Huarong said:

Three generals, Chen Gong, Gan Ning, and Guan Yu, stationed their horses to guard the dangerous place. Soldiers on both sides were lying in ambush in the forest, waiting for Cao Cao's troops to come and prepare to release arrows.

"The general is guarding the front -" Cao Cao's voice came. The Han Prime Minister was in a state of disarray. After the defeat in Chibi, the deserters scattered. Cao Cao could only gather three thousand defeated troops. Guo Jia was injured and hid in his carriage.

Gan Ning: "Laozi Ge..."

Chen Gong signaled Gan Ning to be quiet and took a few steps forward on horseback to stand side by side with Guan Yu.

"Old friend, I haven't seen you for several years." Chen Gong said loudly.

Cao Cao laughed happily and said in a long voice: "Gongtai, after seeing you for many years, your style remains the same. Come down now, your affairs are almost done, come with me back to Luoyang."

Chen Gong scolded: "Don't sow discord. This is the place where you will die today."

Cao Cao reined in his steed, turned a few steps left and right, and looked at Guan Yu and Chen Gong.

Cao Cao said: "Brother Gongtai, it's hard for Fengxian that rude man to become a great weapon. You and I can join hands with Yunchang to develop great achievements in the world, why not?"

Guo Jia coughed from the carriage.

Cao Cao said again: "In order to save me, you tried your best to sneak into Chang'an and stay undercover in the camp. I still remember it in my heart! Now we have two camps with 5,000 people..."

Cao Cao only glanced at the mountain and knew how many troops he had ambushed. He continued: "As a witness, I will escort the real person back to Luoyang. I will definitely be awarded a gold belt and a jade waist by the emperor, and I will be promoted to a noble rank..."

Chen Gong replied: "Brother Meng De doesn't know something. When he entered Chang'an in the past, Gongtai was not trying to save you, Meng De."

Cao Cao: "Oh?"

Chen Gong said leisurely: "What we save is the world."

"Dong's thieves disrupted the government and the government was in darkness. Marquis Wen personally put an end to this situation. Seeing that the chaos was just settled, you and Yuan Benchu ​​entered Chang'an again. The fate of the Han Dynasty was here. You should have recuperated and revitalized the Han Dynasty, but you!"

"You set fire to Chang'an and kidnapped the emperor! You held the emperor hostage to order the princes to start the war."

"No!" Cao Cao shouted angrily: "The world is uneven and the country is uncertain. How can we help the Han Dynasty? Lu Fengxian and Sun Bofu are all ambitious."

"In troubled times, we need to govern with strict rules! If the government does not have the iron fist to suppress it, the government will not be a government, and the country will not be a country!"

"Chen Gongtai! You have been smart all your life, but at this time, your mind is so narrow-minded?"

Chen Gong sneered and asked: "So, may I ask the Prime Minister, in the past six years, what was the population of You, Ji, Yong, and Qing prefectures? What was the grain production? How many armies were there? How many tens of thousands of households in Yecheng? How many tens of thousands of fields in Luoyang?!"

Cao Cao did not answer, but Guo Jia came out of the carriage with a coughing voice: "One hundred thousand households in Yecheng...200,000 people in the army, 120,000 households in Luoyang, 240,000 people in the army..."

Chen Gong said sternly: "In Xiliang, one of the ten people in Xiliang has tens of millions of fertile fields. How about you?! The five people in Xiliang have two out of ten! The most important corvee in the world is that of the four states of the Central Plains. These tens of millions of people, together with the 20,000 people in Jingzhou,

Because of your troubled times, your iron fist, and your whole world, all the naval forces died on the banks of the Yangtze River!"

"If Gongtai returns to Luoyang with you, I don't know what face you will have, seeing the women, children, and children with you! From the day you killed Lu Boshe and beheaded Zhang Xiu, I will no longer be with you!"

"It would be better for you to betray the world than for the world to betray you. Now the soldiers who came with you will have their corpses floating in the Yangtze River, bleeding and drifting in the oars. If that day comes, until you take the emperor to replace him..."

Chen Gong's voice gradually deepened: "...but so what?"

Cao Cao nodded, smiled, narrowed his eyes and said, "What a good person."

"Brother Yun!" Cao Cao was scolded by Chen Gong, but he showed no anger at all. He turned to Guan Yu: "You joined my camp in the past, do you still remember how I treated you?"

Guan Yu narrowed his red phoenix eyes and said calmly, "Brother Meng De gave me his beloved horse as a gift and treated each other as brothers. I will remember this in my heart."

Cao Cao let out a warm breath, nodded, and said: "This is a great head. Please come and get it. You don't have to humiliate me at the hands of bandits in the mountains and rivers."

Guan Yu stroked his beard and said nothing, as if he was recalling the old events in Cao Ying.

Wulin North Bank:

"Eat dinner in the cabin and don't go anywhere." Lu Bu ordered indifferently.

The soldiers outside the cabin responded, and after a while they brought wine and food, placed them on the table, and ordered two plates of fish, fresh shrimps from the river, and tender venison.

Lu Bu held Qilin in his arms with one arm, picked up the chopsticks with his left hand, and picked out the fish bones.

The two were naked, cuddling together and wrapped in blankets.

"I'll feed you." Lu Bu said, "Your hard work has paid off in this battle."

Qilin laughed, chewed the vegetables that Lu Bu fed to his mouth, and asked, "Where are the Grand Master and the others?"

Lu Bu paused slightly with the hand holding the food. After a moment, he put down his chopsticks, picked up the wine bowl, and replied, "Let's go."

"He's leaving now?!" Qilin said in disbelief.

Lu Bu drank the wine into his mouth, lowered his head, kissed Qilin, and fed the wine to him.

Qilin coughed a few times and his face turned slightly red. Just as he was about to stand up, Lu Bu said, "Where are you going? Everyone is gone."

Qilin: "Why didn't you come and say goodbye to me?!"

Lu Bu said seriously: "You are sleeping, they asked me to send a message."

Qilin had no choice but to give up. The most troublesome problem was not who left first and who left last, but how to live at that time.

"What's the message?" Qilin asked again.

Lu Bu's hand holding the wine bowl was shaking a little, and some of the wine spilled out.

Qilin: "What's wrong?"

Lu Bu said nervously, "They, they... they, your master said that the mission has been changed."

"The mission has been changed?" Qilin asked with a frown.

Lu Bu nodded: "Yes."

Lu Bu: "Let, let you...they are very angry and tell you never to go back."

Qilin: "..."

Lu Bu laughed and said, "I'm just kidding." After that, he drank by himself, avoiding Qilin's gaze.

"Master Tai came to say goodbye to me, why didn't you wake me up?!" Qilin couldn't help but wonder.

Lu Bu did not dare to look into Qilin's eyes and said, "He asked me not to...don't call you that, that's all. He also said that he would wait until the world is unified and the new emperor is established and my son takes over the position before you go back."

Qilin frowned and said, "Didn't we agree at the beginning that the mission of letting you ascend the throne would be completed?"

Lu Bu said indifferently: "I am not the emperor."

Qilin: "Then I won't be able to go home for the rest of my life."

Lu Bu suddenly asked loudly: "Wouldn't it be better to follow me?!"

Qilin was yelled unexpectedly and shrank in fright. Lu Bu said to himself: "Of course it's not good, I... don't care! Anyway, they said they were going to..."

Lu Bu had an idea and said, "That's what your great master said. When he wants you to go back in the future, he will come to pick you up."

Qilin said doubtfully: "Really?"

Lu Bu nodded, raised his hand and touched Qilin's face. Qilin whispered: "Actually, I don't want to...forget it, it's boring to say this."

Qilin stood up, pulled off the blanket, tied it around his waist, and walked out of the cabin with his chest bare.

Lu Bu sat naked and asked in shock: "Where are you going? You haven't finished eating yet!"

"I'm going to go for a walk alone." Qilin said, "Don't disturb me."

Qilin walked up the stairs half-naked. It was early afternoon, and Lu Su led the Soochow navy to anxiously search for Zhou Yu's whereabouts in the river.

"Stop looking!" Qilin shouted: "Zhou Yu is dead."

No one from the Soochow Navy responded, and the boats rowed out one after another, all over the river. Penny picked up the corpses and dragged them to the shore.

Zhang Liao and Ma Chao were claiming the bodies of Xiliang soldiers, while Lu Su headed to Wulin. On the river, Liu Bei's fleet raised its white sails, and a small boat swung up, approaching Lu Bu's handsome ship.

The man on the boat was wearing a white military robe, with his right arm tied to his chest by a bandage. He was Zhao Zilong.

"Where are you going?" Qilin asked.

Zhao Yun replied: "I don't know, the military advisor gave a temporary order and the whole army set off."

Qilin scoffed: "The coalition has just finished fighting, are you in a hurry to go back and occupy the territory?"

Zhao Yun was silent, and Qilin said again: "Come on board, you are welcome to join us."

Zhao Yun sighed and said: "No, Zilong just came to say goodbye to Marquis Wen. We will see you later."

Before the small boat came close, Zhao Yun had already waved his long pole and stood a little in front of the big boat. He backed away again and broke through the waves.

Liu Bei's fleet left, and Zhao Yun led thousands of cavalry to escort them on the shore and followed them from a distance.

Are you leaving now? Qilin finally felt something strange in his heart. Liu Bei was anxious to go back and rob Jingzhou, so he let him do it.

"Instruct the whole army to prepare for departure." Qilin said: "When Chen Gong and Gan Ning return, we will go upstream and enter Sichuan via the Minjiang Waterway."

Lu Bu changed into a black brocade military robe, got out of the cabin, and shouted: "Qilin."

Qilin turned around and said, "Liu Bei has gone to Jingzhou. Write a letter and ask Lu Su to take it to Sun Quan. It's time for us to go back."

Lu Bu asked: "Where to go?"

Qilin turned back and went into the room to get the map, spread it on the deck, knelt in front of the map and pointed: "Cao Cao retreats westward."

"We went all the way up the Yangtze River and entered the Jialing River from the north bank. The navy was divided into two teams. Ma Chao took the land route and went to Xichuan to report the news, and then returned to Xiliang via Shu."
To be continued...