Chapter 70: The Luoshui Meeting
The great changes in the eastern part of Youzhou caused by Tian Yu's sword, Yanbei, who was still in the Central Plains, did not know, he only knew about the exchange of prisoners and it was unresolved, and Lu Bu had to meet with him on the bank of Luoshui in Henan County with the prisoners before making a decision. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
The letter stated that in order to lead 1,500 troops, LΓΌ Bu stopped at Gucheng, and led ten cavalry to take the prisoner Bao Xin to meet Yanbei.
Yes...... Yanbei was noncommittal.
Which ten horsemen did Lu Bu lead?
Not to mention that he Lu Bu is not as brave as Yu, Zhang Wenyuan, who was praised by Cao Cao under his command, and a few horsemen who are brave and superhuman, only ten horses can be regarded as a hundred horses, if they rush to kill in the infantry formation, I am afraid that an ordinary pawn will not be able to resist it, right?
Lu Fengxian's letter was straight to the point, stating how many subordinates he had brought to go, and it was clear that he wanted Yan to bring the same subordinates...... I'll also take ten horsemen to meet with him? Yan Bei looked at the letter and shook his head: "Impossible! β
Although Yan Bei was a little unangry when he said this, he really didn't want to put himself in danger, you must know that Lu Bu's bravery was even better than Guan Yu, and he didn't want to be killed by Lu Bu for a while.
Now he is not the outlaw he once was, and he is walking on thin ice all the time, how can he spare his life as before?
"With both hands, Zilong, Ziyi, Yunchang, Yide and other brave and outstanding people will go with me." Yan Bei rubbed his forehead, thinking about how to be safe, and then said to Gao Ran: "Ah Xiu led five hundred horsemen to carry a few wine utensils and other things first, and set up a camp by the river. Since he wanted to see me, I called him to see me. β
Meeting with Lu Bu is no less than meeting with the most dangerous person in the world in Yanbei's heart, who can be the enemy within ten steps?
Yan Bei said to Zhao Yuntai Shi Ci very seriously: "I'm afraid that I will wronged you two to pretend to be my guards, and I have to take five steps away from me." β
Zhao Yun hugged his fists and promised, and he never delayed in taking orders. And Tai Shici arched his hand to Yan Bei and asked: "General, if your subordinates want to exchange it for an iron halberd, let Zilong use it first." β
Zhao Yun is a spearman, Tai Shici knows. But he didn't use a spear, but a divination halberd...... In the battle with Hua Xiong, he faintly felt that when he used the lance, he would always subconsciously use the peck of the halberd, which was laborious and had little effect.
Although the use of the lance is still invincible in the charge, if it is a master's move, he does not dare to be sloppy for a moment.
This kind of thing Yan Bei just waved his hand and agreed, just like he never played a long soldier on the battlefield, every warrior knows what weapon is most suitable for him.
After deciding on the meeting with Lu Bu, the generals withdrew from their military tents one after another, and Yan Bei frowned tightly.
With the strength of Zhao Yuntai Shi Ci, plus Gao Ran's five hundred Yan Zhao warriors, he didn't have much worry about seeing Lu Bu.
What worries him is a fitting statement.
The rhetoric of the withdrawal.
Around the summer solstice, the warships of Liaodong should be able to reach the Wushejin ferry, and in order to avoid the safety of transporting valuable goods, his horse infantry army would accompany the warships all the way east, along the river bank all the way to the princes of the Kwantung region...... What kind of rhetoric should he use to tell the world that he has withdrawn his troops?
didn't say anything and drove away, it was clear that he had obtained the world's treasure.
If it really doesn't work, just knock on Hangu Pass once.
Now it is April, and when Sun Jian and Gongsun Zhan go to Luoyang to converge, it will also be May. Beginning in May, Chen Bing Hangu was closed. If you can easily conquer Hangu Pass, it is very good, and you can release all the rangers to plunder the land in the pass, and compete with Dong Zhuo for people and goods; It's not bad if you can't beat Hangu Pass, and there is just an excuse to be able to withdraw the army.
At least not so abruptly.
This is a strategy of killing two birds with one stone in Yan Bei's heart, giving orders to every general in his hands who may become princes in the future, and increasing his authority in the world. Needless to say, Sun Jian in the south may be the easiest opportunity for them to meet, one south and one north; Gongsun Zhan, Cao Cao, Han Fu and others, and even the white wave thieves who gathered in Hedong, half of them are now acting with their own seals.
There are times when fame can be decisively discarded, but when the benefits are not enough to give up the cost of fame...... It is difficult for them to easily consider betraying themselves.
At least at a certain point in the change of the situation in the world, Yan Zhongqing is the leader of the group at this time!
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On April 16, the sky was beautiful.
The Yanbei warriors were on the side, and the galloping horses drove the troops to the bank of Luoshui.
Everything in life is slowly changing as fame increases. Yanbei, who did not pay attention to pomp and circumstance at any time in the past, is now riding on the bank of Luoshui, the reeds are shoveled clean by the soldiers, the silk cloth fur is laid on the large green grassland, and the sunken wood cases carved with crests are placed properly, all in line with etiquette.
Even in Luoyang, which has become a scorched earth, the military chefs can still come up with a way, the fish in Luoshui are not fat enough, but the raw fish is full of freshness, not to mention the beasts in the forest in the spring, it is a delicacy to serve a few roasts. It is supplemented by the Baiganer liquor brewed in Hengshui from Taoxian County, which Han Fu sent from Jizhou in the heavy snow during the New Year...... I don't have to say!
Jizhou is still a treasure land of fertile fields! Even after several wars, in the year when the Kwantung princes raised troops in the Central Plains, the few counties under Han Fu were engaged in Andingzhou, and once the fields were restored, the food and wealth brought by the huge population in the fertile land continued to flow.
In all fairness, compared to Wei County in Jizhou, Liaodong, even if the grain and grass wealth of the county government is stronger in Liaodong, the wealth of the two counties is not the same. Wei County's taxes are the majority, and eighty percent of Liaodong's money and grain sources are Yan's private land.
Yanbei's private land is 100% filled into the treasury of Liaodong, and Wei County can catch up with Liaodong with only a tax of 30 taxes, and the wealth of Jizhou can be seen.
Therefore, the rich in Liaodong today, the rich thing is that Yanbei has enough soldiers to raise soldiers, but the people of Liaodong are still so poor, even worse than when they did not experience the disaster of war in the past, because there were too many displaced people who moved into Kanto.
To this day, Liaodong County still enforces the prohibition issued by the frustrated license.
Far away, the eleven horsemen stood on the ridge of the riverside, a big banner of Lu characters hunting, and their military horses were all proud, looking at the camp here and laughing, I don't know what they said, so they rode down towards the camp.
Yanbei got the report, and got up and stood under the Yuanmen, but he also kept an eye on it, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who had recovered from his arm injury, stood under the Yuanmen, and there were two generals Zhao Yuntai Shi Ci guarding the left and right, and the four of them faintly surrounded Yanbei in the middle, beware of Lu Bu's surprise attack.
That is, Yanbei didn't know that Tian Yu stabbed Gongsun Du to death with a sword in Xuansu County, otherwise he would never have met Lu Bu if he had lingering palpitations.
However, Lu Bu really didn't want to stab Yan Bei to death in this kind of scene...... This battle has been fought for more than a year, not to mention those soldiers who have been away from their homeland for a long time, even their generals are unwilling to continue to expand the war. Ensuring the current battle situation will not be too harmful to both sides, in Lu Bu's thoughts, this battle will be consumed at such a time, and if there is no major accident, it will be stopped.
They were all tired of this battle.
Yan Bei saw the eleven horsemen from a distance, and then saw Lu Bu's outfit that was obviously higher than the others, and couldn't help but add another layer of understanding to this Lu Bu's reckless nature.
Yan Bei came to see Lu Bu, he was wearing a layer of iron-inlaid rhino armor on his body, tilting his head and covering a layer of two-dang armor to protect his chest, if it wasn't for the fact that he had to talk at close range today, walking, sitting and lying and worrying about inconvenience, he couldn't wait to wear the set of red-striped armor with the pot collar given by Dong Zhuo on his body, which was the most appropriate armor for him to wear as much as possible.
The ten horsemen behind Lu Bu were okay, each of them was wearing helmets and armor, and they were all fierce as the enemy.
But what about the main son Lu Bu?
The body may be wrapped in a thin armor of cowhide or wolf skin, the volume is large and cannot be seen through the clothes, but the outside is really wearing a black military uniform, the jade belt with a thick wrist around the waist is bulging, and the figure is stretched out to show a strong arc, the long hair on the top of the head is tied with a purple and gold crown belt, and the two sword eyebrows set off the high nose bridge and the eyes that are not angry and arrogant.
The waist was empty, only a horsewhip in his hand, and he turned over and dismounted at the foot of the camp gate for more than ten steps, and even the only horsewhip was thrown to the place where the horse's hip sac is usually stuffed with arrows, but he took out a wine bag and carried it in his hand, and walked over with a majestic posture like a mountain with his head held high.
Yanbei's stature is not low even in a border place like Youzhou, only one inch short of eight feet. But this Lu Bu is almost a head taller than Yan Bei between his steps, plus the crown belt on his head, and a pestle on the ground is the appearance of an ancient warrior.
Lu Buli stood under the gate, looked left and right, his eyes crossed Yan Bei's face in the middle, and fixed on the face of Guan Yu, who was straddling the horse and looking down on him on the left side, his eyes were obviously bright, and he said: "Guan Yunchang? Remember you! β
Guan Yu didn't pay attention to him, just shook the long knife in his palm lightly with his wrist, snorted softly, and looked at Lu Bu condescendingly.
"Hedong wine!" Lu Bu didn't care either, raised his hand to drink and ordered the ten horsemen behind him to dismount, and threw the wine bag to Guan Yu casually, then looked around at the camp that set up him, and finally asked Yan Bei: "I heard that General Yan is called the Liaodong Tiger, why does he seem to be a brave man when I see it today?" β
Lu Bu's previous style of treating everyone as nothing had already provoked the four generals beside Yan Bei, at this time, Zhao Yuntai Shi Ci's face was not good, and he only waited for Yan Bei's order to dare to stab this martial arts and state dog over, Guan Yu even threw the wine bag back to the general behind Lu Bu, Zhang Fei gritted his teeth and lifted the reins, and the horse snorted uneasily, and the next moment he was about to charge out.
But Yan Bei was not angry, he laughed loudly, pointed at Lu Bu and said: "General Lu's courage is even more fierce, if he is not courageous, can he dare to meet him?" β
"Although you and I are adversaries today, do you know that tomorrow we will not join forces against the enemy? Today's sabre-rattling is too short-sighted. Yan Beixiao's eyes swept over the faces of the generals behind Lu Bu one by one, guessing which one of the hussars would be Zhang Wenyuan that Cao Cao said, and finally Zhang Shou took the lead in turning around and leaving his back to them and laughed loudly: "It's better to come and come, taste this April Luoshui carp!" β