Chapter 268

"Liu Bei actually dared to come!"

Guo Tu only felt his face was a bit swollen, the kind that was beaten very red!

Xu You cupped his hands.

"My lord, Liu Bei must have come for the matter of the Zhen family!"

Xu You also didn't expect Liu Bei to be so impulsive, coming as soon as he said he would!

At the same time, he sighed that Jizhou had no natural defenses, and Liu Bei could truly come whenever he wanted!

After Yuan Shao's brief shock, his anger grew even greater, and his body trembled.

"How dare Liu Bei bully me like this!"

"He is just a mat-weaver and sandal-seller, how dare he!"

"Come, gather the troops and follow me out of the city; I want to personally defeat Liu Bei!"

Tian Feng and Shen Pei looked at each other and cupped their hands.

"My lord, calm your anger; Liu Bei has the courage of a common man, it is not advisable to fight him head-on (you might not be able to beat him)."

Xu You also said,

"My lord, Liu Bei's twenty thousand cavalry are elites he has trained for several years (definitely don't go out of the city)."

Guo Tu naturally didn't want to fight outside the city either.

"My lord, Liu Bei is a reckless man; you don't need to fight him head-on. Relying on the defense of Yecheng, he will surely return without success."

This time, the strategist group, which had severe internal strife, was surprisingly unanimous: really don't go out of the city.

Yuan Shao felt a lump in his throat and had to calm down.

He looked at Wen Chou again, remembering Wen Chou being knocked off his horse by Liu Bei with one spear strike, and felt even more uncomfortable.

"Forget it, Liu Bei is a common man, I will just wait for him on the city wall!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

"Let all the soldiers return to camp, and have the archers and crossbowmen set up defense on the city wall!"

"Understood!"

The city gates of Yecheng were quickly closed!

The soldiers hurriedly went up to the city wall to defend!

The people of Yecheng were confused, and only later did they know that Liu Bei had brought troops!

"Why is Lord Xuande here!"

"I heard the Governor surrounded the Zhen family to force Little Zhen Mi to marry his son."

"Although Little Zhen Mi is the number one beauty of Hebei, there's no need for this!"

"Exactly, marriage should be discussed by both parties; how is this any different from snatching?"

"Shh~"

"Why doesn't the Governor bring troops out to meet the battle?"

"Liu Bei is victorious in every battle, just a moment ago he knocked Wen Chou flying with one spear strike..."

Everyone looked at each other; could it be that the Governor is a coward?

Outside Yecheng,

The earth shook, and dust flew.

The low sound of horns blared!

Twenty thousand cavalry charged toward Yecheng in a mighty force and stopped five hundred paces away.

It was silent, and the momentum was like a mountain!

Although the Yecheng soldiers were protected by the city wall, they still felt bursts of chill.

Yuan Shao's face was iron-blue; the stronger Liu Bei's military power, the greater the threat to him!

Soon,

Liu Bei brought Zhang Fei and Taishi Ziyi out from the crowd and arrived within an arrow's range.

"Alliance Leader Yuan, how have you been!"

Yuan Shao shouted angrily.

"Liu Bei, we have no enmity, why invade my Jizhou!"

"Alliance Leader Yuan, I did not come for Jizhou, but for my good friend and brother-in-law; why did you surround the Zhen family!"

Yuan Shao cursed secretly.

"I'm afraid you're here for your sister-in-law!"

This, of course, could not be said.

Yuan Shao shouted,

"Zhen Yao is rude, how dare he look down on me! Zhen Yan originally agreed to the marriage between my child Yuan Xi and Little Zhen Mi, how dare Zhen Yao refuse!"

"Liu Bei, how dare my Yuan family be looked down upon like this?!"

Yuan Shao looked like he had every reason.

Liu Bei laughed heartily.

"The Yuan family has been high officials for four generations and naturally has high prestige and understands etiquette. Then let me ask you, since you have discussed it, where is the document, where is the betrothal gift?"

"The Yuan family is a family of etiquette, you shouldn't not know this!"

Liu Bei's voice was so loud that many soldiers heard it and whispered to each other.

"That's right, how could there not be a marriage contract?"

"The Yuan family couldn't possibly have nothing."

Yuan Shao's face turned the color of a pig's liver; there was naturally no marriage contract.

He had only said a few words to Zhen Yan in private.

He thought it was a done deal, but who knew that Zhen Yan, this short-lived ghost, would die so quickly!

Guo Tu saw this and shouted,

"Liu Bei, my lord and Zhen Yan had discussed it; it was just that he passed away suddenly, which delayed it!"

"Now that Zhen Yao refuses to acknowledge it, my lord is naturally angry!"

Liu Bei cursed loudly.

"My brother-in-law just passed away a few days ago, and Alliance Leader Yuan, you are so impatient?"

"The Zhen family is still immersed in pain, and you come to talk about marriage? Your Yuan family's affairs are affairs, but other people's life-and-death matters are completely not matters?"

Liu Bei's voice was so loud that everyone heard it clearly!

Zhang Fei continued with his loud voice.

"That's right, someone else just lost their brother, and you come to force a marriage; when the forced marriage failed, you sent troops to surround them!"

"You, Alliance Leader Yuan, have such great prestige! Even more overbearing than Dong Zhuo!"

"Come, come, come, come down quickly, I'll practice with the Alliance Leader!"

Yuan Shao's face was gloomily terrifying; now everyone knew that he had become a bully forcing a marriage! His reputation was damaged! ===== CHAPTER 269 =====