Chapter 108: Strike Agreement
At the beginning of July of the second year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty, in the middle of summer gradually approaching Hebei, the Marquis Wen, General Fenwei, and Lu Bu of the Prefecture and General Wei of the Great Han Dynasty, Yuan Shao, sat on the negotiating table between a stone's throw outside the northwest gate of Yecheng, and soon ended the negotiations and reached a strike agreement, stipulating that the two sides would not attack each other, and Lü Bu withdrew from Jizhou, on the condition that Yuan Shao would bear the materials consumed by the trip, and at the same time he would additionally compensate Lü Bu hundreds of experienced craftsmen. Doctors and other professional or logistician personnel who are indispensable for military warfare.
This is almost a summation agreement, and the peacemaker is undoubtedly Yuan Shao.
In fact, no matter what kind of ghost Yuan Shao was fighting in his heart, if he really came according to this agreement, it would definitely not only be the effect that Lu Bu's 3,000 cavalry could cause by besieging the city, not to mention that he had not inflicted any substantial blow on Yuan Shao at all, but more of a faint threat to Lu Bu's nearly 30,000 troops still on display in Changshan Jingcheng.
From this point of view, even if the current Yuan Shao has a strong hatred for Lu Bu, it is obvious that he is still able to recognize that his most important goal at present is the foundation of Hebei, as for Lu Bu and hatred, they can be slightly behind, this is the trade-off at the critical moment expressed by the successful products under the elite education of the Yuan family.
It was probably only at the moment when he first heard the news about Lu Bu that he warmed up his brain a little.
To say that the reason why this negotiation was able to end in such a short period of time and conclude an agreement was due to Tian Chou's calculations, Yuan Shao wanted to delay time. But he didn't know that his intentions had actually been discovered by Lu Bu.
When he ordered someone to secretly and quietly investigate the situation of the Zhangshui part behind Yecheng, Lu Bu knew the situation, and the spies searched along the river but found nothing, it seems that the reinforcements of the navy have not yet arrived, and Yuan Shao just wants to delay the time should be waiting for the reinforcements to come, Tian Chou just started grinding with Yuan Shao, saying that he can't call the shots is just a rumor, which seems to be in line with Yuan Shao's mind, but he doesn't know that it is to hang the other party's appetite, and wait until Yuan Shao feels that he will be able to take Lu Bu this time. And when Lu Bu didn't notice anything. Tian Chou suddenly proposed to solve the matter as much as possible, and there was already a change in Lu Bu's army, and he must focus on stabilizing the morale of the army, otherwise he could only retreat.
The big fat cooked duck that I thought was in my mouth was about to fly away. How could Yuan Shao be willing. I didn't have that much time to think about why Lu Bu suddenly changed his hexagram. He immediately proposed to start negotiations and agree on an agreement, and then said that he could not raise so many materials for a while. It is necessary for Lu Bujun to continue to wait here for a while.
In fact, the spies had already found out that Yuan Shao's naval army would arrive in half a day, and they could fight with a little preparation, Yuan Shao must not want to have a problem at this juncture, and Lu Bu was holding his mentality, plus Tian Chou had been entangled with him these days, which aggravated the other party's mentality, and then suddenly changed, and he got the conditions he wanted, and after that, Lu Bu knew that he had to solve a trouble before he could return with peace of mind.
However, in front of Yuan Shao, he naturally had a smug demeanor, so it was clearly a beast that was smug and didn't know that he had fallen into the trap of the hunter, and seeing Yuan Shao's grief and anger on the surface, but there was no flash in his eyes, Lu Bu was also smiling secretly in his heart: If you want to play tricks and bring back the heat to make you suffer, you can only break your front teeth and swallow it in your stomach.
Yuan Shao naturally felt humiliated when he paid such a price, in fact, he didn't know that Lu Bu was still a little dissatisfied in his heart.
Lu Bu originally planned to come to a few pieces of land, but in the end it was useless to want those, and the construction of the state needed to use a lot of talents, this aspect is in short supply, in this regard, it is nothing to rub Yuan Shao's oil, for Yuan Shao, the strength is not damaged, I am afraid it is not painful, but the key is just in face, who called him happens to be a person with a good face, Lu Bu's slap can be heard throughout Hebei, how can this not make him grit his teeth and hate it...... Well, maybe it's in the bone marrow now.
But there is no way to do it, Yuan Shao still wants to stay, Lu Bu knows that he is just doing a show, because he has already gotten the news, the Yuan army on the secret waterway has arrived and is ready, and at this moment it is ambushed on the way they must return, and when Lu Bu's army passes by, the ambush is exhausted, if it is really a hasty battle, there is no preparation at all, and the other party is menacing, it is very likely to suffer a big loss, even if it is not completely annihilated, but it will inevitably be trapped here.
And although Yuan Shao only contacted the reinforcements of the waterway, if he was smarter, he would naturally know that he should also contact the nearby garrisons, so the Lu Bu army was bound to be at a disadvantage in terms of strength, and the only advantage was that since Lu Bu had seen through it now, then he would become in the shadows and take the initiative, as long as Lu Bu himself was careful, he would be able to turn the disadvantage into an advantage, and in turn Yuan Shao's army, and he was also doing this.
When he came, he was lightly armed from 3,000 people, and when he went back, there were more than 100 people, but they were not cumbersome at all, because these people themselves were some craftsmen and healers who accompanied the army in Yuan's army, and they had rich experience, but most of them were relatively old and not very suitable for long-distance travel, which was also the reason why Yuan Shao would rest assured that he would hand them over to Lu Bu, because these were eliminated from his army.
But Lu Bu did not refuse, he knew very well that sometimes experience is the most valuable wealth, and this is undoubtedly the most lacking in his army, after all, most of the people in his army are very young, and they have not experienced many things, and the most important thing is that such talents are exactly what Lu Bu lacks now, as long as he thinks of Ma Junchou's lack of manpower, he is about to pull out the hair on his head, and then he wants to laugh when he thinks of these people who can be brought back on this trip.
And the food and money and silk that were stolen from Yuan Shao were used as a material burden for Lu Bu to come to such a trip - Yuan Shao also knew that Lu Bu was deliberately blackmailing himself, did he need so much consumption to come to such a trip? However, he still agreed, but he had to wait until Lu Bu withdrew from the army to receive it in Changshan, and Lu Bu was not worried that he would cheat at all, which was different from the agreement between Lu Bu and Qiu Liju, it was just a verbal consensus, and Tian Chou was not Lu Bu himself, but this agreement made in black and white could not be relied on, as long as Yuan Shao had not reached the point where he didn't care about his reputation in the future, he had to abide by it.
Of course, Lu Bu thought that Yuan Shao must have wanted to kill himself in his heart, so that the agreement would not have to be fulfilled, which would not only avoid the loss of this agreement, but also make him have a better face, and take revenge, and more importantly, one less enemy, but where would Lu Bu let him get his wish so easily?
"Wen Hou, a team of 1,000 people was found ambushed on both sides of a small road ahead...... "This is the scout that Lu Bu arranged to cruise in front, and in order to prevent being discovered by the other party, he specially sent all the members of the professional secret agent team under Ling Xing, and this is less than a mile away from Yecheng.
Lu Bu said in his heart that he really came, this Yuan Shao really didn't disappoint, and he seemed to be very anxious.
He glanced at Tian Chou, and when he saw the latter nodding slightly, he smiled and said, "Don't worry about him, let's just move on, but let's see what tricks they will play......" (To be continued......