Although Liu Bei was already mentally prepared to give up the southern part of Xuzhou, when he learned the news that Xiapi and Guangling had been lost one after another, the disappointment in his heart was still irrepressible.

The Xuzhou family gave Liu Bei another lesson. At the beginning of Xuzhou, Liu Bei was unable to control Xuzhou because he was not accepted by the Cao family and the Tao family. Later, Lu Bu stepped in sideways, which made Liu Bei almost lose Xuzhou. Fortunately, there is still a Mi family to follow, so that Liu Bei did not become a lost dog again. However, after Liu Bei got the support of the Jiangdong Gu family and the Lu family, the Mi family represented by Mi Zhu obviously fell out of favor with Liu Bei.

Mi Zhu did not marry his sister to Liu Bei as in history, not that Mi Zhu didn't think about it, but as soon as he informed his second brother Mi Fang of this idea, Mi Fang ran away with his sister Mi Zhen. Due to the sudden rise of Liu Xie in Chang'an, Mi Fang, who was very reluctant to serve Liu Bei, discussed with his brother Mi Zhu to split the family, and took part of it to Chang'an to start a new stove.

Mi Zhu is also helpless about this, the eldest brother is like a father, his parents died early, Mi Zhen's sister was raised by him, since Mi Zhen is willing to run away with the second brother, the attitude has naturally been made clear. Mi Zhu can't send someone to arrest Mi Zhen back and force her sister to marry, right?

Because there is no such kinship, Mi Zhu and Liu Bei are completely subordinate and subordinate relations, and Liu Bei will naturally be treated when he is useful, but if he is useless or not as useful as others, Mi Zhu will naturally not be treated well. Thinking that he is from Xuzhou, even if he is not as good as Chen and Cao in Xuzhou, the relationship must be stronger than Lu Xun, an outsider, but Liu Bei adopted Guan Yu's recommendation and appointed Lu Xun as the county guard of Xiapi.

Lu Xun is an outsider, and he has not been in office for a long time, where does he know how many Cao family's cronies are hidden in Xiapi City. When Lu Bu suddenly sent troops to kill, Lu Xun wanted to defend the city, but he didn't expect that someone would incite the county soldiers at night and open the city gate. If it weren't for the loyal guards of his own family around Lu Xun, maybe Lu Xun would have fallen into Xiapi City.

In the era of Tao Qian, Xuzhou's Xiapi County was the place where Tao and Cao were operated, and Guangling was the Chen family's own land. Now that the Cao family is using Lu Bu's power to kill Xiapi, Chen Deng, who also plays for Lu Bu, will naturally not let go of this opportunity, almost the same as Xiapi County, Guangling County also quickly surrendered to Lu Bu under the influence of Chen Deng.

What made Liu Bei feel even more sad was that Lu Xun, who was appointed by him as the county guard of Xiapi County, was missing at this time, and his life and death were unknown. Without Lu Xun's news, the Lu family suddenly fell into chaos, and the strength of support for Liu Bei weakened. But Sun Ce launched a fierce attack on Liu Bei at this time.

Liu Biao, who was pinned on by Liu Bei, did not contain Sun Ce for himself as Liu Bei expected. If Liu Biao can really help him contain Sun Ce, then Liu Bei can concentrate his men and horses to deal with strong enemies all the way first, and then break them one by one. Instead of leaking from all sides like now, unable to cope.

Sun Ce's offensive was very fierce, and it was very unexpected, a group of men and horses under the leadership of Zhou Yu actually attacked from the sea, and Liu Bei was caught off guard. Originally, Liu Bei thought that there would be nothing wrong on the other side of the sea, so he concentrated most of his troops on the front line against Sun Ce's army, but he didn't want Zhou Yu to stab himself in the back at this time, which was very deadly. Most of the families of Liu Bei's generals were captured by Zhou Yu. Liu Bei is a "big husband" who is "brothers like siblings, and women are like clothes", but the people under him are not. Especially for the children of a family, the importance of the family is much higher than the lord they work for.

Liu Bei's army was in chaos, Sun Ce seized the opportunity to attack repeatedly, although Zhang Fei fought desperately, but he couldn't save the defeat in the end, so he had to keep Liu Bei across the river and run to Shouchun, where Liu Bei's last shelter is now.

Sun Ce didn't care about Liu Bei's life or death, and after defeating Liu Bei's army, Sun Ce immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue and began to recover all parts of Jiangdong. At this time, Sun Ce was much more restrained than the short-tempered Sun Ce in history, he accepted Zhou Yu's opinion, and mainly relied on wooing in dealing with the family's problems. The Gu family couldn't hold it anymore and bowed their heads to Sun Ce. And because the Lu family did not have the backbone Lu Xun at this time, they could only launch Lu Ji to bow to Sun Ce on behalf of the Lu family. It can be said that despite all the twists and turns, Sun Ce still captured Jiangdong as in history.

After successfully seizing Jiangdong, Sun Ce appeased the hearts of the Jiangdong people on the one hand, and sent Zhou Yu to lead his troops to Lujiang on the other hand, striving to occupy the landing point across the river for himself in the future. As for Liu Bei's life and death, Sun Ce didn't care much anymore. Without Xuzhou and Jiangdong, Liu Bei at this time was left with only Shouchun to survive. And Shouchun was originally owned by Cao Cao when the three families said that it would be good, and this was not beneficial and might even lose money, and Sun Ce did not plan to do it.

Jiangdong and Xuzhou all came with good news, and Cao Cao's face was a little ugly. Whether it is Lu Bu or Sun Ce, Cao Cao has actually never put it in his eyes before, in Cao Cao's eyes, Lu Bu and Sun Ce are both puppets, not as good as themselves. But now the result is that people have already laid down the territory and started to govern, and they are still grinding here, which makes the originally proud Cao Cao a little unacceptable anyway.

But Guan Yu is worthy of being called the Three Kingdoms General Kuiyuan by later generations, with a lonely city in Shouchun, he simply withstood the offensive of the Cao army, and the generals of the Cao army took turns to fight, but none of them were not repelled by Guan Yu.

"Report ~ Lord, General Cao Hong has caught a fine worker." Cao Cao was thinking hard about how to break the city in the tent, and suddenly listened to the report of the small school outside the tent.

"Let him bring someone in." When Cao Cao heard this, he hurriedly commanded.

After a while, I saw Cao Hong walking in with a person, and when the person saw Cao Cao, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and trembled. Seeing this, Cao Cao asked Cao Hongdao: "Zilian, tell me about the situation." ”

"Yes, my lord. At the end of the day, I will be in charge of patrolling outside the camp, and I found that this person was suspicious during the patrol, so I was ready to bring someone forward for interrogation, but I didn't want this person to turn around and run away when I saw me approaching. The last general Ma Hao caught up with this person. After interrogation, I learned that this person was Liu Bei's messenger, and he was ordered to send a letter to Shouchun. ”

"Huh? What did you just say? Didn't he come out of Shouchun? ”

"yes."

Cao Cao received Cao Hong's affirmative reply, turned his head to look at the man lying on the ground, and asked in a deep voice, "Who are you?" It's better to be honest, otherwise don't blame me for not being emotional. ”

"The adult spares his life, and the villain must answer truthfully. The villain was indeed ordered by my lord to go to Shouchun to contact General Guan. ”

"Where are the letters?"

"This, in, in the sole of the villain."

Cao Cao glanced at Cao Hong when he heard this, and Cao Hong immediately stepped forward and took off his fine shoes, took a short dagger and cut the soles of his shoes, and sure enough, he found a letter. Cao Cao took the letter and glanced at it, and instructed Cao Hong: "Zilian, take him down first, don't make it difficult." ”

"Yes." Cao Hong promised and took the fine work away. When Cao Hong walked away with the fine work, Cao Cao instructed outside the tent: "Go quickly and invite Cheng Yu to come." ”

It didn't take long for Cheng Yu to hurry over and ask Cao Cao in a puzzled manner, "Lord, why are you in a hurry to call me?" ”

"Zhongde, you take a look at this first." Cao Cao said and handed the letter he had just gotten to Cheng Yu. Cheng Yu took it and said to Cao Cao: "Didn't the lord want to take this opportunity to lure Guan Yu out of the city?" ”

"Yes, Zhongde, you are good at imitating human handwriting, maybe imitate this handwriting and write a letter?"

"Of course it's okay to imitate, it's just that this content ......"

"Hmm...... Although Liu Bei is now down, but I am afraid that Guan Yu of Shouchun does not know the details, Zhongde may as well say in the letter that Liu Bei wants to attack our army with Guan Yu before and after. Tonight, hold a torch as a trumpet. As long as Guan Yu is fooled out of the city, I don't believe that he can escape like last time. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, I'll start writing."

……

"What, you said the lord is outside the city now?" Guan Yu, who had just gotten the news, was surprised. Since Shouchun was besieged by Cao's army, Guan Yu's contact with the outside world was cut off, and he guessed that Xuzhou and Jiangdong might be attacked, but he never expected that his eldest brother would appear outside the city with troops at this time.

“…… How are Xuzhou and Jiangdong now? Guan Yu frowned and asked. Seeing the embarrassed look of the envoy, Guan Yu had already vaguely guessed the result in his heart, and now he was seeking to verify his guess.

Seeing the messenger crying and replying: "General Guan, Xuzhou is now occupied by Lu Bu, Jiangdong has also been taken away by Sun Ce, and now the territory that still belongs to the lord is only Shouchun in the hands of General Guan." ”

"How so? My eldest brother is not without help, how can he lose so quickly? Guan Yu shouted in disbelief.

"General Guan, the villain doesn't know the specific situation. I only know that Xuzhou is because the Cao family and the Chen family contacted the old subordinates. Jiangdong was because Sun Ce's general Zhou Yu led his troops to attack from the sea and took Wu County in one fell swoop. Most of the generals in Wu County were family members, and those people were captured by Sun Ce, which caused great confusion in the main army, and Sun Ce led the army to attack at that time, and the main prince had to evacuate under the protection of General Zhang. ”

“…… How many people are there around the lord now? ”

"At first, there were less than 1,000 people crossing the river, but then some were gradually gathered, and now there are almost 5,000 people. It's just that at the moment, the lord has insufficient food and grass, and there is a shortage of armor, and there are probably less than 3,000 people who can really go to the battle array. ”

"Hmm...... Go down and rest, and let me think about it again. Guan Yu thought for a moment and said in a deep voice.

"General Guan, the villain can't rest, the villain has to rush back to report to the lord, and ask General Guan to make a decision as soon as possible."

"This ......" Guan Yu did not doubt the authenticity of the letter, but he felt that his eldest brother's plan to attack back and forth was a bit hasty. After these days of competition, Guan Yu already knows the strength of the Cao army, maybe the Cao army is worse in terms of fighting generals, but the comprehensive combat power should definitely not be underestimated. At present, after this period of attrition in Shouchun City, there are still 30,000 soldiers in battle, and if Liu Bei's side is really like what the messenger said, it will basically play no role in the next battle.

There were about 100,000 Cao troops outside the city, and at least 70,000 or 80,000 were consumed during this time. Cao Jun is not a rabble that will be overwhelmed when encountering a little chaos. But if he doesn't agree, then Liu Bei doesn't know how long he can hold out outside the city. Even if you can't defeat Cao Jun, as long as you can take the opportunity to bring Liu Bei back to the city, it's worth taking the risk.

After Guan Yu's reply, the messenger quietly left Shouchun, but he did not go back to Liu Bei, but went directly to Cao Ying. Liu Bei was down, and continued to follow Liu Bei without necessarily having good fruit to eat, and the messenger was persuaded by Cao Cao that he was now Cao Cao's subordinate, and he naturally had to report back to the new lord first if he had military information.

Cao Cao was overjoyed, although Guan Yu revised the plan of "Liu Bei" to attack before and after, but it still did not affect Cao Cao's plan to lure the snake out of the hole. As long as Guan Yu left Shouchun, Cao Cao was sure that he would not be able to go back.

……

In the middle of the night, Guan Yu saw the fire behind Cao Ying outside the city, and immediately no longer hesitated, leaving Liu Pi and Gong Du to guard the city, and he took Zhou Cang, Guan Ping, Pei Yuanshao and others to lead 20,000 horses out of the city and went straight to Cao Ying to kill. These days, Guan Yu has already learned Cao Jun's difficulty, so his ideas are very practical, after seeing Liu Bei, he will keep Liu Bei back to the city, as for taking the opportunity to defeat Cao Jun, Guan Yu is not so unrealistic.

It's just that even if Guan Yu's wish is already very small, there is still no possibility of realizing it, when he led the army to rush into the Cao camp not long after, he suddenly found that the shouting and killing sound he heard from behind the Cao camp gradually stopped, and the Cao army rushed out to fight with him was increasing.

"Father, we seem to have fallen for it." Guan Ping rushed to Guan Yu and said urgently.

"Well, it seems like yes. Frankly, immediately gather men and horses to break through. ”

"Father, where is the lord ......?"

"I'm afraid the messenger is a fake."

"Huh?"

Without waiting for Guan Ping to say anything, he suddenly heard a burst of cheers from Cao Junzhong, "Catch Liu Bei!" Catch Liu Bei! Guan Yu's first reaction was disbelief, but as he saw a familiar figure appear in front of him, he couldn't help but disbelieve it.

Seeing that Liu Bei was pushed over by Cao Bing with an embarrassed face, Cao Cao looked at Guan Yu with a smile and said, "General Guan, now that your lord is here, if you don't surrender at this time, when will you stay?" ”

"Yun Chang......" Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu expectantly, Guan Yu was helpless, sighed, stared at Cao Cao and said: "Cao Mengde, don't be embarrassed for my brother, I will surrender." ”

"Don't be busy, don't be busy." Guo Jia suddenly jumped out, looked at Guan Yu, then looked at Liu Bei, and said to Cao Cao with a smile: "Ming Gong, don't you usually say that you love Yunchang martial arts?" The opportunity is rare now, why don't you make a deal with Yun Chang, as long as he is willing to assist Ming Gong wholeheartedly in the future, how about letting Liu Bei go this time? ”

"Huh?" Cao Cao was stunned when he heard this, but when he saw Guo Jia squeezing his eyes at him, out of trust in Guo Jia, he nodded and agreed: "Well, it's not impossible, Yun Chang, are you willing?" ”

When Guan Yu heard this, he looked at Liu Bei, and saw Liu Bei looking at him with a complicated expression, as if he was unwilling and begging him to agree. After thinking hard for a long time, Guan Yu made up his mind, looked at Cao Cao and said, "Cao Mengde, can you really guarantee that you will do what you say?" ”

"Of course, Cao Mou swears here, as long as Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang promise to assist me wholeheartedly in the future, I will let Liu Bei go today, if this oath is violated, heaven and man will abandon him." Cao Cao swore solemnly in public.

“…… Let me vote for you, but you must give Shouchun to my brother so that he can have a place to stay. ”

“…… Not...... Okay, but if he can't hold it or takes the initiative to attack me in the future, then don't blame me for being merciless. Cao Cao thought about it, nodded and said to Guan Yu.

"Thank you...... Meng, Mengde. Guan Yu hesitated and saluted Cao Cao. Cao Cao was overjoyed when he saw this, and said with a smile: "Yun Chang doesn't need to be polite, I have Yun Chang, and I can win a million male soldiers." ”

With Guan Yu agreeing to surrender, although Cao Cao felt a little sorry for not getting Shouchun, but having Guan Yu had already made Cao Cao feel that this trip was worthwhile. Liu Bei and his party were put into Shouchun, and Guan Yu took away his three hundred sword shield hands and his family, and the rest of the people were also handed over to Liu Bei. Liu Bei has Shouchun as a safe place, and there are more than 30,000 horses under his command, which is enough to protect himself in a short time. But the henchmen will be snatched away, and the hard-earned foundation is almost lost, this blow is too big, so that after Cao Jun retreated, Liu Bei was drunk and dreamed all day long, unwilling to face the reality. Until one day, the third brother Zhang Fei couldn't help but rush in.

"Big brother, you can't be like this!" Zhang Fei snatched the wine cup from Liu Bei's hand and shouted loudly.

"Yide, my brother is already like this now, why are you still here to accompany me, a useless person?"

"Liu Xuande! I was so mistaken about you! Not only did I missee you, but my second brother was also blind and misjudged you! Zhang Fei roared angrily.

"Cloud Chief...... Hehe...... Now that Yun Chang is following the Ming Lord, I am afraid that he will be able to get what he wants in the future......"

"Bump!" Zhang Fei couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed Liu Bei and smashed it in Liu Bei's face, and roared angrily: "Shut up!" The second brother is not that kind of person! ”

“…… Yes, Yun Chang is not that kind of person, if it weren't for my useless drag, he wouldn't have been humiliated. Liu Bei simply lay on the ground and said to himself.

"You get up for me!" Zhang Fei stepped forward and grabbed Liu Bei from the ground, glared at Liu Bei angrily and said, "Since the eldest brother knows that the second brother surrendered to Cao Cao willingly, then you didn't think about taking the second brother back from Cao Cao?" ”

"Take it back? Is it possible? ”

"How impossible! Think about how many people were around you when you and I raised an army to fight against the Yellow Turbans, and how many of us are there now? Eldest brother, you and my family were sent by Sun Ce'er, and my sister-in-law said that she had Yun Chang to bring it to you and I had something to say. ”

"Where is your sister-in-law now?" Liu Bei asked urgently.

"It's in the outer hall." Before Zhang Fei's words fell, he saw a figure rushing out, and where was there still Liu Bei in front of him, Zhang Fei hurriedly chased him out.

"Madam, what did Yun Chang say?" Liu Bei asked Mrs. Gan with an anxious face.

"Husband, the second uncle said that he was waiting for you and the third uncle to pick him up."