When Ao Lie took 60,000 elites and set foot on the turnaround to Yizhou again, the situation changed again on the battlefield in the south of Yizhou, thousands of miles away.

During the period when Ao Lie returned to Jizhou and Cao Cao to confront him, Zhuge Liang, who was sitting in Yizhou, and Liu Bei, who retreated to the south of Yizhou, fought three more times during this period, and each time the confrontation ended with a great victory for the Han army and a crushing defeat for the Shu soldiers, and after three fierce battles, the number of Shu soldiers lost more than 30,000, resulting in fewer and fewer combat soldiers available in Liu Bei's hands, and there were less than 70,000 people. Seeing that Liu Bei was about to be forced into a desperate situation by Zhuge Liang and beat Liu Bei back to his original form, Liu Bei, who was unwilling to be restrained, made another strange move, and he didn't know what kind of means he used, and even said that Jiaozhou Shepherd Shixie formed an alliance with him, Shixie rushed to the south of Yizhou with an army of 100,000 in Jiaozhou, and joined forces with Liu Bei to build a solid defense line, and stopped Zhuge Liang's offensive momentum.

No matter what Shixie's purpose was, it is an indisputable fact that he led his troops to join Liu Bei, and before figuring out the details of Shixie, Zhuge Liang did not rashly launch an attack, and led his troops to confront Liu Bei and Shixie.

In the camp of the Jiaozhou Army, in the big tent of the chief general of the Chinese army, Liu Bei and Shi Xie sat in the positions of the guests and hosts on the left and right sides respectively.

Shi Xie was the first to speak: "Liu ...... Uncle Huang, do you mean that the first emperor was killed by Ao Lie, a traitor? Is this true? ”

Liu Bei had a determined look on his face, and replied without the slightest regret: "Naturally, it is true." At that time, the first emperor was deceived by Ao Lie, and the royal driver came to conquer Yu Gu, and when the two armies faced each other, Ao Lie, a traitor, secretly replaced the imperial forest army around the first emperor, and also used three indiscriminate means. killed Master Wang Yue, the world's first swordsman who guarded the first emperor all day long, and then gathered a crowd to rebel and shot the first emperor in the military camp. The first emperor was pierced through the chest by the sword shot by Ao Lie, the rebel thief, and when Lone heard the news and rushed away, the first emperor was already dying, and Lone desperately saved the first emperor, before the first emperor died, he had told Lone to kill Ao Lie and avenge the first emperor, but the hateful swallow thief was powerful. After fighting with him one after another, instead of eradicating him, he lost his troops and lost his generals, and he was ashamed of his entrustment to the first emperor, so he asked Wei Yan (Shi Xie's character) to come to help. ”

Because of its remote geographical location, Jiaozhou came from the southernmost part of the Han Dynasty, which was equivalent to part of Guangxi and western Guangdong in later generations, and even included some territory in northern Vietnam. In the Han Dynasty, an era of information blockage, information exchange between Jiaozhou and the Central Plains was very scarce, even if it was a major event that shook the world. Without a year and a half of transmission, it will never reach Jiaozhou. Therefore, Shi Xie did not know the real cause of Liu Xie's death, and even not long ago, he learned that Ao Lie had created the Northern Han to replace the old Han. Change the matter of Yuan Kangqian.

Shi Xie was an upright man, and in history, he guarded Jiaozhou for 40 years. He has made an indelible contribution to the economic and cultural development of Jiaozhou, and is a rare enlightened warlord, and Shixie's attitude towards the Han is different from that of ordinary princes, and he has repeatedly said in public that he has always been a courtier of the Han Dynasty and firmly guarded the prestige of the Han regime in Jiaozhou.

Liu Bei took advantage of Shi Xie's heart to the old Han complex, deliberately reversed black and white, and put Liu Xie's death on Ao Lie's head, so as to arouse Shi Xie's indignation, so that Shi Xie desperately led an army of 100,000 to come to Liu Bei's help. Of course, this is only one of the reasons, with Liu Bei's black belly, what he wants is not just Shixie's help, but the entire Jiaozhou. If in the process of fighting with Ao Lie, Shi Xie can have such a small accident, so that Shi Xie dies in the hands of Ao Lie and can never return to Jiaozhou, then Liu Bei can logically take over the 100,000 army brought by Shi Xie, and then, of course, it is more logical to return to Jiaozhou with the 100,000 Jiaozhou army, and then take over the entire Jiaozhou.

As for the real reason why Liu Xie died under Liu Bei's conspiracy, Liu Bei was not afraid that Shi Xie would know, the main people who planned and participated in the ambush of Liu Bei at that time, such as Fa Zheng, Meng Da, Zhang Song and others, were already dead, except for Liu Bei, no one knew the truth of the whole matter, if Liu Bei didn't say it, Shi Xie would never know. Of course, in Ao Lie's Northern Han camp, almost everyone knows the real cause of Liu Xie's death, but with Liu Bei's character, how could they give them the opportunity to explain to Shixie? And in the past, within more than ten days of getting along with Shi Xie, Liu Bei knocked on the side and subtly portrayed Ao Lie as a heinous traitor, driven by Liu Bei, Shi Xie was already preconceived, subjectively following Liu Bei's good thinking for him, and regarded Ao Lie as a real traitor, even if he confronted Ao Lie face to face, Shi Xie would never believe Ao Lie's explanation.

At this moment, after receiving Liu Bei's affirmation again, Shi Xie's face became extremely calm, and he said in a low voice: "I didn't expect Yan thief Ao Lie to be so arrogant!" In the long run, am I still a big man? Sooner or later, it will be swallowed up by Ao Lie's ambition! ”

Listening to Shi Xie follow his own train of thought and walk on the road, Liu Bei secretly laughed proudly in his heart, but his face showed a look of concern for the country and the people, and sighed and said: "Don't say that in the future, it is now, the Yan thief has already opened the country and changed the yuan, three points of the world, he has occupied the second, and the Jiangdong Sun Ce and Sun Quan brothers are the sworn friends of the Yan thief, sooner or later, I am afraid that they will be submissive to the Yan thief, at that time, the Yellow River, the north and south of the Yangtze River, all fall into the hands of the Yan thief, the world except for the lonely and the envoy, I'm afraid that no one will be able to stand up against the swallow thief anymore. Cao Mengde, who was originally in the Central Plains, can be regarded as a powerful helper, but this person is not right, if he gets some benefits in the process of exterminating the Yan thief, I am afraid that he will eventually raise a tiger and give birth to another traitor. ”

In Liu Bei's heart, except for him Liu Bei, the rest of the people in the world are outliers, only he Liu Bei is the heir who is really qualified to take over the Han Dynasty, so he will never allow one more person to share the fruits of his victory, not to mention that Liu Bei knows that Cao Cao is not a good type, even if he can stand in the same camp, it is just a trend of interests, once there is no common interest, Cao Cao is afraid that he will turn his face faster than turning a book.

Shi Xie listened carefully to Liu Bei's words and nodded slowly. In fact, Shi Xie is not a fool, he knows that Cao Cao is a wolf with ambitions, and he is by no means a good type, and he will never be of the same heart and mind as himself, rather than pulling a time bomb to stay by his side, it is better not to use it. Even for Liu Bei, there is suspicion in Shi Xie's heart, although Liu Bei has been doing his best to maintain his good image, but everyone in the world is not blind, he has embezzled the Jingzhou of his brother Liu Biao and Liu Zhang's Yizhou, and he has never been able to hide from everyone in the world, although Shi Xie does not know the specific details of Liu Bei's capture of Jingzhou and Yizhou, but it can also be roughly deduced that Liu Bei must have used some unsightly means to do it.

This is also one of the important reasons why Shi Xie led his army to join Liu Bei, but he did not launch an attack on Zhuge Liang's Han army, and he had to figure out whether Liu Bei was a traitor or loyal in order to make a decision. However, under the benevolent image that Liu Bei worked hard to establish in the past, as well as Liu Bei's invincible tear offensive, Shi Xie finally chose to believe Liu Bei, because in Shi Xie's opinion, if he was not a person who really thought about the Han Dynasty, he would never cry so sad and sad. I have to say that Liu Bei's tear offensive is really the most advantageous weapon in this era, and there is no one. Many people in later generations said that Liu Bei was able to go from a flat-headed common man weaving mats and selling shoes to finally become the founding king of a country, relying on his tears, this sentence still has some truth.

Now that he has made up his mind in his heart, Shi Xie no longer procrastinated, and said to Liu Bei in a loud voice: "In this case, we don't have to postpone the sun and the moon, we will gather all the departments today, rectify the soldiers and horses, and tomorrow we will go out to fight the Yan thieves, first exterminate Zhuge Liang's department, and cut off one of Ao Lie's arms!" ”

Liu Bei shook his head and sighed: "Zhuge Liang is Ao Lie's right-hand man, and he is extremely resourceful. To tell you the truth, Lone has fought with him several times, and he was defeated by him without exception, and he was a fiasco, this person is not easy to deal with. Liu Bei's words, half-truths and half-falsehoods, on the one hand, expressed his regret for his subordinates who died in battle, on the other hand, there is also an incentive for Shi Xie, let Shi Xie please go to the battle, if Shi Xie can die in the hands of Zhuge Liang, for Liu Bei, it is beneficial and harmless, after all, although Shi Xie brought 100,000 troops, but Liu Bei can not directly command them, but if Shi Xie dies, then it has to be said separately, Liu Bei took over the Jiaozhou army, and then took over the entire Jiaozhou wishful thinking, Even if it's more than half a success.

Shi Xie has lived in Jiaozhou for a long time, and has been fighting with various foreign races in Jiaozhou all the year round, and the soldiers under his command are very elite, which makes Shi Xie slowly develop a stereotyped thinking, thinking that the combat effectiveness of the Jiaozhou army is difficult for soldiers in other places to reach, although he understands that Liu Bei has a little bit of the meaning of the general, but Shi Xie did not take it to heart, and also has the intention to let Liu Bei see the martial arts of the soldiers under his command, so he turned his head to the brother Shi Yi and the general Wu Ju who were sitting under his own hands and said: "Early tomorrow morning, the two of you will lead an army of 30,000 and go to the Han army to fight the enemy first, a certain and the king of Hanzhong led an army to sweep the battle for the two of you, so that the Yan thief knew that we knew the strength of our Jiaozhou army! (To be continued......)