Of course, no matter how Liu Bogen was defeated, the outcome has been decided. For Liu Yu, how to deal with the next situation is the most important thing.

Liu Bogen failed in this battle. I don’t know how many of the 60,000 troops could have escaped. Moreover, most of Linzi City had been lost. Even if the Donglai Army who had escaped with their lives regrouped, it would be difficult to capture Linzi City again, and east of Linzi

Qingzhou will also be defeated because of Liu Bogen, and those wealthy and powerful families who were just like grasshoppers will beat the dogs in the water, and one by one they will jump out like a pack of wolves and ruthlessly tear the remaining Donglai army into pieces.

The more contact he had with those powerful Qingzhou families, the more Liu Yu became certain of this judgment.

And there is another question. As the second-ranking figure in the Donglai Army, Wang Mi led some of his followers to escape. Where did he go? What is his current strength? These are also very important to Liu Yu. After all, if Wang Mi

If Mi is still stronger than Liu Yu after escaping, Liu Yu will not only have to guard against powerful local families coming to cause trouble, but also prevent Wang Mi from looking for opportunities to annex his own power.

Liu Yu was on the only way to go east from Linzi. If the escaped Donglai Army Commander Shi Wangmi fled eastward, he would definitely encounter him. However, Liu Yu and the others did not find any traces of Wang Mi and his party.

According to his whereabouts, Wang Mi must have fled southward from Linzi.

Gongsun Sheng judged that Wang Mi must not be strong now and did not dare to cross most of Qingzhou to flee eastward. He probably felt that he was not strong enough to deal with the powerful people along the way or Liu Yu, who had a suspicion with each other. He probably led the remnants of his troops to flee into Mount Tai.

, in the mountains around Lushan, there are many mountains and there are many grass bandits occupying the mountains. Wang Mi's methods should be enough to lick the wounds there.

After basically ruling out the possibility of Wang Mi annexing himself, the next step is a matter of life and death.

Some people suggested that they should just turn around and head east, returning to Donglai County. However, the problem of lack of food supplies for Liu Yu's troops will still not be solved. Moreover, after returning to Donglai County in despair, he may still be in trouble because of his prestige.

No longer, he is also surrounded by powerful people.

Someone else suggested that it would be good to simply leave Qingzhou and, like Wang Mi, go south to Xuzhou or Yanzhou to find a place to hide temporarily and become a free and happy green forest king. However, this suggestion was quickly rejected.

Because most of Liu Yu's troops are soldiers with family backgrounds. If they bring tens of thousands of people with their families, their movements will be very slow. Moreover, it may not be easy to find a suitable place to be a mountain king that can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Even if he found it, he would probably starve to death faster in the mountains in a place like that.

After rejecting several seemingly reliable or unreliable proposals, Liu Yu discussed with his confidants and felt that there were only two ways to find sufficient food supplies.

The first is to capture Linzi City, where there are reserves that can support tens of thousands of troops for two or three years, but the powerful Youzhou soldiers need to be defeated.

The second method is to collect grain from Qingzhou's powerful people and ordinary people with household registration. Of course, they are basically powerful people. After all, many ordinary people with household registration are now so poor that they have become refugees or bandits, and there is not much money to be squeezed out.

If you want to collect food, you need to let the powerful people know that Liu Yu and the others have the strength to make those who dare to disobey pay. Otherwise, if there is no strong deterrent, then Liu Yu will need to lead his men to attack these powerful people one by one.

Compared to this, it is half the result with twice the effort.

Now that the Donglai Army led by Liu Bogen has suffered a new defeat, the prestige established by the Donglai Army in the past few months has been swept away by the Youzhou soldiers. If Liu Yu still wants to take advantage of this opportunity to establish control over the Qingzhou family, he must re-establish it.

Get a new reputation.

So Liu Yu told his confidants present that based on the questioning of the Donglai Army soldiers who finally escaped back, the Donglai Army soldiers in Pingcheng, Dong'an were afraid of the Youzhou soldiers crossing the river to pursue them, so they burned the two pontoon bridges on the Zi River. He judged that

After Youzhou soldiers entered Linzi, most of them had no time to look eastward.

He decided to march forward to Dong'anping, plunder and collect food and baggage near Dong'anping, and even rely on the obstruction of the Zi River to attack the Youzhou soldiers who were trying to cross the river, thereby establishing a reputation, and then march eastward.

, you can blackmail the powerful people along the way.

After hearing Liu Yu's decision, everyone present was a little worried. After all, Liu Bogen's 60,000 soldiers were defeated by Youzhou soldiers. Now we only have a total of only 3,000 soldiers. How dare we touch the tiger's butt.

In fact, what Liu Yu really thought was that in history, after General Wang Hu of Ningbei in Youzhou defeated and beheaded Liu Bergen, he did not station himself in Qingzhou, but quickly retreated, leaving the territory of Qingzhou that he could clearly swallow.

Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, was definitely not because Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, was loyal to the country and taking care of the overall situation. It must have been some kind of change in the rear that forced Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, to recall Ningbei general Wang Huan who had just captured Linzi, Qingzhou.

Department.

Based on this speculation, Liu Yu felt that he would approach cautiously, and when the Youzhou soldiers retreated, he would follow behind and wave the flag and make some noise. Maybe he could get some benefits. As for the dangers, there are always dangers, but as long as he is a good outpost

For reconnaissance, the Dongnae Army, which has the advantage of being familiar with the terrain, should be able to escape the danger in time.

But Liu Yu certainly couldn't make this idea known to the public.

He used another set of words, saying that the Donglai soldiers who escaped from the battlefield ran for dozens of miles without finding the Youzhou soldiers chasing behind them. Most of the Youzhou soldiers had already started to plunder the treasury in Linzi City.

After the pontoon bridge on the Shuihe River was burned down, they should not even bother to pursue these frightened troops.

Therefore, you can send sentries to check tomorrow. If the Youzhou soldiers are not found on the east bank of Zishui River, then go to Dong'anping as planned.

Although everyone was a little afraid of the Youzhou soldiers who had just defeated Liu Bogen, in this dilapidated situation, if they didn't take risks, they might all be begging for food or going to become bandits in the poor mountains and ravines within a few days.

Finally, under Liu Yu's final persuasion that he would not catch the tiger's cubs if he did not enter the tiger's den, everyone agreed to continue taking the risk. After all, they all knew that there was a large amount of food and baggage stored in Pingcheng, Dong'an.
Chapter completed!