30 Niu Fu fled
After learning the news that Li Dao and Guo Yan led the army south, for most of the day, he had been holding his troops still, and the entire White Wave Thief camp had no sign of opening up.
Today's white wave thief military strength is no longer in Lu Bu's eyes. When Guo Tai besieged Wenxi, he had nearly 30,000 troops under his tent, plus 1,500 fine cavalry under the Xiongnu Yufu Luo's tent, and his strength was not bad. After being attacked from the front and back, he chose to surrender to Niu Fu very sensibly, and in order to avoid suspicion, he took the initiative to dismiss his soldiers, and only kept 5,000 elites.
I am afraid that when he learned the news of the death of the Tai Lieutenant Dong Zhuo, Guo Tai even had the heart to die by hitting his head, if he hadn't been so anxious to show his heart to Niu Fu and the imperial court, and so vigorously dismissed most of his subordinates, at this moment, with his 30,000 thieves, he could have walked out of Hedong sideways and swaggered straight to Luoyang.
It's just that the things that have been missed can't be changed back, and the subordinates who have been dismissed, of course, can't be recalled, if there is only Guo Tai in Hedong who has such a big banner erected, he has time to reconvene the soldiers, the key is that behind him, there is also the army led by Lu Bu, whose movements are unknown and the purpose is unknown.
It was this effect that Lu Bu wanted, so that Guo Tai did not dare to blatantly plunder Hedong, and then lead the army into Luoyang. What he needs is that Mrs. Guo quickly leads the army to leave, so that Hedong can be given to him.
Seeing that the night was getting deeper and deeper, and there was still no movement at all in the White Wave Thief camp, Lu Bu was slightly disappointed in his heart, and reluctantly went into the camp tent to rest.
When he was sleeping, Lu Bu was suddenly woken up by a loud call outside the camp tent, and when he opened his eyes, he had already recognized that it was Song Xian who was on duty at night.
Lu Bu jumped up and came out, and before he could ask a question, Song Xian's excited voice had already come: "Captain, the fires in Wenxi City are everywhere, and the White Wave Thief camp is noisy!" β
"At this time?"
Lu Bu was taken aback, looked at the sky, and estimated that there was still more than half an hour before dawn, but in an instant, he raised his eyebrows and ordered in a loud voice: "The whole army gathers, hurry, hurry!" β
At this time, no matter what happened in Wenxi City, he had an intuition, and Mrs. Guo was only afraid that he would take advantage of this opportunity to lead the white wave thief to pull out.
At the sound of an order, the horn of the battalion pierced the night sky, and the originally silent camp was like boiling in an instant, with shouts, orders, and footsteps mixed with each other, the neighing of war horses, the fierce torches, and the camp suddenly became murderous.
However, in a quarter of an hour, Lu Bu galloped out of the camp ahead of the column, followed by the three hundred guards led by Hao Meng's four people, followed by three thousand soldiers from the state, and most of them were still gathering, led by Xu Huang.
Almost at the same time, the camp of the White Wave Thieves also poured out a group of men and horses,-for-tat to meet them.
After a while, the two armies lined up in the middle of the camp, Lu Bu stood alone in front of the formation, holding a Fang Tian painting halberd, carrying a long knife, next to the saddle, hanging a hard bow and arrow, the firelight was shining, and it looked extremely majestic.
He saw it clearly, the white wave thief on the opposite side was obviously prepared, the left was a fine horse, silent, showing a skillful horse control jishu, it was the Southern Hun wandering Yu Fuluo led the elite horse, and the right was a foot soldier, although it was the elite of the white wave thief, but at a glance, it was still a step worse than the well-trained Bingzhou army behind Lu Bu.
Lu Bu urged the war horse, stepped forward in small steps, stood between the two armies, and shouted loudly: "The captain of the Han cavalry, Lu Bu, is here, please ask Guo Dashuai to come forward and answer!" β
The opposite side was silent for a moment, and he also rode forward, it was Guo Tai who was dressed in armor, and his figure was more than a head shorter than Lu Bu, and he looked much shorter on a tall horse.
"The captain raised troops late at night, but what advice do you have?"
Mrs. Guo clasped her fists with both hands on the horse, and said very politely and tactfully, but in her tone, there was also a bit of unkindness.
Lu Bu Haha smiled and returned the salute: "Dashuai, it's this time, let's open the skylight and say something." The marshal is ready to lead the army back to Luoyang? β
"So what?"
"In this way, I congratulate the handsome, Lu hereby congratulates the handsome man on his success and soaring in Luoyang!"
"Huh?!"
Mrs. Guo was a little puzzled, he always thought that although Lu Bu said that he wanted to respect the military orders of the imperial court, he always felt that this was just Lu Bu's strategy to delay the army, so when he heard the news of the chaos in Xicheng, he immediately led the army to pull out the camp and set off, and also broke off with Yu Fuluo to lead the elite to buy time for the army.
"Haha, the marshal misunderstood, Lu was ordered to garrison Hedong, and he couldn't rush to Luoyang with the marshal, it's a pity, in the future, I will invite the marshal to be in the court, and say good things for Lu, please, Lu will lead the army into the city to quell the chaos, and I hope that the marshal will quickly get out of the way."
Hearing what Lu Bu said so plainly, Mrs. Guo was really relieved, and she was busy with a smile on her face, and said humbly: "Du Wei is polite, please wait for a while, Rong Tai will pick up some of the rags in the camp, and see you and laugh." β
"Okay, half an hour is enough? It just so happens that we can get close and close. β
Mrs. Guo also smiled and thanked him repeatedly.
The sky is getting brighter, the camp of the white wave thieves has been inspected, Guo Tai turned over his horse, thanked Lu Bu, led the army to suppress the formation, bypassed Wenxi Xiancheng, and marched south.
Lu Bu waved the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand and ordered the army to rush straight to Wen Xi.
The four gates of Wenxi City were opened, and many people had fled from the city, Lu Bu's army arrived, and effortlessly controlled the four city gates, and then led the elite cavalry to open the road in front, followed by sharp soldiers, and forcibly combed through from north to south, and in case of rebellion resistance, or murder and looting, they were all mercilessly killed on the spot, and in less than half an hour, the riots in Wenxi City were quelled by the army led by him.
Just a little interrogation, Lu Bu knew what was going on.
Niu Fu was really as he remembered, leaving behind his soldiers, only taking a few cronies of Hu Che'er and a dozen or so guards, and fled at night. When his subordinates found that the boss had fled and was unrestrained, they immediately caused chaos in Wenxi City.
"Brave and unscrupulous, idiot!"
Lu Bu labeled Niu Fu such a label in his heart, and ordered Xu Huang to lead 3,000 men and horses in his headquarters to act as a pioneer, and rushed to Anyi first, and then ordered Hao Meng to concentrate the soldiers in the big school field, and he had to deal with it in person.
Niu Fu is very trusted by Dong Zhuo, the account is the elite of the Xiliang army, and half of them are elite cavalry, after the official worships the Yulin Zhonglang general, the only little elite and elite cavalry of the Yulin army in the imperial court is also included in his account, and the white wave thieves in Hedong are conquered first, first won and then defeated, and there are still 5,000 soldiers and horses under the account, and now they are all cheaper to Lu Bu.
Lu Bu labeled Niu Fu with such a label, and he didn't think it was too much.
Although Niu Fu's situation is very bad now, the biggest backer father-in-law Dong Zhuo died, and Yulin Zhonglang was deprived of his position by the imperial court.
This truth is not difficult to understand, he fled with his cronies and guards, and the local government could easily capture him, those cronies and guards, when they had the support of the commander in the army, dared to fight and kill, but on the way to escape, they were just as afraid of the government officials, and if they were not careful, they ran faster than Niu Fu.
On the way to Daxiaochang, Lu Bu was thinking about Niu Fu in his heart, assuming that if Dong Zhuo was in the position of Niu Fu now, he would definitely use more thunderous means to firmly control the soldiers under his account, and then, there would be no imperial salary? Take it yourself, grab it yourself. As long as there are soldiers in their hands, those local officials, who dare to say nothing about this.
On the colonel's field, more than 4,000 soldiers, more than half of whom were cavalry soldiers, were surrounded by heavily armed Bingzhou sergeants and soldiers, all of them squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, looking terrified, not knowing what kind of fate would await them.
When Lu Bu saw this, his face was still cold, but he was really happy in his heart.
"Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up,
Seeing Lu Bu coming, the soldiers under his command drove the soldiers to stand up like sheep. Lu Bu watched all this with satisfaction, and rode his horse back and forth in small steps in front of the descendants, without saying a word with coercion.
"Lao Tzu is riding the capital lieutenant Lu Bu, if you don't want to follow Lao Tzu, get out of the queue, and stand over there."
Lu Bu got straight to the point, and directly handed over the choice to the pawns, these pawns were not fools, just glanced over there, and immediately shrank their necks, feeling that the back of their necks was a little cold, how dare they really move their feet to go over there.
There was a group of soldiers standing there, all holding shiny long knives, with unkindness in their eyes, if someone really passed, I was afraid that after a while, they would end up in a different place.
Lu Bu nodded with satisfaction and said in a high voice: "Well, it's good, no one wants to quit." Since the big guys are willing to mess with Lao Tzu, that's right, Lao Tzu's military law is very simple, tell you to go east, then don't go west, tell you to kill, then don't set fire, understand?! β
"Understood!"
The people who shouted in unison were the soldiers of the state on the field of the colonel, and the soldiers looked at each other, startled, and did not know how to respond.
"Got it?!"
Lu Bu looked angry, glared at a kind of subordinate soldier angrily, and roared again.
At this time, they finally understood that the new commander in front of them wanted them to chant in unison, and immediately held back their strength and roared out the word "understand".
Compared with the soldiers of the state, their answers were uneven, but the momentum had already come out.