Chapter 50 Navy and Deduction

The night Liu Bei spent in Chanling.

To be precise, Liu Bei led his troops to spend the night in Madam Sun's mansion in Chanling.

In the mansion, Liu Bei's guards and Madam Sun's female guards were on the verge of a fight.

The servants looked straight ahead and kept silent.

But at the same time, they were curious: Madam Sun was not easy to deal with, as she could make Liu Jingzhou, who was always kind to others, so violent!

Following Liu Jingzhou's instructions, several servants brought a table and two chairs and warmed a jar of wine.

Waving his hand to signal the servants with nervous faces to leave, several servants seemed to have been pardoned and closed the gate.

Sitting down openly, the stars and the moon were lonely and the cold wind was blowing. Liu Bei filled a cup and raised it and said:

"Madam, how about we have a one-on-one meeting today?"

"You guys step aside!" A delicate shout made the female guards step aside, and Madam Sun also sat down openly.

With a snort, she snatched Liu Bei's wine glass, raised her head and drank it, which won Liu Bei's cheers: "Madam, you are in a good mood!"

It was only then that Liu Bei had time to take a closer look at his new wife for the first time.

Two sword-like eyebrows fell from the brow bone and dotted into two eyes with a little green.

This is a woman completely different from Mi Zhen. The calluses caused by the weapons can be seen on the hands holding the wine glass.

She really has the legacy of her father and brother! Liu Bei admired in his heart and added: Except for Sun Hou.

If such a brave woman can lead the army, she will probably choose to lead troops to counterattack Zhang Liao under the city of Hefei, right?

Shaking his head in his heart, Liu Bei picked up the wine jar and filled it up again for Madam Sun.

"Do you think I will cross the river to find Zhou Gongjin to cry?"

Madam Sun asked after drinking a full glass.

Liu Bei shook his head: "If Madam doesn't want to cross the river, how do you know that I sent my second brother to lock the river?"

The two drank a glass in silence.

Liu Bei continued, "Madam, you are reasonable, but the knights in Jiangdong are of mixed quality. Tomorrow I will let my second and third brothers select the best ones to be incorporated into the infantry."

"If you are unwilling to join the infantry and refuse to return to Jiangdong, you can only be arrested on the spot and handed over to Lord Sun."

Madam Sun clenched the cup, took a sip and said, "You and I are one, my husband will handle it."

"There is one more thing." Liu Bei looked at the female soldiers and guards and said, "The Huduhe Paper Mill is just in need of a group of strong women..."

A leader-like female soldier stood out from the crowd and raised her head and said, "We are here to protect the safety of the young lady..."

"As for the safety of the lady, Chen Dao has been with me through life and death, and the personal guards he leads are better than Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry!"

Liu Bei shouted, "With Chen Dao's protection, it will be safe!"

Chen Dao stepped out silently, stood behind Liu Bei with a sword, and stood with a helmet and armor on his head, with a restrained murderous aura.

The female soldier leader was first interrupted by Liu Bei and then taken by Chen Dao's momentum, and she was speechless for a while.

"Bang!" The ceramic wine cup broke into pieces on the ground, and Madam Sun stood up and said:

"It's late at night, why don't you go to bed, husband?"

"I haven't finished the wine yet." Liu Bei looked at the broken pieces of the cup on the ground and smiled awkwardly.

"Oh?" Madam Sun raised the corner of her mouth.

She didn't say anything, but this expression seemed to say it all. Liu Bei clenched his short knife and stood up with his head raised: "Let's go to bed together!"

The two of them entered the bedroom one after the other and closed the door three or five steps apart.

Chen Dao remained silent, his feet stepped on the broken pieces of the wine cup, making a "crunching" sound, and stood in front of the bedroom door with his sword.

The female soldiers looked angry but were intimidated by Chen Dao's momentum and dared not say anything.

The next day.

At the Hudu River, Guan Yu and Lei Xu were both not wearing armor, and walked along the river bank like ordinary old farmers.

"Zi Bu has had a hard time on this journey."

The straw huts built by the people of Jianghuai are so endless that Guan Yu thinks of Zhang Liao.

All he can see are Wu soldiers, but he can still charge bravely. No wonder he will be listed in the Temple of Martial Arts in the future.

I just don't know how his merits and demerits will be judged by the future generations after he ended his life in Maicheng?

"I didn't have to work hard. The people of Jianghuai have always worked hardest."

Lei Xu Lei Zi Bu may have been relieved of his burden. Although his face is miserable, his rosy color gradually appears.

He raised his hand and pointed at the hut and said, "There were more than 100,000 people at the beginning. Cao thieves sent Yu Jin. Zang Ba, Zhang He, and Niu Gai plundered and killed continuously."

"The natural dangers of Tianzhu Mountain also left countless people. Those who can get here safely have all lost their relatives and relatives. It is difficult for a family to survive."

"It's really not easy!" Guan Yu stopped talking immediately.

Seeing Guan Yu like this, Lei Xu smiled and said:

"General Guan, do you want to recruit soldiers?"

Without waiting for Guan Yu to answer, Lei Xu continued:

"Almost all the young and strong people among the 50,000 people have a blood feud with Cao's army. Even if General Guan didn't mention it, most of them would join the army."

"And Liu Jingzhou has done his best, but the 50,000 people can't always rely on Liu Jingzhou's support to survive. Joining the army is also a choice to support themselves and their families."

Guan Yu said silently: "Just heard Zibu say that they have suffered so much, I should have a good farm to rest and recuperate."

Lei Xu interrupted with a big laugh: "General Guan, you are joking. How can you have a safe family if the world is not stable?"

"I won't hide it from you." Guan Yu also told the truth: "I want to form a navy. I heard that the people in Jianghuai are good at sailing, so I came to find good soldiers."

He pointed to the north and said: "This place is to the north, Xiangfan is a famous pass in the world... It is difficult to defeat Cao Cao without a navy."

Guan Yu was still stuck while speaking. Why did he seem to see his elder brother holding his waist and passing by just now?

Lei Xu said with great interest: "In this case, I am willing to give all my troops to General Guan!"

"They are selected from hundreds of miles away. They are good at seizing ships and attacking by water."

“This…” Guan Yu hesitated: Isn’t this inappropriate?

Lei Xu laughed and led Guan Yu to continue walking forward, saying:

"General Guan's reputation of rescuing the enemy with a white horse is well known to the world, and many of the Jianghuai troops admire the general's heroic spirit."

"But they are used to traveling on the river, and most of them are undisciplined, and they need General Guan to teach them personally."

"That's not a problem." Guan Yu didn't hesitate: "Where do you want to go, General Lei?"

"I wanted to retire." Lei Xu smiled:

"I'm not afraid of General Guan's jokes. Only after the battle with Zhang He at Tianzhu Mountain did I know who the heroes of the world are, and I'm also a mediocre person in the art of war."

"But I'm new to your place, and the 50,000 people can still give me Lei Xu a face for the time being, so I have to be a guard under the lord's account."

"Now that I can entrust my troops to the general, I can put my mind at ease!"

"In that case." Guan Yu said:

"Would you like to go with Guan to see it?"

After Lei Xu agreed, the two walked back together. After entering the Gong'an County Government, after passing through several sentries, the view in front of them suddenly opened up.

This was a fairly spacious hall, with a sand table made of rice, soil, bricks and stones in the hall.

Lei Xu walked to the table and looked at it under the light, and soon recognized it:

Such a fine sand table! He saw the Jianghuai landforms where he had been entrenched for ten years at a glance. He was very familiar with those rivers, and it looked almost exactly the same!

"Brother, did you bring the book?" It was still Zhang Fei's signature loud voice. Lei Xu looked back. During this period, he could at least recognize a familiar face.

Ma Su, Fu Zhu, Fu Shiren, Xia Houlan, Gao Xiang, Chen Shi.

And the late General Huang.

After everyone greeted each other, Guan Yu stroked his beard and announced:

"Today we are doing a deduction, deducing how to capture Xiangfan if the lord holds Jingzhou!"

The generals looked at this unfamiliar sand table curiously, on which some small dolls were used to replace the troops. After careful observation, they soon understood the situation:

The lord has already controlled Yizhou and is planning to capture Hanzhong; Jingzhou has 30,000 mixed infantry and water troops, how to capture Xiangfan?

After observation, Ma Su was the first to raise an objection: "Jiangdong and we are allies, why don't they attack Hefei to share Cao's troops with us?"

Zhang Fei waved his hand: "They can't be counted on. Before, they were defeated by 800,000 people, and the army was demoralized and dared not fight at all!"

Ma Su looked at Zhang Fei steadily: "General Zhang, military deductions must be cautious, don't joke!"

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