Chapter 539 Tonic Is Also Poison!

Since the camp was attacked the day before, Cao Cao had doubled the number of scouts and even extended the distance of the scouts to the gates of Nanjun City.

But Gu Rubing is not stupid, he will naturally send people to search for traces of Cao Cao's scouts, and once he notices them, he will get rid of them.

In one day, Cao Cao received the news of the death of dozens of scouts. Cao Cao did not pay attention to it. He made up for as many as he died. After that, Cao Cao did not care about the news of the death of scouts.

This caused tonight's trouble.

After Cao Cao figured it out, he secretly regretted that his scout stronghold must have been removed and he didn't care, otherwise his intelligence would not have such a major problem.

Cao Cao waited and waited, but did not wait for Cao Ren and Cao Zhang to come back. He felt a little anxious and immediately called Xu Chu.

"Lord."

Xu Chu had just finished tidying up the camp and was arranging camp protection matters. When he got the news that Cao Cao was looking for him, he hurried to Cao Cao's camp.

"Zhang'er and Zixiao haven't come back yet. You take Hubaoqi and Faqiu Zhonglang to see what's going on. If you encounter danger, come back in time."

The only thing Cao Cao can use now is Xu Chu. The Xiahou brothers are still recovering from their injuries and cannot go out to fight at all. Dian Wei, a legendary general, still needs to protect the camp and his own safety. If it weren't for Cao Cao's order, Dian Wei would have been killed the day before. Wei was about to rush out and kill the white horse Yi Cong who made a sneak attack.

Today, Cao Cao has once again fallen into a situation where no one can help him.

But this time, Cao Cao didn't panic, after all, Dian Wei was there.

"Yes, my lord!"

Xu Chu did not encounter an ambush this time.

After all, with Xu Chu's fighting power, if Gu Rubing wanted to defeat Xu Chu, Zhao Yun would have to take action, but Zhao Yun was still in a coma at this time. If he wanted to capture Xu Chu alive, he would need at least three famous generals, including Zhao Yun. Inside.

After all, compared with beheading, capturing alive is often more difficult.

When Cao Cao ordered to capture Gu Rubing's famous generals alive, he lost many people. Even Xiahou Dun was seriously injured, but he still did not capture any of Gu Rubing's famous generals.

Xu Chu did not find Cao Ren and Cao Zhang along the way, but found the letter left by Huang Zhong on the body of a captain who touched gold.

When Xu Chu brought the letter back, Cao Cao slapped the letter on the table after seeing it.

"Ah! Liu Bei, I want you to die!"

Although Xu Chu didn't read what was on the letter, he knew in his heart that it was definitely not a good word, otherwise Cao Cao wouldn't be so irritable.

After Cao Cao slapped him several times and smashed the table in front of him, the anger in Cao Cao's heart finally dissipated.

"Call Sun Jian and say that we have something to discuss."

Gu Rubing, led by Zhuge Liang, came to the city wall again.

"Prime Minister, what are you doing? It's late at night, why don't you go back to sleep? With the cold wind blowing here, is it possible that the Prime Minister can't sleep, feels empty and lonely, and wants to feel colder?"

Zhuge Liang smiled and waved the feather fan in his hand proudly, but quickly put it down.

Because it's really cold!

"Please be patient, my lord, we still have a large army that has not returned."

"Is there anyone else?"

While the two were talking, Gu Rubing saw Huang Zhong and Xu Rong coming back from outside, and behind them was the tied up Cao Ren.

After chatting with the two of them for a few words, Gu Rubing came to Cao Ren.

"Hey, who do you think you are? Isn't this our Cao Zixiao, General Cao? Why were you arrested? Why didn't you commit suicide? Aren't you guys very brave? Wouldn't you rather die than surrender? How can you be a prisoner?"

Hearing this, Cao Ren looked at Gu Rubing. When he saw Gu Rubing's triumphant look, Cao Ren's molars almost broke.

"Where is our young master?"

"Oh, you are looking for Cao Zhang and kill him!"

"What?"

Cao Ren's eyes widened.

Seeing Cao Ren's appearance, Gu Rubing smiled and patted his shoulder.

"Don't worry, you and Cao Zhang are my mobile gold mountains. How can I kill you? If you die, how much will I lose!"

After everything was over, Gu Rubing went to his room, thinking about what happened tonight, and the excitement in his heart has not calmed down yet.

Zhuge Liang just changed from prime minister to military advisor. He first practiced the Eight-Door Golden Lock Formation. Before the war, he didn't know whether the Eight-Door Golden Lock Formation was useful.

In one night, they captured Cao Cao's two famous generals and captured Cao Cao's camp, making the chickens and dogs restless.

Gu Rubing doubted whether Cao Cao had lost his IQ. If it were that simple, wouldn't he have unified the Central Plains long ago?

But just thinking about it, Gu Rubing knew that Cao Cao lost to an underestimated enemy.

You have to operate this yourself. If you want to achieve this level, I am afraid you must have hundreds of thousands of troops and all the famous generals to achieve the desired effect. However, the total number of people fighting tonight is less than 10,000, although they are all Special arms.

Zhuge Liang's strategizing once again refreshed Gu Rubing's understanding of this word.

To this day, Gu Rubing still doesn't understand how Zhuge Liang can be so sure. The first time Cao Zhang led no elites, and the second time Cao Ren led definitely not many people. Once there is a slight calculation error, it is impossible to achieve such an effect. , and they may even suffer heavy losses.

The next day.

Gu Rubing walked out of the room and was about to go to the three generals' room to see their situation as usual, when Wei Yan came to him.

"My lord, Cao Cao and Sun Jian are waiting for you at the pavilion outside."

"The two of them? I didn't expect to arrive so early. They probably haven't slept yet. Okay, since they're here, let's go take a look."

Seeing that Gu Rubing was about to go now, Wei Yan hesitated and whispered: "Master, you see the sun is so bright outside, why are we in such a hurry? Why don't we let them wait and give them a blow?"

"It's not necessary. Besides, he is our sponsor now, and we still expect him to get rich. How can we treat our sponsor with such an attitude, haha!"

As he spoke, Gu Rubing left the governor's mansion and walked directly out of Nanjun with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Wei Yan.

After the three met, they greeted each other and sat down directly around the pavilion.

There are millions of troops stationed on both sides outside the city, and millions of pairs of eyes are watching silently. The three people who are drinking tea only need to give an order from the three of them, and the mountains of corpses and seas of blood can appear instantly.

But the three people with such abilities were actually drinking tea and chatting about homely things in the pavilion, all of which were things in the real world.

Dian Wei, Sun Ce, and even Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had no idea what their lord was saying. They could only stare at each other to prevent the other party from making any moves to harm their lord.

After chatting for a while, Cao Cao couldn't bear it any longer and said directly: "Liu Bei, you captured my man and left me a letter. You probably want something. Tell me. I'll wait for you Lion." Big opening.”

"Boss Cao, what you said is wrong. You are talking about me as if I am a very shameless person. Well, since we are both from the same place, I won't make it difficult for you. Twenty thousand armor Waiting for war horses, 20,000 fine iron armors, 10,000 fine iron spears, and 10,000 fine iron long bows.”

Upon hearing this, Cao Cao slammed the table and stood up.

"Liu Bei, I, xxx, are you crazy or am I crazy? Can I just give you 20,000 elite troops? I will also give you my Tiger Leopard Cavalry, Mojin Colonel, and General Faqiu Zhonglang, okay? ? This is not a lion's mouth, right! You are not a lion's mouth, you are a whale, why don't you swallow the sea? "

whale?

What is that?

Can you swallow the ocean in one mouthful?

The four legendary generals all looked puzzled.

However, Cao Cao had no intention of caring about them. He pointed at Gu Rubing's nose and kept scolding him, as if he would have taken action if he couldn't beat him.

Gu Rubing didn't have any emotions. He was still drinking tea slowly and covering the teacup with his hand to prevent Cao Cao's spittle from flying into his teacup when he cursed.

Sun Jian also had a calm look on his face. He had long known about Gu Rubing's shameless appearance. Before he came, he had roughly guessed what Liu Bei wanted.

after all! I’ve been tricked out of experience!

But Sun Jian didn't say that he only had one purpose now, which was to let Cao Cao fight Liu Bei. The longer the fight, the better. It would be best to fight for decades, so that he could survive for decades, and then he would be invincible in the world. .

After a while, Cao Cao finally got tired of scolding. After taking a sip of water, he sat down on the ground, breathing heavily.

"Second brother, take note of this. Prime Minister Cao just told us that he will give us 20,000 elite troops, as well as tiger and leopard cavalry, Mojin Colonel, and Faqiu Zhonglang General. After returning, he will go to Cao Camp to collect the accounts. ”

"Yes, brother!"

"Wait a minute, when did I promise to you?"

"What you just said, Sun Zhoumu can testify for us, right, Sun Zhoumu?"

Sun Jian, who originally planned to watch the excitement, saw Liu Bei's eyes looking at him full of threats. He quickly lowered his head and drank tea slowly without saying a word.

"I didn't agree to anything. I was just making an analogy. Do you understand?"

"Fifu? Who is Fifu? Why did you hit him?"

"I xxx..."

Seeing Gu Rubing acting rogue like this, Cao Cao was completely helpless and sighed.

After scolding him so much just now, the anger in his heart had long since dissipated. He now knew that in Gu Rubing's hands, nothing he said was of any use.

"Forget it, I don't have 20,000 troops, and it's even more impossible to give you those special troops. They are all elites above the second-rate generals. Even if you kill Cao Zhang and Cao Ren, I can't give you them, but I can give you 10,000 First-class war horses, ten thousand fine iron armors, five thousand fine iron spears, and five thousand fine iron long bows.”

"I don't bargain. This is a battlefield, not a vegetable market."

"you……"

Cao Cao looked at Gu Rubing and hesitated.

"Okay, I'll give you the equipment you want."

Seeing Cao Cao's compromise, Gu Rubing smiled, patted his shoulder, and signaled Wei Yan to accept the goods. After all, Wei Yan was a pretty good quality inspector.

Wei Yan was naturally very excited when he heard that quality inspection was required again.

"This horse can't do it. It's too thin."

"This won't work, it's too fat."

"Why is there still a knife wound on your horse? What's wrong with you? If a good horse is injured, change it quickly."

"Hey, this horse still has scars on its body. Don't do it. These kind of horses are old, weak, sick and disabled and cannot go to the battlefield."

"This is what our Lord told me."

After listening to Wei Yan's words, Cao Cao's face turned pale and he led Dian Wei to Wei Yan.

"The injuries on these horses were all caused by you on the battlefield, so of course they have to be given to you. And where is Cao Zhang and Cao Ren?"

"Then I don't care. We don't want defective products anyway. Do you understand the rules? Cash on delivery, payment for goods and services. These are my lord's original words. Anyway, I don't understand what they mean."

"Cash on delivery, you think this is express delivery! Liu Bei, you are going too far!"

Seeing Cao Cao being so angry, Dian Wei didn't understand the meaning of Gu Rubing's words, but he could understand it somewhat. At least Dian Wei didn't like Wei Yan's attitude when talking to Cao Cao.

"Wei Yan, you better know who you are talking to. I only need one move to kill you."

Wei Yan didn't care at all about Dian Wei's threat.

"Oh, then you kill me?"

"You're looking for death!"

Just when the two were about to take action, Cao Cao immediately stopped them.

If Wei Yan dies, then Cao Ren and Cao Zhang are destined to not survive. He will definitely not do this kind of one-for-two deal.

"Okay, follow his request and find him. Go back and tell Liu Bei to return him as soon as possible."

After speaking, Cao Cao was afraid that he would kill Wei Yan when he saw him, so he entered his tent without looking back.

"This won't work. There are impurities in your fine iron. Let me change it."

"..."

It took a whole day for the things Cao Cao promised to pass the inspection of Wei Yan, the quality inspector, and enter Nanjun.

At this time, Gu Rubing also put Cao Ren and Cao Zhang on the carriage and sent them to Cao Cao's camp as agreed.

Looking at the back of the carriage, Zhang Fei on the side muttered unhappily.

"Now that the war is about to begin, our famous generals are about the same. The Prime Minister finally caught two of them. Brother, why are you putting them back? We don't lack these tattered equipment."

Listening to Zhang Fei's muttering, Gu Rubing didn't care at all and said with a smile: "I only said to put the people back, but I didn't say how to go back. Don't worry, these two people passed through Hua Tuo's hands. Within a few months, the two of them won’t have the strength to pick up anything, even walking will be difficult.”

"Hua Tuo? Isn't that a miracle doctor? Can medical skills also harm people?"

Regarding Zhang Fei's question, Gu Rubing said nothing, but Zhuge Liang smiled.

“Tonics are sometimes poisons.”

When Cao Cao saw that Cao Zhang and Cao Ren were very weak when they came back and needed help even to get off the carriage, he immediately felt bad.

"Zhang'er, Zixiao, how are you? Did Liu Bei torture you?"

Both of them shook their heads when they heard this.

"Lord, we didn't suffer any harm. Instead, they gave us various tonics every day, and even some things worth thousands of gold. We ate these things as food. We were fine at first, but then we felt top-heavy. , and can no longer stand up.”

"Can't stand up? Someone come and call Wu Pu."

Soon after Wu Pu checked the bodies of the two of them, his expression was very bad.

"Prime Minister, these two generals may not be able to get out of bed for half a month."

"What? Is it poisoning?"

"It's not poison, it's just too much tonic. Taking too much of this tonic is just like poison."