Chapter 73

Tents covered the mountains and plains, and thousands of banners fluttered in the wind.

Inside the camp, the neighing of warhorses and the training sounds of soldiers rose one after another; there were at least over two hundred thousand troops!

At the camp entrance,

Guan Yu and Zhao Yun led troops to set up camp in the designated area.

Liu Bei dismounted and cupped his hands.

"Thank you, heroes, for welcoming me! Liu came late, please forgive me!"

Brother Gongsun Zan laughed heartily.

"Brother Liu Xuande, I haven't seen you for a year, and you have truly made me look at you with new eyes!"

Liu Bei cupped his hands.

"I also miss you very much, brother."

"Thanks to you for giving Zhao Zilong to me, otherwise, when I assassinated Dong Zhuo and campaigned everywhere, I would have lacked an excellent helper."

Brother Gongsun Zan nodded. "Very good, very good."

Brother Gongsun Zan felt bitter in his heart; he didn't expect that the little general he sent away casually would now be a great general!

It's a pity that he had already sent him away; there was no way to ask for him back. Liu Bei now had a high reputation, so it was not good to offend him.

Ding Yuan Shao laughed.

"Brother Liu Xuande, the matter of us fighting side by side in Luoyang to execute the Ten Eunuchs is still vivid in my mind."

"Brother Benchu, I still admire you for opposing Dong Zhuo's deposition of the Emperor in the court."

Liu Bei looked at Cao Cao.

"Brother Mengde, you assassinated Dong alone; your courage and wisdom are excellent."

Cao Cao also laughed heartily.

"Liu Xuande, I am not as good as you. Dong Zhuo was stabbed by you until he was covered in blood; I heard he slept on his stomach for two months!"

Zhang Fei muttered 'softly',

"My brother also earned a precious sword; it was dropped by Cao Mengde, right?"

Cao Cao's mouth twitched. Can you stop talking? Do I not need face?

Liu Bei took out the Seven-Star Precious Sword.

"Brother Mengde, I should return this sword to its original owner."

Cao Cao hurriedly waved his hand.

"A precious sword is for a hero. Brother Liu Xuande, you used it to assassinate Dong Zhuo; you should keep it."

He didn't want this sword, so he wouldn't have to think about that incident every day!

Liu Bei thanked him. To be honest, this Seven-Star Precious Sword was quite useful, and he had other wonderful uses for it; he really couldn't give it to Cao Cao.

Ding Yuan Shu said sarcastically,

"Liu Bei, you are a noble person. We have been here for several days, and you only arrived late."

Ding Yuan Shu was very dissatisfied with Liu Bei. A peddler of straw sandals is now the Inspector of Bingzhou, and his reputation is higher than his!

Liu Bei laughed.

"Brother Gonglu has always been fast; you were also the fastest to run out of Luoyang."

Ding Yuan Shu's face was about to twist. This Liu Bei is implying that he ran away the fastest and was greedy for life and afraid of death!

He hummed and turned to walk back.

Liu Bei greeted the other warlords.

Everyone returned to the tent and started drinking, eating meat, and bragging!

Liu Bei was naturally the target of everyone's toasting, and he accepted them all.

"Gentlemen, I came a bit late; I should be punished, I should be punished!"

Several warlords who met for the first time instantly felt that Liu Bei was someone they could get along with; he was straightforward in drinking!

Everyone started bragging again.

Wang Kuang laughed.

"I have the top general Fang Yue; I will definitely make that old thief Dong Zhuo have no return!"

Han Fu laughed.

"My top general Pan Feng is good at using a big axe; the people of Jizhou call him the Peerless Divine General!"

Ding Yuan Shu was not to be outdone and glared at Liu Bei.

"My brave general Yu She can behead Lu Bu!"

Liu Bei??

This damn thing is not an alliance at all; it is clearly a bragging contest!

"Just missing melon seeds and peanuts!"

After several rounds of drinking,

Ding Yuan Shao coughed.

"Liu Xuande, we were discussing the matter of choosing an alliance leader before. We think that because you assassinated Dong Zhuo and are world-renowned, you can be the alliance leader!"

Liu Bei looked at Ding Yuan Shao. This guy's hypocrisy was visible to the naked eye!

Liu Bei didn't intend to be this alliance leader. Not many people supported him, and besides, the gun hits the bird that sticks out; he didn't need to hang the name of an alliance leader.

Liu Bei cupped his hands.

"Brother Benchu, you are too polite. I, Liu Bei, am a person who weaves mats and sells sandals; how can I be the alliance leader?"

"Brother Benchu is the real deal; don't decline anymore!"

Several others also persuaded him. Ding Yuan Shao pretended to decline again and then became the alliance leader.

Ding Yuan Shu curled his lips and cursed Liu Bei for having no eyes. He, the legitimate son of the Ding Yuan family, was standing here; was he blind?!

Ding Yuan Shao waved his hand and asked the soldiers to build an alliance platform, while the warlords continued to drink!

Kong Rong walked over with a glass and admired him.

"Brother Liu Xuande, when I was a child, I only yielded pears, but you yielded the position of alliance leader. I am not as good as you!"

Liu Bei drank a few cups with him and laughed.

"Brother Brother Wenju, I am not as good as you. You really wanted to eat the pear; I really didn't want to be the alliance leader."

Kong Rong pondered.

"Liu Xuande is an honest man; I have decided to make you a friend!"

Kong Rong almost dragged Liu Bei to behead a chicken and burn yellow paper!

Liu Bei hurriedly poured him several bowls of wine and got him drunk!

Early the next morning, the sun rose.

The warlords, still somewhat hungover, rushed to the high platform.

Ding Yuan Shao straightened his clothes and sword, looked serious, stepped up, burned incense, and bowed again!

After listening to the alliance covenant, the warlords drank blood to form an alliance, swearing to crusade against the rebels and support the Han!

Liu Bei thought secretly,

"Fortunately, we didn't have to die on the same day of the same month of the same year!"

After drinking and bragging yesterday, Liu Bei found that he was actually the youngest among the warlords.

He was the only one born in the sixties, born in 161 AD.

Cao Cao, Ding Yuan Shao, Ding Yuan Shu, Kong Rong, Sun Sun Jian, these were all born in the fifties, and Tao Tao Qian was even born in the thirties...

"Liu Bei has almost no foundation and is still young; it is truly not easy to become a warlord who divides the world into three!"

He looked around.

Many of the warlords here would fall in the next few years!

Ding Yuan Yi, Governor of Shanyang, defected to his cousin Ding Yuan Shao and was killed while competing with Ding Yuan Shu for Yangzhou!

Liu Dai, Inspector of Yanzhou, was later killed by the remnants of the Yellow Turbans!

Kong Zhou, Inspector of Yuzhou, was attacked and killed by Dong Zhuo!

Han Fu, Inspector of Jizhou, had his Jizhou taken by Ding Yuan Shao; he defected to Zhang Miao and committed suicide because he was afraid of Ding Yuan Shao's pursuit!

Zhang Miao later fought with Cao Cao and was killed!

Sun Sun Jian obtained the Imperial Jade Seal and was shot and killed by Huang Zu on the way home!