In Jingzhou, even though the direction of Fancheng is already in full swing, Jingzhou's Xiangyang, the political and commercial center of Jingzhou, is still so lively. In Jingzhou, Liu Mang has already attended the seventh banquet. Basically, the aristocratic families who should be familiar with each other have already gone there, and the rest are some small gentry.
That night Liu Mang returned to the mansion drunk again.
After getting out of the carriage, with the help of the maidservant, he walked towards the mansion, staggering all the way, but fortunately the two maidservants were more careful, so that Liu Mang didn't trip over the threshold when he walked to the threshold.
"My lord, be careful, come here, and send my lord to the room!" Jia Xu, an old fox, was directing the servant girl to do things.
"Ouch!" Before reaching the room, Liu Mang couldn't help but vomited. This vomit was overwhelming and made the ground dirty. However, because of this vomit, Liu Mang's overall feeling was a little better. up a bit.
This originally confused mind has become much clearer.
"My lord, you are fine!" Although the old fox was very concerned about Liu Mang's tone, but! Top! Point! The novel is that Liu Mang has a thousand miles away, and he is afraid of being spit on by Liu Mang.
Liu Mang looked at Jia Xu with squinted eyes, speechless. Although Liu Mang was drunk, he could see clearly where there was no one there, so he couldn't help but vomited out. Jia Xu's disgusted look was nothing. However, Liu Mang could no longer care about this old fox, and felt dizzy and uncomfortable.
"Hey, I have a headache!" Liu Mang rubbed his forehead feeling uncomfortable, entered the room, and lay down on the bed. Once the eyes are closed, it is difficult to open them. By the time Liu Mang woke up again, the sky was already bright.
"Hey!" Even after falling asleep. Liu Mang's head still hurts badly, he shook his head violently, he can't go on like this anymore, he has been attending banquets for the past few days, and there is no limit on drinks, even at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the degree like beer can't stand it drink.
"Come on, come on!" Liu Mang's voice came out, and immediately someone heard the voice and walked in.
"My lord is awake? My lord just woke up. Drink some rice porridge to warm yourself up." This was Jia Xu's voice, and Jia Xu pushed open the door and walked in. With a bowl of rice porridge in his hand, the old fox's flattering skills are not bad.
Liu Mang took the rice porridge and fed it without hesitation. After all, he vomited completely that night, so there was no food left in his stomach.
"What time is it now!" Liu Mang asked while drinking rice porridge. Besides going to the banquet, Liu Mang got up every day to watch the battle report of Fancheng ahead.
"My lord, the sun has just risen!" Jia Xu replied to Liu Mang.
'sunrise? That's Mao's time, sober up soon this time, and only slept for a few hours, no wonder this head is still groggy. "Liu Mang touched his forehead and said to Jia Xu. "Wenhe, go and get me the battle report of Fancheng!" "
"The lords are all here!" Jia Xu took out a stack of letters from his arms and said to Liu Mang.
"So many?" Looking at the letter in Jia Xu's hand, Liu Mang was puzzled and then took it casually, only after he took it did he realize. The above is not a day at all, but a deposit of two days.
"I slept for two days?" Liu Mang was also taken aback for a moment, the date on the earliest information was exactly two days ago.
"It's been two days and three nights, my lord. Since you came back that night, you have been sleeping until now, my lord," Jia Xu explained to Liu Mang.
"Drinking is a mistake, drinking is a mistake!" Liu Mang shook his head violently, this drink is really ecstasy soup, he will not feel any sensation after sleeping this time, even though Liu Mang has a whole body of martial arts now, he still can't resist this drunkenness feeling.
"How's the battle ahead!" Liu Mang asked Jia Xu next to him. During these two days, Jia Xu must have read these letters for Liu Mang, so Liu Mang asked Jia Xu to repeat them.
"Hehe, my lord, my lord, this trip to Jingzhou, we can only make money!" Jia Xu said to Liu Mang with a smile.
Looking at Jia Xu's smile, Liu Mang's mood also improved. Seeing Jia Xu's appearance like this must have some good news. "Tell me!"
"Liu Bei and Liu Xuande are as expected, General Chen Deng walks every step of the way and only travels a few miles a day," Jia Xu explained to Liu Mang.
"General Chen Deng?" Liu Wei didn't understand and frowned slightly, "Where's your father-in-law?" Liu Wei remembered that this father-in-law brought the Bingzhou Wolf Rider to go, and it should be Lu Bu who was riding on every step. It's Chen Deng.
"My lord, Mr. Wenhou, he left as early as the second day after arriving in Fancheng!" Jia Xu told Liu Mang.
Liu Mang smiled wryly and shook his head, "I left with the Bingzhou Wolf Rider."
Jia Xu nodded in agreement.
"This father-in-law of mine..." Liu Wei was helpless. People say that young people can be a little more impulsive, and they can be a little more impulsive. They should calm down when they reach middle age. After all, the age is there, but this sentence is for Lu Bu. To be honest, it doesn't work at all. When I was young, I was very impulsive and only cared about my immediate interests. This is why I got a bad reputation. I never thought that in middle age, I would still do whatever I wanted.
The commander-in-chief of a large army of his was not planning strategies in the commander's tent, but he led his soldiers and horses to charge against the constitutional government.
"Chen Deng, Chen Yuanlong?" Liu Mang nodded his head to express his approval for this person. Lu Bu was a little impulsive but still a little reliable. This Chen Yuanlong is also considered a great talent, and his talent is no less than that of any of Liu Mang's subordinates. Even Chen Gong, an old man, was almost beaten down by Chen Deng and his son.
Liu Mang himself remembered that the first time he met Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong was when the two armies were at war. Chen Deng was the offensive side, while Liu Mang could not be counted as the defensive side, but only as a decoy. The Chen Deng above the original trajectory was the one who defeated Sun Biyan.
Military law and military affairs are not what Chen Deng is best at. What Chen Deng is best at is agriculture and water conservancy. Tao Qian once appointed Chen Deng as the captain of Diannong, making Guangling City a major city in Xuzhou besides Pengcheng. In a rich place, Chen Deng is also good at water conservancy. He uses the water from the Yangtze River. The construction of canals turned the dry land near Guangling into fertile land. Liu Mang originally wanted to second Chen Deng from Lu Bu to Yangzhou to be Minister of Agriculture. Who would have thought that Lu Bu would bring Chen Deng out.
"If Liu Bei has Pang Tong and Pang Shiyuan, he may still be between five and five with Chen Deng, but now Liu Bei only has Jian Yong and Jian Xian, and Liu Bei will be defeated!" Sun Qian did not support Liu Bei's sending troops to Fancheng, so naturally Liu Bei did not bring Sun Qian Instead, Sun Qian was put in charge of Nanyang County.
"General Chen Deng walked forward slowly and gave Liu Bei plenty of time. This time, Liu Xuande was careful." With the loss last time, Liu Bei would naturally be cautious. "Twenty thousand soldiers and horses were dispatched to escort the food and grass."
"Twenty thousand soldiers and horses? Doesn't he want his Yuzhou anymore?" Liu Mang was thinking. Yuzhou was full of at most 40,000 soldiers. The news from Baima Congyi last time was that Yuzhou was defeated. Killing thousands of enemies has already reduced Yuzhou's soldiers and horses a lot, and now that 20,000 soldiers and horses have been dispatched to escort food and grass, his Yuzhou must be empty. Liu Mang already had a plan to let Yangzhou dispatch troops to attack Yuzhou.
"My lord, in the past few months, Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang have trained 20,000 soldiers and horses for Liu Bei in Runan, so that we can have enough soldiers and horses to mobilize!" Jia Xu's intelligence organization has been paying close attention to the situation in Yuzhou. trend.
"How much food and grass did Liu Bei transport this time?" Seeing that the surprise attack on Yuzhou was impossible, Liu Mang didn't think much about it.
"There are countless carriages, not less than last time!"
"Hehe, my Yangzhou will have another 200,000 more grain and grass." Liu Mang laughed, the 200,000 here plus the last time is 400,000 grain and grass. Liu Bei and Liu Daer took the risk of offending Liu Biao. LeTV in Fancheng did not expect that it would be cheaper for me, waiting for the first batch of grain and grass in Jingzhou to be sent to Yangzhou. Liu Mang really has no shortage of food and grass.
"No, my lord. We only got less than 50,000 for such 200,000 grains!"
"kindness?"
Jia Xu continued to explain that Yangzhou had been monitoring the Yuzhou Army when they dispatched soldiers and horses in Yuzhou, waiting for the Yuzhou Army to deliver food and grass from Fancheng, and the most mobile white horse began to invade and harass Plundering, Baima Congyi is known for its speed, but the front line of the Yuzhou Army's food transport troops is too long, which just gives Baima Congyi a chance to defeat each one. From Baima Congyi to hold the enemy, Yangzhou's most elite ace army, Bingzhou Wolf The cavalry was dispatched, five thousand Bingzhou wolf cavalry, and the heavy armored cavalry, with the assistance of more than two thousand white horse Congyi on the edge of the plain, defeated the enemy army, and it seemed that they were about to take this batch of food and grass again, but The chief general of the Yuzhou Army ignited all the grain and grass with a torch.
In the end, the white horse was fighting the fire together with the wolf riders of Yihe and Bingzhou, and finally rescued 50,000 from the 200,000 grain and grass. In order to fight the fire, he even let him run away with the enemy general Guan Ping.
"This father and son of the Guan family is really not simple!" Liu Mang was a little emotional. Guan Yu was like Zhang Liao in Liu Mang's hands. Ignition, if you can't get it, you won't let Yangzhou get it.
"Fifty thousand is fifty thousand! It's better to have something than nothing!" Liu Mang nodded, and he didn't feel guilty anymore.
There are a total of 500,000 grain and grass in Fancheng. This figure was obtained from Zhang Gui’s mouth. Liu Bei delivered 400,000 grain and grass twice. Knowing that it was Liu Bei and Liu Xuande who sent troops, and Liu Wei was just robbing on the sidelines.
"There is still 100,000 grain and grass in the city, so give it to our Uncle Liu Huang!" Liu Mang has got most of the grain and grass, and he doesn't care about the small number of 100,000 in the city. It depends on Liu Bei's ability to take it out.
"Send a letter to Chen Deng in Fancheng, Fancheng is ruined!" The benefits have been obtained, the role of Liu Bei and Uncle Liu Huang has ended, and this Fancheng should be returned to Liu Biao.
"By the way, don't forget to send another letter to my father-in-law, and I will definitely remind him not to fight recklessly!" Liu Mang was really afraid that his cheap father-in-law would go to Liu Bei as soon as his brain got hot, and he had to know two things. Personal hatred is not a little bit, and what Liu Mang wants is to consume Liu Bei. Liu Bei also has 15,000 Xiliang cavalry in his hands, and his strength should not be underestimated. Both sides will lose, and the loss-making business of exchanging Bingzhou wolf cavalry for Xiliang iron cavalry cannot be done.
And once Liu Bei can't get food and grass from Fancheng, then he will really lose his wife and lose his army. Yuzhou, which has no food and grass, is like Yangzhou at the beginning, and generally Liu Wei doesn't need to fight. Liu Bei will be defeated if he delays for a few months. up.
"My lord, Baima Congyi now lacks a lieutenant!" Jia Xu said to Liu Mang. Zhao Yun was injured because he lost his strength in that battle, and he didn't have too many scars on his body. He was barely able to move forward, so he rested for a few days and then commanded the troops to move forward. Just go all the way to the end, the military must have strict military law, Zhao Yi almost let Zhao Yun fail, so naturally he needs to be punished, now Zhao Yi is just a pawn, and was thrown to Yangzhou by Zhao Yun, let Zhao Yi go back to learn the art of war .
"Lack of lieutenants?" Liu Wei also frowned. Although he has many generals in his hands, all of them have positions. It is also difficult for Liu Mang to find one who can reach the level of Baima Congyi's lieutenant general in terms of martial arts and military skills.
"I will solve this matter!" Liu Mang thought for a while and put it aside, the main task of Baima Congyi has been completed, and the next step is to drive Liu Bei from Fancheng.
While Liu Mang and Jia Xu were discussing things, a guard came in and knocked on Liu Mang's door and shouted outside, "I tell my lord, there is a man outside the mansion begging to see you!"
"En? Who is it at this time?" Liu Mang and Jia Xu didn't understand, it was still morning, who would come here so early in the morning.
"What's this person's last name!" Liu Mang asked.
"He didn't say anything, he just said that the lord will understand when he sees him." The guard continued to reply.
"Follow me to go and have a look." Liu Mang and Jia Xu had almost finished their discussions, so naturally they were free.
In Jingzhou, Liu Mang is really a virtuous king. He respects virtuous corporals. It can be said that the current scholars in Jingzhou are full of praise for Liu Mang. First of all, Liu Mang is generous and willing to spend money. This group of Jingzhou literati Some of them are the children of the gentry who don't care about money, but there are also many children from poor families. Xu Shu, Liu Mang's military adviser at the beginning, is such a representative, and after Liu Mang came to Jingzhou, Xu Shu also sent several letters to Liu Mang. Mang introduced the poor students of Lumen Academy.
That's why Liu Mang greeted those poor students with care, and he was very generous in donating money.
As long as there are people in Jingzhou who come to visit Liu Mang, they will pay respects to corporals. Liu Mang can't get nothing when he comes to Jingzhou. If he doesn't go to Jingzhou and take some more talents, he will be sorry for the location of the largest academy of the big man.
For more than a month, Liu Mang had already abducted dozens of talents, big and small, from Jingzhou. In Liu Mang's view, this person should also be a student from Jingzhou. (To be continued..)