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Chapter 004 [Dark Clouds Pressing the City]

After the rain, the two armies rested on the south bank for another three days, and on the fourth day, they set off for a journey.

Half a month of continuous autumn rain made the road muddy and slippery. Even if you marching after sunny and rest for three days, the road was still weak, and the army's marching speed was invisibly delayed.

On the first day of his journey, when Lu Bu saw his daughter Lu Lingqi riding a horse behind Li Li, his face turned pale, and his cold eyes seemed to be about to remove Li Li from a big body. He was furious and full of indignation.

However, just when Lu Bu couldn't control himself and wanted to come forward to question him, Chen Gong grabbed him in time and whispered beside him: "Why did the married daughter splashed out of water? Isn't it heard that a woman's husband will be married after marriage? Now Miss Lingqi is Li Li's concubine, and how to discipline her wives and concubines is his own family matter. If Fengxian rashly goes to question her, it may be a disagreement and ridiculous." This is a feudal etiquette system and an inherent etiquette law in society that men respect women and women are inferior. After a woman's family members cannot mix with the family affairs of her husband's family. This feudal family etiquette has been passed down to later generations and is still used in some places.

Chen Gong's words made Lu Bu feel worried and stopped, and the resentment on his face became stronger and stronger. At this time, Chen Gong continued to comfort him: "What's more, the lady has been practicing martial arts since she was a child and has been skilled in archery and horses. In recent years, Fengxian has been following Fengxian to go to war. These are all known. Fengxian is eager to love his daughter, which is understandable. He feels sorry for her and loves her. He never lets her enter the danger, and will not let her charge and fight in person. But at this time, she is now Li Li's person. Even if Fengxian has the heart to love his daughter, he should stop. Lingqi has grown up and is already a wife. Fengxian cannot take care of her for the rest of her life. It's time to let go."

After some persuasion, Lu Bu finally gave up the urge to reprimand Li Li, and then led the troops to set off with an angry face. Without Li Li's sending people to talk to him, he took the initiative to act as the vanguard of the army and led the Xuzhou army to open the way first. Perhaps he did this to make up for his apology to his daughter, and his daughter was wearing armor. As a father, he could not hide behind and hesitate. He should lead the army to shelter his daughter from the wind and rain.

It has to be admitted that the princes of all towns said that Li Li was deceitful and wise, not aimless, but that he was indeed true.

This time, Li Li and Lu Bu jointly sent troops. Who would be the vanguard of the army was originally a long-standing problem on the march. Although Li Li was the leader of the alliance against Yuan and had the right to command the alliance's troops in name, if Lu Bu refused to execute it, Li Li could not do anything to him. He could not make a big fuss just because of this small matter. However, as Lu Lingqi appeared in Li Li's army in armor, this issue was not to be discussed at all. Lu Bu actually took the initiative to take on the burden of pioneering the road. From this, it can be seen that Li Li's treacherousness was really groundless. Every move had profound meaning, and he was scheming and easily turned a verbal dispute intovisibility.

However, Lu Bu didn't know that although Li Li was scheming and good at calculating, he had a moral bottom line that most people did not have. The basic principles of being a person and doing things have always been adhered to and remained unchanged, and the emotional bottom line has never been shaken. Lu Lingqi was the first woman to be threatened and forced to marry Li Li. Although Li Li did not agree with this in advance, the truth is here, and denial is in vain. However, after getting married, except for Li Li who helped Lu Lingqi on the night of the wedding night, he had never touched Lu Lingqi's finger, so that Lu Lingqi is still intact, and it is definitely not what Chen Gong said to be a wife.

This is Li Li's principle of being a human being, and the same sentence: A forced melon is not sweet. The wedding night is the first time he and Lu Lingqi meet. Although he is quite moved by Lu Lingqi's appearance and figure, there are so many women in the world who can make men fall in love with them. Everyone has a love for beauty. Do you have to take it for yourself?

What's more, Li Li does not lack women. Chen Yu, Xiao Qiao and Bu Lianshi, who accompanied him this time, all have beautiful appearances that are not inferior to Lu Lingqi, and are even more mature, plump and graceful than her. Therefore, Li Li will not do anything to force women and does not want to do it. The relationship between men and women is not just possession of the best. The most precious thing is that they have each other in their hearts. Only when you love and I am willing can you come naturally and have fun. Otherwise, they will be like walking corpses, how different is they from animals?

No matter how Lu Bu views Li Li and how angry he is at him, Lu Bu leads the army first and takes the initiative to lead the way, which is what Li Lile sees. As for Lu Lingqi, who is wearing armor, is now just a personal soldier who is following Li Li, and is limited to satisfying her desire to fight with the army, that's all. Li Li never lets her woman charge in the battle. Even though she is not as despicable as Lu Bu imagines, she can only protect her woman when she truly goes to the battlefield. Lu Lingqi will not be in the slightest danger.

Perhaps Lu Bu didn't know that it was his willingness to lead the army to take the lead that Li Li was very moved. It was pitiful that parents in the world were in love. Although Lu Bu had many evil deeds and was not ashamed of the world, his love for his children was the same as that of all parents in the world. Perhaps Lu Bu's method of educating his children was very rude, but this did not prevent him from loving and caring for his children, and even loving him deeply than ordinary parents.

Lu Bu's move touched Li Li a lot because Li Li himself was also a father. He could understand Lu Bu's mood at this moment, and this also made him see Lu Bu's capricious and greedy pursuit of profit, and his conscience was still unshakable.

On the fifth day after Li Li and Lu Bu joined forces to Huainan, the north ushered in the first heavy snow since the beginning of winter.

The arrival of winter snow indicates that the war in the north has come to an end, and the soldiers and horses confronting the battlefield in Hebei have entered a truce.

As a result, the battle situation in Hebei was once again in a stalemate. Yuan Shao, who was in the siege, held on for another year and won a chance to rest and breathe. However, for Cao Cao, who was sharpening his sword, he was mixed. During the truce, he could further stabilize the situation in Qingzhou, strengthen his rule, and prepare for war. However, while consolidating Qingzhou, he also imprisoned more than 100,000 troops under him on the boundaries of Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and could not move. He could only watch Li Li lead the army southward to attack Jianghuaizhou County, and his power grew day by day.

It is obvious that Li Li led his army to go south to fight against Yuan Shu and seized the opportunity. He took advantage of the arrival of the ice and snow in the north. In this way, the phenomenon of the northern warriors' unacceptable situation in the Jianghuai River will be minimized, which will be easily overcome, and will have little impact on the combat effectiveness of the entire army. In this way, he can cleverly use this space to wipe out Yuan Shu in Huainan in one fell swoop, and expand the territory under his rule to Yuzhou and even Yangzhou. By the time the snowfall in the Jianghuai land is in full swing, the war may have ended, about a month before and after.

After ten days of march, Li Li and Lu Bu allied forces entered Jiujiang County, that is, Jiujiang Yin of the Zhong family regime, and the sword front pointed directly at Shouchun City.

Along the way, Lu Bu's army, who acted as the pioneer of the army, fought with Yuan Shu's troops seven times. Although the scale of the battle was not large and it was a sporadic battle, after seven battles, Lu Bu's troops under the tent suffered more than 10,000 casualties. However, Lu Bu did not raise any objections from beginning to end, and quietly led the Xuzhou army to attack the city and siege, building bridges for the subsequent army to meet mountains and rivers until the city of Shouchun.

Thirty miles outside the north gate of Shouchun City, the coalition forces arrived in the afternoon and did not directly attack the city. Instead, they chose to set up camp on the spot. After a little rest, they would attack the city.

After winter, the day becomes shorter and shorter and the night becomes longer and longer. The whistling north wind swept across China, falling leaves are everywhere, the weather is cold, the coldness is dominating the sky, and the weather becomes more and more gloomy.

As night fell, the north wind whistled, making the weeds around the camp tent whistle. The central army's tent was steaming, the pitch-black charcoal was burning, and more than a dozen braziers were baking the newly built tent, evaporating the dampness and driving away the cold air, making the entire camp warm.

However, this treatment is only qualified to be limited to the commanders of the two armies and the main generals under their tent. For most soldiers, it is better to rely on campfires to keep warm. It is good to have a fire in a camp where hundreds of people live when they go to bed. More than 90% of the soldiers are crowded together and rely on each other's body temperature to keep warm, so as to spend the long cold night.

This time, the soldiers of the two armies did not camp separately, but were stationed together in a large camp. The large camp was divided into three areas: left, middle and right. The left camp was the Xuzhou army under Lu Bu's tent, and the middle area was the camp of the commander and main generals of the two armies, and the right area was the camp of the Xiliang army.

Although this kind of camp station is still clearly divided, it is incomparable and very different from the situation of the two armies that were previously influential. At present, the commander and main general of the two armies can live in the same camp, which itself shows that the two armies are close to each other. Unlike the general vassal coalition forces, they are twisted into a rope, regardless of you or me.

The situation in this situation is the result of Chen Gong, Guo Jia and Xun You who worked hard to promote it, and the generals of the two armies had no objection to this and were happy to see it. After all, the two armies have become in-laws, so how can the family distinguish each other?

Speaking of which, Lu Bu's identity is now rising. He transformed from the previous Xuzhou Mu to Li Li's father-in-law, with a transcendent status. But Lu Bu himself did not have this awareness. Not only was he not happy because he became Li Li's elder, but he felt that he was pinned by his son-in-law Li Li, and felt suppressed and restrained everywhere. It was not uncomfortable!

The only thing that benefited Lu Bu was that since Li Li became his son-in-law, Li Li's attitude towards him was a 180-degree turn, humble and polite, comprehensive and enthusiastic, and no longer neglected.

To be honest, Lu Bu was extremely afraid of Li Li before, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was awe. But now Li Li suddenly became so enthusiastic about him, which made him feel very uncomfortable and quite flattered. Fortunately, his daughter Lu Lingqi was by Li Li's side every time he met, which invisibly made Lu Bu feel a little relieved. He gradually adapted to Li Li's greetings and politeness, and then accepted it calmly.

It has to be said that the relationship between the father-in-law and son-in-law Lu Bu and Li Li is very strange and unique. However, if you are familiar with the previous grudges and entanglements between the father-in-law and son-in-law, you will not feel strange.

Looking back at that time, Li Li and Lu Bu were ministers in the same palace, and their status was far inferior to Lu Bu. In the Battle of Ba River, Hao Meng and Song Xian both died at the hands of Li Li's generals. He was cut off his four fingers, making his left hand incomplete. He still uses finger condoms to cover up the ugly things so as not to be ridiculed. However, the Battle of Ba River achieved Li Li's supreme reputation, making Dong Zhuo look at him more and more differently. Not only did he marry his beloved daughter Dong Wan to Li Li, but he also gave him a large number of armor and weapons, prompting Li Li to soar into the sky, and his power and status steadily, becoming a popular prominent existence in Xiliang.

Once, Lu Bu hated Li Li to the core, and always thought about the irreconcilable hatred of the broken finger, thinking that one day he would avenge him. For this reason, he gave up the great opportunity to kill Cao Cao in Yanzhou, turned to the gun and participated in the Hanoi Alliance, becoming an indispensable backbone force of the Allied forces. However, in the Sili War, Lu Bu suffered heavy damage again. Not only was he seriously injured, but even the army under his command suffered heavy casualties, which was mostly lost. After Sili's defeat, facing Cao Cao's army to counterattack Yanzhou, he ended up with no soldiers available, and was in a short position, so he was defeated in Yanzhou and fled in a hurry.

Looking back on the past, since Li Li's rapid rise, Lu Bu has suffered repeated setbacks under Li Li's hands. Whenever he meets Li Li, he has never won, and it is a blessing not to suffer a big loss. Over time, Lu Bu, who is fearless in the world, regards Li Li as his nemesis, is very afraid of him, and is even afraid of him.

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