"Nandun City has been captured!" Liu Bei sat in Runan's palace to learn about the battle report ahead.

"Yes, yes, lord, Nandun City has been broken." The messenger replied carefully, because a red light was revealed when he looked at Liu Bei.

"Damn it, damn it!" Liu Bei gritted his teeth and said, "Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang, don't you really give me Liu Bei a way to survive!"

Guan Yu looked at Liu Bei on the stage gritting his teeth, and stepped forward to comfort his elder brother and said, "Brother, isn't it just a Nandun City, with only 10,000 troops, even if it is broken, it's nothing. This Yangzhou army is just like this. Nandun City has stopped him for several days and injured more than 10,000 people. It's simply a waste. Brother, don't worry, wait until the thief's army arrives in Runan, see my second brother, I will take the head of the enemy general in the crowd!" Guan Yu said proudly to Liu Bei on his face.

"A mere Nandun? I blocked it for a few days? Is it still useless?" Liu Bei didn't know how he explained to his second brother. He smiled bitterly. It was true that Nandun City had only more than 10,000 troops, but you must know that Liu Bei spread rumors in Nandun City, saying that Yangzhou Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang would massacre the city on the day the city was destroyed. He took advantage of Liu Bei's reputation in Nandun City. Those people were loyal to Liu Bei. There were hundreds of thousands of people in Nandun City, all of whom survived and died with Nandun City. That is to say, there were hundreds of thousands of defenders, but now it was broken, and a city defended by hundreds of thousands was broken. What could Liu Bei say?

It's only a few days since this combat power made Liu Bei feel a deep helplessness.

Liu Bei is not good at telling Guan Yu about these things. After all, Guan Yu is arrogant. If Guan Yu tells these strategies, Guan Yu will only sneer at them. He even has opinions about Liu Bei.

"Second brother, I'm tired, let's stop here for today's discussion!" Liu Bei also had a headache. He sat on his main seat so tired that he rubbed his forehead and said to everyone below.

"My subordinates are waiting for their retreat." A group of civil and military officials from Yuzhou were about to leave.

Sun Qian was about to leave like others, and suddenly the personal guard inside called Sun Qian, "Master Sun, please invite him!"

"Oh?" Sun Qian nodded and followed the guards into the backyard.

When he arrived in the backyard, he saw a maid massaging Liu Bei's forehead. Liu Bei was closing his eyes from his expression, which showed that Liu Bei's head was really hurting now.

"Lord, Lord Sun Qian brings you here!" The personal guard stepped forward and said to Liu Bei.

"Yeah!" Liu Bei opened his eyes and saw Sun Qian. "Gongyou, come and give him a seat!" Liu Bei asked his maid to bring the seat.

"Thank you lord!" Sun Qian nodded and sat down.

"You guys go down!" Liu Bei waved his hand and asked his female maids and guards to go down.

Seeing everyone going down, Liu Bei smiled bitterly at this time, and his face was full of embarrassment. He was the lord and the lord of Yuzhou. No matter what, he could not look panicked in front of others, but this time he was really panicked.

Looking at the Yangzhou army in Nandun, I really wanted to kill Liu Bei and then go quickly.

"Nandun City, Nandun City, hundreds of thousands of people, and hundreds of thousands of people, only less than ten thousand people were left behind! All the others died at the hands of Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang!" Liu Bei said to Sun Qian with a compassionate expression.

"Butchman, butcher!" Liu Bei yelled insults at Liu Mang in the room. But he didn't think about it. If it weren't for the rumors about him in Nandun City, how could those people fight to the death? If it weren't for the brainwashed and loyal to Liu Bei, how could Liu Mang give a tough order to attack the city?

"Gongyou, what should I do now!" Liu Bei next to him was in the main point. There was a lack of military advisors in Yuzhou. It turned out that Pang Tong was there, so he analyzed it for Liu Bei in advance. Now Pang Tong disappeared. Liu Bei was really panicked. He could only ask the second military advisor Sun Gan. Liu Bei was really afraid because the Yangzhou army looked like Nandun City. The hundreds of thousands of people were killed as soon as they were killed. Liu Mang was really cruel. He didn't care about so many people, and he would still care about Liu Bei's life. This was already telling Liu Bei that Liu Bei could not have a way out.

Sun Gan also enjoyed the feeling of being valued by Liu Bei, but he also knew the serious tense. "The lord Nandun City is broken, and there is still the Dingcheng!" Sun Gan wanted to comfort Liu Bei first.

"Gongyou, don't comfort me until now!" Liu Bei smiled bitterly and shook his head. He was not a fool, how could he not know? Nandun was taken down and this top city could last for how long could it last.

"Lord, Xiangcheng will definitely last longer than Nandun!" Sun Gan said, Nandun City was broken, where was the ending? Liu Mang's army did kill hundreds of thousands of people, and he was scared some of them, but his behavior also made some people completely crazy. Now Liu Bei doesn't need to promote rumors. The entire Yuzhou city that was not attacked by the Yangzhou army was panic. Liu Mang's reputation as the butcher Liu also spread in this Yuzhou. It can be said that Liu Mang would have to win the Dingcheng with twice the result than before.

"Even if he can persist, sooner or later, his Yangzhou army will attack Runan." Liu Bei was still worried. How long can Dingcheng last? Ten days and half a month? Is this useful? It's just that the death period has been extended a little.

"Lord, if it really doesn't work, then you have to ask for help!" Sun Gan said to Liu Bei.

"Seeking for help?" Liu Bei was stunned for a moment. Liu Bei had no allies. There was a Nanyang Zhang Xiu before, but he was also cheated by Liu Bei and he had no old capital. Now there are no allies. Except for the Jiangdong Sun Ce who might have a relationship with Liu Bei, the rest are enemies, and they are all enemies.

"Did you say?" Liu Bei thought of another person.

"That's right, the lord is like Cao Cao asking for help!" Sun Gan said to Liu Bei.

"Will he agree?"

"As long as the lord bows his head and surrenders, Cao Cao will agree!" Sun Gan said to Liu Bei.

"With Cao Cao and Cao Mengde!" Liu Bei felt uncomfortable from the bottom of his heart. He betrayed him from Cao Cao and thought he was smarter than Cao Cao, so he betrayed him. Now, should Liu Bei ask Cao Cao again?

"Lord, if you can't bear it, you will be a big plan. Lord, we bow down and give in, but not Cao Cao. We are complacent with the Han Emperor in Xudu, and Cao Cao is just Sikong. We ask Your Majesty to reconcile!" It was obviously like Cao Cao asking for help, hoping that Cao Cao would help him, but Sun Gan said this as if he was wearing a fig leaf. They were complacent with the Han Emperor in Xudu. This is a fool, who doesn't know that the Han Emperor in Xudu is a puppet.

"I'm writing a letter, will Cao Cao come to rescue me?" Liu Bei was in a much better mood after being fucked by Sun. Anyway, Liu Bei didn't care. He was so thick-skinned that he was willful. Liu Bei was afraid that he would give in like Cao Cao, so Cao Cao would not help him.

"Don't worry, lord, Cao Cao, Cao Mengde, if he wants to win the Central Plains and want to conquer the world, instead of wanting a Central Plains overlord to fight with him, he will support us." Sun Gan said that once the Central Plains is unified, then Cao Cao will have to deal with a strong enemy, just like Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu's coalition forces attacked Shouchun. If it weren't for the 100,000 grains and grass sent by Cao Cao, Shouchun would have been defeated long ago. No matter how good Xu Shu's plan is, no matter how high his wisdom is, he will be a clever woman! Now that the role has changed, Liu Bei has become the attacked side.

Cao Cao also sent food and grass. He could support Liu Bei once and have a second time. The Central Plains was in chaos and it would be best if Liu Bei and Liu Mang fought both sides and suffered losses. This is what Cao Cao wanted most.

"Okay, I'll write a book and send it to Xudu quickly, so that His Majesty can reconcile!" Liu Bei calmed down and said to Sun Gan with a smile.

...

In the residence of Xu Du Sikong.

There was no big war in the north anymore. Now I saw the two brothers of the Yuan family fighting to the death. In order to make the two brothers fight to the death with all their hearts, Cao Cao also specially mobilized a branch of the army to return to Xudu for rest, leaving behind a general headed by Zhang He in Jizhou. The old man Cheng Yu also stayed in Jizhou.

The winter in the north is very cold, and Cao Cao rarely returned to Xudu to relieve himself for a while. Another thing is for Guo Jia, the genius in Cao's hands. Guo Jia is sick and has a long-term cough. So Cao Cao felt sorry for this friend, so he took Guo Jia back to Xudu and sought a famous doctor for medical treatment.

"Haha, Liu Bei and Liu Xuande actually sent a letter with someone. Want me to send troops? I thought you were so tough!" Cao Cao sneered and looked at the letter in his hand. Both Xun You and his nephew were there.

Cao Cao handed the letter in his hand to the civil and military officials below to watch.

"Liu Bei is a lowly man selling straw sandals. He should have killed this feast, so General Che Zhou would not have died behind him!" a one-eyed general said.

"Yuan Rang is careful!" Someone next to him stopped saying, "Che Zhou was once the governor of Xuzhou, which was granted by Cao Cao, but he died at the hands of Liu Bei, and this result was not unrelated to Cao Cao."

At that time, Cheng Yu and Guo Jia, two of them who had never been dealt with, agreed to Cao Cao kill Liu Bei, but Cao Cao was confident that his personality charm could make Liu Bei surrender. In the end, he lost Xuzhou and died a general, and let Liu Bei run away. So this was a stain on Cao Cao's life.

Cao Cao took a sip of the tea on the table. There was a look of shame and anger on his face. Fortunately, Cao Cao was dark-skinned, so he couldn't tell anything. "Yuan Rang was right!" Cao Cao directly agreed with Xiahou Dun's words.

This is also from Xiahou Dun. If someone else dared to say this, Cao Cao would have dragged it out and killed it long ago.

"I was fascinated by ghosts at the beginning, and I actually wanted to recover a poisonous snake!" Cao Cao shook his head regretfully. If it weren't for Liu Bei, then Xuzhou wouldn't have been like this, and the general Che Zhou would not have been killed. He also brought tens of thousands of elite Qingzhou troops.

"Lord, it's great to know that mistakes can improve, let alone lord. It would be a bad thing to put this poisonous snake on. Wouldn't it be better to let him go out and bite people?" Xun You, who was next to him, stepped forward and said to Cao Cao.

Liu Bei's poisonous snake was released, and although Cao Cao lost a general and almost lost Xuzhou, it was not without benefits. This messenger could not be at peace anywhere. If it weren't for Liu Bei, Yangzhou Liu Mang would have unified the Central Plains long ago. I'm afraid Zhang Xiu would surrender directly to Yangzhou and Liu Pi in Yuzhou. He was just as good as the commander of the Yellow Turban Canal. He had no military advisors and few generals. He was no match for Xu Shu and Liu Ye, the big and small foxes, and had been played so much that he had no scum.

So to put it simply, it is a blessing to lose one's wife.

Xun You's words made Cao Cao feel much more comfortable.

"If you still want this poisonous snake to help us bite people, then you can't let him die!" Xun You said to Cao Cao and others.

"What do you mean, Gongda, do you still want to save the straw sandals?" Xiahou Dun had an objection. His relationship with Che Zhou could have been considered good at the beginning. When Che Zhou died, he had no good feelings for Liu Bei at all.

"Uncle Liu. After all, I wrote to Your Majesty, so I must save you!" Another adviser next to him spoke. This person's status is not inferior to Xun You, and even a little higher than Xun You, because this person is Xun You's uncle, Xun Yu.

As soon as Xun Yu opened his mouth, many people present frowned, not because Xun Yu's suggestion was wrong, but because Xun Yu's name was wrong.

Uncle Liu? Isn’t this Liu Bei? In Cao Cao’s military camp, they all hated Liu Bei to the core. They called Liu Daer, a poisonous snake, or a humble person, only Xun Yu called Liu Bei the emperor and brought the Emperor of Han.

"Little uncle!" Xun You's mouth was very bitter. His little uncle has a greater generation than him and his knowledge is broader than him, but why can't he change it? This world is still the Han family's world. Is the person in Xudu Palace still the former Emperor of Han who has a word of nothing? No! This Xudu and Yanzhou, and all other territory were captured by Cao Cao.

Even the lord Cao Cao was a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty. He never thought that he would have usurped the throne, and those subordinates would have Cao Cao put on a yellow robe.

One move is the emperor and one courtier. These elders of Cao Cao will not restore the Han emperor for the benefit of their family.

But his young uncle, no matter how intelligent he is, why can't he make a comeback?

Xun You also frowned when he saw the lord on the stage. He was angry.

Xun You hurriedly stood up and covered his uncle. "For the sake of the lord's great cause, we must save this Liu Da'er."

"Oh, Gongda, tell me!" Cao Cao suddenly had an idea about the word "Dafa", and the trace of anger just now also dissipated.

"Lord. The two brothers of the Yuan family in the north look strong, but they are strong when they are united. If they are divided, they can get the four continents of Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, and Qingzhou." The two brothers of the Yuan family are brothers. Even if they kill their fathers and enemies, they will be killed. They will even kill them. Even Yuan Tan sent a letter asking Cao Cao to help him destroy his third brother. After the trouble, his third brother's territory was half as big as Cao Cao. He even knew that Cao Cao liked people and his wife, and promised that after taking Yuan Shang, he would give Yuan Shang's mother, his stepmother, to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao is waiting for the Yuan brothers to fight almost the same, and then send troops to take over their territory. If the two have no equal strength, they will definitely suffer a loss in the end.

"The north is worry-free, the lord needs to worry about is this Central Plains!" Xun You's eyes became deeper. The two bears in the north were not worth worrying at all, but the Central Plains were different. The Central Plains had been pacified, Yuan Shu was beaten to absent from the greed, Yangzhou was completely ruined, and only a weak goose Liu Pi could strangle him to death at any time. Zhang Xiu from Nanyang also revealed that he could hook up with him as long as he moved his fingers. It can be said that the Central Plains was at your fingers.

However, at that time, Cao Cao did not take down the Central Plains, and there were two reasons. The first reason was that Cao Cao had insufficient troops. After taking down such a large piece of territory, someone would have to guard it. Cao Cao's troops had to go north to go with Yuan Shaogan, so where did the troops come to defend such a large piece of territory?

The second is that Cao Cao is afraid! The wood is so beautiful that the forest wind will destroy it. If Cao Cao had taken over the Central Plains at that time, it could be said that Cao Cao had more territory than Yuan Shao, including Yanzhou Zhili, Yuzhou Yangzhou Xuzhou, and Nanyang County was in Jingzhou, then Cao Cao would be a land that spans six states and would immediately become the largest prince, but he would also be attacked by groups because you were too arrogant.

It made others feel a sense of crisis. Neither Yuan Shao nor Sun Ce from the north nor Jiangdong from the south were easy to deal with.

So Cao Cao left Yuan Shu left Liu Pi left Zhang Xiu in Nanyang County, as a buffer for the Central Plains, and originally wanted to compete with Yuan Shao before easily taking over the Central Plains.

But who would have thought that two beasts ran out of Xuzhou, one was Lu Bu and the other was Liu Bei. Liu Bei was fine, but after all, his foundation was shallow. But Lu Bu didn't know what happened. After the appearance of Shu King Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang, the entire Central Plains pattern changed. The Lu Bu army, which was supposed to be the end of the road, suddenly developed. First he took down Lujiang. Then he marched into Yangzhou, and the talents under his command appeared one after another. Xu Shu, Liu Ye, Jia Xu, Chen Gong, Chen Deng, any of these people were all counselors who were no less than Xun Yu, Xun You and even Guo Jia.

Lu Bu was originally a war god. Now Liu Mang has more of Gan Ning, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, and other first-class generals under his command.

There is also Zhang Liao, who could not see his strength before, but now he has made great progress. He can command the army with few enemies and more enemies to defeat Jiangdong's troops.

There are now 100,000 soldiers in Yangzhou. If this continues, it would be fine. There is also a rich ally of Jingzhou behind it. It is difficult to capture the Central Plains.

"The Zhongyuan cannot be allowed to get it in Yangzhou!" Xun You said calmly. Getting Yangzhou is like a tiger with wings. Liu Bei's shit stirrer is still useful at a critical moment.

After Xun You analyzed this, the civil and military officials of Cao Cao below decided to support Liu Bei. Even if Xiahou Dun was unwilling, he knew that Liu Bei could not be eliminated.

"But how to support Liu Bei!" The crowds over there were also worried. Sending troops openly was just to find hatred.

Now that Yuan Shao in the north has lost to Cao Cao, the world is watching Cao Cao. Cao Cao can be regarded as the largest prince in the world. All other princes are watching Cao Cao's reaction. If Cao Cao directly sends troops, then his lips will be cold, and the other princes will definitely be reunited. Don't finally come up with the eighteen princes to meet Cao Cao.

Moreover, if Cao Cao directly sent troops, he would really make Yangzhou's violent temper. If he starts a full-scale war, Cao Cao would be really a mute and suffer from Coptis chinensis.

There are 100,000 troops in Yangzhou. When Lu Bu was under the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry and the Crane Camp, Cao Cao was a little overwhelmed. Now there are also the Black Chess Army, Guangling Army, Taishan Army, and White Horse Congyi. If the war starts in full swing, Cao Cao will really have to withdraw all the troops in the north. At least the elite forces such as the Tiger, Leopard Cavalry and Jizhou Iron Cavalry must come back. This will be a battle.

Although there is no big war in the north now, once you withdraw the troops, the Yuan brothers may not be able to do it well, and they will have a good relationship. Let’s cooperate with each other. Seeing that you, Cao Cao is empty, take down Jizhou and block Cao Cao south of the Yellow River, and then the two brothers will fight.

In this case, Cao Cao would really cry. Liu Bei was not his son, nor his biological father. Cao Cao would not do such a foolish deal for Liu Bei to take care of himself.

"Lord, don't remember Xuzhou!" A weak voice came over.

"Sir Jijiu, Jijiu, you, you!" The person who spoke was surrounded by maids and guards, watching anxiously.

"Fengxiao, why are you here?" Cao Cao hurriedly walked down from the main seat, hurriedly stepped forward and supported Guo Jia and asked with concern. "What are you doing? You are not asking you to watch Fengxiao and let him rest well!" Cao Cao shouted angrily at the maid and guard. The anger was already murderous intent.

"Lord, we!" The maid and guard were so scared that they knelt down directly when they saw Cao Cao. "We can't stop the priest priest!" Cao Cao was furious, and they might have lost their lives. Cao Cao's murder was famous, and the maids and guards were trembling in fear.
To be continued...