Lu Bu received Wei Yan's battle report and was very angry. The capture of Yiwu by Wei Yan www.biquge.info Pen, Fun and Pavilion was indeed the first contributor to Lu Bu's foothold in Chang'an, and played a very important role in pacifying Xiliang in the future. But Wei Yan used Lu Bu's entire overall situation to win a city, which was intolerable to Lu Bu. Wei Yan only saw the results after success, but did not consider the impact after failure.

Others are plotting and then acting, but Wei Yan is moving and then plotting, no wonder history ended in tragedy, his disregard for the overall situation made Lu Bu secretly jealous in his heart.

"Feng Wei Yan is the Marquis of Nanjiang Pavilion! Go to all duties. Lu Bu gritted his teeth and rewarded him.

"The lord wants to belittle Wei Yan?" Xu Shu asked.

"See for yourself!" Lu Bu handed the battle report to Xu Shu.

After reading it, Xu Shu also had a trace of atmosphere on his face, and at the same time worried: "Wei Yan is indeed a little arrogant, but there is a shortage of generals under the lord, is it any longer?" ”

"With just a few merits, he boasted that he was the number one general under a certain account, but he looked too highly up on himself. Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Chen Gong and others were not arrogant to the point of him in the southern and northern wars, if he was allowed to make great contributions, wouldn't it turn the sky upside down? ”

Wei Yan was the only general under Lü Bu to be a marquis, and even Lü Bu's own Marquis Wen was deprived by Cao Cao. Lu Bu gave him real power and gave him an honorary title, just to let Wei Yan know the sense of proportion and know how to advance and retreat, otherwise according to his style of looking above the top, even Lu Bu would not be able to save him in the end.

"Recruit Zang Ba back from Xiliang, and he will replace Wei Yan to guard Yiwu. Let Wei Yan come back to guard the meridian mouth. Lu Bu arranged. Didn't Wei Yan want to make meritorious contributions, Lu Bu decided to let him make another attack, formulate a route to attack Hanzhong, and let him go to Hanzhong in the future. Hanzhong had little influence on Guanzhong, and whether Wei Yan guarded Hanzhong or surrendered to the enemy would not have an impact on Guanzhong in the end. Lu Bu also gave Wei Yan time to think, and after a while, Lu Bu decided to meet Wei Yan again in person, if he didn't repent, Lu Bu didn't plan to reuse him, just take care of him in the future.

Lu Bu also does not ask all the soldiers under his command to be as loyal as Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, and requires all generals to be unselfish and unconditionally loyal, which is just idealism, and people have selfish intentions. At least when carrying out his commands, don't harm others and yourself with selfish intentions.

"Guarding the meridian? Will there be enemy troops coming at the meridian pass? Xu Shu, Liu Ye and others didn't know Lu Bu's arrangement, and thought that Lu Bu wanted to demote Wei Yan to the point that he couldn't be degraded anymore.

"Promote Huo Jun to the rank of lieutenant, and go to Wuzhangyuan in the northwest of Yiwu to build a checkpoint."

Lu Bu was not worried about Huo Jun's guarding of Yiwu, and Huo Jun's brother was killed by Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao killed a lieutenant general of the enemy army, how could Lu Bu not know.

"Is Wu Xi willing to surrender? How about the construction of various pontoon bridges? Take the Jianzhang Palace in the west of the city as soon as possible. ”

Wu Xi put Pei Mao under house arrest in Huxian, and no news has been sent back so far, presumably Wu Xi is vacillating, Lu Bu suppressed his impulse, and did not make any offensive posture in Huxian, so that Zhang Ji would be suspicious of Wu Xi.

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Wang Zhong and Liu Dai led the troops to attack Xuzhou, and went down to the village in Shanyang, preparing to attack Xiaopei. On this day, they received Cao Cao's attack order, and the two blamed each other to fight.

Liu Bei found out that Wang Zhong and Liu Dai led troops to invade the border, and hurriedly convened his subordinates to discuss.

Jian Yong's strategy was mediocre, worried that someone would rob him of his clever plan, so he said first: "The only people Cao Cao is afraid of are Yuan Shao and Lu Bu in Hebei." Yuan Shao's new defeat, Cao Cao will despise it. It is rumored that Lü Bu wrote a denunciation of Cao Cao, and the troops went around Luoyang to attack Xuchang, Cao Cao was leading a large army to Xingyang to block Lü Bu's army, and sent Li Dian to lead an army to Xiangcheng to support Cao Ren, his intention was very obvious, that is, Cao Cao wanted to attack Wancheng with heavy troops. I think that Wang Zhong and Liu Dai are mediocre, and there is nothing to worry about. ”

Chen Deng retorted: "Cao Cao is scheming, and Lu Bu is not loyal, these two must have other plans." Lu Bu gave up the land of Huainan, but rumors spread in Hanzhong and Yizhou at this time, when Lu Bu had no foundation, how could he give up his life and die to crusade against Cao Cao. And why did Lu Bu give up the easy and the difficult, and go around Luoyang? There are many roads to send troops to Xuchang from Runan, and it is very unreasonable for him to do so, and this must be Lu Busheng's plan to attack the west.

Since Lu Bu's army did not command Xuchang, then Cao Cao's west trip to Xingyang is not established. With Cao Cao's character, if he wanted to go west to block Lu Bu, he would definitely hide his tracks and suddenly attack. Today, the reversal has changed the norm, and the momentum of going west is huge. I thought that Cao Cao's army was going west was fake, and it was true that the east was coming, and Cao Cao deliberately didn't play the flag because he wanted to catch me off guard in Xuzhou. Chen Deng analyzed them one by one.

"I'm going to find out what's going on." Zhang Fei said angrily.

"You are irritable, afraid of startling snakes, if Cao Cao is really here, we can plan and let him have no return." Liu Bei said.

"Look at me catching the thief." Zhang Fei was not convinced.

"Cao Cao is here, you must be careful. General Guan is familiar with the art of war and can lead his troops to act at the opportune opportunity. Chen Deng said with Zhang Fei's cannibalistic gaze. Guan Yu was ordered to lead 3,000 troops to Xiaopei to investigate the truth.

Chen Deng continued: "The important town of Xiaoguan has to be defended, and General Zhang Yide can go to garrison it. ”

Zhang Fei saw that Chen Deng recommended him to guard Xiao Pass, so he eased his face and happily accepted the order. This Xiao Pass is between Jiuli Mountain and Mangdang Mountain in the west of Xiao Pei, Chen Deng pit Lu Bu here last year, Lu Bu not only lost Xiao Pass, but also gave Chen Deng a pit in succession, which eventually led to Lu Bu's defeat. Of course, this Xiao Pass cannot be compared with the Xiao Pass of the Four Stops of Qin, and the Xiao Pass is the important pass of the northwest defense line of the pre-Qin Dynasty, which can be called the Xiongguan Pass in the world.

"Cao Cao is here, with the intention of sneak attack, he must take the approach, the lord can personally lead an army to guard Xiang County, and the three generals of Xiao Guan are horns to prevent Cao Cao from attacking Pengcheng with troops from Xiyang." Chen Dengdao.

"This arrangement can ensure that Xuzhou is foolproof." Liu Bei nodded in affirmation of Chen Deng's arrangement.

"All the princes have a mission, and the last general will ask for war."

Chen Deng followed the voice, and he was a calm and sassy white-robed and white-armored young general, whose name was Zhao Yunbiao Zilong.

Zhao Yun asked for battle, and Chen Deng looked at Liu Bei. Zhao Yun's dignified appearance made Chen Deng murmur to himself in his heart, this is going to the battlefield, and the enemy will be merciful because of your heroic martial arts? Zhao Yun was too young, which caused Chen Deng's contempt.

Liu Bei thought for a while: "Zilong is strong and strong, Wen Tao is martial, and he is up to the task." ”

Chen Deng got Liu Bei's point, and he already roughly knew Zhao Yun's ability, Liu Bei's evaluation of Zhang Fei was irritable, and his evaluation of Zhao Yun was quite high. Chen Deng made up his mind: "General Zhao will sit in Xiapi first, in case of emergency." ”

In this backward era, the transmission of information was very slow, for example, Lu Bu had already gone to Chang'an, and Chen Deng and others thought that Lu Bu wanted to take Hanzhong. They didn't know where Cao Cao used troops in Xuzhou, Xuzhou was a place where enemies were attacked on all sides, and there was no danger to defend, and only when Cao Cao came to the door would they passively know. Chen Deng left Zhao Yun in Xiapi just to be able to remedy it in time at a critical moment.

"Who will defend Lu State, Rencheng and other places?" Liu Bei reminded.

"The lord is too worried, Cao Cao is here to focus on sneak attacks, and he will fight quickly, how can he go all the way to Lu country." Chen Deng also has no choice, Xuzhou has such a small number of troops, no matter how it is deployed, the number of troops is limited, and no matter how much it is doubled, it will not be possible to arrange Xuzhou, the place of the four wars, into an iron wall. Chen Deng could only minimize the inconsequential city forces.

"It's better to ask Yuan Benchu to send troops to help, and Cao Thief will retreat." Sun Qian thought about it for a long time, and felt that Liu Bei was alone and difficult to resist Cao Cao, so asking Yuan Shao to send troops to help was the best policy.

"Cao Bing is coming quickly, and now it's too late to ask for help from Yuan Shao." Chen Deng vetoed. When he sent someone to Yuan Shao for help, and then Yuan Shao chose the auspicious day of the zodiac according to various etiquette, and by the time he finished doing this, Liu Bei would have been defeated a long time ago.

Liu Bei took Chen Zhi and Bai Wei's elite soldiers to Xiang County.