Two days later, Mi Zhu did not lose his words. In just two days, he scattered most of his family property, replaced it with iron heavy armor and steel knives and other armaments, and bought a large amount of food, enough for Liu Bei's 6,000 people to eat for a year. Those family wealth that didn't have time to be dispersed, Mi Zhu brought it over, and all of it was dedicated to Liu Bei.

Regarding Mi Zhu's performance, Liu Bei can be described in four words: overjoyed. Liu Bei was born from the grassroots, how could he have seen so much money and food? It seems that at this moment, Liu Bei's ambition overshadowed the white clouds in the sky, there are soldiers and generals, money and food, such a scene can only appear in dreams in the past, and today, for the first time, it appears in Liu Bei's real life, which makes Liu Bei full of ambition, so that he attaches more importance to the Mizhu brothers.

After changing clothes, Liu Bei's men and horses looked new. Especially the more than 1,000 veterans are even more elite. These thousand veterans, there are 500 foot soldiers who have been following Liu Bei when he started his army in Zhuo County, and they have been following Liu Bei for many years, they have gone through dozens of battles, and they have long been the elite of a hundred battles, and because they are fellow villagers with Liu Bei, they are extremely loyal to Liu Bei, so Liu Bei will grant them the title of Bai Yu elite soldiers and let them be their own personal guards. The other more than 500 people were cavalry, which were the cavalry that Ao Lie gave to Zhang Fei to relieve the siege when Feiru was besieged. At that time, Ao Lie gave Zhang Fei a total of 1,000 cavalry, and after several years of hard fighting, there are now only more than 500 people left, but the elite degree of these 500 cavalry is no worse than Bai Yu's elite soldiers, and compared to the elite cavalry Long Xiang Army under Ao Lie's command, it is only one line behind. Now, this elite cavalry team is still in charge of Zhang Feilai.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others also changed into brand-new armor and came to Liu Bei happily. Judging from their looks, it is obvious that the generals are also quite satisfied with the armor and war horses given by Mi Zhu. Although Liu Bei is hypocritical. But his ability to read people, in the troubled times when the heroes rose together, was outstanding, although he did not have the foresight and wisdom of Ao Lie, but he could also be called a leader for a while, otherwise there would not be the later Shu Han Empire. Therefore, most of the generals gathered under Liu Bei are really talented people, and it can be seen that people like them can show a happy smile, which shows that Mi Zhu has taken great pains.

Mi Zhu knew that he had just joined Liu Bei. Liu Bei's trust in him and the sense of identity of the generals for him are by no means established in a moment and a half, so while changing the clothes of the whole army, Mi Zhu also deliberately inquired about the preferences of the generals under Liu Bei, and tailored armor for them according to their figures. For example, Guan Yu likes dark green, and his armor is mainly dark green. Zhang Fei likes black, while Chen Zhi likes white, and their armor is mainly black and white, respectively...... That's not all, Mi Zhu knew that Liu Bei had been displaced before. There is no money in his hand, so it is naturally impossible to equip the generals with good horses, so Mi Zhu took out the several good horses he had collected before. It was given to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and several other major generals. If the armor only made Guan Yu and the others have a good impression of Mi Zhu, then these good horses simply tickled their itches and made their hearts flutter at the same time. It greatly increased the sense of identity with Mi Zhu. Which military general doesn't like BMW?

Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others in bright uniforms, and when they were heroic, the long-term depression in their hearts was relieved to the greatest extent. Holding heavy troops and smiling proudly in the world, this is Liu Bei's dream hidden in his heart, and now, Liu Bei has taken a solid first step on the road of his dream! Although, in order to take this step, Liu Bei spent more than ten years!

After taking the first step, Liu Bei certainly wanted to take the second step! What's the second step? Defeat Yuan Shu! Liu Bei is a contemporary hero, naturally he will not be carried away by the achievements in front of him, he clearly knows that with this little bit of people in his hands, he is definitely not Yuan Shu's opponent, but this is not the key, the key is that Yuan Shu has now become a rat crossing the street, almost to the extent that everyone shouts and beats, and it is an impossible task to defeat Yuan Shu with his own strength, but don't forget, under Liu Xie's edict, the other princes have already been fighting hard and are ready to crusade against Yuan Shu together, this scene, How similar to the original crusade against Dong Zhuo! What Liu Bei needs to do is to take advantage of this crusade as much as possible. It is impossible to defeat Yuan Shu, but Liu Bei is confident that he will take a piece of territory from Yuan Shu's hands, as long as he has his own territory, Liu Bei will be considered a successful second step, and then slowly operate, Liu Bei firmly believes that it will not be too far from the day when he realizes his dream.

When Liu Bei was proud, Yuan Shu fell into an unprecedented anxiety. There is no other reason, because of Liu Xie's anger, all the princes had to send people and horses to crusade against him. Even if the vast majority of those princes are just for show, there are several people who want to take the opportunity to eliminate Yuan Shu and take Yuan Shu's territory for themselves.

Bordering Yuan Shu's territory, there are Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Sun Ce, and Tao Qian, among them, Liu Biao and Tao Qian are the lords of Shoucheng, at most they only symbolically send thousands of people to go through the motions, but Cao Cao and Sun Ce are really here, Cao Cao raised 50,000 troops, and Sun Ce almost poured out, just these two people together, it is enough to make Yuan Shu fall into a situation of being attacked on his back, not to mention that there are other people involved.

Among the other princes, Ao Lie, whom Yuan Shu hated the most before, has now become irrelevant, and is replaced by Yuan Shao, who has a brotherly relationship with Yuan Shu! Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu don't look at each other very much on weekdays, but because they are also from the Yuan family, at critical moments, the two brothers can always put aside their personal grievances, maintain consistency with the outside world, and at least maintain their common interests on face, but this time, Yuan Shao actually went against the norm and sent the generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou as the main generals, and they were matched as staff officers, and led an army of 50,000 to attack Yuan Shu through Xuzhou! In this regard, Yuan Shao has his own ideas, when Wang Yun was used as a gunman, he took the lead in ambushing Ao Lie in Shaxian County, and the negative impact of this incident has not been completely eliminated until today two years later.

Public opinion is in the hands of the scholars and literati, and their comments. It can often ruin the future of a promising person. Therefore, in order to maintain his prestige, Yuan Shao took the opportunity of Yuan Shu to establish himself as emperor this time, and did not hesitate to send heavy troops to crusade against Yuan Shu. Yuan Shao's purpose was not for Yuan Shu's territory, nor for money and food, his purpose was only one, that is, to use Yuan Shu as a stepping stone to recover his reputation for losses. In the face of direct interests, Yuan Shao didn't care about any brotherhood, and Yuan Shu did stupid things. has aroused public anger and aroused public anger, if Yuan Shao still cares about brotherhood in this situation, then he is really stupid. On the contrary, Yuan Shao stood on Liu Xie's side and led his troops to defeat Yuan Shu, such a righteous act of destroying relatives could win Yuan Shao a lot of praise.

Let's talk about Cao Cao. He not only personally led an army of 50,000 troops to the southeast and prepared to conquer Yuan Shu, but also asked Zang Ba, who was guarding Qingzhou, to get out of the way. Let Yuan Shao's 50,000-strong army cross the border and go south along Xuzhou. The contradiction between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao had already appeared a year ago, in order to compete for Qingzhou. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fought fiercely, and finally ended the battle by occupying half of Qingzhou each.

The reason why Cao Cao easily let Yan Liang and Wen Chou lead the Yuan army to cross the border was because of his own thoughtfulness. The fight between him and Yuan Shao. It is self-interest; And the edict of the Son of Heaven is fair. In the face of justice, Cao Cao can only temporarily put aside his personal interests, and in doing so, he can greatly reduce the pressure on him to face Yuan Shu, after all, Yuan Shu has more than 300,000 soldiers under his command, and Cao Cao only brought 50,000 horses, and the strength of the two sides is very different, and it is also a good choice to have Yan Liang and Wen Chou, Yuan Shao's subordinates, as temporary helpers. At the same time, doing so can also earn him a good reputation, Cao Cao wants to use the mouths of those literati to show his loyalty to the world: Look, in the face of righteousness, how broad-minded my Cao Cao is, even the enemy Yuan Shao can march from my territory to crusade against the ministers! Liu Bei is a hero, and Cao Cao is even more a hero, so Cao Cao will never let go of such a good opportunity to gain fame.

In addition, Cao Cao had another idea in his heart. Only Guo Jia can vaguely guess this idea of his. Yuan Shao is entrenched in the half of Jizhou and Qingzhou, so to speak, the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, uh, no, the northern Xinjiang has been officially named Gwangju by Liu Xie, becoming the fourteenth state of the Han Dynasty, to reproduce the glory of the Han Dynasty. Among the fourteen states of the Han Dynasty, the most densely populated ones are Jizhou and Qingzhou, Yuan Shao occupies these two territories, and a large number of people are in his hands, and he has always been Cao Cao's confidant. Cao Cao knew in his heart that in order to compete for the position of the overlord of the world, there would be a battle between him and Yuan Shao sooner or later, and the sooner the time of this battle, the better. After a long time, Yuan Shao took the huge population base as the foundation, and maybe it would develop to an unshakable extent, which would not be in line with Cao Cao's established strategy. Therefore, Cao Cao planned to let the 50,000 troops of Yan Liangwen and ugly cross the border, but it was easy to cross, and it was not so easy to retreat, Cao Cao had already made up his mind to take advantage of the opportunity of this crusade against Yuan Shu to wipe out the 50,000 troops sent by Yuan Shao in Jianghuai!

It's just that Cao Cao wants to eliminate the 50,000 Yuan army, and he still needs to find a suitable excuse, otherwise, if he rashly launches an attack, he can't afford to be charged with attacking the imperial army. In any case, Yuan Shao was also ordered to crusade against the unsubordinate, and the army sent out could be regarded as the righteous army of the imperial court. In this matter, Cao Cao can only act at the opportunity.

Liu Biao, who was entrenched in Jingzhou, also sent troops, and the commander was Jiangxia Taishou Huangzu, who had Liang Zi with Ao Lie in the past. Over the years, Liu Biao has never easily used troops abroad, but shifted his strategic focus to Sun Jian, who defended Jiangdong. Therefore, half of Jingzhou's grain and grass were hoarded in Jiangxia County, which is closest to Jiangdong, that is, Huang Zu's territory, which caused Huang Zu to become more and more arrogant and arrogant. Later, after Sun Jian's death, Liu Biao wanted to recover Jiangxia's grain, grass and military power, but Huang Zu categorically refused Liu Biao's order on the grounds of defending against Yuan Shu. Now, Yuan Shu established himself as the emperor, and Liu Xie issued an edict calling on all princes to crusade against the unsubordinate, Liu Biao simply sent Huang Zu out, intending to take the opportunity to kill Huang Zu's arrogance, and then take the military power back into his own hands.

Huang Zu refused to hand over the military power and money and food under the pretext of defending Yuan Shu, but now Liu Biao used this as a reason to order him to send troops to attack Yuan Shu. If Huang Zu refused, it would be tantamount to a blatant rebellion, and in desperation, Huang Zu could only admit that he had lifted a stone and hit his own feet, and reluctantly took one-third of the men and horses stationed in Jiangxia to come to crusade against Yuan Shu.

As a result, there was a scene where Yuan Shu was anxious before. As of today, Cao Cao personally led an army of 50,000, Yuan Shao sent Yan Liangwen Chou and a trial to lead an army of 50,000, Liu Biao sent Huang Zu to lead an army of 10,000, and Tao Qian sent Liu Bei to lead an army of 6,000. Yuan Shu said that he would not be called the emperor, and now, his intestines are all repentant. (To be continued......)