The Three Kingdoms Fight for the Deer

Chapter 542
Seven days later, Zhuge Liang and Zhong Yao had already arranged everything, but they still hadn't waited for Shangyong's reinforcements. Zhong Yao couldn't help wondering, "Why haven't Shangyong's reinforcements arrived yet? Don't they plan to come?"

"Although there is this possibility, I think they are more likely to come. Maybe it was delayed because of some things." Zhuge Liang thought that Shangyong's reinforcements should come, but perhaps it was not Gan Ning.

"Mr. Kong Ming, there is no way for us to wait like this."

"Wait another five days. If they don't come after five days, we won't wait." Zhuge Liang decided to wait another five days. If the enemy didn't come, he decided that Zhang Fei would lead his troops into the city.As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier suddenly ran in and said, "Report to the military commander, our scouts have found the enemy's traces, and it is estimated that they will arrive in Hanzhong in an hour."

Zhong Yao walked up to him and asked, "Is it Shangyong's reinforcements?"

"They came from the direction of Shangyong, and they should be Shangyong's reinforcements."

"Do you know who the enemy's general is, is it Gan Ning?" Zhuge Liang wanted to know if Gan Ning would come in person.

"According to the scout's report, the enemy's handsome flag has the word 'Cheng' written on it, so it must not be Gan Ning."

"It's not Gan Ning, Mr. Kong Ming, does Mr. Kong Ming know which general in Li Yuan's army is surnamed Cheng?" Zhong Yao has never heard of a general surnamed Cheng under Li Yuan's command.Holding the goose feather fan in his hand, Zhuge Liang bowed his head in thought, and said, "Mr. Zhong, there is one thing I want to confirm with you."

"What's the matter, just ask, sir."

"I heard that Zhou Yu took refuge with General Cao more than a year ago, and later went to Xiapi to join Li Yuan. Is this true?" Zhuge Liang had heard about it, but he didn't know the truth.

Zhong Yao was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Zhuge Liang to ask about this matter, he wandered a few steps, and then slowly said: "Yes, there is indeed such a thing, but I have been guarding Chang'an, so I don't know what happened in Yecheng. I don’t know, I also heard it from other people.”

"Could Eunuch Zhong tell me what happened in detail?"

Zhong Yao sat down and said to Zhuge Liang in detail: "At the beginning when Sun Ce lost to Li Yuan, the Sun family was under house arrest by Li Yuan in Xiapi. Sun Ce's younger brother, Sun Quan, was quite ambitious. When Li Yuan was away, he attacked Li Yuan's mansion, but in the end it failed, Sun Quan was arrested, but Zhou Yu, Zhou Tai and others fled to Yecheng to join the lord, and served the lord for half a year, but half a year later I heard that something happened A very incredible thing happened.”

"What's the matter?" Zhuge Liang also became interested, he wanted to know how Zhou Yu escaped from Yecheng.

"A man named Zhao Yu appeared out of nowhere. This man is highly skilled in martial arts and has great courage. He fought head-to-head with Dian Wei, the commander of tiger and leopard cavalry, in the martial arts competition in Yecheng. The lord liked him very much, and named him a The deputy commander of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, but then some weird things happened. It is said that Zhao Yu was romantic and fell in love with a woman from a brothel, but this woman was also taken by Xia Houheng. The two fought several times for this woman. He was also forced to come forward to stop it."

Zhuge Liang interjected, "Is Xia Houheng a child of the Xiahou family?"

"That's right, he is the eldest son of Xia Houyuan, the lord's general, and he is deeply loved by Xia Houyuan and the lord. Retaliation, but this time he kicked the iron plate, that Zhao Yu is not easy to provoke, everyone in Ye City has to give Xia Houyuan a little bit, but Zhao Yu is not afraid of Xia Houyuan."

Zhuge Liang asked curiously, "What happened afterwards? Did Zhao Yu teach Xia Houheng a lesson?"

"Not only was he taught by Zhao Yu, he was killed by Zhao Yu."

"He was killed by Zhao Yu?" Zhuge Liang never thought that this man named Zhao Yu would be so courageous that he would even dare to kill Xia Houyuan's son, "Why did he do this? It's not worth killing Xia Houheng even for a woman, right? , wouldn’t he completely offend Xia Houyuan and General Cao by doing so?”

"That's true. Maybe he has deep affection. Even if he offends Xia Houyuan and the lord for a woman, a strange thing happened before he killed Xia Houheng. That is, Zhou Yu disappeared suddenly. I searched in the city and the outskirts and found no one, and it was only later that I found out that Zhou Yu had gone to Xiapi to seek refuge with Li Yuan." Zhong Yao told the whole story, of course, he also heard these things, there may be seven [-]% is true, [-]% to [-]% is false.

"After Zhou Yu disappeared, Zhao Yu killed Xia Houheng, so what happened to Zhao Yu?" Zhuge Liang asked.

"Sir, you can also guess what Zhao Yu's final fate will be." Zhong Yao made a fool of himself and didn't directly answer Zhuge Liang's question.

"Did you get killed by Xia Houyuan?" No matter how smart Zhuge Liang was, he couldn't have thought that Zhao Yu was actually Li Yuan in disguise.

"No, no, Zhao Yu disappeared after killing Xia Houheng. He seemed to have evaporated from the world, and we couldn't find him no matter how hard we looked. A few months later, we could still learn that Zhou Yu went to Xiapi to seek refuge with Li Yuan. , but Zhao Yu has no news at all, as if he had never appeared before, but the strangest thing is that the lord and Xia Houyuan did not pursue this matter again, and even the military advisor Guo Jia and Xun You did not ask any further questions, as if they had already guessed the lord's whereabouts Thoughts, I think Mr. Kong Ming's intelligence already knows why the lord doesn't pursue it any further." Zhong Yao didn't continue to talk about it here.

Zhuge Liang immediately understood, "Could it be that Zhao Yu was the one Li Yuan sent to help Zhou Yu leave Yecheng and return to Xiapi?"

Zhong Yao shook his head and said, "Mr. is only half right."

"Only guessed half right? Could it be that Li Yuan was pretending to be Zhao Yu?" After Zhuge Liang finished speaking, he felt that it was impossible. How could there be such a powerful makeup technique in this world.

Zhong Yao lowered his voice, and said in Zhuge Liang's ear: "I heard from Master Liu Ye that the lord thinks so too, that the so-called 'Zhao Yu' is Li Yuan himself. Li Yuan is probably the only one with peerless marksmanship who can compete equally with Dian Wei, who is also courageous, who attaches great importance to Zhou Yu, and who is so powerful that even the lord and Xia Houyuan would give up their pursuit."

Zhuge Liang couldn't help taking a breath when he heard the words. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that what Zhong Yao said was not unreasonable. If there are people in this world who are not afraid of death and dare to go deep into the enemy's camp, and who meet these conditions, Li Yuan is probably the only one. .

"By the way, sir hasn't answered my question yet. Do you know if there is a general named Cheng in Li Yuan's army?" Zhong Yao said back to the question just now.

(End of this chapter)