"What? Let me go?!" Sun Qian was taken aback for a moment. He was determined to die. Before he died, he only wanted to get a whole body. Turning the corner, not only does he not have to die, but he will also be released? How could this not surprise Sun Qian, but the surprise was the surprise. Sun Qian still knew how to plot. He knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world. "You don't want me to be a spy under my lord, do you?!" Sun Qian looked at Liu Wei and Liu Ye very vigilantly. Although Sun Qian was very happy that he didn't have to die, he would not betray Liu Bei's "If you think so, then you should die! Please kill my grandson, Sun Gongyou!" Sun Gan shook his head fiercely.
"Hehe..." Liu Wei really took another look at this Sun Gan. Although his character and ability are not very good, at least this person is a true loyal person to Liu Bei, compared to some superficial people. , but in fact it is much better to be sanctimonious.
"Mr. Sun Qian, you worry too much! The king will not let Mr. Sun Qian go undercover. This is an insult to the king, and this is also a humiliation to Mr. Sun Qian! The king has no conditions for Sun Qian. Mr. Gan, I just want to let him go." Liu Mang is very generous, he came to arrest Sun Qian because he wanted to get the 20,000 shi of grain and grass, and now that the 20,000 shi of grain and grass are gone, this Sun Qian is useless .
"Thank you so much, His Royal Highness the King of Shu!" Sun Gan said doubtfully, clasping his fists at Liu Mang.
"But!" Liu Wei suddenly turned around, making Sun Gan feel a burst of disdain, as expected, there are still conditions! "Did the dignified king break his promise and get fat? If so, I, Sun Gan, will admit it too. Kill me, Sun Gan!" Sun Gan is now acting very tough.
"Mr. Sun Qian. I said that if you let him go, you won't hurt him at all, but now is not the time to let him go!" Liu Mang shook his head and said to Sun Qian with a smile, "If I let you go in public now, Mister can still go back to Runan, can he go back to General Zuo's command?!"
"This!" Sun Qian thought carefully, yes, if Liu Mang put Sun Qian back in an open and aboveboard manner, Sun Qian really wouldn't be able to return to Liu Bei's command, after all, you are a captured person. He didn't get any injuries, nothing happened, and he came back swaggeringly, who would believe it!
"So Mr. Sun Qian, I'm sorry!" Liu Mang suddenly laughed. This weird smile made Sun Qian feel uneasy. Sure enough, Liu Mang yelled, "Bold Sun Qian, how dare you play tricks on the king? The 20,000 shi of food and grass are burned, you really think the king dare not kill you!"
Sun Qian is not an idiot either, seeing Liu Mang's voice, he also started talking, "The false king wants to get my lord's food and grass to dream. I, Sun Qian, will not hand him over to you even if I die!" Speaking of acting, the Three Kingdoms None of the above is not a good actor.
"If you want to die, the king will do it for you. Come, someone, tie up Sun Qian and throw him into the sea of fire. I want him to be buried with the 20,000 shi of grain and grass!" Liu Mang roared angrily. "Yes!" Several urban management soldiers were ordered to go forward and tie up Sun Qian, and one of them whispered to Sun Qian, "Sir, this rope is loosely tied, and you can break free as long as you struggle hard. In the future, we will also throw the husband into a large post filled with water, the water in it is enough for the husband to survive the fire, and there are dozens of days of rations for the husband in the water tank!" Said and tied up Sun Gan He got up and walked towards the fire.
"Pseudo-king, Liu Mang, you despicable villain, you hypocrite, you scum of a big man!" Sun Qian was thrown into a water tank while yelling, and Sun Qian's voice gradually became quieter, just It's like being executed.
Seeing that the two urban management soldiers came back again, the fire seemed to be even bigger. Then Liu Ye asked, "My lord, do you really want to send this Sun Gan back? Although Sun Gan will not surrender now, Ye is sure of it." Convince him!" Liu Ye clasped his fists at Liu Mang, this Sun Qian is also the talent of a county guard, Liu Mang has three counties in Yangzhou, Shouchun, Hefei, and Anfeng, but Liu Mang has none Three people who can govern a county, among those under Liu Wei who are capable of governing a county are Xu Shu, Liu Ye and Yang Hong, Huang Zhong can also be counted, but Xu Shu and Liu Mang need his help to govern the entire Yangzhou Well, how could it be possible to govern a county? That would really be overkill, and what Liu Ye and Liu Mang need most is that Liu Ye realize the books he brought back one by one. You must know that if his industrial area is really If it has formed a scale, it will lead the world for many years, and now it has produced bed crossbows and cement, which has brought such changes to Liu Mang's army. If gunpowder is developed later, it will really be The world has been pushed across the world. Yang Hong needs to be responsible for the intelligence under Liu Mang's command, and he is also an indispensable person. Moreover, Yang Hong is also a diplomat for the entire Lu Bu army. In Lujiang, he stole so much money and food from Jiangdong Sun Ce and Jingzhou Liu Biao. It is precisely because of that money and food that Liu Mang's army can persist until now. If there is no money and food from Jingzhou and Jiangdong, the millions of people would have left Liu Mang poor.
What about Huang Zhong! It's not that Huang Zhong is not allowed to serve as the prefect of a county, but that Huang Zhong is unwilling. He has accepted his death now, and he will go wherever Liu Mang goes. As for Zhao Yun, Xu Sheng and others, they want to command the army. civilian
With Sun Gan, Liu Wei can relax to the next county. In the future, Liu Wei's army will have a larger territory and need more talents, but Liu Wei just let Sun Gan go, even if you You don't want to kill Sun Qian and don't want to persuade Sun Qian to surrender. You should keep Sun Qian and exchange with Liu Bei for food and grass.
"Zi Yang, this kind of brainwashed people are the most difficult to shake," Liu Ye didn't know, but Liu Mang knew how terrible those brainwashed people are, they even want their own lives, This kind of person has appeared many times in previous lives, including men, women and even children. Now Sun Qian is determined to follow Liu Bei. He is loyal, just like a dog. No matter how Liu Bei treats him They will not leave, so even if Sun Qian surrendered, Liu Mang would have to wonder if this Sun Qian had surrendered in a fake manner, so he had to be on guard against him. It's better to let it go than to say so much effort.
Liu Mang finally let Sun Qian go. A Sun Qian kept in his hands is at most the talent of a county guard. Maybe killing Sun Qian can make Liu Wei feel better, but what Liu Wei wants more is to make the enemy uncomfortable, put Sun Qian back, and according to Pang Tong's series of serial plans, he wants to use Liu Wei's knife to kill Sun. Damn, you said Sun Gan would give up with Pang Tongshan! Coupled with the various discords between the two before, Sun Qian and Pang Tong basically had no room for maneuver. Either Pang Tong died or Sun Qian died, and Sun Qian was holding back Pang Tong in Liu Bei's army. Many of Pang Tong's plans will be messed up or even backfire. After all, Sun Qian is not without connections in Liu Bei's army. Although Pang Tong is resourceful, he only joined Liu Bei's army after all. If he had already taken control of the overall situation, he should solve it by himself Lost Sun Gan instead of using Liu Mang's knife.
So leaving Sun Qian and Pang Tong by Liu Bei's side to fight each other is definitely more meaningful than Liu Mang leaving Sun Qian.
Now that Sun Qian's matter is settled, Liu Mang will worry about the food and grass of his army, "Zi Yang, how much food and grass do we have in our army!"
"The army's food and grass are less than five thousand shi!" Liu Ye stepped forward and explained that the military division of the first army is not only responsible for the army's planning, but also responsible for the army's food and grass. In addition to the chief general, the military division has the greatest responsibility.
"Less than five thousand stones? Didn't Ziyang get more than 10,000 grains and grass in Yingshang? Why are there only five thousand stones left?!" Although Liu Mang didn't get grains and grasses in Ruyin, he was still in Yingshang and Anfengjin. get quite a few.
"My lord, when we were in Yingshang, didn't we already distribute 10,000 shi of grain and grass to Yuanzhi of Shouchun?" Liu Ye said, flipping through the account book in his hand.
"Oh, I forgot!" Liu Mang patted his head, he really didn't know the price of oil and rice, his father-in-law Lu Bu was in charge of all the military rations and salaries before, so he just had to accept it passively That's good, but now he needs to dispatch, but there is not enough food and grass roots.
"Ziyang, how many days will it take for us to reach Runan now!" Liu Wei asked Liu Ye. Liu Ye has passed through Yuzhou and is very familiar with some of the terrain, so many of Liu Ye's suggestions were given by Liu Wei. Adopted.
"It would take fifteen days if the march was urgent, and more than one month if the march was normal!" Liu Ye explained to Liu Mang very calmly.
"Fifteen days?!" Liu Mang frowned. It must be impossible to march in a hurry, because if the whole army marched in a hurry, how much combat power would there be left in Runan? If you are ambushed halfway, you will really be unable to move, so to reach Runan, even if the two armies of Liu Mang's urban management and black chess are elite, it will take 20 days to travel, 20 days plus the siege , Liu Bei's second younger brother Guan Yu is currently guarding Runan in Yuzhou, and Jian Yong is also in Guan Yu's army. These two people are not easy to deal with. There is a reason why Liu Mang captured Shouchun in one day last time. One is that Guan Yu wants to retain his strength, and the second is that Guan Yu has never seen a ballista. Now that Runan is Liu Bei's lair, how can Guan Yu retain his strength? He will definitely work hard. Runan is another important town. It takes more than half a month to attack, which adds up to more than a month.
For more than a month, Liu Mang’s food and grass roots are not enough, and you have to know that Yangzhou is in great crisis now. It’s okay if Liu Mang can take Runan for more than a month, but if he can’t take Runan, then Yangzhou must be lost. The Runan army will also have to be wiped out in the end, then everything will really be over!
I came to have the food and grass in Ruyin City to pay for it for a while, but now Pang Tong has burned all the fires, which means that Liu Mang's hope of going north to attack Runan has been cut off. This Pang Tong is worthy of Fengchu. Not only did he kill people with a knife, but he also killed two birds with one stone. Fortunately, if he was his father-in-law, he might really be killed by Sun Qian.
"Go back to the army!" Liu Mang rubbed his forehead. With the situation in Yangzhou these days, Liu Mang really hurt his head. His call-up order came with good intentions, but in the end he did something bad. Now the three families are besieging Lu Bu. Really a headache.
"Master, are you going back to Shouchun?!" Liu Ye frowned and asked.
"What? Is there a problem?!" Liu Mang asked. Now that there is not enough food and grass, Shouchun is in a hurry. Where will Shouchun go? Are you going to Lujiang? Give up the whole Yangzhou
"Shouchun can't go!" Liu Ye directly vetoed Liu Mang's idea with one sentence.
"Shouchun can't go?! Ziyang, what do you mean?!" Liu Mang is not a self-willed person. Since Liu Ye said that Shouchun can't go, it is naturally possible that he can't go. Liu Mang needs to listen to Liu Ye's opinion and make a decision based on his own thoughts.
"My lord. If you can go back to Shouchun along the Huaihe River now, you can solve Shouchun's temporary crisis, but what about after that? My lord, you need to know why we will attack Yuzhou?!" What can there be? Naturally, it is food and grass, because there are more than one million mouths to be filled in Shouchun, and although there are many fertile fields under Liu Mang's command, they are all abandoned.
"My lord, if you go to Deshouchun, then this Yangzhou will really be unable to hold on, and you will have to give it up. You may even become a prisoner yourself!" Liu Ye is not trying to scare Liu Mang with alarmist words, but the fact, if Liu Mang really went down the river to Shouchun, and he could only temporarily relieve the crisis in Shouchun, with soldiers defending the city, but what about after that? He will only be trapped and die in Shouchun with the army in Shouchun City. The most lacking thing in Shouchun City is food and grass. Liu Mang's arrival is not only impossible to shoulder for Shouchun, but also because the 10,000 troops coming will make Shouchun City suffer. Needless to say, if it is a field battle, the result may be even worse. The 20,000 Xiliang iron cavalry plus Liu Bei's white-eared heavy armor, the 5,000 city management army and the 5,000 black chess army will not be able to withstand the opponent's training even if the entire army is wiped out. At that time, I was really trapped to death.
And no food. Let alone the enemies, even the people in the city will rise up to rebel. After all, you Liu Mang said before that you will be responsible for the rations of the fertile land. The people came to your Shouchun because of a way to survive, but now there is no way to survive. At that time, as long as Liu Beijun outside the city is confused again, Shouchun City may be destroyed. No matter how strong an army of 10,000 is, it is still a cloud in front of millions of people.
"But if you don't go to Shouchun, where will you go?!" Liu Mang was really confused. Now that Runan can't fight, and Shouchun can't go, could it be that Liu Mang's army is stagnant? What is the difference between this and waiting to die? Now the reinforcements from Lujiang have been slow to arrive.
"Master, let's go back to Yangzhou!" Liu Ye said to Liu Mang, which made Liu Mang even more confused. Isn't he going to Yangzhou? Which one is Liu Ye going to sing
"We don't go to Yangzhou, but take a detour from Anfengjin and go up the Huaihe River upstream to Yiyang Pingchun generation!" Liu Ye took out a map and pointed to several places on the map and said to Liu Mang. The Yiyang Pingchun generation happened to be from the edge of the Huaihe River, and the food and grass of the army must pass here.
"Zi Yang, what do you mean?!" Liu Mang also gradually began to understand.
"My lord, Liu Bei was able to break into Yangzhou, and his army drove straight in, yes! His rapid siege made the whole Yangzhou panic, and now Yangzhou except Shouchun and Lujiang counties are in our hands, and the others are either captured. , or just surrendered in anticipation! But Liu Bei also left a big hole! Where did he get his food and grass?" Liu Ye nodded and pointed to Runan and said, "It was from Runan that the army was transported. The first batch of food and grass must have gone with the army, but what about the second and third batches?!" You must know that Yangzhou has no food and grass now, and it is difficult to protect itself. Normal siege of the city is like Liu Mang's attack on Yuzhou It is to support war with war, and if you win a city, you will naturally have food and grass, but now Yangzhou is so poor that you can't solve it, how can there be extra food and grass for Liu Bei's army? Liu Bei won a city in addition to being able to accept the soldiers inside If you can’t get anything else, the army’s food and grass will naturally need to be transported from the rear, and now Liu Bei not only uses the food and grass for himself, but also generously packs Zhang Xiu’s food and grass, so the food and grass consumption must be large. And Liu Bei has now entered the Yangzhong mansion, the battle line is very long, and his grain transportation line must also be very long, which gave Liu Mang and the others a chance!
"We are in Yiyang and Pingchun, just to stop his food and grass!" Liu Ye finally expressed his thoughts, "As long as we take Yiyang or Pingchun, we can use the city to wreak havoc and harass Liu Bei's food." He said, if he Liu Bei does not send an army, then we will directly swallow his food and let his army starve to death in Yangzhou. If he sends an army to protect the food, there is no more than 20,000, it is impossible to stop us. If it comes too little, we can just swallow it, and if it comes too much, we can reduce the pressure on Yuanzhi's Shouchun, and even we can send the food and grass we get here to Shouchun by water, when that time comes!" Below Liu Ye didn't say what he said, but Liu Wei knew that it would depend on who could hold it. If Shouchun could persist until Lu Bu's reinforcements ran out of food and grass, then Liu Wei would win and Liu Bei's army would collapse. Take Shouchun before running out, and then merge and attack yourself after the disaster, then Liu Bei will win, and Liu Mang may completely disappear on the stage of history because of this defeat.
But Liu Mang has no choice, right? Liu Mang stood up, "Zi Yang, so let's go fight!" Liu Ye also nodded heavily. Liu Mang directly took Liu Ye's hand.
"With this victory, the Central Plains will be invincible. If we lose this battle! Lu Bu's army will disappear from this stage!" (To be continued...)