Everything Cao Cao did was for Liu Bei's good on the surface, helping Liu Bei fight back against Yuan Shu. But in fact, it was to pull hatred for Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's counterattack was likely to hit Yuan Shu's reverse scales, forcing Yuan Shu and Liu Bei to fight hard.

Under the attention of all parties, Zhou Yu's army slowly marched into the hinterland of Runan.

"Gong Jin, who do you think Liu Bei will send this time? Guan Yu or Zhang Fei? Sun Ce drove the horse and asked Zhou Yu excitedly.

"Hehe, no matter who it is, you can't beat it."

Seeing Sun Ce's excited appearance, Zhou Yu couldn't help but complain.

Sun Ce pouted: "I know." Don't worry, I won't be hot-headed this time. ”

Sun Ce really only came this time to see Guan Zhang's strength again, after all, his own strength was too different from them. If you still rush forward stupidly, it can't be considered courage, but stupidity, and it is completely sent to death.

Zhou Yu saw Sun Ce's appearance like this, and relaxed his heart slightly: "I hope it is Zhang Yide who is here this time, Guan Yunchang's ability to single-handedly fight is a bit too scoundrel." Zilong, Youping, what do you think? ”

Zhou Tai looked unfazed: "It doesn't matter, they can't kill me anyway." ”

When Sun Ce heard this answer, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly: "That's it, you have a physique, I'm afraid Lu Bu won't be able to kill you in a short time." ”

Although Zhou Tai's physical cultivation is relatively weak in leading the combat ability, he is quite a scoundrel when he fights alone. It's hard to kill someone, and it's hard to be killed by others.

Don't look at Zhou Tai as just a first-class general, even Sun Ce can fight a draw with him in a short time, but if he really fights, Lu Bu can't kill him in a short time.

This kind of military general is really not good at leading troops to fight, but it is very suitable to be a bodyguard and drag the opponent's general.

Zhao Yun said with a smile: "I think Youping is more suitable to deal with Guan Yunchang." As long as he can block Guan Yunchang's first knife, it will be easy after that. ”

Zhou Tai nodded expressionlessly.

Zhou Yu sighed: "I just hope that I don't meet the two of them at the same time this time." ”

Sun Ce's newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and said indifferently: "Gongjin, don't worry, with Zilong and Youping here, even if Guan Zhang goes together, we can deal with it." ”

Zhou Yu shook his head: "Bo Fu, what you think is too simple. What I'm worried about is not whether I can withstand these two people, but whether I can withstand the army under these two people's command. ”

"Yuzhou's strength is second only to Jizhou, and Guan Zhang now has 30,000 elite soldiers under his command. Although these soldiers have not undergone much training and battle baptism, under the command of Guan Zhang, they are still not something that our 20,000 people can handle. ”

Sun Ce smiled: "Gongjin, you are too worried. The 20,000 troops under our command are all elites who have gone through a lot of battles, and half of them are elite cavalry, even 60,000 troops may not be able to eat us. Not to mention that there is a father who can support us at any time! ”

Zhou Yu was not as big-hearted as Sun Ce, and somehow, he faintly felt that he might really encounter a predicament this time. However, he was not too worried, but a little excited.

He had always led his troops into battle, and he had never encountered a few battles that could really pose a threat to him.

Fighting in Xuzhou for such a long time, relying on the advantages of troops and generals, Zhou Yu was basically beating Chen Deng. After all, the generals of Xuzhou are well-known straw bales, and even Sun Ce is stronger than them.

In this battle of Yuzhou, Zhou Yu really felt a trace of pressure. Zhou Yu vaguely felt that he might encounter a big crisis, but this crisis was likely to become an opportunity for him to break through.

You must know that he studied under Huangfu Song, and now he is not inferior to any general under Yuan Shu's command in terms of command ability, but in his opinion, this is not his limit, just a small bottleneck.

After half a year of practice, Zhou Yu has integrated the things taught by Huang Fu Song, and what he needs now is to make a breakthrough on this basis and form something unique of his own.

It takes too much time and effort to break through this kind of thing, and if you rely on accumulation. The best way is to rely on external pressure to stimulate yourself to break through.

The reason why Lu Bu chose to pick ten so arrogantly before the Tiger Prison Pass was not to seek a breakthrough? Otherwise, who has nothing to do and die idle! Knowing that he can't beat it, he is still looking for abuse.

Lu Bu is the number one military general in the world, in fact, although his qualifications are top-notch, they are not too powerful, which Yuan Shu has actually observed.

Lu Bu's qualifications are almost the same as Sun Cedianwei, even a little worse than them, and even a little worse than Zhao Yun.

But with this kind of talent, which is not too rebellious, Lu Bu can far surpass others and become recognized as the number one military general in the world, relying on firm will and constant fighting.

The environment of the state is too good to hone people. Compared with Liangzhou and Yuzhou, most of the Bingzhou are under the iron hooves of Hulu, and even the Bingzhou Thorn Shi Dingyuan had to settle near Yongzhou.

Located in Wuyuan, the northernmost part of Bingzhou, Lu Bu has lived in this dangerous environment since he was a child. Stepping on the battlefield early, without any mentors and outsiders' help, Lu Bu relied on his firm will and constantly struggled in the sea of corpses and blood.

Every battle is almost always when your own strength is far weaker than the opponent's. In this adversity, Lu Bu survived strongly, and when he adapted to all this, he found that he was already so strong! Leave everyone else far behind.

After that, Lu Bu, who had been leading an army far weaker than Hu Lu all the year round but was able to win a hundred battles, gradually developed a sense of boredom. He lost the sense of crisis that his life had always been hanging by a thread, and his strength began to stagnate.

In the battle of Tiger Prison Pass, Lu Bu regained the feeling of the year, and broke through again and completely reached the top. Now that the overlord is alive, Lu Bu can fight.

Zhou Yu is now like Lu Bu, and he urgently needs a difficult battle to break through himself, which is why Yuan Shu transferred him.

After a little observation, Yuan Shu found that Liu Bei was basically able to barely fight around him, so he sent Zhou Yu over to let him feel the pressure of fighting against the strong and take the opportunity to break through.

As for the loss of the 20,000 army, Yuan Shu really didn't care too much. specially equipped with 10,000 fine horses, just to make it easier for Zhou Yu to run away.

After all, thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one will be hard to find. There are few talents like Zhou Yu who can lead a party in the future and are excellent in all aspects in the late Han Dynasty. Zhou Yu is still one of them.

Yuan Shu had already instructed Zhou Tai that once the situation was not right, he and Zhao Yun must protect Zhou Yu, Sun Ce and Yuan Yao to retreat. As long as these people don't die, no matter how heavy the casualties of the 20,000 army are, Yuan Shu will not feel distressed.

You can't blame Yuan Shu for being ruthless, that's the case. The value of these people is far more than 20,000 troops, and if the destruction of 20,000 troops can be exchanged for a few small growths, Yuan Shu will be very happy.