Lü Bu was born in Jiuyuan County, Wuyuan County, which had been occupied by the Xiongnu who had moved inward for a long time, and the Han people were mostly Huhua, and their style and customs were similar to those of the Huns. In the eyes of the people over there, it is normal to adopt a righteous son and recognize a godfather, so Lu Bu first recognized Ding Yuan as his father-in-law, and then knelt in front of Huangfu Song.

However, when I was in the annex state, it was okay, there were poor mountains and bad waters, and everyone didn't care too much about etiquette or anything. But when he arrived in Guanzhong, after Lu Bu recognized Huangfu Song as his father-in-law according to custom, he was secretly ridiculed by countless people. In the concept of the Han people, it is an extremely shameful thing to be a son-in-law, let alone to be a godson to others. It's not okay to be a goddaughter, but of course it's not okay to be a godson.

Lu Bu has a large number of soldiers and horses, and he is also strong in martial arts, no one dares to be sarcastic in person, but how can this kind of thing not be heard at all? He was often secretly angry about this, but because he had just surrendered, he didn't dare to come out for the time being. Now Li Su said this kind of thing in front of him again, which immediately made Lu Bu angry.

"Are you going to die?"

It was as if the sound of metal rubbing sprayed out of Lu Bu's throat, "What kind of thing is Dong Zhuo?" It's just a defeated subordinate of a certain family, and he dares to be my stepfather Lu Fengxian? ”

Li Su was in a cold sweat on his back, and his heart was cold, he laughed dryly twice, and said: "General Lu is angry, angry, I just relayed the words of the governor and the governor, not me!" ”

"Hey, for the sake of you giving me so many things, I won't kill you." Lu Bu sneered: "Eat something, then go back and tell Dong Zhuo that if he gives up the position of the state pastor, I can say a few kind words for him in front of my father-in-law." Lu Bingzhou, Lu Zhijun, this title is not bad, hahaha! ”

Li Su could only laugh abruptly, at this time the soldier brought him the wine and food, Lu Bu's laughter stopped abruptly, he stared at Li Su, and said coldly: "Why don't you eat quickly?" ”

“..........”

The curtain of the big tent was lifted, and Gao Shun walked in from outside the door, first glanced at Li Su, who didn't know what to eat, and then said to Lu Bu: "I heard that Dong Zhuo's envoy came to the camp?" ”

Lu Bu pointed to the side and said, "This Li Su is it, and he is still a fellow villager of our Wuyuan." ”

Gao Shunjin said: "We have just surrendered General Zuo, and it is when we need to be cautious, how can we contact Dong Zhuo's people without authorization?" If General Zuo finds out, I'm afraid it will be a big disaster! ”

Lu Bu said disapprehantly: "We are not stationed with my father-in-law's soldiers and horses, Li Su came to visit late at night, if you don't say it, I don't say it, how can he know?" ”

Gao Shun said: "When the envoy entered the camp, many people saw it. The red rabbit horse outside was originally Dong Zhuo's mount, and countless people had seen it. Even if General Zuo doesn't know it today, will he not know it tomorrow? ”

Lu Bu frowned, "What you said also makes sense. ”

He thought for a moment and said, "Then send his head to my father-in-law, and let my father-in-law know my loyalty!" ”

Li Su was eating, and when he heard this, his hand shook, and the chopsticks suddenly fell on the desk, making a "snap" sound. He hurriedly took a step back, lay on the ground, and said in a panic: "General Lu, we are fellow villagers!" ”

Lu Bu sneered, "You said that you are a fellow villager, so do me a favor and borrow your head, how about it?" ”

Li Su was so frightened that he trembled and wanted to plead, but his mind was blank. Gao Shun on the side persuaded: "The two armies are fighting, don't kill the envoy, just hand him over to General Zuo." ”

Lu Bu said with some embarrassment: "But if you hand him over to your father-in-law, what about those gifts and red rabbit horses?" ”

Li Su came to his senses at this time, and said busily: "Don't worry, general, I will never talk nonsense to General Zuo." ”

"Hmph," Lu Bu glanced at Li Su, and when he saw the other party's cowardice, he couldn't help but feel a little relieved in his heart, and shouted: "Forgive me for not daring to talk nonsense!" ”

After being escorted out of Lu Bu's tent by the soldiers, Li Su still felt a little afraid. He looked back at Lu Bu's direction, and said in his heart: Lu Fengxian is moody, cruel and violent, and really terrible!

Hearing that Dong Zhuo had sent an envoy to Lu Bu's camp, Huangfu Song didn't care, and after talking to Li Su for a few words, he let him go. Dong Zhuo woke up the next morning and saw Li Su waiting outside the door.

"Did you see Lu Bu?"

"I saw it," Li Su lowered his head and said, "But then Lu Fengxian was very arrogant and rude, he said.........."

"What did he say?"

"He said that the lord was not worthy of being his father-in-law, and said that if the lord gave him the position of the governor of the state, he would not spare the lord if it fell into his hands in the future......."

Li Su was scared half to death by Lu Bu yesterday, and the more he thought about it after he came back, the more angry he became, and said in his heart: Lu Bu doesn't miss the feelings of his fellow villagers, so he doesn't have to be polite to him!

At this time, when Dong Zhuo asked, he added fuel and vinegar and said a lot of rude words about Lu Bu. Sure enough, Dong Zhuo was furious when he heard this, and scolded: "Shaft dares!" ”

After scolding, Dong Zhuo immediately calmed down, he asked Li Su to go down, and called someone to call Li Ru over, and asked: "Lu Bu is rebellious, he accepted our property and BMW, but he is still so rude!" Huangfu Song is sending people to build siege equipment again, but I am afraid that it will come to attack the city in two days! ”

Li Ru was speechless for a while when he heard this. After a long while, he said: "I have seen many greedy people, but it is the first time I have encountered a faithless and unrighteous person like Lu Bu. ”

"So what do we do now?" Dong Zhuo asked, but without waiting for Li Ru to answer, he stood up, and said angrily: "I'll raise the army and go out of the city to fight to the death with Huangfu Lao'er!" ”

"The Lord is angry!" Li Ru hurriedly grabbed Dong Zhuo and persuaded: "Most of our army are newly recruited soldiers, and the Hun cavalry is not the opponent of Lu Bu's cavalry. ”

He said in his heart: It is probably impossible to win, but it is very possible to lose miserably.

Dong Zhuo's anger disappeared a little, and he said hatefully: "Huangfu Lao'er was embarrassed with me before, and he saw that he could move into Guanzhong, and he came to stop me again!" ”

Li Ru said: "For today's plan, it is better to stick to the city first, and then send someone to invite the Xiliang army to attack Fufeng, and when Huangfu Song withdraws his army to help, we will chase and kill." ”

Dong Zhuo said: "It's a long way to Xiliang, and it will take at least twenty days to wait until the Xiliang army receives the news and then launch an attack." Seeing that the enemy army is about to attack, can we hold on for that long? ”

Li Ru said again: "You can let the Huns out and let them plunder Guanzhong." The Huns had been poor for a long time, and they were not good at defending the city, so it was better to let them go to the west and plunder. In this way, the power in Huangfu Song's hands will be weakened, and I am afraid that he will not easily attack Linjin. ”

"It's easy for the Huns to let it out, but I'm afraid that they won't be able to get it back. If we don't have 20,000 Hun cavalry, our troops will be much less! ”

"If you don't, you'll have to retreat across the Yellow River for the time being."

Dong Zhuo pondered for a while, and said: "Then let the Huns rob Sanfu, I want to see, Huangfu Song can't bear it!" ”

When Huangfu Songjun and Dong Zhuojun confronted each other under the city of Linjin, Chen Cheng, who was far away in Yinchuan, also got the news of the civil strife in Guanzhong. However, this matter was expected, so he didn't pay too much attention to it, but focused on training the army, reforming the military system, and improving the hydraulic forging hammer.

After Jia Xu joined Chen Cheng's command, he refused the appointment of the servant commander, and he said to Chen Cheng: "The minister has just arrived, and he has not yet done the work of size, how can he directly serve the lieutenant commander?" ”

So Chen Cheng appointed him as "in the middle of the matter" and replaced Zhao Yun to preside over the daily affairs of the province. Jia Wenhe "has nothing to do and is decisive like a stream", and since taking over the work of Menxia Province, the efficiency of things has improved a lot. It's not that Zhao Yun's talent is worse than Jia Xu's, but Zhao Yun mainly focuses on the side of the tooth soldiers, whether it is training soldiers, training officers, or managing things in the army primary school, he needs to do it himself, and he really lacks skills.

Now that Jia Xu has taken over the affairs of Menxia Province, Zhao Yun is greatly relieved, although he still has the name of "Serving the Order", but in fact, he is no longer involved in the affairs of Menxia Province. After defeating the Song Jianbu in the second year of the First Ping Dynasty, the number of tooth soldiers doubled, and the combat force increased by one infantry battalion and two cavalry battalions, and the auxiliary force also increased by one engineer battalion and one baggage battalion.

In order for so many soldiers and horses to fully exert their combat effectiveness, in addition to being equipped with a lot of ordnance and materials, they must also go through training and running-in, and it is best to have exercises and actual combat, so that they can reach the expected level. According to the plan, next year it will attack Guanzhong to the east, and at that time it will add a few more infantry battalions and cavalry battalions, and the strength will be further expanded.

Chen Cheng was implementing his plan step by step, he was very calm and not distracted by the changes in the outside world, but Yan Zhong couldn't sit still. When he heard that Ding Yuan had closed Chang'an City and was preparing to fight with Huangfu Song, he once made a proposal to Chen Cheng, saying that he wanted to take the opportunity to seize Chen Cang and push the battle line to the east of Fufeng. Even if you can't capture Chenchang, it's good to occupy the stronghold on the outskirts of Chenchang as a starting position for next year.

However, Chen Cheng refused that time, on the grounds that he was now in spring ploughing, and if he missed the farming time, everyone would be hungry in the future. Now the total number of households on Liangzhou's books is less than 120,000, and there were only more than 100,000 households, but because the imperial court's conscription and grain collection were too strong, many people in Guanzhong fled to Liangzhou with their families. Coupled with the tens of millions of people who got it from Dong Zhuo in Bingzhou, the population of Liangzhou has grown rapidly.

Even with such a large number of households, the burden on the people of Liangzhou is still very heavy. There are 10,000 soldiers in the light teeth, and if you add the county soldiers and township soldiers from all over the country, as well as the government soldiers and forbidden troops in the north, the total number of troops is more than 60,000. Even if the armies in Zhangye, Jiuquan and other places did not need Chen Chengyang, he would not receive much food in those places.

The places he can directly control are now only the five counties of Shuofang, Wuyuan, Beidi, Hanyang and Jiuquan, with a total of 60,000 households, but they have 20,000 or 30,000 standing soldiers. Although the government has some money, the common people are still extremely poor, and they can't add a few new clothes all year round. Compared to before, it is commendable that you can eat enough.