Three Kingdoms: I choose to assist Sun Jian

"If Zhong's words are kind, I will arrange this matter!"

While talking, he looked at Bai Liming and felt emotional again.

As a military strategist, he is said to be a benevolent person, but sometimes he is ruthless and merciless.

It can be said that he is a vicious villain, and his starting point is all for the sake of others.

Looking back at the time when I invited Qi to come out of the mountain, it seemed that the only condition was to let myself value the people.

Perhaps, this is the true benevolence and righteousness!

And this kind of benevolence and righteousness will become great evil in the face of all those who stand in the way!

This kind of benevolence and righteousness is far more reliable than the benevolence and righteousness of those who pretend to be hypocritical but have no firm direction in their hearts!

Thinking of this, Sun Jian patted Bai Liming on the shoulder and said:

"It's really a blessing in this life to have Ruo Zhong's help!"

Facing Sun Jian's move, Bailiming laughed and said:

"My lord, why are there so many emotions today!"

"Now is not the time for us to be emotional!"

"At present, Jingzhou is still undecided, and there are still enemies in Nanyang. We still have big things to do!"

"You can't slack off because of this!"

"Slack?"

Hearing this, Sun Jian laughed loudly and said:

"When did my grandson Wentai ever slack off!"

"You are like a clock, you can answer three sentences if I say one sentence!"

"Forget it, since the general trend is set, let's get ready and go north to Nanyang!"

Seeing the appearance of Sun Jian and Bai Liming, everyone couldn't help but smile.

It has to be said that the relaxed relationship between the two has gradually affected them.

Although it is exhausting every day, the atmosphere in the army is still very comfortable!

After laughing like this for a while, everyone started to move and deal with the post-war affairs.

First of all, it is natural to count the casualties of soldiers and deal with the corpses.

However, for Xi Zhong's body, Bai Liming specially asked for it, buried it at the ancient Liangshan crossing, and specially asked craftsmen to set up a tombstone for him.

Secondly, on Sun Jian's side, according to Bai Liming's suggestion, Zu Mao stepped forward to physically persuade Liu Biao.

But the whole process was far less difficult than everyone thought.

After breaking Liu Qi's fifth finger, Liu Biao broke down in tears and promised to write a book to persuade soldiers from all over the world to surrender.

As Liu Biao wrote each letter, a large number of letters were sent in the direction of Xiangyang, Jiangxia, and Xinye.

Facing Liu Biao's letter persuading him to surrender, Huang Zu Kuailiang and others who were leading the army to the north immediately stopped their troops and went to Sun Jian's army in person to ask for surrender.

As for the direction of Xinye and Xiangyang, one from the south and the other from the north, they also surrendered one after another.

So far, the overall situation in northern Jingzhou has been determined.

After receiving Liu Biao's troops, their strength in Jingzhou alone has grown to nearly 19.

If you count the previous captives and soldiers, Sun Jian's army has more than 24 troops in Jingzhou!

In addition to these soldiers and horses, Liu Biao's civil servants Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang, Pang Ji, Cai Mao and others expressed their willingness to surrender.

In addition to civil servants, Li Yan, who was in charge of Xinye, specially led the army to welcome him, and Huang Zu, Su Fei, Lu Gong, Chen Jiu and many other generals surrendered.

This greatly increased the number of civil and military personnel under Sun Jian's army.

After some integration and transfer, Sun Jian continued to stay in Xiangyang with Cai Mao, and sent Zhou Yu and Gan Ning back to Jiangxia to take charge of the recruitment of the Jingzhou army.

On Bai Liming's suggestion, he led an army of 10,000+, led by Zu Mao, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Huang Zhong and other generals, and continued northward, pressing towards Wancheng.

During this process, the sad news of Xi Zhong's death also reached Cao Ren's desk.

Chapter 180 Skillfully retreating Cao Ren, Wancheng falls, and the correct posture to welcome the emperor

Nanyang, Wancheng, within the county government.

"Report!"

"General Cao, something is wrong!"

"The reinforcements of our army going south were defeated by the enemy. Only General Li Dian retreated, and now he is leading more than a thousand ~ remnant soldiers waiting outside the city!"

"what?"

Cao Ren, who was eating, dropped his chopsticks and held the rice bowl in one hand. He stood up in surprise and said:

"Our army is defeated?"

"Where is Li Dian, quickly call him into the city - see you!"

As he spoke, he simply put down the bowl and chopsticks, and quickly walked towards the outside of the house.

Walking along the road, he asked along the road:

"what's going on?"

"Is it true that Li Dian is the only one returning?"

"Where is Mr. Xi? Where is Yu Jin?"

During his series of questions, the soldier hurriedly said:

"Little I don't know!"

"The little one only knows that there is only General Li Dian leading the army outside the city, and there are no others!"

"And General Li Dian is covered in wounds, he may have returned after a great battle!"

"what is happening!"

As Cao Ren said, he didn't intend to ask any more questions, and hurried out of the mansion, at least towards the city.

About a quarter of an hour later, he finally saw Li Dian in a panic above the city gate.

The original Li Dian was handsome, with a beard and a Confucian general.

But now Li Dian is covered in smoky black and torn clothes. Cao Ren recognized his appearance for a long time before he shouted:

"Mancheng, why did you look like this?"

"Didn't our army go south to reinforce Liu Biao?"

"How did you lose?"

"Where are Mr. Xi and Wen Ze now?"

Hearing Cao Ren's words, Li Dian felt sad for a moment, and immediately cried loudly:

"General Cao, it's all over!"

"It's all over!"

"Our army fell into the enemy's trick, and was intercepted in the valley by the enemy on both sides. Mr. was killed by an arrow, and it was only me and General Yu Jin who fought to the death!"

"As a result, General Yu Jin reported to the general in order to let me escape, and fought against the second general of the enemy army. Now his life and death are unknown!"

"Our army has been defeated!"

"Thirty thousand soldiers and horses going south, only these brothers are left!"

As he spoke, he wept bitterly, a good man, crying like a child right now.

Cao Ren looked at Li Dian like this, and then at the refugee-like soldiers behind Li Dian in the city. His lips twitched for a while, but he couldn't say anything.

What kind of horrible experiences did the soldiers and horses going south have experienced!

How could Li Dian, who is usually elegant and refined, become like this?

After being silent for a while, he could only caress Li Dian's back, and said in a low voice:

"Mancheng must be tired!"

"Why don't you come to the mansion with me to wash and eat first, and then tell the story slowly?"

But as soon as he said this, Li Dian was shocked, and Xi Zhong's dying words suddenly sounded:

"General, don't rest!"

"Before he died, Mr. asked me to report the letter, saying that he wanted me to tell the general to withdraw from Nanyang as soon as possible!"

"Nanyang can't hold it anymore!"

"In addition, let the general inform the lord to return to the army as soon as possible, and move the people of Nanyang to Yingchuan County!"

"Nanyang can't keep it?"

Cao Ren frowned and said:

"Mancheng, what do you mean by that? Isn't Sun Jian's army attacking Jingzhou?"

"Jingzhou has not yet fallen, how could Nanyang not be able to hold it!"

Upon hearing this, Li Dian said with tears in his eyes again:

"General, Jingzhou may have fallen!"

This time, without waiting for Cao Ren to ask, he cried and said:

"Actually, when I went south with my husband, Jingzhou was about to fall!"

"At that time, Sun Jian's army broke Liu Biao's navy, raided the hinterland of Jingzhou, captured Jiangling, and instigated the rebellion of the four southern counties!"

"As soon as our army arrived, the Jingzhou army had been torn apart. Only Xiangyang, Jiangxia County, Xinye and other places were still under Liu Biao's control."

"As soon as our army went south, it was cut off by the enemy navy!"

"Mr. Xi saw that Xiangyang could not stick to it, so he persuaded Liu Biao to cross the north and advance with our army to defend the north bank of Jingzhou!"

"I didn't expect that as soon as our army arrived at the north bank, we would find Sun Jian's ambush."

"Mr. Xi saw that the north shore was undefendable, so he had to take me and others to go north, trying to go to Xinye!"

"As a result, the enemy army began to pursue when they saw that our army was not in ambush."

"Our army fled along the road until we got to the ancient Liangshan Road, where we were ambushed by the enemy!"

"The enemy army used the strategy of attacking with fire to pinch our army back and forth, firmly blocking the road to the north, and shooting arrows along the mountain, and the arrows killed Mr. Xi."

"Mister warned me before he died, let me escape with my life."

"When I received the order, I braved the fire and fled along the mountain road. General Yu Jin stayed behind at this time!"

As he spoke, he grabbed Cao Ren's arms excitedly and cried:

"General, retreat quickly!"

"If you don't withdraw, it will be too late!"

"Here"

Listening to Li Dianzhi's words, Cao Ren's body became stiff for a while, and he was stunned on the spot.

What kind of magical battle did Sun Jianjun fight?

Liu Biao's huge land of Jingzhou can't withstand the enemy's offensive for a month?

And when the enemy attacked Liu Biao, they even counted their reinforcements among them?

As the so-called authorities are obsessed, bystanders are clear.

As soon as he heard Li Dian's words, he felt that the enemy army was ready for everything!

Whether it's their going south, or the ambush behind them!

This is clearly setting up a big net, waiting for their reinforcements to drill into it!

Although he didn't know how the enemy army set up such a large net, he knew one thing, that was the wrong choice to go south for reinforcements this time!