Chapter 268

Lu Bu's clever plan to determine Hedong

Xu Huang's soldiers rushed forward and tied Li Jue up.

Pan Feng instigated the war horse, waved the axe, and said proudly: "Who else! Who else!"

A golden-faced man instigated a green-maned horse and entered the woods. He shouted in anger: "And I, Dian Wei, Pan Wushuang, do you want to practice with me?"

When Pan Feng saw that it was Dian Wei, the lord's personal guard commander, his slender phoenix eyes quickly squeezed out laughing patterns, and a few dimples were squeezed out on his fat face. The phoenix mouth, like a sausage, said in a muffled voice: "Person Dian is joking, I am your opponent! If it weren't for your halberd just now, I would have been killed by Li Jue Dog Thief!"

Dian Wei waved the big iron halberd and said coldly: "Pan Wushuang, the lord has always been very concerned about your martial arts progress. It seems that you have indeed improved in the past two months, but the improvement is obviously not enough. Li Jue just waved his sword, and you can't stand it. If he waved the spear he was good at, what if Hua Xiong, who is better than Li Jue's martial arts, is against you? Don't be arrogant, practice martial arts well, and don't let down the lord's expectations!"

Pan Feng was puzzled and said, "Why should my lord compare me with Hua Xiong? If I can't beat General Dian, you can. If you can't beat him, our lord can still beat Hua Xiong. I don't need me to take action!"

Dian Wei's face darkened: "Pan Wushuang, you dare to question the arrangements of your lord! Your lord asked you to fight Huaxiong, and you will fight Huaxiong! If you don't practice martial arts well now, you deserve it if you are hacked to death by him later!"

Pan Feng did not dare to bare his teeth with Dian Wei, so he had to retreat silently to the team.

Dian Wei bowed to Xu Huang and said, "Person Xu, the lord commander of the army to attack the aid of Baibo Valley, defeating the 70,000 Hun cavalry commanded by Hu Chuquan. The lord is preparing to break through Baibo Valley and let you act according to the previous plan!"

Xu Huang asked, "I would like to ask the Captain Dian to hand over Li Jue's group to me. Only with Li Jue can I have a good plan to deal with Yang Ding!"

Dian Wei smiled happily and said, "Person Xu, the lord told me to lead two thousand cavalry to assist General Xu in his actions!"

Xu Huang was overjoyed: "With the help of the Dian Zhengzhou Captain, Yang Ding will definitely be defeated!"

Although Dian Wei and Xu Huang are both lieutenants, Dian Wei is just a brigade commander, with only a two-star junior captain, while Xu Huang is a division commander, with a one-star chief captain. Xu Huang is higher than Dian Wei in terms of military position and rank, but Xu Huang still has to give Dian Wei a certain respect because Dian Wei is the leader of Lu Bu's personal guard.

Dian Wei only understood the other profound meaning of Lu Bu keeping Xu Huang, Wei Yue and the others carrying more than 10,000 soldiers in Wenxi County: "The lord is really wise. He can calculate the enemy at every step!"

Xu Huang used to think that he was both civil and military, but compared with his lord, he was really pale in comparison. No wonder he was the lord, so he could only be a general.

In the past few days, more than 6,000 people led by Xu Huang and Wei Yue have been forgiven by the victim. When they returned to the military camp outside Wenxi County, Xu Huang decided to start preparing to cooperate with the lord's plan. While sending people to Baibo Valley to inquire about the results of the battle, they also sent scouts to investigate everywhere to prevent the defeated soldiers from Baibo Valley from fleeing to the southern part of Hedong County.

Li Jue led more than 600 cavalrymen of Feixi Army to Wenxi County and had been discovered by the scouts sent by Xu Huang. The scouts also figured out the camp location of Li Jue's troops and quickly responded to Xu Huang. Xu Huang led 3,000 troops and quietly approached Li Jue's station. Li Jue's more than 600 flying bears were too tired, so that they were thrown off the camp by Xu Huang's men. Before they woke up, most of them became prisoners. Only a few people woke up in time and surrounded Li Jue. After Li Jue was photographed off the horse by Pan Feng, they could not help but surrender.

The reason why these flying bears were willing to be captured and never resisted was because they knew the military rules of the Central Army very well. As long as they surrendered obediently, they would be demoted to mine the mines under the military farming regiment. Generally, they would at least go to farm the fields. Those who performed better would be auxiliary soldiers of the Central Army. The elite soldiers who had never made any major mistakes were usually adapted into combat soldiers of the Central Army on the spot. The treatment of the Central Army soldiers was far better than that of the Xiliang soldiers. Those who worked hard to sell them these days were not sold. If you would rather die in battle than surrender, you would be polite. After you die, in order to prevent your family from avenging you, you would have to eradicate the roots and not kill your family. You would castrate all your male family members and send them to mining, and you would send your female family members to brothels.

At first, hostile forces such as Dong Zhuo disagreed with Lu Bu's regulations, but later they found that the harsh and viciousness of Lu Bu's regulations was simply targeted at human nature. Ordinary people were afraid of death and seeking profit and avoiding harm. When they thought of following forces without a future, the braver they were, the faster they died. The more miserable their family members were dealt with by Lu Bu's Central Army, many soldiers thought that they could pretend to be dead, avoid them, and surrender. In the battle with Lu Bu's Central Army, only by being greedy for life and fear of death can they save their lives and protect the safety of the whole family.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the monarchs of opposing forces spread rumors that were not conducive to Lu Bu. The rumors were rumored that Lu Bu's Central Army would kill all prisoners and send all the female family members of the captives into brothels to castrate the male family. This lie could not deceive the people of the increasingly smart and experienced men. As we all know, the reason why Lu Bu's Central Army fought harder and bigger was not to recruit new recruits, but to reorganize surrendered soldiers. The reason why Lu Bu's military farming corps could support the huge central army's logistics was also to adapt surrendered soldiers and refugees into military farming soldiers. These facts are obvious. The more Dong Zhuo and other forces slander Lu Bu, the more they were cared for by the lower-class soldiers. Anyway, surrendering to other forces was uncertain of life and death. Surrendering to Lu Bu can not only save his life, but also get rewards, because Lu Bu is the only warlord who can declare "submission with a prize" with great wealth.

Li Jue was promoted from a horse thief to a high position as a general of the Huns to a high position of General Protecting the Huns. He was very grateful to Dong Zhuo. Seeing the soldiers of the Feixiong Army surrendered to Lu Bu without hesitation, he shouted in angrily: "You unrighteous people, aren't the prime minister good to you? You surrender to the little thief Lu Bu in a blink of an eye!"

Pan Feng shouted in an inward voice: "Shut up the mouth!" He pulled off a piece of cloth on his body and stuffed it into Li Jie's mouth, blocking him and removing Li Jie's chin, making him unable to vomit even if he wanted to. Li Jie's eyes turned pale, and the smell of the cloth was so strange.

Seeing that Li Jue had a strange expression, Dian Wei asked Pan Feng: "Wushuang, where did your cloth come from?"

Pan Feng smiled and said, "This is my socks. I'm worn and I kicked it into my pocket before I could even sew it. I didn't expect it to come in handy today!"

Dian Wei laughed and said, "A dog thief like Li Jue who is more stubborn will abuse him like this!"

The new magistrate of Wenxi County was another son of the Wei family. Wei Xi was recommended by Wei Ji to Zhu Yan, the governor of Bingzhou, and Lu Bu, General of the North. Wei Xi came to Wenxi and learned that Lu Bu's Central Army was carrying out people-friendly activities. Seeing that the Central Army soldiers were smiling and working hard to do things for the people of Wenxi, some of the Wenxi people even rolled their eyes to these Central Army soldiers. When he understood the actual situation, he summoned local celebrities to persuade the houses of those suffering masters who were unwilling to forgive the Central Army soldiers. After Wei Xi and others, the suffering masters were deeply moved, and they forgive the Central Army soldiers and made a report to the Central Army at all levels. More than 10,000 soldiers who were detained in Wenxi County were finally freed.

Wei Yue's injuries were all flesh and blood. After several days of rest, he had almost healed. He followed Xu Huang and Dian Wei, escorted Li Jue and other more than 600 Feixiong Army soldiers, and led 12,000 Central Army soldiers to Weijiawu Fort to join Xu Shu. At the same time, he also communicated with Zhu Jun, the governor of Bingzhou in Anyi. Weijiawu Fort transferred 2,000 people, and Zhu Jun transferred 4,000 people, and handed them all to Xu Huang to deal with Yang Ding.

Wei Ji, who is currently the Central Army’s Bao Cao, brought a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and said to Li Jue with a smile: “General Li, my lord knows that you are very outstanding in martial arts and strategies, and he loves talents and is unwilling to make things difficult for you. You are captured by our army now. This news will not be hidden for long, and will sooner or later be known by the Prime Minister. If the Prime Minister knows that you not only ruined all his elite Feixiong Army’s two thousand soldiers, but also damaged all 70,000 Hun cavalry by our Central Army. Think about how the Prime Minister will deal with you. Although he can’t kill you, it’s hard to say about your family. It’s better to write a letter to let your family avoid being killed by the Prime Minister!”

Li Jue thought about Dong Zhuo's cruelty in dejectedly, and had to admit that Wei Ji's words made sense. Because he was very knowledgeable about writing, he came to write his letters by himself. Wei Ji sat upright and looked at his pen, looked at his handwriting very seriously, and then sighed: "General Li, your calligraphy is a wonder in the world!"

Li Jue laughed and said, "Mr. Wei, I dare not compare my calligraphy with you. Everyone says that the calligraphy of the Wei family's eldest son has already caught up with Cai Yong!"

Wei Ji nodded proudly. He had been influenced by Lu Bu. He deserved such appropriate praise. Wei Ji's calligraphy is very powerful and comprehensive. Whether it is ancient Chinese, bird seal, official script, or cursive script, he is good at everything. Many inscriptions in Hedong County are written by his writing style, as famous as Zhong Yao. "The Zhong School is prosperous in the south and the Wei School is prosperous in the north. The calligraphy of later generations is all these two schools, and can only be called Zhong and Wei."

Wei Ji also has a specialty in calligraphy, he is good at imitating. The ancient essay "Shangshu" he imitated was no different from the great calligrapher Handan Chun, and even Handan Chun himself could not recognize it.

Wei Ji took Li Jue's letter and said that he would send someone to pass it on to Li Jue's family. When he arrived at his study, he asked someone to polish the ink and prepare to copy it. He was very unhappy even when he wrote a few pieces of paper and threw the brush: "These Li Jue's words are really amazing! I, Wei Ji, copied these bad words from ancient masters in his life!" But this was what Lu Bu instructed him to do. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and wrote more than a dozen pieces of paper in succession, and then he barely imitated Li Jue's words to a little more realistic.
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