Crossing the Battle of the Three Kingdoms

Losing Cai Mao as an important hostage, Chen Dao led nearly [-] elite troops to surrender. Let alone defending Nanyang, breaking out of the siege may become difficult.

As one after another of unfavorable news came back, Liu Bei never said a word, and Zhuge Liang couldn't stand it anymore, and said, "Uncle Emperor, the general trend is the trend, surrender."

"Hahaha..." Liu Bei laughed out loud, as if hearing a joke, with tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes.

"Betrayal, betrayal, I didn't expect this feeling, it turned out to be like this, hahaha, I am not reconciled, I, Liu Bei, have come step by step to this day, I will never admit defeat, never..."

Liu Bei was talking nonsense like a madman, Zhuge Liang could only mourn for him, and waved to the kneeling soldiers who were at a loss.

The coach didn't give orders, and the result can be imagined. In just about two hours, Wei Yan rushed in with a group of soldiers.

"Da da da……"

"Here you are, Li Huiyi, you are finally here. I, Liu Bei, am the emperor's uncle now. You common people, hurry up and kneel down to salute!"

"Kill! Kill thieves and eliminate rape..."

Seeing Liu Bei's nonsense, Wei Yan frowned, looked at Zhuge Liang and asked, "Mr. Zhuge, what's going on?"

Zhuge Liang waved his feather fan lightly and replied: "My heart has been wounded and I have fallen into a demon. I am afraid it will be like this from now on."

"Crazy? Impossible." Wei Yan showed disbelief, looked carefully for a while, but couldn't see any flaws, so he waved and said, "Come here, drive Liu Bei out of the city."

Since Chen Dao had promised to spare Liu Bei's life, Wei Yan simply let him go. Regardless of whether Liu Bei was crazy or not, there would be no more disturbances anyway.

Sending Liu Bei away, Wei Yan looked at Zhuge Liang who was sitting quietly, and said respectfully: "Sir, the general has an order to assist you and Pang Tong in the matter of Jingzhou."

Zhuge Liang shook his head slightly and said: "Liang is a commoner, I am afraid that he is not capable enough, Nanyang has fallen, and the overall situation of the world has been settled, Liang should go to the mountains and live a life of being able to live in the clouds and wild cranes."

"Hiss." Wei Yan did not give up and persuaded: "Mr.'s talent, literature can govern the country and the country, and martial arts can lead the army to kill thieves. Why should you bury it in the mountains?"

Zhuge Liang asked with a little interest: "Did the general say this himself?"

"Exactly, I hope you can help me." Wei Yan nodded and replied, if Li Huiyi hadn't said those words, he wouldn't have dared to say them.

Zhuge Liang was very curious. Although he and Li Huiyi met, it was when they were very young, and they couldn't see anything at all.

But this Li Huiyi was the first to send someone to invite him, and his attitude was so tough. Could it be that he knew himself better than himself.

Zhuge Liang gave a feather fan and asked slowly: "Liang still has a question, I hope General Wei will answer it truthfully."

Wei Yan replied: "Sir, please tell me, I will know, and I will answer truthfully."

Zhuge Liang stared into Wei Yan's eyes, and asked word by word: "Who broke the gossip formation outside the city?"

Wei Yan smiled and said: "The great general Fei Ge passed on the book, and taught me the method to crack it."

Sure enough, it was Li Huiyi, this person is really unpredictable, maybe he needs to get to know him well, maybe the two lines of Legalism and Mohism can return to the top.

Zhuge Liang, and Huang Yueying are both descendants of France and Mozilla, and their family has always shouldered the important task of revitalizing the two lines.

But in this world where Confucianism is dominant, many schools of thought have withered away, and those who can survive and still have some right to speak are probably not one-tenth of them left.

To be honest, Zhuge Liang does not think that the family dominates, but hopes to reappear the grand view of a hundred schools of thought contending. If everything loses its opponent, then there is only one result, that is, a degenerate atmosphere slowly evolves inside.

The development of Confucianism to this day is a very obvious example. While obeying the ruler mindlessly, they seek their own interests at the same time. When encountering problems, they are the first to become servile, and then begin to show their servility and win trust again.

Chapter 778 Voluntary Surrender

Perhaps, there are a few noble ones, but in that atmosphere, they can't influence anything.

Zhuge Liang thought for a long time, and asked slowly: "Can the general have an explanation, Liang is in Jingzhou, what is he in charge of, and can he have autonomy?"

When Zhuge Liang asked this question, Wei Yan knew that he had agreed, so he immediately said Li Huiyi's original words.

"Sir is in charge of political affairs, and Mr. Pang is the mastermind of military affairs. All political affairs are left to Mr. alone, and no one has the right to intervene."

Li Huiyi's method can be said to completely hand over Jingzhou to Zhuge Liang, which Zhuge Liang never thought of.

With this entrustment, Zhuge Liang's already germinated ideas became stronger, so naturally he would no longer refuse. "In that case, then Liang will temporarily take charge of Jingzhou."

Zhuge Liang agreed, and Wei Yan said with a smile on his face: "Okay, with Mr. here, I don't have to worry about how to settle the people. I can let go and gallop on the battlefield."

Zhuge Liang had voted, and the two of them talked more, chatting one after another, waiting for the arrival of the people outside.

The sudden change in Nanyang City, Cao Cao outside the city had known the news a long time ago, but was blocked by the gossip formation, unable to do anything at all, and could only watch helplessly.

However, Cao Cao reacted quickly, and immediately sent troops to the remaining counties in Jingzhou, taking them first if he wanted to be strong, and trying to prevent Li Huiyi from growing stronger.

Even so, it is possible that the way of retreat will be cut off, but Cao Cao has no choice. In the end, it is better to transfer these cities to Sun Ce than to be taken away by Li Huiyi.

Those aristocratic families in Jingzhou heard that Liu Bei was defeated in Nanyang, and facing the arrival of Cao Cao's army, they did not resist at all, so they readily surrendered.

Cao Cao quickly occupied the remaining counties in Jingzhou, leaving only Nanjun occupied by Liu Biao, which made Wei Yan full of belligerent spirit and had nowhere to vent.

Finally, under the advice of Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and others, they deployed several lines of defense in Nanyang to isolate Cao Cao's back, trying to force them to take the lead and start the war justifiably.

But Cao Cao had expected it a long time ago, and he did not start a war with him. Instead, he did nothing. He left the generals Cao Ren and Cheng Yu to guard, and led the rest of the people to go back to Yuzhou through Sun Ce's territory.

Faced with Cao Cao's tolerance, Wei Yan and others had no choice but to turn to Nanyang.

Outside Nanyang City, Guan and Zhang were unable to attack for a long time, and bad news came frequently, which broke the army's morale. Even if they were suppressed by force, many soldiers still sneaked away every day.

Guan, Zhang and others, faced with this situation, had no intentions at all, and put their troops on the attack. Because Nanyang fell, Liu Bei disappeared. No matter how hard they searched, they found nothing.

According to the news from Nanyang, Liu Bei was not killed. This point has been confirmed by Guan and Zhang.

Liu Jun was in charge of the camp, Guan Yu squinted his eyes slightly, Zhang Fei kept walking up and down, Mi Zhu and Jian Yong looked ugly and remained silent.

After a long time, Guan Yu, who was the leader, opened his eyes slightly and said, "Brother's whereabouts are unknown, and the morale of the army is getting worse day by day. Let's just leave here."

Hearing Guan Yu's words, Mi Zhu said with a look of embarrassment: "This...if the emperor comes back, there are no soldiers or horses, how should I explain it?"

Guan Yu said slowly: "What if you have soldiers and horses, what if you don't have soldiers and horses? Is there any chance for elder brother? To tell the truth, my third brother and I are going to find elder brother to hide in the mountains."

Zhang Fei was by the side, without saying a word. It was obvious that what Guan Yu said was what they had already discussed, otherwise with his character, he would have jumped up a long time ago.

When Mi Zhu heard this, he felt very sad. At the beginning, he gave away all his family wealth and even married his own sister to Liu Bei, so he wanted to get back to today's result.

However, the facts have already been caused, and Mi Zhu can only bear the bitter fruit of gambling.

"General Guan has made up his mind, Zhu won't say anything, but these soldiers who followed the emperor's uncle in the north and south must arrange a way out."

On this point, Guan Yu had already thought that these people were right for Liu Bei if they could not leave at this time, so naturally they couldn't be ruthlessly abandoned.

"As for this, my third brother and I have already considered it. If you surrender to Wei Yan, you should have a good home."

Mi Zhu had no objection to surrendering Li Huiyi. After all, if he led the army like him, he would definitely be able to have an official position. No matter how big or small, there was always hope of rising again.