After the rain, the two armies rested on the south bank for three days, and on the fourth day, they set out from the village.

Half a month of continuous autumn rain made the roads muddy and slippery, and even after a three-day rest after the weather was fine before marching, the roads were still weak, which invisibly slowed down the marching speed of the army.

On the first day of departure, when Lu Bu saw his daughter Lu Lingqi wearing a battle armor and riding a horse behind Li Li, his face was full of iron, and his cold eyes seemed to be about to dismantle Li Li, and he was furious and full of indignation.

However, just when Lu Bu couldn't hold back and wanted to step forward to reprimand, Chen Gong grabbed him in time and whispered softly beside him: "The water spilled by the married daughter, don't you hear that the woman is married to her husband?" Now that Miss Lingqi is Li Li's concubine, how to discipline his wife and concubine is his own family matter, if Feng Xian boldly goes to ask him, I am afraid that it will be unreasonable and make people laugh. This is a feudal etiquette system, and it is also the inherent etiquette of a society where men are superior to women. After the woman leaves the cabinet, the mother's family cannot be mixed with the family affairs of the husband's family, and this feudal family system has been inherited to later generations, and it is still used in some places.

Chen Gong's words made Lu Bu, who was in a rage, couldn't help but feel worried, and he stopped, and the resentment on his face became more and more intense. At this time, Chen Gong continued to convince him: "What's more, Miss has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and she is skilled in archery and horses, and she has been following Feng Xian to go out with the army in recent years. These ancestors are all known. Feng Xian loves her daughter sincerely, and it is understandable that he feels sorry for her and loves her, and never lets her get involved in danger, let alone let her charge into battle and fight in person. But at this time and at that time, she is already Li Li's person, and Feng Xian has the heart to love her daughter. It should also be done in moderation. Lingqi has grown up and is already a wife, and it is impossible for Feng Xian to take care of her for the rest of her life. It's time to let go. ”

After some persuasion, Lu Bu finally dispelled the urge to go to reprimand Li Li, and then led the troops with a gloomy face to set off. Maybe he did this to make up for his apologies to his daughter, who was in armor. As a father, how can he hide behind and hesitate, he should lead the army to the front to shelter his daughter from the wind and rain.

I have to admit it. The princes of all towns said that Li Li's deceitfulness and wisdom were not untargeted, but true.

This time, Li Li and Lu Bu jointly sent troops, and who would be the vanguard of the army was originally a long-standing and difficult problem on the marching road. Although Li Li was the leader of the Yuan Alliance, he nominally had the right to command the Allied forces. But if Lu Bu refuses to carry it out. Li Li can't help him, he can't make a big deal because of this little thing. However, with Lu Lingqi appearing in Li Lijun in armor, this issue is not debatable at all, and Lu Bu actually took the initiative to take on the burden of being a pioneer. It can be seen from this that Li Li's treachery is really not groundless, every move has a deep meaning, and he is scheming, and he easily turns a battle of words into invisible.

However, Lu Bu didn't know. Although Li Li is scheming and calculating, he has a moral bottom line that most people do not have. The basic principles of dealing with people and things have always been adhered to, and the emotional bottom line has never wavered. Lu Lingqi is the first woman to be threatened to marry Li Li so far, although Li Li did not agree with this matter in advance, but now that the wood is in the boat, the facts are all there, and it is futile to deny it. But after getting married, except for Li Li who helped Lu Lingqi on the night of the cave room, he did not touch a finger of Lu Lingqi, so that Lu Lingqi is still a perfect body, and she is definitely not a wife as Chen Gong said.

This is Li Li's principle of life, or the same sentence: a twisted melon is not sweet. The night of marriage was the first time he and Lu Lingqi met, although he was quite tempted by Lu Lingqi's appearance and figure, but there are so many women in the world who can make men tempted. Everyone has a love for beauty, do they have to take it for themselves?

What's more, Li Li has no shortage of women, Chen Yu, Xiao Qiao and the foot trainers who accompanied him this time all have a beauty that is not inferior to Lu Lingqi, and even more mature than her, plump and graceful, and full of style. So when it comes to forcing women, Li Li won't do it, and he doesn't bother to do it. The love between men and women is not only the possession of the flesh, the most precious thing is that they have each other in their hearts. Otherwise, it will be like the walking dead, how is it different from an animal?

No matter how Lu Bu looked at Li Li and how indignant he was, Lu Bu led the army first and took the initiative to take the lead, which was something Li Li was happy to see. As for Lu Lingqi, who wore battle armor and went out with the army, she was just a personal soldier by Li Li's side at the moment, and it was limited to satisfying her desire to fight with the army, nothing more. Li Li would never let her women charge, even if she was not her own woman at the moment, she was just a celebrity, but this was not good. is because Li Li is not as despicable as Lu Bu imagined, and when he really goes to the battlefield, he will protect his woman, and Lu Lingqi will not be in the slightest danger.

Maybe Lu Bu didn't know that it was his willingness to lead the army that moved Li Li very much. Pity the hearts of parents in the world, although Lu Bu has many evil deeds and is disgraced by the world, his affection for his children is the same as that of all parents in the world. Maybe Lu Bu's method of educating his children is very rough, but this does not prevent him from loving and caring for his children, even more deeply than ordinary parents.

Lu Bu's move touched Li Li a lot, because Li Li himself was also a father. He could understand Lu Bu's mood at the moment, and this also allowed him to see the other side of Lu Bu's capriciousness, greed and profit-seeking, and his conscience was still open.

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On the fifth day of Li Li and Lu Bu's joint march into Huainan, the north ushered in the first heavy snow since the beginning of winter.

The arrival of winter snow heralded the end of the war in the north, and the soldiers and horses of all sides facing the Hebei battlefield entered a truce.

As a result, the battle situation in Hebei once again fell into a stalemate, and Yuan Shao of Jizhou, who was under siege, held out for another year and won a chance for himself to rest and recuperate. For Yanzhou Cao Cao, who sharpened his knife, it was a mixed blessing. During the truce, he could further stabilize the situation in Qingzhou, strengthen his rule, and strengthen his army. However, while consolidating Qingzhou, he also imprisoned the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command on the border between Yanzhou and Qingzhou, unable to move. I could only watch Li Li lead the army south and attack Jianghuaizhou County, and his power grew stronger day by day.

Obvious. Li Li's army went south to conquer Yuan Shu, and it was just the right time to see it. Taking advantage of the arrival of the ice and snow in the north, the phenomenon of the northern war cavalry not adapting to the water and soil in the Jianghuai can be minimized, and it is easy to overcome, and it will have little impact on the combat effectiveness of the whole army. In this way, he can skillfully use this vacancy to sweep away Huainan Yuan Shu in one fell swoop and expand the territory under his rule to Yuzhou. and even Yangzhou. By the time the snow falls in the Jianghuai region, perhaps the war has ended, and it will take about a month.

?????? Ten days on the march. The combined forces of Li Li and Lü Bu entered Jiujiang County, that is, the territory of Jiujiang Yin of the Zhong regime, and the sword was directed at Shouchun City.

Along the way, Lu Bu's army, which served as the vanguard of the army, fought with Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses seven times. Although the scale of the battle is not large. It can be regarded as sporadic fighting, but after seven battles, Lu Bu's soldiers and horses also paid more than 10,000 casualties. However, Lu Bu did not raise any objections to this from beginning to end, and quietly led the Xuzhou army all the way to attack the city and pull out the village, and built bridges for the follow-up army to open roads and rivers in the mountains, until the city of Shouchun.

Thirty miles outside the north gate of Shouchun City, the coalition army arrived in the afternoon, and did not directly attack the city, but chose to camp on the spot. After a short rest, the siege will be carried out.

After the onset of winter, the days get shorter and shorter. The night is getting longer. The blowing north wind swept across China, the leaves fell one after another, the sky was cold, the cold dominated the sky, and the weather became more and more gloomy.

As night fell, the north wind howled, and the grass around the tent swished. The big tent of the Chinese army was steaming, the black charcoal was burning, and more than a dozen braziers were baking the big tent that had just been built, evaporating the dampness and expelling the cold, making the whole camp tent warm.

However, this treatment is also limited to the commanders of the two armies and their main generals. For most soldiers, they still relied on campfires for warmth, and it was good to have a fire in a camp of hundreds of people while they were sleeping. More than ninety percent of the soldiers huddled together with each other and relied on each other's body temperature to keep warm to survive the long cold nights.

This time, the officers and men of the two armies did not camp separately, but were stationed together in a large camp. The camp is divided into three areas: left, middle and right, the left camp is the Xuzhou army under Lu Bu's tent, the middle area is the camp tent of the commanders and main generals of the two armies, and the right is the camp area of the Xiliang army.

Despite the fact that this kind of camp is still clearly distinguished, it is very different from the situation between the two armies that was in full swing before. At present, the commanders and main generals of the two armies can live in the same camp, which in itself shows that the relationship between the two armies is close, different from the ordinary princely alliance, as if twisted into a rope, regardless of you and me.

And this situation is the result of Chen Gong, Guo Jia and Xun You's efforts, and the generals of the two armies have no objection to this and are happy to see it come to fruition. After all, the two armies have become in-laws, so how can the family divide each other?

Speaking of which, at present, Lu Bu's identity is a rising tide, and he has changed from the previous Xuzhou Mu to Li Li's father-in-law, with a transcendent status. But Lu Bu himself did not have this kind of awareness, instead of being happy that he had become Li Li's elder, he felt that he was restrained by his son-in-law Li Li, and he felt depressed and constrained everywhere, so he was not uncomfortable!

The only thing that makes Lu Bu useful is that since Li Li became his son-in-law, Li Li's attitude towards him has taken a 180-degree turn, humble and polite, courteous, quite enthusiastic, and no longer slack.

To be honest, Lu Bu was extremely jealous of Li Li before, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was in awe, but now that Li Li was suddenly so enthusiastic about him, it made him extremely uncomfortable and a little flattered. Fortunately, his daughter Lu Lingqi was by Li Li's side every time they met, which invisibly made Lu Bu feel a little relieved, and gradually adapted to Li Li's greetings, and turned to accept it calmly.

I have to say that the relationship between Lu Bu and Li Li, the son-in-law of Weng, is very peculiar and different. However, if you are familiar with the previous grievances and entanglements between the two Weng and son-in-law, you won't feel strange.

Back then, Li Li and Lu Bu were ministers in the same hall, and their status was far inferior to that of Lu Bu. In the Battle of Bahe, Hao Meng and Song Xian, the generals of Lu Bu's lower department, both died at the hands of Li Li's generals, and he himself was cut off four fingers, making his left hand mutilated. However, the Battle of Bahe achieved Li Li's supreme prestige, which made Dong Zhuo look at him more and more, not only marrying his beloved daughter Dong Wan to Li Li, but also giving him a large number of armor and weapons, which prompted Li Li to soar into the sky, and his powerful position rose steadily, becoming a hot and prominent existence in Xiliang.

Once Lu Bu hated Li Li to the core, and always remembered that the hatred of the severed finger was not shared, and he was bent on avenging the shame one day. For this reason, he gave up the golden opportunity to exterminate Cao Cao in Yanzhou, turned his gun instead, participated in the Hanoi Alliance, and became an indispensable backbone of the Allied army. However, in the Battle of Sili, Lu Bu suffered heavy losses again, not only was he seriously injured, but even the army under his command suffered heavy casualties, losing most of them. As a result, after Si Li's fiasco, in the face of Cao Cao's army to counterattack Yanzhou, he ended up with no troops available, and he was overstretched, so he defeated Yanzhou and fled in a hurry.

Looking back, since Li Li's rapid rise, Lu Bu has suffered repeated setbacks under Li Li. Whenever he meets Li Li, he has never won, and it is fortunate not to suffer a big loss. Over time, Lu Bu, who is fearless in the world, regards Li Li as his nemesis, and is afraid of him, even fearful.

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