Lu Bu, God of War of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 161 Tianshui 2
Chapter 160

"Well, we haven't seen anyone from the Deng family during our journey, so I don't know what benefactor wants from them." The old man asked after hearing this.

"Haha, it's nothing, but a few of my subordinates and I took advantage of the night to snatch Lord Deng Fan's body back, and wanted to bury Lord Deng Fan when the Deng family arrived." Lu Bu turned his head and pointed at the Deng Fan's body on horseback.

"Benefactor is indeed a benevolent man. I am here, old man, and thanked Mr. Deng and his family." When the old man saw Deng Fan's dead body, his heart was even more moved, and he was about to bow down to Lu Bu again.

"Old man, there is no need to be like this. After paying off the old man, let them come to me after seeing Deng's family, so that I can do my best for Mr. Deng." Seeing the old man bowing down, Lu Bu hurriedly helped him up again and said.

"Don't worry, benefactor, this matter is left to the old man." At this time, the old man was completely moved by Lu Bu's sincerity, tears streaming down his face.

After leaving the north gate, Lu Bu came all the way to the prefect's mansion in Tianshui City. The former prefect Wang Gui of Tianshui had been killed by Lu Bu. The current prefect's mansion naturally became Lu Bu's residence.

As soon as Lu Bu entered, he saw a familiar face in the hall, which turned out to be Gao Shun.It turned out that during the two days after Lu Bu left, Gao Shun had already led his people to Tianshui.

"Subordinate Gao Shun, I have seen the general." Seeing Lu Bu coming in, Gao Shun also looked happy, and hurriedly saluted Lu Bu.

"General Gao has worked hard all the way. Now that the battle is imminent, I feel much more relieved when you come." Lu Bu felt relieved when he saw Gao Shun. Now among Lu Bu's generals, the ones who make Lu Bu feel most at ease are Gao Shun and Zhang Liao. Both of these men are wise and brave generals who can be used to great advantage.In contrast, because Zhang Liao came later, Lu Bu sometimes couldn't use it with confidence. In this way, the one who Lu Bu can really talk to is Gao Shun.

"Hahaha, the general is serious. I have heard what you did in Longyou from the soldiers who came back. I am very happy to hear it. With the general's current ability, he is already a rare general in the world." After listening to Lu Bu's words, Gao Shun couldn't help but only showed his respect for Lu Bu.

"Hahaha, it's just a little bravery, nothing to praise." Lu Bu didn't care about his performance in Longyou.Instead, he turned around and asked Zang Badao: "How is the situation in Tianshui recently?"

"This? Hey, my lord, you have hurt me by letting me stay in Tianshui. Not only do you have no battles to fight, but you are also busy with mindless things all day long. You are the people who eat food with me every day. What do you say? Can I give them casually? The food in the Tianshui Guancang will be used for war." Zang Ba said with a face full of embarrassment.

It turns out that Cheng Lian has been gathering the people of Tianshui into the three cities including Tianshui according to Lu Bu's orders these days. In this way, the people need food to feed them, but Cheng Lian dare not use the military rations without authorization, so he will ask for food. People sent directly to find Zang Ba.

"Then how did you tell them?" Lu Bu asked worriedly.

"Hehe, do you even need to ask? I told them at the beginning that there is no life-threatening ration, so how can we give away our military rations casually. Later, when someone came to ask for it, I asked the door to stop them directly, and they were not allowed to see me." Yes." Zang Ba said with a smile.

Hearing Zang Ba's words, Lu Bu was really speechless. Lu Bu couldn't blame Zang Ba for this matter, because Zang Ba had such a temper, and it would be polite if he didn't hit anyone, but Lu Bu couldn't blame Cheng Lian, Cheng Lian must be the new It is reasonable for those who submit to surrender not to have the guts to deal with these things.

"It's my fault that I didn't settle this matter well in advance." Lu Bu could only blame himself, although the current Lu Bu came from time travel, he is much better than the historical Lu Bu in dealing with many things.However, this is only limited to the military. Regarding the handling of civil affairs, Lu Bu has to admit that he is still a layman. "Cheng Lian, how is the matter of letting the common people enter the city?" Lu Bu turned his head and asked Cheng Lian again. After Lu Bu left these few days, Cheng Lian was doing everything in Tianshui. I believe Cheng Lian He should know more than Zang Ba and do better.

"General Qi, the matter of the people entering the city has been settled, but there are a lot of people, and they can't settle down for a while, and now that the people enter the city, the fields outside the city must be barren. In this way, the people will not have a harvest in the coming year. It has become a problem. So some people are unwilling to enter the city because of this. In addition, these people brought by the general from Longyou did not bring any food themselves, so their livelihood is also a problem." Cheng Lian said that he had no scruples, Talk about it, and tell the situation on your side.I could only hear Lv Bu frowning. Since the start of the war, Lv Bu has been focusing on military matters. How could he think that military matters have not been figured out yet, but civil matters have already been burnt out.It never occurred to Ren Lu Bu that it would be so difficult to make a strong wall and clear the country. Now that the people in Longyou are still waiting outside the city, how can Lu Bu feel at ease?
"En, you did a good job." Seeing Lu Bu frowning, Cheng Lian's heart began to beat, but he didn't expect that after Lu Bu frowned for a long time, what he suppressed was encouragement to himself. "Hehehe, it seems that these civil matters are indeed not what us warriors are good at." Lu Bu said something self-deprecating, and then said to Cheng Lian: "Well, after the meeting, you and I will go look for it. Mr. Lu Zhi, Mr. Lu Zhi is a well-known scholar with unique insights into civil matters, and I believe he is the only one who can solve these matters." Seeing that he really couldn't figure it out, Lu Bu thought of handing over these matters to Lu Zhi, Lu Bu believed that Lu Bu would never let these people suffer. For Lu Bu at this time, Lu Zhi was the best pharmacy to solve the trouble.

"Yes, my lord." Cheng Lian hurriedly agreed.In fact, Cheng Lian also wanted to find Lu Zhi in the past, but Cheng Lian felt that Lu Zhi was once a high-ranking official of the court. Although he was no longer an official, he was also a famous scholar. Now that Lu Bu was going to invite Lu Zhi, Cheng Lian just relaxed. Cheng Lian must be a military commander, and he is not enthusiastic about civil affairs. It is just a matter of reluctance to do these things now.

"Okay, let's talk about military affairs now. Gao Shun, what's your opinion on Tianshui's defense?" Lu Bu first asked Gao Shun's opinion.

"My lord, I think this way. Now the enemy army has more than 3 people, and our army is only [-] infantry. Among them, the [-] I brought are compared with the [-] Tianshui County soldiers that have now been expanded. The ratio is very different. , so I think that the [-] horses should be evenly distributed among the three cities, and then the general’s cavalry should support the three cities. The three cities support each other under the banner of beacon fire. The vitality of the enemy army. In addition, since we have gathered so many people in our city, we should select strong and strong people from among them, form a militia group, and train them, so that we can meet the needs of emergencies.” Gao Shun obviously thought about this matter for a long time , Lu Bu said immediately after asking.

"Why should the soldiers be divided equally among the three cities? Jicheng and Shangbang are both small cities, and their role is obviously not comparable to that of Tianshui, so how can they have as many troops as Tianshui? Isn't this a little bit of an avoidance?" Song Xian Hearing Gao Shun's words, he asked a little puzzled, and what he said was logical.

"That's right, that's right, General Gao, I'm not talking about you. It's obviously wrong for you to send troops like this." Zang Ba also jumped out and said, this Zang Ba usually only cares about rushing and killing, and rarely cares about arranging troops, but now he doesn't care. Here comes the interest.

"Hehehe, General Song Xian, if you were the main general of the enemy army and we had more soldiers in Tianshui, but fewer in Jicheng and Shangbang, which city would you attack first?" Gao Shun laughed. Said without haste.

"Needless to say, Jicheng and Shangbang are small cities with few soldiers. I will definitely take down Jicheng and Shangbang first, and then gather the whole army to attack Tianshui." Song Xian said very complacently, His statement was naturally recognized by everyone.

"General Song Xian's income is good. In that case, the city of Ji and Shangbang will be lost, and the ancient city of Tianshui will be attacked by hundreds of thousands of enemy troops. It will be a matter of time before the city is broken. If it can be realized, I will ask, if the city of Jicheng, Shangbang and the three cities of Tianshui With the same troops defending, which city will you attack?" Gao Shun followed Song Xian's words and said the result, then asked again.

"Well, since Jicheng Shangbang and Tianshui both defend with the same force, I naturally want to attack Tianshui first. Tianshui is a county city. Although the city is tall and deep, its defensive force is the same as that of Jicheng Shangbang. As long as we use the ratio to attack Jicheng or Shangbang with a little more power can still be attacked, as long as Tianshui is captured, the two small cities of Jicheng and Shangbang will naturally be powerless to resist and can only surrender." Song Xian nodded and said, the analysis in it is also reasonable .

"Hahaha, that's why I want to divide the troops equally between the three cities." Gao Shun said with a smile.

"So, you want to attract the enemy to attack Tianshui instead of attacking Jicheng and Shangbang?" Song Xian asked in surprise.

"That's right, that's exactly what I mean." Gao Shun nodded.

"It's only [-] soldiers and horses, how can they defend Tianshui?" Wei Xu couldn't help asking this time.

"Everyone, have you forgotten that we still have more than 1 cavalry from our lord? Although the cavalry is fast and can support each other between the three cities, the Qiang cavalry has as many as [-] to [-], so the lord Most of the cavalry can only stay in Tianshui, unable to support the other two cities. Besides, the defensive forces in Tianshui City are not insufficient, but more than enough. For example, a considerable part of the people in Shui today are in Tianshui, and even the people in Longxi are stationed. These people all hated the Qiang people, and with their help, what kind of worries would Tianshui City suffer from?" Gao Shun said again, and by this time the generals had already firmly believed in Gao Shun's words.

(End of this chapter)