Wang Zhong and Liu Dai and a dozen other prisoners were escorted to a secluded place, and then forced them to kneel in a row on a field, Wang Zhong and Liu Dai looked down at the field, but only to see a drop of heads, several of which were obviously cut off not long ago, and the blood on their necks had not yet dried up.

Wang Zhong and Liu Dai's eyes immediately dimmed, and it seemed that this time it was difficult to escape death.

However, just when the two of them thought they were going to die, an accident happened, and I don't know what was going on, a few Yuan Jun veterans who led the team suddenly quarreled with the yellow scarves who were in charge of escorting, and the more the two sides quarreled, the more fierce they became, and finally they fought, and several Yuan Jun veterans were really fierce, chasing dozens of yellow scarves to cut!

In the melee, a ring-headed knife happened to fall at Wang Zhong's feet.

Wang Zhong and Liu Dai made a look, Liu Dai understood, and immediately began to be vigilant, Wang Zhong squatted down with his back, clamped the ring head knife from behind, and took the hemp rope tied to the wrist to rub it on the blade, because it could not be forced, the edge of the ring head knife was blunt, Wang Zhong spent half an hour to finally cut the hemp rope on the wrist.

As soon as Wang Zhong's hands were free, he quickly cut the hemp rope on his feet again, and then untied Liu Dai.

After loosening the ties for Liu Dai, and was about to untie the remaining dozen prisoners, Yuan Jun, who was fighting over there, found out, so he immediately stopped the scuffle and rushed back to kill them.

Wang Zhong and Liu Dai didn't care about the dozen or so subordinates, so they turned around and ran.

Fortunately, Yuan Jun's execution ground was still quite partial, and there was a dense forest not far behind, and after running not far, Wang Zhong and Liu Dai rushed into the dense forest, and then got rid of Yuan Jun's pursuit under the cover of the dense forest.

After that, there was not much to say, and he ate and slept along the way, and finally escaped back to Zhaoling three days later, and then met Cao Jun's patrol on the outskirts of Zhaoling.

The patrolman hurriedly took the two back to the Cao army camp.

Seeing Cao Cao, Wang Zhong and Liu Dai immediately fell to the ground crying.

"Lord, lord, the last general finally sees you again, ......"

"Whoa, my lord, the last general thought that he would never see you again in this life."

Wang Zhong and Liu Dai knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, but Cao Cao did not have a good look on his face.

All along, Cao Cao is very strict in governing the army, last year to march to Huainan, because the war horse was frightened and trampled on the farmland, Cao Cao even cut off his own hair to order the three armies, you must know that the ancients believed in a concept, the body is skin, the parents of the recipient, can not be abandoned, so cutting the hair to show the public is an extremely severe or very shameful punishment measure.

Therefore, for Wang Zhong and Liu Dai, who lost 8,000 elite soldiers, how could Cao Cao have a good face?

The 8,000 elite soldiers were really gone, and there may not be many who were directly killed by Yuan Jun, but the rest all ran away.

If he hadn't wanted to hear the real situation from the two of them, Cao Cao might have ordered the two to be pushed out and beheaded.

"Tell me?" Cao Cao's little eyes revealed a terrifying essence, staring coldly at Wang Zhong and Liu Dai, and said, "What is going on in the battle of Hulu Valley?" ”

Wang Zhong hurriedly said: "My lord, the last general will wait for the next affection." ”

"What's going on?" Cao Cao snorted and said coldly, "Say it quickly." ”

Wang Zhong straightened up, clasped his fists and said: "Lord, the battle of Hulu Valley is not a dereliction of duty by the last general, but because Liu Bei and Yuan Que have already colluded, which is clearly that the two families are combined to calculate us, and the last general is caught off guard, so he fell into Yuan Nuo's trick, and this is why there is the defeat of Gourd Valley." ”

Liu Dai also echoed and said: "Yes, yes, at the time of the beginning, the last general and others faintly found that the situation was not right, so they planned to go back to the division to ask the lord for advice on how to deal with it, however, the last general never thought that Liu Bei, a hypocrite, would secretly tell Yuan no about the time and route of the last general's retreat, so that our army was ambushed in the gourd valley. ”

On the way back, Wang Zhong and Liu Dai had already reasoned about the "truth of the matter", because they saw Liu Bei's adviser Sun Gan in the Yuan army camp that day, and even listened to the conversation between Sun Qian and Yuan Wei word for word, and from this known information, they could already know the whole picture of the conspiracy.

Therefore, Wang Zhong and Liu Dai don't even need to confess.

"Nonsense!" Cao Cao was furious, and said, "The defeat of Hulu Valley is obviously caused by your ignorance of the soldiers' impatience, and some deserters have already fled back to tell the truth, you obviously want to shirk responsibility, so you poured dirty water on Uncle Liu's head, do you really think I am so easy to deceive?" Huh? ”

Speaking of the last word, Cao Cao's tone was already murderous.

Wang Zhong and Liu Dai kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said in a loud voice: "Lord, it is really because Liu Bei and Yuan Wei secretly colluded that it led to the defeat of our army. ”

Cao Cao didn't believe it at all, and shouted with a wave of his big hand: "Push it out, cut it!" ”

As soon as Xu Chu, who was standing on one side, waved his hand, four tiger guards stepped inside, picked up Wang Zhong and Liu Dai and walked out.

happened to meet Cheng Yu entering the account, Cheng Yu immediately stretched out his hand to stop Hu Wei and shouted: "Wait! ”

Wang Zhong and Liu Dai asked Cheng Yu for help: "Mr. Zhongde help, Mr. Zhongde save his life......

Cao Cao's gaze turned to Cheng Yu, and said coldly: "Zhongde intends to intercede for these two defeated generals?" ”

"Definitely." Cheng Yu shook his head, and then immediately changed his words and continued, "However, my lord, the battle of Hulu Valley may really have hidden secrets. ”

Cao Cao frowned and said, "What do you mean by this? ”

Cheng Yu said in a deep voice: "There is a detailed report that Sun Gan, a strategist under Liu Bei, once appeared in Yuan Jun's army, and when the two were about to part, they seemed to have a very happy conversation with Yuan No. ”

Cheng Yu's voice fell, and Wang Zhong immediately shouted: "Lord, this matter will be able to testify at the end!" ”

Liu Dai also shouted: "The last general can also testify, because the last general was not far away at that time!" ”

"What?" Cao Cao's expression was awe-inspiring when he heard this, and he immediately waved his hand to signal Hu Wei to release Wang Zhong and the others, and said, "Tell me the truth about the situation at that time!" ”

Cao Cao is suspicious by nature, in fact, he has long suspected Liu Bei's misdeeds.

As for the reason why Cao Cao suspected Liu Bei, it was actually very simple, because Liu Bei was regarded as the emperor's uncle by the Son of Heaven within a few days after he entered the Xu Capital, and he would be invited into the palace by the Son of Heaven every once in a while, and he would talk for half a night, and every time he talked secretly, the Son of Heaven would retreat the attendants on the left and right, so that Cao Cao's eyeliner in the palace became an ornament.

At that moment, Wang Zhong told everything they had heard that day, the conversation between Sun Qian and Yuan Fu, and Liu Dai added it from time to time.

After listening, Cao Cao couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp.

Yuan Wei said that he was very grateful to Uncle Liu Huang for the big gift, and he must have said that it was the 8,000 Cao army that was destroyed in the gourd valley, because from these 8,000 Cao army, Yuan Wei seized the ordnance, grain and grass that he urgently needed, so Liu Bei said that there would be a big gift in the future, what did this big gift refer to? Is it his army of 150,000?

Yuan is cunning by nature and extremely good at using soldiers, Liu Bei is tough by nature and is used to hiding, if these two really join forces, then their threat will be far better than Lu Bu!

However, Cao Cao's suspicion is really not blown.

Cao Cao was suspicious of Liu Bei, and he was also suspicious of Wang Zhong and Liu Dai, whether he was deceiving him?

At that moment, Cao Cao asked Cheng Yu again: "Zhongde, are you sure you can see it clearly?" Sun Qian really appeared in Yuan Wei's army? ”

"Lord, Sun Qian did appear in Yuan Wei's army, this is undoubted!" Cheng Yu paused, and said, "Because Sun Gan is on his way to Zhaoling right now, and he is about to arrive at Zhaoling, if the lord doesn't believe it, he can find Sun Gan and ask about it, Sun Qian is a humble gentleman, and he must not lie." ”

Cao Cao then instructed Xu Chu and said, "Zhongkang, you go and fetch Sun Qian." ”

"No!" Xu Chu waved his hand and took the order.

(Dividing Line)

Since Cao Cao's army arrived in Zhaoling, Liu Bei locked himself in a military tent every day and stayed at home.

Liu Bei is good at reading people, and he knows that Cao Cao is suspicious by nature, in order not to cause unnecessary trouble, Liu Bei knows that he must hold his tail and be a man under Cao Cao.

Guan Yu is familiar with the Spring and Autumn Period, and he also knows that Liu Bei is in a difficult situation, so he can endure it.

But Zhang Fei is an impatient, and it is a dream to ask him to be bored in the barracks all day.

On this day, Zhang Fei sneaked out again and went hunting outside the city, but when he came back, he happened to meet Sun Gan who was invited away by Xu Chu with the Tiger Guard, Zhang Fei stepped forward to ask, but Xu Chu responded *, this is Sikong's order, Zhang Fei was about to turn his face with Xu Chu at that time, or Sun Gan persuaded him, Zhang Fei just gave up.

After returning to the account, Zhang Fei said to Liu Bei: "Eldest brother, I met Sun Gan outside the city just now. ”

"Gongyu is back?" Liu Bei was surprised when he heard this, and asked Zhang Fei again, "What about others?" ”

"Let Xu Chu intercept it." Zhang Fei didn't have a good breath and said, "It was said that he was ordered by Cao Cao." ”

"What? Gongyou let Xu Chu intercept him? Or was it ordered by Cao Cao? Liu Bei was shocked when he heard this.

Although Liu Bei was silent on the surface, Guan Yu still sensed Liu Bei's shock with some details, and his narrow phoenix eyes opened slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Brother, what's wrong?" ”

"Mistake, what a mistake!" Liu Bei suddenly realized that it was a failure to send Sun Qian to envoy Yuan Ying, Liu Bei was actually not afraid of Yuan Wei telling Cao Cao, because he could deduce that this was Yuan Cao's divisive plan, but Sun Qian was one of the fatal loopholes, Cao Cao sent Xu Chu to intercept Sun Qian, he must have noticed something.

Suddenly, Liu Bei remembered a rumor that had been circulating for a long time.

It is rumored that Cao Cao borrowed the family of Lu Boluxe, who was going to kill pigs to entertain him, but he mistakenly thought that the Lu family wanted to kill him, and then took other people's heads to ask for a reward, so Cao Cao killed dozens of members of the Lu family in a fit of rage, and killed Lu Bohao, who went out to sell wine on the way out!

Cao Cao is such a suspicious person by nature, he would rather kill the wrong person than let it go!

Thinking of this, Liu Bei couldn't sit still any longer, and said to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Chen Zhi: "Second brother, third brother, and Shu Zhi, you clean up, we will leave Zhaoling immediately!" ”