Chapter 660: The Bloody Case Caused by the Fifty Great Plates
Besides, once he loses the last base in Xiapi, will Lu Bu have to run away and cling to others? Don't forget, whether it is Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu, they were the princes who drove away Lu Bu at the beginning, and now they can still take Lu Bu back? Even if he could, it wouldn't be a long-term solution for Lu Bu.
As long as Lu Bu still has Xiapi, then he has the right to talk to people. Send someone out to ask for help, even if it is necessary to pay the conditions for cutting the land in the end, so that others can come to the rescue, then Lu Bu still has hope of making a comeback. After all, Lu Bu has been a white-eyed wolf too many times, not to mention Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo, just to say that Liu Bei's bloody facts before will discourage other princes. Therefore, Chen Gong was really a little unoptimistic about Lu Bu's prospects for continuing to wander. Stubbornly adhere to the strategic foundation of Xiapi and resolutely cannot change it.
Lu Bu was persuaded by Chen Gong, as if he was struggling to death, and pinned all his hopes on sending people for help this time. However, at this time, Lu Bu and Chen Gong obviously didn't know that the prohibition of alcohol that they didn't pay much attention to eventually became the fuse. Of course, all the fuses can only be triggered when the contradictions have intensified to a certain extent.
However, it was said that Hou Cheng had fifteen horses, and in the chaos, they were stolen by the Houchu people. After Hou Cheng realized it, he immediately chased and killed the Hougou people, and finally recaptured the horse. After the generals got the news, they all came to congratulate Hou Cheng. Hou Cheng was in high spirits, brewed five or six wines, and wanted to drink with the generals, but Hou Cheng also remembered Lu Bu's military order, and was afraid that Lu Bu would see the crime, so he first used five bottles of wine to Yibu Mansion and said,
"General Huwei, chase the lost horse. All the generals came to congratulate. I can make some wine, but I don't dare to drink it, so I will offer it first. ”
I have to say. Hou Cheng is still quite level in officialdom, as a general. Force may not necessarily be high, but the rules of this officialdom are quite beautiful. People in general. If the personality is a little milder, there is a reason for the incident, and the circumstances are excusable, then as an exception to allow them to drink once, occasionally for it, it is not a bad means to win people's hearts. Even the stricter people, such as Cao Cao, at most returned the wine, saying that the military order was like a mountain. There are no exceptions, and it is still not allowed to drink, so it is not too much of a problem, but it is just a bit of a disappointment.
It's a pity that Hou Cheng met Lu Bu, and it was Lu Bu who was in a hurry. Lu Bu doesn't drink anymore now, and he's busy trying to get out of life all day long, but the people below you are good, not only don't worry about it. I didn't want to forge ahead, I didn't think about how to get out of the predicament, how to defeat Cao Jun, but because of such a trivial matter as retrieving a few horses. Just get together, want to drink and have a banquet, face this situation. Lu Bu didn't feel angry, so it's no wonder.
Lu Bu has always been an irritable person, and he suddenly said angrily.
"I've just ordered a ban on alcohol, and you're going to drink it. Could it be that they are trying to conspire against me?! ”
So Lu Bu directly ordered to push it out and behead me.
The so-called re-enactment in troubled times, at this time, Lu Bu also had to follow Cao Cao's example and strictly implement military orders. Well, even if it's a show, you have to follow Cao Cao's example, right?
Song Xian, Wei Xu and other generals all came to ask Lu Bu to spare Hou Cheng. After all, it's just a trivial matter, how can you really cut off people, Cao Cao didn't just cut off his hair and acting as the head, and didn't really cut off his head.
Lu Bu found the bottom of the stairs and said,
"Therefore, if you violate my order, you should be beheaded. For the sake of the face of the generals interceding for you, you will be spared death, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped, and a hundred boards will be beaten! ”
And the generals lamented again,
Lu Bu: "One hundred! ”
Generals: "Let him be guilty and make meritorious contributions." ”
Lu Bu: "Seventy-five, it can't be less." ”
Generals: "Twenty-five, just mean it." ”
Lu Bu: "Fifty, it's not a pull!" ”
Generals: "Deal!" ”
So, after some bargaining, Hou Cheng was finally beaten with fifty back flowers, and then he was put back by Lu Bu.
After Hou Cheng went back, he immediately held a grudge against Lu Bu, you said that he Hou Cheng was also the one who worked for your Lu Bu, and in such a situation, he did not go to Cao Cao. As a result, you Lu Bu beat him fifty times because of such a trivial matter, which can't even be called a thing, and this is still under the premise of the generals' intercession!
Did he Hou Cheng drink alcohol? No, at most, he only made wine, and he had to ask you Lu Bu for instructions before he was ready to drink it. If you don't agree, you won't agree, and you will punish him! If Hou Cheng thinks he is guilty, then it's okay, but Hou Cheng never feels that he has done anything wrong, so it's no wonder that Hou Cheng has no resentment about Lu Bu's behavior!
Why did Cao Bao oppose Zhang Fei and introduce Lu Bu into Xiapi? It wasn't because Zhang Fei drank and made trouble, made trouble unreasonably, and beat people indiscriminately, Cao Bao was beaten by Zhang Fei for fifty years, so he held a grudge against Zhang Fei, so he conspired with Lu Bu in private and seized Xuzhou. And now, Lu Bu has to pay the price for this unreasonable fifty boards, just like Zhang Fei at the beginning!
"Lu Bu, you are unkind first, then don't blame me for being unjust!"
After Hou Cheng returned home, he poured all the wine he had brewed, and returned all the gifts given by the previous generals. For a while, everyone felt very depressed, at least very disappointed.
Song Xian and Wei Xu came to visit Hou Cheng's house, and Hou Cheng cried,
"If it weren't for a few pleas, I would probably be dead by now!"
Song Xian said angrily,
"Lu Bu has always only cared about himself, and treats me like a mustard."
Wei Xu lamented,
"Now that Cao's army is besieging the city, and the water is surrounding the edge of the trench, I am not far from death!"
Seeing this, Song Xian looked around for a moment, and suddenly whispered,
"Lu Bu is unkind and unrighteous, why don't I abandon him and leave?"
It can be seen that Song Xian has long wanted to leave Lu Bu, but he has always dared to think about it but not dare to do it, and when he encountered such an accident today, Song Xian thought that Hou Cheng definitely didn't want to talk to Lu Bu anymore, as long as someone summed up, then Song Xian dared to really start planning the way to escape.
As a result, there was something even bolder than Song Xian, that is, Wei Xu, just listen to Wei Xu immediately follow,
"It's not the husband's job to escape, if we capture Lu Bu and sacrifice it to Cao Gong."
Good guy, I only listened to the first half of the sentence, I thought this guy was a coward and didn't dare to run, but when I heard the second half of the sentence, I found that Wei Xu, this guy, usually doesn't look good, but in fact, he is really evil and guts.
Before, it was the increasingly acute contradiction between the low-level soldiers and the high-level, but now, it has evolved into the increasingly acute contradiction between the important generals and Lu Bu.
It's like a soldier who tried to grab a door, but it was easily suppressed. And now here, Hou Cheng, Wei Xu, Song Xian, no matter which one of them, wants to open a city gate, it is as easy as eating. One person can open the city gate at will, and at this time, the three of them conspired, and they began to directly calculate Lu Bulai!
A generation of heroes, the world's first fierce general Lu Bu, finally came to the end of the road. (To be continued......)