Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

The swords and spears collided, and with a clang, the two weapons produced some sparks and then immediately separated.

Li Gui turned his horse around, pointed his blade at Lü Bu, and laughed heartily, "This fellow looks tall and strong, but he's using his halberd to scare people. He doesn't have much strength in his hands at all."

He said to the thieves, "Look, my fellow thieves, I will chop him off his horse with one blow."

"Master Qu is mighty! Master Qu is mighty!"

The thieves behind started shouting loudly!

Li Gui let go of the horse, clamped his legs tightly around the horse's belly, and slashed at Lu Bu with the knife in both hands. The blade fell heavily with a terrifying force.

Lu Bu raised his eyelids and looked at Li Gui like a monkey. Before Li Gui's weapon fell, he lightly pushed his horse's head to the side to avoid it. Li Gui had no time to retract his force and his sword missed. With a clang, the blade hit the ground and he almost fell off his horse due to inertia.

Li Gui steadied himself and picked up the knife again, only to see a gash on it. He roared, "Don't run away if you dare!"

But Lu Bu rode his horse and ran to the side. Li Gui roared and chased after him, swinging his sword repeatedly, but he failed to hit Lu Bu several times.

On the other side, Xu Chu and others also restrained their strength and ran to the side while fighting. The moth thieves on horses chased after them, and the infantry behind them rushed over under the leadership of another thief general and fought with Wang's troops.

Li Gui chopped and hacked with his sword, trying to knock Lu Bu off his horse, but no matter whether he used brute force or clever attacks, he could not touch Lu Bu even a hair after fighting for dozens of rounds, and instead exhausted himself and was out of breath.

Other bandits came to help, some fought in groups of three or four, some in groups of several. After fighting for a long time, no bandit could touch Lu Bu, and almost no bandit was knocked off his horse by Lu Bu. It was just that Xu Chu and others did not control their strength and skills well, and accidentally killed more than a dozen bandits.

Lü Bu teased Li Gui like a cat teasing a mouse, and would neither kill him nor let him escape.

Li Gui was already sweating coldly. At first he thought that this guy's martial arts skills were average, but after fighting for so many rounds, he already felt that he was just teasing him. If this guy wanted to kill him, he only needed one move.

"How could this thief be so powerful? Even more powerful than Ah Chu!"

Inside the gate, Zhang Mo watched Li Gui, who had been battling Lü Bu for half a day, her eyes sparkling. She thought to herself, "Could this be another famous historical general? To have fought Lü Bu for so long, he must be ranked in the top ten."

Du Fei frowned and said, "Why do I feel that Fengxian didn't try his best?"

"Not giving your best?"

Zhang Mo was still wondering who this person could be. After hearing what Du Fei said, she looked carefully and figured out some clues. Even if this thief general was powerful, why weren't any of the little thieves next to him killed?

"Is this guy kidding about human life?"

Zhang Mo suddenly became angry and shouted, "Lu Fengxian, have you had enough fun?"

Lu Bu turned around and saw that Zhang Mo was angry. He then looked at his troops and saw that many of them were killed or injured.

When Li Gui heard Zhang Mo's shout, he knew that Lu Bu was going to kill him. When Lu Bu turned around, he rode his horse and tried to escape. He had not run far when his shoulder armor was hooked by Lu Bu's weapon. He struggled but couldn't get free. The next second, he was pulled off the horse by a strong force, and his strong body hit the ground with a loud bang.

Lu Bu was about to spur his horse and trample Li Gui. Zhang Mo rushed out and shouted, "Stop! Capture him alive!"

"hiss--"

The black horse let out a long neigh, and its front hoof was pulled slightly off course by Lu Bu. Its left hoof landed beside Li Gui's head, and the wind from the hoof blew up a few strands of hair on his temples.

Li Gui turned his head and looked at the horse hoof close to his nose with squinting eyes. He felt his lower body tighten and he almost peed out of fright.

Lü Bu roughly guessed Zhang Mo's purpose in capturing the enemy alive. He pressed the tip of his halberd against Li Gui's neck and said coldly, "Tell them to stop!"

Li Gui lay on the ground, swallowed his saliva, and said tremblingly, "Stop, stop, everyone, stop it!"

The little thieves who were happily fighting stopped, looked around, and searched for twice before they saw their family's Qu Shuai lying under a horse.

"Hero, can you please move the horse's hooves away a little bit first..." Li Gui said timidly as he looked at the long black-haired legs next to his head.

Lu Bu smiled proudly, put away his halberd and turned his horse around. Immediately, two of his men came up and pulled Li Gui up and tied him up. Several other small leaders were also arrested by Guan Hai and Xu Chu.

After their leader was captured, the bandits dared not act rashly again. Some of them wanted to escape when they saw that the situation was not right, but after Lu Bu shot and killed several of them in succession, the bandits dared not move again.

Zhang Mo walked out of the door and glared at Lu Bu angrily, "What are you doing? Are you playing with them?"

Lu Bu dismounted and patted her back soothingly. "Don't be angry. I just wanted them to practice. There's nothing else to it."

Hearing him say this, Zhang Mo's anger subsided a little. "Many of them have only been training for two or three months, and they don't even have armor. You're too impatient."

In Zhang Mo's opinion, the best place to kill Dong Zhuo is when he goes to Beimang Mountain to pick up the young emperor. However, there are still more than three years until the sixth year of Zhongping, so there is still plenty of time. There is really no need to rush into actual combat practice.

However, Lu Bu didn't know the purpose of her training. He was thinking that he was about to leave, and he had to quickly improve the combat effectiveness of this group of people so that the safety of the manor could be better guaranteed. However, judging from the casualties today, he was too hasty.

Zhang Mo ordered Meixiang, "Go find someone quickly and take the injured to get medical treatment."

He then said to Xu Chu, "Take some men to stop the bleeding of the injured moth thief. Remove the weapons from the other thieves and keep them under guard."

Guan Hai counted the casualties and found that 28 of his men were killed and 36 were injured. The bandits were even worse, with 88 killed and 42 injured. Some of them were killed by Xu Chu and Guan Hai, and most of them were killed by Wang's men. Lu Bu was only concerned with teasing Li Gui and did not kill many people.

After all the hustle and bustle, it was almost noon and everyone was hungry, so Guan Hai arranged for everyone to take turns going back to eat.

There was no prison in Zhuangzi, so Zhang Mo directly ordered people to tie Li Gui and others to the horse tie.

"Amo, what are you going to do with these people?"

Xu Chu looked at the hundreds of thieves squatting in the training ground with their heads in their hands and asked.

When Zhang Mo asked Lu Bu to capture the bandit leader alive, she already had a plan in mind. Recruiting refugees bit by bit was too slow, and compared to refugees, these bandits had obviously stronger basic combat capabilities. By recruiting them, she could strengthen her own strength in one go.

However, she needed to think carefully about how to persuade them to surrender and how to hold them hostage.

Lu Bu saw through her thoughts and disagreed, "These are all extremely vicious criminals. You can't control them, so just kill them all!"

Zhang Mo shook her head. "Even the most vicious criminals are still human. The leader of the thieves didn't attack right away, but surrendered first, which shows he's not a bloodthirsty person. To the victims, they're villains, but to their families, they're the pillars of their families, their hope for survival. Sometimes, people aren't really good or bad."

"There's no distinction between good and bad?" Lü Bu frowned. How could there be no distinction between good and bad? In his opinion, Yang Chuo was a bad guy, a truly unforgivable one.

"As long as our interests align, enemies can become friends; when our interests conflict, even relatives can become enemies. As for these bandits, as long as I know their interests, I am confident that I can control them."

To ordinary people, this statement might seem absurd, but to those in power, everything else is fleeting; profit is the only thing that matters! And the interests of these bandits are actually the same as those of refugees: just enough food and clothing.

Du Fei said, "Even so, there are more than 800 bandits, and the village can't accommodate so many people. These are just the young and strong. They must have families in the village. If we surrender, we have to take the elderly, the weak, the women and the children with us as well. Moreover, if they suddenly turn against us one day, I'm afraid we won't be able to control them if Fengxian is not here."

Zhang Mo said, "I have ways to control them. As for turning against me, if the cost is far greater than the benefits, they should think carefully."

She said to a soldier beside her, "Go wake up the bandit leader. I have something to ask him."

Seeing that Zhang Mo looked confident, Lu Bu put aside the distinction between good and bad people and followed her out. He wanted to see how his wife would control these people.

To be honest, after being with Amo for almost a year, he still learned a lot, such as how to employ people. In the past, he only heard her talk a lot of empty theories, but since the construction of the coal mine and the farm began, he realized that she was not just a person who talked about theories in vain.

She knew exactly the personalities and strengths of the people around her, and she was able to place them in appropriate positions. This was how honeycomb coal was sold throughout Jinyang in a short period of time, and even began to be sold in several surrounding counties.

If that were the case, it wouldn't surprise him. What he found most incredible was that she knew clearly that some corrupt people were guilty but could still tolerate it and not deal with them.

She said that when the water is too clear, there will be no fish. As long as the amount of greed is within her bottom line and the person can bring her huge benefits, she can turn a blind eye.