Chapter 257: The Pursuit (2)

"Gong Jin - did you send the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang to pursue Zhang Jiao? How can such a great achievement be given to them? Zhou Yu sent to the valley to pick up Zhang Zhao and Yu Ruyi back, Yu Ruyi went down to find a room to freshen up, and Zhang Zhao said to Zhou Yu with an anxious face.

"Brother Zibu, why are you in a hurry, sit down and say-" Zhou Yu smiled and waved his hand to signal Zhang Zhao to sit down, Dian Wei personally stationed the prisoner camp and began to select and reorganize the army, while Zhou An led the army to garrison the city gate, and Zhou Yu also sent out one hundred guards around him to do one thing, and only he and Zhang Zhao were left in the county office.

"In the past few days, I have found that Liu Bei is not a simple person, he has repeatedly asked for war and wants to make meritorious contributions, which shows that he has a plan. After learning from his brother-in-law what King Jing of Zhongshan was, he was the same generation as the current Son of Heaven according to his seniority, but he was already a down-and-out nobleman, but he kept saying that he wanted to revitalize the Han Dynasty, if he didn't want to assist him as today's son, then he was seeking to win the world. Zhang Jiao's rebellion is a gimmick, he wanted to climb up with Lu Zhi's line at the beginning, Lu Zhi went to prison to ask for the crime and had to pin his hopes on you, and now who can destroy Zhang Jiao will receive the biggest reward after returning to Beijing. I don't understand that you are so relieved? Looking at Ezhou and the slow appearance, Zhang Zhao, a scholar who sat firmly in Diaoyutai, felt that he couldn't sit still.

"The world of the Han Dynasty is the world of the people of the world, Liu Bei wants to serve the imperial court, we should give him such an opportunity, now even if he sweeps all the Yellow Turban Army and captures Zhang Jiao alive, we will have a share of the credit, you forget that the soldiers and horses he brought are the Yulin Army. Now we should not worry about whether Liu Bei can catch Zhang Jiao, but how to protect ourselves, and now we are on the cusp. I'd like to hear what we do next. Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao won't speak too explicitly, after all, it is still the world of the Han Dynasty, and he still can't have the idea of not being a minister, at least not now.

"Oh? You are referring to your current situation, let me think about it - when I was in Luoyang before, I also felt that I was a little in the limelight, but with His Majesty's support for you, even if it is Yuan Feng and Wang Yun, who are the third dukes, they have to avoid the edge for the time being, in the eyes of outsiders, this is a good phenomenon, I personally think that in the future, you will become the focus of Yuan Feng and Wang Yun, and the general He Jin and the eunuchs will never do anything that has no interests, in fact, your power in the court is really vulnerable. Shouldn't you continue to make meritorious contributions now? Zhang Zhao could only see that Zhou Yu had offended a lot of people, and he didn't understand Zhou Yu's timing.

"Alas-it doesn't matter if you offend the Yuan family and Wang Yun, have you heard of the four words? Is it a bird that hides the bow and hides it? His Majesty has given me enough for the first victory in Yangzhou, and today my 5,000-year-old Lin army broke through the 150,000-strong army of Zhangjiao, and once the battle report returns, it will definitely cause an uproar. Even His Majesty's heart will be uncomfortable, one is that I am too young, and the other is that I am too powerful in commanding the war, just these two can make the three major forces work together to deal with me, once I grow up, I will become a figure that they are afraid of, which is why from ancient times to the present, it is a military general who fights the world and the official sits in the world, which is also the so-called trade-off technique. The Yuan family and the Wang family should not underestimate them, these people have a deep-rooted and complicated relationship, they can be both prosperous and lossy, but it is unlikely that they want to rebel, and military power is not something they can easily obtain. Zhou Yu whispered to Zhang Zhao about this, Zhang Zhao will also be a member of his own small group in the future, some things must be seen thoroughly, there is nothing wrong with being loyal to the Han, the key is to ensure his own safety.

"The birds are good and the bows are hidden, and the cunning rabbits are dead and the lackeys are cooking-" Zhang Zhao bowed his head and said nothing, what Zhou Yu said did have a huge shock in his heart, and indeed the credibility of what Zhou Yu said made him believe it, the trip to Luoyang made him see not the unity of the Han Dynasty, but for the sake of grandstanding and not hesitating to do despicable things, but a small victory is like this, once Zhou Yu is lucky enough to kill Zhang Jiao, then it will really be such a day, that is, the master of high merit will die without a corpse.

Zhou Yu didn't interrupt Zhang Zhao's thinking, no matter how down-and-out the Han Dynasty was, it didn't make everyone feel disobedient, some words needed to be digested, but now he was worried about whether something would happen to Liu, Guan, and Zhang, although he thought that Zhang Jiao was a magic stick, but he also had a certain ability, otherwise how could he lead so many large armies, he had some bad premonitions hovering in his heart.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led 3,000 men and horses to chase a distance of about fifty miles along the traces left by Zhang Jiao's men and horses, but this place suddenly lost the trace of the Yellow Turban Army. Guan Yu saw that the forests on both sides of the road here were high and dense, and the art of war was cloudy and poor, and Guan Yu knew a little bit about the truth of Lin Mo entering, so he stretched out his hand and waved to slow down the rear team.

"Second brother-let's hurry up! Don't let Zhang Jiao, the old boy, run away, his head is worth a lot of money, and the eldest brother often tells us that he can't chop Zhang Jiao with his own hands, that is, he set off a war without authorization to make the people of the world miserable. Zhang Fei was a little puzzled why Guan Yu suddenly stopped the team.

"The whole army is on alert - Yide carefully pay attention to both sides of the road, we chased all night, and saw a lot of flags of the Yellow Turban Army scattered all over the place, why did they get to the stab but there was nothing? There are people in the woods and grasses, so it's better for us to be careful! Guan Yu ordered the Han army behind him to advance cautiously, although he didn't believe that the Yellow Turban Army had such courage to dare to ambush him, but Zhang Jiao would have a lot of spells, which made him a little scared in his heart, after all, he was a famous man, and it was rumored that Zhang Jiao was a fairy-like figure, and they were lucky enough to defeat Zhang Jiao because all the soldiers under Zhang Jiao were ordinary people who had just stopped farming. Whether in terms of military quality or combat effectiveness, it is indeed not a little worse than the Han Yulin Army, last night's Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were able to defeat Zhou Cang and Liu Bi's 10,000 army with 4,000 men and horses, it is just a coincidence, if it weren't for Zhang Fei's whim to take the lead in stabbing Liu Bi to death so that his army was not commanded, and Zhou Cang was stunned by Guan Yu before he could fight much, this tactic is the routine of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and now you should be careful or be careful.

After walking for about half an hour, he didn't see anyone coming out, Guan Yu hung in the middle of the hollow and began to land, but the scouts he sent out found that there was a group of Yellow Turban troops going up the mountain three miles ahead, and some of them seemed to be carrying the banner of "Tiangong General Zhang".

Zhang Fei, who heard the news, suddenly couldn't hold back, he said loudly: "Second brother, let's talk like this, Zhang Jiaoke is about to go up the mountain, once we go up the mountain, we want to attack it, but we are bound to ascend to the sky, otherwise I will first lead a team of men and horses to attack the enemy formation and drag it, how about you bring people to come later?" Even if I am ambushed, you can rescue in time - we can't just watch Zhang Jiao run away, right? ”

Guan Yu listened to Zhang Fei's words and felt that it was very reasonable, how could he be rich and noble if he didn't go to Bo? Zhang Fei rushed forward quickly with a thousand men and horses, Guan Yu also temporarily let go of all his vigilance and moved forward at full speed, no one found the yellow hidden in the place covered by emerald green, Zhang Jiao is not a person who can easily suffer losses, Dong Zhuo, who is as cunning as a jackal, has returned, how can he not leave behind him when he fled in a hurry last night.