Chapter 158 Entering Jingnan (17)
When Ma Xian heard that Zhang Fei had attacked the prefect's mansion, he knew that the big thing had been done, so he almost jumped up! But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that something was wrong with this matter!
Because Ma Xian's letter to Ma Su was not delivered for a long time, less than an hour.
And Zhang Fei's movements were a little too fast! It seemed as if he had already raised his troops and waited at the city gate.
Ma Xian carefully asked the general that Ma Su actually arranged hundreds of soldiers including Gong Li and Tian Shi to raid the city gate.
Gong Li and Tian Shi are famous barbarian warriors, and they are also known as the name of Wuling County!
Although the general who Ma Xian bought was not of high origin and had ordinary martial arts skills, he had a wide range of friends and was familiar with Gong Li and the others, so he did not cause misunderstandings. This general was not a match between them!
After hearing this, with Ma Xian's IQ, he had a rough guess in his mind. Although he had a contribution to the siege this time, it was definitely not a great achievement!
At this moment, the waiter who was sent to the North City Gate to inquire about the news also came back. He told Ma Xian that Jin Xuan, the prefect who rescued Jinjiazhai, was chased by a general who had the word "ma" to the gate and was shot and killed by Gong's crossbowmen.
Ma Xian’s IQ is not low. With this information, he connected it together and quickly figured it out that this was Ma Su’s plan!
He cleared his thoughts and was sure that his guess was most likely true, and he was secretly shocked!
It seems that starting from the conflict in Jinjiazhai, it is a completely different layout and the characteristics of the technique are really a bit like the fifth brother’s childhood trick!
Ma Xian admired his fifth brother Ma Su's wisdom very much! He took it for granted and blushed a little!
After thinking about these things clearly, Ma Xian naturally couldn't express his merits to Ma Su. If he asked him to go to Yuelai Inn, he needed to prepare for it and instead celebrate Ma Su's merits to make up for his mistake of not helping him seize the city.
Ma Su stationed his troops outside the city, echoing Zhang Fei in the city, mainly because he was afraid that there would be changes in the city. Now Liu Bei personally came to Wuling, so Ma Su had to come to the city to pay his respects.
Liu Bei knew from Zhang Fei that it was Ma Su's plan to seize Wuling. He has now completely recognized Ma Su. After meeting, he was very polite and praised him without hesitation.
Liu Bei finished the peace in Wuling, and Zhuge Liang's good news had arrived, and Zhao Yun also obtained Guiyang.
When Liu Bei saw that two of his three generals had already won the city and made contributions. Guan Yunchang guarded Jiangxia, which was also a great achievement, but with his personality, he would definitely want to conquer the city and territorial territory.
Zhuge Liang wrote to Liu Bei that Changsha was not far from Jiangxia, and he left it specifically for Guan Yu to capture it, but it would be better to provoke Liu Bei and let Liu Bei act according to his plan.
So Liu Bei did not make any arrangements, just Chishu declared Yu, and the one who sent him was Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun each received good news from one county.
The Wuling incident came to an end. Liu Bei left with peace of mind, so he left Ma Su to lead a thousand troops in his headquarters to temporarily guard Wuling. He and Zhang Fei led 10,000 troops back to Lingling and met with Zhuge Liang.
Guan Yu always believed that his ability was slightly better than Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun. Seeing that they could both conquer the city and make contributions, he was unwilling to fall behind, so he wrote a letter to Liu Bei to ask for battle:
"I heard that Changsha County has not yet been captured, and if my elder brother does not regard my younger brother as a talent, I would be very good at teaching Guan to do this."
Liu Bei was very happy to receive the letter, so he taught Zhang Fei to guard Jiangxia for Yun Chang and asked Guan Yu to come and take Changsha.
After Guan Yu arrived in Lingling, he came to meet Liu Beide and Kong Ming. Kong Ming had already thought of a way to provoke the generals and said to Guan Yu:
"Zilong took Guiyang and Yide took Wuling, both of them made military orders and only led 3,000 troops away. Now the prefect of Changsha, Han Xuan, is insignificant. However, he has a general under his command, who is from Nanyang, with his surname Huang, his name is Zhong, and his courtesy name Hansheng. He is the general under Liu Biao's tent, and he is guarding Changsha with Liu Biao's nephew Liu Pan, and later he is in charge of Han Xuan. Although he is nearly 60 years old this year, he has the courage of ten thousand men and should not underestimate the enemy. If you go there this time, you must bring more troops and horses."
Guan Yu Xiang Ziao would never use three thousand troops like Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, so he spoke:
"Why did the military advisor become more aggressive and destroy his own power? How can he measure Huang Zhong's old soldiers? Guan does not need to use three thousand troops, but only uses five hundred school knives in the headquarters to kill Huang Zhong and Han Xuan's head and come to his command."
As Guan Yu's sworn brother, Liu Bei was quite concerned about his safety. He found him alone and advised him with great sincerity:
"Chang Yun, Zilong and Yide both have led 3,000 troops. You can use 2,000 troops to be better than them. If you lead 500, it's too few. Not to mention siege, even the two armies are not enough to arrange military formations. Even if you lead 500 troops, it's okay!"
At that time, the army was divided into a thousand troops, mainly the conventional military formations arranged by the two armies when they were facing each other. At least one thousand men were required to ensure both offensive and defense.
Although Liu Bei took out his elder brother's authority, Guan Yu just refused to rely on it and still led his five hundred school knives away.
Kong Ming used the aggressive general method this time to ask Guan Yu to lead his troops. It was not that Liu Bei had insufficient troops, but that he wanted to establish the image of Guan Yu being invincible.
Although Guan Yu and Zhang Fei both complained about Zhuge Liang, because of their special relationship with Liu Bei and their extraordinary abilities, Zhuge Liang had to rely on them. His plan to make the world three-part, and everyone had to work together to achieve it.
Now it is right in front of you, but if you want to be a three-way match, it is not enough to have a place of four battles!
If Liu Bei took all Jingzhou, in addition to Jiangdong, an ally who turned against each other as quickly as flirting with books, he would also face the threat of Zhang Lu, Shi Xie, Jiaozhou and Liu Zhang, Yizhou.
The Jiaozhou Shixie will sooner or later be annexed by Sun Quan from Jiangdong, and Yizhou is the foundation for Zhuge Liang to divide the world into three parts!
Then, when conquering Yizhou, Zhuge Liang must follow Liu Bei into Yizhou. The guards of Jingzhou need a reliable general.
Zhuge Liang once discussed future personnel arrangements with Liu Bei. Whether it was Liu Bei or Zhuge Liang, they were willing to Guan Yu guard Jingzhou.
Because they lack confidence in Zhang Fei, who is good at drinking, and although Zhao Yun has strong execution ability, he has to be independent, and he is almost at a loss in terms of prestige and qualifications.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang started planning from now on, hoping that Guan Yu would make more contributions and increase his prestige!
Last time, Zhuge Liang arranged for Guan Yu to ambush on Huarong Road, just to let him release Cao Cao and to be a good person, even though Ma Su accidentally robbed Zhang Fei of his credit.
Guan Yu acted according to Zhuge Liang's plan. Although he received Cao Cao's promise, he was just a hindsight and was unable to make a meritorious service and received a reward!
But this is also difficult for Zhuge Liang, who was determined to make Guan Yu famous. Under his deliberate propaganda, Guan Yu became a model of valuing affection and righteousness. He would rather violate the military order than release Cao Cao, who had the kindness of knowing him!
These things came to Cao Cao's ears. Cao Cao knew Guan Yu's character quite well and believed it deeply! He was a little more grateful to Guan Yu and had no intention of conquering Jingzhou for the time being.
Sun Quan and Zhou Yu from Jiangdong made a plan to drive Cao Cao into Liu Bei’s defensive area, which was actually to make Liu Bei uncomfortable.
If Liu Bei became angry and killed Cao Cao, it would naturally be the result of Sun Quan's hope. In that case, Cao Pi must fight to the end with Liu Bei, and Sun Quan could do it and make peace.
If Liu Bei let Cao Cao go, it would show Liu Bei's incompetence, and Sun Quan could also hold Liu Bei accountable and take the initiative in dividing Jingzhou!
Zhuge Liang won two birds with one stone, and pushed the responsibility of letting Cao Cao go to Guan Yu, not only gaining Cao Cao's favor, but also blocking Sun Quan's mouth.
Chapter completed!