Chapter 161: Who Can Stop Him
LΓΌ Bu decided to evacuate Shouchun, and the soldiers packed up that night.
The sky was bright, and as soon as Lu Bu got up, Zhang Liao came to the door.
"Is Wen Hou up?" He asked the guard outside the door.
Lu Bu's voice came from the room: "Is it Wenyuan outside?" β
"It's me." Zhang Liao stepped forward: "The soldiers are ready and can return to Xuzhou at any time." β
"So fast?" Lu Bu walked out, he motioned to the guards to fetch water and wash, and then said, "I plan to leave tomorrow." β
"If Wen Hou decides to leave tomorrow, I will let the soldiers unpack their bags." Zhang Liao responded.
"Now that you're ready, let's go today." Lu Bu instructed: "Pass the order and set off in the morning." β
Zhang Liao returned to the barracks and conveyed LΓΌ Bu's orders.
The soldiers divided the captured sturdy men and delicate women into two battalions and gathered together, and only waited for Lu Bu to give an order, and then left Shouchun.
After Lu Bu freshened up, he led a group of guards to the barracks.
Xun You had been arranging for people to keep an eye on him since the night before.
Lu Bu took it to the gate of the barracks, and Xun You took Xu Huang and Li Dian to meet him.
"Wen Hou won't be leaving today, will he?" Xun Yu asked.
"If the soldiers don't leave, I'm afraid it will affect their morale." Lu Bu said very sincerely: "Cao Gong will still employ people in the future, I can't take a Huainan and then ask for other achievements?" β
I have long known that Lu Buling's sharp teeth are not easy to deal with, Xun You didn't expect him to be able to speak like a spring in such a situation.
The withdrawal of the army was obviously the best for himself, but he was able to move out of Cao Cao to suppress Xun You.
What's worse is that Xun You doesn't know how to argue.
Cao Cao is indeed going to employ people in the future.
But Lu Bu is obviously not a person who can be used for a long time.
Once his wings are full, there will definitely be a big battle with the Cao family to compete for the world.
Xun You saw it clearly, but he couldn't say it.
It is not clear what Cao Cao thinks, but of course Xun You will not easily offend Lu Bu.
The Yuan family in Hebei sent a lot more scouts to the south bank of the Yellow River than before.
Yuan Shao's intention to attack the south is becoming more and more obvious.
After many wars, Cao Cao, who unified the Henan region, was still much weaker than Yuan Shao in Hebei.
Cao Yuan always had a battle.
With the current strength of the Cao family, even if all of them are invested in dealing with the Yuan family in Hebei, it is still overstretched.
If Lu Bu stabbed him from behind again at that time, the situation faced by the Cao family would not be good.
Before Xun You could think about how to phrase it, Lu Bu bowed his hand: "If Xun Gong is fine, I'll leave first!" β
didn't give Xun You a chance to react at all, he took the guards directly into the barracks.
Seeing Lu Bu leaving, Li Dian saw that Xun You didn't speak, so he shouted: "Wen Hou, what if the Huainan army counterattacks and we don't have soldiers and horses?" β
Lu Bu turned around: "Didn't General Li bring some soldiers and horses?" The city of Shouchun is profound, and there is no problem in holding it for three or five months with the general's ability. If Cao Gong doesn't come, I will definitely lead the army to help. β
Li Dian was full of black lines.
Xu Huang's face beside him was also very ugly, but he didn't ask Lu Bu like he did.
Lu Bu came to the barracks, and Zhang Liao and others came to greet him when they got the news.
"Are the soldiers ready?" Lu Bu asked them.
"I've been ready for a long time, I've brought everything I should bring, just waiting for Wen Hou's order." Zhang Liao responded.
"Herald!" Lu Bu said: "The army will immediately march out and return to Pengcheng. β
"Wen Hou doesn't plan to say anything to the soldiers?" Zhang Liao asked.
"It's not going into battle to kill the enemy, there's nothing to say." Lu Bu replied: "Tell the soldiers, I will write down all the military merits, and when I return to Pengcheng, I will reward them according to their military merits." The title of the official and the reward of the reward, as long as there is merit, even if it is just a miscellaneous soldier, he will also be rewarded. β
Miscellaneous soldiers have an extremely low status in the army.
To be promoted from a miscellaneous soldier to a sword and shield bearer, you need to accumulate a lot of military merits.
In every major battle, the number of miscellaneous soldiers who died was also extremely large.
They are buried in the battlefield, but they have nothing to do with them!
As generals in the army, Zhang Liao and others are also accustomed to despising miscellaneous soldiers.
Lu Bu proposed to discuss the reward for meritorious deeds together with the miscellaneous soldiers, and Zhang Liao and the others looked at each other in astonishment.
Zhang Liao said: "The status of the miscellaneous soldiers is humble, and Wen Hou will discuss the merits together with them, but he is afraid of ......"
"The same people, the same merits, how can there be a humble one?" Lu Bu replied: "In my eyes, there is only merit and meritlessness, no birth level, and no eternal official title. β
Valued the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lu Bu actually proposed to ignore the humble statement, which made Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi stunned.
Lu Bu no longer explained, and waved his hand: "You go and arrange it." β
Zhang Liao and others received the order.
It didn't take long for the neatly dressed soldiers to come to face each other under the leadership of Zhang Liao and others.
In addition to the soldiers, Lu Bu also saw that there were many dejected men and women in the ranks.
They were captured by Lu Bu's soldiers in the Shouchun area.
The men who were escorted by the soldiers were dejected, and the women were crying.
The soldiers marched with their heads held high, and a thick cloud hung over the heads of the men and women who were caught in the ranks.
Zhang Liao came to Lu Bu first: "Wen Hou, you can go." β
Lu Bu turned around and pointed to the main gate of the barracks: "Let's go!" β
The army drove out of the barracks, and Xun You and others stood beside them.
Seeing Lu Bu leave, Xu Huang asked in a low voice: "Xun Gong, just let him go?" β
"If you don't let him go, who can stop him?" Xun You asked rhetorically.
Xu Huang was silent.
Although he and Li Dian were generals who led the troops, they were not Lu Bu's opponents at all.
What's more, Lu Bu also has three fierce generals by his side: Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi.
If they dare to stop it, if they provoke Lu Bu to turn his face, they don't even know how to die.
An army of 20,000 is not too little.
The team led by Lu Bu also included the men and women they had taken captive.
The number of able-bodied men has outnumbered the total number of armies, and in the era of war, there are far more women than men.
The total number of people exceeded 100,000 and drove out of Shouchun City.
One or two hundred steps away from the city, Lu Bu glanced back.
Behind him was a mighty procession.
The procession stretched like a long dragon, and although he was out of the city, people were still coming out of the city gates.
Lu Bu was about to turn his head when he saw several figures appear on the city wall from a distance.
Although the distance was very far, he still judged that those figures were Xun You and others.
Xun Youzhi was very considerate, but he didn't get any benefits from him when he came to Huainan this time.
Secretly refreshing, he was also a little worried.
Although there are a lot of soldiers and horses in Xuzhou, the soldiers lack training, and they turn against Cao Cao too early, which does not do him much good.
It is best to not turn against each other for the time being, or to maintain the current relationship.
The premise, of course, is that Cao Cao will not touch his fundamental interests.