After Yuan Shao stole Jizhou in a grand manner, he led the army to launch a new expedition, and fought with Gongsun Chan of Youzhou again, and after the battle of the boundary bridge, Gongsun Zhan's white horse was lost, thus laying Yuan Shao's advantage in Hebei; In Yanzhou, after assassinating Shi Liudai and killing Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao, he himself died at the hands of the Yellow Turban Liukou in Yanzhou, and under the consultation of Bao Xin and Zhang Miao, the Yanzhou scholars welcomed Cao Cao into Yanzhou; And Yuan Shu is also funded by the family, has extended its power to Yangzhou, Sili, the west of Jingzhou and the east of Yuzhou, among the southern princes, even Liu Biao and Sun Jian's strength is not as good as Yuan Shu, of which Yuan Shu occupied Nanyang County is the largest county in the Eastern Han Dynasty, with 37 cities, more than 500,000 households, and a population of no less than 2.5 million, as for Runan County, which was extended by Yuan Shu's forces, it is the second largest county of the Han Dynasty after Nanyang, and it is also the birthplace of Yuan's family, and the agriculture of the Jianghuai region, Commerce, and handicrafts are quite developed, and Yuan Shu's strong strength is even higher than Yuan Shao, who has not yet pacified Gongsun Zan at this time; At the same time, Sun Jian also fought with Liu Jian and Yan Baihu in Jiangdong, and successively won Lujiang, Yuzhang, Huiji and other counties, Yangzhou almost all fell into the hands of Sun Jian, he recruited a large number of troops in Jiangdong, expanded his power, and also attacked Jingzhou jointly with Yuan Shu, led the army to fight with Huang Zu in Jiangxia, and faintly broke through Jiangxia and smashed Xiangyang trend.

Therefore, the current Kwantung princes are all fighting hard, hoarding grain and grass, preparing to chase the Central Plains, how can they have time to deal with the precarious Han court, so when Liu Fan ran for Wang Yun Quartet, most of them just nodded and smiled, and then left this matter behind, until Li Dao Guo Yan broke through Chang'an, and when the Han Emperor became a plaything in the hands of others again, he did not see the princes send a single soldier.

At the same time, with Lu Bu's military order, the guards stationed in various counties rushed to Longxi one after another, preparing to start sending troops to recover the four counties of Longxi.

In the conference hall, Lu Bu looked at the generals below with an indifferent face, and saw that the civil and military forces at the bottom were distributed on both sides, and there were no less than twenty or thirty people densely packed, all of whom were Lu Bu's henchmen, many of whom were deep and high-pitched, and at a glance they knew that they were by no means general, among them, including Li Ru, who had only recently taken refuge, but at this time he was no longer called Li Ru, but Li You.

After being silent for a long time, I only heard Lu Bu cough lightly, and said indifferently: "Everyone, it has been a year since I was thrown into Longxi, and now it's time to come, and I also want Han Sui to know that my Lu Bu's things are not so easy to take." ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, especially those generals, all of them were gearing up, ready to do a big job, and they were ashamed.

"Enlighten the lord!" Chen Gong slowly got up and said to Lu Bushi: "Hanyang is close to Wudu in the south, Jincheng in the north, and Cheng Yin and Cheng Yinggong in the west, we can be said to be suffering from the enemy on our backs, if the army and horses are transferred to the west, we must go straight to the enemy camp and take the four counties in one fell swoop, if the enemy cannot be broken in the short term, the situation behind will be precarious, according to the meaning of the next, the general who recovers the four counties needs to be cautious!" ”

Lu Bu glanced at the side of the general, turned his head and asked Chen Gong with a smile: "What the public platform said is very true, I don't know if there is a candidate in your heart?" ”

When the generals heard this, they couldn't help but cast their eyes on him, whether they could make meritorious contributions this time was all on Chen Gong's mouth.

Chen Gong followed everyone's eyes, and couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart, Lu Bu threw this question to himself, isn't it harming himself, if he points the generals to go on the expedition, how can those generals who have not been ordered spare themselves, and they can't help but look at Jia Xu and ask him for help.

Jia Xu shook his head with a smile, drinking tea there, ignoring Chen Gong's eyes of help, in desperation, Chen Gong set his eyes on Cheng Yu again, Cheng Yu ignored it, and simply turned his head to look at the other side, Chen Gong coughed lightly, and then turned his eyes to Li Ru, Li Ru smiled, and did not speak, he is now newly returned to Lu Bu, Mingzhe protects himself, sharp and restrained, although there is a wonderful law, but he will not say it, besides, all the generals have more or less some opinions about him, such offending things, he is naturally unwilling to do it.

Since they are reluctant to speak, let alone Lu Bu, now one of his decisions may affect the whole body, at least the loss of the army, and the heavy will subvert the situation. As for Zheng Hun and Cai Yong, one knows nothing about military affairs, the other only knows politics and writing articles, and they are also Lu Bu's guests, and Chen Gong didn't expect them to have good opinions.

In desperation, Chen Gong could only bow down to the generals and salute them, and said embarrassedly: "Generals, what Gong just said is really for the sake of us and the state army, if there are no named generals, please don't embarrass the palace!" ”

The generals smiled and waved their hands one by one, indicating that they would not suggest, but the gaze in their eyes couldn't help but make Chen Gong's back chill, just as Chen Gong put life and death aside and was about to open his mouth, Lu Brown, who was sitting on your seat, said: "Gongtai, it's up to me to speak." ”

When Chen Gong heard this, he bowed to Lu Bu gratefully, and then slowly stepped back into the ranks, and did not forget to kick Cheng Yu for the time being.

Lu Bu's face turned pale, and he said with a straight face: "Gan Ning, Zhou Tai listen to the order"

Gan Ning and Zhou Tai, who were sitting in the middle of the generals, glanced at each other, then got up suddenly, walked to the center, and said in unison: "The last general is here!" ”

"Gan Ning is the main general, Zhou Tai is the deputy general, and he will lead 10,000 troops on the same day to attack Barrier County!"

"The last general commands!" The two of them were happy and gave up their lives.

Lu Bu paused and turned his gaze to Zhang Liao: "Where are Zhang Liao, Song Xian, and Wei Xu?" ”

The three generals immediately got up and came to the center and gave up their hands to obey the order.

"Order Zhang Liao and the main generals, Wei Xu and Song Xian as deputy generals, lead 10,000 troops on the same day, attack Lintao, there must be no mistake!"

The three generals all agreed loudly, and then retreated to the ranks, preparing to dismiss the discussion and then go to the generals to kill Lintao.

"Xu Huang, Yang Fu, lead 10,000 troops, attack Di Dao, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, lead 10,000 troops, attack Shouyang, there must be no mistake!"

The four of them got up one after another to promise and gave up their orders.

Lu Bu looked at the rest of Gao Shun, Zhang Xiu, and Jiang Xu, Lu Bu did not let them go out for two reasons, one is that Jiang Xu wants to train the Tiger and Leopard Battalion, which is the trump card division of his own entry into Shu, but Gao Shun and Zhang Xiu want to guard Xi County, which is the barrier to the south of Hanyang County, so that others can guard Lu Bu is not at ease, only by letting Gao Shun Shou can Lu Bu rest assured that he can go out boldly, as for the defense and security of Longxian County, with Cheng Yu and Chen Gong in charge, Lu Bu can rest assured. As for himself, he will do a big thing, after all, Ma Teng has been gone for more than a month, presumably the soldiers and horses have been gathered almost, as long as there is news, he will unite with Ma Teng, one to the south, one to the north, two people and horses to attack Jincheng, uproot the tumor of Han Sui.

After finalizing the attention, the government meeting dispersed, Li Ru walked out of the hall and stretched his waist, and said in his heart: "Under this Lu Bu's tent, there seems to be no intrigue. As soon as he thought of this, he saw a pale thin hand holding Li Ru's shoulder, and a laugh sounded behind Li Ru: "Li You, what a good name, if it's okay, how about floating with us?" ”

Li Ru turned his head when he heard this, it turned out to be Chen Gong, Cheng Yu, and Jia Xu, and it was Chen Gong who was on his shoulder, and he was nodding at him with a smile on his face at this time, and Li Ru immediately smiled back: "Since you are treated warmly by the two, you should be accompanied." ”

Chen Gong was also not polite, and took Li Ru, Cheng Yu, and Jia Xu to the market in Longxian, and waited to find a wine shop everywhere.

It was just after noon, and the more than ten wine tables in the wine shop were full of people, including the sons of local good wine families, as well as businessmen who traveled to and from Longxian County, and some of them were serious and reckless with swords.

The four of them knelt in front of the table, and after the lamp rang for a while, Chen Gong wiped his lips, picked up the wine bottle and said with a smile: "A few days ago, I neglected Wen Wei, this one is considered to be a reparation, today Chen is the east, I hope Wen Wu should not be pushed back, come, Chen should drink this cup first!" ”

Li Ru also picked up the wine bottle and said to Chen Gong: "The public platform is polite, I should accompany the drink, please"

Chen Gong smiled, and the two drank each other.

At this time, I suddenly heard Jia Xu ask: "Wen Wei, if there is a big chaos today, and the heroes are competing in the Central Plains, what good plan do you have?" ”

Li Ru shook his head, still talking and laughing, and in the face of Jia Xu's question, he pretended not to know: "Li Ru is dull, Wen He looks down on me!" ”

The people sitting here are not fools, of course they know that Li Ru has ideas, but they just don't want to say it, Cheng Yu looked Li Ru carefully up and down for a while, and then said: "Wen Wei, since you have taken refuge in my lord, you and I are colleagues, I hope you can be honest with each other, and the three of us have decided to invite you to speak today, just to hope that you can rest assured and boldly give advice for my lord, don't be confined to small sections, I hope you can work with us to help the lord achieve great things!" ”

Cheng Yu's words only stunned Li Ru, he is now newly returned to Lu Bu, in order to avoid conflict with Lu Bu's veteran strategists, so he is introverted and silent, although there is a wonderful method, but he will not say it, unless it is a critical moment, he will not make a plan, he never expected that Jia Xu and others would talk to him.

Li Ru came back to his senses, immediately put down the wine bottle in his hand, and bowed to the three of them: "Since the princes are honest with him, Li will definitely do his best to protect Wenhou in the future and achieve a great cause!" ”

Jia Xu nodded and returned to the previous topic: "Does that Wen Wei have a good plan in mind now?" ”

Li Ru smiled: "Wenhe, since you want Xichuan, why did you come to ask me?" I coincide with you! ”

Jia Xu smiled when he heard this, picked up the wine bottle and drank with Li Ru.

At this moment, when the four of them were talking happily, they were interrupted by a familiar hustle and bustle, and they couldn't help but forget the past curiously.

I saw more than a dozen people coming in at the door of the wine shop one after another, and one of them began to shout loudly before he entered the wine shop: "Restaurant, good wine and good food come up with me, grandpa wants to drink 300 cups today!" ”

After the man finished speaking, he strode to the other man and said, "Wenyuan, this is the wine shop where Xiaojie and I often come here, that wine, I will drool when I think about it!" ”

Zhang Liao grinned: "The lord has already issued a ban on alcohol, is it really okay for us to do this?" ”

Wei Yue patted his chest and said loudly: "You can rest assured about this, I'm afraid that the lord has already returned to the house at this time, and several military advisors are also discussing the military, Zheng Zhubo and Cai are busy preparing taxes every day, how can they have time to care about us, so we can drink boldly and boldly, otherwise after the expedition, how can there be wine to drink!" ”

Zhou Tai, Gan Ning, Song Xian, Wei Xu and others nodded again and again, expressing their agreement with Wei Yue's statement, Zhang Liao was also enthusiastic, and he could only step into the wine shop with everyone at the moment, not long after he came in, Zhang Liao felt that there were several cold eyes looking at him, and he couldn't help but look at the past, when he saw those people clearly, Zhang Liao hurriedly pulled Wei Yue and ran: "Don't drink, go quickly!" ”

Wei Yue hurriedly said: "Don't, why don't you drink it, I've ordered all the wine and food, don't ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw that all the generals of the state who came with him were looking to the left in fear, and he couldn't help but follow along, and when he saw the situation clearly, he immediately threw his legs and prepared to slip away.

"Stop!"

Suddenly, a loud shout stopped the crowd, causing them to stop their tracks.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what a coincidence, we originally came to this wine shop to buy some dry food, but we didn't expect it to be sold out" Wei Yue rolled his eyes and immediately smiled.

But at this time, the shopkeeper of the wine store walked up to Wei Yue quickly and said respectfully: "Master Wei, the wine and food you want are ready, you see?" ”

The more the shopkeeper talked, the more he felt that something was wrong, why did Wei Yue's face become more and more ugly, and he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Master Wei, why don't you speak?" The wine prepared for you today is an old brew, which guarantees that you still want to drink it! ”

Wei Yue really wanted to tear down the old man's bones at this time, and his eyes kept glaring at the restaurant, signaling him not to say anything.

Chen Gong shook his head: "Tomorrow is the expedition, drink less!" ”

The generals were stunned when they heard this, and then burst into deafening cheers, and immediately hurriedly sent away the four people of Chen Gong, ready to drink heartily, and suddenly Cheng Yu turned back and said with a smile at Wei Yue: "Zhongwu, remember to pay for our wine!" ”