Chapter 139: A Knife That Makes a Difference
Before leaving, Lu Chen still had one more important thing to do, that is, to write a letter to Cao Bald to express his gratitude.
The connection between Lu Chen and the bald man is basically the line of Guo Jia, this time Lu Chen seized Lecheng, and Cao Cao's attack on Yecheng is of course not a coincidence, but it is actually a tacit understanding between the two sides for a long time, and it can be regarded as the first close cooperation between the ghost Guo Jia and Feng Xiao Pang Tong.
Lu Chen came to rescue Gongsun Zhan, it was Guo Jia's idea from the beginning, in order to leave two nails behind Yuan Shao, so that in case of Yuan Cao's battle, he could target Yuan Shao's Lao Ju at any time. This is not Guo Jia's evil, in fact, this is just a means of balancing, you know, there are more people who covet Cao Bald's back door, and five or six princes from the southeast to the southwest are all salivating over Cao Bald's fat ass. Needless to say, Huainan Yuan Shu has already called the emperor, so he naturally can't tolerate the little Zhengtai in Xuchang City, and Jiangdong Sun Ce, who is not very old and has a lot of taste, is always thinking about how to give the bald donkey Cao a trick old man cart, Jingzhou Liu Biao, Wancheng Zhang Xiu, Jiangxia Huangzu and so on do not have a fuel-efficient lamp.
After receiving some benefits from Cao Cao, Lu Chen felt that if he wanted to gain a foothold in Yanmen, he must also have a fool who blocked the knife, and Gongsun Zhan was quite suitable, so Lu Chen came to Youzhou without hesitation. Moreover, when Gongsun Zan was about to hang up when Yi Jing was in danger, Lu Chen turned the tide with a mere 800 tigers, saved Gongsun Zhan, saved Yi Jingcheng, and saved the entire Youzhou force.
After that, Lu Chen borrowed troops to go south, although the attack on Yuan Shao's army's grain road was not considered hard, and the impact was negligible, but it also restrained thousands of Wuhuan cavalry.
Of course, the final divine turn is what makes Scar Yuan the most amidie. Lu Chen actually angered Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang so that he transferred many soldiers and horses in Lecheng, and then. Relying on the influence of Wen Chou, he attacked Lecheng with one blow.
Plus Cao Apu's raid on Yecheng. Yuan Shao had to rush back to help, and begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to ask Lu Chen to release grain......
Since then, the siege of Yijing has been resolved.
In fact, Cao Cao naturally would not start a war with Yuan Shao immediately, he sent troops as early as when he was in Wuchao, Guo Jia discussed with Lu Chen, but it was just to cooperate with Lu Chen to relieve the siege of Yijing, and Yuan Shao would return to help, and he would immediately withdraw his troops.
I have to say that Lu Chen is in this battle. Benefit the most. Zhao Yunwen and Chou are not to mention the two fierce generals, just one-third of the grain and grass weapons in this Lecheng are enough to equip four times Lu Bu's soldiers and horses, and this is not counting those patrolmen who are holding wooden sticks and wearing hand-painted armor.
got a big bargain, of course Lu Chen had to write to Cao Cao.
Say thank you? NO, that's just an official statement, the real situation is that Lu Chen wrote the letter to show off. This time, Lu Chen didn't let Lu Zhan or Pang Tong do it. Do-it-yourself, it took an hour of hard work to scribble and change the circle and fork, and finally listed the things he got in Lecheng one by one, which is quite show-off. At last. also silently made up for it: I was going to give you half of the bald man, but I can't think of it, so I will reluctantly accept it all.
As a matter of fact. Lu Chen is really not a child's heart. Writing this letter to Cao Cao certainly has an element of showing off. After all, Cao Jun's equipment was extremely poor, and the shortage of grain and grass was well known, just as Yuan Jun's well-equipped food and grass were famous. And beyond that. Lu Chen also revealed Yuan Shao's details to Cao Cao through what he had gotten, after all, Lecheng stored nearly half of Yuan's army's grain, grass and weapons, and Lu Chen got one-third. After Cao Bald received the letter, he was afraid that he would tilt his nose when he saw Lu Chen's amazing calligraphy, but after careful calculation, he could know Yuan Shao's approximate strength, which would also be beneficial to the future Yuan Cao war.
Knowing that Lu Chen's subordinates left Lecheng one day earlier than the agreed three days, Yuan Shao, who was fifty miles away, was in tears, and the gentry of Lecheng even rushed to tell each other, making Lu Chen think that he was a heinous villain. In fact, in the eyes of the families who were scraped so that there were not even a child and a dog left, Lu Chen was really an out-and-out demon.
So, the next afternoon, when Lu Chen left Lecheng, the gentry and people of Lecheng saw each other off along the street, waving their hands step by step, and the scene was extremely spectacular.
Almost the entire Lecheng gentry came, except for the Li family, who was doing the funeral, and it is said that the Li family was slaughtered, that is, assassinated. Many people suspected that Lu Chen sent someone to do it, because the Li family was the one where Lu Chen rode a horse and smashed the stone lion. As a result, the rest of the gentry did not dare to snub Lu Chen, and when they saw him off, they gave a lot of life-saving money, but in fact, Lu Chen didn't know anything about it.
Although the gentry cried the most, in fact, they were the most eager for Lu Chen to leave earlier, and they just cried with joy. The people were a little sincere to each other, because Zhao Yunke had broken a few good cases with the Qing official detectives, and at the same time, Cao Xing had opened several granaries of several families in addition to slaughtering dogs in the city, and helped many ordinary people, so in the eyes of the people, they didn't think that Lu Chen's troops were so frustrated.
Of course, in addition to the gentry, there are many people who hate Lu Chen, but most of them are not from Lecheng, such as this short man who followed Lu Chen's convoy, he was from Xiliang, but he hated to slash Lu Chen.
The man was about thirty years old, sloping, yellow-faced, fanged, dressed in blue-gray short brown with heavy patches, and his left hand was covered with calluses. A person on the upper path may be able to see some clues, this person must be a person with good swordsmanship, and he is a left-handed knife.
It's a pity that Lu Chen is surrounded by some gangsters, there are no strangers in the rivers and lakes, they are okay to fight, and they are obviously too amateur to be guards and bodyguards. Therefore, even if the tiger ben is very vigilant, and the eighteen personal soldiers are even more inseparable from Lu Chen, but he has a specialization in the art industry, although the yellow-faced man can do his whereabouts secretly although he walks through the crowd, and the tiger ben can't find out his existence.
Hundreds of carriages and horses transporting grain, grass and ordnance have already gone out of the city on the road, and the people who helped to transport them were naturally found by the gentry. Lu Chen and Hu Ben were the last to go out of the city, in order to prevent Yuan Shao from sending people to quickly snatch the grain and grass in Lecheng, and then chase and kill Lu Chen, he was in Lecheng, Yuan Shao was afraid that he would burn the grain, but he didn't dare to enter the city in advance, and obediently retreated fifty miles away.
In addition, the five hundred tigers who sent the convoy north a few days ago have not returned, that is to say. Now Lu Chen only has a thousand tigers around him, and more than a hundred soldiers who refuse to leave in advance.
Zhao Yun led three hundred tiger ben to open the way. Lu Chen and five hundred tigers were in the middle, and Cao Xing led two hundred horsemen to the rear. And Gao Shun's request to personally break the queen was rejected by Lu Chen. and the soldiers who were trapped in the camp followed Lu Chen's side.
Marching in the city, the war horses naturally couldn't run, and Lu Chen and the others could only walk slowly.
The yellow-faced man walked leisurely through the crowd of people on the side of the road, following Lu Chen's war horse closely, not hurrying, his eyes seemed to be casual but staring at Lu Chen's every move all the time, ready to suddenly kill at any time.
"Lu Chen is similar to his father, although he is young, he has the courage of ten thousand people. To assassinate Lu Chen, you can only kill with one hit. If you make a slight mistake, you can only be killed by him! ”
This is the evaluation of Lu Chen by the yellow-faced man after learning that Wen Chou could only have a draw with Lu Chen, and was finally captured.
The yellow-faced man is a Qiang person, no Han name, and for some reason does not report the Qiang name, so he is often called nameless, it is said that his tribe was wiped out by a Han general named Ma Chao, and he fled to the border of Hebei with a sea of blood and hatred. I didn't dare to report my real name.
Nameless Xiao Xi Qiang Fight, good at fighting assassination, four years ago he was an instructor in the first camp of Koji Yi, and later Koji Yi died. left the army nameless and became a dead soldier of the Li family. The so-called dead soldier is a fierce man who dares to die, and it is an industry with a very high risk factor. The reason that prompted him to become a dead soldier of the Li family was a Qiang girl. This let the nameless Qiang girl be a dancing girl in the Li family. Her name is Bezhu, which means coral. Of course, now she doesn't have that name, now she's called Cloud Sleeve.
Yun Sleeve, or Bie Zhu, is the nameless sister, his own sister, he met her four years ago, when she happened to be bought into the mansion by the Li family. Where Beizhu is from, whose descendants it is, the Li family knows clearly, so Nameless doesn't dare to say that he is Beizhu's brother, Suo Zhuzhu was too young when he was taken away, and he can't recognize Nameless. Therefore, Nameless entered the Li family as a dead soldier because he negotiated with the head of the Li family, and after he made enough contributions to the Li family, he would reward him with cloud sleeves.
Over the years, as the cloud sleeves have grown bigger and bigger, Nameless has also made great achievements for the Li family, and all of them have developed in a beautiful direction. However, with Lu Chen's capture of Lecheng, everything changed. The Li family gave the cloud sleeve to Lu Chen, and after the nameless learned about it, he asked the head of the Li family to question, the old man was very contemptuous and didn't want to look at this barbarian, and then the old man paid the price for his contempt, and his head was hung on the beam.
After killing the head of the Li family, Nameless's next target was Lu Chen, who had ruined his sister.
Ahead is the last corner before heading out of town, and this is the last chance for Nameless. When Lu Chen's war horse came to the corner, the centaurs in front of him could not see him, and the soldiers following behind would also be blocked from view, which was a good opportunity to make a move.
"Huh?"
A trap soldier with an arm dropped on his chest suddenly glanced in surprise at the crowd next to him.
"What's wrong?"
Another asked.
"Nothing, probably misunderstood. I just saw the yellow-faced man with the intention of stabbing him. ”
"Wouldn't it? You're talking about stealing someone's sugar gourd and gnawing on it? ”
"Hmm...... I read it wrong. ”
The two soldiers in the camp glanced at the yellow-faced man again, only to see him standing behind a sugar gourd seller, patting the man's left shoulder with his left hand, and when the man turned around, he stole the other party's sugar gourd with his right hand, hid and nibbled on it. Seeing that the man was gnawing on the incense, the two soldiers shook their heads, feeling that this man did not look like an assassin.
"That's not right." The soldier said, "He moves so fast, not like an ordinary person, have you noticed?" ”
Another said, "When you say that, it seems to be true......
The two soldiers who were trapped in the camp were trained in intelligence missions, and they knew something about the rivers and lakes, and they immediately noticed that something was wrong. However, when I looked at it again, where was the figure of the yellow-faced man?
After walking for a while, when he reached the corner, the one-armed soldier who had first noticed the yellow-faced man suddenly frowned, as if he had thought through something, and shouted: "Not good! Watch out for the Assassins! ”
The soldiers were all shocked, but it was too late.
I saw that the red light flashed, and a sugar gourd flew towards the pro-soldier beside Lu Chen, who subconsciously drew his knife and cut it off, and then knew that he had been fooled. However, he didn't have time to change his moves, and his throat had already been opened by the quick knife, and suddenly blood gushed out, and his body fell crookedly.
A yellow-faced man with missing front teeth had jumped onto the war horse of the pro-soldier at some point, and one step away was the defenseless Lu Chen.
The yellow-faced man did not hesitate, and the knife came out like lightning, pointing directly at Lu Chen's throat.
Lu Chen sat on the horseback in amazement, completely unresponsive, seeing that the snow-bright blade was approaching his throat, but he didn't have time to dodge at all, there was only one voice in his heart: What a fast knife! (To be continued......)