"The dog is anxious and bites people, let alone Liu Bei is not a dog!" The next day, Bai Xisifu took a city again, looked at the map and said, "There are two roads from here to Shouchun, and the distance is similar. Let's take this one and let Liu Bei walk this one and leave something for him!"

This time, he expanded his team again in Anfeng County. Now there are 5,000 soldiers in the army, and Baixi decided to take the routes to Yangxi, Sitai, Xiacai, and finally to Shouchun.

At the same time, Lu Bu in Xiapi, Xuzhou, is closest to Yangzhou, and now he has taken Zhongli and Yicheng, and then Dangtu County, and is approaching Shouchun.

On the other hand, Sun Ce's army, which started from Kuaiji, was like a place where no one was, and now it was only thirty miles away from Shouchun.

Cao Cao set out from Yanzhou and advanced from the eastern part of Yuzhou, and had reached suburbs.

In Shouchun City.

"Your Majesty, Lu Bu has arrived in Yicheng now. I'm afraid he will be here in less than three days!" The eunuch reported at the gate of Yuan Shu's bedroom.

At this time, when Yuan Shu ascended the throne, he had connected many beauties in Yangzhou as concubines. In recent times, he has been enjoying the treatment of the emperor in his bedroom.

There was almost no news outside that could be heard.

"What? Lu Bu?" Yuan Shu came out of the bedroom and said, "Lu Bu has always been acquainted with me, how could he send troops to attack me?"

"Your Majesty, it's absolutely true!"

"This traitorous slave of the three surnames, who had been traitorous, wouldn't he betray me, Yuan Shu, dare not kill him?" When he heard that it was Lu Bu, Yuan Shu was very angry: "I ordered everyone to wait in the hall!"

"Report to Your Majesty, all the ministers have been waiting in the hall for a long time!"

"Your Majesty is finally here!"

Yuan Shu appeared in the hall, and everyone came forward to worship.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers came to report this morning. In the past two days, Sun Bofu has set out from Kuaiji and has now arrived in Wuwei County!"

"In addition, Cao Mengde has led nearly 60,000 troops to our Yangzhou!"

Yang Feng and Yang Hong integrate the latest news.

"Cao Mengde, this high-sounding person, is here?"

"Your Majesty, there is still!"

"And?" Yuan Shu looked surprised.

"In the northwest direction of my Yangzhou, two armies less than 10,000 have occupied nearly four of my cities!"

"Two armies? Who are they?"

"It's not clear all the way, because wherever they go, the city lords guarding the city were killed, and the march was very fast, so it was difficult for the soldiers sent out to get the news!"

"It's okay if there are less than 10,000 people, what about the other way?" Yuan Shu asked.

"Go back to Your Majesty, we can see clearly the other way. It is Cao Mengde's subordinate, Liu Xuande from Yuzhou!"

"Liu Bei? When the coalition forces attacked Dong's bandits last time, this man was just a minor official, and now he has bullied my Yuan family!" Yuan Shu paused for a moment and said, "All the generals obey the order!"

"Qiao Rui, I ordered you to bring 100,000 soldiers to fight Cao Mengde!"

"Liu Xun, I'll order you to lead 70,000 soldiers to block Sun Ce and tell him that if he retreats to Kuaiji, I'll spare him from death!"

"Ji Ling, I ordered you to lead 30,000 elite troops to the northwest and kill Liu Bei and another person who was not alive and dead!"

"Zhang Xun, 50,000 soldiers will be with you, kill Lu Bu, don't show mercy!"

"The last general will receive the order!"

Qiao Rui and four others immediately took the order and left.

"Your Majesty, in this way, there will be less than 30,000 soldiers guarding the city in our capital!" Yang Hong said worriedly.

"Thirty thousand is enough. I have the jade seal of the country. Ascending the throne is God's will. They are now against the will of heaven, so they will definitely not have a good end!"

Yuan Shu said firmly.

No one dared to persuade others again, so they retreated one after another.

Two days later, Xia Cai.

"Brother Liu, it's been a long time since we parted in Wancheng!" Cai is closest to Shouchun. Although he has a different road, Bai Xi didn't find it strange to meet Liu Bei here.

After these two days of attack, except for the casualties, there are now 8,000 people under his command.

And Liu Bei already had 10,000 soldiers.

"Brother Bai has made a fortune now, which really makes me envious!" Although I hate Bai Xi in my heart, I have to fight against Yuan Shu now, on the surface I have to pass.

"Brother Liu is so skewed!" Bai Xi smiled and said, "I'm just making some money. If you don't believe me, please look at me, how many of you are!"

"Brother Bai is really modest!" Liu Bei bowed.

When the two armies met, it was already evening. After saying hello on the surface, the two armies began to camp separately.

"Third brother, I have found out during the day today. The man guarding Xia Cai is Ji Ling. I used to kill his younger brother's record. I guess he doesn't know it's me now. Otherwise, he would definitely go out of the city to attack!" In the camp, Bai Xi said: "He looked at the many people he brought this time. Judging from the situation, the minimum is more than 20,000. I guess this city is not easy to attack!"

"Ji Ling? I have also heard of this person. He is known as the number one general under Yuan Shu. This person is indeed brave and resourceful. Liang originally thought that he could subdue this person and be useful to his elder brother. Now it seems that he is the only one who lives to the death!" Zhuge Liang said.

"Yes, it's impossible to surrender him! I had known that I would bring Lu Meng here this time, this kid lived in this area and was familiar with the work style of people in this area, which might be useful!" Since Lu Meng served himself, Bai Xi asked him to be responsible for recruiting and training troops with Wang Meng, so Bai Xi rarely had direct contact with him, but when he arrived in Yangzhou, he suddenly thought of him.

"Third brother, how about raiding the city tonight?" Bai Xi thought for a while, and then said, "No matter whether it succeeds or not, it can cause chaos for them."

"Brother, no!" Zhuge Liang immediately interrupted: "Ji Ling led his troops to have a balanced attack and defense. He would definitely think of us going to sneak attack! So I guess we have already put a bow and arrow on the city now, waiting for us to approach. Therefore, we just arrived here, and would rather attack the city during the day than sneak attack at night!"

"Third brother, what you mean is that if we don't go, then Liu Bei will definitely go!"

"To be honest, I feel that Liu Xuande does want to do things in the world, but he is too jealous. We almost suppressed them all the way to get here. He will definitely hold a grudge against us. This time, when the two armies face the same city, he will definitely be unable to hold back and are eager to attack the city and seize the opportunity!" Zhuge Liang nodded.

"Listen to my third brother's analysis, this is true. If he goes to attack the city tonight, it will be easier, so that we can observe the situation of their guarding the city!" Bai Xi couldn't help but sigh now. Fortunately, there was Zhuge Liang, who could discuss ideas with him, so that he would not make wrong judgments sometimes.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!