Yuan Shu knew that it was impossible to attack Xuzhou, so he hurriedly gathered the remaining soldiers and horses and fled straight to his Huainan direction.

Lu Bu's troops won a great victory, invited Guan Yu, Yang Feng, Han Xian and other people to Xuzhou, and personally held a banquet, for the people who participated in the war this time were rewarded, Guan Yu thought that Liu Bei still needed himself, and it was inconvenient to stay for too long, so he resigned.

Lu Bu promoted Han Xian as Yidu Mu and Yang Feng as Langya Mu, and prepared to let the two of them stay in Xuzhou to help him.

After Chen Jue found out, he hurriedly came out to dissuade him, and said: "Han and Yang occupy Shandong, so within a year, the cities below Shandong will be generals." ”

Lu Bu agreed, so he sent the two of them to temporarily camp in Yidu and Langya to wait for their lives.

At this point, Chen Deng was a little puzzled, and asked his father: "Why don't you leave these two people in Xuzhou, you can repay our hatred." ”

replied: "No, if these two people go to help Lu Bu, then we will be in trouble." Chen Deng understood and admired repeatedly.

After Guan Yu returned to Yuzhou, he first went to see Liu Bei and told Liu Bei the news of Yuan Shu's defeat, and Liu Bei was in a good mood.

After Guan Yu came out, he ran into Yu Yi, and Yu Yi smiled and said, "Second Brother Guan went out to fight, why didn't you take my little brother with me?" ”

He replied, "I didn't go out!" ”

In fact, Guan Yu's trip to Xuzhou was secretly arranged by Liu Bei, and he absolutely couldn't tolerate Yuan Shu's claim to be emperor, so no matter what, Yuan Shu had to pay the corresponding price, and going by himself would cause Cao Cao's suspicions, so he sent Guan Yu to fight.

Yuyi walked up to Guan Yu, looked into his eyes, and suddenly shouted: "Second brother, you are lying!" ”

At this time, Zhang Fei also came, and when he saw Yuyi blocking Guan Yu's way, he said, "Fourth brother, what are you doing, what are you doing to stop the second brother?" ”

Yu Yi said softly: "Second brother is lying!" ”

Zhang Fei said: "How do you lie? ”

Guan Yu thought that if Zhang Fei knew that he didn't take him with him when he went out to fight, he would definitely make the whole Yuzhou know, so he walked up to Yuyi and said secretly: "Please hide this matter, I owe you a favor!" ”

It has risen to the height of owing favors, Yu Yi thought about it, this deal is very cost-effective, and immediately agreed, and said to Zhang Fei: "Actually, Second Brother Guan fell in love with a girl in the city, I asked him, and he said no!" ”

Zhang Fei patted Guan Yu on the shoulder and said, "There is nothing to be shy about this kind of thing, whoever you like, you can marry home." ”

Guan Yu had no choice but to smile, and this matter was resolved.

After the defeat of Yuan Shu's army, he returned to Huainan, and the resentment in his heart was difficult to eliminate, so he sent someone to Jiangdong to find Sun Ce to borrow troops, ready to be ashamed, but Sun Ce immediately refused, saying: "You rely on my jade seal and don't return it, and you dare to call yourself the emperor and betray the Han Dynasty, which is really a big rebellion!" I'm about to go on a crusade against you, how can I lend you a traitor? So he wrote letters, in which he was full of ridicule and abuse, and rejected them in one go.

After Yuan Shu read the reply, he scolded angrily and said, "Huangkou Ruzi, he is so rude, I should go to crusade against him first!" ”

General Yang came out to admonish and said: "Now we have just been defeated, Sun Ce has the Yangtze River as a natural danger, we can't go." ”

Yuan Shu's anger subsided a lot after hearing this, and then he gave up this idea.

Sun Ce knew that his reply would definitely arouse Yuan Shu's anger, so he deployed heavy troops at the mouth of the river to guard against Yuan Shu.

Suddenly, someone reported, saying that Cao Cao's envoy had arrived, and he was reading out the edict of the emperor, worshiping Sun Ce as the Huiji Taishou, and ordering him to raise troops to attack Yuan Shu.

Although Sun Ce was going to attack Yuan Shu in the letter, he didn't really plan to go, and now the edict asked him to send troops, so the situation was complicated, so he gathered everyone to discuss, and felt that the meaning of the edict could not be violated, so he was ready to raise troops.

Changshi Zhang Zhao said: "Although Yuan Shu failed, but in Huainan soldiers are rich in food, can not underestimate the enemy, it is better to write a letter to Cao Cao, persuade him to go south, and then we, as internal response, can be used as each other as rescue, Yuan Shu will be defeated, can be foolproof, and also hope that Cao Cao can rescue." ”

Sun Ce heeded this suggestion and sent someone to Cao Cao to explain the situation.

The fiasco of Wancheng still made Cao Cao remember it deeply, especially the loss of his beloved general Dian Wei, and set up a spiritual seat in Xu Du, so that everyone could go to worship together, and his son Dian Man was named Zhonglang and adopted in his mansion.

Suddenly, someone came to report, saying that he had received Sun Ce's letter, so Cao Cao opened it and looked at it, and someone came to report that Yuan Shu was short of food, and wanted to rob Chen Liu's grain, and wanted to take advantage of the situation.

Cao Cao didn't want to wade into troubled waters, but Yuan Shu took the initiative to come to the door, so he could only send troops, so he prepared to march south, sent Cao Ren to guard Xudu, and the rest of the people went out together, with a total of 170,000 horses and soldiers, and more than 1,000 carts of grain and baggage.

On the one hand, he sent a letter, and went to Sun Ce, Liu Bei, and Lu Bu to the boundary of Yuzhou with soldiers and horses.

After the defeat of Yuan Shu's army, Liu Bei has been paying attention to the dynamics in Huainan, knowing that Yuyi brought news that Yuan Shu was short of food and was ready to plunder Chen Liu, so he was sure that Cao Cao was finally going to personally join the army, so he went to the border early to meet Cao Cao.

After greeting each other, Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei to take two heads, Cao Cao was very surprised, and said, "Whose head are you up?" ”

Liu Bei said: "This is the head of Han Xian and Yang Feng?" ”

Cao Cao asked, "How did you cut it?" ”

Liu Bei explained: "Lu Bu sent these two people to live in Yidu and Langya counties, but I didn't expect that the two of them would take soldiers and horses to plunder the people everywhere, and everyone would spit on them, so I invited them to a banquet, lied that they wanted to discuss matters, and when they were drinking, they let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei come out to kill them, and then subdue his old department, and now they have come to ask the prime minister for guilt!" ”

After Cao Cao understood what happened, he smiled and said: "You are doing harm to the country, you have made great contributions, how can you say that you are guilty?" ”

So he rewarded Liu Bei, joined forces with Liu Bei, and went to the boundary of Xuzhou.

Lu Bu came out to greet him, Cao Cao appeased, made him General Zuo, and promised on the spot that after returning to Xudu, he would give him the seal ribbon. Lü Bu originally wanted these reputations, and he was very happy when he heard them, so Cao Cao assigned one army to Lü Bu and another to Liu Bei, commanded the Chinese army himself, and ordered Xiahoudun and Yu Ban to be the vanguard.

Yuan Shu knew that Cao Cao was coming with his troops, so he ordered the general Qiao Rui to bring 50,000 soldiers and horses as a vanguard, and met near the Shouchun Boundary Pass.