Later, Liu Bei woke up from his sleep in the military camp and felt hungry, so he asked his subordinates to roast mutton to eat.
He was holding a roasted leg of lamb and gnawing wildly. As he gnawed, he learned that Sun Jian wanted to come to see him.
Liu Bei raised his eyebrows, nodded and asked the guards to let Sun Jian in.
Sun Jian was allowed to enter Liu Bei's military tent and saw Liu Bei chewing mutton with his cheeks bulging. While chewing, he looked at himself with a smile and asked himself to sit down.
He felt at ease and felt that Liu Bei's attitude was not bad and was still the same as before.
Then he expressed his intention.
"I heard before that it was your suggestion that made me leave Yuzhong City and take on the responsibility of transporting grain and fodder. Therefore, I also made a contribution. I really want to thank you."
"Thank me?"
Liu Bei swallowed a big mouthful of mutton and laughed loudly: "I thought you were going to blame me for letting you leave the front line. At that time, it was true that you were the only one best suited to protect the grain road. I wouldn't worry about anyone else. Wentai doesn't blame me. That’s fine.”
Sun Jian breathed a sigh of relief again.
In fact, after Cheng Pu was injured and left the front line, he began to regret it.
At that time, at least one-fifth of the Jiangdong soldiers he brought were damaged and more than half were injured. The losses were very serious. Although the soldiers did not say it, he could feel the resentment towards him.
On the one hand, he hated Zhou Shen for not listening to his advice and insisted on storming the city. On the other hand, he regretted his choice to follow Zhou Shen to fight on the front line. If he had followed Liu Bei, the result might not have been like this.
Seeing that he had lost his troops and was unable to survive, he regretted more and more, and even thought about asking Zhou Shen for mercy. Suddenly, news came that he was transferred to lead a team to protect the army's logistics and food routes. The reason was that the logistics and food routes were blocked. Great danger.
Liu Bei recommended him to protect the food routes, and Liu Bei directly led his troops to cut off the rebels' food routes.
Sun Jian was confused for a long time, and it took him a long time to realize that Liu Bei seemed to have helped him again. He was grateful, and thought of what Cheng Pu had said to him before, so after the battle, he hurriedly came to express his apology to Liu Bei. See See if we can save the situation.
Zhou Shen is not a good person, but Liu Bei is the most reliable.
If you can continue to follow Liu Bei, it is obviously the best ending.
This time Liu Bei has made great achievements again. He will definitely be promoted to a higher position in the future, and his power will be even greater. Following him will only bring more benefits, not less.
After understanding this, Sun Jian couldn't wait to visit Liu Bei.
"How could Jian blame you? You have been very kind to Jian, and Jian will never forget these things. Zhu Gong also said that your future is limitless. From now on, whenever you are driven by something, Jian will do his best to do it for you. !”
Liu Bei chuckled.
What's the point of moving Zhu Jun out at this time? Any other ideas? If Zhu Jun knew what this old boy had done before, he wouldn't know how to slap you!
Fortunately, his previous actions at least allowed Liu Bei to confirm that this tiger was a ruthless and unjust tiger. It was too dangerous to stay with him, so he should give it to Yuan Shu.
So Liu Bei smiled and said to Sun Jian: "Right now you are still a subordinate of General Zhou, and you have to listen to General Zhou's orders. If you don't win this battle, everything will be fake. Next, Wentai still needs to work hard."
"That...that's natural!"
Sun Jian didn't know for a while whether Liu Bei agreed to him.
But seeing Liu Bei start devouring the mutton again, he felt that he shouldn't stay here to disturb Liu Bei's meal.
So he got up and left.
Looking at Sun Jian's leaving figure, Liu Bei smiled coldly and left him behind, no longer paying attention to him.
Zhou Shen and Liu Bei won the battle of Yuzhong City. On the other hand, due to the great activity of Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun, the battlefield under Dong Zhuo's charge was also progressing well.
The Han army drove out the Liangzhou rebels who invaded Hanyang County in one go, and took advantage of the situation to invade Longxi County, which had been ravaged by the Liangzhou rebels for a long time.
However, the responsibility of Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun was to ensure the safety of the grain road. After the victory at Wangyuan, the two of them discussed Liu Bei's arrangements and calmly withdrew from the front line, allowing Dong Zhuo to continue leading the troops. Moving forward, they continued to secure the logistical path.
This made Dong Zhuo treat Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun differently.
Dong Zhuo felt that Liu Bei was really good at disciplining his subordinates. From this point of view, letting Dong Huang follow Liu Bei was really a good choice.
The western front has made great progress since then. The Han army and the Liangzhou rebels have entered a strategic confrontation in the Longxi County area. Both sides are accumulating strength and preparing for the next war.
On the other side, on the battlefield in Wudu County, Bao Hong's progress was relatively limited, and Zhang Fei, who protected Bao Hong's logistics transportation route, did not get much chance. The battles between both sides were dull and satisfactory, with little progress and no failures.
Compared with the other two battlefields, the Wudu battlefield is indeed inferior.
However, it is a great joy for Zhang Wen to achieve the current progress.
Especially when the war situation took a turn for the worse, with the help of Liu Bei and his subordinates' activity, the Han army turned the tide of the war, successfully inflicted heavy losses on the Liangzhou rebels, achieved a valuable victory, and established an advantageous situation in Liangzhou. This is very rare. .
What made Zhang Wen even more delighted was that because of the successive victories in this battle, the central army's prestige in Liangzhou was gradually established.
When Zhang Wen led his army to Liangzhou Prefecture to govern Hebei County, Gai Xun, the new governor of Hanyang and a native of Liangzhou, also came to see Zhang Wen and brought many condolences to the army. Apparently, he was affected by the successive victories of the Han army. Impact.
The rebels were weak, but the Han army was strong. The local forces in Liangzhou, which had once been biased towards the rebels following the defeat of the Han army, began to waver again.
This is a good trend.
Zhang Wen was very happy. He drank and chatted with Gai Xun. As they chatted, they talked about the key heroes of this war and the next situation.
"Without Xuande, this battle would never have been like this. The previous battle in Youfufeng was relatively stable. After arriving in Liangzhou, the battle was difficult and I was almost defeated. If Xuande hadn't turned the tide, I would have been in trouble at this moment. I don’t know whether he has been put into a prison van and taken back to Luoyang for questioning.”
Zhang Wen drank a few sips of wine, and the conversation became more interesting. He began to praise Liu Bei and raised his importance very high.
Gai Xun had heard of Liu Bei's reputation and knew that he was a famous figure in Luoyang City, but he didn't know enough about Liu Bei's specific abilities.
After Zhang Wen's explanation, Gai Xun realized that Liu Bei not only had great achievements in academics, but was even a hard-core hunk on the battlefield.
In a very dangerous situation, he dared to take risks himself and fought bloody battles on the front line. He did not shrink back at all because he was the future leader of the House of Tribulation. Instead, he became more and more brave. After more than ten days of bloody fighting, he finally turned the tide of the battle. Help Zhou Shen defeat the rebels.
In Gai Xun's view, it is rare for such a rich man to dare to go to the battlefield, let alone dare to stand on the front line and fight an enemy twice his size for more than ten days, laying the groundwork for the Han army to completely destroy the rebels in Yuzhong City. He made a huge contribution and directly turned the tide of the battle.
What a loyal, brave and fearless man.
Although they have never met, Gai Xun already has a very deep affection for Liu Bei.
After talking about Liu Bei for a while, the two began to talk about what happened next.
Now that the Han army has taken the initiative on the battlefield and severely damaged the main force of the rebels, the rebels have fallen into decline. Next, the army will continue to march towards Jincheng County and Longxi County to completely wipe out the rebels entrenched in these two counties. This time The Liangzhou rebellion is over.
Zhang Wen regarded regaining the dominance of Longxi County and Jincheng County as the criterion for victory in the battle, but Gai Xun did not think so.
"In addition to Longxi County and Jincheng County, there are also some Qiang and barbarian rebels in Anding County and Beidi County. There are also a large number of rebels in Wuwei County further north. If these people are not eliminated, they will become troubles in the future."
Hearing this, Zhang Wen was silent for a while, and then shook his head.
"Mr. Gaifu, I won't hide it from you. Let me make it clear to you. The order given to me by the court for this expedition is to wipe out all the rebels entrenched in Longxi County and Jincheng County. That's enough. Other than that, Those who are small in scale and have not blatantly rebelled against the imperial court are not within the scope of the imperial court's crusade."
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PS: I had a dream last night when I went to bed. I dreamed that I was eating fried crab meat. I ate more than fifty pieces in one bite. I was very moved when I woke up, so I added another chapter.
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