Choose Liu Bei at the start, I am the only one who knows the plot of the Three Kingdoms

Wu Heng.

Inside Cao Cao's military tent.

After losing the previous battle, Cao Cao led his remaining soldiers to retreat to Wuheng. At this time, the atmosphere in the military tent was extremely silent, and everyone was silent, with a sad look on their faces.

Even Cao Cao fell into silence now, and could no longer say anything like making money with blood as before.

Finally, after a long time, Chen Gong spoke to break the silence.

"When I heard that Liu Bei's main force was deployed and Xu Rong was left alone to garrison the camp, I felt something was wrong, but I couldn't figure it out for the moment."

Chen Gong sighed and said: "After I sent out the troops, I looked at the surrounding map and realized that there was a Jedi position behind Liu Bei's camp, which was a perfect place to set up an ambush. I immediately led troops to support, but unfortunately...it was still a step too late in the end."

"It was me who underestimated the enemy and underestimated Xu Rong, which led to Zi Lian's death."

Cao Cao took a deep breath and said: "This battle was a disastrous defeat and Zi Lian died. The fault is all my fault. You don't have to blame yourself."

As soon as Cao Cao finished speaking, a soldier suddenly ran into the military tent, knelt down and cupped his hands and said: "My lord, General Le has returned to the camp and is asking for an audience outside the camp!"

"Quick pass!"

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, then immediately spoke.

"yes!"

The soldier nodded, then turned and left.

Soon, Le Jin, who was covered in injuries, hurriedly walked into the military tent. As soon as he saw Cao Cao, Le Jin fell to his knees with a "dong" sound!

"Lord!"

Le Jin gritted his teeth, lowered his head, and did not look at Cao Cao at all. He cupped his hands and said: "Yuan Rang and I followed the order to cut off the enemy's food route. When we learned that Liu Bei was leading his troops to pursue us, we wanted to evacuate with a group of cavalry, but we failed. The main road is blocked by Liu Jun!"

Le Jin paused, a little embarrassed to speak, but finally said: "Yuan Rang was defeated and captured. Only I and dozens of cavalry escaped, and joined the army that came to meet us!"

Upon hearing this, the generals in the camp suddenly widened their eyes.

Xiahou Dun was defeated and captured?

"How can it be?!"

Xia Houyuan's eyes widened and he spoke in disbelief: "You led your cavalry to cut off the food road. It was just a bluff. The enemy soldiers retreated immediately as soon as they arrived. How could you be caught up?"

"That Zhang Fei led his cavalry to attack, covering thousands of miles in half a day, so he was caught up."

Le Jin said with a look of shame on his face: "I'm afraid General Xiahou has already..."

The entire military tent suddenly became even quieter!

Originally, the main force had experienced an unimaginable defeat. It only had more than 2,000 men. Cao Hong died in battle!

And bad news came from Lejin. The troops who were short of food were blocked. Even Xiahou Dun was captured by Liu Bei and was very likely to be beheaded. This was just adding insult to injury!

"Zi Lian and Yuan Rang are dead, and Liu Bei and I will never live together!"

Xia Houyuan gritted his teeth and cupped his hands and said: "Master, I am willing to fight to the death with Liu Jun!"

"Miaocai is right, take revenge! Fight to the death!"

"My lord, we still have six thousand troops, why not fight Liu Bei to the death and die happily!"

The generals in the tent also spoke one after another, their faces full of anger, and they were already determined to die, and they wanted to fight Liu Jun to the death!

Seeing this scene, Chen Gong immediately said: "Generals, please listen to Gong's words. Now Liu Jun's army is at its peak, but our army only has six thousand left. If we try to compete with Liu Jun again, the fish may die, but the net may not be broken. Our army is no different than hitting an egg against a rock!"

"Are we going to sit back and watch Yuan Rang and Zi Lian's tragic death without doing anything?!" Xia Houyuan glared at Chen Gong and said.

Chen Gong looked at Cao Cao, cupped his hands and said, "My lord, we have no enmity with Liu Bei. The reason why we are fighting is because we have different ways!"

"Liu Bei has a reputation of benevolence. Since he has captured Yuan Rang, he should not kill him. My lord can send an envoy to Liu Bei to negotiate terms in exchange for Yuan Rang."

Hearing this, Cao Ren immediately retorted: "How could Liu Bei agree? Now we retreat to Wu Heng, Liu Bei will attack the city soon!"

"General Zixiao, our army suffered heavy casualties in this battle. We are no longer able to defend and compete with Liu Bei. Is it true that General Zixiao will not give up until his entire army is wiped out?"

Chen Gong immediately said: "Why not take advantage of this opportunity, follow the current, withdraw your troops directly, and get out of this muddy water?"

After saying that, Chen Gong turned to look at Cao Cao and said: "My lord, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were preparing to go north, but were defeated by Liu Bei!"

"I just received news that the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were unable to go north and were running around. From Taishan County, a large number of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans crossed the mountains and came to the border of Yanzhou. They joined forces with the local Yellow Turbans to cause chaos, burning, killing and looting everywhere!"

"Not long ago, Liu Dai, the herdsman of Yanzhou, died in battle. At this time, Yanzhou has no owner. This is the land given by God to the lord!"

Chen Gongyi raised his hand and said: "I am willing to enter Puyang and persuade Zhang Miao and others to welcome the lord to Yanzhou to resist the Yellow Turbans. I hope that the lord will put the overall situation first and not ruin the great cause of Qianqiu!"

"Take control of Yanzhou?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other in disbelief.

Even Cao Cao's eyes widened. He had already made up his mind to fight Liu Bei to the end, but when he heard what Chen Gong said, he hesitated.

Now that the world is in chaos, he wants to flatten the world, wipe out all the heroes, and then regenerate the Han Dynasty, so he must have a state as the foundation!

The reason why he and Liu Bei were at odds with each other was because Yuan Shao promised that after defeating Gongsun Zan, he would hand over Wei Commandery and Hanoi to his own management, and the two of them would work together to pacify the world!

Another point is that his trait of Traitor in Troubled Times allows his troops to enjoy the buffing effects of two strategists, which is extremely powerful!

However, he was a small prefect of Dongjun before, and the only counselor under his command was Chen Gong, a first-rate counselor!

The rest is a first-rate blank slate counselor, so the power of the traitor in troubled times has basically not been used at all!

Therefore, as long as he has another powerful adviser, it can be said that his strength will immediately undergo earth-shaking changes!

Not to mention famous ministers, even if he has two first-class advisers, even if he was still ambushed by Xu Rong in the previous battle, he would still be able to fight despite the negative effects of being ambushed!

If he could become the shepherd of Yanzhou and take charge of a state, he would most likely be able to recruit a first-rate and powerful adviser with unique characteristics!

After all, that was Zhou Mu!

There are only thirteen states in the entire world!

If there were two powerful advisers, and they faced Liu Bei later, they would definitely not be beaten to the point of being almost wiped out like they were now!

More importantly, in his exclusive mission "The Start of the Battle", after taking charge of a state, in addition to the reward of the "heroes" force characteristic that all players who own a state have, he also has a personal reward .

And this personal reward is a feature.

The name is - a capable minister in governing the world!

"Are you sure about the public broadcaster?"

Cao Cao stared at Chen Gong closely and asked, feeling a little hard to believe what Chen Gong said.

After all, that is Yanzhou Mu. He is just the governor of Dongjun now, but he can actually take over a state directly?

"My lord, I am not only familiar with the noble families in Yanzhou, but also have close contacts with the famous people in Yanzhou. I am 90% sure!"

Chen Gong cupped his hands and said in a sonorous voice: "In the land of Yanzhou, who is the master?"

"good!"

Cao Cao's eyes flickered, nodded, and immediately said: "Here comes someone!"

"exist!"

A personal guard immediately stepped forward and stood by.

Cao Cao said: "Send an envoy to Liu Bei's camp."

"yes!"

The personal guard nodded, immediately accepted the order, turned around and left in a hurry.

…………

Le Chengcheng.

"General Xu is really a tiger general!"

Xi Zhicai looked at Xu Rong with a look of amazement on his face and said: "In this battle, Cao Cao's 10,000-strong army, only 500 people escaped in the end. The rest were either killed or surrendered. I'm afraid it won't be long before General Xu will The fame is astonishing throughout the world!”

"Fortunately, I did not disgrace my lord's trust!"

Xu Rong raised his hands and said without being humble or arrogant.

Looking at Xu Rong, Gu Rubing's eyes were full of strange colors!

When he returned to Lecheng, he found that Xu Rong had already stationed in Lecheng City, and learned that out of the 10,000 Cao troops, only about 500 soldiers escaped from the siege under the leadership of Xia Houyuan, Cao Ren, and Li Dian. Cao Hong even more He was besieged to death!

Xu Rong had such a brilliant record, even he felt a little shocked!

"Hahaha, big brother really has a keen eye!"

Zhang Fei also looked excited and said: "The remaining Cao army is only five or six thousand, so it's nothing to worry about. In the next few days of repairs, we can take down the entire Hejian in one go!"

Gu Rubing nodded and said: "Second brother, order the three armies to rest for five days. After five days, the troops will be sent to Wuheng!"

"yes!"

Guan Yu nodded and immediately accepted the order.

When Guan Yu was about to turn around and leave, a guard walked into the camp, knelt down on one knee, raised his hands to Gu Rubing and said, "My lord, Cao Cao's envoy outside the camp is asking to see you."

"Cao Cao's envoy?"

Gu Rubing was startled for a moment, then instantly understood the purpose of Cao Cao's envoy, and immediately said: "Let him come in."

"yes!"

The guard nodded, got up and left in a hurry.

Soon, an envoy with a military crown on his head came to the military tent under the leadership of his personal guards.

As soon as he entered the military tent and saw Gu Rubing, the envoy immediately bowed his hands and said, "I pay my respects to Prime Minister Liu Guo."

"Why did Cao Cao send you here?"

Before Gu Rubing could speak, Zhang Fei stared at him and spoke in a loud voice.

"Return to General Zhang."

The envoy cupped his hands to Zhang Fei, then looked at Gu Rubing, and said: "My lord has no quarrel with Liu Guoxiang before. My lord is willing to withdraw his troops and restore old friendship with Liu Guoxiang. I hope Liu Guoxiang can release General Xiahou."

"Are you willing to withdraw?"

Zhang Fei snorted and said: "If you are really willing to retreat, why didn't you retreat before and attacked our army at night? Now that the entire army has been defeated, Cao Cao knows to retreat?"

After saying that, Zhang Fei looked at Gu Rubing again and said, "Brother, I think Cao Cao is scared out of his wits. There are not many soldiers and horses left in Cao Cao's army. Just attack him!"

"General Zhang's words are wrong."

The envoy shook his head and said: "The art of war has it that the first step is to attack the enemy with the enemy, then the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, and then the second is to attack the city. Attacking the city is the worst strategy."

"Although our army suffered heavy casualties in this battle, it still has the strength to fight. Why not turn the conflict into friendship?"

The envoy looked at Gu Rubing, raised his hands and said, "I heard that Mr. Liu Guoxiang has a long history of benevolence and righteousness. Now my lord is willing to withdraw his troops. Hejian can be captured without a single soldier. Is Mr. Liu Guoxian willing to cause more casualties to his troops?"

"I came here this time not only for the sake of my lord, but also for the sake of Liu Guoxiang. Liu Guoxiang raised troops to rescue Gongsun Zan, and his intention was to fight quickly. Why should the two be fighting?"

"As long as my lord withdraws his troops, Yuan Shao's retreat will be at risk of being cut off, so Yuan Shao will inevitably withdraw his troops. The siege of Youzhou will be relieved without a fight. Why not?"

After finishing speaking, the envoy bowed deeply to Gu Rubing and spoke sincerely.

Hearing this, Gu Rubing fell into thinking.

There is indeed some truth to what the envoy said. Taking Hejian next should not be a big problem, but there will always be some casualties. Gu Rubing is not willing to lose his troops and generals for Gongsun Zan.

Moreover, as a relative of Cao Cao, it would be basically impossible for Xiahou Dun to surrender, unless he took the initiative to defect like Xiahou Ba, but this was almost impossible for the two brothers Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan.

Gu Rubing pondered for a moment and then said, "It's not impossible to let Xiahou Dun go."

Hearing this, the envoy was overjoyed and immediately raised his hands and said: "Thank you——"

"Don't worry yet. Thank you."

Gu Rubing shook his head, interrupted the envoy's words, and said: "If Cao Cao had retreated directly from the beginning, everything would have been fine. Now that Cao Cao is willing to retreat, it is because of the heavy casualties. How can Cao Cao come and leave whenever he wants? The truth?"

"What does Liu Guoxiang mean?"

The messenger frowned slightly, but he was not surprised by Gu Rubing's words. Knowing that Gu Rubing was going to negotiate terms, he immediately asked.

Gu Rubing thought for a while and said, "Our army has lost many soldiers and generals in this battle. I want three thousand good horses and five thousand fine armor. Otherwise, there is no need to discuss anything."

"What?!"

Upon hearing this, the messenger's eyes suddenly widened and he couldn't help but lost his voice.

Even though he was mentally prepared and knew that Gu Rubing might make a lion open his mouth, Gu Rubing's opening was too big!

"You may be able to get five thousand pieces of fine armor with gritted teeth, but three thousand fine horses? Liu Guoxiang, how is this possible?!"

The envoy composed himself and immediately said: "Xiang Liu, Dongjun is not a prefecture of Xiliang!"

"Then let's wait and see when Cao Cao can take it out before we talk about the replacement." Gu Rubing said without any politeness, his voice was extremely cold.

He now has a lot of infantry, but very few cavalry. After the previous battles, Gu Rubing has deeply realized the importance of cavalry!

There were almost no horses in the entire Central Plains. Gu Rubing had previously exchanged a large amount of grain and grass with Gongsun Zan in exchange for a thousand good horses.

Although there are indeed some lions in the Three Thousand Good Horses who are talking loudly, but now is the time when the lions are talking loudly. As Cao Cao's kinsman, Xiahou Dun has to be redeemed by Cao Cao even if his flesh is cut off!

If Xiahou Dun, who is unlikely to surrender, can be exchanged for 3,000 good horses and 5,000 fine armors, it can be said to be a bloody profit. These can already be armed with 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 Qingzhou warriors!

The expression on the messenger's face changed uncertainly, and he raised his hands and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Liu, but I can't decide this matter. Please allow me to go back and report to the lord."

"Can."

Gu Rubing nodded noncommittally, but he didn't think that Cao Cao could really come up with so many good horses and armor at once.

"I hope Prime Minister Liu will treat General Xiahou kindly."

The envoy finally handed over to Gu Rubing, then to Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, and finally turned around and left in a hurry.

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