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Chapter 26: Big Transaction

My Father in Law is Lu Bu

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Muddleheaded, Chen Yi drove home. She opened the door to her house.

"You're back already?!" inquired Chen Yi's mother as she looked at her daughter thinking that it was strange for her to be back so early.

"Have you finished buying?" The daughter was acting a bit strange, this was a mother's intuition.

With empty eyes, Chen Yi nodded her head.

"What happened?!" Chen Yi's mother moved forward to touch her daughter's head. "No fever! How much did you friend ask for that general's gown?!" Chen Yi's mother asked casually.

Chen Yi didn't answer. She was in a completely muddleheaded state.

"Why aren't you speaking? Where's the card?" asked Chen Yi's mother. Her card was connected to her phone, should there be a transfer of money, she'd receive a notification on her phone. However, she had yet to receive any notification.

"I gave the card to him!" replied Chen Yi.

"Gave the card to him?!" Chen Yi's mother was confused. What's with this? That card had fifty million! That's the total amount of bonus she made this year in her company! Even if it's a general's robe, it wouldn't be that expensive! Did my girl went crazy?!

Chen Yi didn't try to explain. Instead, she took her mother to the garage and opened the trunk of the car.

Suddenly there's a burst of golden light. Chen Yi's mother also got stunned. Although she was wealthy, both her husband and she had their own careers and her parents were also wealthy, she had never seen five hundred pounds of gold before.

Gold! She saw that the gold had filled the whole trunk.

"These are what he gave me. He asked me to help him exchange these for money. As he urgently needed the money, I decided to give him the fifty million yuan card first!"

"What kind of person was that friend of yours?!"

Neither Chen Yi nor her mother managed to get any sleep that night. Chen Yi spent the whole night in shock. Her mother, on the other hand, was thinking about where the gold came from. Her family didn't lack any money. Although five hundred pounds of gold was indeed dazzling, it cannot move her heart. Instead, she was thinking of whether her daughter might have became friends with some bad people and the origin of the gold - if it's stolen or did someone rob a tomb.

If it was taken from a tomb, then maybe Chen Yi's mother would help taking into consideration that Liu Mang was Chen Yi's friend. However, if this happens again then she'll definitely tell Chen Yi to stay away from him.

Liu Mang also did not managed to get any sleep that night. Three days. He only had three days! In these three days, he had to rush to Shandong Province at full speed. He had to find the horse ranch and purchase all the horses. He also had to find where to purchase armors and weapons!

Thus, immediately after he received the card with the fifty million yuan, he immediately rushed back to the University, found his friend whose family owned a horse ranch, dragged said friend, brought two plane tickets to Shandong and flew the same day.

Shandong. Liu Mang just got off the plane and was prepared to rush toward the horse ranch.

The domestic flights arrived early in the morning. By noon, he had arrived at Chen Yu's house.

Chen Yu's father could be regarded as a large scale breeder. With more than a thousand horses, cattles and sheep and thousands of shacks. He could already be considered as a big shot in the whole Shandong animal breeding industry.

"Dad, Mom, I'm back!" Chen Yu's house was located in the breeding ranch area. A western styled three story house. A distinctive style amongst the area filled with breeding ranches.

"Lil Yu?!" From the house came a middle aged woman. Chen Yu's family business had been ran by his father the whole time. Thus, his mother was just an ordinary housewife.

"How did you come back?!" With a kind and concernful expression, Chen Yu's mother asked her son.

"I came back this time because my classmate over here wanted to purchase a couple horses to play with!" explained Chen Yu. Although the relationship between Chen Yu and Liu Mang was just so so, Chen Yu was an enthusiastic person. Especially after Liu Mang gave him an Apple phone, he became even more enthusiastic toward Liu Mang.

"A classmate? Come, quickly take a seat inside the house!" Chen Yu's mother totally ignored the whole horse purchasing ordeal. Instead, she began to entertain Liu Mang.

"No no. Auntie, I'm in a hurry. I would like to check out the horse ranch now, is that fine?!" Liu Mang didn't want to sit down in Chen Yu's house for it might last for a whole half day.

"In this much of a rush?! Okay! Chen Yu's dad is currently at the horse ranch. Chen Yu knows the direction, just have him take you there! I still have to cook dinner, don't forget to come back for dinner in the afternoon!" A mother was always the most enthusiastic toward her returned son.

Under the guide of Chen Yu, Liu Mang and him arrived at the horse ranch.

Once arrived at the horse ranch, Liu Mang was stupefied. It was completely different from what he had imagined. Instead of horses running around freely, all the horses were held in captivity with only a few li worth of area to move around.

That wasn't even the most concerning factor. The most concerning factor was that all these horses combined could not add up to five hundred. He needed five thousand!

"Chen Yu, are you certain that your family had one of Shandong's larger ranch?!" Liu Mang asked suspectly.

"Of course!" Chen Yu answered without any hesitation. "There's only a dozen or so families with ranches of some dozen or so li area. The rest of them were all smaller ranches that could only breed things like poultries!"

"Brat, how did you get back?!" A middle aged man who looked very similar to Chen Yu came by. Liu Mang knew that this was certainly Chen Yu's father.

"You decided not to go to school anymore? Was there no class? Or did you got into some sort of problem?!" Fathers are fathers after all. A bit less of that compassion of mothers. A bit more of that strictness of fathers.

"Dad, why am I always a kid in your eyes?!" Chen Yu was a bit embarrassed to be told such a thing by his father in front of his classmate. He's an adult after all.

"Humph, little brat. In my eyes you will always be like that!"

"Enough, enough, I won't quarrel with you! Today I came back with a classmate of mine. He wanted to purchase some horses to play with!" Chen Yu was almost speechless toward his father. He's already twenty two! Some of his original classmates were already married and had kids. Yet his father still regarded him as a naughty child.

"Purchase horse?!" Chen Yu's father Chen De looked toward Liu Mang who was on the side of Chen Yu and complained. "Why didn't you it earlier that you brought a classmate with you! Classmate, you came here to purchase horses right?!"

"Uncle, I am surnamed Liu and named Mang. You can just call me Lil Liu!" replied Liu Mang.

"Okay. Lil Liu it is." After saying it a couple times, Chen De felt that it was easy to say and decided to call Liu Mang that. "What kind of horse were you planning to buy? Hot blooded horse, warm blooded horse or cold blooded horse?"

"Huh?!" Liu Mang was confused. How could there be so many different types of horses? Aren't they all mammals? How could there be cold blooded horses?!

Seeing Liu Mang with a face full of confusion, Chen De laugh. He knew that this young man didn't know much about horses. "Come! Let me introduce the horses to you!"

The three walked toward the horse ranch.

"Lil Liu. Look. All these horses were purchased personally by your uncle from when they were only foals. We nurtured them until they grew older and give birth to more foals!" Chen De pointed at each and every shed. He knew of every single one of the horse.

After listening to Chen De's explanation, Liu Mang understood a little about the horses. There are more than three hundred varieties of horses in the world.

According to the uses of the horses, they could be categorized into: riding horses (light horse) and harness horses (large horses, commonly referred as cart pulling horses).

According to the linage of the horses, they could be categorized into: hot blooded horses (clever, quick, suitable for becoming racehorses. However, they had poor physique and endurance and a stubborn personality. Not suited for leisure usage), warm blooded horses (clever with a meek temperature. Suitable for various applications, both for competitions and for leisure) and cold blooded horse (strong and able body, fit for pulling carts. Mostly used for agriculture.)

Liu Mang doesn't know what kind of horse was needed for combat in the era of cold weapons. Do they need the explosiveness of a hot blooded horse or do they need the endurance of a cold blooded horse?

"Uncle, I want both the hot blooded horse and the warm blooded horse!" Since he didn't know what kind of horse to get, might as well buy them all. Lu Bu could chose the kind of horse he want himself afterwards.

"Okay! I have a just grown Arabian horse. It's a hot blooded horse. You can purchase that. As for the warm blooded horse, how about that Mongolian horse?! It's pretty good too and isn't too old either. Seeing as you're the brat's classmate, I'd sell you the Arabian horse for fifteen thousand. As for that Mongolian horse, consider it a gift from me!" Chen De didn't ask anymore than the production cost of the horse.

"Okay! I'd take all of your Arabian and Mongolian horses!" Liu Mang's words almost frightened Chen De to death.

"What? You want them all?!" Chen De could not believe what Liu Mang had said. He had no less than a hundred Arabian horses and two hundred Mongolian horses. Using fifteen thousand for an Arabian horse and five thousand for a Mongolian horse, that's a transaction of over three million yuan!

"That's right uncle, I want them all!" said Liu Mang with a smile. "This is the deposit!" Liu Mang had taken ten million in cash from the bank before he came here.

"Hey hey, Liu Mang, you didn't went full retard right? What are you buying all these horses for? Here, my dad had over three hundred of the horses you want. Did you really want to purchase all those?!" Chen Yu was also stunned. Although he doesn't know what Liu Mang's family does, Liu Mang didn't strike him as someone belonging to a rich family. To purchase three hundred horses, did he want to start his own horse ranch? Even if that was the case, he should be buying foals, not fully grown horses.

"I didn't go full retard! Uncle, do you have the contact information of other horse ranches? What I wanted to buy was a lot more than these. I needed two thousand and five hundred hot blooded Arabian horses as well as two thousand five hundred Mongolian horses!" Liu Mang threw out another huge bomb. The bomb landed on Chen De and left him completely dazzled.

"Two thousand and five hundred Arabian horses? And another two thousand and five hundred Mongolian horses? Did you want all these horses to fight in a battle or what?!" Chen De muttered in his chest. He managed to guessed correctly, these horses were indeed for use of battle, only that it's not a battle in modern times.

Before he came, Liu Mang already got his manuscript ready. He said with a smile. "Uncle, have you heard of the Horse King?"

"Horse King?!" Those who breed horses does it not only because it's a business, they also do it because they loved horses. The Legend of the Horse King was something that all horse lovers longed for.

"Are you saying?!" Chen De seemed to have guessed something.

"That's right! The reason why we wanted to purchase these five thousand horses was to set them free. We are to let them roam freely and breed feedly. What we desire was the ruler of these horses! As long as we managed to have a single Horse King, once we could turned him into a racehorse we'd be profiting, profiting big!" Liu Mang was embarrassed red telling the lie, however he managed to make Chen De who loves horses believe in his lie.

"Okay! I'll help you contact people. Two thousand and five hundred pure blooded Arabian horses and two thousand five hundred Mongolian horses!" Chen De nodded as he said it all seriously.

"Crazy! Crazy! You're all crazy! To spend fifty million to purchase a single Horse King? Did you really have nowhere else to waste your money on?!" In the views of Chen Yu, fifty million could buy a top racing car! What could a horse do?! They can't even be on the roads nowadays!

"Then I'll leave the matter in your hands. Uncle, please give me an account number, I will transfer the money to your account. Please try to get the horses for me as quickly as possible because I'm in a hurry!" Chen De dialed a series of numbers. Liu Mang transferred the money using the computer. Five thousand war horses, Chen De said it would only require forty million. Liu Mang got an additional two million. He gave a million to Chen De for him to help him purchase more horses in the future. The other million, he asked Chen De to help him purchase grain for the horses.

"I will be able to get you all the horses by latest tomorrow!" Chen De was second to none in the Shandong breeding circle. With him personally taking the reign, all the process will be very fast. He only said he needed to wait till tomorrow because they needed to transport the other horses.

"Okay! Just transport the horse to this warehouse at this address! We will have someone there to take care of the rest!" Liu Mang already got a large old warehouse. Not only was it located in a remote location, it was also very big. Let alone five thousand horses, even if it was fifty thousand horses he'd still be able to put them all there.

"Okay!" Chen De nodded and started to continue contacting more people.

Seeing that his father had left, Chen Yu suddenly knelt to the floor and held onto Liu Mang's thigh. "Brother! Big Brother! Big Brother Liu Mang! Please take me under your wing! If you tell me to go east, I'd dare not go west! If you tell me to chase after rabbits, I'd dare not do fowls!"

The response Chen Yu received was a large foot and a sentence. "This bro never do fowls!"

[TL: fowl = chicken = whore = prostitute.]

Chapter 27: Camaraderie Under the Setting Sun

My Father in Law is Lu Bu

After the horses arrived at the warehouse without any issue, Liu Mang was at a loss as to what to do about the armors and weapons. How do I purchase this stuff?! Weapons like blades and spears were all tightly controlled by the government. Only minor ethnic groups were able to obtain those.

Even buying regular kitchen knives requires identification. If Liu Mang went and purchase a couple thousand of those, he would certainly be arrested.

Armor? Although it wasn't something that they limit purchases on, it was still something that requires time to make. Kaiyang could only hold Cao Cao back for three days. Liu Mang only had three days too! That's why Liu Mang had a huge headache. Should Kaiyang be captured, according to Cao Cao's character, everyone will certainly be killed.

Liu Mang didn't know when he began to deeply worry about Boss Lu, Chen Gong and them.

"Boss, what are you thinking?!" Chen Yu had been following Liu Mang ever since. He had already decided to become Liu Mang's lackey. Liu Mang also decided to have someone help him take care of and purchase things when he returned back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. Thus, he decided to take in Chen Yu.

"I want to purchase armor and cold weapons!" replied Liu Mang

"What's the use of buying those things?!" Chen Yu didn't understand why Liu Mang wanted to purchase those things. He figured Liu Mang wanted them as toys. "if it's just one or two, can't you custom order them?!"

"What I want isn't just one or two of them. I want five thousand spears and five thousand armor!" The horses will be used to create cavalry units when he goes back. And the one very distinctive weapon of cavalry was the spear.

"Five thousand spears?! That many?!" Chen Yu was a bit speechless. If there really was a manufacturer that would make five thousand spears, that manufacturer was certainly trying to run itself into the ground. Five thousand armors, on the other hand, wasn't a problem.

"I have some friends who want to role play the battles of the cold weapons era and reproduce its brilliance. The five thousand sets of weapons and armors was precisely prepared for them!" Liu Mang's casual lying skills became even more profound.

"So rich!" Chen Yu simply did some calculations in his mind. Five thousand sets of armor and weapons will certainly cost tens of millions. What a bunch of wasteful rich kids!

"It's them who have the money, I'm actually just a proxy for them!" Liu Mang created another fake identity.

"Although our country has weapons regulations, there's no such thing abroad. You could purchase those weapons in another country!" suggested Chen Yu.

"It's not that I didn't want to go abroad, it's just that I don't have time for that! In another day and half, I have to turn in all that stuff! There's not enough time at all!" Liu Mang was also very anxious.

"Spears. Spears?!" Chen Yu suddenly remembered. "Boss, although we cannot purchase spears, we could purchase the javelins that are used in sports!"

"Javelin?!" Liu Mang's eyes also lit up.

"Yeah, Javelins! Nowadays, the javelins are all constructed from steel. Although the tip is made of rubber, we could have someone produce spearheads for them using steel pipes! If we do it like that, we wouldn't violate the law and could still procure five thousand spears!" Chen Yu's idea got Liu Mang totally excited.

"That's it! How come I didn't think of it?!" Liu Mang was once a javelin thrower. Javelins are just the modern adaptation of ancient spears. They can certainly replace the spears that he needs. In fact, the quality of modern javelins was certainly going to be better than the ancient spears.

Javelins ranged from 1.5 meters to 2.8 meters. This length was definitely good enough to make spears since the most suitable spears of cavalries was around three meters.

"What about the armors?!" Although they managed to procure the spears, the cavalry units also need armors. Other than light cavalry which wore leather armor, the rest were all heavy cavalry wearing metal armors.

If they didn't have any armor, then winning against the Ferocious Cavalry that's outside of Kaiyang wasn't something that was certain anymore.

"Armor!" Chen Yu was also thinking. "Polishing is required for armor to be comfortable for the wearer. There's also the need for engraving. There won't be enough time for sure!"

"Polishing, be comfortable, engravings?!" Liu Mang froze for a bit. "No need, no need! Those friends of mine only wanted to recreate the scene of the cold weapons era! We don't need some ornate armor, just ordinary whole body armor would do!"

"In that case, it'd be easy to handle. Boss, you just have to find a large lathe factory. There are turning lathes and turning mills everywhere, just have them press some steel for you. You don't even have to bring your own tools, you'd just have to pay them! A lathe mill could make some tens of sets of armor in a day. If it's a large lathe factory, five thousand armors in a day is something easy for them to make!" Chen Yu really knew a lot more about the world than Liu Mang. After all, before Liu Mang crossed through time, he was just an otaku type person.

"Chen Yu, Ah Yu, you helped me greatly!" Liu Mang's two major problems were resolved by Chen Yu instantly.

"Five thousand sets of body armor and five thousand spears. I'm giving you ten million. Come find me if it isn't enough. Go, place the order for me right away!" Chen Yi's mother had already sent over the rest of the money for the gold to his card. Liu Mang didn't bother looking into the amount of money on the card, if he did then he would've found out that there was more than the twenty five million that he thought was left on the card. Rather, the amount was more than tripled at eighty million.

The gold bullion that Liu Mang brought with him, in both appearance and style, belonged to the Han Dynasty and was thus considered antiques. The five hundred pounds of gold was sold for one hundred and forty million right away! Taking away the transaction fee of ten million, the remaining eighty million was all transferred to the card by Chen Yi's mother.

"Ten million?!" Chen Yu had never seen such a large number in his whole life. Seeing that number appear on the computer and then the notification that appeared on his account, Chen Yu was dumbfounded. "I don't need this much! I don't need this much!" Regular full body armor does not require super high technology or a large amount of steel. Thus, they'd cost no more than a thousand and five thousand full body armors would cost no more than five million. Those five thousand javelins were even cheaper! They could be made with just a steel pole. A single javelin would only cost some five hundred yuan. Adding them together would only be seven and half million! Yet, Liu Mang gave him ten million!

Hearing Chen Yu's words, Liu Mang didn't take back the extra two and half million. Instead, he said. "Use this amount of money to rent an office in Jinling for me. Then help me recruit some staff and set up the framework of the company. Our company will focus on these rich kids who have nowhere to spend their money. We will make them whatever they wish to play with! I might also be bringing back stuff like antiques and gems. You will also need to help me find some professionals for that!"

"Eh?! Aren't you afraid of me stealing the money and running away?!" asked Chen Yu.

"Afraid?!" Liu Mang laughed. "It's just some two million bucks. If you follow me, let alone two million, even if it's twenty million, it'd be nothing!" The cheapo Liu has started to become rich! A couple days ago, he was a diaosi-class person who couldn't even take out a thousand bucks. However, now he found a trade route - selling things from the two different worlds.

"Okay! I, Chen Yu, will follow you!" Before, Chen Yu decided to follow Liu Mang only for the money. Now, however, he did it in hopes of gaining a large quantity of riches, enough to show it off.

"Quickly, let's go and place the orders!"

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Outside of Kaiyang. Third day of the siege. The sunset was red, the city walls were red and the earth was also red. Corpses have now accumulated upto the the height of half the city walls. The hundred thousand strong Cao army had lost nearly twenty five thousand in the siege. The ten thousand Lu Bu army, although defending the city with the help of the walls, was left with less than four thousand. Amongst these four thousand were those that were seriously wounded. All of the Formation Breaker and the Bing Province Soldiers had joined the fray. Even Lu Bu himself had joined the fray. They had fought back wave after wave of enemy soldiers.

"It's been three days! My lord!" Chen Gong was covered with blood. His eyes were bloodshot. Although he was a scholar, he wasn't a weak scholar. He was actually very skilled in horsemanship and shooting. In these three days, no less than fifty soldiers died under his hands.

"That's right, it's been three days!" Lu Bu also looked toward the sunset. The Cao army have retreated their troops. In the opinion of Cao Cao, Lu Bu was already like a setting sun that was unable to rise back up again. What he needed was to deal a final blow to Lu Bu tomorrow, killing him on the scene so that his heart could rest.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow at the latest. If Hanyang still doesn't return tomorrow, then we shall prepare to perish with Kaiyang!" said Chen Gong respectfully.

Lu Bu looked toward Chen Gong. Chen Gong also looked at Lu Bu. Suddenly, Lu Bu smiled and asked. "Gongtai, why did you choose me?! Although I, Lu Bu, was not inferior in any aspect to all the heroes of the world, I still knew of my limitations. If we're talking about fame, then my slave of three surnames can not compare to Yuan Shao's three Excellencies in four generations! If we're talking about the ability to use people, I, Lu Bu, am an opinionated man who can not compare with Cao Mende's love for talent! If we're talking about benevolence, haha, I, Lu Bu, other than toward my own family and brothers, have always been cruel toward everyone else and can not compare with that big eared Liu!" For Lu Bu to be able to make a name for himself in the Eastern Han Dynasty and even end up on the pages of history, he was no ordinary person!

"Oh Fengxian!" Hearing Lu Bu saying such words, Chen Gong loosened his taut nerves. He even stopped calling Lu Bu his lord, instead he called him by his courtesy name. "That's right. If we're talking about fame, then your fame could stink through eighteen streets! You killed both of your foster fathers, certainly not comparable to the Yuan family's three Excellencies in four generations. If we're talking about the ability to use people, other than me, is there any other advisor working for you?! Certainly not comparable to Cao Cao's cloud-full of talents."

"If we're talking about benevolence, hehe. You are the number one general! Those who died under your hands numbered at least ten thousand! Women, children, regardless of who blocks your path, as long as they block your path, you'd kill them without any hesitation! You are certainly not comparable to big eared Liu! However, you had one thing right!"

"Toward your brothers, toward your families, you really do treat them as if they're your own children, you really do give your all to them! With this single part, you had made this Chen Gongtai devote myself to you till my last breath!"

"Chen Gong oh Chen Gong, do you not regret?!" Lu Bu had never spoken like this with this old partner of his. Chen Gong was a huge talent, his talent could be considered as one of the top in the world. Sometimes, Lu Bu also wondered that if he had Chen Gong's assistance back when he was in Luoyang and Changan, then he would've never been in this situation. Perhaps, he would've even been in a position of accomplishment by now.

"Regret?!" Chen Gong stroke his sleeves. "Oh Fengxian, you had once said that you, Lu Bu, never regret. Then I will also tell you this, I, Chen Gong, never once regret following you! Never!"

"Great! Hahahaha! For I, Lu Bu, have Gongtai to accompany me to my burial, then this life is not lonely!"

Chapter 28: Battle of Kaiyang (1)

My Father in Law is Lu Bu

"Dong Dong Dong Dong!" Early in the morning, the war drums had already begun to sound. Lu Bu knew that the Cao army was about to attack again. There's not a lot of soldiers left inside the city now, they might not be able to last for the whole day!

"Sha!" The white clothed Cao soldiers, with the helps of ladders, was swarming over like an army of ants. This time, the vanguards were Xu Huang's troops.

Xu Huang was a famous Cao general in the Three Kingdoms period. He was originally a cavalry officer under Yang Feng. After Yang Feng was defeated by Cao Cao, he switched loyalties to Cao Cao. Although he hadn't been a Cao general for a long time, Cao Cao treated him generously and gave him a whole battalion of troops to lead. Thus, Xu Huang wanted to express his worth to his lord even more and show Cao Cao that he had chosen the right person.

"Brothers! Attack! The Lu Bu army is on its last breath! The prime minister has given the order! Those who ascend the walls of Kaiyang shall be rewarded ten gold! Those who kill a single Lu Bu soldier shall be rewarded a field of land! Those who kill ten Lu Bu soldiers shall be rewarded jewels and precious stones! Those who kill a hundred Lu Bu soldiers shall be given an official position and have his military rank increased! Brothers, this is the perfect opportunity to achieve something for yourselves! Kill them all!" Xu Huang's speech was very captivating. His soldiers' morale had increased significantly and they started to dauntlessly advance in wave upon wave - attacking the city walls.

Xu Huang didn't shout what he usually told his soldiers. He didn't tell the soldiers to kill the head of the enemy. This was because he was aware of Lu Bu's prowess. Yesterday, he climbed up to the city walls and was seen by Lu Bu. Had it not been for Lao Cao dispatching Xu Chu and his own personal guards, then Xu Huang would likely have been unable to leave the city walls!

Even with this, there were still no less than ten deaths amongst the guards. Only then did Xu Huang know of the might of the number one general under heaven.

A single tiger wasn't scary. What's scary was a tiger commanding a group of wolves!

Lu Bu was the tiger and the Lu Bu army was the wolves!

"We must persist! We must persist! Once the Cao army breaks through the city walls, they will kill every one of us! To surrender is to die! To resist is also to die! In that case, men, let's risk it all!" Originally Chen Gong feared that the Chen family soldiers would revolt. However, ever since he mentioned that Cao Cao might massacre everyone after capturing the city, every one of the Chen family soldiers went insane, blocking the Cao army's advance. The effects of his words were very good!

Although the Chen family soldiers were personal soldiers of Chen Deng's family, they were all Xu Province folks before they enlisted. Cao Cao's attack on Xu Province had killed a great amount of people. Many of these Xu Province soldiers' relatives might even be amongst those killed by Cao Cao.

"Sha! Sha! Sha!" Xu Province was a place of abundance and the folks were all of gentle temperament, however even gentle folks could get angry! And Cao Cao, he had caused these folks' bloody temperament to arise. They have fought back wave after wave of Cao troops.

"Lu Bu! Lu Bu!" Cao Cao started at the golden armored general on the wall. He had a very complicated expression as he looked at Lu Bu.

He so desired to kill that man because that man had almost killed him! Moreover, that man had immense charisma and excellent capabilities in leading troops! These Xu Province soldiers were originally weak and feeble; when they were in the hands of Tao Gongzu, Tao Qian, they had no military prowess at all. They were soldiers that could not win a single battle and would flee at the sight of the enemy! Even the elites amongst them, the Danyang soldiers, still amounted to nothing in the battle against Cao Cao's army. However, these same Xu Province soldiers were now fighting back the offense of his elite troops as if they had gone berserk!

[TL: Gongzu = Tao Qian's courtesy name]

Xu Huang was already on the level of a first-rate general, his soldiers no worse than those of Yu Jin and Xiahou Yuan. However, he was still unable to take over the city walls!

"If only he surrendered to me!" Cao Cao sighed. When he was outside of Xiapi, he once thought of reconciling with Lu Bu and turning him into his ally. If he were to give all his military forces to Lu Bu and have him command them while he himself took care of internal affairs, then, with such a combination, they would certainly be able to sweep the world in a short amount of time!

But all of this was ruined by Chen Gong, that arrow almost cost him his life!

[TL: Lu Bu considered Cao Cao's offer for surrender but Chen Gong was like, fuck you bro, let me shoot teh arrow at yo head!]

After half a day of fierce fighting, blood once again stained the walls. Finally, there was a Cao troop that managed to board the wall.

"The reward! The reward is mine!" This Cao solder was very happy. He was the first to board the wall and thus the reward of ten gold for boarding the wall was his!

However, before he could even celebrate…

"Poof!" From the mouth of the Cao soldier came a spray of blood. On his chest appeared a sword. This was a masterpiece caused by a Xu Province soldier.

"Re-reward!" Even till he lost his breath and fell down the walls, the Cao soldier was still thinking of his reward.

To have one meant that there would be a second. Although the Lu Bu army fought bravely, they were way too tired. Slowly white clothed Cao soldiers began to appear on the city walls. First they occupied a small corner. Then they slowly turned the single corner into two corners, then three corners.

"It's time!" Cao Cao looked at the increasing number of white dressed soldiers and waved his hand. "Xu Huang, Li Dian, join the fray!" Although none of the generals could match Lu Bu alone, they could fight him together! Even if Lu Bu was the God of War, he was still human! Humans will always grow tired!

"Yes, Prime Minister!" Li Dian and Xu Huang glanced at each other. Both of their eyes were blazing with desire. They knew of Lu Bu's prowess. The more they knew of Lu Bu's prowess the stronger their desire was to kill him and obtain the merit for killing him. Killing Lu Bu was the same as telling the world they were stronger than the strongest!

The two held their hands toward Cao Cao and immediately proceeded to leave with their troops, advancing toward the city walls.

As opposed to the two's blazing desire, Cao Cao was instead a bit desolate. In today's battle, Lu Bu will be defeated at his hands; his soul was about to go toward the Yellow Springs! In this world, how many heroes are left that are worthy for Cao Cao to struggle against?!

[TL: Yellow Springs = hell in chinese mythology]

"Zhongkang! Take my guards and follow after them. Prepare for and await my orders at all times!" He was afraid that Li Dian and Xu Huang weren't going to be able to kill Lu Bu; so he decided to have Xu Chu as backup for killing Lu Bu.

[TL: Zhongkang = Xu Chu's courtesy name.]

Actually, Cao Cao had people who were able to fight against Lu Bu. They were the two younger brothers of a certain imperial uncle. They are currently sitting under the tent drinking quietly. In the Battle of Hulao Pass, had big eared Liu not obstructed them then perhaps Zhang Fei and Guan Yu would've really been able to keep Lu Bu from escaping. And now, Lu Bu was both weak and weary, if the two brothers were sent to battle him, they're certainly going to fare well.

However, Cao Cao didn't send them. He wanted big eared Liu to sit and watch. He wanted to show big eared Liu that he too had a cloudful of valiant generals under him.

Li Dian and Xu Huang led their troops and arrived underneath the city walls. The sky was raining men constantly. There were both Cao soldiers and Lu Bu soldiers amongst those falling down the walls. There were also times when the whole siege ladder was pushed down, raining countless men at once.

"Mancheng, I shall take the left while you take the right. We shall attack both sides!" proposed Xu Huang.

[TL: Mancheng = Li Dian's courtesy name.]

"Everything shall be decided by Gongming!" Li Dian was a person who never once bothered to argue for meritorious service with others. As long as you use him, he'd absolutely not disappoint you.

[TL: Gongming = Xu Huang's courtesy name.]

Xu Huang nodded. The two then brought their guards and started climbing two siege ladders.

"Sha!" With a large roar, Xu Huang, with a large shield in hand, started climbing the ladder. Rocks, stones, stakes, hot oil and corpses, like rain, were falling onto the heads of those climbing toward the wall. With a large shield over him and his blade in his mouth, step by step Xu Huang climbed.

"Die!" On Li Dian's side, there was a bit less people. Thus Li Dian was the first to ascend the wall. Right as Li Dian ascended the wall, a Lu Bu soldier was already slashing his knife while also trying to kick the whole siege ladder away from the wall.

Seeing this, Li Dian immediately threw away his large shield, picked up the blade in his mouth and thrust the blade at the coming foe as if it was a sword.

Li Dian's speed was mighty fast. He's a first-rate general; his martial abilities were not weak at all. Thus, against a common soldier, it was so easy that it was almost like stretching out his hand.

Blood splashed all over Li Dian and contrary to expectations, the blood evoked Li Dian's fierce nature. With a huge step, Li Dian began to brandish his blade upon his foes. Xu Huang, on the other hand, was unlucky. He had set his siege ladder at a place filled with numerous Lu Bu soldiers. Soon, the siege ladder was going to be pushed away from the city walls. If that happened, then Xu Huang would be saying bye bye to the world! To fall from the city wall, you'd be dead even if you were an immortal!

Li Dian was like a god of death. The area within two meters of him was suddenly emptied. He directly charged toward the direction of Xu Huang and saved Xu Huang's life.

"Many thanks Mancheng!" Xu Huang also ascended the wall. His guards that followed had also brought his giant axe up the wall.

Li Dian didn't have the time to return the courtesy, he only responded with an 'en' sound. That was because Li Dian was already sweating profusely. He knew that he had been targeted by a ferocious beast.

[TL: en = yeah. It's a grunt that chinese people use all the time to reply. kinda like mmhmm]

This kind of feeling! It's Lu Bu!! Li Dian considered himself not to be worse than other generals. Even if it was Xu Chu, he hadn't experienced this kind of feeling. There's only one person he had felt this from - Dian Wei! Only from Dian Wei had he experienced this kind of cold killing intent without any hint of human emotions!

Who would've thought that Lu Bu also had this kind of killing intent. And it's even more horrible than Dian Wei's!

"Lu Bu!" Xu Huang also felt it. However, he fared better off than Li Dian as he had experienced the prowess of Lu Bu first hand. Xu Huang couldn't help but tightly grasp his axe.

"Yesterday, I was unable to keep you here! Today, let this city wall be your grave!" Sure enough, Boss Lu's voice resounded from the rear.

Chapter 29: Battle of Kaiyang (2)

My Father in Law is Lu Bu

"Lu Bu!" Xu Huang's gaze was set on the golden armored general in front of him. "Kaiyang is about to be breached, if you were sensible, then you'd best renounce resistance and follow us together to Prime Minister Cao to surrender. If you do, we shall plea for leniency for you and ask the Prime Minister to spare your life!" Said Xu Huang with a stern voice. The amount of Cao troops that on the frontal walls was constantly increasing. Originally, there was but a couple white clothed soldiers on the walls that was packed with black clothed soldiers. Now, the black and white was completely mixed together.

The Cao army had already taken over half the wall. Their strength was also growing continuously. The Lu Bu army could no longer repel their enemies down the walls, all they could do now was defend themselves.

Lu Bu looked at the constantly increasing Cao troops. With a face void of expressions, he said. "Is that so?!"

"Marquis of Wen! You are an official of Han! Prime Minister Cao was the delegate of His Majesty the Son of Heaven! To dare point your blade at the Son of Heaven, you are seeking your own destruction! It's best you lay down your weapon, perhaps then His Majesty will spare your life!" Although Li Dian had not battle against Lu Bu before, he had heard of rumors of Lu Bu's reputation and prowess. Thus, he was speaking to Lu Bu with a respectful tone.

"Surrender?!" Laughed Lu Bu. "Spare my life?!" He laughed with a great display of happiness. "I find your suggestions to be very difficult to accept!" Lu Bu took off his cloak and placed it aside. "Did you know that I, Lu Bu, was born in Jiuyuan county of Wuyuan commandery out in the frontier?! That region was a place of great scarcity and populated by exiled people. In order to survive, I, Lu Bu, entered the prairie alone to find prey. Who would've thought that instead of finding prey, I was instead surrounded by a pack of wolves! On the lust green prairie, I was surrounded by tens of wolves that night! Foreign cavalries had passed by me when I was surrounded by the wolves. They spoke to me. They told me as long as I beg them and become their slave, they will save me! A matter of life and death! I, Lu Bu, was unarmed and defenseless. I, Lu Bu, did not beg for assistance. Tens of wolves! They wanted to eat me! I too wanted to eat them! I was hungry, very hungry! I knew that even if these wolves hadn't found me, I would've died from my hunger on the prairie. Thus, I went insane! I charged into the pack of wolves! I needed to eat them! I needed to eat them in order to survive!" Lu Bu exposed his neck. On his neck was countless bite scars.

"Did you see that? For every bite they gave me, I returned them a bite! Wolves target the crucial locations of others - neck, arm and head! I learned from them, wherever they bit me, I would bite them back at the same location! Finally, I survived via their blood and flesh!"

Learn From wolves? Bite wolves to death? Survive via wolves' blood and flesh?! Some nearby Cao soldiers swallowed their saliva. Xu Huang and Li Dian's guards have surrounded Lu Bu but they dared not move.

Lu Bu continued. "When I grew up, I joined our great Han army. Winter was when foreigners come and plunder us. In the Battle of Jiuyuan, our Han army of a hundred and twenty three strong was trapped by thirty thousand Wuwan in the middle of wilderness! Thirty thousand Wuwan heavy cavalries! In that battle, my weapon broke apart, one after another, I changed my weapons. In that battle, my war horse died, one after another, I changed my horse. My armor was dyed red by the blood, unable to wash off. A hundred and twenty three men, only three survived! Amongst them was I, Lu Bu, Lu Fengxian! Never had I beg for forgiveness! Do you know how many Wuwan died by my hands?!"

Lu Bu extended his fingers. "A hundred and twenty three men. A hundred and twenty died. We defeated the Wuwan cavalry of thirty thousand, killed seven thousand!"

Whenever Lu Bu mention numbers, Xu Huang and Li Dian's hearts trembled. A hundred against thirty thousand! That's three hundredfold! Enemies three hundred times as many! Lu Bu also thought that he was certainly going to die too. Who would've imagined that because he went berserk and killed so many, the Wuwan grew afraid of him and issued an order to flee. Only then did Lu Bu managed to survive.

"Afterwards, I started working under Ding Yuan, Ding Jianyang. Bing Province Heavy Cavalries, we fought against the Wuwan and the Liaodong! From those foreigners, from those prairie wolves, and from those Han Dynasty officials, I learned of one thing - surrendering meant death! Had I surrender to those wolves, then perhaps I would've already become a cluster of bones on the prairie! Had I surrender to the Wuwan, then perhaps I would either be their slave or be killed by them!" Lu Bu smiled as he looked at Xu Huang and Li Dian. "Say, do you still think I should surrender?!"

"Marquis of Wen! Prime Minister Cao is neither wolves nor foreigner! He is our Great Han's Prime Minister, the representative of His Majesty!" Li Dian didn't give up on trying to persuade Lu Bu to surrender.

"What is the difference?!" Lu Bu gave off an insipid laugh. "Those learned men like Gongtai always spoke of the heart of wolves and lungs of dogs, heart of wolves and lungs of dogs. However, what they didn't know was that men's heart were so much crueler than those of wolves, men's lungs were so much more malicious than those of dogs! In Luoyang, outside of the Hulao Pass and inside Xiapi, three times! Three times he Cao Mende almost died in my hands! Say, how would Cao Mende possibly spare my life?! Furthermore, I had gravely injured Xiahou Yuan." taunted Lu Bu. "Besides, is Cao Mende not afraid of this slave of three surnames turning into a slave of four surnames?!"

[TL: heart of wolves and lungs of dogs = a term to describe how cruel and unscrupulous someone is.]

Li Dian was left speechless. Even if it was him, he knew it was impossible. If someone almost killed you, how would you possibly be able to forgive that person? And this scene of almost killing you happened not just once but three times. Not only did this man almost killed you, he also gravely injured your blood brother. Most importantly, this man had a previous record of rebelling against his masters.

Much less Cao Cao, even a sage could not possibly be able to just forgive and forget this person right away!

"Lu Bu, did you really thought that we would be trying to persuade you to surrender out of our goodwills? Stop daydreaming! We are merely stalling for time!" said Xu Huang.

"Oh?!" Lu Bu looked around, half of the city wall was now occupied by the ever increasing Cao troops. The city of Kaiyang was soon to be broken through and it was already impossible for Lu Bu to escape now.

"Forget about whether or not the Prime Minister would forgive you. If you were to surrender, how would we present your head as our achievement?!" sneered Xu Huang.

"Want my head?! That's simple!" Lu Bu raised his trident. "My head's here waiting for you to take it!"

"Since you wanted to die, then you cannot blame us!" Xu Huang waved his gigantic axe. "Brothers, attack Lu Bu! Once we killed him, all shall ascend three ranks, rewarded with a residence and thousands of gold!" The gigantic axe was lifted up and came striking down on Lu Bu.

"Attack! Once we killed Lu Bu, Prime Minister will certainly reward us greatly! This was the perfect opportunity to achieve something for yourselves, to grant your wives a title and to make your son heir to your titles!" Seeing Xu Huang engaging Lu Bu, Li Dian brandished his blade and joined the fray.

"Hahahaha!" Lu Bu laughed loud and proud. With his trident erect against the sky, he shouted. "Lu Bu, Lu Fengxian is here, who dare battle against me?!" An aura belonging to a great and uncultivated ferocious beast was overflowing from Lu Bu.

An scene came into Li Dian. It appeared as if what they were confronting wasn't human at all. Instead, it's a beast, a great and uncultivated ferocious beast that could swallow the Ninth Heaven!

Chapter 30: Battle of Kaiyang (3)

My Father in Law is Lu Bu

"Zhongkang, go help them out!" Cao Cao's gaze grew gloomier by the moment. That golden armored general on the walls not only wasn't tired at all, he even grew fiercer as the battle continued. Xu Huang and Li Dian, even with their guards assisting them, could only defend themselves and was unable to fight back. Much less of killing Lu Bu, they might instead be killed by him.

[TL: Zhongkang = Xu Chu's courtesy name.]

Due to Lu Bu's prowess, some of the Cao soldiers that were already on the walls were scared witless and began fleeing toward the siege ladders. With the fleeing Cao soldiers, the siege ladders that was already packed with incoming Cao soldiers was now blocked by their own people. The Cao soldiers on the siege ladders could neither go down nor up. Finally, the ladders was unable to withstand the weight and began to crumble. Immediately, sounds of screaming resounded throughout the place.

"The most valiant general of the era! The most valiant general!" Old Cao's eyes flickered with radiance. Suddenly, his murderous aura exploded. "So what if he's the most valiant general of the era?! To block this Cao's path, even if you're the most valiant general, I'd sent you to meet the former emperor! Transmit my order, strike the drums, all army, attack! He who kills Lu Bu shall be rewarded with the title of Marquis, his standing shall be in the Nine Ministers!"

Old Cao really placed his bids. Marquis of the Han dynasty was something really valuable. Although they aren't granted much territory, their bearing wasn't something insignificant. For instance, Lu Bu was called the Marquis of Wen even by the people of modern days. The Nine Ministers was also an extremely high standing official position that was only below the Prime Minister.

"The Prime Minister have ordered, he who kills Lu Bu shall be rewarded with the title of Marquis, his standing shall be in the Nine Ministers!" The messengers transmitted the orders with voices one higher than the other. In no time, the order was transmitted through the entire battlefield.

All of a sudden, the Cao army was in an ebullition of fervor. Not only the generals and the officers, even the ordinary soldiers began to have ferocious bloodshot eyes. The will and courage that was broken by Lu Bu's prowess have returned. As the saying goes, human beings will die for riches just as birds will for food. One by one, the Cao soldiers were advancing dauntlessly in wave upon wave toward where Lu Bu stood. It was as if none of them cared for their lives at all.

"Brothers! No matter how strong Lu Bu is, he is but a single human! With all of us, just by giving him a single bite per person will kill him!"

"That's right! The title of Marquis! To receive a title of nobility was no longer a dream now! We too can become nobles!" With such a great reward, certainly there will be brave men to undertake the task. One amongst ten thousand, even if the chance was to be one amongst ten thousand, these soldiers would still throw their lives away for that chance.

"Although riches and honor are good, that's only if you could live and use them!" Lu Bu watched these infuriated Cao soldiers. Instead of cowering in fear, he grew ever more blood thirsty.

"There exist no difference between killing a single man and a thousand men! In that case, let this halberd of mine drink blood to its fullest today!" With the halberd in his arm, a circumference of ten meters around him suddenly burst into emptiness with flesh and blood flying all over. As blood landed on the Poseidon Scale, it radiated a strange beauty under the sunshine.

"Lu Bu, you could stop your savage act for this Xu Chu, Xu Zhongkang, have arrived! Prepare to die!" A robust man of over nine foot have climbed up the city walls. On his hand was a humongous blade. The blade was glittering with murderous intent like the icy snow.

"You again!" Lu Bu remembered the incoming man. This fatty was precisely the fatty that stopped him from killing Xu Huang yesterday. Lu Bu stopped his arrogance. He knew that the strength of this fatty wasn't low. In the whole world, other than Big Eared Liu's two brothers and the ugly black faced bastard, there's only this fatty that was able to withstand a strike from his halberd.

Those arms must have the strength over a thousand jin. That giant blade was certainly no lighter than Lu Bu's halberd.

"It's I indeed!" Xu Chu was also full of zest. He too was a valiant general. As for valiant generals, what they cared most of was a worthy opponent! To be an expert means that one must suffer the bitter loneliness of an expert! Originally, there was still a Dian Wei to spar against. However, in the Battle of Wancheng, that big black man died! Thus, Xu Chu have been lonely ever since!

And now, with Lu Bu, Xu Chu rejoiced with exceeding great joy. His giant blade have never been this thirsty for blood before.

"Good!" Lu Bu too love battles. He have long since lost interest in killing those weak soldiers and officers. They were so weak that in his eyes they were like grass straws, cutting down numerous in a strike. Xu Chu, on the other hand, was different. If Lu Bu was to be a fierce tiger, then Xu Chu would be a vicious panther! Both the tiger and the panther are at the pinnacle of the forest food chain! Their encounter was certainly going to be a fierce battle between giants!

"Hou!" From Xu Chu's mouth came an unhumanly shout. The veins of his arms were bulging. His muscles too were bulging to the extreme. This strike of his was certainly not something that could be taken on easily. Li Dian who was standing on the side was glancing at Xu Chu out of shock.

Fortunately, although Xu Chu was possess first class prowess, he was, like Dian Wei, completely ignorant of the art of war. Thus, he could only become a top guard and not lead soldiers as a general. Otherwise, Xu Chu would certainly be a top general underneath Cao Cao.

"Great blade works!" Lu Bu had an expression of admire. However, that expression soon flash past him and was immediately replaced with killing intent. His halberd soon sway around like a flower. Its path, the giant blade in Xu Chu's hands.

Lu Bu wanted to meet force with force. He wanted to use his strength to subdue and instill fear upon this vicious panther.

"Hong!" The explosive rumble originating from the meeting of their weapons cause those nearby to have immense pain in their ears. A soldier who was closer to them even had his eardrums burst open and was bleeding from his ears.

"The force of thirty thousand catties!" Li Dian and Xu Huang glanced at each other. From each other's eyes, they saw astonishment and a sense of fear. Both Li Dian and Xu Huang were standard first class generals. What separated first class generals and the top rated first class generals was a single crucial thing - the force of thirty thousand catties! It was like that those top rated generals have the divine assistance in their arms; every movement they make, they exhibit the force of thirty thousand catties.

"Kakakaka!" The stone platform that Xu Chu and Lu Bu was standing on began to rupture. The splashing cracked stones brought forth rows of blood blossoms as they encountered the face of bystanders.

"Ya!" Xu Chu's giant blade was struck at a standstill against Lu Bu's halberd. Xu Chu widened his eyes and poured all his strength into his arms and then into his giant blade. He wanted to use brute force to overwhelm Lu Bu.

"Battle of strength?!" Lu Bu thought that Xu Chu was thinking lightly of him. He was able to bite wolves to death, massacre the Wuwan and even suppress the eighteen warlords in the Hulao Pass! Other than possessing top quality martial abilities, his strength was also top quality.

The warlords of ancients was able to lift cauldrons. Lu Bu too could do that. It's just that after the Han Dynasty, cauldrons became the symbol of the monarch and was no longer something that regular people could touch. Otherwise, Lu Bu certainly could also lift up a cauldron.

"In that case, come!" Lu Bu's arms also burst forth an astonishing amount of strength. A contest between the tiger and the panther, a battle bringing rise to a storm!

"En!" The veins in Xu Chu's arms was already bursting to their limit. A single thread of cold sweat have appeared on his face. "This Lu Bu!" Never did he expect that Lu Bu's strength was no weaker than his own. In fact, it even surpasses his own strength.

"This Xu Chu!" Lu Bu was no less shocked than Xu Chu. Throughout his life, no one was able to withstand the strength of his arms. However today he have met an individual who could persist for so long. Alas, that stops now.

Lu Bu eyes flashed. He shouted abruptly. "Rise!" and the halberd came down with even greater force.

"Abominable!" Xu Chu was irritated. He was irritated that he lost to someone in what he was an expert in. For him, that was an extraordinary shame and humiliation.

"Zhongkang, you need not enrage. Xu Huang shall join you!" Xu Huang was a general. Although his martial abilities could not compare with Xu Chu and Lu Bu, he was still decent. His gigantic axe came crushing down at Lu Bu's head.

"Che!" Lu Bu disdained Xu Huang's actions as beneath contempt. He increased the strength in his arms once again. He forcefully break away Xu Chu's giant blade and turned around to face the incoming axe.

"Dang!" Only after moving back a couple steps did Xu Huang managed to stabilize himself.

Lu Bu stood there with an indifferent expression. However, his hands was shaking back and forth by bits and pieces. Blood was flowing from his wrist toward the ground.

He was injured. The God of War was actually injured!

Xu Chu's situation was no better. His hands were also shaking. Had Xu Huang not assisted him earlier, then perhaps he would have suffered deep humiliation from Lu Bu.

Without moving, Lu Bu wiped away the bloodstain on his hand. However, he was seen by the attentive Li Dian.

"He's injured!" Cried Li Dian.

"Injured?!" Without exception, everyone was shocked. Lu Bu was the God of War with no match in the era. Even in the Hulao Pass when he was attacked by Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei he only fled. However, he was actually wounded now!

"He's tired!" Xu Chu knew. He knew that Lu Bu was a top rated first class general that was even more powerful than himself. Thus, it was improbable for Lu Bu to be injured from a single blade of his and a single axe from Xu Huang. The only reason that could happen was that Lu Bu was overly tired and weary.

The Cao army's continuous attack have caused this man who was akin to Gods to be tired. Lu Bu was no longer at his full strength!

"So what if I'm injured?! To kill you all is like killing domesticated chickens and dogs!" After being discovered, Lu Bu decided to stop hiding the fact that he's injured. He teared open some cloth from his gown and began to bind his wound. The esteem of being the God of War was not something that Lu Bu would tarnish.