Volume 1 Jiangdong Fengyun Chapter 25: Lu Bu's Past
"Ding Yuan... Dong Zhuo..." Lu Bu rarely got up at night and sat by the bed.
Diao Chan, who was beside him, was startled. She saw Lu Bu sitting there with sleepy eyes, and stood up to put the blanket on his shoulders - even though she knew that this guy would not feel cold even if he was thrown into an ice hole.
At the same time, he hugged Lu Bu from behind and said, "Are you thinking about the past again?"
Lu Bu said nothing, but patted his hands around his chest...
Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun were all born in Bingzhou. Lu Bu was gifted and three years younger than Zhang Liao. When Lu Bu was seven years old, he went out of the city to play without permission under the leadership of Zhang Liao, the king of children. As a result, he encountered a group of vicious Qiang bandits.
Zhang Liao was already ten years old at the time, and had been exposed to military tactics, so he was more active in thinking. He quickly organized everyone to disguise their footprints while escaping, and then hide on the side of the road.
Li Su, who was traveling with them, suggested leading the bandits away by himself, and without waiting for others to stop him, he escaped alone along the disguised footprints.
Unexpectedly, just when he was about to succeed, a snake crawled to his feet and Gao Shun couldn't help but scream out, which exposed his whereabouts... Many friends were killed in front of them!
It was also from then on that Gao Shun was left with a psychological trauma and never spoke loudly again, and even rarely showed his emotions. Zhang Liao also became much more stable, but at the same time, a hidden murderous aura developed in his bones.
It was at that time that Lu Bu awakened the military talisman - he awakened the military talisman on his own without the help of Cheng Ji!
Then, the seven-year-old Lu Bu showed his might, not only sweeping away ordinary bandits, but even killing their leader - an adult Qiang man who also wore armor...
However, of the original nine companions, only four were left. In addition to Lu Bu, Gao Shun, and Zhang Liao, there was only Li Su.
Because the others were discovered, Li Su, who wanted to sacrifice himself, saved his life.
Later, Li Su, who escaped with his life, moved his family out of Bingzhou. Lu Bu and the other two were left with psychological trauma to varying degrees, and they also hated the Qiang people very much.
A few years later, after Zhang Liao's father was killed in a battle with the Qiang people, all three of them joined the army.
Because of his great strength, Lü Bu quickly became a lieutenant, and was even appreciated by Ding Yuan, the governor and cavalry commander at the time, and was adopted as his son...
Ding Yuan mostly took advantage of Lu Bu, which was known to Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and others, but they didn't care much. At least with Ding Yuan as his adoptive father, Lu Bu had a lot of conveniences in the army, which made it easier for him to vent his anger towards the Qiang people who invaded Bingzhou.
However, something happened afterwards. In a battle, Ding Yuan did not listen to Zhang Liao's advice and commanded his troops to advance rashly. In the end, in order to rescue Ding Yuan, Lu Bu attacked the Qiang people's defense line, leaving the rear empty, and several looting Qiang bandits entered Bingzhou...
Lu Bu's wife Yan Ke'er was not in the city at the time and died in the chaos. Before she died, she hid Lu Lingqi in a water tank, which saved her infant daughter's life!
After Lu Bu returned, he was filled with regret, and this incident became a permanent rift between Ding Yuan and Lu Bu.
Although Lü Bu saved Ding Yuan's life, whenever he thought of Lü Bu's wife who died because of his wrong decision, especially after Lü Bu rejected his marriage proposal, Ding Yuan felt uneasy and began to suppress Lü Bu. When he entered the capital to attack Dong, Lü Bu actually served as the chief clerk...
At that time, Li Su was working under Dong Zhuo. After learning about Lu Bu's affairs, he went to Ding Yuan's army alone to instigate Lu Bu to rebel.
At the beginning, although Li Su sent the top-level armor driving engine trained by Red Hare, Lu Bu was not moved by it. Instead, he was very disappointed with Li Su - the loyal Li Su actually thought that he would turn against him?
This almost caused Lü Bu to fall out with Li Su, but then Ding Yuan discovered Li Su and forced Lü Bu to kill Li Su to show his true feelings...
Naturally, Lu Bu refused to do so. When Ding Yuan was about to call for the guards and Lu Bu tried to stop him, Li Su actually killed Ding Yuan!
Now only Lü Bu, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun knew about this. Lü Bu saw that the matter was already done. In order to prevent the Bingzhou army from rioting and killing Li Su, he directly claimed that he was dissatisfied with Ding Yuan and killed him...
With Lu Bu's prestige in the Bingzhou army, except for Ding Yuan's personal guards, most of the other generals tacitly agreed that Lu Bu would replace Ding Yuan. Then... Lu Bu entered Luoyang, joined Dong Zhuo's army, and met the second woman he loved deeply.
However, under the calculations of all parties, this woman...Diao Chan, was actually forcibly married to Dong Zhuo.
At first, Lu Bu did not have the heart to rebel, until after the battle of Hulao Pass, when Lu Bu was fighting one against three, he vaguely felt that he had reached an unprecedented realm after thinking he had reached the peak!
At this time, he also vaguely felt that he was mentally restrained...
After returning to Luoyang, Dong Zhuo tyrannically abducted the emperor, destroyed the city and went west. His attitude towards Lu Bu became increasingly strange, and Lu Bu's feelings became increasingly intense.
There were even several times when Lu Bu strongly suspected that Dong Zhuo deliberately allowed Diao Chan, whom he had forced to marry, to meet him, and even deliberately summoned him when he was intimate with Diao Chan...
Until one night, the seriously injured Li Su suddenly came to Lu Bu's door and told him the truth - Dong Zhuo possessed a special tactic called "accumulated prestige", the effect of which was to increase the loyalty of his subjects and subordinates by giving them mental oppression, and... as the degree of oppression increased, he could cooperate with another tactic "Demon Lord" to absorb part of his subordinates' abilities!
Li Su's previous rebellion against Lu Bu was the result of Dong Zhuo's mental suppression.
Li Su's inner resistance was not strong enough to just incite Lu Bu to rebel.
However, in order to obtain Lu Bu's military power, Dong Zhuo deliberately humiliated him, causing Li Su to resist fiercely mentally. And because Dong Zhuo had recently consumed almost all of his mental energy on "accumulating prestige" over Lu Bu, his control over other people had decreased, so Li Su briefly got rid of the influence!
But he was discovered by Dong Zhuo, who was sending people to arrest him!
At this time, Dong Zhuo came with a team of Flying Bear Guards that he specially trained to capture Li Su. Gao Shun and Zhang Liao confronted him with the Xianzhen Camp. Under Dong Zhuo's "accumulated power", Lu Bu found it difficult to raise the idea of resistance...
But in the end, because of Li Su's self-sacrifice, Lu Bu's fighting spirit broke through the shackles and reached an unprecedented level in one fell swoop. He got rid of the influence of "accumulated prestige" and killed Dong Zhuo!
This marked the beginning of the Chang'an Rebellion.
Although Diao Chan didn't know the whole story of Ding Yuan, after experiencing the events in Chang'an, she believed that Lu Bu must have had his own reasons before...
"I'm different from them... I will definitely be the best godfather!" Lu Bu suddenly grabbed Diao Chan's hand, hugged her, and said as if to encourage himself.
"Puchi! I don't know what you are trying to do..." Diao Chan laughed and hit Lu Bu on the chest.
"But... do you think Lingqi and your adopted son are a good match?" Diao Chan asked after a while.
"Lingqi? They are not a good match, not a good match! Hard Drive is so outstanding, and Lingqi is so stupid...how can they be a good match?" Lu Bu shook his head repeatedly.
Diao Chan: ...
