The night is dark, and looking around, the vastness of the fields is dark and vast.

Lu Bu rode a red rabbit and walked towards the city gate with a Fang Tian painting halberd.

Behind him were 20,000 Qingzhou soldiers.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao were ordered to leave before they arrived at the reservation site, Lu Bu ordered the two to return.

Although he didn't understand why his orders changed every day, the two generals still returned to Zhongli with their troops.

The army gathered together, and Lu Bu ordered to enter the city.

Twenty thousand soldiers and soldiers held torches.

The fires stretched across the sky, illuminating the vicinity of Zhongli City Gate like during the day.

On the top of the city, a torch was lit every few steps.

If it weren't for the fire outside the city, the torches on the top of the city could illuminate a place.

But against the torches in the Qingzhou army's hands, the light at the city wall seemed so dim, not much different from the dark and vastness in the distance.

The army stopped outside the city gate, and Lu Bu looked up at the city wall.

An officer walked out from behind him.

"The defenders haven't opened the door yet, can we bump into it?" The officer yelled at the top of the city.

"Wait a moment and it will open soon." A panicked response came from the city.

After a while, the gate of Zhongli slowly opened.

Lu Bu took action and took the lead in walking towards the open city gate.

After passing through the city gate, he saw a group of local officials waiting on the bluestone road ahead.

Seeing Lu Bu coming, officials knelt on the ground one after another.

The defenders lined up on both sides also knelt down.

Walking past the kneeling official, Lu Bu asked, "Why didn't you see General Lu?"

The officials knelt one by one, but they didn't dare to look up at him.

"Wen Hou asked, why don't he answer?" Zhang Liao frowned and asked urged.

Then someone replied tremblingly: "General Lu returned to the government office, but he didn't see him come out."

"I have seized the defenders' weapons." Lu Bu ordered: "Come people come and go to the government office to see."

The army entered the city, and Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and Xu Huang each led a group of troops to disarm the defenders and occupied every street.

Xun You accompanied Lu Bu to the government office.

Everyone in the government went to the city gate to greet them. When Lu Bu passed by, no one of the officials kneeling on the roadside dared to get up and follow him.

There was no one inside, inside, outside and outside, and the huge government was silent.

Lu Bu and Xun You stopped, and the soldiers behind the two ran to the backyard one after another.

Not long after, an officer ran back to them: "I reported to you that someone in the backyard had to commit suicide by hanging a beam in the wing."

Since entering the city, they have not seen Lu Mian, and Lu Bu and Xun You immediately thought of him.

The two of them ran quickly to the backyard, and the officer led them to the door of a wing room.

The door of the open room was filled with fire, and several soldiers were waiting in the room with torches.

The flames illuminated every corner of the room.

Lu Bu and Xun You entered the house and saw someone hanging on the beam of the house.

With the light of the torch, they recognized that the person was Lu Mian.

"Why don't you put people down?" Lu Bu asked.

Several soldiers hurried forward and put the person down with all their might.

After putting down the body, Lu Bu squatted aside and gently pressed his neck with his fingers.

"The face is already blue and purple, and the corpse has long since become cold. I will die for a while." Lu Bu turned his head and looked at Xun You.

"He had long thought that he would die." Xun You sighed: "Lu Mian is ordinary in his ability, but his integrity is not weak. Yuan Shu was entrenched in Huainan back then and had several figures under his command. Unfortunately, he didn't know how to use people well, and he was blindly arrogant. He actually thought that his virtue could replace the Han Dynasty, and that he ended up with his current fate. It was really sad and lamentable."

"Yuan Shu has long been dead, so Mr. Xun mentioned what he did." Lu Bu asked: "What should Lu Mian do?"

"What should Wen Hou do if he thinks he should do it?" Xun You asked.

"Lu Mian is the general of Huainan and is originally hostile to us, so it is logical that he should not be treated well." Lu Bu said: "But he knew he would die, he asked the Zhongli defenders to open the city gate and present the city to our army. On the one hand, he saved the people of Zhongli, and on the other hand, he also avoided the casualties of the soldiers in the fight. Although there is no need for a grand funeral, no matter what, he had to prepare a thin coffin for him."

"Wen Hou said that." Xun You nodded.

He then ordered the guard: "Send an order to find a coffin for General Lu, without considering the material, as long as the body can be buryed."

A guard took the order to leave.

Lu Bu stood up and ordered the others: "First find a piece of linen to wrap the body."

Several soldiers in the room found a linen and wrapped Lu Mian in all their might.

Xun You accompanied Lu Bu to the door: "Wen Hou had just arrived in Zhongli and captured the city without bloodshed. Huainan General Lu Mian was afraid of the might of Wen Hou and ordered the defenders to surrender, but he committed suicide in the government. This time when I came to Huainan, I could see the prestige of Wen Hou."

"Mr. Xun, don't bully me if you look honestly." Lu Bu smiled at him.

Lu Bu actually said arrogantly that he was honest, and Xun You suddenly felt that his entire concept of right and wrong had been subverted.

Back then, Lu Bu was greedy for small profits and was able to give up the righteousness for a little benefit.

Although some practices are almost stupid, they cannot be said to be honest.

The person standing beside him not only has a similar appearance to that of a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, but his mind is also very different from that of Lu Bu in the past.

Although he didn't have many days to contact him, Xun You could feel that the person in front of him was not as easy to deal with as rumored.

Those who treat him as a fool are truly fools!

"Wen Hou is extremely worried and his martial arts are unparalleled in the world." Xun You replied: "How many people in the world dare to bully Wen Hou?"

"Mr. Xun just did it." Lu Bu laughed.

He then asked Xun You: "Zhongli has taken it down, and the next thing our army has to face is the Huainan army. I wonder when the weapons and armor that Mr. Xun agreed to arrive?"

"I had asked someone to ask me before, saying that I had left Xudu long ago." Xun You said: "Calculate the days, you should come to Zhongli in three or two days at most."

"The soldiers were wearing broken armor and lacked weapons, and they could not cope with the war at all." Lu Bu said: "If they could not be delivered in time and delayed the major event, Mr. Xun could not blame me."

Xun You smiled, but with helplessness in his laughter: "I understand what Wen Hou said. I will send someone to urge me. Before the weapons and armor were delivered, the army was stationed in Zhongli, okay?"

After having been in contact with Lu Bu for some time, Xun You can also find out his temper.

If he does not meet his requirements, even if he keeps his eyes behind and urges to send troops every day, he will find various reasons to shirk his power.

Instead of doing that, it would be better to satisfy him so that he could not find any reason or excuse to shirk him.

Xun You agreed simply, and Lu Bu really couldn't say much.
Chapter completed!