Chapter 159: Plotting Liu Bei
Lu Bu rushed to Tu Zhong again. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Climbing up and climbing to the walls that leaned in all directions, the land of the north of the city is very clean, as if it has been washed countless times. The southern wall of the city stood tall, and all the bricks and tiles were washed under the southern wall of the city, forming a slope as high as the city wall, and the city was full of ruins, like ruins under the end of the world.
The clearing in the city was littered with countless whitish corpses, densely packed for seven or eight hundred steps. The scene is far less tragic than the battlefield, but it can be more shocking. There are also hundreds of people who look like people digging under the tiles of the southern city, and occasionally a few corpses are being dug out.
Lu Bu sat weakly on the city wall, he thought that there were countless people who were trapped in the water waiting for help, so he hurriedly rushed to the scene with soldiers to rescue, now think about it, the flood together, all the places that passed were swept away, and the flood then retreated, not at all like a rainstorm from the sky, trapping people in the water and needing rescue. The flood waters have receded, and those who have not been washed away do not need Lu Bu to come to the rescue.
"Lord, what now?" Wei Yue asked, there is no one trapped along the way, there is no need for rescue, now I am afraid that Shouchun really needs rescue, the lower reaches of the Huai River are blocked, and the river water is poured back, which will flood the Shouchun area.
"The order is to collect and burn all the corpses, not only human corpses, but also animal corpses." Lu Bu has more than 2,000 years of knowledge than people of this era, and he knows that after the flood, countless corpses will decompose, and the plague will follow, and Lu Bu will be helpless in dealing with the plague, so he can only take precautions first.
"Burn...... Corpse? Wei Yue hesitated.
"It must be burned, otherwise it can only be buried in a deep pit, so many corpses in Huainan have no time to bury at all, so they can only be burned as soon as possible to prevent the spread of the plague. The order goes down, this is an order, and there must be no mistake. "Lu Bu can only take tough measures, and now he is emphasizing that he is in the ground.
"And sprinkle more quicklime around the barracks. Set up an isolation ward, once a soldier gets the plague, he needs to be isolated and treated in time. Lu Bu said to Wei Yue.
Dozens of cavalry in the archery battalion galloped out and passed Lu Bu's general orders to the generals of all directions.
"Don't stand stupidly, everyone help carry the corpse and see if there are any survivors."
Lu Bu calmed down, since the incident had happened, the sadness could not undo the tragedy, and he was not a person with a flood of sympathy, he had tried his best to rescue him, and he had a clear conscience.
Lu Bu walked to the side of the body and saluted respectfully, among them, many of them were drowned soldiers, who did not die on the battlefield, but died under the flood.
"Is there a whereabouts of General Mei Cheng?" Lu Bu stepped forward into the distance, and asked a man dressed as a soldier.
"The body of General Mei Cheng has not yet been found. When General Mei Cheng heard the rumbling sound, he took his guards to the northern city wall to check the reason, and never returned. The soldier said that the main general had tears in his eyes.
"Find General Mei Cheng, you have to see people in life, you have to see the corpse in death, and if you encounter misfortune, transport the corpse back to Shouchun for burial." Mei Cheng is also a general who surrendered, and Lu Bu had to show some kindness to comfort Ji Ling and the others who surrendered.
Lu Bu continued to ask, "How many of you survived it?" β
"There are only ninety-three people. We happened to be on duty at the south wall, so we escaped in time. The soldier said with a sigh of relief.
"You can survive from one percent, and if you don't die in a great disaster, you will be blessed, and I will reuse you well in the future. I will organize people to count the soldiers who died, and the pensions will be sent to the families of these soldiers one by one. Do you know the reason for the bursting of the embankment of Lake Hakuba? β
"I don't know."
"What about Guangling County on the east bank of the Huai River?" Lu Bu wanted to know this question very much, if it was only Huainan that was affected by the disaster and Guangling was fine, it was very likely that it was really an accidental embankment burst.
"The most violent is under the White Horse Lake, probably at the point where the breach of the embankment is located, and countless mounds on the opposite bank have been washed away."
"Liu Bei!" Lu Bu's steel teeth were clenched, and if he could bleed, he might have been bitten through. At this moment, Lu Bu was completely sure that Liu Bei was digging the embankment. Huainan and other places are just a chain reaction caused by the bursting of the embankment. The waters of Baima Lake are vast, connected to Hongze Lake, and once the embankment bursts, the water potential is huge.
"I don't know how much Sun Ce's army is left." Lu Bu suffered from the disaster of pond fish, and also lost nearly 10,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of people, Sun Ce bore the brunt, and the loss was probably far greater than that of Lu Bu.
"Liu Bei rushed to risk the world's disapproval, and his crimes were angry with heaven and man. Ben will vow to declare to the world that they will work together to eliminate those who have harmed the people. "Hasn't Liu Bei always managed his reputation, Lu Bu decided to make his reputation stink, Liu Bei has no reputation, and it is no longer worth mentioning.
A fast horse came in the distance, and the knight shouted from afar: "I am a messenger under the account of Liu Xuande, the uncle of the Han Emperor, and the Xuande Gong has an urgent report to Lu Fengxian, and I am tired of forwarding it." β
Lu Bu immediately stepped forward to intercept the messenger: "This will be Lu Bu, Liu Bei dug the embankment and flooded the people of the world, the crime is monstrous, the general will petition for the people, when the army is raised to avenge the people of the world, quickly go back and tell Liu Bei, wait for my army to press the border." β
"Is Feng Xiangong at the foot? In the next faux pas. This is a letter written by Xuande Gong himself, please take a look at it. Under the power of Lu Bu, the messenger fell to his knees with his legs weakened, and held the book of sins high above his head.
"I'm here to see what kind of face Liu Bei has to confess." Lu Bu took the letter, and after scanning it, his face turned red and he was furious.
Liu Bei claimed that he failed to stop the car from bursting the embankment in time, and then stopped all the sins on his own shoulder. On the surface, this letter is a letter of his own guilt, and after putting all the charges on his shoulders, there is actually no guilt, and all the guilt is completely blamed, but it highlights his benevolence and righteousness even more.
Liu Bei's scheming was unfathomable, so angry that Lu Bu was furious, if it weren't for the rule that the two countries would not kill each other, Lu Bu might have killed this messenger to vent his anger. Liu Bei was one step higher than Lu Buqi everywhere, which made Lu Bu so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood.
Lu Bu was helpless against Liu Bei, and wanted to get rid of Liu Bei, but there was no way, of course, he could make Liu Bei and Cao Cao turn their faces by borrowing the 'edict', but in this way, Liu Xie didn't believe in Lu Bu anymore, and Lu Bu couldn't continue to put on the tiger skin of loyal ministers to take advantage of the righteousness.
Lu Bu suddenly thought that the world didn't know that Liu Bei betrayed Cao Cao, but Lu Bu, Dong Cheng and others all knew. Liu Bei himself also knew that he had betrayed Cao Cao in his heart, and the oath he made that day was probably Liu Bei's heart knot, why not start from this?
Lu Bu changed his expression to a suspicious expression and asked the messenger: "Why hasn't Liu Bei been struck by thunder yet?" Could it be that every thunderstorm, Liu Bei hides under the big tree? β
"Feng Xiangong, what do you mean?" This messenger may not know the oath made by Liu Bei, or may think that Liu Bei is loyal to Cao Cao, and asked Lu Bu in confusion.
"As the saying goes: it's good to hide from thunder under the big tree...... Lu Bu suddenly covered his mouth exaggeratedly, as if he had missed something, and smiled in surprise: "There is no thing, there is no thing, I will just make a joke with Brother Xuande." β
Lu Bu wanted to cover up, he just wanted to perform like this, and tell Liu Bei this information through the mouth of the messenger. Not only that, but Lu Bu also took out a lot of money to bribe, pretending to ask the messenger not to tell Liu Bei.
Lu Bu drove the messenger away and joined the rescue in the city, and the water in other places had receded, so there was no need for timely rescue, only to collect the corpse and burn it. While Lu Bu was helping to clean up the corpse, he waited for news from Li Shang, who had gone south along the river to investigate.
Xu Shu led the army to the end of the next day. LΓΌ Bu had been waiting for him to come and discuss the matter, and Li Shang came back to report that the lower reaches of the Huai River were seriously blocked, and the amount of work was too large, and it was not much different from digging a new river. Lu Bu doesn't have so much manpower and material resources at all, and he doesn't have time, he still has to arrange people to harvest grain for Liu Biao as soon as possible, where is the time to dig the river?
As soon as Xu Shu arrived outside the city, Lu Bu called Xu Shu and Liu Ye over, sat on the ground, and began to discuss countermeasures.
Lu Bu repeatedly thought about the river issue last night, and he could not ignore the water in the upper reaches of the Yingshui and Huai rivers and let them flood. The only thing that can be done is to drain the water from these two rivers in the simplest way possible.
Xu Shu received the battle report from Lu Bu yesterday, and as soon as he sat down, he said: "Now that Guangling County has been razed to the ground, Sun Ce's decline has been revealed, and it is inevitable that he will be defeated and return to Jiangdong. Liu Bei has no enemies, and it is very likely that he will turn to Shouchun instead. In this way, our army will be held back again. β
Lu Bu actually ignored this problem, he subconsciously regarded Cao Cao as Liu Bei's enemy, but Cao Cao didn't know about the edict now, how could he send troops to attack Liu Bei, Liu Bei had no enemy, if Chen Deng was not drowned in Huailing, it would definitely encourage Liu Bei to open up territory and expand his territory in Shouchun. It is very likely that Chen Deng did not drown in the water, Huailing is in the middle of the mountains, and it is very likely that he will flee to the top of the mountain before the flood sweeps away.
Lu Bu said: "Since Liu Bei has no enemies, let's find another enemy for him." β
"Looking for whom? Qingzhou Yuan Tan? β
"Cao Cao." Lu Bu said.
Xu Shu smiled and said, "Liu Bei is loyal to Cao Cao, how could he fight Cao Cao?" β
Liu Bei's oath, even Xu Shu did not doubt that Liu Bei would have different intentions for Cao Cao, only Lu Bu understood who Liu Bei was, how could he be bound by the oath.
Lu Bu said: "Liu Bei is a person who has lived under the people for a long time, as long as there is righteousness to support him in rebelling against Cao Cao, the oath of the day will only prove that he is a person who sacrifices himself for the world, and his reputation will not be damaged by half, but will be even higher." β
"What righteousness can Liu Bei borrow?" Liu Ye couldn't figure out what righteousness Liu Bei could use to break away from Cao Cao.
"What if the Son of Heaven issued an edict against Cao Cao." Lu Bu didn't know that the bloody edict in history was lied about by Dong Cheng, and he thought it was true. At present, I don't know if there is a son of heaven with an edict Lu Bu, history has changed, and he can't accurately speculate, but Liu Bei is unwilling to live under Cao Cao for a long time, which is inevitable. Regardless of whether there is or not, as long as Lu Bu releases the news, Cao Cao's suspicious character will not believe Liu Bei without suspicion.