SWDnovel Chapter 85 Lü Bolongyang?
Chapter 85 Lü Bolongyang?
Chapter 85 Lü Bolongyang?
The day after Lü Ping demanded the money from Cheng and Han.
With a command from Tian Yan, the general who had defeated the Xianbei.
The army finally left Beiyu City and headed towards the desolate frontier, where there were no more Han Chinese cities.
The Han army of over 10,000 men was fully armored, and even the infantry and archers were equipped with crossbows.
In addition to the more than 10,000 Han soldiers, there were also five or six thousand Wuhuan cavalrymen, personally led by the Wuhuan chieftain Qiuliju, along with more than 10,000 laborers and various Hu tribes.
Along Tianyan alone, there were tens of thousands of people heading towards the Danhan Mountain in the north!
The sound was deafening, stretching for miles, and stirring up clouds of dust everywhere.
The army marched out of the pass.
Baili.
Three hundred enemies defeated!
Five hundred li.
Destroy a thousand enemies!
One thousand five hundred li.
A great victory was achieved, defeating three thousand enemy soldiers!
They have been outside the border for more than ten days.
They also encountered more than ten skirmishes of various sizes, almost all of which ended in overwhelming victories for the Han army.
Seeing that the supposedly powerful Xianbei people were so easily defeated, the Han soldiers were filled with excitement, thinking of sealing the wolf's lair and advancing straight into the enemy territory.
It was only a little over ten days.
They then pursued the group of Xianbei people, having already traveled a thousand miles beyond the Great Wall!
at this time.
With the end of a very small skirmish, the fighting came to a halt, the army rested, and a few soldiers, led by their officers, were responsible for cleaning up the battlefield.
It was in one corner of this densely packed military camp.
Han Dang, wearing a bronze seal and yellow ribbon at his waist, looked cautious as he repeatedly plunged his long sword, which already had some chips in it, into the bones of the Xianbei people.
To avoid any fish that deliberately play dead slipping through the net and deliver a heavy blow to us.
"Demou." While wiping, he suddenly looked up at Cheng Pu to the side, his face full of confusion.
"I suddenly remembered that you said a while ago that our reputations wouldn't be bad, right?"
"How come... it's only been a short time since we left the border, and the army has already been filled with your infamous reputation, saying that you and Lü Bu were in cahoots when you were in Beiyu City."
"Intentionally swindling them out of their money and goods!"
"And they even say that we men from Youzhou are nothing but money-grubbers!"
One side.
Cheng Pu, who was mentally calculating the casualties of his own troops, twitched at the corner of his mouth upon hearing this.
How could he have imagined that Lü Ping, Lü Zizhi, who was the military commander of a thousand-stone army and had recently gained considerable fame, nicknamed "the one who ruins families," would take the initiative to ask the general for him and Han Dang?
Because his superior, Gao Lan, was reluctant to part with his troop of light cavalry from Youzhou, Commander Lü was even willing to exchange an entire troop of elite troops for him, which finally made Gao Lan relent.
Even Han Dang, who had just arrived, was appointed as a garrison leader by Sima Lü, directly leading a hundred men.
This was supposedly because Lu Sima, who had lost his wife and had not remarried for a long time, was so fond of him and Han Dang, and also because he and Han Dang were quite good-looking.
Rumors inevitably circulate in the military, such as... rumors about homosexuality.
I don't know who started this rumor.
That's good now.
Not only did his former superior, Gao Lan, look at him strangely, but even his comrades in the army often saw him behind his back doing something.
This has caused Cheng Pu a lot of headaches lately.
He wanted to defend himself, but he didn't know how.
after all...
Rumors aside, Lu Ping, the military commander who liked to hold hands and talk with good men to show his closeness, never actually did anything like sneaking into his own camp in the middle of the night.
"Don't overthink it." At this moment, facing Han Dang's question, Cheng Pu took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the thoughts in his heart.
"Let's just do our own thing and let others say what they want."
"If we win this battle, when we return, based on our merits, even if we don't get rich and our families rewarded, we can certainly become officials with a salary of 600 shi (a unit of grain measure)!"
Hearing the words of his fellow townsman from Youzhou, who was always more resourceful and of a better background than him, Han Dang's anxiety immediately dissipated.
Imagining himself returning home in glory after the battle, he touched the bronze seal and yellow ribbon at his waist, and his movements became even more forceful.
Just as Cheng Pu and Han Dang, who had just joined Lü Ping's ranks, banded together and, under the leadership of Li Hong, who had been sidelined, were cleaning up the battlefield.
Another place.
Inside a hastily erected tent.
Lu Ping, dressed in armor, sat in the main seat.
Lü Bu, Cheng Lian, Cao Xing, Wei Yue, Wei Xu, and Song Xian were all armored and stood casually in the tent, without any particular order.
"Father, what brings you here?!" Lu Bu asked curiously, holding a long, silver-white sword made of meteorite iron.
This long spear was a gift from Tian Yan, the general who defeated the Xianbei.
Some time ago, during a Cuju (ancient Chinese football) match, Lü Bu led a group of Wuyuan wandering knights to defeat all the other teams.
As the victor, Tian Yan, despite Lü Ping's concerns, personally received the group of wandering knights from Wuyuan and distributed a considerable amount of money and goods to each of them.
Since becoming the garrison leader, Lü Bu had looked down on money and goods. When he saw that Tian Yan was going to give him money and goods, he immediately shouted that he would teach Tian Yan to exchange some things for him.
Look at Lü Bu's arrogant appearance.
Tian Yan was not angry at all; on the contrary, he was even more delighted. He said that a good man should be equipped with a sharp weapon, and on the spot, he ordered someone to bring him the long spear he used in Liangzhou and gave it to Lü Bu.
Looking down at the long spear in his eldest son's hand, Lü Ping looked away and scanned the generals in front of him, his voice slightly questioning.
"There's nothing really important that I called you all here."
"I have a feeling that something's not right with our recent marches, but I don't know exactly what it is. I was wondering if any of you have had a similar feeling."
This statement came out.
The generals looked at each other in bewilderment, completely unaware of what their military commander was saying.
A moment of silence.
Seeing that Lü Bu, who should have been the first to speak, looked completely bewildered, Cheng Lian hesitated for a moment before stepping forward and speaking hesitantly.
"Lian does have a similar feeling..."
"Does Sima feel that this campaign has gone a little too smoothly?"
"Yes!" Lu Ping's eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly.
"That's the feeling!"
"Although I know that our Han army is very strong, it shouldn't be this smooth, right? We've fought more than ten battles and have almost no defeats."
"As far as I remember, the Xianbei people were not weak! Otherwise, they wouldn't have invaded the south every year, leaving our border areas sparsely populated."
"It's been so long, it's about time for a tough battle to begin, isn't it?"
talking.
A look of worry appeared on Lü Ping's face. He lowered his voice and spoke again.
"Yesterday I went to the Zahu area and found Kebineng and Na'erlu to inquire about the situation."
"Do you know how many miles we've traveled north this time?"
"How many miles?" Cheng Lian stopped talking, and Lü Bu asked curiously.
"Unbeknownst to us, we have already advanced nearly two thousand miles north!" Lü Ping's expression suddenly turned cold, and his voice rose.
"At this distance, if those Xianbei people amass their forces and cut off our supplies, very few of the tens of thousands of us traveling this route will make it back alive!"