Chapter 4 Jing Xiang's Shocked Change

The loss of Runan, Ruyin, Chen, Xiangcheng and Liangjun is also the biggest loss in Liu Bei's history. More than 60,000 sergeants died in the battle, and more than half of the land in Yuzhou was lost. Guan Yu, the herdsman of Yuzhou, is already quite untrue.

A few years ago, Zhao Feng and Guan Yu settled Yuzhou. After the governance of Guan Yu and Li Yan in the past few years, Yuzhou finally prospered. When Yuzhou was captured, the population of the whole Yuzhou was only 800,000. After several years of development, especially the residents of the plague and the migration of the Shanyue tribe, Yuzhou now has a full population of 1.3 million, but more than 800,000 of them are in the five lost counties. After years of painstaking management, it was all in vain. After taking down Yuzhou, Cao Yan immediately sent Cao Ren to guard Ruyin and Chen County to fight against Guan Yu and guard Runan and Xiangcheng. When Guan Yu and Zhao Feng's army turned around, the overall situation had already been decided.

More than that, the loss of Runan caused the passage between Yuzhou and Nanyang to be cut off on land. Although Liu Bei's road to the west was blocked, even Li Yan, who was in Nanyang, became a complete lone army. Although Liu Biao has no intention to have a bad relationship with Liu Bei now, Li Yan's situation is quite not optimistic.

All this is only caused by Mi Fang's rebellion. After learning that his brother had defected to the enemy, Mi Zhu vomited blood and fainted on the spot. When he woke up, he bound himself to plead guilty. Although Liu Bei did not punished him, it was absolutely impossible for him not to mind at all. The reason why Mi Fang defected to the enemy was finally figured out. This guy was severely punished by Guan Yu and Xu Shu for smuggling military grain, and since then he has held a grudge. In addition, Cao Wei sent people to lobby him again, promising high-ranking officials. Under these **, Mi Fang betrayed Liu Bei without hesitation for too long.

"Brother, I would like to lead the army to kill Cao Ren and take back the city!" Guan Yu returned to Shouchun and almost kept asking Liu Bei. Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu and said helplessly for a long time, "This year, Xuzhou's money and grain have been spent on the construction of Jiangdong. If you want to march, I'm afraid you have to wait until next year."

"It's cheaper for him!" Guan Yu was also a little helpless when he heard the words, so he had to say it with hatred. If it hadn't been for Yuanzhi and Youping defending Qiao County, we would have suffered a heavy loss this time!" Liu Bei also sighed. Originally, Qiao County was also relatively dangerous. Fortunately, there were 20,000 Shanyue troops and Zhou Tai who had just been trained. Xu Shu made a wonderful plan to defeat Cao Ren and Xu Huang, which saved Qiao County. At the same time, Wei Yan and Gao Shun took advantage of the emptiness behind Cao, suddenly attacked and took Shanyang County, and finally found some points for Liu Bei. Of course, this is really a loss compared with Liu Bei's loss.

"Your lord, Cao has spent a lot of money this time, in order to seize our state of Yu. At present, the road to the west has been blocked, and the northward can only take the land of Qingzhou and Henan at best. Cao Shen clamped us in the southeast corner, which is really well-intentioned!" Zhao Feng also sighed after looking at the map carefully.

"Bao, what can I do?" Liu Bei was also a little anxious when he heard the words. Zhao Feng looked at the map, and then could only say in a uncertain tone, "Now it seems that if you want to continue to march, you can only seize Jing Xiang."

"Jing Xiang?" Liu Bei was stunned when he heard the words, and then said firmly, "Liu Jingsheng and I are both relatives of the Han Dynasty. He has also been benevolent in Jingxiang for many years and has won the hearts of the people. How can I seize his foundation for no reason?"

"This?" Zhao Feng also smiled bitterly when he heard the words. He knew that with Liu Bei's surname, it would be difficult for him to make up his mind to attack Jingzhou unless Liu Biao took the initiative to provoke. It's just that Liu's performance was certainly not moving in Jingzhou as usual, and even Cai Mao, the pastor of Yangzhou, stayed in Yuzhang County honestly. He had no intention of provocation at all, which made Zhao Feng find a chance to deal with him and had nowhere to do it.

Runan Ruyin and Liangjun were lost, and Guan Yu's governance became the front line of confrontation with Cao Yan. As a state herdsman, it is naturally not appropriate to personally ghost the border. At present, Guan Yusuo's surname is moved to Peiguo, which is only one step away from Shouchun. After a few days, another imperial decree was issued to Shouchun, but he scolded Yuzhou Muguan Yu for "leak neglecting his duties, abandoning political affairs, withdrawing his position as a herdsman in Yuzhou, and moving to the governor of Qiao County." This is simply a naked flirting. Yuzhou Mu was awarded to his younger brother Cao Ren by Cao Yan, who became Guan Yu's boss!

"Cao Qian is really awesome!" Afterwards, when Zhao Feng and Pang Tong analyzed, they had to admit that Cao Qian's hand was really cruel enough. First, they found the soft bone of Mi Fang, and then they did not hesitate to attack Qingzhou to attract Liu Bei's main force to the north. Finally, they drew money from the bottom of the pot to draw money to five counties. Pang Tong has always been resourceful and conceited, but he can't be so cruel to himself. He used more than 60,000 lives to set up this situation.

"Shi Yuan, if our army takes Jing Xiang, where should we start?" Looking at the map hanging on the wall, Zhao Feng muttered.

"Jiang Xia, Jing Nan." Pang Tong said concisely, and then explained in detail: "The four counties of Jingnan border Jiangdong. Although Liu Pan is in Luling, it is not difficult to take it; Jiangxia is guarded by Huang Zu, and this man is a stupid pig."

"But even if you can go to the four counties of Jingnan and Jiangxia, you can't go to Jingbei, it's futile!" Zhao Feng sighed. Jingzhou has a population of 3 million, and the four counties of Jingnan + Jiangxia are only more than one million in total. The rest are mainly concentrated in Zhangling, Xiangyang, Nanyang and Nanjun, the four counties of Jingbei. In history, both Liu Bei and Sun Quan have occupied Jingnan one after another, but these vast and sparsely populated counties really failed to develop any fame.

"Li Zhengfang is in Fancheng, and there are still tens of thousands of soldiers under his command. As long as we take down Jiangxia and control the Jingxiang Marine Division, General Gan's Marine Division can go to Xiangshui to support the square and attack Jingbei on both sides. Pang Tong is confident and confident. With Li Yan's talent and Fancheng Jiancheng, he would never believe that Li Yan would be killed by the people of Jingzhou.

"The key is the hearts of the people!" This is what Zhao Feng is most uncertain about. Historically, Liu Bei was quite popular in Jingzhou, but that was because he had established a network after seven years of operation in Xinye. Now Jing Xiang's image of him is not bad, but I don't think it will be too good. Especially for the two rich families, the Kai family and the Cai family, their attitude towards Liu Bei is obviously very unseen. However, there is nothing we can do now. We can only make do with it first.

By the middle of December, it was snowing on the Lujiang River. Zhao Feng looked at the snowflakes all over the sky in his home, recalling a cold and heavy snow in late spring this year, which achieved Zhou Gongjin's last glory. It's snowing heavily at the present, but I don't know what will happen to the battle between Runan and Ruyin after the beginning of spring.

"Brother-in-law, when will my sister come back?" A coquettish voice sounded behind Zhao Feng. Looking back, it was Zhen Mi, the little girl. It's almost time. If I can still sail on the river, I can get home this afternoon!" Zhao Feng is a little spoiled. Looking at the thin clothes on the little girl, Zhao Feng said again, "It's snowing. Put on more clothes."

"It doesn't matter. This snow is much smaller than Hebei!" Zhen Mi shook her head indifferently, but still pulled the fur coat on her body. After a pause, Zhen Mi actually smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, I really admire you. You expected Yuan Shao to be defeated so early. Now it's really a failure."

"Yes!" Zhao Feng also sighed with emotion. Then he thought about something and hurriedly asked, "How is your grandfather and the Yuan family now?"

"It's not good. I heard from my sister that after Yuan Shao was defeated, she was busy recruiting soldiers to buy horses for revenge. She looked for money from her grandfather, but she was not forced to get married." Zhen Mi replied like this.

"That's natural. It's for people." Zhao Feng didn't say anything and looked at his sister-in-law by the way. It is said that the female college has changed, and this little girl is indeed getting more and more beautiful. She is 18 years old after the New Year, and now she is more and more upside down, but Zhao Feng is still subconsciously used to treating her as that little Lori, and he just loves her. This situation is somewhat similar to Big Joe and Sun Quan. It's just that Zhao Feng is ignorant this time. And Zhen Mi is not as horrible as Sun Quan.

"General!" Feng Xi, who had been promoted to military Sima, hurriedly said. What's the matter?" Zhao Feng asked with some surprise.

"Just now, Cai Mao, the pastor of Yangzhou, suddenly returned to Jingzhou. Now Yuzhang and Luling are taken over by Liu Pan!" Feng Xi replied. Zhao Feng was a little stunned when he heard the words: Cai Mao and Liu Pan have always been at the same time. How could he come to take over Luling and Yuzhang?

It should be said that Jingzhou has not been a big deal recently, and there are many small things. Last month, Huang Zu, the governor of Jiangxia, suddenly died of illness, and Liu Biao sent his eldest son Liu Qi to take over. Half a month ago, as Pang Tong expected, Kuai Liang, the head of the Kuai clan, died of hemoptysis at home, but Cai Mao is now returning to Jingzhou. If it is obviously too late to mourn, what on earth is he doing?

"Probably going home for the Spring Festival!" Zhao Feng speculated that all departments should be careful about the prevention of the current order. Although Liu Qi and Liu Pan, as Liu Biao's direct line, have a good relationship with the Xuzhou army, they should also be prevented from doing so.

Zhao Feng absolutely didn't expect that Cai Mao suddenly returned to Jingzhou this time. On the night of returning to Jingzhou, Cai Mao secretly plotted with Kai Yue in the middle of the night in the name of going to the family to mourn.

"Yandu, do you really want to do this?" Cai Mao asked hesitantly that the plan was so crazy that he had to consider it carefully.

"I'm afraid I have to do this!" Guo Yue said with a gloomy face, "Don't think that Liu Biao is really confused. Huang Zu's death this time is too strange, and Huang Zu's successor turned out to be Liu Qi. It seems that he is wary of us and is cultivating his own power."

"If that's the case, why don't you kill it directly?" Cai Mao said again.

"It's so inappropriate. After all, this person has been in Jingzhou for many years and still has some reputation. If you kill it rashly, it will be bad if it provokes a civil change. What's more, there are tens of thousands of horses in the hands of Liu Pan and Liu Qi. Once they are killed, they will meet us. Liu Qi doesn't matter, but Liu Pan has been running Jingnan for many years, so he is really not an idle person. We just need to control Liu Biao and use his order to let Liu Pan march into Jiangdong and compete with the two tigers of the Xuzhou army. We will take advantage of the fisherman again. Then sweep Li Yan in the north and Pingyang in the east. At that time, Brother Dekui will sit in the two states of Jingyang. How will Prime Minister Cao treat you badly? Kou Yue talked bably. He opened his mouth and called Liu Biao directly. Kui Yue was really arrogant enough.

"It's so good!" Cai Mao was also cruel. Half a month later, an amazing news spread all over Jingyang's two prefectures and even the world. Jingzhou Beiyue and Yangzhou Mu Cai Mao suddenly launched a coup at the New Year's Eve banquet, and put Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao under house arrest. At the same time, Liu Qi of Jiangxia and Liu Pan of Yuzhang march into Jiangdong.

In Jiangxia City, "Ji Chang, what do you think I should do?" A young man, who was only in his twenties and looked a little cowardly, asked a Confucian student around him who was younger than him for advice. This Confucian student, known as Ji Chang, looks only sixteen or seventeen years old, but the most eye-catching one is his pair of eyebrows, which are actually white.

The man meditated for a long time, and then sighed, "Son, I can't make up my mind about this for a while. However, my brother Zhuge Kongming is now in Jiangxia. This talent is ten times better than me. Why don't you ask him for advice?

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