Chen Xi looked at Tao Qian's gray hair and the figure that greeted Liu Bei with a cane, and sighed silently, the years are really unforgiving.

"I've seen Tao Gong." Liu Bei took Chen Xi and his party to salute Tao Qian.

"Xuande is reasonable." Tao Qian leaned over and held a cane and saluted Liu Bei, just like the Tiger Prison back then.

Although he is like a wind and a candle in his last years, he still retains the blood of a general, and probably the killing during this period of time made Tao Qian feel the atmosphere of the fight at the same time.

"Tao Gong." Liu Bei stretched out his hand to help Tao Qian, and he obviously felt that Tao Qian's time was running out.

"Hahaha, it doesn't have to be this way." Tao Qian laughed, but he clearly felt a kind of heroic sadness, "Come with me, these two behind you, Chen Zichuan I recognize, this one should be Jia Wenhe who designed Cao Mengde." ”

"Wen He has seen Tao Gong." Jia Xu bowed calmly.

"Xuande asked the Danyang soldiers to follow your troops to be stationed outside the city, and you can bring the Wenchen generals with me." Tao Qian nodded at Jia Xu, and then said to Liu Bei, this is already clearly handing over the military power to Liu Bei.

"Tao Gong should take a look at the illness first." Liu Bei stretched out his hand to support Tao Qian, and then gave Hua Tuo a look.

"No need, I know my body, it's not an exaggeration to say that I'm terminally ill, I originally thought that Cao Mengde and I were like-minded, but it's a pity that it's ......" Tao Qian was obviously a little disappointed when he said this, but compared to when Cao Cao broke his belief at that time, it is obvious that he has seen a lot now.

"Wen He. Have you noticed something strange? Chen Xi whispered, "Although Tao Qian killed the disobedient Xuzhou family, it won't be so lonely." You see, in addition to the guards of the Tao family, there are also Chen Deng, and several of Tao Qian's courtiers, but there are not many other families. ”

"If Tao Gongzu dies at this time, who will benefit the most and who will be the most troublesome?" Jia Xu silently looked at the head of Xiapi City and said.

"You mean that someone wants to put Tao Qian to death at this time?" Chen Xi frowned, if Tao Qian died at this time. Although Xuzhou Liu Bei still received it, the blow to Liu Bei's prestige was a bit big, and more importantly, there were many people who had excuses.

"Rest assured. I have already made arrangements, with Zilong and Zhongkang by my side, even if it rains arrows, it is impossible to hurt Tao Gongzu. Jia Xu said indifferently, "Although I don't know who is fanning the flames behind it." But it's an opportunity for us. ”

Chen Xi and Jia Xu's conversation was very low. It is also very far away from Zhao Yun and Xu Chu, but both of them are deaf and clear-sighted, and after listening to Chen Xi's questioning, they both quietly approached Liu Bei.

"Bang!" With a soft sound, several huge black crossbow arrows struck in the direction of Tao Qian and Liu Bei, Zhao Yun and Xu Chu both shot out, and directly pushed them away with their internal qi, and then Zhao Yun jumped towards the city wall with the Yitian Sword, only to see that Zhao Yun had not yet fallen on the city wall. A large rain of arrows shot in the direction of Zhao Yun and Liu Bei and others under the city.

"Zilong be careful!" Liu Bei reacted at this time and yelled.

I saw Zhao Yun move a few feet out of thin air, and directly dodged all the crossbow arrows. Then the right hand leaned on the heavenly sword and slashed in the direction of the city wall, and more than a dozen sword lights instantly killed the few soldiers who were manipulating the bed crossbow and preparing to attack Liu Bei again.

Chen Xi opened the folding fan and waved it at the arrows coming from the sky, the wind was fierce, and some of the arrows were directly blown in one direction, and the remaining arrows were all shot down by Xu Chu wielding a big knife.

Then Xu Chu brandished a big knife and rushed towards the black-clothed troops who poured out of the hole in the city gate, and under the big opening and closing, ignoring the close combination of the other party's military formation, he slashed dozens of people, and then the tiger guards swarmed up, directly defeated a group of assassins, and captured several people after killing nearly a hundred.

Jia Xu picked up an arrow, frowned, and looked at the tip of the dark blue, "Strong poison, but it's very strange, I know this thing is going to happen, but it's different from what I estimated." ”

A hidden Taoist priest in the cave of the city gate, with Zuo Ci's disciple, silently watched Liu Bei's subordinates clean up those dead soldiers, and constantly assessed the strength of Liu Bei's subordinates.

[It seems that the Mandate of Heaven should be on Liu Xuande, and the rest should be Cao Mengde, the Battle of Xuzhou is equivalent to saying that Liu Xuande's Mandate of Heaven plundered Cao Mengde's Mandate of Heaven, so what will happen if you kill a Mandate of Heaven? ] The Taoist priest hidden in the cave of the city gate was faintly excited, and he realized that he might know how to restore the glory of his "immortals".

[Whether it is Cao Mengde or Liu Xuande, it is obvious that they have the ability to counter us, Zuo Ci bets on Liu Xuande, Li Jin is optimistic about Cao Mengde, both of them are cautious people, plus a group of Wenchen fierce generals, ordinary assassination methods have no effect. The Taoist priest thought carefully about the strength of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and silently gave up the idea of continuing to probe.

[It seems that I can only go to find another Destiny, I hope it is not Yuan Benchu, otherwise, I can only use Cao Cao's scales to weigh the weight.] The Taoist priest glanced in Zhao Yun's direction, then quickly retracted his gaze, and quickly left with a eager sin to hide his figure.

"Zilong has been injured." Liu Bei saw Zhao Yun jump off the city wall and looked up and down.

"The clouds are fine." Zhao Yun said calmly, then frowned slightly, and the qi machine swept over the city gate, and then he was a little suspicious of whether he was mentally allergic.

"Let Xuande see and laugh." Tao Qian was not frightened by the scene in front of him at all, but still had the heart to joke with Liu Bei, but it was obvious that at the moment of speaking, a cold light flashed in Tao Qian's eyes, the family in Xuzhou is really ignorant, whether it is provoked this time or not, Tao Qian, who has already been cut into the soil, has no merciless thoughts, "There are many small and small people in Xuzhou, and they are inexhaustible!" ”

In this way, Liu Bei and Tao Qian completely ignored the assassins in front of the city gate, and indifferently led a group of men towards the Xiapi Mansion.

"Wenhe, what did you just say?" Chen Xi asked after Liu Bei.

"It's not right, it's a huge deviation from what I guessed, that is, someone intervened, but why is it meddling now? And since it was meddling, it was unreasonable to end it just after a trial. Jia Xu said with a slightly gloomy expression.

"Cao Mengde and Yuan Benchu's words, if they do it, it will definitely not be such a hasty matter, what is the purpose of this kind of behavior if the other princes are concerned? This intensity is not at all like an assassination, but a temptation. Li You whispered.

"Don't worry about it so much for now, this matter will be exposed when it is pushed to Cao Mengde's head, we can create whatever conditions we need, and the family can just kill it." Chen Xi said calmly, "We don't need to hold on to this matter, it's better to do it than to do it!" (To be continued......)