Early the next morning, Liu Bei had just finished washing up when he heard a greeting coming from outside the tent: "Dare to ask, can Xuande Gong get up?" ”

Hearing that someone was coming, Zhang Fei walked over quickly and lifted the curtain. Cao Cao's kind face appeared in the eyes of the three brothers. After seeing Liu Bei's three brothers, Cao Cao said with a smile: "Xuande Gong, don't you invite someone to enter the account to talk?" ”

Liu Bei hurriedly bowed and said, "Brother Meng De is here, and he is not welcomed. Please make your money back. Cao Cao walked in with a smile, and after looking around in the tent, he said: "I have heard that Xuande is indifferent, and when I saw it today, it was so." But are you learning to practice lying on the salary? ”

Liu Bei smiled bitterly: "Bei Nai is a grass people, what qualifications do you have to learn from the king of Yue?" Brother Meng De, don't make fun of Yu. ”

"Ha Luha, just kidding. Although a certain Zhilu Dao Xuande has great ambitions, he has always been excluded, and the world is unfair today. How about you and me merging together and accomplishing something great together? Cao Cao said half-jokingly, half-seriously.

Liu Bei bowed deeply to Cao Cao with a humble look and said, "Thank you Brother Mengde for your love." It's just that he has no strength, and he is afraid of dragging down Brother Meng De. Liu Bei's level of speaking was still quite clever, and he used the excuse of dragging Cao Cao down to tactfully refuse Cao Cao's solicitation.

Liu Bei's meaning, Cao Cao naturally wouldn't fail to hear it, he glanced at Liu Bei with deep meaning in his eyes, and still said with a smile: "Okay, I'll talk about this later." No matter when Xuande Gong wants to come, there will be a seat for Xuande Gong in a certain Chinese army tent at any time. By the way, a certain specially prepared some ordnance materials for Xuande Gong, which is not a tribute, and I hope that Xuande Gong will accept it with a smile. ”

Feelings, Cao Cao made two preparations, and it was clear that if he couldn't recruit him, he would give Liu Bei some favors first, leaving a glimmer of hope for the future. In fact, Cao Cao had long seen that Liu Bei seemed to be loyal, but in fact he was extremely ambitious, Cao Cao's move was similar to Ao Lie's meaning, and they all came to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. It's just that Ao Lie is familiar with the deep relationship between the three brothers of Liu Guanzhang in history, so he did not show the slightest intention of solicitation, with the purpose of forming a good relationship with Guan Zhang; And Cao Cao's solicitation was not so subtle, but as everyone knows, Cao Cao's behavior has made Guan Yu and Zhang Fei a little dissatisfied with him. And Cao Cao didn't know about the Dao, before him, Ao Lie had already come last night, and his attitude was much more sincere than Cao Cao.

After sending Cao Cao away, Guan Yu squinted Danfeng's eyes and said to Liu Bei: "Big brother, this person has ill intentions, and he must be more vigilant in the future." Zhang Fei echoed and said, "The second brother is right, this Cao Cao has no good intentions at all. ”

Liu Bei smiled: "Then why did Ao Junhou come last night, but the two of you were so happy?" Didn't Cao Cao and Ao Junhou do the same thing? ”

Zhang Fei immediately shook his head and said roughly: "That's different. Big brother, Brother Mo Han is our own brother, how can he watch us fall and not help? But what is he Cao Cao? Why should we take his stuff? Anyway, I don't know Lao Zhang with him! Guan Yu nodded and said, "That's exactly the reason." Ao Junhou and our three brothers have a lot of friendship, and they have repeatedly helped each other over the years, and Ao Junhou is a bright and upright person, and he has nothing else to do. This Cao Cao is obviously here to recruit our brothers, how can he be compared with Ao Junhou? ”

Listening to the words of the two brothers, the smile on Liu Bei's face froze, he never expected that unconsciously, his two brothers had already regarded Ao Lie as his own brother, which made Liu Bei very unhappy. However, Liu Bei is a generation of heroes after all, and soon his smile became smooth again: "The second brother and the third brother are reasonable. But if we don't accept the materials sent by Cao Cao, I'm afraid we will have a personal enmity with Cao Cao. Now that the Son of Heaven is in trouble, we should focus on the overall situation. For Liu Bei, the most urgent thing at the moment is grain and grass materials, and the things in hand are not morally indebted, how can they be sent back, so they moved out of the trapping of the Son of Heaven, and then accepted the materials sent by Cao Cao in a grand manner. As soon as Liu Bei said this, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei didn't want to say anything, so they fell silent, and agreed to accept Cao Cao's gift.

After breakfast, the princes from all walks of life gathered on the platform to discuss today's war. In order to enter Luoyang as soon as possible, rescue Liu Xie as soon as possible, and lead the army to storm the Tiger Prison Pass later, and strive to take the Tiger Prison Pass in one day.

Knock - Knock Knock - Knock Knock -

The war drums were thundering in front of the Tiger Prison. The armies of the princes from all walks of life lined up in a neat battle formation, and their footsteps approached the Tiger Prison Pass with sonorous and powerful steps. Except for Tao Qian and a few other people who were the rear of the alliance, the rest of the princes' coalition troops all appeared. The morale of the nearly 200,000 troops was high, and they shouted in unison: "Kill-kill-kill——!! ”

At the head of the city, Li Ru, who rushed over early in the morning, frowned, looking at the alliance of princes under the city, with endless worries in the depths of his eyes. Because Huaxiong was killed by Guan Yu, Dong Zhuo was greatly frightened, once the Tiger Prison Pass fell, the princes' coalition army would be a horse Pingchuan, and there would be no danger of the soldiers in Luoyang. This is not what Dong Zhuo wants to see. So, Dong Zhuo asked Li Ru to bring 10,000 Xiliang soldiers, plus 40,000 Bingzhou troops under Lu Bu, to come to the Tiger Prison Pass. This is also Li Ru's idea to Dong Zhuo in private, there are not many people in Xiliang to the point that they can be squandered at will, and if they can reduce the battle damage, they should be minimized, and after Ding Yuan's death, Lu Bu suddenly had 40,000 more elite soldiers, which made Li Ru a little uneasy. Dong Zhuo agreed without thinking about it, no matter how close Lu Bu is, it is just Lu Bu alone, in the hearts of those who have joined the state army, but they all secretly hate Dong Zhuo for forcing Ding Yuan to death, and it is better to use it as cannon fodder.

Lu Bu's eyes also looked towards the city, and in the midst of the ten thousand armies, Lu Bu keenly found Ao Lie's banner. On the red and black big silk, a row of big characters is embroidered with gold thread: Han Hussar General, Champion Hou, Youzhou Mu - Ao. Under the big sword, Ao Lie was a golden-armored white horse, and his face was calm. Because his injuries had not healed yet, Ao Lie did not hold the heavy Overlord Spear, but only wore the Chixiao Divine Sword on his waist to defend himself.

Ao Lie raised his head and looked at Lu Bu at the same time. The eyes of the two brothers met in mid-air, and they exchanged their eyes silently.

Lu Bu's eyes were filled with deep concern, and Ao Lie's eyes were filled with a warm smile, indicating that his body was fine, and he also stretched out his right hand and beat his left chest twice to reassure Lu Bu.

This kind of scene is rare, the main generals of the two sides turned out to be good brothers who lived and died together, and both of them had no intention of fighting each other, but they were forced to fight each other because of the situation. On the battlefield, the two took advantage of the gap before the battle, and also exchanged their thoughts with their eyes, I have to say that Ao Lie and Lu Bu are simply two strange things that have not appeared on the battlefield since ancient times.

After the silent exchange between the two, they each withdrew their eyes, and they knew in their hearts that no matter how deep the brotherhood between the two was, this battle must be fought, and they must find a way to let their side win.

Li Ru, who was a little worried, turned his head and asked Lu Bu: "Fengxian, how to fight this battle?" ”

Lu Bu suddenly chuckled, and said confidently: "Let's stick to it first, let them try the natural danger of the Tiger Prison Pass, if they want to break the Tiger Prison Pass, these people are not enough to see." In the afternoon, a certain person personally went out to kill their prestige. When Lu Bu said such a thing, he naturally had his reasoning. Fighting with the Huns at the border for a long time has made Lu Bu's tactical attainments quite mature, and he is not the brave and unscrupulous appearance in history. At this moment, there are 10,000 soldiers in the Tiger Prison Pass, including the 10,000 Xiliang troops brought by Li Ru, and the 40,000 Bingzhou troops under Lu Bu, plus the 50,000 horses brought by Huaxiong before, there are 100,000 troops in the pass. And if you want to attack, you must have more than three times as many people inside, or even more people. And the princes' coalition army is only more than 200,000 at the moment, obviously not meeting the base conditions for forcibly breaking through the Tiger Pass, besides, the people of the princes from all walks of life don't look at the number of people, but many of the soldiers are county soldiers, and even the recruits who were temporarily brought in to enter the battlefield after only a few days of training, with the military quality of these soldiers, it is really difficult to break through the Tiger Pass.

Comprehending Lu Bu's intentions, Li Ru's heart settled down a little. Li Ru is a strategist, although he can kill people without blinking, and he has also experienced the baptism of many war scenes, but after all, he does not have the killing spirit of a military general, and he suddenly saw more than 200,000 troops, and he was really a little flustered. After Lu Bu's words, Li Ru's somewhat flustered heart quickly stabilized. What Lu Bu said, it's not that he doesn't understand, it's just that he is a little messy because of his panic. reacted at this moment, and Li Ru regained his composure.

After closing it, Ao Lie stretched out his hand and pulled off the dragon mask, and said in a deep voice: "All kinds of armies, I plan to attack the city." In a word, the war between the two sides was ignited.

The alliance of princes shouted loud slogans, and the sword and shield hands in the front and the city raiding team roared, and under the leadership of Sun Jian, launched the first wave of impact towards the Tiger Prison Pass. Immediately afterwards, it was Gongsun Zhan led by the five thousand white horse volunteers, these five thousand elites shuttled around the battlefield, and the crossbows in their hands had been aimed at the head of the city of the Tiger Prison Pass, just waiting for the front army troops to run to the pass, they would shoot the crossbow arrows out of the city, suppress the defenders on the Tiger Prison Pass, and create an opportunity for the front vanguard to climb the city. After Bai Ma Yicong, it was Ao Lie's private army, and at this critical moment, Ao Lie did not deliberately hide his strength, and sacrificed the two major killing weapons of the stone thrower and the arrow tower. As soon as these two killer weapons appeared, they attracted the attention of everyone in Guan. The princes from all walks of life were amazed by the two major killing weapons sacrificed by Ao Lie, and some extremely ambitious princes, such as Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, also quietly instructed their henchmen and strategists to secretly study the styles and operation methods of these two major killing weapons in order to develop them themselves in the future. And Lu Bu and Li Ru, who were closed, were full of shock in their eyes, they hadn't seen arrow towers and stone throwers, but the three-story arrow towers and giant stone throwers like Ao Lie's command, the two of them were really unheard of.

"Huhu-" The stone thrower began to play its role, and a huge stone with the size of a grinding plate, with the momentum of wind and thunder, smashed from mid-air towards the head of the Tiger Prison Pass. The person in command of the stone thrower was the veteran Huang Zhong, who had already received Ao Lie's order in advance that the boulder thrown by the stone thrower must avoid where Lu Bu was. Therefore, Huang Zhong ordered the boulders thrown by his subordinates to be thrown in a fan shape, avoiding the location of Lu Bu in the center of the Tiger Prison Pass, and flying towards the two wings.

"This, is it a stone thrower? How can there be such a terrifying momentum? Li Ru asked in disbelief.

A smile flashed at the corner of Lu Bu's mouth, and soon disappeared again, and said flatly: "No matter what kind of miracle Ao Mohan creates, he will not think that there is anything strange, he deserves the words Tianzhong Wizard." ”

Li Ru was silent when he heard this. Yes, Li Ru has only seen Ao Lie twice, but every time they meet, Ao Lie can always do something beyond Li Ru's resemblance. The same is true for the assassination of Dong Zhuo, and the same is true for the current stone thrower and arrow tower.

Peng Peng Peng –

A violent collision sounded, and the boulder thrown by the catapult had already smashed to the head of the city. The screams of the defenders immediately came and went, and even many people, without even having a chance to shout, were smashed into meatloaf by the falling boulders.