Compared with Puyang, the army led by Liu Bei and Zhang Fei on Chenliu encountered strong resistance. Chenliu was the place where Cao Cao made his fortune. Although Cao Cao was promoted to the governor of Yanzhou and moved to the capital, Chenliu County, as the place where Cao Cao made his fortune, was also the most stable place for the people's hearts. Chen Gong regarded this place as the first choice for the first round of attacks, and even asked Liu Bei to lead his army personally in order to break Cao Cao's foundation.

Although the guard general was killed by Zhang Fei at the first time, Wei Hong, who was guarding Chenliu, was a veteran who followed Cao Cao to rise up in his early years and was also a local family. He had a deep influence in Chenliu. Liu Bei advanced to Chenliu and Zhang Fei attacked the guard general. Wei Hong responded immediately and quickly closed the city gates and persuaded the people to defend the city. When Liu Bei arrived at Chenliu, the four gates of Chenliu were already closed, and he acted as if he was strictly guarding the city.

"Brother, this old Wei Hong is too cowardly!" Zhang Fei led his black horse back to the camp and looked at Liu Bei helplessly. He greeted the 18th generation of Wei Hong's ancestors outside the city today, but Wei Hong actually refused to send troops.

Liu Bei stood in the tent, looked at the Chenliu map in front of him, frowned and said, "If you don't want to go out of the city to fight, then force him out of the city and order the three armies to surround Chenliu, and leave water and food. Let's see how long he can hold on."

Wei Hong was a veteran of Cao Cao. When the heroes attacked Dong, he had spent all his family to support Cao Cao in rebellion and could not surrender. He lost the opportunity at this time. Although Chenliu had only one group of people defending the city, Liu Bei was unwilling to attack. He knew very well that he was famous for his benevolence and righteousness. If he attacked him for his strength at this moment, even if he attacked Chenliu, he would have a reputation for massacre of the people.

Is fame important?

It is important to say it is important, but if it is not important, it is not important, what is Cai Yong's reputation? In the end, he did not help him escape death. But for Liu Bei, reputation is really important, especially when he did not have the prominent reputation of the three men of four generations like Yuan Shao, nor did Cao Cao's current strength. Fame was the only southeastern thing that Liu Bei could do.

As for the identity of the Han clan relative, Kong Rong helped him ask for it for the court, but was rejected by the emperor. Liu Bei knew that it would be difficult to obtain the benefits of the Han clan relative before he had insufficient strength.

Therefore, Liu Bei cherishes his feathers even more. In terms of origin, any prince who is called the best all the way is better than him. In terms of official titles, he has been the biggest one who is a Pingyuan County Magistrate. Although there are Chen Gong and Yanzhou families who are helping him, this is also a lucky one. Liu Bei is very clear that this is the Yanzhou family who is using him. Now he seems to have thousands of troops under his command, but these are all empty. As long as these Yanzhou families are unhappy, they can knock themselves back to their original form at any time.

Although Liu Beiwen cannot stabilize the country and Wu cannot immediately pacify the world, his greatest advantage is that he can see himself clearly and know what he really has, and what is empty.

So he has fought all over the world since the Yellow Turban chaos, and has been bumpy all the way. Although he was not satisfied, his reputation has become increasingly greater. Even the nobles like Kong Rong are willing to make friends with him, not only because of the reason behind King Jing of Zhongshan, but more because Liu Bei is good at being a human being.

Even if Chen Gong came with selfishness at the beginning, he would be willing to call him lord in the end. This is Liu Bei's own personal charm.

Although he has gained power for a while, Liu Bei has not been inflated because of this. It is precisely because he can see why the Yanzhou family is willing to help him that this time he came to fight against Chenliu. Liu Bei did not start a massacre as the Yanzhou family expected. Along the way, he was also known for his benevolence and righteousness.

At this moment, Chenliu Weihong defended the city with the people, and Liu Bei would rather surround him than attack, and spent more time dealing with Wei Hong.

"But how long will it take to capture Chenliu by doing this?" Zhang Fei said anxiously: "Brother, it's just some people who defend the city, so he asked me to lead a team of soldiers to attack, ensuring that when sunset, he would be able to capture Chenliu and take off Wei Hong's dog head!"

"Yes, General!" In the tent, in addition to Zhang Fei, there were several Yanzhou generals recommended to him by Chen Gong. Hearing this, he couldn't help but persuade him: "General, you must not miss the opportunity!"

"Enough!" Liu Bei snorted coldly. He had always been a good man and a gentleman. At this moment, he had a sense of majesty on his body. His eyes swept across Zhang Fei and the generals one by one, and said in a deep voice: "I know you are eager to make contributions, but why are the people? Bei would rather not achieve hegemony than take the land of Yanzhou on the bodies of the people! I have decided, so you don't have to persuade you anymore!"

Zhang Fei followed Liu Bei for many years, and this was the first time he saw Liu Bei talking to him in such a heavy tone. He didn't dare to say anything more. A group of generals looked at each other. Although he was ordered to come, Liu Bei's words at this moment made them feel a little moved. After all, these generals were all from Yanzhou and would not be willing to attack the people unless they were necessary. If they said that they had been invited by various tribes to come to help, they really agreed with Liu Bei at this time.

"General, benevolence and righteousness, the last general is willing to obey the general's orders!" said the generals bowed and said.

After sighing, Liu Bei's expression slowed down and looked at the generals and said, "It's not that the military situation is urgent. But if you want to let Bei give up your beliefs for your own future, you have to do so. But you don't want to. If you delay your future, you will be unbearable. You might as well leave to avoid being hindered by Bei."

These generals were all the Yanzhou rangers recruited by Chen Gong for Liu Bei from last year. The word "Xinyi" was re-entered in their bones. During these days, they had received many favors from Liu Bei, and Liu Bei treated them as close as brothers. When he heard this, he showed a look of shame on his face. Several generals knelt on one knee and bowed and said, "What is the general saying? If there is no general, how could we be so glorious today? I will not leave and be willing to swear loyalty to the general to the death. If the general does not abandon, we will be willing to serve the general as the lord, and hope the general will take it in."

Originally, they just used money to do things, and some people promised them to value profit and future, so all the generals were called generals, but they were unwilling to be the mainstay of Liu Bei.

Now Liu Bei's words made these raiders who were often cursed by aristocratic families feel respected and valued for the first time. Not all raiders can be like Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren, and others have good backgrounds. Now Liu Bei treats them as human beings, not as minions and lackeys. This is enough to make these men with great loyalty truly regard Liu Bei as their lord.

"Everyone please get up quickly!" Liu Bei quickly reached out and helped everyone up, saying warmly: "It is a blessing that Bei can get the help of all the generals!"

Zhang Fei looked at this scene in a daze, a little confused. Didn’t he want to discuss a solution to break the city? Why did he suddenly feel something was wrong?

"Yide!" After comforting the generals, he also stopped the younger brothers. Although Liu Bei's expression was plain, he was quite excited. In order to suppress his mood, he quickly turned his head to look at Zhang Fei.

"Oh!" Zhang Fei reacted and hurried forward.

"I ordered you to order 4,000 troops and horses to occupy the important land around Chenliu, dig out the water of the moat, and cut off the water source in the city." Liu Bei said calmly.

"No!" Zhang Fei nodded, why did he think this move was more ruthless than hitting directly? However, he didn't ask much at this moment, and quickly took the order to go and arrange it.

"Zhang Jing!" Liu Bei looked at another general again.

"The last one is here!" Zhang Qing took a step forward and bowed.

"You can find some bamboo paper and write someone to surrender. After three days of besieging the city, you will shoot into the city with a bow and arrow, saying that our army will forcibly attack the city and cause trouble for the people. You will kill more. As long as you open the city and surrender, the army will enter the city, and you will be completely unlucky. If anyone is willing to offer the city, you will be rewarded with a thousand gold." Liu Bei thought for a while and said in a deep voice.

"The last general will receive the order!" Zhang Wenyan quickly agreed and took the order and left.

"The rest of the generals, please arrange camps with me to prevent Cao's army from attacking the ambush." ​​Liu Bei smiled and looked at the rest of the generals.

"The last general will obey the order!" The generals responded, but their momentum increased a lot higher than before.

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In Chenliu City, Wei Hong felt relieved when he saw Liu Bei start to set up camps. It seemed that he was not going to force the siege to attack the city today.

For most people, the name Liu Bei is very strange, but as a person who followed Cao Cao to participate in the alliance of princes, Wei Hong knew very well that Liu Bei was not an ordinary person. Not only the record of the three heroes fighting against Lu Bu, but also the attack and defense of Hulao Pass later, although the three brothers had not many people, they fought bravely. If it weren't for the uneven people within the coalition and dragging each other down, Hulao Pass would have been broken long ago.

It is precisely because of this that after hearing that Zhang Fei broke through Chenliu's camp, Wei Hong's first reaction was not to go to rescue, but immediately said that the existing troops in his hand were shrinking, closing the city gate tightly, and acting like a defensive attitude.

Although he seemed a little cowardly, the facts proved that his approach was correct. If he had just left the city, he would have just left the city and turned back to the army that Liu Bei bent outside the city and completely destroyed.

Now that Liu Bei's approach of siege but not attacking has made Wei Hong feel relieved, but what follows is an unspeakable heaviness.

At that time, the three brothers of Liu Bei had the intention to make friends with him, but who was Wei Hong? No matter how capable Liu Bei was, he was just a mat seller. What qualifications were there to make friends with him? It was just that things in the world were unpredictable. Who would have thought that the past would have the same climate as the past.

Now that Cao Cao led his army to fight, the main forces of Cao's army have almost all gone to Xuzhou. At this time, Chenliu was besieged, and the situation in other counties may not be expected. Even if Cao Cao gets the news and returns to the army immediately, it will take more than a month.

What's worse is that Cao Cao took away almost all the food and grass he could take away when he went to war. Chenliu's surplus grain could not last for so long.

"Encourt, the bandit army has retreated. Please go and rest. If you have the Mo General and others here, just look at it." A Chen Liuwang came to Wei Hong and bowed.
Chapter completed!