Let's talk about Cao Cao. After taking charge of the military affairs of the envoy, Cao Cao refused the elite escort sent by Huangfu Song, saying that he was alone and had two or three personal guards to protect him.

Now, in the eyes of the officers and soldiers, the Zhuozhou Army is regarded as a bandit army and an enemy army. Cao Cao dared to enter the bandit camp alone. Huangfu Song and all the officers and soldiers were impressed by Cao Cao's courage.

Cao Cao returned to camp and told his subordinates about the peace talks.

Cao Cao did not take anyone else with him, but only two brothers, Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan, followed him.

After some preparations, as Huangfu Song and other generals were seeing him off, Cao Cao sat astride a tall horse, holding the reins in his hand, and saluted Huangfu Song with fists in his hands, then kicked the horse in the belly, said "Qing Ji" in his mouth, and left the camp.

Already.

On the Zhuozhou Army's side, they were also on the northern front. Liu Bei was squatting on the slope, doing nothing. Suddenly he saw several cavalry running out of the officer's camp. Liu Bei immediately became energetic and stood up.

The officers and soldiers only sent out a few cavalry, but not a large group of men and horses. As expected, the officers and soldiers probably sent for peace talks.

Just don't fight, Liu Bei's heart was relieved.

Cao Cao's three cavalry did not take long to approach the flag boundary.

When they were about to approach the flag boundary where the Zhuozhou Army had set up, Cao Cao immediately called out to Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan to stop their horses and stop charging forward.

Looking forward, one can already see the Zhuozhou Army's crossbow team bending their bows and preparing to fire.

In front of the banner border, Cao Cao reined in his horse, calmed himself, and raised his voice and shouted to the Zhuozhou army.

"I'm waiting for the envoy to come and have a talk. Can he be released?"

There were still fifty or sixty steps or even further away. Because the banner boundary set up by the Zhuozhou army to guard against sneak attacks by the official army was difficult to get close to, Cao Cao had to shout with great strength.

While shouting, Cao Cao kept looking at the Zhuozhou Army's line.

From a distance, Cao Cao saw a person on the slope, turning along the slope.

After a while, the flags waved in front, which clearly said that the envoys could come across the border.

It was just a flag that was roughly inserted into a boundary. When Cao Cao's horse crossed the flag boundary, he couldn't help but feel nervous, for fear that there would be arrows flying as soon as he crossed the boundary.

Fortunately, the Zhuozhou army followed the rules and there was no random rain of arrows.

Rushing towards the Zhuozhou Army's line, Cao Cao quickly saw the outline of the deep trench dug by the Zhuozhou Army as he quickly approached.

It's far away, so I don't notice anything.

As they got closer, when they saw the trench in full view, Cao Cao's eyes widened and he was horrified.

I had known that the Zhuozhou Army had dug deep trenches, but I did not expect that the trenches of the Zhuozhou Army would be so deep and wide.

We stopped in front of a path in the middle of the ditch that could only be passed by bicycles. There were ditches on both sides of the path, and the middle of the road was tightly blocked by carts and horses.

The Zhuozhou soldiers were moving their vehicles and horses away, preparing to let the official envoys in.

Cao Cao consciously dismounted and observed carefully.

Underfoot, there are trenches on both sides. The trenches were newly dug, and the soil was moist and not yet dry. The width of the trench was at least five feet upward and nearly two feet deep. The trench was dug steeply, straight up and down. There were still civilians busy in the ditch.

The hoe and shovel kept waving, and they kept widening the trench. Even when the official and military envoys came, the busy civilians in the trench looked up and ignored them.

Cao Cao was puzzled as to how these less than ten busy civilians could dig such an astonishingly deep trench.

In this moment, the path became clear. Cao Cao collected his thoughts and led his horse forward carefully.

Cao Cao was even more frightened. The path was only slightly wider than a bicycle. It was so narrow. It was surrounded by vehicles and horses. On such a path, one man was in charge of the barrier and ten thousand people could not open it. It was not easy to break out of the siege.

Looking up again, Cao Cao had to look up to see the steep slope. He suddenly realized that the trench was a natural chasm. With such a steep slope, even if he tried to fill the trench, attacking the slope would be as difficult as attacking a small city.

Zhuozhou's troops were commanding from a high position, thrusting at them with spears and throwing rocks at them, attacking from below, which was a huge disadvantage.

On the steep slope, I looked up and saw Zhuozhou soldiers standing in formation. The soldiers held guns in their hands and stood motionless.

Not only was he motionless, from head to toe, he was as stone-like as stone, and he didn't even move his eyes.

He had never seen such a strange situation before. Cao Cao couldn't help but stop, raised his head, and stared blankly for a while. As far as he could see, from left to right, there was no movement among the dozens of soldiers he could see.

Not a finger was seen moving.

It’s time to move, Cao Cao thought.

But he continued to wait and look down, insisting on waiting for someone to move. Before Cao Cao saw it, his arm was suddenly touched.

When Cao Cao came to his senses and looked away, he suddenly saw a seven-foot-tall man in front of him.

Cao Cao didn't know this person, but when he saw him, he had big ears and shoulders, a smile, and a kind look.

Cao Cao was still confused for a moment, wondering why it was not the child (the Zhuozhou Army's military advisor) who came. Then, Cao Cao realized that this person was the leader of the Zhuozhou Army, Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, whom he had never seen before.

After gathering his mind, Cao Cao took half a step back, straightened up and bowed to the person in front of him, "General Huangfu Song sent an envoy to see Duke Xuande."

"Please come quickly! No need to be polite."

Liu Bei hurriedly stepped forward to help Cao Cao up, and invited Cao Cao inside for a chat.

The front of the battle is neither a place for conversation nor a way to entertain guests.

Led by Liu Bei to the rear of the formation, Cao Cao followed suit, his eyes fixed on Liu Bei without shifting his gaze for a moment.

Cao Cao was full of curiosity about the Zhuozhou Army. He had seen the young soldiers of the Zhuozhou Army, and had seen two tiger generals of the Zhuozhou Army wearing heavy armor, but he had never seen the first person of the Zhuozhou Army.

Now that he met the person in person, Cao Cao was even more curious.
Chapter completed!