three kings

Chapter 144 Introducing the Wolf
Xiaopei's mansion, meeting hall.

Lu Bu is in a particularly happy mood today. He has two enemies in his body, one is Sun Can who makes him lose face and has the hatred of seizing love, and the other is Cao Cao who drove him out of Yanzhou.

However, I didn't know which god came to the door today, but I received a peace letter from my enemy Cao Cao early in the morning. The tone of the letter was unusually respectful, as if a subordinate spoke to a superior.Not only respectful, but also full of flattery.

Looking at the letter, there are some humble statements.

Suddenly, Lu Bu felt that the little Cao Cao became a little cute.

Immediately ordered to summon Cao Cao's envoy.

Lu Bu glanced sideways at the envoy in front of him, and said coldly, "I don't know why the general wants me, a defeated general?" Every word Lu Bu said was colder than a word, and even his expression changed after he said it. It's gloomy.

The envoy who attacked didn't know why, but trembled slightly, and hurriedly said: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! My lord said that when it comes to true talents and learning, how can he compare with you. If it is not for the carelessness of the adults, unfortunately, he was caught by the villain Tian. Framed, how can he get back Puyang? How can he compare with Master Wenhou?"

"Haha..." Lu Bu laughed heartily when he heard it, and said, "That's right, at that time you sent Dianwei, Xiahoudun, Xiahouyuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong and other five people to do nothing to me, just relying on the ban, How can you take Puyang from me?"

The envoy kept saying yes.

After flattering for a while, the emissary said: "Lord Wenhou's cavalry skills are unmatched in the world. My lord was so frightened by his cavalry that he couldn't eat, and couldn't sleep. I was afraid that Lord Wenhou would enter Yanzhou again. Send the younger ones to make peace with the general."

Lu Bu said, "How to negotiate a peace?"

The envoy bowed his knees and said: "My lord has decided to form an ally with Lord Wenhou, and decided to send a thousand gold every month for your use."

Lu Bu was overjoyed, and quickly said: "It's great that Meng De has this heart. This general doesn't want to have any quarrel with Meng De. Even if he is so generous, I won't compare with him. Go back and tell Meng De that you can use me if you need something." Just say something about Lu Bu."

The messenger sneered in his heart: "It's more reliable to ask Lu Bu for help than to ask a wolf."

However, he was just saying this in his heart, on the surface he still pretended to be admiring, and said happily: "Then I will thank Mr. Marquis Wen for my lord."

Lu Bu nodded, and retreated the envoy.

The envoy walked out of the conference hall and smiled contemptuously, "How can you compare with my lord at such a level of ignorance." Shaking his head, he hurried back to Xuchang to report.

Inside the Chamber.

Lv Bu laughed triumphantly, and said, "I don't think there are so many counselors. The envoys who came to negotiate are so incompetent and can't be deceived."

Chen Gong said solemnly: "Master, this man's surname is full of Chong, his name is Boning, he is from Changyi, Shanyang, he is resolute, courageous and resourceful, and should not be underestimated. The palace thinks that this person's previous actions were just pretending, and deliberately let the lord Feeling arrogant and pampered. Thus agreeing to our request."

Lu Bu felt a little offended, but at the moment he couldn't leave Chen Gong, so he didn't want to get entangled in this topic any longer.In a strong tone, he said: "Let's not talk about this, don't you always persuade me not to fight against Cao Cao? Now that we have formed an alliance, there is no such thing as whether to fight against each other. What are you going to do next? Let's talk about it! "

Li Rushen said: "Of course I took Xuzhou here before Liu Bei's son settled in Xuzhou."

"Xuzhou..." Lu Bu's eyes lit up, and he said with a big smile: "It turns out that you persuaded Bu not to fight against Cao Cao earlier, and that's what you meant. Why didn't you make it clear earlier, otherwise, how could Bu find Cao Cao's bad luck every day?" In his eyes Liu Bei is much easier to deal with than Cao Cao.

Chen Gong explained: "It's because I'm not waiting, but the time has not come. Bandit Cao is a traitor in the world. If he conspires with Liu Bei to capture Xiaopei, our army will be in danger. Therefore, what we need most at this moment is to go along with Liu Bei." , Calling him brother and brother, making Liu Bei, who puts benevolence and righteousness first, unwilling to listen to Cao Cao's words, and cast a poisonous hand on the lord.

And now is the best time to take Xuzhou.Cao Cao's wishes are clear, and it is a tactic to chase the wolf and the tiger.Presumably it was the previous Yanzhou War that caused Cao Cao a lot of losses. He had to rest for a period of time before he could fight the world.

Since Cao Cao is unable to deal with us, we don't need to worry about the combination of Cao and Liu, we can deal with Liu Bei with all our strength.Liu Bei is not successful in writing, and he is not successful in martial arts. Although he has a strong general, he has no counselors to assist him.It is not difficult to break it.

As long as we take Xuzhou as the base and develop separately, we can achieve the career of king and hegemony. "

Lv Buzhi was a great talent, and he was very interested in the career of king and hegemony. When Chen Gong said that he could achieve the career of king and hegemony in the future, his eyes immediately lit up, and he asked: "What good plan do you two gentlemen have, tell me quickly."

Li Rudao: "Liu Bei has a younger brother named Guan Yu, who has great talent but is proud of himself. He is a child of a family in Xuzhou, and he is extremely disdainful. His words are often sarcasm. All the families are very dissatisfied with him, and Cao Bao is one of them Most. A few days ago, Cao Bao was almost executed by Guan Yu because of an incident. He was fined with fifty military sticks, and he is still on the sick bed. Master Xuzhou.

Confucianism and Gongtai discussed for a while beforehand, and drew up a strategy to capture Xuzhou. My lord, please have a look. "

Lu Bu took the plan presented by Li Ru, read it hastily, and didn't quite understand the deep meaning of the plan, but he still nodded his head pretendingly, and praised loudly: "That's right, it's wonderful, let's act according to this plan."

If, at this moment, someone asks, what is wonderful and what is good, I believe that Lu Bu will not be able to say a word.

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One day, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Yan and others were performing martial arts in the courtyard. Suddenly, a soldier came to report that there were hundreds of horses in the suburbs of Xuzhou, and all the horses were very good.

Liu Bei was overjoyed and said: "There are very few war horses in Xuzhou. If this horse has no owner, it is a gift from heaven. Why don't I just take it and wait for it."

Guan Yu, Zhang Yan and others all lacked a good horse, so they nodded their heads one after another.

On the outskirts of Xuzhou, the sun is shining brightly, and a group of horses are leisurely eating wild grass outside Xuzhou.

Liu Bei led five hundred soldiers under his command to watch from a distance. Seeing these horses were tall and handsome, he praised: "Good horses! If a cavalry team is formed with such horses, it will surely shock the world." Then, He said to Zhang Yan: "Third brother, go and see if there is anyone nearby, and ask if these good horses have owners?"

Zhang Yan took orders and left.

A while later, Zhang Yan came back with someone and reported to Liu Bei: "Brother, there is no one in the vicinity for several miles. It must have escaped from somewhere else. It is an ownerless thing. It is a good choice."

Liu Bei still didn't bother to do such indiscriminate means of plundering and plundering. He waited until evening and ordered the soldiers to count the number after confirming that no one was guarding them. After careful calculation, there were as many as [-] horses.

Everyone happily captured all these wild horses back to Xuzhou City.

What they don't know is that they have fallen into the scheme designed by Li Ru and Chen Gong.

The next day, Lu Bu's army suddenly came across the border, claiming that Liu Bei had forcibly plundered [-] of his war horses unjustly, and ordered him to return them as soon as possible.Liu Bei couldn't argue with his words. The people in Xuzhou knew that Liu Bei had indeed transported a lot of war horses from the outskirts yesterday. They didn't know the truth or the quantity.

Most people believed Lu Bu's one-sided words.

Guan Yu is proud of himself, and he hates three kinds of people the most. First, relying on his background, he has no talent or virtue.Second, *the captives.Third, the perfidious person.

Originally, Lü Bu was immoral and treacherous, and often robbed the people, which made Guan Yu very disgusted. This time he regarded him as a robber and slandered him for robbing.

Guan Yu couldn't take it anymore, and immediately went out of the city to face Lu Bu.

His martial arts skills were not as good as Lu Bu's, and the soldiers under his command were not as brave as Lu Bu's cavalry. He was killed and defeated by Lu Bu, and he withdrew to Xuzhou in embarrassment.

Liu Bei hurriedly held a meeting and asked his advisers to discuss.

Lu Bu's army had a total of [-] soldiers, and Xuzhou's army had a maximum of [-].The [-] soldiers of Lu Bu's army were all brave cavalry who fought with Lu Bu in the South and North Wars, while the Xuzhou side had [-] recruits who had never been on the battlefield.

The power gap is too large, and Liu Bei has almost no chance of winning.

Cao Cao was far away from Xuzhou, not to mention he was so worried about Liu Bei's leadership of Xuzhou, how could he come to the rescue.Sun Canjun, who has a good relationship, is attacking Zhang Xiu again, and it is impossible to come to rescue.

Liu Bei's current situation can be said to be unable to advance or retreat.

Later, Zhang Yan, who knew how to advance and retreat, proposed to return all the horses and deal with them temporarily by delaying troops.

Liu Bei agreed that the few horses in the general's ranks were "robbed" last time, and all of them were returned to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu led the army to retreat, just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief.That night, with the help of Cao Bao, Lv Bu's army captured the south gate of Xuzhou, and [-] cavalry entered Xuzhou together.

Cang Ba and Hao Meng took the North Gate and East Gate respectively, Liu Bei retreated steadily, Guan Yu and Zhang Yan fought the enemy bravely, but the opponent was so powerful that in the end they were unable to turn the tide, and Xuzhou fell.

After Zhang Yan vowed to die, Liu Bei's family was saved.

A group of people waited and fled Xuzhou to the west.

After Lu Bu got Xuzhou, he immediately divided his troops into four groups to conquer the whole territory of Xuzhou.

Lu Bu sits in Xuzhou, and there are two hidden dangers.First, Yanzhou Cao Cao, and second, Huainan Sun Can.

Now that Cao Cao is recharging his energy, the only person he cares about is Sun Can.

Therefore, Chen Gong conspired and sent envoys to Jingzhou to form an offensive and defensive alliance with Liu Biao, and stationed troops on the north bank of Huaihe River, intending to go south.

(The alliance of offense and defense is a covenant of mutual assistance. For example, if Sun Can attacks Liu Biao, Lu Bu will unconditionally send troops to Sun Can to help Liu Biao relieve pressure. Conversely, the same is true, if Sun Can attacks Lu Bu, Liu Biao will also unconditionally send troops to Sun Can , to help Liu Biao relieve stress.)
(End of this chapter)