Chen Mang warmly treated the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang for two days. When he left, he stood reluctantly at the city gate and gave them to Guan Yu. He said, "General Guan, I see that the hat on your head is a bit old, so I specially ordered someone to sew a new hat for you.

The whole body of this hat is woven from green silk and sewn with gold thread. The jade inlaid on the hat is green from the old man. Please accept it by General Guan.”

Guan Yu took off his gorgeous hat, took off his old hat and replaced it with a new one, nodded and stroked his beard and said, "Thank you for your kind gift."

Chen Mang took out two more hats and gave them to Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, and said with a smile: "There are two generals too."

Liu Bei took the hat and smiled at Chen Mang, "This time I am thanking Farari for entertaining him, so I feel at home. When I am free, Farari will also come to Xiaopei as a guest, so I will be a guest on the bed to greet him!"

Zhang Fei raised his chest and nodded vigorously, "I'm the same!"

“???”

I'm going to welcome a ghost by sweeping the bed, I want to sleep with you!

Chen Mang's goose bumps all over his body exploded. Looking at the enthusiastic three brothers in front of him, he forced a smile: "Let's talk about it next time, next time."

Liu Bei and the other two bowed their hands and rode away wearing three green hats. The three emerald green hats echoed the green wheat fields on both sides, which looked very beautiful.

Waiting for the three of them to walk away, Jia Xu smiled and shook the feather fan in his hand, saying, "The Lord, Xu is ready for the matter of the bus. He is using the name of the Zhou clan of Lujiang. Xu also borrowed several members of the Zhou family, so that no one can see the flaws."

Chen Mang recalled: "The Zhou family in Lujiang... seems to be Zhou Yu's family. They did not move to Jiangdong with Zhou Yu?"

Jia Xu said: "Some of them have been moved away, and the other part has been left under the lord's command. When born in troubled times, how dare the aristocratic families bet on one side?"

Chen Mang nodded: "It's good that this is the best. Now everything is ready, only the east wind is missing..."

Zhuge Liang, who was eating melon seeds on the side, lit his eyes, spit out a mouthful of melon seed skin, and stepped forward and volunteered: "Lord, Liang can borrow the east wind!"

Chen Mang looked at Zhuge Liang with joy: "Kong Ming is a talented man, he can even borrow Dongfeng! Whether it is Dongfeng-11 or Dongfeng-21, as long as you can borrow tens of thousands of coins for me, lord, I will immediately be granted the title of marquis for you!"

Zhuge Liang: "..."

Although I don’t know what Dongfeng-21 is, based on his understanding of Chen Mang, his unreliable lord must be thinking about something strange again...

While Chen Mang was recuperating, Cao Cao followed the policy of fighting with war, expeditioning Li Jue in the west, attacking Zang Ba in the east, and making successes.

After the spring plowing, the sphere of influence started from Longxi in the west and ended in the east of the East China Sea, connecting the entire hinterland of the Central Plains into a piece, forcibly forming an army of 200,000, and was known as 300,000 to the public.

Chen Mang almost burst out after hearing this, and felt that Cao Cao's bragging skills were quite similar to his style back then.

When he fooled Zhuge Liang, he added the old, weak, women and children to collect 50,000 yuan.

Now Cao Cao's 300,000 army seems to be even more water than him.

This Zhongyuan is a place of four battles. After a series of battles, it has become ruined. Even if Chen Mang leads his troops to surrender, the total number of soldiers on both sides will not reach 300,000.

According to Jia Xu's estimate, the Cao army can fight for up to 150,000 soldiers, and the elite soldiers are about 300,000 to the public. It is estimated that it is used to deter Yuan Shao, himself and others to prevent him from pulling his back at critical moments.

As for the critical moment, it is to attack Liu Bei.

Cao Cao borrowed troops from Liu Bei to restrain Lu Bu, and eventually raised the tiger and fed Liu Bei to the point of feeding him.

Now Liu Bei has 50,000 troops under his command, and both Guan and Zhang are top military generals who are rare in the world. They are also ambiguous with Chen Mang, which has become his biggest concern.

After making a move, Cao Cao immediately pointed his finger at Liu Bei and prepared to take down the Xuzhou territory in his hand to restrain Chen Mang.

After Cao Cao stationed his troops in Pei County for a while, he found that Chen Mang from Xia Pi had no movement at all, so he felt relieved, let go of his hands and feet to arrange troops, and divided his troops into three groups, hoping to break through Liu Bei's defense line in one fell swoop.

Although Liu Bei's subordinates are two powerful generals, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, only these two can stand alone. The remaining people are mediocre people in Cao Cao's eyes and are not worth laughing at.

So, after restraining Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Cao Cao personally led his troops to fight, took the newly subdued Zang Ba as the general, and took Xu Huang to bypass the defense line of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and attacked Xiaopei, who was stationed by Liu Bei.

Facing the army beneath the city, Liu Bei personally went upstairs to fight bravely to boost morale to the soldiers guarding the city.

After Cao Cao's attack for a day, Liu Bei could no longer hold on. At this time, Zhang Fei suddenly led his army out of Cao Cao's rear army and lifted the siege of Xiaopei.

It turned out that the county town where Zhang Fei was stationed had been broken by Xiahou Dun. Zhang Fei knew that Xiao Pei could no longer be saved. Seeing that the situation was not good, he quickly led his subordinates to retreat and wanted to take Liu Bei with him to escape.

After Zhang Fei entered the city and met with Liu Bei, the two led their troops out together, took advantage of the night to head towards the weak west of Cao's army guards, and fought out a bloody path and fled into Cao Cao's territory.

Seeing this, Cao Cao hurriedly took Zang Ba and five thousand elite soldiers to pursue Liu Bei, leaving Xu Huang to sit in the city, and sent troops to take over Xiao Pei step by step.

Just as dawn the next day, a team of mourning and mourning teams carried the coffin to the city gate. Xu Huang was woken up and came to the city gate tower to watch.

After staring at the team of 500 people for a while, Xu Huang asked, "Where are you from under the city? What are you doing here?"

Chen Mang covered most of his face with a white cloth hat and said, "Report to the general, we are members of the Zhou clan of Lujiang. Chen Mang was vicious and wanted to make our family property. The head of the family led our clan to seek refuge north. Unfortunately, he was sick and drove west. Please let us enter the city. My Zhou clan will thank you very much!"

Xu Huang nodded: "So that's it. I'll ask your general to put down his weapons and I'll let you go into the city."

Upon hearing this, Chen Mang turned around and said to everyone behind him: "Take the weapons!"

More than a hundred dressed people came forward and piled up the weapons in their hands in one place. Xu Huang nodded slightly and ordered people to slowly open the city gate.

Xu Huang also heard about the Zhou family in Lujiang. He has many talented people in the clan. Now the Jiangdong Grand Governor Zhou Yu is a member of his clan. If he can be taken to the lord's command, it will definitely be a great help.

Xu Huang did not dare to be negligent, so he went down the city gate with a smile, came to the city gate to greet him personally, and clasped his fists and said, "I am Xu Huang and Xu Gongming. Can you ask who is the person in charge?"

Chen Mang lowered his head and said in surprise: "It turns out that it was Brother Yu Gongming in front of him in time. Brother is here, please bow to me!" As he said that, he bent down slowly, and looked like he bowed his head.

Listening to the strange nickname Chen Mang said, Xu Huang held him in confusion and asked slightly surprised: "What is Brother Zhou doing?"

Chen Mang curled his lips, grabbed Xu Huang's arm with both hands, and slowly raised his face: "Brother Gongming, I will hit it off at first sight. Follow me to the city to drink a big bowl and eat meat in big mouthfuls!"

Xu Huang suddenly recognized Chen Mang, and his eyes were so shocked that he raised his eyes and shouted: "Chen Fari!"
Chapter completed!