This time, Ma Liang mainly conveyed orders to Xi Zhen and Fan Zhou, and led the barbarians to join Liu Bei with Shamoke.

The key point is to convince Shamoke that only Ma Liang, who is a servant, can invite the King of Barbarians.

The uprising of troops in Jingnan can disperse Sun Quan's troops. If several counties in Jingnan can be captured and fired in Sun Quan's backyard, it will be a major event that can affect the outcome of the war, and Liu Bei attaches great importance to it.

He knew the difficulties of the Xi family and the Fan family in supporting thousands of troops. This time, Ma Liang came from afar and could not bring too much money, but there were quite a lot of documents to be granted official positions.

As long as the list of soldiers reported by Xi Zhen and Fan Zhou, Liu Bei was promoted to the next level on the basis of appointing and reporting the actual position, and promised to double the reward after winning.

Of course, as a senior superior, Liu Bei also knew that blank checks were not enough to inspire everyone, and the emperor's gift was indispensable.

Although Ma Liang left this time, the guards still brought a lot of gold, silver and treasures.

Ma Liang asked Ma Shuchang's business overnight to exchange it for silver and money for rewards, but compared with thousands of soldiers, the amount of silver rewards was not large, and Ma Liang felt that he could not make any move.

In order to make the soldiers return to their hearts, Ma Liang didn't care much about it, so he withdrew some money from the business and purchased enough wine and meat food to reward all the soldiers in the name of Liu Bei.

Because Xi Zhen had already gone to the north of Lingling and had already gained a foothold, Ma Liang informed him to come and meet him.

The first thing that arrived was Fan Zhou, who was stationed in Wuling.

Fan Zhou did not dare to neglect Ma Liang, the former second-ranked figure in Jingzhou, and personally led dozens of people from the school to come and ask for a meeting.

He himself is in good condition and is full of confidence.

The generals and officials following him were also full of energy and were in high spirits.

But when Fan Zhou assembled the army and accepted Ma Liang's reward, Ma Liang's mood became a little heavy.

Because he could see at a glance that although the equipment of this army was quite neat, the soldiers were dragging on their feet, their work style was scattered, and their morale was sluggish.

Obviously, it has been a long time since he was trained. Although Ma Liang is not a general, he still can see that such soldiers are simply invincible.

Fan Zhou was engaged in Wuling, who was newly appointed by Liu Bei, and was actually planning to make him the prefect of Wuling, but Wuling was still in the hands of Sun Quan.

Because Ma Su and Zhang Cheng reached a tacit understanding, a small county town was given to Fan Zhou's army.

Fan Zhou was born as a businessman and was accustomed to calculating carefully.

Because he was concerned about his own safety, he spent a lot of high-quality martial arts guards to hire.

The military funds provided by the Fan family are very limited, and the expenses used for ordinary soldiers are a bit short of money.

Fan Zhou believed that he was a person with status and did not attach much importance to ordinary soldiers.

He can save as much as possible in military rations. He can only barely fill his stomach with food for the soldiers every day. The soldiers have no strength to train well, which leads to a sluggish military discipline and a sluggish morale.

Even the equipment that was half new and not old was Fan Zhou who tried every means to get it together in order to deal with Ma Liang's inspection.

After Ma Liang learned these truths, he really understood Ma Su's mood of leaving early. This so-called Jingnan uprising is really not very hopeful.

Because of preconceived ideas, Ma Liang had no hope for Xi Zhen's army and did not risk going to Lingling to reward him.

Shamoke had already assembled the army, and Ma Liang was eager to set out, so he handed over the reward documents and rewards to Xi Zhen who rushed over. He and Shamoke led 10,000 barbarian soldiers and walked straight to Zigui on the mountain road.

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Liu Bei had already set out on his troops at the right time. In order not to be in a hurry, he led his trusted guard Bai Li's troops to enter the military camp outside the city in advance.

Officials from all over the court followed Zhuge Liang to see Liu Bei off for ten miles before returning.

This time, Liu Bei was determined to act alone, and Zhuge Liang was helpless. He did not feel as if he was in Xinye. He was unhappy and sighed to his confidant officials:

"If Fa Xiaozhi is here, he will be able to control the Lord's journey to the Eastern Expedition."

Early the next morning, Liu Bei had not yet stood up in the military camp, and his subordinates came to inform him that Zhang Fei's general Wu Ban came from Langzhong to ask for a meeting with Liu Bei.

Liu Bei felt a bad feeling in his heart, thinking that something must have happened to Zhang Fei, so he hurriedly asked the guard Xuan Wu Ban to meet him.

Wu Ban is the cousin of the Queen Wu family. He can be said to be Liu Bei's confidant. He was originally the county magistrate in Jianning.

After Liu Bei appointed Wu as queen, because Wu pleaded with mercy, he originally intended to transfer Wu Ban as the magistrate of Chengdu, but Zhuge Liang appointed Ma Su first.

Liu Bei had already let Wu Ban return to Chengdu, but the Chengdu County Magistrate fell into the hands of Ma Su. Liu Bei had no choice. It happened that Zhang Fei was asking for someone again and made a request to ask for Ma Su.

Liu Bei felt aroused, and he sent Wu Ban as the general of Yamen to Langzhong to serve as Zhang Fei's deputy, and also had the responsibility to supervise Zhang Fei.

Except for royal relatives, no one can make the irritable Mr. Zhang San...

That night, after Zhang Fei was killed by Fan Jiang and Zhang Da, the two of them were not discovered by the guards in time because they responded properly.

It was only when the sun was at midnight that day that Zhang Fei had not yet got up to eat, which aroused the suspicion of the guards.

Because he was afraid of being scolded and whipped by Zhang Fei, no one dared to enter his palm casually.

After waiting for another hour, it was already past lunch time, and the guards reported to Wu Ban.

When Wu Ban arrived and went in with the guards to check, they found Zhang Fei's headless body.

Wu Ban was shocked and did not dare to make decisions without authorization. He immediately beat the drum and gathered the generals.

After the siege, it was found that Fan Jiang, Zhang Da and the other two were missing, and the guards also proved that they had entered Zhang Fei's tent last night and had left in less than the second update.

After confirming the murderer, Wu Ban immediately sent people to search everywhere. Although he found the traces of the two fleeing to Jingzhou, there was no sign of them.

The Wu Ban was unable to send troops to Jingzhou to hunt down Fan Jiang and Zhang Da, so he could only deal with Zhang Fei's funeral first and report to Liu Bei.

Wu Ban wrote the stamp and was worried about sending others to go there, so he decided to go to Chengdu to report to Liu Bei in person.

Zhang Fei's eldest son Zhang Bao was also ordered to store the coffin and store it, and Zhang Fei's second son Zhang Shao was ordered to guard Langzhong. Zhang Bao then came to report to Liu Bei.

After reading Wu Ban's stamp, Liu Bei was indeed reporting Zhang Fei's bad news.

Liu Bei cried loudly, fainted on the ground, and the officials woke up.

The next day, Liu Bei was crying alone. The guard suddenly reported it. The spy saw a group of horses coming from afar and approached the barracks quickly.

Liu Bei went out of the camp to watch and waited for a long time. He saw a young general, with white robe and silver armor, rolled off the horse, and lying on the ground and crying. At that time, Zhang Fei's eldest son Zhang Bao.

Zhang Bao cried and said to Liu Bei:

"Your Majesty, Fan Jiang, Zhang Da killed his father and took his head to the Jiangdong Sun Quan!"

Liu Bei was so sad that he did not eat or eat.

The ministers advised:

"Your Majesty is about to avenge your two brothers, why should you destroy the dragon body first?"
Chapter completed!