In the first battle of Lushan, both sides suffered heavy losses. When Cao Jun blocked the attack, he sacrificed too much and almost collapsed on all fronts. And the Chang'an army was destroyed twice by Cao Cao's fire, burning more than 100,000 troops almost completely annihilated.

Lu Bu led a group of soldiers and horses out of the sea of fire, and went straight to Woniu Mountain to hide, avoiding the interception and blockade of Cao's pursuers. The neat lichen armor fell off in the fire, and the face and arms were all black after the smoke, and it was impossible to see the original handsome ground. And behind Lu Bu, there were only a few hundred remnants of the soldiers who snorted and agonized. All the soldiers who rushed out of the fire were burned with sticky ears and noses, and the pain was so severe that the soldiers could not bear it.

When Lu Bu rushed out of the sea of fire, the entire army was scattered. I don't know the whereabouts of Gao Shun, Lu Meng, Yan Yan, Xu Shu, Fu Zhu, Lu Xun and others.

Lu Bu looked distractedly at Lushan Mountain, which was still emitting thick smoke. His heart was cold to the bottom of the valley, not worried about searching for the Cao soldiers at the bottom of the mountain, but worried about the comfort of the generals in the army. The scribe Lu Bu was not worried, they broke through first, but were more worried about Gao Shun after the break. Among all the generals, Gao Shun is the one who Lu Bu is the most assured, and he is the only general who is willing to put his life and military power in his hands.

Cao Jun cleaned the battlefield, but it was not to clean the battlefield, all the loot turned into flames and died in the fire. Cao Jun just tried his best to count the corpses of the enemy's soldiers and ministers.

The battlefield was cleaned three times, and the fire was completely extinguished, but Lu Budi's body was still not found. Not even a single corpse of Lu Bu's important generals and strategists was found.

"Prime Minister, don't look for it. Most of them have been burned beyond recognition, and they are unrecognizable. Cheng Yu raised his eyebrows and said. This battle completely established the hegemony of Hebei, and the 100,000 elites of Lu Bu's army were burned, and the Chang'an forces were lost by at least one-third. This is only the surface, and Chang'an's strength has been greatly damaged, and the local families suppressed by Lu Bu's policies will surface one after another and rise to challenge Chang'an's authority. The overall strength of Chang'an Land has regressed by more than half at least!

Xun Yu sighed: "Xu Shu's talent is ten times better than my uncle and nephew, Xu Shu is not dead, and Chang'an is difficult to be safe." In the face of this defeat, Chang'an Nengchen is still there, and within three or five years, he can make a comeback, and the generals of our army are completely lost, why should he deserve it? ”

"General Cao Ren came to report that Zhang Liao's army showed signs of difficulty in crossing, and it was the best policy to annihilate the main force of Chang'an, commander of Zhang Liao, first." Cheng Yu said.

"Although Zhang Liao has the talent of a general, if Lu Bu dies, it will be difficult for Zhang Liao to preside over the overall situation. At least Wei Yan, the general of Lu Bu's conquest of the south, would not obey his dispatch. Soon after the pacification of the four counties of Hexi, after the death of Lu Bu, the prime minister only needed to send a person who could speak the Tao, and he would be able to rebel against Yongliang and Liangzhou. Zhang Ji, Fu Gan and others may not be loyal to the young master. At that time, Guanzhong will be in chaos and will have no time to take care of itself. Chang'an fell apart. Therefore, I think that Lu Bu should be punished. Cheng Yu said.

Cheng Yudi's words were right in Cao Cao's arms. Lü Bu was jealous of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao was also jealous of Lu Bu's personal influence on Chang'an. Chang'an's loss of Lu Bu is like Yecheng losing Cao Cao, and it is difficult for anyone to preside over the overall situation, as Cheng Yu said, not attacking and messing up.

"Tian Yu led Yuyang to ride and surround Woniu Mountain! Yu Ban led the Tiger Guard Battalion, turned Woniu Mountain upside down, and also found out Lu Bu! Li Dian and Yan Xing led Youzhou cavalry to attack Wuguan! This prime minister sits in Xiangcheng! Cao Cao ordered. After Xiangcheng was destroyed by fire in Wancheng, it can already be regarded as the center of the current war. Cao Cao decided to sit here and coordinate the overall situation.

——————————————

On the mountain peaks in the distance, a beacon of smoke pierced straight into the sky.

"It's Zang Ba! Ignition response. Lu Bu was pleasantly surprised to find that there was smoke outside a few mountain peaks, and said hurriedly.

After Lu Bu lit the signal, Cao Bing also found Lu Bu as soon as possible, and several generals led thousands of Cao soldiers to kill up the mountain. Lu Bu straddled the back of the shadow and stood on the ridge. Lu Bu no longer continued to hide his whereabouts now, and he was so good that Cao Jun could see it more clearly.

After a night of panic, Lu Bu once again stabilized his anxiety, and at the moment of danger, his head was running at high speed.

Lu Bu must not only hide his whereabouts now, but also reveal his location, and must make a high-profile appearance, so that his own army can be defeated, let the Chang'an defenders, let the military officials under his command, and let the Chang'an Shi clan know the news that he is still alive as soon as possible. Although this will expose him to Cao's pursuit, it will help stabilize the morale of the army and make his own rebels have some scruples.

Once Cao Cao turned the news of Lu Bu's 'death' into a 'fact', the stable situation in Chang'an would immediately become turbulent and would become out of control. Then came the news that Lu Bu was alive, and Chang'an would be even more chaotic. Since this is the case, Lu Bu can't give hope to those who have different intentions, and he must send the news that he is still alive back to Chang'an as soon as possible.

Lu Bu didn't have a strategist around him to help him make up his mind, and now everything was up to him. Lu Bu became more and more worried. The most important thing at the moment is to collect the remnants and continue the confrontation with Cao Cao, delaying until Zhang Liao's army moves south, and then fight Cao Cao again.

It's not easy to collect the stubs. The Woniu Mountain Range and the Qinling Mountains are incomparable, and the Longshan Mountains cannot be compared, but tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of defeated troops are hidden in it, and it is still like a stone sinking into the sea, and it will be extremely difficult to find out.

Lu Bu thought of a way and decided to implement it.

"Can the brothers still fight?" Lu Bu ignored the Cao soldiers who rushed up from the bottom of the mountain, and turned to ask the wounded soldiers on his side. Lu Bu was one of the last few troops to break out of the fire, and the soldiers were particularly badly burned. And burns are more painful and unbearable than knife wounds.

"Whoa, whoa, can ...... Oops......"

The soldiers got up from the ground with a snort and grinned.

A trace of unbearability flashed in Lu Bu's heart. The soldiers are suffering from tragic injuries and will continue to go to the battlefield, can they play half of their usual level with such injuries? Didn't they send them to their deaths? However, Lu Bu had no other way. If you want to collect the remnants and fight again, you can't just rely on Lu Bu to hide in the deep mountains and old forests. Lu Bu was also hiding relative to his own defeat. It will be difficult for the defeated soldiers to find him. At present, the only way is to go out of the mountain and fight Cao Bing. The instinctive purpose of all the defeated troops is to avoid Cao Jun and continue to live, that is to say, now the idea of Cao Jun is more than the idea of him, the main general. As long as you continue to fight with Cao Jun, you will definitely be discovered by your own soldiers.

"Alright, lift up your weapons and shout with me." After Lu Bu finished speaking, he turned around and went down the mountain to search for Cao Bing:

"The great general Lu Bu and Lu Feng are here first, can the national thief Cao Cao dare to fight?"

"The great general Lu Bu and Lu Feng are here first, can the national thief Cao Cao dare to fight?"

The sound shook the mountains and rivers, and the echoes continued in the mountains. As soon as Lu Bu shouted angrily, a few smoke came out of the mountains in the distance, and it was the defeated soldiers of his side who set fire in response.

"It's Lu Bu! Lu Bu is on it! General Cao Bing shouted in horror: "Quick, quickly inform General Yu Ban." ”

"Kill!" On the mountain, Lu Bu's army, under the leadership of Lu Bu, staggered down from the mountain, stretched out his bow and arrows, and killed three Cao soldiers with one arrow.

"The enemy army is strong, retreat, retreat quickly."

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of Cao soldiers rose and fell and disappeared into the dense forest.

Lu Bu led the army to shuttle through the mountain paths, ordering the soldiers to shout as he walked, and when he encountered the Cao soldiers of Soshan Mountain, Lu Bu took the lead in killing, and one person and one horse killed the small group of Cao soldiers along the way and fled. In half a day, more and more soldiers from Chang'an, who were killed and scattered, joined Lu Bu's army, and when they met Zang Ba, Lu Bu had gathered a team of 3,000 people.

"The last general is ineffective in the battle, please punish the general." Zang Ba was still in the distance, and the voice came first. Seeing that Lu Bu was unhindered, Zang Ba was relieved, and his face stretched out.

"Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers. Wasn't I also killed by Cao Jun? The sin will be the most. Lu Bu stepped forward to help Zang Ba, adversity saw the truth, these old subordinates were loyal without doubt, Lu Bu patted Zang Ba on the shoulder and asked, "Can you fight?" ”

Zang Ba said ashamedly: "When the fire broke out, our troops were the first to break through, and the casualties were not heavy. It's still capable of fighting. ”

At this time, Lu Xun walked out of the Zang Ba army with a disgraced face, he still didn't seem to have come out of the fiasco, obviously the great victory was in front of him, and he was teleported, who could accept it.

Lu Bu stepped forward to comfort Lu Xun, and then he went out of the mountain to continue to talk to Cao Cao. Lu Xun thought about it and nodded in agreement, at least he was in a state of confusion now, and he couldn't make a better decision.

Lu Xun was unharmed, and Lu Budi's mood calmed down even more. Lu Xun is not only his son-in-law, Chang'an will not be able to do without Lu Xun in the future, with Lu Xun's existence, Lu Bu will have the confidence to fight against the world's wise strategists. When the whereabouts of Xu Shu, Fu Zhu and several other strategists are unknown, Lu Xun is undoubtedly the source of Lu Bu's confidence.

While looking for most of Cao's army, Lü Bu gathered the defeated army and advanced in the direction of Xiangcheng, intending to go to Xiangcheng and call Cao Cao for a fight.

——————————————————

The news of Lu Bu's defeat and unknown life and death was spread to the world by the generals of Cao Cao's army in the first time, and under the false rumors, Lu Bu was tortured in thousands of ways and died in thousands of versions, anyway, in a word, Lu Bu died.

Hurry up, in one day, the news will spread to all parts of the world, or three or five days, the news will be transmitted to Yizhou, Jiaozhou and other margins. The world's corporates celebrate.

However, Cao Cao was not happy. Cao Cao found the generals of the family in the army several times and asked them to mobilize their family forces, continue to transport food, send soldiers to the front line to supply, and recruit soldiers to support Cao Ren's troops on the northern front, so as to fight from Hedong to Chang'an and eradicate the Chang'an force in one fell swoop.

In this battle, although Cao Cao defeated Lu Bu, he was also seriously injured and his strength was greatly damaged, and he lost thousands of soldiers on the ground and grass.

However, after the crisis was resolved, the true nature of the Maison was revealed. There is no food, there are no soldiers, in order to protect the interests of the family, they pass the buck to each other, but they are unwilling to take out some interests in the family.

Can Cao Cao promise official positions, generals, and titles for the family, is it good? Of course there is, but is it worth it to exchange all the interests of the family for these? Even if you don't have a family anymore, what's the use of all this? In this battle, in order to support Cao Cao, many big families took out their old foundations. Continuing to support Cao Cao's great cause is tantamount to putting the family on the path of defeat.