Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 232
Inside the big tent, Sun Ce hugged Qiao Rui and said happily, "Mr. Qiao, it's good that you come back!"

Sun Ce's generals, Han Dang, Zhou Tai, Huang Gai and others congratulated him, Qiao Rui looked ashamed, "I'm really incompetent, I was captured by the opponent, I'm sorry, Bofu."

Sun Ce laughed and said, "You don't have to blame yourself, Mr. Qiao. He must have been taken advantage of by Xiaoxiao that day. It doesn't count."

When Sun Ce said this, Qiao Rui's face became even more ugly, "I was not attacked by someone, but in a head-on confrontation, and I was defeated in less than three moves."

Han Dang next to him said in surprise: "Except for the general, who can defeat Duke Qiao with three moves?"

Qiao Rui sighed, "I heard that the man's name is Tai Shici, he was originally Kong Beihai's subordinate, and later he voted for Yuan Xi."

"That night, he led the cavalry to attack the city gate. I was unguarded, and I was knocked off my horse by him and captured by Yuan Jun."

After hearing this, Zhou Tai said, "It's no wonder Mr. Qiao. This Tai Shici is really powerful. He has fought with the general for more than 100 rounds regardless of the outcome. He is really a fierce general in the world."

After hearing this, Qiao Rui said in surprise: "Impossible, how can this person be equal to Bo Fu?"

You know, Sun Ce is in his twenties today, when he is in the best physical condition, and Tai Shici is in his 30s, and has already passed the peak period.

Even though Tai Shici has slightly better experience, no matter what kind of person Sun Ce is, he is a top choice in terms of martial arts and physical strength!

Huang Gai said: "Then Tai Shici is a bit weird."

After hearing this, Sun Ce agreed, "Indeed, this person's martial arts are quite different from mine."

"When I first fought against him, I found that his strength was unsteady. Sometimes he was so big that I couldn't parry it, but sometimes he was too weak to hold me back. After a hundred or ten moves, his strength became stronger and stronger. I don’t know how to do it, it’s really a formidable enemy.”

After hearing this, everyone was silent, Yuan Xi had a strong general like Tai Shici under his command, Guangling City was really hard to fight.

What made everyone's face even more disheartened was that when a dozen or so generals from Japan faced off against two opponents, it was supposed to be a sure thing.

As a result, Sun Ce was squeezed out by Tai Shici's words, and the two singled out for a long time, and there was no winner, and the opponent was left with an unknown young general.

General Sun Ce thought it was Tai Shici's partial general, and he was not good at fighting alone, but he didn't expect that it turned out to be Yuan's fierce tiger himself!
Even if it was as strong as Lu Bu, so many people swarmed up and beat him to death, but they were deceived by the fierce tiger and delayed sending out a distress signal, resulting in a failure.

Otherwise, Guangling City could have been captured without bloodshed!

Thinking of this, all the generals regretted it, and their mentality became even more unbalanced.

Sun Ce asked puzzledly, "Mr. Qiao, why did the Yuan family let you back?"

Qiao Rui said honestly: "I don't know either. At the beginning I made up my mind that even if I was tortured, I would never reveal any news about Bofu. Let it go, it confuses me."

Sun Ce focused his eyes, "What did the fierce tiger ask?"

Seeing Sun Ce's solemn expression, Qiao Rui quickly recounted the conversation with Yuan Xi in detail.

After hearing this, Sun Ce lowered his head and pondered. These words were very common. The only thing that was wrong was asking about Qiao Rui's daughter. This had nothing to do with Guangling City and his own military situation.

He asked again: "Then what else did Yuan Xi say to Duke Qiao, what request did he make?"

Qiao Rui thought about it again, and said, "It's true."

The generals were puzzled, and a few people had a faint thought in their hearts, Qiao Rui couldn't be hiding something, right?

Once this idea was born, it took root and sprouted in the hearts of the crowd, and slowly grew up. The eyes of the crowd looking at Qiao Rui began to become strange.

Seeing Qiao Rui, he suddenly realized that his body was chilling, this fierce tiger of the Yuan family is so vicious!
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

Seeing this, Sun Ce was about to defend Qiao Rui when Han Dang said, "Mr. Qiao admires the general the most, how could he betray the general?"

"This must be the plan of the Yuan family's vicious tigers to drive divorce. Don't be fooled, everyone."

Zhou Tai slapped his thigh and shouted, "I knew that fierce tiger was cunning. Just by watching him trick Gongsun Zan and attack Guangling, I knew that he was good at tricks!"

Huang Gai remained silent. He thought that Qiao Rui was unlikely to betray Sun Ce, but only from the point of view of strategy, what if Qiao Rui really betrayed him?

Seeing the different expressions on the faces of the crowd, Sun Ce said decisively, "Mr. Qiao will not betray me. How could Yuan Xi's ridiculous trick shake the morale of our army!"

After hearing this, the generals suddenly agreed.

But as for what to think in my heart, I don't know.

Qiao Rui is also a sensible person. Seeing everyone's expressions at this moment, he knows that from now on, he will never get the same unconditional trust as before.

This treacherous tiger!

With a pale face, he said, "That's all I know. I was captured at the city gate that day, and I don't know anything about what happened in the city after that."

Seeing that Zhou Yu was not there, he was surprised and said, "Where is Gongjin? Could it be possible?"

Sun Ce said, "Don't worry, Duke Qiao, Gong Jin has escaped."

"There's one more thing, has Mr. Qiao heard about it, please tell me."

When Sun Ce said this, he vaguely felt something was wrong, and swallowed the second half of the words.

He stood up and walked around the tent.

where is wrong?
He felt that there was only a layer of window paper missing, but it couldn't be pierced. He was so anxious that he stepped out of the big tent and looked at Guangling City in the distance.

The generals didn't know why, they looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one dared to go up and ask.

Sun Ce stared at the top of Guangling City, Zhou Yu fled, Qiao Rui was released and Madam Wu might still be in the city
He suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Could it be that the other party put Qiao Rui back to test himself?

Now that Zhou Yuqiaorui has returned, logically there is no need to smash Guangling City.

Except Mrs. Wu!
Now if Sun Ce continues to attack the city, he will clearly tell the other party that there are important people in the city!

But if he didn't attack the city, the other party wouldn't be suspicious, but wouldn't that mean he gave up on rescuing Grandma?

Right now, my subordinates only guessed that Mrs. Wu was missing. As long as they talked to Qiao Rui in private, they might guess that Mrs. Wu was probably arrested by Yuan Shi!

Later, I have to warn Qiao Rui not to tell anything about Guangling City!
But this is not a long-term solution at all. There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Regardless of my subordinates, the fierce tiger in the city will be found out sooner or later. Mrs. Wu was in the city lord's mansion that day!
What should I do?
Thinking that before leaving, Zhou Yu warned himself not to show any intention of taking back Guangling, Sun Ce felt even more uncomfortable. He had never fought such a boundless battle!

Sun Ce found that his best choice at the moment was to stop attacking Guangling City immediately.

But in this way, it is tantamount to giving up Aunt with his own hands!
At the same time, there is another question. If the troops are withdrawn too quickly, will the other side see through that they are trying to cover up, and instead step up their investigation of the city?
Sun Ce's mind was in a mess. He couldn't decide what to do to protect Mrs. Wu to the greatest extent. It would be great if Zhou Yu was by his side!

The more he thought about it, the more disgusted he became, and he couldn't help yelling in the direction of Guangling: "Fuck you, mother!"

Guo Jia talked eloquently for more than a quarter of an hour before he finished telling Sun Li Yuan Xi's intention to let Qiao Rui go, and Sun Ce's possible responses.

Finally, Guo Jia said proudly: "How about it, boy, can you guess what the young master is thinking?"

Sun Li was dumbfounded when he heard that, "So there are so many twists and turns in letting this person go?"

Guo Jia said with a smile, "Young master is not an ordinary person. I feel more and more that there are really things that Sun Ce cares about in this city."

"Otherwise, the siege in the past few days is really unreasonable."

In a corner of the courtyard, Mrs. Wu was covered in cold sweat as she listened to the conversation between Guo Jia and Sun Li in the atrium, her hands and feet trembling uncontrollably.

These people are too scary, I have already guessed some clues!

Fortunately, I was full of confidence at the time and thought I could easily escape from the city. Now it seems that I am too naive. The Yuan family is not an easy person at all!

Especially this fierce tiger and Guo Jia are so terrifying at such a young age, I really underestimated the people in the world, are all the children of the Yuan family so powerful?

At this time Yuan Xi walked out of the room, smiled at Sun Li, "Mr. Feng Xiao is the one who knows me."

"Actually, my thinking is not as complete as what Mr. said just now. There are still many gaps, but Mr. has made it up for me."

"Sun Li needs to learn a little bit from his master in the future. In terms of strategy, there are very few people in this world who can stand shoulder to shoulder with him. So many people beg him to accept apprentices, and he is not happy."

"Mr. is willing to teach you something. That's a golden mountain in front of you. You still push back and forth. You really deserve to be beaten."

After hearing this, Sun Li rubbed the back of his head and laughed sheepishly.

He muttered, "I didn't know that the young master is so powerful, he can see the conspiracy of that Sun Ce at a glance."

Yuan Xi shook his head and said, "Actually, I'm not very sure."

"But the other party showed his feet this time because his intentions and behavior were too abnormal."

"I often hear that Sun Bofu loves soldiers like a son, and is loved by his subordinates. Such a person would attack Guangling madly out of a moment of anger, regardless of casualties. I really can't figure it out."

Guo Jia nodded and sighed: "The art of war is to know the subtleties. It is to find out the opponent's thoughts through the abnormal behavior of the opponent. In this regard, the young master has already grasped some of the essence."

Yuan Xi listened, and said with a smile: "Sir, don't flatter me. In fact, what I wanted to do at the beginning was just to break the siege of Guangling. It is really helpless to use Qiaorui as a way to test the opponent. It's just a living horse doctor."

He talked with Guo Jia, then walked outside the mansion.

Mrs. Wu in the room seems to have realized something.

If you do something too obviously, you will reveal your intentions, and it is the same if you want to escape.

If I asked about the route out of the city every day and showed that I wanted to leave, I would most likely be suspected by this wise and fierce tiger!
For the current plan, the only way to escape is to cover up yourself, do the opposite, make preparations without showing any traces, and start suddenly!

(End of this chapter)