Liu Bei looked miserable, he really didn't know whether it was right or wrong to choose to marry Zhang Fei at the beginning, and why he often felt that Zhang Fei was dragging him back. Of course, it was impossible for him to express any dissatisfaction, and only maintained his consistent impression of 'benevolence and righteousness' in Zhang Fei's heart, and said resolutely: "This is not what the husband said, I must not do it!" ”

After that, Liu Bei also shook his sleeves to express his anger.

Zhang Fei was extremely annoyed, but there was no way to convince Liu Bei.

The next day, Liu Bei sent Cao Cao's envoy to leave, and wrote back to Cao Cao, only saying that he would kill Lu Bu, but he did not say that he would kill Lu Bu.

This is perfunctory, and I don't want to offend Cao Cao too much, with Cao Cao's wisdom, how can I not see it.

Cao Cao snorted coldly: "This plan can't be successful, what can I do?" ”

Xun Yu said with a smile: "Yu has another plan, a plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf!" ”

Cao Cao said happily: "Come quickly." ”

Xun Yu said: "Yuan Shu has been getting the effect of Sun Ce and Sun Jian's old department, and his strength has become stronger and stronger, and he has now developed from one county in Nanyang to occupy the entire six counties of Yangzhou, three counties in Yuzhou, plus the original Nanyang County. Among them, several large counties with a population of hundreds of thousands, the population under Yuan Shu has exceeded 5 million, and he can easily raise an army of 400,000, which is actually a stronger threat than Yuan Shao. Liu Biao is a relative of the Han family, and there is nothing wrong with him, and he can use Yuan Shu to use troops against Liu Biao recently for no reason to seize Nanjun, and his ambition is obvious, and he ordered Liu Bei to crusade against Yuan Shu. At the same time, secretly sent people to Yuan Shu's office, reporting that Liu Bei was on the secret table to omit Huainan County, as long as Liu Bei's soldiers and horses made a slight move, it was 'confirmed' this statement, Yuan Shu will be angry, Liu Bei will not attack Huainan County, Yuan Shu will also attack Liu Bei angrily, then the two sides will be merged, Xuzhou is empty, and Lu Bu is likely to have a different intention to seize Liu Bei's Xuzhou, which is a plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf. ”

Cao Cao was overjoyed and said: "Wonderful! Wonderful! There is Yuan Shu, there is Lu Bu, and Liu Bei, not only to drive tigers and devour wolves, but also to kill three birds with one stone! ”

Immediately, Cao Cao immediately ordered someone to fake the edict of the Son of Heaven and send it to Liu Bei in Xuzhou, and at the same time sent people to Yuan Shu's office.

Xuzhou City.

Liu Bei received an edict from the imperial court, and asked him to send troops to attack Yuan Shu to 'recover' Huainan County, which was occupied by Yuan Shu, on the grounds that Yuan Shu was not a subordinate. After receiving the order to send the envoy away, Liu Bei conveniently consulted with Lu Zhu, Zhang Fei, Guan Hai and other civil and military subordinates.

Lu Zhu determined: "This must be another plan by Cao Cao, but to harm the lord and Yuan Shu!" ”

Don't you know when Liu Bei, of course Liu Bei knows that this is Cao Cao's plan, and wants him and Yuan Shu to attack each other. But you know what Liu Bei's mood was, he had already decided at that time to take this opportunity to send troops to attack Huainan County.

First, he has always given others the impression of 'great benevolence, righteousness and virtue', and often talks about maintaining the imperial court and supporting the Han family, which will have an impact on his reputation if he openly denies the edict of the Son of Heaven. Second, he knew very well that although the six counties of Xuzhou were rich, they had a limited population, and they were the land of three wars, and Cao Cao was eyeing him, if he just held Xuzhou and did not seek development, he would not be annexed by Cao Cao or other forces in the future.

It is precisely seeing these that with Liu Bei's ambition, it is impossible to accept such an outcome, so development is necessary.

Huainan County is a large county, with a population of four or five hundred thousand, almost equivalent to most of the total of the six counties of Xuzhou, taking advantage of this edict to send troops, he has great righteousness, victory will seize Huainan County, the population under the rule has nearly doubled, and Yuan Shu will not hate him too much, because he is following the edict of the imperial court to send troops, Yuan Shu wants to hate and hate the imperial court, very Cao Cao.

After thinking about it, Liu Bei said with a righteous and embarrassing attitude: "Although it is Cao Cao's treacherous plan, the king's order cannot be violated, and troops should be sent to fight." ”

Zhang Fei, Guan Hai and others are all generals, and fighting is too normal for them, even if it is against Yuan Shu, they have no objections.

So the strategy of sending troops was established.

Sun Gan said: "Xuzhou is the foundation of the place, the most important thing, if you want to send troops, you should also set the people who guard the foundation of Xuzhou, if you don't win Yuan Shu, you can still retreat to Xuzhou to cultivate." ”

Liu Bei nodded, and he also knew that Yuan Shu could try to crusade, but Xuzhou was his foundation and could not be lost.

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei and Guan Hai, these are the two most powerful generals around him, Liu Bei is undoubtedly more interested in Guan Hai, but before he could speak, Zhang Fei opened his mouth and said: "The younger brother is willing to stay in Xuzhou and take care of the house for his brother!" ”

Zhang Fei wanted to go to war more, but Zhang Fei guarded against Lu Bu, and always felt that Lu Bu was unreliable, he had wandered with Liu Bei for many years, Xuzhou was their first real territory, and there were enough six counties, and he was also very precious, so he suppressed the urge to go to war, and wanted to stay 'watch the house' and monitor Lu Bu.

Liu Bei didn't think that Zhang Fei was a material who could 'watch the house', he wanted to take Zhang Fei to crusade against Yuan Shu, so he said helplessly: "Second brother, you can't keep Xuzhou, you are strong after drinking, and you whip the soldiers." The second is to do things easily, and I don't accept people's advice, and I don't feel at ease. ”

This kind of thing Zhang Fei obviously is not the first time he has committed this kind of thing, it has long been known to everyone, Liu Bei said it in public, he was not annoyed, only promised: "From now on, junior brother, don't drink alcohol, don't fight soldiers, just listen to people's advice." ”

This, don't say that Liu Bei doesn't believe it, and Lu Zhu and the others don't want to, Lu Zhu directly shook his head and said: "I'm afraid that the mouth is wrong, why not?" ”

Zhang Fei was furious and reprimanded: "I have been with my brother for many years and have never broken my promise, how can you expect me so easily?" ”

Zhang Fei, who was angry, was still very terrifying, at least Lu Zhu was so shocked that he broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead, and he didn't dare to talk to Zhang Fei at all, so he had to stop talking.

In order to appease Zhang Fei and show his trust in the righteous brothers, Liu Bei could only agree to Zhang Fei staying in Xuzhou, but he said to Chen Deng: "Although the second brother said this, I am not at ease. Please also ask Chen Yuanlong to assist him, and order him to drink less alcohol in the morning and evening, so as not to cause a wreck! ”

Chen Deng promised: "Yuanlong takes the order!" ”

So it was determined that Zhang Fei would stay in Xuzhou.

Liu Bei had a total of 60,000 soldiers and horses in Xuzhou, and 30,000 were left behind in Zhang Fei's command, while Liu Bei personally led the remaining 30,000 troops with Guan Hai, Lu Zhu, Sun Qian, etc., and went to Huainan County to defeat Yuan Shu.

Since occupying the six counties of Yangzhou and leading the pastor of Yangzhou, Yuan Shu has transferred the ruling core from Nanyang County to Shouchun City, Huainan County, Yangzhou.

Yuan Shu was furious: "Liu Bei is a weaver and weaver, but he dares to occupy Xuzhou and be in the same column as the princes; I was thinking about whether to crusade against him, but he wanted to try against me first! Deeply hateful! ”

"Where is Ji Ling!" Yuan Shu asked.

A big man walked out: "Lord, Ji Ling is here!" ”

Yuan Shuling said: "I order you to command 100,000 troops, kill Xuzhou, and conquer Liu Bei!" ”

Ji Ling received the order, and on the same day, he ordered 100,000 troops to set off and went straight to Xuzhou.

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