At the same time that Liu Bei's army was marching towards Xuzhou, another army was also stationed on the border of Xuzhou.

The army was poorly equipped, many of the soldiers were unarmed, only six or seven men could spread out a short spear, and most of them only carried sharpened sticks as weapons.

Hundreds of tents lined up in the heavy rain, and most of them, except for a few soldiers on duty, took refuge in their tents to avoid the rain.

In the largest of them, Lu Bu knelt in the tent, listening to the sound of heavy rain beating on the tent, his face was gloomy.

Beside him, kneeling sat Diao Chan, who was also silent.

In the past few days since she was driven out of Luoyang, Diao Chan has already told Lu Bu many things, except that she still has Liu Wei in her heart, and she almost told Lu Bu everything about secretly attacking Liu Wei.

Although he was very puzzled by Diao Chan for doing these things, Lu Bu did not blame Diao Chan.

Since Diao Chan thinks that Liu Biao should be killed, then Liu Biao is probably the one who should be killed. It's just that their strength is too weak to compete with Liu Wei at all.

"Can you wait?" He was sitting in the tent, thinking about what to do next, when a voice came from outside the tent.

Hearing this voice, Lu Bu knew that it was Chen Gong, who had just served under his account, who had come.

Although Diao Chan is in the tent, but now Lu Bu has already become a lost dog, and he is not so evasive, hearing Chen Gong speak, he sat up straight, and said outside the tent: "You can enter the public platform to talk." ”

At the invitation of Lu Bu, Chen Gong opened the curtain and walked into Lu Bu's tent.

Standing at the curtain, he first clasped his fists and bowed to Lu Bu, and then also saluted Diao Chan.

Lu Bu didn't get up, but just made a gesture to Chen Gong and said to Chen Gong, "Please sit down and talk." ”

Diao Chan, who was sitting next to Lu Bu, only owed slightly, and returned a salute to Chen Gong, but did not speak.

After finding a straw mat in the tent and sitting down, Chen Gongcai arched towards Lu Bu with his fists again, and said to Lu Bu: "Wen Hou has entered Xuzhou, it has been raining heavily for several days, and the soldiers are stationed in the wilderness, and they are in great distress, I don't know what Wen Hou's plans are?" ”

"An army of thousands of people, although the number is not much, it is impossible to find a village to live in!" Looking at Chen Gong, Lu Bu sighed lightly and said to him: "It's been a few days since Gongtai came here, but I don't know that our army is not even equipped with blades at the moment......

"It is said that Liu Bei has also led the army to Xuzhou!" Chen Gong did not answer Lu Bu's words, but diverted the topic to the side, and said to Lu Bu: "That Liu Bei has always lived in person as the Han Family Sect, and regardless of whether he is true or not, Xuzhou Tao Qian had offended Cao Cao earlier, but Liu Bei was fighting with Cao Cao in the Qingzhou area, thinking that Tao Qian should treat each other politely. ”

"What does it have to do with so-and-so?" Chen Gong diverted the topic, Lu Bu frowned slightly, and asked him: "Could it be that Gongtai will think that Liu Bei can let Xuzhou to Yu and wait?" ”

"Liu Bei is a treacherous person, and in the name of the imperial family, he recruited rebels, and it can be seen that his ambitions are not small." Looking at Lu Bu, Chen Gong said to him with confidence: "For now, Wen Hou should find a small town or village for the soldiers to station. The ground in the tent is slippery, although it can shelter from the rain and rest at night, the soldiers will still be wet by the water on the ground, and they are afraid that they will be invincible soldiers in the long run! At that time, even if Liu Bei gave Xuzhou to Wen Hou in order to show his tolerance, Wen Hou would not be able to take it. ”

"What the public station says is extremely true!" After listening to Chen Gong's words, Lu Bu stood up and shouted outside the tent: "Someone, send an order, find the nearest village, and I'll go to live in the house too!" ”

The guards guarding outside the tent were already drenched in the heavy rain, and when they heard Lu Bu shouting to find a village and rest in the house later, they suddenly came to their senses, and hurriedly responded, ran to inform the scouts, and went to find the nearest village.

Three or four hours later, when the sky was dark, an army of several thousand men, braving the heavy rain, marched into a village.

Most of the houses in the village are made of adobe, and some of the houses have collapsed under the heavy rain for several days, and the villagers who have collapsed are crowded into other houses, waiting for the heavy rain to stop and then renovate the houses.

"Peng!" There were six or seven people crowded into a house, and just as the family was about to lay out the straw mats and fall asleep, the door was kicked open with a strong kick, and more than a dozen soldiers in wet leather armor rushed in.

As soon as they entered the house, the leading soldier shouted to the people in the room, "If you don't want to die, get out of the house!" ”

Seeing that a soldier had broken into the house, the men, women, and children of the family did not dare to say a word, but got up and ran outside the house.

Comparable to this family, all the houses with intact houses were broken in by soldiers, and dozens of families in the small village were quickly driven out by the soldiers.

Two or three hundred men, women, and children were driven out of the house by the soldiers, and they watched helplessly as the soldiers drove into their homes, while they could only stand in the rain and get drenched in the rain.

Thousands of soldiers entered the homes of the villagers, and the soldiers, who had not slept on the dry ground for a long time, cheered and shouted one by one, undressed their armor, and lay naked on the cold dirt floor.

The dirt floor, although not as hard as the stone floor, has a deeper coolness when you lie on it.

The soldiers of Lu Bujun didn't care about these at all, and Lu Bujun, who had been crawling in the mud for several days, now had a dry ground to sleep on, where would they care if the ground was hard or cold.

The villagers who were kicked out of their homes stood in the rain, helplessly watching their homes being occupied by others, but there was nothing they could do.

The women hugged the child in their arms tightly, shielding the child from the wind and rain with their thin bodies, and the men could only look helplessly when they saw their homes being occupied, and they didn't even have the slightest solution.

As for those old people, due to their old age, their bodies and bones were not very good, and they were shivering in the pouring rain.

Walking past the villagers with Lu Bu, Chen Gong turned his head to look at the villagers standing in the wind and rain, first shook his head and sighed, then raised his hand and pointed at the collapsed houses, and said to the villagers: "Those houses may also be able to shelter from the wind and rain!" ”

Chen Gong pointed at this, and the villagers who were standing in the rain in a daze suddenly woke up and hurriedly rushed to the houses that had collapsed earlier.

But there were too many of them, and a few houses that had collapsed most of them could not accommodate so many people, and at the end of the day, most of the villagers remained in the rain, enduring the heavy rain, and watched their homes full of soldiers they did not recognize.

While Lu Bujun seized the houses of the villagers to shelter from the rain, on the way from Yin in Henan Province to Xuzhou, an ink-colored carriage was struggling on the muddy road.

Mite, who was sitting on the edge of the carriage, was already drenched in heavy rain, which often blinded his eyes, and he had to wipe his face from time to time to see the road ahead.

The carriage was followed by a cavalry of about forty or fifty men.

The cavalrymen were draped in ponchos woven from blades of grass, but the rain was so rapid that even with the ponchos, their clothes were still very damp.

"Find a place to settle down tonight, and then hurry tomorrow!" Seeing that the sky was getting darker, the person sitting in the carriage poked his head out and shouted to the Mide in front of him.

"No!" Mide answered, and shook the reins violently with both hands, urging the two horses pulling the cart to speed up a little.

Sitting in the carriage was Jia Xu, who was going to Xuzhou to find Lu Bu.

As soon as he finished inspecting the river embankment, Jia Xu received an order from Liu Wei to return to Luoyang immediately.

Knowing that Liu Wei asked him to rush to Xuzhou to find Lu Bu, Jia Xu immediately understood that Liu Wei wanted to use Lu Bu's hand to muddy the already muddy water in Xuzhou.

Liu Wei originally planned to let him rest in Luoyang for two more days before leaving, but Jia Xu thought that it was only early rather than later to find Lu Bu, so he left Luoyang City with a team of guards on the same day and hurried to Xuzhou.

The sky is getting darker, and the road that is already difficult to walk in the heavy rain is getting harder and harder.

The wheels of the carriage were crushed on the muddy road, the carriage kept shaking, and Jia Xu, who was sitting in the carriage, was almost shaken out by the shaking of the carriage.

Just when he was so uncomfortable that he could almost parry it that the carriage finally stopped, and immediately afterward, he heard Mide shouting to him, "Kaiyu Zhonglang, I have waited into a small village. ”

"Let's find a few families to spend the night!" Hearing that he had entered the village, Jia Xu forcibly endured the thought of vomiting and gave an order to the royal hand.

Already soaking wet, Mite's voice answered, and he quickly ran to a nearby house.

After a while, Yushou turned back, hugged his fist to Jia Xu, who was still sitting in the carriage, and said, "Qi Jia Zhonglang, the villagers have promised to let me wait for the night." ”

"Good!" Nodding, Jia Xu waved his hand at Mite, who hurriedly jumped into the carriage and carried the carriage into the village.

At this time, in Luoyang City, the heavy rain was still falling.

Liu Wei stood on the edge of the lake in a poncho, looking at the gray lake in the approaching night, as if he was contemplating something.

"Your Highness!" Just when he was looking at the lake and thinking about something in his heart, Guan Qing's voice came from behind him.

Turning his head and glancing behind him, he saw that Guan Qingzheng was also wearing a poncho and was walking towards him, he smiled at Guan Qing and said to Guan Qing: "Qing'er is always so disobedient, and now the rain is still urgent, you are pregnant, and you run out and walk around." ”

"Qing'er has been bumpy on horseback for a long time, and it is a little difficult to adapt to it in her spare time." Walking to Liu Bian's side, Guan Qing clasped his fists with both hands, saluted Liu Bian, and then asked: "With such a heavy rain, His Royal Highness is standing by this lake, isn't he thinking about Xuzhou?" ”

"Xuzhou, I'm afraid this king won't be able to intervene." Glancing at Guan Qing's lower abdomen, which was already slightly bulging, Liu Wei turned his head again, looked at the gray-black lake, and said leisurely: "Xuzhou is a place, I'm afraid it will become a venue for Cao Mengde, Liu Bei, and Lu Bu to compete for hegemony." ”