Eight hundred and seventieth chapters Liu Bei's distress
After listening to Guan Yu's words, Liu Bei showed a wry smile on his face.
"Second brother, please look outside the city." Liu Bei stretched out his hand helplessly and pointed outside the city.
Guan Yu frowned and turned to look outside the city.
But on the other side of the river near Jiangling City, there were dense forests lined with tents of the Jinling Army. People were coming and going, there was a lot of noise, loud shouts, the roar of war horses, and all kinds of sounds could be heard.
As far as the eye can see, there are huge crowds of people.
Liu Bei showed a bitter smile and said: "Right now, we can't even figure out our own situation. How can we send troops to save our third brother? Our land in Jingzhou is probably over."
Having said this, Liu Bei paused and said, "Second brother, I'm afraid you and I will be doomed this time."
Guan Yu's face tightened, he strode forward, pulled Liu Bei up from the ground, and said: "Brother! Why are you so depressed? No matter how many difficulties our brothers have suffered in the past years, you will not be discouraged.
Why has it become like this now?"
Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu and sighed: "Even if it was a failure, I still knew where we should go and where we should base ourselves... But now that the world has been conquered by the pottery merchants, and even the third brother has fallen, how can you and I still survive?"
Where to go...could it be that we can still cross the sea and travel to other countries?"
Guan Yu was speechless for a moment.
He stood there blankly.
Liu Bei patted him on the shoulder and said, "Second brother, please guard the city for me for a while. I want to go down for a walk alone."
After that, Liu Bei turned around and disappeared from Guan Yu's sight.
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Liu Bei came to the city, looked up at the stars, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
He said with emotion: "Whatever is better, this is what is better."
Just when he was a little distracted and didn't know what to do, he saw an old man standing in front of him.
Liu Bei squinted his eyes and looked carefully.
"Pang Degong?"
Pang Degong strolled up to Liu Bei and said helplessly: "Jingnan was lost, Zhang Fei was captured, and my nephew Pang Tong was also captured. General Liu must know everything, right?"
Liu Bei's face was sad and he nodded slowly.
Pang Degong came to him and sighed: "My nephew was originally a great talent, but it was a pity that he was born at the wrong time and could not use his talent to help the people of the world. Now that he has fallen into the hands of a pottery merchant, his death is inevitable."
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Liu Bei said doubtfully: "I heard that the pottery merchant is a man who loves talents, and Pang Shiyuan is a great talent in the world. How can the pottery merchant not recruit him?"
Pang Degong shook his head and said: "At this time and that time, if it had been the original, if my nephew had surrendered to the pottery merchants, the pottery merchants would have treated him kindly. But now that most of the world belongs to the pottery merchants, he is trying to calm the world, but for me
A person like my nephew - a person who tries his best to block his footsteps, the pottery merchant is afraid that he will not accept him. This act of killing a chicken to scare the monkeys will let the world know about his potter's determination to dominate the world... Alas!"
The loneliness on Liu Bei's face deepened.
He sighed deeply, turned his head and walked elsewhere.
"Mr. Xuande, you may have one last way out now. Of course, it can also be said to be my way out."
Liu Bei suddenly stood still.
He hurriedly turned his head and looked at Mr. Pang De, whom he had just passed by, and said, "A way out, is there still a way out?"
Pang Degong nodded and said, "Yes."
Liu Bei gently licked his dry lips and said, "Where?"
"Nishikawa."
"Xichuan?" Liu Bei thought for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "Mr. Pang, do you think that after the pottery merchants captured Jingzhou, they would not plot Xichuan? I will go there and wait for Xichuan to be conquered by the pottery merchants. Where can I run?
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Mr. Pang Degong shook his head.
"Xuan De Gong, this is as simple as you think. The land of Xichuan is different from Jingzhou."
Pang Degong slowly explained to Liu Bei: "Xichuan is far away from the Central Plains, and the transportation is inconvenient. The roads are difficult and closed, and there are dangerous mountains and rivers. Even if the pottery merchants mobilize the power of the whole country, as long as the generals guard their gates and are self-sufficient, Yizhou
Then they won’t be defeated easily.”
Liu Bei opened his mouth in surprise.
Pang Degong said calmly: "Yizhou's mountains and rivers are so strong that it may not be able to conquer the world, but if there is no accident, it can protect its territory for twenty years!"
Liu Bei frowned and said, "You asked me to use the land of Yizhou to settle down in a corner."
Pang De said fairly: "It's not about settling down in a corner, but it's about protecting one's self wisely."
Liu Bei sighed and said, "Why did you tell me this?"
Pang Degong was very direct: "If Xuande Gong really decides to abandon Jingzhou and go to Yizhou, please take me with you."
Liu Bei was surprised and said: "You are a famous person in the world, why do you want to follow me to Yizhou? Isn't Jingzhou your hometown?"
Pang Degong sighed: "Tao Shang's school affairs office can be trusted by the world. I have done so many things to recommend talents for the Jingzhou court. If Tao Shang finds out, I am afraid that I will not die well. There is nothing I can do.
I have no choice but to go with you."
Liu Bei couldn't help but laugh.
Unexpectedly, this old boy actually came here to find a way out for himself.
He waved his hand helplessly and said, "Let me think about it for a while."
Pang Degong was a little anxious: "Xuan Degong, time waits for no one. Now that Jingnan has been defeated, if we wait for the pottery merchant's troops to arrive from Jingzhou, even if Jiangling is surrounded by water on three sides, we will not be able to protect it."
Liu Bei didn't answer him, he just waved his hand and strolled towards the top of the city.
At this moment, Guan Yu was following Liu Bei's military orders and commanding his soldiers at the top of the city to prepare for city defense in order to cope with the coming siege.
At this moment, Liu Bei was seen walking up again.
When Guan Yu saw Liu Bei, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Brother, why are you back again? Why don't you go back and have a rest? My brother will arrange the city defense for you."
Liu Bei waved and asked Guan Yu to come over.
The two of them found a place where no one was around, and Liu Bei whispered: "Second brother, I have something I want to discuss with you."
Guan Yu asked in confusion: "What's the matter?"
Liu Bei then roughly repeated to Guan Yu what Pang Degong said just now.
"Right now, the land of Jiangling has become desperate. Sooner or later, Nanjun will be slowly eaten away by pottery merchants. The land of Jingzhou is no longer ours. Now we can only go to Yizhou. Second brother, what do you think of this proposal?
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After listening to Liu Bei's words, Guan Yu pondered for a long time, and then said: "My younger brother is not opposed to this proposal of the eldest brother, but he is also not in favor... There is just one thing that I don't know how to deal with?"
Liu Bei was silent for a while and said, "Isn't what Yun Chang is referring to Yide?"
Guan Yu nodded and said: "Yide is still in the hands of the pottery merchant. If we don't rescue him and we leave like this, wouldn't it... wouldn't it be a betrayal of the Taoyuan oath we made back then?"
Liu Bei pondered for a long time and said: "But Yun Chang, do you know that if we don't leave, when Jiangling city is destroyed the next day, you and I will fall into the hands of the pottery merchant, and our three brothers will not survive. The pottery merchant is
If we want to use Yide as a pledge to deal with you and me, as long as we are alive, Yide will also be able to survive."