"Yuan Tan is not enough, I will go to war," Chen Deng said with a smile, "Go back and ask my father to recuperate, and wait for my news." ”

Their father and son are in the same lineage, and they both have good kung fu to pretend to be calm in front of people.

Lu Bai came to the door almost an hour after the envoy left, and when she arrived, Chen Deng was still quietly looking at the letter.

If the land hanging fish is in Xiapi, this dilemma is not necessary.

Because whether it is Chen Qi and his son or Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, they all have a very deep-rooted concept: the imperial court is very important.

They care very much about the attitude of the Son of Heaven, the thoughts of the courtiers, and the opinions of the people of the world about them, can they satisfy everyone? If not, will it be recorded in history and scolded by future generations for hundreds of years?

It's just that they were scolded, what about Liu Bei?

Imagine that because of them, Liu Bei was rejected by the Son of Heaven, hated by the scholars, and reviled by the people of the world...... Who can take on this responsibility?

This imaginary pressure gave strength to those Hanchen in Xiapi, and further gave space for those who had intentions to plot conspiracies.

And if it was Lu Hangyu to guard Xiapi, she would not have this kind of pressure at all, because any child who had taken the history exam several times in later generations would have the cognition that "the Son of Heaven is strong and strong", and after this cognition is combined with her practice as a commander, it becomes indestructible.

Liu Bei must be the emperor, if he is not the emperor, what will happen to the people below? Whether it is a soldier or a military general, everyone who follows Liu Bei has political demands, and the forces gathered together will definitely bring the little emperor down from the jade throne.

Therefore, the difference is only that if the emperor is treated well, they can help the little emperor down in the future by inviting them, and everyone is decent; If you don't treat the emperor well, you will just carry your collar down, which is not so decent.

The Son of Heaven and the Hanchen have the strength, but they are completely insufficient in the face of absolute military strength, so there is no need to be afraid of them at all, or even rush to meet the battle.

Of course, fortunately, Lu Xuanyu, who does not have any "legal principles", "legal system", and "sacredness of imperial power" in his mind, is not in Xiapi, otherwise her lofty and almost glittering reputation will be completely over, and the little emperor and Hanchen will collectively collapse and escape from Xiapi, and when they are captured by her without any suspense, this unborn famous general will inevitably confirm the title of the new generation of Wang Mang.

…… In fact, this is also the idea of Yuan Tan and Guo Tu.

Yuan Tan's right hand was a little difficult to write letters, so he rarely wrote anything himself, sometimes finding a small official to write letters for him, and sometimes only passing on a message.

But this time it was different, he picked and chose the box of Xu Zhoushi written by Guo Tu, and selected a few letters to send back, without any paper or verbal warning.

A few days later, someone made a big detour in fear, avoiding Xiao Pei and coming to Yuan Tan's army, wanting to meet the eldest prince and ask the eldest prince what he thought.

The people who were rejected had secretly asked about the situation of other families who had written about the integrity of the letter, so they were doubly frightened, why were they the only ones who were rejected letters? Is Yuan Gong dissatisfied? You can talk about money or food!

Those who have not been rejected are also very uneasy, their surrender is in the hands of the enemy, and now the soldiers are coming to the city, what are they going to do? If Yuan Tan can win, they have to hurry up and secretly pull all their belongings to the Jizhou army to show their sincerity; If Yuan Tan is defeated, they will have to quickly pull out their belongings and send them to Xiapi to show their loyalty to Liu Yuanjun!

The person riding on the wall is the most painful, especially when it comes to seeing the two sides confronting each other.

"If the Son of Heaven is not in Xiapi," Guo Tu said with a smile, "If the eldest prince wants to rely on them to force out Chen Deng, I'm afraid it will not be easy." ”

Yuan Tan looked at the maidservant girl on the side carefully peeling oranges for him, and suddenly smiled.

"Liu Bei wants to welcome the Son of Heaven, isn't this what he wants?"

"Is Childe going to meet them?"

Yuan Tan nodded lightly, his tone cold and calm.

"I will not reward them, nor will I punish them, but I will tell them that I will make a decision when I have conquered Xiapi."

Those wall-riding factions listened to Yuan Tan's reply of "look at your performance", and what will they discuss after they go back?

Originally, the power of these local wall-riding factions was not large, and they could easily be suppressed by Zhang Fei, Chen Qi and others, but now that they have joined the factor of "imperial court", everything has become unusual.

Many Hanchen have a kind of naivety, feeling that the little emperor who is less than twenty years old holds the supreme power, even if he is as vicious as Li Dao Guo Yan, he does not dare to do anything to the Son of Heaven, and Liu Bei naturally has to treat him respectfully. The only two people who flipped the table, and the only ones who attacked the Son of Heaven and the imperial power were Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shu, what happened to them?

Therefore, among the Han Chen, there are a few who agree with Liu Bei and want him to be the emperor, not many, and even fewer who agree with Yuan Shao as the emperor. At most, they neither agree with Liu Bei nor Yuan Shao, but feel that no matter how they fight, they still have to obediently return to the court of the Son of Heaven in the end. Liu Bei is a clan, he can probably be crowned king, Yuan Shao is not a clan, if he unifies the world, he will give him the position of the third duke!

There is a wall-riding faction that has come to join forces with them, ready to put a little pressure on the front line, so give it! Chen Deng won very well, if he lost, should the arrogance of this group of generals be reined in? Don't everyone come to call you brothers, with whom are they!

Where the Son of Heaven is, the court is there! This whole world is the territory of the Son of Heaven and the territory of the Han Dynasty!

Now this chaotic and obscure problem, where no enemy can be found, and no way to solve it has been handed over to Chen Deng.

He doesn't know how long his father can hold out, once his father is seriously ill, the criticism like snowflakes will come to Xiao Pei, he is not done handing over the military power, will Zhang Chao's troops also be taken away by the imperial court? You must know that Zhang Miao and Zang Hong were both martyred heroes, and with such a reputation in front of him, as long as the minister puts the ladder of "you can't discredit your brother as a younger brother", Zhang Chao won't be able to get down!

Of course, there is also Lu Bai, she will definitely not hand over the female soldier in her hand, but Chen Deng has to worry about what else this girl has in mind.

…… After all, this is the courtiers around the Son of Heaven, not those unscrupulous landlords in Qingzhou, if Lu Bai is forced to rush into Xiapi with red eyes and hold another Hongmen banquet, then she will not be surnamed Lu, and follow the vicious national thief Dong Zhuo to change her surname to Dong!

Chen Deng had so many complicated thoughts, and Lu Bai didn't see them at all.

"I have to fight in the city, the three generals can't take care of it, do we have any help in the city?" He was straightforward and didn't talk nonsense at all, "I know that Ciyu and Lu Bu are familiar with each other, how is the girl's relationship with him?" ”

"There was some mustard," she said, "now that you have put it down, why is you in a hurry to get out of the city?" ”

Chen Deng glanced at her more, probably guessing what kind of mustard, but he didn't ask, maybe he felt that Lu Bu's private morality was not cultivated, and she was born so beautiful, so she was offended.

But the point is that he never answered Lu Bai's question, but just sighed.

"If Lu Bu can come to guard Xiaopei, I won't have to worry anymore."

Lu Bai was taken aback.

"Lu Bu is a man without a father and a king." She said.

"That's just right." Chen Deng said.

This simple answer made Lu Bai's eyes stare for a while, and then she understood.

Lu Bu is a hob meat, nothing can shake him in the history books of courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame, and he can still impress him with Jin Jue Lilu, but now he doesn't even have these worldly things in his eyes.

If Chen Deng was troubled by the imperial court, then Lu Bu in this state was just right.

"It's not impossible," she said, "but we'll have to find a way to bluff him." ”

The city is still busy and calm.

Some people are worried that most of them are in the army, so they have to go to the city gate every day to inquire about the situation, and some people are stupid and don't care about the ups and downs outside the city.

Among them, the people of the state are often looked at because of this distinctive trait.

They generally hoarded a lot of food, and even if they were locked up in the city, they had the ability to use a little grain as a bait to catch jackdaws, so that when others were thrifty, they often had broth at home;

They are still very stingy, and they are unwilling to share their grain and rice with others, even if the people who come are begging or pleading, and they cannot exchange money for money;

They are still in a bad temper, and if someone accuses them of a few words, they will immediately lash out;

Their fists are still very hard, as long as the person can't stand the scolding and comes forward to practice, the bangbang is two punches, and he must hit his nose and face to be swollen before he lets go.

So after the war, these veterans of Bingzhou, who were not very popular, were even more unpopular, but they didn't care, after all, their lord was this virtue.

Everyone is a person who can live one day at a time, so what is there to fear?

They will shout: "We are not afraid of death anyway!" ”

Lu Bu also believed it.

Until that day, a month after the siege, when he was sitting cross-legged in the stable, staring at his god-like, recently fattened mount, there was a fierce knock at the door!

"General! Checkmate! Someone was shouting in a state accent, "Defeated!" Xu Zhou people are defeated! Yuan Tan is going to enter the city! ”

Lu Bu jumped up all of a sudden!

Chapter 548

It was a sunny morning, the wind was hard, and the sun set on the soldiers' winter coats, shining a layer of light on the shells of the outermost uniforms.

Maybe it's grease, maybe it's dirt, it's originally a black color, and when it is illuminated by the sun like this, it looks like the cold light of iron armor from a distance, and it is very magnificent, but you can't look at it closely, and when you look closely, it will be exposed.

They were also very clever, they went out from the East City Gate, made a big circle, and walked dozens of miles before they could go around to the big lake more than ten miles northeast of Yuan Tanjun.

There are abundant trees, even in autumn and winter, the wetland by the lake can still grow a person-tall long grass, in addition to the fishermen who beg for a living in the big lake, even the nearby farmers will be dizzy when they enter the wetland, can not distinguish between east and west, north and south, so in this place in addition to fishermen, there are bandits, sometimes the two will be combined, fishermen will get off the boat and plunder everywhere in troubled times, and they will become good people who love peace when they rule the world.

Lu Bai didn't know anything about this place at all, Zhang Chao knew a little bit about it, and Zang Ba, who was born in Taishan Kou, had been here twice.

When they heard Chen Deng say that they were going to set up an ambush here, they immediately said that they wanted to find a few reliable guides.

"The terrain here," said the son of the Xiapi Chen family, "I am very familiar with it. ”

Several people looked at him suspiciously.

"I've been here to fight bandits." He explained again.

The job of suppressing bandits sounds very simple, their own soldiers are well fed, and the other party is just a group of ragged bandits, but in practice, it is not like that, when the thieves are powerful, they can also block Kong Rong in the city and dare not go out - of course, the world-famous Kong Wenju is not good at this - when the situation is weak, they can immediately scatter as birds and beasts, hide in the depths of the reeds, and make it difficult for people to find their traces.

Chen Deng's plan is here, ready to lure Yuan Tan's troops over, and then the soldiers and horses who are ambushed here will be killed together, if it can be done, this is a great achievement. Of course, I have also considered that according to Yuan Tan's recent cautious path, he may not be able to go out, but as long as the Jizhou army enters the army, he will not lose money.

When this battle is over, it is okay to send a team of ragged soldiers back to shout and deceive Lu Bu, anyway, when the two sides are fighting, it is not uncommon to misreport the military situation, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?

They laid an ambush in the middle of the long grass, and by the way, they took a handful of wheat flour from their bosoms and stuffed it into their mouths, and while they were indiscriminately filling their hunger, some people poured more wheat flour and distributed it to the people they had captured.

Those people begged one after another, until someone came over and comforted them with kind words - they are all good people, not spies, General Chen knows about this, but he is afraid that they will be harmed by the chaotic army, so he keeps them here, and when this battle is over, he will naturally send them back.

The people seemed to believe it, but they probably didn't, and at any rate, when they had the coarse wheat flour, their fears were a little lessened, and they ate it in one gulp, one by one, and crouched there with their brows bowed and silent.

"Is the team rate true?" A recruit asked quietly.

"What a stupid thing, even General Xiao Lu, who is in charge of the heavens and the earth, doesn't have such kindness," the veteran beside him muttered, "I'm just afraid that they will report the news." ”

The common people are usually ignorant and insensitive, some do not distinguish between good and evil, some are not qualified to distinguish between good and evil, what they see and hear is not up to them, whether they will give an account of the military situation is not up to them, and even a few of them have the final say, but also take into account the temptation of the reward of the tipper.

It's not the temptation to improve your life, drink a drink, or wear a new dress, but the temptation to survive this winter for yourself and your family.

The temptation was particularly great because of the hardships of their lives, and in view of this, the peasants had to be kept under the watchful eye of the march as well.

Suddenly, someone ran through the depths of the reeds, and a scout immediately chased after them.

But the terrain was not easy to ride, and the few men in ragged clothes and tattered straw sandals ran so fast that they were so far away that they soon disappeared.

The scouts muttered to each other, not thinking it was important.

In the distance, the sound of golden cymbals and war drums could be faintly heard, and the front army, which was used as bait, had already met it.

The battle is about to begin.

It was quite normal at the beginning of this fight.

Chen Deng's side had 3,000 lure soldiers and 6,000 ambush soldiers, led by Chen Deng and Zang Ba, leaving 6,000 people to defend the city, and Lu Bai and Zhang Chao guarded them. After the people of Jizhou saw that there were only 3,000 soldiers and horses here, they only sent a military formation of about 5,000 people, with a shield in one hand and a spear in the other, slowly moving forward, and Chen Deng's soldiers and horses gradually approached, and when they reached less than 30 steps, both sides began to throw each other's spears, and after throwing the spears, the shield soldiers took a step back, and a strong man rushed up with short soldiers, which may be a halberd, a hook, or a ring-headed knife, and when they were torn together, the piercing sound of Jin Ge's impact actually overshadowed the sound of fighting and war drums.

Under the pressure of Jizhou's elite step by step, the front of the defenders began to be torn out, and some players were on top, but they were knocked over the shield by the opposite side, and they could only turn around and flee in a panic, and accidentally knocked over a few comrades, and the hole was torn even bigger.

When there were several openings on the front, the flags in the rear changed, and the sound of the golden cymbals also changed.

The soldiers began to slowly retreat.

At first they withdrew in an orderly manner, cooperating with each other, and then they became more and more panicked, and soon dropped their weapons and flags, turned around, and scattered their steps, and fled towards the yellow but still abundant swamp.

The people of Jizhou cheered loudly!