Gao Shun immediately brought the trapped camp of 500 people out of the army, and in addition, he also selected 2,000 elite soldiers and prepared dry food for Lu Bu for ten days, everything was ready.

Lu Bu took Hao Meng and Cheng Lian, the two younger brothers who had followed him for many years, and 2,500 people, quietly left Tongguan, followed the Hangu Pass Road, all the way to the east, and went straight to Chenliu.

When passing through Luoyang, Lu Bu felt for a while, the imperial capital that was prosperous in the past has now become a decaying empty city, and Dong Zhuo's fire burned too simply!

The area near Luoyang is also dilapidated, there is no human population at all, in the past, this is a place where soldiers must fight, but now it has become a borderless land, if it is not for the undecided Xiliang, Hanzhong is not destroyed, Lu Bu really wants to send troops to the east, occupy Luoyang and other places, and revisit this place.

"Big brother, do you remember? In front of it is the Eastern Han Dynasty Imperial Mausoleum, and more than a year ago, we were there to help Dong Zhuo's bastard dig the grave! Tsk, it's really a thing! ”

In private, Hao Meng and others are still used to calling Lu Bu "big brother"

"This kind of thing is not allowed to be mentioned in the future, this is a shame! We are now an army of the Son of Heaven! Lu Bu pretended to be angry and reprimanded Hao Meng.

"Yes, yes, I won't talk about it later." Hao Meng said with a smile.

"It's not early, the brothers have been on the road for a day and a night, let's rest for the night in the old capital of Luoyang tonight!" Lu Bu said.

"No!" The four generals said happily.

The two thousand five hundred soldiers each found a secluded place and rested.

Chen Liu, the night is high and the wind is dark.

Xiahou Yuan was like a wild bull, rushing to the foot of Chen Liucheng at an astonishing speed. The elite scouts easily pulled out the Zhang Miao scouts scattered outside the city.

So. Wait until Xiahou Yuan's army is under the city. Zhang Miao's army hadn't discovered it yet.

Dozens of skilled soldiers took advantage of the cover of the night to climb the city wall, Xiahou Yuan raised his throat with his heart, stared at those soldiers, and said in his heart: Rabbit cubs, climb for me! Climb!

The confused guards did not realize the danger coming, and the Cao soldiers who climbed the tower quickly slaughtered the guards, and the soldiers under the city quickly boarded.

The patrolmen, who only appeared once in half a day, appeared. When they saw Cao Bing in the dark night, they didn't know what was going on, and they screamed when they knew that Cao Bing stabbed their weapons into their bodies.

"Enemy attack on the city!"

"Damn, someone's sneaking up!"

"Hurry up and kill the enemy!"

"Kill ——!"

"Kill ——!"

Suddenly, the shouting and killing sound on the city tower shook the sky, and the Cao soldiers were like tigers and wolves, and quickly looked at Zhang Miaojun with the weapons in their hands, and for a while, blood splashed like rain. The ghosts cried and the wolves howled, and the screams came and went.

"Knock ——!"

"Knock ——!"

Several soldiers watched as the gates were lost. Hurriedly ran to beat the war drums, and the drums sounded all night, waking up the entire Chenliu City, and more and more soldiers woke up from their sleep, hurriedly dressed and armored, picked up weapons, and rushed out.

"Kill me! Whoever climbs the tower will be rewarded! Xiahou Yuan boosted his morale and shouted, and the spear was raised high by him.

A big banner with the word "Cao" was brought up to the city tower and fluttered high.

"My lord! Oh no, Cao Bing is here! ”

Several pro-soldiers rushed into the Taishou Mansion, shouting and screaming, and the frightened servants and maids scattered and fled.

Zhang Miao had just asked Chen Gong and the others to leave, lay down to sleep, and when he heard that Cao Bing was coming, he was so frightened that he rolled off the *.

Cao Cao and he are good friends, and it is precisely because of the familiar relationship that he knows Cao Cao's methods very well, and he is more afraid of Cao Cao than Cao Cao and Lu Bu.

This time against Cao, on the one hand, he was fooled by Chen Gong, on the other hand, he also wanted to make some benefits, and besides, he was afraid that he would be destroyed by Cao Cao.

Unexpectedly, this time, without waiting for him to raise troops against Cao, he was beaten by Cao Cao first, which frightened Zhang Miao.

"Someone! Hurry up and ask Chen Gong, find him for me, and let all the soldiers get up for me, be sure to block Cao Bing, Wen Hou's army will arrive soon, and then we will be saved. ”

Zhang Miao shouted angrily, what he didn't know was that Lu Bu's army was only two or three thousand people, and Chen Gong did not tell Zhang Miao the number of Lu Bu's army.

As soon as Chen Gong returned to the mansion, he heard the shouting and killing sound from the city tower, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly walked out of the house and ran towards the city tower.

Xiahou Yuan no longer stayed under the city to command the soldiers to enter the city, he personally climbed the city tower, waved his spear, and slaughtered Zhang Miao's army, which was several times weaker than Cao's soldiers.

Zhang Miaojun was killed by Cao Bing who lost his armor and abandoned his armor, crying for his father and calling his mother, the most important thing is that tens of thousands of Zhang Miaojun did not have a general who could serve as a command, the scheduling was different, the soldiers were fighting separately, scattering and fleeing, how could they stop the morale of Cao Bing.

Chen Gong ran to the south gate, only to see the fire above and below the city, and the city gate was also opened, beating his chest and sighing: "I have lived up to Wen Hou's expectations for me!" ”

"Strategist, the Lord has just sent someone to you!" A pro-army squeezed through the chaotic army and found Chen Gong.

"Let the lord and I go out of the city and escape!" Chen Gong said with a sigh.

Subsequently, Chen Gong didn't look at the lost city gate, he knew that it wouldn't be long before Xiahou Yuan would kill the Taishou Mansion, and if they didn't escape, they would die.

When Zhang Miao saw Chen Gong, he couldn't say anything in his stomach, so he could only wave his hand to command left and right.

The group fled from the east gate and left Chen Liucheng behind.

Xiahou Yuan's raid went very smoothly, and when it was dawn, he fully captured Chen Liu, and the only thing that disappointed him was that Zhang Miao ran away.

The two lines of soldiers and horses sent by Cao Cao, the other was Cao Ren, who was responsible for the important task of raiding Beihai, but unfortunately, he was much more unlucky than Xiahou Yuan.

Because Cao Cao originally planned to solve the problems of Xuzhou and other problems, and when he turned around, he was the first to clean up Beihai, so he sent a large number of scouts to investigate the situation in Beihai early, so Kong Rong also sent a large number of scouts outside Beihai City.

The scouts of the two sides launched a secret battle outside the city, secretly attacking and killing each other, and Cao Ren was unlucky at this point, he was discovered by the scouts before he reached Beihai. Passed back to Beihai City. Informed Kong Rong.

Kong Rong listened. This was repaid, and he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to beat drums and prepare for battle, blocking Cao Ren's troops outside the city, forming a confrontation situation

Kaiyang.

The lair of the Taishan thief Zangba, where a large number of Yellow Turban remnants, Sun Guan, Wu Dun, etc., have 20,000 soldiers who are good at fighting. And hoarded a large amount of grain and grass, in the east of Xuzhou, became a powerful force.

Zang Ba is actually Tao Qian's subordinates, but because of the discord with those civil and military forces around Tao Qian, he hid in Kaiyang and was happy, the city of Xuzhou was broken, Tao Qian was killed, and Zang Ba did not save him.

Cao Cao originally wanted to recruit Zang Ba, but Cao Cao's notoriety for exterminating the Yellow Turban was too fierce. As a result, most of the remnants of the Yellow Turban under Zang Ba's tent were unwilling to surrender to Cao Cao.

Moreover, Zang Ba is also accustomed to the life of being a king and a hegemon. I don't want to be a general under others, so I listen to Cao Cao's dispatch.

In the dead of night, Zang Ba sat in the study, looking at the intelligence of Xuzhou and other places in recent days, thinking about the future development of the situation, for a long time, Zang Ba raised his head and saw the edict of the Son of Heaven who was still on his side.

This is an edict issued by Lu Bu in the name of the Son of Heaven to beg for thieves, and there is a letter under this edict, which is a letter written by Lu Bu to him.

The letter was still the same, and Lu Bu expressed his admiration and surrender to him, hoping that he could lead his troops back to the court.

"Is Lu Bu trying to use me to contain Cao Cao?" Zang Ba put down the edict, "Wait and see the situation first, and wait for the opportunity to move." ”

Runan.

Gong Du and Liu Bi, the two brothers and sisters, were sitting together, drinking turbid wine, eating roast chicken, and a group of ragged subordinates were sitting on the left and right, all eating and drinking happily.

"Brother! Our hard days have finally come to an end, and it is still Master Lu who is wise, he not only pardoned our crimes, but also made us a great official! Gong Du burst into tears and said drunkly.

"It's not Taishi Lu, Taishi's position is made by Dong Zhuo, it's Wen Hou, oh, it's Prime Minister Lu Cheng now!" Liu Pi corrected.

Gong Du wiped his tears, asked for a mouthful of chicken * buttocks, and said: "Now that we have been pardoned by the imperial court and made a big official, it can be regarded as guarding the clouds and seeing the moon, but one of us is a rebellious lieutenant and the other is a rebellious lieutenant, guarding Runan, that's all, why does he still go down to Pi and divide it to us?" ”

Xiapi, Xuzhou heavy land, grain, grass, equipment, etc., are sufficient, but now it is Cao Cao's territory, and it has nothing to do with them.

"Xiapi, it belongs to us now, it's not his Cao thief's, haven't you seen the edict of the imperial court, whoever takes Xuzhou will belong to whom!" Liu Bixing clapped his hands happily.

"Brother, you mean, let's fight the thief, don't be stupid! Cao Cao's soldiers are strong and strong, and their weapons and equipment are excellent, and with our men, we will definitely not be able to defeat them. Gong Du trembled when he thought of Cao Cao.

Liu Bi waved his hand, and said heroically at the same time: "Yuan Shu, a hero in troubled times, sitting on two Huai, dominating one side, his soldiers are full of food, his strength is no less than Cao Cao, this time Ji Ling led an army of 100,000 to come, there will be a vicious battle between the two sides, we just need to take advantage of the fire to rob, if not, let's go to Guanzhong to surrender Lu Bu, mix glory and wealth, and live better in the second half of life, don't you say?" ”

Gong Du clapped his hands and applauded: "Okay, brother, look, when will we do it?" ”

"Of course, it's waiting for Ji Ling and Cao Cao to fight. However, before that, let's find out the situation in Xiapi first. Liu Bi said.

Shou Chun.

If you look at it from afar, you will find that the dilapidated city of Shouchun, the population in the city is sparse, this thousand-year-old capital is very inconsistent with its name, it is no longer prosperous, it is like a slum, but in the middle of the city, there is a splendid palace.

Needless to say, this is Yuan Shu's nest.

What outsiders know is that Yuan Shu is the overlord of the two Huai and the princes of one side, and he has long had the intention of being the emperor, but in fact, secretly, Yuan Shu has already treated himself with the specifications of the emperor.

Even sometimes, Yuan Shu directly put on a dragon robe to discuss things with the civil and military forces, which surprised many people and made them uneasy at the same time.

The decline of the Han family is true, but the hearts of the people in the world are still towards the Han family, recently Lu Bu has controlled the imperial court, and it is also under the banner of respecting the Han family, if Yuan Shu is called the emperor, it is equivalent to digging his own grave, and he will definitely be condemned.

Fortunately, Cao Cao captured Xuzhou some time ago and diverted Yuan Shu's attention, otherwise, Yuan Shu would have to be elected emperor by all the ministers.

"This Lu Bu, it's really funny, do you think that this kind of edict of the Son of Heaven can be useful to the widow, whoever defeats Xuzhou will belong to whom, it's really ridiculous! It's not uncommon for widows to have such a vain head! ”

Yuan Shu sat on the dragon chair and stretched comfortably, and the maids hurriedly stepped forward to serve.

"Widowhood is destiny! What is that Liu Xie! also dare to call himself the Son of Heaven. Yuan Shu said disdainfully, since the crusade against Dong Zhuo and his return to Lianghuai, Yuan Shu has become more and more arrogant.

"However, this Xuzhou, the widow must take it, and when the widow takes Xuzhou, the widow will officially be called the emperor!" Yuan Shuda said with a smile.

The civil and military ministers under the steps held their breath and did not dare to speak, for fear of angering Yuan Shu.

Whether it is a maid, a guard, a minister, or a cronie, as long as it angers Yuan Shu, it is a dead word. (To be continued......)