Zhuge was reborn, killed the old thief Sima

Chapter 22
In the battle of Tianzhu Mountain, Gan Ning's formation beheaded Mei Gan, Guan Yu beheaded Lei Book, but Chen Jian was afraid of the battle and retreated at the moment of attack.

This made the already panicked soldiers even more demoralized, allowing Guan Yu and Gan Ning to seize the opportunity and lead their troops to charge directly into the narrow mountain road.

In this battle, both of them were covered in blood.

Gan Ning was wounded several times, and Guan Yu was hit by three arrows. Their clothes were dyed red with blood, but they made tens of thousands of thieves tremble in fear.

It was clear that there were thousands of thieves and they had an absolute advantage, but in the face of Guan Yu and Gan Ning who were constantly charging up, the soldiers at the front were the first to give in.

They were frightened and looked at Guan Yu and Gan Ning who were like wild ghosts crawling up from under the Nine Netherworld. They were so frightened that they backed away.

Behind him were his own soldiers, who crowded towards the rear regardless of the situation.

On the narrow mountain road, thousands of bandits huddled together, and soldiers kept falling down the cliff, screaming in despair.

Guan Yu and Gan Ning charged in without hesitation, and everyone who stood in their way became the dead souls of their swords.

Chen Jian changed his attention again. He didn't want to die, so he chose to drag away the soldiers and fled directly towards the camp, thinking that even if he couldn't hold the camp, he could escape from the back mountain.
But when he arrived at the camp, he suddenly found that the camp gate of the cottage had been tightly closed.

When the soldiers inside saw him and rushed back, instead of coming out to respond, they instead aimed their bows, arrows and spears at him. At this moment, Chen Jian was heartbroken.

He looked around, looking for the two familiar figures, and finally found them on the watchtower.

"Mei Cheng, Lei Xu, what do you mean?"

Chen Jian yelled and cursed at the two generals who were left behind, but all he got in return was a big wave from Mei Cheng.

"shoot!"

Following Mei Cheng's order, the crossbowmen who had been ambushing them for a long time suddenly appeared from both sides of the village gate, with their bows and arrows drawn to greet Chen Jian and his cronies.

Hundreds of arrows fell directly on the panicked Chen Jian and others, causing them to be shot into pieces before they even had time to scream.

At this time, Mei Chengcai asked someone to open the city gate, and Lei Xu chopped off Chen Jian's head with one knife.

"Chen Jian is dead. We have decided to surrender. Don't resist anymore!"

"Kneel down on the ground immediately, don't panic!"

Mei Cheng and Lei Xu were a very important part of this small group, and their status was not much worse than that of Chen Jian.

Under the shouts of the two men, a large number of panicked soldiers began to kneel on the ground waiting for Guan Yu and Gan Ning to surrender. Lei Xu and Mei Cheng also took Chen Jian's head and separated the crowd to search for Guan Yu.

When Guan Yu and Gan Ning saw Mei Cheng and another general they didn't know kneeling on the ground, holding up Chen Jian's head with both hands, they knew that the battle was over.

The total number of surrendered soldiers plus their families turned out to be more than [-]. This number made Guan Yu and Gan Ning look at each other.

"Seventy thousand people." Guan Yu didn't feel much happiness on his face at this time. Instead, he felt heavy pressure, "If 7 people want to transport it to Jiangxia, it cannot be done in a day or two.

But I can’t wait to delay the future war.”

"It's useless to say this now. We can only take one step at a time!" Gan Ning looked at the tens of thousands of people in Wuyang and was helpless.

"Assemble all the ships and send the family members to Jiangxia first." Guan Yu stopped talking nonsense and gave the order directly, "I will leave this place to Xingba for temporary care. Guan will go to the elder brother to see if he can mobilize it again from Jiangxia. Some big ships are coming."

After Guan Yu finished speaking, he immediately led a small number of troops and hundreds of boats of family members and common people to Jiangxia. At the same time, he asked Zhou Cang to take a small boat to go ahead and deliver his own handwritten letter to Liu Bei.

Ask Liu Bei to borrow some more ships from Su Fei
This battle lasted only two or three days, and including the time spent on the road, it only lasted for more than ten days. When Kong Ming heard about the gains of this trip, he couldn't help but be shocked. "It was a miscalculation. This time it was indeed a miscalculation."

Kong Ming felt a little helpless. About 4 people were enough for his calculation. After all, although Lei Xu led more than [-] people to defect to them in his previous life, that was already after they took away the four counties of Jingnan.

That year was the 14th year of Jian'an, and there were still six full years to go. Even if the number taken away by Zhang Liao Niugai and others was added, Kong Ming felt that the number of 4 people was almost the same.

Since then, including the captured warships, they can bring back these surrendered soldiers and their families within two months. Now the number has doubled.
"Kong Ming doesn't need to be like this. Thanks to the strategies of Kong Ming and Xing Ba, we can achieve such gains. Even though there are many people, I, Liu Xuande, can't afford to support them."

"My lord misunderstood, Liang doesn't care whether it is 4 people or 7 people, what Liang cares about is time." Kong Ming knows better than anyone.

In two months' time, that is, in November of the eighth year of Jian'an, Sun Quan will raise troops to invade Jiangxia. At that time, they must fight Jiangdong and win.

Only in this way can we gain a firm foothold in Jiangxia. If the weight of transporting people is too heavy and delays the future war, it will really be more of a loss than a gain.

"Time." Although Liu Bei also believed that Jiangdong would raise troops to retaliate, he still had illusions. "Kong Ming may not have to worry, just in case Jiangdong doesn't want to send troops in winter."

When Liu Bei saw Zhuge Liang's heavy face when he was talking, he knew that his idea didn't seem so reliable.

"My lord, now we can only ask Huang Zu for help!"

"Ok?"

"In Jiangxia, only Huang Zu has the ability to transport 7 people from Jianghuai to Jiangxia in more than a month.

But if we do this, those people may have to give half of it to Huang Zu. "

"." Hearing that his people were going to be taken away by others, Liu Bei still hesitated, but this hesitation only lasted a short time.

"I'm supposed to live here as a guest, so the garrison Jiang Xia shouldn't be too conspicuous.

If Huang Zu could treat these tens of thousands of people kindly and give them a place to settle down, it would not be a pity.

So I went to Xiling in person to look for Huang Zu.

Kong Ming still has to worry about the food and grass dispatch and the resettlement of the people here. "

The advantage of Liu Bei being bigger is that even if he hesitated, he will do it immediately as soon as he is sure.

On the same day, he galloped to Xiling on horseback, grabbed Liu Qi who had just come out at the city gate, and went to Huang Zu's house again.

Half a month later, a mighty naval force set off from Jiangxia. This movement was extraordinary.

Zhou Yu of Chaisang and Xiahou Dun of Yuzhou all mobilized their troops and horses, thinking that Huang Zu was going to do something. Even Liu Biao couldn't help but send Pang Ji to Jiangxia to ask Huang Zu what was going on.

When the news spread to Jiangdong, Sun Quan even thought of his upcoming action.

"At this time, Jiangxia sent a large number of troops. Either they discovered that we were going to attack Jiangxia in winter, or they had other important matters.

But no matter which one, we must speed up our pace. "

"Come here, please send an order to Cheng Pu to organize his troops immediately, Ziyu to allocate grain and grass, Ling Cao, Xu Sheng and other generals to prepare their own preparations."

"In half a month, attack Jiangxia!"

(End of this chapter)