Lu Bu drank alcohol all day long and became increasingly depressed.
After coming out of Guanzhong and defecting to Wang Fen, although he had military power, he had no real power.
After Wang Fen's death, the situation became even more delicate.
Yuan Shao inherited Jizhou. He always disliked Lu Bu and regarded Lu Bu as a threat, so he suppressed him everywhere.
He once wanted to send an assassin to kill Lu Bu, but Lu Bu escaped. From then on, Lu Bu became very cautious and rarely left the city.
But continuing to live so cautiously is not an option.
Because Lu Bu also knew very well that Yuan Shao still needed to use him to resist Luoyang's attack, so he did not dare to push too hard.
But one day, Yuan Shao defeated Liu Bei, and he had no use value, and that was the day he died.
Therefore, Lu Bu was very depressed, his future was uncertain, and he didn't know what the future would hold.
But at least for now, he is safe.
First, after Yuan Shao's attempt to assassinate him failed, he was afraid that the south would be lost, so he never dared to take action again.
Secondly, the 20,000 troops under his command actually obeyed him.
Because after Lu Bu followed Wang Fen, he led these troops and went north to attack the Black Mountain bandits entrenched in the Taihang Mountains, and gained a great reputation.
Then he guarded the south of Wei County against Guan Yu, and repelled the attacks of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun several times.
He even fought Guan Yu for 300 rounds, fighting from noon to dusk, and suppressed Guan Yu to death. If Zhao Yunting hadn't saved him with his gun, Guan Yu would have been in danger.
Precisely because of his amazing combat prowess, which leads all three armies, Lu Bu has a high prestige in the army, and the soldiers are very convinced.
It's one thing to be convinced, but another thing to be willing to follow him.
Lu Bu felt that perhaps his officers and soldiers would obey him and therefore not follow Yuan Shao's orders to rebel or assassinate him.
But if he followed him to make a fortune elsewhere, probably no one would be willing to do so.
Because Wang Fen had laid a trap in his army at the beginning. Although the senior officers were all Lu Bu's people, Li Su, Cheng Lian, Wei Yue, Song Xian, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng, Cao Xing, Hao Meng, etc. were all
Military officers above Sima.
But the grassroots officers are basically Jizhou diehards. And almost all the soldiers are Jizhou natives and have families. If they want these Jizhou natives with families and families to follow him, he will leave Jizhou to fight elsewhere.
, there is a high probability that they will be the first to turn against Lu Bu.
So Lu Bu has now come to his senses. From the beginning, he was manipulated by Wang Fenxun and these people. Even though he was given 20,000 troops and 5,000 cavalry, in fact, it was all a trap.
The only thing is to trap him in Jizhou.
If it were still when Wang Fen was in power, it wouldn't matter if Lu Bu was trapped in Jizhou. The world is so big, as long as he has a place to stay, it doesn't matter if he doesn't go to places like Guanzhong, Luoyang, Qingzhou, etc. that are related to Liu, Guan, and Zhang.
However, Yuan Shao came to power and suppressed him everywhere, which made Lu Bu more and more depressed. Recently, he has been thinking about whether to go south to join Yuan Shu Tao Qian or return to Bingzhou.
It's just that Bingzhou is now in dilapidated condition, and it's full of Xianbei people who went south. As for Yuan Shu and Tao Qian...
Lu Bu felt upset and continued to drink wine one mouthful at a time.
It was raining and snowing outside, but at this moment, someone wearing a raincoat and dusty ran into the hall. Wei Xu, who was on duty outside, recognized who this man was. Since he was Lu Bu's best friend, he did not stop him.
Let him come in.
Hearing the noise coming from outside the hall, Lu Bu subconsciously looked around and saw that the person coming was a middle-aged man in his thirties. He was holding an umbrella and a raincoat in the corridor, washing away the dust from his body.
"Uncle Zhi!"
Lu Bu was so surprised that he put down his wine glass and took three steps to meet him.
The visitor turned out to be Zhang Yang, the governor of Shangdang.
A few years ago, eighteen princes attacked Dong. After capturing Hulao Pass, all princes fell apart and Zhang Yang also returned to Shangdang.
Later, Liu Bei counterattacked Jizhou. In order to transfer Gongsun Zan's cavalry, Yuan Shao asked his nephew Gao Gan to contact Zhang Yang and the Xiongnu Chanyu Yufuluo, and deliberately let the central Xianbei enter the pass, forcing Gongsun Zan to return to defend Youzhou.
At that time, Zhang Yang went to Wang Fen, but he was good friends with high officials and had helped Yuan Shao. Therefore, after Yuan Shao came to power, Zhang Yang attached himself to Yuan Shao's garrison in Changshan Kingdom.
Unexpectedly, Yu Fuluo actually planned to rebel in the first two years. Taking advantage of Wang Fen's confrontation with Liu Bei Gongsun Zan at that time, he united with the Montenegrin army to harass the northwest region of Jizhou.
Zhang Yang refused to rebel and was kidnapped by Yu Fuluo. As a result, Lü Bu surrendered to the east and, with Wang Fen's support, began to clear out the Black Mountain Army in the Taihang Mountains.
You must know that Zhang Yan had already defected to the Luoyang court and decided to join forces with Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan to attack Jizhou.
If Wang Fen was stabbed in the back at the critical moment of the confrontation, the consequences would be disastrous.
Fortunately, Wang Fen had already adopted Lu Bu as his adopted son by then, and with the 20,000 troops under his command, he began to attack the Montenegrin army.
Yu Fuluo, Zhang Yan and others were defeated by Lu Bu one after another, and Zhang Yang was also rescued.
Since they were all from Bingzhou, and Lu Bu had saved Zhang Yang's life, they had a very good relationship in the past few years and had become sworn friends.
This time, Zhang Yang was originally in Changshan Kingdom, but his sudden visit surprised Lu Bu.
"Fengxian!"
Zhang Yang took off his raincoat, stepped into the hall, hugged Lu Bu tightly, and said happily: "We haven't seen each other for half a year again."
Lu Bu laughed and pulled him in. As he walked, he said, "Come on, come on, I'm about to have a drink with you."
"Why are you drinking in the house in broad daylight?"
Zhang Yang couldn't help but wonder when he saw several empty wine jars next to Lu Bu's table.
As long as there is a peanut, you won't drink like this.
"well."
Lu Bu took him and sat down together on the mat, and sighed: "It's not because the future is uncertain and I'm worried."
"oh?"
Zhang Yang said in confusion: "We are now attached to Duke Yuan. Even if we are attacked by Liu Xuande Gongsun Bogui, Duke Yuan will not necessarily be defeated. Why are we so sad?"
Lu Bu glanced at him and shook his head with a wry smile: "You don't understand."
"If you don't tell me first, how can I understand?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhang Yang spread his hands and looked at him with a puzzled expression.
Lu Bu had no choice but to tell the truth: "Uncle Zhi doesn't know. Yuan Benchu has no good intention to accept me at all. Because he is afraid that I am the righteous son of Wenzu, he is afraid that I will seize Jizhou, so he is always on guard against me. Last time he actually sent
People stabbed me."
"What?"
Zhang Yang was shocked and said: "Is there still this matter?"
"Absolutely true."
Lu Bu gritted his teeth and said angrily: "If I hadn't been alert, noticed something was wrong, and changed tents with my guards, I would have been hacked to death long ago."
Zhang Yang is an extremely loyal person. He risked offending Gongsun Zan to let Xianbei enter the border because of the request of a friend from a senior official. Now that he heard that his close friend Lu Bu was almost killed, he clenched his fists and said angrily: "
This thief Yuan Benchu is truly abominable!"
"well."
Lu Bu sighed again and raised his glass with melancholy on his face.
Zhang Yang smashed his fist on the table and said angrily: "Fengxian, since this thief can't tolerate you, why don't you just rebel against him? If you raise your troops, I will be the first to respond!"
"Rebellion against him?"
Lu Bu shook his head: "Although Yuan Shao owns Jizhou now, how can I compare with how powerful it is? Even the 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command are his people. So I have to be in fear all day long, fearing that Yuan Shao will defeat Liu Bei."
That's when I'll die."
Raise a counter-flag?
I am afraid that the 20,000 Jizhou soldiers under his command can eat him alive in an instant.
"In this case, we can't stay here, so we will go somewhere else. This world is so big, is there no place for us?"
Zhang Yang was furious. He had always been loyal and a straightforward man. Now that he saw his best friend being humiliated like this, how could he endure it?
However, it was a good thing that he didn't mention it. When he mentioned Lu Bu, he felt even more uncomfortable. He said bitterly: "I have a grudge against Liu Bei. Qingzhou, Youzhou, Luoyang, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Jingzhou are not allowed to go. Guanzhong is the enemy of the whole world, so I can only go to Xuzhou to vote for Tao Qian."
, or go to Huainan to join Yuan Shu. But I don’t know if these two people will tolerate me."
"this......"
Zhang Yang suddenly remembered that Lu Bu had made too many enemies following Dong Zhuo in his early years, and there seemed to be few places in the world where he could be tolerated.
Not to mention Qingzhou and Luoyang, they are the territory of Liu Bei and the imperial court. As for Youzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Jingzhou, that is, Gongsun Zan, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Liu Biao are all loyal to the Luoyang imperial court and are allies with Liu Bei. They mainly attack the two Yuan and
Tao Qian allied with Yuan Shu.
Therefore, Lu Bu could not go to these places. Yuan Shu was a member of the Yuan family. Although he did not know how good or bad the relationship between the two was, Lu Bu was still a little afraid that Yuan Shao would let Yuan Shu secretly remove him. Therefore, the only possibility left was to go to Xuzhou.
Since Lu Bu didn't know about Tao Qian's defeat yet, he had been thinking about this issue before Zhang Yang came. But if he went to Xuzhou, he would have to pass through Yanzhou, and Lu Bu didn't know if Cao Cao would let him go.
You can tell with just your toes that Cao Cao would never let an army pass by his territory without hesitation, not to mention that Lu Bu had once attacked Yanzhou and had a grudge against Cao Cao.
So when Lu Bu thought of this, he couldn't help but feel despair.
His intelligence is definitely not high, he has no strategy, and he cannot think too far.
But just by thinking about the surrounding situation with a normal person's thinking, you should understand how difficult the environment he is in is.
As far as the eye can see, there are enemies all around.
Yuan Shao in the north could not tolerate him, Cao Cao was his enemy in the south, Guan Yu was his enemy in the west, and Liu Bei was his enemy in the east.
Living in such a troubled world is like being trapped in a very small world. Even if you have all the strength in your body, it is difficult to exert it.
All this made Lu Bu feel more and more depressed, and he resorted to drinking to drown his sorrows all day long, doing nothing.
Although his friend Zhang Yang was angry, he was not a wise man. After seeing that Lu Bu seemed to be unable to go anywhere, like a dragon trapped in a shallow beach, he had no choice but to smash the table again, with a look of grief and anger.
Both of them sighed and drank quickly. If you have wine today, you will be drunk today, no matter if the roof is frosted tomorrow. Since you can't think of a way, let's just stay drunk for the time being.
"General, general!"
At this moment, Wei Xu's voice suddenly came from outside the hall, and soon after, people entered the house.
Lu Bu looked up at him in confusion and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Someone from Luoyang said that he has something to do and wants to meet with the general!"
Wei Xu said.
"A visitor from Luoyang?"
Lu Bu woke up instantly and looked at Zhang Yang.
They have a hostile relationship with Luoyang. What does it mean for someone to come here at this time?
"General, how should we deal with it?"
Wei Xu asked.
How to deal with it means killing him, driving him away, or inviting him in.
Zhang Yang said: "Since Fengxian's incident happened when the dragon was trapped in the shallows and there was no way out, we might as well listen to what the people from Luoyang said first."
"That's fine!"
Lu Bu nodded and said to Wei Xu, "Let him come in."
Wei Xu went out for a while, and after a while, a middle-aged scribe, about forty or so, wearing cotton clothes and holding an oil-paper umbrella, walked in slowly into the corridor outside the hall.
Lu Bu and Zhang Yang both looked outside the door and saw the man slowly put away his umbrella, shook it off from the wind and snow, and placed it casually on the corridor before walking into the hall.
Seeing a table of wine bottles, Wei Jian chuckled lightly, bent down and held his hands in his hands, saying to the two of them, "I wonder who you two are?"
He didn't know Lu Bu, nor Zhang Yang.
Lu Bu did not answer, but asked: "Who are you?"
After hearing the inquiry, Wei Jian knew something in his mind and said, "Wei Jian has met General Lu."
"you know me?"
Lu Bu was confused, he had never seen this person before.
Wei smiled covetously and said: "In this Dangyin County Mansion, there are only two people sitting on the main seat, and General Lu speaks, so naturally he knows who the general is."
In ancient times, there was a strong emphasis on superiority and inferiority, and distinction between host and guest. Although Lu Bu and Zhang Yang had a very good relationship, they sat on the same table.
But the problem is that this is Lu Bu's territory after all. Zhang Yang can't answer the question on Lu Bu's behalf, so as soon as Lu Bu opens his mouth, Wei Ji already knows who the owner of this place is.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! With a small show of his strength, Lu Bu no longer looked down upon Wei Xi, and began to become serious, saying: "You are a guest, please take a seat!"
"Thank you, General!"
Wei Jian sat on the seat next to him, looking at Zhang Yang with a smile.
Zhang Yang was stunned by his stare and said, "I am Zhang Yang, the governor of Shangdang!"
"It turns out to be Governor Zhang. I have admired him for a long time."
Wei Jian was polite.
What he said was not a compliment. After all, Zhang Yang had criticized Dong and gained some reputation.
Lu Bu looked at him condescendingly and said, "Are you from Luoyang?"
Wei Jian said seriously: "Yes, and no."
"Is that so?"
Lu Bu frowned. Dealing with these literati was troublesome, and it was not pleasant at all.
Wei Jian smiled and said: "In front of the general, that is. But if I leave this house, I will only say that I am just an ordinary person and I will never represent the Luoyang court."
Lu Bu couldn't understand, so he asked, "Why?"
"Forehead......"
Wei Jian thought for a while and said: "Because there are some things that can only be done but not acknowledged."
"for example?"
"For example, you and I should be enemies, but now we are sitting here chatting and plotting something. It would not be good if outsiders knew about it."
"You literati are really..."
Lu Bu curled his lips and made so many fancy things that people couldn't understand. It was really annoying.
Wei Jian smiled and said: "Please forgive me, General. Jing is also a helpless act."
"Okay, okay, let's talk about it, what's the point of coming here?"
Lu Bu waved his hands. He just wanted to know what Wei Qi was doing and no longer wanted to play riddles with him.
Wei Jian looked at Lu Bu, then at Zhang Yang, and suddenly smiled.
He opened his lips slightly and slowly uttered a few words.
"Jiang, I want to invite a general to attack Yanzhou!"