"Now, we have no food to hold on inside and no reinforcements from outside. Once the army of thieves presses forward and Liu Bei and Chen Deng encircle us, we will be in danger."
Chen Gong's words made all the generals in the hall look unhappy.
Lu Bu sat on the big tiger-skin chair, his eyes slightly narrowed, seeing the faces of the generals, and feeling annoyed in his heart.
'I was actually deceived by the two thieves of the Chen family. Not only did they surrender Xuzhou, but they also stabbed me in the back. They lost their troops and fled back to Xiapi in embarrassment. Now there is only an isolated city left to defend. Once it is surrounded, no one else can It is said that it is difficult to keep his wife and children while fighting for the world. '
The most uncomfortable thing in Lu Bu's heart was that he knew clearly that this old guy was flirting with Yuan Shu and the others, but he couldn't touch him.
Not long ago, Chen Gong had secretly plotted a rebellion with Hao Meng, one of the eight strong generals, and wanted to sacrifice himself to Yuan Shu to vent his anger.
Although Hao Meng was killed and it was not investigated whether Chen Gong had a hand in it, there was still a thorn in his heart.
It's uncomfortable, but you still have to use it.
Especially when Xiapi is in danger.
There are no resourceful people in the camp at this time. If you want to get out of the predicament, you have to work with an old man to come up with suggestions.
After all, no matter what, Chen Gong would not surrender to Cao Cao. The two sides were incompatible with each other and had old grudges. He could only choose to assist him with all his heart.
Looking at Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Zang Ba, Cao Xing and others who stood silently on both sides, Lu Bu sighed in his heart, knowing that these people saw the slim chance of victory and were a little discouraged, so they did not want to speak.
He sighed secretly, squeezed out a smile and said: "If you have any clever ideas from Gongtai to break this situation, I hope you can teach me."
"Because the thieves are so powerful, it is difficult for us to be independent. Even if the general can hold Xiapi for a while, he will not be able to hold it for a long time.
Since Xuzhou was lost, Xiapi was an isolated city, which could hardly supply the army with food for three months. It was not a place to settle down. If you want to win this battle, you will eventually have to call in reinforcements. "
Chen Gong said softly.
He is a world-famous scholar and civil servant, and he is qualified to speak so unhurriedly. If you win or lose, I will pack up my clothes and go to Yuan Shu at worst.
Although the chaos in the army is dangerous, it is still possible to just sneak away.
When I followed Lu Bu that day, I just thought that this man was a good sword. If used well, it could stir up troubles in the world. If it was really inappropriate to use it, just throw it away.
At this critical situation, all the generals in the tent were anxious, but Chen Gong was not anxious.
He has a way out.
"I wonder, where are the reinforcements coming from?" Lu Bu leaned forward, with worry between his brows.
"Yuan Jiujiu, this person is a natural ally of the lord. He formed an alliance against Yuan Benchu and Cao Cao's forces. If they join forces, they will benefit both sides, and if they separate, they will suffer two harms. Some time ago, Yuan Jiujiu asked someone to marry his legitimate son. The lord agreed, but was deceived by the old thief Chen Hanyu. Not only did he regret the marriage, but he also beheaded the envoy and went back on his word, thus causing disaster, alas..."
"Now that the matter has come to this, Yuan Jiujiu doesn't seem to be a broad-minded person, so how can he ignore the past grievances and send troops to help?"
When Lu Bu heard that he was asking for help from Yuan Shu, he felt very disgusted.
This guy has already proclaimed himself emperor. He has clearly become the vanguard of the rebellion. If you join forces with him, you don't want this reputation anymore.
Another one, he heard about it.
Yuan Shu's son is really incompetent. He spends all his time messing around with women and is a playboy.
It is not easy to talk to his wife about letting her daughter marry into his family.
Not to mention, the daughter herself is unwilling.
Chen Gong shook his head and laughed: "For the sake of the great cause of the world, my lord is reluctant to part with a daughter? Yuan Gongdao is the most honorable person. As long as he sends his daughter over and uses humble words and courtesy to apologize for the past, he should be able to expose the murder of the envoy. Even if He still has a lot of resentment in his heart, and thinking about the current situation where everyone loses everything, as long as there is a step to get down, he will send troops to rescue him."
The old man seemed to be talking about the military affairs of another family: "If the lord does not want it, then I will die with you without mentioning it."
call out……
The generals in the palace took a deep breath.
He frowned and looked at Chen Gong.
Although they sounded very dissatisfied, his depressing words made people want to beat him three hundred times.
But I have to admit that the strategy is indeed very good.
Sacrifice a little woman in exchange for a large army to rescue...
As long as Yuan Shu sends troops, under attack from both front and rear, Cao's army will be exhausted and unable to fight for a long time, so they will definitely have to retreat.
The remaining two people, Chen Deng and his son, can be destroyed with a single move.
As for Liu Bei, he specializes in sneaking around and never fights tough battles.
When the time comes, just scare him and drive him away.
Wouldn't Xuzhou still fall into the hands of himself and others?
At the thought of this, the generals in the hall breathed a little faster, and some people couldn't help but look at Lu Bu to see how he would answer.
"Let me think carefully."
Lu Bu sat up straight, his face as heavy as water, and it took him a long time to say a word.
He waved his hand to let the generals retreat.
Chen Gong shook his folding fan with a faint smile on his lips.
He knew that this plan was done.
Although Lu Bu did not express his position in person, he actually relented...
He is such a face-saving person, but when he really sees the benefits, he moves faster than anyone else.
'Fengxian, Fengxian, this is for your own good. If this place were to be defeated, all the generals would survive, but you would not. You can only think about surrender in your mind. Do you really think others can keep you? Who doesn’t know the names of the three surnamed domestic slaves now, and who dares to keep you by their side? '
After walking out of the palace, Chen Gong shook his head.
Unless he had to, he really didn't want to continue changing the door.
People who leave their hometowns are humble. Now that they have left their hometowns, their former teachers, classmates, and hometown party friends have all been killed by Cao's thieves.
The Yanzhou nobles wished they could eat the flesh of Cao's thief and gnaw on his bones...
As long as the Cao thieves are defeated and driven out of Yanzhou, it doesn't matter even if he is judged as two-faced by the world.
It is true that Lu Bu is not worthy of much use.
…
"I won't marry. I sell my daughter for glory. I want to marry you."
Lu Qiling was already furious.
Last time, she married herself off like a commodity, and even though she was chased back halfway, this approach was really chilling.
I remember back then, when I was protecting my mother and two sisters, leading hundreds of soldiers, fighting all the way out of the capital, and traveling thousands of miles to defect. If I were a man, I would have commanded the army and become a general, and become famous all over the world.
However, just because she is a girl, she must get married and be treated like a tool to the little-known idiot of the Yuan family.
Fortunately last time, it was a marriage between the two parties on an equal footing. Although she didn't marry well, she still married as the daughter of a prince, and her status was guaranteed.
But now, what are you doing?
To apologize, please come to your door?
Is this a married woman? Or giving away a daughter?
If I go there, I'm afraid I can only become a concubine.
"How do you speak so arrogantly?"
Lu Bu's face turned red with anger. His daughter was disobedient. What could he do? Could he pick up Fang Tian's painted halberd and kill someone directly?
After so many years, I have a baby girl who I hold in my hand for fear of falling and hold in my mouth for fear of melting.
I thought, whoever wants to marry off his daughter can’t do it.
However, when the daughter grows up and is about to reach adulthood, she will always get married.
Looking at the young talents in the world, there are really not many who are worthy of my own daughter.
Although Yuan Gongli was not a very good person, he was from a good family background. He was from the fourth generation and the third generation of the family. To marry his son, speaking of it, he was actually the one who got the upper hand.
As for selling a daughter for glory in exchange for reinforcements, Lu Bu would never admit it.
I just thought that it would not be unacceptable for the two sides to form an alliance to fight against Cao's thieves, and to speak out and marry a daughter.
As for Yuan Shu proclaiming himself emperor and being suspected of being a traitor, whether he will be attacked by the princes of the world is a matter for the future.
Don't think about it for now.
Let’s get through the immediate disaster first.
Without the present, where would the future come from?
Lu Bu understood this clearly.
"Give me five hundred horses and wait for me to go into battle to capture Cao's thieves. Wouldn't it be better than being trapped in an isolated city like this and making people laugh?"
While shedding tears, Lu Lingqi picked up her cold iron square halberd, rushed out the door with a few strides, picked up her little red horse, and drove off.
A little girl in green clothes behind him looked back and saw that Lu Bu and Mrs. Yan were both motionless. She sighed like a young adult and followed closely out of the house.
"Luzhu, don't follow me, you have nothing to do here."
Lu Lingqi walked on the streets of Xiapi trusting the horse, looking slightly dazed, and sighed.
"Miss, I had no choice but to change my mind after a few days. Don't be too angry. It's not worth getting so angry. I don't need to take this matter to heart at all. You still have the temper of the master? I don’t know, it’s so fast to have an idea in three days. If you promise Chen Gong today, you may regret it tomorrow.”
"puff……"
Lu Lingqi was amused by Lu Zhu and threatened: "You can just keep arranging your father. When he hears it, he will let the strong woman beat you on the back, and I won't stop you."
"If you want to stop me, you have to stop me. Luzhu can't bear to leave the young lady. It's freezing cold and there is no slave around. Who will rub the young lady's back..."
"Bah, you speak so freely. If I hadn't thought about the fact that you blocked an arrow for me that day, I would have torn your girl's mouth shut."
"Miss, I can't bear to part with you."
The two bickered for a while, and Lu Lingqi felt better.
I thought to myself that my father was really as Lu Zhu said, and his ideas changed very quickly. At this time, he must have lost his mind and thought of using such an inconsistent method to negotiate peace with Yuan Shu.
But who knew that the last time Yuan Shu sent General Ji Ling to lead an army of 30,000 to attack Xuzhou, he was about to kill Liu Bei, but was blocked by his father. He was gnashing his teeth with hatred... At this time, he sent him to his door again. Going there is nothing more than humiliating yourself and making people laugh at you.
He was shameless and didn't take it seriously when he was scolded or ridiculed.
However, as a daughter, I couldn't bear it.
Those who know will think that this is a marriage between two major families, and those who don't know will say that Marquis Wen is selling his daughter, but they still don't want her.
If such a reputation really spreads.
Might as well be dead.
"Get ready to go back. In the past two days, we have stepped up the training of Xiu Gong Battalion. Although there are only three hundred people, if they are used well, it is not impossible to fight a bloody path."
Lu Lingqi's eyes flashed with a sharp light.
Who says women are inferior to men? On the battlefield, they still have one head and two arms. Who lives and who dies depends on the fight.
Thief Cao is nothing more than a ruthless, lustful and shameless butcher. If you think he is serious, he is really serious... My father is really old, has too many worries, and has lost the vigor of his youth.
In this situation, there is actually only one way, and that is to cut through the mess with a sharp sword, rush into battle to kill the enemy, and carve out a bloody path, so that the world can be saved.
It's really funny that he was trapped in Xiapi City by people at all levels.
"Hey, whose soldier is that?"
Just as she was about to go back, Lu Lingqi glanced out of the corner of her eyes and realized that she had arrived at the northwest corner of the city.
There is a huge manor here. Looking through the gaps in the tiles on the wall, you can see many soldiers standing in the dark, all standing in strange postures, and faint shouts can be heard.
"This seems to be the Chen family. It doesn't mean that the Chen family's father and son have already led troops to rebel. Now they are rushing the most urgently, chasing after the master and fighting to Xiapi... His family still has soldiers and horses in the city, Hou. Don’t General and General Wei patrol the city?”
Luzhu also looked puzzled.
The two of them were suspicious and looked closer.
Then they saw eight hundred people standing on the rammed earth of the square, each taking strange stances and sinking slightly. One or two of them had their faces flushed with pain.
At a glance, seven or eight of the ten people were already sweating profusely, soaking their thick autumn shirts.
However, even though they were extremely tired, no one dared to lie down and rest.
"This is a drill, miss. They are different from when you were training. They don't fight against each other. They just stand motionless like taking a shit and riding a horse. Could it be that they want to compare who can go to the toilet faster? The longest?”
"Haha, also, that man beat them one by one with a stick. The person who got hit felt so comfortable, as if he had received a lot of benefit, this..."
Luzhu's temper was out of control, and he immediately thought of other aspects. He talked enthusiastically and chuckled. He was almost noticed by others, so he quickly lowered his head.
"Shut up."
Lu Lingqi laughed and cursed. She knew that her maid was just like a little sparrow. She was a bit unreliable in her actions and did not have the sense of propriety that people nowadays have.
However, Luzhu also has one good thing, that is, he is loyal. He has grown up with him since he was a child. He can also joke and tease him on weekdays, which adds a little more vitality to the dull and lonely martial arts training career.
As time went by, I got used to having such a person whispering around me, at least it wouldn't be that hard.
"What do you know? Don't talk nonsense. Look carefully at that man's stick. There is something fishy about it..."
Lu Lingqi glanced at it for a few times, then suddenly breathed lightly and whispered.
"Is there anything weird about the stick? It's just an ordinary wooden stick with two leaves that haven't been cleaned off. Miss, are you bullying me for my poor eyesight..."
When Lu Zhu said this, his voice gradually lowered: "Yes, every time he knocks down something strange.
The soldiers, who were obviously unable to hold on, immediately felt as if they had taken the medicine of a tiger or a wolf, their expressions were invigorated, and their breathing became smoother... It was as if they could hold on for a long time. "
