After all, Liu Bei was loyal first. Seeing that Li Su supported him to let Zhang Lu go and deal with it slowly, he was not in a hurry to ask for specific plans first.

Anyway, it is still a while before the Hanzhong Basin is completely occupied, so why are you doing so urgently?

What Liu Bei is most concerned about now is how Li Su was rescued, how is Guan Yu and the troops he brought to be in the recent situation, so he quickly changed the subject and pulled Li Su to ask about his experiences over the past few days, especially whether the generals brought to Li Su were injured.

This kind of demeanor is quite admirable.

It’s like when you come back from a business trip, the boss just knows whether the business is successful or not, and then doesn’t ask how much money you have made, but asks if there are any problems in your life these days when you are not here and whether there are any difficulties at home.

Only such a boss is known to be a good person and has emotional intelligence. Everyone around Liu Bei is also used to it.

Li Su also told the truth about Zhao Yun, Zhou Tai was not injured. Dian Wei was stabbed by a hammer when fighting with the barbarian general. Liu Bei was slightly moved and said with great experience: "Su asked the barbarians in the south that were not good, but they were good at using poison. They can carefully treat the wounds for Dian Wei to check if they were poisonous?"

Li Su signaled to rest assured: "I had asked the soldiers to cut off some of the skin around the nail sores, boil them and wash them, bandage them without sewing them for the time being. Dian Wei is strong and can endure the pain, which is really admirable."

Li Su’s treatment was not to prevent poisoning, but was simply afraid of tetanus. The barbarian masts were made of a few nails on large wooden sticks, and the nails and rusts were also terrible. Li Su, who knew a little bit of modern medicine, would find it awkward to read it.

He knew that tetanus is an anaerobic bacteria and was most afraid of deep and closed wounds that are isolated from air, so he would rather let Dianwei's wounds open and exposed, and only bandage them with boiled breathable gauze without sewing, so that the wounds can be exposed to air and applied anti-inflammatory herbs. There were no tetanus needles in this era, which was the best way to deal with them.

Liu Bei was in a mistake, thinking that this was the latest method to prevent poisoning, so he didn't think about it any more.

Then Liu Bei asked Li Su about his experience of getting out of trouble, how did Guan Yu's army suffer from several battles and whether there were any difficulties, and Li Su also answered them one by one.

"Our army has not been in danger these days. When Zhang Wei left, he only knew that I occupied the dangerous mountain and the elite soldiers were in charge, but he didn't know that I let the soldiers draw water in advance, and strictly allocated drinking water to support four or five days. Moreover, I also asked the soldiers to find some banana and kudzu vines on the top of the mountain, which can be cut and squeezed and juiced.

Therefore, Zhang Wei took care of those Banyan Man who stayed to monitor me without taking the initiative to attack, but just siege our army to death, and he was wrong from the beginning. I also called for a try to surrender Banyan Man, telling them that his brother was the lord of righteousness and that recruiting barbarians was always sufficient for the salary, and the Southern Xiongnu Chanyu Yufuluo could prove it.

Unfortunately, Yu Fuluo was not there, and it was impossible to prove it for the time being. Dian Wei killed several other barbarian generals, but they refused to surrender. But after Yun Chang arrived, I asked Youping to take advantage of the situation to kill the downhill area, break through the gap and cut off the barbarian soldiers' retreat, and attacked Yun Chang Chang forward and annihilated them. About 1,300 and four hundred people finally surrendered.

I also asked my brother to allocate some money in the past few days and send someone to Jiameng County and Chief Yun to fulfill his military pay. Then some generals and schools around Yu Fuluo will come to speak out. Then these barbarian soldiers will definitely be able to use them with Chief Yun with peace of mind. Including these barbarian soldiers, the war-capable soldiers under Chief Yun have now recovered to 5,000. According to Jiameng and Liu Yan, they can divide their troops to attack Brazil at any time in the future, and they can do it at random."

After Li Su's words, he explained the past and consequences of recent experiences, and arranged the follow-up preparations clearly. Liu Bei did not ask much after hearing this, and directly asked the person to do it according to Li Su's requirements without doubt.

The Jiameng County, where Guan Yu is now stationed, had not yet built the official "Jiameng Pass" during the reign of Emperor Ling. Similarly, Jiange County on the side of Liu Yan had not yet built the "Jianmen Pass". There was already a Baishui Pass that controlled the confluence of the upper reaches of the Jialing River a little north.

However, because it is a major transportation road, the dangerous places in Jiameng County and Jiange County are cut down tree stakes, densely arranged into village walls, and set up deer antlers, horse-resisting horses, pits, soil-stacked walls, and wooden arrow towers, which are equivalent to some defensive fortifications that camp on the road.

Strictly speaking, Jiameng County does not belong to Hanzhong County, but a county in the northeastern corner of Guanghan County, which belongs to Liu Yan's territory. But when Liu Yan joined forces with Zhang Lu to make a move, the actual control areas of both sides were already ambiguous.

Almost all of Jiameng County is in the valley of Mamingge Road, and it is as poor as there is no population to cultivate land. Guan Yu pretended to pursue Zhang Lu's remnants and chased him here, taking advantage of the situation, forming a tacit understanding of "Liu Bei's boundary with Jiameng Pass, Liu Yan's boundary with Jiange, and Baishui Pass."

Liu Yanjun probably turned a blind eye to recognize this established fact. The terrain in that area was obviously the one who attacked and suffered losses. It would be impossible to capture the opposite pass without more than ten times the casualties. What's more, Liu Yan was probably worried that Liu Bei would catch him. Now Liu Yan's reputation is still a Han minister! Not a warlord!

Liu Bei followed Li Su's plan and carried out steadily, preparing to slowly occupy the counties around Hanzhong.

In addition, Liu Bei waited until Li Su came back at this moment before officially carrying out a series of battles such as Yangping Pass and Dingjunshan to carry out a final qualitative reward of merit.

Although Li Su himself did not participate in the subsequent battles of Yangping Pass, Liu Bei personally determined that Li Su's plan to lure the enemy out of the pass was the first achievement of the battle, and said that after completely taking Zhang Lu, he would report this to the court to be promoted. No one in the entire army had any questions, and they were all convinced.

Everyone knew very well that just for the pass that was more than 2,000 people defended this time, the Han army paid the price of 3,000 people killed and attacked hard. If there were really ten thousand people waiting to defend the pass, the Han army would not be able to conquer it simply by multiplying four times the death. Maybe it would be impossible to conquer it for a year and a half.

This "first achievement in Sichuan" is definitely more convincing than what Liu Bang said, "When planning and winning a thousand miles away, it is the achievement of Zifang."

...

While Liu Bei's army was arranging the matter to accept the Hanzhong Plain, Zhang Lu had urgently mobilized all the soldiers who could leave their hometowns in Nanzheng County, and mobilized all the small boats around Nanzheng to be used, preparing to leave the city from the South Gate, go to Nanbaoshui to escape to Yushan, cross the mountains and enter the Dangqu in Brazil, and surrender to Banyanman.

Zhang Lu hesitated for a while when it comes to whether to escape. In the mansion of the prefect in Nanzheng County, he has been talking a lot about this matter in the past few days.

His initial idea was to either hold on to the death or surrender, but because of the persuasion of his confidant adviser Yan Pu, he eventually changed to running away.

At that time, Yang Ang had just fled back and brought news that Zhang Wei's entire army was wiped out and Yangping Pass was lost. He persuaded Zhang Lu to immediately mobilize all the remaining troops in Nanzheng, and concentrate the troops of various counties to guard the city to death.

But Yan Pu disagreed with all his opinions: "General Yang, the city must be defended to the death, and must cooperate with the strong walls and clear the fields to wait for the times to be cleared. Now Liu Bei is coming quickly, and there is no preparation in various places, and the granaries have not been cleaned up.

Liu Bei only needs to divide his troops to plunder various counties. The wild grains are the capital, and the military food will never be short. When he completely encircles Nanzheng, our army is not as elite as Liu Bei, and there is no hope of breaking through the field and trapping the lonely city. In the end, wouldn’t he starve to death in vain?”

Zhang Lu immediately realized: "Yes, we can't defend the lonely city to the death. We have no reinforcements. Envoy Liu would never dare to rebel and rescue us. Liu Bei got the food from the four fields of Hanzhong. Sooner or later, we will die if we are trapped, Junshi Yan. Then you see, if you surrender to Liu Bei, will you have a good end?"

Zhang Lu is still young now, about 30 years old, and his younger brother Zhang Wei, who led the army, was only in his early twenties. At this age, he was more vigorous and ambitious than when Cao Cao attacked Hanzhong more than 20 years later. Therefore, Zhang Lu was actually not willing to surrender.

Yan Pu's next words made him feel more and more agitated: "In today's world, the world is in chaos but not yet. This is the time when the court used heavy tuitions. When Zhu Jun attacked the Yellow Turban in the past, he told the generals: In the past, when Emperor Gaozu had broken down, the world was broken, so he made three rules to win the hearts of the people. Now the country is unified, but the Yellow Turban rebelled. If he allows him to surrender, he cannot persuade him to be good.

The world is divided into several tyrants, and there is no common ruler. It is a world where the surrender is to be rebelled and to be distant. There is a world where the common ruler is to be rewarded, and the last surrender is killed. Only the master of the master thinks three times."

When Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan divided the world into three parts, it was okay for Zhang Lu to surrender to Cao Cao, because Cao Cao must treat him well and be an example.

Just like when Qiao Zhou persuaded Liu Chan to surrender, an important argument was that "Cao Wei still needs to treat His Majesty well as an example to show the people of Wu, so His Majesty will inevitably be prosperous and wealthy." Qiao Zhou even dared to say, "If Cao Wei dared not to grant His Majesty the position of Prince, I went to Luoyang to fight for the sake of reason." Why treat the surrendered factions unfairly?

But all this has a premise, that is, everyone in the world has become accustomed to the division of the world as the norm and will no longer be unable to hold back the ground for "there are many places under the world that are not kingly land."

But it is obviously not the case now. It is still the last year of Emperor Ling’s reign, and there is never a precedent for lenient rebels who rely on evil words to deceive the public.

If you can't defend or surrender, you'd better run away.

In this way, Zhang Lu gathered eight thousand direct ghost soldiers, all the ships, weapons that could be taken away, and food for a period of time, and then left the city by water.

Before leaving, he irresponsibly handed over the task of defending the city to Yang Ang, holding the other party's hand on the dock to take care of him:

"General Yang, there are still thousands of soldiers in the city, as well as people gathered from Chenggu and others. You must defend this city after I leave."

There were countless grass and horses galloping past Yang Ang’s heart: You ran away and let me trap the lonely city. Isn’t this going to kill me?

Fortunately, Zhang Lu knew a little bit about the hearts of the people. He was afraid that Yang Ang would collapse and turn back, so he betrayed him. Then he whispered a few more words: "It's over now. I'll abandon my brother and Yangping Pass and leave these mistakes. You have been defending Nanzheng County for two or three months, and have been trying to get time for our army to contact the barbarians to reorganize their troops and refuse to defend the dangerous pass.

As long as you hold on for so long, I will allow you to surrender. In the future, I will counterattack Hanzhong and will never settle your surrender. It is said that you are ordered to surrender. If you surrender directly, Liu Bei will look down on you. If you persist for a while, you can be loyal ministers at both ends. What's wrong with it?"

He had already opened the skylight and said something bright, so Yang Ang couldn't be pretentious anymore, so he said that he would definitely complete the task.

Let me surrender for two or three months...that means two months!
Chapter completed!