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

Chapter 539 Tonic is also poison!

Since the camp was attacked the day before, Cao Cao doubled the number of scouts and even extended the scouts' distance to the city of Nanjun.

But Gu Rubing was not stupid. He would naturally send people to search for the traces of Cao Cao's scouts, and once they were discovered, he would eliminate them.

In one day, Cao Cao received news of the deaths of dozens of scouts, but he didn't care. He just replaced as many as they died. After that, Cao Cao no longer cared about the news of the deaths of scouts.

This caused the trouble tonight.

After Cao Cao figured it out, he secretly regretted that his scout base must have been eliminated and he didn't pay attention to it, otherwise there wouldn't be such a serious problem with his intelligence.

Cao Cao waited and waited, but Cao Ren and Cao Zhang did not come back. Feeling anxious, he immediately called Xu Chu.

"Lord."

Xu Chu had just finished tidying up the camp and was arranging its defense when he received the news that Cao Cao was looking for him, and hurried to Cao Cao's tent.

"Zhang'er, and Zixiao, they haven't come back yet. Take the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Fa Qiu Lieutenant General to see what's going on. If you encounter any danger, come back in time."

The only person Cao Cao can use now is Xu Chu. The Xiahou brothers are still recovering from their injuries and cannot go into battle at all. Dian Wei, the legendary general, still needs to protect the camp and his own safety. If it weren't for Cao Cao's order, Dian Wei would have rushed out the day before and killed those White Horse Volunteers who launched a sneak attack.

Today, Cao Cao is once again in a situation where no one is available to him.

But this time, Cao Cao was not panicked, after all, Dian Wei was there.

"Yes, my lord!"

This time, Xu Chu did not encounter an ambush.

After all, with Xu Chu's fighting power, if Gu Rubing wants to defeat Xu Chu, Zhao Yun must take action. But Zhao Yun is still in a coma at this time. If he wants to capture Xu Chu alive, at least three famous generals are needed, including Zhao Yun.

After all, capturing someone alive is often more difficult than killing them.

When Cao Cao ordered the capture of Gu Rubing's famous generals alive, he lost a lot of people, and even Xiahou Dun was seriously injured, but he still failed to capture any of Gu Rubing's famous generals.

Xu Chu did not find Cao Ren and Cao Zhang along the way, but found a letter left by Huang Zhong on the body of a tomb raider.

When Xu Chu brought the letter back, Cao Cao slammed the letter on the table after reading it.

"Ah! Liu Bei, I'm going to kill you!"

Although Xu Chu did not read what was in the letter, he knew in his heart that it was definitely not good, otherwise Cao Cao would not have been so angry.

After Cao Cao slapped the table in front of him several times and broke it into pieces, his anger finally dissipated a little.

"Call Sun Jian and tell him you have something to discuss."

Under the leadership of Zhuge Liang, Gu Rubing came to the top of the city wall again.

"Prime Minister, what are you doing? It's late at night, why don't you go back to sleep? You are blowing in the cold wind here, could it be that you can't sleep, feel lonely and want to cool yourself down?"

Zhuge Liang smiled and waved the feather fan in his hand proudly, but soon put it down.

Because it is really cold!

"My lord, please be patient. We still have a large army that has not returned yet."

"Is there anyone else?"

As the two were talking, Gu Rubing saw Huang Zhong and Xu Rong coming back from outside, with the tied-up Cao Ren behind them.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with the two, Gu Rubing came in front of Cao Ren.

"Oh, oh, oh, who am I thinking? Isn't this our Cao Zixiao, General Cao? How did you get captured? Why didn't you commit suicide? Aren't people like you very heroic? Wouldn't you rather die than surrender? How could you be a prisoner?"

Hearing this, Cao Ren looked at Gu Rubing. When he saw Gu Rubing's smug look, Cao Ren's back teeth were about to break.

"Where is our young master?"

"Oh, you're looking for Cao Zhang, kill him!"

"what?"

Cao Ren's eyes widened.

Looking at Cao Ren's expression, Gu Rubing smiled and patted his shoulder.

"Don't worry, you and Cao Zhang are my mobile gold mountain, how could I possibly kill you? If you die, I will lose so much!"

When everything was over, Gu Rubing went to his room, thinking about what happened tonight. The excitement in his heart had not subsided until now.

Zhuge Liang merely transformed from prime minister to military advisor. He first practiced the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation. Before the war started, it was not known whether the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation was useful or not.

In one night, they captured two famous generals of Cao Cao and also caused chaos in Cao Cao's camp.

Gu Rubing even suspected that Cao Cao had lost his IQ. If it was so simple, he would have unified the Central Plains long ago.

However, Gu Rubing was just thinking about it. He also knew that Cao Cao lost because he underestimated the enemy.

This needs to be done by yourself. To achieve this level, it would probably require an army of hundreds of thousands and all the famous generals to take action in order to achieve the desired effect. However, the total number of people fighting tonight is less than 10,000, although they are all special troops.

Zhuge Liang's strategic planning once again refreshed Gu Rubing's understanding of this word.

Until now, Gu Rubing still didn't understand how Zhuge Liang could be so sure. The first time, Cao Zhang did not lead elite troops, and the second time, Cao Ren definitely did not have many people. Once there was any mistake in the calculation, it would be impossible to achieve such an effect, and they would even suffer heavy losses.

The next day.

Gu Rubing walked out of the room and was about to go to the three generals' rooms to check on their conditions as usual when Wei Yan came to him.

"My lord, Cao Cao and Sun Jian are waiting for you in the pavilion outside."

"The two of them? I didn't expect them to come so early. I guess they didn't sleep well. Well, since we're here, let's go take a look."

Seeing that Gu Rubing was about to leave, Wei Yan hesitated for a moment and whispered, "My Lord, the sun is so bright outside, why are we in such a hurry? Why don't we let them wait a while and give them a warning?"

"That's not necessary. Besides, he is our financial sponsor now and we still rely on him to make money. How can we treat our financial sponsor like this? Haha!"

Gu Rubing said this and left the county magistrate's mansion, taking Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Wei Yan with him and walked directly out of Nanjun.

After the three met, they greeted each other and sat down directly around the pavilion.

Outside the city, there were millions of troops stationed on both sides, and millions of pairs of eyes were watching quietly at the three people who were drinking tea. All they needed was an order from the three of them, and a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood would appear in an instant.

But these three people with such abilities were actually drinking tea and chatting about family matters in the pavilion at this moment. All of these were things in the real world.

Dian Wei, Sun Ce, and even Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, could not understand what their lord was saying at all. They could only stare at each other to prevent the other side from making any moves to harm their lord.

After chatting for a while, Cao Cao couldn't hold back any longer and said directly: "Liu Bei, you captured my people and left me a letter. You must want something. Tell me, I'll wait for you to ask for it."

"Boss Cao, what you said is not right. You made me sound like a shameless person. How about this, since we are from the same place, I will not make it difficult for you. I will give you 20,000 first-class war horses, 20,000 fine iron armors, 10,000 fine iron spears, and 10,000 fine iron longbows."

Upon hearing this, Cao Cao slammed the table and stood up.

"Liu Bei, xxx, are you crazy or am I? How about I just give you 20,000 elite troops? And my Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Grave-robbing Captain, and General of the Fa Qiu Army, all of which are also given to you, okay? Isn't this a lion's mouth? Yes! You are not asking for too much, you are asking for too much like a whale, why don't you swallow the whole ocean?"

A whale? What is that?
Can you swallow the ocean in one gulp?

The four legendary generals all looked confused.

However, Cao Cao didn't want to care about them. He pointed at Gu Rubing's nose and kept cursing him, as if he would have taken action if he couldn't defeat him.

Gu Rubing did not show any emotion. He continued to drink his tea slowly, and even used his hand to block the teacup to prevent Cao Cao's saliva from flying into his teacup when he was cursing.

Sun Jian also had a calm expression on his face. He had long been aware of Gu Rubing's shameless look. Before coming, he had roughly guessed what Liu Bei wanted.

After all! I have already gained experience from being tricked!
However, Sun Jian did not say that he now had only one goal, which was to let Cao Cao and Liu Bei fight. The longer the fight, the better, preferably for several decades. In that way, he could also survive for several decades, and by then he would be invincible in the world.

After a while, Cao Cao finally got tired of scolding. After drinking a sip of water, he sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.

"Brother, remember this. Prime Minister Cao just told us that he will give us 20,000 elite troops, as well as Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Grave Diggers, and Lieutenants. We will go to Caoying to settle accounts after we return."

"yes, Sir!"

"Wait, when did I promise to give it to you?"

"You just said that Sun Zhoumu can testify for us, right, Sun Zhoumu?"

Sun Jian, who had been planning to watch the fun, saw that Liu Bei was looking at him with threatening eyes, so he hurriedly lowered his head, said nothing, and slowly drank his tea.

"What? I didn't agree to it. I was just giving an example. Do you understand?"

"For example? Who is For example? Why do you want to hit him?"

"I xxx..."

Seeing Gu Rubing acting like a rogue, Cao Cao was completely helpless and sighed.

After cursing so much just now, the anger in his heart had long since subsided. He now knew that the person was in Gu Rubing's hands, and no matter what he said, it would be useless.

"Forget it. I don't have 20,000 troops, and I can't give you those special troops. They are elite soldiers above second-rate generals. Even if you kill Cao Zhang and Cao Ren, I can't give them to you. But I can give you 10,000 first-class war horses, 10,000 fine iron armors, 5,000 fine iron spears, and 5,000 fine iron longbows."

"I don't bargain. This is a battlefield, not a market."

"you……"

Cao Cao looked at Gu Rubing and hesitated.

"Okay, I'll give you the equipment you want."

Seeing Cao Cao compromise, Gu Rubing smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and signaled Wei Yan to accept the goods. After all, Wei Yan was a pretty good quality inspector.

When Wei Yan heard that there would be another quality inspection, he was of course very excited.

"This horse is no good. It's too thin."

"No, this one's too fat."

"Why is there a knife wound on your horse? What's wrong with you? You have to hurt a healthy horse. Change it quickly."

"Hey, this horse still has scars on its body. Don't want it. This kind of horse is old, weak, sick and disabled and cannot go to the battlefield."

"This is what our lord told me."

After listening to Wei Yan's words, Cao Cao's face turned pale and he walked in front of Wei Yan with Dian Wei.

"The wounds on these horses were caused by you on the battlefield. Naturally, I have to give them to you. What about Cao Zhang and Cao Ren?"

"I don't care. Anyway, we don't want defective products. Also, do you understand the rules? Cash on delivery, payment, both the goods and the people are cleared. These are the original words of my master. Anyway, I don't understand what he means."

"Cash on delivery, do you think this is cash on delivery? Liu Bei, you are going too far!"

Seeing Cao Cao so angry, Dian Wei didn't understand what Gu Rubing meant, but he could understand a little bit. At least Dian Wei didn't like Wei Yan's attitude when talking to Cao Cao.

"Wei Yan, you'd better know who you are talking to. I only need one move to kill you."

Wei Yan didn't care about Dian Wei's threat at all.

"Oh, then you're going to kill me?"

"you wanna die!"

Just as the two were about to take action, Cao Cao immediately stopped them.

If Wei Yan died, Cao Ren and Cao Zhang would also be doomed to die. He would definitely not do such a one-for-two deal.

"Okay, find him according to his request, go back and tell Liu Bei to return him as soon as possible."

After saying this, Cao Cao was afraid that he would not be able to help but kill Wei Yan when he saw him, so he went into his tent without looking back.

"This won't work. There are impurities in your refined iron. Change it for me."

"..."

It took a whole day for the things Cao Cao promised to pass the inspection of Wei Yan, the quality inspector, and enter Nanjun.

At this time, Gu Rubing also put Cao Ren and Cao Zhang on the carriage according to the agreement and sent them to Cao Cao's camp.

Looking at the back of the carriage, Zhang Fei on the side muttered a little unhappily.

"Now that the war is imminent, the number of our generals is similar. The Prime Minister finally captured two of them. Why did you let them go, brother? We don't need these broken equipment."

Listening to Zhang Fei's muttering, Gu Rubing didn't care at all and smiled: "I only said to release the people, but I didn't say how to return. Don't worry, these two people have been treated by Hua Tuo. In half a month, they will not have the strength to lift anything. Even walking will be very difficult."

"Hua Tuo? Isn't he a miracle doctor? Can medical skills harm people?"

Gu Rubing did not say anything in response to Zhang Fei's question, but Zhuge Liang smiled instead.

“A tonic can sometimes be a poison.”

When Cao Cao saw that Cao Zhang and Cao Ren had returned looking very weak and even needed help getting off the carriage, he immediately had a bad feeling.

"Zhang'er, Zixiao, how are you? Did Liu Bei torture you severely?"

Both of them shook their heads when they heard this.

"My lord, we didn't suffer any harm. Instead, they gave us all kinds of tonics every day, some of which were worth thousands of gold. We ate them as if they were our meals. We were fine at first, but then we felt dizzy and couldn't stand up anymore."

"Can't stand up? Someone please call Wu Pu."

Wu Pu quickly examined the two men and found that they looked very bad.

"Prime Minister, the two generals may not be able to get out of bed for the next half month."

"What? Is he poisoned?"

"It's not poison, it's just that I took too much tonic. Taking too much tonic is no different from poison."

(End of this chapter)