Outside the tent was the sound of raindrops crashing on the tents.

Yaozhou, Yizhou military camp.

The mud-stained boots walked into the tent with water stains, and the man with a rough and swarthy face lifted the curtain of the tent, came in laughing, and arched his hand towards the first figure who was looking at the book.

"Meet the prince in a hurry, there is good news!"

The candle flame flickered on the pages of the book, Guan Yu raised his gaze, closed the book, and looked at the old brother opposite with a smile, "What kind of good news." ”

The swarthy rough man was quite happy, and after saluting, he walked to the side seat: "Zhang Liao has surrendered the border army of Wu State, and now Wu State has no soldiers to fight." ”

Guan Yu was stunned, then got up and walked to the front of the hanging map to look at it for a moment, "There are indeed no soldiers to fight, and the rest are all the wine bags and rice bags of the family." ”

"Pass on my generals, let Zhang Liao's Bingzhou army, and the third brother Zhang Fei converge with my Shengzhou territory." Guan Yu hurriedly let the guards outside come in and took the armor to put on armor for him.

Guan Yu stood in place, flattened his arms, and let the guards do it, and at the same time asked Zhou Cang: "Is there any news from Zhou Yu?" ”

"Not yet!" The rough man responded: "However, the previous news, the prince also knows that the governor of Zhou has occupied Minggang and will defend the place where Shengkang goes to sea, and now we should only wait for us to attack before and after!" ”

Guan Yu stroked his beard and smiled, waiting for his soldiers to put on the golden armor for him, and while putting on the green robe, he walked to the old brother, he looked at the rain outside the tent, "It's finally over." ”

"That's right, Prince!" Zhou Cang suddenly opened his mouth to talk about another thing, he approached Guan Yu's ear, and muttered a few words.

I can vaguely hear the name 'Lu Meng'.

"Lu Meng......" Guan Yu narrowed his eyes, there was a killing intent in his eyes, but he didn't say anything cruel, compared to the joy just now, he took the Qinglong Yanyue Knife on the weapon rack, and stroked the blade silently.

"Zhou Cang...... Do you think Guan should kill him? ”

"Of course you have to kill it for the New Year!"

Zhou Cang has always been rude, he can be described as a god who respects Guan Yu, when he knew that Guan Yu was killed, he killed himself directly on the wall, and now when he sees the enemy again, he doesn't want to blurt out directly.

"You go and get busy, let the athletes in the army gather and open Shengzhou!"

Guan Yu didn't say more, patted the old brother on the shoulder, the latter shut up in time, and immediately received the order to walk out of the big tent.

After the people left, he sat back behind the long case, the heavy green dragon knife was placed on the table, and he gently stroked the sinuous dragon shape on the knife body, and between the beards, there was a low murmur.

"You're my brother too, you think...... Should I kill him? ”

The blade was silent, faintly trembling.

At the same time, the general order was still on the way to Yuanzhou, where Zhang Liao surrendered to Zhao Kangzhi's border army on behalf of the emperor of Xia Guo, and the two armies gathered about 36,000 people, gathered together, and after getting acquainted with each other, the position of the commander of the border army was handed over to Zhang Liao.

On September 20, Guan Yu's general order came to Yuanzhou, more than 30,000 people gathered in the field, the army was neat, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Guan Ping, Zhang Bao, and Wei Yan lined up in Yuanmen in military uniforms, and after meeting the general's order, they went directly on the horse and joined up with Zhao Kangzhi, the commander of the army.

The soldiers and soldiers of the border also lost the nervousness and panic when they saw the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom coming over for the first time, perhaps in order not to lose the face of the Wu people, they stood with their weapons in their arms, with serious expressions and tall postures.

Soon after, they saw Zhang Liao, the commander of the Xia Kingdom, riding on horseback with a tall figure and a hook and sickle, and his angular face revealed indescribable fortitude and majesty.

And Zhao Kangzhi, who was standing in front of the border soldiers, led a group of generals forward, he lifted his cloak, jumped off the war horse, and strode towards this side.

"General Zhao Kangzhi meets the general of the cavalry!"

Zhao Kangzhi looks older than Zhang Liao, but now his posture as a general must be lowered, and all the generals behind him, including Zhou Tiansheng, also bowed down one by one

"You don't need to be polite, you will be a family in the future, and there is no difference between Wu and Xia."

Zhang Liao helped Zhao Kangzhi up, and raised his hands to the generals behind him, "My Xia soldiers will uphold the will of the Son of Heaven, unify the six countries, and subdue the four seas, the six countries have gone to the four, and now the Wu country will progress in the footsteps, although Liao's words are ugly, but the fact is that there will be no more war in the unification of the six countries, the people will be healthy, the roads will be smooth, and the government decrees will be accessible, which will be a situation that has not been seen in this world for hundreds of years." You should be happy. ”

"Yes, I should be happy." Zhao Kangzhi squeezed out a little smile, and then asked in a low voice: "I don't know where my son of heaven is now?" ”

When he said the Son of Heaven, he naturally referred to Kang Chengqian.

Now that Kang Chengqian has been named An Le Gong, he is not very clear, so Zhang Liao did not blame him, and after correcting it, he said: "An Le Gong is the commander of this expedition to Wu State, and he should follow Guan Junhou to Shengzhou at this time. It won't be long before General Zhao will be able to see him. ”

"Really?"

Zhao Kangzhi's face showed joy, his family has been a border general for generations, and every time he returned to Kyoto, he was troubled by the Beijing officials in the court, only Kang Chengqian spoke for him, and later exempted him from coming to the capital to report on his work, just such a little favor, he kept it in mind.

This surrender, to a large extent, was to welcome Kang Chengqian back to Wu.

"Haha, happy! What a joy. Zhao Kangzhi turned back to the generals and the soldiers and shouted: "Such a happy thing, make me laugh!" ”

The blackened soldier burst out laughing.

Zhang Liao knew the reason for the other party's surrender, and seeing that the morale was available, he immediately asked Zhao Kangzhi to continue to lead this border army, "All the generals obey the order, send troops to Shengzhou, and encircle Shengkang with the Yizhou army and the navy!" ”

"Yes!"

On the field, while the generals were yelling, the heralds brought their words to the various arrays, and more than 30,000 people followed and shouted: "Encircle Shengkang and destroy the rebellious ministers!" ”

Zhao Kangzhi returned to the front of the formation, turned over and mounted his horse, he pulled out the sword at his waist and raised it high.

"The whole army is open, let Shengkang, those rebellious ministers and thieves, give us an explanation!"

The sky clouds changed color.

Soon after, the mighty army marched eastward, and on September 25, it entered the boundary of Shengzhou, and surrounded Shengkang from three directions with the Yizhou army led by Guan Yu and Zhou Yu's navy.

The century-old city is already on the verge of collapse.

Before preparing for the battle, the three armies galloped quickly, passing various orders, among which was the strategy of attacking the heart ordered by Guan Yu.

Let the armies copy a large number of letters written by Kang Chengqian, and then let the archers in each battalion shoot these arrows tied with notes on the city wall, which probably said that they were forced to leave Wu, and said that the prime minister Gu Chongwen, Taiwei Fan Li, and Zhongshu Lang Xiao were the leaders of traitors, and the three people were killed, and the rest were not to blame.

Zhou Yu also praised this, "I didn't expect that after my death, Guan Yu would lead Jingzhou and already have the talent of a commander." ”

In this regard, Gan Ning snorted and didn't care.

And here, An Le Gongkang Chengqian was dressed all over his body, like a majestic general, leading Zhao Kangzhi and other generals, as well as hundreds of personal guards to the city gate in the western suburbs of Shengkang.

"Who is the city guard, do you know who I am?!"

The guards of the city, as well as a cadre of soldiers, almost all held the notes in their hands, some of them had seen it, and the other part of the soldiers did not know how to read, and what the emperor Kang Chengqian looked like, they had not seen it, and suddenly saw the generals who were all dressed in armor and surrounded by them appeared, and they gathered at the head of the city.

"Who are you, I don't know, if you want to attack the city, you have to be verbose!"

"Presumptuous!"

Zhao Kangzhi took two steps forward, raised his whip and pointed at the city and shouted: "You know that Kang Zun in the palace is no more than a puppet, and the real Son of Heaven is here!" ”

On the castle tower, everyone looked at each other, but there was no immediate defection.

Kang Chengqian followed and shouted: "I was forced by the traitorous ministers, and had to flee out of the palace to the Central Plains, and now I have surrendered to the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom and been named the Duke of Anle, but I can't bear to see the soldiers and generals of Wu Land and the people burdened by the traitors, and they died in vain. ”

"Everyone, don't listen to this person's nonsense, the emperor is in the palace, how can he run to the Central Plains and shoot this person to death!"

The guards in the city drew their swords and pointed at them, and the archers around them pulled their bows and arrows one after another, and Zhao Kangzhi outside the city hurriedly led Kang Chengqian's war horse to gallop away from the range of the arrows.

Guan Yu, who heard the news, closed his eyes and was silent for a while before saying: "This is the last life of Wu Guo, let them go." ”

Compared with the fluctuating hearts on the city wall, the situation is urgent.

In the palace of the lieutenant in the city, Fan Li poured wine into his stomach cup after cup, his face was red, his eyes stared straight at the door of the middle hall, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he slammed the cup in his hand to the ground.

"Gu Chongwen, this old thief, he actually escaped!!"

He stood up shakyly, pulled out the sword placed next to him, and slashed wildly at the table, remembering the other party's past face, claiming to live and die with the city, but three days before the siege of the Xia Kingdom's soldiers and horses, he secretly fled and did not know where to go.

He slashed out with another sword, the body of the sword stuck on the pillar, his hair in a loose bun and panting.

"Dog thief, it's hard to deceive us!"

At this time, the steward outside came in and approached to report something, Fan Li pulled out his sword from the pillar in a stressful manner, slashed it with his backhand, and hacked the old steward who had been at home for more than 20 years to death in a pool of blood.

"What are you doing here......" He saw the figure in the pool of blood, and with a clatter, the sword in his hand fell to the ground.

"Captain!"

Xiao Zhiyi's words sounded outside, and the steward in the mansion came to report just now, just to say that the Zhongshu Shilang came to visit, but he was killed before he finished speaking.

And Xiao Zhiyi had something important to say and waited for a while, so he simply came in directly, and as soon as he arrived in the middle hall, he saw the old steward lying in a pool of blood, and his face couldn't help but show surprise.

"Captain, what are you doing to kill him!?"

Fan Li's expression changed, and he probably didn't want to say that he was too panicked and killed by mistake just now, so he waved his hand casually: "I found out that this steward had colluded with the rebels outside and the generals of the Xia Kingdom, so I simply killed him with a sword." ”

"How could it be ......" Xiao Zhiyi was also shocked, but then he hurriedly said: "I came to talk about this matter, today the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom instructed people to shoot arrows at the head of the city, and Kang Chengqian's letter was tied to it, and our affairs were made public." I'm worried that the generals and soldiers on the city wall will be like Zhao Kangzhi and Zhao Kuian......"

Thinking of how these generals came to the capital and how they begged themselves, now they are competing to be ministers one by one, and they grovel and run to the generals of the Xia State to wagging their tails and begging for mercy.

Thinking of this.....

and Gu Chongwen, who escaped, and Taiwei Fan Li, "Ah! With a bang, he overturned the wine table, his eyes were red, and his mouth and nose were sprayed with wine.

"Tell all the big clans in the city that are still there, let them send private soldiers to help defend the city, and secretly 'protect' the mansion of the four gate guards, and tell them to fight with peace of mind and not worry about their families."

"Captain, your order is a bit ......"

"You don't listen to me either?" Fan Li's beard was furious, he raised his sword and pointed at it, so frightened that Xiao Zhiyi waved his hand while retreating: "Listen, I'll do it immediately!" ”

(End of chapter)