Jiaozhou, Jiuzhen County.

After many days of fighting, Guan Yu recovered most of the land that originally belonged to Shu Kingdom. Except for Hanzhong, the entire Yizhou was completely restored. The four counties in Jingnan obtained the three counties of Wuling, Guiyang and Lingling. In addition to Nanhai County, the entire Jiaozhou was almost all under the caps of the Shu army. The current Shu Kingdom crossed the three prefectures of Jing and Jiaoyi. Although Jingzhou and Jiaozhou were relatively poor, there were millions of mountain villagers. Shu Kingdom also learned from Liu He and implemented the military farming and equal farming system. I believe that as long as it was given more than ten years of development, it would be possible to build these places into a prosperous country.

Of course, the western part of Jiaozhou is not yet fully in the hands of the Shu army, because Taishi Ci and Lu Xun's army have not retreated yet. They are now trapped in Jiuzhen County, unbroken city, and refuse to surrender, struggling to death.

At this time, Guan Yu's adopted son Guan Ping came to him and bowed to him and said, "Father, a messenger just sent a letter from Qin Gong from Chang'an, saying that Sun Quan had led his troops to surrender. Now Taishi Ci and Lu Xun are his generals. I beg my father to be able to leave the room and let them return to Jiangdong, or send them back to Chang'an."

Guan Yu frowned immediately when he heard this, and then said, "Taishici was a powerful general at that time. Although Lu Xun was young, he was also the most intelligent person in the world. If these two people surrendered to Duke Qin, they would definitely make him feel like a tiger and his strength increased greatly. Although our Western Shu is not small, there is really a shortage of talents. Now that the Wu Kingdom has been destroyed, our army has no target to be alliance with. Our army is far away from Duke Qin. If these two people are allowed to surrender, the gap between them will become bigger and bigger. Once Duke Qin leads his army to fight, we will be defeated even worse. Let's suppress this letter first. When I put further pressure on Taishici and Lu Xun first, if I can force them to surrender, our army will get an extra peerless general and a top military advisor. If we explain to Duke Qin like this, even if he is unhappy, he will not blame us."

"No"! At this moment, the military advisor Liao Li spoke up and said, "Mr., although your worries are reasonable, the more now we cannot let Duke Qin find a reason to attack us. If Duke Jun gave Taishi Ci and Lu Xun to Duke Qin, Duke Qin would probably not attack us because of our sincerity. However, if Duke Jun forced Taishi Ci and Lu Xun to Duke Qin, it would definitely cause Duke Qin to be dissatisfied. Next, he would attack us with this reason. As the saying goes, there is no reason to be a crime. It would be too easy for him to find a reason to attack us."

"No, Gongyuan, you don't understand that with the demise of the Wu army, no matter what, it is a matter of time before our army and Qin Gong rebel. I don't need to give him talents like Taishi Ci and Lu Xun at this time." Guan Yu refused the proposal for cooking this time very rarely and spoke flatly.

"But in this way, the war will definitely be ahead of schedule. If our army does not make long-term preparations, there is no hope of winning." Liao Li said with a heartache.

Guan Yu waved his hand and said unhappily: "Gongyuan, don't say anything more. This matter is decided. Send the order and the army gathers. The next day, the general attack is almost out of food and morale is declining. As long as we attack with no cost, the opponent will definitely not be able to resist it. It just so happens that the Blue-eyed Child has surrendered and the other party has no master. This is the best time for our army to take the opportunity to subdue it."

After hearing Guan Yu's words, Liao Li sighed secretly in his heart. Actually, he didn't know? Guan Yu's judgment was actually correct. As long as he led the army to attack for several days, the other party would definitely open the city to surrender. Even if he didn't surrender, he would be killed by the rebels who were waiting for an opportunity to launch a rebellion due to hunger. However, he could not watch Taishi Ci and Lu Xun surrender to Sun Quan. In that case, wouldn't Guan Yu have a huge benefit in vain?

Therefore, Liao Li must find a way to secretly prevent such a result from happening.

Although Liao Li is not a top military advisor, after all, 96's intelligence is placed here, so after just a little thought, he came up with a clever plan.

Liao Li pretended to recognize his mistakes and admitted his mistakes to Guan Yu. He then advocated personally going outside the city to investigate military information so that he could make good decisions.

Guan Yu was very happy after hearing Liao Li's words, but he said it was more dangerous to go there in person, so it would be better to send soldiers. However, in order to "give up the crime", the chef insisted on going there in person, and said that only by going there in person can he formulate targeted strategies to defeat the enemy.

Seeing that Liao Li was so persistent, Guan Yu had no choice but to agree and ordered Guan Ping to select a few good-looking and flexible personal soldiers to follow in order to protect Liao Li.

Of course, Liao Li knew that on the one hand, he was sincerely concerned about her safety, and on the other hand, he also wanted to send soldiers to supervise him. However, he did not say this, but pretended to be very grateful and agreed to Guan Yu's arrangement.

At dusk that afternoon, Liao Li led several followers from Guan Yu to the city and walked around the city wall. Sure enough, he found that one of the walls was a little loose. Liao Li was overjoyed when he saw this and pointed to the loose place and said, "Have you seen this? This is God bless our army. I believe that if the army launches an attack from now on tomorrow morning, our army will definitely win."

In fact, when Liao Li said this, he felt the interesting murderous aura here. He knew that there must be ambushing the enemy soldiers here, but this was exactly what he wanted, so he said so.

Although Liao Li's voice was not loud, it was enough for the Wu soldiers inside the wall to hear it.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a man on the top of the city shouting: "Who is it? You dare to peek at the truth of our army. It's really hateful! Today I'll let you taste my bow and arrow."

After saying that, the man stretched out his ape's arms and was about to shoot him with an arrow.

But Liao Li said loudly: "Is Taishi Ziyi on the top of the city? I heard that you are good at shooting, so I came to you to compete today. But today's competition is different from the past. I will shoot you three arrows first to see if you can avoid it? I will take you three arrows next, and I don't know if you dare to take me three arrows first?"

Taishi Ci smiled and said contemptuously: "Don't say it's three arrows, even if it's thirty arrows? So what if you shoot it, you'll shoot it. If I hide, I'll not be a hero."

Liao Li nodded when he heard this, took out a bow and arrow from behind, shot an arrow at the top of the city, and shouted loudly: "Can you catch this arrow?"

But unexpectedly, Taishi Ci didn't even hide, and actually grabbed the feather arrow with a slash, and smiled disdainfully: "You have that little skill?"

Liao Li smiled faintly and said, "My ability cannot be revealed near, I am best at shooting arrows a hundred and fifty steps away. If it is really far away, you will definitely not be able to avoid it."

"Then you go one hundred and fifty steps away, I'll look at your magic arrow." Taishici didn't think much, and watched Liao Li escape 150 steps away. However, he didn't expect that after Liao Li arrived, he immediately ran away and laughed loudly: "Taishici, you're in my plan, see you again."
Chapter completed!