Chapter 12: Doubts

Xiapi City began to become lively, although for the people of Xiapi City, it does not make much difference between Lu Bu defeating Cao Cao or Cao Cao defeating Lu Bu, no matter which one occupies Xuzhou, it is not a good thing for them, but for the Xuzhou army stationed in Xiapi, Lu Bu made Cao Cao deflated three times in a row, which is of great significance.

First of all, in terms of morale, Lu Bu fought head-on in Cao Yingqian twice, and those soldiers who followed Lu Bu to fight saw how Lu Bu suppressed Cao Jun's head, which not only suppressed the morale of Cao Jun, but also boosted the morale of these accompanying soldiers, and this excitement, with Lu Bu's successive victories, has begun to spread to the whole army.

The second is that Lu Bu has fought these three times, with clear rewards and punishments, and his unsparing attitude towards the soldiers who fought has also made Lu Bu regain the respect of these soldiers.

These elite soldiers are veterans who have followed Lu Bu for many years, and they have a strong sense of belonging to Lu Bu, and they are also the part that is most likely to raise morale.

In the end, it was the captured war horses this time, which could be regarded as temporarily relieving Lu Bu's urgent need, those horse corpses and some injured war horses were used as military food, plus the only remaining grain and grass in the city, which could also allow Lu Bu to support for some more time.

Lu Bu was also very happy, the information centers that suddenly appeared in his mind, the original Heavenly Mandate Shouyuan was thirteen days, and now three days have passed, and there should have only ten days left, but after winning three games in a row, his Heavenly Mandate Shouyuan increased to one month, that is to say, the Heavenly Mandate is not unchangeable.

It's just that why it's January, Lu Bu can't figure it out, but it's good news after all.

As for the other information, Lu Bu didn't look at it, the skill was okay, although the rest of the luck had changed, he couldn't see what was going on, so Lu Bu simply ignored it.

In the next few days, the wind and waves were calm, and Cao Cao did not withdraw his troops or attack the city, but guarded the camp all day long.

"Wen Hou may be sure that Cao Cao has no food?" In the General's Mansion, in the main hall, Chen Gong pinched the goat's whiskers on his chin and paced back and forth in front of Lu Bu.

"That night, I attacked Cao's camp at night, and I did bump into the other party's grain storage place, and the entire camp was burned to the ground, even if Cao Cao rescued some grain and grass, it would definitely not be able to support it for so long." Lu Bu's thick eyebrows were deep, Zhou Yuan hadn't come back yet, and even if the Chen family was willing to help Cao Cao, the grain and grass of 50,000 people could not be mobilized for a while, so how did Cao Cao let the 50,000 hungry soldiers stay in the barracks honestly?

Running out of food is fatal for an army.

"If that's the case......" Chen Gong's eyes flashed with a fierce expression: "Wen Hou Ke still remembers that when he confronted that Cao Cao in Yanzhou, it was a locust plague and our army had no food, but how Cao Cao survived that locust plague." ”

"That battle ......" Lu Bu frowned when he heard this, he lost the battle very badly, and he was either defeated by Cao Cao, or lost to a locust plague, there was no food in the army, and the soldiers under his command were scattered, so that Cao Cao seized the opportunity to annihilate himself together, and it was also one of the few examples of Lu Bu being defeated on the frontal battlefield in his lifetime.

"Dried human flesh!?" Zhang Liao's face on the side changed, and he said with a gloomy face.

When Cao Cao and Lu Bu fought in Yanzhou, Lu Bu actually had concerns at the time, Chen Gong, Zhang Miao and others used him as a gunman, not really assisted, this is also after coming to Xuzhou, Lu Bu wanted to use Chen Qi's father and son and Chen Gong to check and balance each other, he and Chen Gong have always been not the real ministers, but unfortunately Lu Bu's skills are not enough, and he was played by Chen Qi's father and son.

The battle of Yanzhou, the situation is more complicated, which involves many strong attitudes in Yanzhou, and in terms of political skills, Lu Bu is indeed inferior to Cao Cao, in the case of dominance, he was forced back by Cao Cao little by little, but with the situation at the time, it should have been a lose-lose ending, but a locust plague completely ended this war.

Lu Buyong was brave, but not ruthless enough, in the face of the food shortage, there was no move at all, and Cao Cao directly used Cheng Yu's strategy, using human flesh as military food, and survived that level, and the final result was that Lu Bu was defeated in Xuzhou, and Cao Cao returned to take charge of Yanzhou.

Zhang Liao's voice fell, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became heavy.

Gao Shun silently stepped forward, bowed and said, "Lord, the last general is willing to lead his troops to patrol the surroundings." ”

"You can't, Wen Yuan, you go!" Lu Bu shook his head, Gao Shun is good at attacking and defending, but the cavalry is not his strength, this point, Gao Shun is not as good as Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao has fought with Lu Bu since the annexation of the state, and has his own set of cavalry tactics.

"The last general commands!" Zhang Liao bowed and was about to leave.

"Wait!" Chen Gong suddenly stopped Zhang Liao.

"What's the matter with the public platform?" Lu Bu frowned and looked at Chen Gong.

"If you can meet a living mouth, you can take these people back to Xiapi." Chen Gong said to Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao frowned, and instead of agreeing, he looked at Lu Bu.

"Why?" Lu Bu asked.

"Now the people in the city are quite resistant to Wen Hou, if there are some remnants to take it back, there are these people in the city to help Wen Hou spread the news, although it can not make all the people return to Wen Hou, but it can make the people fear and dislike Cao Jun, so that the soldiers and people of Picheng can be united, Cao Cao is 100,000 soldiers, and it will be difficult to break the Picheng Pool." Chen Gong said in a deep voice.

"This count...... Wonderful. Lu Bu touched the stubble on his chin, and after thinking for a while, he looked at Zhang Liao: "You and lead the cavalry to inspect, if Cao Jun really repeats his old tricks, then follow the plan of the public platform, remember, do what you can, if you can't do it, don't take my son's life to fill it." ”

"Wen Hou, those who achieve great things should be informal!" Chen Gong frowned slightly, according to his meaning, as long as Cao Cao really dared to use human flesh for food again, he would release a group of people at any cost, Lu Bu was so desperate for his life, contrary to his idea.

"That's all for me, no matter how inhibited, it's gone!" Lu Bu shook his head, waved at Zhang Liao, and said, "Go quickly." ”

"Oh, don't worry, my lord!" Zhang Liao straightened his chest, solemnly saluted Lu Bu, turned around and strode away.

Chen Gongben was still a little dissatisfied, but when he turned his head, he saw that many generals in the hall showed excitement, and suddenly looked at Lu Bu with some surprise...... Lu Bu, who knows how to buy people's hearts, doesn't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing in this world!