"Hehe my lord, this Liu Bei knows you quite well!" Zhang Liao, who was beside him, said to Lu Bu with a strange expression.
Lu Bu didn't answer right away, he glanced back at the territory of Yuzhou, and couldn't help but snorted twice, "Fight!" The horse under his crotch slapped and ran.
Zhang Liao also looked at the protagonist in front of him and couldn't help but shook his head with a smile. Liu Bei is really familiar with this protagonist of his family. He knows Lu Bu's temper. He is a person who doesn't care about the consequences. As long as he is comfortable, how can he care about other people's thoughts? However, although Lu Bu has such a personality that these tyrants and traitors disdain, because a little intolerance can cause chaos and big plans, because only by enduring what ordinary people can't bear can we do things that ordinary people can't do.
But I have to say that Liu Bei and Cao Cao are really afraid of such a Lu Bu. If Lu Bu is irritated, it will be bearable.
Such a letter from Lu Bu made Liu Bei really behaved. If Lu Bu really got angry, his Runan City would be lost, so Liu Bei was afraid and guilty. He wanted to make Uncle Lu Bu happy and also to reassure Uncle Lu. To even open the gates of Runan City is to tell Lu Bu that I have no intention of stopping you, so just go if you want. "Will Liu Bei cry if he finds out that the lord has changed?" Lu Bu's civil and military members really wanted to know what Liu Bei would think if he knew that the current Lu Bu was no longer the idiot who didn't care about anything. I also have scruples, the letter he sent to Liu Bei was actually mostly a threat, if Liu Bei really sent troops to intercept, then Lu Bu would definitely leave these Yuzhou people behind.
In the mansion of the Mu family in Runan, Yuzhou.
Liu Bei has brought his family back because he knows that Runan is out of danger. At least for now it's safe.
Liu Bei was walking back and forth in the mansion, and Mrs. Gan, who was left beside him, looked at her husband's uneasy look and didn't know how to comfort her.
Finally there was movement outside the mansion, and it turned out to be Guan Yu. Guan Yu got off his horse and handed the horse to the guards who were leading the horses, and walked towards the mansion actively.
"Brother!" Guan Yu saw Liu Bei, and Liu Bei also greeted him.
"Brother, this Yangzhou army is not a character!" Guan Yu's face was very ugly, which surprised Liu Bei. "Brother, you don't know. This area is hundreds of miles away, and almost ten rooms are empty. The whole Yuzhou is probably, I'm afraid." Guan Yu was a little hesitant to speak, and he rode alone. Along the way, Yangzhou has done a very thorough job. There are ten rooms and nine empty rooms. Basically, all the people have been relocated by him. Only those who can't run away have given some food and grass to stay.
Now the real people in Runan who can be sure to stay are the people in Runan City, and the rest of the people were taken away by the Yangzhou Army.
"I know!" Liu Bei knew it was bad, but he didn't expect it to be so bad. This is a complete mopping up. How many people can there be in Runan City, no more than 80,000 people.
"The people in the four continents seem to be bewitched by this Yangzhou army. They only care about the immediate benefits but they can't imagine how much pain and tiredness my brother has suffered for them." Guan Yu was a little annoyed. Especially the people in Dingcheng, most of them came from Xuzhou. It was Liu Bei who took pity on them and rescued them from the clutches of Cao Cao in Xuzhou. Now they have abandoned their eldest brother one by one.
"Second brother, don't talk about it!" Liu Bei waved his hand and shook his head and said, the reason why he brought the people from Xuzhou was to prevent Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry from chasing him. It is better to escape with the white-eared heavy armor, otherwise, Cao Cao would have chased him down and wiped him out. Only by hiding among the people, in this way, can Cao Cao have some scruples. Don't dare to kill.
"Report, report to the lord!" Just when Liu Bei was distressed, the messenger came over there and half knelt down to Liu Bei.
"What's the matter?" Liu Bei frowned and asked.
"Report to the lord. Thousands of people have come from outside the city. They want to ask the lord to take him in." The messenger said to the lord Liu Bei.
"Thousands of people?" Liu Bei and Guan Yu were all taken aback, and Guan Yu next to him laughed, "Hmph, those people have a conscience, and they know that the elder brother is the one who saved them. If there is any future in leaving, you will definitely be starved to death."
"Brother, there is no deceit in this!" Guan Yu was a little confused, would this Lu Bujun be so kind as to keep these thousands of people, or did these thousands of people come from other places
"En? Let's go and have a look!" Thousands of people, such a scale still requires Liu Bei to go out in person, Liu Bei also has a happy face, which shows that he still has people's hearts. Although there are no hundreds of thousands of people, but Thousands are also meat, and insects can be eaten no matter how small they are.
Liu Bei went out with a smile, but after he went out and saw the people at the gate of the city, his face completely stinks.
It's not that these thousands of people are fake, these thousands of people are all honest people at a real price, but this age seems to be a little older, they are all in their 70s or 80s, or they are just those who are missing arms and legs. Some wounded soldiers who were forcibly discharged.
"He's really a good man, a good man!" Liu Bei's face was really livid.
This Lu Bu not only took away the people of Yuzhou, but also packed and sent the old, weak, sick and disabled who couldn't get away to Liu Bei directly.
"My lord, my lord, Uncle Liu, open the door, open the door, let us go in!" The people in the city beat on the city gate, because there were thousands of people, so the captain of the city gate was afraid that there would be spies among them, so he opened the gate to the city gate. closed.
"Brother, shall we open the city gate?" Guan Yu looked at Liu Bei and told the truth, Guan Yu was also very angry. He could see that the thousands of people under the city were not ordinary people, they were just a burden, these old and weak The sick and disabled not only cannot be exiled into the army or open up wasteland, but need food to feed them. Guan Yu knew that the city gate could not be opened, but he couldn't bear these common people.
Open the city gate? After opening the city gate, these thousands of people will be fed by him, Liu Bei, and there are still 30,000 soldiers and horses in his Runan city to feed. How much food and grass does Liu Bei have? These common people have no ability to work, and they just open their mouths to eat. But if this city gate is not opened, Liu Bei's reputation for benevolence and righteousness will be ruined.
These thousands of people don't have too many packages on them, and at most they only have a few days' rations. If these thousands of people starve to death under the gate of Runan, he, Liu Bei, will be completely ruined.
Liu Bei was struggling, and some people below shouted loudly, "Master Liu Jingzhou, please open the door. We have served you as soldiers and worked hard for you. My lord, please open the door!" "Sleeping in the wilderness in this weather will freeze to death.
"It seems that there are still our retired wounded soldiers on the main road!" Some soldiers have sharp eyes, and they really found some former robes.
okay! Not only the old and the weak, but also the sick and disabled, those who can be withdrawn from the army by Liu Bei, a miser, must be those who can no longer fight, otherwise Liu Bei would have taken it to enrich the army.
"Open the city gate!" Liu Bei thought for a while before gritting his teeth and said this sentence.
"The lord opened the city gate, these burdens, no, no. Where are these people going to put them?" A group of old, weak, sick and disabled, you can't let them enter the city, just put them there, at least give them food Arrange with housing. And some old ones have to be taken care of, otherwise, once they are magnified, then Liu Bei will be unrighteous.
"What's more, the food and grass in the city?" The captain of the city gate meant that there was not much food and grass in the city, so he simply didn't open the city gate.
"Didn't you hear what I said! Open the city gate." Liu Bei roared loudly.
"Yes, yes!" Seeing that his lord was angry, and his proposal was kindly taken as a donkey's liver and lungs, he naturally didn't dare to say any more, and waved his hand to let his subordinates open the city gate. Let these people enter in turn.
Liu Bei also wanted to prevent these common people from entering the city, but he could not do so in public. There are so many soldiers watching, especially there are former wounded soldiers inside. If this is done too much, the hearts of the people and the army will all be lost.
So Liu Bei naturally wants to let these common people enter the city. He is determined to suffer from this dumb loss, so he can only endure it.
"Where did Gongyou's envoy go?" Liu Bei asked his subordinates.
"According to the time, you should have passed Yuzhou and entered the Yangtze River. You should be in Xinye."
"Okay! I hope Gongyou will gain something from this trip!" Liu Bei has now relied on Sun Gan to take photos of the envoys in Jingzhou. If he succeeds, Liu Bei will not be short of food and grass. Naturally, thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled are not alone Next, but if not, then no wonder he Liu Bei.
Lu Bu's army retreated in an orderly manner. Although Yuzhou was not able to take it down, Lu Bu has learned his lesson this time, and it can be considered that Yuzhou has been completely destroyed. Yuzhou has a population of 700,000, and Lu Bu brought back at least 400,000.
The remaining 300,000 people were recruited by Liu Bei, and Nandun City was wiped out. When Cao Cao left, he also took away a lot. Now Liu Bei has 30,000 soldiers and 80,000 people left. Now, only Runan is left in the city, and the rest of the city has basically become ruins.
No matter how aggressive Liu Bei is, he will be killed by 50,000 soldiers at most, and Liu Bei is no longer a big threat.
Just wait for the crisis in Lujiang to be quelled this time before retrieving Yuzhou.
Xu Shu was quite busy during the Spring Festival. With a population of 400,000, it would take a lot of time to arrange accommodation and household registration statistics. Fortunately, there is no shortage of food and grass in Yangzhou now. Otherwise, the 400,000 is really worth it I can't afford it.
Lu Bu's army is heading towards Lujiang without stopping. The urban management army is gathering towards Xinye. If it really starts to fight, Lu Bu's army is going to attack the mainland of Jingzhou and let them hand over Liu Mang, King of Shu. Jingzhou Jiangdong Yangzhou Suddenly, the flames of war in the Jiangnan area continued again.
And our Shu King Liu Mang Liu Hanyang is still a savage in the mountains.