Chapter 111: The Problem of Credibility
Although he never believed that Tao Ying would really take the initiative to abandon Lu Bu as a watchdog on the northern front, after thinking about it again, Boss Cao gritted his teeth and agreed to the request of Song Kai, a diplomatic liar in Xuzhou, and sent a team of soldiers to escort Song Kai to the city of Changyi, so that Song Kai could negotiate and contact Lu Bu and read out the possible severance letter. At the same time, with a very curious attitude, Cao Lao Shao had to lead the civil and military officials of the Cao army to the scene in person to witness the grand scene of the broken friendship between the Xuzhou army and the Lu Bu army.
With the permission of Boss Cao, Dian Wei, who never believed that the Xuzhou army would really break off relations with Lu Bu's army, was able to personally escort Song Kai to Changyi City to meet Lu Bu, before leaving, Dian Wei Liang had the short halberd in his hand, and said to Song Kai viciously: "Piff, look at it, if you dare to play any tricks, I will fly out with a halberd, even if Lu Bu is close at hand, I can't save you!" β
"General Dian, even Ming Gong already believes in me, don't you still believe me?" Song Kai asked with a wry smile.
"Tao Ying's lackey of the thief, it's strange to be trustworthy!"
Dian Wei snorted, turned his head to see Boss Cao's expression, and after seeing Boss Cao nodding, Dian Wei was about to personally escort Song Kai out of the battle, and the three peach brothers in the distance also received the news and hurried over, led by Uncle Liu Huang from afar and shouted: "Slow!" Bright and slow! Tao Ying thieves have always been deceitful, and they must guard against fraud! β
Shouting, Uncle Liu Huang walked quickly to Boss Cao, arched his hand and whispered: "Duke Ming, I heard that Tao Ying's thief's envoy is going to Changyi City to break off relations with Lu Bu Xuanshu, according to my opinion, if Tao Ying's thief really has a plan and intends to break off relations with Lu Bu, just collect his troops, why bother to do this, send an envoy to read out what kind of letter?" There must be fraud in this matter, please be cautious and don't want to be a thief! β
Boss Cao glanced at Uncle Liu Huang and said in a shocking voice: "How can I not know that there must be fraud in it?" But I know Tao Ying thief better than you, Tao Ying thief is indeed a hypocrite, but he is a hypocrite who is true to his word, he escaped from my camp a few days ago, and he defrauded the jade seal of the country from Sun Ce, and even competed with me for grain and grass in Runan. Tao Ying's thief will not joke with his reputation, I believe that his messenger will arrive in the city, and what he will read must be Tao Ying's thief and Lu Bupifu's letter of renunciation! β
"So sure?" Uncle Liu Huang was very surprised that Boss Cao was confident, and then Uncle Liu Huang suddenly came to his senses, and said secretly in his heart: "Could it be that my plan has succeeded?" Did the thief really come to break off his friendship with Lu Bupifu? β
"If Tao Ying's thief really fell for the trick and intends to break off relations with Lu Bu, just withdraw his troops?" Boss Cao glanced at Uncle Liu Huang again, and said secretly in his heart: "Is it really a plan? What do these words mean? I sent Xun Yu to see Tao Ying's thief, and the plan to delay the army was drawn from the bottom of the kettle, this matter is only known to me and Xun Yu, how does Liu Bei know? β
So, under the mistakes of Boss Cao and Uncle Liu Huang, after a while, Song Kai was escorted by Dian Wei's personally led the army, and walked to the moat under the city of Changyi with a white flag, and Lu Bu on the city wall had already led the Lu Bu army to wait for the civil and military forces, constantly guessing the identity, but he definitely didn't expect that the messenger who came out of the Cao army array turned out to be the envoy of Xuzhou, so when Song Kai loudly reported his name and identity under the city, Lu Wenhou was dumbfounded on the spot, couldn't help but stick his head out of the arrow battlement, and exclaimed: " Thou art the messenger of my son-in-law, Tao Ying? β
"Back to Wenhou, exactly." Song Kai replied loudly, and repeated: "The little envoy's surname is Song Mingkai, the word Bei'an, and he is currently the school secretary of the Xuzhou Assassin Mansion. β
As he spoke, Song Kai took out his Xuzhou official identity token and handed it to Sergeant Cao, who sent it to the city, put it in the hanging basket placed on the city, and hanged it in the city to show Lu Bu. Seeing that the token was correct and listening to Song Kai's self-introduction, Lu Bu, Chen Gong and the others were inevitably even more suspicious, and Lu Bu hurriedly asked: "Mr. Song, since you are my son-in-law's envoy, why did you come from Cao's army?" Why did the virtuous son-in-law send you here? β
"Duke Cao is besieging the city, if you don't get Duke Cao's consent, how can the envoy get closer to Changyi?" Song Kai replied loudly: "My lord Tao envoy has sent an envoy here, there is something that must be played to Wen Hou!" β
"What?" Lu Bu hurriedly asked again.
"The lord ordered the envoy to report to Wen Hou that in order to retreat from our lord to rescue Wen Hou's army, Cao Gong sent a messenger south to our army's camp, asking for an alliance with our army to strike the war, and asking our lord not to save Wen Hou again."
Song Kai replied loudly, and also showed the draft of the alliance between the two armies of Tao and Cao that Xun Yu had sent to Tao Ying, and read it aloud in public, Lu Bu and Chen Gong on the city wall listened to it with blue faces and white mouths, and also said that Boss Cao's plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle had been successful, and the Xuzhou army had already made an alliance with the Cao army - so Song Kai could get Boss Cao's permission to read this covenant under the city of Changyi. The generals of the Lu Bu army next to him scolded one after another, scolding Tao Ying for treachery and betraying Lu Bujun when he saw a different idea. Boss Cao in the distance was also confused, he couldn't understand what medicine was sold in Tao Ying's gourd, why did he refuse his kindness and let the messenger read the draft of the covenant in public?
"Cao Ying also sent a messenger to see Tao Ying's thief, and he planned to draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle?" Liu Bei was even more surprised, and said: "I and Cao Ying used a trick on Tao Ying's thief at the same time, whose strategy was successful?" β
At this time, Song Kai had just finished reading the draft of the covenant between Tao Cao and Cao when Lu Bu on the city wall couldn't bear to interrupt and shouted: "Shut up, don't read it!" Let's talk directly, has the thief Tao Ying agreed to form an alliance with the Cao thief and is ready to join forces with the Cao thief to attack this Changyi City? β
"Wen Hou is different." Song Kai replied loudly: "Wen Hou is the father-in-law of my father-in-law, how can there be a reason in the world for a son-in-law to collude with outsiders to harm his father-in-law?" How can my lord make him a righteous and virtuous man, and do such a thing that is contrary to human morality? My lord sent a small envoy to visit Cao Gong, which is to thank Cao Gong for his kindness, refuse Cao Gong's covenant to conclude an alliance, and never join forces with Cao Gong to offend Wen Hou! β
Saying that, Song Kai was still in full view of everyone, tore the draft of the Tao Cao Covenant to shreds, and threw it into the wind in public. Seeing this scene, and hearing Song Kai's words, most of the Cao soldiers who didn't know the inside story were inevitably roaring like thunder, scolding the Xuzhou army that rejected Cao Lao's kindness, and the soldiers of Lu Bu's army on the city wall were cheering, grateful to Tao Ying to the extreme, Lu Bu was even more overjoyed, and while quickly arranging people to prepare to go out of the city to save Song Kai, he shouted loudly: "Mr. Song Kai, what did Cao thief say?" β
"Wen Hou doesn't need to care about Cao Gong's reaction, the little envoy's words haven't been finished yet! One more thing! Song Kai shouted loudly again: "My lord Tao Gong ordered the little envoy to inform Wen Hou, in view of Wen Hou's long-term treachery, capriciousness, and untrustworthiness, and want to collude with outsiders to murder my lord Tao Gong and swallow up the five counties of Xuzhou, my lord's foundation!" It's tolerable, it's unbearable! Therefore, my lord ordered the little envoy to inform Wen Hou, and from now on, Tao Lu broke off his friendship and never repeated! β
The cheers of the soldiers of the Lu Bu army on the city wall of Changyi stopped abruptly, and the soldiers of the Cao army, except for the boss Cao who had been mentally prepared, were all dumbfounded, and they couldn't believe that Tao Yingzhen would keep his promise and really announce the severance of friendship with Lu Bu under the city of Changyi. And the most shocked, of course, was Lu Bu himself, who exclaimed in disbelief: "Mr. Song Kai, you're not joking, are you?" Tao Ying is my son-in-law, why did he break off his friendship with me? β
"Wen Hou, why did my lord Tao Envoy Jun break off friendship with you, the reason you know best in your heart!" Song Kai reprimanded loudly: "Wenhou, please explain, when the big-eared thief Liu Bei pulled you into Xuzhou to stir up trouble, what kind of alliance did you conclude with Liu Bei?" Did you agree with Liu Bei to join forces to destroy our army and divide the five counties of Xuzhou equally? Please Wen Hou answer truthfully, is there such a covenant?! β
All the eyes of the soldiers of the two armies above and below the city turned to Lu Bu, Lu Bu's face was blue and white for a while, and he replied after a while: "There is this alliance, but at that time, I have not yet made an alliance with Tao Envoy, and I have not promised to promise my daughter to Tao Envoy Jun and conclude such an alliance with Liu Bei, what's wrong?" β
"Since Wen Hou said that there is nothing wrong, then our army can also ignore this alliance." Song Kai nodded, and asked loudly: "Then I would like to ask Wen Hou again, after my lord made an alliance with you, you also promised to give your daughter to my lord?" Why did you promise to secretly form an alliance with Yuan Shu, attack our army in the north and south, and divide the land of Xuzhou equally with Surabaya and Zushui as the boundary? The messenger missent the news and let you know that our army was defeated in Huaiyin, and you think there is an opportunity to take advantage of it and immediately send troops to attack Xuzhou, but is there such a thing? β
Lu Wenhou's face was even more unbearable, and the soldiers of Lu Bu were also disgraced, regretting that he had followed such a shameless lord to the extreme, while the soldiers of Cao Jun and Yuan Shaojun who were further away gloated, and they all said that you Lu Bu had a wolf heart and lungs to this point, no wonder your son-in-law also turned his face with you.
After hesitating for a long time, Lu Wenhou had to be cheeky and say loudly: "There is no such thing!" Never! I sent troops that time because I heard that the southern line of Xuzhou was in an emergency, and I was ready to reinforce Xuzhou and help my son-in-law repel Yuan Shu - my son-in-law Tao Ying also said outside Xiaopei City that I would like to thank me for raising troops to save him. β
There was a boo in Cao Jun's ranks, and Cao Jundianwei, who was escorting Song Kai, laughed wildly, "It turns out that Lu Wenhou is here to save Xuzhou?" Mr. Song Kai, do you believe such words? β
"Since my lord said such a thing, then our army can also be regarded as Wen Hou to save Xuzhou, don't care." Song Kai nodded again, and said loudly: "The third time, I would like to ask Wen Hou, after you borrowed countless money, grains and weapons from my Xuzhou, my lord Tao Envoy Jun only borrowed two generals and two hundred soldiers from you to help train the troops, why did Wen Hou can't wait to recall them back to Yanzhou before the deadline expires?" He reneged on his promise, refused to make a covenant, and then borrowed troops to help Xuzhou train his troops? β
The schadenfreude of the Cao soldiers was louder, but the soldiers of Lu Bu lowered their heads in shame, especially those soldiers who had been to Xuzhou, and many of them shed tears of grievance, and Lu Wenhou was at a loss, and finally shouted loudly under the low reminder of Chen Gong: "Misunderstanding, that's a misunderstanding, that's because I mistook Cao Thief's trick and misheard the rumors, so I ......." β
"Well, even if Wen Hou fell for the discord scheme, he misheard the rumors." Song Kai sneered, and asked loudly again: "The fourth time, may I ask Wen Hou, my lord sent the envoy Ni Huan to contact you with a letter, asking why you broke the alliance and betrayed your trust, why did you personally kill the envoy Ni Huan, and tore up the letter of my lord, and also shouted out the words to let my daughter dissolve the marriage contract with my lord (Xu Yan's whistleblower)?" Then he sent Cao Gong to ask for a truce with Cao Gong and make peace, and turned the blade to attack Xuzhou. β
"I can testify to this!" Dian Wei jumped three feet high and shouted: "When Lu Bu's envoy visited my lord Cao Gong at that time, I was by my side, and I can guarantee my head that this is indeed the case!" β
The boos of Cao's army were earth-shattering, all the soldiers of Lu Bu's army were embarrassed, and Lu Wenhou simply wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, and in shame, Lu Wenhou almost wanted to rush out of the city and stab Song Kai, who condemned him in front of thousands of people, to death! Boss Cao in the back also nodded again and again, saying that Tao Ying's thief can really endure it, if it were me, I am afraid that I would have been unbearable a long time ago.
"Soldiers under the command of Marquis Wen, may I ask you, who is a gentleman between my lord and Marquis Lu Wen? Who is the villain? β
Song Kai was also angered by his tone, and couldn't help but shout and ask, hearing this question, Lu Wenhou's face became more and more pale, and the soldiers of Lu Bujun closed their mouths tightly, and just answered in their hearts. But Song Kai still refused to be relieved, and turned back to the soldiers of Cao Jun and asked: "May I ask the soldiers under the command of Duke Cao, who is the treacherous villain compared with the lord of my family, Gong Tao?" β
"Lu Bu is a villain!" Countless Cao soldiers replied with a bang.
"Wen Hou!" Song Kai turned to Lu Bu again and said loudly: "Wen Hou, please also ask yourself, how is my lord Tao Envoy treating you?" You were captured alive by my lord in Daze Lake, my lord let you go back, and returned your Chitu BMW and Fang Tian painting halberd, have you ever mentioned any conditions? β
"You attacked Xuzhou, my lord Tao envoy Jun arranged an ambush in Xiaopei, surrounded you on three sides, as long as you gave an order, you were a big defeat and a fiasco, but my lord still let you go, what is there to be sorry for you?"
"Yanzhou grain shortage, my lord Tao envoy Jun has given you 180,000 pieces of military food, 600,000 money, 1,000 cars, 8,500 horses, and 10,000 weapons! Have you ever asked you to return half a cent? β
"Even so!" The more Song Kai spoke, the more angry he became, and he shouted loudly: "Even so, even if Wen Hou you have treacherously betrayed your word several times, and you will take revenge, my lord for the sake of Weng's son-in-law, you were surrounded by Cao Gong's army in this Changyi city this time, my lord is still not afraid of hardships and dangers, sacrificed his life and forgot his life, and personally led the army to save you!" But how do you repay my lord? I even want to design and murder my father-in-law, and I also want to covet my father-in-law's land in Xuzhou, and take my father-in-law's head in exchange for your glory, wealth, and food! The wolf's heart and dog's lungs are here, Wen Hou, how can you bear it when you call my lord? β
"Huh?!" There was an exclamation in the city and under the city, and everyone looked at Lu Bu in disbelief, saying that they had seen such a shameless person, but they had never seen such a shameless person? People are kind enough to save you, but you still want to harm others? Lu Wenhou, whose face was in the iron blue, was finally inexplicable, and exclaimed, "No? I didn't have it this time? β
"Wen Hou, do you still want to deny it?" Song Kai laughed angrily, took out the 'handwritten letter' of Lu Wenhou from his arms, and asked loudly: "Wenhou, where did this letter come from?" Don't you admit that this letter is not your own handwriting, and it is not the letter you secretly sent to Cao Gong?! β
"My handwritten letter?!" Lu Wenhou was completely dumbfounded, and exclaimed: "What is the content of my handwritten letter? β
"What's on the letter?" Song Kai roared angrily: "Wen Hou, do you want the envoy to believe this book in public?" Let everyone here see clearly, what kind of wolf-hearted dog-hearted person are you? β
"The letter?" Lu Wenhou was really frightened, "Could it be that I asked Cao Thief for peace in Juyang?" Definitely, he can't be allowed to read it! Otherwise, I will lose face even more! β
Thinking of this, Lu Wenhou hurriedly shouted: "Put the hanging basket, Song Kai, you put the letter in the basket, I think it's the letter." β
"I'll read it for you!" Dian Wei was amused, and hurriedly pushed Song Kai away and snatched the letter, and then pulled a loud voice that was definitely no less than Zhang Fei, in front of tens of thousands of soldiers of Cao and Lu, and read it in the loudest voice, "General Fenwu of the Han Dynasty, Wenhou Lu Bu, Baibai Han Yanzhou Mu, Zhendong General Meng Degong, Ming Gong Shenwei, rare in the world, Gongxing soldiers besieged the city, the cloth is irresistible, willing to surrender, return the land of Yanzhou, but Yanzhou is poor, far less than Xuzhou rich ............!" β
Hearing Dian Wei read out aloud this letter written by Lu Wenhou, Boss Cao was dumbfounded, and quickly turned back to look at Xiahou Dun on the side, and shouted angrily: "Yuan Rang, could it be that you forged this letter in private and sent someone to hand it over to Tao Ying's thief?" β
Xiahoudun was even more stunned than Boss Cao, and it wasn't until Boss Cao asked again that Xiahoudun came back to his senses and quickly denied it: "Definitely!" The lord is not allowed to use this plan, and the last general will eat the leopard's gall, and he will not dare to do it privately. β
"And where did this letter come from?" Boss Cao roared angrily: "Who else but you idiot, who else would use such a stupid strategy? β
"Wronged, it's really not the last general." Xiahoudun shouted loudly, and said with great joy: "But my lord, this plan doesn't seem to be stupid, you see, isn't Tao Ying's thief a trick?" β
"Really hit the trick?" When Boss Cao turned his head to look at Uncle Liu Huang next to him, he saw that although Uncle Liu was silent, his eyes were full of joy, and Boss Cao's heart suddenly dawned, and he said secretly: "Nine out of ten are the private actions of this big-eared thief!" However, Tao Ying's thief refused to jump into the trap carefully arranged by me and Mr. Wen Ruo, how could he fall into such a shallow divisive scheme? Could it be that the more cunning a person is, the easier it is to use such a crude and ridiculous trick? β
The fox is suspicious, but it is also a great thing for Cao Boss to make the Tao and Lu families completely turn their faces, so Cao Boss did not order to stop Dian Wei from reciting this letter, and Dian Wei read a sentence aloud here, Lu Wenhou was on the city wall, and when Dian Wei read that Lu Wenhou asked Cao Boss to borrow the second county of Langya in the East China Sea to accommodate him, Lu Wenhou finally couldn't bear it anymore, so he simply grabbed the bow and arrow, pulled the bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at Dian Wei, and yelled with red eyes, "Shut up!" β
With a "ding", Lu Wenhou's feather arrow shot at the long shield in front of Dian Wei, and before Dian Wei could open his mouth to scold, Song Kai next to him had already roared out of wit, "Wen Hou, so far, do you still want to shoot the little envoy?" My lord has been so kind to you, and you want to kill his messenger again and again? β
"Protect Mr. Song Kai!" Dian Wei was also rare to be smart, while grabbing the long shield and pretending to block the arrow for Song Kai, he shouted and shouted to continue to detain the basin for Lu Wenhou, "Lu Bu Pifu, the two countries are not killing each other, Tao Envoy Jun used to be your son-in-law, you still want to kill his envoy again and again, are you still a person?" Let me tell you honestly, this letter was sent by my lord to Tao Yuanjun, please Tao Yuanjun see your true face! β
"Fart, I'm going to kill you!"
Lu Wenhou roared with red eyes, but Dian Wei didn't give Lu Wenhou a chance to explain at all, and led the soldiers to hug Song Kai and walked back, Song Kai also took the opportunity to yell behind the long shield: "The soldiers under the command of Wen Hou, you all heard clearly, my lord really couldn't bear it, so he broke off his friendship with Wen Hou!" The city of Changyi is about to be broken, but the daughter of Wenhou is still in the city, my lord has an order, if any of you can protect the daughter of Wenhou to break through, my lord will have a good reward! My lord Tao envoy Jun is a benevolent and righteous person, although Wen Hou is unjust, my lord Tao Envoy Jun cannot be ruthless to Wen Hou's daughter! β
"Whoever can rescue the daughter of Wen Hou, my lord will definitely have a good reward! There will be a good rewardββ! β
"Mr. Song Kai, don't scream! Our army has broken Changyi, Lu Bu's daughter will definitely not be able to escape, if your lord wants to go back to her, you can talk to my lord! β
Yelling and screaming, Song Kai was carried away by Dian Wei's army, but Lu Wenhou was still shouting angrily on the city wall, "Release the arrow!" Shoot the arrows! Shoot these dog thieves! Shoot these scumbag dog thieves! Give me arrows? β
"My lord, they are all far away, and the arrows can't hit them."
Chen Gong grabbed the hysterical Lu Wenhou, glanced at Lu Wenhou with complaint, opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but he couldn't help himself, but Hou Cheng next to him couldn't help but blurt out: "Lord, when is it, why are you still thinking about murdering Tao Yuanjun?" Robbing the five counties of Xuzhou? Tao Envoy Jun has already treated you like this, why are you still so ruthless and want to do such a poisonous ......? β
"Smack!" Before Hou Cheng's words were finished, Lu Wenhou's big slap had already slapped him in the face, and the slap made his face bloom, and two teeth flew out with blood, and then Lu Wenhou roared with a blue face: "That letter is fake!" I haven't written anything like that! β
Hou Cheng covered his red and swollen face and didn't speak, and the soldiers of the Lu Bu army around him, including Chen Gong, all closed their mouths and didn't speak. Seeing this scene, poor Lu Wenhou was even more furious, and shouted frantically: "Listen to me carefully, that letter is fake, didn't I write it?" No! I didn't plan to hurt my son-in-law again this time! β
Still no one spoke, but every soldier of Lu Bujun had a clear expression on his face - Lord, you lie to others, what kind of virtue you are, others don't know, can we still know? Don't say it's just a son-in-law, even your father-in-law has killed two!
"Why don't you speak?" Lu Wenhou was completely anxious, grabbed the soldiers of the self-army around him one by one and yelled, "Why don't you speak?" Why don't you speak? Do you also think that I wrote that letter? β
No one dared to answer, they all shook their heads desperately, and they didn't know what they wanted to express, but when Lu Wenhou grabbed Chen Gong, Chen Gong cautiously asked: "Lord, that letter, you really didn't write it?" β
(To be continued)