The Necromancer of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 59
Taiyuan is located in the middle of Bingzhou, and the army needs to go through Shangdang and cross the Taihang Mountains when it goes to Xudu.

Guo Jia, Xiahou Dun, and Xu Huang led [-] troops and deployed defenses at Tianjing Pass early.

Yuan Xu led five thousand newly recruited soldiers and horses, two days later than them.

Tianjing Pass, also known as Xiongding Pass, is the only way from Bingzhou to Yuzhou.

Seeing the pass from a distance, Yuan Xu stopped on his horse.

Gan Ning stepped forward: "My lord, I am willing to lead the army to conquer the pass."

Yuan Xu looked back at the soldiers: "The army is all new recruits, and they will attack Xiongguan for the first time in battle, and they will be afraid of the battlefield in the future."

"But the pass is here, so we have to fight." Gan Ning said, "Can't you expect Cao Jun to offer the pass?"

"Don't worry about Xingba, I have a solution." Yuan Xu told the guards: "Put the case on the table, I want to play the piano here."

Yuan Xu didn't consider winning the pass, but proposed to play the piano here, Gan Ning was deeply puzzled by this.

He was about to ask a question when he noticed Pang Tong winking.

Swallowing back the words that came to his lips, Gan Ning watched the guards bring up the table and place it facing the gate.

Yuan Xu looked up at the sky.

Although it is already afternoon, there is still some time before dark.

Instead of putting on a ghost qin, he asked the guards to fetch an ordinary guqin and put it on the table.

Sitting at the table, he lightly tuned the strings, and a piece of music that Pang Tong and Gan Ning had never heard before played leisurely.

The tune is soft, like the blue sky and flowing clouds, like the clear springs in the mountains.

Those who play concentrate on it, and those who listen are fascinated.

Although the sound of the piano was beautiful, Gan Ning didn't have much interest in appreciating it.

He asked Pang Tong in a low voice, "What are you doing, my lord?"

"I heard from Tian Yuanhao that every time you play the music, dead bodies will come to help you." Pang Tong replied, "Maybe he is driving the dead bodies."

Looking around, Gan Ning didn't find anything unusual.

Looking at Yuan Xu who was still playing the piano, he looked blank.

At the gate of Tianjing Pass, Cao Cao's fierce general Xu Huang is guarding the pass.

Seeing Yuan Xu leading the army coming, he has already ordered the soldiers to die.

Cao Jun was ready to fight, but Yuan Xu didn't order to attack. Instead, he played the guqin outside the pass.

In addition to Xu Huang, two lieutenants are also closing.

One of them is named Zhao Shu, and the other is named Li Zou.

They used to be Lu Bu's generals, but they were captured by Xu Huang and transferred to Cao Cao's command.

Listening to the sound of the qin coming from outside the pass, Li Zou looked disdainful: "I thought Yuan Xianxin was so great. The army has already arrived outside the pass. It's fine if you don't send troops to take the pass. He actually played the piano for us."

"Don't underestimate Yuan Xianxin." Zhao Shu reminded: "I heard that he drove the dead bodies through the sound of the piano."

Xu Huang gave the two of them a cold look.

He didn't say anything, his face was full of dignity.

Among Cao Cao's generals, Xu Huang is considered calm.

If he didn't figure out why Yuan Xu played the piano, he would never take it lightly.

"General." Zhao Shu reminded: "I think we should pay attention to the surrounding area and beware of Yuan Xianxin driving dead bodies to seize the pass."

Xu Huang nodded: "Tell the soldiers, get ready for boiling oil and rockets. Once Yuan Xianxin wins the pass, no matter whether it's dead or alive, come out."

Zhao Shu took the order and told the soldiers to pay attention to the surrounding conditions.

Yuan Xu played the piano all afternoon.

He was so focused on playing that neither Pang Tong nor Gan Ning stepped forward to disturb him.

It's just that when Gan Ning was listening to the sound of the piano, his face was full of anxiety.

After dusk, when night fell, Yuan Xu finally stopped.

He told the guards: "Take the qin away."

The guard stepped forward and removed the guqin from the table.

Yuan Xu personally fetched the ghost piano and placed it on the table.

"My lord has been playing the piano all afternoon." Gan Ning asked while he was not playing the piano, "Do you want to change the piano and continue?"

"It's not this piano that was played in the afternoon." Yuan Xu replied, "The real big scene is just beginning."

Not knowing the meaning of playing the piano before the battle, Gan Ning looked confused.

Also confused were Xu Huang and others who were guarding the gate.

There was no abnormality, Zhao Shu was full of doubts: "I heard that Yuan Xianxin played the piano, and he would invite dead bodies to help him. But the whole afternoon passed, and there was no dead body. Could it be that what we heard is just rumors?"

"General Cao Ren and I have always had a good relationship." Xu Huang said, "I know exactly what kind of person he is. If Yuan Xianxin didn't have that ability, Cao Zixiao would never say anything carelessly."

"But we waited and watched the whole afternoon, and we did not see a dead body." Li Zou also said, "Perhaps Yuan Xianxin was able to drive dead bodies back then, but today he can't use his skills."

Xu Huang didn't say anything.

He never believed that Yuan Xu had abilities but could not display them.

"It seems that I can sleep well tonight." Li Zou didn't take Yuan Xu seriously from the beginning.

"Although he just played the piano for the whole afternoon, we can't relax too much." Xu Huang said: "You two take turns to watch the night, and beware of Yuan Xianxin taking the pass."

Zhao Shu agreed straightforwardly, but Li Zou acted a little loose.

Yuan Xu outside the pass put the ghost qin on the table and played the same tune as in the daytime.

At first Pang Tong and Gan Ning didn't pay much attention.

Halfway through the song, the two felt a chill penetrate deep into the bone marrow, as if falling into an ice cave, so cold that people couldn't help shivering.

On a quiet night, the sound of the piano spreads farther.

At the gate, Xu Huang had already gone to sleep, and Zhao Shu, who was left on duty, faintly felt that something was wrong, so he called Li Zou: "General Li, come and listen..."

"Isn't it just that piece of music, what's so good about it?" Li Zou muttered reluctantly: "If he plays it all night, will it be difficult for us to stay up all night?"

"You don't feel any different?" Zhao Shu asked.

"What's the difference?" Li Zou said indifferently, "Yuan Xianxin wants us to scare ourselves, just ignore him."

Unable to convince him, Zhao Shu had no choice but to order the soldiers to step up their guard.

Outside the pass, Yuan Xu was stroking the ghost piano intently, and streams of black energy gushed out from his body, circling around his body.

Seeing this scene, both Pang Tong and Gan Ning opened their mouths slightly in surprise.

The two were puzzled, but they didn't dare to ask questions, for fear of disturbing his playing the piano.

The thousands of soldiers who set off saw that there were not many black air lingering around Yuan Xu, but they also felt the strange atmosphere in the sound of the piano.

There was a rustling sound from the forest not far away.

The noise became more and more intense, as if countless people were gathering towards them.

Gan Ning clenched his weapon tightly and looked around vigilantly.

Under the night, he saw patches of black shadows appearing in all directions.

The black shadows did not approach them, but rushed towards the pass.

Gan Ning and Pang Tong looked at each other.

Both of them saw surprise in each other's eyes.

They had heard that Yuan Xu could drive dead bodies, but they didn't believe it at that time.

Now that I saw the dead body with my own eyes, I knew that everything was true.

(End of this chapter)