The next day, the elite cavalry led by Yuan Shang, after many incidents, finally arrived in Runan.

Seeing the peace of Runan from a distance, Yuan Shang's heart finally slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

How many days of hardship, how many days of travel, how many days of fatigue, their five thousand elite horsemen from north to south, almost across the entire Central Plains boundary, and now finally arrived at Runan City.

What does it mean that hard work pays off, this is it.

Five thousand elite horsemen rode mightily, stepping on the grass and shaking the dust, majestic and solemn, and drove towards Runan City with high momentum.

The ancient and heavy city wall, the majestic and spacious city gate, the red lining "Liu" character banner erects the city tower in the middle, the wind is blowing, the fierce flying and dancing, the grass under the city is green, the official road is neat and tidy, the willows are shady beside the road, fluttering with the wind, it is all a group of peaceful appearance, let people unconsciously feel relaxed and happy, and the mind is all lingering in it.

"Report!"

A cavalry scout rushed from the direction of Runan City, but the day before yesterday, Yuan Shang was selected from the army and sent to Runan City to inform Liu Bei's elite soldiers.

The scout Pegasus approached, arched his hand at Yuan Shang, and reported: "The prince of Qiyu, the general of Hanzuo and the leader of Yuzhou Mu Liu Bei, is now leading his civil and military officials to line up outside the gates of the north and south cities of Ru to greet the prince in person, and the etiquette is very scrupulous!" ”

Yuan Shang blinked when he heard this, nodded and sighed: "In the end, it is the emperor of the Han family, the uncle of the Son of Heaven, he is gentle and elegant in doing things, knowledgeable and courteous, our army has not yet arrived, and he has set up a battle at the gate of Runan City so early." ”

Zhang Jaw on the side smiled slightly when he heard this, and said: "This matter has long been expected by the last general, and now everyone in the world knows that between the world, if you talk about the depth of hatred, between Cao Cao and Liu Bei is the most!" The main male whale swallowed Hebei, Cao Cao tiger in the Central Plains, and the two sides fought in accordance with the situation and had to do it. But Liu Bei and Cao Cao are different, when conquering Lu Bu, Liu Bei was originally Cao Cao's guest general, and Cao Cao paid attention to it, but Liu Bei not only turned his back on him afterwards, but also did everything with Cao Cao. disrupted Cao Cao's orthodox status in conquering the world, if it weren't for Cao Cao's need to confront our army at this moment, I am afraid that he would have gone south to kill Liu Bei a thousand times. ”

Yuan Shang nodded when he heard this, and said: "What General Zhang means is that Liu Bei is treating us so enthusiastically now, in fact, he is selfish, he befriends us and uses us to contain Cao Cao, so that he can have a chance to breathe and develop steadily in the south....... And in fact, we did, right? ”

Zhang Jaw nodded and said, "That's exactly what the last general meant." ”

Yuan Shang's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he said thoughtfully: "In this case, we are Liu Bei's benefactors?" He's got to beg us? ”

Zhang Jaw and Yuan Shang have been getting along for a long time, and their hearts suddenly wake up, knowing that although this son is elegant on the outside, he is actually ...... in his heart How to describe it, it is a few points darker than Cao Cao.

Yuan Shang's current expression is already very familiar with Zhang Jaw..... Obviously, there is something in my heart..... Idea.

"Childe, what do you want to do? Seeing that you are about to arrive in Runan, don't be playing any strange names, the last general really can't afford to be a foil."

Zhang Jaw's tone sounded obviously a little trembling, and it was no wonder that one of the dignified Hebei Four Court Pillars actually asked him to pretend that Guan Yu was bad for someone else's reputation, and Zhang Jaw lived to such a big time, this kind of rotten eye thing was really the first time to do it.

Yuan Shang turned a deaf ear and said with a smile: "General Zhang, after your analysis just now, I think our position and status should actually be higher than expected, after all, Liu Bei is asking us now, so this time, it should not be that we ask him to send troops to attack Cao Cao's rear, but that we help him send troops, or order him to send troops!" To be anti-customer-oriented, such a good opportunity can't be wasted, there is a cheap and don't take advantage of the bastard! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Jaw said in surprise: "Please send him troops..... Help him send troops? It's all troops, is there any difference? Also, What is Wang Ba? ”

"Of course it's different, it's a world of difference! The position is intangible, but in fact it is very important, and it is much more useful than some physical objects, General Zhang is very good at fighting, but he is not good at negotiations, this meeting Liu Bei, or give me full authority to be responsible......... As for the king eight, commonly known as the turtle, it is the oldest living reptile and refers to all members of the turtle order. ”

"Negotiations? Who is going to negotiate? A rather excited voice suddenly sounded behind Yuan Shang, which immediately frightened Yuan Sangongzi.

Deng Zhubo didn't know when, he suddenly hit his horse in high spirits, with an inexplicable excited look on his face.

Yuan Shang touched his chest and said dissatisfiedly: "I told you, don't suddenly appear behind me!" Otherwise, it's easy for me to subconsciously turn around and cut you down, I'll react quickly! ”

Lord Deng Bo didn't care, and smiled like a flower: "Childe, did you just say that you were going to negotiate?" This matter can come in handy! In the next day, I would like to share the worries of the son. ”

Yuan Shang was surprised when he heard this: "What kind of ears do you have, you can hear me in such a low-key conversation?" ”

Master Deng smiled: "Childe, Deng's ears are not the point, the point is Deng's three-inch tongue, which will be of great use to Childe." ”

Yuan Shang's brows furrowed slightly: "I know that your mouth is full of wind leakage, and I really haven't seen it if it's not rotten." ”

Lord Deng's face changed, and he wanted to argue a few words for his eloquence, but when he saw Gao Ran flying horses, he arched his hand at Yuan Shang and said: "Son, the north gate of Pingyu has arrived, and Liu Bei led a group of civil and military officials to wait in front!" ”

"Good!" Yuan Shang's face was straight, he thought about it carefully, and said: "The whole army dismounted, walked over, many people are not strange, everyone has gone out of the city to welcome us, we can't be too hypocritical, the first time we meet, we need to leave a good impression on Uncle Liu Huang, let the brothers suffer some hardship, come down and walk a few steps with me!" ”

"No!"

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At the north gate of Pingyu, Liu Bei led a group of civil and military officials to welcome guests outside the city gate.

I looked up at the sky, but when I saw that the sun was shining, it was close to noon.

Behind Liu Bei, led by the two generals Guan Zhang, all the civil and military soldiers were straight, with a regular military appearance and a very good posture.

"Big brother, Yuan Jun is here!" Guan Yu's Danfeng eyes narrowed slightly, and he stroked three strands of long hair and said to Liu Bei.

When Liu Bei heard this, he looked up, and saw that on the horizon in the distance, a cavalry team maintained a fairly regular formation, and walked towards him without hurrying.

Zhang Fei raised his eyebrows and said strangely: "Big brother! Why was Yuan's march so slow? ”

Liu Bei raised his head and looked at it carefully for a moment, nodded with a smile: "It is worthy of being the son of Yuan Benchu, he really has the style of a father, and he is polite!" Third brother, you see, although Yuan Jun is all elite cavalry generals, he has already dismounted and come on foot at this moment, which can be said to be very respectful to us...... Yuan Sangongzi, it is not in vain that I personally led the crowd out of the city to greet him, it is really good, no wonder he is as rare as his life, this son is very important in the beginning. ”

Between the words, Yuan Jun's soldiers and horses have come closer, although it is only on foot, but the sand and dust brought up by the five thousand horses is also shocking, the flying sand, the rumbling ground, mixed with the sound of the soldiers neatly listing the footsteps, it can be said that the sky is completely shaken, and the effect is amazing.

Seeing that he was less than a hundred steps away from Liu Bei's greeting procession, Gao Ran suddenly raised his hand and shouted at the soldiers behind him, saying, "The whole army stops!" ”

"Huh!"

"Huh!"

"Huh!"

The neat footsteps suddenly stopped in front of the city gate, and the horses were also pulled by the soldiers of Yuan, neighing and stopping, and the five thousand men and horses were waiting in order, looking at the city gate from afar.

Liu Bei nodded with a smile and said to himself: "Yes, it can be regarded as a biao army." ”

Guan Yu turned his head sideways and said in a low voice, "Big brother, can you see what's wrong?" ”

Liu Bei shook his head lightly and said with a smile: "There's nothing wrong with it, Yun Chang, you see that the general who commanded the soldiers is Gao Lan, the fierce general under Yuan Shao's account, when I first sent the fence under the original account, I had seen this person, and it was absolutely true!" ”

When Guan Yu heard this, his heart that had been hanging was slightly put down.

Liu Bei took the lead and walked along: "Princes, follow me to welcome guests from Hebei." ”

When everyone heard this, they all followed Liu Bei's footsteps, but no one saw that in the welcoming team, after seeing each other's people clearly, their faces suddenly turned purple, as if they had eaten a fly alive, nauseous and nauseous, indescribable in words.

These two people are Mi Zhu and Gong Du.

Gong Du trembled and pointed at the incoming army, and said to Mi Zhu in disbelief: "Mi engaged, this ..... This.... Isn't this the group of thieves who pretend to be our army? How did you become a distinguished guest from afar in the blink of an eye? ”

Mi Zhu also rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and after seeing it clearly, he couldn't help wiping the sweat on his head with his wide sleeves, and said in a low voice: "Don't panic, don't panic, this matter is still uncertain, don't move for the time being, and let me take a closer look." ”

Between the two of them talking, Liu Bei was already striding forward, and smiled at Yuan Shang, who was also ushered by Shi Shiran, and said with a smile: "Come, isn't it the son of the old man, Yuan Shang and Yuan Shi's nephew?" ”

Yuan Shang also stepped forward with a smile, smiling like the wind, the two of them clasped their hands together, with such an affectionate look, people who didn't know couldn't tell that these two people were meeting for the first time.

Yuan Shang took the gift of his juniors, and arched his hand at Liu Bei and said, "Boy Yuan Shang, I have seen Xuande Gong!" When the boy was in Yecheng, he often listened to his father talk about the good of Xuande Gong, and often praised Xuande Gong's reputation for benevolence, ordinary people did not reach him, he still wanted to see the public for a long time, and he finally got what he wanted today. ”

Liu Bei laughed, raised his hand and patted Yuan Shang's arm affectionately and said, "The virtuous nephew is too polite, when it comes to demeanor and benevolence, where can he be compared to the first brother?" Ling Zun is the true hero of the world's benevolence and the return of the scholar! Hehe, the first time I saw my virtuous nephew today, it was quite the style of the first brother back then, and sure enough, the tiger father has no dog! The first brother has such a good child, which is really enviable. ”

Yuan Shang hurriedly waved his hand when he heard this, and said: "Xuande Gong praises too much, he still deserves it, Xuande Gong, I will introduce you to you, these two are my Hebei generals, Zhang Jaw and Gao Lan!" This time I came to Runan, and I was able to meet with the Xuande Guild safely, thanks to the help of the two of them! ”

Zhang Jaw and the master strode forward and bowed together.

Zhang Jaw smiled and said, "Xuande Gong, long time no see." ”

Liu Bei also hurriedly returned the salute and said with a smile: "General Zhang, General Gao, since Hebei, the two generals can still be healthy?" ”

Gao Ran laughed and said, "Hahaha, Hong Fujiyan of Tuo Xuande Gong, the two of us have fought so far, and we are still here!" Even if it's a good life. ”

Everyone listened to Gao Ran's funny words, and they also laughed along.

But seeing Liu Bei raise his hand back, he said to Yuan Shang: "Come on, come on, virtuous nephew, and let Bei introduce you to a few arms under your command, if you have something in the future, you will be familiar with it." ”

Yuan Shang hurriedly clenched his fists: "I'm tired!" ”

"This is the righteous brother of Beizhi, Guan Yu Guan Yunchang, hehe, there was some misunderstanding with Ben Chu back then, and today I am introduced to the virtuous nephew, and I hope that we will go away from our previous suspicions, and work together in the future to swear to fight Cao Thief."

The man in front of him is burly, tall, with a face like a heavy jujube red, a long jaw and a neat and mighty beard, and a good momentum, a sense of arrogance is self-explanatory, needless to say, it is the famous martial saint Guan Yu.

The meaning of Liu Bei's words, Yuan Shang understood that the so-called misunderstanding was the killing of the famous Hebei general Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

"Where did Xuande Gong say, the matter between General Guan and Hebei at the beginning was the master of each other, and he had no choice but to do so, and my father had long been out of his mind." Yuan Shang smiled slightly, and said a word.

When Guan Yu heard this, his good impression of Yuan Shang increased, and he arched his hand at Yuan Shang with his fist.

Liu Bei was heartbroken, and then introduced a giant man who had just had a beard, but did not lose his heroism, to Yuan Shang: "This is also the righteous brother of Beizhi!" Zhang Fei, the word Yide. ”

Yuan Shang suddenly heard the words: "It turned out to be the famous General Zhang, who has been admired for a long time, and I have heard that Your Excellency is very brave, and he fought Lu Bu alone in the Tiger Prison Pass without falling behind. No more than ordinary people! ”

Zhang Fei smiled heartily when he heard this, and laughed: "Yuan Gongzi is polite, a certain family is ashamed!" ”

One after another, Liu Bei pointed to another person: "This is Sun Qian, the word Gongyou, and he is now engaged in it." ”

Yuan Shang smiled and clenched his fists: "Look up for a long time." ”

"This is Jian Yong Jian Xianhe, a fellow countryman of Bei, and now he is a guest under the tent."

Yuan Shang nodded: "Look up for a long time." ”

"This is Mi Zhu, Mi Zizhong, who used to be a giant in Xuzhou, and he was in danger when he was prepared, and he was not as good as others."

Yuan Shang turned his head and smiled at Mi Zhu: "Long admiration...... Hiss——!! ”

Behind Yuan Shang, who had been swerving his eyebrows and rat eyes, Deng Zhubo, who was looking around, also subconsciously "Ah!" when he saw Mi Zhu! With a stunned expression, he blurted out: "Why are you!" ”

"What are you!" Yuan Shang's face turned pale, and he hurriedly kicked Deng Zhu Bo on the heel: "You don't know people, what are you pretending to be familiar!" ”

Master Deng Bo reacted when he heard this, nodded hurriedly, and said with a smile: "Yes, that's right, that's right, I want to say ..... I don't know you, I don't know you! ”

Mi Zhu had already seen the two of them clearly at this moment, his face was red and blue, slightly stiff, and he shook his teeth and opened his mouth: "It's really you?" ”

Liu Bei looked at Yuan Shang curiously, as well as Deng Zhubo behind him, turned his head and looked at Mi Zhu again, and said strangely: "Zizhong, do you know each other?" ”

"I don't know, I definitely don't know!" Yuan Shang and Deng Zhubo opened their mouths together to deny it.

Mi Zhu took a deep breath and arched his hand at Liu Bei: "Lord, this third prince of Yuan is ......."

"It's the son of Yuan Shao of Hebei! Through and through! Yuan Shang hurriedly spoke.

Deng Zhubo hurriedly helped on the side: "He is still the virtuous nephew of Xuande Gong." ”

Mi Zhu frowned, and said, "The soldiers behind them ......."

"All of them are teachers of benevolence and righteousness!" Yuan Shang hurriedly said again.

"Law-abiding, quite law-abiding!" Deng Zhubo helped again.

Mi Zhu's face turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The horses behind them ......."

"Good horse! All of them are good horses brought from Youzhou, Hebei, and they have nothing to do with other places, and they are original! Yuan Shang's face was very solemn.

Lord Deng nodded vigorously to help: "Not bad, they are all good horses with Youzhou flavor, Xuande Gong doesn't believe that he can kill two horses to taste." ”