In Jingzhou, even if the battle in Fan City was in full swing, Xiangyang, the political and commercial center of Jingzhou, was still very lively. In Jingzhou, Liu Mang had already attended seven banquets. It could be said that he had already visited all the aristocratic families in the city, leaving only some small aristocratic families.
On this night, Liu Mang returned to the mansion drunk.
After getting down from the carriage, Liu Mang walked toward the mansion with the help of two maidservants. Along the way, the mansion was swaying. Fortunately, the two maidservants were more attentive, so Liu Mang did not trip on the doorstep.
"Milord, be careful, be careful. Come, send the Milord to the room!" Jia Xu, the old fox, was instructing the maidservants.
"Blergh!" Before reaching the room, Liu Mang couldn't help but vomit. This vomiting was simply overturning the rivers and seas, dirtying the floor. However, because of this vomiting, Liu Mang felt a little better.
His originally muddled mind was also a lot clearer.
"Milord, are you alright?" Although the old fox's tone was very concerned about Liu Mang, he was 108,000 miles away from Liu Mang. He was afraid that Liu Mang would vomit.
Liu Mang looked at Jia Xu speechlessly. Although Liu Mang was drunk, he could still see clearly that there was no one around. This was why he couldn't help but vomit. Jia Xu's face was filled with disgust. However, Liu Mang could no longer care about this old fox. His head was very dizzy and uncomfortable.
"Ah, my head hurts!" Liu Mang touched his forehead and felt uncomfortable all over. He entered the room and lay down on the bed. Once he closed his eyes, it was difficult to open them again. When Liu Mang woke up again, the sky was already bright.
"Sigh!" Even after sleeping, Liu Mang's head was still very uncomfortable. He shook his head fiercely. He couldn't go on like this. He had been attending banquets for the past few days, and there was no limit to the amount of alcohol he drank. Even the beer at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty couldn't withstand such drinking.
"Someone come, someone come!" Liu Mang's voice spread out. Immediately, someone heard the voice and came in.
"Milord is awake? The Lord has just sobered up, drink some porridge to warm yourself up. "This was Jia Xu's voice. Jia Xu pushed open the door and walked in. He was holding a bowl of porridge in his hand. The old fox's bootlicking skills were not bad.
Liu Mang took the congee and ate it without hesitation. After all, he had vomited everything that night, so there was nothing left in his stomach.
"What time is it?" Liu Mang asked as he drank the porridge. Every day, other than attending banquets, Liu Mang would wake up to read the battle reports from Fan City.
"Milord, the sun has just risen!" Jia Xu replied to Liu Mang.
'Sunrise? Then it's already five in the morning. I woke up quickly this time, only sleeping for a few hours. No wonder my head is still groggy. ' Liu Mang touched his forehead and said to Jia Xu. "Wen He, bring me the battle reports from Fan City!"
Jia Xu took out a stack of letters and said to Liu Mang, "The Lord is here!"
"So many?" Looking at the stack of letters in Jia Xu's hands, Liu Mang was puzzled. He casually took them and realized that they were not from one day, but from two days ago.
"I slept for two days?" Liu Mang was also stunned for a moment. The earliest information was dated two days ago.
"Milord, to be precise, it's been two days and three nights. Ever since you returned that night, you have been sleeping until now," Jia Xu explained to Liu Mang.
"Drinking makes things worse, drinking makes things worse!" Liu Mang shook his head violently. The wine was really a bewitching potion. He did not feel anything when he fell asleep. Even though Liu Mang was skilled in martial arts, he still could not resist the feeling of being drunk.
"How is the battle at the front line?" Liu Mang asked Jia Xu. In these two days, Jia Xu must have helped Liu Mang read through these letters. Liu Mang simply let Jia Xu repeat them.
"Hehe, Milord, oh Milord, this trip to Jingzhou, we have only profited!" Jia Xu said to Liu Mang with a smile.
Seeing Jia Xu's smile, Liu Mang's mood improved. Seeing Jia Xu like this, there must be some good news. "Tell me!"
"This Liu Bei and Liu Xuande are just as Milord expected. General Chen Deng is very careful and only travels a few li a day," Jia Xu explained to Liu Mang.
"General Chen Deng?" Liu Mang did not understand and frowned slightly. "What about Father-in-law?" Liu Mang remembered that his father-in-law had led the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry there. The one who was taking every step should have been Lü Bu. How did it become Chen Deng?
"Milord, Lord Wen Hou left on the second day after arriving at Fan City!" Jia Xu reported to Liu Mang.
Liu Mang shook his head with a bitter smile. "He left with the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry."
Jia Xu nodded in tacit agreement.
"This father-in-law of mine …" Liu Mang was helpless. People said that young people should be more impulsive and impulsive. When they reached middle age, they should learn to restrain themselves. After all, they were already old. However, this saying was useless for Lü Bu. When he was young, he was impulsive and only cared about immediate benefits. That was why he had a bad reputation. Who would have thought that he was still so impulsive in his middle age?
As the commander-in-chief of a large army, he was not in the commander's tent planning strategies. Instead, he led his troops to charge at Xian Zheng.
"Chen Deng, Chen Yuanlong?" Liu Mang nodded in approval of this person. Lü Bu was a little impulsive, but he was still somewhat reliable. This Chen Deng was also a great talent. His talent was not inferior to any of Liu Mang's subordinates. Even the old man Chen Gong was almost embarrassed by Chen Deng and his son.
Liu Mang remembered the first time he met Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong. It was a battle between the two armies. Chen Deng was the attacking side, and Liu Mang could not be considered the defending side. He could only be considered as bait. In the original timeline, this Chen Deng was the person who had defeated Sun Bi Yan.
Chen Deng's expertise was not in military matters. Chen Deng's expertise was in agriculture and irrigation. Tao Qian had once appointed Chen Deng as the Commandant of Agriculture, allowing Guangling to become one of the wealthiest places in Xu Province other than Peng City. Chen Deng was also an expert in irrigation. He used the water from the Yangtze River to build canals and turned the dry land near Guangling into fertile land. Liu Mang originally wanted to borrow Chen Deng from Lü Bu to be the Minister of Agriculture in Yangzhou. Who would have thought that Lü Bu would bring Chen Deng out?
"If Liu Bei had Pang Tong, Pang Shiyuan, he might be evenly matched with Chen Deng. However, Liu Bei only has Jian Yong and Jian Xianhe. This Liu Bei will definitely lose!" Sun Qian did not support Liu Bei's decision to send troops to Fancheng. Naturally, Liu Bei did not bring Sun Qian along. Instead, he let Sun Qian be in charge of Nanyang County.
"General Chen Deng slowly advanced, giving Liu Bei ample time. This time, this Liu Bei is very careful." With the previous loss, Liu Bei would naturally be more cautious. "He sent out 20,000 troops to escort the provisions."
"20,000 troops? Does he not want Yuzhou anymore? " Liu Mang was tempted. Yuzhou had at most 40,000 troops. Last time, the news from the White Horses was that they had defeated a portion of Yuzhou, killing thousands of enemies. This had caused Yuzhou's troops to shrink by a lot. Now that 20,000 troops were sent to escort the provisions, Yuzhou was bound to be empty. Liu Mang already had plans to have Yangzhou send out troops to attack Yuzhou.
"Milord, in the past few months, Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang had trained another 20,000 troops for Liu Bei in Runan. Only then would he have enough troops to mobilize!" Jia Xu's intelligence organization had always been paying close attention to Yuzhou's movements.
"How much provisions did Liu Bei send this time?" Seeing that it was impossible to launch a surprise attack on Yuzhou, Liu Mang did not think too much about it.
"Countless carriages, no less than last time!"
"Haha, my Yangzhou is going to have an extra 200,000 provisions." Liu Mang laughed. Adding the 200,000 provisions from last time, he had a total of 400,000 provisions. Liu Bei took the risk of offending Liu Biao to take down Fancheng's LeShi. He did not expect that he would benefit from it. When the first batch of provisions from Jingzhou was sent to Yangzhou, Liu Mang would no longer be lacking provisions.
"No, no, Milord. Of the 200,000 provisions, we only received less than 50,000!"
"Hmm?"
Jia Xu continued to explain. It turned out that when Yuzhou sent out troops, Yangzhou had been monitoring the Yuzhou Army. When the Yuzhou Army sent out the provisions from Fancheng, the most mobile White Horse Consort began to move. The White Horse Consort were known for their speed. Since the White Horse Consort's troops were too far apart, it gave the White Horse Consort the opportunity to attack them one by one. After the White Horse Consort delayed the enemy, Yangzhou's most elite troops, the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, moved out. Five thousand Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, with the help of two thousand White Horse Consort on the plains, defeated the enemy. Just as they were about to take down the provisions, the Yuzhou Army's main general set the provisions on fire.
In the end, the White Horse Consort and the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry worked together to put out the fire. With great difficulty, they managed to save 50,000 provisions from the 200,000 provisions. In order to put out the fire, they even let the enemy's main general, Guan Ping, escape.
"This Guan Family father and son is really not simple!" Liu Mang sighed with emotion. Guan Yu was like Zhang Liao in Liu Mang's hands. Liu Mang did not expect that a tiger father would not beget a dog son. Although Guan Ping lost, he knew how to ignite the fire. If he could not obtain it, he would not let Yangzhou obtain it.
"So be it! It's better than nothing! "Liu Mang nodded. He wasn't black-hearted anymore.
There was a total of five hundred thousand provisions in Fan City. This number was obtained from Zhang Gui. Liu Bei's two deliveries of provisions amounted to four hundred thousand. Liu Mang receiving two hundred and fifty thousand was a pleasant surprise. One must know that Liu Bei and Liu Xuande were the ones who sent out the troops. Liu Mang was just robbing from the side.
"There's still 100,000 provisions in the city. Let's give them to our Uncle Liu!" Liu Mang had obtained most of the provisions. He didn't care about the 100,000 in the city. Liu Mang's words were in quotation marks. Whether or not he could bring them out would depend on Liu Bei's ability.
"Send a letter to Chen Deng in Fancheng. Fancheng is broken!" After obtaining the benefits, Liu Bei's role as Uncle Liu was over. It was time to return Fancheng to Liu Biao.
"Oh right, don't forget to send a letter to father-in-law. Remind him not to fight recklessly!" Liu Mang was really afraid that his cheap father-in-law would fight Liu Bei to the death. One had to know that the hatred between the two was not small. Liu Mang only wanted to exhaust Liu Bei. Liu Bei still had 15,000 Xiliang Cavalry in his hands. His strength couldn't be underestimated. Even if they fought recklessly, it would be a pyrrhic victory. Exchanging the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry for the Xiliang Cavalry was a losing trade.
If Liu Bei couldn't get the provisions from Fancheng, he would suffer a double loss. A Yuzhou without provisions would be like Yangzhou. Liu Mang didn't even need to fight. Liu Bei would be defeated after stalling for a few months.
"Milord, the White Horse Soldiers are now lacking a deputy general!" Jia Xu said to Liu Mang. Zhao Yun was injured because he was exhausted from the battle. There were not many scars on his body and he was barely able to move. Therefore, after resting for a few days, he led the troops and continued to move forward. The original deputy general of the White Horse, Zhao Yi, was directly led by Zhao Yun all the way to the end. The military was bound to be strict. Zhao Yi had almost caused Zhao Yun to fail on the verge of success. Naturally, he needed to be punished. Now, Zhao Yi was just a small pawn and was thrown to Yangzhou by Zhao Yun. Zhao Yi was sent back to study the art of war.
"Lacking a deputy general?" Liu Mang also frowned. Although he has a lot of generals, all of them have their own positions. Liu Mang also found it difficult to find a general who can reach the level of Deputy General of the White Horse Consort.
"I will deal with this matter!" Liu Mang thought about it and put it aside. The main mission of the White Horse Soldiers had been completed. Next, he just needed to drive Liu Bei away from Fancheng.
Just as Liu Mang and Jia Xu were discussing matters, a guard ran in and knocked on Liu Mang's door. He shouted from outside, "Milord, there is a man outside the mansion requesting an audience!"
"En? Who is it at this time? "Liu Mang and Jia Xu didn't understand. It was still morning. Who would come here so early in the morning?
"What is this person's surname?" Liu Mang asked.
"He didn't say. He only said that Milord will naturally understand when you see him," the guard continued to answer.
"Alright, follow me to take a look," Liu Mang and Jia Xu were almost done discussing and naturally had some free time.
In Jingzhou, Liu Mang was really a virtuous king. He was courteous to the wise. It could be said that the scholars in Jingzhou were full of praises for Liu Mang. First of all, Liu Mang was generous and willing to spend money. Some of the scholars in Jingzhou were from noble families and didn't care about money. However, there were also many people from poor families. Liu Mang's military advisor, Xu Shu, was one such example. After Liu Mang came to Jingzhou, Xu Shu also sent a few letters to Liu Mang. Among them, there was a introduction to the poor students in the Lumen Academy.
Therefore, Liu Mang was always concerned about the well-being of those poor students. He was very generous and generous.
In Jingzhou, as long as someone came to visit Liu Mang, he would be courteous to the wise. Liu Mang couldn't come to Jingzhou without gaining anything. If he didn't take away more talents from Jingzhou, he would be letting down the largest academy in Great Han Dynasty.
In the past month, Liu Mang had already taken away dozens of talents from Jingzhou. In Liu Mang's opinion, this person should be a student from Jingzhou.
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