When Ma Su stopped Bao Xin on the road, Li Su was using his sharp tongue to persuade Lu Bu.
Lu Bu sent someone to invite Li Su into the camp. The guests and hosts sat down and greeted each other: "I haven't seen you for a long time. Where can I find a job now?"
Li Su said with a smile: "Brother Fool is not talented. He is just a tiger and general of the imperial court. I hear that you are helping the country, I am very happy for you."
"I have a red rabbit and a horse here. Now I will give it to you, my dear brother, to help you become more powerful and achieve greater success."
Lu Bu took a look and saw that the red rabbit horse outside the tent was extraordinary. After a test drive, he found that the horse was really powerful and majestic, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
However, he was happy, but Lu Bu always felt uneasy, so he asked: "Brother gave me this dragon colt, how can I repay you?"
Li Su smiled and replied: "I came here out of loyalty, how can I expect retribution?"
Lu Bu was overjoyed, and then he felt relieved, and asked the sergeant to serve him wine and food.
After three rounds of wine, the five flavors of the dishes were on the menu, and when the wine was in full swing, Li Su suddenly changed the topic: "I didn't see you for a long time when we parted ways in Bingzhou, but I do see your father often."
"Brother, I'm afraid he's drunk. My father has been dead for many years. How can I meet you?" Lu Bu was stunned.
Li Su waved his hands and laughed and said, "No! I'm talking about Ding Jianyang." When he mentioned Ding Yuan, Li Su had a sarcastic look on his face and a rather disapproving tone.
Lu Bu looked slightly embarrassed and sighed: "I am also in a helpless situation with Ding Jianyang."
Li Su continued to praise Lu Bu and put Ding Yuan down, "My virtuous brother has the talent to hold up the sky and sail the sea. Who doesn't admire him in the world? Fame and wealth are like searching a bag for something. How can you be helpless and inferior to others?"
Lu Bu was very ashamed and said, "I wish I had never met Lord Ming."
Li Su said seriously: "A good bird chooses a tree to roost in, and a wise minister chooses his master to do his work. It's too late to see an opportunity, and it's too late to regret it."
From these few words, Li Su moved step by step. First, he held up Lu Bu high, then stepped down on Ding Yuan, forcing Lu Bu to speak his mind. Then he followed Lu Bu's words and encouraged him to betray Ding Yuan, fearing that he had something in his heart.
He also quoted from Zuo Zhuan to add persuasiveness to his lobbying.
Of course, Lu Bu could understand this allusion. Although Lu Bu was a martial artist, he had read "Zuo Zhuan".
Hearing this, Lu Bu was convinced and asked Li Su, "Brother, you have been in the court for a long time, who do you think is the Ming Dynasty worthy of my surrender?"
At this time, Li Su slowly revealed his purpose: "I have looked at all the ministers, but none of them are as good as Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo respects the virtuous and polite, has clear rewards and punishments, and will eventually achieve great things."
After speaking, Li Su took out a large pile of treasures and placed them in front of Lu Bu to add weight to his words.
Looking at the gold and silver jewelry in front of him, Lu Bu was quite tempted and asked in surprise: "Why is this?"
Li Su then said bluntly: "If a certain person is not talented, but he is still a tiger and a brave general under his command, if he goes there, he will be beyond words!"
This sentence is tantamount to the ultimate move. I, Li Su, have no talent, but I can still be a tiger and a brave general. With your talent, Lu Bu, you must be extremely valuable!
Li Su only said "indescribably valuable" instead of promising specific official positions and used himself as a reference. This is equivalent to giving Lu Bu unlimited imagination. The previous sentence "will eventually achieve a great cause" implies that Dong Zhuo may ascend to the throne of God.
The next sentence, "Indescribably precious," implies that Lu Bu may be "below one person and above ten thousand people."
As the saying goes, if you want to move someone, you must first move their heart. Under Li Su's repeated attacks, Lu Bu was filled with fear, expectation, and joy, with mixed emotions. Under the influence of these emotions, he said to Li Su:
"I hate that I have no merit, but I think it is a courtesy to enter."
This was just a statement, or a remark, and Li Su could easily have brushed it off and led Lu Bu to defect to Dong Zhuo.
But Li Su said with a smile: "The success lies in the flip of a hand, I won't do it for you."
The implication is that defecting to Dong Zhuo requires a "vote of name". This certificate of surrender is at the turn of your hand, Lu Bu, it just depends on whether you are willing.
Li Su didn't mention the conflict between Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo at all. He just said: Lu Bu's fame and wealth are actually within your reach. It depends on whether you dare to do it or not?
This sentence directly affected the fate of Lu Bu in the second half of his life. If the person who persuaded Lu Bu to surrender had been replaced by someone else, or if Lu Bu had simply betrayed his adoptive father Ding Yuan, then the trajectory of Lu Bu's life would definitely have been different. Because Lu Bu was defeated.
When he was captured by Cao Cao and was considering whether to kill or retain him, Liu Bei used the incident of Lu Bu killing Ding Yuan to remind Cao Cao that he could not be retained. Only then did Cao Cao make up his mind and hang Lu Bu.
Of course, neither of them knew at this time that Dong Zhuo was also a piece of trash and that there was not much time left. Even without Ma Di and Bao Xin's sneak attack, Li Su and Lu Bu would eventually betray Dong Zhuo and kill Dong Zhuo with their own hands.
Just looking at the entire process of Li Su persuading Lu Bu to surrender, Li Su used Guiguzi's methods of "beating and closing", "arrival", and "flying tongs" to perfection. This is a textbook-level lobbying case.
Lu Bu pondered for a long time: "Brother, please don't wait. How about you let me go to the army to kill Ding Yuan and lead the army to Dong's governor?"
Li Su nodded repeatedly: "That's it, it won't be too late!"
The two of them sat there until dark, when Lü Bu raised his sword and ran straight to Ding Yuan's tent.
Ding Yuan was holding a candle and reading a book when he saw Lu Bu approaching with murderous intent and a sword in hand. He was startled and asked, "What happened to my son's coming here?"
Lu Bu angrily said: "I am a man of the world, I am willing to be your son!"
Ding Yuan was shocked: "Why did Fengxian change his mind?"
Lu Bu didn't even answer. He stabbed Ding Yuan to death, cut off his head, and shouted at the soldiers who gathered around him: "Ding Yuan is unkind, I have killed him. Those who are willing to follow me will stay, and those who don't will go!"
As soon as these words came out, most of the soldiers dispersed, leaving only two or three thousand of the five thousand forbidden troops.
Lu Buti brought his head to see Li Su.
Li Su added: "I must go ahead and report to the lord and come to pick up the general." After that, he rode off overnight.
While Lu Bu was gathering his sergeants, he sat in the camp and waited for news.
………
On the other side, the fighting was going on in Dong Zhuo's camp.
Under the leadership of Bao Xin and Qu'a generals Zhu Heng and Ma Su, three thousand soldiers descended from the mountain like fierce tigers and charged directly at the Chinese commander's tent.
At that time, Dong Zhuo had not yet slept peacefully. He was drinking with his son-in-law Li Ru in the tent and discussing important matters at the same time.
Ding Yuan's ideas were too strong and he could not win without outsmarting him. Dong Zhuo was worried that Li Su would not be able to surrender, but would instead lose a lot of gold, silver, jewelry and a BMW Red Rabbit. Li Ru didn't know that Lü Bu was greedy by nature and unjust for profit.
Li Su was not sure about this trip, so he only drank with Dong Zhuo, thinking in his heart that if this plan failed, he would have to mobilize troops from Hedong.
Since the defeat in the battle with Ding Yuan yesterday, there were only more than 1,800 soldiers and horses left out of 3,000. This plan of crossing the sky and the sea suddenly became a bit unsustainable.
But in order to frighten the generals in the city and Ding Yuan, this strategy must continue to be fake for the time being.
Therefore, Li Su arranged for 1,500 people to leave the camp at night and come back from the south bank of the Yellow River tomorrow morning to build up momentum.
As for whether there would be a night attack if there were only 300 soldiers left in the tent, Li Su was not worried at all.
His old father-in-law Dong Zhuo really had 100,000 troops! No kidding!
Moreover, Niu Fu's more than 20,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in Hedong, which was only separated by a river from Luoyang, and it only took two days from Hedong to Luoyang.
Under such circumstances, who would doubt the authenticity of Dong Zhuo's troops?
Let me ask you, who in the world can see through this plan that spreads across the sky and across the sea?
Who can?!
Li Ru curled his lips slightly, his face full of wisdom.
"Kill! Capture Dong Zhuo alive, capture Li Su alive!"
"Kill! Eliminate thieves for the country, today!"
"Kill..."
Suddenly, a loud shouting of death came from outside the tent. The sound came from far away and came very fast. In the blink of an eye, it was outside the tent.
Snapped--
The wine bottle in Li Ru's hand fell to the ground, and the expression on his face instantly froze.
Hearing this sudden change, Dong Zhuocang drew out his sword with a clang and shouted: "Come here, quickly meet the enemy, meet the enemy!"
Hu Zhen and Hua Xiong rushed into the tent. The former said in panic, "There are enemies everywhere in the camp. It's so dark. I don't know how many there are! The leading general is extremely brave and unstoppable. Li Jue, Guo Si,
Four generals, Zhang Ji and Fan Chou, came out together, but they still couldn't win. Grand Master, please leave quickly?!"
Dong Zhuo glared, "Why are you panicking? You two quickly step forward to help the battle! Kill the enemy who will commit the crime in front of the tent, and make him never come back!"
Seeing Dong Zhuo's calm demeanor, Hu Zhen and Hua Xiong also calmed down and rushed out with weapons in hand. The six of them besieged Zhu Heng alone.
Ma Su and Bao Xin were hiding in the dark and saw all Dong Zhuo's generals coming out. They looked at each other and led five hundred soldiers to surround Dong Zhuo's camp.
Then, the two men went in with swords and guns.
"Old thief, suffer death!" When Bao Xin saw Dong Zhuo, his eyes turned red. He raised his sword and stabbed Dong Zhuo in the chest.
Ma Su threw away his Zhangba spear, stabbed Li Ru to death with one shot, and turned around to attack Dong Zhuo from a flank.
There is no crushing by force, and there is no three-hundred-round battle between you and me.
It's just two against one.
However, within three or five rounds, Dong Zhuo was stabbed with several holes by Ma Su. Blood spurted all over his body and he fell heavily to the ground.
Bao Xin stepped forward and cut off the head with a sword, then carried it out of the tent and shouted: "The traitor Dong Zhuo is dead. I will not punish those who follow you. Surrender and avoid death!"
When the six powerful generals who were besieging Qu'a general Zhu Heng heard these words, they couldn't help but hesitate. You looked at me, I looked at you, and they had no idea.
Zhu Heng took the opportunity to withdraw from the battle circle and ordered his soldiers to surround the six people.
A few moments.
With the clanging sound of weapons falling to the ground, the six powerful generals and the remaining dozen or so soldiers were all captured and tied up.
Seeing that the situation was completely under control, Ma Su walked out with a spear and said to Bao Xin: "The captain has made such a great contribution today, and he will definitely be praised by your majesty, and glory and wealth will be at your fingertips."
"Hahaha... How could I have accomplished such a great feat if I had not been young?" Bao Xin stroked his short beard and laughed.
As he was laughing vigorously, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from outside the camp, and a man who looked like a civil servant rushed in on horseback.
Then he was surrounded by soldiers. One of the soldiers kicked him off his horse, grabbed the skin of the melon, and slipped him in front of Bao Xin, saying: "Master Captain, we caught a spy!"
"Spy?" Bao Xin glared, drew his sword, and was about to kill Li Su.
Everyone related to Dong Zhuo must die!
Li Su was almost frightened to death. He waved his hands repeatedly and said: "No, no, no, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, this general, I am not a spy, I am the tiger general Li Su!"
At this moment, Li Su had already seen Dong Zhuo's head and the six generals who were tied up around him. His heart was filled with shock and he was extremely horrified.
However, his clever mind allowed him to react in an instant. No matter who led this group of people, as long as he moved out of his official position, he would definitely be able to save his life.
Sure enough, when he heard that the guy in front of him was actually General Hu Ben, Bao Xin inserted the sword back in and ordered the soldiers to tie up Li Su and put him under heavy guard.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning, Lu Bu waited in the camp on the left, waiting for Dong Zhuo to come, and on the right, waiting for Dong Zhuo to come.
Walking five miles outside the west gate of Luoyang City, two groups of people met unexpectedly.
At the beginning, neither of the two armies interfered with the other's actions. Lu Buan sat on the red rabbit horse and silently watched the official army under the banner of the imperial court slowly pass by and head towards the west gate of Luoyang City.
As the large army marched, Lu Bu suddenly discovered that there were several prison cars in the rear of the army, and the people in the prison cars looked very familiar.
Hu Zhen, Hua Xiong, Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou, and Li Su...
Lü Bu was taken aback, and ordered Zhang Liao to ride his horse to the front line of the army to stop his attack. He then rode his horse to the prison cart, looked at Li Su, and asked eagerly: "Brother, why is this...?"
Didn't we make an appointment to bring Ding Yuan's head to seek refuge today? Why are you sitting in the car now?
What happened?
Lu Bu looked confused.
As the orders to "stop the army" spread, the large army of officers and soldiers stopped.
Bao Xin, escorted by Zhu Heng and Ma Su, came to the rear. He looked at Lu Bu from a distance and shouted with his nostrils raised to the sky: "I am Bao Xin, the commander of the cavalry. Dong Zhuo has rebelled and has been executed. The rest will not be punished. General Lu
We are stationed outside the city, waiting for the emperor's decree, but if there is any obstruction, we will be punished as a traitor!"
At this point, Bao Xin turned his attention to Li Su again, curled his lips and scolded: "This man is a traitor to Dong, and he should be handed over to your majesty for punishment. Isn't General Lu trying to rob a prisoner?"
"Bu Jue has no intention of doing this. General Bao, please forgive me!"
Lu Bu was startled, and raised his hands in a "huo" manner. These two sentences were very clear. He didn't know whether he was clarifying that he had no intention of robbing prisoners, or clarifying that he had no relationship with Dong Zhuo.
In any case, at least Bao Xin himself was very satisfied with Lu Bu's statement. He snorted coldly, urged his horse to turn around and leave.
After the words were spoken, the entire army began to move forward, entering the west gate of Luoyang in an orderly manner and entering the city. If you look down from the west gate tower, you can see that the faces of all the officers and soldiers are filled with joy.
After the annihilation of Dong Zhuo, they not only brought them a great sense of honor and achievement for saving the country, but also brought huge fame and wealth. It can be predicted that when the fourteen-year-old Majesty Liu Zhen learns that the riots have subsided, he will definitely
Reward everyone generously.
It is not impossible to get promoted, become rich, or even become a prince.
After the officers and soldiers entered the city, Ma Di quietly told Bao Xin a few words, telling him not to confess himself, and then quietly left the army with Zhu Heng and returned to Cai Mansion.
Although Bao Xin was happy to enjoy the huge credit alone, he was not a selfish person. If Ma Su hadn't repeatedly begged him, he would definitely give the latter a share of the credit.
…
Ma Su sneaked into the courtyard quietly and found that Cai Yong was not waiting for him at the door. He immediately let out a sigh of relief. He quickly asked the doctor to bandage Zhu Heng and apply medicine.
Zhu Heng's previous one-on-six performance was really bad, but he did it with a desperate fighting style. He had already suffered many injuries on his body. Fortunately, these injuries were not fatal.
Now that everything was over, the great devil Dong Zhuo had also died, so Ma Su wanted to quickly find someone to treat Zhu Hengzhi to prevent him from dying too.
Just when Ma Su was quietly walking to his room, secretly glad that he had not been caught by Cai Yong after going out for a night of wandering, a thunderbolt suddenly sounded behind him.
