I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 536 Gong Du: I'm so stupid
However, Lu Bu obviously underestimated the lethality of this sentence. After he finished speaking to him, the man who was hung first became angry. He raised a knife and shouted at Lu Bu: "How dare you look down on me?"

Gong Du pretended to be a reckless man and rushed towards Lu Bu.

In fact, he had some beautiful thoughts in his mind. He prided himself on his bravery and thought that as long as he could kill the arrogant enemy commander by surprise, the soldiers hiding behind the city gate would rush out and attack the government troops on the opposite side.

By then, the enemy's main general will be dead, and the group will be leaderless, so won't they be at the mercy of the enemy?
Thinking of the bright future, Gong Du couldn't help but quicken his pace, and the expression on his face became more distorted and ferocious.

This was his experience. Some people would lose the courage to fight him just by facing his ferocious face.

Seeing the enemy general right in front of him, and clearly holding a more advantageous lance, Gong Du discovered that the enemy did not use the lance's distance advantage to stop him from approaching.

Was he frightened by him?
Such a thought flashed through Gong Du's mind, but the enemy was right in front of him, so he didn't have the energy to think about it. He immediately grasped the hilt of the sword with both hands, raised the sword high, and wanted to chop off the helmet of the enemy general who had been frightened silly by him.

Seeing the knife getting closer and closer, the enemy general still didn't move. What? The enemy general actually dropped the long spear in his hand?
Is this because of being scared? Gong Du already wanted to laugh.

Suddenly, Gong Du noticed that the enemy general moved.

Wait, what is he going to do?
But before Gong Du could react and change the action of swinging the sword, the hand holding the hilt was controlled by the enemy general who took a step forward.

Gong Du wanted to break free, but his knife and hands seemed to be clamped in an iron hoop, unable to move at all.

Gong Du was quick-witted. He withdrew his free hand and prepared to pull out the sword from the enemy's waist.

But the next second, he lost his balance and fell heavily to the ground. Dizzy, he noticed that not only the opponent's sword was not drawn, but the knife in his hand was also taken away by the enemy.

Seeing the enemy general looking back and forth between his knife and his neck, Gong Du was very panicked for a moment: Is he going to die under his own knife?
If the enemy general who called himself Lu Bu was willing to kill him, Gong Du felt that he had the courage to be killed, but he hesitated like this, and didn't want to kill him...

At this moment, Gong Du saw the enemy general looking back and forth again, and he became more and more panicked and irritated.

He gritted his teeth and shouted, "I am willing to surrender, General, please don't torture me!"

"really?"

"Really, I, Gong, always keep my word!"

"Okay, then you will work with me to persuade the people in the city to surrender."

"As ordered."

It was only then that Gong Du had the mind to recall the mistake he had made - I was so stupid, really.

I only knew that killing the enemy general would lead to a great victory, but I didn't expect that the enemy general would be very confident in fighting ten people alone.

I only knew that the enemy general did not move in the face of me because he was frightened, but I forgot that the enemy general did not need to move in advance in the face of me.

When Lu Bu saw the enemy surrender so easily, he felt very happy without saying a word.

Just now he was looking at the prisoner's knife and the prisoner's figure - this knife is obviously a good knife, and the prisoner who can possess this knife should have a high status in the rebels.

Although the prisoner did not look like a soldier who specialized in martial arts, he seemed to be able to command people. He was originally thinking about how to persuade the other party to surrender as quickly as possible!
Just as Lu Bu was about to bring the captives to continue calling on the rebels in the city to surrender, he suddenly noticed that the city gate was open. Seeing this, the Han cavalry behind him all rode their horses closer.

Seeing this, Gong Du quickly said, "Don't worry, General. They are probably here to surrender."

Lu Bu:?
"General, to be honest, I am the one guarding this side of the city wall..."

After saying this, Gong Du was somewhat speechless. Before the two sides even started fighting, he, the defending general, had already fallen into the trap.

After a moment's thought, Lu Bu asked, "Let me ask you, can you convince the people guarding the other three walls to surrender?"

Gong Du replied: "No, the three of them were watching the battle earlier. Now that the city gates are open, they must have made up their minds and are ready to surrender."

After Lu Bu was stunned for a while, he finally understood the facts represented by Gong Du's words.

Seeing that the rebels were ready to surrender, Lu Bu couldn't help but praise Gong Du and said, "You are really a talented person!"

"From now on, you just follow me!"

Lu Bu thought that he was not a completely reckless man, and Gong Du's status in the rebels should be quite high. He thought that after he made this promise, the rebels should be able to surrender with peace of mind, right?
Gong Du was once a member of the Yellow Turban Army. Later, when the Yellow Turbans of Runan were defeated by Zhu Jun, he took advantage of the chaos to escape back to his hometown.

Later, Liu Pi and others started an uprising in Runan under the name of the Yellow Turbans. At that time, his life was not very good. When he was preparing to gather the villagers to respond, the court sent Yuan Shao as the prefect.

As a native of Runan, Gong Du, who had long heard of Yuan Shao's heroic reputation, immediately gave up his intention to rebel. Not only that, he also responded to Yuan Shao's conscription. With the reward money he received for his military exploits, Gong Du bought several more acres of thin land. Later, Gong Du's life was pretty good.

Originally he was about to forget his time in the Yellow Turban Army, but he never expected that in the first half of this year, the petty officials in the village suddenly became extremely vicious... No, it could be said that the petty officials were like this by nature, but they were suppressed for a few years in between.

Unable to bear the oppression, Gong Du thought of the past. Liu Pi and others who had led the Yellow Turbans to revive had disappeared. Now, he had to come alone.

Then, Gong Du, who originally only wanted to resist, somehow managed to expand his team, and more and more people came to join him after hearing his name. Then, somehow, the county magistrate heard his name and ran away.

——To be fair, Gong Du had not originally thought of occupying the county town. It was because the people in the county town were afraid that thieves from other places would come to rob them, so some wealthy families united together, offered some money and food, and invited Gong Du and his men to move into the county town.

——Gong Du led a group of honest people who did not offend anyone! But after Gong Du and his men moved in, the wealthy families regretted their decision and wanted to withhold money and food...

"So, this is the reason why you emptied all the money and grain from the warehouses of the wealthy families in the city?"

Lu Bu asked.

Gong Du laughed awkwardly, knowing that his excuse would not deceive anyone, and immediately said, "General, please understand... However, these money and grain were stolen goods before I had them, but now they are seized by you... What does it have to do with those wealthy families?"

Lu Bu glanced at Gong Du, shook his head, and said, "This is not the way to take advantage of others..."

He immediately ordered in front of Gong Du: "Go and call all those wealthy people. The army is short of money and food. This general will personally write IOUs to them to lend them money and food. They will definitely pay it back in the future!"

(End of this chapter)