—176 A.D.——

"Fengxian, have you ever heard of the name of 'Tanshi Huai'?"

"It's just rats."

On the wall of a dock fort in Wuyuan County, Dong Zhuo was pointing to the grassland Gobi in the north and asked Lu Bu beside him, and Lu Bu's answer was extremely concise.

Dong Zhuo was wearing a purple fish-scale hard leather armor, a red armor, and a flaming red prison knife pinned to his waist—no, its name was "Shura" now.

And Lu Bu was wearing a set of black lion-faced head-swallowing chain armor, wearing a double purple and gold crown, a gold-patterned brocade robe, and a fine iron halberd.

Dong Zhuo, who is still white at the moment, has been courteous to the Lu clan of the state clan, naturally not because he married his daughter to Lu Bu, at least not only.

Compared with the barren or bitter cold Liangzhou and Youzhou, among the state capitals bordering the Hu people, only Bingzhou is the richest, so the number of plundering by the Hu people is also the most, not only the officials and soldiers here, but also the ordinary people, when mentioning Xianbei and the Xiongnu, the word "kill" will pop out of their mouths uncontrollably.

As a famous ranger and anti-Hu hero in Liangzhou, Dong Zhuo came to Bingzhou because of the unfair treatment of the imperial court, and as soon as he arrived, he led the local rangers to repel several plundering Hu people, so he was welcomed by most of the military and civilians.

"Naturally, it's a rat," Dong Zhuo nodded approvingly: "When this person instructed the major Hu tribes to enter the Kou, he kept hiding in the rear, but whenever there was some trouble, he fled directly back to the grassland, and he could be elected as the king all the time, which is a big mistake in the world." ”

"Heh-" Lu Bu sneered: "I think it's because he sent all the Hu people who didn't support him to our sword." ”

"Bongxian is as sharp as ever." Dong Zhuo praised.

"Father-in-law, no, my father-in-law praises me falsely." Lu Bu responded immediately.

This son-in-law has always been like this, Dong Zhuo thought, although he was very sensitive to what he heard and saw, and could quickly make correct judgments, but he was unwilling to extrapolate deeper based on this judgment.

For example, in the martial arts that day, Lu Bu unexpectedly became the first, and he should have been recruited as a military attaché of Taishou, at least a county lieutenant, but Ding Yuan, the cavalry captain, wanted to promote him as the "master of the body" of Laoshizi.

That Ding Yuan probably thought that Lu Bu was more than brave, but not disciplined, and too young, and hoped to suppress him for a while, work in a civilian job for a few years, and sharpen his temperament for reuse in the future.

This decision can be said to be very correct, if Dong Zhuo hadn't been looking at Lu Bu, he would have thought so.

After learning of this decision, Lu Bu's face instantly darkened, and even murderous intent appeared.

Obviously, he saw that Ding Yuan wanted to suppress him, but he didn't continue to think about "why", but directly concluded: "If you have the opportunity, you will kill this dog official who looks down on you."

Based on this situation, Dong Zhuo didn't go around in circles at all when he went to recruit him: "Dong Zhuo in Xialiang Prefecture, I have heard that Lu Fengxian has the courage of ten thousand people, so I hope you can help me deal with the Hu people, although there is no official position at this time, but if it is developed in the future, it will definitely not treat Fengxian badly." ”

There is no falsehood in these words, no matter how keen Lu Bu is, he can only make two judgments of "believe" or "disbelieve" based on this, coupled with Dong Zhuo's current reputation, the possibility of rejection is almost non-existent.

Well, he's his son-in-law now.

"This person is rumored to be the son of a certain outer chamber of the former Xianbei King," Dong Zhuo pulled the topic back, "His mother claimed that one day she saw a meteorite from the sky explode in the sky, and when she opened her mouth in surprise, she accidentally swallowed a piece of gravel, and then became pregnant with Tanshi Huai, the name Xianbei originally meant 'stone falling from the sky'. ”

"......" Lu Bu revealed, "Are all Xianbei people fools?" Expression.

"However, this person is quite decisive and ruthless, a few years ago, when Zhang Huan, the general of the Huns, was begging Xianbei, he launched a coup d'état in the royal court, succeeded the king of Xianbei, and cut off the back road to invade many of my Han teams, resulting in all the other princes on the front who were qualified to succeed the king of Xianbei were killed or captured." Dong Zhuo continued.

Lu Bu's expression changed, "Xianbei people are really fools." ”

"Now, Natanshi Huai has completed the integration of the Xianbei tribes, and once again contacted the Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Qiang and other foreign races, preparing to go south together, the momentum is huge, unprecedented." Dong Zhuo looked at the vast Gobi in the north and looked slightly excited.

"Defend the family and the country, and make contributions?" Lu Bu asked.

"No, it's 'making a name for yourself.'" Dong Zhuo glanced at Lu Bu, in case he came to any strange conclusion: "Zhang Huan resigned, Wang Yue did not come out, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun fought in Yizhou and Yangzhou respectively, as for the Ten Standing Servants, I don't think they will take the initiative to leave Luoyang, so as long as we repel or completely destroy this group of foreign races, the imperial court will definitely give us a heavy reward." ”

"If they don't give it, we'll grab it." Lu Bu came to a conclusion that Dong Zhuo didn't know how to evaluate.

If you think about it, maybe that's a good idea?

While Dong Zhuo was thinking, sporadic black spots began to appear on the horizon.

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"I'll just say it once! Surrender or die! ”

"As you wish! Get ready to die! ”

When the two cavalry met, they shouted a few words to each other in Xiongnu and Chinese, and then they fought directly.

It was still early in the morning of the arrival of the army of Tanshihuai, but there were already many small tribes, and the scouts of the small tribes were roaming around the surrounding dock forts and villages, and although these tribes had been forced to come together by the big families and tribes, they obviously had their own thoughts.

If the warriors they sent participated in a hard-fought battle and lost everything, they were afraid that the entire tribe would be removed or annexed later, so they took the initiative to take over the reconnaissance or logistics and other work, and sent ranger teams to determine in advance which villages and dock forts were worth plundering, and if possible, they would take a handful and run away.

This kind of squad that has no strength, but is a real combat skill, is the favorite of many rangers, and every time I see a ranger. As soon as the rangers are killed, they will each team up to intercept, and after the two meet, they all think that they can easily eliminate each other, so similar words appear frequently before the battle, but it is basically impossible to have any effect, and in the end, you have to do it to decide whether to be superior.

Dong Zhuo did not participate in this kind of ridiculous encounter in which the two sides rode horses, fought and ran, and finally had almost no results, before the decisive battle with the large army of Tanshi Huai, he only followed Li Ru's suggestion, led about 100 people, and focused on rounding up the rangers who were looting the dock fort or villages.

Li Ru's original words were: "This kind of Hu people, who have never respected their orders and are free and scattered, can form a scout team is the limit, and when facing the property in the village and the dock fort, it will definitely become a plate of loose sand. ”

"Descend, or die!"

"Don't attack! We surrender! ”

Dong Zhuo took Lu Bu and Li Ru, and led a group of rangers with excellent cavalry and shooting to surround the "plundered village", almost needless to say, the leader of the Hu people would directly kneel and surrender, and if anyone was blinded by money and wanted to resist to the end, he would be handed over to Lu Bu to "deal with".

"It's ridiculous," Lu Bu said to Dong Zhuo after "disposing" of a group of recalcitrant Hu people again: "It is completely impossible for such a barren village to save the kind of wealth they found, if it were me, I would definitely directly judge that this place is a trap when I see those goods." ”

"People die for money, birds die for food, even in Luoyang, there are such stupid people." Li Ru answered.

Li Ru, excellent characters, people as his name suggests, looks like a Confucian who writes very well, but his equestrian skills are good, he was originally a native of Bingzhou, because of his acquaintance with Dong Zhuo's old friend Jia Xu, after Dong Zhuo came to Bingzhou, he came with his recommendation letter, and then divided Dong Zhuo's two daughters with Lu Bu (...... ）。

"Hmph...... Luoyang? Lu Bu was thinking about it, when he suddenly saw a cavalry team with almost a thousand people rushing from outside the small village, which was obviously better equipped than the scouts, and surrounded the small village and the rangers.

"Surrender or die—" The lead scout captain said in awkward Chinese, and then laughed, "How many times do you think this little trick can be used?" Hahahaha! ”

"We have cornered you, surrender quickly," the scout captain shouted from afar with a sharp-beaked monkey cheek, similar to a staff member, "Don't worry, those who have ransom value will definitely be able to return home safely after receiving the ransom!" ”

"Hehe, I didn't expect that there are also guys with long heads in this group of barbarians," Li Ru said with a smile: "This strategy of luring the enemy deep and dividing and transforming is not bad." ”

"If I'm not mistaken, this situation should also be expected by you Wen You, so when there is a strategy to break the enemy?" Although Dong Zhuo was surrounded, he did not feel panicked, it was better to say that when Li Ru asked him and Lu Bu not to use forces other than ordinary people, they had already guessed his plan.

"With the means of Tanshi Huai, such an important work of reconnaissance will never be handed over to those small tribes, and there will definitely be real scout troops coming," Li Ru nodded: "Our target was not those small fish and shrimp from the beginning, but this cunning jackal." ”

"It's time to talk big!" The sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked Hu man staff shouted, "You have no reinforcements at all!" Just a hundred people, in less than half an hour, we will be trampled into powder! Even if any of you are the 'Peerless Warriors', you can defeat 200 of us at most!" ”

Despite his shouting, he himself was quietly retreating, while desperately motioning for the scout captain to give the order to attack.

"None of them will be left!" The scout captain also had a vague premonition, and immediately waved his hand to order an attack.

"I've heard that the standard of the 'Peerless Warrior' is to defeat two hundred people with the strength of one person," Li Ru looked at Lu Bu indifferently: "Fengxian, it's time to raise this standard - how about one against a thousand?" ”

"Hehehe! Hahaha! Lu Bu suddenly raised the halberd in his hand to the sky, and a red and black blazing lightning slashed down, accompanied by the sound of explosive electricity, intertwined and wrapped around the halberd and the ink-colored armor, making his whole person exude a fierce aura like an ancient beast, making most of the scout cavalry who had already begun to charge stupid in the middle of the road, and those who were still charging with their heads bored, after crossing a certain line, all the horses fell together as if unconscious, and the rider was thrown to pieces.

"Hehe......" Dong Zhuo, who was originally pressing towards the "Shura" on his waist, stopped his movements and bowed his head slightly: "Wu'er Fengxian's 'Wushuang', its name is [Wushuang]. ”