Chapter 124: Keeping Each Other Contained
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Time was pressing, and Lu Bu didn't have time to move everything he could, so he could only select valuable items, and leave everything else to Chen Deng.
As soon as it was dawn, Chen Deng led people outside the city and shouted for Lu Bu to get out of the city, looking fearless. Lu Bu was very humane and sent out a lot of food for the Chen Deng soldiers who had been hungry for a few days.
"Does Chen Ang want to stay or come with me?" Lu Bu didn't want to embarrass Chen Ang, he had no credit and hard work, and he was beaten by Chen Deng and his nose and face were swollen, Lu Bu sent Chen Ang to meet Chen Deng, and he had the idea of testing Chen Ang in his heart to see if he was loyal.
"Although I, Chen Ang, am greedy for life and afraid of death, I also have a lot of blood, I am born as the lord's person, and death is the lord's ghost." Chen Ang said righteously. He was really afraid that Lu Bu would kill him, as long as Lu Bu didn't die, he didn't even dare to have the slightest desire to betray. He has no ambitions, he just wants to live his life in peace.
"Okay, you follow the last boat and escort yesterday's captives to Tu Tang and hand them over to Wen Yuan, there must be no mistake."
"Die to complete the mission."
Lu Bu summoned Lu Meng from afar: "You help me send a very important battle report to General Zhang Liao, this letter is very important, it is related to the life and death of our army, will you help me deliver it?" ”
"The last general is newly invested, but the general trusts him so much, and the last general dares to be ineffective?" Lu Meng said cautiously.
"Okay, then I'm relieved. The area around the west bank is full of Yuan Shu soldiers, and I will select a hundred soldiers for you to command. Lu Bu said enthusiastically. Where did he have any important military information, but it was just a letter of recommendation to Zhang Liao, asking Zhang Liao to guide Lu Meng well. Lu Bu just used this to test Lu Meng, the generals are all marching and fighting, and they can't be controlled by their side like Lu Xun. Lu Bu had to test whether Lu Meng was loyal.
Lu Meng didn't know anything, but he wasn't stupid, he could see Lu Bu's arrangement at a glance, and Lu Bu didn't have no one else under him, why did he have to send important letters? He vaguely felt that since Lu Bu was testing him, he wanted to reuse him, so he was very happy in his heart, and left with the men Lu Bu selected for him.
Lu Bu went straight to the east gate with the bow and cavalry battalion, he heard that Sun Ce was coming with a large army, and he had to help Chen Deng stop Sun Ce, and wait for Chen Deng to completely set up a defense for Huailing before leaving, otherwise let Sun Ce easily break through, then Lu Bu's thoughts would be in vain.
Huailing City is in the mountains, as soon as the mountains come out, the east is a flat river, and the Lu Bu archery and cavalry battalion went straight to the direction of Sun Ce's army. A thousand cavalry stopped in front of Sun Ce's army.
Sun Ce came out and asked, "What does Feng Xiangong mean by this?" ”
"I also want to ask you what you mean, what did you want to do yesterday when you sent people to my territory?" Since you want to pretend to be confused, Lu Bu will too.
"Didn't you send me an order to take over the city today?" Sun Ce was very angry when he saw Lu Bu showing that he was delaying time, and he didn't know what trick Lu Bu was playing.
"There's such a thing. I'm here to make a deal with you today, do you want Xu Yi to sell it to you? Lu Bu asked.
"It was originally my subordinate general!" Sun Ce was almost angry with Lu Bu.
"You can give as much as you think Xu Yi is worth." Lu Bu said very kindly.
"One hundred stones." Sun Ce said tentatively.
"Yes. One hundred stones is equivalent to three fat pigs, it turns out that Bo Fu and I have similar ideas, and Xu Yi and three fat pigs are worth about the same. Lu Bu agreed to Sun Ce very happily, and at the end he broke the discord. Lu Bu had never heard of Xu Yi's name, and he was defenseless when he returned it to Sun Ce.
Seeing that Lu Bu's mouth was so poisonous, Sun Ce was so angry that he didn't want to talk to Lu Bu anymore, so he returned to the big formation and asked the soldiers to hand over the rations to Lu Bu.
Waiting for Sun Ce to move the grain and grass to the front of the big array, there was really not much food for 10,000 catties, and Lu Bu pointed to a small pile of grain: "It's burned." ”
Sun Ce saw Lu Bu setting fire to the grain, his face instantly darkened, and he clenched his fists to suppress the anger in his heart, Lu Bu slapped him in the face in Chiguo: "Lu Bu! What do you mean? ”
"It's my bread now, and I'm glad I did." A hundred stones of grain and grass is not enough for even a breakfast, if there are a lot of Lu Bu, he may be tempted. Besides, he is now a cavalryman, and if he wants to maintain the physical strength of the war horse, he must reduce the weight of the war horse as much as possible, and he must not let the war horse carry these grains on his back.
"The grain and grass are also given to you, and you still don't want to let go?"
"I just asked you to come today, but I didn't say when you will come today, you came early, and the grain and grass in my Huailing City have not been transported yet, so wait."
Zhou Yu stepped forward and whispered to Sun Ce: "It seems that Lu Bu must be playing tricks, so as not to have too many dreams at night, and only to attack." ”
"But our army has no cavalry, once our army takes the lead in attacking, Lu Bu's cavalry can shoot and run at the same time, and we can't take him at all." Jiangdong lacks nothing, the only thing lacking is war horses, Sun Ce has a total of less than two hundred, looking at Lu Bu's thousand archers is very headache.
"I heard that Lu Bu used the same number of infantry to repel the cavalry led by Xiahou Yuan a few months ago, so the lord might as well give it a try." Zhou Yu suggested.
Sun Ce immediately sent his soldiers out to dig a hole to trap Lu Bu's horse legs, wanting to use the same tactics to force Lu Bu back.
Ignoring the soldiers sent by Sun Ce to dig a horse pit, Lu Bu dragged Fang Tian's halberd to the ground, beat the horse and ran out, dragging a long ditch out of the ground. Lu Bu shouted domineeringly at Sun Ce in the distance: "There is no forgiveness for crossing this line." ”
Sun Ce sent countless soldiers, and soon dug out countless bowl-sized profoundness, just crossed the line drawn by Lu Bu: "Shoot!" ”
Lu Bu led all the archers, and Sun Ce's soldiers who crossed the line were hit by several bows and arrows before they had time to dig a pit.
Sun Ce was helpless against Lu Bu's archers, and had no choice, so he pinned his hopes on Zhou Yu again. Zhou Yu thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "After sprinkling the grain and grass truck, push it forward to open the road, and push it forward step by step." ”
Lu Bu didn't plan to do anything to Sun Ce, he couldn't do anything to Sun Ce with a thousand people, if Sun Ce was ruthless and attacked the whole army regardless of losses, Lu Bu's manpower would not be able to stop Sun Ce's overwhelming army at all.
Chen Deng is Lu Buyang's thug to contain Sun Ce, and in turn, Sun Ce is also Lu Bu's thug to contain Chen Deng, unless Lu Bu has the strength to annihilate both of them at the same time, but he can't do it, the only thing he can do is to take a delicate balance from it. Once Sun Ce was beaten, Sun Ce could not see hope, and when he retreated to Jiangdong, Chen Deng lost his containment, and he would definitely immediately turn back and attack Lu Bu with the Yuan Shu Alliance.
Not long after the soldiers sent by Sun Ce to dig the horse pit retreated, Sun Ce's army separated, and the grain and grass carts were pushed out.
"Shoot!" Lu Bu again gave the order to shoot. Except for Lu Bu's arrows that accurately killed the soldiers pushing the grain and grass carts, the arrows shot by the soldiers under his command were only a very small number of Jiangdong soldiers who missed and hit the grain and grass carts, and most of the arrows were blocked by the grain and grass carts. Once the soldiers who had returned the grain cart were killed, a few soldiers were added to the army that followed behind to continue pushing the grain cart. Slowly forced Lu Bu back.
"Wei Yue took dozens of people to find dry firewood." It was not easy for Lu Bu to burn Sun Ce's grain and grass, he didn't prepare a fire at all, and it was not easy to ignite the grain and grass that had been sprinkled with water.
Lu Bu's activity space was pressed down little by little. Slowly regressed, trying to give Chen Deng a little more time.