Han Xiang

Chapter 48 Extremely Insulting

Lu Bu was extremely disappointed when he heard that, he and the people around him looked back, and the general who rode his horse came before him, it was the general Cheng Lian.

"Why panic?" Lu Bu asked with a frown.

Cheng Lian clasped his fists and replied, "Hao Meng suddenly rebelled, seized dozens of horses, and went southeast with the prisoner Qiao Rui."

"What?" Lu Bu was surprised.

Cheng Lian went on to add: "General Zhang has led his troops to pursue. He asked Mo Future to ask Marquis Wen whether to send troops to chase and intercept him."

Lu Bu calmed down a little when he heard that, and smiled awkwardly at Han Xian and Yang Feng beside him, "Zhang Liao is my confidant general, and he will surely chase down the traitor Hao Meng."

"What Wen Hou said is true." Han Xian and Yang Feng complimented in unison.

Seeing this, Chen Gui remonstrated, "Marquis Wen, Hao Meng's troops are less than a thousand, and most of them are infantry. General Zhang is enough to chase after him. The most urgent thing is to take advantage of morale to cross the river, and destroying Yuan Shu is the right thing to do. "

"Crossing the river?" Lu Bu hesitated.

"General Lu, before we set off with Zhang Xun, he once said that there is internal assistance. I think Hao Meng has already been instigated to rebel. General Zhang is now dividing his troops to pursue. It may not be appropriate to cross the river at this time. If Yuan Shu attacks halfway, What can I do?" Yang Feng accepted the meeting as soon as he saw it, and didn't want to spend his strength crossing the river to fight again.

"It makes sense, what does the doctor think?" Lu Bu turned his head and asked Chen Gui again.

Chen Gui guessed Yang Feng's intention and knew that Xuzhou's soldiers alone would not be able to complete the battle across the river, so he stroked his beard and replied: "Yang Cheqi has thought carefully, so he can only return to Xiapi as soon as possible. Yuan Shu deployed internal support before the battle. It shows that the instigation of rebellion has already been completed, and the old man thinks that Han Yin and other envoys must have done it, and maybe Hao Meng is not the only one."

"There will be others?" Yang Feng was full of curiosity.

"Han Yin was in Xiapi in the past, and made friends with many civil servants and generals, among whom Hao Meng was not the closest." Chen Gui's words were all pointing to Chen Gong.

Hearing this, Lu Bu nodded and sighed, "Fortunately, Hao Meng was allowed to fight with the army. Otherwise, if he was put in charge of Xiapi city defense, the consequences would be unimaginable. Now that Gao Boping is guarding Xiapi, there is no need to worry about the rear."

"Although General Gao is a good general, there are too few defenders left behind. Since Marquis Wen is not going to build a boat to cross the river, he should return to Xuzhou as soon as possible."

"Hao Meng robbed Qiao Rui, so he must return to Huainan to join Yuan Shu, but why did he go east?" Lu Bu said to himself.

Chen Gui had to analyze: "Perhaps they plan to cross the river from the lower reaches of the Huai River, and then return to Shouchun by detour. After all, Hao Meng only has less than a thousand people, and most of them are infantry. Escaping by land from the west is a dead end."

"Let Zhang Liao continue to chase, and the rest of the team will collect the food and grass, and return to Xiapi immediately." Lu Bu waved his hand and issued a military order to Cheng Lian.

"The end general will deliver the order immediately."

Cheng Lian was about to turn his horse and leave, but was stopped by Chen Gui in time.

"Wait a moment, General Cheng." Chen Gui turned around after saying that, and offered advice to Lu Bu, saying, "That Yuan Shu has always been proud, and today he was defeated by Marquis Wen, so he shouldn't have left quietly. Why not let the soldiers shout across the bank and humiliate him?" It's not in vain."

"What the doctor said is true, Cheng Lian, you go and arrange it quickly, and everyone yells three times, 'The bones of the Yuan family, the waste of war, capture them sooner or later, wash their necks and wait for slaughter'."

"only."

Yuan Shu, who was on the south bank of the Huai River, had just finished comforting Zhang Xun when he suddenly noticed that the soldiers on the other bank were moving forward.

Huainan soldiers were in doubt, and the other side began to yell and curse one after another. The piercing voice fell like a torrential rain and fell in everyone's ears.

The short four-character sentence is catchy, but it still has some rhymes.

Especially the phrase 'waste of war' is extremely insulting.

Facing the insults from the officers and soldiers on the north bank, the people on the south bank were like wooden stakes, and they didn't even have the courage to fight back. Yuan Shu's face was gloomy and black, and when he was about to organize a fight back, dust suddenly rose from the other bank, and Lu Bu led his army back to the north. .

It was unexpected that Han Xian and Yang Feng turned against each other before the battle, and Yuan Shu did not get angry for the first time.

Returning to Shouchun two days later, Yuan Shu lay in the harem and drank all day. At this time, only wine could relieve his worries. He thought it was a shame to lose to Lu Bu. After all, Lu Bu was driven to Xuzhou by Cao Cao.

I have lost to Cao Cao and Lv Bu successively, who else do I plan to lose to in the future?If you lose to Sun Ce or Liu Bei again, you will lose face.

Zhang Xun commanded 3000 troops to march, and there were less than [-] people left in Huishouchun. Among them, [-] were from his own lineage, and more than [-] from Qiao Rui's trilogy. His guard Li Tun was also lucky to survive.

After settling down the surviving soldiers, Li Tun followed Long Xiang's example and knelt outside the bridge mansion with the rattan on his back to plead guilty.

Although it was warm in Huainan in May, it was still necessary to wear some unlined clothes to resist the wind and cold. Li Tun knelt outside the gate of the mansion with his upper body neatly covered, his skin was red and purple, and his goose bumps stood up.

Mrs. Chen is bedridden because of worry, and Qiao Wei is temporarily in charge of all the affairs of the Qiao Manor.

Knowing that Li Tun was "pleading guilty", Qiao Wei asked her third brother, Qiao Ni, to deal with it.

When he came to the gate of the mansion, Qiao Ni saw that although Li Tun looked pitiful, he was angry in his heart. He asked condescendingly, "Uncle Li is my father's chief guard, shouldn't he stay by his side every step of the way? Why did you come back and come back?" He was captured? Did you perform your duties properly?"

"The general is guilty, and he deserves to die. At that time, Han Xian and Yang Feng were too close to the general, and they suddenly hijacked him, and the general had no time to react." Li Tun explained with his head lowered until the end, his voice became quieter, because he really Failed to do their duty.

"The matter has come to this, it is useless to come here to apologize, go and try to save my father." Qiao Yi shook his head.

Li Tun replied sonorously: "The general wants to apologize to his wife face to face, and then ask General Zhang for help, asking him to send an envoy to negotiate with His Majesty."

Qiao Ni frowned, and said lightly: "Uncle Li, get up first, you know that there are many female relatives in the family, I'm afraid it's not right for you to look like this, it's more important to go to business, I will explain to you when my mother is there."

"Forgive me, my lord. The general is too anxious. Then I will ask General Zhang first, and I will call on my wife and young lady tomorrow." Li Tun realized that he had said something wrong, and quickly cupped his fists to apologize.

"Yeah." Qiao Nu lightly waved his hand.

Li Tun's thoughts on politics are naive. Even if Zhang Xun, Qiao Rui's colleague, wanted to help, Yuan Shu would not take the initiative to admit his counsel and ask for peace at this time. No chance.

There was bad news for several days in a row. Chen, who was lying on the bed, struggled to get Qiao Wan to help him up, and walked out of the dormitory crookedly.

"Mother is ill, where do you want to go?" Qiao Wei rushed to the door in time to stop her after Qiao Wan reported the letter.

With a sick look on her face, Chen waved her hand lightly and said: "The others can't count on it, you hurry up and get off the carriage, I'm going to the palace to see your majesty."

Qiao Wei supported Chen Shi, and persuaded with earnestness: "Mother, His Majesty is in trouble right now, he doesn't even see the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, so you may not be able to see him."

"I have to go." Mrs. Chen ignored it at all, and tried to push Qiao Wei away, but she was weak and had no strength at all. She was about to get angry after struggling twice, when suddenly Qiao Wei's shouts came from outside the courtyard.

"Mother, eldest sister, second sister, good news, father is back"

(End of this chapter)