Liu Bei's big tent.

Liu Bei was setting up wine to apologize to Liu Pigong for his crimes.

"Two virtuous brothers, I am preparing for Meng Lang a few days ago, and I ask the two virtuous brothers to forgive me." Liu Bei picked up the pottery bowl, shook it towards Liu Pigong Du, and then drank the turbid wine in the bowl.

"Uncle Huang's words are serious, Uncle Huang's words are serious."

"Actually, we were wrong that day."

Seeing Liu Bei apologize in person, Liu Pigong hurriedly returned the salute.

Guan Yu Mifang was drinking on the side, but she was secretly sulking.

As for Zhang Fei, Liu Bei didn't dare to let him stay to make amends, otherwise, with Zhang Fei's temper, he might not be able to ridicule Liu Bigong and the two at the banquet.

Liu Bei put down the wine bowl and continued: "In the future, I hope that the two virtuous brothers can abandon their previous suspicions with Zai Xia and work together to discuss Yuan Wei's thief." ”

"Definitely, definitely!"

"I'm going to be the only one who is the emperor's uncle."

This Liu Pigong is not an ordinary bandit, but also from the scholar family.

In fact, people like the Zhang Jiao brothers, Zhao Hong, Liu Pi, Gong Du and others are all elites from the scholar clan, otherwise they would not be able to achieve any climate just by relying on illiterate reckless men.

The knot was untied, and the atmosphere at the banquet was much better.

While he was drinking and feasting, a horn suddenly sounded outside the tent.

Hearing the horn, Liu Bei, who was already slightly drunk, said in surprise: "What, is Wang Zhong going to attack the city?" ”

"This Wang Zhong and Liu Dai are becoming more and more dismissive of their brothers!" Guan Yu brushed his sleeves and got up, brushed his beautiful hair under his chin, and said, "Before setting out on the expedition, Cao Gong once made it clear that brother, you are the main general of the three armies, but they dared to send troops to attack Gushi City without obeying the orders of the elder brother's generals, which is simply unreasonable. ”

"Well, no, no, no." Liu Bei waved his hand and said, "This horn is far away and long, but it doesn't look like a horn for marching troops, but it seems to be a horn for retreating troops, retreating?" Retire! ”

Speaking of this, Liu Bei's words stopped abruptly, and he was completely drunk.

At that moment, Liu Bei hurriedly walked out of the big tent with Guan Yu, Mifang, Liu Pi, Gong Du and others, and sure enough, he saw that the Cao army camp not far away had become a mess, and countless Cao army soldiers were busy collecting tents, carrying materials, and then loading the packed bags one by one onto the ox cart.

"What do you mean by this, this, this?" Liu Bei was stunned.

Guan Yu couldn't help but complain about Liu Bei: "At the beginning, the younger brother wanted to kill Wang and Liu and seize the military power, but the elder brother just didn't agree, but now there is no chance." ”

While he was talking, Zhang Fei suddenly hit his horse and rushed over.

From afar, Zhang Fei was dumbfounded and shouted: "Eldest brother, Wang Zhong and Liu Dai, the two dog thieves want to rebel, they plan to escape with the eight thousand elite soldiers that Cao Gong lent to the eldest brother, and the younger brother will go to kill these two wanton dog thieves and take these eight thousand elite soldiers back for the elder brother." ”

"Third brother, no, no!" Liu Bei hurriedly stopped.

But it was already too late, and Zhang Fei had already walked away with the Zhangba snake spear.

Liu Bei hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to bring the mount, and then chased after Guan Yu with him.

When Liu Bei Guan Yu chased after Cao Jun's camp, he found that Zhang Fei had fallen into a heavy siege, but he saw more than a dozen Cao Jun generals surrounding Zhang Fei, killing them like a marquee, but Zhang Fei fought more than a dozen Cao generals alone, but he did not fall behind at all, and Liu Bei was a little relieved.

When Liu Bei looked at it again, he saw that Wang Zhong and Liu Dai's two generals were dozens of steps away, watching coldly, and there were hundreds of crossbowmen waiting behind them.

Seeing this situation, Liu Bei was taken aback, and hurriedly ordered Zhang Fei to stop.

Even if the third brother has the courage of ten thousand people, he can't resist Cao Jun's salvo of a hundred crossbows, this is a strong crossbow!

Zhang Fei was very unwilling to rush out of the battle group, turned back sharply, and shocked the dozen or so Cao army generals behind him with a thunderous roar, so that they did not dare to chase and kill.

Liu Bei stepped forward on horseback, bowed his hand on horseback, and said to Wang Zhong and Liu Dai: "Dare to ask the two generals, why did they suddenly retreat?" ”

"Uncle Liu Huang." Wang Zhong returned the salute with his fists and said indifferently, "Please forgive me, the last general has just received an urgent letter from Cao Gong, saying that Zhang Xiu of Wancheng will rebel and attack Xu Du with Liu Biao, and the imperial uncle must also know that our army is facing off against Lu Bu's Xuzhou army on the front line, and Xu Du is empty, so Cao Gong urgently ordered the last general to lead his division back to help." ”

This is an excuse made by Wang Zhong and Liu Dai, and it is purely made up.

"Zhang Xiu's reversal? Join forces with Liu Biao to attack Xudu? Liu Bei was dumbfounded, how could this be possible?

Wang Zhong didn't care whether Liu Bei believed it or not, and after finishing speaking, he turned his horse's head and left with the army.

Guan Yu watched Wang Zhong and Liu Dai's figure go away, and the pair of narrow phoenix eyes suddenly revealed a terrifying coldness, and said to Liu Bei: "Brother, the younger brother will catch up now, or you can kill Wang Zhong and Liu Dai while he is unprepared and recapture the army!" ”

Liu Bei was also a little moved, but looking at the crossbowmen who were waiting behind Wang Zhong and Liu Dai, he finally shook his head, he was not worried that Guan Yu would not be able to kill Wang Zhong and Liu Dai, nor could he bear to do it, Liu Bei was worried that killing Wang Zhong and Liu Dai now would damage his reputation.

In the final analysis, Wang Zhong and Liu Dai only said that they were ordered to help him, not his subordinates.

Therefore, if Liu Bei kills Wang Zhong and Liu Dai without authorization, it is inevitable that he will be suspected of ingratitude, Liu Bei pays the most attention to reputation, but he can't do this kind of thing that damages his reputation, and he doesn't dare to do it.

Of course, if Liu Bei will issue the edict of the Son of Heaven and kill Wang Zhong and Liu Dai, then he will be edicted to beg the thief, and there will be no moral obstacle, the problem is that Liu Bei does not dare to take out the edict of the Son of Heaven now, because once the edict is made public, it means that he will completely tear his face with Cao Cao.

Liu Bei can't afford to completely tear his face with Cao Cao now.

At that moment, Liu Bei sighed and said, "That's it, let them go." ”

Guan Yu rode up and whispered: "Brother, as soon as Cao Jun leaves, we will only be left with more than 5,000 rabble in Liu Pi and Gongdu, even compared to Huang Shao, He Yi and He Man in Gushi City, they do not have an advantage in military strength, not to mention that there are thousands of elite soldiers of Yuan Wei Xiaoer watching from the side?" ”

Liu Bei frowned and said, "What does the second brother mean?" ”

Guan Yu said: "It's better to withdraw from the siege and return to Pingyu." ”

"No." Liu Bei shook his head and said with a sigh, "Xianhe's great revenge has not been avenged, if you and my brother slip back to Pingyu like this, won't they be laughed at by the heroes of the world?" ”

Guan Yu persuaded: "Brother, there are priorities. ”

Liu Bei said: "Let me think twice." ”

Guan Yu stopped persuading.

At that moment, Liu Bei took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei back to the camp without mentioning it.

However, what happened next was greatly unexpected by Liu Bei.

In the evening of the same day, the defeated soldiers of Cao's army fled back and reported a terrible news to Liu Bei.

Cao's army was ambushed by Yuan's army on the way back to Pingyu, and due to the haste of the change, coupled with Yuan's army's use of fire attack, the elite of the 8,000 Cao army was defeated.

"What did you say?" After listening to the report of the defeated soldiers, Liu Bei stood up immediately.

Guan Yu took a step forward, grabbed the placket of the defeated soldier's shirt with his chest, and lifted him up, and his narrow phoenix eyes also opened a slit slightly, and suddenly a sharp cold light bloomed from it, and then shouted coldly: "You dare to spread rumors in my brother's army, in a vain attempt to disturb the morale of the army?" ”

"General Guan is angry, General Guan is angry." The defeated soldiers panicked, and said repeatedly, "What the villain said is true, it is really true, our army has really been defeated, it is really defeated, the eight thousand army, all of them have been defeated, and even the two generals Wang Zhong and Ma Dai were captured alive by Yuan Junsheng." ”

Guan Yu let go of the defeated soldiers and looked back at Liu Bei with shocked eyes.

At this point, both Liu Bei and Guan Yu were convinced that Cao Jun was really defeated.

In addition to the shock, Liu Bei also had an irrepressible fear in his heart.

Liu Bei originally thought that he was already looking up to Yuan No, thinking that he Liu Bei had been experienced in a hundred battles since he got up in Zhuojun until now, and he was willing to look at Yuan No on an equal footing, but didn't he look down on Yuan No? Therefore, Liu Bei felt that Yuan was very likely to agree to his conditions and cooperate with him.

But now Liu Bei found that he seemed to be a little wishful thinking.

Liu Bei suddenly discovered that Yuan No's ability to use troops was far above him!

Eight thousand Cao Army, this is the elite of Eight Thousand Cao Army, Yuan said that it would be destroyed!

is so crisp and neat, so thunderous, Yuan Fu's performance makes Liu Bei can't help but think of another character, this person is Cao Cao!

"Second brother, gather the army immediately and get out of here!" Liu Bei hurriedly ordered Guan Yu.

Now, Liu Bei didn't care about avenging Jian Yong, so he hurried out of the place.

Guan Yu promised, and was about to turn around and leave the tent, but suddenly there was a tsunami-like killing sound outside the tent.

"It's not good, this is Yuan Jun killed!" Liu Bei's heart jumped suddenly, and he rushed out of the big tent with Guan Yu.

The two of them went out of the big tent and looked up again, but they saw that a large area of firelight was coming from the mountains and fields in front of them.

This must be the arrival of Yuan Wei's army!

However, before the fire could swell in front of him, the sound of horses' hooves sounded outside the camp.

This chaotic and heavy sound of horses' hooves, like a heavy drum beating heavily on Liu Bei's heart, shocked Liu Bei's heart impetuous, and he was dizzy in front of him.

Of course, Liu Bei is also a hero, but on the battlefield, he is not a very courageous person.

This, just take a look at Liu Bei's record, Liu Bei has been fighting since Zhuo County, many times, before he was defeated, Liu Bei had already left his troops and ran away alone.

"Boom!" After a loud bang, the gate was blown down.

In the flickering firelight, countless Yuan army iron cavalry clash into the Liu army camp, and the follow-up Yuan army infantry with torches, the Yuan army iron cavalry in front of the sudden did not have torches, they actually took advantage of the cover of night to directly approach the Liu army's camp, and then launched a thunderous attack.

Under the conflict of Yuan's iron cavalry, Liu Pi Gongdu's thieves were in chaos.

The camp soon ignited a sky-high fire, through the light of the fire, Liu Bei quickly saw that Liu Pi Gongdu's thieves had been completely chaotic, and were rushing under the violent conflict of Yuan's iron cavalry, and occasionally a few bandits who were not afraid of death tried to form a formation, but they were quickly overwhelmed by their companions.

defeated, at this point, Liu Bei knew that he had been defeated!

In this battle, he Liu Bei has no chance, so hurry up and run for his life!