Lu Bu shook Fang Tian's halberd Pegasus and came out: "Zhang Xiu, I will accompany you for a walk." If you can hold on for twenty rounds, I'll spare your life. ”

Zhang Xiu is young and vigorous, and at the age of his early twenties, he has the reputation of the king of guns in the north, and the big gun in his hand is like a dragon out of the water, bringing a thousand murderous spirits and going straight to Lu Bu and Zhouben.

Lu Bu Fangtian's painting halberd flew up and down, and all of them opened the embroidery offensive. The two horses circled in one place, and there were more than a dozen rounds in a flash.

Lu Bu also has a bottom in his heart, Zhang Xiu's marksmanship is still very strong, but the level is about the same as Song Xian, much worse than Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao.

Fang Tianji swept and went straight to Zhang Xiu's head, Zhang Xiu dodged slowly, and the red tassels on his helmet were swept away.

Zhang Xiu was shocked into a cold sweat, almost had her head blooming, turned the horse's head, and ran back.

Lu Bu laughed: "Spare your dog's life, remember me Lu Bu." ”

Although Zhang Xiu was not convinced, he couldn't do anything about it, he couldn't beat Lu Bu, but fortunately Lu Bu didn't chase him.

Zhang Xiu fled back to the city, and the gate was closed.

Li Wei ordered: "It is strictly forbidden for anyone to go to battle, prepare more rolling wood and thunder stones, and golden soup, if they attack the city, they will fight fiercely." ”

Due to the absence of Fan Choubu, Guo Yan died. There are less than 50,000 defenders in the city, and it is difficult to hold the huge imperial city.

Li Ji thought about it, there was no way, so he sent Zhang Ji out of the city to negotiate with Lu Bu that afternoon.

Zhang Ji has a characteristic, his courage is a little small, and his eyebrows are pleasing to his eyes: "Wen Hou is angry, it was Guo Yan's idea to kill Fan Chou, and now that Guo Yan is dead, please ask Wen Hou to withdraw from the army." ”

"Hmph, he is a person like Guo Yan, at most he is an accomplice to coercion, and Li Dao is the mastermind. Unfortunately, you were going to kill you at the time. ”

Zhang Ji was shocked, this Lu Bu is a god, he knows everything.

"As long as Wenhou retreats, Li Dao is willing to hand over Luoyang."

"Don't come to that set, Li Dao wants to go back to Chang'an. Luoyang is thousands of miles away from my Qingzhou, an enclave, what use do you want. 100,000 copper coins, 10,000 war horses, take it out, and the army will be withdrawn immediately. ”

"100,000 copper coins are acceptable, but these 10,000 war horses can't be taken out anyway, and 3,000 can barely be scraped together."

"Five thousand, not a single one is missing, otherwise Ben will break through Luoyang City, that will be your death, and then the money, grain, and horses will be Ben General."

"Wen Hou is angry, Wen Hou is angry, let me go back and discuss, such a horse can't be made up at once."

"Okay, reply as soon as possible, tomorrow the general's battle flag will be planted on the tower of Luoyang."

Zhang Ji went back, and Lu Bu summoned the generals to discuss the matter.

"Everyone, let's come in a hurry, we don't have equipment, if there is any way to attack the city, let's deduce."

Hua Xiong slapped his thigh: "What are you afraid of without equipment, the craftsmen in the army cut wood to build a ladder, and it will be built in ten days and eight days, and then it will be attacked." ”

Lu Bu nodded: "Building a ladder is a way, Huaxiong, mobilize your craftsmen to build dozens of ladders." ”

Xu Rong thought for a while, and proposed: "Luoyang City is mostly surrounded by loess, we can dig tunnels, pass through the city wall, and attack it without knowing it." ”

"This method is clever, Xu Jina should know the deployment of troops in the city. General Xu, take your team of men and horses forward, find a good place, prepare tools and planks, wait for orders, and dig at any time. ”

"Yes." Xu Rong went down and prepared.

There is systematic theoretical knowledge of the tactics of digging tunnels, among which Yuan Shao's army is the best at this, not that you can dig it in a random place, it depends on the quality of the soil, the location, and the need for a large number of supporting planks in the tunnel.

Lu Bu looked at Guan Hai, Guan Hai scratched his head: "We used to use crowd tactics to attack the city, not afraid of casualties, and piled up earth to form a road and go directly to the city." However, after watching the training of the trapped camp, I wondered if we could sneak up the city wall with a rope at night and open the city gate, so that there would be fewer casualties. ”

"What you said is very reasonable, select more than 100 soldiers, and train to climb rope ladders first, which is very professional."

"Yes, my lord, I'm going to train."

Lu Bu prepared three sets of siege plans, and so it was arranged.

Who would have expected that Chen Gong would receive a letter in the evening, and it would be a super urgent letter.

Lu Bu read the letter silently, wrote a reply, and asked Cao Xing to call him over.

"Cao Xing, send a hundred thousand urgent letters to Chen Gong, immediately release six pigeons, be sure to receive Chen Gong, and at the same time bring a team of fifty people, immediately rush back, ask for two hundred miles a day, after arriving in Rencheng, you must immediately hand over to Chen Gong, I hope Chen Gong can do things well."

"Yes, guaranteed to complete the mission."

When it was almost dark in the afternoon, Zhang Ji came back again, his face was ugly.

"Wenhou, General Li is in camp. The 100,000 yuan is now brought, and the war horse will be delivered tomorrow morning, I only hope that Wen Hou will keep the contract and withdraw as soon as possible. ”

Lu Bu looked Zhang Ji up and down: "Needless to say, these 5,000 horses are all from you, forget it, I can't go too far if you get acquainted, just send 3,000 tomorrow." ”

Lu Bu's army came quickly, but when he returned, it was much slower, and it was only sixty or seventy miles a day's march. At this moment, Chen Gong is like an ant on a hot pot in Jinan County, unable to eat or sleep soundly.

As early as five days ago, traces of locusts had been found in three important places in Jinan County, Beihai County, and Donglai County.

Now is the time for the wheat to grow, and the wheat will be harvested in another month.

Originally, locusts were not a rare thing, they were found every year, but this year there are a little more.

With locusts, the summer grain will be wasted, and without the summer grain, the Yellow Turban Army that has finally surrendered will have nothing to eat, and the people who have not eaten will make trouble, so that the whole Qingzhou will be starving all over the ground, and Lu Bu will have no foundation, and the territory that he has finally laid will be blind.

In the south of the city, in the camp of the displaced people, the tunding took hoes, weeded and watered, but no one dared to fight locusts.

Chen Gong ordered Tunding to kill the locusts, but the people were ignorant and stubbornly believed that the locusts were insects sent by heaven and did not dare to kill them.

At this moment, there was a grunt in the distance, and the person in charge of each tun ran over and ordered the tunding to quickly retreat to the side.

About 10,000 Luhua chickens came slowly under the command of the herdsman.

These chickens are not big, only two months old, and weigh no more than a pound.

But these chickens are athletic and have sharp mouths, and when they see locusts, they bite down and swallow them after that.

The tunding people were stunned, usually they only knew that eggs were delicious and chicken soup was delicious, but they didn't expect chickens to have this ability.

The young locusts on the ground could not fly, they were all crawling, and soon they became the vegetables of the Luhua chicken, sweeping through the wheat field, and then the locusts in the wheat field were basically emptied.