The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

But Cai Yao immediately refused.

"How can I do that? It's okay to be called A-Dong as a small name, but you can't be called this as a big name. It's too bad."

"It's not good. I think it's not bad. After I have a child, I can continue to be called Liu Chun, Liu Xia, etc. It's simple and easy to remember, haha."

Of course, Liu Zheng was just talking casually. It is rare for such a random name to be chosen.

While Liu Zheng and Cai Yao were joking about naming their son, Tai Shici walked in.

"My lord, Liu Biao is calling again in Xiangyang city, please go out and tell me, my lord."

Chapter 519 Withdrawal

After being told by Wenpin, Liu Zheng remembered that the matter in Xiangyang City had not been dealt with yet.

Cai Yao knew it too, so she didn't stop Liu Zheng, and immediately stood up and said, "You have something important to do, so go and do yours first."

Liu Zheng nodded. Just as he was about to go out, he remembered something and immediately looked at Cai Yao.

"Yao'er, your elder brother Cai Zhong, I intended to ignore those previous agreements, go straight into the city, capture him alive, and come to avenge you, what do you think?"

Liu Zheng doesn't need to fight Xiangyang City, but Cai Zhong's offense to Cai Yao just now, Liu Zheng can't bear it, he can bully him, Liu Zheng may just smile lightly and don't care, but he has to bully his woman , Liu Zheng couldn't bear it anymore.

A man is a man, he was born as a human, what is his purpose, isn't it to protect his beloved?

What kind of a man is he if he can't even protect the one he loves after being bullied?

"do not want!"

As soon as Liu Zheng said it, Cai Yao's expression changed immediately, and she frowned to stop Liu Zeng from doing so.

"Why not? He beat you in front of so many people and made you embarrassed. Even if you are willing to forgive him for this hatred, I am not willing."

"Brother Liu Zheng doesn't want it. He is my brother after all. Even if he treats me badly, I can't treat him like that. Let him live on. When my brother comes back, he will be dealt with."

Cai Yao is still too soft-hearted, after all, she is a girl who grew up in a big family, and she can't let go of family affection.

Liu Zheng originally wanted to follow his own ideas, but since after asking Cai Yao, Cai Yao didn't care about Cai Zhong's affairs, so Liu Zheng didn't want to count his words.

He left Daying and walked out of the city with Wenpin.

Looking at Liu Biao, Cai Zhong and others on the tower, before Liu Biao answered, Liu Biao and others were already in a hurry than him, and started asking Liu Zheng directly.

"Liu Zheng, I have given you all the people and money you want, why don't you retreat! Do you want to go back on your word?"

Liu Biao just wanted to use this aggressive method to say it on purpose so that Liu Zheng would not dare to go back on his word, otherwise breaking his promise in front of so many people would be a blow to Liu Zheng's reputation.

Although Liu Zheng looked down on Liu Biao and Cai Zhong and others, he still cared about his reputation and reputation. His reputation played a very important role in being able to get along in this troubled world.

Just like when Liu Bei had no background, the reason why he was able to create his own world in the Three Kingdoms era was all due to his reputation. He had a good reputation of virtue, so many princes could accept him.

As for Liu Zheng, who was born in the Yellow Turban Army, the word Xiande has nothing to do with him, but the word Xinyi still has a relationship with him. As long as he is trustworthy and values ​​friendship, there will be a group of brothers who support him, and he will be able to With these people, lay a piece of the sky.

"Liu Biao, do you think I'm the kind of person who doesn't count?"

"Don't worry, I wanted to ask for Cai Zhong's life for you, but my wife Cai Yao said that she didn't want brothers and sisters to kill each other, so she asked me to spare Cai Zhong's life."

"Cai Zhong counts your fate, let your head hang on the neckline today, and when you fall into my hands in the future, you will know that my sister-in-law is very powerful."

Liu Zheng smiled coldly, then turned his head and walked out of the city, directly giving the order to withdraw troops.

Xiangyang City cannot be defeated. For Liu Zheng, it is actually not of great significance. Anyway, today's Xiangyang City cannot be called Jingzhou at all.

The counties in Jingzhou, except Nanjun and Jiangxia, belonged to Liu Zheng.

Although Liu Zheng did not occupy the Xiangyang government in name, Jingzhou actually belonged to Liu Zheng, so Liu Zheng only needed to go back and beat Cai Mao's Changsha County, and everything was settled.

As for Jiang Xia's Yuan Shu, it has little to do with Liu Zheng. Whether Yuan Shu defeated Jiang Xia or Huang Zu defeated Yuan Shu, it has little to do with Liu Zheng.

After Liu Zheng occupies Changsha County, his power will rise to another level. At that time, sitting on the land of the three counties, Liu Zheng can already be said to own half of the world, which is enough to compete with the Han court.

Of course, it will take some time to directly turn against the Han Dynasty court. Recruiting soldiers and horses for Liu Zheng, training recruits, and not declaring war, Liu Zheng is still unwilling to launch a final decisive battle with the court so soon.

Watching Liu Zheng gradually leave from outside the city, the army also slowly followed Liu Zheng's departure and began to move away. Liu Biao on the tower finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Especially Cai Zhong, when he heard that Liu Zheng was going to kill him, he broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, Liu Zheng is gone, and his life is safe for the time being, but he is still worried. Offended Liu Zheng to death. If Xiangyang falls into Liu Zheng's hands in the future, his life will not be easy.

However, Liu Zheng fulfilled his promise after all. After getting Cai Yao and the money he wanted, he didn't make things difficult for Liu Biao.Really led the army to leave.

In fact, the reason why Liu Zheng agreed to leave Xiangyang is more importantly, he understands that if he can take down Xiangyang, he will lose a lot of troops. If he really resists desperately, the Liu Biao army on the tower will definitely explode. Even a new army with little combat experience, under the leadership of Li Yan, can cause some harm to Liu Zheng's people.

Liu Zheng, who had already lost more than 3000 people, was afraid that he would lose another 6000 people once he charged forward with all his strength.

In order to take down Xiangyang City, more than half of Tai Shici's men were lost, so Liu Zheng didn't want to see it.

After all, every one of his men and horses is very precious, and he doesn't want to see them make unnecessary sacrifices. Xiangyang City can come back to get them at any time, as long as Liu Zheng wants it.

And he was eager to withdraw his troops, mainly in Changsha County.

Although Wenpin and Gan Ning did not send news to Liu Zheng that they could not stop Cai Mao's army, Liu Zheng knew that Cai Mao would definitely send someone back to assist Xiangyang. As long as Liu Zheng went back at this time, he said Maybe there will be a big battle between Cai Mao and Gan Ning.

At that time, Liu Zheng, with more than 1 soldiers, will appear to support Gan Ning, and the battle between Cai Mao and Gan Ning will be completely ended in the first battle, and Changsha County will be recovered easily.

In this way, Liu Zheng's battle of Jingzhou was completed.

Early September 188.

Liu Zheng's army, who returned to Changsha from Xiangyang, finally received news from Cai Mao and Gan Ning when they were approaching the border of Changsha.

As Liu Zheng guessed, Gan Ning and Wenpin were stationed separately and were fighting at a place called Ji Teng Mountain.

Chapter 5: Ji Tengshan

Jiteng Mountain.

It belongs to the junction of Hanshou County and Changsha City, on a not-so-famous mountain. This is the only way from Changsha to Xiangyang.

Hanshou County was not very famous in the late Han Dynasty. After all, it was only a small county. The only thing recorded in the history of the Three Kingdoms was the famous Guan Yu, whose title was Hanshoutinghou.

Hanshou is the fief, and Tinghou is the title.

This Hanshou is Guan Yu's fief, of course, it's just a false name, Guan Yu probably hasn't even been to this small place.

However, whether Guan Yu has been there, Liu Zheng does not know. Liu Zheng himself has arrived anyway. Hanshou County is not a big county. Originally, he was not called Hanshou County, but Suo County. Later, it was changed to Suo County a few decades ago. Hanshou County.

The word "Han Shou" means "the Han Dynasty is boundless", but it is a pity that the meaning is very good, but it is not realistic at all. As far as Liu Zheng knows, the Han Dynasty in history will soon come to an end. up.

Hanshou County is close to Dongting Lake. Most of the county town has only two walls, and there are no walls on both sides, just by the water.It is a port-type county.

When Liu Zheng passed by here by boat, he didn't go in to take a look. Instead, he took people directly to Mount Jiteng according to the news sent by Gan Ning and Wenpin.

The reason why Ji Tengshan is called Ji Tengshan is also related to a famous person in history, and this person is Ji Bu.

"Getting a hundred catties of gold is worse than getting Jibu Yinuo." This is where the idiom "Yinnuoqianjin" comes from. It is said that Jibu once lived in seclusion in this mountain, so it was later called Jiteng Mountain.

As for the authenticity, it is naturally impossible to know, but Liu Zheng only smiled when he heard it from the mouths of the local people, and did not go into it at all.

After all, Ji Bu was a character hundreds of years ago, even if it was true, Liu Zheng wouldn't care about it.

Under the guidance of the local people, they quickly found Ji Tengshan's location, and then joined Wenpin and Gan Ning's troops.

At the meeting, Wen Pin led the fight on the front line, Cai Mao sent people to launch a round of charge again, [-] troops charged over, Wen Pin's troops, with the help of geographical advantages, completely resisted, abruptly repelling the charge of Cai Mao and others .

After Cai Mao lost thousands of soldiers and horses, he had no choice but to retreat.

It’s not that Cai Mao can’t break through the gorge guarded by Wenpin and Gan Ning’s [-] troops, but that once Cai Mao breaks through the encirclement of Wenpin and Gan Ning at all costs, he will suffer heavy losses. The [-] elite he brought out from Changsha City I'm afraid most of them will be lost here.

If this is the case, even if he broke out of the siege, he came to Xiangyang, without soldiers and horses, what to do to support Xiangyang, and when he arrived in Xiangyang, he was just besieged by Liu Zheng in Xiangyang, waiting to be killed.

That's why Cai Mao was worried about the affairs of Xiangyang, but he had to be trapped in Jiteng Mountain, there was no other way.

Although Changsha has 1 soldiers and horses, more than [-] of them are improvised rural warriors.

The troops that can be dispatched are 2 troops from Nanjun to support Changsha. At the same time, Cai Mao himself will transfer [-] troops from Changsha County to form [-] troops.

After all, Changsha City also needs to be defended, and it is impossible to dispatch all the troops in Changsha City.

Cai Mao led his troops to fight Wenpin's army for four or five rounds in the valley of Mount Jiteng.

Every charge caused some damage to his soldiers and horses, and now only [-] of the [-] soldiers and horses were killed or injured.

But they still failed to break through the defense organized by Gan Ning and Wenpin.

The more this happened, the more anxious Cai Mao became, and he became even more worried about the situation in Xiangyang.

Jiteng Mountain, Cai Mao Camp.

"General Zhang Yun, how is it? Why did our army withdraw again?"

In this attack, Cai Mao did not personally play, but Liu Biao's nephew Zhang Yun led the army to charge.

As a result, it is naturally conceivable that Zhang Yun has no experience in marching and fighting, and he was able to become a general because of his relationship. If he is not Liu Biao's nephew, he is probably not qualified to be this general at all. Not as good, although Cai Mao's ability to command soldiers and horses is not strong, but Cai Mao has been marching and fighting for more than ten years, and he always has experience.

"Damn it, that Wenpin's army is extremely ferocious. Every time our army charged, we returned in vain. Although we were able to disperse the first wave of enemy troops, the people behind immediately rushed up bravely and beat us to death. Some of the advantages we had just occupied were broken up, and we spent thousands of soldiers and horses, just to be able to do useless work with the enemy here."

Zhang Yun is what everyone is most worried about about Xiangyang, because Xiangyang is Liu Biao's base camp, and Liu Biao is his uncle. He can have today because of Liu Biao. If Liu Biao dies, Zhang Yun will have nothing, so Zhang Yun is the last I want to attack Wenpin quickly, defeat these enemy troops, and go to Xiangyang for support.

Zhang Yun replied angrily, and Cai Mao's face became even uglier.

"It has been so many days now, not only did we not go to Xiangyang to support, but we are still surrounded here, what should we do?"

"My lord, I said earlier that I would go around Mount Jiteng and go by water. After all, water is the fastest way to reach Xiangyang, but you don't listen. Now not only can't I find so many ships, but I'm also besieged by the enemy, so I can't advance or retreat. Let's download it."

After Kuai Yue heard the conversation between Zhang Yun and Cai Mao, he became very angry. As a member of the army, he actually proposed to go by water a few days ago, but Cai Mao said that he could not gather enough ships for a while, [-] The army's ships are not a small number. When the ships are assembled, the day lilies are all lit up.

That's why Cai Mao insisted on going by land.

But they didn't expect that Wenpin and Gan Ning's troops would intercept them on land.

In the beginning, only Gan Ning's troops stopped at Mount Jiteng. Later, Wenpin's troops also came to support them, leaving only 1000 troops stationed in Changsha.

Ji Teng Mountain became the main battlefield.

On the Jiteng Mountain side, if they make a detour, a detour through a mountain range, it will take seven or eight more days to reach Xiangyang, and in seven or eight days, when they arrive in Xiangyang, everything will be too late, and they may face Gan Ning and Wenpin pursued them, so after much deliberation, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun decided to fight Gan Ning and Wenpin's army here.

After all, they also know that there are only 2 enemy troops, but they have 4. If they can't defeat them, then their support for Xiangyang will not be of much use.

It's also because they are too confident, and when they fight, their disadvantages are highlighted.

Chapter 521 A Difficult Battle

Before the battle, Zhang Yun, the general, was actually looking forward to it, and even looked down on Wenpin and Gan Ning. The first time he led an army, it was on this important matter of supporting Xiangyang.

Zhang Yun really wants to show himself. Once he defeats the troops of Wenpin and Gan Ning, and then supports Xiangyang and repels Liu Zheng's troops like a magic soldier descending from the sky, Zhang Yun will definitely be able to change to Liu Biao. According to the image in his mind, Zhang Yunke is not just a general of Nanjun, but will be entrusted with important tasks by Liu Biao and become Liu Biao's most powerful general.

Of course, these are Zhang Yun's own thoughts. When he really led the soldiers and horses to fight Wenpin's men and horses on the battlefield, he recognized the reality clearly.

The reality slapped him hard in the face, disillusioning all his initial fantasies.

He personally led an army of [-] to attack Wenpin's camp. Zhang Yun had no combat experience. In the confrontation, Wenpin is far better than Zhang Yun.

In the first battle between the armies of the two sides, in just one hour, Zhang Yun, who was killed by Wenpin, was defeated and returned. This is still Wenpin, who only focused on defense and did not take violent attacks. Zhang Yun, who killed Zhang Yun, retreated by himself.

If talking about the first attack, from Zhang Yun's point of view, he underestimated the enemy a little bit, then the next few attacks made Zhang Yun completely recognize his own strength.

He was defeated one after another in the battles of Wenpin, which made him doubt his own strength now. On the one hand, he was annoyed at not being able to beat Wenpin, and on the other hand, he was also worried about not being able to support Xiangyang for a long time. , Zhang Yun's expression became more and more ugly.

"What's the use of talking about it now? You and I don't know what the situation in Xiangyang is like. Liu Zheng, a bastard, surrounded Xiangyang. Even if he didn't dare to attack the city, there were only five thousand defenders in the city. It is possible that the city will be broken. You guys should quickly think of a way!"

"If Xiangyang is gone, do you think you can get away with it? You are also dead. If my uncle is gone, you, including your family, will be gone too!"

Zhang Yun was obviously a little angry, and shouted at Cai Mao and Kuai Yue.

Why don’t Cai Mao and Kuai Yue know about it? Let alone Zhang Yun’s uncle Liu Biao, Cai Mao’s Cai family and Kuai Yue’s Kuai family are both in Xiangyang. Once Xiangyang falls and falls into the hands of Liu Zheng, then they The situation is quite passive.

So there is no need for Zhang Yun to repeatedly emphasize that both Cai Mao and Kuai Yue want to rush to help Xiangyang as soon as possible, but they can kill back if they don't want to.

The troops of Wenpin and Gan Ning have always been unable to win, and there is nothing they can do.

"Up to now, we have to find a way to leave, or we have to break through with all our strength. These days, although our soldiers and horses have suffered a lot of damage, the enemy army is not completely unscathed."

"According to my observation, there were no more than 5000 men under Wenpin at the beginning, but now the loss is more than half, and now there are at most [-] troops stationed, and Gan Ning on the other side, although there is no loss of soldiers and horses, but we choose to break through. It's enough to attack the papers and hire, and if we gather more than [-] people now, we will definitely be able to beat them."

"Success or failure is determined by one stroke. Everyone, if we still cannot defeat these enemy troops, it will be difficult for everyone to explain to my uncle."

After Zhang Yun heard Kuai Yue's words, he also nodded. In his opinion, there is no delay in time. Although there are only two days left to go from Hanshou to Xiangyang, but this time For two days, they have been unable to make any progress here.

On the side where Zhang Yun, Cai Mao, and Kuaiyue were hired, there was already Liu Zheng, a reinforcement of more than [-] people.

As soon as Wenpin retreated from the front line, he received news that Liu Zheng's troops had withdrawn from Xiangyang, and immediately went to meet Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng was sitting in the big tent, waiting for Wenpin to come. As soon as Wenpin came in, he first saw Cai Yao, and his face immediately beamed with joy.