Back then, Yuan Shao was able to defeat Gongsun Zhan's cavalry, relying on the crossbowmen led by Lu Yi. Because Lu Yi's personality is a little arrogant, and he is not very compatible with other civil and military forces, although he is one of the best generals under Yuan Shao, Lu Yi's status has not been improved over the years, but has gradually ranked behind Gao Lan. But the first thing that Lu Yi thought of after the defeat was to quickly flee back to Yecheng, warn Yuan Shao, and assist Yuan Shao in defending Yecheng with his ability to command the army.

On this way to the north, Lu Yi did not encounter any danger, and the Han army did not pursue him, only when he passed through the blocking position, the wide and deep trench and the dark brown earth told him that there had been an extremely tragic battle here. The 50,000 infantry of the Han army blocked the 100,000 Wuhuan cavalry and the 100,000 Yuan cavalry under Yan Liang for two days and two nights, which eventually led to the annihilation of their entire army and indirectly affected the 300,000 infantry troops of Lu Yi.

Lu Yi sighed, did not dare to stop, passed through this trench, continued to march north, and finally arrived at Wucheng in the evening of the next day.

The sun has not yet set, and it is not time to close the city gates, but the four gates of Wucheng are closed, and the city is full of swords and guns, as if facing a great enemy. However, the originally strong city walls are now full of holes, which are the masterpieces left by the Han army's trebuchets, and have not been repaired to this day.

Lu Yi stood under the city and shouted: "Open the city gate quickly, it is Lu Yi!" ”

At the head of the city, Lu Kuang leaned out half of his body, and after a closer look, the ragged man was really Lu Yi, and he couldn't help but be surprised, and asked repeatedly: "General Lu Gong, how did you fall to this?" ”

Lu Yi sighed and said, "It's hard to say, you let someone in first." ”

Although Lu Yi has many disagreements with other civil and military forces, he is very good to the soldiers at the bottom, and Lu Kuang used to work under him when he was a small colonel in the past, so Lu Yi was kind to him. Seeing the tragic scene of Lu Yi, Lu Kuang hurriedly asked people to find a new set of clothes for Lu Yi to change into, and prepared a banquet for him to catch the wind.

Lu Yi was indeed hungry, and he gobbled it up, and Lu Kuang was dumbfounded. After being full of wine and food, Lu Yi stroked his belly and said, "General Lu, please arrange a fast horse, Lu Mou needs to go to see the lord immediately!" ”

Lu Kuang persuaded: "General Qi, you are tired now, it is better to rest here for a night, and it is not too late to leave tomorrow at dawn." And there will be a sentence in the end, I don't know whether to say it or not? ”

Lu Yi waved his hand and said: "Lu Mou has a big matter that needs to be reported to the lord, and he doesn't dare to stay here for a long time, so if you have anything to say, just say it." ”

Lu Kuang hesitated for a moment and said: "The last general heard a rumor yesterday that General Gao Ran had been thrown into prison by the lord, but I am afraid that the lord will be angry, and General Lu will go at this time, I am afraid it will be inconvenient." ”

Lu Yi asked in surprise: "Do you know what crime General Gao committed?" ”

Lu Kuang shook his head and said: "The last general guarded Wucheng, he didn't dare to leave lightly, and he didn't know what happened, even this news was quietly told to me when my brother escorted the grain and grass over, there shouldn't be a fake." ”

Lu Yi frowned and said, "Could it be because of the defeat of our army?" But the defeat this time was all because Yan Liang was stubborn and did not listen to advice. Do you have any news of Yan Liang? ”

Lu Kuang shook his head very decisively and said, "I haven't heard of this. ”

The news that Yan Liang died in the chaos had not yet spread, and Lu Kuang naturally did not know Yan Liang's whereabouts, and he thought that Lu Yi was asking whether Yan Liang was imprisoned.

Lu Yi thought for a while and said: "Forget it, I can't care about this a lot now, when Lu Mou sees the lord, he will know." ”

Lu Kuang couldn't persuade Lu Yi, so he had to let him go out of the city. Wucheng was originally a peripheral city of Yecheng, and it was also a part of the entire Yecheng defense system. Like Wucheng, Yecheng also has a closed city gate. However, Lu Yi was quite prestigious in the Hebei army, and when he stood under the city and shouted a few times, a sergeant lowered the drawbridge and helped him open the city gate.

After entering the city, Lu Yi did not go home, but rode his horse straight to the largest house in Yecheng, Yuan Shao's general's mansion. The scale of this mansion far exceeds the puppet palace built by Yuan Shao for Liu Biao, and the decoration inside is even more magnificent.

When he arrived at the General's Mansion, even the always arrogant Lu Yi could only put down his body, obediently jumped off the horse, explained his identity to the doorman, and then bowed his hands and stood outside the gate.

That person actually knew Lu Yi, but as the disciple of the great general Yuan Shao, his eyes naturally grew to his forehead. What's more, now Lu Yi is just a defeated general, and he doesn't have a good face for Lu Yi. The day before yesterday, another defeated general, Gao Lan, had just been thrown into prison, and he was escorted out of this general's mansion, and it was this man who guarded the door at that time. Seeing Lu Yi, the man seemed to have seen the second Gao Yan, and he couldn't help but gloat a little, and delayed for a long time before reporting to Yuan Shao.

In the past few days, the reports of defeat in front of him have come one after another, Yuan Shao's mood is not good, and he is even in poor health, and he is lying on a low couch to recuperate. Hearing that Lu Yi had escaped, Yuan Shao sat up from the couch and asked, "What do you think of his complexion?" ”

In the face of Yuan Shao's questioning, the man didn't dare to talk nonsense, thought about it carefully, and then bowed down and said: "The slave sees that he is neatly dressed, his face is ruddy, and his voice is loud, so he must be doing well." ”

Yuan Shao's face had a few smiles, and he said, "That's good, that's good." Quick, please come in. ”

Only then did this doorman recall the scene when Gao Ran came to see him the day before yesterday, and he couldn't help but be startled, and ran out with a crawl. On that day, Yuan Shao also asked him how Gao Ran's complexion was, and he replied that Gao Ran was covered in blood and embarrassed, but Gao Ran didn't have much effort to go in, and he was taken to prison. And now Lu Yi came in neatly dressed, he was also a general of the defeated army, but the treatment was not necessarily the same, he didn't dare to offend a general that Yuan Shao valued.

Lu Yi was already waiting a little impatiently outside the door, and then he saw the doorman walk out with a smile on his face. However, Lu Yi didn't have time to think about these questions now, and hurriedly entered the General's Mansion.

As soon as he saw Lu Yi, Yuan Shao said with a smile on his face: "General Lu Yi, you are finally back." How is it, Yuan's army is safe and sound, right? Where is Yan Liang? ”

Lu Yi suddenly lowered his head, his face was ashamed, and said: "Back to the lord, the last general is incompetent, and the 300,000 army is gone, please punish the lord." As for General Yan, the last general did not know his whereabouts. ”

Yuan Shao lost his voice and said, "What did you say!" 300,000 troops gone? ”

Lu Yi didn't dare to raise his head, so he had to say humbly: "It's all to blame for the incompetence of the general." It's just that the Jingzhou army is really powerful, and our army has no chance of winning a field battle with it. In the end, the general thought that in today's plan, the lord should be a deep ditch and a high fortress on the one hand, defend the city, and send an envoy to make peace with Liu Xin on the other hand, so as to make a plan to delay the army, and then slowly plan it in the future. ”

Yuan Shao said angrily: "The general of the defeated army, what face is there to give advice here!" Come on, put Lu Yi in prison! ”

It turned out that Yuan Shao had heard the report of that person at the beginning, and he had great hopes that Lu Yi would be able to retreat with his whole body, and when he saw Lu Yi himself, he really saw that he was in good spirits, and he was even more looking forward to Lu Yi defeating the Han army, but he unexpectedly heard that the thirty armies were gone, and suddenly it was as if he had fallen directly from heaven to hell, and his mood was extremely bad.

Several wolf-like soldiers rushed forward and dragged the wronged Lu Yi out of the general's mansion. The man was dumbfounded, and then he realized that as long as he was a general of the defeated army, no matter how bright he dressed, it was not safe, and his expression just now was in vain.

Presumably to deter criminals, all the prisons were built almost identically, cramped, dark, and damp. It was the first time that Lu Yi was put in prison, obviously a little uncomfortable, and just wanted to discuss with the jailer about changing to a larger cell, he heard the jailer say viciously: "Lu Yi, come in here, don't be too suspicious, it's good to give you a single room to live in, annoy a few masters, get you a chase shop!" ”

These jailers have never seen any kind of people, don't look at those who are in charge of the usual high, maybe one day they will fall into their hands. Especially these generals who have lost the battle, few of them can get out of the prison after entering the prison, and they are even less afraid.

"It's the Koji general outside?" Lu Yi still wanted to argue with them, but he heard someone in the prison next door say: "You and I are already a great blessing to be alive, so why bother with these villains." ”

Lu Yi heard that the person who spoke was Gao Ran, although he usually didn't have much contact with Gao Ran, and even had some suspicions with each other, and now they were both fallen people, so they couldn't help but feel some sympathy, and couldn't help but say loudly: "What General Gao said is very true, Lu Mou doesn't care about these villains." Dare to ask General Gao, why were you put in prison? ”

The jailers snorted, locked the cell door, and sneered: "The two generals don't need to worry, if you have anything to say slowly, your days here will be long." ”

Lu Yi was about to get angry, but he heard Gao Ran sigh and said: "The tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, and General Lu didn't need to be angry. To tell the truth, Gao deserves to be at this point today! Gao had something to ask General Koji, and asked General Koji to tell the truth. ”

After listening to Gao Ran's words, Lu Yiqiang suppressed his anger and arched his hand and said: "They have all arrived at this field, and Lu Mou naturally knows everything and speaks endlessly. ”

In fact, there is a wall between the two of them, no matter what they do, the other party can't see it, it's just a matter of habit, and before they speak, they will always subconsciously make some movements.

Gao Ran nodded and said, "General Qi, you have fought with the Jingzhou Army now, in your opinion, if our army and the Jingzhou Army fight openly, who has a better chance of winning?" ”

To be honest, this defeat, Lu Yi's heart was quite unconvinced. He always felt that first, Yan Liang's command was wrong, and he fell into the enemy's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and second, the army ran out of food, otherwise with his ability, the Jingzhou army might not be so easy to break through the camp he set up. Now after listening to Gao Ran's question, he lowered his head and thought seriously, if the two sides really fought openly, who had a better chance of winning?