Three Kingdoms: The Guan Family's Rebellious Son, Long Blessing Jing Xiang

Chapter 114 The wind rises and the clouds fly, my brother Guan Lin towns all directions

North of Jiangxia, the entrance of the valley.

At dusk, the sound of fighting could be heard faintly. Cao Ren still maintained his nervousness, got on his horse and ordered the whole army, "Arrange to meet the enemy!"

From a distance, I saw a group of tiger and leopard soldiers fleeing. They had no horses, and even discarded their armor and weapons. They ran away in panic like bereaved dogs, and ran towards this side in a panic.

Where is the slightest bit, the once mighty tiger and leopard rider look!
And there was a chasing army brought by the three brothers Guan Ping, Guan Xing, and Guan Suo.

Niu Jin shouted at the archer: "Cover, shoot!"

The archers fired in turn, blocking a round of chasing soldiers, and a gap was opened in the neat array, allowing the discomfited remnant soldiers to gallop into the rear.

Guan Ping saw Cao Jun's orderly formation from a distance, and he immediately issued an order, "Stop chasing!"

Guan Xing was puzzled: "Brother?"

Guan Ping calmly explained: "The fourth brother said that this time the ambush, if you hit the enemy in the valley, you will definitely win. Once you get out of the valley, life or death is uncertain, so the fourth brother wants me to be poor and not to chase! At least now, this Zhan, you still have to obey what the fourth brother says!"

"Besides... Looking at the army formation, it looks like Cao Ren's 'eight-door golden lock formation'. They are waiting for the formation, waiting for work, and attacking rashly. Our army has no chance of winning!"

Guan Ping made a rational analysis.

Guan Xing no longer questioned.

Guan Suo opened his mouth. In fact... he wanted to say that Cao Ren, who was indeed sent by Cao Cao to garrison Xiangfan, really had the heart to see his half brother... the whole army was wiped out.

However, Guan Suo swallowed those words back.

He remembered... a series of stories that his fourth brother Guan Lin once told him.

——Brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu fought each other;
——Yuan Shao's son Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang's brothers fought each other;
——Liu Qi, Liu Biao's son, and Liu Cong brothers fight each other...

So, isn't it the same for Cao Ren and Cao Chun today?How could Cao Ren take the risk to save his "dizi" brother?

With this in mind, Guan Suo swallowed softly with a "gudong", and he raised his eyes to look at the clear blue sky.

he recalled...

That was after the fourth brother Guan Lin disobeyed his father again and again.

Guan Suo couldn't help looking for him to ask.

"Fourth brother knows that he will anger his father, so why bother? Why do you have to let your father hate you? What good does it do you?"

Under Guan Suo's puzzled eyes, Guan Lin said meaningfully: "Fifth brother, you are simple-minded...you don't know this!"

"Throughout the ages, many examples have shown an extremely cruel reality, that is, as a younger son, or a bastard, if he pleases his father too much, it will often lead to disharmony among brothers and lead to tragedy...becoming a family that goes from victory to decline. Turning point!"

At that time, Guan Lin's tone became more and more serious.

"For example, how did the Yuan family in Runan become prosperous and then decline? Wasn't it because Yuan Feng wanted to balance his son and son? He first adopted Yuan Shao to his elder brother, removed Yuan Shao's status as a son, and then helped During the disaster of the party, he set up "Friends of Running" to rescue the party members, thus gaining popularity and making a large number of heroes join Yuan Shao!"

"But what about Yuan Shu? As a legitimate son, he sees a humble bastard who is now skyrocketing. It's like a wolf that used to eat sheep for a living. Suddenly, one day, it was ridden on its neck by a sheep to pee? How can I calm down?" ? How can you not be envious, jealous? And this envy, jealousy, in the end it becomes a 'hate'!"

"Yuan Shu once publicly mentioned, 'The group does not follow me, but my family's slave!', he regarded Yuan Shao as the most humble servant of the Yuan family, and he also wrote to Gongsun Zan, saying that Yuan Shao was not from the Yuan family Kind of, even...not hesitating to fight Yuan Shao tit for tat and attack each other after the alliance against Dong is broken!"

Now that this topic was mentioned, Guan Lin also specifically told the fifth younger brother Guan Suo about it.

The Central Plains where there were once a lot of lords competing for the throne.

Don't look at the excitement of the thieves, after all, there are actually two camps!
Just a contradiction.

One is the "Eldest Son of the Yuan Family" alliance headed by Yuan Shao, followed by Cao Cao and Liu Biao.

One is the "Eldest Son of the Yuan Family" alliance headed by Yuan Shu, followed by Gongsun Zan and Tao Qian.

Liu Bei and Lu Bu are quite special, jumping repeatedly between these two camps.

After all...

Because of four generations and three generations, sophisticated officials are all over the world.

And because of the scourge of the party, secretly helping the party members, the Yuan family accumulated a huge amount of prestige at the beginning of this troubled world. This was Tianhu's start, and it was also the Yuan family's reliance on wanting to be emperor.

This has caused, even if it is a crowd of heroes competing for the throne, the princes will still follow the lead of the "Yuan family".

Further deduction according to the time axis.

First, the Yuan Shao Alliance defeated the Yuan Shu Alliance, and Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei all got a share;

Then the external enemies are gone, leaving only the internal ones.

It is equivalent to entering the "finals".

Yuan Shao was first eliminated by Cao Cao, and Liu Biao was eliminated by Cao Cao.

So far, in the entire Central Plains, only Cao Cao is left in the finals!
So who else is there to win the championship in the Central Plains than Cao Cao?
But going back to the source, the source of all this was caused by the disagreement between the brothers of the Yuan family!
Just imagine, when Yuan Feng had a good bowl of water, he would directly support his son Yuan Shu and put Yuan Shao aside completely, or he could simply be decisive, support Yuan Shao and let Yuan Shu out.

In this way, in this chaotic world, the Yuan family has formed a joint force, so how can there be other princes?

——Can Cao Cao get up?
On that day, Guan Lin talked a lot. He first told the story of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers fighting each other, then Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, then Liu Qi and Liu Cong...

Guan Suo was dumbfounded.

Suddenly, he could understand why the fourth brother always disobeyed his father.

The fourth brother is because of this family!

To make my father hate him is also for the good of the family.

At that time, Guan Suo still felt that he was too simple, and that the fourth brother and him...as the fourth and fifth sons of the Guan family, they really shouldn't be too sharp.

It was at that time that Guan Suo secretly made up his mind not to work so hard, but to spend more of his time...in other places.

For example - woman!
And this idea suddenly opened the door to a new world for Guan Suo!
At this moment, Guan Suo pulled his thoughts back from afar, looked at Cao Ren's soldiers and horses waiting in front of him, and sighed.

"Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are like this!"

"Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are like this!"

"Liu Qi, Liu Cong are so..."

"Brothers Cao Ren and Cao Chun? How can they be brothers and sisters?"

At this time, Guan Jiajun stopped chasing, and Guan Ping stepped forward slowly, facing Cao Ren in the "Eight Gates Locked Formation" from a distance.

He shouted: "I don't want to, this time I have alarmed General Cao!"

Cao Ren also replied loudly: "This time, I, Cao Zixiao, lost my mind and fell into the trick of Guan Yunchang. I admit it!"

"Didn't General Cao come to fetch armaments? There are still many armaments in the Sunset Valley, including sidecars, wooden oxen and horses, and crossbows. There are also armors, weapons, and war horses of your Cao army. They are placed in the valley. General Cao let the horses come. take it?"

Guan Ping's words made Cao Ren grit his teeth.

Just as Guan Suo thought just now, he really doesn't care whether his younger brother Cao Chun lives or dies...

But tigers and leopards ride...

In particular, the armaments and war horses used by the tiger and leopard riders were all built with a lot of money, and Cao Ren felt very distressed.

This time, Guan Ping's words are like adding salt to his wounds.

However, Cao Ren's expression was calm, "My Cao Wei family has a great career, and I can afford to throw away some military equipment, so I will give it to General Guan as a gift for a meeting! But this general is curious, since Mr. Guan Ping has chased you here, why don't you come here?" ah?"

Guan Ping laughed "haha", how could he not know that the other party was aggressive?
Guan Ping shouted loudly: "As a human being, how can you be greedy? I have already received so many gifts from General Cao, and I can't chew too much! However, General Cao, don't worry, one day, sooner or later, this general will be ruined." Your formation!"

"Haha!" Cao Ren pretended to laugh loudly, "Now, do the juniors of the Han army dare to speak to this general like this? Haha, good, this general is waiting for that day!"

Following Cao Ren's voice came out.

"--There is ample time."

Guan Ping replied, and immediately he showed his decisive side as a general, and immediately raised his hand.

—— "Mingjin, withdraw troops, triumphant return!"

For a while, the Guan family's army retreated slowly. On the way to retreat, Guan Ping led a group of soldiers and sang the military song of the Han army leisurely:
Guan Jiajun prefers to sing "Great Wind Song" than "Horse Stepping on Yan Ran":
——"The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying!"

——"Vega is back home!"

——"Andre the Warriors to guard the Quartet, and the Warriors to guard the Quartet..."

While singing the Great Wind Song on his lips, Guan Ping completely changed the lyrics and sang in his heart.

——The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, my brother Guan Lin is everywhere!

For a moment, the vibrating singing echoed in the valley, and the reverberation lingered for a long time!
On the contrary, Niu Jin, the lieutenant general of Cao Junzhong, looked at Guan Jiajun's embarrassing figure.

He asked angrily: "General? Don't you want to chase him?"

Cao Ren shook his head bitterly, "He doesn't dare to charge the battle, just like I dare not step into this valley again, that's all, let's help the wounded Tiger and Leopard Cavalry!"

And at this moment, the tiger and leopard cavalry were among the wounded.

A voice came out suddenly.

"Where's the general? Where's the general I'm riding on?"

He was asking Cao Chun...

Indeed, among the less than a thousand tiger and leopard cavalry remnants who fled back, there was no trace of Cao Chun.

Hearing the soldiers calling Cao Chun, Cao Ren's original sharp expression suddenly changed. He stepped over each wounded soldier anxiously, looking for and calling.

——"Zihe? Zihe? Where is my disciple He?"

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Outside the window, the rain is murmuring.

Guan Yu and Ma Liang listened attentively to Zhou Cang's report.

Today's Jingzhou, under the peaceful appearance, can be said to be undercurrents. The batch of armaments produced by "Huang Laoxie" alone has stirred up changes in the situation.

——"Mr. Yunqi received a deposit of [-] hu from the Jiangnan woman and the Jiaozhou businessman respectively, and the trading place is set at the junction of Changsha and Jiaozhou."

——"Now that the delivery date is approaching, the merchants Shi Huolong and You Tanzhi have also rushed to Changsha County, and along with that, the Jiangnan woman and Jiaozhou merchants have also rushed there!"

——"In addition, the prefect Liao Li of Changsha County sent back news that a large number of merchant ships had recently poured into the border of Changsha, but they did not go to the Xiangjiang River, but stayed at the junction of Changsha and Jiaozhou. It is related to this batch of ordnance."

Listening to Zhou Cang's report...

Guan Yu and Ma Liang looked at each other, both in deep thought.

The thing is actually very simple!
Guan Yu and Ma Liang can be sure that the "Huang Laoxie" who manufactured this batch of ordnance is either Zhuge Liang's father-in-law Huang Chengyan, or Guan Lin himself.

Of course, it is also possible... It was done by the two of them together.

This, although the investigation has not been continued before, is already a certainty.

Well, the problem is coming.

This kid Guan Lin promised this batch of ordnance to the four families at once.

One of them has been confirmed to be the secret work of Xiangfan...

Guan Lin's purpose is to lure the snake out of the hole.

Moreover, Guan Ping has already secretly rushed to Jiangxia, laying an ambush under the setting sun valley.

Then there are three left...

You know, among the three, Guan Lin received a deposit of "[-] hu grains" from each of the two.

Speaking of this, Guan Yu suddenly felt that although there were not many, this son still had such a shred of conscience, at least he confiscated the deposit from Mi Fang.

Of course, this also showed that this kid had no intention of selling this batch of ordnance to Guan Yu at all.

Among the two, Zhou Cang has already investigated clearly. One of them is negotiating with the merchants is a Jiangnan woman, and the other can be judged from the accent, which is from Jiaozhou.

One Jiangdong, one Jiaozhou.

When the matter developed to this point, Guan Yu and Ma Liang thought about it—the matter became more and more mysterious and interesting.

The current situation is that the deposit has also been collected, and the goods should be handed over!

then…

By coincidence, all the people involved in this incident all went to Changsha, and a large number of merchant ships appeared in Changsha.

It is no longer as simple as "interesting" when things have developed to this point.

Guan Yu and Ma Liang had the same guess in their hearts.

Is this kid Yunqi planning to..."two tigers compete for food"?

You know, Guan Yu hated this "two tigers competing for food" strategy!

That dates back to when he and his elder brother Liu Bei were in Xuzhou.

At that time, Cao Cao looked closely at Xuzhou, but Liu Bei and Lu Bu were stationed together, one was stationed in Xiaopei, and the other was stationed in Xiapi.

If Cao Cao wants to attack Lu Bu, Liu Bei will rush to help him, and if he attacks Liu Bei, Lu Bu will not just sit idly by.

This is "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold", which can also be said to be newspaper groups to keep warm.

Therefore, Cao Cao obeyed Xun Yu's plan of "two tigers competing for food", and ordered Liu Bei to be Xuzhou Shepherd in the name of the emperor, and sent Liu Bei to kill Lu Bu!

If it works, Liu Bei will lose an ally. If not, Lu Bu will definitely kill Liu Bei to vent his anger.

In any case, Cao Cao can reap the benefits of the fisherman.

The follow-up development was indeed as Xun Yu expected. The news of this letter spread like wildfire. Lv Bu and Liu Bei had a rift, and they fought against each other. Instead, the snipe and the clam fought, the fisherman made a profit, and Cao Cao made a lot of money. !

This matter, if Guan Yu had not stayed in Cao Ying for more than a year briefly, and heard someone mention it inadvertently at a banquet, he would be in the dark now.

Of course... none of this matters.

The important thing is that because of the loss of the "two tigers competing for food", when Guan Yu saw Guan Lin's deployment, this is what Guan Yu subconsciously thought of!

Ha ha…

——"Jiaozhou? 』

——"Jiangdong? 』

——"Two tigers competing for food?This is... Yunqi Deli! 』

In fact, Ma Liang also thought of this, and he said with a smile first: "Guan Gong, Mr. Yunqi has already set up a stage in Changsha, and the opera singers will be in place soon. Presumably this play will be very exciting, right?".

"It's true... this play is sung to the end, someone should end it!"

Ma Liang blurted out these meaningful words.

Guan Yu's heart moved, and he once again showed his vigorous and resolute side.

"Pass to Liu Pan!"

Not long after, Liu Pan came and bowed his hands to salute Guan Yu.

"What is General Guan's order?"

"To make a long story short, you have to rush six hundred miles away and go to Changsha County in person, and tell Prefect Liao Li to pay close attention to the border areas of Changsha and Jiaozhi. The informant sent back a message that the foreign merchant wants to trade another piece of goods here!"

"Businessmen trade, it is inevitable that there will be price discrepancies. If there is an emergency, you can act decisively and take extraordinary measures!"

When referring to the last two "extraordinary", Guan Yu deliberately emphasized his tone.

After that, Guan Yu's words were even more meticulous.

——"If someone dares to fight in Changsha, and even cause death, even in the border, you and Liao Li, the prefect, will never tolerate it!"

Fights, human lives, appeasement...

Guan Yu chanted these six characters with almost twice the tone.

Liu Pan raised his eyes, facing Guan Yu's sharp and condensed gaze, he swallowed subconsciously.

I know... this job will not be easy!
Immediately hand over.

"General Guan, don't worry, the last general will definitely fulfill his mission!"

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(End of this chapter)