Chapter 020: Hunting down Cao Heizi
Lu Bu didn't really care about Dong Zhuo's Lalang match who didn't say hello, because he knew that if he couldn't wait for the daughter of the Dong family in Longxi to come to Luoyang, he would be flashed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoAs long as he leaves Luoyang, it will be a tiger returning to the mountains and forests for him, and no one will want to threaten him anymore.
If you have to ask Lu Bu if he has someone he wants to marry, he actually has. For example, Cai Wenji, the daughter of Cai Yong, who sacrificed wine. Another example, Situ Wangyun's goddaughter Diao Chan.
These two women, one among the four talented women and the other among the four beauties, have a fatal attraction to men. In particular, one of them may have had a deep intersection with Lu Bu.
It's a pity that you can't have both fish and bear's paws, as the loyal dog of the Dong family in the eyes of the Luoyang scholars, it is difficult for the martial artist Lu Bu to marry the daughter of the scholar family. Cai Yong will not marry his daughter to him as a child, and Wang Yun has no idea of using beauty tricks on him for the time being. Therefore, Lu Bu can only fantasize in the dead of night, but he will not have any actual actions.
Let's mix up a world of your own first, and then think about women's things!
Not long after Lu Bu rejected Yuan Shao, a major event that was bound to happen completely pushed the crumbling Han Empire to the edge of disintegration.
Guo Da, the remnant of the Yellow Turban Army, and his subordinates Yang Feng, Li Le, Han Xian, Hu Cai and others once again raised the banner of rebellion against the Han Dynasty in Baibo Valley in Xihe County, Bingzhou, and called it the Baibo Army. Strictly analyzed, the Bai Bojun has to thank He Jin for this incident. If it weren't for this idiot who transferred Ding Yuan from Bingzhou to Luoyang, resulting in the emptiness of troops within Bingzhou, how could the Baibo Army be so easy to get into trouble?
The uprising of the Baibo Army was well-organized and fast, and after it came out of the valley, it quickly swept the entire territory of Xihe with the momentum of burning the plains. After occupying Xihe, Guo Da led his people to the south and entered Hedong County, and the ranks of the Baibo army reached more than 100,000 people for a while.
The news of the emergency spread from Hedong to Luoyang, and Dong Zhuo, as a lieutenant, attached great importance to this matter, because he had to pay attention to it.
Hedong County is located in the east of the vertical hook of the Yellow River, and it is Hongnong County that crosses the Yellow River from the east of the river to the south, and the location of Hongnong County is just stuck between Tongguan and Hanguguan. If the Baibo army occupies Hedong County and waits for it to invade Hongnong County to the south, the back road of the Western Liang army to retreat west to their hometown will be cut off.
Since ancient times, it has been a very dangerous thing to be cut off from the back road, which not only shakes the morale of the army, but also loses the supply of food and grass, and becomes isolated and helpless.
Dong Zhuo monopolized the power and immediately sent the chief general Niu Fu to lead 20,000 troops to Hedong to clear the Baibo army.
Lu Bu was not among the 20,000 troops, because he was a general of the Tiger Ben, and his duty was to guard the palace. In addition, he once captured Niu Fu alive, which is also an important reason. Even if Dong Zhuo trusted Lu Bu again, he would not give him the opportunity to lead an army of 20,000 alone, he still believed in his family more.
Before and after Niu Fu led the army to leave Beijing, several seemingly small but far-reaching things happened.
The first thing happened, Dong Zhuo finally found out that Lu Zhi had escaped. Because after Lu Zhizhi was dismissed, he stayed in Shangshu Mansion and did not go out, and the people who watched him did not find anything abnormal, so Dong Zhuo did not care about Lu Zhi's life or death for a while. When the White Wave Rebellion started, Dong Zhuo thought of the incident when Lu Zhi led the army to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion, so he wanted to see Lu Zhi, but the people sent only saw a few mutes and deaf people who were in charge of watching the courtyard in Lu Zhi's mansion.
Lu Zhi ran away, Dong Zhuo must have been angry, but he was not so angry that he couldn't eat or sleep. He asked the imperial court to send a document to arrest Lu Zhi and send it to all states and counties, even if the matter was put aside for the time being. He didn't kill Lu Zhi at the first time, and Dong Zhuo has no need to be anxious now.
The second thing is that Dong Zhuo wanted to promote Cao Cao, the captain of the military academy, to come out and do things for himself, but Cao Cao refused. In the first year of Zhongping, when the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Cao Cao was worshiped as a cavalry captain, and was ordered to join forces with Huangfu Song and others to attack the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan, and as a result, the Yellow Turban Army was broken and tens of thousands of people were beheaded. Dong Zhuo knew that Cao Cao had experience in dealing with the rebellious army, so he wanted to promote Cao Cao to Niu Fu to join the army, but Cao Cao refused because he was ill.
The consequences of Cao Cao's rejection of Dong Zhuo were serious, and Dong Zhuo was ready to kill him. However, before Dong Zhuo could send someone to arrest Cao Cao, Cao Cao changed his name, dressed up as an old man, and quietly fled from Luoyang.
The third thing was that at the same time that Cao Cao fled from Luoyang, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others also left Luoyang separately. They had already received the news that the Bai Bo army had entered Hedong, and with their eyes and minds, they naturally saw that this was an opportunity to drive Dong Zhuo back to the west from Luoyang, so they went to Jizhou alone and Nanyang alone, preparing to attack Dong Zhuo after gathering enough soldiers and horses.
Dong Zhuo didn't know the plans of the Yuan brothers, so he didn't give an order to hunt down Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, but for Cao Cao, who openly disobeyed the order, Dong Zhuo gave an order to hunt down.
It is a great honor that the task of chasing Cao Cao fell on the head of Lu Bu, known as the "flying general".
In order to prove that his title of "flying general" was not in vain, Lu Bu led a thousand light horsemen to gallop out of the city as soon as he received the order, chasing in the direction of Chen Liu.
Cao Cao, who was still on the way to escape, heard that Lu Bu was chasing after him from behind, and he cried out in his heart, and hurriedly hid in Zhongmu County, hoping that Lu Bu would pass by Zhongmu directly and run in front of him.
Zhongmu County Lieutenant's surname is Chen, the name is Gong, he has a straightforward temperament, resourceful, and soon after Cao Cao entered the county, he received a pursuit document from the direction of Luoyang. Chen Gong sent someone to carefully check the strangers who had entered Zhongmu County in recent days, and soon found that an old man with a darker appearance was more suspicious, so he personally led someone to block Cao Cao in a foot shop.
Seeing that his whereabouts were exposed, Cao Cao had no choice but to admit his true identity and tell Chen Gong the reason why he had escaped from Luoyang. Chen Gong agreed with Cao Cao's approach, and he was also very disgusted with the authoritarian Dong Zhuo, so he moved the idea of helping Cao Cao escape.
Chen Gong thought about it and felt that it was more certain to escape with Cao Cao in the name of business trips, so he let Cao Cao hide among his men, and swaggered away from Zhongmu under the banner of chasing down important criminals in the imperial court.
When Lu Bu chased him to Zhongmu County from behind, he sent someone into the city to inquire, and learned that the county lieutenant Chen Gong had led people out of the city to chase down the important criminals of the imperial court, so he showed a strange smile.
"Hehe, it's not that enemies don't get together. I'm about to meet Cao Heizi and Chen Gong, it's really exciting! Lu Bu sighed in his heart and urged the horse to continue to the east.
Lu Bu led the team to the east for about thirty miles, and then met a small group of men and horses led by Chen Gong. He pretended to ask a few words, and learned that the other party was the lieutenant of Zhongmu County, so he no longer interrogated, but continued to gallop east with his men and horses.
Looking at Lu Bu in the distance, Cao Cao, who was hiding among Chen Gong's men, showed a disdainful look. Lu Bu is a brave person who has no strategy, and it seems that he can't achieve anything big.