Three Kingdoms: My father-in-law is Lu Bu

Chapter 69 The thief's heart is immortal
Pengcheng, Tao Ying's mansion.

Tao Ying sent away his cronies carefully, and returned to the inner house full of worries.

When his wife saw Tao Ying coming back, she hurriedly backed away.

"Husband, no one found out?"

Tao Ying looked around the room like a thief before whispering: "The two of them are my close friends who grew up together. Don't worry, the token will be delivered."

"Hey, my husband is worried about doing this. After all, we are also under the nose of others. If we are exposed, we will die."

Tao Ying looked panic-stricken, and couldn't help wiping the cold sweat off his back when he returned to the room.

Tao Ying's wife rolled her eyes, feeling speechless at Tao Ying's soft-hearted appearance.

"That day you surrendered without saying a word, and the foundation of your Tao family was given to Lu Bu. Can you have some backbone?"

Tao Ying's wife is used to living a comfortable life, but now she is under house arrest, and her food and clothing costs are the same as ordinary people's. How can she bear it?

Tao Ying cursed inwardly, if he didn't surrender that day, you would probably be a widow!

But Tao Ying didn't dare to show it on his face, because his wife had already contacted one of the bandit troops of the Black Mountain Army in private, and she had already been convicted of trespassing with foreign enemies anyway, so he could only close his eyes and follow.

"Okay, husband, you don't have to be afraid. My cousin has thousands of warriors. When the time comes, Lu Bu will have to hand over Pengcheng to us."

Peng Ying's wife smiled and began to continue her dream as the prefect's wife.

Tao Ying nodded with a wry smile, and secretly said in his heart, according to his promise, no one will know whether this Pengcheng belongs to the Black Mountain Army or the Tao family.

"Hmph, you have a bitter face all day, go to bed!" Mrs. Tao Ying fell asleep.

Tao Ying was lying beside his wife, tossing and turning but unable to fall asleep.

Until late at night, Tao Ying dreamed that he was taken to the execution ground by Lu Bu and beheaded because of his adultery with foreign enemies.

He was so scared that he sat up from the bed in a big man, and found that there was really a person with disheveled hair shaking himself in front of him.

"Who are you? Assassin! Come on!"

Tao Ying exclaimed, scaring his wife awake.

"It's me, the general, run away, Lu Bu knows about your contact with the Black Mountain Army!"

The visitor was terrified, only then did Tao Ying see the blood on his clothes.

Tao Ying's head thumped, his face became pale, and he couldn't feel anything else.

"What should I do?" The wife cried out in panic and grabbed Tao Ying's sleeve.

Tao Ying came to his senses, and didn't care about so much, jumped out of bed and took out the bag of soft goods that he had already put away from the cabinet.

"Go, hurry up, we really won't be able to leave when Lu Bu kills us!"

Tao Ying's wife didn't even have time to put on her shoes, so she ran away in embarrassment behind Tao Ying wrapped in a quilt.

The two of them took a few of their confidantes and sneaked out of the city gate overnight and headed north.

Little did they know, just as they were leaving, Lu Bu stood on the tower with a gloomy face and looked at their backs.

"Cao Xing, apart from the people guarding the city gate tonight, is there anyone else involved?"

Lu Bu's voice was very low and full of anger.

Cao Xing was originally Lv Bu's personal guard, but because of lack of manpower, he was promoted by Lv Bu to assist Pengcheng's management.

He didn't know about Tao Ying's liaison with foreign enemies before. It wasn't until Lu Bra brought him here to see it with his own eyes tonight that he knew that the soldiers under his command had been bribed.

"This subordinate deserves death for dereliction of duty. However, this subordinate is a lesson to you from your loyalty to the general, and absolutely did not participate in Tao's rebellion."

Seeing Cao Xing's upright face, Lu Bu knew that Cao Xing would not betray him so easily.

"Get up. I know you won't betray, but after all, this happened under your command. I will sue the lord to fine you three months' salary. In the future, the whole army will not be such a joke!"

Cao Xing got up ashamed and cupped his hands: "General Xie, these white-eyed wolves, I will definitely not let them go!"

Lu Bu looked down with a cold face, and several light cavalry followed Tao Ying far away.

"Hmph, the idiots on the wall, I have already said that I don't want these idiots to surrender, Wen Yuan just has a soft heart."

Seeing Lu Bu scolding Zhang Liao, Cao Xing bowed his head and dared not speak.

"Okay, after you go back, give me a quick investigation. Those who are involved should be beheaded and killed as an example! In addition, you give me a good training for the new army. The lord said that we will take action soon."

"Yes, general, don't worry!"

Cao Xing straightened his face, saluted and walked out.

After a while, there was a brief commotion at the city gate, which subsided immediately.

When the sun shrouded Pengcheng again, the people went out and were busy as usual, but found that the atmosphere was a little tense, not as relaxed as before.

In the barracks, more than a dozen corpses were hung on wooden poles for public display. Most of the hundreds of surrendered soldiers in Pengcheng looked at them numbly, and there was not much change.

Cao Xing trained intensively with three thousand archers. This was a task given to him by Lu Bu, because his archery skills were almost the same as Lu Bu's and were first-rate.

Lu Bu received Ye Xiao's order to train a new army, and simply asked Cao Xing to recruit [-] new archers, intending to train them into an archer army.

However, the incident of Tao Ying's defection didn't even make a splash, and Pengcheng continued to live its life.

At noon, two cavalry rushed out of the barracks.

Lu Bu led [-] Xiliang iron cavalry in front, followed closely by [-] Qingqi cavalry acting as scouts and transporting supplies.

Lv Bu's troops, dispatched with all cavalry, quickly followed Tao Ying and marched far away.

Lu Bu wanted to find out which king of the Black Mountain Army Tao Ying was colluding with, and wanted to fight against him.

The Heishan army was led by Zhang Yan. After Qingzhou was defeated, they guarded the Heishan area and lived on the offerings from Langya County.

The entire force is complex, and not everyone follows Zhang Yan's order. In the final analysis, it is grass bandits who gather together to work together, not Tietong.

Lu Bu was certain that the person Tao Ying contacted this time was not Zhang Yan, and that he came here to show his strength, so that these people should not think about Pengcheng's intentions.

Otherwise, according to the rugged mountain roads of Montenegro, his cavalry is not very useful.

Tao Ying fled all the way and soon entered the territory of Langya.

There were nearly 2000 Lu Bu cavalrymen following behind. Such a big movement was quickly followed by people.

It was Sun Guan who took the lead to meet Lu Bu.

Sun Guan was originally a son of an official, but his father was imprisoned because he refused to obey the order of the local prefect to kill innocent people.

Sun Guan himself was eager for public justice and met many heroes. Seeing his father being wronged, he directly raised his flag and snatched his father out on the road, and ran all the way to Ju County.

Therefore, Sun Guan became the leader of Ju County, with nearly [-] soldiers under his command to intimidate the Quartet. Wu Dun and Yi Li each led their troops to accompany them all the way because of his righteousness, collectively known as the Sanyi of Ju County.

Lv Bu came aggressively this time, and Sun Guan was very worried. After discussing with the three brothers, he brought a gift and came to see him.

Lu Bu had also heard of Sun Guan's name, and he had a good impression of his daring, so he ordered him to set up a banquet to entertain him.

Sun Guan didn't expect that Lu Bu, who is so famous and famous, was so easy to talk, and at the same time he was moved, and his heart began to become active.

(End of this chapter)