After Zhao Yun left, Liu Bei returned to the South Gate station in less than half a pillar of incense. Seeing Liu Bei returning sullenly, Guan Yu hurriedly greeted him and asked, "Big brother, are those families laughing at big brother again?" If that's the case, our brothers might as well go back to the north and join Gongsun Zhan! ”

Zhang Fei also persuaded on the side: "Yes, big brother, at least no one laughs at us at General Gongsun!" ”

Liu Bei shook his head and said, "How can a manly man live under someone else's roof for a long time? The two virtuous brothers should not be persuaded again, today's letter from the second son insults me in public, and I will repay today's humiliation on his day. Lord Thorn Shi wants to give Xuzhou to me, but there are still big families who want to support the eldest son, and I also want to push the boat down the river to support the eldest prince, let's settle down in Xuzhou for the time being! ”

Zhang Fei was a little puzzled and said, "What should the second son say?" ”

As soon as he mentioned the pursuit of Cao Cao, Guan Yu also said: "Yes, big brother, in the past few days, I have heard from the soldiers at the north gate that Cao's army seems to have changed in the army. Although they will still attack the city, but they just ran to the edge of the city and slowly retreated, early in the morning I personally climbed the north gate to check, and suddenly found that although the Cao army outside the city was still there, but the smoke from its cooking seemed to be much less, presumably they must have taken advantage of the night to start withdrawing! ”

After Guan Yu finished speaking, Liu Bei just walked to the door of the camp tent, but Liu Bei suddenly turned around and walked towards the gate of the camp, and said as he walked: "Second brother, what you said is true?" ”

Guan Yu nodded and said, "It's better to accompany my brother to check it again!" ”

The three of them rode all the way through Xiapi City, and arrived at the north gate in less than half a pillar of incense, outside which was garrisoned by Cao Bao, the first general of Xuzhou.

Hearing that Liu Bei was coming, the north gate guard hurriedly went to tell Cao Bao that after Liu Bei was a royal family, Cao Bao had a lot of respect for him, so he hurriedly went down to the city to greet him.

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Liu Bei explained his intentions, and Cao Bao invited Liu Bei to check the city wall together. The two came to the top of the city, and at this time, the Cao army outside the city happened to attack the north gate again, and the soldiers in the city hurriedly counterattacked with bows and arrows.

Liu Bei took a look at it, and the people who came to attack him were all old and weak, and although the big battalion in the distance was full of flags, the soldiers patrolling outside the big camp were obviously reduced a lot.

"It's not good, General Cao, do you see that there are many fewer soldiers in this Cao army camp?"

Liu Bei reminded that Cao Bao saw that this was really the case, and he guarded the north gate every day, but he didn't even find that Cao Cao had withdrawn!

"Could it be that what the second prince said is right, Cao Cao has already begun to withdraw from the army?"

After Cao Bao finished speaking, Liu Bei looked at the soldiers outside the north gate and said, "Cao Cao is cunning and cunning, why don't I try him!" Cao Bao nodded, and Liu Bei hurriedly went down to the city tower to call Guan Yu.

Guan Yu had been waiting under the city for a long time, and when he saw Guan Yu, Liu Bei seemed to be a little anxious and said: "Second brother, you ordered Zilong to lead the cavalry out of the city to meet Cao Cao for a while!" ”

As soon as Zhao Yun was mentioned, Zhang Fei next to him shouted in a loud voice: "Big brother, don't call him that treacherous villain again, I will lead the troops to meet him Cao Cao outside the city for a while." ”

After Zhang Fei finished speaking, he rode towards the south gate, and Liu Bei asked Guan Yuzilong where he went? Guan Yu said after a while: "Big brother, since Zilong followed the eldest brother to Xuzhou, the eldest brother seems to have alienated me and other brothers for a long time!" Zilong heard that the second prince recommended him today, he was no longer willing to be a small cavalry commander, and he had already led his men and horses out of the city to join the second prince of Pengcheng! ”

As soon as he heard that Zhao Yun had left, Liu Bei frowned, and just wanted to get angry, but suddenly remembered that it seemed that when Zhao Yun came, he had indeed alienated Guan Yu and Zhang Fei a lot. After all, Zhao Yun is Gongsun Zhan's subordinates, and these two brothers are his true loyal brothers!

Thinking of this, Liu Bei sighed and patted Guan Yu on the shoulder, Cao Bao came down from the city and asked Liu Bei if he wanted to tell the news to Lord Thorn Shi? Liu Bei nodded, and the two rode to Taofu together.

It is said that when Zhao Yun left Xiapi City angrily, there were only a dozen people left behind him. He wanted to go north and go back to Jizhou, but there were Cao troops all north of Xiapi, how could he go over with more than a dozen people?

Just when Zhao Yun didn't know where to go, the fellow villagers next to him persuaded: "Zilong, we didn't bring food out, if we can't find something to eat, what should we do at noon?" Has Zilong figured out where to go? ”

Zhao Yun shook his head, and more than a dozen people walked aimlessly on horses like this. Another fellow villager next to him said: "Zilong, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to return to Jizhou if we go north, and then we will return to Jizhou, Gongsun Zan will not reuse us, so let's go south to Huainan Yuan Shu!" ”

The other person also nodded and said, "The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, maybe they can take us in!" ”

Zhao Yun looked at them and said, "How can the fourth and third princes of the family look down on us?" There are only a dozen of us, a dozen horses, and no money, maybe we won't even see Yuan Highway in Huainan! ”

"Then we might as well take refuge in Cao Cao, I heard that Cao Cao is also a person who recruits talents!"

Another person suggested that this place seemed to be the closest to Cao Cao, but this idea was quickly denied by Zhao Yun. Because the first Cao Cao was thirsty for killing, he slaughtered several cities along the way. And he killed so many of his fellow villagers, if he took refuge in Cao Cao now, how could he be right about his dead fellow countrymen? Besides, he is not famous, he will definitely not be reused, and he may be killed as a spy.

Thinking about it, several people don't know where to go, it seems that the world is infinite, but there is always no place for them. A few people rode on their horses and kept walking south, and before they knew it, it was almost noon, and several people were grumbling with hunger.

When they walked nearly ten miles to the south, they passed by a small forest, and the horses were tired, so Zhao Yun and the others got off their horses and rested in the woods.

After resting for less than a moment, a group of chaotic people suddenly rushed down from the woods from a distance, Zhao Yun hurriedly grabbed his gun and jumped on the horse, but Zhao Yun's more than a dozen people were already surrounded by nearly fifty or sixty chaotic people.

The rebels held homemade weapons and bows and arrows in their hands and pointed them at Zhao Yun, and Zhao Yun shouted: "Where did the rebels come from, why did you stop me? The group of refugees looked greedy when they saw the horse Zhao Yun sitting on.

"Brothers, we are worried that we have no treasure to dedicate to the second son, today is really God help us, why don't we take his horse and go to the second son?"

As soon as the second son was mentioned, Zhao Yun muttered: "It's the second son again, why do you want to go to the second son?" ”

He was killed by the second son and lost his official, and now he doesn't even have a place to go, although Zhao Yun guessed that it was just a pretext that Zhang Fei deliberately made up to get rid of him, but he was a little depressed when he mentioned the second son.

"Hmph, I don't even know our second son, he is our big hero in Xuzhou!"

"That is, he was sent by God to save our Xuzhou!"

A group of people seemed to have been brainwashed, and they couldn't help but praise Tao Ying one by one.