Chapter 228: Going north into the grassland
"Fengxian, do you know the consequences of your being captured in the Cao army?" Zhou Tian tied Lu Bu to the Red Rabbit horse and said with a smile.
"What consequences!" Lu Bu didn't think much about the consequences. The key point was that Lu Bu never thought that he would lose, and he had been the king of one-on-one battles for decades, and he was captured by others.
"It probably won't be torture. That guy Meng De should give you some fun." Zhou Tian got on the Red Rabbit Horse and slapped his butt to urge the Red Rabbit to run, but this damn beast didn't listen to Zhou Tian's words very much.
"Will Meng De kill me? Unless he doesn't want Xia Pi City anymore, huh, without my order, the soldiers of Xia Pi City will never surrender." Lu Bu did not think Cao Cao would kill him. After all, if Cao Cao wanted to take Xia Pi without bloodshed, he would have to rely on him.
"You feel very good about yourself. Have you heard of this? If Xia Pi City is gone, you will be in charge. The morale of the army will definitely be turbulent like an earthquake. Your subordinates may think about surrendering when they hear the news of your capture. At that time, who will be the first to give Diao Chan to Cao Cao." Zhou Tian patted the dock of the Red Rabbit Horse. "You will make you jerky horse meat if you don't listen to me. Look at you, you are very serious and you should have a lot of lean meat."
The red rabbit horse becomes a spirit and can understand human words. When the horse's jerky meat is mentioned, it is a whizzing run, which is much faster than Zhou Tian riding a horse before.
"Zhang Liao and Gao Shun are brothers to me, they will never do that." Lu Bu said stubbornly.
"They are your best friends, of course not, but others, how have you been to them over the years? You should know in your heart that even if their surrender was stopped by Chen Gong, there will be a bloody battle in Xia Pi City. If Cao Cao attacks the city again, he will be able to capture it. So whether he kills you or not is irrelevant to Cao Cao." Zhou Tian touched the shoulder of the Red Rabbit, "Good beast, run quickly and give you carrots at that time!"
"What do you mean by saying these words to me?" Lu Bu was silent for a while. As Zhou Tian said, Xia Pi City without him was vulnerable. It is certain that civil strife. If the situation is good, Xia Pi can be defended for another 10 or 20 days. If the situation is bad, it is not impossible for the city to be broken today.
"It means I can save your life and protect your family." The Red Rabbit Horse was fast, and in a short while he could see the flag of Cao's army.
"What do you want me to do?" There is no free lunch in the world. Since the other party proposed to protect his family from dying, there must be conditions.
"Accompany me to the Southern Xiongnu." Zhou Tian continued, "I know you were born on the grassland and should be familiar with the Xiongnu language. I need you to go to the Southern Xiongnu tent to save someone."
"Who to save?" Lu Bu asked.
"Cai Yan, the daughter of Cai Yong." Zhou Tian said, "She was captured by the Zuo Xian King of the Southern Xiongnu, and I want to save her back to the Central Plains."
"How many soldiers do you have?" Lu Bu asked.
Zhou Tian stretched out two fingers.
"Twenty thousand?" Lu Bu said, "This is very difficult. The combat power of the Huns is stronger than that of the Han people, and we must go deep into the grassland. The supply of food and grass is a big problem." After fighting for so many years, Lu Bu has some experience and has actually considered the issue of food and grass.
"Don't worry about food and grass, because we only go there, plus two horses, even if we eat the leaves, we will probably not starve to death." Zhou Tian said.
"You are kidding, let's go to rob the Huns' tent? You might as well kill me just now." Lu Bu was shocked when he heard Zhou Tian's words. Even if there were 20,000 people, he would think it was too small, let alone two.
"I am so disappointed that Lu Bu, who is known as the enemy of ten thousand people, is so cowardly." Zhou Tian looked at Lu Bu with great contempt.
"That's a blow to the enemy. Although I, Lu Bu, am arrogant, I, are not so arrogant as to follow you to die." Lu Bu didn't care about Zhou Tian's eyes at all. After losing to Zhou Tian, he lost all his arrogance. He was full of trouble. Who has the confidence to speak?
"It's not necessarily true that we go to the Xiongnu tent to steal people rather than rob people. We should minimize head-on conflicts as much as possible." Zhou Tian said.
"I'm a good person to steal people, but I stolen Diao Chan was the one I stolen from Dong Zhuo." Lu Bu said excitedly.
Zhou Tian ignored Lu Bu and continued, "To be honest, my master is Zhang Jiao. You should know the power of the Yellow Turban Army's spells. With my spell, our probability of success should be increased by several ten times." It turned out to be a few zero points, but now it is a few hundred percent.
"What, you are the remnant of the Yellow Turbans!" Lu Bu looked at Zhou Tian in surprise. During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Lu Bu also fought with the Yellow Turban Army. The methods of the Yellow Turban Army caused him to suffer a lot.
"That's right." Zhou Tian nodded, "So I tell you that the probability of success we will go to the Southern Xiongnu this time should be quite high. I guess you should be relieved when you show you my spells later."
While they were talking, the two of them had already arrived in the Cao army formation. At this moment, a group of Cao army generals were looking at Zhou Tian and Lu Bu like a monkey, with shock in their eyes.
"Zhongkang, you...you are right. Lu Bu really asked him to get it and even a Red Rabbit Horse." Xu Huang was stunned for his eyes, and said with his arm and hit Xu Chu beside him.
"Yes, I felt quite embarrassing when I asked him to slap him away, haha, but now Lu Bu is even more embarrassing. He looks like a big girl with a ticket tied up, and I feel happy when I look at it." Xu Chu laughed loudly, just like he captured Lu Bu.
"My fourth brother is so powerful, how can you be much better than you?" Zhang Fei also grinned and said happily to the generals of Cao's army.
"What's your fourth brother? You are obviously our lord's old friend and ours." Xiahou Yuan curled his lips.
"Take the skin, you really brought Lu Bu over, haha, let me see this world's number one strong general at that time." Cao Cao was the first to rush up and looked at Lu Bu tied to the horse's belly.
"Meng De, give him some face and don't let him be too embarrassed." Zhou Tian saw that Lu Bu was about to be exhibited as a specimen, so he quickly stopped him. He had to rely on him when he went to the Southern Xiongnu. If Lu Bu saw some mental illness, he would have nowhere to cry.
"Okay, don't look at him anymore. Let's go to capture Xia Pi now." Cao Cao did not waste his time and immediately ordered his march into Xia Pi City. There were many times when he was watching Lu Bu in the future, so he was not in a hurry.
The capture of the main general is a huge disaster for Xia Pi City. Although Zhou Tian had denied the value of Lu Bu for siege before, in fact, when he was lured to surrender to Xia Pi, it was Lu Bu's horse that was launched.
The entire Xia Pi sergeant surrendered, and only two of them were a little stubborn, one Chen Gong and the other Gao Shun. Chen Gong didn't like Cao Cao and jumped to the city gate building himself. Gao Shun also wanted to follow Chen Gong, but Zhou Tian stopped him. Although Gao Shun's force was not too strong, he had some tricks in training sergeants. The camp trained for the trap is definitely an elite. Keeping him is considered a gift to Cao Cao.
Xia Pi City is in a small courtyard with tight supervision.
"Look at it, this is the Heavenly Fire Technique." Zhou Tian raised his finger and said "hula" and a pillar of fire more than one meter long appeared in Zhou Tian's hand.
"This thing is very powerful. Lighting a cigarette or a stove is effective!" Zhou Tian and Lu Bu showed their magic, and did it every time, but it scared Lu Bu very much. The eyes of Zhou Tian were full of respect.
"Fengxian, let me tell you the truth. In fact, these things are not my best skills. Do you know what my best skills are?" Zhou Tian took out a piece of paper from his arms and said.
"I don't know, I have seen Brother Papi's miracle. I really don't dare to make any guesses about Brother Papi." Lu Bu stared at the paper in Zhou Tian's hand and shook his head.
"My most powerful thing is the talisman medicine technique." Zhou Tian suddenly appeared in his hand and slashed at Lu Bu's arm. Lu Bu could not dodge and a big hole was cut out on his arm. Blood flowed out.
"Brother Pai Pi, what are you doing?" Lu Bu was angry. You can scold me, but you can't destroy my body.
"Haha, Fengxian, don't be angry, and stick this talisman on the wound." Zhou Tian took the talisman paper and pulled it a few times, then handed the talisman to Lu Bu.
Lu Bu took the talisman paper in doubt and put it on his arm. The moment the talisman was pasted on the wound, Lu Bu felt a coldness in the wound, and then the pain on his arm disappeared.
"This..." Lu Bu looked at the lack of any sign of injury on his arm, and was completely stunned, with a big mouth in a daze and didn't know what to say.
"Fengxian, do you think we will die this time?" Zhou Tian laughed loudly and patted Lu Bu's shoulder and said.
After helping Lu Bu build up his confidence, Zhou Tian arranged what he wanted to prepare for this trip. Naturally, there were no missing talismans. Zhou Tian spent most of his time cooking and sleeping. Zhou Tian has saved more than a thousand pieces of talismans. Even if he and Lu Bu were shot into a hornet's nest by the Huns' arrows, they don't have to worry about it.
In addition to the talisman, Zhou Tian also needs a good horse that can be compared with the Red Rabbit. Although he has magical skills, the quality of the horse itself is extremely important. Fortunately, Cao Cao helped solve the problem. - The cow and horse that Zhou Tian bought back then was actually no less than that of the Red Rabbit. Although he was a little more solid at that time, it was mainly because the horse was not yet adult. Now, according to Cao Cao, it is no longer like a cow, but more like an elephant. However, this horse is so fierce that he doesn't like someone riding, so his name is not as good as a Red Rabbit.
Now the Lu horse is transporting to Xia Pi, but Zhou Tian didn't know whether Lu knew him or not, and if he didn't let him ride, it would be troublesome.
Three days later, Lu finally delivered it to Zhou Tian. What surprised Zhou Tian was that Lu actually recognized himself and rubbed Zhou Tian with his long face, which was very intimate. However, Lu was full of hostility towards Lu Bu's Red Rabbit, and sniffed one by one on the head.
Although Chitu ran fast, her physique was much worse than Lu. When she was with Lu, she could only be bullied.
Zhou Tian did not delay, and as soon as Lu arrived, he immediately prepared to set off.
Before leaving, Zhou Tian remembered something, pulled Guo Jia over, took out ten spiritual talismans from his arms and handed them to him.
Guo Jia is similar to Zhou Tian, and both are a little out of touch. Therefore, the relationship between the two is good. Guo Jia died early, but Zhou Tian naturally could not watch him die young, so he left ten spiritual talismans for Guo Jia.
I don’t know how Guo Jia died, so the talismans written by Zhou Tian include most of the diseases, including those who treat water and soil disobedience, those who treat plague, and those who treat myocardial infarction. Anyway, Zhou Tian has almost written all the diseases he knows about.
However, just when Zhou Tian handed these ten talismans to Guo Jia, he heard the system's voice, "Warning, warning, the task personnel Zhou Tian is trying to change the historical trend, please abide by the system rules, otherwise the grocery store will initiate the punishment procedure."
"What's the situation? When I saved Gao Shun before, I could have changed history. You must know that Gao Shun himself was going to be killed by Cao Cao, but now he gave Guo Jia a few talismans to trigger a system reaction." Hearing the system's prompt sound, Zhou Tian was confused. "Is it because Guo Jia's historical status is higher than Gao Shun and has the ability to reverse history? It must be true. Even if Gao Shun trained the camp of the trap, it will only have an effect on local wars. Guo Jia is different. As a genius of the Three Kingdoms, Guo Jia has the ability to compete with Zhuge Liang. When Zhou Tian reads "General History of China", he remembers that Cao Cao once lamented after the Battle of Red Cliffs that if Guo Jia died early, if Guo Jia was still at that time, the Battle of Red Cliffs would probably end with Cao Cao's victory. In this way, the wheel of history would have changed a lot..."
"Take the skin, will you give it to me?" Zhou Tian was thinking about the historical problems, but Guo Jia was so blushed that he wanted to break Zhou Tian's hand holding the talisman.
"Uh..." Zhou Tian looked up at Guo Jia, thinking about whether he should give the talisman to Guo Jia. If he gave it to Guo Jia, he would probably have a lot of trouble. If he didn't give it to him, he would definitely not be able to say that Guo Jia died young.
After a while of silence, Zhou Tian said, "Fengxiao, I was born in Taiping Dao. You should know that these talismans can save your life when you are seriously ill in the future, but..."
"If you have something to say, it's not like your style." Guo Jia couldn't help but rush to see Zhou Tian stuttering.
"I observed the celestial phenomena at night last night and calculated the day of your life. Although these talismans can save your life, they also violated the laws of heaven. So I might have to finish saving your life." Zhou Tiandao "So I hope that after registering with the talisman, you will no longer be in charge of the princes fighting for hegemony, or you will retire to the mountains or ask Cao Cao to complete the retirement procedures for you and enjoy your life."
Guo Jia pondered for a moment, as if he understood Zhou Tian’s meaning, and nodded, "Don’t worry, take a naughty. I also have a little understanding of this heavenly affairs. It won’t harm you, but I can let go now."
"Dingdong, the alarm for changing the trend of history has been lifted."
As soon as Guo Jia finished speaking, Zhou Tian heard the system alarm be lifted. It was obvious that he had played a role in Guo Jia's persuasion.
"Haha, I'm relieved." Zhou Tian didn't say much, left the talisman to Guo Jia, then took out two pairs of armored horses from his pocket and put them on Chitu and Lu. After urging them, he left.
After Zhou Tian ran away, Guo Jia sighed and tore all ten spiritual talismans in his hand to pieces. "I don't know when my life will die, but if I live, I can't fight the big picture, then even if I live, it's meaningless. If you violate the laws of heaven and want to save me, how can I harm you? It's better not to use this spiritual talisman..."
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The Red Rabbit and Lu, who had a armored horse, ran very fast, obviously more than twice as fast as the so-called daily journey of 800 miles. After all, these two horses are divine horses, and there is no way to do so. Apart from eating and sleeping along the way, the two did not stop much, so in three or four days, they had reached the edge of the grassland.
From here, we were heading north to the southern Xiongnu territory. Therefore, according to Lu Bu's suggestion, the two of them did not rush to go deep into the grassland, but bought two pieces of Hun clothes from the market.
After entering the grassland, Lu Bu did not recommend Zhou Tian to use the magic technique. After all, if you gallop on the grassland like this quickly, it will inevitably attract great attention. Although the speed is fast, it will be more than worth the effort if it arouses the alertness of the Xiongnu tent. After all, the more inconspicuous this "stealing person" plan, the better.
There was originally one Huns, but later it was divided into two. One of them surrendered to the Han Dynasty and reproduced at the border. When the Han Dynasty was strong, the Huns were friendly neighbors and exchanged sheepskin for food and other daily necessities. Now that the Central Plains are separatist, the Eastern Han Dynasty is falling apart, and the ambitions of the Southern Xiongnu people began to grow. They did not use sheepskin to change their daily necessities, but robbed them directly, and even took advantage of the Dong Zhuo Rebellion to rob Luoyang. Under such a fierce folk custom, Zhou Tian's journey was obviously not very smooth.
Although Zhou Tian and Lu Bu are both wearing Huns' costumes now, their appearance is still somewhat different from that of Huns. The Huns who had once robbed south clearly remember the appearance of the Han people, so they encountered many disasters along the way. Seeing the Han people's faces of the two, they must have been serving the sword without saying a word.
However, with the combat power of Zhou Tian and Lu Bu, the small robbers naturally could not pose any threat to them.
Although Lu Bu was bragging about the enemy, he could still easily solve one or two hundred people. Therefore, the two of them had the main and Zhou Tian as the auxiliary, while Lu Bu was chopping and slashing, Zhou Tian used the rock-falling technique to control the specially made iron beans in his hand to give the fish that had escaped the net, so that no one could escape.
After all, a large part of these robbers were official soldiers of the Southern Xiongnu. If they were asked to escape from the news, it would be a big problem. Fortunately, there were these soldiers and bandits, Zhou Tian also found out from them that the current location of the Xiongnu tent was located.
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Chapter completed!