Not long after Liu Bei and others embarked on the road of escape, Xu Shu's old mother was the first to fall behind because of her old age, and was captured by Cao Jun and dedicated to Cao Cao. Cao Cao used Xu Shu's mother as a threat, and sent someone to meet Xu Shu privately, so that he could betray Liu Bei and come to Cao Ying. Xu Shu had no choice but to say goodbye to Liu Bei, and since then he has become Cao Cao's subordinate.

It is worth mentioning that Xu Shu's mother did not choose to commit suicide as soon as she saw Xu Shu arrive in Cao Ying, as described in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so there is no such thing as "Xu Shu killed his mother because of his resentment against Cao Cao, and his heart is in Han from then on", Zhuge Liang and others were worried that their marching route had been exposed and would be caught up by Cao Jun, so they suggested that Liu Bei change his goal and attack Xiangyang first. Liu Bei couldn't bear to meet Liu Biao's son Liu Cong because he treated him well before his death, so he didn't accept the proposal and still chose to go to Jiangling.

As a result, Liu Bei and his party were quickly caught up by Cao's army, with heavy casualties, and Jiangling City was also controlled in advance by the cavalry sent by Cao Cao. At the critical moment, Zhao Yun, the god of Changbanpo, and Zhang Fei, the god of Dangyang Bridge, stood up, and with the strong deterrent power of both of them as "ten thousand enemies", Cao Jun was forced to slow down the pursuit, and Liu Biao's eldest son, Liu Qi, who was the Taishou of Jiangxia at the time, happened to send troops to respond, and Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others were able to safely retreat to Jiangxia.

Subsequently, it was the well-known "Sun-Liu Alliance", Sun Quan was worried that Jingzhou would be lost, and once Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Cao again, he would not be able to face the powerful Cao army alone, so he sent Lu Su to meet with Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang. Through the sincere cooperation of Sun and Liu, in the end, Sun Quan sent 30,000 troops and Liu Bei sent 10,000 troops, forming a coalition army of about 40,000 people, led by Zhou Yu, and stationed in Chibi on the south bank of the Yangtze River before Cao's army crossed the river.

Seeing this, Cao Cao personally led 200,000 Cao troops into Wulin and confronted the Sun-Liu coalition army across the river.

The Battle of Chibi began.

This battle is the second large-scale battle that will have a direct impact on the general trend of the world after the Battle of Guandu, so in addition to the forces of Cao, Sun, and Liu who participated in the war, other princes in the world also turned their eyes to Chibi at the same time, anxiously waiting for the final result of this battle. If Cao's army wins, then it will only be a matter of time before Cao Cao unifies the world, and there is no other way for the princes to compete with it; If the Sun-Liu coalition wins, the split situation of the Han Dynasty will continue to maintain for a long time, and the other princes who are weak will still be able to survive in the cracks.

The only one who didn't pay attention to the outcome of this battle was Yuan Xi, the general of the Han Dynasty and the assassin of Youzhou. Tian Yu and others had proposed to him that, like other princes, they would also send Xizuo to the south to watch the battle, so that they could know the result of the battle as soon as possible.

Yuan Xi waved his hand and said with a smile: "The Cao army will be defeated in this battle, so why bother." With this spare time, why don't you investigate what Gongsun Kang has been busy with recently? ”

"How did the general know that Cao's army would be defeated?"

"Because the commander of the Sun-Liu coalition army is Zhou Yu."

Tian Yu pursed his lips and wanted to say, "Zhou Yu is just a useless scholar, how can he be Cao Cao's opponent......" but thinking that Yuan Xi had just defeated Cao Cao once before, he finally choked on this sentence.

After all, even Yuan Xi, who has been inconspicuous in the early years and looks not much better than waste, can complete the transformation, and more and more show the posture of a generation of heroes; Who knows if Zhou Yu, a white-faced scholar who has never presided over a big war, will also make a gorgeous turn at this critical juncture?

Don't blame Tian Yu for looking down on Zhou Yu, in fact, at this time, even several bigwigs within the Sun-Liu coalition army, such as Liu Bei, the commander of the Liu army, and Cheng Pu, the deputy commander of the Sun army, were skeptical of Zhou Yu's talent. If Yuan Xi hadn't had the perspective of God and knew that Zhou Yu did not fight hard with Cao's army in this battle, but sent Huang Gai to surrender and then use fire to win, he would not have believed that Cao Cao's 200,000-strong army would be wiped out in Chibi.

"Zhou Yu, you have to defeat Cao Cao again according to the trend of history, don't do anything about it, my third-step plan depends on you!"

Yuan Xi's third step plan was to capture Liaodong and Liaoxi, and then control the Korean Peninsula.

As for the use of him in conquering these areas, we will talk about it later.

Now he feels that it is time to deal with the relationship with his wife Zhen Mi.

At this time, almost a year has passed since Zhen Mi was put back by Cao Cao.

As time passed, the knot of her inferiority complex due to being taken away by Cao Pi slowly opened, which was manifested in the fact that she became more and more like Tang Seng.

"Husband, which Hu tribe did you say Caesar from last time, and what happened to him and that Hu Cleopatra in the end?"

"Husband, last time you said that it doesn't matter if Mi'er gained weight, said that there is a big beauty named Yang Yuhuan who is also slightly fat, I have read all the ancient books, why have I never seen this person?"

"Husband, last time you said that there was a person who was angry and turned red, what does this mean?"

……

Yuan Xi spends every night like this.

In fact, not to mention, Zhen Mi and Tang Seng are indeed a little similar, but it is not that there are many words, but that he/she has a mysterious color.

Tang Seng is said to be the reincarnation of the "Golden Cicada", and eating his meat can lead to immortality.

Zhen Mi was seen by a warlock who was extremely accurate in divination, and the warlock concluded: This woman is unspeakably expensive and will become a queen.

In other words, Zhen Mi is also a piece of Tang monk meat, although she can't live forever after eating her, but if you marry her, you can be the son of heaven.

Although Yuan Xi firmly believes in science and does not believe in the dregs of feudal superstition, he has to admit that after he recaptured Zhen Mi, his luck did get better and better.

Soon after, the detailed report sent to Liaodong to inquire about the news: "General, Gongsun Kang is gathering a large army recently, preparing to go to Goguryeo!" ”

At that time, Gongsun Kang ruled today's Liaoning, Goguryeo ruled today's Jilin, and the armies of both sides were not less than 100,000.

I really just wanted to fall asleep, and someone brought me a pillow. Yuan Xi vaguely remembered that in history, Gongsun Kang did have a big war with Goguryeo, but the time of the outbreak seemed to have to wait a few years later, and as a result, Gongsun Kang seemed to be in a hurry to help him complete the third step of the plan, and directly advanced the time of the outbreak of this war.

"Zhen Ji is in hand, I have it in the world!" That night, Yuan Xi was about to continue telling the story to Zhen Mi by candlelight, when he suddenly found that his wife seemed to be different from usual.

Women admire heroes, and now Yuan Xi, with a series of actions after his crossing, can undoubtedly be worthy of the word "hero", at least a hundred times stronger than the damn Cao Pi.

Zhen Mi knew that Yuan Xi was about to go to Liaodong, and it would take several months to return at the earliest, so she bathed and changed her clothes early this night, put on the most beautiful jewelry in front of the bronze mirror, and even used the spices of the Western Regions that Yan Rou had brought back from outside the fortress that Yan Rou had been reluctant to use before, which was said to be more valuable than gold.

"Poof!" Without waiting for Yuan Xi to speak, Zhen Mi lightly opened her lips, and the candle on the side went out in the wind.

So this night, although Yuan Xi didn't tell a story, he found that his mouth was even more dry than before, and he didn't fall asleep until midnight.