Chapter 29 Different People Use Different Methods
Lu Bu and Zhang Liao led five hundred soldiers all the way.
Wherever they went, the cities that had once devoted themselves to Ji Ling opened their gates one after another.
The officials knelt on both sides of the city gate in fear, not even a person who dared to look up.
Ji Ling led his army to Xia Pi, and officials along the way offered the city one after another.
In the battle of Louting, Lu Bu won five hundred and five thousand, and everyone in the city was in danger.
According to the impression of officials from all over the country, Lu Bu has been getting worse in recent years.
As I grow older, my bravery is not as good as before, and my courage is much smaller.
More and more people believe that following Lu Bu will have no future, so that the Huainan army will surrender without fighting after entering Xuzhou.
No one would have thought that Lu Bu could defeat the most with a small margin on the Louping battlefield and lead a mere 500 men to defeat 5,000 Huainan Army.
No one expected that Lu Bu, who appeared in front of them, was no longer a middle-aged hero, but a young war god who looked at at most seventeen or eighteen years old.
The officials were in danger, but Lu Bu did not punish them and ordered them to continue to take charge of the place after admonishment.
The officials who escaped death were grateful and witnessed Lu Bu's changes with their own eyes. How could they dare to have any unfair intentions!
The team continued to go south, and Lu Bu's next destination was Xu Guo, the southernmost part of Xia Pi.
Xu State is only more than 200 miles away from Huainan. Every time Yuan Shu enters Xuzhou, the county town will surrender first.
They never made a decent resistance.
Like the city that Lu Bu passed by, the magistrate of Xuguo and the officials knelt outside the city gate.
Ji Ling was defeated and passed by outside the city.
In Lou Ting, Lu Bu won a great victory, and everyone under the county magistrate was nervous.
I closed the city gate and couldn't stand it for a few days.
I welcomed Lu Bu into the city, but I don’t know what kind of punishment I would be punished.
Just when the officials from Xu State did not know what to do, they received news that Lu Bu did not severely punish any officials along the way.
The officials breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Bu came outside Xuguo City, and the county magistrate led officials from all over the city to greet him.
Kneeling at the city gate, the officials were trembling, and none of them dared to look up.
The horse's hooves are getting closer and closer.
When Lu Bu was about to reach the city gate, the county magistrate raised his butt and shouted loudly: "General Lu is mighty!"
The officials followed closely and shouted with mighty force.
The sound of hooves stopped, and the officials clearly felt a powerful pressure running through the top of their heads to their heels.
The red horse legs were right in front of the county magistrate.
Kneeling on the ground, he could only see a few thick hooves.
"Are you the county magistrate here?" The cold voice made the county magistrate shudder.
"Report to the general, that's right!" The person who knew that the question was Lu Bu, the county magistrate dared not raise his head and replied tremblingly.
“How many years have you done it?”
"It's been five years."
"Five years are not short. Have you witnessed several wars?" Lu Bu sneered: "When Yuan Shu attacked Liu Xuande, Xu Guo was the first to offer the city. Last time he sent troops to attack Xuzhou, you were the first to offer the city. Ji Ling came, and I thought you could hold on for two days and planned to lead troops to help, but I didn't expect you to do anything and surrender to the enemy again."
"Xu Guo's military soldier, if you defend yourself, you may not be able to hold on for a day. Please let the general know how to understand!" Feeling something wrong, the county magistrate quickly defended: "I also endured humiliation and had to do this for the sake of the people in the city."
"It seems that you have made contributions not only without any mistakes, but with no merits." Lu Bu asked: "How many warriors are there?"
The county magistrate knelt behind the county magistrate and replied tremblingly: "Report to the general, Xu Guoke has only more than 120 soldiers."
"I will lead 500 people to defeat Ji Ling at Louting." Lu Bu said: "We can still win without a city, and we have no food and supplies. The Xu State may not have much grain reserve, so it should not be difficult to support it for one or two months. But 120 soldiers and city walls are protected, so it is not difficult to defend for three or five days. But you surrender without fighting and gave the city to the enemy!"
Hearing that Lu Bu was not good at speaking, the officials were trembling all over.
The weather in early spring is relatively cold, and the clothes on many officials' backs are still soaked in cold sweat.
"Come!" Lu Bu shouted: "Tie the county magistrate and the county magistrate, drag it down and behead him in public!"
Unexpectedly, Lu Bu wanted to kill them. The county magistrate and the county magistrate raised their heads in surprise, while the other officials were even lowered, trembling like sieves.
Seeing Lu Bu clearly, the county magistrate and county magistrate were stunned.
The contour of the face can be vaguely seen as Lu Bu.
But this face is too young!
He is handsome and mighty and heroic. He is simply a young martial arts god. Where can anyone look decadent when he is middle-aged?
The two of them opened their mouths in shock, unable to believe that the scene in front of them was true.
Four soldiers stepped forward, one of them was two, and they set up the county magistrate and county magistrate to drag it away.
"General, what are we guilty?" the county magistrate struggled and shouted, "Why do we need to kill us?"
"How dare you say that you are not guilty if you offer the city to surrender to the enemy?" Lu Bu glared.
"We want to see General Lu!" the county magistrate shouted, "Please let General Lu decide for us!"
"I am Lu Bu. You don't know each other when you stand in front of me!" Lu Bu shouted, "Drag it down and chop it!"
The soldiers carried the county magistrate and county magistrate and dragged them away like a dead dog.
When the county magistrate and county magistrate were dragged away, they were still shouting "unfairly" unwillingly.
After a while, the soldier came back with two heads: "General, the two have been killed."
The officials kneeling at the city gate watched the county magistrate and county magistrate be killed. Who would not be afraid of bad luck coming to their heads? Their bodies were shaking even more violently.
"Get up." Lu Bu entered the city and walked past them.
Until the last soldier walked into Xuguo County, most of the officials still couldn't stand up.
It’s not that they don’t want to get up, but that their legs are as weak as noodles cooked in water, and they can’t support their bodies.
After entering Xu State, Zhang Liao asked Lu Bu: "Why didn't Wen Hou kill officials in the previous cities, but he just went to Xu State to kill him?"
"The previous cities also tried hard to block the enemy." Lu Bu said: "Now they think that my situation is over, so they did such a thing. The so-called "treatment of money" cannot be blamed on them. This time, they are let go because I really have no one available. Xu Guo is different. Yuan Shu sent troops to Xuzhou several times, and the county magistrate always opens the city to surrender, and he never even intends to resist. If they are spared, they will do the same thing next time. Different methods must be used to treat different people. Like the county magistrate of Xu Guo and the county magistrate, what's the use of me to keep them?"
"They deserve to die." Zhang Liao understood Lu Bu's intention.
"Do you think we can take Huainan with 500 people?" Lu Bu suddenly asked.
Chapter completed!