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"Halberd Style~!"

"Swinging halberd, grinding halberd, flirting halberd, breaking halberd, falling halberd, frustrating halberd, leaving halberd, hooking halberd..."

"Human halberd in one!!"

Zhaojia Village, Changshan, in front of an antique wooden house with chic workmanship.

Zhao Yun held the coiled dragon spear and flashed on the flat ground, dancing the spear dazzlingly, tiger and tiger.

While demonstrating the Pingtian Halberd Method with a spear, he patiently explained the core essence of each style, so that Lu Bu could comprehend the Thirty-six Path Pingtian Halberd Method that he had comprehended.

Lu Bu put Fang Tian's halberd on his shoulders like a flat arm, stretched out his two arms, put them on both ends of the flat arm, and silently watched Zhao Yun's demonstration.

Although Zhao Yun imitated it very similarly.

But what he demonstrated was not a halberd.

It's marksmanship.

Lu Bu had the intention to show Zhao Yun what the real Pingtian Halberd Method was, but in the end, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, and he suppressed his desire to show off, and continued to hide his clumsiness.

This is the twentieth day of his visit to Changshan.

Combined with the 10 days on the road, today is the last day of the simulation.

In the past 20 days, his personal relationship with Zhao Yun has increased day by day, and it has developed to the point of falling asleep.

In private, he probed Zhao Yun's tone more than once, asking the latter's opinion of the heroes of the world, especially Lu Bu.

Fortunately, among the princes that Zhao Yun looked down on, there were Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, but not Lu Bu.

Unfortunately, among the princes that Zhao Yun fancies, there are Liu Bei, Sun Ce, and Lu Bu.

In Zhao Yun's words, that is, he personally has no opinion on Lu Bu. Lu Bu is brave, handsome and mighty, and like him, they are all northerners, with a common language, if they really have no choice, they can barely accept choosing Lu Bu as the lord. However, Lu Buai killed his father-in-law, repeatedly drove away the original lord, and took the throne himself, which made Zhao Yun a little unacceptable.

So in the past 20 days, as soon as Lu Bu, who was known as Lu Jiu, had free time, he corrected Zhao Yun's "wrong" views one by one, and explained to him the causes and consequences of "Lu Bu" killing Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo.

Today is no exception.

Waiting for Zhao Yun to play with "marksmanship", Lu Bu explained the cause and effect to him again.

That is, Lu Bu is not aggressive, and he is not good at being the master!

The killing of Ding was originally because Dong Zhuo issued a secret decree in the name of the imperial court, and between the monarch and the ministers, Lu Bu could only choose to be loyal to the monarch; killed Dong Zhuo because Lu Bu found out that Dong Zhuo wanted to usurp the throne, and Lu Bu, who was an iron loyal to the Han family, had no choice but to draw his sword in anger and kill his relatives in righteousness.

As for the stigma of "killing the lord himself", of course Lu Bu will not admit it. The evidence is that Lu Bu voted for Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu is still the lord; Lu Bu threw Zhang Yang twice, Zhang Yang was still the Taishou of Hanoi, and was later killed by his subordinate Yang Chou when he went to Xuzhou to rescue; Lu Bu voted for Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao is now about to dominate Hebei; Lu Bu voted for Zhang Miao, and Zhang Miao was killed by Cao Cao.

These facts speak for themselves. Lu Bu did not devour the lord to the throne.

The only exception is that Lu Bu voted for Liu Bei in Xuzhou and took Liu Bei's Xuzhou with his backhand, which is a bit unrighteous.

Regarding this matter, Lu Bu also has an explanation.

However, to explain this matter clearly, we have to start from when Tao Qian was still a pastor in Xuzhou.

Tao Qian is a pastor of Xuzhou, and theoretically speaking, the two counties and three kingdoms of Xuzhou are under his control.

But theory is theory, reality is reality.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, warlords were fighting, and the original administrative division had long ceased to exist.

At that time, Liu Bei sent troops from Beihai in Qingzhou to rescue Xuzhou, and afterwards, he was placed in Xiaopei by Liu Taoqian.

Xiaopei is Pei County, where Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was the pavilion chief.

Pei counties are all subordinate to Peiguo (county). And Peiguo (county) is subordinate to Yuzhou. It is managed by Yuzhou Thorn History (Mu) (because Pei County and Pei Guo have the same name, so Pei County is called Xiao Pei, which is intended to distinguish it from Pei Guo with a higher administrative level. ）

Since Xiao Pei is the territory of Yuzhou Thorn History, how did it become Tao Qian's territory?

Obviously, it was snatched by Tao Qian taking advantage of the war.

At that time, there was no Yuzhou Mu (Thorn History), and Cao Cao and Yuan Shu took advantage of the war to carve up Yuzhou. Tao Qian also grabbed a copy, that is, a large part of Peiguo, which includes Xiao Pei (see the easter egg chapter at the end of the chapter for details).

Pei County is Yuzhou to the south, Shanyang County of Yanzhou to the north, and Pengcheng County of Xuzhou to the east. For Tao Qian, Pei County was the gateway to block Cao Cao's eastward invasion, and its strategic value was extremely high.

Because of this, Tao Qian took Pei County and placed Liu Bei here, showing the latter as the assassin of Yuzhou to resist Cao Cao - this is the same reason that Liu Bei placed Lü Bu in Pei County.

Since Tao Qian can grab other people's territory, then others will definitely be able to grab his territory.

Therefore, before Tao Qian's death, the territory left to Liu Bei was not a complete Xuzhou.

At that time, Xuzhou had two counties and three kingdoms under its jurisdiction (the so-called six counties of Xuzhou were the products of Cao Cao's readjustment of administrative divisions after taking Xuzhou, and it had not yet happened. ）

They are Donghae County and Gwangneung County.

Lang evil country, Pengcheng country, Xiapi country.

Before Tao Qian's death, there were only two counties (countries) that really had the power to control.

The Langya Kingdom and Donghai County in the north were all slaughtered by Cao Cao. And it was slaughtered twice.

The first massacre of the city, in the words of "Three Kingdoms": "There are tens of thousands of dead, and Surabaya does not flow." ”

The second massacre of the city, in the words of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "Humility is inevitable, and I want to return to Danyang." ”

In addition, Peng Chengguo, west of Donghai County, was also slaughtered by Cao Cao.

In other words, the two counties of Langya and Donghai in Xuzhou were killed by Cao Cao and turned into ruins; Peng Chengguo's situation was slightly better, but he was also badly devastated by the fire. Because Tao Qian couldn't stop the rampaging Cao Cao, he wanted to abandon the official and run away several times.

Just when the situation in Xuzhou was extremely crisis.

Lu Bu attacked Yanzhou, forced Cao Cao to return to the army, and retained the people of Xuzhou, which was the antecedent for Xuzhou to turn the danger into a disaster.

Coincidentally, Tao Qian was critically ill at this time, and before he died, he gave the hot potato to Liu Bei.

During the handover between Liu Bei and Tao Qian, Langya Kingdom and Donghai County in Xuzhou were taken by Zang Ba, Xiao Jian and other local heroes and became independent.

Therefore, on the surface, it seems that Tao Qian left Liu Bei a state territory. In fact, when Liu Bei took over Xuzhou, he only took over the three counties of Pengcheng, Xiapi and Guangling, plus Xiaopei in the jurisdiction of Yuzhou, and the situation of these two or three counties was not very good.

After Liu Bei took over the three counties of Xuzhou, he had no energy or time to restore Xuzhou's economy. Because he has more important things, that is, to straighten out the relationship between the two old forces in Xuzhou.

At that time, there were two old forces in Xuzhou.

One is the local faction of Xuzhou represented by Chen Deng and Mi Zhu;

The second is that when Tao Qian was the state pastor, he brought the Yangzhou faction from his hometown Danyang County to Xuzhou.

The contradictions between these two groups are deep.

The local faction is in Xuzhou, and its influence is deep-rooted. As an outsider, Liu Bei would not be able to sit in Xuzhou without the support of the local faction.

However, the military ability of the local faction is extremely weak, while the military strength of the Yangzhou faction is strong (Danyang is rich in elite soldiers, and Danyang soldiers are also the basis for Tao Qian to sit firmly in Xuzhou).

In addition, Liu Bei also had Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other original forces who came to Xuzhou from Hebei.

How to divide the interests of these three forces equally is obviously a matter of effort. It takes time to work out. And just when Liu Bei was busy with this matter, Lu Bu retreated from Yanzhou and came to Xuzhou.

Although Lü Bu saved millions of people in Xuzhou, the local faction in Xuzhou did not want to accept him.

Because Lu Bu came, the situation in Xuzhou escalated from a three-way struggle for power to a four-country war.

But Liu Bei considered that after Cao Cao defeated Lu Bu, the next step would definitely be to fight Xuzhou.

In order to guard against Cao Cao, he took in Lü Bu, followed the example of Tao Qian who arranged for him to be stationed in Xiaopei, and arranged for Lü Bu to garrison Xiaopei and go to the front to face the thunder.

Theoretically, there is nothing wrong with this operation.

As long as there is enough time, not to mention that Cao Cao can be completely prevented, at least let Lu Bu block for a while, and give Liu Bei time to solve the internal contradictions in Xuzhou.

But what Liu Bei never expected was that it didn't take long to arrange for Lu Bu to be stationed in Xiaopei. Yuan Shu turned his face against him, sent troops to fight Xuzhou, won successive battles, and seized Guangling County and part of the territory of Xiapi State.

At this moment, Liu Bei's situation was embarrassing.

The five counties of Xuzhou, Langya and Donghai were out of control, Guangling was occupied by Yuan Shu again, Xiapi was occupied by half, and half of Pengcheng County was in ruins.

At this time, Liu Bei's actual territory was one and a half counties, a half-crippled Pengcheng County, and half of the Xiapi Kingdom.

Liu Bei, who was forced to have no way out, went south to meet the battle in person in order to counter Yuan Shu, leaving Zhang Fei to guard Xiapicheng.

As a result, Zhang Fei lost Xiapi, causing Liu Bei to lose even a foothold.

How did you lose Xiapi?

On the surface, it seemed that Yuan Shu and Liu Bei were not in a good war, and Yuan Shu promised Lu Bu grain and grass to let the latter sneak attack Xiapi; In fact, Zhang Fei violently beat Cao Bao, the general of the Yangzhou faction, and the Danyang soldiers all rebelled, opened the door to offer the city, and welcomed Lu Bu to stay in Xuzhou, which was the consequence.

After that, most of the local factions in Xuzhou also followed Lu Bu, even including Chen Qun, a great talent in Yingchuan who was conquered by Liu Bei.

As mentioned earlier, there are four forces in Xuzhou, including Liu Bei, Lu Bu, the local faction, and the Yangzhou faction, and under the premise that the other three forces do not support Liu Bei, even if there is no Lu Bu, Xuzhou will most likely fall into the hands of Cao Cao on the spot.

Therefore, Lu Bu took Xuzhou, but only intercepted Cao Cao's Hu.

What's more, after Lu Bu captured Xuzhou, he treated Liu Bei's family well, and arranged for the latter to be stationed in Xiaopei, and then when Yuan Shu attacked Xiaopei, he sent troops to mediate and give more gifts, which can be regarded as treating Liu Bei well.

After that, Lü Bu quelled the rebellion in Xuzhou and led the five counties.

As for Lu Bu's later urging the army to break Xiaopei, it was entirely because Zhang Fei seized the horse.

Therefore, from this aspect, it was Liu Bei who first lost the support of the local faction in Xuzhou and the Yangzhou faction, and then Lu Bu took over the second county of Xuzhou in the hands of Liu Bei under the guidance of the two factions, and afterwards, he returned half of the county to Liu Bei and took more care.

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Although this explanation is far-fetched, no matter what, it is barely morally justified, at least it proves that Lu Bu is not a person who loves to do things.

He was just used repeatedly because of his straightforward personality and lack of scheming.

Listened to this explanation.

Zhao Yun was suspicious, silent for a long time, and looked at Lu Bu with a complicated expression.