"Don't Liu Bei want to let go!" A middle-aged tall man asked the young man next to the army heading towards Fancheng.

"Yes, lord, that's what the young lord said!" The young man said respectfully to the middle-aged man.

"So, you can send troops?!" the middle-aged man asked.

"The lord sent troops just to force Liu Bei and consume Liu Bei's strength. It's not..." The young man's words were interrupted by the middle-aged man before he could finish his words.

"I understand!" The middle-aged man was a little impatient. "Yuanlong, why are you almost the same as Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang? The whole thing is very annoying. I have been fighting for half a lifetime. I still want that yellow-haired boy to remind him! I haven't had time to settle the score with him yet, hum."

Chen Deng could only smile bitterly and shook his head when he heard his lord's words. This was his lord's family affairs and he was not good at talking much about his family.

"You still know how to attack the heart!" Lu Bu's mouth raised, not knowing whether he was laughing or thinking about something, but his eyes became deeper as he watched the troops moving outside. In addition to disgusting Liu Bei in Yuzhou, his cheap son-in-law sent an envoy to Fancheng, not only to disgusting Liu Bei in Yuzhou, but also to redeem the children of the Zhang family, the prefect Song Zhong and the soldiers of Fancheng. On the surface, he had Liu Mang's kindness, but in fact he was Liu Mang's skill of attacking the heart.

The Zhang family's children were useless in Liu Bei's hands, but Liu Mang sent an envoy to show that Liu Mang's sincerity towards the Zhang family was also a kind of intention. Whether it was successful or not, the Zhang family would be grateful to Liu Mang and gain favor from the Jingzhou gentry.

As for the prefect Song Zhong, he was a great scholar. Although he was useless and lacking water, he was famous. The price offered by Liu Mang was quite large. Song Zhong was worth 5,000 yuan per person, which was comparable to the second son of Jiangdong who was once captured by Yangzhou. However, Liu Mang did not feel sorry for him because it was equivalent to buying bones for a thousand gold. Liu Mang made such an action for scholars in Jingzhou. Song Zhong was a great scholar of the world. No matter how much he said, he was a big scholar of the world. Redeeming Song Zhong for five thousand gold was completely a matter of buying bones for a thousand gold. In this way, the scholars of Jingzhou, the students of Lumen Academy, flocked to Yangzhou.

It was not that Liu Mang had money to redeem the soldiers in Jingzhou, but that Liu Mang didn't want the defenders of Fancheng to be used by Liu Bei.

If Liu Bei promised Liu Mang, of course he could take out the gold, but would he be lucky to leave? If Liu Bei did not agree, then Liu Mang's favor would be the scholars in the Zhang family and Jingzhou who would think about Liu Mang's goodness.

Liu Bei, the defender of Fancheng, really couldn't use it.

"Lord, lord! It's not good!" Liu Bei just angrily sent the envoy sent by Liu Mang. Before the anger was eliminated, Liao Hua ran in with a bad expression.

"So what's wrong!" All these days have been unhappy, and Liu Bei is almost used to being angry.

"Lord. I don't know where the news came from, saying that Jingzhou sent an envoy to redeem the Fancheng defenders. But the lord did not agree, and it was reported that once the city was broken, the Fancheng defenders would not blame him for the mistake!" Liao Hua finished his words quickly.

"What!" Liu Bei stood up and sent an envoy to discuss how long it had happened and how it had spread to Fancheng.

"Master, we're fooled!" Jian Yong next to him thought for a while and suddenly said to Liu Bei. "Master, this is a way to attack the heart."

There were 30,000 defenders in Fancheng before the city was broken, except for Zhao Yun who killed one wave, there was no other damage. When Zhang Gui was captured and sent away, at least more than 20,000 defenders in Fancheng were captured. When Liu Bei asked the Western Liang cavalry to enter the city, he was only allowed to rob, not kill and set fire. These Qiang barbarians were also obedient.

So the people in the city did not hurt much, and the Fancheng defenders did not have any major resentment or made trouble. Liu Bei was going to send some generals to accept these Fancheng defenders and use the original Jingzhou troops to guard the Jingzhou city because the soldiers of Fancheng were also afraid.

After all, it was because of the loss of the city, so the responsibility for losing the land was quite large. They were afraid that they would be punished when they returned to Jingzhou, so Liu Bei's acceptance work was still carried out in an orderly manner. If it succeeded, Liu Bei's troops would be increased to 50,000 at once.

The guards of the city can have 35,000 soldiers and 15,000 Western Liang cavalry on standby. In this way, Fancheng City has high walls and so many food and grass will be left unresolved for a year and a half.

But now there is a problem with accepting these Fancheng defenders.

The army was in chaos, and the captives were in chaos. Originally, they were afraid that Jingzhou would implicate them in the retake of Fancheng, so they did not resist Liu Bei's acceptance. They were either doing it under their command, but they were just serving as soldiers for dinner.

But now it is different. Liu Biao in Jingzhou actually said that he would go ahead and send an envoy to redeem them. These former Jingzhou soldiers and the current Fancheng prisoners were really in a hot mood. Although Liu Biao, the lord, did not have a pioneering and enterprising spirit, may not be a good lord for those generals, but for these soldiers, he was a great wise ruler. Which soldier likes to fight? Wars will kill people. Jingzhou had wars in Jiangxia, and there were other times in peace and prosperity. Moreover, Liu Biao's food and salary in Jingzhou were much better than other places, and the food in the army was much better. Many of these Fancheng defenders had already taken root in Fancheng. Following Liu Bei's future, they could not understand at all. They were just ordinary soldiers, but those strategists saw that Liu Bei was a treacherous hero.

So these Fancheng defenders who were originally willing to surrender were unwilling to rise up.

"The defenders of Fancheng can't be used!" Liu Bei said hatefully. Liu Bei really dared not use such a group of troops that disrupted the morale of the army. If he suddenly opened the city gate while defending the city, the fun would be really great. Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang had already made plans.

"Come, please imprison all the prisoners for me, lock them into the camp in the city, and put their weapons on them. If necessary, kill them!" Liu Bei did not have any sympathy, and would not be soft-hearted. If the princes were soft-hearted, they would have become dry bones in the tomb.

"Yes!" Liao Hua took the lead and left. Now it was fine. Not only did Liu Bei not need these more than 20,000 prisoners, but he even had to send a team of soldiers to take care of them in order to guard the prisoners. He simply lost his wife and soldiers.

"Xianhe, where are the coalition forces in Jingzhou and Yangzhou going?" Liu Bei asked Jian Yong's military situation.

"It has already crossed the Yangtze River and appeared fifty miles away in Fancheng!" Jian Yong replied.

"Here you come!" Liu Bei's eyes became deeper, and he could only reach one and a half days in 50 miles. (To be continued...)

ps: I find that I am getting lazy, this is a problem that needs to be changed! I will offer you 14,000 tomorrow!
Chapter completed!