The frail counselor you said, you fight against three heroes alone?

Chapter 208 Shouchun City Breaks, Liu Bei Flees

In Yuan Shu's bloodshot eyes, there was a look of panic from time to time.

"Ordered by heaven, you will live forever."

These words kept turning in his mind.

"It's a good one who is ordered by the sky, and has a long life!"

"Sad, judging by today's situation, I, Yuan Shu, may not have such a destiny..."

Yuan Shu suddenly recalled that dream in his early years.

He dreamed of a fat stag, and a group of heroes rushed towards the stag.

Waking up in the dream, Yuan Shu was very confused, so he called for a dream interpreter, who told him that the male deer is the road, and those who are following are the princes of the world. This dream foretells that all princes will follow Yuan Shu, rejuvenate the Han Dynasty!

Yuan Shu was very happy. From then on, he pretended that he was the king chosen by heaven.

After getting the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, his thoughts were further strengthened...

But now, he has been defeated like a mountain, and can only lead a group of civil and military officials to curl up in Shouchun City...

Yuan Shu's eyes were cold, and he felt sad coming from them.

At this time, there was a sudden burst of loud bangs outside Shouchun City, like a huge thunder.

Yuan Shu trembled all over, waking up like a dream.

Suddenly, a bloody general rushed in, scaring a group of dancing girls and concubines to scream.

"Lord!"

"His Majesty!"

Yuan Shu sank suddenly, although he didn't recognize who the general was, he saw the scribe Yan Xiang who was following the general.

This person had tried everything to prevent him from entering the throne, so he was reviled and resigned!
"Yan Xiang! What are you doing in my palace! Could it be that you want to join the enemy and harm me?"

"Lord!"

Hearing this, Yan Xiang was stunned. He looked at Yuan Shu with great disappointment, "My lord, wake up!"

"Shouchun... the city... is broken!"

"It's absolutely impossible! The walls of Shouchun City are [-] feet high, easy to defend and difficult to attack, at least they can hold on until next year!" Yuan Shi trembled in disbelief, "It's only been a few days of fighting, how could Shouchun City be broken!"

Hearing this, the general who came in knelt on the ground, and said with hatred and despair on his face, "Your Majesty, Shouchun City has really been breached!"

"It's the catapult developed by Mr. Xi Yu, the number one strategist under Cao Bandit!! The cannon is so terrifying that it directly bombed the city wall..."

"Throw... a stone chariot?! When did Thief Cao have such a magical weapon?" Yuan Shu had never heard of such a strange thing, and he was very puzzled, and even more desperate...

Seeing this, Yan Xiangbei felt disappointed, and shouted at Yuan Shu, "Yuan Gonglu!"

"You are the fourth and third son of the Yuan family, a well-known family. I thought you were the master of the south of the Yangtze River, and you must have the heart of dominance!"

"How could you be so licentious, fatuous and incompetent!"

While yelling and cursing, Yan Xiang's chest rose and fell rapidly, and he was determined to vomit out the dissatisfaction of these years.

Yan Xiang had already been extremely disappointed by Yuan Shu's anger. At the beginning, he tried his best to dissuade Yuan Shu from entering the throne, but Yuan Shu refused to listen and insisted on entering.

Now you are facing enemies from three sides, and the whole world will kill it!
What a foolish move!
"Bastard! Yan Xiang, you mere lowly Confucian scholar, how dare you offend me, and treat me so disrespectfully!"

Yuan Shu was extremely angry, he slapped the armrest, got up, raised his sword and got off the dragon chair, approaching Yan Xiang step by step.

"hiss!"

Yan Xiang suddenly felt terrified, Yuan Shu suddenly slashed his shoulder with a sword, blood burst out immediately.

It's just that Yuan Shu used too much force with this sword, he felt exhausted and fell to the ground suddenly, but he struggled to stand up slowly, then swung his sharp sword and slashed at the dancer and the concubine.

"Where are you running! Babe, hurry up and follow me to the underworld!"

Yuan Shu was extremely desperate, terrified like a god of death, he picked up the long sword, and chased wildly towards the dancing girl, the general who was covered in blood looked dumbfounded for a moment.

The scene in front of me was horrifying and terrifying, and it was even more unbelievable.

Is this still... the Yuan Gonglu who was born in a famous family, rich in strategy, and respectful and virtuous?

Today, it is no longer the case.

After that former famous family, he has gone completely crazy at this moment!
Yuan Shu was indeed insane, he no longer had any intention of running away.

He just wanted to kill all his family members and servants, and never gave Cao thief any chance to whip him!
"You, General He Fang, I order you to set fire immediately! Set fire!"

"Burn me to death in the palace, I want this Shouchun City to be buried with me, and I will never leave it to Cao Ah!"

"Set me on fire!!!"

Yuan Shu roared and swung his long sword frantically with both hands, piercing the sky with one sword after another in despair, making piercing whirring sounds one after another.

……

Half an hour later, the tall city wall of Shouchun City collapsed, and Shouchun City was broken.

Yuan Shu's defenders in the city retreated steadily, and it was difficult to resist Cao Cao's ferocious iron hooves.

A group of black heavy armored cavalry rushed into the city from the path like a storm, quickly killed all the soldiers defending the city, and then quickly opened the city gate.

The general who commanded the cavalry was handsome, calm and full of murderous intent. His battle robe had already been stained red with blood. Even just looking at each other could make people shudder.

The black iron cavalry quickly made a straight path through the crowd and rushed towards the burning Shouchun Palace.

These cavalry were Xi Yu's assassination squad, and the general in command was Zhao Yun.

"Number one! You lead the odd-numbered black cavalry straight to the right, and I will go to the left, and then we will meet in front of the palace!"

"Leader!"

The assassination team is ranked in order from one to one hundred according to combat strength, and the number one person in this row is of course the person whose strength is second only to Zhao Yun.

According to Zhao Yun's order, the assassination team immediately divided into two groups. Each of the cavalry had a long spear and rode a horse to sprint quickly. When they got close, they immediately changed into powerful crossbows that could be fired continuously.

"Whizzing……"

The sound of firing continued, and all the defending cavalry who came to stop them almost fell off their horses and died on the spot.

The assassination team sprinted ahead and slaughtered to open the way, followed by Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry, and quickly entered Shouchun City. All Yuan's troops in Shouchun City were defeated and fled for their lives.

In the previous battles, Yuan Jun had already been terrified by the assassination team and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry!
……

At this moment, on a high mountain in the distance, several people were carefully observing the battle to break the city in Shouchun City.

These three people are the three brothers Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Seeing the Shouchun Palace being devoured by everyone, Liu Bei couldn't help but nodded in amazement.

"As expected of Cao Cao, second brother and third brother, do you still remember the power of that catapult?"

Guan Yu stroked his long beard, and said softly, "How can you not remember? The catapult was like a huge thunderstorm. Wherever it went, the stones fell and the ground collapsed, and the destructive power was terrible."

"What's even more frightening is that Cao Cao already has five of such fine and huge sharp weapons."

Hearing this, Liu Bei couldn't help sighing, "Hey, after all, I'm not lucky enough. If I could get a counselor like Xi Yu, why would I be like this now..."

Every time he thinks about this, Liu Bei feels very uncomfortable, and he can't help but feel that he has missed too much.

Just like this powerful catapult, if only the design drawings were stolen from the design institute of the supply camp.

That is, Liu Bei is still in Xuchang, but he has had such thoughts more than once.

If you can successfully get all the blueprints from the design institute, then you can get a lot of research and development things hosted by Xi Yu.

But Liu Bei still lacked guts after all. He knew that the design institute was heavily guarded, and the five hundred soldiers of the supply battalion stationed in the design institute were all masters.

It is as difficult as heaven to enter the design institute to steal blueprints.

In Xuchang City, the Design Institute and the Tiangong Institute are the most mysterious, especially the Tiangong Institute, only Xi Yu can enter.

Liu Bei thought to himself that more generals and even counselors were probably deployed there, and it must be extremely dangerous inside!
"Second brother, third brother, let's withdraw our troops."

"What? Brother! We managed to gain a firm foothold near Shouchun City, why did we withdraw our troops?!"

"That's right, brother! I'm still thinking about drinking a celebration wine to my heart's content!"

Having said that, whenever Liu Bei thinks of Xi Yu at this moment, his legs will tremble with chills.

Perhaps in the eyes of other princes, Xi Yu is just a counselor. Although he has a little bit of swordsmanship, he is at best good-looking.

But Liu Bei didn't dare to underestimate Xi Yu, after all, he had experienced Xi Yu's terror up close.

In his opinion, this person is definitely the most powerful general in Cao Ying.

If Xi Yu wears armor to fight in the future, he will be invincible.

"Withdraw the army, now Cao Cao will definitely not tolerate me, I finally escaped, and I must not let him catch me back."

Hearing this, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei looked at each other, neither of them knew how to answer.

After a while, Guan Yu had no choice but to sigh: "Brother, if the army withdraws, where will you and my brother go?"

Liu Bei narrowed his eyes, and now he has plans, "Jingzhou."

"There are countless celebrities and generals in Jingzhou City. Liu Biao has promised to give me Xinye and Rangcheng to reject Wancheng. In this way, as long as I recover Wancheng, I can lead the Nanyang prefect."

Liu Bei's eyes showed bursts of hope, which is currently the most feasible strategy for him.

Perhaps, in this Jingzhou City, he will have unexpected gains.

"What? Wancheng?!" Hearing this, Zhang Fei exclaimed, "Didn't that fellow Liu Biao regard you as the second Zhang Xiu?"

Zhang Fei usually looks reckless and has little strategy, but in fact, he is smarter than many generals.

Just from Liu Bei's words, Zhang Fei has already seen through the mind of Liu Biao in Jingzhou.

Guan Yu was quite surprised, "Third Brother, you have been accompanying Eldest Brother this time when you entered Jingxiang, why did you only find out about this now?"

While speaking, Guan Yu's eyes narrowed, obviously blaming Zhang Fei.

Liu Bei quickly smiled and said, "Second brother, don't blame the third brother. I didn't let him in. You also know that the third brother has always acted impulsively. I'm worried that if he accidentally bumps into Liu Biao, the loss outweighs the gain."

"Hey, brother is right." Zhang Fei suddenly smiled.

"Big Brother, Second Brother, look at the two brothers, Zilong has already gone mad in Shouchun City!"

As soon as Zhang Fei said this, Liu Bei and Guan Yu immediately looked at Shouchun City.

From a distance, the three of them saw Zhao Zilong among the tall buildings and pavilions, like a god of war descending to earth.

I saw him holding a long spear, invincible, all Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses wearing armor, even if they held sharp knives to resist, but in front of Zhao Zilong, it is difficult to resist.

As Zhao Zilong's figure quickly shuttled back and forth, Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses were directly crushed to pieces.

Looking at Zhao Zilong from afar as if he was in no man's land, invincible, Liu Bei felt a dull pain in his heart.

Alas, this brave Zhao Zilong should have belonged to me, Liu Bei! ! !

It's a pity, but it's even more hateful!
Soon, Shouchun City was breached and the Yuan Shu Dynasty fell.

……

It has existed for less than two months, which is too short. In this chaotic world where the princes are fighting, it is just a short-lived pseudo-emperor force.

The Yuan Shu dynasty collapsed in just two months, and the Yuan Shu family lost all face.

However, Yuan Shao took advantage of this opportunity to deal with Gongsun Zan in Youzhou in the north.

The White Horse General, who was once a powerful man, had to be trapped in the building in the end. After killing all his family members, he killed himself with hatred.

This is very similar to Yuan Shu's death.

So far, the two forces that have risen together and supported each other are each moving towards the road of strength.

The battle between each other has also begun to unfold.

After being breached, Shouchun City had to be rebuilt. Cao Cao personally sat in the town, and at the same time recruited the first counselor Xi Yu.

Xi Yu set off from the grain station and went with Guo Jia, and Xun You went with Xi Zhicai.

Cheng Yu and Cao Ren came from Xiaopei, and Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Xu Chu and others were also among them.

Up to now, Xuzhou, Yangzhou North, Yanzhou, three and a half states, cities with a population of one million are all in the hands of Cao Cao.

How powerful is this!
Cao Cao was very happy and held a celebration banquet for this.

At night, at the banquet, Cao Cao talked happily over wine, and unabashedly praised Zhao Zilong and the assassination team, his love was beyond words.

"Zilong, your assassination team can be called a peerless soldier!!!"

Cao Cao was in a good mood tonight, and he did not hesitate to love Zhao Yun in his words.

"Zilong is such a fierce general in culture and martial arts! Let's find the second one now!"

Hearing this, Dian Wei and Xu Chu were very unhappy in their hearts, they were very unconvinced, "My lord, I can't believe what you say, when it comes to martial arts, we definitely belong to Zhao Zilong!"

"Hehe..." Cao Cao smiled slightly when he heard that, "You two are a couple."

"My lord, what are you talking about? How can I pair up with this reckless man?" Dian Wei said with his mouth full of meat, chewing meat, very displeased.

The way he eats is really rough, and Huang Zhong's way of eating is a little more refined.

Xi Yu didn't interrupt, just focused on eating.

However, Xi Yu is the one who eats the most, plus Dian Wei, Xu Chu and Zhao Yun, these four eat meat and drink more than 30 people...

If Cao Cao is strong now, it may be difficult to support these four people.

Seeing Xi Yu drinking and eating meat like this, Xi Zhicai and Xun You could only shake their heads and smile wryly.

"Fong Yi..."

A few years later, Xi Yu finally stopped competing with their ordinary civil servants, but he didn't expect that all the generals would obey him now.

When the war was over and rewards were given for meritorious service, the merit of planning and transporting food still fell into the hands of Xi Yu.

Even the beheading of a group of generals was attributed to him, Xi Yu.

This really made it difficult for Xun You to balance, but Xi Zhicai had already seen it.

"Zhicai, I have ordered you to ask someone to invite Liu Bei to eat, why don't you see Xuande?"

Cao Cao asked suddenly.

At this time, Xi Yu immediately raised his head and replied: "Brother, you don't know something, Liu Bei has already run away. Hehe, he finally came out of Xuchang, how can he run back?"

Cao Cao was taken aback for a moment, then laughed, "How could Xuande be like this? He is the left general of the Han Dynasty. I have asked the emperor to summon him. Now is the time to invite meritorious service and gain world fame. How can he run away?"

Hearing this, Xi Zhicai smiled and said: "My lord, Fengyi, after all, Uncle Liu Huang is the left general of the Han Dynasty. I can't wait to force him, but I have already sent someone to invite Uncle Liu Huang, everyone, don't worry..."

"Report!"

Suddenly, a panic-looking cavalryman ran outside the tent, knelt down on one knee, and said loudly, "Uncle Liu Huang's camp is empty, and he has disappeared!"

"what?!"

Cao Cao stood up suddenly, unbelievable.

"Is he really willing to give up after being rewarded for such great achievements? Isn't he going to help the Han family? Could it be that he really ran away?"

Hearing Cao Cao's words, Xi Yu immediately looked at his elder brother, "Brother, what did you say to me just now?"

"This..." The corner of Xi Zhicai's mouth twitched suddenly.

Xi Zhicai wanted to say just now that he can rest assured that Liu Bei will never run away.

No one knows now that Liu Bei has made it his responsibility to show the Han Dynasty to the world, and that is the foundation of his life.

Who would have thought that Liu Bei would run away, but now that the words came to his lips, Xi Zhicai could only swallow them abruptly.

"He ran away?! I didn't expect Liu Xuande to be so despicable!"

Xi Yu suddenly smiled and said, "At the beginning, I asserted that Liu Bei is not worthy of reuse."

"Although I don't know how Liu Bei decided to leave, I can conclude that there must be someone in Xuchang helping him in this matter."

"..."

Cao Cao glanced at Xi Yu quietly.

Although it's inconvenient to say anything more at this time, I still couldn't help but wonder, "Liu Bei really has the ambition to dominate?"

"Of course." Xi Yu said with certainty.

Cao Cao's face sank slightly, he thought for a moment, and suddenly smiled, "Even if he has the heart of dominance, it doesn't matter..."

"At the time when the war was urgent, I had no one available for a while, and his second and third younger brothers were in charge of Xiaopei's army. If the imperial court ordered it, they might not send troops with all their heart."

"However, even if he wants to run, there is nowhere to go."

"Ha ha……"

Hearing this, Zhuge Liang, who was in the second-to-last seat, suddenly spoke softly, but smiled without saying a word.

Originally, he was supposed to sit at the last seat, but for some reason, Jia Xu insisted on sitting at the last seat voluntarily.

"Your Excellency is..." Cao Cao squinted at Zhuge Liang.

This person seems to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, he has never seen him before, but this person has an excellent temperament, quite a scholarly spirit.

Cao Cao couldn't help feeling in his heart that Xi Yu's subordinates were really hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

"My lord, Zhuge Liang, whose name is Kongming, has met Duke Cao."

Hearing this, Cao Cao looked at Zhuge Liang and asked, "You just smiled lightly and remained silent, what is your intention?"

"Mr. Cao, forgive me." Zhuge Liang stroked his beard calmly, and said calmly, "I don't mean to be sarcastic, but I just lament that Liu Huangshu, although he is based on benevolence, justice and loyalty, dare not stick to this principle."

"Uncle Liu made great achievements in beheading the false emperor, but he dared not receive the reward from the emperor. It's really... embarrassing."

"This kind of person, if he is a man of culture and military strategy, he will know that this person is not a master. If he follows him, it will be difficult to settle down. How can he talk about grand plans and hegemony? How can people of insight in the world go to him? Don't worry about Cao Gong .”

As soon as Zhuge Liang said this, Cao Cao felt very relieved.

(End of this chapter)