Chapter 138: Remove Liu Bei!

But Liu Bei, after coming out of the market, rushed all the way out and went straight out of the city gate. When Zhang and Zhang followed quickly, he was very puzzled. Zhang Fei was even more upset about not having enough wine and asked bluntly:

"Brother, we were going to the city to drink, why did the eldest brother hurried out of the city after moving a few boxes of goods?"

Liu Bei walked in front while feeling heartbroken to Zhang Fei:

"The sword and axe are already on the neck, but the third brother is still reciting wine?"

Zhang Fei was a rough man. After hearing Liu Bei's stupid words, he was stunned. Guan Yu frowned and thought for a while, but he didn't understand what Liu Bei said, so he asked Liu Bei:

"What's the matter with my brother? Please tell me clearly."

At this time, Liu Bei and the other two were only hundreds of meters away from their military camp. Seeing their military camp, Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief, slowed down and said:

"The second and third brothers don't know anything. Just now, when Cao Cao was messing with me, he talked about who can be a hero in the world. I told all the magistrates of the world, and they were all denied by Cao Cao. In the end, Cao Cao said bluntly that the heroes of the world were me and him."

When Zhang Fei heard this, he was amused and said:

"This is a good thing. This means that even Cao Cao appreciates my elder brother and knows that he is not a mediocre person."

When Liu Bei heard this, he turned around to look at Zhang Fei, shook his head and said:

"Third brother, you are so naive, Cao Cao has the ambition to dominate the world. How could he allow us to fight against him? I have been acting low-key before, including when I attacked Xia Pi with Wu Fan's army. The reason why I deliberately asked them to hide their strength was that I did not want Cao Cao to pay attention to our army. Now, Cao Cao actually regards me as a hero with him. It can be seen that this person's ability to recognize people is absolutely extraordinary, and everything I did before is useless. In this way, Cao Cao will not hand over Xuzhou to us again, and we must make other plans."

These words made Guan and Zhang look at each other in a fury manner:

"Cao Cao is so hateful. Wouldn't we betray Xuzhou for him? No, I'll go back and take his life."

Liu Bei grabbed Zhang Fei and said:

"Third brother, you are so ignorant, don't you hear that Cao Cao is treacherous and cunning? This time we use our army to attack Lu Bu and then sit in Xuzhou. This is the treacherous and cunning thing about this person. You will go and take his life today. Don't talk about whether you can succeed. Just say that Cao Cao has Wu Fan, Dian Wei, Xu Zhu and other powerful generals by his side, and your own life will be difficult to protect."

Although Zhang Fei was dissatisfied with Liu Bei's words, Liu Bei refused to let him go, so he could only grit his teeth and give up.

Then, the three of them quickly walked into Liu Bei's military camp and urgently summoned their civil servants and generals. This was not clear, let alone Cao Cao's military camp that night.

In the central army's tent, Cao Cao was gathering to discuss what to do with Liu Bei.

In fact, Cao Cao was still full of love for talents at this time, and he still hoped that Liu Bei could join his subordinates. Such a result was what Cao Cao wanted to see the most.

However, after everyone's discussion, especially Jia Xu and Guo Jia, who held a simple and easy-to-understand analysis of Liu Bei's words and deeds, Cao Cao had to be convinced that Liu Bei would not be willing to be a subordinate. This person seemed loyal but actually had a huge ambition, which was worse than himself.

But it is exactly the same as the saying: Great treacherous looks like loyalty, great falsehood looks like true

Looking back to the past, when Cao Cao was under He Jin's command, although he was in trouble in the world, he never had the intention of being disobedient. Chen Liu raised his army at first to counterattack Dong Zhuo. Later, his army became stronger and stronger, especially after he gained the Qingzhou army, he gradually had the ambition to dominate the world. And Liu Bei was unwilling to be in trouble with his three brothers. From this point of view, his ambition was so great that I, Cao Cao, was not as good as that.

These are the feelings in Cao Cao's heart. It was precisely because of this feeling in his heart that Cao Cao began to really kill Liu Bei.

However, although he had murderous intentions, how to kill Liu Bei was the focus of the debate at this meeting.

Although the alliance period between Liu Bei and Cao Cao had long passed, it was still in a cooperative relationship. Suddenly sending troops to attack Liu Bei at this time was naturally very bad for Cao Cao's reputation, and it was difficult to find princes who were willing to cooperate with the Cao army in the future. In other words, diplomacy was basically in a lonely place.

Even so, Cao Cao did not immediately reject the proposal of sending troops to attack and kill Liu Bei. Instead, he sat quietly, listened to the public arguing and analyzing the pros and cons.

After all, in Cao Cao's opinion, Liu Bei will definitely grow into the biggest disaster for Cao's army in the future. Now, taking advantage of his lack of strength is the best time to remove him. As long as it does not bring too much disadvantages, Cao Cao will never let Liu Bei go.

After a lot of debate, Jia Xu, Guo Jia and others who immediately sent troops to attack and kill Liu Bei and disagreed with the public opinion and refuted Liu Bei's view. Everyone then looked at Cao Cao and waited for Cao Cao to make decisions.

However, Cao Cao did not say anything about this matter, but turned his head to look at Wu Fan who had been silent beside him and asked:

"Meng Xuan thinks, what should our army do?"

Wu Fan said:

"I think both urgent attacks and slow attacks are good. However, if they are urgent attacks, I suggest that the lord can release one person from the prison. With this person helping you, Liu Bei's subordinates, Guan, Zhang and Zhao are not worth worrying."

After hearing this, Cao Cao said in surprise:

"It must be not simple to make Meng Xuan so confident. I wonder who he is?"

Wu Fan said five words lightly:

"Lu Bu, Lü Fengxian."

When everyone heard these five words, they were stunned for a while, and the central army tent immediately became silent. Lu Bu? Didn’t he be executed? Why did he release him? Could it be a ghost?

Cao Cao was also confused at first, but after a moment of change of thought, he knew that it must be Wu Fan, the deceased official, rescued Lu Bu and put him in prison.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao sighed and said:

"Lu Bu, he is indeed very brave. With his help, my Cao army is like a tiger. However, this person is easily tempted by traitors, and Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo all died at his hands. I am deeply concerned about this."

Wu Fan said:

"The lord doesn't need to worry, you can transfer Lu Bu to my subordinates. Then the lord only uses his bravery, but will not be hurt by his bravery."

Cao Cao was naturally very surprised when he heard Wu Fan say this. Not only Cao Cao, but also everyone under Cao Cao also looked at Wu Fan with strange eyes, and said in his heart: Transfer Lu Bu to yours? Aren’t you afraid that Lu Bu will kill you one day?

Cao Cao expressed this doubt in everyone's hearts.

Wu Fan said:

"Don't worry, lord, I have a way to place Lu Bu."

Since Wu Fan was so confident, Cao Cao, who knew Wu Fan was well-versed in his work, no longer hesitated and immediately said happily:

"On the same day, when Liu Bei told that Ding Jianyang and Dong Zhuo both died at the hands of Lu Bu, I knew that Liu Bei was borrowing my strength to remove Lu Bu; in fact, he was very afraid that Lu Bu would become my subordinate. However, although I knew this, what Liu Bei said was the truth, so I had to be stupid and take Lu Bu to the execution ground. Now, since Meng Xuan had a way to resettle Lu Bu, I naturally had no objection, so let Lu Bu go."

After saying that, Cao Cao immediately ordered people to go to Xiapi City prison and release Lu Bu who was in custody.

About half an hour later, a sound of footsteps rubbing against the armor leaves outside the tent came. Then, the curtain was raised and Lu Bu appeared in front of everyone.

The appearance of Lu Bu immediately made a sense of oppression in the central army's tent. In addition to Wu Fan, Xiahou Dun, Dian Wei, Xu Zhu and other military generals pressed their hands on the hilt of the sword, and Cao Cao immediately rushed forward with an order. Cao Cao smiled and waved his hands at the generals, indicating that everyone should not be so nervous.

The so-called "do not doubt people" is to use people, but do not doubt people. Cao Cao still understands the most basic way of controlling people.

Seeing this, Lu Bu was naturally very grateful to Cao Cao. He took a step forward, pointed his knees at Cao Cao, bowed his forehead, and said solemnly:

"My minister, Lu Bu, thank you for your kindness in not killing me."

Cao Cao nodded with a smile, looked at Wu Fan, and Wu Fan also smiled and looked back at Cao Cao.

Afterwards, Cao Cao asked Lu Bu to obey the orders under Wu Fan's tent. After that, Lu Bu stood up, immediately faced Wu Fan and pointed his knees at the ground again, bowed his forehead, and said solemnly:

"General Wu, thank you for giving Lu Bu a chance to be reborn. This great kindness and virtue will never be forgotten."

Wu Fan could not make Lu Bu get up like Cao Cao. He stood up from his seat, and Wu Fan came to Lu Bu and helped Lu Bu up. Then, just like Hua Xiong, Xiahou Yuan and other Wu Fan's generals behind Wu Fan, Lu Bu also stood among these people. However, Lu Bu was obviously nearly one head taller than these people, and seemed very prominent.

To be honest, although Lu Bu has many special attributes, in addition to his strength, he has one more point, that is, his speed has also fallen short of Wu Fan. Therefore, even if Lu Bu wants to assassinate Wu Fan, unless Wu Fan gets drunk and sleeps unconscious, it is really difficult.

Since Lu Bu was in place, Cao Cao immediately decided: to attack Liu Bei immediately

After the deployment, it was around 10 o'clock at night, with the north wind yelling and heavy snow flying.

As soon as everyone left the central army tent, they were immediately beaten by the oncoming snow regiment. Despite this, the established military operations cannot be delayed. The generals rushed to summon their respective troops in the wind and snow to act as planned.

In this military operation, Cao Cao ordered the generals to lead their troops to secretly surround Liu Bei's army camp, with the gate of the camp being the key point, with Lu Bu, Dian Wei and Xu Zhu leading troops here to ambush here.

After everyone was ambushed, Wu Fan led three generals, Hua Xiong, Xiahou Yuan and Lu Lingqi, to lead more than 300 Qingzhou fighters with experiences of more than 400. They entered the camp to search on the grounds that Wu Fan's subordinates had illegal soldiers fled to Liu Bei's military camp.

This arduous and extremely dangerous task was proposed by Wu Fan and took the initiative to undertake it.

The so-called search is naturally an excuse. According to Liu Bei's performance in the market today, Guo Jia was sure that Liu Bei would set up an ambush after returning to the military camp. However, in a hurry, and in order to cover up Cao's army, the ambush work he did must not be a big project, and he could only choose a few directions as the focus.

The purpose of Wu Fan's mission is to find out where the ambush in Liu Bei's military camp is.

According to the previous agreement, if Liu Bei's generals were blocked, Wu Fan and his soldiers would try not to confront him and directly withdraw from Liu Bei's military camp. However, if an accident occurs, Xiahou Yuan will release an arrow. At that time, Cao's army, who was ambushing outside Liu Bei's military camp, would rush in with the arrow as a horn.
Chapter completed!