Three Kingdoms: Madam, I am a decent person

Chapter 266 Cao Cao's Envoy: Xiahou Lan

Zhang Sui's sudden attack killed Wei Gu, which directly frightened the dozens of soldiers brought by Wei Gu.

This is Wei Gu!
There are two major families in Hedong County: the Wei family and the Fan family.

Wei Gu is the patriarch of the Wei family!

Although he is now only the General of the Central Army, he is responsible for the defense of Anyi County.

But who in Hedong County dares to go against him?
Even the governor of Hedong County, Wang Yi, had to act according to his mood.

After the emperor moved to Anyi County, even his father-in-law Dong Cheng, Zhang Ji, Yang Feng and others had to be courteous to him and must not offend them, and should try their best not to offend them.

But he didn't expect that someone would dare to kill him today!
Zhang Sui, he is really not afraid of the rebellion of the Wei family!

Zhang Sui stabbed Wei Gu to death with a single sword strike, then immediately drew out his lance and charged directly into the city, stabbing indiscriminately.

Xu Rong and Zhen Hao were on his left and right behind him respectively.

The three of them formed a sharp knife formation and swept across the area near the city gate.

Neither the guards at the city gate nor the dozens of soldiers brought by Wei Gu had ever thought that Zhang Sui would suddenly attack.

They are purely flesh and blood, how can they withstand the trampling of war horses and the attacks of lances.

More than a dozen people died tragically in an instant!
Huang Han, who was outside the city, saw that Zhang Sui, Zhen Hao and Xu Rong had already attacked, and immediately led a thousand cavalrymen to charge in.

Two thousand Black Mountain troops followed closely behind.

A thousand cavalrymen charged forward and directly attacked the city wall.

The city defenders were totally unprepared for this sudden change and could only watch them coming towards them.

The vast majority of people threw down their weapons and surrendered!

Zhang Sui ordered two thousand Black Mountain soldiers to control the city gate and the city wall, and drove all the city defense soldiers on the city wall out of the city and into the military camp.

Zhang Sui held a corpse whose face was covered in blood from being stabbed by various weapons and whose body shape was similar to Li Ru's. He hung Li Ru's seal around the corpse's waist and led a thousand cavalrymen straight to the government office.

The news that Zhang Sui had killed General Wei Gu and completely controlled the city gate had already reached the government office.

The emperor, on the contrary, was very calm.

Since he ascended the throne and became emperor, he has been held hostage by various princes most of the time and has been running around.

Today's situation should be easily resolved.

The emperor ordered people to bring writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone, and took the father-in-law Fu Wan, the father-in-law Dong Cheng, Zhang Ji, Yang Feng and others out to greet him, and waited at the gate of the government office.

Not long after waiting, Zhang Sui was seen coming quickly with a thousand cavalrymen carrying the corpse.

Zhang Sui rode his horse to a short distance away, dismounted, and walked to the emperor Liu Xie and others holding the body and said, "Your Majesty, I wanted to lead the soldiers into the city for patrol today, but the city defense army refused to let me go. During the conflict, the commander of the city defense army, Wei Gu, even had his military advisor Li Ru killed."

"In my anger, I only killed a few people led by Wei Gu."

"Your Majesty, please seek justice!"

Zhen Hao rode up on his horse and placed Wei Gu's head in front of Emperor Liu Xie.

Emperor Liu Xie looked at Zhang Sui and others, sighed softly, and looked at his father-in-law Dong Cheng, Zhang Ji, Yang Feng and others beside him.

Dong Cheng, Zhang Ji, Yang Feng and others looked at each other.

Wei Gu is dead, this is an irreversible fact.

The enemy has so many cavalry in front of them and they also control a city gate.

What’s even more terrifying is that Yuan Shao is standing behind them.

Now almost the entire Hebei is under the control of Yuan Shao.

Although he was annoyed that Yuan Shao could not send anyone to take the emperor to Yecheng.

However, we cannot offend Yuan Shao.

Otherwise, if Yuan Shao attacked, the consequences would be beyond their ability to bear.

Moreover, the emperor is now heading south back to Luoyang.

Without the help of this army, it would have been difficult to repel the armies of Li Jue and Guo Si who occupied Hongnong Port across the river.

The father-in-law Dong Cheng smiled and said, "I think Wei Zhonglang must have some misunderstanding."

After taking a look at Zhang Sui, the father-in-law Dong Cheng said to the emperor Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, it is also a fact that the military advisor Li Ru was killed."

"We can't let General Zhang down like this."

"Well, I heard that General Zhang was born in the Wuji Zhen family."

"There is a city in Wuji called New City."

"Your Majesty may confer upon General Zhang the title of Marquis of Xinchengting."

He looked at Zhang Sui and said, "General Zhang, now is a critical time. We should work together to deal with the rebels. What do you think?" Zhang Sui glanced at Dong Cheng.

All empty promises.

The new city in Wuji County?

What does that have to do with you?
They are all Yuan Shao’s territory!
But nowadays, having a title is considered good.

We really can't kill Emperor Liu Xie here.

Thinking of this, Zhang Sui thanked Emperor Liu Xie: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Dong Cheng asked someone to bring writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone.

Emperor Liu Xie wrote a few words.

A blacksmith came up immediately and started engraving the seal.

Zhang Sui looked at the emperor and all the civil and military officials, each of whom appeared calm and composed, and felt indescribably strange in his heart.

How can the emperor still look like an emperor?
All that's left is a face-saving project!
When the emperor saw the blacksmith shop start to engrave the seal, he walked towards the body of "Li Ru" in front of Zhang Sui.

There is no intact part of "Li Ru's" face.

However, his figure was the same as Li Ru whom he met yesterday.

The emperor then untied the cloth bag hanging from Li Ru's waist and took out the seal.

After looking at the seal for a while, Emperor Liu Xie stuffed the seal back into the cloth bag and said, "Give it a proper burial!"

He wanted to throw the body directly to the dogs!
However, as the Son of Heaven, one must also let others see his broad mind.

Zhang Sui thanked them and asked two soldiers to carry "Li Ru's" body away.

Dong Cheng asked the emperor to invite Zhang Sui and others into the government office to discuss the matter of escorting the emperor across the river to attack Li Jue and Guo Si.

After talking for a whole day, there was still no result.

Dong Cheng, Zhang Ji and Yang Feng all had their own armies.

However, the number is not large, only about one or two thousand people.

None of them wanted to be the vanguard, and they all wanted the 5,000 men brought by Zhang Sui to lead the way. They were only responsible for protecting the emperor.

Zhang Sui listened with one ear and let it out with the other, refusing to agree.

Yuan Shao didn't want the emperor and the civil and military officials.

There is no point in trying hard.

Moreover, Cao Cao is coming.

It was not until dusk that Zhang Sui was ready to leave the government office.

But a soldier ran to the threshold of the hall and panted, "Report, the messenger Xiahou Lan sent by Cao Cao, the governor of Yanzhou, has arrived at the south gate of the city!"

Emperor Liu Xie was somewhat disinterested and asked, "Just one envoy?"

The soldier said, “Yes!”

Emperor Liu Xie hung his head.

All civil and military officials in the world have the same moral character.

No one is truly willing to support himself and serve the court.

They all come to ask for credit.

Although he thought so, Emperor Liu Xie still said, "Then call him over immediately."

The soldier said "yes" and left quickly.

Zhang Sui sat in the hall and looked out the door curiously.

Cao Cao’s envoy Xiahou Lan?

As for Xiahou Lan, he remembered that she was from Zhending, Changshan, and was Zhao Yun's childhood sweetheart.

Zhang Sui's mind became active.

I wonder if I can meet with this Xiahou Lan in private and have a talk?

After all, Zhao Yun is his own man now.

After waiting for a long time, I saw a tall and strong man coming in, looking exhausted.

While still outside the door, he pulled out a bamboo slip from his sleeve, raised his hands above his head, walked quickly into the house, saluted to the emperor Liu Xie and said, "Xiahou Lan, the captain under the command of Cao Gong, the governor of Yanzhou, greets your majesty!"

(End of this chapter)