Zhao listened silently to their voices expressing their opinions, and in addition to criticizing the poor and sour calculations of the Qingzhou people, another voice gradually appeared.

"We are cavalry, how can we go back if we lose our horses?"

"Naturally, they let us go back and walk on two legs."

"Now we have war horses to ride, fortifications to rely on, if we lose our horses and leave here, won't we be swords and fish and meat? If Lu Lian is treacherous by then......"

"How can you not know Lu Lian's character?!"

Zhao turned his head in astonishment, looking at the team leader with a rather loud voice.

"She has been in Liu Bei since the beginning of the third year, fighting in the south and the north, and there are countless battles in large and small battles, who has heard of her doing anything unkind and unjust?" The man shouted excitedly, "If she is willing to let us go back to Jizhou, we don't have to worry about it anymore!" ”

"But she sent a small pawn to surrender before, and she obviously didn't value us!"

"Isn't she valued it now! That Tian envoy is a noble man of 2,000 stones! Or the person she relied on the most in the army! ”

"Don't you want to go home!"

Such a voice gradually turned into wave after wave from the side of the company, and spread to the entire circle.

- The generals are too stubborn, they whispered;

- He has always been kind to us, and it is nothing for us to die in battle with him, but if we can not die, it must be better not to die, some people muttered like this again;

- We were killed by Hu Gou in this scene! If they die so hastily, will they not be substituted for them?

- Yes, I have a widowed mother and a younger brother in my family, and the whole family depends on my wife, if I die, this, this!

- She won't harm us, let's surrender, hand over a few hundred war horses, and we can go home.

After thinking about it, I still wrote a reply.

His reply was short, but it contained some of his own grievances. He didn't think that this battle could not be won, on the contrary, he felt that if he didn't look ahead and backward at the beginning and directly attacked Lu Lian who was marching in the field, even if they couldn't win this battle, at least they could inflict a heavy blow on Lu Lian.

But at this point, these ideas can only be ideas.

He never had the chance to challenge that famous player again.

The famous general is eating.

She hadn't eaten anything for a day, and now that the two sides had stopped fighting, the attendant quickly brought her a piece of cake with meat sauce and a bowl of hot water.

But the meat sauce in the army is not as fine as her own, she is now eating the same food as the soldiers, the meat sauce in the cake can be eaten as soon as you eat a lot of things, fat, lean meat, skin and cartilage are all cut by the food soldiers, mixed together, as soon as she chews, her mouth will cluck.

Tian Yu too, a few times he broke his teeth and quietly covered his cheeks.

So Sima Yi, who was the most central eye, showed his wit. Xiao Sima didn't want a cake with meat sauce at all, he just wanted a piece of cake, with water, which was outrageously vegetarian, and ate it there slowly.

It was at this time that the reply letter was sent.

It's not so much a discussion with her, it's more like a suicide note with a clear intention to die.

She wanted half of the horses, but she said she could only give her a quarter, that is, only four hundred;

She said that she could let them go back to Jizhou, and said that you have to return the captured soldiers to us, and the wounded must also be returned to us;

She thought about sparing them from dying, it was already for the sake of the face of the war horse, but she didn't expect that she could still use the horse as a hostage, and continue to negotiate with her without any restraint, he didn't think that if she didn't want the war horse, would he be ready to die here?

"Such an ignorant man," she asked, "how did you and your lord become friends with him?" ”

Tian Yu swallowed the meat bun in his mouth with difficulty, and his voice was a little muffled.

"He is not a greedy man," he said, "but he is just a fool." ”

She pouted.

Xiao Sima, who was eating cakes on the side and ate very slowly and elegantly, suddenly spoke.

"General, the move has been put into the general's hand."

Sima Yi's opinion is: Since Zhao Zhao wrote a reply, this matter is done.

What does he want, she just needs to give it to it, and she wants to be captured? To give! Want the wounded? To give! You didn't say to order the dry food you brought with you on the road? Then I'll give it too!

She stared at him with a blank face.

"You fell in love with him at first sight?"

…… Tian Yu, who was drinking water next to him, suddenly choked.

But Xiao Sima was not choked by her words at all, "The general who led the recruitment looked ordinary, and the general laughed." ”

"Then I will send people and food, and I will spend a lot of time just for four hundred war horses? I attacked in a big way, and even if he had the heart to kill all the war horses, he might not have the strength to spare. ”

Sima Yi smiled, "A straightforward person like the general feels that there is fraud in it, can't Yuan Shao's advisers detect it?" ”

The battle was indeed somewhat tragic.

Lu Lian's Chinese military camp was stained with blood inside and outside, and mosquitoes and flies desperately attached to it to enjoy this gluttonous meal, so even at night, there was a "buzzing" sound everywhere.

Therefore, no one could have imagined that the two groups of people, who had fought to the death in the early morning and were inseparable, suddenly shook hands peacefully and politely when the second morning came.

The Qingzhou army withdrew like a tidal wave, leaving only a small number of soldiers handed over, and sent them prisoners and wounded, as well as ten truckloads of wheat cakes that had been prepared, and large vats of clean water.

The Jizhou soldiers felt that this scene was incredible, but they did not delay and rushed over frantically, some greedily grabbed the wheat cake and stuffed it into their waists, some hurriedly stretched Diao Dou into the bucket, and drank it beautifully after it was full, and some people were anxious, first went to the captives to find their brothers and brothers, or even their own fathers or sons, and then hurriedly squeezed to the side of the cart, wanting to grab two pieces of bread and a pot of water for their relatives.

When they saw that the general did not send nearly a thousand war horses as agreed, but only four hundred, and there was no resentment on the other side, the eyes of these soldiers brought even more admiration and admiration:

- Our general, how can this have an old relationship with Tian Yuanjun? It's clearly old with Lu Lian!

- Look how polite she is to our general! Not only did they bring back the prisoners and wounded soldiers, but they also brought us water!

- She only needs 400 of us! It's you, do you agree?

- What did the general's reply letter say?

When they set foot on the way home, these Jizhou soldiers who lived for the rest of their lives began to frantically guess the possible anecdotes between their general and the general Xiao Lu, for example, the general is only more than thirty years old, although the eldest son is already engaged, the second son has also begun to look at each other, and there is a younger son who has heard that he will crawl all over the ground, but this does not delay him and the general Xiao Lu to write letters, right?

General Xiao Lu is in his twenties, and he is still a girl, but he has never been married for a long time, is he affectionate to our general?

Hey! The general fought this battle! It must be like a knife, reluctant in every way!

I didn't hear these words at first. When he heard this, he immediately strictly forbade the soldiers and forbade them to mention it again, but he only felt that Lu Lian was the lord of Tian Yu, and the general that Liu Xuande relied on the most, and he was still a young girl, so he should not be amused by talking like this.

Other than that, the rumor was so ridiculous that he didn't even take it to heart.

But he never thought that when this matter reached the Puyang camp, it had changed in the ears of those who cared.

Especially when Xu You had just captured Puyang, and Wen Chou suddenly became a comparison group, this rumor took on a more dangerous meaning.

Chapter 422

Unlike the original Qiancheng, the loss of Puyang has not experienced a huge siege or a tragic tug-of-war.

Yuan Shao is the commander, but it is Xu Yu who arranges the siege of the city, this inconspicuous middle-aged man is not known for his demeanor, and because of his greed for money and his ability to flatter the lord, he is considered by many Jizhou strategists to be a person like a minister.

The strategists actually looked at him quite accurately.

But Xu Yu is also a very scheming person.

When Yuan Shao went south and prepared to attack Qingxu in several large armies, he did not stand up to fight for power with Fu Zhi, but he always followed Yuan Shao and got the command of this pro-army.

As he laid out and assembled the huge and expensive siege equipment, he pushed them forward a little.

This was immediately questioned by some mid-level officers, who were all veterans of a hundred battles, and knew that these rushing carts, ladder trucks, and catapults were the key targets of the defenders, and they also knew how high the defenders were on the city walls, how far they could throw stones, and they also knew how likely the defenders would be to burn down the machinery that the people had worked so hard to cut down and the craftsmen had carefully made if they went out of the city at night to attack and set fire.

But Xu Yu didn't care, he laughed and mocked the officers who had been trying to exhort, and even vetoed their last request, which was to risk pushing the front forward and protecting the equipment.

So in Zang Hong's view, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

He considered all kinds of possible things before leaving the city, and he thought that the possibility of an ambush for the Jizhou army was very small, but he could not completely ignore this possibility, so he had to bring more troops, and he also needed to have a rear army to respond; Even if the Jizhou army did not ambush, but they were strong and strong, and they were numerous, and they might not be panicked when they were attacked at night, so they must be in a hurry, in addition to burning those siege equipment, they must take advantage of the south wind to burn their camp on this night, so that the other army will be in chaos without a fight!

When Zang Hong analyzed it one by one to the two Zhang brothers, Zhang Miao was very excited to hear it, he didn't understand military affairs, but he had a chivalrous spirit in his bones, and felt that as long as there was a chance of winning, he should give it a try.

If Lu Hangyu heard about it, he might comment on Zhang Miao's adventurism, or he might more bluntly evaluate him as a gambler's psychology.

And Zhang Miao is indeed such a person - otherwise he would not have gotten acquainted with Lu Hangyu, but continued to be his Taishou steadily, whether Cao Cao won or Yuan Shao won over, anyway, there was always a bowl of rice for him to eat in Dongping Zhang.

"If you gamble, you don't lose, and if you don't gamble, you don't know your luck", this was originally his code of conduct in the first half of his life, not to mention that Zang Hong analyzed so much reasonably, it was even less like a blind gamble, but a serious military operation.

But his brother was not so optimistic.

"General Xiao Lu hopes that we can't hold out." He persuaded him.

"Meng Gao, do you think we can hold it now?"

"The city wall is newly solid, how can it not be defended?"

"The walls are high, and the hearts of the people are the same?"

The three middle-aged men were silent.

A servant scooped a spoonful of wine from the wine venerable and added it to Zang Hong's bronze squirt, who picked up the wine vessel and drank it in one gulp.

He was a good drinker, and he could drink like this and not get drunk for a day.

But perhaps because the city has been defended for a long time and wine is forbidden in the city, he rarely touches the wine, so as soon as he goes down, he immediately gets a little drunk.

"When Yuan Shao besieged the city, they were willing to live and die with me, General Xiao Lu saved me and saved them, I am very grateful."

"They are willing to die for you now."

Hearing Zhang Chao's persuasion, Zang Hong stretched out a finger and pointed down at his wine vessel.

So the servants hurriedly filled him with wine.

He was a man of valoralism and righteousness, and he had the charisma to let the defenders of the city live and die with him.

But what if this kind of "living and dying together" is not a road that can be resolutely walked to the end, but a sharp sword hanging over the head?

Just like a person who has a budding will to die after failing to seek death again and again, does he still have the courage to continue to seek death?

He has the courage to stay in Dongjun forever and die for the Han at any time.

But it is not easy to die with those who believe in you and revere you.

Especially when they stood at the head of the city, looking at him with pale faces, the look of fear and despair, but never flinching or betraying, made the spirit of this Dongjun Taishou about to collapse.

"General Xiao Lu ......" Zang Hong asked another question in a trance and abruptly, "She is a young girl, and her heart is like a child, she, how can she lead the troops?" ”

How could she bear the lives of so many?