Back in Xudu, Cao Cao vented all his anger on Liu Biao and Liu Bei.

He said angrily: "Liu Bei, I didn't kill you in Xuzhou back then, and now I have taken refuge in Liu Biao, and I will not let you go." ”

The expedition to Liu Yu failed, and Liu Bei, who was unable to escape at the beginning, relied on Liu Biao, but he became a trouble again, and when he conquered Liu Yu, he wanted to plot against Xu Du, which made Cao Cao extremely angry.

Cao Cao decided to first make it easy and then difficult, first destroy Liu Biao to take the rich land of Jingxiang, and then sweep Jiangdong, take eighty percent of the world's foundation, and then attack Liu Yu.

As a result, Cao Cao began to transfer grain, grass and soldiers to the Fancheng area, which was closest to Jingzhou.

Cao Ren and Li Dian led 30,000 soldiers to garrison Fancheng to explore Liu Bei and Liu Biao.

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It is said that Liu Bei persuaded Liu Biao to send troops to attack Cao Cao on the grounds of going south that day, and pit 5,000 soldiers and horses from Yuan Shao to protect himself south. There is no doubt that Liu Bei failed to convince Liu Biao, nor did he return the 5,000 soldiers and horses to Yuan Shao, not only turned the 5,000 soldiers and horses into his own, but also directly took refuge in Liu Biao.

After taking refuge in Liu Biao, Liu Bei relied on the identity of being a relative of the Han family with Liu Biao, and was close to Liu Biao, and has been limited in recruiting troops and horses, although the scale is not large, but after two years, Liu Bei now has 15,000 soldiers and horses.

At the same time, it is worth mentioning that Liu Bei dug Wei Yan to his side earlier than in history due to his different trajectory.

Wei Yan's martial arts are not as good as Zhang Fei, but he is about the same as Guan Hai, and he is now one of the three generals under Liu Bei.

In two years, in addition to expanding his strength, Liu Bei also helped Liu Biao quell the rebellion and stabilize the rule of Jingzhou, etc., so Liu Biao trusted Liu Bei very much.

Liu Bei is indeed a hero who is deeper than Cao Cao's city government, he not only won Liu Biao's trust in Jingzhou, but also quietly publicized his name of benevolence to all the people of Jingzhou, which quietly attracted the hearts of the people of Jingzhou to himself.

Liu Biao trusts Liu Bei, and Liu Biao is also a benevolent person, he doesn't care that Liu Bei also lets the people of Jingzhou know his name of benevolence, and he even thinks that a talent like Liu Bei is trustworthy.

One day, Liu Biao asked Liu Bei to drink.

When the wine was half-drunk, Liu Biao said to Liu Bei: "Today, Cao Cao annexed Hebei, with nearly one million troops, Jiangdong Sun Quan and I have a grudge against my father, and I am ambitious. ”

Liu Bei didn't seem to have time to think about it and said: "Brother, don't worry, my brother has three generals, Zhang Fei is ten thousand enemies, but among the ten thousand troops, the first rank of the enemy's generals, Guan Hai and Wei Yan also have the courage of ten thousand people, brother can appoint the three of them to deter Cao Cao and Sun Quan on the front line." ”

Liu Biao smiled and thanked him, which really meant from Liu Bei's words.

Mrs. Cai is Liu Biao's wife, and she listened to this conversation between Liu Bei and Liu Biao behind the screen and was furious.

"What a Liu Bei, I don't want him to be ambitious, this is to take Jingzhou for himself!" Mrs. Cai gritted her teeth and said secretly.

Mrs. Cai has always regarded Jingzhou as her favored second son Liu Cong, and now Liu Bei is actually plotting to seize Jingzhou, how can Mrs. Cai not hate!

That night, Mrs. Cai conspired with her brother Cai Mao.

Later, the two sisters and brothers jointly prefaced Liu Bei's ambition on Liu Surface, and listed Liu Bei's various words and deeds.

Mrs. Cai is not only Liu Biao's wife, the Cai family also has great power in Jingzhou, although Liu Biao does not believe that Liu Bei has the ambition of not being subordinate, but his wife and the general Cai Mao said together, the so-called no wind and no waves, he can't turn a deaf ear. Fun read

Helplessly, Liu Biao had no choice but to let Liu Bei lead his subordinates to Xinye County to station, which was equivalent to giving Liu Bei only one county, instead of allowing Liu Bei's Jingxiang counties to travel freely. Although Xinye is an upper county with a population of tens of thousands, after all, it is only a county, and it is difficult to raise 15,000 soldiers and horses under Liu Bei's command, and it is impossible for Liu Bei to continue to expand his strength.

On the way to Xinye County, Liu Bei's face has always been very ugly, and he looks sad and melancholy.

It's true, it's not pretended.

Liu Bei didn't know what he had to do to be able to achieve a great cause, he was over forty years old, did he really have to live his life like this, because he didn't know how to continue in the future, so he was sad and depressed.

Of course, as a qualified hero, no matter what, Liu Bei never thought of giving up in his heart, he would still go on until he was completely destroyed or succeeded.

Two months after arriving in Xinye County, someone finally reminded Liu Bei that the reason why he was not successful was because he had no real sage to assist him, Sun Qian and Lu Zhu could only be regarded as scholars, far from being wise men, if you want to say wise men, Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Zhou Yu and others are real wise men.

After listening to this, Liu Bei suddenly realized that he was indeed lacking a real wise man to assist him, and he could not achieve great things without a wise man.

After figuring it out, Liu Bei began to search for the Magi.

He has visited many people, but none of them can reach the level of Chen Gong, let alone Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Zhou Yu, etc.

Liu Bei was not discouraged and continued to search for the Magi.

The hard work paid off, Liu Bei's perseverance was touching, and Liu Bei did have obvious huge potential, Xu Shu, who was alias Shan Fu, was finally sent to the door.

Xu Shu is a native of Yingchuan and is friends with Feng Xiao Pang Tong and Wolong Zhuge Liang. People are divided by groups, and things are gathered by like, Xu Shu's talent may not be as good as Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang, but it is definitely not much worse.

With Xu Shu's help, Liu Bei seemed to be strong, and he was suddenly full of aggression.

Cao Ren and Li Dian ordered two generals under the command of Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to Xinye to provoke and explore Liu Bei's reality.

Under Xu Shu's strategy, Liu Bei not only killed the two generals Lü Kuang and Lü Xiang, but also killed 10% of their 5,000 soldiers and horses, and captured 90% of them, and his own casualties were only 500.

This battle alone is not enough to show Xu Shu's talent.

Xu Shu expected the enemy to take the lead and said: "Fancheng Cao Ren, Li Dianwenzhi Lu Kuang, and Lu Xiang will be killed, 5,000 soldiers and horses are gone, and angrily raise a large army to fight again, then Fancheng will be empty, you can take the opportunity to attack it!" ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed, so he followed Xu Shu's words.

Two days later, Cao Ren and Li Dian really led an army of 25,000 in Fancheng to fight.

Xu Shu used Zhang Fei, Guan Hai and 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight Cao Ren and Li Dian in the new field, and let Wei Yan secretly lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to attack Fancheng.

Cao Ren and Li Dian are just ordinary generals, how can they be Xu Shu's opponents, the eight-door lock golden array laid out was easily cracked by Xu Shu, and they lost a small game. At night, Cao Ren and Li Dian robbed the camp and fell into Xu Shu's trap again and were defeated.

Zhang Fei and Guan Hai chased and killed, Cao Ren was almost killed, and Li Dian led thousands of remnants to flee back to Fancheng, but found that Fancheng had changed hands, and had no choice but to flee back to Xudu.

The capture of Fancheng, plus the capture of Cao Ren and Li Dian, Liu Bei actually had 30,000 soldiers and horses, two cities, and his strength doubled.

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