Chapter 28 Nepotism
Che Zhou held his family Lu Bu hostage, and had nothing to do, so he summoned Mi Fang and Zheng Kailai to plan together. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
Zheng Kai spoke first and said: "My lord, the spies came to report that Cao Ren's tiger and leopard were riding in the Huifeng Pavilion, looking at our army, and they had to guard against it. Does the lord have a good plan? β
"Cao Ren is a cavalryman, it is very easy to deal with cavalry, it is easy to dig a horse pit in the ground and stumble to deal with cavalry."
"My lord, but it takes a lot of time and is extremely inconvenient to stumble in the horse pit, and I can't deal with the cavalry flexibly, and my army has few soldiers, how can I resist the enemy?"
"Of course it's slow to dig a pit where even a horse can be buried in the ground, so what?" Lu Bu took out the Zhangba snake spear and thrust it into the ground, twisted it hard, and a big pit with a bowl mouth appeared next to the main seat of the big tent.
Lu Bu continued: "Cao Ren's war horse stepped into the pit with its legs under the condition of high-speed charge, and it will inevitably break, and the horse will fall to the ground, won't the formation behind it be chaotic?" So I wasn't worried about Cao Ren's cavalry at all. I'm worried that my family members in Xiapi City will be taken hostage by the car, and I will be thrown into a rat trap. β
"Now that my plan has been seen through by Che Zhou, we will definitely defend the city to the death, as long as we don't forcibly attack the city, Che Zhou will not be embarrassed by the lord's family." Zheng Kai continued:
"In the end, we will hold Pengcheng, and when Cao Cao retreats, he will naturally send someone to exchange the lord's family for Cao Chun. In this way, it is very dangerous to be alone, and I might as well retreat to Pengcheng. β
The purpose of Lu Bu coming out was to block Cao Bing east of Huaishui, how could he return to Pengcheng, but these thoughts must not be known to Zheng Kaimifang.
Suddenly Lu Bu was dizzy on the main seat, and he held the copywriting table with his hands, Zheng Kai reminded him, and suddenly thought that he was preparing food in Pengcheng with great fanfare, and put on a posture of a decisive battle with Cao Cao, and when Cao Cao arrived, he abandoned the city and fled without fighting, with Guo Jia's shrewdness, he would definitely find that there was something strange in it, how to hide more than 100,000 loads of grain piled up like a mountain under the vine? As long as Cao Cao found grain and grass in Huaiyin, it was not difficult to deduce Lu Bu's final decision.
Lu Bu only felt that the sky was dark, and it was so troublesome to even send a city.
"Lord, lord? Quickly pass on to the military doctor. Mi Fang screamed twice, and found that Lu Bu was just covering his forehead and did not answer, but became more and more uncomfortable, and hurriedly shouted outside the tent.
Zheng Kai shook his head when he saw Lu Bu's performance and said: "There are countless beautiful women in the world, as long as you repel Lord Cao Cao, why worry about not having a beautiful woman to accompany you." β
As soon as Lu Bu heard what Zheng Kai said, he understood that Zheng Kai must have mistakenly thought that he had a headache for the family in Xiapi City, and he had an idea: "If you don't rescue your family, you will never withdraw from the army easily." β
"My lord thinks twice, Cao's army of thieves will arrive in a few days, how can I and the other 3,000 people resist Cao Cao's army of 70,000 or 80,000? Besides, we are alone, once we are dragged by Cao Ren's chariot, if we want to retreat, I don't know how many soldiers will be killed, and even more so, the whole army will be wiped out. After Zheng Kai finished speaking, he knelt on the ground with a dead posture.
Lu Bu couldn't tell for a while whether Zheng Kai was really helping himself or pretending, if it wasn't for Lu Bu's prejudice against him, he must have been moved by Zheng Kai at this time, and if Lu Bu really wanted to fight Cao Cao in Pengcheng, this would be the wisest decision.
"I have made up my mind, and I will never abandon my family easily."
"Lord, lord... The matter of retreat should not be delayed, and I hope that the lord will abandon the love of his children and take the overall situation first! β
Mi Fang watched coldly at Zheng Kai, who was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, without saying a word.
"I have made up my mind, and those who retreat will be killed!" Lu Bu felt a little unbearable in his heart, Zheng Kai at this time seemed to be very loyal, but Lu Bu didn't dare to bet, in case these were just Zheng Kai's illusions of plotting for himself, he had no capital to lose, Lu Bu planned to give Zheng Kai a chance, if he could be like Chen Gong Gaoshun in his most difficult moment without betraying the enemy, then in the future, put aside his character and include him in his cronies.
"General Mi Fang has stepped up the training of his soldiers, and he is ready to storm Pi tomorrow." After Lu Bu finished speaking, he walked directly out of the big tent and walked towards the craftsman camp.
"No."
Mi Fang followed behind Zheng Kai, and when Lu Bu walked away, Mi Fang said to Zheng Kai, who was very depressed: "Lu Bu is stubborn and self-serving, and the good strategy of abandoning the army is like a shoe, it is better to plan early..."
Zheng Kai turned his head and looked at Mi Fang's words coldly, and coldly spit out two words: "Be cautious." β
After finishing speaking, Mi Fang left and strode away.
Lu Bu heard that Cao Ren's camp was eyeing him from the side, pretending to be fearless on the surface, but he was very jealous in his heart, the mobility of the cavalry was very terrifying, when you found the cavalry, it was too late to dig a horse pit and arrange a tripping horse rope before the other party broke through the battle formation, and it was a fool's dream to fight against three thousand cavalry with less than three thousand infantry in his hand.
Since the cavalry's mobility is superb, the trap must also be flexible and changeable in order to be restrained, Lu Bu only thought about it a little and thought of a way.
The current war horses do not have saddles, stirrups, and horseshoes, and the horse's hooves are easy to be injured without the protection of the horseshoe, so Lu Bu decided to start with the horse's hooves.
When they arrived at the craftsman camp, Lu Bu ordered them to make half-foot-long iron nails from all the weapons that they could not use and the iron materials used to repair them, and then called soldiers in batches to help the blacksmiths nail the nails they had made into their shields.
Xiapi City.
Che Zhou didn't sleep well all night, there is a killing god outside the city, once the city is broken, I'm afraid it will be the same as Peng Cheng, and all the families in the city have been poked all over by Lu Bu. As soon as the carriage got up, the maidservant was dressing him in armor.
"The history of car stabbing is not good!" Just as the chariot was holding hands on the maidservant, a small lieutenant rushed in in a panic.
Che Xuan was furious: "What kind of system is panicking? Did LΓΌ Bu attack the city? Bring his family up! β
"The families of Lu Bu's soldiers are gone, and the last general and others have searched the city inside and outside several times but have disappeared!"
"What! Lu Bu's family ran away? As soon as the car heard this, he staggered and sat down in front of the couch, holding the couch with one hand and feeling weak.
"Lu Bu's family is still there, but the family members of his soldiers are gone!"
When Che Zhou heard that Lu Bu's family was still there, he returned to his limbs and stood up from the ground: "As long as Lu Bu's family is there, the additional manpower must not lose Lu Bu's family." If you run away again, come and see you! beheaded all the soldiers who guarded their families last night and declared the three armies. β
"Whoa."
After returning from the craftsman camp, Lu Bu went straight to the school and asked people to recruit Zhang Liao's son Zhang Hu and Gao Shun's eldest son Gao Chao.
Lu Bu watched Mi Fang train soldiers for a while, nodded, there is a good look, the commander of the army is much more experienced than Chen Yu and Xiao Xiong, and he regrets in his heart, a rare general is not used for himself, looking at Mi Fang's training methods, Lu Bu feels that if Mi Fang really serves himself, he can also occupy a place under him according to his qualifications, so he can follow Liu Bei with all his heart.
Lu Bu walked around among the soldiers below, occasionally pointing at the movements and force of the soldiers' stabs.
Not long after, Zhang Hu arrived superbly, and Lu Bu retreated from among the soldiers.
"Do the two virtuous nephews have a table?"
"Back to my uncle, the two of us haven't reached the crown yet, and we haven't."
"I wonder what your ambitions are?"
"I want to be a general who gallops on the battlefield like my father." Zhang Hu said first.
"I want to be a general who commands all armies and commands the enemy." Gao Chao thought for a moment and said. may be influenced by Gao Shun, Gao Shun's personal martial arts are only second-rate to first-class level, rarely fighting alone, and more commanding the trapped camp to attack the city.
"I already know your ambitions. There is a shortage of generals in our army, but you two are still young, Zhang Hu will go to your mother first, if your mother agrees, you can come to our Chinese army to report, and entrust you with a position, as for Gao Chao, this matter has to be discussed with your father before making a decision. β
Lu Bu did not have a trustworthy general in the army at this time, except for Xiao Xiong, and there were some very important positions that he had to trust to bear, and he didn't care about others' evaluation of his nepotism, which was better than losing his head in vain.
The only regret is that Zhang Hu is difficult to take on the big task in a short period of time, he still needs to be sharpened, and his superb skills are far from his father Gao Shun, and his courage and ability to adapt to changes cannot be compared at all.
"General Lu, Gan Luo is the prime minister at the age of twelve, and he is fifteen, and the general is the time to employ people, and he is super willing to lead the army to fight, and he will not fall into his father's prestige!" Gao Chao heard that his father was recuperating elsewhere, and that it would take a long time to seek his father's opinion, so he hurriedly bowed down and pleaded.
"The sword has no eyes, if there is damage, what face will I explain to Ji Da." Lu Bu shook his head and refused.
"It's inevitable to be killed and injured in battle, and if I had been hiding under my father's wings, I would not have been able to surpass my father's achievements in my life."
Lu Bu was infected by his superb ambition, nodded and said, "Do you know the method of military training?" β
"I often watched my father's military training."
It turned out to be a paper talk, Lu Bu originally thought that he had obtained the true inheritance of Gao Shun's training camp, and he wanted to entrust him to train another camp to trap him, but he was slightly disappointed in his heart, and then thought that he was still young, and now he began to cultivate over time, it is not the second Gao Shun:
"But I won't talk about personal feelings, I will entrust you with a big responsibility from the beginning, and you must also use your military exploits to slowly rise through the ranks." After Lu Bu said this, he looked at Gao Chao's expression carefully, if he was slightly dissatisfied, Lu Bu would look at Gao Shun's face in the future and make him a high-ranking official and rich, but he would not give him real power.
"I do." Seeing that Lu Bu agreed with him to go into battle to kill the enemy, he was overjoyed.
Seeing that Gao Chao had Lu Bu's consent, Zhang Hu hurriedly said to Lu Bu: "I'll go and tell my mother." β
After saying that, he spread his feet and ran.
"Call General Xiao Xiong." Lu Bu said to the guards beside him. Xiao Xiong's peasant soldiers faintly have the potential of Lu Bu's own soldiers, Lu Bu plans to arrange Gao Chao in the peasant soldiers, at present, the strongest lethality under Lu Bu is this army of 200 people, with Xiao Xiong's care, Gao Chao will not be too dangerous on the battlefield.
The loving mother has many defeated children, and Zhang Hu's mother just doesn't allow Zhang Hu to join the army to fight now. Lu Bu still asked Zhang Hu, Gao Chao, and Gao Ping to come to him to learn martial arts in their spare time, and asked Chen Zhong, the youngest son of Chen Gong, to come to the big tent at night to learn arithmetic. In the future, I will give him the calculation of grain and grass. Now there is no addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in later generations, and if you want to calculate the accounts of grain and grass, you need a few baskets of bamboo slips for calculation.