Chapter 79: The sad Liu Bei
In fact, long before the conquest of Yuan Shu, Cao Cao began to plan to destroy Lu Bu, but first Yuan Shu was proclaimed emperor, and Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao threatened Xu Du, which has been delayed.
Now, with the right time, place and people, Cao Cao no longer delayed, and finally started to do it.
After consulting with Cheng Yu, Xun Yu, Xun You and other strategists, Cao Cao planned to use Liu Bei as a pawn first, and let Lu Bu and Liu Bei fight first.
Speaking of which, Cao Cao has always known in his heart that Liu Bei has great ambitions, and he will never be willing to live under others for a long time, and sooner or later he will become his enemy to unify the world, so from the beginning Cao Cao also planned to use Liu Bei, and he arranged Liu Bei in a county town adjacent to Xuzhou, in order to take advantage of Liu Bei's enmity with Lu Bu and make Liu Bei his pawn to destroy Lu Bu.
Cao Cao didn't need to fool Liu Bei, maybe he ordered Liu Bei to do something, he just had to fool Lu Bu.
With Chen Jue and Chen Deng's father and son as the internal response, it is too simple for Cao Cao to fool Lu Bu.
Chen Jue, Chen Deng's father and son secretly joined Cao Cao, in order to gain Lu Bu's trust and seize Lu Bu's current reputation for favor, every time the guests were feasting, they praised Lu Bu's virtue to all the guests, and tried their best to correct Lu Bu's name, and really won Lu Bu's trust.
Even Chen Jue and Chen Deng's father and son intentionally or unintentionally separated Lu Bu and Chen Gong.
One day, Chen Gong couldn't help it, and advised Lu Bu in person: "Chen Qi's father and son are flattering villains, when they were under Tao Qian's account, they had secretly communicated with Yuan Shao, speculated for profit, and sought glory from the master, and later after being noticed by Tao Qian, they were almost killed, only because Tao Qian was soft-hearted for a while to spare their lives, and now they are confusing you, you must not be guarded." β
Lu Bu has long had a distrust of Chen Gong in his heart because of the unsparing separation between Chen Qi and Chen Deng's father and son during this time.
Now seeing Chen Gong say this about Chen Jue, Chen Deng's father and son, who were 'loyal' to him, Lu Bu was unhappy, so he angrily reprimanded Chen Gong: "You slander for no reason, do you want to frame good people?" β
Chen Gong was so angry that he almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood, Nima reminded Lu Bu that Chen Qi and Chen Deng's father and son were not available, but in Lu Bu's eyes, they had become the ones who framed good people? When did Lu Bu's trust in him become so low.
Lu Bu didn't believe it, and Chen Gong was helpless, so he had to be depressed in his heart, and said: "If you don't be loyal, Xuzhou will be in trouble." Then he threw up his sleeves and left.
Lu Bu didn't care, and instead invited Chen Jue and Chen Deng's father and son to come to drink.
Without Chen Gong's words, it would be easier for Chen Qi and Chen Deng's father and son to fool Lu Bu.
At this time, a border sergeant in Xuzhou intercepted a letter that seemed to be written by Liu Bei to Cao Cao, which was actually planned by Chen Qi, Chen Deng's father and son and Cao Cao.
I saw that the letter wrote: "I want to try Lu Bu on the orders of the prime minister, and I dare not do my best." However, there are few soldiers in reserve, and they dare not move lightly. If the prime minister is a large army, he should be the forerunner. Strict soldiers and armor to wait for the edict. β
Lu Bu looked at it and was furious: "Liu Bei, that day I deliberately let him leave from Xiaopei to join Cao Cao, it was already for the sake of Xuzhou's kindness, but I didn't want him to garrison the border of Xuzhou, and I wanted to fight with Cao Cao!" β
"And Cao Cao's traitor, I hate him deeply!"
Chen Deng took this opportunity to fool Lu Budao: "The general should strike first, not only to attack Liu Bei, but also to attack Yanzhou to attack Cao Cao, and he will definitely be able to destroy Liu Bei in one fell swoop and capture Yanzhou." β
Lu Bu was originally a belligerent person, but when Chen Deng was so fooled, he immediately raised troops.
ordered Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Cao Xing to lead 20,000 troops to attack Liu Bei, while he himself led the other 60,000 troops to Yanzhou, and brazenly opened the battle with Cao Cao and Liu Bei first.
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Guanzhong, Chang'an City.
After receiving the information about Xuzhou and Xudu from the full pet detective, Liu Yu laughed.
Cai Yan happened to come to the door, and when he heard Liu Yu laughing, he came in and asked, "Why is my husband laughing?" β
Liu Yu said: "I laugh that Lu Bu was killed by Cao Cao and Chen Qi, Chen Deng's father and son, and Liu Bei, who was used as a pawn by Cao Cao, also pitted, it is estimated that his 8,000 soldiers and horses that have finally developed will all be in vain." β
Liu Yu also considered whether to secretly remind Lu Bu that Chen Qi and Chen Deng's father and son had already voted for Cao Cao.
However, this idea was instantly abandoned by Liu Yu.
If he was just trying to muddy the waters, then he should remind Lu Bu and confirm it with evidence, so that Cao Cao could not kill Lu Bu so easily. But what he planned was to surrender Lu Bu and his subordinates Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Chen Gong and others, so he should first let Lu Bu experience what it means to betray relatives and leave relatives, what is despair, and the flickering betrayal of Chen Qi and Chen Deng's father and son is definitely a huge blow to Lu Bu.
As Liu Yu laughed.
Feng County is the place where Cao Cao placed Liu Bei, and it is very close to Xiaopei in Xuzhou.
Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Cao Xing's soldiers came to the city, and Liu Bei had 8,000 soldiers and horses, knowing that he was invincible, so he could only ask Cao Cao for help.
Since Cao Cao wanted to pit Liu Bei and use Liu Bei as a pawn to destroy Lu Bu, of course he couldn't let Liu Bei be destroyed like this, so he sent Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan, and Li Dian to lead 50,000 troops first, and he commanded the Chinese army of 150,000 to carry grain and grass siege equipment and other baggage a few days later.
Knowing that Cao Cao sent troops to rescue, Liu Bei was overjoyed and ordered Lu Zhu to guard Feng County, and he took Zhang Fei and Guan Hai to lead 7,000 troops out of the city to set up a village, and responded to Cao Cao's reinforcements.
It is said that Zhang Liao was one of the five good generals of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, and he was able to command the troops, Gao Shun was not bad, and Cao Xing, who was also one of Lu Bu's eight strong generals, joined forces, and was not afraid of Cao Jun's Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan, and Li Dian.
Not only was he not afraid, Gao Shun and Cao Xing also took the initiative to lead an army to ambush Xiahoudun and other Cao troops.
A battalion of Cao Jun led by Xiahou Dun walked in front and suddenly intercepted Gao Shun.
Xiahoudun didn't talk nonsense, ran out with a gun, and went straight to Gao Shun.
Gao Shun fought with Xiahoudun, and the battle lasted to fifty rounds, and Gao Shun was overwhelmed, so he fled to the ambush.
Xiahoudun didn't know that there was an ambush, so he chased after him, and when he reached five miles, he was in the ambush. Seeing that Cao Xuan had already been prepared, as soon as he saw Xiahoudun chasing after him, he hid at an angle that Xiahoudun was not easy to detect, and shot a hidden arrow towards Xiahoudun.
When Xiahoudun heard the sound of the arrow breaking through the air, it was too late, he turned his head, and the arrow hit his left eye.
"Ah......" Xiahoudun screamed miserably, pulled out the arrow with his hand, and pulled out his eyeballs as well.
Xiahou is a fierce general, and the injury is making him fierce, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "The blood of father and mother, how can you abandon it!" Then he put the eyeball that the arrow had pulled out and put it into his mouth, and swallowed it in his lower abdomen.
Cao Xuan originally saw that he had shot Xiahoudun and was rushing out to take Xiahoudun's life, but when he suddenly saw this scene, Cao Xuan was so frightened that he froze, and opened his mouth wide in shock.
After Xia Houdun swallowed his eyeballs, he roared angrily and raised his gun to take Cao Xing.
"Poof!" Cao Xuan hadn't come back to his senses, so he couldn't prevent being stabbed by Xiahoudun and planted his horse.
Such a scene before and after, not only the Lu Bujun brought by Cao Xing was shocked, but even the Cao army brought by Xiahoudun himself was also shocked.
After killing Cao Xing, Xiahoudun finally couldn't bear the pain, and also planted his horse's back, covering his eyeless left eye with one hand and screaming in pain.
At this moment, Gao Shun led the troops to kill again, Xiahoudun was seriously injured to be able to kill Cao Xuan was already a surprise, where did he still fight Gao Shun, and was defeated by Gao Shun, fortunately, Xiahou Yuan came to the aid in time to rescue Xiahoudun.
Although LΓΌ Bu's army lost Cao's nature, he also defeated Cao's army and seriously injured Cao Cao's general Xiahoudun.
Taking advantage of Liu Bei's unknowledge of the defeat of Cao's army, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun attacked Liu Bei's army camp. At this time, LΓΌ Bu heard that Cao Cao sent troops to rescue Liu Bei, and also led the troops back from Yanzhou, and attacked Liu Bei with Zhang Liao and Gao Shun.
Liu Bei's camp was only 7,000 people, how could he resist the attack of tens of thousands of troops such as Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Lu Bu, and they were instantly defeated. The generals Zhang Fei and Guan Hai were all killed and dispersed by Lu Bujun, and it was difficult to protect Liu Bei for a while.
Liu Bei could only abandon the defeated army and flee to Fengxian County with dozens of horsemen.
Lu Bu's army followed.
Liu Bei had just rushed into the city of Fengxian County, and he didn't have time to put away the drawbridge and close the city gate, and Lu Bu had already taken advantage of the situation with a battalion of cavalry to enter the city.
The seven thousand soldiers and horses outside the city were invincible to Lu Bu for a moment, and only one thousand men and horses in the city were even more invincible, and they were killed and scattered in an instant.
Liu Bei didn't even have time to return home, and when he saw that it was important to flee for his life, he gave up his wife and children and fled out of the city alone with Sun Qian and a dozen others.
Lu Bu captured Feng County, and when he heard that Liu Bei's wife was still in the city, he rushed over. Lu Zhu was also in the city, in order to protect Liu Bei's wife, Lu Zhu said to Lu Bu: "I heard that the big husband does not waste people's wives." The one who is fighting for the world with the general today is Cao Gong. Xuande Gong often thought of Lai Zhi'en and did not dare to betray the general. Now I have no choice but to vote for Cao Gong, hoping that the general will have mercy. β
Lu Bu's eyes rolled and he said with a smile: "I am an old friend with Xuande, and I can't bear to hurt his wife." β
Lu Bu did not kill Liu Bei's wife and children, but only took them to Xuzhou City together with Lu Zhu.
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After Liu Bei and Sun Qian escaped from Feng County, Liu Bei said to Sun Gan with tears: "My second brother and Guan Hai don't know life and death, and their wives are small and scattered, what can I do about it?" β
Sun Qian comforted: "It's better to go to Cao Cao, the capital of Xu, to plan for the future." β
Liu Bei nodded, and together with Sun Qian, in order to avoid Lu Bu, he found a small way to escape to Xudu.
Along the way, Liu Bei and Sun Qian ran out of food several times, and they all tried to go to the villages they passed to get food and lodging. It is said that Liu Bei's reputation within a hundred miles around Xuzhou and Feng County is still very loud, and even the people in remote villages know him, so he has asked for food and lodging several times, and the villagers are vying to contribute.
On this day, Liu Bei and Sun Qian stayed at the house of Liu An, an orion.
Liu An wanted to find game to entertain Liu Bei, but there were many wars and disasters, and there was not much game in the mountains, so in a hurry, where was it so easy to find. Liu An killed his wife to eat her.
Liu Bei didn't know about it, he only felt something wrong when he ate the meat, and asked Liu An, Liu An only said: "It's wolf meat." β
Liu Bei did not doubt that he had him, had a full meal, and stayed overnight. He went to the backyard in the morning to fetch the horse, but found that the woman had been killed in the kitchen, and that the flesh on her arm had been cut off.
Liu Bei was shocked and hurriedly asked Liu An, only to suddenly learn that the meat he ate last night was not wolf meat, but the human flesh of Liu An's wife. Liu Bei almost didn't squirt out a mouthful of old blood, Sun Qian also ate it, and his face instantly turned waxy.
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