"It's Tancheng in Donghai County ahead, right?" Tian Kai pointed to the front and turned his head to look at Cao Baodao.

"Yes, sir!" Cao Bao looked into the distance, only to see corpses all over the outside of the city, and no one was seen on the city, at this time he said to himself: "How can it be so miserable, the people in the city will not all die!" ”

At this time, he looked at Tian Kai and Liu Bei with a panicked expression, and then rode his horse to Tancheng alone, he wanted to see if Tancheng was really captured and slaughtered.

"What are you running, really!" Tian Kai waved his hand at the army behind him and shouted loudly: "The army is looking for an open place to camp in, five hundred soldiers come with me, Xuande, you can also go and have a look!" ”

"Yes, Lord Tian!" Liu Bei followed Tian Kai after finishing, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei saw Liu Bei running away, and the two followed.

"Oops, this corpse stinks so bad!" Tian Kai ran all the way, and the horses trampled on the corpse, which made Tian Kai nauseous.

"Cao Bao, what's going on inside?" Liu Bei shouted at Cao Bao from afar.

Cao Bao turned around and saw Tian Kai and his party rushing over, and said: "The corpses here have all decomposed, it is estimated that it has been fighting for a long time, why is there no movement in the city!" ”

"Fuck, you're shouting!" Zhang Fei said to Cao Bao.

Looking at Zhang Fei's arrogance, Cao Bao was really unhappy, but he was surrounded by other people, and he still had to ask others, so he had to suppress the anger in his heart, at this time he looked at the city wall and shouted: "Is there anyone?" I'm Cao Bao, anyone? ”

After a while, suddenly from the city wall one after another, it was obvious that these were all soldiers on the city wall, they saw that the person coming down from the city turned out to be General Cao Bao, and immediately stood up excitedly and shouted: "It's General Cao here, it's General Cao!" ”

With this shout, there were more people on the city wall, and at this time, the people above shouted: "General Cao, whose army is behind you?" ”

"This is the soldiers and horses I borrowed from Lord Kaitian of Qingzhou Thorn Shi Tian, and Lord Liu Bei, the Prime Minister of the Plains State, to resist Cao Cao, a total of 10,000 soldiers and horses, is Lord Zhou Mu here?"

"Lord Governor is coming soon, someone has already gone to inform you! Please wait a minute, without the order of the state pastor, we are not in charge! ”

"Hmm~ We haven't traveled thousands of miles to get here, and people still don't trust us!" Tian Kai frowned, obviously he was very dissatisfied with Xuzhou's way of welcoming guests.

"Prevent us like a thief!" Zhang Fei glanced at Cao Bao at this time, and said coldly.

Cao Bao felt uncomfortable with the words around him, so he could only say nothing embarrassed at this time.

"The soldiers and civilians of Xuzhou have just fought a battle with Cao Cao, in the face of Cao Cao's tiger and wolf army, the people of Xuzhou have survived with their unyielding will, which is enough to see their strength, and now they are also apprehensive about Cao Jun, let's understand each other!" Liu Bei mediated in the middle.

"Thank you Lord Liu for your understanding!" Cao Bao said gratefully.

Liu Bei looked at Cao Bao and nodded politely.

Suddenly, an elderly man came out of the city wall, and this person, accompanied by two middle-aged men, climbed the city wall and carefully gazed at the people below the city.

"My lord, I'm Cao Bao, I'm back!" As soon as Cao Bao saw Tao Qian, he immediately dismounted and knelt down on one knee.

"Gongzu, I'm Qingzhou Thorn Shi Tian Kai, I heard that you were attacked by Cao Mengde, so I will lead the army to help you!"

"It's General Tian Kai, thank you so much, thank you!" Tao Qian said.

At this time, Liu Bei also dismounted, and said to Tao Qian: "Lord Tao, Liu Bei, the minister of the Lower Plains, the word Xuande, heard that Cao Thief raised an unrighteous army, and he led a thousand soldiers and horses to help!" ”

"Lord Liu is tired!"

Hearing Liu Bei's name, the eyes of a middle-aged man beside Tao Qian suddenly lit up, and he whispered in Tao Qian's ear, and then Tao Qian ordered to open the door to welcome guests.

"His grandmother's, only now will she open the door!" Tian Kai said in a low voice, and then shouted to the army behind him: "Follow me into the city!" ”

Liu Bei also got on his horse at this time, followed Tian Kai, and walked into Tancheng.

"Lord Tian, Lord Liu, thank you very much this time!" Tao Qian got down the city wall and stood at the doorway.

Seeing Tao Qian waiting here, Tian Kai and the others all got off the horse, approached Tao Qian while arching their hands, and said, "Hey, they are all allies, what's the hard work!" ”

"Let me introduce to you, this is Don't drive to engage in Mizhu, this is Chen Deng, the captain of Xuzhou's Diannong School, they are all local people in Xuzhou, and they are also my right-hand man!"

Mi Zhu and Chen Deng listened to Tao Qian's words, smiled awkwardly, and then bowed their hands to Tian Kai and Liu Bei.

After the greetings, Tian Kai and Tao Qian walked to the front, and Liu Bei and Mi Zhu and others walked behind.

"Are you Liu Xuande from Zhuo County?" At this time, Mi Zhu asked on the side.

"It's down there!" Liu Bei nodded politely and said with a smile.

"I'm Mi Zhu of the East China Sea, Zi Zhong, I'm glad to meet you on such an occasion!" Mi Zhu also said with a smile.

"Dare to ask, where is Cao Cao now, I see corpses all over the outside of the city, it can be seen that I have experienced a vicious battle before!" Liu Bei saw that there was straw mixed with the ends of his hair, so he gently removed it.

Mi Zhu smiled and nodded, expressed his gratitude, and then said: "Yes, Cao Cao is now fighting in Pengcheng, and he originally tried to capture Tancheng, but the army and people in Tancheng are determined to become a city, and no one in the whole group will admit defeat, so he barely blocked the attack of Cao thief, Cao Cao retreated in spite of the difficulty, and turned west to attack Pengcheng!" ”

"I see!"

"Where Cao Cao passed, he beheaded all the people, first attacked the city, and then slaughtered the city, Cao's army had no humanity at all, he indulged the soldiers in the city to rape, rob, arson, smash, all evil!" He shook his head.

"Cao thief who violates the Tao will be punished!" Liu Bei sighed heavily at this time and said: "Sir, don't worry, Liu Bei is here today, and he will do his best to protect the people of Xuzhou, and he will definitely drive the Cao thief out of Xuzhou!" ”

"I'm tired, Lord Liu!"

"Let's call me Xuande!" At this time, Liu Bei and Mi Zhu looked at each other and smiled.

"Xuande, where is your big army?" Chen Deng next to him saw Liu Bei and Mi Zhu talking happily, and he also said at this time.

"Oh, that's right, just now when we were about to get to Tancheng, Lord Tian had already asked the army to find an open place to station!"

"I see, I heard that you brought a total of 10,000 soldiers and horses?" Chen Deng asked.

"Exactly!"

"Oh, this is difficult, Cao Cao has an army of 50,000 in his hands!" Chen Deng said in embarrassment: "I'm afraid that the 10,000 army is still difficult to repel Cao Cao!" ”

"The soldiers are not more than fine, will not be brave in the plan, Cao Cao's unrighteous soldiers, is a move without a way, Taozhou Mu is an official appointed by the imperial court, in order to resist Cao thieves, protect the territory and the people, it is a way to do it, to have a way to cut down no way, we will win!" Liu Bei said firmly at this time.

"Yes, although Yuanlong can rest assured, and don't look at the pair of black-faced and red-faced generals behind Xuande, I look at them, they are all ten thousand blades!" At this time, he looked back at Guan Yu and Zhang Fei from time to time.

"Zizhong, it's over!" Liu Bei smiled embarrassedly.

Everyone walked into the living room, Tao Qian and Tian Kai sat side by side, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Mi Zhu, Chen Deng, Cao Bao and others sat on both sides.

"This time, Cao Thief attacked me in Xuzhou, and I am here to thank Lord Tian and Lord Liu for taking action, so that I have more confidence to confront Cao Thief!" After the greetings, Tao Qian continued: "In order to show sincerity, Lord Liu, I will let Cao Bao lead four thousand Danyang soldiers from today onwards, and they will be under your command!" ”

"This ......" Liu Bei looked at Cao Bao, only to see Cao Bao stand up and say, "Yes, Cao Bao is ordered!" ”

"Then there will be work!" Liu Bei got up and arched his hand at Tao Qian.

"This is what I should do, Lord Liu doesn't need to be polite!" Tao Qian waved his hand and motioned for Liu Bei to sit down.

"Master Tao still call me Xuande, you are older than me, you are also my elder, and your official position is higher than mine, you are my chief, you always call me Lord Liu Darao, I am embarrassed!" Liu Bei said awkwardly.

"Haha......"

As soon as Liu Bei finished speaking, everyone present laughed.

"Okay, Brother Xuande, let's call each other brothers in the future, I used to be on an errand with your senior brother Gongsun Zhan under the old general Zhang Huan, you and he are brothers, and we should be brothers!"

"Thanks to the love of my lord, Xuande deserves it!" Liu Bei stood up again and said.

"Hey~ There is no need to be polite between you and me, Brother Xuande, sit down!"

"That, Master Tao, it's better to be like this, anyway, we don't have anything to do here, or Xuande and I will go out and deploy, in case that Cao Cao suddenly comes, don't fight before the battle, the soldiers are all gone!" At this time, Tian Kai said.

"Ah, since this is the case, then there is labor, all the expenses of your army, military rations, equipment and equipment are all contracted by Xuzhou, everyone, please!" Tao Qian stood up and bowed down to thank everyone present.

"Please rest assured, Lord Tao, we will do our best to defend Xuzhou to the death!"

At this time, everyone walked out of the living room one after another.

"Xuande, please wait!" Liu Bei turned around and saw that it was Mi Zhu.

"Zizhong, is there something wrong?"

Mi Zhu whispered in a low voice: "Xuande, it's rare to come to Xuzhou, I want to introduce to you the situation in Xuzhou and Cao Cao's military situation, can you get together in the cold house, of course, it won't waste too much of your time!" ”

"Since it's a military situation, naturally I can't waste time, and I should go, so good!" Liu Bei said with a smile.

"Lord Liu, I'm going to count the soldiers and horses now, where are the four thousand soldiers and horses placed first, or how about you and I go together?" At this time, Cao Bao ran over and said.

As soon as Mi Zhu saw Cao Bao, his face changed instantly, Cao Bao glanced at Mi Zhu, and didn't pay attention to it, looking at Liu Bei at this time, waiting for Liu Bei's reply.

Of course, the slight changes in Liangrao's face did not escape Liu Bei's eyes.

"In this way, you go to the barracks to count the soldiers and horses first, I will let Yun Chang go with you, after the soldiers and horses are counted, they will go out of the city with Yun Chang, and wait for me outside the city, I have some things here, and I will go over soon!" Liu Bei deliberately asked Yun Chang to go with him, but he was worried that Zhang Fei would go for fear of bad things.

"Yes!" Cao Bao went with Guan Yu.

Mi Zhu looked at Cao Bao's departing back, and didn't notice that Liu Bei was paying attention to his expression at this time.

"Zizhong, let's go!" Liu Bei deliberately turned his head elsewhere, and then turned back.

"Oh, yes, Xuande, please!"