Chapter 118

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When the large palm covered with thin calluses took advantage of the cover of the low table and the train of the robe to furtively touch the smooth and delicate calves, gently rubbing them with a sense of intimacy, Yan Qing, who was concentrating on discussing the strategic deployment with Guo Jia, reflexively shuddered.

Since the skin with Lu Bu, the other side of the self-control in this regard has plummeted, regardless of the occasion to move their hands and feet has been a common occurrence, but also from time to time to identify some fresh places, and then pestered Yan Qing with him to do that unspeakable pleasure thing.

Yan Qing, who was initially uncomfortable with his sudden attacks, was also forced to gradually get used to his restlessness.

Fortunately, Guo Jia failed to notice his momentary stiffness, and he quickly returned to normal, returning his mind to the important matters, undisturbed by Lu Bu's inch-by-inch harassment - the latter, too, was rarely cunning, and always maintained a degree of tolerance, taking advantage of the situation.

It is at night, after a comfortable bath Yan Qing, to the heart to come up to embrace him Lu Bu to come to a settlement of old scores: smiling and looking for a grand excuse, it is inconvenient to share the same bed with Lu Bu.

In the sleepless commander-in-chief full of resentment, the army still smoothly in the Si time to start.

The body of these men of letters and strategists, as important as their own eyes Yan Qing always determined that Guo Jia's physique is on the weak side, not suitable for horseback riding, naturally, it is better to take the mikoshi for good.

Connected to the city county of some of the main arteries, is early in the conviction that 'want to be rich first repair roads' Yan Qing advocate on the repair is very flat, he also set aside half a day before, to these precious ministers designed a good-looking, shock-absorbing anti-collision function of the excellent car driving, make sure to call them less bumpy, sitting comfortably.

This moment will come in handy - can make really disgusted in the journey uprooted hard Jia agreed to go to Chang'an business trip, these carriages undoubtedly credit.

Guo Jia was meaningless, because he was destined to be left behind, Yan Qing simply made a companion of Liu Ye, who designed the thunderbolt car and was also very accomplished in internal affairs, and helped to take care of the queue in charge of transporting those bulky and heavy siege equipment assembly parts, and only then did he settle down and traveled with Lu Bu in the front.

The most impressive thing about the famous Battle of Guandu in history is the burning of Wu Chao, which was the key to the reversal of Yuan's food cuts.

This brings us to Xu You, the strategist under Yuan Shao's tent who is Cao Cao's old friend. At first, Xu You's people caught Cao Cao's emissary who was sent to Xuchang to urge him to take advantage of the shortage of food, and he was so happy to learn that Cao Cao's camp was short of food that he immediately informed Yuan Shao of the incident and urged him to take advantage of the situation to attack quickly. But when Yuan Shao was so eager to attack Cao that he didn't want to listen to his advice, and his family members were taken into custody for embezzlement, Xu You, in a fit of pique, rebelled against Yuan and threw himself to Cao Cao, revealing to Cao Cao that Wuchao was the location of Yuan Shao's army's provisions.

As the saying goes, there is nothing more poisonous than extinction of food, when there is no food to eat, the greater the number of soldiers, the more it becomes a talisman of death, the loss of Wuchao, the army is disorganized, and then robbed the camp to make up for the knife, but not Yuan Shao routed a thousand miles?

Yan Qing naturally could not fail to collect experience from the blood lesson of the predecessor, knowing that grain and grass were so important, he had to strengthen his precautions beforehand.

First of all do not put all the eggs in one basket, rather trouble some, the granary is divided into four or five, even if one or two road unfortunately lost, does not affect the overall situation; granary are recommended by Gao Shun's loyal and reliable, do not like drinking martial arts generals to guard, along the way the equipment has a sentry pigeon sentry; set out a few columns of light cavalry to take the initiative to attack, nuisance Yuan's grain transportation line; barracks guarded tightly, no letter shall not go out at will, to reduce the leakage of information may be ......

As for Xu You, there are those of his family members who are very restless, stirring up trouble all over the place, and are about to be exposed at any time, so he can undoubtedly try to make use of them; there is also that Guo Tu, who likes to shirk his responsibilities and pit his own teammates against each other, and who has historically falsely accused Zhang He of surrendering to Cao Cao, but as long as he operates properly, he is not afraid of not being of any great use.

It seems that compared to the Cao army, which was united after the Yanzhou disaster, Yuan Shao's army really has a lot of "talents".

Yan Qing did not expect Xu You to be willing to join Lu Bu when he was in the same predicament: he did not hesitate to turn to Cao Cao in history, and a big reason was that they had been old friends, and they knew him well, and knew that he would not want to miss a great opportunity to fight, and that he would pay attention to his opinion, and only then did he do so with peace of mind.

If he were to replace Lu Bu, who is unknown to him and has a reputation for being fierce, I am afraid Xu You would not be so bold.

Unless he is pushed to the point where he has to go ......

Specifically how to operate, Yan Qing temporarily have no clue, think for a while unsuccessful, directly gave up on the matter of entanglement, ready to stay until Guo Jia, Chen Gong and Jia Yan and other people to do after the thought.

Yes, Yan Qing was finally able to bring Chen Gong with him this time with satisfaction.

He naturally raised his eyes to look at Lu Bu, and unexpectedly was little startled: Lu Bu, who was at the front of the line, did not know when he intentionally lagged behind by a few horse lengths, and almost walked side by side with him, and now his eyes were still silently staring at him, with a gaze that was as sharp as a falcon's, and was obviously playing with some idea.

Close to Zhu is red, close to ink is black, his oily fur mount Red Rabbit seems to have been infected with the master's restlessness, next to the snowy buckskin pacing quickly when the big fiery red head also refused to be idle.

Every now and then, intentionally or unintentionally come over, have to touch the walking upright, straight posture of the white horse, called it crooked on a crooked, to this teasing action is very happy and tired.

The snowy buckskin has a proud and cold look, most of the time it is lazy to pay attention to it, only when there are too many times, it can not stand it hard to hit back.

Yan Qing patted the neck of the snowy buckskin that was getting agitated, and wisely did not ask Lu Bu what he was looking at him for, so as not to give the other party a reason to flirt with him, but only coughed lightly as if nothing had happened, and gently clipped the horse's belly, telling the snowy buckskin to accelerate its pace forward.

Lu Bu was leading the center army, and when they arrived at Guandu, it was already ten days later.

At this moment, Yuan and Cao's allied forces had already engaged Zhang Liao and Gan Ning, who were in front of them.

Yuan Shao's routine is not much different from that of history in general, both pursuing a pre-emptive strike, with the army stationed at the port of Liyang, while the vanguard Yan Liang and Wen Chou were ordered to cross the river, striking Baima and Yanjin in one stroke.

Cao Cao then sends Cao Ren, Shi Lax, and Yu Ban, each with 2,000 men, to support his attack.

Although the Lu Bu potential early on Yuan Shao potential southward invasion of some defense, but to send heavy troops to guard all the river ports, that is not generally unrealistic, only in the especially important several river ports more troops, each place can not be more than the number of three thousand.

At this moment, both the battle opportunity and the numerical superiority, at this time are pinched in the hands of Yuan Cao, who initiated the attack, and has already crossed the Yellow River.

Hurriedly rushed to the aid of Zhang Liao and Gan Ning are both newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, brave and good at fighting, the force is superb, against that doubly Yuan Shao's eyes, experienced in hundreds of battles, and repeatedly won the battle of Yan Liang and Wen Chou two generals, but also in the dozen or so times to get the upper hand, so that they are difficult to fight.

Unfortunately, this is not before the war that called the battle in the array of fighting, but the real short combat, rapping Yan Liang and Wen Chou were encountered Zhang Liao Gan Ning, and its battle ten rounds, shocked at their own invincibility of the two milky boy, but also in the army to meet the retreat, to avoid its sharpness.

Zhang Liao heart hate their own strength is not good, even if he went out and suffered a few serious injuries, it is not possible with the tide of surging rush to the enemy army in the decapitation of the Marshal, only to give up, but also be suppressed to death, the only thing is to retreat, only to fight to delay the time, do not call them to take the two places.

By the time Lu Bu arrived, the entire situation of being caught in a passive response was turned around.

Unfortunately, not waiting for him to turn on the berserk mode and kill into the battle formation with the momentum of a rainbow, the other side saw that the center army led by the enemy had already arrived, and the morale of the other side was so low that they actually didn't care about the battle, and immediately withdrew to the camp on the other end of the Yellow River antenna.

Worried that the red-eyed Lu Bu would chase him across the river regardless, Yan Qing hurriedly persuaded him, "My Lord, don't be in a hurry to go after him!"

Not to mention whether or not Cao Cao's orderly retreat is a deliberate ploy to lure the enemy into a deeper hole, but even for themselves, without knowing how many men are in the camp, it's never a good time to go to war.

Lu Bu's army ran all the way here, the soldiers and horses are exhausted, urgent need to camp and rest; Zhang Liao and Gan Ning's army is even more needless to say, almost everyone hangs color, only with a breath of support, but also can't cover up the fact that it is the end of the crossbow.

Although Lu Bu still narrowed his eyes and surveyed the rolling river, holding the cold light shining square sky painting halberd in his hand, bulging za-zha, containing horrible strength of the tendon meat taut, body slightly leaning forward, the murderous aura can be seen vaguely.

He looked like he was ready to fight and the storm was coming, but the Red Rabbit, which had a telepathic connection with its master, remained motionless.

"Chong Guang rest assured." In a moment, Lu Bu withdrew his gaze toward the other side of the river and said in a calm and unusual tone, "Would Bu commit such a foolish act on impulse?"

Yan Qing couldn't help but be stunned for a moment as it dawned on her heart when she came into contact with his confident and non-arrogant gaze.

I do my own way, stubborn, headstrong, capricious, light cunning and suspicious, profit-oriented, nepotism, harsh treatment of subordinates, the importance of courage and light talent, uncertainty, covetousness ...... Lu Bu body that a whole lot of people criticized the stink of faults, has been unknowingly disappeared.

It is just that this little bit of accumulation is subtle, and not very obvious to Yan Qing, who spends a lot of time with him: especially when it comes to discussing politics, Lu Bu still favors reticence.

So much so that although Yan Qing occasionally marveled at Lu Bu's mastery in mastering his subordinates, and rejoiced at the talent displayed in his occasional opinions, he seldom, as now, deeply felt this earth-shattering difference in his bones.

Once the tiger was dislocated, leaning on his own pride, relying on the strength of the force, watching the situation that the victory is assured, recklessly chasing the poor bandits, followed by the opportunity to pass by with the feeling of remorse.

It's not hard to think that such a mistake would be impossible to make on today's Lu Bu, for fear.

"The whole army retreated and camped on the spot, no half-steps in pursuit!"

Unaware of the thousands of sighs in Yan Qing's heart, Lu Bu, with his head held high and his belly closed, gave a mighty blast, and managed to make the red-eyed Zhang Liao and the rest of the killers wake up and braked their feet without hesitation.

When the camp is officially set up and the two armies are facing each other across the sky risk, Yan Qing is not in a hurry to listen to Zhang Liao Gan Ning's report to Lu Bu in the main tent, but first goes to the tent where the wounded soldiers are, and sees that the newly formed 'Wound Supporting Battalion' is functioning well, so that the wounded soldiers and generals are effectively treated, before he settles down and goes to look for Lu Bu and the others.