Chen Gong and others were already waiting outside the front hall.

When Lu Bu arrived, they stepped forward to greet him.

"Everything goes well when Wen Hou goes to Xudu?" Chen Gong asked.

"It's going to happen if you come to you." Lu Bu said: "Liu Xuande borrowed 5,000 troops from Cao Cao on the grounds of attacking Huainan."

Everyone was stunned and looked at each other.

Chen Gong asked, "When did it happen?"

"He set out half a day earlier than me." Lu Bu said: "I guess he deliberately detoured to avoid the people sent by Cao Cao to chase him, so he arrived later than I did."

"Even if you take a detour, it should take less than two days." Yan Xiang said: "If Liu Xuande attacks Huainan, he will really occupy it..."

"His purpose is not Huainan, but Xuzhou." Lu Bu said: "We have to prepare early. Once Liu Bei comes, it is best to let him go without a return!"

Looking at Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Ji Ling, and Lu Bu asked: "Three generals, how are the recruitment matters done?"

"Wen Hou's guess was indeed correct. There were indeed many refugees coming to Huainan." Gao Shun replied: "We recruited the strong to the army, and the others were settled by the public station."

"Self-superior recruited the army, are they forcibly arrested?" Lu Bu was still more concerned about whether the new recruits were captured or voluntarily joining the army.

In order to survive with enough food, soldiers who volunteered to join the army would most likely move forward bravely when they went to the battlefield.

The strong men who were forcibly arrested did not want to join the army.

Sending those people to the battlefield is nothing more than counting individual numbers.

The Yellow Turbans have been in trouble for so many years, but they have not become very popular. First, they started their business with the Taoist path, and their foundations are not deep.

The second reason is that the Yellow Turban Army lacks training. When they encounter a disciplined army, no matter how many people are, they cannot quickly enter the battle.

The most important reason is not these, but whenever the Yellow Turban Army arrived at a place, they would take away all men and women.

People who were not far away from it went to the battlefield and would not fight to the death.

Several factors combined together mean that the failure of the Yellow Turban Army was doomed to be the end.

If Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and others forcefully arrest Ding, Lu Bu really has to consider whether he can take those people to the battlefield.

"There is no need to catch a child at all." Gao Shun replied: "We only say that we can have enough food, and every household will be resettled. If you have land and houses, you will probably follow us."

Lu Bu was relieved that he did not rely on the recruits to recruit Dings.

He then asked, "How are the recruits practicing? Are there any armor and weapons distributed?"

"Xia Pi is very poor now, with armor and weapons not allocated at all." Gao Shun replied: "Many new recruits can only wear their original clothes."

"I'm about to fight, and I don't even have protective gear and weapons. Should I let them die?" Lu Bu said: "No matter what, even if I owe debts, I have to buy all the weapons and armor in a short time."

Gao Shun did not answer, but looked at Chen Gong.

Government affairs are all managed by Chen Gong, and weapons and armor involve craftsmen, so of course Chen Gong has to do it.

Lu Bu's eyes also fell on Chen Gong's face.

"The government has no money at all." Chen Gong looked embarrassed: "Craftsmen also want to eat, so I'm afraid they don't pay..."

"Tell them that once I defeat Liu Bei, all the expenses will be repaid twice." Lu Bu said: "In extraordinary times, you have to use extraordinary methods. I asked for some food from Xu Du. It will be delivered to Xia Pi soon, but I feel that the food has not arrived, so Liu Xuande must have come first."

"Cao Cao didn't beat us, but instead gave us food?" Zhang Liao looked surprised.

Lu Bu curled his lips: "There are no eternal allies and no eternal enemies in this world. I and Cao Cao have the same interests, so of course he will help me."

"What's more,..." He smiled, and he continued: "Now I'm still engaged to him. In a few years, the Miss Cao family will marry into the Lu family. They become in-laws. Unless they are involved in the interests of too much, they will not easily attack."

When Lu Bu mentioned that he became a relative of the Cao family, Chen Gong and Yan Xiang suddenly realized.

However, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and Ji Ling looked confused.

The Cao family’s lady should be still young. She went to Xudu and it was an unexpected surprise that Cao Cao didn’t kill him. She was able to marry the Cao family…

"Congratulations to Wen Hou, you will definitely do something in the future with the Cao family." Chen Gong bowed.

Yan Xiang followed him to salute.

Zhang Liao and others were confused and didn't ask much, so they had to congratulate them.

Just as Lu Bu guessed, Liu Bei led a large army to leave Xudu.

In order to avoid the envoy Cao Cao might have sent to invite him back, he first advanced fifty miles eastward, then led his army northward, and then walked another one or two hundred miles before turning to the southeast.

He walked one or two hundred miles more after he walked around like this.

In the era when high-speed rail and high-speed trains were available two thousand years later, one or two hundred miles was nothing.

But in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when the transportation capacity was very backward, a car of hundreds of miles took a long time to travel.

Moreover, most of the soldiers in the army are infantry.

The armor and protective gear carried by every soldier is very heavy.

The army followed the grain trucks, so of course they would not move too fast.

It had been three or four days since Lu Bu returned to Xia Pi, and Liu Bei led his troops to Xuzhou.

Entering Xuzhou, Liu Bei rushed to Xiapi.

On the day he led his troops into Xuzhou, Lu Bu received news.

Since he could not pay the wages, Chen Gong only found more than a dozen craftsmen.

People are often selfish. Knowing that Liu Bei led his army to come, many people will be implicated once Xia Pi falls, but most craftsmen still only promise to help build weapons occasionally, but it is impossible to concentrate on their work.

More than a dozen craftsmen who were willing to concentrate on their work were gathered together by Chen Gong, knocking and beating day and night.

Every day, a bunch of weapons and armor will be sent to the military camp, and more and more new recruits are equipped with uprising weapons.

A few days later, Liu Bei advanced to more than ten miles from Xia Pi.

In the military camp in the city, Lu Bu also came to the schoolyard.

Only two thousand newly-equipped soldiers stood behind the veterans' queue.

Never went to the battlefield, and although they all volunteered to join the army, the new recruits still seemed very uneasy.

"We drove away the enemy at the door of our house not long ago. A few days later, someone came to the door." Looking around the soldiers' faces, Lu Bu shouted: "Your homes are all in Xiapi. Once they attack in, they will burn your house, play with your women, beat your children, and eat your food."

He walked back and forth in front of the array, and the soldiers' eyes also shifted with his movements.

"Watch them breaking in and doing things freely, do you agree or not?" Lu Bu asked the soldiers loudly.

"Don't agree!" The response like thunder shook the sky.

The nervous recruit also straightened his chest with the shout.

"Just not agree." Turning towards the array, Lu Bu said, "Since you don't agree to let them in, just go out with me and fuck them so badly that you don't dare to come to Xuzhou again!"
Chapter completed!