Shouchun City, the Imperial Palace.

In the magnificent palace, Emperor Yuan Shu was immersed in the wine pond and meat forest, playing with the three thousand beauties and having fun.

Just a few days ago, his prince had led an army of 20,000 to fight. He firmly believed that with the help of the Tao Shang, Lu Bu, his precious son was no problem to defend Xutai with his army.

As long as Xutai is not lost, the pottery merchant will not be able to cross the Huai River, and will not threaten Shouchun, and no one will disturb his interest in seeking pleasure.

With peace of mind, Yuan Shu certainly wants to enjoy the pleasure of this emperor.

The lights were hanging high, and in the bright hall, Yuan Shu was hugging him, drinking wine as usual, and tasting the beautiful lips.

"Report—General Ji Ling returned from the front line and was looking for a meeting outside the hall."

Outside the hall, the cries of the imperial guards came, disrupting Yuan Shu's elegant mood.

"Isn't it that Yao'er has forced the little thief Tao Shang to retreat and sent Ji Ling back to win? Let him come in quickly." Yuan Shu was very excited and ordered Ji Ling to be sent in.

A moment later, Ji Ling, covered in blood and covered in dust, hurried into the hall, pounced on the stairs and knelt on the stairs, and said tremblingly: "Report to Your Majesty, Your Highness, the Prince of the Prince was attacked by the Taoist thief, and took the initiative to retreat and let the Taoist thief cross the river. As a result, the Taoist thief sent cavalry to smuggle from the upper reaches, and defeated our army with great attacks. The crime general was unable to fight and could only escape back to Shouchun to report his emergency to Your Majesty. Your Highness had been captured by the Taoist thief..."

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Yuan Shu had just swallowed the wine in his mouth, which gave Ji Ling a bolt from the blue. He was so shocked that he squirted away a sip, and his whole body suddenly stiffened on the couch.

After a moment of shock, Yuan Shu's fat body jumped up, his fat face was so frightened that it was so angry that it was twisted and deformed. He pointed at Ji Lingxie and cursed: "You bunch of wastes, I have given you 20,000 troops. Why are you defeated so quickly? Why did the prince let the pottery thieves cross the river? Is he stupid and stupid?"

Faced with Yuan Shu's curse, Ji Ling looked ashamed and had to use Lu Lingji to provoke Yuan Yao. How could Yuan Yao be self-righteous and wanted to attack Tao's army halfway, but was dragged by Li Guang's magical arrow camp. Tao's army took the opportunity to smuggle with cavalry, and then he silently told him the passage of the surprise attack.

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Yuan Shu's fat body fell on the dragon throne with a butt, and he was shocked and didn't know what to do.

He never expected that the pottery merchant would be so cunning, and he used a little trick and even Yang Hong could not see it.

He even didn't expect that the Tao merchant would train cavalry like the Divine Arrow Camp, and in the blink of an eye, he would have grayed out the three thousand cavalrymen at his bottom.

Three thousand cavalrymen and twenty thousand army were defeated, and even the prince was captured alive by the Tao merchant.

What a huge crisis this is!

After being tortured for a while in hatred and horror, Yuan Shu finally came to his senses and urgently ordered his civil and military officials to enter the court to discuss solutions.

The news of Xutai's defeat had already spread throughout Shouchun, from officials to the people, all were shocked and panicked.

Those panicked ministers were introduced to the palace by Yuan Shu overnight.

All the ministers gathered together, and Yuan Shu, with a pale face, looked at everyone, and said in a weak voice: "You already know that our army was defeated in Xutai, and the prince was also captured by the Tao thieves. The thief was rampant and the country was in danger. Who else can you have a plan to defeat the enemy?"

All the ministers bowed their heads and said nothing, looking at me and I look at you, but no one could make any suggestions.

Yuan Shu was both annoyed and disappointed. He never expected that his ministers were so cowardly. When the country was in trouble, no one could share his worries.

Just then, another Imperial Guard entered in with an urgent report.

"Report to Your Majesty, General Lu Bu of the East Zhendong has gathered the defeated soldiers on the front line, abandoned Xutai City, and retreated all the way to Yicheng. Please ask Your Majesty to raise all the troops of Shouchun, join his troops, and personally lead the army to resist the invasion of the pottery bandits."

Lu Bu actually abandoned Xutai City!

Yuan Shu was furious again, but then he thought that Yuan Yao's main force was defeated, and Lu Bu had no choice but to not dare to defend Xutai. After all, Lu Bu even gathered some defeated troops, which was a blessing in disgrace.

"At this point, it seems that I can only command the emperor in person..." Yuan Shu sighed and said reluctantly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Xiang hurriedly stood up and bowed and advised: "Your Majesty, Lu Bu is capricious. Now he has gathered my defeated soldiers on the front line and his power has increased greatly. The total number of soldiers in the capital is only 10,000, which is not as large as Lu Bu's. If Lu Bu is in a rebellious mind, wouldn't your Majesty send him the tiger's mouth?"

Yuan Shu was shocked and hesitated again.

At this time, the Imperial Guard presented a letter, claiming that it was Yang Hong, who was also in Lu Bu's army, who was here.

Yuan Shu opened the letter and saw the suspicion on his face swept away, and he slapped the table and said, "Yang Aiqing said in the letter that Lu Bu was ambushed by Tao Shang during the retreat. He was seriously injured and was unconscious. He had no leader in the army at present. He was waiting for me to clean up the morale of the army. I have nothing to worry about. If I pass the order, I will get up the troops of Shouchun tonight and follow me to Yicheng."

Yan Xiang was waiting for further advice, but Yuan Shu believed in Yang Hong and immediately ordered his retreat.

That night, Yuan Shu had no choice but to leave his gentle town and lead his remaining more than 10,000 troops to Yicheng City to receive Lu Bu's army.

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A few days later, Yicheng City and Lu Bu's army camp.

Since losing Xutai, this city became the last barrier to protect Shouchun City. Lu Bu led more than 12,000 troops and horses to abandon Xutai and retreat west along the Huai River. After retreating here, he did not dare to retreat again, so he had to set up camp.

In the central army's tent, Lu Bu sat high above, holding Fang Tian's painting halberd in his hand, his eyes as cold as ice.

He is waiting for something.

"Master, do we really want to do this?" Gao Shun, who had always been taciturn, finally couldn't help but speak.

Lu Bu opened his eyes, glared at him, and closed his eyes without saying a word.

Chen Gong, who was standing on the other side, stroked his short beard and said coldly: "If we want to confront the pottery merchant and want to retake Xuzhou, we must hold the entire Huainan in our hands. This is our only chance."

"But..." Gao Shun wanted to speak but stopped, but he still said: "But Yuan Shu took us in after all when we were in trouble. We seemed a little ungrateful to do this..."

Gao Shun glanced at Lu Bu, his eyelids were shaking slightly, and he didn't say anything about "righteousness".

Chen Gong was also speechless for a moment and didn't know how to respond.

Gao Shun said the fact that when they were desperate, Yuan Shu took them in, gave them money and food, gave them territory, and betraying Yuan Shu, which meant that he was injustice.

Chen Gong's eyes looked at Lu Bu.

After a long silence, Lu Bu slowly opened his eyes, looked at Gao Shun coldly, and asked back: "Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, and he was a ruthless person. I am a marquis who eliminated the rebellion for the country. How could there be unrighteousness?"

The sentence "How can there be unrighteousness for the country to eliminate rebellion?" completely blocked Gao Shun, blocking him from speechless.

Although he knew that what Lu Bu was going to do was purely selfish, as long as he put the four words "eliminate rebellion for the country", he would have great righteousness.

Who made Yuan Shu, a fool, insisted on becoming emperor?

If you dare to be emperor, you are a traitor and everyone will be punished!

Gao Shun fell silent and had nothing to say.

"Report to the lord, Yuan Shu's carriage has entered the gate and is coming to the big tent." The screams of personal soldiers sounded outside the tent.

In the big tent, the atmosphere immediately became solemn

Lu Bu took a deep breath, stood up, holding the Fang Tian Painted Spear in his hand, and striding outside the tent with meteors.

Chen Gong and Gao Shun and other civil and military generals did not dare to hesitate and followed them out.

Yang Hong, who was still here and had been hiding in the corner, sighed softly and followed him helplessly.

After a few steps from the tent, the crowd saw Yuan Shu's plump figure jumping out of the imperial chariot and rushed straight into the central army's tent with a proud look.

When Yuan Shu recognized Lu Bu's squinting eyes, his fat face couldn't help but change.

Yang Hong said in the letter that Lu Bu was seriously injured and unbelieved, so why did he appear here without any injuries?

Just when Yuan Shu was suspicious, Lu Bu raised his halberd and shouted: "Come on, take Yuan Shu, this traitor, to this marquis."

The order was passed down. Cao Xing, who had already ambushed a few times, led hundreds of soldiers to rush forward, and then chopped Yuan Shu's imperial guards to the ground in a few strokes, pressing Yuan Shu's fat body.

After a sudden change, Yuan Shu was shocked and had no time to react. He did not react until he was pressed to the ground.

At this time, he suddenly realized that Lu Bu had launched a mutiny and betrayed him.

"Lu Bu, you, a fickle villain, I took you in when you were poor. Treat you very well, and you dared to betray me. You shameless person, you must die a good death-"

Yuan Shu was angry and embarrassed, cursed and angry, and his anger echoed in the camp.

Lu Bu's eyes ejaculated, raised his foot, kicked Yuan Shu hard, kicked him several steps away, and fell heavily to the ground.

Yuan Shu, who landed on the ground, screamed and opened his mouth and sprayed blood.

Lu Bu walked forward, leaned over and approached Yuan Shu, and said coldly: "Yuan Shu, I, Lu Bu, is the best general in the world. What do you think I will be willing to let you step on my head and act as a blessing? I tell you, I have been waiting for today for a long time."

Yuan Shu, who was seriously injured, was shocked violently and coughed violently. He felt regretful and regretted that he should have taken in this slave of the three surnames.

The painful Yuan Shu swept around and then scanned Yang Hong's place again, and found that Yang Hong was standing behind Lu Bu, and he had clearly defected to Lu Bu.

The letter was obviously Yang Hong deliberately tempted him to come under the instruction of Lu Bu.

"Yang Hong, I regard you as a loyal minister, and you dare to betray me!" Yuan Shu roared and cursed at Yang Hong with grief and anger.

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Yang Hong's face, as if he was guilty.

Then, he coughed a few times, and pointed at Yuan Shu with a righteous look on his face and shouted loudly: "Yuan Shu, you are incompetent and incompetent, which has caused the people in Huainan to be destroyed and their complaints are full of complaints. You are still arrogant and rebellious, and you dare to claim to be emperor and rebel. I, Yang Hong, have long wanted to get rid of you, a traitor for the country, but I have no chance. Now Wen Hou raised the flag of uprising and shouted to eliminate the country's rebellion. Of course, I, Yang Hong, have to follow Wen Hou's command. Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu, you will be blamed for your own fault!"

The strategist who once trusted the most betrayed himself, and now he still scolds and humiliates himself in front of so many people.

Yuan Shu was furious, as if he was pierced by thousands of arrows, and was so angry that he was dizzy that he almost vomited blood and died.

"Yang Hong, you unfaithful dog thief, Lu Bu, you are a capricious person, you will not die well. I will tear you into pieces one day..."

Yuan Shu was squirting blood in his mouth and cursing, but Lu Bu was no longer interested in listening. He ordered Yuan Shu to escort him and compiled the ten thousand soldiers he brought in in the name of Yuan Shu, thinking that he would use it.

"Lu Bu, I can't forgive you, I can't forgive you..."

The curses gradually faded away, and the camp returned to quiet again.

Lu Bu glanced around with his eagle's eyes, and the soldiers bowed their heads, not daring to look at his gaze.

His eyes slowly turned to the east, and a solemn sneered at the corner of his mouth, murmured: "Tao Shang, this marquis has taken away everything from Yuan Shu now, and his military power has been revived. I think you can be arrogant until when." Mobile phone users please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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