Choose Liu Bei at the start, I am the only one who knows the plot of the Three Kingdoms.

Chapter 629 Chess piece!

Although there was no one on the top of the mountain, it could be seen from the traces around that a group of people had been stationed here.

"Prime Minister, what should we do next?"

"What else can we do? Let's go back. It seems that after this group of people ambushed us, they already knew that they would be exposed. They should have left by then."

After Zhuge Liang and his men returned, they immediately told Gu Rubing the news of the missing person.

What surprised Gu Rubing was that these people actually knew how to use Zhuge Liang's Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation.

Not many people know how to use this kind of formation.

Did Zhuge Liang have any disciples?
This strange thought emerged in Gu Rubing's mind.

But Gu Rubing thought for a long time and couldn't think of any disciples Zhuge Liang would have, but there was one exception, that was Jiang Wei.

But Zhuge Liang did not mention anything about Jiang Wei. If it was really Jiang Wei, Zhuge Liang should have said it long ago.

"Lord!"

"Lord!"

Zhuge Liang's voice interrupted Gu Rubing's thoughts.

"What's the matter, military advisor?"

Gu Rubing looked at Zhuge Liang with a puzzled look.

So what I just said was in vain.

"The grain and grass that Sun Jian was transporting to Liu Zhang was attacked again. Liu Zhang has been constantly urging Sun Jian to deliver the grain and grass. Now he has come to us directly and asked us to urge Sun Jian."

"What does this have to do with us? We have paid so much to fight Cao Cao, and we still have a lot of things to do here."

"My lord, the losses we incurred in the negotiations with Cao Cao have now been fully repaid by the Wei family. As a result, the Wei family's assets have shrunk significantly, and they have now fallen out of the ranks of Yangzhou's aristocratic families."

"Alright, but we can't let the Wei family suffer too much. Since Wei Xi has dedicated the entire Wei family, let the Wei family stand back on its feet."

"Yes!"

"As for Liu Zhang, tell him that I can't do anything about it. He should go to Sun Jian for the fleet issue. What does it have to do with us?"

Sun Jian was also a little embarrassed when he saw the urging letter from Cao Cao in his hand.

Liu Zhang did not get the food and grass, so he not only asked Liu Bei to urge him, but also asked Cao Cao to urge him.

Gu Rubing didn't want to cause trouble for himself, so he naturally wouldn't care about these things, but Cao Cao was different. In order to win over Liu Zhang, he naturally had to urge him.

Sun Jian looked at Zhou Yu and others in front of him with an obviously unhappy expression.

"Everyone, tell me what you think. What do you think?"

"My lord, this group of people is obviously here for our food and fodder, and we don't know where they got the information from. Since the food and fodder must be delivered, I suggest that we send Gan Ning to lead the team. With Gan Ning here, if the other side launches a surprise attack on us, we should be able to catch them all in one fell swoop."

Sun Jian also knew that this was the only solution at the moment.

Soon Gan Ning followed the fleet and began to head towards the Anluo Empire.

When the fleet was halfway gone, Gan Ning looked at several ships that suddenly appeared on the sea and immediately prepared the fleet for a fight.

However, those ships just passed by the fleet without any reaction.

Gan Ning breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, a group of people suddenly walked out of those ships and grabbed the hulls of Gan Ning's fleet with their iron claws.

Under the pull, the fleet stopped moving forward.

Gan Ning rushed over immediately, wanting to take the initiative.

However, just as Gan Ning rushed over and was about to take action, three men in black rushed out, surrounded Gan Ning, and started beating him.

Gan Ning summoned the shadow directly.

Eighteen shadows quickly surrounded the three people, and Gan Ning chose one of them. When he was about to take action, more men in black rushed out and blocked Gan Ning.

Gan Ning was entangled here, and the soldiers of the fleet were no match for the group of men in black. When Gan Ning injured a man in black who surrounded him, he found that all the soldiers he brought with him were dead, and he alone could not do anything.

In the end, Gan Ning chose to jump into the sea.

The group of men in black had no intention of pursuing, but instead drove the entire fleet away.

After Gan Ning came back and told Sun Jian the news of the fleet being attacked again, Sun Jian had no choice but to give up.

During these three grain transports, not only was the grain not shipped out and became someone else's, but even the fleet lost more than half of its crew.

Under such circumstances, Sun Jian didn't want to transport food to Cao Cao anymore.

Sun Jian immediately informed Cao Cao that he would no longer transport grain.

Cao Cao did not expect that Sun Jian would be so useless.

"Sun Jian is a piece of trash!"

Cao Cao couldn't help but curse Sun Jian, but now Sun Jian was unwilling to help, so he could only rely on himself.

However, Cao Cao's grain transport team was ambushed just after they left Yizhou. The grain and grass disappeared, and there were only corpses of the people transporting the grain. They were also sent back to the border of Yizhou overnight.

This was a blatant humiliation. How could Cao Cao tolerate it?

Outside Yizhou is Gu Rubing's territory. Cao Cao had never suspected Gu Rubing before, but this time the grain and grass were lost outside Yizhou. He didn't believe it had nothing to do with Gu Rubing. A grain transport team was intercepted and the grain and grass were lost, but Gu Rubing didn't say a word, which also made Cao Cao suspicious.

Soon, Cao Cao's envoy came to Gu Rubing.

As soon as they met, he scolded Gu Rubing for all his immoral behavior, which made Gu Rubing look confused.

Have no idea what happened.

After the messenger finished speaking, Gu Rubing waved his hand.

"I say, you've said so many immoral things about me, but I don't think I've done any of them, right? You transported the grain without telling me, and now something has gone wrong, and you're blaming me. Aren't you, the Cao family, a little too shameless?"

"This……"

The messenger was suddenly speechless.

Just as Gu Rubing was talking to the messenger, Zhuge Liang walked in and whispered in Gu Rubing's ear.

When the messenger arrived, Zhuge Liang received news that there were signs of a large-scale battle not far from Jingzhou.

Now with Cao Cao's dissatisfaction, Zhuge Liang immediately guessed something.

"Okay, messenger, go back first. I will investigate this matter thoroughly. If it is really me who did it, I will definitely tell you. But if it is not me, don't think of taking the blame on me."

Seeing Gu Rubing's serious tone, the envoy was also shocked. This was Liu Bei's territory, and he could not act arrogantly on someone else's territory.

King Lie, it would be better if you didn't do this.

"Boy, you dare to threaten my master?"

Zhang Liao stood up, he could no longer bear it.

"Forget it, let them go back." Gu Rubing waved his hand. The messengers did not dare to stay and turned away. They even did not stay overnight at Gu Rubing's place that night.

"My lord, this group of people come and go without a trace. Although they won't cause much trouble to us now, no one knows if they will in the future. How about we conduct a comprehensive search for this group of people?"

Gu Rubing also fell into deep thought about Zhang Liao's proposal.

He thought about it for a long time, but couldn't remember the existence of such a group of people. If not, then if this group of people still existed, it meant that they were most likely not from the Central Plains. But outside the territory, there was only the Anluo Empire. Could they be Liu Zhang's people?
Liu Zhang's fighting power has indeed increased frighteningly, but it can't be that strong, right? If that's the case, then Liu Zhang is probably the most terrifying of all the princes.

Although he had such a guess in his mind, Gu Rubing still felt that his idea was a bit too weird.

Just as they were talking, Zhuge Liang's voice came again.

"My Lord, there is one more thing. Sun Shangxiang is missing!"

"what?"

Gu Rubing stood up directly from his seat.

He looked at Zhuge Liang in front of him in shock.

Sun Shangxiang’s disappearance was such a big thing, but Zhuge Liang didn’t tell him immediately.

"Military Advisor, why didn't you tell me earlier about Sun Shangxiang's big event?"

"My lord, please be patient. When Sun Shangxiang disappeared, she left a letter saying that she had returned to Jiaozhou. I didn't take it seriously at first. After all, my lord didn't say that he wouldn't let Sun Shangxiang leave. After all, that was her home. But I just received news that Sun Shangxiang didn't show up in Jiaozhou, and Sun Jian didn't know that she had returned."

Gu Rubing knew that this matter was not simple. Sun Shangxiang's disappearance might be targeting him.

"So you are now?"

"Sun Ce is here and wants to ask us about Sun Shangxiang's disappearance!"

Gu Rubing rolled his eyes at Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang only spoke to him after the other man's family members had come to kill him.

"Let Sun Ce come in."

"No need, I'm already in."

As Sun Ce came in, Zhao Yun and others followed behind him.

After all, the opponent is a legendary general. Even the weakest legendary general can kill Gu Rubing in an instant.

"Sun Ce, what are you doing here?"

"Liu Bei, where is my sister? Don't tell me she's missing. I've heard too many such things recently. I don't believe that my sister could be missing here."

"Sun Ce, Sun Shangxiang is indeed missing, and our people are looking for her!"

"Missing. Your spies are all over the place. The two sides are fighting. We haven't heard about our march yet. Sometimes you, Liu Bei, know first. How can you tell me that a living person is missing? Where are your spies?"

Gu Rubing smiled helplessly.

He also wanted to know where Sun Shangxiang was.

"Sun Ce, don't worry, I will definitely find Sun Shangxiang back. You can rest assured about this."

Gu Rubing did not realize at this time how serious the matter was.

Sun Ce looked at Gu Rubing, as well as Zhao Yun and others beside Gu Rubing, snorted coldly, and turned away.

After Sun Ce left, Gu Rubing sighed.

This person is missing, and I am very anxious.

"Prime Minister, speed up the search for Sun Shangxiang. We must find her and ensure her safety."

Just two days after Zhuge Liang received the order, he received some news.

"My Lord, according to the information sent by our people, Sun Shangxiang was last seen in Yizhou."

"Yizhou? Cao Cao? Why did he capture Sun Shangxiang?"

Not only Cao Cao didn't know the answer to this question, even Zhuge Liang looked confused at this time.

And Zhuge Liang had a feeling that something was wrong.

In order to confirm the certainty of this news, Zhuge Liang sent many spies to investigate, and the results they got in the end were the same, which was indeed related to Cao Cao.

"Tell Cao Cao to hand over the man immediately, or don't blame me. I will eat back double what I vomited."

"My lord, I still feel something is wrong. We have been fighting Cao Cao for such a long time. Whatever capabilities Cao Cao has, we should be able to control them. Cao Cao should not be able to kidnap Sun Shangxiang in front of us. In addition, if Cao Cao really has such capabilities, how could he let us know that she is in Yizhou? He knows we are looking for her, but he is releasing the news now. Isn't this obviously asking us to target Cao Cao?"

After Zhuge Liang's words, Gu Rubing also realized that he seemed to have been fooled.

Today the world is like a chessboard, and everyone is a chess piece.

Before, the person playing chess was either himself or Zhuge Liang, but this time, even himself and Zhuge Liang seemed to have become chess pieces, and the person playing chess has not shown up until now.

"No matter what, let Cao Cao hand over the person first. Since he is in Yizhou, it is Cao Cao's business. If Cao Cao can't find him, then let us go to Yizhou to look for him!"

"Yes!"

After Zhuge Liang left, Gu Rubing took a sip of water, then slapped the teacup in his hand on the table. The feeling of being used as a pawn made them very unhappy.

Cao Cao knew that Sun Shangxiang was missing and smiled with pride.

Cao Cao felt uneasy because there were so many things in Ba County that he had asked for from Gu Rubing. He felt that they would be taken back at any time. But this time, Sun Shangxiang was missing, and Sun Jian would definitely not let Liu Bei go. Sun Jian going to war with Liu Bei was what Cao Cao wanted to see most. Gu Rubing had no time and energy to take care of himself.

But he didn't expect that Gu Rubing would drag him into this vortex and insist that Sun Shangxiang was in his Yizhou.

"Liu Bei, are you smart?"

Cao Cao threw Gu Rubing's letter directly into the fire.

How could Sun Shangxiang be in her own Yizhou? He couldn't even think of what Sun Shangxiang was doing in Yizhou. Was it because Yizhou was full of mountains, was she here for an outing?

However, news soon came from Xun Yu that the last place Sun Shangxiang appeared was not Yizhou, but Ba County.

When Cao Cao heard this, his first reaction was that Gu Rubing did it on purpose.

Using the excuse of looking for Sun Shangxiang to attack Ba County is just a reason that is a bit too far-fetched.

Now there is only one best way to avoid disputes, and that is to find Sun Shangxiang as soon as possible.

However, no matter how hard Cao Cao looked, he could not find any trace of Sun Shangxiang.

Ugly time.

Outside Linjiang City.

Zhang Liao and Pang De, along with a group of Taishan tiger bandits, ambushed outside the city.

Just as the two were ready, a rocket shot up into the sky.

Zhang Liao and Pang De, with the Taishan tiger bandits, rushed out in an instant and caught Linjiang City off guard.

Under the desperate fighting style of the two men, Linjiang City soon could not hold on.

(End of this chapter)