Chapter 300: Cao Cao

The next day, Liu Bei slept until he woke up naturally.

After getting up and having breakfast, he organized his troops and left the camp.

On the Allied side, Cao Cao had led his troops out of the camp early. This time, the scale of both sides was not as large as the last time.

The Allied forces had one hundred thousand men.

Liu Bei had about sixty thousand.

Cao Cao looked up at the sky; it was covered with dark clouds, but it seemed to be missing something, and he didn't know when the rain would fall.

Zhang Fei also looked at the sky and said in a low voice,

"Big Brother, the rain is coming soon, the Cao thief is playing tricks again!"

Just then,

Cao Cao sent an envoy over.

"Lord Liu Xuande, my Lord invites you to the middle to drink and reminisce."

Liu Bei secretly thought,

"The Cao thief is indeed treacherous, playing tricks before the battle again!"

The live stream also exploded.

"Cao Cao is treacherous, setting up horse-tripping ropes, traps, and waiting for heavy rain, while asking Liu Bei to reminisce to stall for time."

"Who isn't? Isn't Liu Bei also stalling for time?"

"The two of them combined must have two thousand schemes!"

"People who are lords all have black hearts!"

Liu Bei brought Zhang Fei and Guo Jia to the middle.

Cao Cao had also brought Xu Zhu, Dian Wei, and Xu You.

A table was set up in the middle with wine and food.

Cao Cao greeted him enthusiastically.

"Come, come, Liu Xuande, you and I, brothers, haven't had a drink in a long time."

Liu Bei dismounted and laughed.

"Brother Meng De is in high spirits; drinking and talking in the middle of over a hundred thousand troops is also a beautiful story."

Zhang Fei said bluntly,

"Cao Cao, you wouldn't be poisoning the wine, would you? Can't win in the open, so you're resorting to underhanded tactics?"

Xu Zhu was furious.

"Zhang Fei, how dare you slander my Lord!"

Zhang Fei spat.

"Everyone was fighting well, who knows what kind of conspiracy your Lord is playing, suddenly starting to drink."

"Big Brother, in my opinion, we should go back and lead the heavy cavalry and elephant troops to flank them."

Cao Cao's eyelids twitched, and he laughed loudly.

"Haha, Liu Xuande, I was just suddenly reminiscing about the past, when we were both serving under Dong Zhuo in Luoyang, and later, the nineteen lords' campaign against Dong..."

Liu Bei sat down nonchalantly and drank a cup of wine.

"Good wine. I think Meng De is a hero of the world; how could he use such petty means to deal with me? This time he must really want to reminisce with me."

Cao Cao laughed.

"Liu Xuande is indeed heroic!"

The two chatted while drinking.

Cao Cao sighed with emotion.

"If we weren't fighting, we would still be ministers under the Emperor; I'm afraid we would be very close friends."

Liu Bei nodded.

"Must be. You, Cao Mengde, are a famous expert at drinking flower wine in Luoyang!"

Cao Cao drank a cup of wine.

"I originally thought Benchu would be my greatest opponent, who knew, Brother Liu Xuande, you would directly become the greatest opponent for both of us."

Liu Bei laughed.

"So you eighty thousand troops came to conquer me, scaring me so much that I couldn't even stay in Chang'an and had to come to this desolate wilderness to suffer."

Cao Cao said a truth.

"No way, give you another five years, Guanzhong and Yizhou will flourish, and I'm afraid I will no longer be your opponent."

Liu Bei drank the wine in his cup in one gulp.

"Isn't that very good? The common people have a good life. We do so many things, isn't it to make the people's lives better?"

Cao Cao laughed.

"Liu Xuande, you are holding out against us north of the Yellow River, aren't you afraid that Tong Pass and Wu Pass will be broken and Chang'an will be attacked?"

Liu Bei looked at the Allied camp over there.

"You conscripted a million laborers and brought most of your troops, aren't you afraid that the newly acquired territory will rebel?"

The two of them were stabbing each other's hearts, and the people next to them rolled their eyes.

Liu Bei looked at the high platform in the Allied camp.

"I'm afraid that now Alliance Leader Ding Yuan is muttering whether you, Cao Cao, are negotiating with me to attack him together and then divide his Hebei!"

Liu Bei looked at Xu You.

"Brother Brother Ziyuan, I'm afraid Meng De took the initiative to invite you to monitor him, right?"

Xu You sighed in his heart.

"My Lord, if you were half as cunning as Cao Aman and Liu Bei, you wouldn't have just this achievement today."

He smiled and cupped his hands.

"I admire Lord Liu Xuande, a hero of the world, and wanted to come and see."

Liu Bei was noncommittal.

"It's a pity that Meng De's move might harm Brother Brother Ziyuan. Ding Yuan Shao is suspicious, and you and Brother Meng De grew up playing together; he will definitely have doubts, plus the slander of Guo Tu and others..."

Xu You broke out in a cold sweat. This was indeed the case; he originally had nothing shameful,

but he couldn't stop the mud-slinging from people like Guo Tu...

His mind was no longer on the chat between the two, but on how to explain it when he went back.

Cao Cao's eyelids twitched; this Liu Bei's ability to sow discord and insert needles into cracks seemed even stronger than his own!

The live stream chat also increased.

"Liu Xuande and Meng De are both human spirits; a cannon fodder like Xu You dares to come up and send himself to death!"

"Boss Cao has met his match; he used to be the one fooling people."

"While the big-eared thief is calculating Cao Cao, he doesn't forget to put eye drops on Ding Yuan Shao in the camp!"

"Cao Cao still wants to continue chatting, after all, it hasn't rained yet."

"It's a pity the big-eared thief has already predicted Cao Cao's prediction."

The two continued to drink and chat.

On the high platform of the Allied camp,

Ding Yuan Shao frowned.

"Do Cao Cao and Liu Bei have so much to talk about?"

Ding Yuan Shang cupped his hands.

"Father, Cao Cao wouldn't use the name of stalling Liu Bei to secretly negotiate with him to deal with us, would he?"

Ding Yuan Shao's heart skipped a beat; this was also possible, after all, this kid Cao Aman had been cunning since he was a child!

Guo Tu took the opportunity to slander.

"My Lord, Xu You is also Cao Cao's childhood friend..."

Ding Yuan Shao's doubts deepened...

Between the two armies, Liu Bei and Cao Cao had already drunk two pots of wine, and the two seemed to have endless things to say.

Liu Bei laughed.

"Brother Meng De, listening to your words is like listening to your words."

Cao Cao:??

At this moment, a raindrop fell on Cao Cao's face.

— Author's Notes —

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