Chapter 41: The Spiritualist Altar (Collect)
Lu Bu entrusted the south gate to Chen Gong and walked towards the west gate. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
From a distance, I saw Chen Yu and Gao Chao patrolling around, looking like they were facing a great enemy, and when they saw Lu Bu coming, they hurriedly ran down from the city gate.
"My lord."
"Good work. You don't have to be so nervous. It will take time for Cao Cao's army to arrive. Lu Bu did not tell Chen Yu and Gao Chao about the specific marching plan, and only Zhang Liao, Chen Gong and Gao Shun knew the specific plan in the army, and the others did not tell them, they only thought that Lu Bu was going to fight Cao Cao in Lu County, and only Chen Yu participated in transporting grain and grass to Huaiyin with his father, and knew a little.
"Between life and death, can you not be nervous? Let the lord see it laugh. Chen Yu smiled embarrassedly, he knew that he could not reach his father's calmness and wisdom, and he could only make up for his clumsiness.
Lu Bu patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "Zixiao doesn't have to care, everyone's talent is different, Jiang Taigong only began to show his talent at the age of eighty, and there are many people who are late bloomers through acquired hard work." ”
"Yu remembers the teachings of the Lord."
"Look at you." Lu Bu smiled and pointed to the soldiers on the tower of the city: "Make them all like they are facing a great enemy, pass the order, collect pigs, cattle and sheep in the city, and kill pigs and sheep tonight to reward the three armies." ”
There was no trace of reproach in Lu Bu's words, but he was very sure of Chen Yu and Gao Chao's conscientious attitude. When the soldiers heard that meat was available, they were overjoyed. In this era, cattle cannot be killed casually, and killing a cow in peacetime may be a major crime. Anyway, the entire Lu country will be Cao Cao's, and he can be defeated as much as he can, Lu Bu is not distressed at all, but it is a pity that the people have suffered, if possible, Lu Bu still hopes to move the people to his own territory.
Lu Bu went from the West Gate to the North Gate, and through Chen Yu, he knew that Zhang Liao was not staying at home, and he had come to the West Gate to guard earlier, and found that Chen Yu was superb at the West Gate, so he went to the East Gate, which was relatively not very reassuring, and the East Gate guard was the farmer Xiao Xiong.
The east gate is defended by Zhang Liao, Lu Bu doesn't need to worry about it, the north gate guard is Zhang Liaodi's general Wang Mao, Lu Bu doesn't know what his ability is, so he turned around and walked from the west gate to the north gate.
From a distance, I saw Zhang Hu and Wang Mao talking and laughing on the city tower, and it seemed that Zhang Hu was closer to Wang Mao than to Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao has always had a straight face, no wonder Zhang Hu is afraid from the bottom of his heart, he has a strong father who doesn't know whether it is an honor or a misfortune.
"Uncle, general" Lu Bu just ascended the city tower, Zhang Hu was like a cat who was stepped on by the tail, and wanted to hide behind Wang Mao.
Lu Bu and Wang Mao talked about it, and learned about Wang Mao's talent from daily trivial matters, and found that he had repeatedly repelled the soldiers sent by Cao Cao to attack Lu County, and even if he did not have the talent of a general, he could reluctantly appoint a city guard.
"What does General Wang want?"
"Protecting General Zhang's safety is my life's wish." Wang Mao didn't dare to call Zhang Liao the lord in front of Lu Bu, for fear that Lu Bu would be suspicious of Zhang Liao, and Lu Bu couldn't use people, and the world knew it.
"Truly a man of loyalty." Lu Bu praised that he had planned to appoint him as his general, but seeing that he was loyal to Zhang Liao, it was not bad to stay by Zhang Liao's side.
"I want you to be General Zhang Liao's deputy general and protect General Zhang Liao, are you willing?" Although Wang Mao does not have the talent of a general, he has him by his side to protect Zhang Liao, and he does not have to worry about Zhang Liao encountering danger, and now his generals are overstretched, so they can only promote some loyal people from among the soldiers.
"General Xie was promoted, and the last general will swear to protect General Zhang's safety."
"Why didn't Zhang Hu accompany your mother?" Lu Bu's voice changed, and Zhang Hu asked behind Wang Mao.
"I want to learn more from my father how to lead the army and fight."
Wang Mao heard Zhang Hu returning, secretly proud of Zhang Liao in his heart, turned around and touched his head, and said to Lu Bu, who was a little dissatisfied with Zhang Hu hiding behind him and worried: "The young general is young, less than twelve, which disappointed General Lu. ”
"He's only eleven years old?" Lu Bu said with some surprise, he looked like he was fourteen or fifteen years old, and his height was almost the same as Gao Chao, no wonder he was so frightened that he threw himself into his arms and cried when he saw his first face, because he had a preconceived idea to let his juniors compare with his predecessors, how many people in the world can have Zhang Liao's talent? His own requirements were too high, and his mentality began to be put down.
Lu Bu secretly blamed himself in his heart, comparing these juniors with Ma Chao, who was able to accompany his father to fight at the age of twelve, the more he looked at Gao Chao and Zhang Hu, the more he felt that there was no successor, and how many people in the world were comparable to Ma Chao? He forgot that Ma Chao was a military general who could compete with himself.
stayed in Lu County for three days, but never saw the arrival of Zang Ba's army.
Lu Bu stood on the city tower and looked at the soldiers who were sent to invite Zang Ba to Lu County to meet the ground again, and said to Chen Gong beside him: "Why does Zang Xuangao want to send troops to Fenyang, I have sent people to invite him several times, but they all blame each other for horns, but they don't come?" ”
"The general Xuzhou lost the battle, and there are few soldiers under his command, Zang Ba is probably worried that the lord will take the opportunity to take his soldiers for his own use." After Chen Gong finished speaking, he asked rhetorically: "If Zang Ba doesn't come, how will the lord deal with it?" ”
Lu Bu's mind turned sharply, now he and Zang Ba are not in agreement, he must unite as soon as possible to eliminate the doubts in his heart, Cao Cao will soon catch up, and when the time comes, he will still be like this, and he will only be broken by Cao Cao.
"If he doesn't come again, so-and-so will personally invite him."
In the afternoon, the soldiers who went to ask Zang Ba came back again to report: "General Zang said that if the general persecuted again, he would lead his troops back to Mount Tai." ”
Lu Bu had always believed that Zang Ba would come to support, but at this moment he found that people's hearts were unpredictable, history had been changed, and the road ahead was even more difficult to figure out, and he was full of confusion about the road ahead.
"My lord... Lord? Chen Gong called Lu Bu a few times before waking up Lu Bu who was stunned.
"Since Zang Ba is worried, I will personally go to solve his doubts."
"The lord wants to enter the camp alone?" Chen Gong exclaimed.
"There's no fuss, as the main general, why can't I go to the subordinate soldiers' camp?" If he could, Lu Bu was not willing to enter Zang Ba's big tent alone, and it was difficult for him to say that he had no dissent, and it was difficult to guarantee that Zang Ba would not take the opportunity to kill himself and sacrifice his head to Cao Cao for glory and wealth.
"Sir, don't worry, with my Li Damu guard, there must be no hair missing from the lord."
"I'm enough to ride alone." Lu Bu refused, there are too many people, but it will cause Zang Ba's defensive heart, Lu Bu gambled, won and got a general, and if he lost, it was just this small life, if there was no Zang Badi army, Lu Bu would not be able to compete with Cao Cao, it was still a death, he would not easily go to Zang Ba's camp alone, and he had to do something before that, so that Zang Ba did not dare to move.
"Send someone to send an order to Zang Ba, and when I retreat, Cao Cao's army will personally go to his camp to invite him."
"Whoa." A soldier went out to fight his horse and run to Fenyang.
"Gongtai sent people to find a treasure of feng shui, build a high platform, the platform is divided into seven layers, each floor is seven feet seven inches high, and flags are placed around it, and the name of this platform is 'Spiritualist Terrace'. It was agreed that Cao Cao would fight to the death in front of this stage. "Lu Bu decided to pretend to be a ghost to scare Cao Cao, and Zang Ba will inevitably be bluffed.
That night, there was an old man named Xu Kun, who claimed to be a descendant of Xu Fu and was now an alchemy family, and told Lu Bu that more than 40 miles outside the city of Lubu County was the source of Surabaya, and there was a mountain, called Sijue Mountain, which was the place where the trapped dragon spit out water, gathering grievances for thousands of years, and it was suitable for building the Yin Damage Ground Array of the Soul Summoning Platform.
Lu Bucai was too lazy to have anything to do with this superstitious leader, so he pretended to be unfathomable, and gave him carte blanche to build a spiritualist platform on the top of the mountain. Xu Kun wanted to find out, and promised to do what Lu Budi asked.