The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"Of course there is. Why do you want to find my cousin Cao Ren?"

Chapter 587 It's not as good as others

"It's natural to find him. If I remember correctly, when I was the leader of the Yellow Turban Army a few years ago, on the tower of Naquyang County, it was your cousin Cao Ren who shot an arrow at me and almost killed me. Neither?"

Liu Zheng turned over the old account, which immediately changed Cao Cao's expression in the city.

"Don't you want me to go out of the city to fight you? As long as you release your cousin Cao Ren and let me shoot an arrow, I will go out of the city to fight you!"

In fact, Liu Zheng didn't need to do this at all, so he could have agreed to Cao Cao's outing of the city to fight, but Liu Zheng thought about it again. With the suspicious character of Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others, if he agreed too readily, the other party would definitely become suspicious, which would be disadvantageous. Putting forward some demands can, on the contrary, dispel the doubts of the other party.

Besides, Cao Cao may not agree to such a request, but there is still room for negotiation, so it is easy to attract Cao Cao and others to the bait.

"You want me to shoot your cousin Cao Ren with an arrow, hahaha, Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng, you are not very courageous, but you have a beautiful idea. Is this how I, Cao Cao, abandon my cousin? "

Cao Cao rejected Liu Zheng immediately, but Cao Ren, who was standing beside Cao Cao, was not afraid. Instead, he was a little anxious. He moved to Cao Cao's side and whispered to Cao Cao.

"Brother, don't be afraid of him. Liu Zheng's archery skills are not very good. As long as I stand far away, he won't be able to hit me at all."

Cao Ren was not afraid. Instead, he would rather sacrifice himself in order to make the plan of Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others succeed.

Cao Cao looked at his younger brother Cao Ren, and couldn't help being moved.

"Hahaha, when your younger brother shot me back then, why did you agree, but now I come to shoot him, but you don't agree, you can't favor one another like this, anyway, I can be considered your benefactor."

Liu Zheng sneered.

Seeing that Cao Cao didn't agree with his words, Cao Ren immediately stood up and shouted at Liu Zheng on the tower.

"Liu Zheng, I want to take revenge, hahaha, come here, I, Cao Ren, are here, do you dare to come out, if you dare to come out, I will stand here and let you shoot an arrow!"

Liu Zhengzheng was worried that he didn't know how to agree to Cao Cao's going out of the city to fight. After hearing Cao Ren's words at this time, he was afraid that he would repent, so he hurriedly stood up and agreed immediately.

"Okay, Cao Ren, you're brave enough. I admire a hero like you. You wait for me. I'm going to go out of the city now!"

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he stopped talking nonsense with them on the tower, and went directly to the rear, intending to lead his troops into battle.

Such a decision was also made by Liu Zheng a long time ago. He only delayed at the top of the city for a while, and let all the people who had been prepared in the city come under the city wall, opened the city gate and walked out from here.

There were not many people leaving the city, only more than [-] people.

These people are Liu Zheng's own more than 2000 personal soldiers, as well as the trapped camps under Lu Bu and Gao Shun, and the 1-strong navy.

And the [-] Yellow Turban Army under Zhang Ning was led by Chu Yan.

More than [-] people dared to go out of the city to fight Cao Jun.

This kind of courage is powerful and worthy of respect for anyone. When Liu Zheng led his troops out of the city, Cao Cao and Liu Bei's people looked at each other with excitement in their hearts, because they thought Liu Zheng has already been tricked, and as long as Liu Zheng comes out, he will stay outside the city to avoid future troubles.

"Cao Mengde, I have come out, let your cousin stand still now, and see if I can shoot him to death with one arrow!"

As soon as Liu Zheng came out of the city tower, he immediately took a longbow from his subordinates. Without further ado, he aimed an arrow at Cao Ren.

The arrow flew out of Liu Zheng's hand.

He shot straight at Cao Ren, who was a hundred paces away. To hit Cao Ren from such a long distance, it required quite a lot of archery skills.

Of course, Liu Zheng's archery skills are not so superb. He had never even touched bows and arrows before he traveled to the Three Kingdoms. Archery skills are mediocre, and there is no way to hit a target that is a hundred paces away.

The arrow that was shot naturally just passed by Cao Ren's side, not even hurting a single hair of Cao Ren.

But Liu Zheng didn't care at all. Instead, Cao Cao and others laughed out loud and took the opportunity to mock Liu Zheng.

"Hahaha, Liu Zheng, is this your archery skill? I don't think it's better not to show it to your face. You can't shoot even if I stand here, so feel free to talk about revenge!"

Cao Ren was actually being targeted, and he was a little nervous when he was shot, but when he saw that Liu Zheng's arrow missed him at all, he became bolder and began to mock Liu Zheng.

What he didn't know was that Liu Zheng did it on purpose.

"You dare to come out and fight with me with this little ability, Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng, so I thought highly of you before!"

Cao Cao followed Cao Ren's words and mocked Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng didn't care at all, and instead said something to Cao Cao, Cao Ren and others.

"Skills are not as good as people's. Let's forget about the last time you shot an arrow at me. Tell me, Brother Meng De, I have already come out. How do you want to fight? I, Liu Zheng, will accompany you one by one today!"

Liu Zheng's archery skills, if he really wants to shoot, may not be able to hit Cao Ren, but he has a chance to shoot Cao Ren if he concentrates. Of course, it is difficult to kill Cao Ren with one arrow.

Instead of hitting Cao Ren and not being able to kill him, he might as well just miss it. This will make Cao Cao and others look down on him, and it will be more conducive to Liu Zheng's future plans. Liu Zheng doesn't care about Cao Cao's ridicule at all.

"Okay, since we have the courage to fight hard, then we don't have to come here. Let's fight the generals first. I heard that the famous Liu Zheng has several powerful generals under his command, such as Huang Zhong and Xu Huang. Ning, Tai Shici and others, I don’t know how many generals you have brought here today, we will have a three-match competition, as long as we can win more than two rounds, how about winning?”

Cao Cao didn't know that Liu Zheng already had new generals such as Dian Wei and Lu Bu. He only knew that there were Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Tai Shici and others.

In Cao Cao's view, Liu Bei's two generals, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, are the first-class generals in the world. Naturally, there is no problem dealing with Liu Zheng's men.

And Cao Cao also has brothers Xiahou under his command, who are very skilled in martial arts. Speaking of it, they are not at a disadvantage against Liu Zheng's generals, and they even have a faint chance of winning.

That's why Cao Cao came up with the idea of ​​fighting before the battle.

And these words are also in line with Liu Zheng's mind. He was still thinking about how to reproduce the scene of the Sanying's battle with Lu Bu. Unexpectedly, Cao Cao proposed it himself. There is no reason for him not to agree.

Chapter 588 Fighting General

"Okay, no problem, the generals in front of the battle will be the generals in front of the battle, but I will decide the rules, how about it?"

Cao Cao didn't mind Liu Zheng's answer. After all, as long as Liu Zheng left the city, in Cao Cao's view, he couldn't go back. No matter what Liu Zheng thought, he would respond.

"Okay, just follow your rules, or you will lose in a while, and you will have to make excuses!"

Cao Cao was not in a hurry, waiting for Liu Zheng to tell his rules.

"Okay, that's refreshing. In fact, I don't have many rules. There are three points. First, since it's a competition, let's have some exciting games. A life-and-death battle is over when one party dies. What do you think?"

What a joke, how could Liu Zheng not understand what Cao Cao had in mind? He just wanted to use Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two top combat powers of the Three Kingdoms, to check and balance Liu Zheng.

Both Cao Cao and Liu Bei knew that it was impossible for Liu Zheng to bring too many powerful generals from Yangzhou, and there were only a few close people who followed him. Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Xu Huang and others would definitely only be there. .

The people Liu Zheng can use are just a few generals of the Yellow Turban Army. These people, let alone Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, can be easily dealt with even Cao Cao's own brothers.Not to mention the Xiahou brothers.

Now that Liu Zheng knew what Cao Cao and Liu Bei were up to, he naturally wanted to play something exciting, and directly made a life-and-death agreement, regardless of life or death, and could not withdraw.

When such a proposal was put forward, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others were stunned. They thought that Liu Zheng would propose some favorable conditions for themselves, but they never expected that it would be like this.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei, who thought that this battle was sure to win, naturally smiled at each other, thinking that Liu Zheng was stupid.

Faced with such a request, there is still a reason for Cao Cao not to agree.

"Okay, since you asked, I will naturally agree to you."

"Well, yes, the second requirement, since it is a life-and-death fight, we must choose some prizes, how about we place a bet according to the outcome?"

Liu Zheng first sets the rules of life-and-death struggle, and then finds ways to profit from it. This has always been Liu Zheng's philosophy. Since Liu Zheng has already determined that he will win, how can he miss this good opportunity to take advantage.

"Oh? You still want to bet?"

This time, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others were a little surprised. They thought they were taking advantage of it, but now Liu Zheng wanted to give them something, which made Cao Cao and Liu Bei happy.

"What do you want to bet?"

"I don't think you have anything to offer, so just use the military rations. If you lose a match, you can take out [-] shi of rations, how about that?"

The bet Liu Zheng mentioned was actually a matter of high interest. He was not short of this military ration. The reason why he brought it up was just casually. At the same time, he said so in order to prevent Cao Cao and Liu Bei from dispelling their doubts.

I decided in my heart that Liu Zheng really wanted to fight them, not any conspiracy.

[-] shi of food and grass is neither too much nor too little. After all, their army of tens of thousands is about to consume a lot of food and grass at this time. They can consume tens of thousands of shi in half a month here. The food and grass, the three parties' soldiers and horses can still get out of a mere [-] grain and grass.

Even if they couldn't get it out, Cao Cao and Liu Bei didn't think they would lose, so they agreed directly.

"Okay, we can still get this amount of food and grass. Are there any other requirements? If not, then stop talking nonsense and start directly."

This time, Liu Bei jumped in front of Cao Cao and answered Liu Zheng first.

It seems that he wants to stop Liu Zheng from continuing to speak, so that he can start fighting as soon as possible, so as not to change things later.

Liu Zheng looked at the time. At this time, Cao Bao's people should be coming back here.

Delaying time didn't do much, so he agreed to Liu Bei's request.

"Okay, since you are going to start, then choose the generals to fight."

Of course, Liu Zheng would not foolishly ask himself to send people to fight first. He had to choose, let Cao Cao and others send people out first. To play, let Lu Bu play.

Anyway, Liu Zheng decided that Dian Wei and Lu Bu, either of them, could deal with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Even Lu Bu alone can play three games.

Of course, Liu Zheng will not use Lu Bu's trump card so soon.

Instead, see who the opponent sends to fight, and then make a choice later. Anyway, Liu Zheng has many choices.

As soon as Liu Bei and Cao Cao saw Liu Zheng asking them to send someone to fight first, they didn't think too much about it. They started talking to each other and began to recommend the first person to fight.

Guan Yu naturally wanted to show off at this time, but if he was the first to play, he would not be able to show his strength, so Guan Yu was not the first to stand up at this time.

On the contrary, Zhang Fei, seeing that Guan Yu didn't speak up, thought he was his elder brother and didn't bother to fight, so he spoke to Liu Bei and Cao Cao.

"Brother, Liu Zheng is so arrogant, why don't you let me be the first to fight and meet him for a while?"

Zhang Fei's self-recommendation was naturally for Liu Bei to agree to. There was no reason for him to refuse, and he was about to agree to Zhang Fei's request.

Cao Cao on the side stretched out his hand, interrupting what Liu Bei was about to say.

"Xuande, wait a minute."

Cao Cao's words made Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Liu Bei and others cast their eyes on Cao Cao at the same time.

"Brother Meng De, this is?"

"General Yide's strength, as I understand it, is quite formidable. If General Yide is allowed to fight, wouldn't it immediately make Liu Zheng lose hope of survival, so we should regard Yun Chang and Yide as two generals? Hole card, let my general Xiahou Dun play."

"In this way, we can better understand what kind of people Liu Zheng brought out this time. Even if he loses the first battle, it doesn't matter, there is still room for buffer."

Cao Cao was more cautious. Although Liu Zheng didn't bring anyone over this time, Cao Cao was also afraid that there would be one or two experts around Liu Zheng, so he wanted to let his own people find out first.

After Cao Cao said this, Zhang Fei's desire to go first was not so strong, and Liu Bei was also persuaded by Cao Cao.

"Okay, then do what you said, Mengde."

Seeing that Liu Bei agreed, Cao Cao didn't say much, turned around and said something to Xiahou Dun behind him.

"Yuan Rang Xia Houdun said, the first battle is up to you. Don't underestimate Liu Zheng. Remember, if you feel that you are no match for your opponent, you will retreat, regardless of the life-and-death agreement Liu Zheng just said. "

Chapter 589 Who dares to come out and fight

Although Liu Zheng said something about a life-and-death battle, in Cao Cao's eyes, this was not an agreement that could bind him at all.

He cared more about the lives of his brothers in the clan.

After Xiahou Dun heard the order from the lord Cao Cao, he clasped his fists with both hands, and immediately accepted the order.

"The last general takes orders, and he will certainly live up to the lord's entrustment."

Xiahou Dun immediately got up and left, jumped on his horse, drew his sword, and ran to the battlefield.

While walking, he yelled loudly at Liu Zheng.

"I am Xiahoudun of Qiao County, who dares to come out and fight the thieves!"

Xiahou Dun was only younger than Cao Cao, and he was the first person in the Xiahou family to follow Cao Cao.It is also the one with the highest martial arts among the family members who followed Cao Cao.It can also be said that it is the closest one to Cao Cao's blood relationship.

Why is it the one closest to Cao Cao's blood relationship? This starts with Cao Cao's father.

Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, was originally surnamed Xiahou, and then passed on to the great eunuch Cao Teng as his adopted son, so Cao Cao also took the surname Cao, and Cao Song was originally Xiahou Dun's uncle, so Cao Cao and Xiahou Dun are considered blood relatives cousins.

And Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Cao Chun and others are just the clan brothers Cao Cao adopted to the Cao family, and they are essentially not related by blood.

It's just because Cao Cao is the best gangster in Cao's family, and everyone hangs out with Cao Cao.

This is why, under Cao Cao's subordinates, Xiahou Dun did not have any outstanding performance, and his achievements were mediocre, but he has always played a pivotal role.

Although Xiahoudun in history did not kill any famous generals, nor did he lead an army to attack a city, his strength is unquestionable.

At this time, Xiahou Dun rushed out of the barracks, and after being seen by Liu Zheng, he showed a solemn expression.

Xiahou Dun, as one of Cao Cao's generals, Liu Zheng naturally knew him very well. What impressed Liu Zheng most about Xiahou Dun in history was that he fought with Lu Bu, but was captured by Lu Bu, and then he was hit by Liu Shi. He was blind in one eye, but he plucked out his own blind eye and ate it with a strong taste.

This kind of coquettish operation made Liu Zheng remember this person abruptly.

Although Xiahou Dun's showmanship is powerful, Xiahou Dun's record is mediocre among the Three Kingdoms. He was defeated by Lu Bu twice, and he was also defeated by Liu Bei.