Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 114 The Death of Lu Bu
The fierce north is roaring, approaching spring, everything is gradually recovering, the cold wind outside Xiapi City is bleak, and the weeds that withered last year are slightly green and gradually glowing with vitality.

Someone in later generations once said that there have been more than [-] large-scale battles in Xuzhou in the past dynasties, and it is hard to say whether it is right or wrong.

In this fertile land of Huaibei, Cao Cao's conquest of Lu Bu's battle of Xiapi was the most famous one among more than [-] large-scale battles in Xuzhou.

The melodious horn sounded on the desolate land.

This extremely penetrating long sound resounded through the entire wilderness.

Standing on the white gate tower, you can see Cao Jun's camp located in the southwest corner of the city, with countless military flags waving, and dense black spots emerging from the camp.

Of course, not all the [-] troops lived together. Cao Cao sent Xiahou Dun to the west gate, Yu Jin to the north gate, and Xu Huang to attack Juan County and Yuanwu. The troops were stationed in the north to guard against Zhang Liao, who was serving as Prime Minister of Lu at this time. reinforcements.

If Lu Bu followed Chen Gong's advice and personally led the cavalry out of the city to set up camp in the wild, forming a corner with Xiapi, and cooperating with Zhang Liao, Zhao Shu, Li Zou and other troops outside, maybe he really had a chance to repel Cao's army.

Unfortunately, he didn't do this, and now most of Lv Bu's main force was in the city, Yuan Shu didn't send reinforcements to help him, Zhang Liao was watched by Xu Huang, and Lv Bu was already isolated and helpless.

The sun hangs high, and when the temperature is relatively low, this light is as pale as a little flame in the darkness, it cannot bring any warmth to people, but it becomes colder.

Cao Cao personally led an army of about 2000, plus Liu Bei's pitiful [-] troops, mighty and mighty, rushing towards the city of Xiapi like a tide, outside the south gate, which is about one mile away from the Baimen Tower. At the place, start the whole team.

Their formation was formed into a phalanx, with a row of spearmen in the front row, and a complete range of troops in the rear. Officers at all levels arranged everyone's position in an orderly manner. In just over ten minutes, The [-] troops have already lined up, showing Cao Jun's extremely superb military quality.

And farther away, Sishui, located in the northwest of Xiapi City, has artificially cast a dam at this moment. This year, the water flow in Surabaya has not been as much as in previous years, but after the water storage, the moat and water storage of Xiapi have been taken away. All the river ponds used have been filled.

The water in the downstream is almost dry, and the water in the upstream has all gathered outside Xiapi City.Three years ago, the river was full of corpses, but now it has become a flowing river again.

Cao Cao rode on horseback, staring at the city standing in the cold wind in the distance and shivering slightly. There was no warning or warning. The city gates are flooded."

"Sikong has an order to dig a canal!"

"Sikong has an order to dig a canal!"

"Sikong has an order to dig a canal!"

The messenger galloped in the wind on horseback, and the sound continued to spread around.

Xiapi is located to the east of Sishui, and the terrain is relatively low. Cao Cao sent people to block Sishui, and then dug a canal that used to flow to Xiapi, storing water for several days.

In fact, the water had overflowed at this time, passing through the moat of Xiapi City, flooding the city with a shallow layer of puddles.

But at this moment, after the dam was dug suddenly, it was like a loud bang, and the sky collapsed and the earth cracked. As the face of Lu Bujun on the city gate changed drastically, the monstrous water flowed towards the city, as if it was going to destroy the whole city. .

However, the ability of water storage and flood discharge in ancient times is far inferior to that of the industrial age. In addition, under the influence of extreme weather in recent years, droughts have occurred everywhere in the country. The flooding of the city is just pouring water into the city.

It is impossible to truly form a terrifying flood, destroy the city walls, and wipe out all people and houses.Therefore, the huge waves of the river are rolling in, which looks scary, but it only forms a huge layer of water on the ground and begins to sink into Xiapi City.

No matter how tightly the city gate was closed, it could not resist the intrusion of the water.Soon the water level in the city, which was originally only a shallow layer, began to rise wildly, covering the toes, the insteps, and the ankles. In the end, even the calves were submerged by the skyrocketing water level.

Many people know that beriberi is caused by a lack of vitamin B1, but vitamin B1 is widely found in vegetables, fish, and coarse grains. For example, corn, the staple food of the Han people at that time, is rich in vitamin B1 and other nutrients.Therefore, under normal circumstances, Han people will not actually get beriberi.

However, under normal circumstances, if a person's feet are soaked in water for a long time, the skin will be soaked, and there will be a lot of bacteria in the water, which will soon cause people to be infected with beriberi.The whole foot will be soaked, swollen, and pus. This is the most terrifying part of the flooded city.

Especially when a large number of troops were placed in the city like Lu Bu, when the water level began to spread and rise in the city, many people instinctively started running to the city walls and high ground, but the place is so big, there are so many people, and everywhere is crowded .

For a while, mourning was everywhere in Xiapi City, and the morale of the soldiers almost fell to the bottom before they started fighting.

"hateful!"

Standing on the top of the city, Lu Bu watched the water pouring into the city, gradually submerging the city, and angrily smashed his fist on the female wall. At this time, he really regretted why he didn't listen to Chen Gong's words. Out of the city, you can launch a surprise attack.

Left and right said: "General, the city has been submerged. If this continues, we may not even have a place to stand. Everyone will be trapped in the city to death. Why don't we open the city gate and rush out!"

"Rush out?"

Lu Bu hesitated for a while again, and he did this every time. When fighting, he looked forward and backward, and often missed good opportunities.

At this time, the West City Gate suddenly made noise.

Hou Cheng, Song Xian, Wei Xu and others were dissatisfied with Lu Bu for a long time. Taking advantage of Cao Jun's siege, they suddenly rebelled, tied Chen Gong who was guarding the west gate, and opened the gate.

It was Xiahou Dun who was located at the west city gate. Xiahou Dun rushed to the aid of Liu Bei half a year ago and fought against Gao Shun and Zhang Liao. He shouted: "Prepare to kill with me!"

"kill!"

Cao Jun shouted and killed the sky-shattering sound.

Fortunately, Hou Cheng and others quickly shouted: "We surrender, we surrender!"

Hulala, two or 3000 people ran out of the city, kneeling and surrendering in front of Xiahoudun's formation one after another.

Seeing these Lv Bujun soldiers who had no fighting spirit and went out of the city to surrender, they were all overwhelmed by Cao Jun who was about to fight.

Fortunately, although the battle was not won, Xiahou Dun immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to break the city, so he issued a military order: "Kill into the city!"

"Come on!"

"Woooooooooo!"

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!"

The melodious sound of horns and the sound of war drums.

Xiahoudun wrapped his left eye with a cloth, and his right eye had a very narrow view, but he had gotten used to it in the past six months. He gripped the big knife in his hand and galloped into the city first.

Originally, only a small number of defenders of the west city, including Hou Cheng, surrendered, but after Cao Jun entered the city, the whole city was thrown into chaos.

In front of the city was destroyed, a large number of Lu Bu soldiers in the city dropped their weapons and fell to their knees in the puddles.

Seeing this situation at the south gate, Lu Bu almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, and said angrily, "Hou Cheng and other thieves misled me."

"General, the situation is over, let's go."

Zuo Zuo was loyal, and quickly persuaded him, "Maybe there is still hope for fleeing back to Bingzhou."

Lv Bu smiled bitterly and said, "There is no place for me in this world. You can chop off my head and surrender to Cao Cao."

"General!"

Both left and right can't bear it.

"Then bind me to see Cao Cao."

Lu Bu sighed, now that the soldiers are approaching the city, the only way out is to surrender.

Soon the Lu Bu army in the city surrendered.

At that time, the moat of Xiapi was formed by intercepting Surabaya, and it was formed by digging and building canals around the city.

Cao Cao sent people to block both the upstream and downstream of the moat. After the water was stored, the upstream flood was washed down. Because the downstream was blocked, the river flowed back into the city.

At this moment, after Lu Bu surrendered, Cao Cao ordered the lower canals to be dug as well, and then the upper reaches were blocked to let go of the Sishui River.

So because of the terrain, the water level quickly began to drop. Less than an hour later, the flood in the city receded, and a large number of Cao troops had entered the city, controlling the entire city.

"Xuande, how are you?"

Cao Cao rode on horseback and said to Liu Bei beside him.

Liu Bei had long hated Lü Bu to the bone, and when he learned that he had been captured, he said happily, "Mr. Cao uses his soldiers like a god, and he is really the pillar of the country."

"Hahahahaha."

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Come on, follow me to see Lu Bu."

"only."

Liu Bei happily followed behind him.

In fact, during this period, Liu Bei really wanted to follow Cao Cao in his career.

Because just like the people in the world who have been deceived, Liu Bei also does not know Cao Cao's nature for the time being.

Although he had experienced the massacre in Xuzhou, he had to choose to endure in the face of the declining Han dynasty.

Everyone knows that the current imperial court has to rely on Cao Cao to stand in troubled times. If they fall out with Cao Cao, the slightly better situation of the Han Dynasty will be overturned again.

So to some extent, the current Liu Bei is actually no different from Kong Rong and Wang Lang.

They are all princes of one place, and after losing their territory, they all responded to the call of the court and came from thousands of miles to join him. At the beginning, they all loyally followed Cao Cao to do great things.

What is different from Kong Rong and Wang Lang is that after the Yidaizhao incident, Liu Bei quickly understood that Cao Cao was a Han thief, so he defected to another Yuan Shao who claimed to be "loyal" to the Han Dynasty and wanted to overthrow Cao Cao and welcome the emperor.

On the other hand, although Kong Rong knew that Cao Cao was a traitor after the Yidai Zhao, he was powerless, so he could only scold Cao Cao for fun all day long.

Wang Lang chose to take refuge. I am no longer a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, but a loyal minister of Cao Wei. Anyway, it is just a change of emperor and master, as long as it does not affect the growth of my family.

The result was that when Liu Bei was preparing to attack Cao Cao with Liu Biao, Yuan Shao was useless and was directly defeated by Cao Cao at Guandu. As a result, Liu Bei was unable to return to the north and was forced to live in Jingzhou. Finally, with the help of Zhuge Liang, he went to Sichuan to establish a foundation.

Kong Rong, on the other hand, was punished by Cao Cao and killed the whole clan. Even children of a few years old knew that there would be no eggs under the nest, and the entire clan was wiped out.

Wang Lang's life was much better. He was ranked among the three princes, and he had a high status in Cao Wei. Later, after Sima Yi got up, he immediately fell into the arms of the Sima family. The grandson Queen Yuanji married Sima Zhao, making the Wang Lang family the top of the Jin Dynasty. One of his families is called Donghai Wang.

This is almost a true portrayal of several factions in the late Han Dynasty.

The aristocratic family who only cared about the interests of the family took refuge in Cao Wei, the royalist Kong Rong and Xunyu who were loyal to the Han Dynasty were killed, and Liu Bei, who was also a royalist, was quite prescient and knew that "Shen Sheng died inside, and Chong Er was outside And born" principle, and built Ji Han.

But at least for now, Liu Bei still doesn't know what Cao Cao thinks. He needs to wait until Cao Cao bullies the emperor, Liu Xie issues clothes and belts, and then Dong Cheng, Wang Fu, Zhong Ji, and even the pregnant concubine Dong Gui are killed. will understand.

So he happily followed Cao Cao to meet Lu Bu.

Compared to Cao Cao, he hated Lv Bu to the bone, and Liu Bei's hatred could not be dispelled even by skinning and cramping.

The two quickly entered the city and came to the White Gate Tower.

Surrounded by Xu Chu, Guan Yu and others, Cao Cao walked in the front. When he went up to the tower, he saw that Lv Bu had been tied up by five flowers, and Cao Cao soldiers escorted him to Cao Cao.

"Humph!"

Cao Cao snorted coldly, "Lu Bu, I ordered you to surrender and serve the imperial court over and over again, why do you repeat it?"

Lu Bu avoided answering, but his face was tense and he didn't speak.

"Ok?"

Cao Cao frowned and looked at him: "How dare you be rude to a defeated general."

Lu Bu said: "I have treated the soldiers so well, but they betrayed me, it's not a fault of the war."

"Oh?"

Cao Cao looked at Lu Bu with a smile and said, "I heard that you cheated on your wife and had an affair with the wives of several of your subordinates. How can it be called kindness?"

Lu Bu was silent, and after a while, he said, "The rope is too tight, please loosen it a little."

Cao Cao laughed and said, "The tiger must be tied tightly."

Lu Bu said again: "Duke Cao got me today. I will lead the cavalry, and Duke Cao will lead the infantry. We can unify the world."

"Well?"

Cao Cao squinted his eyes and stroked his beard slowly, feeling quite moved.

Lu Bu is brave and invincible, and he is very good at cavalry. He currently lacks cavalry generals. If he gets Lu Bu, it will indeed greatly increase the strength of his cavalry.

Seeing that Cao Cao seemed to be tempted, Liu Bei was anxious, he and Lu Bu had a life-and-death hatred, how could he let him go?
So he stood up immediately and said: "Duke Ming didn't see the matter of Ding Jianyang and Grand Master Dong?"

Lu Bu said angrily, "Da Er'er can't believe it!"

"Humph."

Cao Cao shouted, "Hang Lu Bu to death."

"only!"

Immediately take Lu Bula away.

Lu Bu panicked and shouted: "Mr. Cao, Mr. Cao, Mr. Cao!"

As he was pulled farther and farther away, the voice became smaller and smaller, and soon there was no audio.

In fact, Lu Bu didn't know it until his death. The reason why he was not accepted was because his capricious character hurt him.

Many people say that Liu Bei is still a family slave of three surnames than Lu Bu, and he seeks refuge everywhere.

But the person Liu Bei turned to from beginning to end was only Liu Xie.

The first time I met Gongsun Zan was to help my old classmate resist Yuan Shao.
The second time with Tao Qian was to help Tao Qian fight against Cao Cao.

The third time with Cao Cao was actually with Liu Xie.

The fourth time I talked to Yuan Shao was because after the Yidai Zhao, he knew Cao Cao's nature and thought Yuan Shao was a loyal minister, but when he went to contact Liu Biao, Guandu got angry and Yuan Shao disappeared.

The fifth time with Liu Biao was actually of the same nature as Zhang Xiu, belonging to Liu Biao's guest army.

So Liu Bei never took refuge in anyone, either he followed the court, or when Yuan Shao failed to do things for Liu Xie, he was forced to be displaced, and he never backstabbed anyone who took him in.

On the other hand, Lu Bu.

Ding Yuan, Dong Zhuo, Liu Bei.

Whoever takes him in will be unlucky.

Except for Liu Bei's fate, one of them was stabbed to death by him in the back.

Because of this, Lu Bu's reputation for capriciousness was so bad that even Yuan Shu felt that he was dishonest and would not come to rescue Cao Cao when he was besieging Xiapi, let alone other people.

Therefore, the social evaluation of Lu Bu at that time was very bad. Chen Deng said that he "go as soon as he is light", Cao Cao said that he was "wolf ambition", Chen Shou commented that he was "light and cunning and repetitious, mercenary". Without righteousness, aiming to rebel against chaos."

On the contrary, Liu Bei's social evaluation at that time was very good. No one has ever said that he was capricious, so it can be known that the reputation of the two parties is not at the same level at all.

Otherwise, how could Cao Cao, who is so assertive and talented, listen to Liu Bei's opinion and kill Lu Bu?

　In fact, it's a bit embarrassing, because the protagonist didn't participate, so things in the north are the same as in history, basically just copying history books.But the important person is gone, and I still have to write about it, so there is nothing I can do.But I will shorten the other things as soon as possible, and then let the emperor come to Nanyang as soon as possible.

　　Poor Uncle Huang, who was brutally beaten and displaced in Kanto for half his life, will soon go south.

　　In addition, before the Battle of Guandu, in general, only the protagonist changed the history of Jingzhou because of being in Jingzhou. After the Battle of Guandu, it will be a brand new history, so everyone can rest assured that it will never be a copy of history books.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)