Chapter 844 Abandoning darkness and turning to light
Even if Lu Bu had the will at this time, he was powerless. His head felt like it was being drowned. The whole situation was as uncomfortable as it was uncomfortable. But at this time, all his subordinates were looking at him, and he knew that he must
He had to hold on, his subordinates were all looking at him eagerly, waiting for his instructions.
After Lu Bu finished instructing the officials and generals, he rushed over with Zhang Liao and other subordinate generals and officials from Nancheng. From then on, he lived in Baimen Tower and took charge of Baimen Tower.
But just as Lu Bu gave his fiery instructions, and then when officials and generals assigned tasks, Hou Cheng and Song Xian kept staring at Zhang Liao beside Lu Bu, looking again and again, with speculation and cunning in their eyes, and finally the two quietly
After looking at each other, they seemed to have come to some conclusion, and they seemed out of place with the others who listened carefully to Lu Bu's instructions and instructions. But at this time, everyone realized that the city was facing a huge crisis, so they did not notice the changes in these two people.
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Next, Xiapi City was plunged into a busy rescue work. Just as he promised, Lu Bu did not return home for a day in the next ten days. He ate and lived in the Baimen Tower. He directed the rescue and dealt with
Cao Jun launched a small-scale attack. He even led his troops to patrol the city several times, passing by the house without entering. He truly followed orders.
Outside the city, Cao Jun could only launch some harassing attacks in front of the vast ocean-like defenses of Xiapi City, and could only launch some harassing attacks in the flooded areas of the south city, because other places had to be crossed by boat to launch attacks. But when Cao Jun came
Xuzhou never thought that there would be an opportunity to launch a water war, so the boats were obviously insufficient. Construction and allocation at this time obviously did not allow time. Therefore, during this period, it was impossible for Cao Zhi to launch a water war like Cao Zhi did that day.
After arriving at Hou Xie's body, they launched a violent attack.
But there was one person who was still very active, and that was Guan Yu. Because of the stimulation and summons of the beauty, Guan Yu wanted to knock his head away from Xiapi City. The non-stop harassment and attacks in the past few days were also handled by him, and Cao Zhi sent him to
Although he did not have many soldiers, Guan Yu still fought well, causing great pressure and trouble to the Xiapi defenders.
During this period, the soldiers and civilians in Xiapi City did not have an easier time because Cao Jun stopped their large-scale offensive. On the contrary, their days were like a year. As of this afternoon, Lu Bu knew that due to the limited rations he had rescued, he had not eaten until today.
After running out, many military camps have begun to kill horses for food.
According to reports, because the city has been flooded for a long time, people's livelihood has become increasingly difficult, and the plague is very likely to occur, so people in the city are already panicked.
Although Lu Bu's high pressure and tough methods suppressed all the troops and the people in the city, the deaths that occurred every day and every hour in the city shrouded the hearts of every Lu Bu sergeant. The fear of death affected every Lu Bu.
The most serious impact on the morale of the soldiers under his command was not only that of some generals who originally advocated "fighting to the death" but also showed signs of depression. It was obvious that the soldiers and civilians in Xiapi City were on the verge of collapse.
In fact, including Lu Bu himself, he was in constant panic every day. Every time he closed his eyes for several days, he was filled with Cao Zhi's gloomy sneer, and all the evil he had committed in his life seemed to be coming to demand his life.
, asking him to pay double the price.
Lu Bu could still be thankful at this time that Cao Jun's plan to dig open the Yi River and increase the flooding of Xiapi City seemed to have been blocked. After the flooding of Xiapi City became parallel to the Si River outside the city, there would be no more
The water has flooded into Xiapi City. In addition, the sky has cleared up in the past few days, and the water is still a little bit receding. But at this time, a more serious problem is placed in front of Lu Bu. If the weather continues like this, the flood will recede sooner or later.
As soon as those rotting corpses were exposed to the sun, the next enemy in Xiapi City might be the plague. Even if they were lucky enough to be able to deal with all the corpses and rats and other pests that spread the plague in time, the city defense and General Lu would be relieved of the water.
Facing a large-scale attack by Cao Jun again, can they still hold on?
Lu Bu couldn't breathe under the pressure of this problem. He hoped that Cao Jun would not flood the city defenses again, but also didn't want the water to recede too quickly. This contradictory mentality made Lu Bu almost crazy. Lu Bu knew very well that they were at the last moment of life and death!
Today, when Lu Bu was inspecting military affairs in Xicheng, he caught Hou Cheng drinking in private with several generals. Lu Bu was furious and whipped Hou Cheng fifty lashes. When he drew his sword, he wanted to punish Hou Cheng on the spot for ignoring military orders. This is
At that time, Song Xian and Zhang Liao appeared in time and knelt down to plead with Lu Bu.
Zhang Liao argued that Lu Bu was in the prime of employing people now and should not kill his generals because of such trivial matters. Song Xianze defended Hou Cheng because he was homesick and wanted to drink to drown his sorrows.
Song Xian used the topic of homesickness at the right time. To be honest, Lu Bu also missed home during this period. Every time he stood on the Baimen Tower and looked at the black fish scale-shaped roofs in the city, and looked at the smoke rising from time to time, he felt like
It made him miss home and Diao Chan. Home is undoubtedly synonymous with warmth. For the frustrated, hesitant, and fear-ridden Lu Bu, or any military officer, it is undoubtedly a more attractive term at this time.
But it was he who issued the military order, and due to these military disciplines Lu Bu had to grit his teeth and persist. As soon as Song Xian mentioned it today, Lu Bu's homesickness immediately broke through in his mind.
Considering that it was not easy for these generals under him, Lu Bu did not kill Hou Cheng in the end. After giving him fifty lashes, he demoted him to a stable boy in charge of the grooms, and the matter was over.
But Lu Bu didn't know that it was because of his kindness that his life and career ended.
As early as after Hou Cheng was chased by the Tibetan Ba, Hou Cheng had the intention to rebel against Xiapi City and surrender to Cao Zhi. However, since he lost military power at that time, it was not easy to rebel against the city.
Moreover, Hou Cheng was worried that he would not be taken seriously even if he went to Cao Zhi's camp without any soldiers or achievements. Secondly, Cao Jun soon launched the tactics of flooding the city and flooded most of Xiapi City.
, even if he wanted to leave the city at that time, he could not get out.
Later, when Hou Cheng joined Song Xian's army, he thought that Song Xian was also a peacemaker, so it was better to mobilize him to participate in his betrayal plan. When Hou Cheng expressed his intention to Song Xian, he immediately hit it off with Song Xian. It turned out that Song Xian also
Cao Zhi, who had long planned to surrender outside the city, had already sent people out of the city to contact Cao Zhi when Cao's army dug up water from the Si River and flooded Xiapi City. However, the flood came too suddenly and blocked it all at once.
their contact.
It was also because Cao Zhi received Song Xian's letter after digging the Si River to irrigate the city. One after another, there was another one. What was happy was that Lu Bu's people were finally broken up as Guo Jia predicted. You were happy.
Unfortunately, he had already ordered water to be released to flood the city. The plan to cooperate with foreign forces here was delayed because of the siege flood. At this time, Song Xian could not be allowed to leave the city to lead his army, nor could they successfully enter the city.
Join the rebellious Song Xian and others.
Cao Zhi was in a dilemma. Guo Jia said happily to Cao Zhi: "My lord, why bother about this matter? My lord just needs to send someone immediately to inform General Li to stop the irrigation operation of digging the Yi River, and then let Song Xian
By mobilizing the generals who intend to rebel in the city, Chen Gong will be more confident that we can capture Xiapi City and capture Lu Bu in one fell swoop."
Therefore, Cao Zhi accepted Guo Jia's suggestion, ordered Li Dian to stop digging the Yi River again, and sent Le Jin and Song Xian to try their best to contact him so that he could continue to expand the team that rebelled against Lu Bu, and in
At the right time, kill or capture Lu Bu and Chen Gong alive, open the west gate they guard, and lead his army into the city.
Therefore, Lu Bu always thought that Cao's army encountered some difficulties in digging the Yi River, which prevented them from suffering the misfortune of being completely flooded. In fact, it was Cao Zhi who took the initiative to stop the excavation project. At this time, Cao Zhi also wanted to have a complete
Xiapi City, during this period of time, was waiting for the floods he released to recede. It is ironic that this battle has reached this level. The people who released the floods were anxious for the floods to recede.
While outside the city, Cao Zhi was worried about the flood that besieged Xiapi City, during this period of time inside the city, Hou Cheng and Song Xian also took active actions, developed Song Xian's deputy general Wei Xu, and also took control of Gao Shun's elite trap.
Many generals in the camp prepared with them to rebel against Lu Bu, captured Chen Gong, Gao Shun and others, and surrendered to Cao Zhi.
But with their current strength, they still felt that they had little confidence, so they set their sights on Zhang Liao, who had the same ambition and will as them.
When Zhang Liao reported to Lu Bu the disaster situation in Xiapi City that day, he unintentionally referred to the enemy troops outside the city as Cao Jun more than once. This made Song Xian, Hou Cheng and others immediately see that Zhang Liao was still willing to surrender. So they
During this period, they had frequent contact with Zhang Liao, implying that Zhang Liao's defection to Cao Zhi outside the city was their only way out and their only way to survive.
Today's secret banquet was actually organized by Song Xian, Hou Cheng and others specially for Zhang Liao. Just to hide it from others, Hou Cheng took a few subordinates to drink outside and look out, while Song Xian and Wei Xu were in a room inside.
Secret talks with Zhang Liao.
In fact, Zhang Liao had already lost confidence in this battle and in Lu Bu. The reason why he still followed Lu Bu was entirely due to his past friendship. But if he had to make up his mind to betray Lu Bu, Zhang Liao still had many considerations.
"Wenyuan, can you trust me?" Song Xian asked Zhang Liao cautiously and with the feeling of a final showdown after Lu Bu punished Hou Cheng and left.
"Old Song, we have known each other for nine years, right? Why do you still ask that?" Zhang Liao and Song Xian are indeed old friends and comrades-in-arms. In the past nine years, they have indeed experienced countless life and death and numerous difficulties and dangers. It is said that they
It is no exaggeration to say that they are friends of life and death.
Song Xian, who was affirmed by Zhang Liao, simply said, "Wen Yuan, although Chen Gong and his people have strategies, they are too upright and principled, and they only know how to get into trouble. My lord, who is assisted by such people, you think you can
Is there anything big he can do? Our Lord is also an indecisive person. His ears are not as hard as those in his hands. He is unsure of what others say. He was deceived by Chen Deng and his son in the past.
, this time Chen Gong and his like were so bold that they directly killed Duke Cao’s envoys without questioning their guilt. As a result, our brothers today have to kill horses to make a living. I don’t have much today.
Having said that, brother, I am ready to defect to Duke Cao. Now let me ask you, brother, what do you think, should you continue to follow him, or should you abandon the dark side and join the bright side with us..."