Chapter 52 Xu Rong explains, Lu Bu doesn’t believe it
"My general trusts you so much and goes deep into the enemy's belly, but you want to put me to death. What are your intentions?"
The assassination raid on the Allied Army's granary cost Lu Bu 10,000 Bingzhou cavalry. These soldiers were personally commanded by him. More importantly, he lost a general. Zhang Liao was left behind in order to intercept Zhao Yun.
Outside the granary.
Life and death are still uncertain, and the main culprits for all this are pointed at Xu Rong and Li Jue!
If these two people hadn't communicated well with the thief Cao, how could they have known their movements in advance?!
But he was kept in the dark and was played between the hands of these three people. How could this not make him worry?
It should have been obvious long ago that Xu Rong and Li Jue had bad intentions!
"You rat Xu Rong, if you dare to frame me, why don't you come out and die soon!"
Lu Bu's eyes seemed to be burning with flames. Fang Tian's painted halberd stood on the ground, and the floor paved with rocks was smashed into pieces.
The soldiers in the general's mansion who came to intercept were even stabbed to death by his sword. For a time, the place was littered with corpses.
The ground was covered with the corpses of more than ten people, all of whom were soldiers who came to intercept Lu Bu. But now Lu Bu was full of murderous intent and stabbed them to death without any explanation.
In the general's mansion, a personal guard came to Xu Rong and said with a pale face: "General Lu Bu led his men to the mansion and started killing people when they met!"
Xu Rong's face didn't look good either. How could he not hear Lu Bu shouting so loudly?
Lu Bu was defeated and fled back like this. Someone must have secretly instigated their relationship, but he was able to anger Lu Bu so much with just a few words, and even killed him in his own house.
Who did this?
Even if Lu Bu was innocent, there was absolutely no way he could have listened to just a few words from his enemy. There might be someone deliberately trying to frame him behind the scenes.
Faced with such a scene, Xu Rong's expression was just a little ugly. Lu Bu was just a fool after all. He would understand after a little explanation.
"Don't follow me, I'll go alone."
After just a few steps, Xu Rong smelled the blood and asked. Then facing the furious Lu Bu, he still stepped out without fear of being alone and bowed.
"General Lu, please calm down. If I had framed you, I should have closed the city gate tightly so that the general could not enter the city!"
"General Lu, please don't listen to the enemy's slander."
Then Xu Rong stood up calmly and looked at Lu Bu with deep eyes. Facing such a fierce general, he could not use force but could only communicate with him.
"If I forget to close the city gate, then I should also remember to escape?"
Hearing this, the furious Lu Bu loosened his grip on Fang Tian's painted halberd a little.
He glanced at Xu Rong, recalling everything he had experienced before, and his face turned slightly pale. Although every move he made was exposed, he returned to Hulao Pass without any hindrance.
It seems like I was tricked by those two people!
"Zhao Zilong, Cao Ren!" Lu Bu gritted his teeth.
"General Lu, think carefully, when will I, Xu Rong, harm you?" Xu Rong continued.
Looking at Lu Bu's face, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. At least he knew that he was stupid.
After a moment, Lu Bu looked at Xu Rong again and asked aggressively: "Who is the person who exposed our whereabouts?"
How could he forget about the Bingzhou cavalry and general Zhang Liao who had lost their lives?
Faced with this problem, even Xu Rong fell silent. He and Li Jue were both Dong Zhuo's old subordinates, and there was absolutely no way they could have had second thoughts. The details of the alliance's infiltration into Hulao Pass had also been eliminated. It was
There can be no meticulous work.
Moreover, the gates of Hulao Pass are usually closed tightly, and there is absolutely no possibility for soldiers to go out. So how this news was leaked made Xu Rong unable to figure out for a while.
"I don't know." Xu Rong shook his head.
But then, a bright light flashed in his eyes. Although the Xizuo in Hulao Pass had been cleaned up, there was still an Absolute force that was not under their control and might sneak into the Xizuo, and that was Bingzhou who had just arrived at Hulao Pass.
Iron cavalry.
No matter how much Xurong thought, it was impossible for him to think of the existence of Tongque!
What made him even more unexpected was that those veterans with outstanding military exploits were most likely the Tongque arranged by Zhao Feng.
Xu Rong looked at Lu Bu and said, "Perhaps there is a traitor in General Lu's army."
Almost instantly, Lu Bu immediately rejected Xu Rong's idea.
"Impossible. The Bingzhou Cavalry is an elite cavalry trained by me. It has been with me for many years. How can it be possible that it can be done carefully!"
Facing Lu Bu's firm attitude, Xu Rong could only remain silent.
The leakage of intelligence means that it is no longer possible to consider a surprise attack. More importantly, he cannot find where the intelligence was leaked from!
There were no clues, no chance for him to figure it out.
Xu Rong waved his hand to the trembling soldiers hiding inside, and asked them to come out and drag away the corpses on the ground.
"Send the order and immediately hold a banquet to scare General Lu!"
The camps of the princes, Cao Cao's military camp.
Zhao Feng, who had been waiting in front of the camp for a long time, watched the two people return, and at the same time heard the sound of a system's machinery in his ears.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the strongest selection task, charm +5!"
"Ding, congratulations to the host for reaching full charm and gaining special attributes. The success rate of persuading surrender is increased by 50%!"
Zhao Feng looked overjoyed, and his charm value finally reached the full value. Because of the system prompts, he also learned that this battle was a complete victory!
But Cao Cao was not as calm as Zhao Feng, and immediately asked: "What was the result of this battle?"
Upon hearing Cao Cao's inquiry, Cao Ren immediately walked up and said with a smile: "In this battle, all the ten thousand cavalry brought by Lu Bu's command were killed, and Zilong even captured a local general."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Cao Cao, who looked at Zhao Yun and said, "Zilong, tell me!"
Zhao Yun took a step forward and said with a trace of disappointment in his eyes: "I am reporting to my lord that the general failed to capture Lu Bu alive. Yun is willing to take the blame!"
Zhao Yun knew that Lu Bu was the top priority in this operation, but it was a pity that he could not be retained.
Cao Cao slapped Cao Ren unceremoniously.
"If you look at other people, you will know that no matter how successful they are, they will not lose."
Zhao Feng, who was behind him, smiled and shook his head and said, "Lu Bu is a peerless general, how can he be retained at will? It was expected that he could escape, so why is Zilong guilty?"
Zhao Feng obviously didn't care about Lu Bu's departure or stay, and he wasn't surprised either. What made him pay more attention was the captured general that Cao Ren mentioned before. This was what he was interested in.
"I heard that Zilong captured one of Lu Bu's generals?"
Hearing this, Zhao Yun also showed a strange look in his eyes, and said quickly: "This general is extremely loyal and devoted to his duties. Although he was defeated in my hands, I admire him endlessly."
This made Zhao Feng a little brighter. Maybe he knew who the general captured by Zhao Yun was.
"This person should be Zhang Wenyuan, one of Lu Bu's eight strong generals, right?"
Zhao Yun raised his head and glanced at Zhao Feng, and said with admiration: "As expected of a military advisor, you can tell who he is with such a few words."
