Chapter 135: Lu Bu Among People, Red Rabbit Among Horses (1)
The battle lasted for more than an hour, and the two sides temporarily stopped fighting after losing almost the same number of men. In such siege battles, the defending side always has the advantage, after all, it has the advantage of strong walls and condescending heights. In a tough battle, the battle losses of the besieging side and the defending side are equal, which can already be said to be a miracle.
However, neither side could withstand such attrition, so it was tacit to temporarily stop the truce. The population at the end of the Han Dynasty had long since ceased to be at the peak of the Guangwu Zhongxing era, and a large number of young and middle-aged soldiers were killed in battle, which was likely to cause a great loss of vitality to the princes of one side. This is also an important reason why prisoners were rarely killed in the late Han Dynasty, and population is always one of the most important elements.
After the statistics, Cao Cao sighed and said in a deep voice: "In just over an hour of fighting, our army has killed as many as 6,000 people, and it is not a way to go on like this, we have to lure Lu Bu out of the city to fight in the field." โ
Yuan Shao rubbed his forehead and said with some worry: "It's easy to say, then Lu Bu has a good command today, it can be seen that he is very shrewd, will he be stupid enough to go out of the customs to fight with us in the field?" โ
"We can come up with a plan to lure him out." Shangdang Taishou Zhang Yang said slowly. Shangdang is a county under the rule of Bingzhou, and it stands to reason that Zhang Yang is Lu Bu's subordinate at the moment, but Zhang Yang has always been uncontrollable and alone, so for Lu Bu, Zhang Yang only fears, but not respect. If he can take this opportunity to eradicate the generals under Lu Bu and Ding Yuan, it will be of great benefit to Zhang Yang to seek to annex the state in the future.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Zhang Yang continued slowly: "Everyone, Lu Bu is a native of Bingzhou, and he belongs to a certain village. Therefore, I still know a little about the temper of this tiger. Lu Bu is extremely arrogant, if we give him the next battle letter, stating that the victory will be determined by the heads-up, he will definitely rely on his bravery, abandon the pass, and fight single-handedly. โ
Those who can do a county are not simple characters. Although Zhang Yang's reputation is not very prominent, his analysis of Lu Bu's description can be described as a three-point plan, if he acts according to Zhang Yang's strategy, it is very likely that Lu Bu will be lured out of the customs.
Ao Lie glanced at Zhang Yang with deep meaning in his eyes, with an inexplicable smile on his face: "Zhang Taishou is very calculating. Ao Lie's pun on the words of Zhang Yang was shocked in his heart, and he couldn't help but think in his heart: Could it be that this Ao Mohan has seen through a certain plan? It shouldn't be, besides, he and Lu Bu are enemies, and they fought outside Luoyang City a few days ago.
The fact that Lu Bu is Ao Lie's sworn eldest brother is very few people who know the Tao, and it is limited to a few cronies around Ao Lie. Even Ding Yuan, who treats Lu Bu as a son, doesn't know what to do, let alone publicity. For Zhang Yang's careful thoughts, Ao Lie didn't pay attention to it at all. The current Lu Bu is no longer the reckless man in history, and he must be able to easily see through Zhang Yang's intentions. So there was no need for Ao Lie to worry about Lu Bu at all.
Without waiting for Zhang Yang to answer, Ao Lie pressed the table and said, "Just do it." โ
"Let's do it." At the same time, Lu Bu said the same thing to Li Ru at the Tiger Prison Close. Li Ru proposed to let Lu Bu go out of the customs in advance to challenge the princes from all walks of life, so as to dampen the morale of the princes' coalition army, Lu Bu thought about it and happily agreed. Seeing that the losses in the defense of the city were not small, in order to avoid greater casualties among the 40,000 Bingzhou troops, Lu Bu also wanted to personally go to the front of the battle to deter the princes from all walks of life.
As soon as the three-way war drums sounded, the gate of the Tiger Prison Pass suddenly opened, and Lu Bu rushed out of the pass first. Behind him, there were eight hundred traps led by Gao Shun, and when they were full of calculations, there were only eight hundred and two people in this team.
Wearing a three-pronged purple and gold crown, wearing a Xichuan red brocade and hundred flowers robe, covered with a silver-white beast-faced head-swallowing chain armor, wearing a delicate lion jade belt around his waist, holding a Fang Tian painting halberd, sitting down is a red rabbit BMW with a red body like fire charcoal, Lu Bu ran straight to the place less than two hundred steps in front of the coalition army, and shouted loudly: "Who gave a certain war letter?" Come out and answer. "One man and one horse, the momentum is extraordinary. It is worthy of Lu Bu among people, and Red Rabbit among horses!
Ao Lie looked at Zhang Yang with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said with a slight teasing: "Zhang Taishou, your plan has taken effect." This first battle is related to the morale of our army, so how about you, the initiator, to meet it? โ
Hearing Ao Lie's question, Zhang Yang shrank his neck in fright, and hurriedly replied, "Ah? Going to fight? Ah, this, the courage of the tiger, unparalleled in the world, I am afraid that only the prince and you can match it. Zhang Yang's words were very standard, and there was not a word in the whole sentence that he was afraid of Lu Bu, but desperately raised Lu Bu and Ao Lie, making excuses for his avoidance of the war, and by the way, he also slapped Ao Lie on the back.
Looking at the fear in the depths of Zhang Yang's eyes, Ao Lie chuckled and did not force him to fight again. The previous sentence was just Ao Lie's temptation of Zhang Yang, Ao Lie didn't want anyone to think about calculating his eldest brother all the time, but this temptation, Ao Lie was relieved, this Zhang Yang, at most, was a little bad in his stomach, and his courage and courage were far behind, so he was not worthy of being Lu Bu's opponent at all.
Ignoring Zhang Yang no longer, Ao Lie asked loudly: "Who dares to fight with that tiger god of war?" โ
"I'm going to meet this tiger!" One of the generals rushed out of the coalition camp with a gun. Everyone looked at it, and it turned out to be a subordinate of Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang, the famous Hanoi general Fang Yue.
Fang Yue took advantage of the impact of the war horse's sprint, and danced a spear flower with the spear in his hand, stabbing it at Lu Bu's throat. The look on Lu Bu's face remained unchanged, and he didn't even urge the Red Rabbit Horse, he simply raised Fang Tian's halberd with one hand with his right hand and smashed it towards Fang Yue's spear head.
With a bang, the spear in Fang Yue's hand was shot down by Lu Bu's halberd, and the tip of the spear slammed into the ground in front of Fang Yue's horse, and the tail of the spear trembled and made a buzzing sound.
Unexpectedly, Lu Bu could easily shoot down his own weapon with a random halberd with one hand, Fang Yue couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly pulled up the reins, wanting to drive the war horse to the side to hide. But Fang Yue forgot that opposite him was Lu Bu, the god of war!
Hand up, halberd down! Poofโ
Fang Tian's painting halberd swept through Fang Yue's neck with endless coldness, and the crescent blade on the halberd brought up a slip of blood. Whose blood? Mine? How can it be so dazzling? A series of questions surfaced in Fang Yue's mind, but he couldn't answer them anymore, his vigorous vitality instantly left Fang Yue's body, and his gradually cooler corpse fell from the horse's back weightlessly.
Seeing that Lu Bu easily killed Fang Yue, a famous general in Hanoi, with a halberd, the faces of the princes from all walks of life were full of surprise. For a long time, I have heard that Lu Bu is the god of war and a tiger, but no one has seen Lu Bu with his own eyes to what extent he is brave, and it is inevitable that there are illusions in his heart, thinking that Lu Bu is not as powerful as the legend, but he is just exaggerated by people as falsely rumored and rendered otherworldly. But when I saw it today, Lu Bu's power was still above the rumors, and it was simply not something that humans could resist.
The princes of all walks of life looked at Zhang Yang one after another, with a look of indignation on their faces. The idea of giving Lu Bu a war letter and asking him to go head-to-head was publicized, and now Lu Bu came at the appointment, but no one could check and balance him, isn't this embarrassing himself? Others don't know the details, forget it, you are flamboyant, but the party under the rule of Bingzhou is too guarded, don't you know how powerful Lu Bu is? What else do you propose to fight heads-up, and what is the difference between this and self-inflicted humiliation?
There was a panic in his heart when he was looked at by everyone, and Zhang Yang turned back to his subordinates and said, "Who can cut off Lu Bu's head, and the reward is one hundred taels!" Although the generals under Zhang Yang were familiar with Lu Bu's martial arts, most of them lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Zhang Yang, but as the so-called heavy reward must have brave men, Zhang Yang's subordinate Mu Shun stood up and said in a rough voice: "Go and fight him!" โ
The black horse carried Mu Shun out of the camp and headed straight for Lu Bu. Mu Shun also knew that Lu Bu was brave in martial arts, so as soon as the war horse was halfway through, Mu Shun began to accumulate strength, holding the handle of the big knife tightly with both hands, and raised the big knife high, just waiting for Lu Bu to get close to him, he cut off his head.
The black horse that Mu Shun sat on was a good horse, although it was not a thousand-mile horse, but it was no problem to travel six or seven hundred miles a day, so Mu Shun attached great importance to this black horse and easily refused to let people approach it. For a long time, this dark horse has developed the arrogant character that is unique to some human beings, and the black horse has no one in his eyes to run wildly. As everyone knows, being so arrogant in front of the red rabbit horse has already angered the red rabbit who is also very self-assured, and when the black horse carrying Mu Shun just approached Lu Bu's side, the red rabbit horse suddenly looked up to the sky and neighed, stretched out a front hoof to the black horse and kicked it violently.
Ma Tong human nature, through the neighing can judge the strength of the same kind. The black horse, which was originally galloping, was like seeing the monarch's subjects after hearing the long hissing of the red rabbit, and almost crawled to the ground without being frightened. When the red rabbit's front hooves stepped on the black horse's face, the black horse did not dare to resist at all. So, a painful neighing came out of the black horse's mouth, and the blood on the horse's face that had been smashed by the iron hooves of the red rabbit flowed sideways, and its whole body curled up in pain, and even Mu Shun on the horse's back lost his balance a little, his body swayed from side to side on the horse's back, and he almost slashed the big knife raised high into his body by mistake.
As soon as Chitu's front hooves landed, Lu Bu's Fang Tian Painting Halberd slashed down like lightning on top of Mu Shun's head. Mu Shun didn't even have time to stabilize his body, let alone adjust his posture to defend, he watched as Fang Tian's halberd slashed down his Heavenly Spirit Cover, slashing all the way down, splitting his body in half, and the blood beads of the big canopy splashed out of Mu Shun's body, forming a small blood mist.
The breeze blew, and the blood mist gradually dissipated. Lu Bu was still sitting on the red rabbit horse, and his posture was exactly the same as just now, giving people an illusion, as if he hadn't moved at all just now. However, on the ground one step in front of the Red Rabbit Horse, the two halves of Mu Shun's corpse clearly confirmed that Lu Bu, who was motionless, was so terrifying.