Chapter 288

Su Xuan and the others chased all the way to Hangu Pass before stopping.

"I thought I would encounter an ambush along the way, but I didn't expect it didn't appear at all! What a pity!"

Su Xuan looked up at Hangu Pass in the distance and said with regret.

"Indeed!"

Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong were also full of regret.

Huang Zhong then said: "It is estimated that they discovered the situation of our army, and after comprehensive consideration, chose to withdraw;"

"Along the way, didn't we see many traces of the iron cavalry army marching urgently?"

"The dark guards also sent intelligence saying that Lu Bu and Xu Rong had just withdrawn to Hangu Pass not long ago."

"Hmm!"

Su Xuan nodded knowingly, and then said: "Go! Go forward and see Brother Fengxian!"

"After this parting, I guess it will be several years before we see each other again!"

Saying this, Su Xuan rode his horse to a distance of one arrow away from Hangu Pass, increased his blessing with Gang-Qi, and shouted at the pass: "Brother Fengxian! Su Xuan is here! Why not come and talk!"

"Hmm?"

This was immediately heard by Lu Bu in the pass, and he immediately said to Xu Rong on the side: "I'll go see an old friend! Xu Rong, do you want to come together?"

"General Su Xuan?"

Xu Rong listened, raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "I didn't expect General Lu to know him and be familiar with him! It just so happens that I also admire General Su's prestige, so it's good to go and see him together!"

Immediately, Xu Rong followed Lu Bu to the city pass.

Admiring Su Xuan might be a little bit!

But more, he was actually a bit worried about Lu Bu.

Lu Bu himself said he was familiar with Su Xuan. Who knows if he would betray Grand Master Dong, defect to that Su Xuan, and open the gate of Hangu Pass?

This is not impossible. Lu Bu already had a record of betrayal.

That Ding Lord Yuan died in Lu Bu's hands.

Although, because of Su Xuan's intervention, Lu Bu didn't bear the infamy of killing his father, the name of betraying and killing his lord still fell on him, and he couldn't shake it off.

Fortunately, Lu Bu himself didn't care much about this matter, let alone regret it.

Because his relationship with Ding Lord Yuan was very average, and because Ding Lord Yuan repeatedly wanted to suppress him and seize the military power in his hands, he had long accumulated resentment toward Ding Lord Yuan.

Killing that old brat, in Lu Bu's view, was doing him a favor.

Besides, isn't this kind of thing very common in the eyes of the Hu people?

Lu Bu felt that these people in the Central Plains were too hypocritical.

If you have hatred and resentment, just kill them, so what?

Everyone who stood in his way, as long as they didn't have a good relationship with him, he could kill them.

Soon, the two arrived at the city pass and saw Su Xuan and Zhao Yun from afar.

"Haha! Brother Fengxian, you finally came out! I thought you didn't want to see me!"

Su Xuan saw Lu Bu and immediately raised his hand to greet him with a smile.

"Hahaha!"

Lu Bu listened and laughed loudly: "How is that possible? You and I are close friends. You invited me, how could I not come to see you?"

"However, Su Boyuan, you ruined me this time, ruined quite a few of the Grand Master's schemes!"

"Originally, we were also prepared to ambush the warlords' pursuing troops!"

"But I didn't expect that the one who came was you!"

"In the end, we could only withdraw the army first!"

"But let's say it first, I'm not afraid of you! Mainly because you kid don't talk about martial arts, actually led 10, 00-plus iron cavalry to move, and can also form a complete military formation. This is 10, 00-plus people, simply don't talk about martial arts! How did you do it?"

You know, he relied on Su Xuan's help, and until now, he could at most condense a military formation of 3, 00 people.

This was already the peak.

Don't even think about one more point.

Don't say it's because Su Xuan had Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, and others helping him.

A military formation of ten thousand as one can only be completed by one person.

Others might be able to help a little, but the decisive role must be Su Xuan.

Although he was a wild path at the beginning, after so many years, relying on his understanding and talent in this area, he was clear about many things.

In addition, with this laugh and this talk, the accumulated resentment in his heart over these years and this period of time dissipated quite a bit.

"Haha!"

Su Xuan listened and laughed loudly: "When two armies fight, how can you talk about martial arts? Who doesn't want their martial arts to be more abundant?"

"Moreover, I took a fancy to these people, I have to move!"

"In addition, most of those warlords may not necessarily pursue. Even if I didn't come, you wouldn't be able to ambush any big fish."

Hmm! Boss Cao will definitely come.

But now that he has done this, whether Cao Cao will continue to pursue is uncertain.

Su Xuan didn't care about this, just happened to reduce a wave of Cao Cao's consumption, making it easier for Cao Cao to contend with Lord Yuan Shao and Lord Yuan Shu later, and not be so miserable in the early stage.

Anyway, he didn't care about this enhancement of Cao Cao.

No matter how strong, he won't be stronger than him.

"You kid!"

Lu Bu heard Su Xuan's shameless words and was also happy.

Next, the two chatted for more than ten minutes across a hundred meters, and Su Xuan said goodbye to Lu Bu, led the army to turn back, gathered the common people who were left behind along the way, and took them eastward.

"After this parting, I don't know when we will see each other again! Alas!"

Lu Bu looked at Su Xuan and the others' retreating backs and couldn't help but sigh.

His eyes were full of reluctance.

Xu Rong on the side saw it and smiled slightly: "I didn't expect General Lu to have such deep friendship with General Su Xuan, it's so rare!"

"It is a blessing in three lifetimes to have a close friend in life, General Lu is enviable!"

He heard the conversation between Su Xuan and Lu Bu throughout, and from the conversation, he could hear that the friendship between them was indeed very pure, without mixing other things.

He had never had such a friendship, so naturally he was envious.

"Haha!"

Lu Bu listened and couldn't help but laugh: "That's it! I have always felt that being able to make a close friend like Su Boyuan is the luckiest thing in my life!"

"This kind of thing can't be envied, it depends entirely on luck! I wish I could have a few more such close friends! Haha!"

"You!"

Xu Rong listened and was speechless: "A few more? Too greedy, if you can have one, you should be proud!"

"Haha!"

Su Xuan's side, gathering and appeasing the common people along the way, providing food to gather and appease people's hearts.

It took more than a day to finally meet up with Old Dian Wei, Guo Jia, and the others.

Of course, halfway, Su Xuan sent cavalry to transport some grain.

Fortunately, in the process of this pursuit, tens of thousands of stones of grain were intercepted, otherwise, he really couldn't afford to raise these common people.

"Old Dian Wei, Huang Hansheng! Next, you continue to lead the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army, Xuanwu Battalion, and New Recruit Battalion to escort these common people to Yi Que Pass in Nanyang!"

"I already notified Zhicai and Huang Xu in Xinyue and Jiangling a few days ago, they have already sent troops to Liangxian and Yangrenju to meet them;"

"Must successfully send these hundreds of thousands of common people back to Jingzhou safely, understand?"

— Author's Notes —

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