Chapter 5 Xianbei Invasion
Sometime in April 175 A.D.
The harsh winter has finally left, and spring has come to the world with warmth.
Spring returns to the earth, everything recovers, and the land of China is full of thriving scenes.
After being depressed for a winter, Lu Bu finally got the permission of his father Lu Liang to go out hunting on this day.
Excited, he took Lu Zhong and the little wolf and couldn't wait to rush into Wula Mountain.
The first thing the little wolf saw after opening his eyes was Lu Bu, so he had extraordinary feelings for Lu Bu.
After half a year of careful feeding by Lu Bu, the little wolf grew rapidly, and its size was almost close to that of an adult hunting dog.
Many animals have gone through hibernation and come out to forage for food, and in just half a day, they have harvested a lot of prey.
Lu Zhong struggled to fix the prey that Lu Bu had killed, and persuaded him: "Young master, today's harvest is a lot, we should also go back." Otherwise, if you can't go back before dark, your wife will blame the matter, and the lord will no longer allow you to come out to make trouble. β
Since the last hunting accident, Lu Liang has strictly forbidden Lu Bu to go out to hunt and wade into dangerous places.
This time, he really couldn't stand Lu Bu's soft grinding and hard bubbles, so he reluctantly agreed, and stipulated that he must be home before dark.
Lu Bu was born not afraid of heaven and earth, but he was afraid that his father would be angry and his mother would be sad.
I was not annoyed when I heard that Lu Zhong moved the second elder out to scare him, but urged Lu Zhong to pack up quickly and prepare for the return trip.
Just when the master and servant and a wolf were about to return to Jiuyuan City, they felt that the atmosphere was wrong.
At this time, it was still early, but there was not a single pedestrian to be seen on the official road that used to flow endlessly, and there were bursts of smoke rising from the Jiuyuan City in the distance.
If it's broken, it must be a thief who has come to rob it.
Lu Bu suddenly became nervous, and ordered Lu Zhong to throw away the sundries, and the two of them rushed towards Jiuyuan City, and the greedy wolf also seemed to sense the danger, no longer frolicking, and rushed out like an arrow off the string.
After a short time, he entered the city, and his eyes were full of ruined walls, and there were miserable cries from the houses everywhere.
The main road, which was originally wide and smooth, has now become a Shura field.
Wailing, the sound of heavy objects collapsing, and a few shrill laughter from time to time.
Lu Bu couldn't help but tremble when he saw this scene, and he rushed into a private house angrily, what a tragic scene he saw.
I saw two young children being pierced to death on a spear, and a middle-aged man on the ground had cracked eyes and fell in a pool of blood, but his hands and feet were gone.
Not far from him, a woman was naked, covered with traces of abuse and humiliation, and when she had been angry for a long time, she could clearly see a strong attachment and reluctance in her eyes as she looked at the child.
Lu Zhong muttered: "It must be the Xianbei people who are here, but I don't know, master..."
Lu Bu woke up suddenly and hurriedly rushed home.
Lu Liang was a border general of the Han Dynasty, and many soldiers were stationed in the Lu Mansion to guard.
From the gate to the front yard, what Lu Bu saw in his eyes were all corpses, there were Han soldiers, and there were also many people wearing strange costumes, obviously there had been fierce battles here.
Lu Bu didn't have time to check them one by one, so he quickly ran to the backyard, and finally found the bodies of Lu Lianghuang and others in his father's study.
Seeing that he had been dead for a long time, the greedy wolf came here first, circling around the bodies of the two people, and raised his head from time to time to roar.
"Dad, mother!" Lu Bu knelt down in front of the corpses of his parents, and kept hammering his head to the ground: "The child is not filial, he failed to protect his parents thoroughly, and the child is not filial!" β
Thinking that he had lost a loved one and regained his family affection after being reincarnated, he cherished it extraordinarily.
However, God's will made people, it has only been half a year, and he has experienced such a heartbroken scene again, how can he not be grief-stricken.
Lu Zhong also found the bodies of his parents, and he had already fainted from crying.
After weeping bitterly for about an hour, Lu Bu gradually stopped, the dead were gone, irreparable, and could only avenge them.
When cleaning up the body, Lu Bu suddenly found that there was a line of blood characters on Lu Liang's right hand, which was written by Lu Liang himself after the thief left.
"Feng Xianwu'er: The Xianbei alien race is powerful, and the Central Plains is in turmoil, and his father was ordered to guard the border and die well. I hope you will go to tell Ding Jianyang as soon as possible and prepare early.
When it comes to revenge, don't be impatient, wait until your martial arts are successful and then try to take revenge. Expel the Tartars and restore the glory of my great man, remember, cut..."
After reading the blood book, combined with the original historical knowledge, Lu Bu probably understood what happened.
According to historical records, around 176 AD, the legendary leader of the Xianbei tribe, Tan Shihuai, unified the Xianbei tribes, suppressed the Xianbei and other grassland tribes, and plundered the Central Plains.
The emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty ordered the border generals to move south, and at this time, Lu Liang and his wife and children returned to Ding Yuan.
Unexpectedly, after the crossing, history deviated, and Xianbei invaded the south a year earlier.
Moreover, there was no warning in advance of this invasion, and the offensive was fierce, and it broke through Jiuyuan in less than a day, and killed Lu Liang, the defender of Jiuyuan.
On that day, Lu Liang's family and more than 70 servants were in the family, and none of them survived except for Lu Bu and his entourage Lu Zhong.
Nomads have no habit of garrisoning a city after capturing it, but will only burn and loot before attacking the next target.
At this time, it is estimated that the entire Jiuyuan County, including the adjacent Shuofang County, will become the prey of Xianbei's iron hooves.
LΓΌ Bu and LΓΌ Zhong were worried that the Xianbei rangers might turn around at any time, and they had no time to bury the bodies of their relatives one by one, so they had to burn them on the spot, collect the ashes of their parents, and bury Lu Liang and his wife near Wula Mountain.
The master and servant went out day and night, starry and night, and saw many local villages destroyed along the way, and from time to time encountered a small group of Xianbei rangers chasing and killing the fleeing Han people.
When the enemy was not long, Lu Bu rushed forward to kill, and with his martial bravery, he also saved many refugees, and at the same time gathered nearly a hundred scattered soldiers.
Due to Lu Bu's reputation as a prodigy of Hercules when he was a teenager and his identity as the son of a captain of the Yue Cavalry was also well known, most of these soldiers were willing to follow Lu Bu.
The day finally approached the state border.
Lu Bu pointed to a small forest in front of him and said, "Let's rest in front first, take a good rest, and enter Bingzhou in one breath." β
Just when everyone was eating dry food in the forest, there were bursts of shouts and killings on the official road not far away.
Without Lu Bu's signal, Lu Zhong went to investigate the situation on his own.
After a while, Lu Zhong turned around and said: "Young master, it is a group of Xianbei rangers, about hundreds of people, who are besieging a convoy, and the convoy escorts are fighting with the Xianbei people at the moment, but the situation is not very optimistic. β
Lu Bu asked, "Have you ever seen anyone's banner?" β
"The banner is the word Dong." Lu Zhong thought for a moment and added, "But looking at the guards accompanying him, they are all cavalry, not like people from the Central Plains." β
"Whose troops will this be? Could it be Dong Zhuo's troops? But Dong Zhuoyuan is in Liangzhou, how could his troops appear here? β
Lu Bu shook his head, didn't think much about it, and beckoned his subordinates to decide to rescue this team.
On the official road, the two sides of the men and horses were fighting together, one side was the well-armored Han soldiers, and the other side was the chaotic Xianbei rangers.
At this moment, the two sides are killing inseparably, although the Han army is brave, but the number is less than half of the opponent's, and they have to be distracted to guard the carriage, and gradually fall into disadvantage.
Lu Bu rushed to the front first, slashing left and right with a halberd in his hand, rampage through the chaotic army, and shouted: "Jiuyuan Lu Feng is here first, and the thieves are rampant." β
Since obtaining the Peerless Halberd Method, the Peerless Strength Exercises have been learned in just over a month, and the rest is only diligent practice to gradually deepen the internal strength.
With the success of Wushuang Jin, Lu Bu also began to learn the Wushuang Halberd Method, but after learning, he realized that it was difficult.
In half a year, he only learned some fur, but it was these furs that had benefited Lu Bu a lot.
On weekdays, when he practiced with his father's soldiers, he almost never met an opponent, and even some low-level generals could not match him.
After the actual combat drills in the past few days, he has become much more proficient, and at this moment there is no enemy in the chaotic army.
will be the courage of the soldiers, Lu Bu took the lead in the soldiers, and also made the soldiers who followed him greatly boost their morale and fight bravely.
After a short time, the Xianbei cavalry was defeated and retreated.
The convoy guards who were surrounded in the middle also cheered up when they saw reinforcements appear.
Under the combination of the inside and the outside, the Xianbei cavalry was killed in a short time to lose their armor, and in the end, only more than ten horsemen were left and fled.
In the middle of the convoy, two scribes disembarked from a carriage, and approached in the company of the leader of the guard.
The first scribe was thin and handsome, with a slight smile on his lips, and his bearing was remarkable, as if the crisis had not affected him.
The other scribe was a little older, and he looked like he was not frightened, his face was mediocre, but the occasional gleam in his eyes was terrifying.
The leader of the guards next to him was even taller and majestic, more than eight feet tall, with bright eyes with big copper bells, and a majestic sword in his hand.
The scribe at the head walked in front of Lu Bu, and said: "Engaged in Li Ru under the account of Dong Gong, the captain of Wuji in Xiaxi Liang, these two are the military marquis Huaxiong, and the clerk Jia Xu. Thank you to the Major General for saving his life. β
Later, Jia Xu also saluted respectfully.
Only Na Huaxiong was reluctant to salute a child, but he seemed to be very afraid of Li Ru's blame, and said angrily: "Thank you." β
Hearing the names of the three people, Lu Bu was shocked, but he didn't expect it to be these three people.
Lu Bu hurriedly dismounted and saluted back: "My lord has praised it falsely, boy Lu Bu, my father is Lu Liang, the captain of Jiuyuan Yueqi." Don't mention the name of the general, the kid is just a cloth shirt, and he has no military position. As for helping each other, I am equivalent to Hermes-Epitek, and it is my duty, so I don't need to worry about it. β
Li Ru saw that Lu Bu answered appropriately, and he couldn't help but have a good impression of this young man in his heart.
He said with a smile: "It turned out to be Zhongliang, Captain Lu's father and son were stationed at the border for my Han Dynasty for two generations, and the grassland was barbarian outside the fortress, which is really a model for our soldiers. β
Even Hua Xiong put away his contemptuous attitude a little after hearing about Lu Bu's origin on the side.
Seeing this, Lu Bu had to say modestly: "I dare not be a gentleman." Dong Xiaowei stationed in Xiliang has meritorious service, and has put down the rebellion of the Qiang people in Xiliang several times, and is another national hero after Duan Ying, the Taiwei of my Han Dynasty. Although Bu is not talented, he wants to follow Dong Wuji, expel the steppe Tatars, and restore the glory of my Han Dynasty! β
Li Ru praised: "Ambition is not in old age, it is a blessing for the country to have this Lingyun ambition at a young age!" It is a great pleasure in life to meet my little brother Pingshui, but we need to go to Bingzhou to deal with some things. I don't know what the little brother wants, if it is convenient for us to go forward together, would it be good? β
Lu Bu pondered for a moment and said, "I am going to Bingzhou to ask for a meeting with Bingzhou and convey military affairs. I was fortunate to be able to walk with Mr. Bu. β
After that, the commander followed the convoy and went on the road together, and Lu Bu himself was invited to the carriage by Li Ru.