Chapter 56: Attacking the Mountain

  When the bait is about to be used, Liu Mang rode his horse and took a very strange position in battle. He was within Chen Lan's line of sight, but also made it impossible for both sides to see each other clearly.

  From the fifth watch, Liu Mang had been patrolling with the city guards. Now it's already high noon.

  "Has Lü Bu's army been holding back all this time?! On the mountain stronghold, Chen Lan looked at the "Lü Bu" below with suspicion. This wasn't Lü Bu's style, Chen Lan knew that Lü Bu was a hot-tempered person. The two brothers had already offended Lü Bu to death, and by rights, Lü Bu should have attacked the mountain today."

  But has been holding back until now.

  "Could there be some conspiracy within Lü Bu's army!?" Chen Lan thought to herself.

  Lei Bu thought it was much simpler: "Big brother, why consider so much! Ba Gou Mountain is the throat of Zhongzhou, the screen barrier of Jiangnan. There is only one road up and down the mountain, easy to defend and hard to attack. What sinister plot can Lü Bu come up with?!"

  "Will he set fire to the mountain?!" Chen Lan tried to think from Lü Bu's perspective. "Impossible!" Chen Lan shook her head, the dense and humid forest of Báigōng Mountain made a fire attack completely impossible.

  "Block the mountain?!" Chen Lan smiled, his mountain stronghold had just seized a large amount of grain and fodder from Yuan Shao's army. Block the mountain? He'd like to see who would last longer, him or Lü Bu.

  "As long as Lü Bu is around, there's nothing to fear!" Chen Lan waved his hand and let his subordinates continue their surveillance while he went back to rest for a bit.

  Two hours had passed and Lü Bu's army was still quiet.

  Chen Lan felt something was off, and even Lei Bu had an idea, so the two once again climbed up to the watchtower.

  "Golden armor, war horse, and that one halberd, this is Lü Bu!" Chen Lan thought, Lü Bu has eight strong generals in his hands, Chen Lan saw Gao Shun and Zhang Liao yesterday.

  "War general, that is war general!" Chen Lan suddenly stood up "Second brother, weren't there several armored war generals beside Lü Bu yesterday?"

  "Yesterday?!" Lei Bo touched his head "Seems like it did! What's up big bro?"

  "They're gone!" Chen Lan said.

  "If you can't see it, then it's gone!" Lei Bu Man said nonchalantly.

  "What do you know?!" Chen Lan was somewhat annoyed. What could this fool understand, besides having some martial arts skills he was useless.

  "You! Didn't you see several armored warriors beside Lü Bu yesterday?!" Chen Lan asked a soldier who had received the garrison.

  "Me?" Chen Lan pointed at the soldier who was slightly stunned "Your Majesty, I didn't see clearly!"

  "Rubbish! And you!" Chen Lan pointed at another person again!

  "Big Big Wang, I didn't see clearly either!"

  It took more than a dozen gestures before an archer replied, "Your Majesty, indeed there were several generals beside the golden armored man yesterday!" Archers generally have good eyesight.

  "Yesterday's golden armor man?!" Chen Lan suddenly grasped this archer's weakness.

  Yes indeed

  Yesterday's golden armor man, the archer was puzzled, what happened to the king? "Today's golden armor man has two more big pillars on his chest than yesterday's!" The archer gestured.

  "Are those two big pillars?!" Chen Lan cast her gaze at the golden armored man below, and indeed on the neck of his armor there were two huge horn-like things.

  "Lü Bu, Lü Bu!" Chen Lan suddenly understood that this was absolutely not Lü Bu.

  Just as Chen Lan opened her eyes wide and wanted to find Lü Bu, a shout for killing suddenly came from the rear of the mountain stronghold.

  "What's with the killing sound? Has Lü Bu's army launched a fierce attack?" But down in the mountain, Lü Bu's army was still as lazy and quiet as ever.

  "Not good, it's after the main peak!" Chen Lan finally remembered the rumor about the second path of Bagong Mountain. After occupying Bagong Mountain, Chen Lan was also looking for that second mountain path, but unfortunately, she had never found it.

  "Great King, Great King! The rear mountain, the rear mountain Lü Bu's army is killing their way over!" Before Chen Lan could even react, a messenger with a bloody face ran over.

  "Lü Bu, Lü Bu!" Chen Lan should have thought of that earlier. The second path up the mountain, which he himself had not found, was told to him by Lü Bu's army, but the cost of knowing this was too great.

  Fire! Fire has broken out. The sound of slaughter and flames can be seen on the mountain behind. This is Lü Bu's army setting fires.

  "Kill, we must drive them out! Second brother, lead the brothers to help me drive out Lü Bu's army! Once the rear mountain is broken, we are done!" Chen Lan made a decisive decision and let Lei Bo lead people to support the rear mountain.

  The rear mountain was originally a big rear base, where grain was stored and rested. It's impossible for many people to guard it. Lü Bu's army led by Zhang Liao didn't encounter any obstacles and rushed up. Zhang Liao quickly occupied a piece of open space to provide a safe place for the later Lü Bu's army.

  "Hold on, brothers! The Second Master is here!" Lei Bu was not highly intelligent, but his martial arts skills were still decent. He quickly led the soldiers and horses to counterattack towards the back mountain.

  Lü Bu's army occupied one corner, but there were still too few people. Under the support of Lei Bo, they actually retreated steadily.

  "It can't be!" Zhang Bao roared in anger. If they were driven back, it would be impossible to climb up Bazhong Mountain again. Once this secret passage was blocked, Lü Bu's army would really have no way to deal with Chen Lan.

  Zang Ba let out a loud roar and was about to charge forward to fight Lei Bu, but was stopped by Lei Bu's personal guards. Although Lü Bu's army was fighting with one against ten, they were simply too outnumbered.

  "Absolutely cannot retreat!" Zang Ba wanted to turn the situation around, but under the fierce attack of Lei Bu's personal soldiers, he was completely unable to do anything.

  "It's infuriating, at this rate, defeat is a foregone conclusion!" Zang Ba was extremely frustrated, he simply couldn't exert himself.

  At this moment, a lithe figure suddenly jumped over from the back mountain, with a long spear in his hand like a dragon, wherever he went, there was blood and rain, and no one could withstand him.

  "Lü Bu Lü Feng Xian is here!" A loud shout, the originally declining Lü Bu army suddenly paused, and then it was a sky-shaking battle cry.

  Lü Bu is the backbone of Lü Bu's army, with Lü Bu present, Lü Bu's army will never retreat.

  "Lü Bu!" A hint of fear flashed across Lei Bo's face, as a military general he naturally knew the terror of Lü Bu, but now he couldn't care less. He gritted his teeth and said, "So what if it's Lü Bu? Now Lü Bu's army is only this small, no matter how strong you are, you can't take on hundreds alone! Brothers, drive Lü Bu's army out for me!"

  Lü Bu's army was pressing down on them under the guard of his personal troops.

  "What's the Thunderbolt Book?!" Lü Bu took a glance and instantly understood the military situation, "Capture the bandits first, then worry about the king." Although the mountain bandits were just a mob, ants could still bite an elephant to death if there were enough of them.

  Lü Bu must die! Wherever Lü Bu's long spear points, no one can match him.

  "Lei Bu Shi Si!"