Lu Dynasty

Chapter 265
Li Dian's prayer was of course ineffective. Originally Tian's dedicating the city was a conspiracy by Chen Gong, how could it change because of Li Dian's prayer.In the middle of the night, today's moonlight is very suitable for earning the city. As the saying goes, the moon is dark and the wind is high to kill people. Looking at the moonlight, Cao is full of confidence that he can successfully take down Puyang City.

Suddenly Cao heard the sound of a gong, and he knew that the respondent had arrived.Sure enough, torches were lit on the city, the gates were opened, and the drawbridge fell.Cao rushed to enter the city first, and before he had gone far, Cao found that there was no one on the street in the city. He suddenly came to his senses and shouted, "All the troops follow me!"

There was only a sound of drums, and Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian and others surrounded Cao from all sides.The Xiahou brothers, Li Dian, and Le Jin hurriedly protected Cao and broke out of the siege. Gao Shun and other four generals fought against the Xiahou brothers' four generals, and Cao took the opportunity to escape to the north gate.In the light of the fire, Cao saw Lu Bu leaping on horseback and holding a halberd, he quickly covered his face with his hands, and passed Lu Bu just like that.

Lu Bu saw that Cao was not wearing the military uniform of his subordinates, so he put the painted halberd on Cao's head and said, "Where is Cao?"

Cao pointed to the front and said, "The one riding the yellow horse ahead is Cao!" Lu Bu didn't see his face, so he chased after him thinking he wasn't Cao.At this time, Cao Cai let out a long sigh of relief.It also has to be said that Cao Ming is big. For a murderer like Lu Bu, he didn't kill him with a halberd after he finished asking. Do you think this is Cao's luck!
Cao was frightened into a cold sweat by Lu Bu. He thought that he could not go to the north gate, so he fled to the east gate. On the way, he happened to meet Brother Xiahou.The Xiahou brothers protected Cao, but forced a bloody path.When they came to the city gate, the fire had already sealed the city gate. When Cao was about to ride his horse out of the city, a beam on the gate fell down.Cao pushed against the beam with his hand, and the beam hit his horse, and he was burned by the fire from the beam.

After returning to the camp, after all the generals came to greet Cao, Cao laughed at the distressed appearance of the crowd and said, "It's just that I fell into Lv Bu's plan by mistake. Why do you do this? Let's take revenge!"

Cheng Yu said: "My lord, if you have a plan, you should act quickly!"

Cao ordered: "We will follow the plan. You quickly prepare the white sail, and say that I was burned to death. At that time, Lu Bu will definitely come back to attack us, and I will lie in ambush in Maling Mountain. When Lu Bu passes by, I will sneak attack him!" All the generals felt that Cao's plan was good, so the whole army was ready to go.

After Lu Bu defeated Cao and returned to the city, he received a message saying: Cao was burnt by the fire and is now dead. Cao Jun is retreating with white sails and armor.Lu Bu laughed and said, "Ah Cao is dead and the whole army is ready to attack. Let's annihilate Cao's army." Chen Gong also felt that it was normal for Cao to die under the circumstances at that time, so he had no doubts.It's a pity that Lu Bu led his troops to attack, which hit Cao's plan.Lu Bu was defeated and returned after the battle, losing a lot of soldiers and horses, so he ordered to stick to Puyang and not come out.

Perhaps God also felt that the battle between Cao and Lu Bu was too tragic, so the locust plague suddenly fell, resulting in a lack of food in the Kanto and a skyrocketing food price.Cao temporarily withdrew from Juancheng because his troops ran out of food, and Lu Bu was also trying to find a way to get food.

Chen Gong was very helpless looking at the growing shortage of food. Lu Bu said: "Brother often said: 'If you are not in charge of a family, you don't know how much firewood and rice are.' This is true! If I am by my brother's side, why should I have a headache!"

Chen Gong said with a smile: "The lord can't always grow up under the wings of General Lu Feng! Now that the lord understands these things, he will be able to help General Lu Feng better in the future!"

Lu Bu laughed and said, "It's better to see it thoroughly from the public platform. Zilong also said that the big brother asked me to fight Cao because he wanted us to experience it so that we can take charge of the state and county in the future."

"You mean that General Lu Feng is not missing?" Chen Gong asked in surprise.

Lv Bu nodded and said, "Of course we know where the elder brother is, but the elder brother wants us not to tell. Since the public platform is our own, I will tell you alone. The elder brother is in Chang'an now! Don't think that Chang'an is Li Jue, Guo Guo, etc. Si is in charge, in fact, they are all under the command of the eldest brother!"

Chen Gong was surprised and said: "What does General Lu Feng want to do? Why did he indulge Li Jue and Guo Si to harm the people like that?"

Lu Bu laughed and said, "Li Jue and Guo Si only dare to bully those big families. My elder brother said that their existence caused many problems in my governance, so my elder brother used Li Jue and Guo Si to deal with these troubles first. As for why, You can ask Big Brother yourself in the future! Except for a few gentlemen, we can't see what Big Brother is thinking!" When Lu Bu said this, Chen Gong understood a little bit.How to say he, Chen Gong, was also one of the famous counselors in the late Han Dynasty. Although he was worse than Guo Jia and others, he was not too far behind.

The plague of locusts fell from the sky. Except for several major grain-producing states such as Xuzhou, other states such as Yan, Si, You, and Liang were short of food.Now Chang'an is controlled by Li Jue and Guo Si on the surface, but in fact it is my territory. I can't let the people under my rule starve to death.So I convened my subordinates to discuss how to survive the locust plague.

Li Ru said: "My lord, don't worry, this plague of locusts occurs every year in the Han Dynasty, but this year's outbreak is more widespread!"

"Li Ru, stop talking nonsense, I don't want to listen to any comforting words now, I want you to come up with some practical solutions!" I said seriously: "Of course, I also have my own ideas!"

Jia Xu said: "My lord, it's not easy! Just order those big families to open warehouses to release grain! If they dare to hoard their food, kill their whole family. Anyway, my lord also wants to clean up the family in Chang'an, so Li Jue and Guo Si are just right!"

Guo Jia said: "Although what Wen He said is a bit vicious, it is still a good method. But I am afraid that the aristocratic family will rebound, and even if all the aristocratic families provide food, it is still not enough for the common people!"

"That's easy to handle. Among the several crops that my lord has trial-produced, there is one called sweet potato that has a large yield and a short planting period. If we plant it on a large scale now, it may be able to supplement the shortage of food!" Xi Zhicai said. .

"Far water can't save near fire!" Tian Feng said with an old face: "My lord, if our deal with Xuzhou has not been broken, let's buy some grain from Xuzhou! This will relieve the disaster to some extent!"

Guo Jia sighed and said: "Xuzhou is also hard to protect itself! When Cao attacked Xuzhou, you also know what he did along the way. Even if Xuzhou had food, it might not be able to make ends meet. How can we sell the surplus food to us?" Mo Qiqi sighed, the locust plague was an irresistible natural disaster in their hearts!

(End of this chapter)