Youbeiping, Gongsun Zan’s mansion.

Since Gongsun Ji sent the news, Gongsun Zan ordered the generals scattered everywhere to return. So far, the 10,000 troops led by Tian Kai and the 5,000 troops led by Shan Jing have arrived in Youbeiping.

Although Gongsun Zan had only 15,000 soldiers and horses in his hands at this time, and Liu Yu brought 50,000 soldiers and horses, Gongsun Zan was not panicked at all, and he even wanted to laugh a little.

Before sending troops, Liu Yu naively said that he only killed himself. Did he really think that war is a child playing house?

Such a person is actually confident to come and fight for himself!

However, Gongsun Zan's happiness did not last long, and he saw a man hurriedly walking in from outside the mansion.

"Haha, Xuande, you are here too." Gongsun Zan asked the servant to serve tea to Liu Bei, while inviting Liu Bei to sit down.

Liu Bei was not in the mood to drink tea at this time. He sat down and asked directly: "Bogui, is Liu Gong going to lead troops to attack you?"

After asking, Liu Bei leaned his body and let his intact ear go towards Gongsun Zan to prevent any important news from missing.

Gongsun Zan did not hide Liu Bei and nodded easily: "It's true, I should be about to arrive in Peking now."

Upon hearing this, Liu Bei was anxious: "Oh Bogui, how can you be an enemy of Liu Gong? You are the county magistrate under Liu Gong's command. It is logical that you will be under Liu Gong's control!"

Liu Bei was in a very bad mood at this time. He finally had some foothold in Gongsun Zan's camp. At that time, he could earn credit by killing some alien races. If Liu Yu found out in the future, he might even be appointed as the governor of a county by Liu Yu.

A county magistrate is definitely a heavyweight to Liu Bei at this moment. Just like Gongsun Zan, the three brothers Liu Bei wanted to work for him to see his expression.

Of course, the premise of all this is to maintain a normal subordinate relationship with Liu Yu. Otherwise, would Liu Yu have a trance to find someone who is not against him to be the prefect, and then let Gongsun II appear in Youzhou?

Liu Bei thought that no matter how unacceptable Gongsun Zan was, he would still be able to abide by the superficial order and would not easily offend Liu Yu. However, not long after he left Peking, the news that Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu were about to go to war reached his army.

How could Gongsun Zan start a war with Liu Yu?

How dare he!

In Liu Bei's view, Liu Yu was a truly respected royal family. With Liu Yu's status as Youzhou, if Gongsun Zan dared to violently resist him, he would not lose the hearts of the people, and even officials at all levels in Jizhou would be isolated.

This is something Liu Bei didn't want to see, because he also wanted to continue climbing up with the big tree Gongsun Zan.

However, the actual situation did not develop in the direction he thought. Gongsun Zan not only resisted Liu Yu, but also had no choice but to stop the war.

At this moment, Liu Bei, who was still in Gongsun Zan's camp, would obviously label the Gongsun Zan's camp in the hearts of officials at all levels in Youzhou, including the people. In this way, no matter whether Gongsun Zan wins or loses afterwards, it would be difficult for him to gain a foothold in Youzhou!

Because Liu Bei has been using the banner of reviving the Han Dynasty since his debut. If he joined Gongsun Zan's camp to resist Liu Yu, wouldn't he be destroying his past name?

And now the only way to save your name is to ‘abandon the dark and turn to the light’!

The so-called abandoning darkness and turning to light means that you are leaving Gongsun Zan's camp at this moment and joining Liu Yu's camp, and publicly expressing that you have cut off your ties with Gongsun Zan, so that you can restore your previous image.

No matter how bad it is, you must leave Gongsun Zan's camp and draw a clear line with Gongsun Zan, so that you can maintain your reputation that has been spread throughout the past without any impact.

However, there is no possibility of reconciliation between him and Gongsun Zan in this way.

Liu Bei knew Gongsun Zan's character. He might be generous and polite to his own people, but he was definitely a cruel and ruthless person to the enemy, because he had been fighting with foreign races and could not tolerate any mercy!

Liu Bei felt very tired. Seeing that his business was about to be foolish because of Gongsun Zan's stupid behavior, his mood sank to the bottom.

If he could, he would now want to cut off Gongsun Zan's head and defect to Liu Yu. However, if he was unrighteous to Gongsun Zan, he would also ruin his reputation!

In a dilemma, Liu Bei was almost mad!

Unlike Liu Bei, Gongsun Zan was in a good mood at this moment.

He was very upset at first. The political disagreement between the two was the most critical point. After Gongsun Zan persuaded him many times, he had already had some other thoughts about Liu Yu. In addition, Pan Feng from Jizhou, Lu Bu from Chang'an, Yuan Shu from Runan, etc. were all conquering cities and expanding their territory.

This made Gongsun Zan's heart that was ready to move could not calm down.

Why can a fool like Liu Yu occupy the great power of Youzhou? Why do he fight to the death and drive away the alien race in the end and be blamed by Liu Yu? Why...

Gongsun Zan felt so dissatisfied with Liu Yu that he could not count it himself.

But now everything is not important.

Liu Yu has already raised an army, and he and Liu Yu will eventually rely on force to resolve the final right and wrong, and this is exactly what Gongsun Zan is good at!

"Xuande, I know you have a good impression of Liu Yu. You don't have to interfere with Liu Yu's affairs this time. I will deal with him. If you are willing to serve me, I will definitely use it for you. If you have other ideas, I don't want to meet you. You can leave by yourself at that time." Gongsun Zan took a sip of tea and said.

In fact, he still wanted Liu Bei to stay. On the one hand, it was his friendship with Liu Bei's classmates, and on the other hand, Liu Bei's two sworn brothers were too fierce. Gongsun Zan felt that Liu Bei's two younger brothers could be worth 30,000 to 40,000 troops with courage alone. If he could help him fight against Liu Yu, the battle might be smoother than expected.

However, Gongsun Zan did not have much hope because Liu Bei's expression had betrayed his heart.

"Bogui! You and my brother have been together for many years. Don't you know my ambitions? If Bogui wants to attack the alien race, I, Liu Xuande, will charge for you even if I am broken into pieces. But... But you are going to attack Mr. Liu!"

Liu Yu is also his brother of Liu Bei!

Liu Bei dared not say this sentence, nor could he say it.

Of course, even if Liu Bei didn't say this, the meaning he wanted to express was already very obvious, that was, he didn't want to beat Liu Yu with Gongsun Zan.

Seeing this, Gongsun Zan sighed and felt a little disappointed. After all, he was very heartless about Liu Bei, but in the end he was the one who got it.

"If Xuande wants to leave, he must take advantage of the fact that Liu Yu's army has not arrived yet. If the other party's army arrives, it will not be so easy for you to leave." Speaking of this, it seemed that he was afraid that Liu Bei would not be safe enough on the way to leave, Gongsun Zan added another sentence, "Your 3,000 troops will be taken away by yourself, it can be regarded as a parting gift I will give you in a fight between you and my brother."

Liu Bei was suddenly shocked. When he looked at Gongsun Zan again, he had waved his hand and walked towards the backyard.

Standing in the hall, Liu Bei took a deep breath, bowed deeply to the direction where Gongsun Zan left, and then resolutely left the mansion.

After Liu Bei left, Tian Kai, who was hiding in Gongsun Zan's mansion, dispersed the ambushing swordsman and then hurried to the backyard of Gongsun's mansion.

In the backyard pavilion, Gongsun Zan carried his hands on his back, looked up at the sky with thin clouds in the distance, with a gloomy expression.

"Lord, why did you let Liu Bei go?" Tian Kai came behind Gongsun Zan and bowed.

Gongsun Zan did not look back, but replied in a sad tone: "After all, I met Liu Bei and I, and he has never been hostile to me. How can I attack him?"

"Forget it, let's go. I didn't count him as a lineup against Liu Yu. If you want to deal with Liu Yu, you still need your help."

Although Tian Kai was sorry that Gongsun Zan let Liu Bei go, he not only did not feel that Gongsun Zan was indecisive, but instead admired Gongsun Zan's affection. At the same time, he felt ashamed of his suggestion to ambush Liu Bei.

He almost trapped Gongsun Zan in an unjust place.

In this way, only by defeating Liu Yu can we relieve our inner sins.

"Don't worry, lord, our army has already prepared. As long as Liu Yu dares to come, he will be told that he will never come back!" Tian Kai said in a deep voice.

Gongsun Zan nodded: "You go down and prepare first. Liu Yu probably will arrive here in two days."

"yes!"

Tian Kai took the order to retreat, and Gongsun Zan was the only one left in the pavilion.

After a long time, Gongsun Zan sighed.

"Maybe people are changing all the time, just like this cloud, and all I can do is to keep my original intention as much as possible when I change myself."

At the same time, Liu Bei rode his horse outside the city of Beiping, took a last look at the soldiers at the city gate, and headed south without looking back.

......

Two days later, Liu Yu's army came to Peiping.

Fifty thousand troops were stationed at the important intersection ten miles west of the city.

After setting up camp, Liu Yu called all the generals under his command into the main tent.

"Everyone, I learned that Gongsun Zan and his 15,000 troops were all in this Beiping City, and we only had 50,000 troops. If we attacked for a strong force, it would obviously cause huge casualties. Moreover, I think that most of the soldiers and people in the city were deceived by Gongsun Zan and would become enemies with us."

"So I want to write a letter to the city. If the people and soldiers in the city can surrender, we can enter Peking without any effort to capture Gongsun Zan."

Liu Yu stood in the tent, his face did not have the tension as before the war, but only his pity for the people and soldiers of Peking.

He believed that the people in the city would definitely not be willing to be enemies with him, and even there were many people in the troops under Gongsun Zan who were unwilling to be enemies with him. If these people could surrender to him, the difficulty of attacking Peking this time would be much lower and the sacrifice would be much lower.

Liu Yu didn't pay attention. His naive words made Xian Yufu, Qi Zhou and others below smile bitterly.

It's time for Liu Yu to have such naive thoughts. Gongsun Zan is not a fool. He will definitely not leave the soldiers close to Liu Yu in the city. Even the aristocratic families in the city may be monitored by Gongsun Zan now. Not to mention just writing a book, even if you hold a letter and sprinkle it all over the sky, it may not be effective.

However, everyone present knew that once Liu Yu had such naive ideas, he would try it. Anyway, this time he was just sending a letter, which would not lose any loss to the army, but would not defeat Liu Yu's final luck. At that time, he would never say the stupid words that would not kill others.

"Since Mr. Liu wants to try it, please tell me orally and record it." Qi Zhou said.

"No, I will make you seem to be insincere in writing for you. I should write it myself!" Liu Yu said, then took the pen and ink from the minor official next to him, and then started writing with silk.

Soon, Liu Yu wrote a whole piece of silk and silk, which made people send him to the city.

"In addition to sending letters, you also think of other ways to minimize casualties between the soldiers on both sides of the enemy and us. Don't talk about this method of forcing the attack on the city. I would not do this unless I had no choice." Liu Yu said.

Below, Xian Yufu and others could only discuss with a wry smile.

......

Liu Yu's handwritten book was quickly sent to Beiping City, and then sent to Gongsun Zan by his soldiers.

Gongsun Zan took the handwritten book and read it, and laughed out loud on the spot.

"I don't know if this Liu Yu is really stupid or fake, but he actually has such ridiculous ideas. If such an enemy loses, what kind of face will he have to survive in the world." Gongsun Zan smiled and passed Liu Yu's handbook to Tian Kai and Shan Jing and others.

Everyone said that every time they saw someone, they would make a burst of laughter.

How incompetent Liu Yu had to make such a joke?

"Lord, Liu Yu still had fantasies at this time. The last general felt that their camp would be relaxed. In addition, Liu Yu's army came from afar and was a tired army. If we could take advantage of the situation to attack at night, we would definitely defeat the enemy!" Tian Kai stood up and said.

His words made Gongsun Zan's eyes lit up.

yes!

It is not difficult to see from Liu Yu's handwritten book that he is lucky. In this way, the soldiers in the army must not have a strong desire to fight. The army will be empty at night. In addition, they are tired from afar, and they may succeed in one battle!

Thinking of this, Gongsun Zan's expression became excited. He walked back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back, thinking in his mind how likely he would have to win the raid tonight.

"Lord, the general of Mo also thought that night attack was the fastest way to defeat the enemy. Moreover, the general of Mo went out to investigate the enemy's camp before. Xian Yufu was obviously a reckless man who did not understand the formation. Although their army's camp was large in size, the formation was scattered, and there were many gaps in the camp that could make our army gain power. If the lord wanted to attack at night, the general of Mo was willing to be the vanguard!" Shan Jing stood up and said.

Shan Jing likes to understand the surrounding terrain and the enemy's battle formation before the battle, so this time, Liu Yu's army just took the whistle cavalry to investigate, which made him very happy. Liu Yu's 50,000 troops were simply a mob. If Gongsun Zan asked him to attack the enemy's camp, he would be confident that he could attack the inside of the local area with 5,000 troops, not to mention that it is a night attack now!

Tian Kai and Shan Jing were both generals under Gongsun Zan who were good at fighting. Both of them agreed that they could attack at night, so Gongsun Zan had nothing to consider.

"Since that's the case, we will wait for the two weekends to make meals and the three weekends to attack at night. At that time, except for two thousand people left to guard the city, all the rest will be dispatched. This night attack must be determined by one battle!" Gongsun Zan said in a deep voice.

"No!" The generals below responded in unison, then went down to prepare.

After everyone went down, Gongsun Zan picked up the handwritten book that Liu Yu sent in. Looking at Liu Yu's handwriting on it, Gongsun Zan chuckled and picked up the candle next to him to light him slowly.
Chapter completed!