The Three Kingdoms Fight for the Deer

Chapter 373 Xu Zhu Gives Gifts
"Let's go and have a look first." Zhou Yu led the crowd to the city. He looked down from the wall and saw that Xu Zhu had only brought dozens of people, but he was not timid at all.

"Xu Zhu, what do you want me to do?" Zhou Yu shouted from the city. He knew that Xu Zhu was an important person beside Li Yuan. Li Yuan's most trusted generals were Zhao Yun and Xu Zhu. It is the friendship between teachers and brothers, and the friendship with Xu Zhu is also very good. It can be said that the first person to follow Li Yuan was not Zhao Yun or Huang Zhong, but Xu Zhu.

Xu Zhu's military rank may not be as high as that of the five tiger generals, but the Tiger Guards under his command are dedicated to guarding Li Yuan's safety, and only those who are extremely trusted by Li Yuan can hold this position, even if Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Hua Generals such as Xiong and Taishi Ci couldn't be as close to Li Yuan as Xu Zhu was, so Zhou Yu saw that Li Yuan sent Xu Zhu to know that it must be for a very important matter.

Xu Zhu raised his head to look at Zhou Yu, cupped his fists and said, "General Zhou, my lord has a big gift for you, please accept it."

Zhou Yu saw that the soldiers behind Xu Zhu were indeed holding several brocade boxes, but he didn't know what was inside, so he asked, "General Xu Zhu, please tell me what kind of gift this is?"

"I don't know what it is, and I don't dare to open it privately, but my lord told me to hand it over to General Zhou, and please accept it." Xu Zhu actually knew what was inside. , but it was impossible for him to tell Zhou Yu, otherwise Zhou Yu would be so angry that someone would shoot him away immediately.

Ling Cao beside Zhou Yu said softly: "General Zhou, why don't we take it up and have a look, anyway, it's just a few boxes, so it won't threaten us."

"Ling Cao is right, we can't guess what it is without looking at it." Dong Xi was also curious about what was inside.

"Okay," Zhou Yu nodded, and said to Xu Zhudao, "General Xu Zhu, I'll let the soldiers put down the basket later, and you just need to put things on it."

After a while, the soldiers tied the basket with a rope, and then slowly lowered it to the city.Xu Zhu asked the soldiers to put the boxes on the four baskets one by one, and then he clasped his fists to Zhou Yu and said, "My mission has been completed. There is a letter on the box, please open it for General Zhou to read. Farewell!"

After Xu Zhu finished speaking, he led the soldiers to leave. Seeing that Xu Zhu hadn't gone far, Dong Xi couldn't help but said, "General Zhou, should we take this opportunity to shoot arrows at him?"

"Forget it, the two armies don't kill to send envoys, and although Xu Zhu is an important general around Li Yuan, his ability to command troops is average. Killing him will not have much impact on the situation, but it will anger Li Yuan. It is said that Xu Zhu is very skilled in martial arts, ordinary sneak attacks are useless to him, let him go back." Zhou Yu shook his head, rejecting Dong Xi's suggestion.

The soldiers pulled up the baskets and handed them to Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu saw a letter on one of the baskets. He opened it and saw that it said, "General Zhou, please don't open this gift without permission. Let's open it together."

"What the hell is in here? I have to wait for the lord to open it." Ling Cao was a little confused.

"Li Yuan really likes to show off, so I will follow his wish, Ling Cao, you call the generals to go to the prefect's mansion, I will go to the lord, and I want to see what is inside him." Zhou Yu did not open the brocade without permission. box, decided to summon the generals to check it out.

Half an hour later, all the generals in the army had arrived at the prefect's mansion. With the support of his servants, Sun Ce also walked to the meeting hall. He sat down on the chair and asked Zhou Yu, "Why is Gong Jin looking for us?"

"Bo Fu, everyone, Li Yuan gave us a gift, so I called you to see what it is." Zhou Yu told everyone what happened.

"There is such a thing? Bring it here and show it to me. I want to open it myself." Sun Ce's curiosity also came, and he decided to open it himself.

Zhou Tai came out suddenly and said, "My lord, let the general do it for me. There may be fraud in it."

"Cheat? It's just a brocade box. You're too suspicious, You Ping." Sun Ce didn't think so. He was not a coward, and he believed that Li Yuan would not use such a method.

After being reminded by Zhou Tai, Zhou Yu also came to his senses, and said, "My lord, you must not have the heart to harm others, and the heart to guard against others is indispensable, not to mention that our army is at war with Li Yuan. There are traps in the box, as long as the box is opened, the trap will be activated, and a hidden weapon will be fired from the box, and the person who opens the box will be hit immediately. Medicine can help."

Everyone broke out in a cold sweat when they heard the words, and they all persuaded Sun Ce not to open the box himself.In desperation, Sun Ce could only nod his head in agreement, not to mention that his generals were also doing it for his own good, so he couldn't help but appreciate it.

Just in case, Zhou Tai asked everyone to step aside. He took a spear in his hand, stood far away, and opened one of the brocade boxes with the tip of the spear.After the brocade box was opened, no hidden weapons flew out, but everyone became ashen-faced, with surprise and astonishment. I am afraid that the hidden weapons inside did not shock them so much.

"How could it be General Zhu's head!" Sun Ce almost couldn't stand after seeing the contents of the box clearly. Fortunately, the servants beside him supported him so that he didn't fall down.

"What a Li Yuan, how dare you humiliate us like this!" Zhou Tai became furious, threw away the spear in his hand, and then went to open the other three brocade boxes, only to see that the brocade boxes contained Zhu Ran, Wu Jing, etc. And Zhang Cheng's head, everyone couldn't help being shocked when they saw it!
Zhou Tai was also stunned, he knew what it meant to see these heads, not only did Li Yuan humiliate them, but also told them that Jingnan had been captured by Tai Shici.

Everyone knew that Zhu Zhi and Zhu Ran were stationed in Changsha, Wu Jing was stationed in Lingling, and Zhang Cheng was stationed in Guiyang. The appearance of the heads of these people indicated that Changsha, Lingling and Guiyang had all been captured.

Although the heads of Han Dang and Xu Sheng who were stationed in Wuling did not appear, they believed that it must be more ominous, because it is impossible for Tai Shici to attack Lingling if he does not break Wuling, so there is a [-]% chance that Wuling has been broken. It is said that the whole of Jingnan has fallen.

The entire meeting hall fell silent, except for the heavy breathing of everyone, and everyone couldn't accept this sudden news for a while.After a long time, Sun Ce sat down and said slowly, "Close the box, and let someone find a high-quality coffin for burial." Several soldiers led the order and took the box down.

"My lord, Li Yuan's actions are intended to humiliate us, please let me lead the troops out of the city to avenge General Zhu and the others!" Zhou Tai begged for his life.

(End of this chapter)