Three Kingdoms: Madam, I am a decent person

Chapter 468 Yuan Shao: I have always believed in your character, Lord Xuande
After hearing what Liu Bei said, the old soldier turned around and left quickly.

Liu Bei looked at the night sky outside the tent and sighed.

Gongsun Zan!
Before he defected to Yuan Shao, he had never thought about this matter!
Liu Bei thought of what Zhang Sui had reminded him before: Hebei was not the place for him to stay.

Now that I think about it, it really came true.

However, now that things have come to this, we can only grit our teeth and move forward.

Liu Bei left the tent and walked towards the tent of Yuan Shao, the governor of Jizhou.

When they arrived, several veterans were already escorting a panic-stricken assassin.

When the assassin saw Liu Bei, he seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.

Liu Bei said in a low voice: "We'll talk about it after we meet the governor of Jizhou."

"Don't worry, I will save your life."

"I know what you want to do here."

"Afterwards, I will give you an explanation."

When the assassin heard Liu Bei say this, he stopped talking.

Liu Bei had not been waiting outside the tent for long when Yuan Shao's voice came from inside, saying, "Come in, Lord Xuande!"

Liu Bei called two veteran soldiers to escort the death squad in.

Yuan Shao had already sat up from the bed, wearing a thick sable fur coat.

Seeing the assassin standing behind Liu Bei, Yuan Shao forced a smile and said, "Lord Xuande, what is this?"

Liu Bei looked back at the assassin and said to Yuan Shao, "He is a assassin sent by Brother Gongsun to see me."

"Brother Gongsun and I are classmates."

"In the early years, I received a lot of help from him. He is my benefactor."

"We are about to attack the city. Brother Gongsun came to me to discuss the attack."

"Brother Gongsun is my classmate and my benefactor."

"But, General, you are my lord."

"I can't be an ungrateful person, but I can't betray my master either, so I brought the assassins here."

After hearing what Liu Bei said, Yuan Shao nodded and said with a smile: "Lord Xuande is indeed a loyal and honest gentleman."

"I know about this."

"You can deal with this assassin yourself."

Liu Bei did not leave, but said: "General, I want to resign from the position of commander of the front army."

"If I still occupy this position and command the vanguard to attack the city, I would be betraying Brother Gongsun."

"But if I don't attack the city, then I will be disloyal to the general."

"Please allow me, General!"

Yuan Shao looked down at Liu Bei, feeling vaguely unhappy.

This is not distinguishing between public and private!
Can the friendship between you and Gongsun Zan be more important than national affairs?

However, Yuan Shao did not get angry.

Xun Chen had said before that Liu Bei was the best candidate to take down Gongsun Zan.

Because Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan had a deep relationship, and Liu Bei had served under Gongsun Zan for a long time, he knew Gongsun Zan's situation better than anyone else.

Now that Liu Bei has been asked to resign as the commander of the vanguard army, where can he find a replacement in such a short time?

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao forced a smile and said, "Hey, Lord Xuande~"

"I have always believed in your character."

"Gongsun Zan sent a assassin to contact you this time, and you were able to bring him to see me immediately, which is enough to prove your loyalty."

"I don't doubt your loyalty."

"As for the matter of Gongsun Zan, I believe that you can distinguish between personal and national affairs."

"Don't say anything about resigning as the former commander of the army."

"If it was someone else, do you think Gongsun Zan would be able to escape the disaster?"

"Go back, have a good rest, and don't let your mind wander."

Liu Bei felt a little embarrassed when he heard what Yuan Shao said.

However, he nodded and did not insist.

Living under someone else's roof, that's what it means.

Being too arrogant can easily cause others to dislike and be suspicious of you. Besides, Yuan Shao was not wrong.

Even if he was not the commander-in-chief of the vanguard, Yuan Shao's army would not let Gongsun Zan go.

After paying his respects to Yuan Shao, Liu Bei asked the old soldiers to lead the death squad out and said, "General, you should rest earlier."

Liu Bei and others left Yuan Shao's tent.

Liu Bei personally untied the ropes for the assassins.

After brushing off the dust from his assassins, Liu Bei said in a hoarse voice: "I will always remember Brother Gongsun's kindness."

"However, today's matter is not my business."

"Go back and tell Brother Gongsun that I will not help Lord Yuan to attack Yijing this time."

"But, as a general of Lord Yuan, it is my destiny to fight on the battlefield."

"I hope Brother Gongsun can understand my difficulties."

After hearing what Liu Bei said, the assassin sighed, turned around and left.

Yuan Shao was still sitting on the bed, wrapped in the quilt.

He also heard what Liu Bei said outside.

Yuan Shao looked very unhappy.

It was not until the sound of Liu Bei's footsteps disappeared outside that he sent someone to call over the military advisors Xun Chen and Xin Pi and told them what Liu Bei had just said.

Xun Chen and Xin Pi looked at each other.

Xin Pi praised: "Liu Xuande is indeed a gentleman."

"Although I feel very sorry, there is nothing wrong with what he did."

"Riding on the battlefield, that is his loyalty to his lord."

"Not making plans to attack Yijing is a way of repaying Gongsun Zan's kindness."

"If we help him do such a good deed, it may become a good story in the future."

Xun Chen also nodded.

Yuan Shao frowned, looked at Xun Chen and Xin Pi and said, "Without the detailed information about Gongsun Zan provided by Liu Xuande, how can we successfully capture Yijing?"

Xun Chen continued, "Gongsun Zan is now at the end of his rope, so it would be great if Liu Xuande could provide intelligence."

"No, it's not like I can't get it."

"I thought about it carefully today in light of what the Second Young Master said."

"In the past two years, Gongsun Zan has been defending Yijing without any intention of attacking."

"Plus, we have been dealing with Xuzhou and Huainan before, and our forces are concentrated in these two places."

"Gongsun Zan's defense nearby will not be too tight."

“And now the weather is getting colder.”

"From this, we can split our forces into two groups."

"The main force of the army will attack the city as a feint to attract the main force of Gongsun Zan in Yijing."

"On the other hand, we will send a thousand soldiers to enter the sea from Zhangwu and land at Haiyang Port while the main army is pretending to attack the city wall of Yijing."

"We used smoke signals."

"After landing at Haiyang Port, a thousand soldiers burned, killed, looted, and set fire to houses behind Yijing, making Gongsun Zan think that the rear was attacked."

"By then, Gongsun Zan will surely divert his attention and divert a large portion of his forces to clear out the enemy forces that enter from the rear."

"If we attack the city again, we will surely achieve twice the result with half the effort."

"However, if we enter the sea from Zhangwu, we may be ambushed."

"Therefore, these 1,000 warriors can only move forward under the cover of night, and they can only take small boats."

"It's cold and windy today, so it's easy for the boat to capsize."

"Once you fall into the sea, in this situation, you will definitely die."

"Perhaps, none of these thousand warriors will be able to get through."

Xinbi nodded in agreement.

Yuan Shao felt very embarrassed when he heard what Xun Chen said.

After a while, he finally made up his mind and said to Xun Chen: "Early tomorrow morning, you will select a thousand men to form a death squad and act according to the plan."

"Tell those warriors that if we take over Yijing, each of them who are still alive will be promoted one level; and for the dead, each of them will be given 50 rolls of silk to their families."

(End of this chapter)