Sun Gan came to the main hall wearing a robe, and after seeing Liu Bei, he didn't have time to breathe, and said: "My subordinates came back from Xudu this time, and brought a good news to the lord, two bad news!"

"En?" Liu Bei looked at Sun Qian inexplicably, and said without thinking, "Let's talk about the good news first!"

Sun Qian blurted out: "Duke Cao sent the general Xiahou Dun to come to assist the lord in defending the city, and now he has gone outside the city, and he is a horn with our army in the city!"

Mi Zhu next to him stretched his brows, showed a hint of joy on his face, and turned to Liu Bei and said: "Xiahoudun is Cao Cao's trusted general, and having him come shows that Cao Cao attaches great importance to the lord, but I don't know how many people Xiahoudun brought here!"

"This is exactly one of the two bad news that his subordinates want to tell his lord!" Sun Qian said quietly, "Xiahoudun only brought three thousand men and horses, and there is no deputy general!"

"Expected! Presumably, these 3,000 men and horses are all old and weak soldiers, right? Otherwise, how could it take so long to arrive!" Liu Bei seemed to have expected this, and then asked Sun Qian, "What is the second bad news that Gongyou said?"

Sun Qian hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Princess Wannian led 50,000 horses and horses, and came from Yangzhou to Xuzhou in three ways, with the goal of aiding Lu Bu!"

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After Liu Bei listened to Sun Gan's words, his brows furrowed again: "Even the princess regards me as an enemy?

Mi Zhu understood what Liu Bei was worried about, and stepped forward and said: "Lord, until the last moment, we must not give up!"

Liu Bei nodded: "This is extremely true, it is better to ask for others than for yourself, and now I can only hope that Yun Chang and Yide will return as soon as possible!"

Mi Zhu asked Sun Qian: "Can you tell me what is going on with Cao Cao?"

Sun Qian said in a deep voice: "I don't know the specifics, it seems that Cao Cao found out that there are fine works in his camp, and judging from Xu Du's rumors, there are not just one or two of them, but there are many of them, not only from unknown backgrounds, but from the world's most famous people!" He was afraid that once he led his army to attack Lu Bu, he would repeat the mistake of Yanzhou lost a few years ago, so although he nominally supported the lord, in fact, before he purged these meticulous works, I don't think he would take any action, even if Xiahoudun, the three thousand old and weak remnants, did not have to expect to play a big role! The lord is right, it is better to ask for others than for yourself!"

Liu Bei smiled bitterly and instructed Sun Gan: "Even so, we should not know all this, Gongyou, you go to the Xiahou Dun military camp again, and ask him to send troops to attack Zhang Liao Gaoshun's people, and I will lead the army out of the city to plunder for him!"

"No!"

Zhang Liao and Gao Shun were riding war horses around Xiaopei City to check the city wall fortifications, a few days ago the storm really caught them off guard, but after all, the two of them are people who have been in battle for a long time, and soon retreated to find a high place to camp, and reduced the loss to a minimum.

"Wen Yuan, what the hell does this Cao Cao think, is he already arrogant enough to think that three thousand weak soldiers can defeat our battle-hardened camp and cavalry?" Gao Shun looked at the gloomy sky in the distance, looked at Zhang Liao's back and smiled.

"Obviously, Cao Cao didn't want to save Liu Bei, and sending Xiahou Dun here was just pretending!" Zhang Liao held the horsewhip in his hand, whipped the mount under him from time to time, and turned to look at Gao Shun, "In other words, he didn't think about helping Liu Bei keep Xiao Pei at all!"

"It's really pitiful to think about Liu Bei!" Gao Shun hadn't had a good rest for a few days, and couldn't help but yawn, "It's a pity, his two 10,000-strong enemies, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, are not there, I was trying my best to compete with them!

"Haha, don't have this thought, not to mention how Liu Bei is, this Xiahoudun alone can't be underestimated, have you forgotten? This guy turned Liu Biao's tens of thousands of troops upside down with only a few hundred people, if he hadn't stumbled into it by mistake, Cao Cao would have been killed by Zhang Xiu a long time ago, and we are still here with a headache to think about how to defeat Xiao Pei?" Zhang Liao sneered, and there always seemed to be a cold aura on his face like dead ashes.

The herald around him came to report: "Two generals, one person went out of Xiaopei City just now, it was Liu Bei's guest Sun Qian, and Pegasus went to Xiahoudun's camp in the northwest direction!"

"Got it!" Zhang Liao waved his hand to let the herald step back, bowed his head and thought for a while, and then asked Gao Shun, who was silent, "Don't you want to do something?"

"Those who know me, Wen Yuanye!" Gao Shun smiled slightly, reined in the horse's head, and said mysteriously, "Sun Gan will definitely invite Xiahoudun to lead the army to attack us, and Liu Bei will also inevitably lead the army out of the city to meet the battle, it is better for our troops to divide into two ways, I will lead an army to test the reality of Xiahoudun, and the big camp will be vacated to release the news to let them be tricked, and you will lead the army to try to attack Xiaopei!"

Zhang Liao smiled and nodded, and rode away.

At this time, Xiahoudun was in the camp, commanding the soldiers to step up the fortifications, because of the urgency, many soldiers were tired, they collapsed on the ground and kept complaining: "General Xiahou, how can the enemy army come in such bad weather? We have been running for many days, and we are already so tired that our feet are weak, and we can't even rest, is it a bit too trivial?"

Xiahoudun squatted down, looked around at these soldiers and said with a smile: "What do you know, if the enemy wants to fight us, but we can guess, is it still called a battle? It is precisely because we can't think of it that we will lose, what is a war? It is to die, you can not do these fortifications, but who can guarantee that you will be able to win a hundred battles?"

The soldiers looked ashamed one by one: "General Xiahou, we were wrong!"

Han Hao came over with a water bag, handed it to Xiahoudun, and said with a smile: "What are the generals doing here? They are all new soldiers, and it is normal for them not to understand the rules!"

Xiahoudun took the water bag and drank a few sips and returned it to Han Hao, frowning and sighing: "Yuan Hei, I don't know what Meng De thinks, and he doesn't know the importance of Xiao Pei, but he gave me this newly recruited soldiers and horses, not to mention the delay for a long time, there are only three thousand, how to fight against the elite trap camp and the cavalry under Lu Bu's camp?"

Han Hao didn't think so, he raised his head and drank the water in the water bag, and said: "What kind of martial and brave person the general is, how can he be stumped by just Zhang Liao's high shuns? Didn't the lord say it very clearly when he came? Defend as the top, fight as the bottom, and peace as the middle, no matter how many other people and horses there are, how can they not take into account Liu Bei's harassment in the city? Tanma reported that Lu Bu's men and horses this time were only 5,000 people, and it was not very ridiculous that such a small team still wanted to fight one against two?"

"Having said that, why do I still feel faintly uneasy?" Xia Houdun stood up, looking at the dim sun in the clouds, and his mood became a little fluctuating.

He looked into the distance, just wanted to come by himself, and after getting closer, he looked at Sun Qian, who turned out to be Liu Bei's guest, and Xiahoudun said to Han Hao: "This guy is here again, it must be Liu Bei who came to invite me to fight!"

Han Hao looked at Xiahou and said, "What are the general's plans?"

"When I first came here, my foothold was unstable, and I couldn't fight for the time being! But if I said that, Liu Bei would definitely laugh at me!" Xiahoudun looked around the barracks at the antler formations that had not yet been formed, and explained to Han Hao, "Tell this guy that I am bedridden with a stroke and cold, and I will not be better without ten days and a half months!"

Saying that, Xiahou Deng went to the camp, leaving only Han Hao, who was stunned, with a wry smile and looked at Sun Gan, who was waiting to be seen outside the camp gate, and said with infinite emotion: "Is this really possible?"

"What? General Xiahoudun was hit by a cold! Yan is not serious, when did this happen? Wasn't it okay when I left?" After listening to Han Hao's words, Sun Gan's face was full of disappointment, and what he wanted to say was choked in his throat.

Han Hao said in embarrassment: "The general originally wanted to send troops to attack the enemy army immediately, but for some reason, he vomited and discharged, had a headache and brain fever, and the military doctors in the entire military camp had seen it all and there was no way, we were all worried, if the enemy army learned the news and attacked, how could we get it, and I hope that Lord Liu Bei will support it for a few days first, and when the general recovers, he will definitely go to support!"

Sun Gan, a dumb man, is really uncomfortable, but he has to greet him with a smile: "Since this is the case, there is no way, I just hope that General Xiahou will recover as soon as possible, then I will go back to see the lord and ask him to hold on for a few more days!"

"There is Mr. Lao!" Han Hao didn't mean to let Sun Qian enter the big tent, and directly sent him out of the gate.

Sun Gan got on the horse, looked at the strict arrangement method in Xiahoudun's camp, and exclaimed: "General Xiahou is really not simple, he is sick, and his subordinates can also arrange the military camp so well, it seems that Xiaopei is expected to be successful!"

"Hehe, hehe!" Listening to Sun Gan's thorny mockery, Han Hao felt very uncomfortable.

When he came to the big tent, he saw that Xiahoudun had already taken off his armor, only wearing a plain clothes, and his head was wrapped in a scarf and was lying in the tent and moaning, but he only saw Han Hao entering the tent alone, and he looked outside and wondered: "What, didn't Sun Qian follow?"

"No, it's gone!" replied Han Hao.

Xiahoudun ripped off the scarf: "He didn't suspect anything?"

"What can you suspect? Do you want to run directly into the big tent and point to the general and say don't pretend to be sick?" Han Hao looked at Xiahoudun speechlessly and complained, "I swear this is the first time in my life to lie, and it is also the last time, this feeling is really uncomfortable!"