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Chapter Forty-Eight

"The witches are forbidden to pray to officials and soldiers, and the good or bad things of the army are not allowed." [Three 说·安说]

The generals in the tent, such as Hou Cheng, Song Xian and others, begged for mercy, thinking that the punishment was too much, but Lu Bu had decided, and Gao Shun was not merciless, so he quickly told the accountant Qin Yi to drag Li Su out.

Although Li Su knew that the blame for the defeated army was difficult to clear, he thought that he could bypass his life and make meritorious due to his past friendship. Unexpectedly, Lu Bu was so angry that he was determined to kill. He was shocked and angry and cursed: "Lu Fengxian! I killed Dong Zhuo at Beiye Gate and made great contributions. Even Wang Situ remembered my name! Why did you kill me? Have you forgotten who was willing to take the risk to run around for you? I worked hard to plan! Now that you have to kill me in one defeat, you will definitely not last long for a person who is unrighteous!"

When Lu Bu heard this, he was furious and did not want Li Su to disturb the morale of the army like this. He quickly shouted: "The dying person dares to talk nonsense, Yilu! What are you waiting for? Pull him down!"

Qin Yi responded quickly. In order to prevent Li Su from barking, he first punched him and broke his teeth, making him speechless. Then he dragged him down with another guard. In a short while, Li Su's head was sent in.

Li Su was very willing to say that he was also conspiring to kill Dong's confidant with Lu Bu. Now that he threatened Lu Bu's status, he was killed. All the generals in the tent were ashamed and dared not act rashly, for fear of arousing Lu Bu's dissatisfaction.

Lu Bu saw the expressions of the people and said sadly: "Li Su has been with me for many years, and I will not forgive him because the military law is ruthless. But he is our robes and should be buried with me after death. His family in Chang'an will definitely not treat them unfairly! Chen Wei, you have made contributions to your subordinates and your defeated army will be blamed on Li Su. It has nothing to do with you. Get up."

Chen Wei was appeased by the general amnesty and hurriedly got up to thank him. Lu Bu said kindly and comforted him, and promoted him to the army to calm his heart.

Seeing this, everyone felt a little more comfortable and held their fists and praised them together.

"I originally wanted to not move troops and force Niu Fu to surrender with the force of the army, but such a thing happened, which was enough to see Niu Fu disobey the king's order and insist on resisting. The battle will inevitably happen tomorrow. I wonder who would be a vanguard?"

Now that the enemy is very different, all the elite troops in Niu Fu's army were dispatched to Li Jue and others to attack Yingchuan, and it is difficult to return. According to Li Su, Niu Fu personally led the ambush today, with only 5,000 troops. Lu Bu and others had more than 10,000 people except for the 3,000 people who had been defeated by Li Su. Everyone thought that there would be no war again in the future, so they did not take Niu Fu seriously and asked for his orders.

Zhang Liao was also a little eager to try, but after all, he did not belong to the direct lineage of Lu Bu. He was just because he was a Bingzhou native and had met with Ding Yuan, the governor of Bingzhou. After Dong Zhuo died, he returned to Lu Bu's tent. For example, when reinforcements went deep into the dangerous land and became a vanguard, he was always done by Zhang Liao. However, after tomorrow's attack on Shan County, Lu Bu chose to make his in-laws Wei Xu the front army, and he and Cheng Lian, Wei Yue and others led a large army behind, while Zhang Liao stayed behind Hongnong to protect the baggage.

That night, when Lu Bu killed Li Su and thought there were only 5,000 people in Shaanxi County, an army with about 10,000 people with a panic expression came from the east gate of Shaanxi County. After receiving the news, Niu Fu immediately sent someone to pack up the free camp and place troops, and sent Chier to the city gate to greet him.

The leader sat upright on the horse. Before he could speak, Chier clasped his fists and said, "I have met the General of the Eastern Central Army. The General has arranged a banquet. Please ask the General of the Eastern Central Army to come to the mansion for a lecture."

In Shaanxi County, the residence of the General Niu Fu of the Central Army.

It was a happy thing to win a big battle in the daytime, but Niu Fu was still frowning. Lu Bu's army was approaching, and the emperor ordered the emperor to order that after Dong Zhuo's death, his subordinates were panicked and no one wanted to take the title of a traitor.

Although Niu Fu relied on the geographical advantage of the Qiang and Hu elite soldiers and Canglongjian, he caught Li Su off guard, Niu Fu had no idea about how to deal with Lu Bu's army afterwards.

The messenger sent to inform Li Jue that there was no news for Guo Si for a long time, which made Niu Fu even more uneasy. At this time, the arrival of Dong Yue, the general of the Eastern Central Army and more than 10,000 troops and horses in his troops was undoubtedly exciting news.

But Niu Fu was always cowardly and felt that he was very uneasy when he heard about Dong Zhuo's death. He was often worried that his subordinates would assassinate him like Lu Bu. Therefore, he took special care of the military power of the only six or seven thousand remaining people in Shan County, and often held the military talisman in his hands and refused to give it to others easily. When meeting his subordinates, he also placed the torture instrument "光全全" used to cut off the prisoners as a deterrent, and sent the prime minister to see if the visitor had the intention to rebel, and let the diviners divine the good and bad luck of the coming. Only when the visitor had no evil signs or rebellion could he be received.

All the absurd actions were all to slightly alleviate his uneasiness and at a loss since Dong Zhuo's death.

When Niu Fu learned that Dong Yue, the general of the Eastern Central Army, brought his army to surrender, he was very happy at the first time. He not only sent someone to pack up the camp to resettle the army, but also sent his confidant Chier to greet him. But at this time, he still reflexively or was suspicious of Dong Yue's failure to tell him that Dong Yue was auspicious or bad for Niu Fu.

"Duixiali Shang." The diviner fiddled with the tortoise shell taken out of the fire, and used yarrow to make a further hexagram: "Fire defeats metal, and it is a hexagram that plans the outside and the inside."

"Outside, plotting inside?" Niu Fu felt suspicious. The pressure brought by Lu Bu had already made him feel depressed. Now that he got such a bad hexagram, he couldn't help but be angry: "What does it mean? Is there an outsider coming to murder me?"

"Yes." The diviner cherishes his words like gold.

Dong Yue's surname is Dong, but he is not a relative of Dong Zhuo. He just flattered because he happened to be Dong. Compared with Niu Fu, Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, Dong Yue is indeed an outsider. In addition, Dong Yue led his troops to visit at night, from Mianchi to Shan County, he could also be considered from the outside to the inside.

The more Niu Fu thought about it, the more suspicious he became. He had always been superstitious about diviners and divinations, which could be said to be obedient. If it weren't for the diviners' divinations that the ambush would win today, Niu Fu would not dare to take the initiative to attack and ambush. In this way, Niu Fu believed in the results of diviners' divinations now. In addition to the previous inference, Niu Fu had firmly believed that Dong Yue wanted to take the opportunity to seize his military power and wanted to use his head to the Chang'an court as a letter of fame.

"Chi'er!Chi'er!" Niu Fu called out loudly.

Chi'er did not answer, but saw another strong Yuezhi Hu soldiers in the hall running up and said, "Chi'er has gone to the city gate to welcome the Eastern Central Army General under the order of the general. The general does not know what orders he has, and his subordinates are willing to drive him!"

So Niu Fu immediately assigned someone to set up an ambush, be sure to be unprepared and kill Dong Yue. The diviner watched from the side and was secretly happy. He and Dong Yue had always had a grudge against him. Dong Yue often said that his divination was untrue and often whipped him at once. The diviner held a grudge and finally found an opportunity to avenge his previous shame today.
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