Cao Thief

Chapter 237 Meeting Liu Xuande for the First Time (33)

As the former capital of Xiapi King, Xiapi City has four gates.

The city is eight feet high, and it was obviously built with care. Compared with Quyang's city wall, it is obviously much stronger.

After Cao Cao besieged Xiapi, he launched attacks at the four gates in turn.Cao Cao led an army by himself and attacked from the north gate, Xu Huang's troops attacked the east gate, and Xiahou Dun attacked the west gate.The rest of the South City Gate will be handed over to Liu Bei, which can be regarded as a kind of attention to Liu Bei...

Liu Bei played very hard.

With the battle at this point, there is no suspense.

The final question is how long Lu Bu can hold on, and what kind of result will come to an end, that's all.

Therefore, Liu Bei can only cheer up and launch an attack with all his strength.

The grievances and grievances between him and Lu Bu are really unclear and unclear.

Sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a friend... Thinking back, when Liu Bei won Xuzhou, he took in Lu Bu who had just been defeated from Puyang, and gave him a place to recuperate.But it didn't take long for Lu Bu to take Xuzhou and take Liu Bei in.After that, the two went back and forth, sometimes fighting, and sometimes reconciling.Lu Bu once solved Liu Bei's difficulties, shooting a halberd at the gate, and forced Ji Ling, Yuan Shu's general, back.The two also participated in the crusade against Yuan Shu and drove Yuan Shu to Huainan.But then, Lu Bu beat Liu Bei like a bereaved dog.

Now, feng shui turns.

It was Liu Bei's turn to attack Lu Bu.

The grievances and grievances over the years seem to end at this moment.

Therefore, Liu Bei will not be merciful at all...

It's just that he is not very lucky!
Liu Bei's opponent happened to be Chen Gong.Facing a resourceful opponent, although Liu Bei has a strong general in his hands, there is nothing he can do.

Therefore, the war between the two sides is also anxious.

Liu Bei attacked the upper and lower Pi, and was soon driven down from the top of the city; he attacked again, and then drove down. The repeated tug-of-war made Liu Bei also feel inexplicably tired.However, he did not dare to relax.Because he knew that there was a fierce tiger in Xiapi City, and if it was released, it would kill people... Although Lu Bu did not meet Liu Bei, Liu Bei knew that Lu Bu and Cao Cao fought inseparably at the north gate of the city.

The day's war is finally over!

When the sun was setting, Liu Bei ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

On the battlefield, there were countless corpses lying here and there, and the two sides collected their own corpses on the battlefield, each of them frowning coldly.

There is an unwritten rule in cleaning up the battlefield: when cleaning up the battlefield, neither side shall start a war.

Liu Bei doesn't have to worry, Chen Gong will attack suddenly.

Because he knew that even if Chen Gong had the idea, he didn't have the power.Xiapi's troops are destined to prevent him from succeeding...

As soon as he entered the barracks, Liu Bei felt a little abnormal.

All the people in the camp were happy and smiling.

"Zi Fang, why are you so happy?"

Liu Bei stopped Mi Fang and asked curiously.

Mi Fang is Liu Bei's brother-in-law and Mi Zhu's brother.

He looked joyful and said with a smile: "My lord, we have food!"

"what?"

Liu Bei couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard it at first.

Although Liu Bei attacked Pi from Cao Cao, on the surface he formed his own army, but in fact, he was deeply restrained by Cao Cao.Liu Bei has no base, just like living under a fence.Especially after being defeated by Lu Bu and losing Peiguo, Liu Bei was more constrained.

Without a foundation, it means that there is no food, no soldiers, no equipment...

All the resources in his hands now are provided by Cao Cao.The ordnance was eliminated by Cao Cao and replaced; the winter clothes of the soldiers were also distributed by Cao Cao.The most uncomfortable thing is that the grain and grass are restricted by Cao Cao.Every time Cao Cao distributed food and grass, he only gave Liu Bei three days to spare.In other words, after three days, if Cao Cao stopped Liu Bei's food and grass, then Liu Bei's army would collapse instantly.

Controlling the food and grass is tantamount to controlling Liu Bei's lifeline.

In this regard, Liu Bei can't have any dissatisfaction. Cao Cao gave him food, which is already benevolent.

"How much food is there?"

"About [-] Dendrobium..."

Hearing this, Liu Bei gasped.

With the [-] hu grains, he no longer needs to look at Cao Cao's eyes.

Mi Zhu frowned slightly, and suddenly said, "Zi Fang, where does this grain come from?"

In a word, Liu Bei was reminded.

Six thousand hu grains, that is not a small amount.Now Xiapi battlefield is besieged on all sides, and the daily consumption of food and grass is about [-] hu.In other words, the six thousand dendrobium grain and grass are almost the amount of military rations consumed by tens of thousands of troops a day.Where did such a large amount of food come from?

Liu Bei is very aware of the situation in Xuzhou, and even Xuzhou today is not the Xuzhou in the first year of Xingping when money and food were abundant.

Even five years ago, when Tao Qian was in charge of Xuzhou, it was quite difficult to take out [-] hu of grain at once...

Mi Fang said: "The three generals got it."

"The food that Yide found?"

Liu Bei was startled, and hurriedly shouted: "Call Yide to come here immediately."

"Brother, why are you so panicked?"

Standing beside Liu Bei, there is also the famous Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang.He is nine feet tall, nearly two meters tall, almost a head taller than Liu Bei.

Wearing a parrot-green jersey with a sword under his ribs.

Seeing Liu Bei's flustered look, Guan Yu hurriedly asked.

He and Zhang Fei had followed Liu Bei to conquer the east and west when they came from Zhuojun, and they were like brothers in kindness.Later, Cao Peng and others became sworn brothers in Xudu to Jinlan, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and they changed their names accordingly.From the beginning of the protagonist, it has evolved into today's 'brothers'.

Under Liu Bei's account, the two each led a team and followed Liu Bei in turn to set off.

In addition, Liu Bei still has a "white-eared soldier" as his personal guard, which is called "white-eared elite soldier" in later generations.

Baiyan is a cloak made of yak hair, and it is also a unique attire for guards.However, in later generations, the 'white scorpion' was changed to 'white scorpion', and finally evolved into a white-eared elite soldier.The well-known Changshan Zhao Zilong was the later commander of this white army.

The historical Baiyan soldiers were composed of Danyang soldiers, Ma Chao's Qingqiang soldiers and Southwestern barbarians.

However, the Baixuan soldiers at this time are all Danyang soldiers. At first there were more than [-] soldiers, but now, two thirds of them have been lost.

The new commander-in-chief of the Baixuan Army is named Chen Dao.

It was Liu Bei who came here when he was the governor of Yuzhou, and he mainly guarded Liu Bei on weekdays.

After confronting Lu Bu several times, Liu Bei was able to retreat completely, thanks to the large numbers of Chen Dao and Bai Yan.So this team doesn't attack often.

Today it happened that Liu Bei led Guan Yu, Jian Yong, Sun Qian and Mi Zhu to attack Xiapi, while Zhang Fei stayed in the camp to rest.

This sudden food and grass, after a moment of joy, brought Liu Bei deep fear.Guan Yu asked softly, but Liu Bei didn't answer immediately.Instead, he went straight to the big tent of the Chinese army, sat in the big tent, and waited for the arrival of Zhang Fei and Mr. Zhang...

Jian Yong explained softly: "My lord is worried that the three generals will rob Duke Cao's grain and grass."

Guan Yu's eyebrows twitched, and Danfeng's eyes slightly closed, "Although Yide is reckless, he is not the kind of person who doesn't care about the importance, that's impossible."

In fact, he was a little apprehensive when he said this.

What kind of virtue is my brother?
Guan Yu couldn't understand it.In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that Zhang Fei was born as a butcher...it sounds quite humble.But the problem is that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, butchers did not just refer to butchers.He Jin was also born as a butcher, but he was a great general and the emperor's brother-in-law.

This also shows that the butchers in the Three Kingdoms period mostly refer to local tyrants.

Ordinary people, how can they have the capital to be a butcher?
Zhang Fei is a powerful man in Zhuo County. Although he is not from a noble family, he is also a big family in the local area.In terms of knowledge, Zhang Fei is the best among the three, but in terms of temper, he is also the most domineering and unreasonable among the three.Back when he lived in Xuzhou, Zhang Fei dared to snatch the war horse bought by Lv Bu, which made Lv Bu furious and made the three brothers flee in embarrassment... This time, he didn't know who he robbed.

Jian Yong has followed Liu Bei for many years and knows Zhang Fei's character very well.

He glanced at Brother Mizhu and Mifang who were not far away, and sighed, "But it's hard to say if the grain and grass were brought from the underworld."

"how do I say this?"

"Could it be that the second general has forgotten, where did the prime minister's food and grass come from?

Who is the person who is out of town to be photographed now?Haixi Ling Dengji's brother-in-law... Haixi, the relationship with us is not too shallow. "

Guan Yu couldn't help but looked at Mifang.

Mi Fang, a native of Qu County, Donghai...

After Deng Ji took charge of Haixi, the person who suffered the most was the Donghai Mo family.

Especially from the winter of the second year of Jian'an, after Deng Ji blocked the Huaibei Salt Road, the Mijia industry suffered a huge blow.

The private salt of the Mi family hardly dared to enter the Lianghuai River, and Jia Ren, a businessman who used to be closely related to the Mi family, even reduced his contacts with the Mi family.In the third year of Jian'an, Haixi implemented the policy of introducing salt, and opened a salt factory to cook sea salt.Haixi Guild took the opportunity to win over many experts in salt production from the Mi family, and almost caused the Mi family's salt farm to suffer a catastrophe.Sixty percent of the salt-making experts switched jobs to the saltworks in Haixi.

Losing the Lianghuai market, cutting off the East China Sea Salt Road, and being dug into the wall, the Mijia salt field almost collapsed.

Fortunately, at this time, the Mi family has switched from selling private salt to assisting Liu Bei... So, the person who was hit the hardest was Liu Bei!
At the end of the second year of Jian'an, the originally agreed ordnance and weapons were finally canceled due to the blockage of the Lianghuai salt road.

Later, Liu was flanked by Lu Bu and Yuan Shu, retreated from Pei County, and defected to Cao Cao...

"Brother, brother!"

Just as Guan Yu was pondering, there was a sound of footsteps outside the big tent.

A man who looked like a black iron tower strode in from outside the tent.I saw that he was eight feet away, about 188 centimeters, burly and majestic, exuding a mighty aura.Looking at his age, he looks about 33 or [-] years old. He has a leopard head with ring eyes, and a black beard under his jaw.

He walked into the big tent as if nothing had happened, and said with a smile: "Brother, we don't need to look at Cao Cao any more."

"Oh?"

Liu Bei's face sank like water.

"Hehe, we have food!"

"Where does the food come from?"

"This one……"

Zhang Fei was actually quite afraid of Liu Bei asking this question, so he was tongue-tied.

Liu Bei let out a long sigh, "Yide, from whom did you snatch the food?"

"Yes, yes... I don't know that person, anyway, I don't like him, and there is a lack of food in the army, so I grabbed it."

"But the food brought from the Prime Minister?"

Zhang Fei lowered his head and did not answer.

"Did anyone hurt anyone?"

"No, no... just taught those boys a lesson."

"You are so brave!"

Liu Bei was so angry that he stood up and stretched his fingers, unable to speak for a long time.

Guan Yu suddenly said: "Yide, who asked you to grab Cao Sikong's food?"

"Yes……"

Zhang Fei hesitated for a moment, but did not continue.

Mi Zhu glared at Mi Fang, stepped forward and stood up, "My lord, the third general may not be to blame for this matter.

I am equally serving the imperial court, but Cao Sikong treats one more than another.In the two battalions of Xiahoudun and Xu Gongming, there were [-] days of food and grass left, but we only kept [-] days of food and grass.It is inevitable that the soldiers will feel anxious. What the three generals did was a last resort. "

There must be Mi Fang's instigation.

Mizhu knew that Mifang hated the brothers Deng Ji and Cao Peng in Haixi to the bone.

If it weren't for these two brothers, at least the Donghai Mo family wouldn't have collapsed so quickly.

But at this time, he couldn't throw his brother out.Simply pre-emptively, pushing the reason to Cao Cao...

Liu Bei snorted and stopped talking.

Why doesn't he know all the mysteries in it?But one is his brother-in-law who lived and died with him, and the other is his brother-in-law, with fleshy palms and backs, so it's really not easy to punish.Various thoughts flashed through his mind quickly, and Liu Bei frowned in thought.

After a while, he said in a deep voice: "No one can use the grain and grass that Yide robbed.

If it has been used before, fill it up immediately...Xianhe and Gongyou, you two, go and count it...Shuzhi, you immediately lead the Baixuan soldiers to watch over it, and don't make any mistakes.Tomorrow morning, Yide will follow me to the north gate, and I will personally apologize to Cao Sikong. "

"Brother, why should you be afraid of Cao A's concealment..."

"Yide speaks carefully!"

Guan Yu sternly shouted, "Do you want to make my brother die without a place to bury him?"

Zhang Fei hummed twice, not daring to refute.

"Forget it, that's the end of this matter. Tomorrow Yunchang will wait for me to supervise the battle and continue to attack Xiapi."

"Here!"

Liu Bei rubbed his face, and was about to teach Zhang Fei Mifang a few words.Suddenly, there was a burst of people shouting and neighing outside the camp.

After a while, a white soldier broke into the Chinese army tent.

"My lord, something is wrong. There are soldiers and horses outside the camp blocking the gate of the camp... There is a man named Cao Peng who asked the three generals to go out and die by name."

Hearing this, Zhang Fei could no longer suppress the anger in his heart.

"A mere unknown soldier dares to utter wild words. Today, the three generals want to see who is the most sacred person who speaks such big words... come, bring your spears and prepare your horses."

"Yide stop!"

Liu Bei suddenly turned pale with shock, and quickly stopped talking.

Guan Yu took a step forward and hugged Zhang Fei tightly. He raised his head and looked at Liu Bei with the same expression of anger.

"Brother, under Cao Sikong's tent, they bully people too much...we can't bear it, otherwise we will never even think about raising our heads in front of Cao Sikong in the future."

Liu Bei's face was gloomy, like dripping water.

After a while, he took a long breath, "Yide made a mistake first, no wonder he came to the door. Yun Chang, you are watching Yide here, you two must not step out without my order." Half a step away from the military account. At this time, I should be the one to apologize to the other party."

"elder brother……"

Zhang Fei's eyes were red, "This is my younger brother's fault, how can I humiliate my elder brother?"

"Yide, it doesn't matter whether you are humiliated or not. I only hope that you can remember the lesson of today, and remember to think twice when you act in the future, and don't be reckless anymore."

After finishing speaking, Liu Bei straightened his clothes, walked out of the Chinese army tent with solemn steps.

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(End of this chapter)