Chapter 168: Parting Ways

"Gong Jin, Meng De, take care-" Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, and Zhang Zhao sent Zhou Yu and Cao Cao out of the west gate of Yangzhou City, and several people stood together with their fists to say goodbye to each other. Cao Cao has been very emotional in the past few days, Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao's debauchery and uninhibition can always speak amazingly, and his knowledge is really extraordinary. Cheng Yu and Cheng Zhongde are serious-looking, but they are very proficient in criminal laws and regulations; Zhang Zhao and Zhang Zibu looked at the appearance of a scholar in his clothes, but he had the arrogance of a scholar, and his insights on internal affairs also made Cao Cao secretly admire. Cao Cao is also a resourceful person who reads poetry and books through the past and the present, and the four of them talk about the internal and external troubles of the imperial court from the south and the north to the internal and external troubles of the court, and they all have a feeling of seeing each other and hating each other. Historically, Cao Cao was very good at recruiting talents, but if these three people hadn't met Zhou Yu, they would probably have followed Cao Cao immediately, but they had been convinced by Zhou Yu and would not disappoint Zhou Yu no matter what.

For Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, Zhang Zhao and Cao Cao's frequent contact, Zhou Yu also raised his heart to his throat, but he did not show any dissatisfaction, but indulged them to ignore them, and took Zhou An and Dian Wei to the barracks every day to see the training results of the recruits. As long as the drums of war are beating and moving forward, even if there is a cliff in front of you, you must rush over, but when the gong sounds, even if there are thousands of treasures in front of you, you must quickly retreat, otherwise it will be a military execution. At the beginning, there will be a lot of people who are not used to it, but as long as they become accustomed to it over time, they will be able to burst into strong combat power.

In response to Zhou Yu's training methods, Cao Cao, including his subordinates Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xiahou Xuan, and Xiahou Yuan, all sneered, they all thought that soldiers could go to the battlefield without practicing formations and fighting, and Zhou Yu just smiled slightly at their doubts, since they couldn't understand it, they didn't have to bother to explain to them, only in actual combat would he prove that he was right. Cao Cao's subordinates have such an attitude, but Zhou Yu's leading generals Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, and Huang Zhong don't ask Zhou Yu why they did this, they understand that the military order is like a mountain, and Zhou Yu will not let them do these meaningless things, Zhou Yu is still quite satisfied with this, only the generals under his command have no resistance to better urge the soldiers to train.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Yangzhou will be entrusted to you! Get on the horse and set off-" Zhou Yu looked at the sun and no longer greeted Guo Jia and them, flew on the horse and rode with Cao Cao to catch up with Gonggong Li and them, who had already begun to hurry. Originally, Zhou Yu was going to take a team of people to Luoyang alone, but I don't know how this matter reached the ears of Cao Cao and Gonggong Li, and they said that they had to wait for Zhou Yu to go on the road together. When they came, in order to avoid encountering the Yellow Turban Army, Cao Cao and they chose to go south after leaving Luoyang, bypassing Yuzhou and Wancheng into Jingzhou, and recruiting Cai Mao's navy in Jiangxia County to escort them across the river to Changsha County, so that they changed to fast horses and drove directly to Yangzhou City along the road. This time, they went north to Luoyang with Zhou Yu, and they themselves brought more than 200 Yulin troops, and the rest of Zhou Yu also brought about 200 guards and a few wooden boxes with human heads. Since Yangzhou was Zhou Yu's territory, he decided to send someone to inform Gan Ning to stop the ship on the coast of Chibi to pick them up, and then send them across the river to Jiangxia County. In this way, it can save a lot of time than detouring Changsha County.

"Gonggong Li, Brother Meng De - it only takes two days to go to Chibi, along the way I have ordered the post station to prepare accommodation, food and grass, but there is one thing I want to discuss with you, from Chibi to Jiangxia County after landing, bypassing Xuchang and Nanyang County can go directly to Luoyang, and the Yellow Turban thieves on the way are also the weakest place. Now in Yuzhou, Zhang Mancheng's thief army is the most powerful, and the thieves under his command have swept most of Yuzhou, I am really a little worried about the safety of the old father at home, and I want to take this opportunity to go back to Lujiang County when I go to Luoyang, and when I see that the old father is safe, I will go north to Luoyang to see Your Majesty. I don't know what you think? Zhou Yu walked halfway and suddenly remembered Zhou Xian and his mother who were still in Lujiang County, as well as his grandfather and little sister who had never met, and he should go to see them by the way. It has been more than half a year since he came to Yangzhou, and he has not returned to his hometown, and now Zhang Mancheng and the Yellow Turban Army led by Bo Cai have recently had the intention of going south to invade Lujiang County, and he is a little worried about his relatives at home, and he came to this world to be really good to him is Zhou Xian and his wife and his personal little follower Zhou An, although his grandfather and little sister have never met, but from the last time he wrote to his grandfather to persuade his father Zhou Xian to resign and return to his hometown, the old man also has a unique insight to see his father Zhou Xian's embarrassing position in the court, Rather than meeting the source every day, it is better to let the tripartite forces fight on their own, so that Zhou Yu can use a trick to get out of Luoyang, and it is logical to run out of Luoyang to develop his own forces, and now his civil and military team has become a must, and he only needs to absorb some more talented people to stabilize the situation in Yangzhou, and once the world changes, he can directly send troops to the north. Although he did not occupy the important land in the Central Plains, he may not have the possibility of competing for the world.

"Lord Zhou, the Yellow Turban thieves are powerful, and now you have the festival given by His Majesty himself to lead your troops across the border to exterminate the thieves. Why bother to risk yourself and humiliate your noble body. It's better to send an army to go or repair a letter to the family members of the county guard of Lujiang County to protect the adults at this moment, and our family can also help! Returning to Luoyang to offer good news is a first-class event, if Lord Zhou delays the time and is taken by some other party members, it will be more than worth the loss. Our suggestion is to go to Luoyang together! "Father-in-law Li finally saw Zhou Yu's generous shot in Yangzhou, what delicacies and seafoods, a lot of paus, and also found himself some acrobatic juggling to relieve his boredom, the most important thing is that three of the ten big wooden boxes behind him are himself, and the others are filial piety to the ancestors Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, and he naturally smiled all the way with his own pockets. The main thing is that Zhou Yu killed four Yellow Turban Qu Shuai in Yangzhou in one fell swoop, and three of them are also famous thieves in Luoyang City, he can not only get a heavy reward when he goes back, but also take advantage of Zhou Yu's east wind to rise a few levels, how could he let Zhou Yu leave at this juncture.

"Gongjin, I agree with Gonggong Li's opinion, you might as well send a man to pick up Lingzun Lingtang to Yangzhou, and go north to Luoyang to offer victory." Cao Cao didn't want to let this first merit slip away from him like this, he was now a messenger of the imperial court, and he still had some weight in his words, and after returning to Luoyang, he was just a captain, and no one wanted to miss the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune.

"Hmph-two people are really cold-hearted, Eunuch Li doesn't need to say it, which one of them can cut off his lifeline and sell himself into the palace is not ruthless, in their eyes, there is only profit. He didn't expect Cao Cao to be like history, after hearing that his father Cao Song was killed in Xuzhou, he was not sad but happy, and he finally had an excuse to attack Tao Qian and take Xuzhou, the land of four wars. It seems that I really can't go with them, it's time to separate! Zhou Yu secretly shook his head in his heart, if you can put your relatives at risk for your own promotion and wealth, what can you do if you are the ruler of the world?

"Gonggong Li, Meng De, there is still a distance from Chibi now, let me think about it again!"

Having said that, Zhou Yu was not good at refusing directly, he wanted to repair a letter back to Yangzhou and send Zhang Zhao to Luoyang for him to offer victory first, he should be better than himself in this regard, and then he rushed to Luoyang to meet Zhang Zhao, and he immediately sent someone back to Yangzhou to invite Zhang Zhao to come. And he himself has already come up with a brilliant idea, which is to play the golden cicada shell again.