Xuande

Chapter 221

Liu Bei quickly led his army to set off to support the army's logistics, and the main forces of the various armies also set off afterwards and began to march towards Liangzhou.

At first, Liu Bei believed that the Liangzhou rebels suffered a disastrous defeat and lost two generals Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu in a row. They would definitely lose power and be unable to resist the advance of the Han army. However, later facts proved that the resilience of the Liangzhou rebels It's really strong.

Zhou Shen's troops pursued the rebels all the way to Yuzhong County in Jincheng County, surrounded the county seat, and prepared to completely wipe out the Han Sui and Bian Zhang rebels who were entrenched in the city, and besieged the city fiercely.

As a subordinate whom Zhou Shen had just accepted, Sun Jian wanted to make meritorious service, but he was also an expert in the art of war. He had some ideas about the dangers of Yuzhong City, and thought that attacking the city was not a good choice.

"The art of war says that attacking the city is the bottom line, and attacking the heart is the top priority. Now that our army has the upper hand, why don't we encircle it instead of attacking it, and cut off the rebel army's food roads, so that they are completely isolated?"

Sun Jian advised Zhou Shen in this way.

Zhou Shen took a look at Sun Jian, and felt that this kid was quite familiar. He just came over from Liu Bei, and he pointed fingers at me?Who are you?
But looking at Liu Bei's face, Zhou Shen couldn't reprimand Sun Jian, so he could only reject his opinion, and then ordered Sun Jian to lead the team to attack the city.

Don't you want military merit?
Then attack me to the death!

Sun Jian was quite helpless, but he really wanted to make military achievements. Since Zhou Shen gave him the opportunity, he also wanted to seize it, so he led the team to attack the city.

He was indeed brave, but in terms of bravery and individual combat effectiveness, the Liangzhou rebels were not inferior to Jiangdong's soldiers. Sun Jian led his army to attack the city many times, but failed. Instead, he lost troops and lost many soldiers.

Zhou Shen failed to make progress, and Dong Zhuo made little progress.

His original plan was to lead his army into Longxi County to completely wipe out the rebellious Xianling Qiang, but he did not expect that Xianling Qiang had already left Longxi County and invaded Hanyang County. Dong Zhuo met many Qiang troops dominated by Xianling Qiang in Wangyuan and was captured Forced to start the battle ahead of time, the situation is unfavorable.

The other route was the army led by Bao Hong who served as You Fufeng. This route entered Wudu County to attack the local Qiang people. However, the local Qiang people used the terrain to resist strongly.

It can be said that the three-way march was not smooth, which annoyed Zhang Wen as the coach. He kept collecting information from various parties and tried to analyze what was going on.

And Liu Bei, who was in charge of protecting the army's logistics and food roads, also learned from the person in charge of sending the wounded soldiers from the front line that the front line army was in a bad situation, especially Zhou Shen's troops, who lost a lot of soldiers because of their strong attack on the city.

Even one day when Liu Bei personally delivered the medicinal herbs to the wounded barracks, he saw Sun Jian's trusted general Cheng Pu in the wounded barracks.

At that time, Cheng Pu's upper body was covered with medicine in three wounds. According to him, Sun Jian was also injured, but Sun Jian was only slightly injured and was still fighting in Yuzhong City. More than half of Jiangdong's soldiers had been injured. Cheng Pu was very worried. .

"The morale of the rebels in Yuzhong City was not affected, but General Zhou insisted on attacking the city. Sun Sima persuaded him to encircle the city instead of attacking, and mainly focus on cutting off the rebels' food roads, but General Zhou refused to listen and insisted on attacking the city. City, thinking that the rebel army's morale is shaken, and they can directly break through the city to win, but there has been no progress until now, but our army's morale is low."

Cheng Pu kept complaining about Zhou Shen who didn't listen to good words, but Liu Bei felt that what Zhou Shen did was not too outrageous, but Sun Jian was a little confused about his identity, so he rashly spoke, and Zhou Shen didn't show his face. It's because of my face.

But Liu Bei is no longer interested in using his face on Sun Jian.

He patted Cheng Pu on the shoulder.

"Demou takes good care of his wounds, don't think too much, General Zhou must have his own opinion, but judging from his accent, it seems that Demou is not from Jiangdong?"

Cheng Pu froze for a moment, then nodded.

"I was born in Youbeiping County."

"Oh? You Beiping? Isn't that from Youzhou? I am also from Youzhou. I was born in Zhuo County, not far from You Beiping."

Liu Bei sat next to Cheng Pu, and asked with a smile, "Since Demou is from Youzhou, how did he fight with Wentai from Jiangdong? I think Demou has a good conversation, has he ever been an official?"

Hearing this, Cheng Pu looked a little sad.

"Before, I also served as an official in the county, but because I was young and aggressive, I offended the official in the county. In desperation, I had no choice but to leave my hometown and flee to the river and sea by boat. I fled all the way to Huaisi, and I happened to meet Sun Sima. It has been more than a year since I recruited an army to fight against the Yellow Turban bandits, so I entrusted myself to Sun Sima to march and fight with him."

"So that's it, it's really been a bumpy road."

Liu Bei sighed: "There is the same person beside me, Guan Yunchang, you should know him, he was born in Hedong County, because he couldn't understand the strong and powerful bullying the weak in the village, so he fought hard to kill him, so he fled to Youzhou and was taken in by me. They have similar experiences."

Cheng Pu nodded slowly.

"There are many people in this world who have to flee because they offended the powerful. If there is no other way, who would want to leave their hometown?"

"Yeah, the pain of being away from home is something that most people can feel."

Liu Bei said slowly: "Does Demou have any plans after this? After this battle is over, does Demou have any ideas?"

Cheng Pu shook his head slowly.

"Since he was taken in by Sun Sima, he should follow Sun Sima to fight. Afterwards, he will wait for Sun Sima to make his achievements in battle before making any plans, but..."

Having said that, Cheng Pu looked at Liu Bei's expression.

Liu Bei was a little strange.

"what happened?"

Cheng Pu hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"Before Sun Sima asked to serve under General Zhou because he wanted to fight, I hope Captain Liu will not be offended. Sun Sima just wanted to make meritorious service too much."

"It's okay, it's okay, everyone in the world wants to make contributions, otherwise why would they join the army? I can understand Wentai."

Liu Bei smiled and waved his hands: "I won't take this kind of thing to heart. It is a beautiful thing to help others, but it's easy to do, why not do it?"

Cheng Pu immediately admired Liu Bei very much.

"Liu Duwei is so generous, Cheng admires him!"

"Demou takes good care of his injuries, don't think too much, when the injuries are healed, Wentai will still need you."

Liu Bei patted Cheng Pu's hand, smiled, got up and left.

After walking a few steps, Liu Bei turned around.

"By the way, Demou, you have been away from your hometown for a long time, have you ever thought about going back to your hometown to see your family and clan?"

Cheng Pu was taken aback when he heard the words, and it took a while to react.

"Cheng has offended the county magistrate, so he can't go home, otherwise there will be a catastrophe, what do you mean?"

"My father-in-law used to be the prefect of Zhuojun County, and he has a good relationship with the current Lord Liu Fu of Youbeiping. If Demou wants to go back to his hometown to visit relatives, I can ask my father-in-law to write a letter to Lord Liu, and ask Lord Liu to intercede on his behalf. The matter might be over, what does De Mou think?"

Liu Bei looked at Cheng Pu with a smile.

Cheng Pu was in a daze again.

"This... is this really okay? Cheng has offended the chief official very badly..."

Liu Bei shook his head.

"If he can't satisfy De Mou even with such a trivial matter, he is afraid that he will offend me and he will offend me very much. Whether he agrees or not, I think that as long as he is a smart person, he can make his own choice."

Only then did Cheng Pu realize that Liu Bei's identity was very unusual.

As a big man with a very high social status and status, it is really hard to say whether a county magistrate has the guts to refuse Liu Bei's request.

The ruling order of the Han Empire has not yet completely collapsed. With Liu Bei's contacts and influence in Shangshutai, there are really many ways to make a county official feel uncomfortable.

Not to mention that Liu Bei is also from Youzhou.

Cheng Pu's heart beat violently.

He missed his family and his hometown, so he didn't have time to think about it, so he asked Liu Bei to make a match for him. If everything came true, he would be grateful to Liu Bei for the rest of his life.

(End of this chapter)