In troubled times, the relatively quiet days will eventually pass.

More than a month later, outside the city of Xuzhou, more than a dozen fast horses were galloping towards the city gate.

The leader of these more than ten guards is Liu Bei, who is sitting in Xiaopei.

Lu Bu invited him to come to Xuzhou for a banquet, specifically explaining that he should not lead Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and he directly wrote his unhappiness with the two of them in the letter.

After receiving the letter, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei originally persuaded Liu Bei Mo to come to the banquet, but Liu Bei felt that Lu Bu was not harming him at the moment, and after thinking twice, he decided that Guan and Zhang would take charge of Xiaopei, and he would lead more than a dozen guards to Xuzhou.

had already been instructed by Lu Bu, and the Xuzhou soldiers guarding the city gate saw that it was Liu Bei who came, and did not stop him, so they let Liu Bei enter the city.

After entering the city, he led more than a dozen guards straight to the Xuzhou government.

As soon as he arrived at the main gate of the official mansion, before Liu Bei had time to jump off the horse, Lu Bu greeted him, hugged his fists with a smile on his face and said to him: "Xuande is far away, there are many affairs in a certain mansion, and there is no distant welcome, I hope you will forgive me!" ”

"Warm wait!" Clenched his fists and bowed, and gave Lu Bu a salute, Liu Bei asked Lu Bu: "You have to wait for the invitation, don't dare not come." I just don't know, why Wen Hou is so anxious to summon a certain person to Xuzhou? ”

"Just for Cao Cao!" Hearing Liu Bei's question, Lu Bu made a gesture of invitation to him and said, "Xuande, please follow a certain person in to speak." ”

"Please!" also made a gesture of invitation to Lu Bu, and Liu Bei followed Lu Bu into the official mansion.

The more than ten guards who followed Liu Bei had just entered the official mansion when they were stopped and asked to wait in the front yard.

entered the official mansion with Lu Bu, and the more Liu Bei walked, the more he felt that something was wrong.

He turned his head and glanced behind him, and saw that Lu Bu's guards were following him, and asked Lu Bu with some apprehension in his heart, "Where are you going?" ”

"Although it was Cao Cao who was discussing for a while, but Xuan De and Xuan De are brothers, how can they talk to each other in the front hall?" Lu Bu, who was walking side by side with Liu Bei, smiled at him sideways and said to him: "A family banquet was held in the back garden, and today you and my brother will eat and talk, how about it?" ”

Lu Bu said so, Liu Bei didn't want to ask any more, so he had to follow him to the back garden.

When they arrived at the gate of the back garden, Liu Bei saw Chen Gong standing at the gate of the garden waiting for them.

Seeing Lu Bu and Liu Bei coming, Chen Gong hurriedly clasped his fists and bowed to the two, and said to Liu Bei: "Envoy, I originally prepared a banquet in the front yard today, but Wen Hou said that Envoy Jun and him are brothers, and they have to prepare a family banquet in the flower pavilion in the back garden, and I hope that Envoy Jun will not be strange!" ”

"Wen Hou didn't treat Bei as an outsider, and Bei is very grateful!" Very humbly hugged his fists and bowed to Chen Gong, Liu Bei said to Chen Gong: "The public platform personally prepared a banquet, and I was already afraid, how could I dare to have half a complaint!" ”

"Envoy, please!" Standing sideways to the side to make way for Lu Bu and Liu Bei, Chen Gong made a gesture of invitation to Liu Bei.

Entering the back garden, I walked a short distance to the flower pavilion where the family banquet was held.

The flower pavilion is not large, and there are already three low tables in the pavilion, and there are only a few small wooden barrels containing wine on the low table, and the meal has not yet been served.

At the four corners of the pavilion, a maid with a beautiful face stood.

The maids all folded their hands in front of them, and when Lu Bu, Liu Bei, and Chen Gong went to the flower pavilion, they got up slightly and saluted the servants.

Ignoring the four maids, when they arrived at the flower pavilion, Lu Bu said to Liu Bei again: "Xuande, please!" ”

He conceded with Lu Bu and Chen Gong again, and only when Lu Bu sat down did Liu Bei sit down at one of the low tables.

"Right now, Cao Jun is fighting Yuan Shu in Huainan, how does Xuande think this matter should be treated?" As soon as he sat down, Lu Bu ordered to go down and let the maid start serving, so he asked Liu Bei.

"It's a good thing that Cao Jun is withdrawing, why did Wen Hou ask so much?" As soon as Lu Bu's words fell, Liu Bei made a blank expression and asked him a rhetorical question.

"Don't you realize that the Cao army is fighting with the Huainan army, I'm afraid the real intention is Xuzhou?" This time, without waiting for Lu Bu to speak, Chen Gong on the side asked Liu Bei.

"Be stupid!" Chen Gong's words came out, Liu Bei hurriedly clenched his fists and arched his hand towards Lu Bu and Chen Gong, and said to the two: "Although the Huainan army is defending everywhere at the moment, it is not so weak that it is unable to resist, and I really don't see that the Cao army still has time to march to Xuzhou!" ”

Seeing that Liu Bei was obviously pretending to be stupid, Lu Bu didn't poke him, just smiled slightly, and said to him: "Gongtai discussed with a certain person, and felt that it was the Huainan army that was strong and Cao Cao was difficult to break for a while, so he made a detour from Huainan and went to Xuzhou. ”

"Oh?" Liu Bei blinked his eyes twice, looked at Lu Bu with some astonishment, and said: "But the division must be famous, the Huainan army is forcing Xuchang, Cao Cao's attack is a matter of course, Wen Hou sits in Xuzhou, there is no big fault, and Cao Cao has no holiday, why did Cao Cao want to move troops to Xuzhou?" ”

"Seize Xuzhou before you can go south to Huainan!" Looking at Liu Bei, Chen Gong took over the conversation and said to Liu Bei: "Don't hide it from the envoy, if the Cao army enters Xuzhou, only Wen Hou and the envoy army in Xuzhou are strong, and they can barely fight with it." And the military strength of the envoy is weaker than that of Wen Hou, and Cao Jun is afraid that ......"

Liu Bei, who was still pretending to be stupid, was stunned for a moment after listening to Chen Gong's words, quickly stood up, strode to Lu Bu's low table, knelt on the ground with fists clenched, and tears were already coming down before he could speak.

Seeing Liu Bei like this, Lu Bu hurriedly stood up, supported his arm with both hands, and asked him, "Why is Xuande like this?" ”

"Cao's army is powerful, and he is ready to be a non-opponent!" With tears on his cheeks, Liu Bei looked up at Lu Bu with his fists clenched, and said to him: "If Cao Jun really comes to attack, I still hope that Wen Hounian will be in the brotherhood between you and me, and lead the army to rescue!" ”

"Well said, well said!" Liu Bei proposed that if the Cao army came to attack, he asked Lu Bu to lead the army to rescue, Lu Bu helped him up with a smile and said to him: "I will not see Xuande besieged by the Cao army, once the Cao army besieges Xiaopei, I will definitely lead the army to the rescue." ”

The three of them were talking in the flower pavilion, and several maids had already brought the dishes.

The dishes were presented, and the servants pushed the cups and put them on the table, while eating the dishes and drinking the wine, while discussing how Cao Jun should take care of each other if he arrived in Xuzhou, how to arrange the troops, and it was quite a bit of a decisive battle with Cao Jun.

But just as the servants were discussing how to arrange the troops in the future and how to deal with the Cao army, a guard who entered the back garden with them quietly slipped away and went to the front yard.

In the front yard, more than a dozen soldiers who followed Liu Bei to Xuzhou were waiting anxiously.

At the beginning, Lu Bu occupied Xuzhou, and the soldiers under Liu Bei's command had long lost trust in Lu Bu, and now Liu Bei followed Lu Bu into the back garden, and it was impossible not to worry about these more than ten soldiers.

Just when they were waiting anxiously, Lu Bu's personal guard who came out of the backyard walked quickly to them, looked left and right, and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he grabbed Officer Liu Beijun, who led more than ten soldiers, and whispered to the officer: "If you don't want to lose your life, leave Xuzhou as soon as possible!" ”

"What's wrong?" Suddenly hearing this, the officer was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked the guard who spoke, "Why did Your Excellency suddenly say such things?" ”

"Don't hide it from Your Excellency, a certain pair of Liu Yuanjun has admired him for a long time, but he has been captured in the back garden!" Looking left and right again, the guard seemed to be very nervous and said to the officer who followed Liu Bei here: "You wait to return to Xiaopei as soon as possible, and lead the men and horses to come, maybe you can be saved!" If it's too late, I'm afraid even your life will have to be put in there! ”

The guard's words made the officer's heart suddenly startled, and he hurriedly reached out to draw the long sword at his waist.

As soon as his hand pressed on the hilt of the sword, the guard hurriedly grabbed his hand, shook his head at him, and said to him in a low voice: "Your Excellency thinks that in terms of martial arts, how does it compare with Wen Hou?" ”

When the guard asked him this, the officer's chaotic head immediately sobered up a little, and he bowed to the guard and whispered: "Your Excellency, I wrote it down today!" ”

As he spoke, he turned around, waved to the dozen or so soldiers standing behind him, and said to those soldiers: "Leave Xuzhou with a certain as soon as possible!" ”

When more than a dozen soldiers heard the officer's order, they didn't understand what was going on for a while, they looked at each other one by one, thinking that Liu Bei was still in the back garden, and they didn't know whether it was better to stay or leave.

"Let's go!" The officer did not give the soldiers time to think, shouted at them, and strode towards the main entrance of the palace.

The soldiers of Lu Bujun who were guarding the gate, seeing that the soldiers who followed Liu Bei here were about to go out, although they had some doubts in their hearts, they didn't ask too much, and watched them leave the official mansion, and ran towards the city gate on their horses.

Just when the more than ten soldiers had just gotten on their horses and had already rushed out of the street, a voice suddenly came from the official palace: "Stop them, don't let them go!" ”

Hearing this shout, the officer was even more sure that Liu Bei had been captured, where would there be a little delay, and hurriedly urged the war horse to run towards the city gate.

When they arrived at the city gate, the Xuzhou army guarding the city gate saw them galloping from the market, and the people fled in all directions in fright, and an officer hurriedly blocked the city gate and wanted to stop them.

Just when the Xuzhou Army officer was about to raise his hand to stop the more than ten Liu Beijun, the leading Liu Beijun officer drew out his long sword and slashed at the Xuzhou Army officer who was blocking the city gate.

The officer of the Xuzhou Army didn't expect the other party to draw his sword at all, and when he was caught off guard, he was slashed and fell to the ground, and a blood stain suddenly appeared on the ground.

"Quick! Hurry up and report the temperature! The officer was knocked to the ground, and several Xuzhou soldiers guarding the city gate hurriedly ran up, one of whom shouted to the other soldiers while inspecting the officer's wounds.

It wasn't until he shouted that the other soldiers came to their senses, and the youngest soldier standing on the outermost periphery hurriedly turned around and ran down the street towards the palace.