Outside Fan City.
"Military advisor, since we are going to Jiangxia, why don't we borrow Xiangyang? Although I have no friendship with Liu Cong, I believe he won't refuse if we just borrow Xiangyang.”
Liu Bei asked Zhuge Liang, who was riding beside him.
Behind him was a group of civil officials, generals, and 6,000 soldiers.
Behind them were hundreds of thousands of commoners.
Zhuge Liang shook his head.
"My lord, we must not go to Xiangyang. Cao Cao is powerful and Xiangyang is nominally controlled by Liu Cong, but in reality, it is controlled by the Cai family. With Cai Mao's fawning personality, not only will he not let us pass, he might even send troops to stop us!”
"Right now, we can only cross the Changban slope and head to Jiangxia by water.”
"And I've already sent a message to Commander Yun, asking him to persuade Liu Qi to bring the Jiangxia Navy to come and receive them.”
Ever since he suffered a loss in the Battle of Xinye, Zhuge Liang no longer dared to underestimate the Cao army.
There must be capable people among them!
"Advisor Jun's words are reasonable. Fortunately, Advisor Jun was there to plan, otherwise, I'm afraid I would have walked right into the trap!”
Liu Bei was not a stupid person and quickly reacted.
After saying that, they did not dare to delay at all. After all, they were carrying many commoners, so their speed was already extremely slow.
Two hundred miles away from them, a group of ten thousand cavalrymen was rushing towards them.
They were the ten thousand elite Tiger Leopard Cavalry under Boss Cao.
In order to pursue Liu Bei, Boss Cao did not dare to be careless. He had mobilized almost all of his Tiger Leopard Cavalry.
He was personally leading them, except for Guo Jia who followed beside him.
He even brought dozens of battle generals with him, all in order to capture Liu Bei and the others in one fell swoop.
"Zhuiyu, I've already arranged for Zhongkang and Zixiao to lead the army straight to Changban Slope to ambush them, but are you sure that the other party will definitely go to Changban Slope?”
Cao Cao frowned, as if he was worried about this matter.
"Don't worry, Prime Minister!"
"If Liu Bei was alone, he might have gone to Xiangyang to try his luck, but if Zhuge Liang was here, he wouldn't have let him do such a useless thing.”
"If they want to escape to Jiangxia, their only choice is to take the water route!”
Guo Jia was extremely confident.
"In that case, let's speed up.”
"We will try our best to surround Liu Bei in front of the Changban slope and defeat him!”
Cao Cao's face was also filled with excitement.
Ever since Liu Bei had escaped from him, he had brought him a lot of trouble.
The key was that the other party was as slippery as a loach and could not catch him at all.
Every time he thought of this, Cao Cao regretted not killing Liu Bei in Xuchang.
This was also the thing he regretted the most in his life.
……
"Reporting to the Prime Minister, a large number of people following Liu Bei have been discovered twenty miles ahead!”
When they were tens of miles away from Changban Hill, a scout finally returned to report.
Cao Cao's heart finally relaxed.
At the very least, they were now certain that Liu Bei was indeed heading straight for Changban Hill.
"Zhuiyu, your judgment is indeed correct. This time, I will make sure that old man Liu Bei can't escape even if he has wings!”
Cao Cao turned to look at Guo Jia.
On the other hand, Guo Jia was not optimistic about capturing Liu Bei. Right now, Guan Yu was leading his army to reinforce him, and Zhang Fei was following him at all times.
Putting everything else aside, if all the generals were to disregard the others and risk their lives to protect Liu Bei, the Cao army might not be able to stop him.
After all, strictly speaking, the Cao Army only had ten thousand heavy armored tiger cavalry and five thousand leopard cavalry led by Cao Ren.
However, he did not dampen Boss Cao's enthusiasm.
No matter what, this time, Big Ear Liu would be hurt.
"Then I'll congratulate the Prime Minister first!"
"Haha, there are no eyes on the battlefield. Zhuiyu, you stay at the back for now. I'll lead the army to hunt down Liu Bei!”
"Thank you for your understanding, Prime Minister!"
Cao Cao then arranged for two hundred tiger cavalry to stay by Guo Jia's side, leading the rest to continue the pursuit.
Guo Jia, on the other hand, led the two hundred tiger leopard cavalry and leisurely advanced forward.
Along the way, he saw poor people sitting on the ground from time to time.
They could not keep up with Liu Bei's fleeing pace and were left behind.
When Guo Jia saw this scene, he was even more displeased with Liu Bei.
On the surface, the other party had fled with the commoners because of benevolence and righteousness, but in reality?
Ever since the world was in chaos, there had been wars everywhere, but they basically did not harm civilians.
And Liu Bei's actions were forcing these hundreds of thousands of people to follow him and leave their homes. They would be forced to live in misery and would not be able to live in peace.
Even if Liu Bei had done so to protect the people and avoid the danger of fire attacks, he would not have been able to do so.
However, if Liu Bei was truly a benevolent and righteous man, why would he destroy the homes of the people of Xinye just for him?
Could it be that Cao Cao could really start a massacre for no reason?
Moreover, when Liu Bei left Xinye to defend Fancheng and escaped from Fancheng, why did he bring these people with him?
Everyone had their own opinions.
"This big-eared thief is really hypocritical to the extreme!”
Guo Jia muttered disdainfully.
However, he had no way to help these people at the moment.
Only after the Battle of Changban Slope was over could they rely on the army to disperse these people into the various cities.
"Hmm? What's that?"
Guo Jia's eyes lit up!
A woman carrying a child appeared in Guo Jia's vision.
The woman's face was covered in dust. If one did not observe carefully, one would not be able to see her appearance clearly.
However, upon closer inspection, the other party's facial features were exceptionally exquisite.
And in this chaotic time, a woman like this could not attract anyone's attention at all.
However, Guo Jia was sensitive enough to notice the immortal dress that the other party was wearing.
Although it looked rather dirty, it was not something that ordinary people could afford to wear!
Guo Jia had a flash of inspiration as if he had thought of something.
"Madam Mo?"
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