A low tone slowly came from the sound of the rain. The four of them looked at each other in a glance, only Zhang Liao looked at him silently.

"You are very good now!" Lu Bu dismounted and helped Cheng Lian up. Looking at Zhang Liao with red eyes over there, he sighed in the end: "In the future, if I meet on the battlefield, if I am captured by me, I will be interested in the same hometown, so I will wait for my life and become a surrender."

At this point, a sound came from over there: "This is not simple!" Cheng Lian grinned and looked around again. When he took two steps, he suddenly went to the ground, his head was in the rain, and he opened his mouth: "Ah, Wen Hou, I am captured, I am willing to surrender!"

Everyone around laughed, and even Lu Bu smiled. The atmosphere calmed down a little. He shook his head: "...If you follow me again at this time, where are you going to have a new master? Some family doesn't want everyone in the world to think that I, Bingzhou, are all people who have a backbone behind my head. Since I have followed Cao Cao, it would be easy to follow. As for the same sentence, I will not be lenient in fighting on the battlefield. If you don't practice martial arts well, you will suffer."

After saying that, he turned around and turned back to the horse's back. When he turned over the horse's head, he looked at them again and shouted: "Go!" He just led his iron cavalry to turn back. The long-distance team turned into the back team, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

The five stood in the rain for a moment, and Song Xian snorted and looked at them: "How do you explain to the Prime Minister when you go back? When you meet Lu Bu and have not fought for a while, you will suspect that we have any other intentions."

"I have never really thought of it, where did I get the strange intention?!" Cheng Lian spat at him, "You were in Xia Pi and you were anxious to show your loyalty to others. Now you are not anxious."

"Cheng Lian!" With a loud shout, Song Xianqiang pulled out the sword from his waist. As soon as he raised it, he flew out of his hand with a sound of twelve. Zhang Liao held the sword and glanced at everyone. Suddenly, the sword tip turned and pressed on his shoulders, and pulled it down.

Blood mixed with rain flowed out...

The blood dripping along the sword's edge, slowly spreading and diluting in the accumulated water. Zhang Liao frowned and said, "Isn't it enough to cut my own sword?" The sword returned to the sheath and turned around and left. Cheng Lian behind him stared at Song Xian opposite him: "I dare to talk nonsense about this matter, I'll kill you."

After gathering the troops and giving repeated instructions, the generals led the troops back.

On the other hand, the flag with the words "Xu" and "Lu" was soaked by the rain and hung on the flagpole. Most of the soldiers in the barracks stayed in tents. This weather is difficult to practice or wars occur. The confrontation has been around for nearly a month, and the two sides have had several frictions, and they are still restrained. As time goes by, July, the supply of food and fodder on Xu Rong has been relatively difficult. Fortunately, some turnover has been transported to Shangdang County, but it is just a drop in the bucket.

In the afternoon, except for the sound of rain, the entire huge camp was extremely quiet. The horse's hooves splashed on the ground for several miles. The guards pulled open the gate. The cavalry who went out in the morning had returned to the camp at this time. Xu Rong walked out of the tent in a straw raincoat: "Wen Hou's expression is like this, I think the camp was not successful."

Back in the tent, the flames drove away a little chill on his body. Lu Bu nodded, took the drink handed over by the other party, and smiled: "... Cao Cao noticed the robbery camp and set up an ambush in the middle. Who do you think it is?"

"It must be the old subordinate of Hou Wen."

Lu Bu nodded, drank all the wine in one gulp, staring at the shaking flames in the brazier. After a while, he made a voice: "It's them, they seem to be doing well... I feel at ease."

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After climbing over the Taihang Mountains, half of the sun was on the top of the mountain, half of the rain was about to enter the Shangdang territory, the rain fell endlessly. Five thousand cavalrymen tied their horses under the trees to hide from the rain. Gongsun Zhi and some generals flipped through the information under one of the trees. Hesitated that the heavy rain in front rushed over the rocks and blocked the road. In the morning, they sent some soldiers to clear the road. Now they have been there for several hours.

"......There is basically no way to advance or retreat there now. Shangdang County is not a big grain-producing county, and it is impossible to supply military rations for tens of thousands of people. Cao Cao's large number of troops were dragged in Jizhou to attack the city, and he did not dare to attack rashly. He had suffered a big loss at the hands of Xu Rong. Although there have been several small-scale confrontations in recent months, he was very careful everywhere."

Gongsun Zhi looked through the new information several times. Although it was not very timely, he had probably analyzed some general situations over the years. "I didn't expect it to rain heavily here. Even if both sides want to win or lose, they may not be able to do it in a short period of time."

He said with a smile, and he handed the Subo to Li Ke to keep it. Then he asked someone to take the sheepskin map and spread it on a stone. He studied it with Dian Wei, Hua Xiong and other generals for a while, "... The heavy rain slowed down, but we were in a hurry, so Shangdang County went in and went straight to Tianjing Pass. Did the fast horse send there?"

"It was sent out two days ago. If you don't delay the road, it will be almost here." Hua Xiong leaned on the tiger's knife with one hand and pointed to the city called the Ye Wang. "When we go over, we will join forces with Yu Du to entangle Cao Cao's troops first, and let General Xu take down the city directly. As a logistics support, Cao Cao can only retreat at that time."

"Cao Cao probably has this idea too... Go there first and then see the detailed situation."

Several people discussed for a while, and a whistle sounded behind them. A fast horse ran towards this side on the winding mountain road, "Governor, there is a cavalry of hundreds of people behind us, and the news from the scout seemed to be Ma Chao in Xiliang."

Gongsun Zhi frowned and looked at the soldier who reported the news. He stood up and walked to the edge of the woods. In a puzzled manner, the sound of horse hooves sounded at the end of the road. The rumbling sound of horse hooves came from afar. The man in charge looked like a crown of jade, thick eyebrows and powerful eyes, wearing a white-maned lion helmet, white robe and silver armor, a golden beast-faced belt on his waist, and a tiger-headed golden spear in his hand. More than a hundred Western Liang cavalry behind him showed amazing power.

"Didn't Meng Qi return to Xiliang with 500 war horses? Why did he come here again?" When the other party stopped near, Gongsun Zhi waved his hand and asked the guard who had already raised his bow and arrow to lower his arms, and took Dian Wei and Li Ke to the other side.

Chasing him in the rain, Ma Chao was soaked. He dismounted and twisted his sway, "Just leave the horse to someone else to take it back. Chao came to Zhongyuan once when he was a teenager. Since he had to come to the war, he would come and join in the fun. The governor would use Chao at that time, just speak."

Gongsun Zhi smiled: "The men in Xiliang are so happy. Since you have come, I am not pretentious. If you want to fight here, you can follow the army."

"That's how happy!" Ma Chao also smiled, "..... It's much better than my father. It's not good to beat Qiang people or Di people. I have to be steady and learn from Han Sui."

Everyone burst into laughter.

Not long after, the mountain road was blocked and unobstructed. Gongsun Zhi asked Ma Chao to join the team and rushed to the Tianjing Pass. On July 17th, he met Yu Du, who was guarding the defense, and the situation in Hanoi was also changing.
Chapter completed!