"Mother, it's all ready!" Zhu Xue came to Mrs. Zhu Rong to report.

Mrs. Zhurong nodded and said, "Let's go!" ”

"Yes."

Mrs. Zhurong came out of the courtyard with more than 100 female soldiers and stepped on the war horse, Mrs. Zhurong looked back at the place where she had lived for several years, and her heart couldn't help but feel a thousand emotions.

Zhu Xue saw that Mrs. Zhu Rong was in a daze, so she called softly: "Niangniang." ”

Mrs. Zhurong came back to her senses, took a deep breath, slammed her horsewhip, and quickly got off the war horse and raised her hooves with a neigh.

The group rushed out of the cottage, and the leader of the barbarian army who was in charge of guarding the gate couldn't help but feel a strange atmosphere, and immediately went to report to Meng Shucha.

A moment later, Meng Huo, who was dismantled and red-eyed, led more than a dozen people to ride out of the cottage and chased them in the direction that Mrs. Zhurong had left.

Before evening, Meng Shucai returned to the cottage with a blank expression.

Meng Shu suddenly raised his head to the sky and roared, just like a wounded beast roaring, and everyone in the cottage couldn't help but feel a thrill when they heard this sound.

Meng Huo pointed to the sky full of red clouds and shouted, "Cao Cao, I must kill you!" ”

Cao Cao, who was thousands of miles away, sneezed violently, rubbed his nose, looked at the weather in confusion, and secretly thought that he was sick.

Feeling that there didn't seem to be anything wrong with his body, Cao Cao didn't pay attention to it, looked at Guo Jia on the side and asked, "Is the situation of the displaced people still serious now?" ”

"Much better than a month ago! However, there are still a large number of displaced people from Jiaozhou and Yangzhou! ”

Cao Cao asked rather strangely: "Although Sun Jian is not good at internal affairs, he makes good use of internal affairs talents, why are there so many displaced people in Yangzhou?" ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Sun Jian is fighting against our army. Blindly expanding its military strength regardless of its own situation, the current Yangzhou can be described as a withering people's livelihood. The people are complaining! If it weren't for Sun Jian's personal prestige and ability to remedy mistakes, maybe Yangzhou would have fallen into the flames of civil strife by now! ”

Cao Cao nodded: "This battle." Sun Jian not only lost Qu'a and Jiaozhou, but also lost more than 200,000 troops, Sun Jian's current situation must be even worse! ”

Guo Jia nodded and smiled: "That's nature!" ”

Cao Cao remembered one thing, frowned, and said, "However, the losses of our army are not small, especially the Fourth Army Corps and the Jingzhou Land and Water Army!" In addition, after this battle, I realized that our local army can be called a rice bucket! ”

Guo Jia smiled bitterly: "These local armies are basically reorganized from the surrendered troops in various places, and we only paid attention to their military discipline in the past, but did not train and refine them!" Its low combat power is not surprising! ”

Cao Cao said categorically: "We must not let this situation continue!" Bong-hyo. I plan to give an order, and immediately make a report on the reorganization of the local troops, and send an order to Zhang He to go to Chang'an to listen to the order! ”

"Wechen takes orders." Guo Jia promised and immediately withdrew from the big tent.

Early the next morning, Cao Cao left the Chibi camp under the escort of the Imperial Forest Army led by Xu Chu, and Cao Ren and other generals and Guo Jia all arrived to see him off.

At the same time, the remnants of Sun Cejun's army finally returned to Jianye, and Sun Jian personally led people to greet him.

When Sun Jian saw tens of thousands of remnants of the defeated army appear in front of him. Sun Jian couldn't help crying without tears, it was the glorious army of more than 100,000 that left Jianye to go west that day! And in front of him were only in their early 20,000s, ragged, and frightened.

Sun Ce, Sun Jian, father and son met under the city gate. Relatively wordless.

Immediately, the father and son and a group of generals entered the city surrounded by their own soldiers, and Sun Ce's 20,000 remnants of the defeated generals were led to the barracks outside the city. However, not long after, the news of Sun Ce's remnants returning from defeat still spread in the streets and alleys of Jianye, and the situation of the army was said to be as miserable and miserable as it was. Jianye City was gripped by a sense of failure.

The father and son and the generals returned to the lobby of the governance office, and Sun Jian glanced at Sun Ce, who was not in good spirits: "You go down to wash first." Take a break! There was a hint of care in his tone.

Sun Ce shook his head, clenched his fists and said, "Thank you, father." But let's get down to business first! “

Sun Jian didn't insist, turned his head and glanced at the generals under the hall, focusing on Jiang Qin and other generals who accompanied Sun Ce on the expedition. Sun Jian frowned and asked, "What about Old General Cheng?" ”

Jiang Qin and the others looked gloomy, hung their heads and did not speak, Sun Ce came out and hugged his fists and said: "Father, the old general Cheng Pu died in the battle of the breakout!" The head was taken away by the Wei army, and the body was gone! ”

Sun Ce clenched his fists, and the raging anger surged in the tiger's eyes.

"What?!"

Sun Jian was taken aback, hurriedly walked in front of Sun Ce, held Sun Ce up, and shouted, "You said that General Cheng is dead?!" ”

Sun Ce nodded sadly, then raised his eyebrows, and swore word by word: "Old General Cheng died for me!" I will take off Dian Wei's head to avenge General Cheng! ”

Sun Jian only felt dizzy for a while, took a few steps back, and sat down on the main seat.

Seeing Sun Jian so sad, everyone couldn't help but feel anxious and very moved at the same time, and they hugged their fists together and persuaded: "Your Majesty, the deceased is gone, please mourn!" ”

Sun Jian muttered: "General Cheng has followed him since he was young, and he will never abandon him no matter what kind of dangerous situation he is!" I can't imagine that today Lone and General Cheng are separated forever! ”

Sun Jian slammed his fist on the case table in front of him, and he actually smashed the inch-thick case table into two.

"Lonely hate!!"

Sun Jian's eyes widened, and his whole face was distorted by sadness and anger.

Everyone was silent for a moment, and Pang Tong said: "Your Majesty, now is not the time to mourn, the top priority is how to deal with the Wei army that is in full swing. ”

Sun Jian nodded, Huo Ran stood up, and said categorically: "Gu has decided to restore the military strength under his command to the pre-war level!" ”

The generals' eyes lit up, while Pang Tong, Zhang Zhao and others were taken aback.

Zhang Zhao hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, at present, the land south of the Yangtze River has withered because of our previous sparing no effort to recruit soldiers, if we continue to recruit soldiers, I am afraid, I am afraid that it will provoke a civil uprising!" ”

Pang Tong hurriedly continued: "What Mr. Zibu said is extremely true! The previous conscription has reached the limit that Jiangnan can bear, and if we recruit again, not only will we not be able to maintain and improve the combat effectiveness of our army, but we may be caught in the flames of civil strife! At that time, what are you talking about competing with the Wei army? ”

Sun Jian frowned, hesitated, and glanced at Sun Ce and other generals, all of whom also showed hesitation.

Sun Jian pondered for a moment and sighed: "Okay! According to what the two ministers said, no more conscription! ”

Pang Tong and Zhang Zhaodeng breathed a sigh of relief, hugged their fists and said: "The king is wise!" (To be continued.) )