Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 68
Silence, deathly silence.

It was just over a year since the battle with Yuan Shu, and everyone in Cao Jun still remembered the majestic little overlord of Jiangdong, but they didn't expect that he had turned into a dead soul on the battlefield today. "Zhao Feng, it's Zhao Feng again, I didn't expect that even Sun Ce fell into his hands!" Cao Cao sighed.

"Sun Ce is extremely strong and must be broken, so it is not surprising that he will end up like this!" Guo Jia said slowly, and then said: "It's just that, Liu Bei has the three counties of Qingzhou in front of him, and he has no worries about Jiangdong in the future, so he can concentrate on it. Development, just sit and watch me and Yuan Shao fight fiercely."

"Exactly, Fengxiao, what can I do?" Cao Cao was also a little uncomfortable with Liu Bei sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, so he asked quickly.

"My lord, in Jia's opinion, we can use the old plan of driving away tigers and wolves to cause Liu Bei some more trouble!" Guo Jia laughed, and then said slowly.

"That's enough?" Cao Cao felt a little unbelievable after hearing Guo Jia's words. Could this simple trick be able to trip Liu Bei?
"My lord, in this situation, Jiangdong is in chaos, and we are busy dealing with Yuan Shao. These are the only ones who can temporarily slow Liu Bei!" Guo Jia also had a bit of helplessness in his words.
"Since this is the case, we can only do this first, and I will ask Your Majesty to issue an order later!" Cao Cao specifically said the word "please" rather emphatically, but everyone knew that this was definitely not out of respect.

"At present, our army still needs to guard the important points of Guandu. Gongming, you will lead an army of [-] to garrison Yanjin, Wen Qian will assist you; Zixiao, you will lead an army of [-] to garrison Baima, and Man Cheng will assist you. The rest of the generals will follow me. Send troops to Guandu!" Cao Cao has always acted vigorously, leaving Xu Huang and others to garrison Baima and Yanjin, and led the army to Guandu that night, while Xia Houyuan led his troops to build a position at Guandu first.

"Miaocaiguo has the talent of a general!" When Cao Cao's army rushed to Guandu the next evening, they saw that Xiahouyuan had already led his troops to set up a camp. Xiahouyuan even ordered people to dig earth and build a city. scale.Although it is small, its defense is much better than that of the camp.With two cities and one camp, the situation of cornering has been formed.

Cao Cao led 7 people to wait in Guandu for half a month before Yuan Shao's army arrived.During this period, Cao Cao's position has been quite complete. "Hmph!" Yuan Shao in the camp patted the table in front of him bitterly, feeling really upset.Not only because Cao Cao on the opposite side had seized the favorable position, but also because the clever strategy he thought failed to work.

"It's all you rotten Confucians who always talk about slowing down the war and slowing down the war, but now Cao Cao has seized the opportunity!" Yuan Shao suddenly found a suitable scapegoat, and the current anger was directed at Tian Feng and Jushou.Although the two were silent, Guo Tu and the others did not dare to add insult to injury.Although Tian Feng and Jushou were not liked by Yuan Shao, they were upright and upright, and most of them were respected by the generals. Guo Tu and others did not dare to be too rude to them!
Yuan Shao lost his temper for a while, then suddenly remembered something, and quickly asked, "How is Shang'er in Qingzhou?"

"The third son is stationed in Le'an, and General Zhang Jaw is stationed in Linzi, so Zhang Fei doesn't dare to commit any crimes for the time being!" The examiner at the side reported back.After a little hesitation, the judge said again: "It is said that General Gao Lan has surrendered to Liu Bei after he was captured!"

"What?" Yuan Shao screamed like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and Yan Liang and Wen Chou in the tent were also stunned. They didn't expect someone to surrender in Hebei Sitingzhu!

"Pass my order to kill Gao Lan's family! Also, tell Zhang Jaw that if he loses Linzi again, he will not come back!" Yuan Shao angrily issued two orders in succession.Everyone in the tent was shocked, and quickly persuaded Yuan Shao to agree to temporarily save Gao Lan's family from death, but sent him to prison instead.

"Ma'am, it's really hard work this time!" In Xuzhou City, Zhao Feng took Zhen Jiang's hand and smiled, and then whispered in her ear: "My husband will reward you well tonight!"

"I hate it!" After hearing the last sentence, Zhen Jiang's face turned red immediately, and he waved his hand to hit him, but Zhao Feng took the opportunity to grab Yu's hand, and didn't let go until he saw someone coming.

"Report to General, General Gao's family has been settled properly!" The visitor reported. "Understood, you go down!" Zhao Feng waved his hand to signal the soldier to go down, then turned his head and sighed to Zhen Jiang: "Madam, if I didn't use the Zhen family's caravan this time, I'm afraid I would have picked up Gao Lan from under Yuan Shao's nose." The general’s family members really need to go through a lot of trouble.” After Gao Lan surrendered that day, Liu Bei agreed to help him bring the family members over, so Zhao Feng thought of the Zhen family’s caravan, so he asked Zhen Jiang to help with the matter.Sure enough, Zhen Jiang lived up to his expectations and completed it smoothly.

"Hey, since my husband has an invitation, how can I refuse?" Zhen Jiang smiled and pulled Zhao Feng's arm and said.Since the two got married, Zhen Jiang has regained her childish look. In fact, she is only 19 years old this year, but she has been involved in the family business early, so she is relatively young and mature.Now following Zhao Feng, the pervert, he has been fascinated by it for a long time, and has become less and less reserved.

Zhao Feng was about to tease his wife a few more words, when suddenly an untimely soldier came to report: "General Zhao, my lord has something urgent to discuss with you!"

"What are you so anxious about?" Zhao Feng slandered in his heart, but still hurriedly followed the visitor to see Liu Bei. "My lord, what's the matter?" Zhao Feng saw that almost all of Xuzhou's high-level officials were here, and knew that there was another big problem this time.

"Bo Tao, Cao Cao made you an official again!" Liu Bei smiled, and at the same time handed a letter to Zhao Feng, who took a look and appointed him as Nanyang prefect and Marquis of Guan Nei. "Not bad, old man Cao Cao gave up my Runan prefect to General Wenpin last time. He was not satisfied, so he gave me back a Nanyang prefect and another Guanneihou!" Zhao Feng commented solemnly.When everyone in Xuzhou heard this, they roared with laughter.

"My lord, this is clearly Cao Cao's killing with a knife. He wants us to start a war with Liu Biao of Jingzhou! The current Nanyang prefect is Cai Mao, Liu Biao's brother-in-law. How can Liu Biao let General Zhao replace him?" Sun Qian stopped laughing and hurriedly said.

"This statement is true, Cao Cao is afraid that I will just wait around, and I don't know what Bo Tao is going to do?" Liu Bei looked at Zhao Feng with a smile and asked, he knew that Zhao Feng had quite a lot of tricks in this matter, so he definitely didn't need to worry about it.

Zhao Feng laughed along with the crowd, and suddenly a bold idea popped up in his mind. He was taken aback when the idea first came out, but after careful consideration, it was still feasible.Liu Bei and the others saw his unpredictable expression, they knew Zhao Feng's character well, they knew he was thinking about something, so they didn't bother him at the moment, they just looked at what he was thinking.

After a long while, Zhao Feng let out a long breath, and slowly said to Liu Bei: "My lord, Feng thought of a method, I don't know if it is feasible, but I ask my lord to decide!"

"Listen to Bo Tao!" Hearing the words, Liu Bei immediately felt that there was something to be said, and quickly motioned to Zhao Feng, but said it was okay.Zhao Feng nodded, and slowly explained the truth, Liu Bei and others became more and more astonished the more they heard it, they all felt it was unbelievable.But after careful consideration, it seems feasible.

"That's enough?" Liu Bei listened to Zhao Feng's plan, thought it over carefully, and felt that there was no problem.

"It's not the time right now, we need to wait for Zijing's navy to practice for a while. In addition, Boyan's warship needs to be further improved." Zhao Feng thought for a while and said.At present, the warship built by Lu Xun is beginning to take shape, but Zhao Feng did not agree with his suggestion of building a large-scale ship.There is no other reason, it is because that thing is a bit fancy but not useful.Zhao Feng remembered that in history Dong Xi, a general of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, died of drowning because his boat was washed away by wind and waves in Dongting Lake. That would be even more idiotic.

"Since that's the case, let's wait for a while. Anyway, Cao Mengde and Yuan Benchu ​​are waiting, and I, Liu Xuande, are waiting even more!" Liu Bei was also very patient, and everyone laughed when they heard this.

Compared with everyone in Xuzhou, where Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were facing each other, the atmosphere in Jiangdong at this time can only be described as chilling. "Zhao Feng, Zhang Liao, I swear to kill you!" In front of Sun Ce's coffin, Zhou Yu, who was dressed in plain clothes, was not at all as elegant as before, and his eyes were red with tears.

After learning of the cause of Sun Ce's death, the entire Jiangdong had long regarded Zhao Feng and Zhang Liao as their greatest enemies.As for Zang Ba, sorry, his reputation seems to be a little too low to be ignored.I don't know whether Zang Ba should cry or laugh after he understands the reason.

"The lord left a will before he died, and asked Zhongmou to succeed Jiangdong." Cheng Puyan, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying, said, and Huang Gai behind him also nodded silently.

"How can Quan have virtue? How can he take on such a heavy responsibility!" Sun Quan also said with tears in his eyes, choking on his sobs.Cheng Pu looked at this 18-year-old boy, feeling a little uncertain, but remembering what Sun Ce said before he died, he looked at the old man Huang Gai who was beside him, and seeing that he also nodded, he gritted his teeth and said, "My lord is dying. Tell me a few words before, he said that as long as this is done, Jiangdong can be firmly established!"

"Brother, what did you say?" Sun Quan asked with a sob.

"Ask Zhang Zhao if you don't know about internal affairs, and ask Zhou Lang if you don't decide about external affairs!" Cheng Pu paused every word, and almost spit out these fourteen words.Everyone in the mourning hall was stunned when they heard the words. Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao glanced at each other, and they both saw the same determination in each other's eyes: a scholar should die for his confidant.

"Quan'er, since your elder brother said so, you should quickly take on this heavy burden!" Just as Sun Quan was still shocked by Sun Ce's last words, a middle-aged woman walked in from the door. "Mother!" Sun Quan didn't say anything more. He saw that although his mother was crying, she was still holding the Yangzhou animal husbandry card seal in her hand.

In the fourth year of Jian'an, 199 A.D., Sun Ce died in Shouchun. His younger brother Sun Quan was only 18 years old.

(End of this chapter)