Jian Yong is Liu Bei's cronies, and this matter naturally cannot be hidden from the eyes and ears of the princes of all parties. But when Liu Bei took refuge in Yuan Shu, he went alone. However, Yuan Shu still understood this truth, so Yuan Shu did not ask about the whereabouts of Liu Bei's subordinates at that time, and even Guan Yu, who fought against Lu Bu outside the Tiger Prison Pass, Yuan Shu did not pay attention to it, let alone Jian Yong.

However, the soldiers who came in from outside the tent had been following Liu Bei, he knew Jian Yong, and even knew some of the conspiracies between Liu Bei and Jian Yong, so as soon as he entered the big tent, he still called Jian Yong Mr.

Liu Bei was taken aback, Qiao Rui was still here, and when the soldiers said this, didn't it reveal that there were still inextricable links between him and Jian Yong? Liu Bei couldn't help glaring at the soldier fiercely, waved his hand and said, "What a traitor who seeks glory, he still has the face to come to see me?" Escort him into the back account first, and Liu will personally interrogate him later! ”

Qiao Rui was a brave man, where was there such a crooked intestine as Liu Bei, and he didn't think about it, so he arched his hand and said: "Since General Liu has other important matters, then the general will immediately order troops to return to Lujiang, and I wish General Liu a successful horse as soon as possible." ”

Waiting for Qiao Rui to withdraw from the big tent, Liu Bei remembered that Jian Yong was quite strange at this time, and something major must have happened, so he hurriedly got up and rushed to the back tent.

In the back tent, several pro-soldiers were hurriedly untying the ropes tied to Jian Yong's body. It turned out that the pro-soldier was quite clever, and after listening to Liu Bei's words, he already understood that he had lost his words just now, so he quickly tied up Jian Yong Wuhuanda to hide people's eyes.

Jian Yong was originally a guy with a deep city government, not to mention that when this was critical, where would he care about these things, and he didn't care about tidying up his messy clothes, so he hurriedly made a gesture towards Liu Bei and said: "The lord of Qi, his subordinates have been entrusted by the lord, and they can't say that Gong Du and Liu Pi will come to surrender, please surrender the lord." ”

Liu Bei originally thought that on the one hand, he promised high-ranking officials and money beauties, and on the other hand, he pressed the territory with a large army, under both soft and hard, supplemented by Jian Yong's three-inch incorruptible tongue, it was a sure thing that Gong Du and Liu Pi came to surrender, but he didn't expect Jian Yong to return in vain. Liu Bei sneered: "They toast and don't eat and drink, they really think that the tens of thousands of soldiers under Liu are just decorations!" ”

Jian Yong saw Liu Bei angry, and hurriedly said: "Actually, my subordinates thought that Gong Du and Liu Bi had moved, but suddenly a ...... came."

After listening to Jian Yong's report, Liu Bei calmed down and said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect Liu Xin's movements to be so fast, he came out with several armies, and Yuan Shu was difficult to resist. Xianhe, in your opinion, where should we go next? ”

Jian Yong frowned and said: "I have heard that most of Liu Xin's troops are elite divisions, and my subordinates didn't think so in the past, but when I saw it today, I knew that the rumors were true." The subordinates in Xincai have also been carefully fortified, and the city was broken in less than two hours, if it were not for the subordinates to run fast, it would be difficult to see the lord again in this life. According to the eyes of our subordinates, with our current strength, we must not confront Liu Xin head-on. ”

Liu Bei thought to himself, it turns out that you only know the strength of Liu Xin's army until today, and I have long had palpitations. Nodding, Liu Bei said: "I can't afford to hide, according to what you mean, are we going to run away from others?" ”

Jian Yong shook his head and said, "Now that there are Liu Xin's army all around, if there are a few people alone, there is still a chance, how can you escape with so many horses?" The subordinates mean that it is better for us to retreat to Lujiang for the time being, join forces with Yuan Shu, and defend the city with more than 100,000 troops, and maybe we can find a turnaround. ”

Liu Bei snorted coldly: "Liu finally found this opportunity to get rid of Yuan Shu, how can he throw himself into the net again?" What's more, Yuan Shu vainly proclaimed himself emperor, which was already a great rebellion, how could Liu get on his thief ship again? In this way, it is better to surrender Liu Xin directly, anyway, I also had a relationship with him. ”

Jian Yong said without thinking: "The Lord is tolerant! In the current situation, we can't fight and fight, and we can't escape, so we can only return to the division. If Liu Xin surrenders, even if he is lucky enough not to die, there will be no future. ”

Liu Bei's face sank and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Jian Yong said slowly: "Every time Liu Xin has to surrender his troops, he will either disband or regroup. At that time, how could the lord be in charge of a soldier again? Without military horses, how can you achieve great things? The comeback is just a dream after all. ”

Liu Bei suddenly came to his senses and said: "What Xianhe said is very true, without further ado, let's go back to Lujiang and wait for the opportunity to act." ”

Qiao Rui was loyal to Yuan Shu, he obeyed Liu Bei's arrangement, took 10,000 horses and hurriedly left the barracks, all the way to the Lujiang River, not far away, there was a rear army to report, saying that the dust and smoke were rising in the direction of Runan. For some reason, Qiao Rui hurriedly ordered the rear team to change to the front team and stand guard in place. Suddenly, another soldier came to report, saying that Liu Bei thought twice about it, or Lujiang was important, and he also brought the army to come. Qiao Rui was naturally full of joy, and immediately picked up Liu Bei and returned to Lujiang together. And the 10,000 horses led by Jian Yong to Runan, now there are less than 1,000 people left, mixed with Liu Bei's tens of thousands of troops, but they are not very conspicuous, and they do not arouse Qiao Rui's suspicions at all.

Liu Bei is a hero, although he gives people the feeling of doing nothing on the surface, in fact, he will definitely not drag his feet when he really gets things done. Since he had listened to Jian Yong's opinion and chose to return to Lujiang, he would not let Qiao Rui go back first, so he quickly chased after him. Qiao Rui is a martial artist, and he was deceived by Liu Bei in a few words, so he couldn't distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, and he was walking with Liu Bei on horseback at the moment.

In the evening, Liu Bei and his entourage were in Anfeng County. Because they had a large number of men and horses, they had to camp outside the city, and only Liu Bei and Qiao Rui each brought a team of personal soldiers into the city.

Zheng Yuan, the commander of Anfeng County, saw that a large group of people and horses had crossed the border, so he hurriedly ordered people to carry wine and lead sheep, reward the three armies, and let Liu Bei and Qiao Rui into the county government, and his whole family moved to the post house to live temporarily, and treated Liu and Qiao very attentively.

Liu Bei and Qiao Rui have been marching very hard for days, and now they live in the spacious and bright county office, and they feel very comfortable, and they sleep very sweetly. Unbeknownst to him, in the middle of the night, he was suddenly awakened by a rapid knock on the door.

I saw that Zheng Yuan was disheveled, ran in in a panic, and said: "Two generals, the big thing is not good, the direction of the military camp outside the city is shouting and killing, and the fire is soaring, it seems that it has been attacked by the enemy." ”

Liu Bei sat up from the bed as soon as he "Teng", at least more than half of the 60,000 troops outside the city are his descendants, which is the capital for him to compete for the world, if he loses, he has no hope in the future.

Qiao Rui was also completely sleepy, and said in a loud voice: "How is it possible? Liu Xin's army came from the south, and it was separated by a big mountain, even if the Jiangxia soldiers came, they could only attack Xunyang first, how could there be an enemy attack at night? ”

Liu Bei had already put on his clothes and stood up and said loudly: "Not good! Could it be that the Runan Yellow Turban knew that we were waiting for the withdrawal of troops, and took the opportunity to chase and kill them? Quick, take me up to town! ”

In fact, Liu Bei knew in his heart that the so-called Runan Yellow Turban had been wiped out by Xu Huang's army, and there was a chance that it would be Xu Huang's army that could appear here at this time. If it was really Liu Xin's army that launched a night attack, then the 60,000 horses outside the city would definitely be more than lucky. Liu Bei guessed correctly, it was indeed Liu Xin's army that launched the night attack, but it was not Xu Huang's first army, but the second army from Jiangxia.

According to the time calculation, when Zhang Fei received Liu Xin's order, he was almost a day later than Zhang He and Zhang Liao, but it must have been earlier than Xu Huang. Now that Xu Huang has captured Pingyu, how can the short-tempered and belligerent Zhang Fei not have a trace of movement? That's because Zhang Fei is thick and fine.

Zhang Fei knew that Zhang He and these people were all gearing up on weekdays and wanted to fight a big battle, but now that they have such an opportunity, how could they not be in a hurry to make meritorious contributions? He himself received the order late, and he was far away, if he followed the normal attack path and entered from Xunyang, I am afraid that by the time he arrived at Lujiang, the battle would have ended. So Zhang Fei decided to find another way and climb over Dabie Mountain.

Dabie Mountain is a high mountain located between Lujiang County and Jiangxia County, stretching for hundreds of miles, according to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sealed Nanyue, once passed through this mountain. The emperor can not go back, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty turned around in this mountain for more than two months before he came to it, and he couldn't help but sigh that "this mountain is big, different from the world", so it was named Dabie Mountain. This mountain formed a natural barrier between Jiangxia County and Lujiang County, when Zhang He was able to block Yuan Shu's attack with a lone army and a camp, and kept the east gate of Xiangyang, but thanks to this barrier.

It is precisely because Dabie Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, although the straight-line distance from here to the Lujiang River is much closer, but in fact, it is not easy to walk, nor is it time-saving. Therefore, after Zhang Fei led the army over Dabie Mountain, he did not go straight to the Lujiang River, but went north to capture Yanlou County to block Yuan Shu's retreat, which is where Zhang Fei is thick and fine.

The current Han army, whether it is a regular army or a local army, has undergone strict training and has a complete set of combat procedures. After the capture of Yanlou County, the soldiers should be armed, rested, and sentified. As a result, the scouts sent out discovered Liu Bei's army stationed outside Anfeng City.

Although it was already night when he got the return of the scouting cavalry, Zhang Fei, who was warlike by nature, didn't care what day and night, since such a large army appeared and was camped in his "rear", it was like a thorn in his back, how could Zhang Fei tolerate it? Of course, he wouldn't have thought that he had broken into someone else's backyard in the first place, all he thought was that if you dared to come, I would dare to beat you!

Yuan Shu's military horse, who thought that he had returned to his own territory and could sleep peacefully, did not arrange sentry posts around the camp, and even the guards at the gate of the village were drowsy. Zhang Fei's army broke into the camp effortlessly, and Zhang Fei, who had not fought for a long time, suddenly entered the water like a fish and started to kill.