I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 424
Sun Qian did not immediately agree to Lu Bu's request. Although the situation was indeed developing as Liu Jian expected, Sun Qian did not immediately express his attitude in front of Lu Bu. He deliberately said that he would go back and report to Liu Jian before making a conclusion. .

If you want to act, then you must act like it.

Didn't Lu Bu become suspicious of agreeing so quickly?
Sun Gan returned to Liu Jian's camp and conveyed Lu Bu's meaning to Liu Jian.

The current situation is exactly in Liu Jian's arms.

Liu Jian walked to the inner tent and looked at the map hanging on the screen inside the tent, his eyes were shining brightly.

"Lu Bu and Niu Fu, they want to take this opportunity to hide in Xingyang, let Yuan Shao and I fight hard, and then make a profit... Very good, it's the same as what I thought, please Gongyou to see Lu Bu again, just tell me Promise him!"

"Here."

Sun Gan took the order immediately, and then walked out of the commander's tent again, without stopping for a moment, and ran to Lu Bu's camp again.

After Sun Qian left, Liu Jian stroked his chin and said to himself, "Next, where and when will we deal with Lu Bu and Niu Fu in Xingyang, and catch them by surprise."

Unexpectedly, Jia Xu, holding a black feather fan, said slowly behind Liu Jian: "My lord is wrong. I am not ambushing them in Xingyang, but ambushing them on the way to Luoyang."

Liu Jian was startled when he heard this, he turned around hastily, and asked Jia Xu, "What does Wen He mean by this?"

Jia Xu swung his black fan up and down, walked slowly to the map in the tent, and used his fan at the place where Lü Bu camp leads to Luoyang Luze, and said: "Luze is full of swamps, with lakes and lakes, and the paths are intricate. , is the place that must pass through from Xingyang to Luoyang. You can set up an ambush here and fight here. If you are prepared in advance, you can greatly reduce the combat power of the Xiliang soldiers and the Bingzhou army. become."

Liu Jian didn't ask how to ambush, but said: "Wen He hasn't answered me yet, why do you want to ambush here?"

Jia Xu said indifferently: "The official thinks that Lu Bu and Niu Fu will retreat to Xingyang in a pretense, then turn back halfway, and secretly go to Luoyang to station, because there are people whom the Lord cares most about."

Liu Jian's eyes narrowed immediately: "Teacher?"

"Exactly, Duke Lu is currently in Luoyang. Forgive me for what the official said bluntly. Duke Lu is the lord's biggest weakness,"

"Lv Bu and Niu Fu went to Luoyang, using the excuse that Luoyang's city was solid and could be used to hold on to it, but in fact they controlled the weakness of the lord, causing the lord to be in a state of confusion, and he was at a disadvantage in the battle with Yuan Shao. Create an opportunity for Yuan Shao, this is the easiest way to make the lord and Yuan Shao form a situation of mutual damage, so that Lu and Niu can get the greatest benefit!"

Liu Jian narrowed his eyes: "Lu Bu and Niu Fu may not have thought of this."

Jia Xu said: "My lord's words are very true, but what Lu Bu and Niu Fu couldn't think of, Dong Xiangguo might not be able to think of it, and what Dong Xiangguo couldn't think of, Li Ru would definitely think of it."

Jia Xu's words sounded the alarm for Liu Jian.

Not bad, Li Ru!
On the surface, his current opponents in the Xiliang Army are Niu Fu and Lu Bu, but in fact, his current opponents are no longer these two.

Behind these two people stood Dong Zhuo and Li Ru!
Especially Li Ru, like Jia Xu, is a well-known poisonous man. It is entirely possible to say that this kind of insidious method of dredging the bottom line came from Li Ru's plan.

For Dong Zhuo and Li Ru, Jia Xu did have more say than Liu Jian. After all, he was much more familiar with these two people than Liu Jian.

Therefore, in this matter, Jia Xu had to listen to what he said.

"I am lucky to have Wenhe by my side. If not, I might not be [-]% sure about dealing with a poisonous person like Li Ru."

"My lord, Miao Zan."

Liu Jian then stretched his fingers near Luze on the map, and began to think about how to ambush here to achieve the best results.

"Wenhe, in your opinion, if Lu Bu and Niu Fu are defeated, what will Dong Zhuo do?"

Jia Xu replied without hesitation: "According to what the official knows about Dong Xiangguo, Xiangguo may personally send troops to compete with the lord!"

"Dong Zhuo personally sent troops..." Liu Jian muttered silently.

"That's right. If Dong Zhuo sent troops in person, he would be bringing with him the most elite troops in the Xiliang Army. I'm afraid the lord's current soldiers and horses in Sizhou are not enough to match him. My lord still needs to write a book to urge him to let him go." The reinforcements from Youzhou and Qingzhou should arrive in Sizhou quickly, so that we can fight Dong Zhuo."

"I know, I can write a book, and the reinforcements will arrive soon."

"Arrive before Dong Zhuo arrives in Sizhou."

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It has to be said that, as a former colleague, Jia Xu still knows Li Ru very well.

Sure enough, Li Ru sent a message to Lu Bu, telling him that if Liu Jian could be lured to confront Yuan Shao, he would let Lu Bu pretend to retreat to Xingyang first, and then divert to Luoyang to guard on the way to Xingyang.

As long as Lu Bu and Niu Fu's soldiers and horses entered Luoyang, it would be equivalent to controlling Lu Zhi, and Liu Jian's original advantage would be affected due to the imbalance of mentality.

This is of great benefit to one's own side.

At that time, both he and Yuan Shao will suffer.

Since Li Ru's opinion has been passed to the front line, it means that it was agreed by Dong Zhuo, and Lu Bu and Niu Fu naturally had to follow it, so after they got Liu Jian's accurate reply, they raised their troops and marched in the direction of Xingyang. go.

During the period, Lu Bu's scouts also went to investigate Liu Jian's news.

After Lu Bu and Niu Fu left, Liu Jian really started to march, heading straight for Yingshui camp where Yuan Shao was.

At this moment, Lu Bu and Niu Fu's minds were completely at a loss.

Never thought that Liu Deran, the hero of Hebei, would be used by them once!
For Lu and Niu, this is really something to brag about.

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The season has come to late autumn, and the weather in Henan is already very cool, and it even makes people feel a little cold at night.

Lu and Niu, who had quietly transferred from Xingyang to Luoyang, chose to set up camp in Luze tonight.

According to the time, the soldiers and horses of Lu Niu and his wife should have arrived in Luoyang the day before yesterday, but it is not a coincidence, because it is the autumn rainy season, and the face of the Lord of Heaven is cloudy and cloudy. There was a sudden rain, and before the rain, they didn't even say hello.

Marching in the rainy season is the hardest for the soldiers, especially for Lu Niu's army who has been traveling for several days, and feels even more tired at this moment.

However, seeing that he was about to arrive at Luoyang, Lu Bu decided not to hurry too much for the sake of the soldiers, especially during the rainy season, night travel was not allowed, which would do great harm to the army.

Luze is surrounded by mountains and rivers, so it can be regarded as a good place for soldiers to recuperate.

But what Lu Bu and Niu Fu never expected was that at this very moment, not far from their camp, Liu Jian himself was leading a group of sentries to secretly observe their camp.

"My lord, it seems that the Xiliang army is very tired from the rapid march for days. There are only three teams patrolling the camp outside the camp, and the time between them is not short." Xia Houlan pointed to the military camp not far away.

It seems that this kind of temporary camp, and there is no danger to defend the border, usually enough patrol camps will be sent out, and even a large number of sentry cavalry will be deployed... From this point of view, the Xiliang army will go to Xingyang first, and then to Luoyang, They hadn't been obstructed in the past few days, and Liu Jian had previously arranged for soldiers to go south to fight Yuan Shao, making Lu Bu and Niu Fu confident that they would not be discovered.

The two of them probably drifted a little bit.

But who would have thought that the soldiers and horses in Hebei would return to the division so suddenly to intercept and kill them?
"Here's an order to command Yan Liang to attack from the west, and Wen Chou to attack from the east. Han Meng, Jiang Qi, Lu Weihuang, and Zhao Rui's battalions followed Yan Liang and Wen Chou to attack the Chinese army. Dazhang, go fight Niu Fu! It is best to kill the general and capture the flag to chill the morale of the army! In this way, the enemy army will be defeated and scattered all over the place, should the king be captured first before the thief is captured?"

Xia Houlan asked a very stupid question from the side.

"Although Niu Fu is a general of Zhonglang, when it comes to reputation, he is far inferior to Flying General Lu Bu. If you want to kill the heart of the cold enemy, why not kill Lu Bu? Instead of killing Niu Fu?"

"Cut Lu Bu?"

The corner of Liu Jian's mouth twitched a little, he looked at Xia Houlan: "You beheaded?"

Xia Houlan was not frightened, but said with great certainty: "I think it will work!"

"Come on, you... I'm afraid you're not good enough to be slaughtered."

Liu Jian unceremoniously poured a basin of cold water on Xia Houlan, and then said: "Once the fight starts later, let the drum-beating sergeants I prepared in advance go to the surroundings of his camp, and the gongs and drums will sound together, and they will shout The sound of killing will make the enemy's soldiers lose their morale in a hurry and lose track of the number of our troops!"

"No... but my lord, if I fight head-on, I may not lose to Lu Bu..."

"Go aside!"

……

"Boom!!"

"Dong dong dong dong!"

"kill!"

The sound of shouts of killing suddenly came from outside the camp and spread into the military tent, which woke up Lu Bu, who had gradually fallen into a dream, in an instant.

Almost without any hesitation, he got up and shouted to the outside:
"Put on armor! Bring my halberd!"

When it comes to facing the enemy in front of the battle, marching and fighting, Lu Bu is indeed the best in the world.

There is no doubt that our side has been attacked!
But in the face of this situation, Lu Bu's face was still sinking, and his emotions were not turbulent...at least on the surface, no turmoil could be seen.

This point alone is worthy of his evaluation of "Lu Bu among the people".

It's no wonder that he was caught off guard from time to time when he fought against Xianbei and the Huns in Border County. Over time, he developed Lu Bu's extremely strong ability to resist pressure when dealing with sneak attacks.

At this time, on the east and west sides, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were the vanguards in the front. They each led two thousand Youzhou Jingqi to raid the enemy camp.

Since it is a stealing camp, the actions of Yan Liang and Wen Chou, who are at the forefront, are the key to success or failure.

The front part of the stealing camp pays attention to a fast word. As long as it can quickly disrupt the temporary deployment of the enemy in the camp and cause enough confusion to the opponent, then the sneak attack will basically be successful.

Lu Ze, where Lu Bu and others stationed their troops, is a wetland, so the movement of the cavalry will be restricted to a certain extent.

But this point, Liu Jian had already checked in advance.

Perhaps for other people's cavalry, the swamp wetlands are somewhat obstructive, but for Liu Jian's cavalry, this obstacle has been controlled to a minimum by him.

Because his cavalry had horseshoes.

In fact, when Liu Jian first arrived in Jizhou, he was able to equip his cavalry with horseshoes in batches, so as to minimize the wear and tear on the horseshoes of his cavalry and delay the service life of the horses to the greatest extent.

But Liu Jian did not do so in the end.

At that time, Liu Jian focused on developing his own power, rather than competing with the herdsmen for supremacy. He felt that the frequency of wars was relatively low at that time, and there was no need for the horseshoe to come out.
After all, the technical content of this kind of thing is not high, and the earlier it comes out, the easier it will be imitated by others.

At that time, when I really want to fight frequently, I am afraid that the early advantage will be gone.

So Liu Jian has been procrastinating until this year.

In the first year of Xingping, Liu Jian felt that the time was right, and finally made up his mind to manufacture horseshoes in large quantities.

There are two main functions of horseshoes, one is to reduce the wear and tear of the horse's hoof and increase the service life of the horse, and the other is to strengthen the grip of the horse.

With horseshoes, the cavalry of Yan Liang and Wen Chou will be greatly reduced by the muddy ground.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

The whistler in charge of the night watch shouted loudly, waking up the camps.

But soon, countless arrows were shot towards the place where the sound originated, and the patrolling soldiers fell silent in an instant.

The Xiliang soldiers who were awakened by the noise rushed out of the tent with their weapons in hand. Before they could figure out what happened, they saw the rain of arrows rushing towards them.

The biggest difference between Youzhou cavalry and other cavalry is that Youzhou cavalry are good at shooting!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!"

"Don't be chaotic, hurry up and form an array, drive the enemy, drive the enemy!"

The Bingzhou army under Lu Bu's command was all elite, even if they were attacked by surprise, they reacted as quickly as their chief general, and soon they all rose up to meet the enemy.

However, the elite level of the enemy army was already within Liu Jian's expectation, and Liu Jian had already made a timely judgment.

Under the leadership of Yan Liang and Wen Chou, the Youzhou cavalry galloped through the enemy camp, shot with bows and arrows, and threw torches everywhere, setting fire to the tents of the Xiliang army and the Bingzhou army.

At the same time, the drums around the camps of the Xiliang Army and Bingzhou became louder and louder, and the shouts of killing became louder and louder, so that the officers in the Xiliang Army camp couldn't figure out how many soldiers and horses came from the other side to attack.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou are indeed very brave.

Among the enemy camp, the only one who could suppress the courage of the two of them was Lu Bu.

As long as they don't run into Lu Bu, Yan Liang and Wen Chou will be fine.

There are over ten thousand people in this big camp, how could it be so easy for Lu Bu and Yan Liangwen Chou to meet?
Yan Liangwenchou led the crowd to gallop on horseback. Facing the soldiers who wanted to gather to fight against them, the two Hebei tiger generals would bravely step forward and take the lead in killing the opponent's offensive.

With the shadows of blades flashing past, many people didn't even see the appearance of Yan and Wen Er, their heads were beheaded, and their lives died on the spot.

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"Niuzhong, Zhonglang, someone, someone robbed the camp!"

The soldiers who came to report stuttered because of the emergency.

"What are you panicking about! Look at your guts! Follow me!"

Compared with Lu Bu, Niu Fu's state is a bit down. Although he is stubborn, if you observe his facial expressions carefully, you will find that Niu Fu is obviously a little flustered, but he is still pretending to be calm.

Picking up the big knife, Niu Fu rushed out of the military tent to look around, and made a decision immediately after roughly judging the situation.

"There seem to be fewer enemies in Dongzhai. You all follow me to Dongzhai to fight against the enemy. Don't panic. Someone Niu will support the sky falling!"

"Here!"

Niu Fu led a group of guard knights onto the horses, and then rushed to Dongzhai.

At this time, the Sima in charge of guarding Dongzhai was Wei Yue and Hao Meng under Lu Bu's command.

The two were directing the soldiers and horses to prepare for battle, when they heard the sound of horseshoes, and by the light of the fire, they saw that it was Niu Fu.

"Meet General Zhonglang!"

"Don't panic, you two, someone Niu will come, and the situation will be stabilized!"

While galloping his horse, Niu Fu called Wei Yue and Hao Meng to come to his side, and at the same time ordered his left and right to shout his name loudly to let the people in Dongzhai know that he had arrived, so that the soldiers of the three armies should not panic.

"General Niu Zhonglang has arrived! The three armies don't mess up!"

"General Niu Zhonglang has arrived! The three armies don't mess up!"

"..."

Wherever they went, the sergeants had indeed become much calmer. It seemed that as a general of Zhonglang, Niu Fu still had a lot of prestige in the army.

But at this time, several fierce generals from Hebei had already followed the footsteps of Yan Liang and Wen Chou, and came in from the east and west villages.

And the shouts of the Xiliang army also reached the ears of some Hebei generals who attacked Dongzhai.

Lu Weihuang, Han Juzi, and Zhao Rui, who took the lead, couldn't help being overjoyed when they heard the shouts.

They immediately led their troops to Niu Fu's place and rushed over!
"Who is Niu Fu? Hurry up and catch him! My lord has ordered you to be arrested today."

(End of this chapter)