"Brother, what's the matter with me, Pei Qing, asking you to go? It's not about discussing continuing to dig trenches, right? Hehe, I think he has nothing else to do except dig trenches."

After Liu Bei came back, Zhang Fei couldn't help but ask, his words full of sarcasm to Pei Qing.

However, Liu Bei scolded: "I'm talking nonsense again. The envoy of Pei ordered our army to launch a decisive battle against the Western Liang army three days later, requiring us to be prepared. We must kill more enemies and make more contributions in this battle, and not be underestimated."

Liu Bei said solemnly, but Zhang Fei disagreed after hearing this, and laughed: "Brother, why should you believe it? This must be Pei Qing's son who always acts as a turtle with his head and feels that he can't hold on to face anymore, so he ordered an attack. However, our exit is so narrow that the other party just sends large shield soldiers and spearmen to form a formation, or just a subordinate obstacle at the intersection, and then sends soldiers to guard it, we can only stare at it. So his so-called attack is just a form. I believe he lets us pretend to launch a wave of attacks, and then we will call the gold to withdraw our troops. Then we will prepare for it for nothing and waste our feelings."

However, Liu Bei then shouted in a deep voice: "If you want to prepare, prepare well. Where did so much nonsense come from? How could a leader of a coalition army be kidding with more than 100,000 troops? If you failed to get the first prize at the beginning of the war, be careful of your skin when you come back!"

Zhang Fei quickly said carefully: "I'm just a joke to make my brother smile. Don't worry, brother, this battle is already ready. If you want to say something else may not work, but you can call me something like killing generals in the last battle. When the number of people is counted, I will definitely kill the most."

However, when Zhang Fei said this, he saw Guan Yu's gaze very cold, and he immediately said embarrassedly: "Of course, I mean, I killed the most besides my second brother. Of course, the biggest credit was that our brothers and two of us snatched away."

Guan Yu's face looked a little better, and he said lightly: "Don't say that, there are still many capable people in this world. Maybe someone will steal us, so we should prepare carefully. Don't be able to get rid of the credit by the time, then we will be embarrassed."

Even though he said so, Guan Yu had a look that was no less than me. His words just now were just humble. In terms of his skill in killing the enemy, he claimed to be the second in the world. Who else dared to be the first? Even Lu Bu, who is known as Lu Bu among others, may not be as good as him in terms of his ability to kill the enemy, but his martial arts have no chance to show his skills.

Three days passed quickly, and Xie Juzhen had already returned, brought Li Jue's letter of agreement to fight, and told Pei Qing all the way to what he did in the Xiliang Military Camp.

Pei Qing was very happy when he heard the news and said to Xie Juzhen that he had worked hard. Then he asked Xie Juzhen to retreat, without saying that he would "take the immortal medicine" for Xie Juzhen.

Although Xie Juzhen was a little disappointed, he did not show it. Instead, he continued to do his own thing well. He believed that as long as he did well enough, Pei Qing would definitely take the elixir for himself.

However, Xie Juzhen didn't know that the reason why Pei Qing was like this was actually a test of Xie Juzhen, to see what reaction he would do. After all, the genes of famous generals who matched Xie Juzhen and his son were not simple, and people with bad intentions should never be allowed to be taken.

Seeing Xie Juzhen's reaction, Pei Qing was quite satisfied, but now it is not the time to match the genes of the famous generals for them, so Pei Qing didn't say it. First, time is indeed tight, and second, it is just a test of the character of their father and son.

On the morning of the day of the war, Pei Qing got up early. He made arrangements for everything, came to the school ground, ordered the generals, announced the discipline, and then led the army to set off slowly.

Since there are long and narrow mountain roads from Shangxian to Shangluo, the army cannot advance at all, so Pei Qing's army naturally cannot move forward, and can only move four or five people at the same time. In this case, Pei Qing took the lead and led the soldiers ahead. However, in order to compete for merit, Liu Bei took the initiative to be a pioneer.

Pei Qing didn't say anything about this, and smiled faintly, then agreed to Liu Bei's request.

So Liu Bei led his right-wing army to the forefront and advanced quickly. He saw that he had reached the end of the narrow passage, and they had already seen the open area not far ahead.

After arriving here, Liu Bei led his army to stop because he didn't know what the situation was ahead, for fear that he would be killed by the other party just now.

However, at this moment, someone shouted loudly not far ahead: "But Pei Yuanqing's coalition forces are here? Very good. You have arrived as promised. Since that's the case, I will not break my promise. I immediately led the army to retreat five miles to make room for you, just hope that you don't retreat in fear? Hahaha..."

When Liu Bei heard the other party's words, he probably knew what happened. After hearing Zhou Cang's explanation, he finally understood the cause and consequence of the matter. Since someone had spoken by the Western Liang Army, Liu Bei, as the commander of the vanguard, could not remain silent. So he spoke: "The leader of the coalition forces, Pei Yuanqing, obeyed the orders of the general, and the prime minister of Pingyuan, Liu Bei was ordered to lead the army to this point. Your army was able to retreat as promised. This is naturally excellent. I hope your army can keep its promise and retreat five miles away. When our army sets up its formation before launching an attack. If it breaks its promise, it will be breached by the world and make future generations laugh at me."

The man laughed and said, "Don't worry about this, but Pei Yuanqing didn't dare to take the lead and put the responsibility of commanding the front army to you, a prime minister of the plains. Do you think you can have the confidence to defeat us? I think you might as well surrender, and you will definitely arrange a good position for you at that time."

However, Liu Bei shouted loudly: "You are waiting for the thieves of Xiliang to hold the emperor hostage and disrupt me, which makes the country and country unstable in the Han Dynasty. As the descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan and the great-grandson of Emperor Xiaojing, I should take it as my responsibility to eliminate evil demons and calm my Han Dynasty. How can I join the traitors like you and others?"

"Tsk tsk, I really didn't expect there was a Han clan here. You wanted to inspire me to launch an attack at this time, but you used this as an excuse to refuse to fight. It's really a pity that I won't be fooled by you. Since you dare to speak so loudly, I must have some skills. I will definitely capture you alive on the battlefield later, but I will not kill you. I will humiliate you, a far-fledged Han clan, haha..."

The one who spoke was Li Jue. Seeing Liu Bei insulting him, he was extremely angry and secretly decided to capture Liu Bei alive today and humiliate him well. However, if an attack was launched at this time, they would immediately retreat back to the valley. In this way, they would not be able to decide the victory or defeat with the other party, nor could they capture Liu Bei alive. So they spoke like this and ordered the army to retreat slowly and launch an attack immediately after Pei Qing's army came out halfway. This is called a half-cross attack. Although it is now crossing the valley rather than crossing the river, the truth is the same. I believe that in this way, the enemy will definitely be defeated and he can also take the opportunity to capture Liu Bei alive in order to shock the enemy, attack and even disintegrate their morale.

However, he did not expect that when he led his army to retreat without going out of the Sanli area, he suddenly became chaotic behind the formation. He couldn't help but feel surprised. He quickly found the left and right personal soldiers and shouted loudly: "What's going on? What happened in the back formation?"
Chapter completed!