Chapter 299: Lu Bu died in Baimenlou, Ma Butcher's guide to Hanzhong

Xia Pi, Baimen Tower.

Lu Buyi did not take off his armor, holding the Fang Tian Hua Ji, leaning against the gate post of the enemy building, and not far behind him, Cheng Lian was standing solemnly with scarred Cheng Lian. At this time, Cheng Lian looked at Lu Bu with a vicious look, and his eyes gradually showed a crazy spirit. Just now, Cheng Lian was lying on the city wall before he woke up from a hangover and was beaten by Lu Bu.

With a gentle wave, a confidant soldier came to Cheng Lian and whispered: "What are the general's instructions?"

Cheng Lian said a few words to his personal soldiers. The personal soldiers understood it and walked over to the personal soldiers guarding Lu Bu and said, "The Cao army has been very anxious in the past few days. Thank you for your hard work. Let the brothers go down and rest for a while. The general has not closed his eyes for several days. Don't stand here and let the general have a good sleep."

A personal soldier hesitated: "But..."

"What?" Cheng Lian stepped forward and said coldly, "With this general guarding his lord here, are you still worried about anything?"

The personal soldiers had no choice but to turn around and go down the city tower.

Not long after, a group of Cheng Lian's confidant soldiers rushed to the city tower and tied Lu Bu and his men and pillars together. Lu Bu woke up from his sleep. When he was about to struggle, he found that he had been tied up like a rice dumpling and could not move. He turned around and saw Cheng Lian looking at him and sneered, with a vicious look in his eyes.

Lu Bu shouted: "Cheng Lian, what do you want to do?"

"What are you doing? Humph!" Cheng Lian gritted his teeth, "Take your life!"

"You!" Lu Bu was anxious and raised his head and shouted, "Come, come, where are you..."

"Go to die!"

Cheng Lian snorted coldly, grabbed the step and stabbed Lu Bu's heart with the sharp-eared knife in his hand. Lu Bu's eyes suddenly bulged out, staring at Cheng Lian tightly, as if he couldn't believe this scene. After a moment, a wisp of red blood slowly slid down the corner of Lu Bu's mouth, and then his head tilted and died.

Cheng Lian cut off Lu Bu's head with another sword and threw it down from Baimen Tower with Fang Tian's painting halberd.

Outside Xia Pi City, Cao Cao’s military tent.

Cao Cao was taking a nap when suddenly woke up by a burst of rapid footsteps. Cao Cao thought there was an assassin, so he quickly turned over and sat up again and drew his sword in his hand, shouting sternly: "Who?"

"Prime Minister, I'm here."

At the point where the curtain was lifted, Liu Ye rolled and crawled in.

Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief, put down the sword in his hand, and asked in confusion: "Why is Ziyang like this?"

"Lu...Lu Bu..." Liu Ye pointed to Xia Pi City and gasped, "Lu Bu was killed, and his head and Fang Tian Hua Ji have been thrown down from the city tower."

"Ah!?" Cao Cao hurriedly landed on the ground, and stroked his hand, "What happened?"

Liu Ye said: "Yes... it was Cheng Liangan, the general of Lu Bu. Cheng Lian has already surrendered to the city."

At this time, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, Xun You, Guan Yu, Zangba, Cao Chun and other generals had already arrived in the tent. Cao Cao said, "I order the army to enter the city and not disturb the people."

Pengcheng, Lu County.

Zhang Liao hurried to Cao Bao's tent and asked, "General, why did you order camping?"

Cao Bao avoided answering: "General Wen Yuan, come and come to the seat."

"General!" Zhang Liao said anxiously, "Xia Pi is in danger, so hurry up and help."

Cao Bao personally presented a cup of wine and said to Zhang Liao: "General Wenyuan, drink this cup full, I have something to say."

Zhang Liao looked at Cao Bao in confusion, took the wine cup and drank it all, and said to Cao Bao again: "General, just say it's okay."

A strange color flashed through Cao Bao's eyes and said to Zhang Liao: "I'm not sure about it, General Lu Bu... has been killed."

"Ah?" Zhang Liao said in shock, "No, this is impossible! The lord is invincible in the world, who can kill his life?"

Cao Bao said: "It was not someone else who killed General Lu Bu, but Cheng Lian, the general's confidant! It was Cheng Lian who tied him up while the general was sleeping. The general was not careful and was killed by the villain."

"Cheng Lian!?" Zhang Liao gritted his teeth, "Little man, I must tear him to pieces!"

After saying that, Zhang Liao said to Cao Bao again: "General, please raise an army quickly to Xia Pi to avenge the Lord Gong."

"No." Cao Bao shook his head gently and said to Zhang Liao, "General Wen Yuan, Xuzhou has suffered enough weapons and can't continue this battle. Otherwise, Xuzhou will become like Yanzhou and Yuzhou, with life tragic loss and starvation on the road."

Zhang Liao said in a sarcastic manner: "What does the general mean?"

Cao Bao started a letter from his sleeve and said to Zhang Liao: "This is a letter sent by Chen Gui, the deputy governor of Xuzhou, Chen Deng, the prefect of Guangling, and Sun Qian, the prime minister of Langyan. The gentry of Xuzhou decided to welcome Prime Minister Cao as the lord of Xuzhou and General Wen Yuan, for the welfare of the people of Xuzhou, I am sorry."

Zhang Liao's face changed drastically, he pulled out his sword and shouted, "Cao Bao, you..."

Cao Bao said calmly: "Come here, tie up the rebel general Zhang Liao!"

There was a tiger roar outside the tent, and more than a dozen personal soldiers rushed in like tigers and wolves, and pushed Zhang to the ground without saying anything. Zhang Liao was about to struggle but found that his limbs were sore and weak, and he couldn't help but say tragically: "Is this wine poisonous?"

Cao Bao said: "There is no poison in the wine, but I just put some sweating medicine."

Bingzhou.

Thanks to Ma Yue's assistance, Yuan Shao's army captured Shangdang County without bloodshed.

After capturing Shangdang, Yuan Shao appointed his nephew Gao Gan as the governor of Bingzhou and Chunyu Qiong as the prefect of Shangdang. He left behind 20,000 troops to station the counties of Bingzhou, and then led a large army to return to Yecheng through Huguan. Almost at the same time Yuan Shao returned to Yecheng, the two cavalrymen of Zhoucang and Pei Yuanshao also obtained food, and then withdrew from the Youzhou border.

The clouds of war that enveloped Bingzhou dissipated.

The dangers of Bingzhou have subsided invisible. Ma Yue's eyes have shifted to Cao Cao in the Central Plains again. When Ma Yue was about to raise an army again to attack Xudu while taking advantage of the situation, shocking news came, Lu Bu was executed, and the gentry of Xuzhou had completely turned to Cao Cao, and the battle in Xuzhou was over!

Hearing this news, Ma Yue sighed to the sky and said to Jia Xu: "Oh, I missed the opportunity!"

Jia Xu said: "Lord, since Lu Bu died, Cao Cao was east and Nan Wuyou. Now Yuan Shao has just attacked Bingzhou, and his food and supplies are consumed a lot. He may not be able to move south in a short period of time. In this way, Cao Cao can concentrate all his troops to defend against our army's harassment. In this case, it is probably unwise to send troops again."

"Yes." Ma Yue said with some regret, "It's better to keep your energy and wait for the opportunity."

"No, lord." Jia Xu said, "Although Cao Cao eliminated Lu Bu, he was also disgraced. Although he had enough stability to defend, his attack was not strong enough. Our army could take this opportunity to attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong. If the war went smoothly, he could go south to Xichuan and destroy Liu Zhang who was entrenched in Shu!"

"Hanzhong, Xichuan?" Ma Yue frowned and said, "Is this necessary? Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang were just incompetent people. After the Central Plains Cauldron was settled, a general led a partial army to fight the destruction. Why should we use the elite Liang army to attack at this time? What's more, at this time, to attack Hanzhong, Xichuan is more harmful than good, and it is not taken by wise people."

Ma Yue was unwilling to attack Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang, although he had his considerations.

Because of the notorious reputation he bears and the fact that the gentry in Hanzhong and Chuanzhong have always been xenophobic, Ma Yue said that it was difficult to obtain support from the gentry of Hanzhong and Xichuan.

If we do not get the support of the local gentry clans, then after conquering Hanzhong and Xichuan, we will leave a large number of troops to garrison. Now it is the critical moment for ten years of rest. Ma Yue's mobile troops are only 20,000 to 30,000. Once heavy troops are distributed to garrison Hanzhong, Xichuan, and when the battle between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao broke out, how will Ma Yue rely on to attack Xudu?

Although Xichuan is a fertile land of thousands of miles and a population of more than one million, it seems insignificant when compared with Cao Cao! If exchanges can be made, Ma Yue would rather trade the entire Guanzhong for Cao Cao's demise! In this situation, how could Ma Yue be willing to send out the precious elite Liang army to attack Hanzhong and Xichuan?

Jia Xu smiled slightly and said to Ma Yue: "Lord, there is no need to mobilize the elite Liang army to attack Zhang Lu, Hanzhong."

Ma Yue's expression moved and suddenly said, "Wenhe means..."

Jia Xu rushed to the table, spread the map, and then pointed to Ma Yue and said, "The lord can order the major general to lead 20,000 elite Liang troops to guard Nanyang. On the one hand, it can shock Liu Biao, Jingzhou and Guandong Cao Cao, and On the other hand, when Yuan and Cao fought in a melee, they can directly march from Nanyang to east and attack Xudu's side. On the third, they can order Chen Dao to raise all the troops in Nanyang to attack Hanzhong in the west."

"Yes." Ma Yue nodded, "But if you want to attack Hanzhong, it may not be enough to rely on Chen Dao's thousands of Nanyang troops."

"That's certain." Jia Xu said, "The lord can order General Gao Shun to move to Chang'an Daying in Xihe County. One is to cultivate farmland and the other is to train troops. General Gao Shun's elite troops stationed in Xihe. The old camp of Hetao is fine. He ordered General Fang Yue to lead 8,000 elite troops to go east to Hedong to shock Yingchuan, Chenliu, Zhang Ji, and Zhang Xiu led 20,000 Bingzhou troops (there was originally 30,000, and the battle of Bingzhou lost 10,000) to enter Guanzhong west and attack Hanzhong with Chendao."

Ma Yue's eyes lit up and said happily: "Can Chen Dao lead his army 5,000 out of Ziwu Valley as the left side, Zhang Xiu leads his army 5,000 out of Chencang as the right side, Zhang Ji leads his army out of Xigu as the middle side, and the three armies advance together, how can Zhang Lu resist? Haha, if there is no need to use the elite Liang army to destroy Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, why not do it?"

Jia Xu and Ma Yue looked at each other and smiled, their faces showing tacit treacherous expressions. In fact, there is another sinister intention here, but both of them are smart people, so why both of them say it? This other sinister intention is to take the opportunity to weaken Chen Dao's Nanyang Army and Zhang Ji, and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew's Bingzhou Army!

Although Chen Dao, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu have surrendered, the Nanyang Army and Bingzhou Army are not the direct line of Ma Butcher! Faction disputes have existed in ancient times. Although Ma Butcher is a modern person, he is also unable to avoid the common people. In the final analysis, as the masters, they cannot tolerate an alien (not a direct line) army under their command.

Not Pi, Cao Cao lives in bed.

Cao Cao looked at Chen Gong with a complicated expression and sighed: "Public Platform, did you think that today would be there when you saw him?"

Chen Gong said miserably: "Ming would have known that it would be today."

Cao Cao said: "If I had known today, why would I have to be the first one?"

Chen Gong said: "The way is different and not to plan for each other, that's all."

"Oh." Cao Cao sighed and said to Chen Gong, "If the Gongtai can change his mind, he will be lonely."

Chen Gong said: "I feel as if I am ashamed of death, I just want to die quickly."

Cao Cao said sinisterly: "Aren't you worried about your family's safety?"

Chen Gong said: "With the Prime Minister's wisdom, he will naturally not treat his family unfairly."

Cao Cao stared at Chen Gong deeply, and Chen Gong looked at him calmly. After a long time, Cao Cao sighed and waved weakly: "Forget it, I will fulfill your name. Come and take Chen Gong down...behead it and show it to the public!"

"Affect the order."

Two personal soldiers came in, took Chen Gong and left.

Chen Gong had just been taken away, and Cao Chun, who was in a habitual manner, suddenly entered the house with high spirits and whispered to Cao Cao: "Lord, bring Diao Chan here."

Cao Cao's eyes lit up when he heard this and he said happily: "Bring it in."

Cao Chun bowed and then two personal soldiers escorted a young woman into the tent. Cao Cao looked at the dim light and saw that the woman was indeed charming and charming, especially her plump body, which was extremely seductive. Cao Cao shouted in his heart, thinking no wonder Yun Chang was still obsessed with him, and he was indeed a peerless beauty.

“Get out.”

Cao Cao waved his hand gently, and the two personal soldiers bowed and left the door, and brought it to the door.

A lewd smile appeared on Cao Cao's face, he stepped forward and reached out to lift Diao Chan's chin and said, "Lu Bu has been killed by the rebel general Cheng Lian. Did the little lady know?"

Diao Chan had a dismal appearance and replied lightly: "I know."

Cao Cao said: "Since General Lu Bu is gone, let's stay with me from now on."

"I dare not obey orders." Diao Chan bowed down and said, "I only hope that the Prime Minister can kill the villain Cheng Lian and avenge General Fengxian."

"this……"

When Cao Cao was in a dilemma, Cao Chun's voice suddenly sounded outside the door: "Lord, please see him outside General Guan Yu's mansion."

"Guan Yu?" Cao Cao glanced at Diao Chan with a complicated expression and said to Cao Chun, "Let him wait in the side hall, and then he will arrive alone."
To be continued...