As soon as he received the message, Wang Xuan could no longer afford to worry about anything else. After resting properly for one night, he led Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, and twenty thousand cavalrymen in a furious pursuit westward.
As for the infantry, no matter how urgently they marched, they could not keep up with the cavalry. Wang Xuan had no choice but to split up his forces. In any case, they had to intercept those two beasts who had completely lost their minds as soon as possible.
It would be better to allow the battle between the armies to cause some losses among the migrating civilians than to let those two continue. This was not a question of whether a certain number of people would be lost. Given the way those two beasts operated, the losses among the migrants would only be even greater.
At this moment, Wang Xuan felt somewhat regretful. When he had refused them back then, he had mainly considered that Liu Xie dying at their hands would become a stain on Liu Bei, who was to inherit the Han legacy. As a result, the trouble had now landed on his own shoulders.
If only he had agreed to let the two surrender back then. Once he had brought them over, Wang Xuan had plenty of little methods to make them die. How could things have turned out like this?
Li Jue and Guo Si were just like many people in the government: they had no ability to make things better, but they absolutely had the ability to make things worse.
As for the reputation they had damaged, that belonged to Liu Bei anyway. It had nothing whatsoever to do with him, Wang Xuan. Seriously, he should never have considered so many things!
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