“Well well, what have we here? Mende was correct, you two really are feigning surrender!” said Xiahou Dun while pointing his blade at Song Xian and Wei Xu.
“Hehe, feigned surrender or not, Prime Minister Cao knew well enough. Right or wrong, crooked or straight, us brothers are no longer interested in quarreling!” said Song Xian with a smile. Within his smile was a sense of being free and at ease.
“Yuanrang, let me handle this!” Yu Jin too have arrived. His brows furrowed as heard Song Xian’s speech. Was it really a feigned surrender?! He walked forward and said “General Song, General Wei. Perhaps we have all fallen to the Lu Bu army’s stratagem - the stratagem of sowing dissension! Their purpose is to escape while we kill each other! Generals, please step aside! The Lu Bu army is with women and children; they cannot have escaped far! If we pursue them now, we will most certainly be able to catch up to them!”
[TL: so tempted to say, bruh, we have fallen for Lube’s trap card!”]
“Wenze? Perhaps it really was the stratagem of sowing dissension?!” Although Xiahou Dun was a honest and thick fellow, he was not stupid. Even he could tell that Song Xian and Wei Xu shouldn’t be betraying them. If they really are feigning surrender, then back in the chaos, they could’ve send their armies over to block his and Yu Jin’s armies and allow Lu Bu enough time to kill Mende. However, when the Song Xian and Wei Xu’s armies arrived, Lu Bu chose to escape instead.
[TL: Wenze is Yu Jin’s courtesy name.]
“Sigh! It doesn’t matter now! Song Xian, Wei Xu, if it really was the stratagem of sowing dissension, then this Xiahou Dun will apologize to you and justify for you in front of the Prime Minister! Move aside, we still have to pursue Lu Bu!” said Xiahou Dun while brandishing his blade.
[TL: http://media.tiltingatpixels.com/tilting/Do_Not_Pursue_Lu_Bu.jpg]
“You no longer have to pursue!” said Wei Xu indifferently.
“What do you mean by that?!” raged Xiahou Yuan. His elder brother was deeply injured by Lu Bu, he wanted to avenge his elder brother!
“Generals, perhaps you have grievances?! “ Yu Jin thought that these two men are acting this way because they were attacked by their own people.
“Hehe. What we meant by ‘you no longer have to pursue was that we are the Lu Bu army remnants that you guys are pursuing!” said Song Xian and Wei Xu together.
Yu Jin frowned even more deeply. “Generals, it would be wise not to inflict self harm! The influence of the Lu Bu army is already gone. Currently, he is no different from a stray dog, difficult to ever accomplish greatness! Generals, you must not give up your lives over momentary anger!”
“Wenze, why bother talking bullshit with them?! Break through them!” raged Xiahou Dun.
Yu Jin stopped him. Had it been the usual, Yu Jin might’ve break through them exactly like what Xiahou Dun said. Afterall, Wei Xu and Song Xian’s troops are already badly damaged whereas they have an unlimited supply of troops.
But now, they cannot do that! Once Wei Xu and Song Xian are willing to die to prevent them from passing through the gates, they certainly could stop them for a couple hours. The area in front of the gates are simply too narrow, even if they have the advantage in numbers, they are unable to set up formations nor could they engage them all at once! Once delayed for a couple hours, Lu Bu would’ve already escaped!
“General Yu Jin, you could save your persuasions. That’s right, we admit that we did not feign surrender. We originally planned to capture our elder brother for Prime Minister Cao in exchange for a life of riches, but Prime Minister Cao really was too overly suspicious of us, not only did he killed Old Hou, he even wanted to kill us! Since ancient times, no son would ever detest one’s mother for being ugly and no dog would ever detest his residency for being poor! Us brothers have done enough wrongs, we can no longer redeem ourselves. Just allow us to give our lives back to our elder brother!”
Song Xian said it so lightly, as if the men who was about to die was not themselves.
It was like this afterall! Yu Jin sighed. This was exactly the stratagem of sowing dissention!
“Sigh!” Another sound of sighing was heard. Out of nowhere, a black faced fatty was standing next to Yu Jin.