qin is hesitant to even clear and suppress Zhenrong, and what is he saying to face Cao Cao, so that he will not come back." ”

Qin Yi hurriedly snorted and said, "The lord has misunderstood, the last general is not familiar with the road of Guangling, and he is thinking about who to find as a guide." ”

Liu Bei's face immediately turned cloudy, and he said with a bow: "General Qin will worry about the guide's affairs, and Liu will arrange it for you." Rescue soldiers are like fighting fires, the people of Guangling are being slaughtered, and there is no delay for a moment, you go back and pack up, gather all the men and horses, and set off immediately. ”

Qin Yi muttered in his heart, why can't you delay for a moment, didn't you know today that Zhen Rong was killing people and setting fire in Guangling. Of course, he could only keep these words in his heart, but he promised repeatedly, arched his hand, and went to count the people.

Guan Yu looked at Qin Yi who left in a hurry, and couldn't help but see the figure of Du Xiuniang holding the child in front of him, and couldn't help but say: "Big brother, only give him 3,000 people, is it a little less?" Or, let the little brother go on a trip himself. ”

Liu Bei said secretly, isn't it all for you that I arranged like this? However, he knew that Guan Yu had a very high heart, but it was not easy to explain such words to him, so he had to wave his hand and say, "It's okay, there are other arrangements for my brother." General Cao, you will lead 10,000 horses to meet you and set off in three days. ”

Cao Bao's leg injury did not fully recover, and in order to maintain the Cao family's status in Xuzhou, he had to come to the school every day. Although the area under the stage has been cleaned, the dark red blood stains are still faintly visible, and his nephew Cao Jin was split into two pieces by Guan Yu there, and he dared not speak out. Now, hearing that Liu Bei asked him to lead his troops to Guangling, Cao Bao breathed a sigh of relief, so that he finally didn't have to look at Guan Yu's face anymore. He couldn't wait to set off now, where could he wait for three days, so he hurriedly promised and walked off the school to order troops.

Liu Bei didn't even sit in the position of Xuzhou Mu, where did he have the remaining energy to collect intelligence from all over the country, his understanding of Guangling was still in the news brought back by the envoy, but he didn't know that Zhenrong had now fled to Jiangnan, and Gan Ning himself served as the executioner and beheaded him in public. And Guangling and Wu County are now a busy scene.

Mi Zhu, Zhang Zhao, and Zhang Hong had already crossed the Yangtze River again, came to the territory of Guangling, and began to solicit the people of Guangling, Pengcheng and other places. Just in case, in addition to Zang Ba and Xu Sheng, who originally came to Wu County with them, Gan Ning sent Huang Gai to lead three hundred naval soldiers to follow them and serve as escorts. Without receiving Liu Xin's order, he only dared to send so many soldiers to cross the river to fight.

Among these people, except for Zang Ba and Huang Gai, the others are from various counties in Xuzhou, and Zang Ba has been Langya Taishou for a period of time, and he still has a certain appeal in Langya, and Mi Zhu, Zhang Zhao, and Zhang Hong are all famous people in Xuzhou. This group of people launched a call in Guangling, and soon the people gathered, and many temporary camps had been set up on the banks of the Guangling River on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Although Xuzhou has only five counties, it has a household registration of one million and a population of nearly five million. You must know that when Liu Xin first arrived in Xiangyang, the entire Jingxiang Nine Counties had a population of only 6 million. Of course, with the development of these years, the population of Jingzhou has now exceeded 9 million.

Cao Cao's army was not blindly slaughtered in Xuzhou, and those who took the initiative to surrender the city would also be restrained. Even so, the three counties of Langya, Donghai, Pengcheng and some counties of Xiapi County were still seriously damaged, and it is estimated that no less than 300,000 people died under the butcher's knife of Cao's army.

Because the Phantom Spy spread the news of Cao's invasion and the existence of refugee camps in Jiangxia and Wu counties, more people were able to flee their homes in advance, thus saving their lives. However, most of the people chose to flee to Jiangxia.

To get from Xuzhou to Jiangxia, you need to pass through Qian County and Runan, both of which were Yuan Shu's territory. Not all princes are like Liu Xin, who regard population as an important resource, on the contrary, there are many princes who regard a large number of people who have migrated over, especially those who have fled and are penniless, as a burden and the source of the cause. Yuan Shu's thoughts were the same, and he ordered the setting up of many checkpoints to prohibit the people of Xuzhou from crossing the border from Qiaojun and Runan.

Although some people were lucky enough to escape the checkpoint and came to Jiangxia, many more people were forced to return to Xuzhou again. Therefore, to this day, the refugee camp in Jiangxia has only accommodated more than 5,000 people who fled from Xuzhou.

In fact, for ordinary people, born in troubled times, but to be able to survive, whether it is a refugee camp in Jiangxia or a refugee camp in Wu County, as long as they can have a bowl of rice to eat and can continue to survive, it is not the same everywhere. There is only one reason why so many people chose to flee to Jiangxia, rather than flee to Wu County at the risk of being forced by Yuan Shu's army and even those young women to be humiliated, and that is the surging Yangtze River in front of them.

The Yangtze River is a moat, not only militarily, but also equally insurmountable, if not more difficult, for the people who have fled. In the past few days, with Mi Zhu and others bearing the boat fare, more than 500 fishing boats and merchant ships have gradually gathered along the river, and only 100,000 people have been transported intermittently. In just two days, more than 400,000 people fled from the counties on the riverside of Guangling County, and many people were also rushing over one after another after hearing the news.

However, the speed of news transmission in all parts of Liu Xin's jurisdiction is really much faster than that of Liu Beilai. After Gan Ning personally beheaded Zhenrong, Yu Fu sent a meteor fast horse, day and night, to send the news here to Xiangyang, and reported it every day, not daring to slack off at all.

At this time, what was in front of Liu Xin was the emergency military information that Yu Fu had sent from Wu County for two consecutive days. On the first day, it was reported that Mi Zhu, Zhang Zhao and others went to Jiangbei in person to organize refugees to cross the river. The next day's military intelligence had already reported that the number of refugees gathered in Jiangbei was as high as 100,000. And it will take at least a day and a half for these military information to come from Wu County, according to this calculation, it should be the fourth day of Mi Zhu's trip to Jiangbei, and I don't know how many people have gathered there.