Lu Dynasty

Chapter 278 Return to Chang'an

Lu Bu was besieged by eight generals under Cao's command. Although these eight generals were not very good, they couldn't cover them, so Lu Bu wanted to go back to the city.In fact, if Lu Bu waited for Zhang Liao and Gao Shun to arrive before going out to fight, he would not have to retreat to the city. It would not be a problem for him to fight five or six of the eight generals under Cao's command alone.

Lu Bu came to the city, but the city gate was not opened.Lu Bu yelled at the tower, "Why don't you open the city gate quickly?"

The Patriarch of the Tian family, who had surrendered to Cao last time, stuck his head out of the city wall and said, "We have already surrendered to General Cao!" Lu Bu cursed angrily at the base of the city, but seeing Cao's army approaching, he had no choice but to lead the army away.Chen Gong saw that Lu Bu had escaped, and the Tian family had surrendered, so he opened the east gate and fled to Dingtao with Lu Bu.However, Lu Bu's escape this time was much happier than in history, because he did not bring his family.Taking Lu Bu's martial arts as an example, the world is so big that no one can stop him.

Lu Bu gathered all the generals on the road, including Zhao Yun of course.Seeing that Zhao Yun was also defeated, Lu Bu was surprised and said, "How did Zilong also lose?"

Zhao Yun sighed and said, "Don't mention it. Xue Lan and Li Feng didn't listen to my general's order and led troops out of the city to plunder, but they were killed by Cao. When Cao came to attack Yanzhou, I only had a thousand people in hand. How could they be his opponents? So the plan was to retreat. No wonder the eldest brother always said that the most important thing to be a soldier is to obey orders. Generals like Li Feng and Xue Lan really harm others and themselves!"

"Damn Li Feng, Xue Lan!" Lu Bu cursed through gritted teeth.

Chen Gong knew that sending Li Feng and Xue Lan would not be able to defend Yanzhou, but Lu Bu would not listen.Now Chen Gong couldn't complain anymore, so he could only say: "My lord! This is not the time to curse, let's go to Dingtao quickly, I think Cao will catch up soon!" Lu Bu took a look at Chen Gong and led his troops to go Dingtao.

Cao won Puyang, forgave the Tian family who deceived him last time, and left Mao Jie to guard Puyang, and he came to Dingtao with his troops.

When Cao came to Dingtao, it was wheat ripe.Lu Bu, Zhang Miao, and Zhang Chao were in Dingtao City. Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, and the others went to collect food but did not return.Cao didn't lack anything but food. He saw that the wheat in Ji County was ripe, so he sent his troops to harvest it. He also retreated forty miles to the village, and did not fight Lu Bu for several days.

The scouts reported Cao's movements to Lu Bu, and Lu Bu hurriedly led the army to attack Cao Dazhai.When he was about to reach Cao Jun's camp, Lu Bu found that the left side of Cao Jun's camp was very lush with vegetation and woods.He was worried that Cao's ambush was there, so he led his troops back to Dingtao.

Seeing Lu Bu coming, Cao left again, and said with a smile to the generals, "Lü Bu has also learned to be suspicious now. He was worried that there would be an ambush in the woods on the left, so he retreated. In this case, we will plant banners all over the woods to be suspicious soldiers." There is a long embankment to the west of our army camp. There is no water in the embankment, so we can ambush elite soldiers. Tomorrow Lu Bu will definitely come and burn the forest on our left. At that time, our elite soldiers will come out from the embankment and cut off Lu Bu's return. Then Lu Bu will be captured by us!"

The generals felt very reasonable after hearing Cao's words, so they began to act according to Cao's instructions.In order to make Lu Bu think that there were soldiers in the stronghold, Cao capitulated people from nearby villages to shout in the army stronghold, leaving only fifty drummers to beat drums in the stronghold.

Lu Bu returned to Dingtao to discuss with Chen Gong how to proceed. Chen Gong told Lu Bu to be careful, but Lu Bu said that he was going to use fire to break Cao's ambush tomorrow, so there was no need to worry.After Chen Gong persuaded, Lu Bu stayed to defend the city.

the next day.Lu Bu led his troops to Cao Jun's stronghold alone. He saw many banners in the forest on the left, so he asked his soldiers to enter the forest and set fire to it.After the fire ignited, Lu Bu found that there was no ambush in the forest. He was about to lead his troops into Cao Jun's camp when he heard a drum beating, and all the elite soldiers in the embankment came out.Seeing that all the generals under Cao's command had arrived again, Lu Bu felt that he must be defeated, so he ran away in a hurry.At this time, two-thirds of the troops led by Lu Bu from Chang'an had been lost.

The defeated soldiers returned to Dingtao and told Chen Gong the news of Lu Bu's retreat.Chen Gong said to Zhang Miao and others: "The empty city can't be defended anymore, why don't we all run away!" So he fled out together with the generals defending the city.Zhang Miao originally wanted to take his younger brother Zhang Chao to join Yuan Shu, but Zhang Chao had conflicts with Yuan Shu.Zhang Chao didn't want to drag his brother down, so he killed himself.Cao led the victorious army to attack Dingtao like a broken bamboo, and thus pacified Yanzhou.

Lu Bu escaped, gathered all the generals, looked at the disheveled faces of the crowd and smiled, "We may not be ready to fight, so you don't need to be depressed."

Chen Gong said: "My lord, now that Cao's army is powerful, we are absolutely invincible. Why don't we find a prince to join us?"

Lu Bu said: "Who can we rely on? You must know that I once fought against the princes of the world. If we go to seek refuge now, it will be difficult to gain trust."

Chen Gong said: "Why don't you go and seek refuge with Yuan Shao, he should have admired Wen Hou's bravery for a long time!"

"He has hated me and my elder brother for a long time. If I go to vote for him, I will definitely be killed by him!" Lu Bu said, "Gongtai, tell me the truth, if we don't turn to any princes now, there must be no way out." ?”

Chen Gong nodded and said: "My lord, we have no source of troops, no territory, and even little food. If we want to conquer the city, as long as the opponent delays for a few days, we will die without a place to die!"

Lu Bu sighed and said, "Brother always says that I'm not the master of the Ming Dynasty, and that's true. Without Big Brother by my side, I can't even save my own life. Fortunately, Axiu didn't come with me. If she were to be displaced with me, How can I feel at ease! Gongtai, let's go to Li Jue and Guo Si!"

"What!" Chen Gong exclaimed: "Master, you are not stupid! Li Jue and Guo Si will soon be taken advantage of by others. What is the difference between going to them now and looking for death? Besides, they are fighting for Dong Zhuo. The banner of revenge, my lord, you are the culprit who killed Dong Zhuo, how can you go to defect?"

"Gongtai!" Lv Bu said with a smile: "If you talk about other things, I can listen to you, but you'd better listen to me on this matter! Going to Chang'an is not only not dangerous, but it can even make your Chen Palace be reused. Fulfill your wish!" Chen Gong looked at Lu Bu, as if he didn't believe what Lu Bu said.

Zhao Yun smiled and said: "Mr. Gongtai, you don't have to hesitate, we generals know what Fengxian said. Fengxian, elder brother said that Mr. Gongtai is a man of loyalty, you can tell him now! "

Lu Bu said embarrassedly: "Gongtai, in fact, Chang'an is now my elder brother's territory!"

(End of this chapter)