When Liu Zheng led his nine thousand soldiers and horses to appear under the city of Shucheng, Yuan Shu hurriedly ran to the battlements to observe.

Poking his head out from afar, Yuan Shu had already seen Liu Zheng in front of the team, Liu Zheng's identity was still very recognizable among the soldiers and horses, wearing a suit of armor and a red cloak, waving in the wind.

After seeing Liu Zheng appear here, Yuan Shu was startled at first, and then pondered in his heart.

"Liu Zheng, don't you hide in your Jiaozhou, but dare to appear in Yangzhou, aren't you afraid that Liu Jian will raise the troops of the whole state to besiege you?"

Yuan Shu stood on the city tower, and after seeing Liu Zheng from afar, he shouted loudly.

Liu Zheng had already sent someone to find out the information, and knew that Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses were in Shucheng at this time, so as soon as he arrived in Shucheng, he immediately let his people surround one of the gates of the entire Shucheng.

He did not block all the four gates of Shucheng, but only surrounded one gate, and immediately built a tower, and then climbed the tower to meet Yuan Shu in the city.

"Yuan Shu?"

Liu Zheng has never met Yuan Shu, and this time for Yuan Shu, it can be regarded as the first time they have met.

However, in Liu Zheng's heart, Yuan Shu has always been a person who can't be put on the table, after all, the eldest son of the Yuan family is even worse than Yuan Shao's concubine, and occupies a huge Yangzhou, but he wants to be the emperor and ruin the good situation in vain.

If he doesn't want to be the emperor himself, or if he temporarily retracts his thoughts of being the emperor and firmly controls the territory of Yangzhou, the worst is the level of Wu in the future.

It's a pity that Yuan Shu is a mouse-eyed man, and there is no strategy at all.

"Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu, you are really useless compared to your brother Yuan Benchu."

Liu Zheng stood up and looked at Yuan Shu on the city tower, Yuan Shu was a little younger than Yuan Shao, but now he was over thirty years old, and he looked a little old.

Originally, Yuan Shu didn't have the heart to chat with Liu Zheng, but Liu Zheng came up to expose his shortcomings, Yuan Shu's life, the last thing he wanted was to compare with Yuan Shao, because he really couldn't compare with Yuan Shao, but he Yuan Shu was still the eldest son of the Yuan family, and the elders in the family often compared him with Yuan Shao.

From small to large, Yuan Shu has always been inferior to Yuan Shao, and he has a long-standing grudge against Yuan Shao in his heart, and now it is because he has taken a different path with Yuan Shao, so that Yuan Shu has the heart to surpass Yuan Shao.

But Liu Zheng said that he was not as good as Yuan Shao, which made Yuan Shu itch when he heard this.

"Liu Zheng, hmph, what do you mean by sending people to kill more than 10,000 of my soldiers and horses for no reason?"

Yuan Shu didn't want to talk to Liu Zheng about whether he was stronger or weaker than Yuan Shao, but changed his words and directly talked about Liu Zheng's destruction of Ji Ling's 10,000 soldiers and horses.

"Speaking of which, I haven't settled accounts with you yet, Yuan Shu, these words should be just for me to ask you, you sent Ji Ling to attack me for no reason, but I was defeated not to mention, you are actually embarrassed to ask me, why did you kill your people?"

"You're really a wicked person who sues first and bites back."

Yuan Shu was so excited by Liu Zheng that he was speechless for a while.

"Hmph, you and the two boys of the Lu family are mixed together, aren't you just coming to Lujiang, since you took the initiative to come to me, then I will block your advance, what's the problem."

Because Zhang Xun sent someone to investigate, Yuan Shu had roughly understood what Liu Zheng had done here.

"Since you all know, then what else do I have to say, I have already killed everyone, and your general Ji Ling has also been imprisoned by me, how about it? What do you want to do, come out and fight me? ”

Liu Zheng was not in a hurry, he came here, although he led the nine thousand soldiers and horses, but he wanted to use these nine thousand soldiers and horses to build a county seat, although it was only a small county town, it was not so easy.

If Liu Zheng is in a hurry to attack the city, it will not be of much benefit to him, not to mention the loss of troops, and he may not be able to defeat the county town garrisoned by Yuan Shu's elite soldiers.

So Liu Zheng decided to talk to Yuan Shu here first to see if there was a way to persuade Yuan Shu to retire.

Being able to solve the problem in front of him without using a knife soldier is naturally good for Liu Zheng.

"Hit? Are you a fool to me, your soldiers and horses are so powerful, I go out of the city to fight you, it's not a dead end, only by occupying this Shu city and resisting can I compete with you, why do you think I will go out of the city to fight you? ”

"Since you don't fight, then why do you say I'm here?"

Liu Zheng asked rhetorically and looked at Yuan Shu with a smile.

"Okay, Yuan Highway (Yuan Shu table), let's talk about something practical, I came here because I was entrusted by Lu Kang Taishou to help him take back this Lujiang County."

Liu Zheng went straight to the point and told his intentions.

But Yuan Shu snorted coldly.

"Hmph, is that all you have to do? Although my soldiers and horses are not as strong as yours, they are far superior to you in numbers, and I don't believe that you can fight me with this little manpower! Even if I can't beat you in a head-to-head battle, I still have a lot of confidence in defending the city. ”

Yuan Shu maintained a sense of hatred towards Liu Zheng in his heart at this time because Liu Zheng defeated Ji Ling, and no matter what Liu Zheng said, he was reluctant to answer.

"Oh, yes, so confident, but I haven't thought of the idea of fighting you directly for the time being, I'm here, in fact, I want to persuade you to quit."

"Persuade me to quit?"

Yuan Shu was a little interested by Liu Zheng's words, and stared at Liu Zheng with a frown.

"Well, I advise you to quit the army."

"Joke, most of this Lujiang County has been taken by me, you tell me to withdraw now, how can I explain to my brothers when I go back."

"If I were you, I'd gladly quit."

"After all, with your current strength, it is very difficult to eat this Lujiang, and if you continue to stay, you will only lose your troops and increase casualties."

"So what, do you think that Lu Kang, that old thing, can you sit back and relax if I ask you to help, your men and horses are far away in Jiaozhou, and it is impossible to enter Lujiang in a big way, as long as I delay a little time and continue to mobilize troops and horses from Runan, your little men and horses will not be slowly wiped out by me."

Although Yuan Shu is not smart, but at least he is not stupid, he knows that he will stick to the city and slowly consume with Liu Zheng, as long as Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses are consumed, and Liu Zheng has no new manpower to replenish, presumably, it will be difficult to fight with him here for a long time.

"That's true, but how do you know that I can't besiege your Shucheng and besiege the city to send reinforcements?"