Outside Shouchun City, just as Qilin expected, Bingzhou Army and Jiangdong Army met.

Fires were everywhere in the city, crackling in the drizzle. After several days of tug-of-war between the Jiangdong Army and the South Gate, Lu Bu arrived with his troops. Cao Cao and Liu Bei guerrillaed between the main cities around Shouchun, and Cao Cao even sent heavy troops to intercept them.

Yuan Shu's retreat.

Sun Ce prepared all his siege vehicles to hit the pillars and attacked for two full days and two nights. More than half of his troops were lost and the generals were exhausted. However, Lu Bu was a fresh force, with a total of 40,000 Bingzhou soldiers like wolves and tigers. The morale of Jiangdong Army was greatly boosted.

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"Are you here to take advantage of the situation too?!" Sun Ce shouted loudly.

Lu Bu said: "Exactly! Qilin asked me to grab something!"

Sun Ce shouted again from a distance: "Cao Mengde is still in the north, how about we attack the city first? I will march first for the Marquis. Before the trip, Gong Jin specifically told him that if he meets the Marquis, let the Marquis fight first!"

Lu Bu thought for a while and said: "Let's rob together -! I'll rob the east side, you guys rob the west side. After we finish robbing, let's meet up on the tower to drink!"

Chen Gongdao: "Absolutely not. Sun Bofu is just saying polite words. Shouchun is a city that Cao, Sun and Liu families must fight for. It will most likely be designated as Sun Ce's jurisdiction in the future. My lord has looted the whole city today, leaving behind

How to explain the next mess?”

Lu Bu: "?"

Chen Gongdao: "My lord is drinking with him. General Gao and I will send troops privately to plunder the official treasury without making any announcement. We will wait outside the north gate after the incident..."

Lu Bu said impatiently: "Sun Ce is a straight man, he doesn't have so many twists and turns."

Before Chen Gong could say anything else, Lu Bu had already shouted: "Fight first! We'll talk after we beat him!"

The two armies burst into laughter, and Sun Ce ordered his men to prepare wine while he rode his horse and rushed to Shouchun City side by side with Lu Bu.

Sun Ce breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Before departure, Gong Jin specifically said that Marquis Wen will definitely come."

Lu Bu looked indifferent, swaying his pheasant tail crest, and nodded: "That's that."

Sun Ce lamented: "Fortunately, Lord Marquis is here, otherwise Bo Fu would not be able to afford the few soldiers he has..."

Lu Bu said: "Yuan Shu is just an Adou who cannot be helped. What are you afraid of him doing?"

Sun Ce: "?"

Sun Ce smiled and said: "Master Hou, this battle crown is so heroic. It was given by the emperor?"

Lu Bu said: "Hi - I made it from home."

Arriving in front of the formation, Lu Bu was so proud that he pointed his halberd in the distance: "Men! Attack the city! Steal the money! Steal the women——!"

Sun Ce: "..."

Tens of thousands of Bingzhou troops galloped forward, each holding a long bow, and charged on the plain at high speed. They used the power of the horses to shoot arrows, and a dense rain of arrows flew towards the city head. After nearly ten thousand people approached, they got off their horses and filled the Shouchun city gate.

Sun Ce's siege engines, trebuchets and fire crossbows provided cover from the rear, and the pressure on Shouchun City's defenders immediately increased.

Most of Bingzhou's troops were cavalry. They were good at plain battles and not suitable for attacking fortresses. However, Yuan Shu's defending army was not large, and nearly half of it was consumed by Sun Ce's tug-of-war. They could not withstand the mountains and seas, and the city wall was completely lost in less than a moment.

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A huge wooden ramming cart was parked outside the Shouchun gate. Without a sneak attack from a high place, it only took an instant to break through the city gate.

Seeing that the city gate was breached and there was no longer any suspense, Sun Ce finally breathed a sigh of relief, squinted his eyes, and began to think about Zhou Yu's instructions before coming. After thinking for a while, he decided to open the bag of tips given by Zhou Yu.

"What is that?" Lu Bu asked suspiciously: "Sachet?"

Sun Ce hurriedly stuffed the brocade bag back into his arms and said, "Your younger siblings helped sew it."

Lu Bu nodded and said, "I don't have one. I'll have someone sew it next time."

The hammering of the city cart in front of the two men was deafening. Hundreds of civilians tried their best to pull the thick cables, slightly pulling up the huge log hanging on the cart, and then rushed forward, hitting the city gate with a "boom" like a swing against the wood.

The two giant doors, which were three feet high, were slightly shaken, and stones kept falling.

Lu Bu watched for a while, felt impatient, and got off his horse.

"What is the Marquis going to do?" Sun Ce peeked at Zhou Yu's clever plan from the corner of his eye, and suddenly noticed that Lu Bu pinched his knuckles together and made a rattling noise. His golden scale armor shone in the rain, and he bowed and made a lunge.

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"Let!" Lu Bu shouted in a deep voice.

At that moment, I saw Lu Bu's boots splashing with mud and water as he dashed in front of the city gate, roared loudly, and jumped into the air!

In an instant, the bumper swayed in a very small arc, and Lu Bu shouted loudly, like thunder. He was in mid-air, turned around and slapped the tail of the bumper with a thunderous palm!

The gate pillar was stimulated by Marquis Wen's divine power, and he immediately knocked down the people holding the cable, and hit the city gate with a loud bang.

After three breaths, the city gate creaked and collapsed inward, then completely collapsed. Shouchun's army blocking the gate dispersed like birds and beasts.

The army cheered wildly, and Sun Ce was dumbfounded.

Lu Bu clasped his fists triumphantly, and Sun Ce's expression suddenly became very strange.

Lu Bu: "?"

Three seconds later, amidst the mighty cheers from the mountains, the beating pillar swung back like a big swing, hitting Lu Bu on the back of the head, knocking him with a thud and knocking him to the ground.

The fire in the city had gradually extinguished. Cao Cao saw that Lu Bu was powerful and there were grudges between the two sides, so he had to avoid Shouchun and attack the border city. He also sent Liu Bei to hunt down Yuan Shu who had escaped.

When Liu Bei was halfway through the pursuit, a messenger suddenly came with a letter written by Zhao Yun to report that he had secretly attacked Xuzhou City a few days ago.

When Liu Bei heard this, he stopped pursuing him and hurriedly called back his troops and rushed back to Xuzhou overnight. Yuan Shu escaped and went to Youzhou to join Gongsun Zan. Cao Cao didn't know that there was a fire in the backyard and was still fighting the city in Yangzhou.

That’s something to talk about later, let’s not mention it for now.

At night, Lu Bu, with a bruised nose and a swollen face, sat on the tower, drinking with Sun Ce.

Sun Ce played a tune on the qin and said loudly: "The city has not been properly tidied up, otherwise I would have to keep the Marquis for a few days."

Lu Bu took a sip of his wine, waved his hand and said, "I'll go back after the robbery. I'm still waiting over there. Let's meet again when the day is free."

Gao Shun and Zhang Liao winked at each other. Lu Bu was confused and had not understood the meaning of Sun Ce's words.

Sun Ce was very embarrassed. The conversation was set up by Zhou Yu. There was something in the words, which not only showed that Shouchun would be Sun Ce's place from now on, but also reminded Wen Hou that he was a guest. As soon as the host captured Shouchun City, he allowed the guest to stay at home.

The plundering and plundering was unprecedented in history.

With Lu Bu's IQ, he would not have thought of all these details. Sun Ce could only pretend that he had not said anything. He changed his words and asked, "What are your plans for the future, Lord Marquis? Return to Chang'an and plan for the future?"

Lu Bu thought for a while and replied: "Go to Xiliang, we will be separated from each other from now on. See you again in Yaoqi. My dear brother, please take care of yourself."

Lu Bu made a fist with his left hand and waved it forward casually. Sun Ce understood and extended his fist as well. The two of them touched each other lightly with their fists across the desk.

Sun Ce suddenly felt a little moved. Although Lu Bu was reckless, he had a true temperament after all, and he no longer cared about that. He said, "It is difficult to send food and grass far away, so why not bring back some of Yuan Shu's private treasures?"

Lu Bu's eyebrows twitched, his heart moved, and he asked, "What good stuff is there?"

Sun Ce: "..."

When the door was broken down in the afternoon, Yuan Shu fled from Shouchun in a hurry. After proclaiming himself emperor, he had already started building a palace a few years ago. There were countless treasures in the Shouchun puppet emperor's palace. When Sun Ce said this, Lu Bu suddenly became interested and gasped.

He gasped and stuck out his tongue and said, "Great! Did Gao Shun hear you clearly? Withdraw the generals in front of the granary and take them to Yuan Shu's palace to have a look! Bring all the gold, pearls, and everything else with you!"

Gao Shun took the order and left. Sun Ce shook his head and smiled. Lu Bu finished drinking. Most of the Bingzhou army was still stationed outside the city. The robbery team rushed into Yuan Shu's palace, rolled up a bunch of treasures with a yellow curtain, and put them all on the car.

There were nearly forty cars.

Seeing that the robbery was too fierce, Chen Gong did not dare to escort the car past the city gate, so he privately asked Gao Shun to go and inform Lu Bu: The peaceful robbery was over, and the Marquis could leave.

Lu Bu's heart returned as fast as an arrow. He toasted to Sun Ce again and said, "I'm leaving now. See you later."

Sun Ce nodded, and the two said goodbye. Lu Bu jumped down from the tower, landed firmly on the horse, and rode forward to lead the large army and leave Shouchun.

Sun Ce played a song called "Old Friend Farewell", and the music could be heard slowly in the night, bidding farewell to Lu Bu. Years passed, and until the Battle of Chibi, Sun Lang was no more. Only Qilin, Lu Bu, Zhou Yu, and Liu Bei were able to resist Cao Cao's 800,000-strong army.

, has another meaning.

Lu Bu went all the way north, and finally arrived in front of Hangu Pass nearly ten days later.

Qilin led thousands of people when he launched his army. At this time, there were tens of thousands of people outside Hangu Pass.

The sergeant set up an account in the open space, cooked porridge with rice, and sent it to the refugees in front of Hangu Pass. Hearing that there was porridge to eat, there were more and more refugees nearby.

Lu Bu looked away for a moment and asked, "What do you mean? Where do these many people come from? Where are the unicorns?"

Zhang Liao went to look for Qilin. After wandering around for a long time, he couldn't find anyone. He found Gan Ning teasing a soldier.

After a while, Gan Ning responded casually: "These are people from the war outside Hangu Pass and in the middle of the pass, and there are also many deserters from Chang'an and Luoyang. The military adviser is kind enough to say that he plans to take them out of the pass and find a place to resettle them."

"The mistress is there." Gan Ning frowned and looked at Lu Bu, not knowing what he was thinking.

Lu Bu did not comment and went straight to see Diao Chan.

Diao Chan opened the car curtain, her beautiful eyes filled with tears.

"Master Hou..." Diao Chan said softly, her eyes turning red.

Lü Bu asked, "You're not suffering. I left in a hurry that day and they didn't know to pick you up. I've already been punished."

Diao Chan bit her lower lip and remained silent.

Lu Bu said: "I'm sorry, I love my wife."

Diao Chan smiled with tears in her eyes and said, "How dare you blame the Marquis?"

Lu Bu smiled slightly and said: "It's okay, it's okay. We are leaving Hangu Pass now, passing Chang'an and heading to Xiliang. You have to rest for a while. I grabbed a lot of good things in Shouchun and will give them to you when I settle down."
To be continued...