Wandering the Heavens

Chapter 403 New 3 Kingdoms 43

"I know that in this era, wars, famines, and plagues have always existed, and people are killed by them every day. It is not as beautiful as people imagine. But in such a desperate and suffocating environment, there are still heart-wrenching stories of loyal heroes, which is a dazzling pearl in the long river of China's brilliant history."

"But what have you done? Scholars don't know etiquette, ministers don't plan, soldiers don't talk about war, and those who live in seclusion don't keep their chastity. Your words and actions are all clownish."

"I don't understand what you are saying!" Guan Yu simply didn't understand what Yu Xian was saying.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. I don't expect you to understand. But I have to say this in a hurry. You are going to die. Your dead-faced brother and your uneducated brother will be here to accompany you soon."

After Yu Xian finished speaking, he shouted, "Guan Yu has been captured. Those who surrender will not be killed!"

The Jingzhou army, which was already in a state of defeat, heard this and laid down their weapons without hesitation. In this chaotic battlefield, Yu Xian's voice clearly penetrated into the ears of every officer and soldier.

The dying Jingzhou army laid down their weapons and knelt down to surrender, while Lu Meng ran towards the platform with his personal soldiers and several generals.

"Guan Yu, it's really you! Hahaha!" Lu Meng stepped forward and laughed when he saw Guan Yu lying on the ground unable to move: "Who captured this Guan Yu? This commander-in-chief will report it to General Sun and reward him handsomely!"

However, the scene was completely silent, with only the sounds of the cold wind and the raging fire, and no one stepped forward to claim this tremendous credit.

"Those who captured Guan Yu, come forward!"

"Those who captured Guan Yu, come forward!"

……

Lu Meng shouted again and again, but no one came forward. Time passed bit by bit, and everyone just held torches and knives and looked at Guan Yu lying on the ground indifferently.

Seeing that the battlefield was beginning to cool down, Lu Meng could only order Guan Yu and his sons and a bunch of his generals to be detained, and after collecting the surrendered soldiers, he took them on a ship back to Jiangdong. As for who captured Guan Yu, it would not be too late to investigate after he was settled.

The situation in Jiangdong is delicate now. Lu Su is seriously ill, and the veteran generals are either dead or lying down and don't care about Sun Quan at all. Once Sun and Liu go to war, Lu Meng himself cannot defeat Liu Bei.

Therefore, defeating and capturing Guan Yu had already achieved Lu Meng's strategic goal. The next step was how to completely tie himself to Sun Quan. Lu Meng's token of surrender was the heads of Guan Yu and his son.

Sun Quan was very uneasy and angry about Lu Meng's decision and achievements in attacking Jingzhou. Although Lu Meng said that he would go out to find trouble with Guan Yu, he did not expect him to be so bold as to kill Guan Yu.

What he needs is an absolutely loyal dog, but Zhou Yu is his elder brother Sun Ce's man; Lu Su has even less integrity than himself; after thinking it over, he feels that Lu Meng, who took the initiative to surrender to him, should be obedient.

Who knew he was also a dog with ideas.

Of course, the most important thing now is not the anxiety and anger, but how to quell the hatred between Liu Bei and Zhang Fei.

When the news that Lu Meng captured and killed Guan Yu reached Lu Su, he cried and laughed for a long time despite his weak body.

After becoming the Grand Commander, Lu Su discovered that the way Sun Quan looked at him was no different from the way he looked at the previous Grand Commander Zhou Yu, and he even arranged for Lu Meng to oppose him.

The retribution for overthrowing Zhou Yu fell neatly on Lu Su.

Lu Su wanted to maintain the current lukewarm relationship with Liu Bei, while Lu Meng was sharpening his knife every day in an attempt to destroy the Jingzhou military water stronghold across the river.

In short, if Lu Su goes east, Lu Meng must go west. He gradually understood Zhou Yu's pain of being unreasonably suspected, and it was too late when he discovered that something was wrong with his body.

He was not sick but poisoned. Now the western front that he had worked so hard to build was destroyed by Lu Meng's sword, and Lu Su died of anger.

Lu Su died so quickly that Sun Quan didn't know what to do. When he was young, he followed his father to participate in the princes' campaign against Dong Zhuo, and witnessed with his own eyes the destructive power of the three mad dogs: Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.

Now that Guan Yu has been beheaded, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei will surely lead their troops to attack and tear him to pieces!

After much thought, in order to appease Liu Bei's anger, he could only put the blame on Lu Su and Lu Meng. Lu Su was a dead man who couldn't speak, so Lu Meng had to spend some time thinking about it.

After consultation with Zhang Zhao, Sun Quan ordered Lu Meng to return to Jianye to accept the reward and celebration of his promotion to the position of Grand Commander.

Lu Meng felt that he had made the right bet. Not only did he go one step further, but he also became deeply bound with Sun Quan. He rushed all the way to Jianye without stopping.

Then he took the seal of the Grand Commander during the day, drank heavily at night, and went to the mansion given to him by Sun Quan late at night and could not leave the house. According to the people who collected the body, Lu Meng died a miserable death, with his eyes wide open, blood flowing from all seven orifices, and his face was hideous, and his neck was covered with bruises, as if he was being killed by an evil spirit.

Sun Quan felt that Lu Meng deserved to die, and since he was gone, he did not appoint a Grand Commander, and directly led the army of Jiangdong. Then he asked Kan Ze to go to Jiangxia to meet Liu Bei, and roughly meant that the attack on Jingzhou and the capture and killing of Guan Yu were the decisions of Lu Su and Lu Meng, and had nothing to do with Sun Quan, and Jiangdong was deeply regretful about this.

Now both of them have died as a result of their evil deeds, and Jiangdong is responsible for this.

Kan Ze rushed to Xiakou and saw the whole city in mourning. The news of Guan Yu's death had already spread here.

For Liu Bei, three things happened this winter, one good and two bad. The good thing was that Liu Qi, who had been ill for a long time, finally died, and he was finally able to take over Liu Qi's power and rule this small piece of land with dignity.

One bad thing was that Guan Yu was captured and killed, and the Jingzhou navy suffered heavy losses; another bad thing was that he and Zhang Fei led troops to attack Runan and were defeated again, and most of the troops they led out were killed or wounded.

Liu Bei, who was already struggling on the verge of death, was now completely defeated and had no chance of turning things around.

When Kan Ze arrived in Xiakou, he first went to pay his respects to Liu Qi's spirit.

"Jiangdong rats, give me back my second brother's life!"

As soon as Kan Ze entered the mourning hall, he was hit by a candlestick thrown by Zhang Fei, leaving a large cut on his forehead, and blood was pouring out. Kan Ze glanced at Zhang Fei, who seemed to want to eat him, and walked to Liu Qi's coffin to pay his respects according to etiquette. After finishing, he left the mourning hall to treat the wound on his forehead.

"You Jiangdong rat, stop right there, or I'll poke a thousand transparent holes in you right now!"

Seeing that Kan Ze ignored him, Zhang Fei picked up another candlestick in front of Liu Qi's coffin and threw it at Kan Ze's back.

"Don't be rude, Third Brother!"

Liu Bei shouted loudly when Zhang Fei threw the candlestick.

"Hmph, Liu Xuande, you don't have to pretend like this. It was indeed wrong for Lu Su and Lu Meng to capture and kill Guan Yu. Now I have come here on the orders of General Sun to explain and discuss the aftermath, but you condoned Zhang Fei to throw objects to injure people and to humiliate him with words, and even when the two armies were fighting, you didn't kill the envoys." Kan Ze said coldly, enduring the severe pain in his back and the blood on his face.

"Derun, my third brother is a little impatient. This is a misunderstanding. I hope you can forgive me."

Liu Bei understood what Kan Ze meant. Sun Quan was indeed a worthless person, but the people of Jiangdong were not. They did not mind fighting with Liu Bei. Thinking of this, Liu Bei hurried forward to salute Kan Ze to express his apology.

"Do you really think that I, the hero of Jiangdong, am made of mud? Since you, Liu Bei, have no intention of discussing the aftermath, then Jiangdong will accompany you to the end!" Kan Ze looked at the expressionless Liu Bei and said coldly, then flicked his sleeves and left.