Chapter 24, the fright of the gate

Yuan Shu asked Xuan Jian and Zhang Lu to go to a small tent next to them for a private interview. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Zhang Lu is very strange, saying that I haven't learned divination, what are the results you have calculated, why do you want to discuss with me first?

Xuan Jian lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "That is, the hexagram theory, Yuan Highway has the Son of Heaven!"

It was quite shocking to say this, but Zhang Lu didn't care, and he didn't even shake the corners of his mouth - he already knew about it. In recent years, through continuous mental cultivation, his memory has become much stronger, and even many hidden pasts in the depths of his mind have been dug up one after another. If you want to say that he hasn't read much serious history books, it is impossible to make something out of nothing, but the related "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" (including TV series, comics and other derivative works), many details that were ignored before can now be recalled one or two.

Xuan Jian was quite surprised by Zhang Lu's reaction, and twisted his eyebrows and asked, "The earl knew about it earlier, and what did his commander occupy?" He didn't know that Zhang Lu was a human being at all, and he thought that Pei Xuanren had calculated this result and told Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu now made up the reason, and asked Xuan Jian rhetorically: "The so-called Son of Heaven, the one who is the one

Xuan Jian said blankly: "I don't know, I don't ......" The hexagram was not so detailed.

Zhang Lu said with a smile: "Today's chaos is sowed, there are many usurpers, I look at Yuan Highway Zhigao and talented, and it is also like this, so it is not strange that he is a different day and a fake Son of Heaven." "In this chaotic situation, pretending to be the Son of Heaven, I think Yuan Shu can do that kind of thing, so I don't think it's strange at all.

Xuan Jian sighed lightly and asked, "Then should you tell me?"

The two of them had been speaking in a low voice, but Zhang Lu suddenly raised his voice: "How can the will of heaven be unpredictable? Even if Yuan Highway is the Son of Heaven, it is not appropriate to say it!"

There are many words that don't need to be said explicitly, and a look can solve the problem. It's like Xuan Jian asked, "Then should you tell it?" In fact, what he meant was that he didn't intend to report the divination results to Yuan Shu. On the one hand, this may mislead Yuan Shu and increase his ambitions, maybe he had no intention of usurping his position, but in this way, it opened the road of no return - you are harming people!

On the other hand, if this matter spreads, Xuan Jian's reputation is not good, he knows that this is the will of heaven, he just told the truth, he didn't know, and thought that Xuan Jian deliberately instigated Yuan Shu to usurp the throne. Besides, there are some things that can't even be mentioned before they come to fruition, and Yuan Shu is likely to kill Xuan Jian because of this, to show that he is still a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty and has no intention of usurping.

In response to Xuan Jian's question, Zhang Lu's answer was: "How can the will of heaven be unpredictable? Even if Yuan Highway is combined into the Son of Heaven, it is not appropriate to say that he is in harmony!" He was originally a correct argument, but why did he deliberately raise his voice? Was he afraid that others would not be able to hear it? In fact, his senses were very keen, and he had already noticed that someone was eavesdropping outside the tent -- it should have been sent by Yuan Shu -- so he deliberately wanted to leak this matter.

His thoughts, Yuan Shu was originally ambitious, and sooner or later he would be arrogant, so there was no need for you to instigate it, so there was no need to think too much about him. Brother Xuan, you have to think more about yourself now, if you tell Yuan Shu bluntly, you may lose your reputation or lose your life, so it is categorically impossible. However, he made that kind of embarrassment just now, how are you going to explain it to Yuan Shu when you are done? Lie to him and say that it is actually nothing, but I am afraid that I have miscalculated, so I will discuss it with someone first? He is not stupid, he will definitely not believe it, then it is impossible to let you and me go.

Besides, I don't think you're a very good liar......

So it's better to be like this, insisting that the will of heaven must not be revealed, and not saying the result to his face, but deliberately letting Yuan Shu's henchmen eavesdrop on the result. In this way, it will be cleared up, even if Yuan Shu comes out to talk about it in the future, and the words are spread by the six ears, the big guys will think that it is more likely to be fabricated, otherwise it will be a fork. And when the henchman goes back to report to Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu will definitely be happy, and he will definitely not ask you again. If he forces you to say it yourself, or kills you, it will be more and more black, and it will be detrimental to his own reputation—he will not do it.

Xuan Jian is also a very clever person--cultivators who cultivate themselves and cultivate their minds, so they can't be too stupid and stupid--as soon as he saw Zhang Lu's mouth, he understood what he meant, and when he twisted his beard with his hands and groaned slightly, he soon understood Zhang Lu's good intentions. So he sighed lightly: "It's like the king's life." "Then do what you want.

The two of them returned to the big tent and said goodbye to Yuan Shu, and Xuan Jian said, although I have obtained some results from divination, but it is related to General Yuan's fortune and disgrace, and I know in advance that it is not beautiful, so I don't want to report it - I hope you can understand my suffering, this is all for your good.

Yuan Shu had already received the report of the secret agent, and he was proud in his heart, so he no longer pressed to ask, pretending to be very magnanimous, and said: "The will of heaven is unknowable, the mandate of heaven cannot be violated, how can I be vain about the will of heaven?" deliberately pointed out the word "mandate of heaven", which means: You don't have to say more, I understand, I understand......

Xuan Jian barely passed the test, and then left. Yuan Shu also pretended to be comforted: "There is no battle today, so I will rest for a while, and let me set up a banquet?"

He and Cao Cao fought for several days near Pingyu, but in fact, the scale of each battle was not large, and at most the troops of both sides were only a few thousand, but unfortunately more than seventy percent of the battles ended in failure. Seeing that the soldiers and horses from all walks of life are gradually gathered, they will definitely rest for two or three days, and then come to a general decisive battle. Yuan Shu pondered, if he could win, he could expel Cao Bing from the south of Yuzhou, and then he turned around and repelled Huang Zu, the general of Liu Biao's army on the Western Front, and from then on, his rule in Runan could not be said to be as stable as a rock, and he would be able to stabilize it for at least two or three more years.

What if (in fact, inevitably) the war is lost? Then we have to shrink to the south, cross the Huaishui and go to Yangzhou......

Therefore, I estimated that there would be no more war today, so I kept Xuan Jian and Zhang Lu, and said that when I set up a banquet, you will have eaten and sleep for one night, and then it will not be too late to leave. In fact, it was already afternoon Shen time, and according to the common habit of two meals a day at that time, you could eat dinner (dinner), and if you really wanted to keep customers, you should immediately order to go down and ask the kitchen to make a fire. However, Yuan Shu was just talking about it, and it seemed insincere.

Of course, Xuan Jian would not climb down the pole, so he took the opportunity to rub a meal and hurriedly excused himself. Yuan Shu pretended to be very upset, apologized repeatedly, and then ordered someone to summon Le to come, saying that you send two horses to send these two out of the camp.

Zhang Lu was secretly angry in his heart: What does it mean that you don't say that you will send us two horses, but let Le send two horses? After sending us a ride, you still plan to give the horses back? This person should have a limit to being stingy! ”

Yuan Shu asked, "What did you say?" Zhang Lu said: "Please take a break from drinking ****, it is not good for your body." "I'm going to cut off your sweets from today, and I'll be waiting until you're dead, and you won't be able to drink honey if you want!

Then the two of them followed Le out of the tent, and the soldiers brought three horses, Le was in front, Zhang and Xuan were behind, and they each walked through the whole camp. Zhang Lu was still pondering, how should I find a chance to get rid of this mount - anyway, I can't satisfy you Yuan Highway - but as soon as he looked up, he had already arrived at the gate of the Yuan. Le just bowed his hand and asked the two of them to get on the horse.

Scholars and doctors travel far away to send each other, it is customary to send out ten miles away - ten miles for the pavilion, generally the city gate ten miles away must build a post pavilion, send to the pavilion, toast goodbye, then even if the etiquette is complete, should go, should go back - so the meaning of the music is very clear, I was ordered to send horses to see you off, and then I will lead three horses back. There is a lack of horses in the army, and it's really not that my lord is stingy...... Well, he's stingy, but I can't admit it.

Xu and Zhang were holding the saddle bridge and were about to get on the horse, when they suddenly saw several horsemen coming slowly from outside the gate. At first, he was a young man, in his early twenties, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a slight beard under his chin, and he looked very energetic, he was in armor, but he was not wearing a helmet, his head was lowered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

So he didn't see Le, Le saw him first, and immediately bowed his hand and said, "General Sun." ”

Zhang Lu was slightly startled when he heard this, and said in his heart, who is this person? He is young and surnamed Sun, under the command of Yuan Shu, could it be that he is the "little overlord" Sun Ce......? Forget it, Liu Ti can't open his eyes and close my...... In short, although I can't see Cao Cao, if I can meet Sun Ce, it's not worth the trip!

So he naturally arched his hand, turned his head and asked Le: "......What is this?" You still don't want to introduce us to it? But his head had just turned around, and he was only halfway through the words, and Le hadn't reacted yet, when suddenly, Zhang Lu felt a sudden sound of wind on his side—some weapon was slashing at me!

He reacted quickly, took a wrong step backwards in time, and when he raised his eyes again, he saw that "General Sun" was holding a ring head long knife in his hand, and he was viciously slashing down. Zhang Lu dodged it, and the horse he was holding was in trouble, and he was being hit by the top door, and he neighed on the spot, and his four hooves were staggered, and he turned over and fell.

Everyone present was shocked. Perhaps because the knife slashed into the horse's head and got stuck in the horse's skull, General Sun didn't pull it out, so he simply abandoned the knife and took off the horse's lance from the saddle. Zhang Luxin said I don't know you, why do you want to kill me as soon as we meet? Before he drew his sword, he looked at the other party holding up the horse lance, and said in his heart that it was not good, how could I dare to touch the other party's head with my narrow iron sword?

In ancient times, before the army set up camp, it was often necessary to erect two horse-drawn carriages first, and the carriages were facing each other, as the gate, so it was called "Yuanmen". By this time, the traditional chariots had long since been obsolete—only the vehicles for carrying supplies remained—so the gate was only named, but it was customary to have a few halberds of honor next to the door to indicate that this was the gate, unlike other small gates. Zhang Lu took out this halberd, which was not much different from what he used when he was a lang official, and it also depicted colorful colors, carved dragons and phoenixes, but the honor guard in the army was different from the honor guard in the palace after all, the halberd rod was thicker, and the halberd head was larger, which could barely be used for battle arrays.

As soon as he put on the halberd, he immediately held his hands across his chest, just in time to block the lance that General Sun stabbed fiercely. When the two blades intersected, Zhang Lu felt that his wrist sank, and then ...... Nothing, then, he steadily stopped the incoming move. It's quite strange in my heart, and I said that if it was Xu Huang and Xu Gongming on the other side, just this moment, my two arms would be sore for a long time -- could it be that the ability of the "little overlord" was much worse than Xu Huang? No, can't it......

Either my skills are good again? Or the "little overlord" is only skilled in bowing and horses, but his strength is slightly inferior -- after all, he is still young, Xu Huangke is in his thirties, and he is definitely stronger than Sun Ce in terms of experience in facing the enemy.

As soon as he blocked the move, he honestly and unceremoniously flipped the halberd over and swept it back, who thought that the other party would not block it at all, but it was just another lance stab, as if he wanted to fight for both sides. Zhang Lu was a little flustered, and said in his heart, "Do I have a hatred with you for killing my father and taking my wife? You are so ruthless! Although he has strong strength, his kung fu is relatively clumsy, and he lacks combat experience.

As soon as he retreated, the other party followed, and the other party rode on the horse, and the speed of the advance was quite amazing-this is also thanks to General Sun's slow coming just now, and the war horse has not been able to increase its speed, otherwise, Zhang Lu will not be able to escape at all, except to fight with him, then there is only one way to abandon the weapon and roll.

Fortunately, at this time, Le also reacted, and took out the saber on his waist in time to pull it upward, and he would knock it crookedly. He roared angrily: "This lord and distinguished guest, General Sun doesn't have to hurt people!" Who thought that General Sun was like he didn't know him, his head was crooked, and his arms were pressed down again, and he couldn't bear it, so he let out a "ouch" and fell down on one knee.

However, with him jumping out of such a mix, Zhang Lu finally got a moment of respite. I was unexpected, so I was very embarrassed, and then I looked at General Sun, and I saw that the other party's pupils were scattered, and he had no focus, obviously wanting to kill himself, but his eyes did not look at himself, but just looked into the distance fixedly...... This person is not enmity with me, nor is he suddenly crazy, this person is clearly possessed!

Knowing what was going on, Zhang Lu calmed down - Zhang Jian had taught him the method of breaking the secret. But after thinking about it again, it's not difficult to break it, but before that, you have to stabilize the person who is being sent to you, which is a bit troublesome.

It is an intangible and insubstantial thing, Zhang Lu listened to Zhang Jian's description and felt that this thing was a bit like antimatter. When antimatter comes into contact with matter, it is annihilation, and contact with the existence of this plane will also produce a similar effect of annihilation - only it will not burst out of powerful energy. Therefore, Zhang Jian told Zhang Lu that as long as your true qi is released and the strength exceeds that of Zhen itself, then Zhen will naturally die. Because according to his judgment, it was impossible for Zhen to attach a human body on a large scale—otherwise that person would have turned into himself first—so with Zhang Lu's current ability and true qi strength, it would be more than enough to destroy it.

However, the worst thing is that Zhang Lu can't fight cattle in the air, and the distance from which his true qi can be released is limited - to put it bluntly, he must basically press his hand on the other party to eliminate the possession of the body. However, General Sun is holding a long lance, and Earl Zhang can't get close at all, so how can he get rid of it?

Thinking that day in the Fawang Temple, the possessed monk himself had no ability, and he wielded the knife very fiercely, but it was not in order, if Zhang Lu had already known the method of extermination, and wanted to take a gap to probe closely, it was not much difficult. Who would have thought that this military general is now attached to the body of a military general, who not only rides on a horse, but also has a long-handled weapon in his hand, and the difficulty has increased by two or three orders of magnitude in an instant! Not to mention that this is not an ordinary military general, it is very likely that he will be a "little overlord" who will be famous all over the world in the future......

Zhang Lu gritted his teeth and said in his heart that there was no way, I had no choice but to run -- I turned around and ran into the camp, there were so many people in the Yuan army, I didn't believe that no one could stop Sun Ce, no matter how capable the "little overlord" was, could he still pick up all the tens of thousands of troops on a single horse? There were tents in this camp, and the mounts couldn't run at all, and I was agile and would definitely be able to dodge them.

At this time, he didn't have time to think about any face - besides, he had no horse under his crotch and only a halberd in his hand, even if he was forced to leave by the other party, there was nothing to be ashamed of. Just as he was about to turn around and flee, he suddenly heard a loud shout: "Brother, stop!" I saw a person flying up, blocking General Sun from behind, and directly threw him off the horse, and pressed him to the ground like a dog eating. Seeing this, Zhang Lu reacted quickly, hurriedly exerted his legs, jumped forward, and stretched out his hand to press General Sun's forehead - he only needed to vomit his true qi to extinguish the trouble.

But I didn't want to probe halfway, and suddenly my wrist was grabbed. The other party had so much strength, he grabbed his wrist fiercely, and with Zhang Lu's current strength, he couldn't stretch half an inch further. Zhang Lu was really shocked this time, and said in his heart that this manpower is not under Xu Huang, is there still such a warrior in Yuan Shu's army?

If you look closely, it turns out that it was the person who threw General Sun to the ground - also a young man, with only a mustache on his lips and no beard under his chin, wearing a short shirt and no armor. This person pressed General Sun to the ground with one hand and one leg, no matter how the other party pounced, he just couldn't get up, but the other hand was raised high, just grabbing Zhang Lu's wrist.

The young man's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he said in a deep voice: "I don't know why my brother stabbed you, but you can't harm my brother!"

Who is this? He called Sun Ce his brother, could it be Sun Quan? Sun Zhongmou could be so brave?!