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

Chapter 466 The last calm before the storm——

Jiangdong, Jianye City.

On the execution ground, the swordsman's knife was raised high, reflecting the pale drizzle in the early morning.

The ones being questioned today are Gan Ning’s good brothers Su Fei and Sun Jiao!

One is to achieve mutual success with Gan Ning and make each other perfect.

The other is to put aside the old grudges with Gan Ning and get to know each other without fighting.

Speaking of which, their tragedy happened the night before. Sun Quan gave the order - "From now on, Gan Ning will be designated as a traitor to our country of Soochow. If anyone takes Gan Ning in, it will be regarded as a declaration of war on Soochow!" 』

Undoubtedly, after such an edict, Gan Ning's reputation in Soochow was completely ruined. From a hero, he was reduced to a being that everyone wanted to beat.

The reason is "looking at the door and thinking about Zhang Jian, and waiting for Du Gen for a moment." In this era, people regard honor and integrity as more important than life.

Infidelity...this reputation will make a person unable to hold his head high for the rest of his life!
This is why...

Su Fei and Sun Jiao insisted on breaking into Wu's court even in the face of Sun Quan's wrath.

It's just that the result...is destined.

How could Sun Quan, such a ruthless and gloomy person, rehabilitate Gan Ning because of the two of them?
But the two begged hard and finally remonstrated with each other with death...

So, Sun Quan let them die!

——Ask Zhan!
At this moment, the steel knife was facing the shadow of the sun. In the extremely tragic atmosphere, Su Fei on the guillotine looked up to the sky and screamed: "I don't want to regret my death. I only hate...I only hate that I didn't redress Brother Gan. Brother Gan was wronged...Brother Gan was wronged." !”

As a member of the Soochow clan, Sun Jiao felt the coldness on the steel knife, but he couldn't help laughing "hahahaha".

"why are you laughing?"

Seeing that Sun Jiao could still laugh while the black cloth was tied outside to prevent blood from splattering, Su Fei couldn't help but ask this friend who was bound by fate and died together.

Sun Jiao's laughter turned bitter, "I was thinking that Sun Quan had lost eight generals ten years after he took the throne. I was thinking... Xu Kun, Wu Jing, Taishi Ci, Zhou Yu, Huang Gai... when they died, most of them They will also think...what I am thinking now! Will they also have this awareness before their death? It's a pity that it's too late, it's too late for everything!"

At this point, Sun Jiao's voice was already a little hysterical.

He was about to be beheaded, what else was he afraid of?Is there anything else he can't say?
Suddenly, he raised his head, as if to vent the anger he had suppressed for a long time, and roared.

"It's been 15 years, Sun Zhongmou...how many loyal ministers and good generals have died around you? Can you count them all? You...you must make everyone leave you. When everyone betrays your relatives and leaves, can you...can you wake up? Come...cut me , I am waiting for you underground, waiting for the day when you are in such a miserable state that your soul returns to Jiuquan! Cut...cut!"

As Sun Jiao's words fell...

With a "swish" sound, the steel knife struck down hard, and his eyes seemed to fall into endless darkness.

Sun Jiao thought everything was over.

But Su Fei on the side was a little confused...

He watched the scene of the steel knife falling and muttered in his heart.

--"what's going on? 』

——"Why did this sword miss the mark?" 』

Before he could think about it, something heavy hit him hard on the back of the head. Su Fei's eyes suddenly went black... and like Sun Jiao, he lost consciousness and fainted.

Seeing this familiar scene, Zhou Xun, the supervisor and beheading officer, sighed lightly.

——It’s still a familiar recipe, and it’s still a familiar taste.

He no longer knows how many people have been saved using this method...

However, there is no doubt that this method of saving people is really effective.

In fact, Soochow is now in a troubled period. Lu Su is in Jiangxia, and Lu Meng is busy training his navy and practicing infiltration. He is the only one who can free his hands to supervise Zhou Xun.

Therefore, the important task of supervising and beheading once again fell on Zhou Xun!

"Ugh…"

At this moment, Zhou Xun sighed quietly, and murmured to himself in a very soft and fine voice: "It's a pity that these two prisoners who died in the place of death were replaced by others, died earlier, and became the scapegoat! "

While talking, Zhou Xun watched as his confidants rescued the real "Su Fei" and "Sun Jiao"...

The two fake people were beheaded and displayed to the public.

The surrounding black silk was splattered with blood...

As the real Su Fei and Sun Jiao evacuated, a group of close guards took off the black silk. The vivid heads of "Su Fei" and "Sun Jiao" were rolling on the ground, and on the edge of the wood, two bodies The horrific headless corpse had already fallen to the ground.

"Cough cough..."

It was only then that Zhou Xunfang cleared his voice and shouted: "The sinners Su Fei and Sun Jiao, below, have violated the laws of the country and have no respect for their superiors. They should have been hanged. Thanks to the kindness of Marquis Wu, they have been spared their pain. They will be sentenced to death on the second day of today." On the second day of the month...beheaded on the execution ground! To serve as a warning to others!"

As he spoke, Zhou Xun pointed to the head on the ground, "Come here, pick up the head, seal it in a box, and hang it at the city gate..."

As Zhou Xun's words fell.

An official climbed to the city gate and read Sun Quan's edict condescendingly.

——"As the leader of Soochow alone, I should rule the east of the Yangtze River, unite the people, work together as one, and fight against foreign forces... Suppose everyone is like Gan Ning? Secretly plotting assassinations and killing ministers, then where is the law of Soochow? Do you not regard Gan Ning as a national thief? Jiangdong will be in danger, so... if anyone dares to openly question and contradict Gan Ning, or plead for Gan Ning, a national thief, Su Fei and Sun Jiaotou are role models!"

These words chanted...

Many people raised their heads in silence and listened.

Huang Gai's son Huang Bing and Zhou Yu's nephew Zhou Jun were also there, and they looked at each other.

Huang Bing murmured: "Where is this edict for the public to see? It is clearly used to win over those wealthy families..."

"Alas..." Zhou Jun let out a long sigh, "This is the so-called pursuit of false fame and real disaster...Sun Quan's conspiracy with the big clan is tantamount to conspiracy with a tiger!"

Huang Bing asked back: "Sun Quan and the great clan... who is the tiger?"

At this time... suddenly I heard a man crying loudly. It was Jiang Qin, one of the twelve tiger ministers in Jiangdong.

He moved forward step by step, filled with sorrow...

The people around him looked at his appearance and couldn't help but sweat for him, but he was holding a wine bottle and staggering, "General Su Fei, General Sun Jiao... you are very loyal ministers! Photographed by others. The powerful ones dare not pay homage to you. Jiang is here to pay homage to you! The soul is back, the soul is back...and Gan Xingba...you...you..."

It was obvious that Jiang Qin was drunk. This tiger minister who was good at using bows and arrows rarely drank...

But today, he tilted the wine pot like an unconscious drunkard, and the wine fell to the ground, soaking the loess with his tears!
His figure was quickly surrounded and blocked by guards, and Huang Bing and Zhou Jun could only leave silently.

only…

What they didn't know was that if the original trajectory of history was followed, the white-clad soldiers crossed the river and captured Jingzhou in one fell swoop. Besides Lu Meng, Sun Jiao and Jiang Qin were responsible for Guan Yu's defeat in Maicheng.

But, coincidentally...

Just after they made such a great contribution, soon... all three of them died of illness!

Lü Meng is like this;

Sun Jiao is like this;

The same is true for Jiang Qin.

In Soochow, there will be such a unique scenery, many loyal ministers and good generals... What a coincidence that they are ill!

...

...

At night, Su Fei, Sun Jiao, and more than 70 of Gan Ning's brothers, along with their children, were all placed in a huge merchant ship.

Because the night is already dark, both sides of the bank are as dark as ink.

At the bow of the ship, Hongyan's owners Sun Shao and Taishi Xiang were standing on the deck.

It seemed that... they didn't care at all about the darkness around them, or maybe the swan geese... had stayed in the darkness for long enough!
"Another wave of escape from the sea of ​​suffering..."

The one who spoke was Tai Shixiang.

Back then, they used the same method to secretly transport all Ling Tong's clan members away.

This time, it was just a familiar road.

On the contrary, Sun Shao, who was always talkative, did not respond to Tai Shixiang this time.

With the help of a weak torch, Tai Shixiang could see the fatigue on Sun Shao's face. This fatigue seemed to be relieved, but also as if the whole person was exhausted.

At this moment, Tai Shixiang was suddenly able to understand Sun Shao's mood.

Soochow... no matter what it looks like now, at the beginning, this was the foundation established by Sun Shao's father, Sun Ce!

It is said that Jiangdong is the result of the efforts of three generations of the Sun family.

Not really...

Because Sun Jian was only a native of Fuchun, Wu County, and had served as magistrate of three counties at most, and had established authority in Changsha and Lujiang. To say that he would conquer Jiangdong was only theoretical.

Rather than conquering Jiangdong, it is better to say that he conquered Jingzhou, but was shot by Huang Zu!

Therefore, the foundation of Jiangdong was largely established by Sun Ce, who was a good friend of Sun Ce and the group of Huaisi conquest faction.

As for Sun Quan, he and Sun Ce took completely opposite paths, going to the other extreme!
In other words, even though Soochow is now a "dirty" and "filthy" place, it was once the territory that Sun Shao's father, Sun Ce, did not hesitate to sacrifice his life for, and it was something that he protected with his life!
——Escape from the sea of ​​suffering!
Tai Shixiang realized that such rhetoric made Sun Shao...a little sad, right?

Tai Shixiang noticed this and wanted to comfort...

Unexpectedly, Sun Shao spoke first, and he smiled with all his strength, "My father died when I was just born, so... I am not a person who values ​​the inheritance of my father's generation that much, but..."

Speaking of the second half of the sentence, Sun Shao gritted his teeth, "My long-cherished wish is to question Sun Quan condescendingly and ask him, his brother was so optimistic about him back then, but why... why did he still harm my father? Mom told me I... said that my father told him something before he died... He told Sun Quan - if you want it, I will give it to you! I really can't understand that my father is like this... Sun Quan... Sun Quan, he..."

At the end of the sentence, Sun Shao clenched his fists, as if out of forbearance, anger, and incomprehension. His nails dug deeply into his palms... and a little blood oozed from his palms.

Tai Shixiang was also infected by Sun Shao's atmosphere, and said quickly: "You still want to question him? Hmph... If it were me, if there was a chance... Then Sun Quan would be in front of me, and I would just use this halberd left by my father... to kill him It penetrated my whole body! I didn’t believe a word he said!”

The topic is here.

The atmosphere suddenly turned cold...

What is completely different from the atmosphere is... the merchant ships are going smoothly and the fleet has arrived in Jiangxia.

Jiangxia County was divided into three parts, and now the two parts north of the Yangtze River are all in Guan Lin's hands.

A share of Enan is still in Sun Quan's hands.

Therefore, after crossing a very long river and turning into the North Road, this also indicates that the current route is completely safe!
That's when...

"Where is this place?"

Sun Jiao stood up in confusion. He saw Su Fei beside him and quickly woke him up... The two found a torch and walked out of the cabin with extreme caution.

In fact, Su Fei was still thinking...why did the steel knife become crooked?

But Sun Jiao was full of doubts, thinking that he had gone to the underworld.

Speaking of which, in history, this young general from Soochow took over from Cheng Pu to guard Xiakou, followed Lu Meng to level Jingzhou, was righteous and generous, and was sensible and reasonable!
At this moment... he was in darkness, and he actually thought he was in the eighteenth level of hell, and he was inexplicably scared!
When Sun Jiao and Su Fei saw Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang on the deck...

Sun Jiao was suddenly startled. He looked at Sun Shao in shock, "Is it...is it you?"

indeed…

As the clan general of Soochow and the cousin of Sun Ce and Sun Quan, Sun Jiao knew Sun Shao...

Because of this, he just...

"Aren't you dead?"

Sun Jiao asked in surprise...

But then, he shook his head heavily.

That's right... that's right.If this place was underground, then... wouldn't it be normal for him to see a dead person?
Sun Shao was about to explain...

But at this time.

Accompanied by a "shot of arrows" in the sky...

Countless torches were suddenly raised on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the sound of arrows continued. At the same time, more than ten small ships were rapidly approaching.

Sun Shao and Tai Shi were shocked, while Sun Jiao and Su Fei were also confused, thinking that this was a... unique welcome ceremony in hell.

It’s really grand!

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the entire merchant ship suddenly became excited.

"It's a brocade sailing ship... It's a brocade sailing ship..."

"Brother Gan...I saw Brother Gan on the shore..."

"It's Brother Gan, it's...Brother Gan!"

You know, Gan Ning brought 800 people out of Bashu, but he only had 100 people with him when he escaped. In addition to his brothers who died in battles over the years, there were also some... in Jiangdong!

The number is not large, just over 70 people!
Hongyan has found them all... and with Gan Ning's token, he brought them and his family aboard the merchant ship.

And because of that...

They were both born into the Jinfan thief, and they were all too familiar with the Jinfan thief's ringing arrows.

This sound of arrows was telling them that they were finally out of the devil's cave and they were finally going home!
——The way home!
——It’s the way home!
...

came back!All are back...

Gan Ning met Su Fei, Sun Jiao, and a group of brothers... These brothers finally met the brother Gan they had longed for!
It's out...it's all out!
They all escaped from the devil's cave.

Nature…

When brothers meet, they have endless things to say...

Since Sun Shao and Tai Shixiang landed on the shore, they walked away in tacit agreement and gave up their time and space to Gan Ning!

In fact, Gan Ning was not recovered, but he was thinking about his brothers. He couldn't sit still for a day in Xiakou, so he asked Guan Lin again and again, and then he went south to the corner of Jiangxia... closest to Jiangdong... the north bank of the Yangtze River!

half an hour;

an hour;
Two hours... Gan Ning chatted with Su Fei, Sun Jiao, and this group of brothers for two whole hours, and it seemed that You was still unfulfilled.

Finally, at the end…

Su Fei asked Gan Ning, "Xingba? Where are we going now? Is it to Xiakou?"

"No..." Gan Ning seemed to have been prepared to answer this question early in the morning. He took a deep breath and said, "Go to Jiangling..."

"Why Jiangling?" This time it was Sun Shao's turn to be surprised.

When he received the news about Guan Lin, he didn't mention it was Jiangling!
Seeing the confusion and doubts of Sun Shao, Tai Shixiang... and the rest of the brothers, Gan Ning grinned and smiled... lightly, "We will all be in Jiangling for the next four months... because..."

Suddenly, Gan Ning's tone became more serious, his tone became meticulous, and he even became serious.

"That's closer to Bashu, and that's where we can really make our way home!"

way home!
It’s the return journey again——

...

...

Four months passed by, the autumn cicadas screamed sadly, a leaf fell to the ground and the whole place was desolate.

It has been four months since Guan Lin faked his death!
Of course, regarding Guan Lin's fake death, it seems... No one in Wei, Wu or Shu except Zhang Xingcai who cried alone would take it seriously.

It's because of his death that a series of chain reactions occurred!
For example, the tacit understanding between Cao Cao and Sun Quan on the territory of Huainan;
For example, the game between Cao Ren and Guan Yu in Xiangfan...

For another example, because Gan Ning went to Jingzhou, the Sun-Liu alliance was cast into the thickest haze.

And... Lu Meng secretly trained soldiers, sneaked in, and got there first... disguised as a businessman in white!
It can be said that the entire situation in Xiangfan, Huainan, and Jiangxia... Underneath the calm on the surface, there is an undercurrent surging behind the scenes...

Everything is changing quietly.

Only when the layers of fog are peeled away, the real competition is about to begin!

Can…

However, in such a confusing atmosphere, in the past four months... there has not been a single battle on the Xiangfan battlefield!
Guan Yu dug a reservoir south of the Han River.

Cao Ren was also digging a reservoir north of the Han River.

Because Cao Ren did it more secretly, even Guan Yu only knew that he was starting construction... and thought he was planning to build a new city similar to "Lincheng"!

In this way, the situation... was stable for four whole months!

And this... is the last calm before the storm -

...

Arriving from Jiangdong, near Jiangdao in Jiangling and Changsha counties, under a beacon tower, a young man disguised as a merchant in white poked his head out suspiciously.

He was cautious at first, but as... his head poked out, the boy became bolder.

He is Liu Chan...

I came here because I was entrusted by Guan Lin. The purpose... is to do something that will shock the world and make the gods cry!
"Sir...what exactly did Yun Qi send you here for?"

Zhao Yun and Liu Chan came together...

Of course, Zhao Yun didn't know Liu Chan's purpose of coming here. He was just protecting Liu Chan.

"You'll find out later..."

Liu Chan shook his head, and it seemed that because the guards on the beacon tower didn't notice him, he became more and more angry.

I saw Liu Chan taking out a dozen glass bottles from his men's backpack, and the glass bottles were filled with white powder.

He looked at it carefully and shook it...

Then bury the glass bottles on the back of the beacon tower in turn.

done this...

Liu Chan took a torch and asked the fisherman next to him, "What did my fourth brother Guan say?"

Oh... Yuzhuo reacted and said quickly: "Brother Yunqi ordered... He said that he would burn this bottle again when the shift change of the beacon tower was over..."

"Correct!"

Liu Chan seemed to recall...

He waited patiently for a while.

Zhao Yun became nervous when he saw this scene, and he had a vague premonition of something ominous.

Finally...it's time to change shifts.

Because the beacon tower is very high, when the shift is changed, the handover is always done below the stage. Liu Chan patiently waits for all the soldiers to step down. For a moment... his mood becomes extremely surging.

"It's time to ignite... Quick, where is the fuse? Oops... Why did I forget... to lay out the fuse in advance!"

Children, who are usually very fearless, suddenly become nervous and a bit at a loss when it comes to the final step.

"boom--"

Finally, after a lot of fuss, Liu Chan quickly lit the fuse, and then he shouted to Zhao Yun, "Uncle Zilong, run quickly..."

As he spoke, he ran towards the outside with a "swish" like a frightened little tiger.

Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment...he didn't react yet.

On the other hand, the soldiers who were changing shifts were surprised to hear a sound coming here and hurriedly chased after them, but they didn't get here yet...

"…boom!"

The flames soaring into the sky filled the beacon tower in an instant... The air was filled with a suffocating pungent smell.
Along with the sudden flames in the beacon tower, thick clouds of black smoke came out.

Debris and fragments flew horizontally, shooting out like sharp arrows.

The entire beacon tower was instantly swept by flames. The scorching flames were scurrying around, and the tongues of flames sticking to the ground were licking the nearest objects. The smell was pungent, and thick smoke hit your face!
Fortunately... the soldiers on the beacon tower were handing over downstairs. When they saw the flames... they had no time to escape.

However, every soldier felt a lingering fear.

Only Liu Chan looked at this masterpiece with excitement...

I couldn't help but sigh: "This fire is really burning..."

Looking at Zhao Yun, his eyebrows almost formed an inverted figure. He asked in shock: "Master... you... what are you doing?"

Liu Chan smiled, showing a big and harmless smile: "Uncle Zilong, don't be nervous, Fourth Brother Guan said, if this beacon tower is not burned down, tens of thousands of people will die in Jingzhou..."

At this point, Liu Chan smiled even more happily, "Uncle Zilong, think about it, Yun Qi is right, we... have not revealed our identities, but we are just businessmen in white who can easily arrive here and burn this place... In this way, this beacon tower...is of any use? It’s better to burn it with fire!”

uh... this...

Following Liu Chan's words, Zhao Yun was stunned on the spot.

It was obvious...it was obvious that Liu Chan had done something terrible and outrageous, but his explanation afterward actually...made some sense!
Even if it's a fallacy...it's still true!
--"etc! 』

——"When did this kid learn such sophistry?" 』

For a moment, Zhao Yun was stunned.

He not only asked himself:
——‘What have Adou and Yun Qi learned in the past four months? 』

——‘Eat beef?Don’t practice martial arts!Burning a beacon? 』

——"This...is this the successor of the big man?" 』

Over here, Zhao Yun is still pondering.

Over there, far away in Xudu City...

Cao Cao had a headache today. He was originally lying on the bed, but after hearing Cheng Yu's report, he sat up as if in a dying dream.

The whole forehead is covered with sweat beads...

This scene was like Chen Lin's "Essay against Thieves" in the past. It made his scalp numb and made him sweat. It unexpectedly relieved his headache.

"Zhongde, I think I heard you wrong just now, can you say it again? Then Guan Lin sent someone to Xu Du as an envoy? Do you want to negotiate with Gu?"

Cao Cao blurted out the words.

Cheng Yu pondered for a moment, he seemed to be hesitant, but no matter how hesitant, he still said what he should say truthfully.

"Jingzhou sent an envoy Zhuge Ke to Xudu. I followed the order of the King of Wei and led Zhuge Ke to live in the post house. I also tried to find out his true identity!"

"I never thought... what he wanted to negotiate was actually asking the King of Wei to cede the south of Xu Capital City to Jingzhou! In addition, he also asked the King of Wei to send troops to annihilate the Soochow forces in Huainan——"

Follow Cheng Yu’s words!

With a "bang" sound, Cao Cao stood up, "I just thought it was Gu who heard it, or maybe Gu lost his heart and went crazy, haha... But I heard it again, hahahaha, it seems... It's not that Gu lost his heart and went crazy. Well, is Guan Lin crazy because of his gain and loss? He pretended to die for four months, he seems to be crazy——"

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(End of this chapter)