Three Kingdoms King of the North

Niu Fu pointed at Hu Chi'er, wanting to reprimand him, but he opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything. The strength in his whole body was draining rapidly with the blood gushing from the wound on his lower back.At last, without saying a word, he fell headfirst from his horse.Seeing Niu Fu fall off the horse, Hu Chi'er immediately got off the horse, stretched out his hand to check the opponent's breath, and made sure that the opponent was dead, so he swung his knife and chopped off his head.

The two soldiers next to him killed Niu Fu suddenly by Hu Chi'er. They were frightened out of their wits, and they wanted to escape but did not dare to escape, so they could only stand aside in a daze.

Hu Chi'er carried Niu Fu's head on the horse, and asked the two soldiers, "I'm going to join Marquis Wen, what are your plans?" He thought to himself, if the two soldiers didn't follow If you go by yourself, you must kill them, and you must not let others know that you killed Niu Fu.

The two soldiers were also smart people. Knowing that if they went against Hu Chi'er's wishes, their lives might be lost, they quickly replied, "But it's up to Colonel Hu to decide."

The three rode their horses to the outside of Lu Bu's camp.Still far away, I heard someone shouting: "The military camp is an important place, and the idlers are not allowed to rush in, otherwise they will shoot arrows immediately."

Hu Chi'er stopped an arrow away from the camp, and shouted in the direction of the gate: "Hey, listen up, soldiers guarding the gate. I am Hu Chi'er, the captain of the Niu Fu Army. I have something important to see Marquis Wen. Please let me know." Pass it on."

The soldiers guarding the gate heard that Hu Chi'er had something important to see Lü Bu, so they didn't dare to neglect, so they rushed to report.After hearing this, Lü Bu asked in puzzlement, "Hu Chi'er? I've heard that he is Niu Fu's confidant. He has come to meet me in my camp. I don't know why?" He ordered the soldiers guarding the gate, "Open the stronghold. door, let him in!"

After half a stick of incense, Hu Chi'er, who was holding a bundle, came to Lu Bu's big tent under the leadership of the soldiers.Seeing Lu Bu sitting in the middle, he quickly stepped forward and knelt down, kowtowed his head and said, "General Wenhou, Niu Fu, the traitor who opposed you, has been killed by the villain, and his head is now Dedicate it to the general." As he spoke, he raised the burden in his hand high.

Lu Bu winked at the military commander standing next to him, who quickly stepped forward to take the bundle from Hu Chi'er's hand, carried it over and placed it on the table in front of Lu Bu.

Lu Bu untied the bundle and looked carefully, and it was indeed Niu Fu's head.He covered Niu Fu's head with a bundle, looked at Hu Chi'er and asked, "As far as I know, you are Niu Fu's confidant, why did you dedicate his head to me? Tell me, What exactly is going on?"

Hu Chi'er heard Lu Bu's question, rolled his eyes, and immediately had an idea: "Wen Hou, seeing that Niu Fu was against the court, I once persuaded him to submit to Wen Hou, but instead he made the villain He scolded him a bit. In a fit of anger, he killed him and came to defect to Marquis Wen."

Although Lu Bu was brave and foolish, he was not a person without brains. After hearing what Hu Chi'er said, he didn't immediately believe it, but asked instead: "Are you the only one who came to join me?"

"Go back to Marquis Wen," Hu Chi'er was secretly happy when he heard Lu Bu's question, thinking that Lu Bu would definitely agree to take him in immediately, and quickly added: "There are two other soldiers outside the tent, who also followed the younger one to join Marquis Wen."

As soon as Hu Chi'er finished speaking, Lu Bu ordered the soldiers: "Bring in the two personal soldiers outside the tent!"

Lu Bu waited for the two soldiers to enter the tent, knelt down in front of him, and slapped the table in front of him hard, almost knocking Niu Fu's head to the ground.He pointed at the two soldiers and asked, "Who will tell me how Niu Fu died?"

The two soldiers looked at each other, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.Niu Fu ordered to find the soldiers on the boat, and said tremblingly: "Qi reported to Marquis Wen, because General Niu couldn't defeat Marquis Wen during the day, he was afraid, so he packed up his belongings and took me and others out of the barracks overnight. Even when crossing the river, Colonel Hu suddenly killed General Niu, and brought me and others to defect to Marquis Wen."

After figuring out what was going on, Lu Bu suddenly became furious. He pointed at Hu Chi'er and said sharply, "You, an unfaithful, unfilial, unkind, unrighteous person, dare to lie to me. It's really intolerable. Come on!" ah!"

Ever since Hu Chi'er and others entered the account, Du Bo, who was in charge of protecting Lu Bu's safety, arranged for people to wait outside the account, so that if any accident happened, he could lead people to rush in in time.Hearing Lu Bu shouting inside at this moment, Du Bo rushed into the tent with four soldiers and saluted Lu Bu with fists cupped.

Lu Bu pointed at Hu Chi'er who was kneeling on the ground, and said angrily, "Drag this man out of the gate and behead him."

After Du Bo received the order, he didn't move, but looked at the other two soldiers and asked: "Marquis Wen, I don't know how to deal with these two people?"

"Kill, kill all of them!" Lu Bu, who was on fire, heard Du Bo's question, and immediately replied without hesitation: "Drag all three of them out and behead them in public, and whoever dares to turn against the Lord in the future will end up with them." .”

After waiting for Hu Chi'er and the two soldiers to be dragged down, the military commander immediately reminded Lu Bu: "Marquis Wen, Niu Fu's camp is not far from here, we can send someone to take Niu Fu's head to surrender overnight."

Lu Bu was also very moved by Jun Sima's proposal.But after thinking about it, he shook his head again, and said to Jun Sima: "It's getting late, even if we carry Niu Fu's head to persuade us to surrender, the soldiers in the village will not believe it. In my opinion, we should wait Tomorrow, it will not be too late to persuade them to surrender."

Hearing Lu Bu's words, the military commander immediately realized that his suggestion was indeed inappropriate, and quickly flattered him, "You are still gentle and wise, and the general will follow orders."

In the early morning of the second day, Lu Bu's army came to the outside of Niu Fu's camp, first surrounded the surrounding area, and then sent people to carry the heads of Niu Fu and Hu Chi'er outside the camp to persuade them to surrender.The soldiers in the battalion hadn't seen Niu Fu and Hu Chi'er since dawn, so they were panicked, but seeing their heads outside the battalion, how could they raise their hearts to resist.He wanted to rush away, but seeing Lv Bu's soldiers and horses all around him, there was no way to retreat, so he could only open the gate of the village and surrender to Lv Bu.

Lu Bu was reorganizing the soldiers and horses that had surrendered, when a spies came to report: "Report to Marquis Wen, Li Jue's [-] troops are heading towards this place, and they will arrive here in about half an hour."

"It's just in time." Lu Bu, who had just recruited thousands of troops, was in a good mood.At this moment, I heard that Li Jue led tens of thousands of horses to die. According to the report, I was overjoyed, so I quickly gathered 5000 people and horses, and went to meet Li Jue's army.

Li Jue was leading the army forward when he suddenly saw smoke and dust rising in front of him.He thought it was Niu Fu who sent someone to meet him, and was planning to send someone to contact him.Suddenly I heard the soldiers in front shouting: "No, it's Lu Feng who came first!"

"Lv, Lv Bu!" After hearing the name shouted by the soldiers, Li Jue couldn't help being frightened. Just as he was about to order the soldiers to set up the formation, the soldiers and horses led by Lv Bu had already rushed over.The galloping horses knocked the front pawns into the air, and the entire team was like a red-hot knife cutting into cheese, tearing a huge gap in Li Jue's formation.

Chapter 195

Seeing Lu Bu rushing like a tiger into a flock of sheep, Li Jue had no intention of resisting, so he immediately rode his horse and left.Seeing that the commander had all fled, the soldiers below had no fighting spirit, so they immediately dropped their helmets and armor, let go of their feet and ran back.

Still Lu Bu had only pursued for fifty miles before withdrawing his troops and returning to the camp. If the pursuit continued, Li Jue might be the only one left to escape back to Liangzhou alone.

After Lv Bu withdrew his troops and returned to the camp, Li Jue, who was in shock, began to gather the remnants of the defeated generals, and there were still more than [-] soldiers.He ordered people to set up camp at the foot of the mountain, and at the same time sent people to invite Guo Si, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou and others to discuss matters in the camp.

Fortunately, the other three armies were not far away. After receiving Li Jue's notice, the three generals and Jia Xu, who had just returned to Zhang Ji's army, rushed over one after another.

After Li Jue called everyone to sit down, he said dejectedly, "Niu Fu's entire army has been wiped out, and our army has also been defeated by Lu Bu. I have invited you here today to discuss a perfect strategy, how to deal with Lu Bu. "

Everyone is well aware of Lu Bu's bravery. Hearing Li Jue's question at this moment, everyone kept silent, secretly thinking in their hearts, let alone fighting alone, even if four of them swarmed up, they would not be Lu Bu's opponent. It's hard, it's really hard to beat him.

Seeing the silence of the four generals, Jia Xu, who was standing behind Zhang Ji, stood up and said to the crowd with a smile, "Don't worry, generals, Jia has a plan to defeat Lu Bu."

When the fourth general was worrying, he suddenly heard Jia Xu say that he had a plan to defeat Lu Bu, and he was overjoyed immediately.Especially Li Jue stood up from his seat and urged anxiously: "Mr. Jia, since you have a good plan from Lu Bu, tell me quickly."

Jia Xu nodded and said, "Although Lu Bu is brave, he has no plan, so there is nothing to worry about. I will lead the army to guard the mouth of the valley and lure him to fight every day. General Guo can lead the army to attack the latter, follow Peng Yue's method of harassing Chu, and call for gold. Advance the troops, beat the drums and withdraw the troops. Zhang and Fan, however, divided their troops into two groups and took Chang'an. If the first and the last can't rescue them, they will surely be defeated."

After hearing Jia Xu's strategy, everyone applauded.Guo Si also stood up and said, "Li Zhiran and I each formed a battalion, fighting each other. When Lu Bu attacked Zhiran, I attacked from behind; But the two generals Zhang and Fan took another route and went straight to Chang'an."

Jia Xu waited for Guo Si to finish speaking, and said with a smile: "What General Guo said is very true. We let Lu Bu run around here and have no time to take care of the capital. When he learns that the capital is in danger, he will definitely withdraw his troops in a hurry. Then we will return to the capital." Chase him with his tail, and when he escapes to the capital, there will not be many soldiers left. In this way, it will be easy for us to take the capital."

After listening to the beautiful scene described by Jia Xu, Zhang Ji and Fan Chou couldn't sit still, they stood up at the same time and said to Li Jue and Guo Si: "The two generals set up camp here, and I walked around Lu Bu's camp overnight. Go get the capital."

After Zhang and Fan left, Jia Xu said to Li Jue: "General, Jia thinks it's better to set up the camp on the mountain. In this way, even if Lu Bu leads his troops to attack the camp, we can stop it!"

Li Jue, who had been frightened by Lu Bu for a long time, nodded repeatedly when he heard what Jia Xu said: "What the military adviser said is absolutely true, so I ordered someone to move the camp to the mountain immediately."

The next day Lu Bu led his troops to the foot of the mountain to challenge, no matter how much he yelled and scolded, Li Jue just stayed behind closed doors.It was almost noon, and suddenly a scout came to report: "Qi report to Marquis Wen, there is a group of soldiers and horses coming from the rear, seeming to copy our army's rear route."

When Lu Bu heard that a soldier was coming from the rear, he couldn't help being taken aback, and quickly asked, "Have you ever seen the opponent's banner clearly?"

Tanma nodded, and said, "Written on the Daqi Banner is the word Guo!"

Knowing that the soldiers and horses who came had the word "Guo" on their flags, Lu Bu immediately said disapprovingly, "So it's Guo Si's son. Wait for me to lead the troops to kill him. Pass my order, and the rear army will be changed to the front army. Change the front army to the rear army, and immediately go to meet Guo Si'er."

Lü Bu's troops immediately turned around to meet Guo Bang's troops, even two miles away, Guo Bang's troops suddenly turned around and turned back.Lü Bu was about to mobilize the army to cover up the killing, but another scout came to report: "Report to Marquis Wen, Li Jue opened the gate of the village, and is coming from the back of our army."

Hearing that Li Jue had come out of the stronghold, Lu Bu immediately ordered to stop pursuing Guo Si's army and turn around to meet Li Jue's army.Unexpectedly, when Lu Bu rushed to the foot of the mountain with his soldiers and horses, Li Jue's soldiers and horses withdrew back to the village.Furious, Lu Bu immediately ordered soldiers and horses to attack the mountain, preparing to capture Li Jue who was teasing him, and tear him to pieces.

The village had been prepared for a long time, and Lv Bu's soldiers and horses were attacked up the mountain, and they immediately shot down with arrows and stones, and the soldiers who beat them cried like ghosts and wolves.Seeing that his subordinates could not rush up, Lu Bu rode his horse up the hillside himself, but the stones rolling down the hillside and the arrows shot out made him too busy to take care of himself, so he had to retreat in despair.

Just when he was about to organize another manpower to attack the mountain again, Tan Ma hurried to report: "Report to Marquis Wen, Guo Si's army is coming towards our army." Lu Bu heard that Guo Si's army was coming again, so he had no choice but to order The troops stopped attacking the mountain and turned around to meet Guo Bang's soldiers and horses.

Looking at Lv Bu's soldiers and horses going away, Li Jue, who was standing on the watchtower, asked Jia Xu: "Jia Junshi, Lv Bu's soldiers and horses have withdrawn, should we take advantage of the situation to cover up the killing?"

"No hurry, no hurry." Jia Xu shook his head and said to Li Jue, "Although Lu Bu retreated, he certainly prevented our army from going out of the stronghold to pursue it. If our army pursues now, it will definitely lose our troops. It is better to wait for Lu Bu's soldiers and horses." Go farther, and go out to the camp to make a noise, so that he has to wear himself out."

Even though Jia Xu is Zhang Ji's counselor, Li Jue obeyed his words. Hearing what he said now, he immediately ordered his subordinates: "Pass down the order. Without my order, no one can come out of the stronghold, otherwise they will be killed without pardon." .”

Sure enough, as Jia Xu had expected, Lu Bu prepared an elite army, ready to kill a man who returned to his carbine when Li Jue went out to pursue him.But it had been four or five miles away from Li Jue's camp, but Li Jue still hadn't moved at all, so Lu Bu transferred this army to the front team, ready to rush to meet Guo Si.

This time, Guo Si waited for Lu Bu's soldiers and horses to enter the distance of [-] steps before ordering the soldiers and horses to turn around and return to the camp.Lu Bu wanted to send his troops to chase after him, but the army commander persuaded him, "You can't do it, Marquis Wen. Our soldiers are already exhausted after rushing back and forth. Why don't we set up camp first, and after we recharge our batteries tomorrow, it won't be too late to attack Li and Guo. "

Lu Bu took Jun Sima's persuasion as a deaf ear, and he insisted on ordering his troops to pursue Guo Bang.Although the soldiers who had been exhausted for a long time did not dare to disobey Lv Bu's military orders, they had already greeted the female relatives of Lv Bu's family well several times in their hearts.

Since Guo Bang's camp was also set up on the mountain stronghold, the soldiers who Lu Bu ordered to attack the stronghold were all beaten back by scattered stones, bows and arrows.Just when Lu Bu was jumping his feet in a hurry, Tan Ma galloped towards him.Seeing Tan Ma rushing over, Jun Sima's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he thought to himself: Could it be that Li Jue's soldiers and horses came out of the stockade again?

His conjecture was soon confirmed. It was Tan Ma who came to report to him that Li Jue's soldiers and horses had left the camp and were coming towards the army.When Lu Bu heard this, he couldn't help being furious. Just when he was about to order the soldiers to turn around to meet him, he was persuaded by the military commander: "Marquis Wen, no. From the point of view of the last general, there must be someone behind Li and Guo to give advice. , otherwise our army would not be so exhausted. It is better to find a place to camp for the time being and fight again tomorrow."