Chapter 14: Lu Bu is coming
After entering the May day, the weather began to gradually get hotter, and the area around Xingyang is located on the plain, and as far as the eye can see, there is already green grass, and the air is filled with a smell of grass and trees.
After Cao Cao commanded his troops and horses and crossed the Yellow River first, Sun Jian had already left for a day.
There is no way to do it, the Yellow River is not the Yangtze River, there is a period of ice every year, the river is frozen, and the boats along the coast are mostly small boats, and there are wide and narrow along the way, and water warfare is not necessary here, so the coalition army crosses the river, and there are not enough ships, so they can only recruit some civilian boats to transition a little bit, and at the same time collect civilian boats from farther places, and therefore, when Cao Cao's headquarters crossed the river, Sun Jian, who crossed the river first, has left for a day, according to the itinerary, I am afraid that he has arrived in Xingyang at this moment.
Cao Cao did not delay, after landing on the shore, he gathered his troops and rushed to Xingyang, ready to join forces with Sun Jian to break through Xingyang, before leaving Ye Zhao's words always made Cao Cao a little uncomfortable, he Cao Cao asked himself not necessarily much worse than Ye Zhao, but Ye Zhao asked so frequently, it seems that he is a little incompetent, it is this battle Cao Cao is full of strength to show his skills, let Ye Zhao, but also let the world see his Cao Cao's ability.
After a morning of driving, I saw that it was not far from Xingyang, but at noon, I was stopped by a scout who came from the rear.
"What's wrong?" Cao Cao looked at the somewhat embarrassed scout, and his heart suddenly sank, feeling a little bad.
"Back to the army division, the soldiers on the south bank of our army were attacked by Lu Bu, and the alliance leader asked the army division to postpone the attack on Xingyang, hurry back, and take the army across the river!" The scout hurried.
"Huh?" When Cao Cao heard this, he frowned, and shouted: "Come on, take down this spy for me!" ”
"Whoa!" Without saying a word, the two wolf-like guards pounced on him, dragged the scout off his horse, and pushed him to the ground.
"The military advisor is wronged, and the humble position is not a spy!" The scout's face changed drastically, and he struggled to raise his head and wail to Cao Cao.
"You still want to hide it from me, when I left this morning, the coalition forces were still fine, how long has it been, so if Lu Bu comes, how can I not meet him?" Cao Cao shouted.
"How do you know about your humble position!" The scout shouted injustice.
Cao Cao stared at the scout for a long time, frowned and waved his hand to signal the guards to let him go, and said, "What happened, you can tell me carefully." ”
"Whoa!" The scout hurriedly told Cao Cao everything that had happened before.
According to Li Ru's meaning, when Lu Bu got out of the Tiger Prison Pass, he should go straight to Xingyang, or cooperate with the Xingyang defenders or wait for an opportunity to sneak attack.
"Wenhou, this road is not the road to Xingyang!" After leaving the Tiger Prison Pass, some people realized that something was wrong, they did not take the road to Xingyang, but to Aocang, which is where the coalition army is.
"Do you remember, when we came to the Central Plains, how long did it take to cross the big river?" Lu Bu didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.
"About three days, it was not easy for the horses to cross the river, and it took some more time." General Cao Xing recalled.
"That Kwantung rat generation, known as having a million troops, even if they collect more ships, how can they all be counted after only a few days of alliance among the princes?" Lu Bu's eyes flashed with excitement and said: "This general will go out for the first time, and he will definitely make immortal feats, let those people in Luoyang see the courage of flying generals!" ”
Lu Bu was holding back a ball of anger in his heart, when he was under Ding Yuan's command, he had military prestige, but he was not reused by Ding Yuan, he was treated harshly everywhere, and he didn't even have a serious official position, just being Ding Yuan's chief bookkeeper.
Now he has fallen under Dong Zhuo, reuse is to be reused, the former general, Wen Hou, the status is high, if only the official, under Dong Zhuo can be called the first person, but not an inch of merit, that Xiliang army, there are many people secretly chewing the root of the tongue, saying that he Lu Bu has a false name, on meritorious service, not enough to compete with Dong Zhuo's Li Dao, Guo Yan, Hu Zhen, Zhang Ji, Hua Xiong and the like.
How arrogant Lu Bu is, he was deflated in Ye Zhao's hands before, but Ye Zhao is a person with real skills, after seeing Ye Zhao's ability, although Lu Bu was unconvinced, but he also recognized it, but a group of incapable things, just by virtue of their qualifications, they said some cool things behind his back, so how could Lu Bu endure it? It's just that he belongs to his colleagues, and Lu Bu can't directly carry Fang Tian's halberd to find trouble, so he can only hold it in his heart.
In addition, he also noticed that not only the Xiliang Army, but also those ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee did not have the same awe of Ye Zhao as they did before.
It stands to reason that Lu Bu is now a Marquis of Wen, and his title is higher than Ye Zhao, but in front of those hundreds of officials in the court, Lu Bu can't feel the high-spirited feeling of Ye Zhao in the past, but has a sense of grievance that he is controlled everywhere but has no way to exert his strength.
The reason is that Lu Bu has lost to Ye Zhao several times before, which makes people look down on him, Ye Zhao is no longer welcomed, the merit is real, and the prestige is also accumulated in the victories again and again, even if the hundred officials in the court are not used to Ye Zhao, but in front of Ye Zhao, they must have enough awe, and Ye Zhao's mouth will not be restrained by the cold violence of the hundred officials, and the previous few confrontations have not been cheapened, no matter how the hundred officials in the court and the central government feel about Ye Zhao, but the awe is spontaneous, and therefore, even if Ye Zhao is isolated, can still sway freely among the hundred officials, calm and calm.
And Lu Bu, who had been deflated by Ye Zhao several times before, and only the Bingzhou Army would listen to him, and others, such as Yulin, the Northern Army and even the Xiliang Army, did not take him seriously, as for the hundred officials in the court, it is not that you can be looked down upon by others if you have meritorious martial arts, and besides, he, Wen Hou, has some moisture, and he was forcibly promoted to Wen Hou by Dong Zhuo, and there are naturally not many people who buy it.
With a breath in his heart, Lu Bu, who wanted to make immortal achievements, was willing to just listen to Li Ru's strategy, just beat a small Sun Jian and Cao Cao, and if he wanted to do it, he would do a big deal, and he would not dare to cross the river if he wanted to beat the Kwantung princes, so after thinking of this, he did not discuss with Li Ru and others, and decided to cut it first and then play.
As for the Jiangdong Tiger, Lu Bu didn't pay attention to it at all, even if it was a real tiger, he had to lie on his stomach in front of Lu Bu.
On the side of the Kwantung princes, after Cao Cao crossed the river, Kong Ling was the first to cross the river, and Kong Ling was unlucky, originally the soldiers crossed the river first, and he was the lord who was supposed to cross the river at the end, but he saw that Sun Jian and Cao Cao had crossed the river successively, and he also had the heart to follow these two generals to make some merits, so he ran impatiently to the other side of the bank to point the soldiers and horses, when Lu Bu led three thousand iron cavalry to arrive, that Kong Ling had not yet lined up the military array.
"Lu Bu? How is he here? Kong Ling was not surprised to see Lu Bu, to put it mildly, at this moment, Hua Xiong's popularity among the Kwantung princes was much higher than that of Lu Bu.
Seeing that Lu Bu had no intention of stopping, he actually led the army directly to Kong Ling's main formation, Kong Ling was a little panicked, according to the general situation, the two armies are fighting, shouldn't they confront each other first, report their respective names and surnames, and then start fighting? But Lu Bu didn't play his cards according to common sense, he didn't say a word, and went straight to war, with three thousand iron horsemen, like a torrent, with the momentum of destroying everything, pressing towards Kong Ling's army.
The warriors in the front row pressed their bodies low, and one by one the cold spears formed a terrifying forest of death.
"Stop! Stop them! It was only at this time that Kong Ling realized that Lu Bu had no intention of stopping at all, and waved his arms in a panic and roared.
"Boom~"
After a short charge, the three thousand iron cavalry of the state fiercely crashed into Kong Ling's somewhat chaotic military formation, and with just one rush, Kong Ling's soldiers and horses that had just gathered were smashed to pieces.
Lu Bu slashed left and right with a Fang Tian painting halberd, and wherever he passed, there was no enemy, just like a sharp dagger, fiercely stabbing into the heart of Kong Ling's army.
The breath of killing also stimulated the wildness of the red rabbit horse, neighing and roaring, kicking in all directions, like a flame swept in, where it passed, corpses were all over the field, Lu Bu's Fang Tian painting halberd with the speed of the wit on the scale, and a cadre of soldiers behind him was also inexplicably excited under Lu Bu's almost violent attack method, one by one, closely following Lu Bu's pace, where he passed, such as a violent wind crossing, swept away the lives of countless Yuzhou soldiers, although the number of Yuzhou troops was large, but Lu Bu was killed by three thousand cavalry.
Seeing that the momentum had been exhausted, and the morale of Kong Ling's army had almost collapsed, Lu Bu roared, led the cavalry to fight a bloody way from the Yuzhou army obliquely, rushed out of a hundred steps away, and began to assemble again.
With the continuous advancement of Lu Bu's main force, the two led the cavalry to continue to swim, and at the same time to form support for Lu Bu at any time, they could also know that Lu Bu was besieged, but at the moment, this formation seemed to be unnecessary.
"Retire! Retire! Seeing that his own soldiers were killed and could not form an army, and the numerical advantage could not be brought into play at all, but was in and out of the other party, and the killing was not in shape, how did Kong Ling know that a Lu Bu would be so fierce, he was already frightened by Lu Bu, and hurriedly turned the horse's head and went to the riverbank, and shouted loudly: "Ye Hou save me!" ”
When a person declares that he is threatened, the first name he instinctively shouts must be in his opinion, at this moment, I am afraid that only Ye Zhao can save him.
His side was a little louder, and he quickly attracted Lu Bu's attention.
"Want to go!?" Looking at Kong Ling's embarrassed figure heading towards the ferry, Lu Bu sneered, and was not in a hurry, he hung Fang Tian's halberd on horseback, took off his strong bow with his hand, looked at Kong Ling's direction, and raised his hand to be an arrow.
"Poof~"
Kong Ling, who was galloping, only felt a chill in his chest, and when he lowered his head, there was already an extra arrow on his chest......