Chapter 174: On the Strings
After a heavy snowfall, thousands of miles of silver, a blanket.
Look at the enchanting rivers up close, look at the majestic mountains from afar, and the rolling mountains are like a silver python dancing with a fierce body.
It has been three months since the turmoil of the Longxi Hao clan's grain donation, and Lu Bu has led everyone to the mountains to hunt in addition to practicing his armor every day, and has not formed a tense atmosphere with the Longxi Shi clan, but seems to be peaceful and peaceful.
During this period, there were also Qiang Di out of the Qiang Road to come to the Han border to plunder, but under the joint attack of Huang Zhong, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao, Qiang Di not only did not rob the food and money, but also lost the soldiers, after many inquiries they learned that Longxi had changed masters.
Longxi, Longxian.
Lu Bu exhaled lightly, the dragon snake bowstring in his hand had been stretched to the limit, and the entire dragon snake bow body made a "creaking" sound, and the arrow was aimed at a deer thirty zhang away in front of him.
The deer was hiding in a birch forest, munching on a puff of yellow leaves, unaware of the impending disaster. On such a cold winter day, the sparse woods offered little shelter, and the bare branches and bushes stretched out in front of it like a natural cage, enveloping its massive body.
All Lu Bu needed to do now was to easily open the index and middle fingers that hooked the bowstring, and then the sharp arrow would pierce the gaps in the branches in an instant, piercing the brown fur, slicing through the steaming flesh, and shattering his heart.
A moment passed, or maybe a while, Lu Bu's fingers moved.
A carved arrow rang out and landed firmly on the trunk of a birch tree just inches away from the elk. The frightened elk jumped suddenly, shook the trees beside it, and then flew its hooves and fled in a panic towards the depths of the woods, and soon disappeared.
Lu Bu stood up, looked up at the empty forest, showed a meaningful smile, and stuck the dragon snake bow in the soil, Lu Bu walked to the forest and pulled out the arrow shaft nailed to the trunk of the tree and inserted it back into the quiver.
The two middle-aged men got up from the snowdrift and patted the snow on their bodies and walked to Lu Bu's side, Wei Yan grinned: "Lord, your archery skills are as good as those of General Hansheng, how could you miss?" ”
Lu Bu pulled out the dragon snake bow in the soil and said with a smile: "That deer is a doe, maybe it will be born soon, and I can't bear to kill it."
After finishing speaking, Lu Bu turned his head to Jia Xu and continued: "That doe is like the scholars in Longxi, who sing about wine every day, but they don't know that disaster is coming, and that big tree is like the Dong family and the Wang family who take the lead, as long as these two families fall, the rest of the family is like this frightened doe, at a loss!" ”
Jia Xu also sneered: "When Dong Zhuo was in Longxi, he obtained a lot of money by smuggling iron weapons to Qianghu, as long as we have evidence of their smuggling, we will punish them for treason, and it will be difficult for Dong Zhuo to save them at that time."
Lu Bu shrugged his two sword eyebrows, restrained the smile on his face, and said lightly: "It's not early, let's go back to the city early, otherwise Madam should nag again." After Lu Bu finished speaking, he turned around and left, leaving the two of them with a back, Wei Yan and Jia Xu glanced at each other, and followed Lu Bu away.
Three people walked out of the mountain forest with one foot deep and one foot shallow, the guards under the mountain were warming up around the fire, and there were dozens of horses tied to the trees next to them, one of which was as red as charcoal fire, which was particularly conspicuous in the pale snow, and saw the three people going down the mountain, a group of people stepping on the fire and leading the horses, and some people poured the scalded wine into the skin bag and handed it to them.
Lu Bu took the leather bag and poured it, as soon as the familiar sour and spicy taste of mare's milk wine entered the mouth, it made Lu Bu feel refreshed, threw the wine bag to Wei Yan, and then strode to the red rabbit horse, got on the horse, Wei Yan took a big sip, and then handed it to Jia Xu, Jia Xu's face turned black in an instant, after the wine in the mouths of two big men, how dare he drink it, after covering the wooden stopper, Jia Xu handed it directly to the guard.
Wei Yan scratched his head, smiled awkwardly, and stepped on the war horse led by the guards, Jia Xu also straddled the horse safely and steadily with the support of the guards, Lu Bu looked around left and right, and waved his hand: "Go back to the city!" ”
After the guards packed up their tent equipment, they turned over and got on their horses one after another, and followed behind the three of them, and Lu Bu, Wei Yan, and Jia Xu walked side by side.
"Wen Chang, you've been in Chencang for a few months, but what did you find?"
Hearing Lu Bu ask, Wei Yan didn't dare to slack off: "My lord, in Chang'an, Dong Zhuo is becoming more and more arrogant and domineering, killing people for fun all day long, and the captain Zhang Wen was also killed, and Dong Zhuo also used his blood to give a banquet to the ministers. ”
Wei Yan paused, and then continued: "As for Zhao Ang and his wife, they have been recruiting new soldiers since they received the order from the lord, and now there are two thousand more soldiers and horses in Chen Cang City, and General Qin Yilu and Zhao Ang are training every day!" ”
Lu Bu nodded, turned his head and glanced at Wei Yan: "Wen Chang, I will use troops in Wudu soon, what the military advisor means, let you be the commander this time, I don't know if you dare?" ”
After Wei Yan heard this, his excitement was overflowing, he stroked the long hair under his chin, patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, the lord will definitely take Wudu County for the lord."
Lu Bu and Jia Xu looked at each other and smiled, Wei Yan's martial arts needless to say, he is on a par with Gan Ning, as for his strategy, it remains to be investigated, this time let Wei Yan lead his troops to attack Wudu, I just want to see if he is a general or a handsome talent.
The group went on the official road after a while, and walked along the pipeline for more than an hour, and then they could vaguely see the undulating outline of the outer Guo of Longxian County in the distance, the sun was setting, the snow marks on the blue-gray city wall were faintly visible, and countless cooking smoke rose above the city.
Lu Bu and the three of them were talking happily, and suddenly a hurried horse's hooves interrupted their conversation, Lu Bu fixed his eyes, but it was Chen Gong and Cheng Yu who rushed over on horseback, and in a blink of an eye, the two rushed to Lu Bu, Cheng Yu panted and said: "Lord, General Cheng Lian, they are back"
"Oh? Finally back, go! ”
Lu Bu raised his two sword eyebrows, and took the lead in galloping, and everyone hurriedly urged the horses to catch up.
Urging the horse all the way, Lu Bu was awe-inspiring in his heart, since Cheng Lian and they came back, it meant that they could do it, and this time they had to uproot the Dong family and the Wang family no matter what.
Lu Bu entered the county seat of Longxian with boundless coldness, he saw that there were two Xiliang war horses tied in front of the Lu Mansion, he didn't think much about it, hurriedly pushed open the door of the mansion, and turned the wall, he saw Cheng Lian and Wei Yue standing in the courtyard, and in the distance there were Lu Lingqi and Huang Wudie, who kept tinkering with snowmen, and Jiang Wei of Jiang Xu's family, after coming to Lu Mansion that day, this Jiang Wei would run to his house every three or five times, Lu Bu thought that Jiang Wei was only twelve or thirteen years old, but he thought that he was just looking for a child of the same age to play.
Cheng Lian and Wei Yue saw Lu Bu walking into the compound, and immediately quickly ushered in: "Lord"
Lu Bu raised his horsewhip: "Go in and say"
The two nodded, and immediately followed Lu Bu into the hall of the Lu Mansion.
After about half a cup of tea, Jia Xu and a group of people also stepped into the hall of the Lu Mansion, and saw that everyone had already arrived, Cheng Lian did not wait for Lu Bu to speak, and immediately got up and said with a smile: "Sure enough, as expected, the Dong family and the Wang family and those families who depend on them have secretly communicated with the Qiang people, not only smuggling iron tools to make weapons and armor for the Qiang people, but also secretly capturing the Han people and selling them to the Qiang people as slaves." So Cheng Lian told everyone the results of the secret investigation.
"If such a thief does not die, sooner or later it will be a disaster, everyone, we will act according to Mr. Jia's plan, and this time we will uproot these tumors no matter what."
As soon as Cheng Lian's words fell, the corners of Lu Bu's mouth immediately showed a sneer, he couldn't imagine that the Dong family had done a lot more evil things than he imagined, since this was the case, it was no wonder that he Lu Bu was ruthless.