Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3296 What is a Great Han Celebrity

In the Tongguan camp, the managers who stayed behind were said to be Liu Fu and Guanqiu Jian, but in fact the core person was Cao Zhang.

Cao Cao didn't trust anyone, and only his own son could make him feel a little more at ease.

Cao Zhang was not very old, but he had a strong talent for martial arts since he was a child. He had extraordinary arm strength and liked to wield swords and guns. He hated poetry and scriptures. So Cao Cao kept him by his side and often went in and out of the army. Therefore, Cao Zhang was not completely ignorant of military affairs.

What's more, with the assistance of Liu Fu and Guanqiu, plus the Central Guard Army who stayed in the Tongguan camp, not only would there be no problem in defending the Tongguan camp, but they could also put some pressure on Tongguan, and even raise food and grass to transport to the Zhongtiaoshan camp.

Among them, the one who worked hard and took on more responsibilities was certainly not Cao Zhang, but Liu Fu.

Guanqiu Jian assisted Liu Fu, and the two complemented each other very well.

Liu Fu was a famous person. Although he had not done any amazing deeds of killing generals on the battlefield, he was indeed a practical man.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Fu was stabbed to death by Cao Cao after drinking. This is basically Mr. Luo's symbolism. In actual history, Liu Fu died of illness because he worked too hard. He is very similar to Liu Biao, and in some ways, he is even more awesome than Liu Biao. In history, Liu Fu governed Yangzhou and went to Hefei alone to fight against Sun Shiwan. He not only won over the local tyrants, but also appeased the people and built water conservancy projects, which made the people from Jianghuai who had fled return. The water conservancy projects he built were still in use during the Western Jin Dynasty.

Guanqiu Jian was from Wenxi, but his identity was very special. His father died at the hands of Fei Qian, so this guy and Fei Qian had a hatred for each other.

Liu Fu is experienced, steady and experienced.

Guanqiu Jian was young and energetic, and could run errands and do labor.

Although Cao Zhang was not good at writing, he won a lot of support and love in the army. Many of Cao's soldiers directly under his command regarded Cao Zhang as the second Cao Ang.

This combination is just right, neither too much nor too little.

Cao Zhang naturally didn't care about the transportation of grain and grass and the later guarantee. At most, he used a seal for Cao Cao in the final stage. Liu Fu was still in charge of the main matters. After finally arranging everything and finishing all the work, he just waited for the transportation to Zhongtiao Mountain Camp tomorrow. Liu Fu relaxed a little and finally got a good night's sleep...

  As a result, I was awakened by the loud noise in the middle of the night!

Immediately, Cao's soldiers rushed in, "Reporting to the officials, the enemy is attacking!"

Liu Fu was very puzzled and asked: "Where did the enemy come from? Are they the people who stole from Tongguan?"

"No! It's the enemy coming from the other side of the river!"

"On the other side of the river?!" Liu Fu asked as he got up, "How many people are there?"

"About two or three hundred people," the soldier replied.

Liu Fu just breathed a sigh of relief, but then he remembered that the food and supplies that were ready to be transported were piled up on the river bank, and he became worried again, "Where are the food and supplies? Quickly have people move them to the rear camp!"

"This..." The Cao army soldiers hesitated.

Liu Fu's face changed color and he ran out of the tent without even bothering to put on his outer robe. When he looked at the river bank, he was shocked.

  There were still some Cao army soldiers and laborers around the materials piled up near the river bank. Because they had to be transported away the next day, Liu Fu did not let these people return to the rear camp, but let them camp nearby to rest. Otherwise, it would be a waste of time to regroup and gather the next day.

As a result, now, those makeshift camps were ablaze with flames. The cavalrymen were rushing madly into these camps with torches in hand, killing people and setting fires. The shouts and screams resounded on both sides of the river, deafening.

A battle flag appeared and disappeared in the firelight, and the three colors on it made Liu Fu's eyes hurt.

"What a cavalryman!"

Liu Fu had just murmured these words when he heard a loud cannon fire from the top of Tongguan City. The cannon fire was like thunder, blooming orange in the night sky. Immediately, the defenders in the upper city of Tongguan counterattacked towards the lower city area occupied by Cao's army!

"Not good!" Liu Fu was shocked and immediately found Cao Zhang, "Sir, beat the drums immediately and order the soldiers to fight back!"

"Where to counterattack?" Cao Zhang asked.

There was a counterattack by the defenders of Tongguan City in front, and an attack by the Hussars on the flanks. If we add...

Faced with such a situation, Cao Zhang, after all, was younger, so he couldn't help but feel a little flustered.

"This..." Liu Fu hesitated for a moment, then made a decision, "Tongguan City!"

"That place on the river bank..." Cao Zhang turned his gaze to the river bank again.

"I request your order to meet the enemy!" Guanqiu Jian stepped forward and bowed.

"Okay!" Liu Fu said immediately, "There are not many bandits on the river bank. They must be a small number of troops that sneaked across Zhongtiao Mountain. Zhong Gong can maintain the front line and force them back... As for those baggage and supplies... it would be best if they can be rescued. If they can't be rescued... we still have to be safe!"

"I will obey your order!" Guanqiu Jian replied.

After the discussion was over, the war drums in Cao's camp began to sound.

Cao Zhang personally climbed up to the central observation tower and commanded the generals to counterattack together with Liu Fu.

Liu Fu's judgment is undoubtedly correct.

  Hao Zhao's attack was indeed quite sudden, but his number was small. However, it was different for the Tongguan defenders. If the Cao army's front line was really broken by the counterattack of the Tongguan defenders and they were crushed all the way to the Cao army camp, then the whole family might have to pack up and go home!

Therefore, it was reasonable for Liu Fu to focus on the Tongguan front.

But this gave Hao Zhao the best opportunity!

Without mentioning how Cao Zhang and Liu Fu fought against the counterattack of the Tongguan defenders, let's talk about Guanqiu Jian leading his troops to the river bank. Guanqiu Jian stared at the tricolor flag, his eyes almost spitting fire.

Guanqiu Jian blamed Fei Qian for Guanqiu Xing's death.

This is true for most things in the world. Where your butt is determines your position. As a son of man, Guanqiu Jian's butt is of course to avenge his father. Is there anything wrong with that?

Now he saw the Hussars, with only two hundred men, coming to kill right under his nose. This was something his uncle could tolerate, but his aunt could not, and neither could he!

  Guanqiu Jian decided to take this opportunity to kill the commander of the cavalry here to relieve his hatred!

Even if the person killed was not the cavalry general, it was enough to boost the morale of Cao's soldiers.

As for Liu Fu's instructions just now, Guanqiu Jian had subconsciously forgotten them.

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Yang Xiu, who was imprisoned in the rear camp of Cao's army, was also awakened by the noise.

In the darkness, he turned over from the straw mat, his eyes shining in the darkness.

"The Hussars are coming?"

Yang Xiu asked.

No one answered in the darkness, and after a moment Yang Xiu replied as if he was answering himself: "Impossible, not that fast."

"How is it impossible?" he asked again.

"This is behind Cao's army!" he answered himself.

"What happened in the rear?" he continued to ask.

"It's like this in the rear. The soldiers on the front line just need to devote themselves to the battlefield, follow orders and fight hard, but the people in the rear have a lot of things to consider..." he replied.

Then Yang Xiu had nothing to say.

Yang Xiu has been imprisoned for some time.

From the cracks in the tattered tent, faintly flickering light shone through, illuminating Yang Xiu's eyes.

In fact, to some extent, Yang Xiu guessed his own fate, but he was still "ignorant of the current situation."

He felt that Cao Cao wanted his "surrender" more.

Or rather, "loyalty".

Yang Xiu was not "loyal" to Cao Cao in the absolute sense.

The same is true for Dahan, him and his family.

Yang Xiu himself was aware of this, but he did not think there was anything wrong with it.

  Cao Cao hated Yang Xiu, not only for his cleverness, but also for his self-righteousness. Like the Yuan family, the Yang family was a family that carried the history of the Han Dynasty, at least the grace of two generations of emperors from Emperor Huan to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. But when the Han Dynasty was about to fall, what did the Yuan and Yang families do?

Under the emperor, the Yuan and Yang families could be said to be the core of the aristocratic families in the Han Dynasty court. But did they have the slightest thought about the Han Dynasty in their hearts?

If there was, the Han would not have reached this point today. The noisy voices rose and fell, mixed with the roar of artillery above Tongguan, shattering the originally quiet night.

Yang Xiu sat quietly in the tent, his heart filled with disappointment with Cao Cao and worry about the future.

He knew very well that if the war went badly, the situation in the whole Shandong would fall into chaos.

Yang Xiu closed his eyes and sighed. His fate seemed to be firmly bound by this war.

Inside and outside the tent are like two different worlds, one noisy and the other quiet.

The quiet world is a cage that imprisons freedom; the noisy world is full of madness, bringing misfortune and death.

Amidst this noisy sound, Yang Xiu reflected on every choice he had made along the way, every time he persisted, and the bitterness after every failure.

  His mind flashed back to his youthful ambitions. At that time, he was full of ambitions and regarded everyone in the world as pigs and dogs. Cao Mengde and Fei Ziyuan were all inferior people. How could they be worth his second glance?

However, the reality is cruel. These guys, who originally couldn't even reach his horse's hooves, became the masters of his life and death.

If Cao Cao won, he would most likely survive.

If Cao Cao loses, he will most likely die.

When Yang Xiu was young, he enjoyed everything of the Han Dynasty.

Glory and wealth are as brilliant as the jewels in a crown.

Yang Xiu now suffers from loneliness and pain, like a toilet chip abandoned in a corner.

  He suddenly understood that everything was because of the Han Dynasty's order!

If there was still the order of the Han Dynasty, he should still be glorious, but now because the order of the Han Dynasty was lost, he became a prisoner, a prisoner imprisoned in this broken tent.

  The order of the Han people!

He once despised and looked down upon the Han Dynasty order, which he considered to be corrupt and ignorant...

If he could go back to the past one day, he would definitely do everything in his power to maintain the order of the Han Dynasty, prevent the establishment of the Hongdu Academy, prevent the Party Imprisonment from causing trouble, prevent the Western Qiang from rebelling, prevent the Yellow Turbans from causing chaos, and prevent...

  God!

After the Han Dynasty completely lost its order, Yang Xiu realized that the things that could allow him to live a comfortable and fulfilling life were not his family, nor the plaque hanging on the Sizhi Hall of his house, nor the various gold, silver, jewelry, jade and other valuables buried in his house!

"My dear young man!"

A tiny sound was heard.

Yang Xiu was suddenly startled, "Who?!"

"I, it's me..." The tiny voice came from a crack in the tent, "Young man, now is a great opportunity! It's a big mess outside, no one cares about this place, run away quickly!"

"Escape?" Yang Xiu was stunned, then he lay down at the crack of the tent and looked out.

There was a dark figure outside the tent, with most of its face in the shadow, swaying and not very clear.

The voice sounded familiar, but it was too noisy outside and Yang Xiu couldn't be sure who the black shadow was.

"Yes, young master," the shadow said in a low voice while turning his head to look around, "There are war horses in the rear camp... Now is the best opportunity... While they are all in the front... Hurry up, it will be too late if you don't escape now!"

Yang Xiu listened and couldn't help but clench his fists tightly. He felt his palms were extremely slippery and he didn't know when they were covered with sweat.

escape?

The breath of freedom seemed to be just outside the tent.

But after a moment, Yang Xiu whispered: "Thank you very much... I won't run away."

"Ah?" The shadow seemed a little surprised, "Young Master..."

"Thank you..." Yang Xiu repeated, then smiled, "Up to now, the only thing I am proud of is being the son of Yang, the descendant of the Four Great Wisdoms, and the fourth-generation Grand Commandant of the Han Dynasty... I would rather die standing than kneel and beg for life..."

The shadow outside the tent was silent for a moment, "Okay. This knife is for the young master. If the young master..."

There was a rustling sound outside the tent, and a short blade was stuffed in through the gap. Then the light and shadow flickered twice, and the black shadow left.

Yang Xiu stepped forward, picked up the short blade, looked at it in the flickering light, and an extremely complicated look appeared on his face.

It's like crying, but also like laughing.

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On the banks of the big river.

Under the command of the war drums, the panicked Cao army finally became somewhat organized. Under the leadership of Guanqiu Jian, they rushed out of the camp and headed straight for the floating bridge on the river bank.

Guanqiu Jian was riding on the horse, feeling a little nervous and a little excited.

His father, Guanqiu Xing, died of serious injuries after a battle in Hedong. Guanqiu Xing was angry and frustrated when he was dying, and he roared towards the direction of Hedong and died immediately. This was undoubtedly a great stimulation for the young Guanqiu Jian, and it was also a bloody scar in his heart.

His father worked diligently and hard all his life, studied scriptures diligently, and strived for perfection. He could be described as a complete small town test-taker. However, he failed miserably with Fei Qian, and died of depression, which became an irreparable regret.

Guanqiu's family came from Wenxi. It is said that Guanqiu's ancestors were also very powerful, but what's the use?

Just like the descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, it sounds very powerful, but who cares about it actually?

Although both the Guanqiu family and the Pei family came from Wenxi, they did not have as much assets as the Pei family.

Because they were originally from Shandong, and later gradually moved to Wenxi. They did not have a large social network like the Pei family, nor did they have huge land wealth like the other surnames of Hedong Wei, Pei, Pi, Zhang, and Liu. The only thing they could rely on was the scriptures they brought from Shandong...

With hard work and diligent study, one can imagine the educational resources that can be obtained in an area like Hedong Wenxi, which is close to the border of the Han Dynasty.

However, Guanqiu Xing fought his way out of the crowd and stood out among the numerous sons of Hedong aristocratic families. He became a palace official selected for filial piety and incorruptibility, and caught the attention of the bigwigs in the Han court.

  Everyone said that Guanqiu Xing was lucky, but did Guanqiu Jian know how much effort and sweat his father Guanqiu Xing had put in for this "good luck"?

Being a palace attendant does not mean that Guanqiu can just sit back and enjoy life. She still has to work diligently and conscientiously. She not only has to clean up the mess for her boss, but also has to take the blame for her boss. When her boss is happy, she has to applaud and cheer on him...

As a result, Guanqiu Xing was evaluated as "a good official."

Just when she was about to become a mother-in-law and was only one step away from becoming a local official who truly controlled a region, Fei Qian appeared like a stone falling from the sky and hit Guanqiu Xing on her path to promotion.

His father died of anger, which made Guanqiu Jian suspicious. He always felt that some people gathered together and laughed, and they were probably laughing at him...

Even though Guanqiu Jian understood that his neighbor was suspicious of him, he still felt aggrieved.

Without the care of his parents, Guanqiu Jian lived a very miserable life.

Just like this time when he stayed behind in Cao's camp, he was responsible for all kinds of complicated tasks and all kinds of tiring work. He also smiled and said that he was young and it was normal for him to move more and run more...

Who doesn’t want to have a good meal and a good sleep?

Who would like to be on call twelve hours a day?

But Guanqiu Jian smiled and patted his chest and said, "I like it! I was born to work hard!"

Like shit!

The premise of suffering and enduring is that it is worthwhile to achieve your goals through hard work and overcoming difficulties…

The word "worth it" can be as light as a feather or as heavy as Mount Tai.

All the frustrated feelings over the years have been weighing on Guanqiu Jian's heart.

  Now, he felt that he could take advantage of this opportunity to compete with the Hussars and give these damned Hussars a severe blow. More importantly, he could vent his depressed mood that had been pent up for many years!

While thinking about this, Guanqiu Jian rode his horse out of the camp gate and ran along the road towards the floating bridge.

  They are just a few hundred cavalrymen, what's so great about that? !

Behind him were soldiers holding the general's flag. The ink-colored Chinese characters "Guanqiu" once again fluttered over the land of Heluo...

This made Guanqiu Jian's blood boil!

  What is a famous Han scholar?

A celebrity is not only eloquent, but more importantly, he is knowledgeable. If he goes out, he can be a general; if he stays in, he can be a prime minister!

Let you all see what a great Han scholar looks like!

Guanqiu Jian raised his arms and shouted: "The Han will surely win! The Han will surely win! Follow me and kill them all! Drive all the thieves into the river!"