Qiqiu and Pei County, Feng County was originally a county of Pei State. Liu Bei had just captured it for a while and had no influence. When he learned that Sun Ce divided his troops to capture the three counties, Liu Bei complained secretly and was in a dilemma.

Sun Ce was outside the city, with a force of 20,000, but he was not enough to attack the city, but he was more than enough to fight in the field. Once he left the city, he had no advantage. It was not possible to defend the city. Sun Ce sent Zhu Zhi and Tao Qian to sweep the three counties to cut off his retreat and reinforcements. If he did not defend, he would sooner or later eat all his food and collapse without fighting.

At this time, Guan Yu once again proposed a plan to fight Sun Ce, and his tone was fierce, accusing Liu Bei of not listening to him at the beginning. If he forced Xiangxian directly and took the initiative to challenge, how could he be today? The brave ones win when they meet on a narrow road, can they avoid it?

There was no way to retreat, so Liu Bei had to adopt Guan Yu's suggestion and send Jian Yong out of the city to make an appointment.

Sun Ce refused. He said to Jian Yong, "Tell Guan Yu, I originally thought he was a hero, so I gave him a knife and was willing to fight him. Who would have thought that he was a coward, broke his promise and did not dare to fight, and fled from Mangdang Mountain to Xiaoxian. How could such a person be worthy of being my opponent? He is an ordinary general under Liu Bei. I am a dignified Yuzhou governor, and there are countless generals like him. Why should he surrender his identity and fight him to the decisive battle?

Before Sun Ce finished speaking, Jian Yong's forehead was covered in sweat. How dare he tell Guan Yu these words? Sun Ce's turn of respect and rudeness was too sudden. With Guan Yu's temper, he didn't believe it. He thought that Jian Yong took the opportunity to slander him, and he might rush to Sun Ce to argue.

Jian Yong was disappointed and returned to the city. He didn't dare to tell the truth. He only said that Sun Ce refused to fight. Guan Yu didn't believe it, but he couldn't verify it. He could only complain in his heart. The more he looked at Jian Yong, the more he disliked him.

A few days later, Zhu Zhi captured Zhu Qiu. A few days later, Tao Qian also sent news that Pei County and Feng County had been recovered.

Sun Ce asked Jiang Gan to enter the city, informed the two news, and at the same time asked Guan Yu to return the Seven-Star Sword. The treasure sword was given to the hero. The sword was one of the eight swords in the West Garden. Guan Yu was not worthy of using it, so please give it to me. Guan Yu only then realized what Sun Ce said to Jian Yong. He was so angry that he was furious. Regardless of Liu Bei, Zhang Fei stopped him, crossed the horse and rushed out of Xiaoxian, came to the front of the camp, and challenged Sun Ce by name.

Sun Ce was prepared. Before Jiang Gan entered the city, he had repeatedly discussed tactics with Guo Jia, and discussed with Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Chen Dao and others how to deal with Guan Yu. Guan Yu was a cavalry general, Xu Chu and Dian Wei were not suitable for fighting, and Chen Dao was more suitable for fighting. Chen Dao was superb in spear skills and was good at riding and shooting. He was confident in dealing with Guan Yu, and he was eager to try it.

But Sun Ce was very cautious. He knew that although Guan Yu was arrogant and had high martial arts skills, he was real, otherwise he would not have killed Yan Liang among the troops.

After experiencing several wars, Sun Ce knew very well that rushing to the formation was not an easy task. This was not a one-on-one challenge in front of the formation, both sides were close at hand. The generals were in the central army, with formations in front, back, left and right, and there were a large number of personal guard camps around him. If he wanted to rush to the general, he would have to kill at least hundreds of people. Even if there was an unexpected element at that time, it would be difficult to kill all the way through the journey.

The person who is most suitable to compete with Guan Yu is Huang Zhong, but Huang Zhong is now Pingyu, so it is impossible for him to specially transfer Huang Zhong for this matter. He himself is confident, but Guo Jia firmly disagrees and can only replace him by Chen.

After Chen Dao joined Sun Ce's command, he stayed in the military camp every day. In addition to accompanying Sun Ce, he had to practice riding and shooting for at least half a day every day. In addition to the one hundred Bai Lishi who accompanied him, he occasionally fought with the personal guards under Qin Mu. He was always indifferent to the spear and horses, and his martial arts became more and more mature. In addition, he often discussed martial arts with Sun Ce, and his theory was also significantly improved, but he had not achieved a qualitative breakthrough.

In professional terms, he is in excellent competitive state now and only lacks a chance to break through the bottleneck.

And Guan Yu is likely to be his chance.

But Sun Ce did not dare to take it lightly. In addition to asking Chen Dao to prepare necessary precautions, especially the golden silk and brocade armor must be worn, he gave Chen Dao a few suggestions.

First of all, you must be mentally prepared. Guan Yu is not strong, but very strong. You don’t have to defeat him. As long as you can get a draw, even if you are defeated and injured, it will be fine as long as you are not seriously injured. It is not embarrassing.

Secondly, Guan Yu's personality will definitely do his best as soon as he comes up. Don't fight him and defend with all your strength. As long as he is unbeaten in three moves, Guan Yu's momentum will become weaker and you will have a chance to win. This is a bit embarrassing, but it is safer.

In the end, Guan Yu was tall and weighed far more than ordinary people, but his war horse was an extremely ordinary war horse, not a good horse, and it was destined that Guan Yu could not fight for a long time. There may be no problem in normal times. The cooperation requirements for the war horses during single-handed battles are very high. Once the horsepower is insufficient, the knight will feel powerless and will greatly reduce his force.

Chen Dao followed Sun Ce for so long and knew that Sun Ce was not only good at martial arts, but also a person who was good at using his brain. He would calculate all aspects very carefully and fully prepared. Sun Ce said so much, not because he was concerned about the outcome, but because he wanted to give him a chance and an opportunity to improve himself. Of course, he would not have any thoughts of rejection, listen to them one by one.

Sun Ce finally arranged for Bai Lishi to prepare for the reception. If Chen Dao was in danger, no matter what reputation he had or not, he would take Chen Dao back first. Even he himself was wearing armor and prepared to pick him up.

In a word, I think of everything I can think of, do everything I can do, and the rest depends on Chen Dao's own performance.

Chen Dao was full of confidence. With so many people helping him, what else can he be afraid of?

When news of Guan Yu's challenge came, Chen Dao stood up and bowed, and was about to speak. Guo Jia waved his hand. "No hurry, wait, let's talk, you go and move your muscles first." Chen Dao is a smart man. He understood Guo Jia's intention as soon as he heard it. He smiled and stepped onto the war horse, and warmed up in the camp.

Guo Jia called a white sir. "Go and tell Guan Yu that the general is taking a nap, fighting or not, and then make a decision when the general wakes up."

Bai Lishi took the order and left, came outside the camp, conveying Guo Jia's words.

When Guan Yu heard this, he was furious and shouted sternly: "When is it now? I haven't woken up at a nap? Go and report quickly. If you don't come out, Guan will kill in to see if he can sleep peacefully."

Bai Lishi ignored him and sent his horse back to the camp, and returned Guan Yu's reaction to Guo Jia. Guo Jia smiled. "General, if this person is so conceited, we might as well let him rush to the camp. Let Zigu and Zhongkang besiege him, and he will definitely be able to capture it."

Sun Ce was overjoyed, but shook his head. "Zigu, Zhongkang can compete with each other, and there is no shortage of opponents. Shuzhi has no match for the opponent, so it is difficult to break through. I originally hoped to fight Zhao Yun, but now Zhao Yun is not here, so I have to use Guan Yu to make up the number. As for luring Guan Yu to fight the camp, it is not impossible, but that is a secondary goal, and I can talk about it later. It is easy to get a thousand troops, but it is hard to find a general. After this battle, if Shuzhi can escape unstoppably, he can be ranked first, which will be of great benefit to me."
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