The sound of the water was loud, and under the night, countless black shadows were shaking.

"Quick, faster!" Chen's low shouts were muffled by the sound of water, and only those closest could hear his orders, and he kept running back and forth to make sure they reached the ears of every soldier.

"Uncle Zhi, don't blow so quickly, when you are in battle, you should let everyone rest more." As he was running, the familiar gentle voice sounded in his ears, and Chen Zhi's heart warmed and he stopped.

"The lord is working in person, and the brothers should work harder, and besides, it doesn't take much effort." Chen Zhi glanced at Liu Bei's side, and then quickly withdrew his eyes, his movements were not big, but the surprise in his heart was not small.

He couldn't help but be surprised, Liu Beijun was now planting a straw man, and Liu Bei personally went down. His movements as a straw man are very neat, and none of them have finished it, but he has done a good job, and each one can stand in the grass without falling down, like a real person hiding here.

"I'm good at it, aren't you?" Liu Bei keenly noticed the small movements of the generals under his command, and asked with a disapproving smile, which made Chen Zhi's face feel hot for a while, and said, "The lord has also done farm work before?" ”

"Hehe, uncle doesn't know, before I met the second and third brothers, I made a living by weaving and selling straw shoes, which is a lower level than farm work." Liu Bei made no secret of his past.

"......" Chen Zhitou has been under Liu Bei's command for almost a year, but this is the first time he has heard about Liu Bei's past experience, and he was only stunned and speechless for a while.

"It's nothing?" Liu Bei waved his hand and said gently: "No matter where the hero comes from, how could Gaozu not be a township official back then?" As long as you are loyal, you can contribute to the country and bless the people. At this point, you and I are all the same. ”

When he said this, he felt hot in his heart, and he hugged his fists and thanked him humbly: "How can you be in Hede, how can you dare to compare with the lord?" ”

"Why not? If you don't have a few more eyes or a few hands than others, why can't you compare? In my opinion, Uncle Zhiwu Shuangquan, perseverance and courage, even if it is compared to Zhou Yafu and Feng Gongsun, it is also comparable. Why be presumptuous? I only hate that Bei has the name of the clan, but there is no reality, and I can't let Uncle Zhi show his strength, be known to the world, and prepare his heart. It's a shame and a shame. ”

"The great grace of the lord cannot be repaid until ten thousand deaths."

Liu Bei's most powerful thing is not the art of martial arts, nor the strategy of strategy, but the work of entrapping people. His set has little effect on Jia Xu and Xu Huang, but it has extremely lethal power against the grassroots like Chen Zhi. Chen Zhi was moved to tears by his words, even if Liu Bei asked him to die immediately. He doesn't hesitate.

Chen Zhi's background is very poor, before he met Liu Bei, he was a thief; Before being carried up the mountain and becoming a bandit. He was a very ordinary farmer's child.

His martial arts and art of war were all learned after going up the mountain, but he showed great talent very early, and he was outstanding among many bandits. If it weren't for his reluctance to be a thief, he would have reluctantly stayed in the cottage just for the sake of his wife. Liu Bei wanted to exterminate his cottage and subdue this general. I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort, and it will definitely not be as effortless as it is now.

The entrapment method worked, Liu Bei was about to strike while the iron was hot, and the neighing of war horses was faintly heard on the other side of the river, and it came with the river wind, and there was a light sound. His heart tightened, knowing that the most important thing now was not to entrap his subordinates, but to seize the time to conceal the troops.

"Big brother, do you really want to fight this battle?" As soon as he had time to wave his hand to Chen Zhi, Liu Bei heard Guan Yu sigh behind him, and when he turned his head to look, he found that the emotions contained in the other party's expression were extremely complicated.

"Yun Chang, you have also seen it, it is not me who took the initiative to provoke, and Xiapi and Pengcheng are not the jurisdiction of Qingzhou, why should I keep them? Not to mention ......"

Liu Bei pondered the words, first explained a few words sincerely, and then changed his words, and his tone became painful: "Shouchun's secret agent has sent back the news that Wang Yu reached an alliance on the condition of supporting Yuan Shu to become emperor!" Although the foolish brother is not good, he is not a big traitor, with the strength of Qingzhou, he wants to kill Liu Bei, can he make such a concession? He clearly regarded the orthodoxy of the court and the righteousness of the world as child's play! ”

The noise of people and horses from the other side became louder and louder, and the deep hatred in Liu Bei's tone became heavier and heavier.

The situation was urgent, and Chen Zhi couldn't wait for Liu Bei's order, so he had already gone to gather troops and prepare for concealment and ambush. Even so, the expression on Liu Bei's face was only a little wen.

"......" Guan Yu was silent for a moment, he didn't think that the eldest brother would use this kind of thing to slander Wang Yu, and the probability of Xu Yu's intelligence network making a mistake was also very low. That intelligence network was built by Xu You and many like-minded people from scratch over decades, and it was formed as early as when Xu You conspired to usurp the rebellion, and did not rely on Yuan Shao's power to exist.

Since the feedback information is that Yuan Shu intends to be the emperor, and Wang Yu has not stopped it, but has signed an alliance with him, then the eldest brother's hatred is due to it, what can he say?

He opened his mouth with difficulty, only to feel that his mouth was full of bitterness: "The eldest brother has already made a decision, and he should obey his fate, but General Wang has always been resourceful, and this time he was ambushed so easily...... It's hard to say it's not his plan. ”

"Yun Chang said this very much." Guan Yu finally didn't mention any objections, Liu Bei secretly breathed a long sigh of relief, the taste of internal and external pressure was not comfortable, and the second brother finally opened up, and he really got rid of his heart disease.

"However, Wang Yu's actions have always been unexpected, perhaps, he just wants us to think so, so as not to be hindered from going south?"

Of course, Liu Bei couldn't say it clearly, Xu You had already gone north to contact Liu Yu and the Xianbei tribes, and even if Wang Yu didn't get the news from Yuan Shu, he wouldn't take the tense situation in Youzhou lightly. Wang Yu was in a hurry, even if he couldn't win this battle, it would be considered that his goal would be achieved if he could delay his trip.

“…… It's really possible. Guan Yu pondered for a moment, and quickly thought of the battle where Wang Yu set up an empty siege plan to block Zhang Jaw, so he bowed his head slightly and agreed.

Mencius said: Shrink from reflexivity, although tens of millions of people are gone! For the sake of the country's righteousness, even if you know about some risks, you can't avoid them......" Liu Bei continued with awe-inspiring righteousness.

He already has an accurate assessment of the risks of this fight.

The main force of Qingzhou is far away in Liangcheng, as long as there is a slight disturbance, he can receive the news. Therefore, he judged that Wang Yu only had five hundred guards around him, and at most Wei Yan's five hundred hidden fog entourage.

And his troops do not belong to the Xuzhou establishment, and it is impossible for Wang Yu to plant too many eyeliners in advance. The main force involved in the ambush was Chen Zhi as the main general, and the re-arranged elite of Baiwei was only eight hundred, which was screened countless times.

There are no absolutes. To say that there is no spy in it at all may be a sign of conceit, but to say that the movements of this team are also under Wang Yu's monitoring at any time would be outrageous, and Liu Bei would not believe it.

Take the Qingzhou Army as an example. Liu Bei knew everything about the movements of the East China Sea Feather Forest, but Wei Yan's five hundred hidden fogs seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and he couldn't get any news at all.

Liu Bei didn't dare to expect his guards to have the same collar as the Hidden Mist Army, but he felt that the gap between the two should at least not be a world apart, right?

There is a possibility that something will go wrong on Cao Bao's side.

However, the information that Liu Bei sent to Cao Bao was fake. The time and place are wrong, even if the basket is out, at most it will only alert the Qingzhou army. But Wang Yu was very cunning when he came, and Liu Bei didn't expect the other party to be like a stupid roe deer. Crashing headlong into your own ambush circle, you always have to fight.

If the other party doesn't notice it, it's an ambush; was discovered, and it was confronted by the river. In such a night. With more than 1,000 people in his hands, Wang Yu can still surround himself. That's hell to go.

Therefore, Liu Bei didn't think that this battle was too risky, in fact, his expectations were very high and eager.

Guan Yu was not persuaded, because the cavalry on the opposite bank had already begun to cross the river.

It seems that the Qingzhou army is indeed in a hurry, and the preparation is also very thorough, when they arrived at the ferry, they did not spend much energy to search for the ferry, but directly removed various parts from the saddle of the prepared horse, and began to assemble, and after a while, there were dozens of more sheepskin rafts in the river.

It seems that the vanguard troops who are crossing the river are no more than a few dozen, but the general who leads the troops is an anxious man, and before most of the people can blow the sheepskin raft, the first few spies found out the truth on the other side, and ordered people to drive the war horses into the water first. Horses are natural swimmers, but they are timid, and no one pulls them and is reluctant to get into the water.

Because the rider was in a hurry, some people whipped the horses and shouted loudly, but more people felt sorry for the horses, not only carefully coaxing their horses, but also protesting against those who beat the horses, and the scene became chaotic.

Guan Yu and Chen Zhi looked at Liu Bei and asked him for instructions with their eyes, it was a good idea to attack while there was chaos, and if they were lucky, they might be able to completely annihilate this vanguard.

Liu Bei shook his head as a matter of course, he likes to surprise soldiers, it doesn't mean that he acts recklessly, it is easy to deal with the enemy army now, but after the grass is startled, it will be troublesome.

After a long time of trouble, the general seemed to have figured it out, and he no longer hurried to drive his horse across the river, but sent more men, and divided half of his men to cross the river first, and launched a search around the riverbank.

Liu Bei still didn't move. He had long thought that his opponent might do this, and the ambush location he chose was good. If Wang Yu was not in a hurry, it would be a little dangerous to cross the river during the day, but in such a night, he really had nothing to worry about.

The search found no anomalies.

The scouts of the Qingzhou army are very strong, but they do not have night vision devices, and they do not have infrared rays, and in ancient times, when night blindness was still the mainstream, it was already remarkable that they could successfully carry out night reconnaissance, and they must be helpless against the enemy who had been prepared for a long time.

One after another, war horses climbed ashore, and groups from east to west walked to the place next to the river beach to graze. It's summer, and the cool water of the river only makes them more comfortable, not the other way around, but the long journey makes them hungry, and when they have a little time, they naturally need to replenish more.

More and more Qingzhou soldiers took to the river beach, inhaling the cold air and taking off their wet clothes. The river water is not very cold, but the waterproof effect of leather armor is much worse than that of war horses, and the leather clothes that have been splashed by the water are cold and the body.

The opportunity is getting better and better, but Liu Bei still refuses to issue an order, and the eight hundred elites are like hibernating bears, motionless, just watching the enemy finish their rest and establish a circular improvised defensive position on the bank of the river.

Patience paid off, and just as the position was completed, the river wind again sent the rumbling of horses' hooves......

Wang Yu, it's finally here!