Bingzhou was located in the northwest, bordering the Qiang and Hu tribes. Many of them even lived together and intermarried. Therefore, the people of Bingzhou were tough and respected martial arts. Riding and hunting were things that everyone was good at.
In Bing Province, almost every household had a horse. Therefore, other than some women and children, almost everyone in Bing Province was very good at riding, not to mention Ding Huai, who was born in the provincial governor's family.
When Ding Huai was eight years old, Ding Yuan had specially bought a pony from Liangzhou for him. The horse breed in Liangzhou was the best in the world. This horse was snow-white all over, without a single stray hair. From afar, it looked like a ball of snow.
Little Ding Huai liked it very much and gave it a very nice name," Muddy Sky Snow." After that, Ding Huai rode it almost every day for a while. He even built a stable in the small courtyard where he lived. Every night, Ding Huai would get up and take a look at it a few times, afraid that it would starve or freeze at night.
Therefore, in just two years, Ding Huai's horsemanship had already reached perfection. In the entire Provincial Governor's Estate, besides Ding Yuan's new adopted son, Lu Bu, Ding Huai, who was only a few decades old, had the best horsemanship. Even Ding Huai's two older brothers could not catch up to Ding Huai's horsemanship.
Lu Bu was the young man who had accompanied Ding Yuan and his wife to visit Ding Huai in the previous chapter. Since they were talking about Lu Bu, there was a small interlude, which was about Lu Bu's background.
According to historical records, Lu Bu, also known as Fengxian, was from 159 to 198. He was good at riding and shooting, and his martial arts were extraordinary. He was famous in Bingzhou. The governor, Ding Yuan, appointed Lu Bu as the main clerk. After Dong Zhuo entered the capital, he lured Lu Bu to kill Ding Yuan and lead his troops to defect. Dong Zhuo was very close to him and ordered Lu Bu to serve as a cavalry commander. Lu Bu also served Dong Zhuo as his father.
However, Dong Zhuo often wanted to kill Lu Bu because of his small anger. In addition, Lu Bu had an affair with Dong Zhuo's maid. Lu Bu was worried that Dong Zhuo would harm him, so he killed Dong Zhuo under the instigation of Situ Wangyun.
Later, Dong Zhuo's remaining party, Li Wei, and others, gathered together to attack Chang 'an. Lu Bu could not resist and led his troops to escape. He joined Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, and Zhang Yang, but they could not last long. In the end, he joined Zhang Miao. Under Chen Gong's plan, he entered Yanzhou and fought fiercely with Cao Cao several times. He won first and then lost. After losing, he joined Liu Bei in Xuzhou and stationed troops in Xiaopei.
Lu Bu took advantage of Liu Bei's attack on Yuan Shu to seize Xuzhou. Later, under Cao Cao's mediation, he reconciled with Liu Bei. Soon after, Yuan Shu attacked Liu Bei. Lu Bu used the halberd as a bet to make Yuan Shu's army retreat. As a result, Yuan Shu was furious and attacked Lu Bu, who was defeated. Then, Lu Bu was attacked by Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and was trapped in Xiapi.
Although Lu Bu was brave and fierce, he was not resourceful and suspicious. He believed his wife's words and did not listen to the words of his subordinates.
Cao Cao dug trenches and besieged the city for three months. Lu Bu's army was divided. His generals Hou Cheng, Song Xian and Wei Xu tied up Chen Gong and led his troops to surrender to Cao Cao. Lu Bu was also tied up and killed together with Chen Gong and Gao Shun in the White Gate Tower.
Lü Bu's temperament was light and cunning, and he was only interested in profit, which doomed him to be able to dominate for a while but not achieve great things. However, there were no records of Lu Bu's background before he joined Ding Yuan.
Lü Bu lost his father when he was young and lived with his mother, the Lai family. His family was very poor and relied on the Lai family to make money.
Madam Lai was originally a lady from a wealthy family and was quite beautiful. In addition, Lü Bu was young, so some local ruffians often wanted to take advantage of her.
Unexpectedly, although Lu Bu was young, he was born with extraordinary strength. When he was six years old, he knocked down Hu Si, the local ruffian who often came to his house to tease his mother. He broke three of Hu Si's ribs with a punch and kicked Hu Si's right leg. From then on, the other local ruffians and hooligans in the same village all knew of Lu Bu's divine power and ferocity. When they saw Lu Bu, they all took a detour, not to mention going to Lu Bu's house to bully the Lai family.
One day, six years later, a wandering Taoist passed by this place and saw Lu Bu's abnormal bones. He planned to take Lu Bu as a disciple and preach martial arts in the mountains.
Lu Bu, who had been able to achieve extraordinary skills since childhood, naturally agreed. Therefore, the Taoist priest asked for the opinion of the Lai family. The Lai family only had one son, but they wanted to separate mother and son for several years, so they wanted to disagree.
However, Lu Bu was bent on learning extraordinary skills. Seeing that his mother did not agree, he knelt in front of the Lai family's bed for three days without eating or sleeping to beg for her permission. The Lai family couldn't bear it and agreed to this matter helplessly. Lu Bu was overjoyed, so he bid farewell to his mother and followed the Taoist priest into the mountains to practice martial arts. In a flash, seven years had passed.
Lu Bu, who was born with divine strength, was extremely talented in martial arts. In seven years, Lu Bu had learned all the skills of the old Taoist priest.
When Lu Bu returned home, he found that his home had been deserted for several years. No one lived there, and his mother had long disappeared.
Lu Bu was anxious and asked his neighbors. They all said that in the second year after Lu Bu entered the mountain, Hu Si led the bandits on Qilin Mountain to capture the Lai family.
"Since you know that my mother has been captured by bandits, why don't you think of a way to save her?" Lu Bu asked angrily.”
Therefore, in his rage, Lu Bu did not consider how he could save the villagers from the bandits who burned, killed, robbed, and committed all kinds of crimes. He killed hundreds of people in the village, regardless of their age, and then rode alone to Qilin Mountain to seek revenge from Hu Si.
After entering the mountain, Lu Bu learned from a mountain bandit that the Lai family had been raped by Hu Si on the night they were captured. The next day, they hanged themselves.
In his rage, Lu Bu displayed his might. He single-handedly killed the 500-odd bandits in the stronghold, dismembered Hu Si into eight pieces, and set the stronghold on fire.
Just as Lu Bu, who was covered in blood, was about to leave the mountain, he met the new governor of Bingzhou, Ding Yuan, who had been in office for less than half a year, leading an army to exterminate the bandits of Qilin Mountain.
As soon as they entered the mountain pass, Ding Yuan saw that the stronghold had been set on fire from afar. Then, he saw Lu Bu, covered in blood, riding out alone on his halberd. Ding Yuan asked the soldiers to go forward and ask.
Seeing that it was the Provincial Governor, Lu Bu did not dare to be presumptuous. He told Ding Yuan the truth of the matter, half true and half false. He said that the bandits of Qilin Mountain had attacked the village and killed the entire village. His mother had also been captured by the bandits and killed on the mountain. He had just returned from his studies and had gone up the mountain to take revenge.
Ding Yuan sent his soldiers to the village and Qilin Mountain to check on the situation. It was exactly as Lu Bu had said. Of course, he couldn't tell who had killed the people in the village because none of them survived. Ding Yuan naturally wouldn't think that it was Lu Bu who had done it.
Therefore, Ding Yuan pitied Lu Bu's background and appreciated his martial arts skills, so he took Lu Bu in. From then on, Lu Bu stayed in Taiyuan and became a valiant general under Ding Yuan. Half a year later, Ding Yuan officially adopted Lu Bu as his son.
Lu Bu's life had been very difficult, and the seven years he had spent learning in the mountains had been even more difficult. Now that he had suddenly become the foster son of the Bingzhou Provincial Governor, he naturally cherished him very much. He was very filial to Ding Yuan and his wife, and he doted on Ding Huai even more. He did not put on any airs of a young master when dealing with the servants in the residence, and the Ding Yuan and his wife admired him very much.
Because Lu Bu was not only skilled in martial arts, but also loved his soldiers like his own son, he had a high prestige in the Bingzhou army.
In the beginning, Ding Yuan let Lü Bu take charge of the army's training, which was quite successful. Later, in the battle against the Qiang and Hu, Lü Bu made many outstanding achievements, causing the Qiang and Hu soldiers to run away when they saw Lü Bu. For several years, they did not dare to invade Bingzhou.
However, as time passed, Ding Yuan realized that although Lu Bu was skilled in martial arts, he was not good at strategy. Although the soldiers he brought out could kill the enemy bravely, their military discipline was very poor. In the battle against the Qiang and Hu, Lu Bu only charged forward and killed ruthlessly. He relied entirely on his strength to win. His soldiers were even more chaotic, and there was no order to fight.
Ding Yuan frowned. The Qiang and Hu were the minority tribes, known for their ferocity. They never used any strategy, which was why Lu Bu could easily win with his powerful martial strength.
If the Qiang and Hu were replaced by other armies, Lu Bu would not only find it difficult to win, but he would also likely be defeated.
Therefore, Ding Yuan took back Lu Bu's military power and appointed him as the main book. He also forced Lu Bu to read some military books to make up for his shortcomings in this aspect, hoping that Lu Bu would be both civil and military through training.
Unexpectedly, the narrow-minded Lu Bu did not understand Ding Yuan's good intentions at all. Instead, he planted the seeds of hatred.
Ding Yuan had never thought that his good intentions would be misunderstood by Lu Bu. He had even raised a scourge by his side, and Ding Yuan had almost lost his life because of this.
Later, Lu Bu was tempted by Dong Zhuo to kill Ding Yuan. If Ding Huai had not been by his side, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
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