Volume 1 Jiangdong Fengyun Chapter 65: Lu Zijing
My name is Lu Su, and my courtesy name is Zijing.
I come from a wealthy family, with hundreds of acres of land, dozens of servants, and hundreds of tenants. Moreover, as the head of the family... Among my elders, only my mother and grandmother are still alive. Now I am the patriarch of the Lu family.
During the Yellow Turban Rebellion a few years ago, I went against the majority's opinion and distributed food to my neighbors and helped the poor. Facts have proved that I was right. Money gathers people, so my fellow villagers supported me and followed my command to fight off the invading small group of Yellow Turbans.
Later, the bandits were so aggressive that I had to take my people to the East City of Xia Pi County for temporary refuge .
Who would have thought that in the past two years, Yuan Shu had actually been eyeing Xuzhou, and last month he even controlled Dongcheng County...
Where did this guy hear about me? It is said that he wants me to be the "East City Commander"!
In my opinion, Yuan Shu is a man with great ambitions but little talent. If you follow him, you will definitely be in trouble and your reputation will be ruined.
So I had to move my family again. Although I had been generous and let many uncles and aunts share their property with me, and my land and servants were greatly reduced, I still had a hundred or so young and strong people. So I let the women and children go in front, and I and the young and strong people armed with bows and crossbows followed behind. I thought that even if a small army discovered me, they would not make things difficult for me.
As for the large army...will Yuan Shu send out a large army to capture me now?
Besides, I have obtained a heavenly book since I was young, which gives me the ability to observe the earth's energy. Jiangdong... must be the place where dragons rise!
When Zhou Yu was the prefect of Juchao, I thought he was an extraordinary man. His sworn brother Sun Ce also came from a prominent family in Jiangdong. Yuan Shu could suppress him for a while but not for life. Two years ago, Zhou Yu wanted to borrow grain from me in Juchao, and I directly gave him 3,000 hu of grain. Now my old friend is going to seek refuge with him, I think he will accept it, right?
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"Oh no! Master, someone is chasing us!" Lu Su's general Jia stepped forward and shouted.
At this time, there were five horse-drawn carriages in the front of the team, more than thirty riders holding crossbows and swords, and seventy or eighty young and strong men wearing armor and carrying shields, covering the rear.
However, Lu Su's cavalry were obviously of some quality - they were all real "horses" rather than trained war horses!
A dubo of Yuan Shu's army caught up with Lu Su who was about to leave and shouted from afar: "Lu Su! Don't be so arrogant. My master has kindly recruited you, but you don't know what is good for you. Come back with me now..."
Nadu Bo had just said half of his words when Lu Su drew his bow and shot an arrow at Nadu Bo's feet.
When Lu Su was young, he was also "good at riding and shooting", but he was never as good at martial arts as he was at studying, so he did not awaken the military talisman, but he was very familiar with drawing the bow and arrow.
After Lu Su shot an arrow, seventy or eighty young and strong men threw their shields to the ground and shot at the team of Yuan Shu's soldiers. They had no intention of killing them. Moreover, the other side also intended to stay beyond one arrow, so all the arrows were shot in front of the other side!
"General, the world is in chaos right now. I don't need to say much about the situation in Huainan. You are arresting me for Yuan Shu, but I am just an idler who is unwilling to be appointed by Yuan Shu. How much reward can you get if you catch me? And if you fail to catch me, you just need to go back and say that you didn't see me. Will there be any punishment? On the contrary... if you want to arrest me now, my farmhands and I will not be pushovers!" Lu Su shouted.
The Du Bo, who was wearing wooden and stone armor, looked at the arrows on the open ground in front of him, and then looked at the number and equipment of the enemy and our side. After hesitating for a while, he whispered to the squad leader beside him: "We didn't catch anything!"
However, at this moment, there was a sudden sound of engine explosions, and a group of cavalry suddenly rushed out from behind a small hill two miles to the east... real elite cavalry!
They were totally different from guys like Lu Su who rode horses. Not only did they come and go like the wind, but also... outside the range of an arrow, this team of strange cavalrymen drew their bows and shot. If you look closely, you can see that when they shot, they clamped their legs together and their horses jumped up slightly...
With the help of horsepower, the range of the arrow was increased!
Even though they had not yet reached the normal range of bows and arrows, the number of Huainan soldiers had already been greatly reduced.
When Du Bo, who was shot in the arm, came to his senses and was about to shoot back, he saw that the elite cavalry of the Upper White Cavalry suddenly dispersed as if they were thinking with one mind...
Like a ghost, they attacked from both sides, using spears at close range and scimitars at close range, quickly mowing down the hundred-man team of the Huainan Army. Before the du Bo could calm down from his panic and think about why Lu Su had such a team of cavalry, he had been cut in the neck by the scimitar and completely lost consciousness!
Without any verbal command, hundreds of cavalrymen were silently finishing off the fallen soldiers one by one.
Lu Su was also stunned - what was going on? Where did the army come from? Cao Cao? Liu Bei?
Then, I saw several oversized carriages coming out from behind the hill...
"You are worthy of being my adoptive father. You can command hundreds of cavalrymen by yourself with ease! Although there are many famous generals in the world, my adoptive father is the best, right?" Bai Tu exclaimed.
This is not irony. Commanding hundreds of cavalrymen sounds simple, but in fact it is a direct command without the cooperation of sergeants or squad leaders.
If it were an ordinary general, the situation would have been in chaos long ago. However, under Lu Bu's command, hundreds of cavalrymen seemed to have a collective consciousness and were stronger than the hundred wolf riders under normal command.
"Hahaha, if it's a fight between a hundred cavalry, there is no opponent in the world that can match your father. But if it's a fight between three hundred cavalry, you have to look at Zhongda!" The Zhongda that Lu Bu mentioned was obviously Gao Shun.
"Oh?" Bai Tu was surprised, but Lu Bu did not explain Gao Shun's strength. Bai Tu added: "If there are only 300 riders, my foster father alone is enough. There is no point in fighting."
"You are such an honest child!" Lu Bu said helplessly.
Then Lu Bu looked at Lu Su and his group, and said with some murderous intent: "These people will not betray us, right?"
"Since they are trying to flee from Yuan Shu's rule, they shouldn't... But these strong bows and crossbows don't look like those of ordinary villagers. I'll go ask." Bai Tu said as he rode his horse forward.
It’s better not to embarrass Bai Tu’s wooden and stone military talisman, so he rode a war horse.
As for those carriages, most of them were "trucks", and they were four-wheeled carriages pulled by four horses that Bai Tu had made overnight. It was not that Bai Tu wanted to ride in a carriage for the sake of enjoyment at that time, but that he wanted to take a batch of simple city defense equipment with him.
Of course, since there were trucks that would slow down the process anyway, Bai Tu only brought two carriages with soft seats. If not for himself, he would also consider Lu Kang's old bones, right?
"Who are you? Are you refugees who have no means of survival due to Yuan Shu's cruelty and have no choice but to seek refuge with the benevolent and people-loving Baizhou Mu?" Bai Tu asked.
Lu Su felt a little awkward when he heard this, but he also knew that it was best not to go against this group of "strong men", so he replied: "Yes, we are going to Jiangdong."
Of course, in reality Lu Su just wanted to go to Juchao, so theoretically... he didn’t cross the river!
"Oh? Then why would Yuan Shu's people chase you, and... your bows and crossbows don't seem to be something that ordinary people can get." Bai Tu asked.
"We are from Lujia Village. My name is Lu Su. Because I was generous and charitable in my early years, I have a little reputation. Yuan Shu wants to recruit me..."
In fact, what Lu Su mainly wanted to say is that my wealth has been "spread out", so don't have any bad ideas.
As for introducing himself, Lu Su had no taboo - he was just "a little famous" in Dongcheng County, and this was not modesty, so he was not afraid of being targeted!
"What? You are Lu Su Lu Zijing?" Bai Tu's eyes lit up.
Lu Su: ...
