Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 459 Wei Yan's thoughts

Hearing that Cao Cao was going south, even though it was already July, Liu Bei was covered in white sweat. Before he could settle down, Yi Ji escaped from Xiangyang and told Cai Mao that he was discussing with the Kuaiyue brothers to surrender to Cao Cao!
The change in form so quickly disrupted all Liu Bei's plans, when would we wait if we didn't leave now?Liu Bei hurriedly recruited all the civil and military personnel, don't wait until the next day, and leave Xinye immediately on the same day.Hearing that Liu Bei was going out of the city, the people in Xinye cried for their fathers and mothers to stop Liu Bei, begging to take them with them, but Liu Bei had no choice but to agree, and the fleeing team continued intermittently for more than ten miles.

In the middle of the night, Cao Chun led tigers and leopards to ride three hundred miles a day to kill them in Xinye. At this time, there were only hundreds of people in the city who could not walk, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. After questioning, they learned about Liu Bei's death. The people have fled.Cao Chun ordered the whole army to rest overnight, and continued the pursuit early the next morning.

Xiahou was still puzzled: "Why didn't Zi and brother pursue Liu Bei? Are they afraid of an ambush?"

Cao Chun said with a smile: "Liu Bei's bereaved dog, even if there is an ambush, is it my tiger and leopard riding opponent? It's just that he still has 20 people in his arms, and I only have 5000 people in the dark. How can I find Liu Bei?"

Cao Zhen also laughed and said: "That's true. The big-eared bandits use 20 people as their shields. Our army hastily penetrated, and the army and civilians are mixed. It is inevitable that they will be injured. But with so many people, they must not be able to escape very far. Why bother in one night? Replenishing your energy is the right way.”

Passing through Xiangyang City, I saw that the city gate was closed tightly.Zhang Fei asked, "Brother, is it called a city?"

Liu Bei shook his head: "Don't stop, keep going."

Before he finished speaking, he saw a red-faced general rushing out of the city gate, followed by more than a hundred people, who seemed to be about 30 years old, and shouted: "Since Liu Shijun came to Xiangyang, why didn't he enter the city?"

Yi Ji approached Liu Bei and said, "This is the city gate guard Wei Yan and Wei Wenchang. Although he is not from Cai Mao, Cai Mao has always wanted to murder the lord. Be careful that there are ambushes in the city."

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "What's the point of Cai Mao, the gate of the city has been opened, wait for me to enter the city to raise Cai Mao's head."

Liu Bei continued to shake his head: "Even if the city is occupied, Cao's bandit army will arrive soon, and it will become an isolated city. Don't delay here." After speaking, he shouted to Wei Yan: "General Wen Chang, would you like to go south with me?"

Before Wei Yan could agree, another general came out of the city and shouted: "Son Wei Yan, how dare you open the gate of the city in order to rebel. Do you recognize General Wenpin!"

Wei Yan shouted to Liu Bei: "Since you don't want to enter the city, I will let you go as soon as possible after you are done. See you in the future."

Wei Yan confronted Wenpin, although Wu Yi was superior to Wenpin, but he had few soldiers, only the hundred guards brought out from Xuzhou at the beginning, and a few confidantes recruited later, so he had to fight and leave, Wenpin Seeing that Wei Yan retreated without chasing him, he returned to the city and closed the city gate again.

Wei Yan saw that Liu Bei was gone, and the corner of his mouth curled up slightly. "Come on, let's go to Changsha and join Liu Pan."

Wei Yan has never returned to Xuzhou, so he naturally has his own plans. Even if Zhou Cang occupies Liaodong, Xuzhou has a good momentum. Wei Yan feels that Liaodong is not his place to use his skills, but the Central Plains is where he can show his talents.Hibernating under Liu Biao was just to observe Liu Bei better. When he was in Xuzhou, he believed that Liu Bei was not simple, and Liu Bei's escape from death several times made him think that Liu Bei was lucky.

The choice of Liu Bei is the result of Wei Yan's deliberation. Of course, there is the royal halo that Liu Bei wove for himself, but also the tenacity that can't kill Xiaoqiang. In Jingzhou, he even got the support of some gentry secretly.Liu Bei is alone and lonely now, but it is also his own opportunity. When he is in crisis, he will be reused if he takes refuge in Liu Bei. Instead, under Cao Cao and Sun Quan, he has to start from the beginning, and he will not know how long he will wait until he is ranked by seniority.Although Liu Bei's subordinates Guan Zhang and Zhao Yun were brave, Wei Yan believed that his ability to command the army was far superior to that of several people.

It was Zhou Cang who finally made Wei Yan's determination. Wei Yan believed that one day Zhou Cang would leave Xuzhou and go to Liaodong, because Zhou Cang had no ambition to compete for the world.And Wei Yan clearly knew that Zhou Cang, as his mentor, knew him very well, and because of this, Zhou Cang never recalled himself to Xuzhou, but only sent him two letters with a few words.In the first letter, Wei Yan believed that Zhou Cang was motivating himself and letting him make choices; in the second letter, Wei Yan believed that Zhou Cang was planning for him.

For this, Wei Yan is both grateful and admired by Zhou Cang, but also a little bit angry. Since the teacher has such a deep thinking and vision and the power to compete in the world, why not fight!Zhou Wen also had similar thoughts, but they didn't expect that Zhou Cang was neither arguing nor indisputable, completely caught in a kind of contradiction.

At the beginning of this era, Zhou Cang worked hard to survive. After having a foundation, how many people will not be ambitious and create their own brilliance?Therefore, it's not that Zhou Cang doesn't want to fight, but precisely because he is in this era, Zhou Cang realizes more clearly that if he wants to fight for supremacy now, he must give up some principles.For example, you have to give up the reforms you started, make friends with the gentry, protect the interests of the literati class, and gain their support. The uncivilized people are the shortcomings of this era. If the shortcomings are not eliminated, the power of the literati will not be Will weaken, Zhou Cang does not want to drink poison to quench his thirst.Now that the north is basically stable, if there is a war, the people will be in dire straits. Zhou Cang can't bear it. This is the second reason.As a time traveler, Zhou Cang is well aware of the harm that the foreign invasion will do to the Chinese nation in the near future, and also knows that the Japanese will destroy the land of China 700 years later, so he will do his best to eliminate these hidden dangers as much as possible.Zhou Cang is fighting in his own way.

Liu Bei nodded, this person is available, and immediately led people away from the battlefield and went south.Seeing that Xiangyang did not accept him, the people in Xinye wept bitterly and cursed Liu Cong and Cai Mao, so they had to continue to follow Liu Bei to flee.

In the city of Xiangyang, Liu Cong was questioning Cai Mao: "Liu Xuande came to vote, why didn't uncle let him enter the city so that we can jointly defend Cao Cao?"

Cai Mao glanced at Kuai Yue and said, "Cong'er is young and doesn't know Liu Bei's character. Letting him enter the city will only steal Jingzhou. That's how he forced Tao Qian to abdicate, and almost killed Tao Qian's two sons."

Liu Cong heard that his safety would be threatened, so he stopped asking about Liu Bei.

"Even so, the people are innocent, why not let the people into the city?"

"Cong'er made a mistake. Liu Bei is cunning. If he sends people to lurk among the refugees, how will he respond suddenly? And there are so many refugees, how can Xiangyang be settled?"

"Now that Cao Cao's army is approaching, how will uncle retreat from the enemy?"

"Cao Cao's army claims to be in the millions. Even if there are fakes, there are at least three to five million. He also has the emperor's decree. It is difficult for me in Jingzhou to compete. Sun Quan in Jiangdong is spying on me in Jingzhou all the time. It is better to surrender to Cao Cao."

Liu Cong's face changed drastically: "What did uncle say? My father died of illness and handed over Jingzhou to me. It's less than ten days. How can I hand it over to Cao Cao? How can I see my father?"

(End of this chapter)