Xuzhou, Xiapi State, has just experienced a war, Hanoi Hao Meng rebellion, if it were not for Cao Bao and Cao Xing, almost captured Xiapi City, Lu Bu rushed back, broke Hao Meng, beheaded him, and put down the rebellion.

Although the rebellion was quelled, Lu Bu was still bored in the past few days, this rebellion made him lose a lot, and what made him even more shocked was that this rebellion seemed to be bewitched by Yuan Shu, but behind it was Chen Gong, who had always relied on him, was also involved, and may even be the mastermind, although it was hidden very deeply, but Lu Bu still caught clues.

Chen Gong had brought soldiers and horses with him when he defected to him from Dongjun, and these soldiers and horses were under Chen Gong's orders, and with Chen Gong's advice in recent years, it had a greater impact on his troops, and even many of his generals would obey Chen Gong's orders.

Lu Bu also knew that Chen Gong also had a good relationship with the family forces, so even if he found out that Chen Gong was involved, he could only pretend not to know and dare not investigate deeply, otherwise once he tore his face, he would not dare to imagine the consequences.

As for aiding Zhang Liao, he couldn't care less.

Compared with Lu Bu, who was high-spirited and galloped all over the world, Lu Bu at this time was much more decadent.

Few people know that Chen Gong's betrayal was fatal to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu has galloped through the Jianghuai River over the years, and he can compete with Yuan Shu and Cao Cao, largely relying on Chen Gong's strategy and Chen Gong's management of the rear.

Chen Gong is a typical idealist, he has his own ambitions, and has a strong sense of place, because he first welcomed Cao Cao into Yanzhou, and then realized that Cao Cao was not his ideal lord, and too strong and ruthless, sooner or later to fight local forces, he betrayed Cao Cao to welcome Lu Bu into Yanzhou, and then Lu Bu was defeated by Cao Cao and retreated to Xuzhou.

Although Lu Bu is easier to control than Cao Cao, he is too immature politically, more than a hundred times worse than Cao Cao, he has been running around in Xuzhou for several years without success, and he is still controlled everywhere, and even many times Lu Bu does not listen to Chen Gong's schemes, and the mud can't support the wall, Chen Gong will naturally have the idea of finding another master or doing it alone.

This is understandable, and it is also normal for Chen Gong, an aspiring person will never always follow a lord who does not listen to advice and has no future.

For Chen Gong, it was just a thought, but for Lu Bu, it was completely different.

Because Lu Bu's trust in Chen Gong over the years is absolute, and he is even regarded as a brother and a family member, and even his daughter's marriage is discussed with Chen Gong, so Chen Gong's betrayal is a double blow to Lu Bu, a light man, in strength and emotion, which really makes Lu Bu disheartened, and even loses trust in other subordinates.

This is the character of a light man, righteous, impulsive, extremely strong on the surface, but fragile in heart.

Because of the betrayal of Chen Gong, Lu Bu lost his ambition, and the forces under his command had a crisis of trust, when a force had a crisis of trust and the generals were separated, it was the beginning of the decline of this force, and the decline of the Lu Bu group in history began with this rebellion, and it is still the case today.

Lu Bu was bored, and when he came down, Cao Bao asked to see him.

Lu Bu's spirit was shocked, and he hurriedly passed on his life, and now he only trusted Cao Bao the most.

Cao Bao is a strong man in Xuzhou, once the first general under Mu Taoqian in Xuzhou, after Lu Bu entered Xuzhou, Cao Bao gave his daughter to him as a concubine, became his father-in-law, and has always been very supportive of him.

It was Cao Bao who asked to see, Lu Bu didn't dare to slack off, got up to greet the door, the two entered the house and sat down, Cao Bao reported some of the situation in Xuzhou, chatted for a while, the topic inadvertently changed, and pretended to be casual and asked: "Lord, I heard that the general has a younger brother, who travels back and forth on the river, controls countless boats and boats, and the people who cross the river rely on his strength, but is it true?" ”

Lu Bu was stunned when he heard this, and said curiously: "How did my uncle know about this?" ”

Cao Bao did not say that he accidentally learned from Lu Bu's drunken words, but said: "There are many rumors about the people in Jianghuai, this person is pseudonym Wenqiang, but he doesn't know whether it's true or not? ”

Lu Bu did not doubt him, nodded and said: "Yes, Zhang Jian and the clerk brothers are in rank, and they are strong in words, but few people know about this matter, but it has been spread?" It's kind of weird. ”

Cao Bao said with a smile: "There is a wall of impermeability in the world, but it is inevitable, this Wen Qiang is afraid that he has a bad relationship with the general, otherwise how could he be assigned to Jianghuai?" ”

Lu Bu shook his head and said: "Wen Yuan always values brotherhood, not to mention his younger brother, the relationship between the two of them is excellent." ”

Cao Bao's heart settled, chatted a few more words, and left.

When Cao Bao returned to the mansion, someone in the mansion had already greeted him and asked eagerly: "Brother Cao, have you ever determined the identity of that Wenqiang?" ”

Cao Bao looked displeased, and snorted: "I told you that Wen Qiang is Zhang Liao's younger brother a while ago, and you and others are suspicious of Yu Wu!" ”

The man smiled and said: "I already believed in Brother Cao's news, because the plan had already been carried out, but the stakes were very high, and at the last moment, I had to confirm the ear again." ”

Cao Bao nodded: "I have confirmed that there is nothing wrong with the news I told you and others before, there is no doubt that Wen Qiang is really Zhang Liao's younger brother, and he has a very good relationship with Zhang Liao." ”

The man rejoiced, "Very good! Very good! The death of Zhang Liao is not far off. ”

Cao Bao arched his hand: "So I want to congratulate Yuan Highway." ”

The man didn't know that Yuan Shu had died in Ruyin, and said with a smile: "Zhang Liao's death is beneficial to my lord and Wenhou, so there is no need to rely on Zhang Liao from now on, you can do your own thing." ”

Cao Bao narrowed his eyes: "This matter must not be known to Wen Hou, otherwise once Zhang Liao does not die, we will invite a big disaster, and it is not an exaggeration to bleed thousands of miles!" ”

The man smiled: "Brother Cao, don't worry, Skynet is already here, unless Zhang Liao doesn't care about his brotherhood and has the ability to insert wings, he will definitely die!" ”

……

In Runan County, Yuzhou, on the second day after the destruction of Ruyin City and Yuan Shu's suicide, Zhang Liao concentrated his forces in the southern part of Ruyin County to block Yuan Shu's reinforcements from Shouchun.

According to the news from the shadows, the two generals Ji Ling and Lu Mian came to the aid of Shouchun City, leading 50,000 soldiers and horses, leaving Zhang Xun with 20,000 people to guard Shouchun.

Only Lujiang guarded Liu Xun too much, and refused to rescue Sun Ce on the grounds that he looked down on Lujiang.

50,000 against 50,000, Zhang Liao still left some troops to guard the prisoners and Ruyin City, and it was slightly weaker in terms of troops, but Zhang Liao was walking the way of elite soldiers, that is, 40,000 against 50,000, and he definitely had an overwhelming advantage.

Zhang Liao had the initiative to choose the battlefield, but he did not choose the main part of the canyon, and there was no such terrain in this section, so he directly chose an open field, which was conducive to large-scale operations.

When the sun is in the middle of the sky, the war unfolds in this open field.

Ji Ling and Lu Mian guessed that Zhang Liao was a plan to encircle and send reinforcements before the rescue, but they were careful all the way, especially in the narrow area, but they didn't expect that Zhang Liao would fight them directly in an open field, so they were still caught off guard by Zhang Liao.

The formation of the rapid march had no time to adjust, so it could only be hastily divided into two ways to meet the battle.

This was Zhang Liao's first large-scale battle on the battlefield of Yuzhou, and the battle required surprise soldiers to win, but it also needed to face off the battlefield to sharpen the soldiers' battle and murderous spirit.

Zhang Liao directly divided the soldiers and horses into three roads, Huang Zhong on the left, Zang Ba on the right, and Xu Chu on the middle.

The middle lane quickly rushed, like a long rainbow through the sun.

The left and right fierce pinching is like a double dragon skein.

The sound of war drums, the roar of the earth, the wind and thunder on the ground, and the murderous spirit penetrates the sun and the moon!

Zhang Liao watched the battle situation on the high ground of the Chinese army, this is a battle without suspense, one side is strong and strong, waiting for work, gathering momentum for a long time, one side is weak, rushing to this point, rushing to the battle, the result can be imagined.

The facts did not surprise Zhang Liao, and soon after the battle began, it was a one-sided situation.

Yuan Shu lacked talents under his command, and the names of the Four Heavenly Kings were loud, but they were the weakest among the first-line generals under the command of the princes.

Lu Mian's Chinese army was almost taken by Zang Ba in one fell swoop, and Ji Ling was slightly stronger, but he was dwarfed by Huang Zhong in his prime.

Xu Chu rushed to the ground, and a bloody road was spread, and he was invincible.

Zhuge Liang and Guo Huai followed Zhang Liao to inspect the battlefield in the Chinese army, and seeing this situation, Zhuge Liang said: "This battle has been decided, Shouchun is only in Yanzhong, and the master should think about the matter of Luoyang." ”

Zhang Liao nodded, waved his hand, and the sound of the Chinese military drum suddenly changed, and then all the soldiers shouted in unison: "Ruyin City is broken, Yuan Shu is dead, surrender!" Surrender! ”

Zhang Liao used to use the strategy of striking the morale of the army, but this time this strategy was developed by Zhuge Liang and Guo Huai after listening to Zhang Liao's lecture, at this time, tens of thousands of soldiers shouted in unison that Yuan Shu was dead, which made Ji Ling and Lu Mian's soldiers and horses, who had fallen behind, even more demoralized, and began to disperse in a big way.

At the same time, countless banners appeared in the mountains and forests far away from the battlefield, and countless figures were surging, shouting: "Yuan Shu is dead, surrender!" Surrender! ”

These shouting figures were all prisoners of Yuan Shu in the first battle of Ruyin City, and they were escorted over to cheer.

Ji Ling and Lu Mian's soldiers didn't know the identities of these people, they saw countless figures on all sides, all of them were desperate, and many people began to put down their weapons and give up resistance.

At this point, there is no suspense on the battlefield.

Zhang Liao looked at the scenes on the battlefield, but his thoughts were not here, but as Zhuge Liang said, in Luoyang.

The matter of Luoyang, even if he handed it over to Li Ru and Xun Yu, it was impossible to completely let go, at this time the overall situation of the battlefield in Yuzhou had been decided, and he should think about how to deal with the matter of Luoyang.

The situation in Luoyang has developed to the current situation, and he is helpless.

Power is a double-edged sword, this sword can give you supremacy, can make you do a lot of things, can make you beautiful, but at the same time, it will also put you on the cusp of the storm, always facing countless calculations and frame-slots.

It can be beautiful for a lifetime, but once it is down, it is an abyss.

And this is a road of no return, only forward, no way back, just like Cao Cao and Sima Yi in history, to their status, there are countless battles in the open and secret, and the end of no further is destruction, unless you are willing to bow down and kill, and the family is destroyed, otherwise there is no other choice.

And themselves.

Zhang Liao frowned, but at this moment, a shadow came in a hurry, Zhang Liao saw this situation, knew that there must be an emergency, he took the information from the shadow, hurriedly swept it, and his face changed greatly.

It's not news from Luoyang, but from the south, Zhang Jian is in trouble, he is besieged by thousands of bandits, and the situation is in danger!