“The lord orders, all troops are to wear mourning clothes to send generals Song Xian, Wei Xu and Hou Cheng off!” Soon, a small voice was transmitted front of the front of the mid army.
“Send off Wei Xu, Song Xian and Hou Cheng?! Were they not traitors?!”
“Send off traitors?! What’s wrong with the Lord?!” All the soldiers were muttering.
“That’s right! They were the whole reason why Xiapi was lost!” The soldiers were all raging. “I’m not going to wear mourning clothes! You guys can wear it if you want to mourn for them!”
“What happened?!” Liu Mang who was resting in the carriage came out. Just when he was in an ecstasy about being able to return back home, back to the 21st century, back to being that worthless person. But hey, at least that’s still home! Right when he was about to fire Boss Lu and say farewell, he heard the raging of the soldiers around him.
“Cheng Yu, what happened?!” Liu Mang asked Cheng Yu.
“Sire! This… this… was because the Lord ordered us to wear mourning clothes to send generals Song Xian, Wei Xu and Hou Cheng off!” It appears that things were difficult for Cheng Yu.
“To send these three off?!” Liu Mang too was confused. Wasn’t these three traitors?! Although he have never met Hou Cheng, he have met Wei Xu and Song Xian. It was from these two men that he rescued boss Lu.
“That’s right! They are traitors! Sire, please persuade the lord! The soldiers really don’t want to send them off!” Of course they won’t want to send them off. For they caused the break through of Xiapi and the death of countless soldiers in it! Oh how they wished to step and scatter filthy objects on their corpses to cause these three to be unable to reincarnated for eternity!
“This!” This task was a bit difficult for Liu Mang because he knew what Lu Bu said to Song Xian about the Bing Province Army always being their home. Go persuade him yourself!
Forget it! I am going to say farewell and stop associating myself with boss Lu anyways, might as well go!
Having made up his mind, Liu Mang nodded and walked toward Lu Bu.
“Lord, our food supply is running low!” For this break out, they did not bothered to bring good supply. What they have was Gao Shun’s Formation Breaker’s dry rations that they carry around with them, enough to only last a few days!
“Food supply?! It became difficult for Lu Bu too. They are marching toward Langye. In Langye was Zang Ba, Zang Xuanggao. Although Zang Ba was one of the eight superior generals under Lu Bu, he was not Lu Bu’s retainer. However, Zang Ba had a spirit of loyalty and was subdued by Lu Bu. Thus, the plan Chen Gong gave Lu Bu was to incorporate the thieves Mount Tai of Zang Ba into his troops. Although this was somewhat disregarding camaraderie but Lu Bu was without other choices. He could only repay Zang Ba when he makes a comeback!
[TL: Lu Bu’s eight superior generals: Zhang Liao, Zang Ba, Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hou Cheng.]
The problem they encounter now was that it requires three days worth of travel to reach Langye! Certainly they cannot starve! Even if the soldiers could endure it, what about the women and children?! They certainly can’t!
“Is there any villages nearby?!” Lu Bu began to move his mind! Like Cao Cao, he too was a selfish individual. The only difference between them was that Cao Cao was willing to sacrifice the world for himself whereas Lu Bu was willing to sacrifice the world for his brothers!
Lu Bu wanted to pillage villages for food.
“There is a Zhouzhuang with a population of three hundred!” Being a general, Gao Shun was very knowledgeful of the terrains of the whole Xu Province.
“Fengxian, are you really going to do this?!” Chen Gong frowned. It is impossible for there to be any survivors once they pillage the village. A village of over three hundred! That’s three hundred lives! Although they live in troubled times where human lives were no more worthy than those of dogs, Chen Gong was still unable to harden his heart.
“Then do you have any other suggestion?!” Lu Bu asked instead.
“I… Sigh!” Chen Gong sighed. He does not know of a different method. Afterall, they cannot starve to death here and thus, their only solution was to sacrifice the village.
“You could leave the problems regarding food supply to me!” A person came forward. Wasn’t this Liu Mang who wanted to say farewell to Lu Bu?!
“Zhang Liao’s soldiers numbered a thousand, the Formation Breaker numbered seven hundred, your soldiers numbered two hundred and adding on the children and women, we have two thousand and a hundred some people needing food for three days! You’re but a frail scholar, where would you find food?!” Lu Bu was not convinced.
“Isn’t it only three days worth of food for some two thousand people?! I’ll find it for you!” Liu Mang looked at with furious eyes. Pillage Zhouzhuang?! Although Liu Mang did not know where Zhouzhuang is, he knew that there was some three hundred lives there! Human lives in troubled times are no more wort