Chapter 53: Buying Lu Bu
87_87603 "Zhang Xiu, you dare to come back?" Looking at Zhang Xiu, who came over with a large army, Zhang Liao immediately raised his gun and shouted.
The Bingzhou army had just finished cleaning the battlefield, but unexpectedly, a spy reported that Zhang Xiu had actually brought the army back to kill. Lu Bu had just left the barracks and returned to Luoyang City to report the battle to Ding Yuan, while Ye Yi was injured, and the army had not yet rested. In desperation, Zhang Liao took the Bingzhou wolf cavalry and the trapped camp who were originally guarding the military camp to come out to fight.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not here to fight your army." Zhang Xiu heard Zhang Liao say this, and hurriedly defended.
"And what are you here for? You won't tell me that you came to surrender when you came with 10,000 troops, do you? Zhang Liao naturally didn't believe Zhang Xiu's words, and only thought that Zhang Xiu had some conspiracy.
After Zhang Xiu listened to Zhang Liao's words, a trace of embarrassment appeared on his face, and he said, "Xiu is here to surrender." β
Hearing Zhang Xiu say that he was here to surrender, Zhang Liao didn't react at once, this thing is really here to surrender, how is it possible, it must be a fraudulent surrender. Shaking his head, looking at Zhang Xiu, Zhang Liao pointed his spear, and said, "Do you think that you can deceive me by swindling?" Don't dream, fight if you want to! β
Zhang Xiu was also helpless, he came to surrender, but Zhang Liao still didn't believe it. However, Zhang Xiu didn't care about Zhang Liao, anyway, the object of his surrender was not the Bingzhou army, so he shouted at Zhang Liao: "I have a letter here, you give it to Ye Yi, let him pass it on to the head of the Ye family, he will naturally know." β
Seeing that Zhang Xiu really took out a letter, Zhang Liao was also stunned. But in order to prevent fraud, he asked one of the cavalrymen behind him to go up and retrieve the letter. Zhang Liao didn't read the letter when he got it, and directly asked people to go to the camp and hand it over to Ye Yi.
Zhang Xiu saw that someone in the Bingzhou army took his letter and left, so he knew that he was going to give it to Ye Yi. And he also knew that this matter could not be believed by the state army for the time being, so he directly ordered his subordinates to rest in place.
Seeing that Zhang Xiu's army was resting in place, Zhang Liao still did not relax his vigilance, and after taking the army to the barracks, he let people start martial law to prevent Zhang Xiu's troops from changing.
As soon as Ye got the letter, he wanted to hand over the letter to Ye Mo himself, but he was still injured and inconvenient to move, so he asked Ye Zhen to go on this trip.
Ye Zhen, as Lu Bu's personal soldier, should have acted with Lu Bu. But Lu Bu went to see Ding Yuan this time, and Ding Yuan was prejudiced against the people of the Ye family for some reason. Therefore, Lu Bu did not let Ye Zhen go along, and at the same time, he could also let Ye Zhen take care of Ye Yi.
Ye Zhen was bored because he didn't fight, but now that there was something, he didn't talk nonsense, and just took the letter and rode away in the direction of Luoyang City.
In Ding Yuan's courtyard, Lu Buzheng reported today's battle situation to Ding Yuan.
After Ding Yuan listened to Lu Bu's report, he suddenly became angry, threw the teacup in his hand to the ground, and scolded: "The people of the Ye family are really incompetent, and they failed in front of the battle, which damaged the morale of our army, and there were so many casualties. β
Lu Bu had expected Ding Yuan to be angry, after all, the losses of the Bingzhou army were too great, but he didn't expect Ding Yuan to vent his anger on Ye Yi again. You must know that Ye Yi is not a person in the Bingzhou army, although he is Lu Bu's own soldier, he has not really joined the army. In other words, Ye Yi could not have fought at all.
But if Ye Yi didn't fight, the morale of the Bingzhou army would be really damaged, not to mention, Ye Yi almost lost his life because of this battle. Ding Yuan didn't say anything to comfort and encourage, but he actually attributed the big loss of this battle to Ye Yi.
"Father-in-law, the victory in this battle is thanks to Ye Zhen. If Ye Zhen hadn't shot Zhang Ji and wounded Zhang Xiu and Guo Yan, I'm afraid our army might not have been able to win this battle. Ding Yuan blamed Ye Yi, and Lu Bu didn't speak for Ye Yi, he only said that Ye Zhen had made great contributions to this battle, and wanted to let Ding Yuan reduce his prejudice against the Ye family.
"Humph!" Hearing that Lu Bu actually defended the Ye family, Ding Yuan also snorted angrily and said, "Ye Yi's mistakes, the rest of the Ye family will make up for them, shouldn't this be?" Feng Xian, did you let the Ye family's rhetoric confuse you? β
Hearing the dissatisfaction with himself in Ding Yuan's tone, Lu Bulian said, "Don't dare." In the following conversation, Lu Bu only responded to Ding Yuan's words, and didn't say anything more.
Seeing Lu Bu's absent-mindedly perfunctory words, although Ding Yuan was dissatisfied, it was inconvenient to say more. "Fengxian, I will go to the barracks with you today and reward the soldiers."
"Yes, it's up to my father."
In the Ye Mansion, Ye Mo took the letter Jia Xu gave him, and he also understood the reason for Zhang Xiu's surrender.
In his previous life, Jia Xu also persuaded Zhang Xiu to surrender to Cao Cao, but it was just a ladder for Jia Xu to enter Cao Cao's side for himself, but this time it was to accumulate capital for him Ye Mo.
"Let's go, let's go to the state barracks." Looking at Ye Zhen, Ye Mo said.
In Dong Zhuo's barracks, Dong Zhuo had already heard the soldiers who had fled back talk about the situation of the battle, coupled with Zhang Xiu's defection, he was extremely annoyed.
"First Huaxiong was defeated, then Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Zhang Ji were killed, and Zhang Xiu defected. The strength of our army has been greatly damaged, do you have an idea? Looking at the civil and military generals in the tent, although Dong Zhuo was annoyed, he was also extremely lonely.
Hua Xiong in the tent heard Dong Zhuo's words, his face was red with shame, and he buried his head under the table.
"General, the defeat of our army in this battle is nothing more than that Lu Bu's superior force. If this Lu Bu's persuasion can be attributed to the general, the general will not be able to do anything. Suddenly, a civil official stood up and said.
Dong Zhuo, who was still very lonely, saw this person come out to offer advice, and suddenly a glimmer of hope appeared in his eyes, and said, "It turned out to be Wei Gong, can you teach me?" β
"The subordinates and Lu Bu are small, this person is brave and unscrupulous, forgetting his righteousness, if the general is willing to spend a lot of money, his subordinates will be able to persuade Lu Bu to return to the general for the general. Moreover, Ding Yuan has been privately embezzling Lu Bu's credit for a long time, which has made Lu Bu dissatisfied with him for a long time. This person turned out to be Lu Bu's fellow villager Fa Xiao Li Su, and Wei Gong was Li Su's character.
"If I can make Lu Bu submit to me, it will be ten thousand gold, and I am willing to give it." Dong Zhuo replied immediately. If LΓΌ Bu is submissive, then the threat of the state army will no longer exist. When the two armies are combined, they can replace the Son of Heaven and command the world, and at that time, not to mention 10,000 gold, even 100,000 gold can be available.
"If you want Lu Bu to return to the general, I'm afraid that money alone won't be able to impress Lu Bu." Li Su said with a little embarrassment at this time. If Dong Zhuo is only willing to pay, then his errand may not be easy to complete.
"What else does Wei Gong need?" Dong Zhuo now as long as Lu Bu can be obedient, then he can really take out anything.
"My subordinates heard that the general has a horse, if he can give this horse to Lu Bu, presumably Lu Bu will definitely be submissive to the general." Li Su knows that heroes love BMWs, but Lu Bu, as a fierce general in the world, does not have a good mount, so he is not afraid that Lu Bu will not accept it.
The BMW in Li Su's mouth is the Red Rabbit Horse, a horse king caught on the grassland not long ago, and Dong Zhuo originally planned to use it as his mount after he was tamed. But at this time, Dong Zhuo still had the resources of a hero, and after thinking for a while, he said: "General Ben just add some more things, and the set of armor in the treasury will be sent with another 1,000 gold." β
Hearing that Dong Zhuo actually made such a heavy order, Li Su hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "The subordinates will definitely live up to the general's trust, and they will make Lu Bu return to the general." β
With the BMW treasure armor and a thousand gold, Li Su went towards the barracks of the Bingzhou Army.
"Stop, who's who?" At the gate of the barracks of the Bingzhou Army, Li Su was stopped by the guards.
"Below is your fellow countryman General Lu, named Li Su, why don't you hurry up and report it?" Li Su saw that someone stopped him, and said arrogantly.
Coincidentally, the two guards were actually the two who had stopped Ye Mo and the others before. These two people suffered losses because of what happened before, and they didn't dare to ask for money this time, so they directly let one of them go to Lu Bu to report the news. The man muttered as he walked, "What day is it?" The adults are here, and General Ye's clansmen are also here, and now there is another fellow of General Lu. β
After Lu Bu accompanied Ding Yuan to treat the soldiers, he returned directly to his camp. Not long after, Ye Zhen came in with a guard and said that his fellow countryman came to see him, and when he heard that it was Li Su, he asked the guard to bring Li Su in.
Ye Zhen, as Lu Bu's personal soldier, happened to be his turn to keep vigil with Ye Yi tonight, but Ye Yi was injured, so he was the only one here.
Li Su was soon taken to Lu Bu's tent, and as soon as he entered the tent, Li Su said, "Lu Fengxian, do you remember me?" β
"Li Weigong, how could I forget jì? Sit. Seeing Fa Xiao here, Lu Bu was also very happy.
"I'm looking for you today not to catch up, but to have something." Li Su said, his eyes still glanced at Ye Zhenna.
Lu Bu found that Li Su's eyes didn't glance at Ye Zhen, so he said to Ye Zhen: "Ye Zhen, you go back first, you don't need to be on duty tonight." β
Ye Zhen heard Lu Bu say this, so he retreated, but after going out, he found that there was a carriage parked outside the tent