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

Gu Rubing was completely unconcerned about the stares from those around him.

If these people dare to lay a hand on me, I wouldn't mind letting them fall apart once again.

Soon, the three arrived at the largest tent in the middle.

The guards at the gate were dressed completely differently from the Qiang people, and instead looked somewhat like the Han people.

"Who goes there? The king and princess are discussing matters inside and no one is allowed to disturb them."

"I am Princess Xiao Cai, please let me in quickly. I have something to report to my mistress."

"Hmph, I don't care who you are. The king has decreed that no one is allowed to enter. Trespassers will be killed without mercy!"

Upon hearing this, Gu Rubing smiled and nodded to Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao stretched out his hands and grabbed the necks of the two guards. With a little force, their necks snapped.

At that moment, a scream came from inside the tent.

"Princess!"

Xiao Cai immediately sensed something was wrong and rushed into the tent.

Gu Rubing followed closely behind.

Upon entering the tent, one sees a man who appears to be in his fifties, presumably the so-called King of Pishan, staring at a woman lying on the ground, who must be Princess Eman.

"Who are you? Didn't I say no one is allowed to enter? Didn't anyone outside stop you?"

"Oh, you mean them?"

Gu Rubing waved his hand, and Zhang Liao walked in, pulling a dead guard by the hand.

Seeing that his men were dead, the king looked at Gu Rubing in shock.

"Who are you, daring to lay a hand on my people?"

"No matter who I am, that doesn't give you the right to bully the Qiang princess on their territory, does it?"

After Gu Rubing finished speaking, he sat down on a chair next to him.

"Is that so? Then I'll show you my strength."

The King of Pishan walked outside the tent.

"All of you from Pishan Kingdom, come here!"

As the King of Pishan's voice rang out, dozens of people ran over. Gu Rubing could tell that these people were probably bandits from the surrounding area, and they all carried a bandit-like air about them.

"Kid, no matter who you are, if you dare to ruin my plans, you're not leaving here today."

After saying this, King Pishan waved his hand.

"stop."

Princess Eman immediately intervened to stop it.

"Hmph, E'man, don't forget, you are my woman. Do you really want to side with an outsider?"

"I never said I had to marry you."

Princess Eman snorted coldly, then walked up to Gu Rubing.

"you are……"

"Who I am is not important; what matters is who you want me to be?"

Gu Rubing's intention was simply to have E'man keep his identity a secret for the time being. After all, he was a Han Chinese, and the Qiang people here did not have a good impression of Han Chinese. If his identity was exposed, the Qiang people around him would inevitably cause him trouble, which would interfere with his alliance plan.

But Princess Eman clearly misunderstood.

"King of Pishan, this is my son-in-law, and the future ruler of the Qiang people."

"puff!"

Gu Rubing spat out a mouthful of tea, then looked at Princess Eman with a shocked expression.

Gu Rubing wanted to refute, but Princess Eman stopped him.

"Didn't you just say that I can decide who you are?"

For a moment, Gu Rubing was unable to refute this statement.

King Pishan, who was standing nearby, turned grim upon seeing this.

"You little brat, you've come all the way to me to steal someone. You probably don't know what I used to do. Everyone, get him and tear him to pieces."

Soon everyone rushed towards Gu Rubing.

However, in that split second, a flash of light appeared.

Everyone stopped in their tracks.

King Pishan, standing to the side, looked at these people with some resentment.

"What are you doing? Didn't you hear my order? Get to work now!"

However, these people still did not move.

A moment later, one of the people's heads slowly slid off.

Then everyone's heads started to slide off.

Blood was instantly splattered all over the ground of the camp.

Zhang Liao's blade was so fast that even when it severed their necks, their heads didn't fall off in time.

King Pishan had never seen such a fast knife before, and he was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.

"Today's events are a lesson. If it happens again, I'll let you taste this sharp knife too."

After Gu Rubing finished speaking, he slapped the King of Pishan across the face.

"roll!"

Upon hearing this, King Pishan scrambled away from the place.

Zhang Liao wanted to say something upon seeing this, but Gu Rubing stopped him.

After King Pishan crawled away, Princess Eman slowly approached Gu Rubing and knelt down directly on the ground.

"Greetings, Your Highness Prince Lie."

Even his maid Xiao Cai could recognize him, so Gu Rubing was not surprised at all that Princess Eman could recognize him.

"Princess, please rise. I only learned about your situation by accidentally saving your maid. I heard from your maid that you wanted to join forces with me. I wonder if that's true?"

"Yes, but my tribe has relatively few soldiers. I hope Your Highness King Lie will not find it offensive."

"Your tribe? Does the Qiang people have other tribes?"

Upon hearing this, Princess Eman nodded.

After hesitating for a moment, she didn't say anything more and walked over to Gu Rubing's side.

“Your Highness, as long as you help me restore the former glory of the Qiang people, I am willing to give everything, including myself.”

After saying that, Princess Eman immediately tried to sit on Gu Rubing's lap.

But Gu Rubing got up and dodged him.

“I do want to help you, but if you really succeed, I need you to do something for me.”

"Your Highness, please speak freely."

"I need your help to restrain the Anluo Empire, namely Sun Jian, the King of Wu."

"no problem."

Princess Eman agreed without hesitation.

This decisiveness was something Gu Rubing hadn't expected.

"Alright, since that's the case, let's talk about the situation."

Princess Eman nodded.

However, just as he was about to say something...

A group of Qiang people ran in, each holding a long knife, clearly having heard the commotion.

However, her reaction speed was far too slow. "Princess, are you alright?"

Upon seeing the corpse on the ground, these people hurriedly looked at E'man.

"I'm fine. This gentleman saved me. I hereby declare that this gentleman is my husband, and we will get married on a chosen date."

"Consort?"

Everyone looked at Gu Rubing with puzzled expressions.

Gu Rubing hadn't expected that Princess Eman would go to such lengths.

He only said he would help her restore the former glory of the Qiang people, and he didn't say he would sacrifice himself.
"I……"

"Alright, you can all leave now. I have something to discuss with the Prince Consort."

E'man stopped Gu Rubing and drove everyone who came in out.

After everyone had left, Princess Eman looked at Gu Rubing.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness, you are a Han Chinese. If I don't say that you are my son-in-law, it might arouse suspicion from others."

Gu Rubing nodded. In any case, he wouldn't lose out in this matter; it was Princess Eman who would.

"Alright, let's talk about the current situation. Although your Qiang tribe has been torn apart, there's definitely no way you only have this many people. I see that there are less than three thousand people outside."

Princess Eman nodded.

Then he led Gu Rubing to a map.

Gu Rubing saw that the map was about the desert.

The red dot above naturally represents the tribe where Princess Eman lived.

Not far from their tribe, there was another green dot. Gu Rubing guessed that this should be another Qiang tribe nearby.

As expected, Princess Eman pointed to the red dot on the map.

"Your Highness, the red dot on this map is our current location, while the green dot next to it is the largest Qiang tribe in our vicinity."

"Oh? How many people are on the other side?"

"There are about 10,000 people in the clan."

"Ten thousand people?"

Gu Rubing looked at E'man in front of him with a helpless expression.

Therefore, her power as a princess was the weakest.

Princess Eman lowered her head somewhat awkwardly.

"Who are they? Why have they gathered so many people?"

“Replying to King Lie, their leader is called Bulu. He was originally a powerful clan in the Qiang tribe with a lot of money. Later, when the Qiang tribe fell apart, Bulu used that money to start gathering the surrounding Qiang tribes. In just a few months, he surpassed my power as a princess. Moreover, he also brought all the bandits in the area under his control.”

Gu Rubing burst out laughing upon hearing this.

In this day and age, the influence of so-called royal family members is not as strong as that of a family. As long as you have money, anyone can follow you.

But if you don't have money, even if you were a princess in the past, very few people would be willing to follow you.

"What's your relationship with this Blue?"

"It's terrible. Even this forced marriage with the King of Pishan was because of Bru's coercion. Bru said he would attack my tribe in five days. I only agreed to marry the King of Pishan in order to resist Bru."

"I see!"

For some reason, Gu Rubing had a feeling that this was a trap.

"Alright, I understand the general situation now. Please arrange a place for us to rest. We've been traveling for so long, we're tired too."

"Ok."

Princess Eman immediately ordered a tent to be prepared and sent Zhang Liao and Gu Rubing inside.

After the Qiang people left, Zhang Liao looked at Gu Rubing.

"My lord, that King of Pishan will surely not let the Qiang people here go. Why don't you let me kill him right there? Why let him escape?"

"Killing him wouldn't be difficult, but since Princess Eman wants to cooperate with us, I need to see their value, right? They can't possibly be unable to defeat such a small king; what's the point of me having such a Qiang tribe?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Liao finally understood and hurriedly nodded.

Early the next morning.

Gu Rubing was awakened by the noise outside.

He opened his eyes groggily and saw Zhang Liao walking in from outside.

"My lord, Princess Eman wishes to see you. I heard that the Kingdom of Pishan has attacked."

"They've finally arrived. I didn't expect the Pishan Kingdom to be so fast. Let's go. Since they want to see us, let's go and see them."

Soon, the two arrived at E'man's tent.

Upon seeing the two arrive, E'man immediately knelt before Gu Rubing.

"Please help us, Your Highness. The army of 10,000 from Pishan Kingdom is about to reach our tribe. We only have less than 3,000 people. There is no way we can stop them."

Seeing this, Gu Rubing helped E'man up.

“Princess Eman, since you want to cooperate with me, then you should show me the strength of your tribe. If you can’t even show any strength and only ask me for help when you have a little trouble, then what use are you to me?”

Princess Eman understood Gu Rubing's meaning upon hearing this and nodded.

Gu Rubing, meanwhile, followed leisurely behind E'man with Zhang Liao.

Soon, under Eman's command, more than two thousand Qiang people were organized.

Before long, the King of Pishan arrived before Eman with ten thousand men.

"Princess Eman, if you marry me, I promise to forgive and forget what happened before, and I will also help your Qiang tribe to alleviate the crisis, how about it?"

"Hmph, I've already chosen my consort, so give up on that idea."

"You chose a consort? Now my army of ten thousand is standing in front of you, and what has your consort done? He can only watch the show from the sidelines, and in the end, he can only watch helplessly as I take you away, and your tribe will be stained with blood."

Upon hearing this, all the Qiang people looked at Gu Rubing.

Gu Rubing hadn't expected that simply watching the excitement would attract so much attention.

However, Gu Rubing's powerful aura made the surrounding Qiang people dare not look directly at him for too long.

After everyone had turned their attention away, Gu Rubing hid in a shady spot and looked at the battlefield on both sides.

"Hmph, we, the Qiang people, will handle our own affairs. It's none of your business to interfere. Besides, based on what you did to me before, I simply don't believe you would fight to the death with the Bulu tribe for us."

"Fine, fine, you're not even married yet, and you dare to talk to me like that? You're really tired of living. Everyone, get him!"

Ten thousand cavalrymen charged towards the Qiang people.

Gu Rubing watched the melee and found that although the Qiang people were few in number, each of them was quite capable in combat. Although there were only two thousand or so people, they were still overwhelming the enemy's ten thousand.

"Wen Yuan, what do you think?"

"My lord, the Qiang people are indeed quite strong in battle, but unfortunately, they are too few in number. It won't be long before the Qiang people are exhausted, and that will be the time for the Pishan Kingdom to launch a counterattack."

This is almost identical to Gu Rubing's judgment.

"Alright, let's wait a bit longer. I feel like the Qiang people can hold on a little longer."

An hour later.

The Qiang people's physical strength has also reached its limit.

People have already started dying from exhaustion.

"My lord, the Qiang tribe has reached its limit; I'm afraid they can't hold on any longer."

"Alright, Wen Yuan, get started, and be quick."

"Yes!"

Zhang Liao charged directly into the battlefield.

The yellow dragon hovered above Zhang Liao's head, repeatedly knocking away soldiers from the surrounding Pishan Kingdom. (End of Chapter)