The Three Kingdoms

Sun Jian's face was serious.

"That's why we split Jiangdong and build our own capital city!" Zhang Zhao gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.

"What nonsense!"

Sun Jian stared, his eyes shot out a flash of horror, and he slapped the desk, causing the entire desk to fall apart.

"My lord, calm down, there must be something wrong with this." Zhang Hong hurried forward and said.

"Strange?" Sun Jian said coldly.

When Sun Quan built a new city in Moling, he just informed the General's Mansion, so he didn't pay too much attention to it. Later, he sent people to explore. He knew how magnificent Sun Quan's new city was.

However, Sun Quan didn't reach out to the general's mansion first, so he was happy to sit down. If Sun Quan built the city independently, he didn't believe it from the bottom of his heart.

In Jiangdong now, Sun Jian is the only king. As long as he gives an order, no one can oppose him, not even Sun Ce and Sun Quan. He has absolute confidence, so he will not doubt it.

"My lord, it is not a matter of a day or two for Mr. Quan to build a city. It has been several months. How can there be rumors and rumors in the past few days, which are not groundless. Suddenly there are so many messages pointing to Mr. Quan. I am afraid that someone is Drinking is not what drunkards want!" Zhang Hong had already heard a lot of rumors a few days ago, so he kept an eye out for it, and it really let him find out a lot.

"My lord, this subordinate also thinks so. I'm afraid some people want to deliberately target Mr. Quan." Zhang Zhao said.

"Who?"

Sun Jian narrowed his eyes, his eyes were cold and murderous.

"Jiangdong Family!"

Zhang Hong and Zhang Zhao looked at each other before saying in unison.

[Text Chapter 257 Liu Bei's Crisis]

In Runan County, outside Ruyin City, war drums are rumbling, war horses are neighing, soldiers are arrayed, and yellow sand is rolling.

Ruyin City is Yuan Shu's last fortress in Runan. If Ruyin City cannot be defended, Yuan Shu can only lead his troops to withdraw from Runan and stick to Jiujiang.

In the past few days, Liu Bei and Cao Cao's armies have been attacking east and west, making Ruyin City already on the verge of falling, and it may take three days at most before it will be broken.

At this time, outside the city gate to the east of Ruyin, there was the barracks of the Xuzhou soldiers and the large tent of the Chinese army.

Liu Bei's body was sitting cross-legged in a high position, his face was as gloomy as water, without a trace of the joy of winning the battle, his entire complexion had no blood at all, and became extremely pale.

His Xuzhou!

lost!

Half of his life was bumpy, and he got a piece of land after hard work. For this reason, he did not hesitate to take the risk of poisoning Tao Qian to get Xuzhou. He thought he could recuperate, recharge his energy, and fight for the world, but in only half a year, he went from It slipped out of his hands.

"Lv Bu!" Liu Bei's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth. At the beginning, he took in Lu Bu because he thought that he didn't have enough troops to suppress Xuzhou, so he wanted to use him to guard the northwestern gate of Xuzhou for himself.

Moreover, he thought that Lu Bu was just a lost dog driven out of Yanzhou by Cao Cao, with only a few thousand soldiers and horses, it was nothing to worry about.

But he forgot one thing, this is a fierce tiger, not a domestic dog.When the tiger was in trouble, his strength was insufficient, but when he recovered from his injuries, he would bite him hard.

In the military tent, the atmosphere was a bit oppressive, all the confidant generals looked ugly, and they were all silent.

"Brother, the loss of Xiapi was due to someone's fault. My sister-in-law fell into the enemy's hands, and it was also someone's incompetence. Now that someone has caused my brother to lose his city and home, I have no face to face my brother anymore!"

Zhang Fei looked at his elder brother, with extremely remorse and guilt in his eyes, he knelt down on one knee, and pulled out the long sword at his waist with a red sound, wanting to apologize to himself.

"Yide, no!"

Liu Bei was startled, stepped forward hurriedly, grabbed the sword, looked at the bearded Zhang Fei, and said loudly: "The ancients said that brothers are like brothers and feet, and wives are like clothes. Clothes are torn, but they can be sewn, and hands and feet are broken. An Kexuan? The three of us are sworn brothers in Taoyuan, we don’t want to live together, but we hope to die together.”

"Brother Dayi!"

Zhang Fei and Guan Yu next to him heard the words, their eyes involuntarily became slightly moist, and they looked at Liu Bei with great emotion in their hearts. Liu Bei's sincere words made them firm in their hearts for this brotherhood.

In history, Liu Bei was called a hypocrite, thinking that he was hypocritical, but Liu Bei had a deep affection for this brotherhood, no matter what he said today, or he who later established the Kingdom of Shu, avenged Zhang Fei and Guan Yu regardless of everything. His actions showed that he was serious about this brotherhood.

This is not his words to buy people's hearts, maybe it is the truth from the bottom of his heart. In his heart, his wife and children are never as good as brothers.

"Yide, although I have lost my family in Chengchi, how can I bear the responsibility of teaching my brothers? Kuangcheng is not my own. Although the family members are trapped, compared with Lu Bu, they will not murder them, and they can still be designed to save them. My brother made a mistake for a while. Why do you want to donate your life so suddenly!" After all, Liu Bei is a person who has gone through ups and downs, and his mind is firm. He was really angry when he lost Xuzhou, but after he calmed down, he stretched out his hand to support Zhang Fei.

"Brother, I will be the vanguard and retake Xuzhou again." Zhang Fei wiped away his tears. While being moved by Liu Bei's friendship, he also felt a surge of hatred and said fiercely: "I want to fight with that ungrateful man!" The slaves of the three surnames will fight to the death."

"Yuanlong, do you have a good plan for the current situation?" Liu Bei sat down, pondered for a moment with a hesitant expression, gritted his teeth, looked at Chen Deng who looked haggard, and asked.

He did want to take back Xuzhou, but he also knew in his heart that Lu Bu had already secured Xuzhou. With his current strength of up to [-] troops, it was not enough to regain Xuzhou suppressed by the world's number one general.

"My lord, at this moment, we are not talking about recapturing Xuzhou, but that we should retreat!" Chen Gui retreated to Xiapi to cover the remnants of Chen Deng and Zhang Fei. Now that he has been killed by Tao Ying, he is also filled with grief and indignation. , but he still had to calm down.

"Retreat?" Liu Bei was a little unwilling. Without Xuzhou, he became interested in Yuzhou. Now several counties in Runan County are under his control, and he still has tens of thousands of soldiers in his hands. It is no longer possible for the current three-legged Runan to gain a firm foothold.

"My lord, you can't go back to Xuzhou, and you can't stay in Yuzhou!"

Chen Deng looked decisively and said.

"You can't go back to Xuzhou, and you can't stay in Yuzhou?" Liu Bei trembled when he heard the words, his eyes widened, and he looked at Chen Deng, a little terrified, and said tremblingly: "You mean..."

crisis!

Liu Bei felt a strong crisis from Chen Deng's heart, which was related to the crisis of his tens of thousands of troops.

"Now the battle of Xuzhou must have spread to Cao's army. I'm afraid Cao Cao will turn against him." Chen Deng nodded and said.

"Cao Jun wants to fight back?" All the generals turned pale in shock.

"Why?"

Jian Yong stood up and said with some confusion: "I will send troops to help him take down Runan, shouldn't we be allies?"

"If you want to form an ally, you must have strength. We have Xuzhou in our hands. Cao Jun is naturally afraid of us, but now we are just a homeless dog driven out by Lu Bu. Such a great opportunity, how can a villain like Cao Cao let it go? Take our chance." Chen Deng said coldly.

In troubled times, strength is the only measure of equality. Today's Liu Bei no longer has the qualifications to be equal to Cao Cao. The tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands are a piece of cake for Cao Cao.

Liu Bei's heart turned cold. He knew what Chen Deng said was true. If he had been in Cao Cao's position, he might have seized the opportunity and swallowed it up. Besides, forming an alliance is nothing!

"Yuanlong, tell me, what should we do?" Liu Bei gritted his teeth and asked.

"At present we only have a few roads, and Lu Bu may not be able to accommodate us. Therefore, Xuzhou cannot be returned. Cao Cao is suspicious, and his advisers are extremely shrewd. Yanzhou is not something we can collide with." Chen Deng analyzed.

"Mr. Chen means, let's go to Jiujiang!" Sun Gan said with his eyes moving slightly.

"No!"

Chen Deng shook his head and said: "Although Jiujiang Yuanshu does not have Runan, he still controls more than [-] soldiers and horses, which is not something we can take down, and even if we go to work, with his measure, he will not take us in. We There is still another place to go, but the lord will be wronged."

"Up to now, as long as the brothers have a way to survive, that's enough, what's the grievance?" Liu Bei started from a commoner, with a tough personality, naturally he didn't care about his status for a while, and said loudly: "Yuan Long speak directly! "