Chapter 118: The Power of Benevolence, Righteousness, and Morality

Pushing the boat down the river to kill Chen Gong, who likes to make small reports, Lu Wenhou's brother-in-law General Wei Xu is even more unrestrained at this time, for a whole afternoon, General Wei Xu did not show up on the wall of the main battlefield of the south gate that he was responsible for, and then in the evening, Wei Xu finally went up to the city wall and shook around, and then hastily arranged the night duty, and then went back to the city to rest at home.

In the past, there was Chen Gong staring dutifully at night, and Gao Shun, who was directly under the control of Wei Xu, didn't say anything, but this time Gao Shun didn't do it, stopped Wei Xu from being loyal and straightforward, and strongly persuaded Wei Xu to stay in the city to rest, so as to command the army at any time to prevent the enemy from stealing the city, but Wei Xu replied: "Tomorrow, I will definitely stay on the city wall for the night tomorrow night, and if you work hard all night today, I still have something to do tonight." ”

"Dare to ask the general what else is going on?" Gao Shun frowned slightly and said: "The general probably also knows that the Cao thief team has launched six times to steal the city before, and it is all thanks to Mr. Gongtai who organized the soldiers to kill and retreat in time, and the Cao thief has not succeeded, and now Mr. Gongtai has been imprisoned, and the defenders of the South Gate City are leaderless, and the general is also asked to put state affairs first." ”

"Today is my thirtieth birthday, and I made an appointment with my friends Song Xian and Hou Cheng to celebrate." Wei Xu also confessed, sighed gloomily and said: "You also know the situation in Changyi City, this is probably my last life, and now that my head is still on my neck, you can let me be happy again." I promise you, tomorrow morning, like the Chen Palace, I will move to this south gate tower to stay, when the city is broken, when I will give the lord a funeral. ”

Seeing that Wei Xu said miserably, Gao Shun was very unbearable, so he no longer advised Wei Xu, and let him return to the city to get drunk and dream to death, and he took on the heavy responsibility of guarding the city at night. But what neither Wei Xu nor Gao Shun expected was that after the third watch of this night, another group of Cao army infantry, under the leadership of the Cao army general ban, touched the city of Changyi under the cover of night, climbed the city with a spade, and killed the sentry of the Lu Bu army who was drowsy and sleepy because of fatigue and hunger, and then more than 20 flying ladders set up the city wall, and the Cao army soldiers swarmed up, and dozens of Cao army soldiers climbed to the top of the city.

At the critical moment, Gao Shun happened to pass by with a patrol, and when he saw Cao Jun flocking to the city, Gao Shun's face was pale at first, and then he immediately yelled and drew his sword and rushed up, and the patrolmen behind him also hurriedly beat gongs and drums to call the police.

This is a bloody battle of life and death that can no longer be dangerous, most of the soldiers of the Lu Bu army who were tormented by hunger and exhaustion were resting in the Tibetan army tower, and the rest were distributed in various wall sections to stand guard and sentry, and they were unable to assemble quickly in a hurry, let alone immediately launch a strong counterattack, and in a short period of time, they could only rely on Gao Shun and other more than 30 people to support and prevent Cao soldiers from climbing the city in large numbers. In the dark night, more than 30 soldiers of the Lu Bu army under the leadership of Gao Shun, without hesitation, rushed to the Cao army soldiers who had exceeded their own army, slashed with knives, stabbed with guns, smashed with stones, and fought bloodily with the enemy with their fists and teeth, Gao Shun killed twelve Cao soldiers in a row, and the remaining Lu Bu soldiers also broke out with unimaginable combat effectiveness in the case of hunger, killing and destroying the enemy who far exceeded the number of their own army, only killing everyone with blood, all wounded, and when the Lu Bu army arrived for reinforcements, There are less than 10 of the more than 30 Lu Bu soldiers left, and most of the soldiers who died hugged the enemy and rolled down the city wall before they died, and died with the enemy.

Because he found that the defenders were seriously ill-prepared, Li Dian, who replaced the forbidden plundering array, also quickly waved his army to attack the city, and used a flying ladder to climb another section of the city wall in the distance. Fortunately, although the strength of the Lu Bu army has been reduced to less than 6,000 people so far, almost all of them are elite veterans who have survived a hundred battles, and they did not wait for the South Gate guard Wei Xu and the reserve generals Song Xian and Hou Cheng to order, the grassroots generals of the Lu Bu army have rushed to the city wall with the reserve team to rescue, and Lu Wenhou, who was sleeping with Diao Chan in his arms, also hurriedly pushed away Diao Chan, and hurriedly took the guards to catch up with the city wall to fight. He didn't want to waste his troops in vain, so he had no choice but to withdraw his troops and return to the camp to give orders to Cao Laoda.

After listening to Yu Ban Li Dian's night attack battle report, Boss Cao didn't blame Yu Ban Li Dian's ineffective operation, but just said lightly: "It's a pity, but it doesn't matter, judging from the sneak attack tonight, even if Chen Gong Pifu didn't lose his life, he must have lost his power, otherwise, you have a chance to almost steal the city." ”

"What the lord said is extremely true, tonight is indeed a pity, if it is not for the enemy's patrol, or a patrol with very strong combat effectiveness, the last general will definitely be able to succeed tonight." Yu Ban nodded, and couldn't wait to say: "Lord, the last general asks the order to steal the city again tomorrow night, the last general won't believe it, and Lu Bupifu can still be lucky every time." ”

"No, no more sneak attacks." Boss Cao decisively waved his hand and refused, shook his head and said: "Lu Bupifu is not a fool, he was almost attacked by our army and broke the city, can he do his best to prevent our army from repeating his old tricks?" Starting tomorrow, the monitoring and sentinels of the Changyi city wall will be strengthened at night, and I have a hunch that after the Chen Palace loses power, Lu Bupifu's team will come out of civil strife. ”

Diametrically opposed to the calm and calm Cao Boss, on the Changyi city wall at the same time, Lu Wenhou, the big boss of the Lu Bu army, was furious like thunder, not only because he was almost killed by the Cao army, but also angry at the loss of Lu Bu's army in this battle, and he was furious because he had not seen Wei Xu, the guard of the south gate. And when Lu Bu was about to send someone to tie Wei Xu from home, Wei Xu, who was untidy, finally hurriedly came to Lu Wenhou to plead guilty, followed by Hou Cheng and Song Xian, who were also untidy and full of alcohol--Hou Cheng and Song Xian also saw Hou Cheng and Song Xian, and Lu Wenhou finally remembered a major event, as the generals who commanded the reserves, Hou Cheng and Song Xian did not appear on the battlefield before!

Because they all knew that they had made a mistake, Wei Xu, Song Xian and Hou Cheng didn't dare to be a little lazy, and when they got up to the city wall, they honestly knelt down on their knees in front of Lu Bu, trembling so much that they didn't even breathe a sigh of air. Lu Wenhou was not polite, first picked up his thigh and rewarded a kick, kicked the three generals three with four feet to the sky, and then grabbed Fang Tian's halberd, and asked with a blue face: "Cao thief steals the city, you don't wait to guard the city, and you don't lead the army to the city for reinforcements, why is it?" ”

Song Xian and Hou Cheng didn't dare to say anything, they just quietly went to see Wei Xu, and said together that you dragged us to drink and drunk us, we won't sue you for being strong, you can explain it yourself. Who knew that Wei Xu peeked at his brother-in-law's face was blue and his eyes were red, and he also clutched Fang Tian's halberd in his hand so that his knuckles turned white, knowing that his brother-in-law had already made a killing move, he said stubbornly: "Back to the lord, the last general was originally sticking to his post in the city, who knew that the two generals Song Xian and Hou Cheng forced the last general to go home and forced the last general to set up a banquet to entertain them, but ......, they were all drunk. ”

Lu Wen Hou Ying's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he looked up viciously to see Song Xian and Hou Cheng kneeling behind Wei Xu, poor Song Xian and Hou Cheng were so frightened that they quickly screamed and shouted together, "Lord, wronged, it's not us who pulled Wei Xu hard, it was Wei Xu who dragged us to his house to drink!" ”

"Lord, it's really not us who pull Wei Xu to drink, it's Wei Xu who said that he has made a new Liuhu good wine, and wants us to go to his house to drink with him! The last general is not going, Wei Xu is still pulling the last general to go! ”

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, I didn't pull them." Wei Xu was in a hurry, hurriedly walked a few steps forward, hugged Lu Bu's thigh, and screamed like a pig: "It's they who pulled me to drink, brother-in-law, you must believe me, I am your brother-in-law, I dare not lie to you!" ”

"Wei Xu, you brute! You....... Song Xian and Hou Cheng were furious, and they stepped forward to reason with Wei Xu, but Lu Wenhou raised Fang Tian's halberd, and stabbed Hou Cheng with a halberd without saying a word, Hou Cheng was so frightened that he was about to scream and dodge, but he was too late to say anything............ "Lord!" Seeing that Hou Cheng was about to die under Lu Bu's halberd, a big hand suddenly reached out, grabbed Fang Tian's halberd, and the tip of the halberd pierced Hou Cheng's chest placket, and stopped against the flesh.

"My lord, the last general can testify to the two generals Song Xian and Hou Cheng, and it was General Wei Xu who invited them to drink." Gao Shun said in a deep voice: "When General Wei Xu left his post without permission, the last general stepped forward to dissuade him, and General Wei Xu personally told the last general that today is his thirtieth birthday, and he is going to invite Song Xian and Hou Cheng to drink and celebrate!" ”

Gao Shun, who is innocent and upright, does not tell lies, which Lu Wenhou knows better than anyone else, so even if Wei Xu frantically shouted injustice, Lu Wenhou still kicked Wei Xu in the chest, kicking Wei Xu on the spot and spitting blood, and then Lu Wenhou roared: "Drag it down, hit fifty military sticks!" ”

"Brother-in-law, I'm wronged! Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law! Poor General Wei Xu shouted and was dragged down, Song Xianhou Chenggang, who had escaped death, breathed a sigh of relief, and was looking at Gao Shun, who was almost red with blood all over his body, when he was grateful, but Lu Wenhou suddenly rewarded them with another kick, and then roared with a blue face: "Drag these two horsemen who drank and misbehaved to go down, and beat fifty military sticks!" ”

"Lord!" Song Xianhou Cheng almost didn't cry, and said in his heart, the lord, you are so fair, your brother-in-law is the main culprit and only beats fifty military sticks, and we are accomplices who also have to beat fifty military sticks!

"My lord......." Gao Shun spoke again, but Lu Bu waved his hand to stop Gao Shun from speaking, then turned around and left, turning his back to Gao Shun and said coldly: "It has nothing to do with you, go down to treat me." ”

"Ugh." Gao Shun sighed weakly, and watched the poor generals Song Xian and Hou Cheng being dragged down the city wall by Lu Bu's own soldiers, and went to the military court platform under the city to beat the military stick in public with Wei Xu. At this time, the surname Cao, who was guarding the city at the West Gate, quietly came to Gao Shun's side and said in a low voice: "Brother Gao, such rewards and punishments are unknown, what the younger brother said to you before, Brother Tai didn't think about it carefully?" ”

Gao Shun glanced at the surname Cao, his eyes were full of loss, but he didn't speak, just silently bowed his head and walked away, without saying a word to the surname Cao, leaving the surname Cao in place for a long sigh, hesitating, and there was only one thought left in his heart, "Lu Bu is so ruthless and unrighteous, and the rewards and punishments are unknown, do I want to be like Gao Shun and give him a funeral?" ”

……………… The accomplice and the main offender are subject to the same punishment together, and the bad luck of the poor Hou Cheng and Song Xian generals is not over, because it is Lu Wenhou's personal soldiers who carry out the military law, and because Wei Xu is Lu Wenhou's brother-in-law, he enters and exits Lu Wenhou's back house two times in three days, and these pro-soldiers do not look up and see each other, these pro-soldiers naturally have to be merciful when they beat the military stick, but it is different when they beat Hou Cheng and Song Xian, it is to use the strength of the milk to beat hard, so after General Wei Xu finished receiving the military stick, he was immediately carried away with a groan, Poor Hou Cheng and Song Xian fainted in pain twice, and after the beating of the fifty military sticks, they fainted together, lying on the execution table like dead dogs and no one took care of them, and finally their own soldiers and servants carried them back for treatment.

Fortunately, Hou Cheng and Song Xian are all military generals, and their bodies are quite strong, and after lying in bed for more than a day, they can barely move around, and the next afternoon, Hou Chengqiang, who almost died under the halberd of Lu Wen, came to Song Xian's house and had a secret conversation with Song Xian under the pretext of visiting the patient. After first understanding Song Xian's physical condition, Hou Cheng said in a low voice: "Lu Bu is ruthless and unrighteous, favoring his wife and uncle, the rewards and punishments are unknown, I want to abandon him and go to others, I don't know if the general intends to go with me?" ”

"I have long had this thought, and I am willing to walk with the general!" Song Xian gritted his teeth, and then asked in a low voice: "There are three soldiers and horses of Tao, Yuan and Cao outside the city, I don't know who the general is willing to vote for?" ”

"Who would the general want to vote for?" Hou Cheng asked rhetorically.

"Tao Ying Tao envoy!" Song Xian replied without hesitation: "Cao Thief is known for his brutality, and he has been fighting with us for a long time, and he has already formed a mortal enmity with us. Yuan Shao's eyes are higher than the top, he is light and virtuous, and he is better than Lu Bu when he has unknown rewards and punishments. Only Tao should make Jun Gong benevolent, gentle and kind, I will go to him, not only will my surname be worry-free, but also have a chance to make a comeback! ”

"That's what I mean, too." Hou Cheng was overjoyed and said: "The previous Gao Shun Cao surname went to Xuzhou to assist in military training, Tao Envoy Jun treated them very well, and the love for talent can be seen, and Tao Envoy Jun under the command of the military generals is scarce, you and I martial arts are not under the surname Gao Shun Cao, to Tao Envoy Jun, it will inevitably be more reused!" ”

"Then it's settled." Song Xian gritted his teeth and said: "Without further ado, you and I will leave tonight, lead my henchmen and soldiers out of the city through the west gate, and go straight to the camp of Tao Envoy Jun to surrender!" ”

"Don't worry." Hou Cheng shook his head, gritted his teeth and said: "Just going to see Tao Envoy Jun empty-handed like this is rude!" The horse courtyard is guarded by my team, and tonight we will first steal Lu Bupifu's red rabbit BMW, and then go to visit Tao Envoy Jun as a gift for advancement! ”

Song Xian was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately nodded in agreement, and the two acted separately, respectively summoned his henchmen to inform them of their intentions, and asked everyone's intentions, and Song Xianhou Cheng's people were also dissatisfied with Lu Wenhou for a long time, not only no one objected, but also no one secretly informed, and they also expressed their willingness to defect to the Xuzhou army. It was the third watch of the night, Hou Cheng advanced to the horse courtyard in his charge, and successfully stole the red rabbit horse and some war horses, Song Xian also brought dozens of henchmen to meet Hou Cheng, and went to the west gate together, planning to cut the gate and go out of the city to join the Xuzhou army.

Unfortunately, the bad luck of the poor Song Xian Hou Cheng two generals is obviously not finished, when they are about to arrive at the West Gate, their whereabouts are unfortunately detected by the patrol team, although the answer to the password is correct, but this patrol team accidentally found Hou Cheng Song Xian in the red rabbit horse, immediately noticed that the situation is not good, the patrol team immediately sounded the gong and sounded the alarm, until Song Xian Hou Cheng hurriedly killed the patrol team, the night before yesterday was almost stolen by Cao Jun in the city of Changyi has already been gongs and drums, torches are everywhere, Hao Meng, the general of the Lu Bujun army on duty at the west gate, also hurriedly led the army to set up defenses, and when Hou Cheng, Song Xian and others galloped to the west gate with red rabbit horses, Hao Meng had already personally led the army to guard the door latch, blocking the road out of the city for Hou Cheng and Song Xian.

Under the illumination of countless torches, thousands of soldiers of the Lu Bu Army stopped more than 100 people of Song Xian and Hou Cheng, led by Hao Meng, who jumped on his horse and raised his gun, and shouted to Song Xian and Hou Cheng with an angry face: "Traitor, stealing the lord's horse, where do you want to go?" ”

The enemy is outnumbered, Hou Cheng and Song Xian are all injured, Hou Cheng is difficult to break through the encirclement at his own expense, so the surname Suo stepped forward and shouted: "Hao Meng, you don't meddle with things!" Lu Bupifu only listened to his wife's uncle's slander, imprisoned Mr. Gongtai, and blamed us for no reason, we were humiliated, and decided to go out of the city to vote for Xuzhou Tao Envoy! If you Hao Meng is smart, you will immediately open the city gate and go out of the city with us to join Tao Envoy Jun, Tao Envoy Jun is generous and generous, a good virtuous and virtuous person, and the world knows it! When you come to the command of the Tao Envoy, you will definitely be reused, which is better than giving Lu Bu Pifu a hundred times the ...... of burial. ”

"Shut up!" Before Hou Cheng's generous statement could speak, Hao Meng had already roared like thunder, "Go! Divide the corpses of these two traitors who seek glory! ”

"Whew!" Before Hao Meng's words fell, there was already a wind sound behind his ears, and before Hao Meng could turn around, the head had already flown into the air, and everyone looked at it in surprise, but saw that the surname Cao was slashing Hao Meng from behind the horse. When Hou Cheng, Song Xian and the others were pleasantly surprised, the surname Cao held up the bloody steel knife and shouted, "Soldiers, General Hou Cheng is right, Lu Bupifu is capricious, rude and unkind, meritorious and unrewarded, there is no punishment for mistakes, and it is only sooner or later that he will be destroyed!" Xuzhou Tao envoy Jun respects the virtuous and virtuous people, rewards and punishments are clear, generous and generous, and we are as kind as a mountain! Instead of accompanying the funeral for Nalu Bupifu, it is better to go out of the city to join the Tao Ying envoy and achieve a great cause! ”

Shouting, the surname Cao shouted frantically: "If you are willing to go with me to vote for Tao Envoy, shout with me - Tao Envoy!" ”

"Tao Envoy Jun!" Hou Cheng and Song Xian shouted in surprise together, and more than 100 people behind them also shouted, and then the soldiers of Lu Bujun surnamed Cao also shouted loudly, "Tao Envoy Junβ€”β€”β€”β€”! ”

"Tao Envoy-kun! Tao Envoy Jun! Tao Envoy Jun! In the thunderous shout, the team surnamed Cao and Song Xian Hou Cheng converged as one, quickly killed the surrounding Hao Meng's dead party, cut open the wooden latch of the west gate, opened the city gate and rushed out of the city, and rushed to the southwest of the Xuzhou army camp overnight, and countless Lu Bujun soldiers rushed down from the city wall, followed by the team surnamed Cao and Song Xian Hou Cheng, and fled to the Xuzhou camp in the southwest direction.

What is destined to make Lu Wenhou mad is that although he also sent soldiers and horses to chase and kill Cao surname, Song Xian and Hou Cheng and others, but the team he sent out took advantage of the night to cover most of the stars, and also fled to the Xuzhou camp with Cao and others, and the voice of defecting to Tao Yuanjun resounded inside and outside the West Gate, if it was not for Lu Bu personally leading the army to the West Gate to block the road, I am afraid that more soldiers would escape from Changyi and go to Tao Yuanjun, Lu Wenhou's former son-in-law.

In fact, Lu Wenhou's luck is already good, and there are many people who are even more angry, unlike the Xuzhou army that has not made any preparations in advance, Boss Cao has a lot of teams waiting for him every night, ready to deal with abnormal situations in Changyi City at any time. The mutiny of the Lu Bu army and the defection of a large number of soldiers out of the city were also the first to be discovered by Cao Boss's team, but when the Cao army team hurried to the scene to meet these Lu Bu rebels, these Lu Bu rebels did not look at them at all, no matter how the Cao army soldiers shouted and surrendered, they refused to stop and surrender, and they just went straight to the Xuzhou camp to surrender, and the Cao army team stepped forward to block, and the Lu Bu rebels even drew their swords to each other, and fought a bloody way, striding to the door of the Xuzhou army camp, Surrender to the unprepared Xuzhou soldiers on their knees.

When the news was transmitted back to the Cao army camp, Cao Lao, who was also coveting the veterans of the Lu Bu Army, was so angry that he simply lifted the case, jumped up and stomped his feet and scolded, "Tao Ying, destroy the thief!" Hypocrite! You are the number one thief in the world! The world's number one hypocrite! I will fight, I will attack the city, I will die, and I will bear the notoriety! You hide from the sidelines and watch the excitement, and in the end, you have to take the most benefits! Hypocrite! You are the best hypocrite in the worldβ€”β€”β€”β€”! ”

Of course, if Boss Cao knew what our Deputy Director Tao would be doing, it would definitely not be as simple as stomping his feet and scolding, but he would be completely angry and vomit blood............ At the same time, in the middle camp of the Xuzhou army, in the face of thousands of elite soldiers and strong generals of the Lu Bu army who came to surrender, and also faced the people surnamed Cao, Hou Cheng and Song Xian who were desperate to take refuge, our deputy director Tao actually took the hands of Cao and Song Xian and others and shed tears, choked up and said: "Generals, soldiers, I am sorry for you, I am sorry for you." Blame me, blame me for severing the alliance with Wen Hou, and only then did I force you to this point...... if I endure it a little longer, why will you be called unjust? I don't blame you, I don't blame Lu Wenhou, I blame me, I blame me! (To be continued)