Cui Jun, the Taishou of Xihe County, was executed by Dong Zhuo's order. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThis is already the third Taishou to be killed in the Han Dynasty in a few months.

Zhang Shi, Wang Kuang, and Cui Jun ...... believe that this list of unnatural deaths will inevitably become longer and longer as the situation worsens.

Cui Jun's fate tells people that hugging their thighs is also a very dangerous thing, especially hugging the thighs of those wealthy families who are very famous and only care about themselves, and often in the end they are the first to be sacrificed.

Lu Bu's fame is naturally not in the same order of magnitude as Yuan Shao's, but so far he has been mixed with him, and his life is quite comfortable, and he has not heard of anyone being sacrificed.

Dong Zhuo killed Cui Jun, and unintentionally did Lu Bu a favor, because after the position of Taishou of Xihe County became vacant, the imperial court no longer directly appointed the Taishou in the state, so who will be the Taishou of Xihe is Ding Yuan's final say.

Ding Yuan had the final say, and he had the final say with Lu Bu, which actually meant the same thing.

With the current situation in Xihe County, it is naturally the most suitable for Chen Gong or Wei Qi to take the position of Taishou. Lu Bu is now in Xihe, and it is impossible for him to get a person who does not listen to him to come to Xihe to restrain himself, but if one of Chen and Wei is appointed as the Taishou, it will make the Tiance General's Mansion, which originally lacked scribes, even more lacking people. The positions of the Taishou and the General's Mansion cannot be held concurrently.

When Lu Bu was in a dilemma, Changshi Lu Zhi recommended someone to him.

The person recommended by Lu Zhi, named Zhang Fan, is a member of the Hanoi Xiuwu clan and was born in a famous family. Zhang Fan Tian said quietly, he does not love glory and fame, nor does he pursue official positions, he likes to help the poor, and his family often has no money to spare, and the poor and lonely widows near his hometown respect him very much.

Lu Zhi recommended Zhang Fan because he had no political ambitions and did not like to compete with others for power and profit, while his innocent family background and reputation for philanthropy were very useful supplements to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu agreed very much with Lu Zhi's recommendation. It can be seen from the recommendation of Zhang Fan that after half a year of mutual cooperation, Lu Zhi has fully adapted to the identity of Changshi, the big housekeeper, and takes Lu Bu's interests as the starting point when considering problems.

If Lu Zhi's evaluation of Zhang Fan is accurate, then it is obvious that Zhang Fan is the most suitable "seal guard" of Xihe County. The matter of appeasing the people can be safely handed over to Zhang Fan to do, while other conspiracy calculations and foreign conquests are handed over to the Tiance General's Mansion to implement, and such a military-political cooperation can not only gain face, but also gain lining.

The question now is how to persuade Zhang Fan to accept the conquest and serve as the Taishou of Xihe.

Lu Zhi suggested to Lu Bu again and sent Wei Qi to Hanoi to persuade Zhang Fan!

As a famous family in Hedong, the Wei family is not weaker than the Zhang Fan family in Hanoi. Wei Qi has a good reputation and is very eloquent, so it is only fitting for him to be a lobbyist.

Lü Bu immediately arranged for Zhang Liao to lead 500 cavalry to escort Wei Qi to Hanoi.

Lu Bu was willing to send Zhang Liao out, which shows the importance he attaches to Wei Qi and Zhang Fan. Zhang Liao is one of the top four generals in Lu Bu's account, mainly in charge of the logistics of the Tiance Army, and is deeply trusted and reused by Lu Bu.

Zhang Liao had recruited soldiers in Hanoi at the beginning, and he was more familiar with the situation there, and Zhang Liao had a "hidden attribute", that is, he was the best at fighting counterattack battles, don't look at Lu Bu only let him take away five hundred elite cavalry, if he encountered any unexpected situation, Zhang Liao dared to use five hundred cavalry to impact the enemy's thousands of troops and horses, and it was very likely to achieve the final victory!

Summoning the tiger Zhang Liao to fight 100,000 in Xiaoyaojin for 800 battles, what kind of courage and majesty is that?

There are two paths to choose from to get to Hanoi from Lik Thik. One is through Taiyuan, Shangdang, through Tianjing Pass, from Taihang to Hanoi. The other is to enter the east of the river through the Fenshui Ancient Road, and then cross the Yiguan from the east of the river into Hanoi.

Considering that his relationship with Dong Zhuo and Yang Feng was not bad, Lü Bu asked Zhang Liao to go to Hanoi via Hedong. Wei Qi also happened to stop by and go home to visit his younger brother Wei Zhongdao, who had always been weak.

Soon after Zhang Liao escorted Wei Qi away, Yanmen Pass reported to Pegasus that the city of Mayi in Yanmen County had been besieged by the Xianbei people, and that Guo Yi, the Taishou guard, led his troops to defend Mayi and did not surrender, hoping that the Tiance army would send troops to rescue.

Yanmen County is located in the northeast of Bingzhou, connected to Yunzhong County and Dingxiang County in the west, adjacent to Taiyuan County in the south, and connected to Dai County in Youzhou in the east, which is the northern gateway of Taiyuan and the northwest gateway of Youzhou.

Much of Yanmen County is now under Xianbei control, with only a third of the southeastern land still under Han Chinese control. The situation in Yanmen County is very similar to that of Xihe County, where only a quarter of the land is controlled by the Han Chinese.

In the nine counties of the state, the Han people only occupy two and a half counties, and this poor half of the county land is still added up by Yanmen County and Xihe County!

For Guo Yi, Lu Bu had some contact at the beginning, because Guo Yi was a native of Yangqu, Taiyuan County, and the Guo family was also a very famous family in Taiyuan. Guo Yi's grandfather Guo Zun served as Guanglu's doctor to tour the world, Guo Yi's father Guo Quan was the great Si Nong of the Han Dynasty, and Guo Yi himself served in the army since he was young, serving as the Yanmen Taishou for many years, and was a very firm main battle faction, fighting hundreds of battles with the Hu people in the north.

Like Guo Yi, a hard-boned and bloody Taishou, Lu Bu admires it very much. Since Guo Yi sent people to risk death to ask for help, Lu Bu naturally would not stand idly by. The Tiance Army was originally sealed for the purpose of guarding the north of the Han Dynasty, but now that Yanmen is in trouble, if he shrinks his head and does not come out, won't it make the heroes of the world laugh?

Saving people is like fighting fire, but the plan of Tuntian cannot be delayed, so Lu Bu decided to personally lead 2,000 cavalry to gallop to rescue Guo Yi. According to Lu Bu's estimate, the number of county soldiers defending Mayi City is extremely limited, and the number of Xianbei people besieging Mayi City will not exceed 10,000, otherwise it will not be possible for Guo Yi to send someone to ask for help, and Mayi City has already fallen. In Lu Bu's impression, the ability of the Xianbei people to attack the city is also very common.

Lu Zhi had no objection to Lu Bu's decision, and with his understanding of Lu Bu, even if Lu Bu did not have a military advisor around him to help plan, the possibility of losing the battle was very small. However, in order to insure the period, Lu Zhi still suggested that Lu Bu bring Xu Rong and let Xu Rong serve as a deputy general, which could be safe.

With Lu Zhi and Gao Shun in Lishi, Lu Bu was not worried about any trouble, so he agreed to Lu Zhi's suggestion and sent Xu Rong to go with him.

For the mountains and rivers of Bingzhou, from Lu Bu to every cavalry below, they are very familiar with it, after all, this is the home field where they have galloped and fought for many years, as a good son of Bingzhou, who will feel unfamiliar with their hometown?

Two thousand elite horsemen rushed all the way north along the west side of Luliang Mountain, occasionally encountering small groups of bandits and bandits along the way, and Lu Bu didn't care about them, just concentrated on hurrying. There were also several groups of Southern Huns, who dodged after seeing the banner of the Tiance Army from a distance.

From Lishi to Mayi, it was about 400 miles away, and Lu Bu arrived in only three days.