Chapter 162 From forced to willing
Lu Bu led his army to leave Shouchun, and ordered the soldiers to bring all the young and middle-aged men and women who could be abducted along the way.
The soldiers ran around like bandits.
They rushed into the village to drive out all the men and women.
If the elderly and children follow behind, the soldiers will not ask and just let them follow.
After walking for a day, Lu Bu's team expanded a lot.
As the team expanded, sadness spread and flooded.
It was getting late, and seeing that Zhongli was about to reach, Lu Bu looked back.
There are more and more elderly people and children following the team.
The relatives were captured, the elderly and children lost their support, and they could only follow behind with sadness and crying.
When Zhuma looked back, Lu Bu ordered Zhang Liao: "Wenyuan comes with me."
When Zhang Liao found that he was looking at the crowd following behind, he thought Lu Bu was going to disperse the elderly and children.
He said to Lu Bu: "You don't need to go Wenhou himself, I'll deal with it."
"What are you going to do?" Lu Bu asked.
"Let someone disperse them." Zhang Liao replied: "I don't listen to advice..."
"They are all relatives of men and women who were captured by us." Lu Bu interrupted him: "What will the people who are going to Pengcheng with us think?"
Zhang Liao was speechless, and he realized that he had understood what Lu Bu meant wrongly.
"Wen Hou wants to bring them all?" Zhao Yun said: "So many elderly and children consume a lot of food."
"A family is like a treasure." Lu Bu said: "The elderly can gather their families, and their children will eventually grow up. In order for Xuzhou to be more prosperous, I will also encourage the people to have children. If you have children, you will be willing to follow us, and of course you have to bring them all."
After giving an explanation, Lu Bu rode his horse toward the old man and children who were following behind the team.
They were much more powerful, and there were also many elderly and children following behind the team.
Lu Bu came with Zhang Liao and a group of soldiers, and the darkness of the elderly and children was panicked.
Some old men hugged the children around them in their arms and looked at Lu Bu with fear.
Stopped in front of the crowd, Lu Bu shouted: "I dare to ask all the villagers, have been following us, do you also want to go to Xuzhou?"
Of course no one answered his question.
People just follow their relatives, who would really want to go to Xuzhou with him?
To be honest, it goes against one's conscience, and lying may cause a loss of mind, and of course no one will respond to his questions.
"It seems to be true." Even though people did not respond, Lu Bu still ordered Zhang Liao with a smile on his face: "Wenyuan, allocate some food and let the elders have a full meal. Better tomorrow morning and then go on the road. Also, let the soldiers divide some tents, both young and small, and they are very cold at night!"
He spoke easily and wanted to send food to everyone for a full meal. People who thought it would be a catastrophe were immediately confused.
Zhang Liao winked at the soldiers next to him.
The soldier turned around and left.
Lu Bu then shouted to the crowd: "Don't worry, fellow villagers, you are willing to go to Xuzhou with me. When you arrive at a place, as long as I can't starve to death, you will have something to eat."
After Yuan Shu became emperor, he exploited the people of Huainan deeply.
The people couldn't even fill their stomachs. When they saw the Huainan army, they hid some food in each family, for fear of being stolen.
Following the team, the elderly and children just subconsciously followed their relatives.
They never thought that Lu Bu would distribute food.
"Wen Hou has an order to allocate grain to the villagers behind the team and let them have a full meal!" The soldiers who sent the order did not go quietly to find military supplies, but shouted loudly while galloping.
The sad people in the team heard the shouts and stood up one after another.
They had long found their relatives following behind.
Thinking that the journey is not close, and the number of elderly people and children will die on the road, people feel sad.
The first soldier who was sent a command rushed by, and then the second soldier sent a command: "Wen Hou has an order to allocate tents to the villagers, and it will be even more severe. If the freezing is broken!"
The soldiers were ordered to ride horses by the crowd. Although the words were cold, every word made an inexplicable warmth surge in the hearts of the people in the team.
Before people could come back to their senses, the third messenger ran over again: "Wen Hou has an order, please ask the doctor to go to the back team as soon as possible to diagnose the elderly and children. Be sure to make sure that anyone will not get sick on the road."
People who had been sad before looked at the elderly and children not far from them.
After a while, more than a dozen large trucks filled with food walked towards the elderly and children.
After a while, the tent that was built into a car was also sent over.
Only then did people believe that Lu Bu really invested in food and tents.
When they saw several doctors running by under the guidance of soldiers, the clouds that filled the team dissipated.
"Thank you for your life, Mr. Wen!" Among the people who received the gift, an old man knelt down first.
Immediately afterwards, countless people knelt down.
The men and women who stood in the distance and looked at them also knelt down.
The empty fields were filled with calls of "Thank you for your life"
Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and Chen Dao looked at each other.
They haven't figured out why the people who still need to be driven away when they leave Shouchun suddenly changed their attitudes.
People's voices are sincere and have no intention of being forced.
Zhang Liao and others were still surprised, and Lu Bu raised his hand and shouted to the crowd: "I know what life you lived in Huainan before. If you take you to Xuzhou, some people may think that I am arbitrary, but you don't know that there will be war in Huainan in the near future."
He paused and then shouted, "Cao Cao is coming. I don't know if any of you remember that during the Battle of Xia Pi, he captured Pengcheng without leaving any man, woman, young and old!"
Unlike two thousand years later, the people living in Huainan rarely get news from other places.
When Lu Bu mentioned Pengcheng, people looked at him in surprise.
"I have killed anyone, but I hope everyone in the world will be peaceful." Lu Bu looked around the crowd: "Take you to Xuzhou, although my wings are not quite full, I still have the strength to protect you. Those who are willing to go with me, shout!"
"Wen Hou is mighty!" Zhang Liao understood Lu Bu's thoughts best, and he raised his arms and shouted loudly.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of "Wen Hou's mighty" rippling in the fields.
The shouts echoed in the air for a long time, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of Lu Bu's mouth.
The crowd stabilized and attracted people's hearts, he and Zhang Liao turned around and left.
Zhang Liao asked in a low voice: "How can Mr. Wen change from being forced to move to being willing to follow them?"
Chapter completed!