Chapter 38 The sound of Prime Minister Cao's bamboo stick

"General Zhao!"

"Mr. Ziyang!"

After passing the name, the two said a few more polite words and began to sit down and negotiate. Prime Minister Cao led his army here to eliminate the bandits. Why did Liu Shijun send troops to be the enemy? Could it be that Liu Xijun wants to rebel? Zhao Feng didn't expect that as soon as Liu Ye sat down, he was so aggressive, as if they had the upper hand now.

But how can Zhao Feng be fooled by him so simply? At that moment, he laughed and said, "Mr. Ziyang, you'd better put it away. You know better than me whether Prime Minister Cao sent troops to violate the border of Yuzhou this time to eliminate bandits or to have ulterior motives. Now he can't move here, and he still wants to show off the prime minister's airs. How can there be such a good thing in the world?

"This," Liu Ye was also speechless for a moment, but then said, "Now Yuan Shu is more and more emperor, and he is rebellious. As a relative of the Han Dynasty, Liu Shijun should eliminate the rebellion and correct the imperial court. Why is he the enemy of Prime Minister Cao, who is loyal to the king and serve the country? My prime minister is generous and willing to calm down the war and fight with Liu Shijun.

Finally, when it comes to the point, Zhao Feng also has a little bit in his heart. At the moment, he said, "My master also has this intention, but Prime Minister Cao has invaded Yuzhou this time, and my master has suffered a heavy loss. Soldiers, horses, money and grain were mostly depleted, and General Sun Guan, the prime minister of the State of Lu, even died in the line of duty. If Prime Minister Cao Cheng didn't say, he was afraid that our soldiers would not be able to rest assured.

"I don't know what Liu Shijun wants to do?" As soon as Liu Ye heard this, he suddenly felt that there was a door, so he quickly asked while the iron was hot.

"If Prime Minister Cao wants us to withdraw from the army, it is not impossible to negotiate. We only need to agree to three conditions. First: return the traitor Changxi; second: leave the horses of your trapped cavalry; third: transfer Taishan County to Xuzhou. Zhao Feng said lightly. These three conditions are also the result of his long-term discussion with Liu Bei and others. The first one is that traitors have had to be killed since ancient times; the second and the third articles were proposed by Zhao Feng and Lu Su. The former is one's intention to engage in cavalry, and the latter is to see the strategic important surname of Taishan County, as long as Taishan County is in the hands of Cao Qian. , he was equivalent to installing a large iron gate on his own east gate, which made Xuzhou very passive, so Lu Su proposed to take the opportunity to ask for Taishan County.

Liu Ye was stunned for a long time and then sighed, "I can't decide this matter, but I think it's difficult for my prime minister to agree to such harsh conditions."

"The conditions are here. If Prime Minister Cao doesn't agree, that's his business." Zhao Feng didn't give him too many opportunities to bargain. After saying that, he just stared at him to see how he would answer.

"Liu Xijun is not afraid that our army will fight to the death? If our army strikes with all its strength, I'm afraid that Liu Shijun may not be able to trap my prime minister's army. Liu Ye was a little threatening. Unfortunately, he may be used to being a counselor. His threat seems to be a little bluff in Zhao Feng.

"As long as Prime Minister Cao is willing, we can accompany him to fight to the death!" Zhao Feng smiled and suddenly asked, "I don't know if Mr. Ziyang has ever had lunch?"

"Huh?" Liu Ye was stunned. In fact, Cao Jun now has only two bowls of porridge every day from top to bottom. Liu Ye ate this lunch, but now he doesn't have much inventory in his stomach. However, in order to prevent the other party from seeing that he was short of food, Liu Ye still bravely replied, "I've used it too much. General Zhao doesn't care about it."

"Since he has used it, it's okay, but Zhao hasn't had lunch yet. Now he is hungry and thirsty. I'm afraid he has to eat something to continue the negotiation. Please forgive me." When Zhao Feng said this, a cook served a bowl of beef noodles outside. Liu Ye didn't know whether Zhao Feng did it on purpose. In short, Zhao Feng ate a bowl of beef noodles with relish in front of him. After eating, he licked the bowl. The strong aroma of broth, combined with a few shreds of chopped green onions, made Liu Ye, who had been drinking porridge for a few days, begin to protest.

Fortunately, Zhao Feng ate very fast and wiped out this big bowl of noodles in the blink of an eye, so that Liu Ye did not suffer for too long. Liu Shijun's conditions are too harsh. I really don't dare to make the decision. I'll report to my prime minister when I go back and make a decision. Liu Ye came to his senses and looked at Zhao Feng, who was still not satisfied, and had to resist weakly. The bowl of lively beef noodles had destroyed a lot of his will.

"Mr. Ziyang, please!" Zhao Feng laughed so much that the stoshin in his body trembled. After Liu Ye left, he went back to report to Cao Qian that he met dozens of Cao's deserters on the way. At the same time, more than a hundred Xuzhou sergeants ate and drank not far from Cao's camp. As soon as Liu Ye smelled it, he knew it was beef noodles.

"General Zhao, you really made a lot of money today. More than a thousand people have come to Cao Jun!" Zhao Feng had just stepped out of the negotiating camp, and Lin Bao, who had been promoted to captain, came up with a smile.

"Hey hey, I really hope Cao can hesitate for a few more days so that I can catch more prisoners!" Zhao Feng also smiled extremely insidiously, and then went to Liu Bei to report the progress of the talks.

However, it was counterproductive. In Cao Jun's account, when Cao Jian heard the three conditions of Liu Bei proposed by Zhao Feng, he hesitated for a short time and still gritted his teeth and agreed. "Lord!" Xiahou Dun and other generals were all indignant, and they were stopped by Cao Yan when they were waiting to speak again. There is no food in the army, and the army's heart is in chaos. If you don't leave here quickly, I'm afraid the whole army will be destroyed. At this time, I had to cut a catty of meat, and I had to agree. Ziyang, go and tell Liu Bei, and just say that I all agree!" Cao Shen almost gritted his teeth and said this word for a moment, and everyone couldn't help shivering. At this moment, Le Jin came to report that more than a thousand people in the Cao army had fled to Liu Bei's barracks today, and everyone was silent when they heard the words.

Cao Wei agreed, so the next thing was easy to do. Liu Ye entered Liu Bei's camp again. After confirming his consent, Liu Ye was taken by Zhao Feng to meet Liu Bei. After a polite look on both sides, Liu Bei officially agreed to let Cao go. After Liu Ye returned to Cao's camp, Cao Yan began to order the cavalry to gather all the horses, and ordered the counselor Man Chong to go to Taishan County with his own handwriting and inform the generals to change the defense. At the same time, Liu Bei also wrote to Guan Yu of the State of Lu to prepare for Cao's army to cross the border. At the same time, he sent Chen Dao to lead 10,000 elite soldiers to Taishan County to change the defense. Zhao Feng, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun were busy accepting the horses.

"A total of 9,200 horses!" After Chen finished counting, he reported to Zhao Feng and Zhang Fei. Cao Shen is really rich. There are tens of thousands of cavalry when he moves casually. Zhao Feng sighed that after deducting some generals' horses, Cao Qian should have dispatched 10,000 cavalry this time, which is the number of all the cavalry in Xuzhou. Presumably, when he occupies the north, there will be more cavalry, and the tiger and leopard riders will also appear on the stage of history. However, I also have nearly 20,000 cavalry here. It should be good to train well. The only pity is that most of these more than 9,000 horses are Shandong horses. Although they are not bad, the gap is still obvious compared with Xiliang horses or Liaodong horses.

After counting, Chen replied that the defense of Taishan County had all been replaced, and Zhang Fei, Zhao Feng and Zhao Yun also began to form a new cavalry force. In the past few days, Zhao Feng still did not withdraw the soldiers who were eating and drinking at the gate of Cao Jun. In his words, he could fool a few more. However, it seems that Cao Wei went down to tell the soldiers that the peace talks were about to be settled, and the army's heart was much calmer, and there were not many soldiers who surrendered in the past few days.

Even so, when Cao Yan returned to Yanzhou, there were less than 100,000 left in 150,000 troops. In addition to more than 30,000 people who died in the battle, nearly 20,000 people were captured, half of whom were fooled by Zhao Feng's eating and drinking strategy.

"Liu Bei, this revenge must be revenged!" When the army passed by Taishan County, Cao Jian took a hateful look at the Liu flag on the head of the city, and his heart was secretly fierce. Chen De on the top of the city was also on guard, guarding against the sudden arrival of Cao's army. Fortunately, this kind of thing did not happen.

Cao Jian withdrew his army. At this time, under the city of Peiguo, Liu Bei's army was also ready to go. But before leaving, there is another thing to do.

"Bing Changxi up!" In front of a new grave, Liu Bei and other senior officials in Xuzhou were all there. The tombstone in front of the grave is clearly written: the tomb of Sun Guan, the prime minister of Lu.

Two soldiers dragged Changxi, who had been paralyzed to the ground, all the way to the grave, "Master, forgive me, Master!" When Chang Xi died, he still begged for mercy incoherently.

"Go and talk to General Sun yourself!" Liu Bei dropped this sentence coldly, and then said to a young man on the right side, "Zhong Quan, avenge your brother!"

"Thank you, Lord!" That man was Sun Guan's younger brother, Sun Kang. At that time, he pulled out a big knife and came forward. The two soldiers set up. Sun Kang held the knife in both hands and looked up and muttered, "Big brother Yin Ling is not far away. Brother, I'm avenging you today!" After saying that, he did not wait for Changxi to say anything else, and tried his best to cut it down.

"Poo!" Bright red blood spewed out of Chang's broken neck. After the execution of Changxi, Liu Bei also quickly ordered to retreat to Xuzhou and prepare to fight back against Yuan Shu. As for Guan Yu's Yuzhou army horses, everyone feels that after the war just now, it is not appropriate to use Yuzhou army horses too much. After all, Yuzhou is next to Cao Yanzhou. This neighbor's character is not very reliable. It's better for Guan Yu to lead 30,000 horses to attack Yuan Shu from the line of Anfeng Yiyang and respond to the offensive on the Huainan side. Brother, third brother, I didn't expect that you and my brother had just met, and we had to parted again!" Guan Yu was also a little reluctant, and Zhang Fei was even more rarely silent.

"The second brother is in Yuzhou, and he is very important. After that, if you and my brother don't go to war, we can get together every day. Liu Bei also sighed a little. Speaking of Yuzhou, Guan Yu suddenly remembered, "Brother, Liu Biao sent Cai Mao to lead 50,000 troops to attack Runan while I was away. He was repulsed by the left-behind Wen Chang and Ping'er. Wen Chang even killed Cai Mao's younger brother Cai Zhong with his own hands."

"The head of the article really has the talent of a general!" Liu Bei was also overjoyed when he heard the words. In the end, Guan Yu proposed that Guan Ping should follow Liu Bei to Huainan to fight against Yuan Shu. With a lot of experience, Liu Bei had nothing to do, but he arranged Guan Ping to be a lieutenant under Zhao Feng.

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