Liu Bei and Cao Ren were both hesitant.

Although the other party seems to be exhausted, he himself is also exhausted.

Most importantly, what are you doing here?

It seems that Cao Ren's motive is stronger: if Cao Ren can deal with Liu Bei here, then Cao Cao can regain the area from Wancheng to Suixian County in Nanyang County, and even take Jiangxia County into his pocket. However, in terms of the number of soldiers, Cao Ren's side is obviously at a disadvantage.

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Relatively speaking, Liu Bei cannot make any progress in solving Cao Ren here. Although it can weaken Cao Cao's general team, it will not be of any benefit to Liu Bei's group. On the contrary, it may provoke Cao Cao's strong counterattack. On the other hand, Liu Bei

I’m not completely sure. What if I lose?

But Zhang Fei won't think so much. As long as he is riding on a war horse, he will always be a tireless and energetic young man.

Just when Zhang Fei was about to draw out his spear, Liu Bei reached out and quickly signaled Zhang Fei not to act rashly.

Cao Hong on Cao Ren's side also wanted to take out Liu Bei with his gun, but Cao Ren also stopped him.

Liu Bei saw it and thought it was just what I wanted.

Liu Bei said to Cao Ren: "I have always treated people with benevolence, and you have been defeated so far. I will never take advantage of others' danger. Now the road is facing the sky, and you and I can each go half way. I will never break your trust."

After hearing this, Cao Ren felt so unhappy.

We are all defeated generals. If you can say "don't dare to fight" as "treat others with kindness", I, Mr. Cao, will be convinced!

But looking at Zhang Yide with bulging veins, Cao Ren could only say: "In that case, let's fight another day."

Therefore, both sides arranged their troops and horses in two columns, each moving to the right, without fighting or scolding each other.

Liu Bei ordered Zhang Fei to be held back to prevent Cao Ren from changing his mind and attacking his rear army;

Cao Ren asked Xiahou Dun to lead the troops first and then personally held back.

When the two armies passed by each other, Liu Bei suddenly felt that he was at a disadvantage: he roughly counted the number of Cao's troops. Why did Cao Ren have so many people left? If he had known, it would be better to suddenly attack him.

On the contrary, Cao Ren also counted Liu Bei's number and said to himself: Fortunately, he was not impulsive just now, otherwise he would have suffered a big loss.

After they were far away from each other, Zhang Fei caught up with the front team and said to Liu Bei: "Brother, I just counted the number of the opponent, and it seems that there are less than 10,000 people. Why don't you turn around and pursue us?"

Liu Bei said: "We'd better conserve our strength and stick to the eastern front of Nanyang County without doing useless work."

Now the entire Nanyang County is divided into east and west parts with Wancheng and Xinye as the line.

In the west, there are Juanguo, Danshui, Nanxiang, etc., which border Chang'an and Dongsan County, and belong to Cao Cao's sphere of influence; in the east, there are Wancheng, Huyang, Suixian, etc., which border Jiangxia County in Yuzhou and Jingzhou, and belong to Liu Bei's influence.

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Liu Bei still ordered Guan Yu to governor Jiangxia County, and he set up his headquarters in Wancheng, keeping an eye on Xu Du at all times.

This way, Li Qi felt extremely happy.

Li Qi not only occupied Xiangyang, but also didn't have to have close contact with Cao Cao, so he was just in trouble.

At this time, Xu Huang of Shangyong County was attacked by Liao Hua and Zhao Yun. He was isolated and helpless and could only lead the remaining troops to defect to Chang'an along the Ziwu Valley. The three eastern counties were all owned by Li Qi.

Although Xiangyang and Dongsan County face the western part of Nanyang County under Cao Cao's jurisdiction, it is unlikely that Cao Cao will bypass Wancheng to attack Xiangyang before driving away Liu Bei. As for the Chang'an forces under Cao Cao, they include Hanzhong Wei Yan, Zhang Ren After they have been restrained, it is even less possible to rush south along the Ziwu Valley and use troops against the three eastern counties.

Li Qi left Zhuge Liang to guard Xiangyang, and Huang Zhong, Meng Huo, Ma Dai, Ma Di and others assisted him. The purpose was to consolidate the rule of Jingzhou with the help of Zhuge Liang and the Ma family's connections in Xiangyang;

Gan Ning, Fazheng, Shen Mi, and Lou Fa guard Jiangling, which can defend Liu Bei's Jiangxia County and provide necessary support to Xiangyang and Jingnan counties;

Li Qi took Pang Tong, Ma Liang, Kuai Qi, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and others back to Chengdu.

Cao Cao lost Xiangyang City and half of Nanyang County in this battle, and hated Li Qi and Liu Bei deeply.

However, no matter how numerous and powerful the Central Plains is, it cannot withstand the torment of successive wars. When it is time to recuperate, it still has to recuperate.

Now Cao Cao has completely targeted Li Qi and Liu Bei with his strategic goals. As for Sun Quan, he has adopted a conciliatory strategy.

As long as Sun Quan doesn't do anything wrong, Cao Cao's eastern front will be safe. Once Li Qi and Liu Bei are eliminated, Sun Quan can surrender without a fight.

Now Sun Quan is having a great time defeating Baiyue, but he is still growing up and has no time to care about the Central Plains.

On the other hand, since the issuance of large-denomination coins, it seems that Jiangdong’s economy has been a bit sluggish! Why hasn’t such a problem occurred in Yizhou?

Therefore, whether in terms of combat power or economic strength, Sun Quan does not want to confront Cao Cao now.

Therefore, Sun Quan temporarily accepted Cao Cao's offer.

In order to show his sincerity, Sun Quan also gave Cao Cao many Jiangnan specialties, such as tangerines.

Sun Quan ordered more than forty loads of mandarin oranges to be sent to Xudu at starry night.

But when Cao Cao was about to peel an orange and try it, he suddenly found that the orange had only an empty shell and no pulp inside.

Cao Cao asked the people in Jiangdong: "Is it possible that Sun Quan deliberately teased Gu Cheng?"

The people sent by Sun Quan also felt strange, and then they thought that there was a lame Taoist priest who carried a section of the journey for them. It seemed that after the lame Taoist priest passed by, the burden suddenly became lighter.

The porters told Cao Cao the truth, but Cao Cao didn't believe it unless they brought the lame Taoist priest to confront him.

However, the lame Taoist priest did not automatically appear in front of Cao Cao as he had followed his original trajectory, and the porters could not find him after searching for several days.

But Li Qi and his party were in a good mood on their way back to Chengdu, admiring the golden early rice rising and falling in the breeze like an ocean.

Thinking back to those days, at the beginning of time travel, Li Qi was still an unemployed young man who didn't have enough to eat.

Unexpectedly, not only would I be able to eat well now, but I would also be able to feed the entire people of Yizhou. This naturally included countless opportunities.

After returning to the mansion and settling everything, Li Qi came to see Wu Guotai again.

When Wu Guotai saw that Li Qi had taken precious time out of his busy schedule to visit him, he was naturally overjoyed and praised Yizhou for its beautiful scenery and many strange people.

Li Qi was puzzled and asked: "What kind of strange people are there?"

Sun Shangxiang took over and said: "When we were in Mount Emei, my mother wanted to eat oranges from the south of the Yangtze River because of dry mouth, but where did the oranges from the south of the Yangtze River come from here? At this time, a Taoist priest appeared and took out the oranges from his sleeves.

These are peeled Jiangnan oranges. Do you think they are strange or strange?"

Li Qi's first reaction was: "This is so unscientific! Is it a magic trick?"

Sun Shangxiang was an impatient person. Seeing that Li Qi didn't believe it, he rolled up his sleeves and showed Li Qi: "Look, there is nothing in my sleeves, right?"

Li Qi nodded.

Sun Shangxiang put her slender fingers into the sleeves of her robe and gently pinched them: "Can you see?"

Li Qidao: "I didn't see it. Isn't it still nothing?"

Sun Shangxiang said: "But the Taoist priest just took out the peeled tangerines one by one in front of our eyes."

Peeled tangerines one by one?

Li Qi suddenly thought of something, which seemed to be related to this.

Zuo Ci!

Shouldn't Nima go find trouble with Cao Cao? Why did he come to Yizhou?

Thinking of this, I feel a little panicked.

Li Qi asked: "Whose name is the Taoist priest?"

Sun Shangxiang: "Extremely insignificant, I don't know his name."

While he was talking, a voice came from outside the door: "Madam, you speak so disrespectfully!"

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