Chapter 29: The Change of Merging States [One Shift + Two Changes]
Su Yunqing looked at Lu Bu for a long time, still not knowing how to speak, until Lu Bu couldn't hold it anymore, Su Yunqing finally gritted his teeth and said, "Fengxian, about you and Wen Ruo's sister...... I disagree. β
Lu Bu was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted: "Why don't you agree?" Mother, you didn't object to it before. β
Su Yunqing's eyes skimmed to Xun Yu's side, Xun Yu twitched the corner of his mouth, and said to himself: "Because my sister has already married." β
Speaking of which, many years have passed since Lu Bu first met Xun Yu in Luoyang, and Xun Yu was ...... back then. Purely for a girl, her age is indeed not too young, and it is normal to get married after so many years.
Lu Bu was stunned: "Married?" β
The girl he had been thinking about for so many years was actually married?!
Yes, getting married, everyone thinks, in fact, there is no need to completely tell Lu Bu everything, as long as Lu Bu can give up on that Xiangxiang girl, it's a bit ...... to say that she is dead.
After all, according to his age, it must have been an unnatural death, it is better to say that he is married, but it is a big deal to say that he is married far away, and Lu Bu is not good at asking more, and it is even more impossible to find someone.
Sure enough, Lu Bu looked obviously shocked, but he didn't say anything to find someone.
Just asked, "What about that...... Miss Xiangxiang, is she okay now? β
"Very good," Xun Yu replied with some complications, "She's doing well now." β
"That's good...... Then, I'll be relieved......"
After saying this, Lu Bu didn't have the heart to say anything else, but just said to Su Yunqing that he would leave when he sent his troops.
Xun Yu felt very sorry for Lu Bu, but he couldn't keep this matter a secret...... After all, it is also for Lu Bu's good.
However, from an energetic husky to a poor golden retriever who was abandoned in an instant...... The pitiful appearance is really unbearable.
Cao Cao couldn't help but look at Su Yunqing: "General, Feng Xian is like this...... No problem? β
Lu Bu shouldn't be unable to think about it, right?
Su Yunqing shook his head: "No." β
In fact, Su Yunqing also knows one thing, if you want to say whether Lu Bu likes the so-called Xiangxiang girl, of course she likes it, but if Lu Bu will do anything for it...... This is unlikely.
Anyway, Lu Bu actually didn't really get along with the so-called Xiangxiang girl, and after so many years, Su Yunqing felt that this was actually more like an obsession of Lu Bu at the beginning.
"I'll always meet someone I really like in the future."
Thinking about it this way, it's actually better to talk about it as soon as possible.
Just four days after Dong Zhuo approached Su Yunqing to propose marriage, Sun Jian entered Luoyang.
Yes, it's an entry, not an attack.
probably got the news a long time ago, so when Sun Jian arrived in Luoyang, Dong Zhuo had already run away, leaving Sun Jian with nothing more than a ruin after the fire.
Before Dong Zhuo left, he not only kidnapped the Son of Heaven and hundreds of officials, plundered a large amount of gold and silver treasures, and he even burned Luoyang with the last fire, leaving nothing for the allies.
On the afternoon of Sun Jian's arrival, Su Yunqing and Cao Cao also arrived, looking at the scene in front of him, Su Yunqing was silent for a while: "This is...... My bad. β
Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood what Su Yunqing meant.
The reason why Dong Zhuo proposed to Su Yunqing that the two families marry was that he was afraid that Su Yunqing would pursue him, and after Su Yunqing refused, Dong Zhuo could only find another way.
Obviously, Dong Zhuo chose to burn Luoyang again after looting it.
"In that case, I won't be able to get any supplies here, and no one will be able to divulge the slightest bit about him."
The other Su Yunqing didn't understand, but she still had this basic military idea.
"So, I should have agreed to come down in the first place......"
"General Su!" Cao Cao had to say loudly: "I hope you know that it's not anyone's fault!" β
Cao Cao stretched out his hand and pointed to Luoyang, which was now in ruins: "Today, anyone standing here is not wrong!" Is it wrong to punish Dong Zhuo and Kuang Fu Sheji? If there is a mistake, it is also Dong Zhuo's sin! β
"General Su, at this time, you don't think about how to continue to pursue Dong Zhuo, and what else are you distracted from?"
"But this qiΔ should have been avoided, I ......"
If she had promised Dong Zhuo at the beginning, then Dong Zhuo would not have done such a desperate thing.
Even if it's just pretending to say yes......
Cao Cao didn't pay attention to Su Yunqing's thoughts at all, he said directly: "If General Su can't lead the troops to pursue Dong Zhuo, then let me go alone, General Su can stay here by himself." β
Cao Cao said this, and walked out very simply: "After all, I don't have so much time to think about these things, for me, killing Dong Zhuo is more important than anything else!" β
Dropping these words, Cao Cao left without looking back.
Cao Cao walked directly, Su Yunqing never thought that he would leave like this, but after being stunned for a while, Su Yunqing also understood that her self-blame was meaningless at all, no matter whether Dong Zhuo did this kind of thing because of her previous refusal, there was no need to discuss it now.
There's always only one thing she has to do......
It wasn't meaningless self-blame, it wasn't cowardly remorse, she just needed to lead the troops and chase them down.
Dong Zhuo's escape from Luoyang was not an unorganized escape, in fact, Dong Zhuo was very disciplined from a certain point of view.
He himself walked in front with the hundred officials of the Son of Heaven, and then left heavy troops to defend the rear, and the people who led the troops were his most trusted generals.
And Dong Zhuo went from Luoyang to Chang'an, and this journey was not without danger.
On the contrary, as long as he occupied a favorable position, Dong Zhuo would leave the army to hold on to Su Yunqing and Cao Cao, and he himself would continue to run in front.
It should be said that Dong Zhuo still had worries and fears in his heart in the first two days of his escape, but now he is completely gone.
He had already seen that Su Yunqing and Cao Cao were at odds with Yuan Shao, so in fact, only Su Yunqing and Cao Cao were chasing him, and Yuan Shao had stopped in Luoyang and did not move.
Su Yunqing and Cao Cao's pursuit lasted only five days, and Cheng Yu said a word to Su Yunqing: "General, it's time for us to retreat." β
They can't fight anymore.
Cao Cao and Su Yunqing combined, the full battle is no more than 40,000 people, and in the past few days, they have defeated Dong Zhuo by nearly 50,000 people, but this is not enough, Dong Zhuo still has at least 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands.
As for Su Yunqing and Cao Cao...... During this time, they were not without losses, in fact, because they chased all the way and fought one after another, the consumption of soldiers, horses, food and grass was very huge.
In Cheng Yu's opinion, at this time, they should no longer fight.
"Now that we have the remaining strength, we have more than enough to defend ourselves, and if we continue to chase after us, then we will give Dong Zhuo the opportunity."
It's simply giving Dong Zhuochuang a chance to eliminate them.
At the same time, Guo Jia was saying the same thing to Cao Cao.
It's just that Guo Jia is more straightforward, he directly told Cao Cao: "Now that all the goals of the lord's crusade against Dong Zhuo have been completed, and the retreat at this time is a big victory. β
Whether to go back as a hasty escape chasing Dong Zhuo, or as a person who was defeated by Dong Zhuo because of the deep penetration of the lone army, it only depends on how Cao Cao chooses.
At least Su Yunqing chose to retreat.
Cheng Yu was a little surprised by this: "I thought the general would not agree so lightly." β
As soon as he proposed this to Su Yunqing, Su Yunqing agreed, in fact, Cheng Yu was even ready to persuade, and he was even ready for a long analysis, but it didn't work at all.
Cheng Yu suddenly felt a little silly that he had prepared a stomach full of words.
But in Su Yunqing's opinion, this is very natural.
"I was like this when I was merging states," Su Yunqing felt that this was not a problem at all: "Fight when you should fight, retreat when you should retreat, shouldn't you hesitate to make a decision for the sake of the general?" β
"But now that Dong Thief is in front of him, the general has really no regrets about agreeing to withdraw from the army like this?"
This is something that Cheng Yu can't understand.
In Cheng Yu's opinion, Su Yunqing is still too immature, or rather, compared to most generals, Su Yunqing's ability is good enough, and Su Yunqing's immaturity is actually reflected in her three views.
What is Su Yunqing's reaction in the face of Luoyang, which was burned to ruins, Cheng Yu has also seen it with his own eyes, he immediately thought that Su Yunqing was not a person who achieved great things, but Cao Cao's reaction was more satisfactory, and Cao Cao even used his own actions to warn Su Yunqing.
But then Su Yunqing surprised Cheng Yu, all the tangled self-blame and confusion just disappeared in an instant, Su Yunqing did not affect her performance in the process of chasing Dong Zhuo in the back, she was almost in a very perfect state to pursue Dong Zhuo.
But how is this possible?
This is even more true now, in the face of the current situation, not to mention Su Yunqing, who is still immature in Cheng Yu's opinion, even Cao Cao can't make a decision so happily, even if this decision is right.
Regarding Cheng Yu's question, Su Yunqing didn't need to hesitate at all: "You are right, and I, as the coach, should listen to the correct advice and make the most favorable decision, I only need to know this." β
Su Yunqing also knew their own strength at the moment, so when Cheng Yu raised such a very realistic question, she didn't need to hesitate at all, she knew that Cheng Yu was right, so all she had to do was listen to such suggestions.
Cheng Yu frowned and asked, "Who taught you this?" β
Cheng Yu's reaction made Su Yunqing a little puzzled, but he still replied: "It's Wenhe...... That's Jia Xu, that's what he taught me. β
Hearing such an answer, Cheng Yu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "I have long heard of the name of Jia Wenhe in Bingzhou, and now it seems to be ......."
Now it seems that this Jia Xu is probably a little more powerful than he had heard before.
Even, Cheng Yu could vaguely feel that Jia Xu was planning a big thing.
Otherwise, he had no reason to teach Su Yunqing like this.
Cheng Yu looked at Su Yunqing and couldn't help but think that if his vague guess was true, then I have to say that Jia Xu's courage is really greater than everyone else, even he is afraid that he will be willing to bow down.
But putting other things aside, Su Yunqing's temper is really too pleasing to the strategists.
What are the advisors most afraid of? It's not a strong opponent, it's not a difficult condition, what they are most afraid of is that the lord they serve is a fool, but he is still a fool who thinks he is smart and can't listen to people's words.
No matter how immature Su Yunqing is, as long as she knows when to listen to what words, when to make what decisions, and how to choose, it is enough.
Cheng Yu has to admit that there are few people in the world who can compare to Su Yunqing at this point, and he doesn't even understand how Jia Xu taught Su Yunqing like this.
Cheng Yu understands that Su Yunqing himself is actually a fool in the eyes of these strategists, so he doesn't expect Su Yunqing to be smart and witty, so the best choice is to let Su Yunqing understand what kind of person is really smart, and know how to choose and accept the suggestions proposed by smart people.
But this kind of thing, which is easy to say and easy to do, has not been possible by many people throughout the ages.
Cheng Yu couldn't see confusion and hesitation in Su Yunqing's eyes, she was very sober, or in Su Yunqing's opinion, she just did something that was taken for granted.
Cheng Yu made the correct Jianyì, and then she listened.
Listen decisively, listen without hesitation, this kind of decision even makes Cheng Yu a little scared, but he also looks forward to it.
As a strategist, isn't what I'm most looking forward to meeting such a lord?
But it's a pity that Cheng Yu knows very well that he is Cao Cao's advisor.
If he hadn't voted for Cao Cao first...... Cheng Yu felt that he was very likely to defect to Su Yunqing just for this reason, even if Su Yunqing was a fool.
Truth be told, as a strategist, they really don't ask for much.
After Cheng Yu proposed to build a post, Su Yunqing went to Xun Yu and conveyed to Xun Yu about the retreat, and how to arrange it after that was Xun Yu's matter.
This is another place that Cheng Yu envies.
There is no suspicion in employing people, and there is no need for suspicious people.
In essence, he and Xun Yu are both from Wei County, but Su Yunqing uses them without suspicion.
β¦β¦ So, how did Jia Xu's old fox teach this kind of person! (β―β΅β‘β²)β―οΈ΅β»ββ»
Cheng Yu said that he wanted to play a game of the master and cultivated _(:3γβ )_
With the help of Cheng Yu and Xun Yu, and Su Yunqing is also experienced in a hundred battles, the retreat is very stable, and it can be said that there is no mistake or confusion.
It's just that Su Yunqing only chose to go back to make peace with Cao Cao, and then proposed to lead troops back to the state.
"You're not going to Luoyang?" Cao Cao was obviously surprised.
You must know that now that Dong Zhuo has been completely defeated, there is only one thing left.
Back in Luoyang, everyone sat in a row to divide the fruits.
At this time, not going to Luoyang is tantamount to giving up the opportunity to share the fruits of victory.
Su Yunqing blinked: "Wen He said, go back after the fight, no matter what happens to the allies." β
She took this for granted, as if she didn't know what benefits she could get from going to Luoyang at this time.
Guo Jia already understood the meaning in a blink of an eye, he gave Cao Cao a look and said first: "Since this is the case, then it is difficult for us to stop the general." β
Although Cao Cao didn't understand what Guo Jia meant, he still followed Guo Jia's words and said goodbye to Su Yunqing.
Of course, because Su Yunqing does not go to Luoyang, then the joint achievements of her and Cao Cao will only be counted on Cao Cao alone, at least when Yuan Shao distributes benefits.
Thinking of this, Cao Cao was very grateful to Su Yunqing, and by the way, he allocated a lot of grain and grass from his troops to Su Yunqing.
Cao Cao's reason is that it is far away from the state, so he should bring more insurance.
Su Yunqing did not refuse to accept them all.
Cao Cao bid farewell to Su Yunqing and sent him several miles in a row.
Su Yunqing had to say: "That's it, let's separate here." β
Cao Cao was reluctant to face Su Yunqing, but finally said: "Thank you for the general's help this time, Cao Cao doesn't know how to be grateful, if the local general who can be useful in the future speaks, I will definitely go to the soup and fight the fire." β
As he spoke, Cao Cao arched his hand at Su Yunqing: "General, take care!" β
Su Yunqing also returned the salute.
It's just that......
"There's no need to thank you or anything, and you don't need to go to the soup and fire......"
Hearing this, Cao Cao was moved: "General Gaoyi! β
"No, I mean, can you give Zilong back to me first." Su Yunqing said very seriously: "I have already returned Wen Ruo and Zhongde to you." β
Cao Cao: "......_(:3γβ )_"
So when he said goodbye again, Cao Cao, who was reluctant to Su Yunqing before, really burst into tears this time.
"Zilong, I can't bear you......"
Cao Cao took Zhao Yun's hand, with a deep expression of affection.
Su Yunqing thought for a while and said, "Why don't Zilong stay." β
As soon as he heard this, before Zhao Yun could speak, Cao Cao spoke first: "Thank you, General!" The general is really ......."
"No, wait, I mean, why don't Zilong stay and Wen Ruo and Zhongde come with me?"
Cao Cao: "......"
This time, Cao Cao said very simply: "The general will take care all the way, and Cao will not be sent far away." β
Su Yunqing: "......"
You've changed your face so fast!
It's just that after saying goodbye to Cao Cao, Lu Bu secretly ran to Su Yunqing: "Mother, in fact, I picked up two people on the way out of Luoyang to chase Dong Zhuo before, and it is said that they ran away from Dong Zhuo while they were in chaos." β
The corners of Su Yunqing's mouth twitched: "What about people?" You shouldn't have it with you, right? β
Don't do that! Do you know that you are kidnapping like this?
But Lu Bu scratched his head and said: "I look at the two old men who look like civil officials, Wen He said, the captured military generals are disposed of at will, and the captured civil officials must be brought back to Bingzhou." β
Therefore, he just carried out Jia Xu's construction very loyally.
Su Yunqing didn't know what to say.
She knew that there was a shortage of strategists in the state, but she didn't know that there was a shortage of this kind of Cheng dΓΉ!
And has Jia Xu really been forced to the point where he needs to rely on methods that are basically equivalent to kidnapping to pull people?
So, how resentful Wen and you have been in the past few years!
Besides, is it reliable to let Lu Bu do this?
"There are so many civil officials who have been held hostage by Dong Zhuo and left, and not all of them are top talents."
What the state lacks now is Jia Xu's level, is it good?
There is no shortage of ordinary officials and states.
After all, except for the unavoidable type of senior strategist, other Jia Xu can basically handle it, and some ordinary officials Jia Xu arranged it very well, and made full use of various conditions to recruit talents.
So in the final analysis, if the person with it is not of Jia Xu's level, there is no need to think about it at all.
But Lu Bu said this very seriously: "I didn't carry it with everyone, there were actually more than the two of them at that time, but the two of them had the longest beards and looked very cultured." β
Su Yunqing: "......"
Do you judge the rank of a strategist by his beard?
Guan Yu, what do you think about this?
Su Yunqing felt that she simply didn't have the strength to complain about Lu Bu, but Lu Bu was full of words: "I think this method is very right, you look at Wenhe, when he first came to Bingzhou, he had a little mustache, and his beard has become longer and longer over the years, and I also think that Wenhe is getting more and more terrifying." β
When Jia Xu first came, he dared to take Jia Xu in his hand and dangle it, but now...... When he saw Jia Xu, he shrunk his neck.
Su Yunqing said in her heart that it was because Jia Xu was about to be blown up by your IQ!
Well, she is not qualified to complain about Lu Bu on this issue, so forget it.
Thinking so, Su Yunqing decided to meet these two people, at least to find out who they were first.
Compared with Lu Bu's practice of directly carrying it over, Su Yunqing was much more polite, not to mention that Lu Bu actually didn't deceive people, the two people he caught were indeed two old men.
It's just that Su Yunqing was not interested after asking what the surnames of the two people were.
Two old men, one is named Cai Yong and the other is Zheng Xuan.
I've never heard of it, okay!
Su Yunqing felt that they must be two ordinary old men!
Thinking of this, she didn't care, but just told the soldiers to take good care of it.
As a result, the old man named Cai Yong immediately got angry: "What are you doing here? I thought that the Bingzhou Army's crusade against Dong Zhuo was a group of heroes, but now it seems that ...... Hmph, a gang of robbers and robbers is no better than that Dong Zhuo! β
"It's different," Su Yunqing didn't speak, but Lu Bu answered the question: "Robbers and robbers are going to kill people for money, not only do we not rob you of your things, but we also save your lives, and we have good food and drink for you, where are the robbers and robbers, you old man is really strange, you look very cultured, why do you speak so confused." β
These words made Cai Yong angry half to death, they had just escaped from Dong Zhuo's tiger's mouth and entered Lu Bu's wolf's den again, which was really aggrieved.
Su Yunqing glanced at Lu Bu, and finally said to the two old men: "In any case, we have no intention of harming the two, but we just ask the two of us to go back to Bingzhou with us first, and I will naturally let the two of you go when we arrive in Bingzhou." β
"Can't you put it now?"
"There was a yellow turban rebellion before, and then Dong Zhuo caused chaos in the world, I am afraid that the two of you can imagine the situation along the way, it is natural and safe to follow my tens of thousands of troops, but if you two go on the road alone, ......"
Su Yunqing didn't say the latter words, but the meaning was obvious.
The two old men went on the road alone, that is, they were looking for death.
So the two old men looked at each other and didn't say anything, and went to merge with the state.
After all, they escaped from Dong Zhuo in a hurry, they took advantage of the chaos to escape, and they didn't make any preparations, and now they have nothing on their bodies except for a good set of clothes, a few valuable ornaments, and even if they brought something, they were lost in the chaos.
In this case, it would be nice to go to the state first.
At least, I heard that Ding Yuan's governance of the annexation of the state is still very good, and looking at the style of acting in the previous annexation of the state, it should not be a Longtan tiger's den.
It's just that when Su Yunqing returned to Bingzhou, he didn't have the mind to care about the two old men at all.
Ding Yuan said that he would resign and abdicate on the grounds that he was old and lacking energy, but the successor he chose was not Lu Bu, who everyone thought was a certainty before.
When she heard the news, Su Yunqing looked at Jia Xu for a while and asked, "Wenhe, why?" β