When Liu Bei heard Guo Jia's request, he immediately wanted to refuse, because this was just a joke about the lives of soldiers.

However, when Guo Jia mentioned the possibility, Liu Paopao immediately hesitated. Because, he felt that this might be an opportunity, an opportunity to let Liu Xie die. As long as Liu Xie closed his eyes and kicked his legs, his chance would come.

And should you seize such an opportunity?

The answer is yes.

Liu Bei immediately ordered his army out of the city, but when he was about to leave the city, he was stopped by Guo Jia, "Prince Liu, as the prefect of a county, how can you easily come to the dangerous situation!"

Liu Bei's face turned solemn and said sternly: "Guo Jijiu's words are wrong! As a court official, he is carrying the great emperor's kindness, how can he be afraid of death? Moreover, Your Majesty is the king of a country, and he is a body of thousands of gold. He is not afraid of hardships and dangers. He personally goes to the front line to inspire morale. What is the same as Your Majesty? Guo Jijiu doesn't have to persuade him anymore. Bei has made up his mind. This trip will definitely defeat Zhao Wei's rebellion and rescue His Majesty! If Guo Jijiu is willing, it would be better to sit in Jiangzhou for the sake of a clumsy!"

Guo Jia said ashamedly: "The words of Liu Taishou really awakened the dreamer! Jia is not talented and is willing to go with him. His Majesty delivered three thousand imperial guards to Jia, but how dare Jia escape at the battle! Liu Taishou, it's not time to go, let's get off here!"

ha!?

Seeing Guo Jia's tragic look, he rode away, then took out an arrow from his arms and came to the three thousand former imperial guards.

At this time, Liu Bei's depression was conceivable. Jiangzhou City, plus the three thousand former imperial guards, was only six thousand. As a result, these three thousand former imperial guards were taken away by Guo Jia, and he had to leave one thousand to defend Jiangzhou City. In this way, only two thousand troops he could lead were left.

Although his current official position is higher than Guo Jia, it is just an official position, and it is also an official position of a local official. Although Guo Jia is just a military advisor with a low official position, he has another identity! - Deputy Military Aircraft Office of the Military Affairs Office!

The Military Affairs Office is the highest authority of the military! Although it does not have the right to command troops, its status is absolutely transcendent in the military, but it is equivalent to Liu Xie in the military's mind, controlling all the military dynamics of both the enemy and us, and even some shameful things.

This kind of department is the one that makes people feel terrible. Therefore, even if Guo Jia is not a high official position, he, Liu Bei, dare not offend him easily.

What's even more terrible is that Guo Jia actually had the command arrows given to him by Liu Xie. This... It seems that His Majesty has been guarding against him for a long time! Liu Bei sighed inwardly.

If Guo Jia knew what Liu Bei was thinking at this time, he would definitely chuckled and replied: You are really late!

Liu Xie defended Liu Bei, in Guo Jia's opinion, there was no reason to say. However, after this incident, Guo Jia had to secretly admire Liu Xie's foresight. This seemingly loyal elder is indeed a cunning person! Liu Xie had asked him to pay attention to the noble families in Jiangzhou City before, but now the noble families in Jiangzhou City seem to have not changed much. This shows that the policies Liu Bei adopted for the noble families are different from Liu Xie.

When Liu Xie wrote to Guo Jia in Hanchang, he not only explained him, but also brought him a command arrow. After he arrived in Jiangzhou, if he found that there was no change in the aristocratic family in Jiangzhou City, then he must control the three thousand former imperial guards, because Liu Bei was unwilling to offend the aristocratic family for him, so he should not trust him too much!

Originally, Guo Jia thought that such things didn't need to be paid too much attention, because Liu Bei really couldn't make any big waves now. But now it's different. Liu Xie may have to bear the crushing of Zhao Wei's army. At this time, Guo Jia naturally could not keep the factors that he could not control.

If you want to leave the three thousand former imperial guards in Liu Bei's hands, Liu Bei only has three thousand soldiers and horses. I believe that with Liu Bei's shrewdness, he will never do stupid things again.

Liu Bei was frightened by Liu Xie. It turned out that Liu Xie had already been guarding him. So, if he had any abnormal movements, he would have to die without a place to bury him! After thinking about this, Liu Bei immediately became honest and thought to himself that if possible, he should strive for the first achievement of saving the driver!

So he simply asked those private soldiers contributed by prominent families to defend the city, and he took the three thousand original defenders away directly.

...

After staying in Quren for a night, Liu Xie directly ordered the killing of the diehards who supported Zhao Wei without any hesitation. Then he handed over Quren County to the surrendered factions to temporarily serve as agents to appease the people. The next day, he took more than 4,000 troops including Zhang Fei, Zhou Cang, Xiyou, Gong Zhi, etc. to head towards Linjiang County.

Although he also knew that every county needed to change some fresh blood, it was obviously not now. There were more and more scholars coming from all over the country. He needed to use these scholars to conduct a big test and slowly imprint the basic concepts of the scientific test in the thoughts of those scholars.

It is not a matter of a day or a night to let them gradually establish the idea of ​​selecting the best. This time, it is an opportunity.

Because there are only so many positions, there are many scholars from all over the country who come to Western Shu. Moreover, after this battle, Liu Xie's prestige was established, and those scholars who were still hesitating would definitely become firm. In this way, everyone will not continue to oppose the idea of ​​selecting the best.

Of course, those scholars who don’t want to take the exam because they can’t let go and don’t want to take the exam and are not very famous, just let them go!

From Quren to Linjiang, the road was unobstructed, but when I arrived in Linjiang County, I found that the station building of Linjiang County was full of flags. I obviously got the news that Liu Xie led his army to come, so I was ready to defend myself. Seeing this situation, Liu Xie directly ordered, "Yide, you have a loud voice, go and warn them! Just do what I said to you before, go!"

Zhang Fei responded, rode his horse out, and came to the city. When there was an arrow, he stopped, pointed his spear straight at the guard on the city tower, and shouted: "I am the general Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide under His Majesty! Listen to me, Lao Zhang, the person on the city tower. Your Majesty has led a large army to be stationed outside the city. Your Majesty will give you an hour to consider. If you don't open the city to surrender, the moment the city breaks, it will be the time when you fall to the ground! If you accept surrender within one hour, you can forgive me if you participate in Zhao Yu's rebellion. If you think you can hold on until the rebel Zhao Yu returns, you can hold on!"

After Zhang Fei came back, Liu Xie ordered, "The whole army rested on the spot for an hour and sent a scout. After an hour, if Linjiang City does not surrender, we will take a detour!"

"Ah?" Several generals looked at Liu Xie strangely, thinking that they had heard the wrong ears.

Zhang Fei even said: "Your Majesty! Although the city tower of Linjiang City is full of flags, I have looked at it carefully. Most of them are recruits temporarily recruited, and their combat effectiveness must be limited. As long as your Majesty gives me two thousand soldiers, I, Old Zhang, will take down Linjiang County for Your Majesty!"

Liu Xie smiled and shook his head, looked at Lu Meng and Guan Ping, and said, "You two explain to General Zhang, I'm going to rest!"

Lu Meng and Guan Ping watched Liu Xie leave, and couldn't help but scratch their heads and looked at each other. Facing Zhang Fei, Zhou Cang, Gong Zhi, and Xi You's eyes, they couldn't help but smile bitterly. Lu Meng grinned: "Your Majesty must want to test us. Dear generals, let us think about it carefully!"

So Lu Meng and Guan Ping squatted aside, thought hard, and finally started drawing on the ground with branches.

"Zi Ming, is Your Majesty worried that our troops are small and the attack is unfavorable?"

"This is indeed possible. After all, we don't have siege equipment. If we want to siege, it will definitely take a long time to siege, and there will definitely be a lot of casualties!"

"Maybe, Your Majesty wants to take this opportunity to lead the snake out of the cave and lead the defenders of Jianglin City out of the city!"

"It shouldn't be that simple. What if the defenders didn't leave the city? Going down from Linjiang is Pingdu, then Zhixian, and then to Jiangzhou. Zhao Wei is now in Jiangzhou, and I don't know if Jiangzhou City can be defended."

"Is Your Majesty worried about the safety of Jiangzhou City? But didn't Guo Jijiu go to Jiangzhou to rescue the siege?"

Lu Meng slapped his head and smiled, "I understand! Your Majesty is trying to kill two birds with one stone!"

Guan Ping:...
Chapter completed!