Chapter 544: The World is Turned Upside Down, and the Chaotic War Attacks (36)
Lu Bu's unexpectedly similar action of "handing over power" really shocked everyone's eyes. Lu Bu has been in the army for a long time, and he has never taken the control of military power lightly, although he has tolerated Qin Xu's countless overstepping his authority, and allowed him to recruit his own Yellow Turban troops to form the Qingzhou Barracks, which is now famous all over the world, but for the old brothers who have been following him to fight in the south and the north, the several battalions of the army's front-line battle sequence, even if it was in addition to temporarily handing over the trapping camp talisman to him in order to build momentum for his baby son-in-law at the beginning, Qin Xu used it in exchange for the ghost Guo Jia to join, However, he has never really participated in the specific affairs of his army.
It's not a question of trust or distrust. Aside from the personal guard battalion around Lu Bu, the predecessor of the three armies of the trapping camp, the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and the Flying Cavalry Battalion was the Bingzhou elite soldiers who were compiled as Yulin Wei when Lu Bu was stationed in Chang'an, representing the most elite force of the Lu Bu army that dominated the world, or the symbol of the Lu Bu army. Regardless of Lu Bu's true intentions, the symbolic significance of this incident is far greater than the actual significance.
In fact, it is Lu Bu, who has no military power in these years, and will tolerate others exceeding his authority and affecting his authority, even if this person is his closest relative, it is absolutely impossible. Not to mention such a "generous" handing over the command of the most elite soldiers under his command to someone else.
Plus the "special" of the receiver. Moreover, the impact of the order is not only on the strength of the army. Everyone is unkind and unkind, and Lu Bu, who is mean and ruthless, can make such a suspicious person without using someone without suspicion. But where do you want to put the Lords who claim to be righteous and generous? It is said that Cao Cao, who was already starting to withdraw from the army, was so angry that he broke it, and he didn't know how many wine buds he had.
Cao Cao is a very patient person, and his mental firmness is far from comparable to others. Even this time, seeing that Lu Bujun did not take action against Hebei because of the incident of Yuan Xi in Jizhou, as he expected. What's more, he didn't even have a word of dissatisfaction, and let Jizhou have two top officials with similar powers in this year for a while, so that Cao Cao's plan was like hitting cotton, and it didn't make Cao Cao look abnormal, but after learning about it. laughed a lot, and said that I am afraid that I will not be lonely in the future, and I will show the true colors of the hero. But who knows. is Boss Cao, who is so "broad-minded", almost lost his temper because of this seemingly small "little thing".
"Those who know me say I'm worried, and those who don't know me say what I want!" If it was a poet, Li Bai was born hundreds of years earlier. may understand Cao Cao's current mood.
The inexplicable failure of the previous Hebei incident. Lu Bu, who has the most irritable temperament, did not take the bait in the face of such a provocation, which actually made Cao Cao very depressed, but this kind of thing appeared in Boss Cao's body, not to mention that others looked incredible, even Cao Cao himself, and would never let this matter continue to ferment when it was a fait accompli. After all, although the current Cao Cao has the Son of Heaven in his hands, he does not have the absolute right to control it after all. Those in the Xuchang court who can't wait to see Cao Cao's jokes are for Cao Cao's prestige. will still have a certain amount of influence, so even if Cao Cao is extremely aggrieved in his heart, he must not let his subordinates, let those who have been paying attention to him, see his weaknesses Cao Cao.
But this time Lu Bu relinquished power differently. Lu Bu is a person with a "moral stain"! This is the only place where Cao Cao, who has been defeated by Lu Bu several times, and even seems to have seen Lu Ze's defeat "curse", think that he can overwhelm Lu Bu. Even under Qin Xu's several actions, the three states of Qingxu and Yang under the influence of Lu Bujun, Lu Bu's previous "bad deeds" have been whitewashed and downplayed, but in other states and counties of the Han Dynasty, the demon king outside the Tiger Prison Pass back then, although he was already in a high position, still had a bad reputation. In the era when the reputation of the Han Dynasty is more important than everything, Lu Bu is like a cage because of his bad reputation, and he will firmly control it in the "encirclement" of Cao Cao's territory. Because even if Lu Bu breaks out of this "encirclement", except for the barren state like Yangzhou, at least in the Central Plains, it will not be easy for Lu Bu to successfully occupy and gain a firm foothold.
But now, because of the occurrence of such a trivial matter in the eyes of others, even many truths seem to be someone chasing after the wind. But the scheming person who is as scheming as Cao Cao is from this small corner of the page, he perceives in advance how much impact this seemingly inconspicuous little thing, but it is just a slight change in Lu Bu's reputation, will have on the future. How to make Cao Cao not angry.
And what made Cao Cao even more angry was that the person who "took over" turned out to be Qin Xu. is the young man who makes Cao Cao love and hate, as if he has "inherited" Lu Bu's good luck, and whenever he meets him, he will inevitably let himself suffer a "halo".
Qin Xu's age has actually been ignored here by Cao Cao. Although Qin Xu has a really good relationship with Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang, and even Cao Ang, strictly speaking, is still a disciple of Qin Xu's other father-in-law, from Cai Yan's side, Qin Xu can even call Cao Ang "cordially" a brother-in-law. But Cao Cao really didn't dare to underestimate this young man who was a few months older than his eldest son.
The previous nameless valley, the battle of Jinan, and the battle to rescue the Son of Heaven will not be mentioned. Just from Qin Xu's expedition to Hebei from LĂź Bu, Cao Cao's dramatic attack and defense under Yecheng made Cao Cao not underestimate. Originally, when Qin Xu had to leave halfway and rushed to Yangzhou to quell the chaos, Cao Cao was really happy for several days. Although in terms of combat power, Cao Cao, who also has elite soldiers in his hands, has to admit that it is difficult to be Lu Bu's opponent, but in terms of strategy, Cao Cao is confident that he will sell Lu Bu, and this stupid big man will help him count the money. The changes in Hebei are so complicated, but as long as he Cao has a little trick, he will make Lu Bujun, who belongs to the alliance, willingly use it for himself. Cao Cao still has this confidence.
But who would have thought that the Hebei incident variables were indeed too big, Lu Bu, who was known as the god of war before, was injured by the villain, and his life was in danger, and before Cao Cao laughed for a few days, he encountered this successive heavy changes that made Cao Cao also a little overwhelmed, so that Cao Cao because of the previous forced to seal Yuan Xi as the pastor of Jizhou and plainly put on the name of a powerful minister to suppress the lord, not to mention, a good plan also failed, which made Cao Cao, who stole chickens and not lose a handful of rice, how not to be angry.
At this time, the reaction of the outside world was so fierce, and the inside of Lu Bu's military situation was relatively calm, a little too much. Needless to say, the Qingzhou soldiers stationed in Xuzhou, the Danyang soldiers stationed in Yangzhou, and the Xiandeng camp in Jinan, the more stable Qin Xu's status, the higher the status of these troops. And the three battalions of trapping, flying cavalry, and Xiao cavalry, which were assigned to the command of Lu Bu, had no intention of objecting, and even the government officials who had not dealt with Qin Xu much had no objection from Sima Zanghong or below, which really made the people who had been paying attention to the dynamics of Lu Bu's army since Lu Bu was seriously injured have a little more pondering in their hearts.
What did Lu Bu intend?
"Zhong Ming, I heard that you are very happy in General Lu's mansion! This method is quite skillful! These words were full of sourness, and there was a faint expectation in them, at this time, Cai Yong, a stubborn old man who was sitting in the inner hall of Qin Xu's mansion, half-squinting his eyes and almost cutting off a few beards. Seeing Cai Yan's belly getting bigger and bigger, and getting closer and closer to the labor date, Cai Yong was still quite happy, after all, the old Cai family was originally because of Wang Yun and Dong Zhuo's affairs, and now only the father and daughter are left to depend on each other, and suddenly a little life that is related to him is about to be born. It's just that after hearing Qin Xu's "generous" words in Lu Bu's mansion, the stubborn old man who had seen Qin Xu's nose not his nose and eyes not eyes from the beginning, became more and more yin and yang when he spoke.
Old Tarzan laughed! Asahi has always liked a bowl of water! Even if it's to please people, it has to be! Qin Xu casually said that he would let Lu Lingqi's son in the womb take his mother's surname when he was in Lu Bu's mansion that day, and he didn't feel anything until Lu Bu made that arrangement, and he faintly felt that things seemed to be a big deal. Since returning to the mansion, the strangeness in the eyes of the women in the mansion looking at Qin Xu made Qin Xu feel uncomfortable for a long time. Especially the black-bellied sister has unprecedentedly watery eyes, staring at herself intently from time to time, wanting to speak and stopping, plus Cai Yong, who has been coming to the house quite frequently, has not hesitated to "abandon" the previous reserve, almost all of them have to grow up in the inner mansion, if Qin Xu's brain can't turn anymore, then he really can't bear the glorious and great identity of the traveler. Seeing that the eyes of the black-bellied sister were getting hotter and hotter, and the eyes of the old man of the Cai family were becoming more and more unkind, Qin Xu decided that it was better to treat everyone equally in this kind of matter.
Qin someone was clever and decided, the old Qin family's family affairs gradually became calm, and now the situation in Hebei is gradually clear, the Yuan brothers, Gongsun Zhan, Liu Bei plus the Black Mountain thieves and Cao Cao's forces, because of Cao Cao's retreat from Hebei and check and balance each other, there is a situation of containing each other, the Han world has been chaotic for several years, and finally under the tacit understanding that the forces are either exhausted or induced, the Han Dynasty has finally ushered in a relatively stable winter at least on the surface. And Liu Xie, as the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, after welcoming Cao Cao's army back to the dynasty in the cold wind, also in this rare calm, the proposal of Dong Cheng, the uncle of the country, and a group of courtiers, in order to celebrate the victory of Cao Cao, who mediated the dispute between the Yuan brothers, also to pray that the Han Dynasty, who gradually calmed down the soldiers, would no longer fight frequently, burn the watch to tell the sky, and use the power of the Cao army to spread to the world, and change the name of the spring year to Jian'an! (To be continued......)