"General Zhao!"

"Mr. Ziyang!"

After the two exchanged their names, they exchanged a few polite words and began to sit down to negotiate. "Prime Minister Cao Cheng led a large army here to eliminate bandits, why did Liu Yuanjun send troops to fight against him? Could it be that Liu Yuanjun wanted to rebel and failed? Zhao Fengwan didn't expect that as soon as Liu Ye sat down, he would be so aggressive, as if they were now dominating.

But how could Zhao Feng be fooled by him so simply? At that moment, he smiled and said loudly: "Mr. Ziyang, let's put away your set." Prime Minister Cao Cheng's dispatch of troops to invade the border of Yuzhou this time is to eliminate bandits, or whether he has ulterior motives, you know better than me. Now he can't move here, and he still wants to be a powerful and good minister, how can there be such a good thing in this world? ”

"This," Liu Ye was also speechless for a while, but then said: "Now Yuan Shu is arrogating the emperor, and he is rebellious." As a member of the Han family, Liu Yuanjun should eliminate rebellion and uphold the dynasty. Why is he an enemy of Cao Cheng, who is loyal to the monarch and serves the country? The prime minister of my family is magnanimous, and he is willing to calm down the conflict and fight against the national thieves with Liu Yuanjun. ”

Finally got to the point, Zhao Feng also had a little bit in his heart, and said at the moment: "My lord also has this intention, but Prime Minister Cao Cheng committed Yuzhou this time, and my lord suffered heavy losses." Soldiers, horses, money, and food, there are many losses, and General Sun Guan, the prime minister of Lu, even died in his post. If Prime Minister Cao Cheng didn't say anything, he was afraid that the officers and men of our army would not be at ease. ”

"Then I don't know what Liu Yuanjun wants?" As soon as Liu Ye heard this, he suddenly felt that there was a door, and hurriedly asked while the iron was hot.

"Prime Minister Cao wants us to withdraw from the army, it's not that it's not negotiable, we only need to agree to three conditions. First: return the traitor Changxi; Second: Leave behind the horses of your trapped cavalry; Third: Taishan County will be included in the territory of Xuzhou. Zhao Feng said lightly. These three conditions are also the result of his discussion with Liu Bei and others for a long time, the first one goes without saying, since ancient times, traitors have to be killed; The second and third were put forward by Zhao Feng and Lu Su, the former is a heart to engage in cavalry, and the latter is to see the strategic importance of Taishan County, as long as Taishan County is in the hands of Cao Ying, he is equivalent to installing a large iron gate at the east gate of his house, which makes Xuzhou very passive, so Lu Su proposed to take the opportunity to ask for this Taishan County.

Liu Ye was stunned for a long time, and then sighed: "I can't do anything about this matter, but I think it is difficult for my prime minister to agree to such harsh conditions." ”

"The conditions are here, and whether Prime Minister Cao Cheng agrees or not is his business." Zhao Feng didn't give him too much chance to bargain, and after finishing speaking, he just stared at him to see how he replied.

"Liu Yuanjun is not afraid that our army will fight to the death? If our army strikes with all its might, I am afraid that Liu Yuanjun may not be able to trap the army of my prime minister. "Liu Ye is a little threatening. It's a pity that he may be used to being a strategist, and his threat seems a bit bluff to Zhao Feng.

"As long as Prime Minister Cao Cheng is willing, I can accompany him to fight to the death!" Zhao Feng grinned, and suddenly changed his words and asked, "I wonder if Mr. Ziyang has ever had lunch?" ”

"Huh?" Liu Ye was stunned. In fact, Cao Jun now has only two bowls of gruel per person per day, from top to bottom. Liu Ye has eaten this lunch, but now there is not much inventory in his stomach. However, in order to avoid the other party seeing that he was short of food, Liu Ye still replied stubbornly: "It's been used, and General Zhao doesn't care about it." ”

"Since it's been used, forget it, but Zhao hasn't had lunch yet, and now he is hungry and thirsty, I'm afraid that I need to eat something to have the strength to continue the negotiation, and I ask Mr. for forgiveness." When Zhao Feng said this, a cook outside served a bowl of beef noodles. Liu Ye didn't know if Zhao Feng did it on purpose, in short, Zhao Feng ate a bowl of beef noodles in front of him with relish, snorted, and licked the bowl after eating. The rich aroma of broth, combined with a few shreds of green onions, made Liu Ye's stomach, who had been drinking porridge for a few days, begin to protest.

Fortunately, Zhao Feng ate quickly, and wiped out this big bowl of noodles in the blink of an eye, so that Liu Ye did not suffer for too long. "Liu Yuanjun's conditions are too harsh, I really don't dare to make the decision, wait until I go back to report to my prime minister, and then make a decision." Liu Ye came back to his senses and looked at Zhao Feng, who was still unsatisfied, and had to weakly resist, that bowl of lively beef noodles had already destroyed a lot of his will.

"Mr. Ziyang, please!" Zhao Feng laughed so much that the primordial spirit in his body trembled. After Liu Ye said goodbye, he went back to report to Cao Ying, and on the way, he met dozens of deserters of the Cao army, and at the same time, there were more than 100 Xuzhou soldiers who were eating and drinking not far from the Cao army camp.

"General Zhao, I really made a lot of money today, and more than a thousand people have come over from Cao Jun's side!" Zhao Feng had just walked out of the negotiation tent, and Lin Leopard, who had been promoted to captain, came up with a smile and said.

"Hehe, I really wish Cao Ying would hesitate for a few more days so that I can catch some more prisoners!" Zhao Feng also smiled extremely sinisterly, and then went to Liu Bei to report the progress of the talks.

However, it backfired, in Cao Jun's big tent, Cao Ying heard Liu Bei's three conditions proposed by Zhao Feng, and after hesitating for a long time, he gritted his teeth and agreed. "Lord!" Xiahoudun and other generals were all indignant, and they were stopped by Cao Ying when they were about to say anything more. "There is no food in the army, the morale of the army is in chaos, and if you don't leave here quickly, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out. At this time, they wanted to cut me a pound of meat, and I had to agree. Ziyang, you go and tell Liu Bei, just say that I will agree to everything! Cao Ying almost gritted his teeth and said these words word by word, and everyone couldn't help but shudder for a while. At this moment, Le Jin came to report that more than 1,000 people from Cao Jun had fled to Liu Bei's military camp today, and everyone was silent when they heard it.

Cao Ying agreed, so the next thing was easy to do. Liu Ye entered Liu Bei's camp again, and after confirming his promise, Liu Ye was taken by Zhao Feng to see Liu Bei. After some politeness between the two sides, Liu Bei officially agreed to let Cao Ying go. At that moment, after Liu Ye returned to Cao Ying, Cao Ying began to order the cavalry to gather all the horses, and ordered the strategist Man Zhong to go to Taishan County with his own handwritten warrant to inform the guards to change their guards. At the same time, Liu Bei also wrote to Guan Yu of Lu State, asking him to prepare to let Cao's army cross the border, and at the same time sent Chen Zhi to lead 10,000 elite soldiers to Taishan County to change defenses, while Zhao Feng, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun were busy inspecting the horses.

"Nine thousand two hundred!" After Chen finished counting, he reported to Zhao Feng and Zhang Fei. "Cao Ying is really wealthy, and there are tens of thousands of cavalry when he moves his body casually." Zhao Feng sighed, deducting the horses of some generals, Cao Ying should have dispatched 10,000 cavalry this time, which is the number of all cavalry in Xuzhou. Presumably, when he occupies the north, there will be more cavalry under his command, and the tiger and leopard cavalry will also appear on the stage of history. However, he also has nearly 20,000 cavalry on his side, so it shouldn't be bad to train well. The only pity is that most of these more than 9,000 horses are Shandong horses, although they are not bad, but compared with Xiliang horses or Liaodong horses, the gap is still obvious.

A few days later, Chen Zhi wrote back to inform him that the defense of Taishan County had been replaced, and at the same time, Zhang Fei, Zhao Feng and Zhao Yun also began to form a new cavalry unit. In the past few days, Zhao Feng still did not withdraw the soldiers who were eating and drinking at the gate of Cao Jun, in his words, a few more can be fooled. However, it seems that Cao Ying sent an order to tell the soldiers that the peace talks had been negotiated and the return date was imminent, and the army's heart was much more stable, and there were not many soldiers who surrendered in the past few days.

Rao is like this, and when Cao Ying returned to Yanzhou, there were less than 100,000 left of the 150,000 army. In addition to the more than 30,000 people who died in the battle, nearly 20,000 were taken prisoner, and a small half of them were fooled by Zhao Feng's eating and drinking strategy.

"Liu Bei Xiao'er, this revenge will be avenged!" When the army passed by Taishan County, Cao Ying glanced at the big banner with Liu characters on the head of the city hatefully, and was secretly ruthless in his heart. Chen Zhi at the head of the city was also on full alert, beware of Cao Jun's sudden attack, but fortunately this kind of thing did not happen.

Cao Ying withdrew his army, and at this time, under the city of Peiguo, Liu Bei's army was also ready to go. But before parting, there is one more thing to do.

"Bring Chang Xi up!" In front of a new grave, Liu Bei, who had a white cloth on his head, and other high-level officials in Xuzhou were there. The tombstone in front of the tomb reads: The tomb of Sun Guan, the prime minister of the Lu Kingdom.

The two soldiers dragged Chang Xi, who was already paralyzed on the ground, all the way to the grave, "Lord, spare your life, Lord!" Chang Xi died at the end of his life, and he still begged for mercy incoherently.

"Go and talk to General Sun yourself!" Liu Bei coldly dropped this sentence, and then said to a young man on the right who was full of vegetarians: "Zhongquan, avenge your brother!" ”

"Thank you, my lord!" That person was Sun Guan's younger brother Sun Kang, who immediately pulled out a ring-headed knife and stepped forward, two soldiers set up Changxi, Sun Kang held the knife in both hands and raised his head and muttered: "Big brother Yin Ling is not far away, brother is saying that he has avenged you today!" After speaking, he didn't wait for Chang Xi to call anything, so he tried his best to cut it down.

"Poof!" Bright red blood spurted from Changxi's severed neck. After the execution of Changxi, Liu Bei also quickly ordered a retreat to Xuzhou, preparing to counterattack Yuan Shu. As for Guan Yu's Yuzhou military horses, everyone felt that after the big battle just now, it was not appropriate to use the Yuzhou military horses too much. After all, Yuzhou is next to Yanzhou Cao Ying, and this neighbor's character is not very reliable, so it is best for Guan Yu to lead a 30,000-strong horse to attack Yuan Shu from the front line of Anfeng Yiyang and respond to the offensive on Huainan's side. "Big brother, third brother, I didn't expect that you and my brother had just met, and they would have to separate again!" Guan Yu was also a little reluctant, and Zhang Fei was even more rarely silent.

"The second brother is in Yuzhou, and he has a lot to do with it. After that, you and my brother will stop fighting, and we can get together every day. Liu Bei was also a little emotional. Speaking of Yuzhou, Guan Yu suddenly remembered: "Big brother, Liu Biao took advantage of my absence to send Cai Mao to lead an army of 50,000 to attack Runan, but was repelled by Wen Chang and Ping'er who stayed behind, and Wen Chang even killed Cai Mao's brother Cai Zhong with his own hands. ”

"Wen Chang really has the talent of a general!" Liu Bei was also overjoyed when he heard this. In the end, Guan Yu proposed that Guan Ping come to follow Liu Bei to Huainan to crusade against Yuan Shu, and Liu Bei had no choice, but he arranged Guan Ping to be a lieutenant under Zhao Feng.

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