Chapter 758

"In that way, whether it is me or Ziyi, we will both become rebels!"

"They just want to use this method to provoke me, to provoke Ziyi."

"But how could I follow their wishes?"

"Isn't it just stripping me of military power, isn't it just being taken to Luoyang in a prisoner's cart? It's no big deal, I will go."

Lu Zhi, listening to Dong Zhuo's words, was shocked.

He only received the order to strip Dong Zhuo of his military power and send him to Luoyang.

As for what Dong Zhuo said, he had not thought of it at all.

Nor had he made any associations in that direction.

"General Dong, I think you... you have misunderstood," Lu Zhi hurriedly explained.

"Misunderstood?" Dong Zhuo sneered and said: "General Lu, you are a renowned Confucian of the realm; they say you are a model for scholars and a pillar of the country."

"But not everyone in the world is like you."

Dong Zhuo stood up abruptly and overturned the table in front of him.

As the wine pot and wine cups fell to the ground, the Liu Bei brothers, who had been waiting outside the door, and a large number of sword-and-axe men who had been lying in ambush, swarmed in.

Lu Zhi also hurriedly stood up and pressed down with his hands: "Don't move, nobody move!"

Zhang Fei, holding his eighteen-foot serpent spear, and Guan Yu, holding his Green Dragon Crescent Blade, both looked at Dong Zhuo with vigilance.

Dong Zhuo's gaze swept over the sword-and-axe men who had rushed in and the Liu Bei brothers.

There was no fear in his eyes.

"General Lu, since things have come to this, there is no need to say more."

Dong Zhuo puffed out his chest, his back straight, and said: "Kill me or butcher me, I am at your disposal."

"But you want to use me to frame my son..."

"I, Dong Zhuo... will never follow your wishes!"

"As a father, I will absolutely not smear my son's reputation!"

Looking at the calm Dong Zhuo.

Lu Zhi knew that the Hongmen Banquet tonight had failed completely.

He didn't expect Dong Zhuo to have guessed it long ago.

And to be able to face it so calmly.

It seems that what he thought before was somewhat superfluous.

Perhaps Dong Zhuo not cooperating with him to attack Guangzong City was not because of some unspeakable reasons.

"General Dong, I have offended you."

"I, Lu, am not trying to harm anyone, please believe me, General Dong."

"I, Lu, am also acting under orders."

Lu Zhi cupped his hands to Dong Zhuo and then gave a wink to Liu Bei.

Zhang Fei and Guan Yu stepped forward and removed the sword from Dong Zhuo's waist.

Then they escorted Dong Zhuo out towards the main tent.

When they reached the gate of the main tent, Dong Zhuo stopped, looked back at Lu Zhi, the smile on his face not diminishing at all.

"Lu Zhi, just watch, my son Duan Yu... will wash away the injustice done to me today."

"Move, dead fat pig, bragging, you can't even save yourself and you're still bragging!" Zhang Fei cursed and pushed Dong Zhuo out of Lu Zhi's central camp.

Dong Zhuo's West Camp.

Two large camps stood side by side.

The camp on the left was bright with firelight and filled with the sound of people; even from a distance, one could see shadows moving under the firelight.

When Dong Zhuo set out from Luoyang, he led a total of twenty thousand troops.

Among them, more than ten thousand were county soldiers recruited from Hedong Commandery, and several thousand were Dong Zhuo's direct Liangzhou army.

Most of these were troops Dong Zhuo had recruited from his hometown in Longxi Commandery, and they had followed Dong Zhuo for many years.

Among them were Dong Zhuo's most elite eight hundred Flying Bear Cavalry.

Dong Zhuo had placed the more than ten thousand Hedong Commandery soldiers in the camp on the left.

And the troops who had fought with Dong Zhuo for many years were placed in the camp on the right.

At this time, the camp on the right was dim with firelight.

Even in front of the camp gate, there were only a few torches.

The entire camp was silent.

In the distance, a troop of cavalry holding torches was approaching the camp on the right at a very fast speed.

Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, the three brothers, were in the lead.

However, when the three brothers rushed to the gate of the camp on the right and stopped their horses, they were stunned.

Guan Yu, holding his Green Dragon Crescent Blade, glanced into the camp, then looked at Liu Bei beside him in confusion and said: "Big Brother, this seems to be an empty camp?"