Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 94 89. Wuling Recovery
Everyone on this trip was only concerned about the Guan family's affairs and indeed forgot about Bao Sanniang and Guan Suo's marriage. No wonder Bao Sanniang chased them out.

"General, this..."

Bao Feng and Bao Yi looked at Feng Xi with some embarrassment. Feng Xi thought for a moment and then proposed a solution with a smile.

"Weizhi is still young, and it will take a few more years for her to be married. Why not let Sanniang stay with the old lady so that they can take care of each other and also let Sanniang get familiar with her husband's family life in advance? What do you think?"

The Bao brothers thought about it for a moment, felt that this was a good idea, and nodded in agreement.

In this way, everyone took advantage of the sunset and headed towards Jiangling City. This trip was fruitful. Not only did Guan Xing find his family and his state of mind change, but Feng Xi also gained two generals with extraordinary martial arts skills, which was an unexpected surprise.

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At the foot of Wuling City, Zhang Fei and Zhang Bao felt quite troubled when they saw the closed gates and the tight security on the city walls.

Zheng Xu, the defender of Wuling City, was just an unknown general in Jiangdong, with no special ability. But unfortunately, he had a rare and precious quality: self-awareness.

He knew that he was definitely no match for the Zhang father and son who were eyeing him covetously outside the city. He estimated that he would be stabbed to death by those two men in less than a second round, so he did not foolishly lead his troops out of the city, but chose to defend the city.

Wuling County is a mountain city, easy to defend but difficult to attack. Although Gan Ning and Lu Xun have almost mobilized all the soldiers in the city, there are still two to three thousand local soldiers available. Even if Zhang Fei has tens of thousands of soldiers, including the barbarians, he will not be able to break the city in a short time.

But the city still had to be attacked, so Zhang Fei had no choice but to order his soldiers to make a few test attacks first.

"Hehe, even if you are strong enough to lift a tripod, now you can only sigh at the sight of the city."

After Zhang Fei's siege failed again, Zheng Xu was smiling on the top of the city. It was almost dusk, and after arranging the defense arrangements with the deputy general on the city, he returned to the governor's mansion to rest.

At night, Zheng Xu was still drinking tea and reading in the prefect's mansion, wondering when support from the surrounding counties would arrive, when he suddenly heard a noise of people in the city.

"Report! Your Excellency, there is a rioting mob outside the gate!"

Before Zheng Xu could react, the guard at the door came in to report the news.

"A mob rebellion? Where did the mob come from? Come with me to see for yourself."

Zheng Xu personally climbed up to the top of the wall with the guards of the prefectural governor's mansion and looked out. They saw nearly a thousand people who looked like ordinary people, holding torches and weapons, directly surrounding the prefectural governor's mansion.

"Who are you? Are you planning a rebellion by doing this now? When the Shu soldiers outside the city retreat, you will all be dead without a burial place! If you retreat now, I will make sure nothing happens. Don't make the mistake!"

Zheng Xu shouted down from the top of the wall, but unfortunately the mob seemed not to hear him.

Zheng Xu observed carefully and almost got angry. These people were not a mob, but servants of the powerful families in the city. How dare they act like this today?

After a while, the servants outside seemed to have received some instructions and began to attack the prefect's mansion fiercely. Zheng Xu had no choice but to command the guards to fight to the death.

Unfortunately, after a while, the prefectural mansion, which had little defense, was breached by these servants, and Zheng Xu was captured alive in the melee of resistance and tied to the ground.

"Sir Zheng, long time no see."

Several local tyrants came up to Zheng Xu with a smile and greeted him, which made Zheng Xu so angry that he started cursing.

"Damn it, you old dogs, why are you still trying to mess up yourselves at this time? Do you think the Shu army will let you go if you open the city?"

"Oh my... You are too kind, Lord Zheng. If it was just General Zhang, we would have our concerns, but we have others to help us."

A middle-aged man twirled his beard with a profound smile.

"Anyone else recommended it?"

Zheng Xu didn't understand, but soon someone answered his question.

"Shameless Wu Gou, do you still recognize me?"

A middle-aged man in his fifties walked out from the crowd behind these powerful men, and Zheng Xu couldn't help but gasp. "Why is it you! Didn't you escape back to Shu?! How could you be here!"

Zheng Xu naturally knew the man in front of him, but he had ordered people to search for him for a long time but there was no news. The final news he got was that the man took advantage of the chaos to escape back to Shu, so Zheng Xu gave up.

"Haha, I did have this intention originally, but when I heard that Your Majesty was determined to march east, and General Zhang Fei was going to attack Wuling County from the east of Fuling County, I hid in Wuling City just to be able to open the city and offer my victory to the Han army like I am doing now."

This man stood in front of Zheng Xu, with a cold look in his eyes.

"Taiwan Governor, please tell me what to do with this dog."

The head of the family standing by also asked the middle-aged man.

"Behead them and go to the tower to ask for surrender. The people on the tower are good men from Wuling. Why would they work for Wu Gou? If there are any officers from Wu Gou, just kill them directly and open the city gate to welcome General Zhang into the city."

The middle-aged man flicked his sleeves and went towards the city wall with the family heads.

"Father! Father! Wake up!"

Zhang Fei was sleeping with his eyes open in the tent when Zhang Bao suddenly rushed in. After all, he was Zhang Fei's son, and even the reinforced guards did not dare to stop him.

"Huh... uh... you kid, why are you making noises in the middle of the night?"

Zhang Fei was woken up by Zhang Bao. He looked at his son with some dissatisfaction, wondering why his son was not sleeping in the middle of the night.

"Father, my dear father, there is chaos in Wuling City, and it seems that there is an internal conflict!"

Zhang Bao anxiously pulled Zhang Fei out of the tent to see.

"What? Internal strife?"

Zhang Fei was confused for a moment. Why did the city start to fight for no reason? So he and Zhang Bao went outside the tent and looked in the direction of Wuling City.

At this time, Wuling City seemed to be filled with flickering fires and bustling noises, but it did not look safe. Zhang Fei was unsure of the situation and could only ask his soldiers to be on guard to prevent the Wu army from making a feint to the east and attacking in the west.

There was turmoil in the city for half an hour, and then with a clang, the city gate slowly opened.

"???"

Zhang Fei and Zhang Bao had already put on their armor, but they were still confused by the situation. The green Wu army flag on the top of the city was also lowered and replaced with the orange-yellow Han army flag.

"General, long time no see! Wuling City has returned to the rule of our Han Dynasty! Please come into the city and have a chat!"

A voice came from the city. Zhang Fei looked up and saw that it was the middle-aged man from before. He was overjoyed and asked Zhang Bao to pass the order for the entire army to enter the city immediately.

"Father, who is that? Do you seem to know him?"

Zhang Bao sat on his horse and walked slowly towards the city with Zhang Fei, asking in a low voice.

"Haha, silly boy, of course I know him."

Zhang Fei chuckled.

"Then this is...?"

Zhang Bao asked.

"The governor of Wuling, Gong Zhi."

(End of this chapter)