Yang Rui's aerial reconnaissance unit had been monitoring Liu Bei's whereabouts. Liu Bei did not stay long after entering Xu County. He only stayed for one night before leaving the next morning.
This time, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei split up. Liu Bei led around thirty thousand soldiers toward Sui Ling County while Zhang Fei led around twenty thousand soldiers toward Gaoshan County.
In the next two days, Yang Rui led a portion of his men to deal with Liu Bei and abandon the city. At the same time, he divided the aerial reconnaissance unit into two groups to follow Liu Bei. He was able to figure out Liu Bei and Zhang Fei's intentions.
In two days, Liu Bei passed by Sui Ling County, Xuyi County and Huaiyin County. Liu Bei led all the soldiers in each city and encouraged the NPCs to move toward Guangling.
Zhang Fei, on the other hand, passed by Gaoshan County, Huailing County, Dongcheng County and Huaipu County. He used the same method to gather the soldiers in each city. Very few of them left.
More than a third of the Liegeman in each city listened to Liu Bei's advice and left their homes for Guangling. From this, one could see Liu Bei's friendliness and methods.
On the other hand, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei's forces had increased by a lot, reaching seventy to eighty thousand. They passed through Dongyang County and Tangyi County and entered Guangling Prefecture.
Liu Bei did not stop at Dongyang County and continued toward Guangling. Zhang Fei stopped at Tangyi County and immediately began to work according to Liu Bei's instructions.
Liu Bei and Zhang Fei quickly gave up all the counties in Xiapi County. However, it was not easy for Yang Rui to take over. It would take a lot of effort to organize everything.
Moreover, there were a lot of Liegeman from each county. They were all rushing toward Guangling. At the same time, it would be very difficult for the counties to return to normal.
Under such circumstances, Yang Rui could only symbolically take over the territories abandoned by Liu Bei. In the end, most of his forces were concentrated in Gaoshan County. He did not waste time to organize the cities.
Yang Rui had also thought this through. It was not a bad thing for the various counties to experience the process of going from governance to chaos. When Yang Rui took over governance again, they would be able to experience the difference in governance and the difference in governance from Liu Bei's.
If one had to compare Liu Bei and Yang Rui in terms of ability to govern a territory, Liu Bei was far inferior. Be it in terms of practical experience or new ideas, they were all the same.
Liu Bei's side left Dongyang County......... Han Dai...........
Previously, Han Dai and the other ten thousand people had taken over Lingxian County, Pingan County and several other cities.
Two hours later, Han Dai's troops entered Dongyang County. The city was almost undefended. All of Liu Bei's troops had already been led away. Most of the Liegeman in the city had also been swept away. Only twenty to thirty percent of the total number of Liegeman was left.
Not long after Han Dai's troops took over Dongyang County, she received orders from Yang Rui's flying pets. They were ordered to temporarily station in the city and cancel the original attack plan.
At this time, Xu You and Gan Ning's troops were advancing quickly. They had already reached Gaoyou County and the area near Gaoyou Lake.
However, they also received orders from the flying scouts to stop at Gaoyou County. Gan Ning's navy was also ordered to rush to Hongze Lake, Gaoyou Lake and the Huai River.
This was also the first time that Yang Rui's navy had entered the Huai River and the Changjiang River.
The reason why Yang Rui made such arrangements was because of the information brought back by the flying scouts.
At this moment, Zhang Feitun was stationed in Tangyi County. He was busy widening the moat and building the water network through the city. His intention seemed to be to deal with Yang Rui's long-range attacks and "aerial bombs".
After Liu Bei entered Guangling County, he was also busy with the same thing. He also sent tens of thousands of troops to Hailing County to do the same defensive work.
The southern part of Guangling prefecture had a water system to begin with. Whether it was the expansion of the city moat or the construction of the water network within the city, it was very convenient. Furthermore, Tangyi county, Guangling county and Hailing county were all high and deep cities with good defensive capabilities.
At the same time, the entire Guangling County was flourishing under the management of Chen Gui and Chen Deng. This was also the reason why Liu Bei chose this place as his last stand.
The most important thing was that Guan Yu's army was still in Xiaopei City. Yang Rui left Zhang Liao's 500 elite cavalrymen and Guan Hai's 500 Yellow Scarf Strongmen to surround the city.
Even so, Guan Yu had already attempted to break out of the encirclement twice. As long as Yang Rui did not take down Xiaopei City, which was guarded by Guan Yu, he would be in danger of being attacked from behind.
At this time, there were only two days left before the plot of Yuan Shu becoming the emperor officially started. Yang Rui decided to first concentrate on dealing with the trouble of Guan Yu in Xiaopei City. At the same time, although Yang Rui didn't have much hope, deep in his heart, he still had a trace of enthusiasm to subdue Guan Yu.
For this reason, Yang Rui brought Zhao Yun and the Imperial Patrol Guard back to the vicinity of Little Pei City to deal with the Guan Yu troops in Little Pei City. Mi Fang, who had just submitted, accompanied them.
Gaoshan City was left with Cheng Yu and Imagawa Yoshimoto. However, with enough troops and Liu Bei focusing on defense, it was enough.
Strangely, Liu Bei had sent Mi Fang and Mi Zhen's brother, Mi Zhu, to negotiate with Yang Rui. However, they did not meet on the way. Ever since then, Mi Fang had been paying attention to Mi Zhu, hoping that he would be able to join Yang Rui. However, he was never able to find him.
As Yang Rui approached Xiaopei City, he saw a general standing like a pagoda at the southern gate. He looked down at Yang Rui's forces. Although the city was surrounded, he still had a look of disdain. Who else could it be but Guan Yu?
As expected of a hero! Seeing Guan Yu again, Yang Rui could not help but praise him. However, Yang Rui knew that it would be very difficult to make Guan Yu work for him.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao had tried to persuade Guan Yu to surrender when he attacked Xu Province. However, Guan Yu's benevolence had saved Cao Cao's life in Huarong Dao.
At this time, the game's setting coincided with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. As such, Yang Rui had Zhang Liao stay behind to persuade Guan Yu to surrender. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the process of persuading Guan Yu to surrender was also completed by Zhang Liao.
However, Zhang Liao's experience had not interacted much with Guan Yu's and they were not good friends. It was hard to say what would happen if he tried to persuade Guan Yu to surrender.
Of course, Zhang Liao had already been exchanged into the real world by Yang Rui. Zhang Liao's horizons had increased and he might be able to persuade Guan Yu to surrender.
However, when Yang Rui returned to Little Pei and came to Zhang Liao, who was facing Guan Yu from afar, Zhang Liao shook his head at Yang Rui. It seemed that persuasion had failed.
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