New Three Kingdoms Tales: Starting as the expressionless Liu Bei

Cai Mao stood atop the high cliff, watching the monstrous tigers surging up the rock face below, frantically tearing at the Jingzhou army formation. Instead of being worried, he grinned and laughed.

The laughter was initially suppressed in his throat, then grew louder and louder, finally transforming into a wanton, unrestrained, hoarse laugh:

"My lord! All of Jiangdong's warships are trapped, and Sun Jian is doomed! Our 100,000-strong army from Jingzhou is lying in ambush here; they have nowhere to escape!"

He whirled around, his eyes gleaming with almost manic excitement. "Now Sun Jian is willing to use the power of the Imperial Seal to transform all the Jiangdong soldiers into monstrous tigers to fight against our army. This is a golden opportunity!"

"Sun Ce and his men have become arrogant, and arrogant armies are bound to be defeated! My lord, we must seize this opportunity to completely eliminate the Sun family father and son, and leave no future trouble!"

Liu Biao stared blankly at the meat grinder-like battlefield below the mountain, watching the Jingzhou youths he had personally trained fall one after another under the claws of the treacherous tiger, his heart felt as if it were being torn apart.

He slowly closed his eyes, and after a long while, he nodded heavily.

Cai Mao drew his sword, its tip pointing directly at the sea of ​​blood below the mountain, and roared at the soldiers behind him who could no longer contain themselves, "Follow me!" A thunderous roar of response came from behind him.

Liu Biao stood alone, watching Cai Mao lead his troops down the cliff, and slowly closed his cloudy eyes.

The two armies clashed on the flat ground at the ferry crossing. With each swing of the treacherous tiger's claws, several Jingzhou soldiers were torn to shreds, but Liu Biao had brought not a few hundred, not a few thousand, but an army of one hundred thousand.

Where did this army of 100,000 come from? 100,000 troops! (trembling voice)

One after another, the monstrous tigers were pinned to the ground by spears thrust in from all directions.

Sun Ce was already bloodthirsty. He transformed into a snow-white tiger, his body steaming with eerie black energy. With each swipe of his claws, more than a dozen Jingzhou soldiers were torn in two, armor and all.

The scarlet halo around him flickered wildly, growing thicker and more dazzling.

He was stacking up the Prideful Soldier buff, layering it up dozens of times, but he couldn't care less about that; only one word remained in his mind.

kill!

kill!!

kill! ! !

Cai Mao hid in the rear, watching the white tiger rampaging through the army from afar, a sinister smile appearing on his lips.

Well done! Well done!

As long as he could get rid of the Sun family father and son, he wouldn't even blink an eye at the deaths of all 100,000 of his brothers.

Arrows rained down like locusts, both overt and covert, flying across this meat grinder. Sun Ce's body was riddled with hundreds of arrows, making him look like a white tiger covered in thorns.

Yet he felt no pain whatsoever, and tirelessly swung his claws, felling wave after wave of Jingzhou soldiers in front of him.

Cai Mao's smile gradually froze. Those arrows were all coated with potent poison! How come they felt like mere tickles when they hit Sun Ce? He gripped his sword hilt tightly, silently took a few steps back, and pushed the guards in front of him forward.

The cabin reeked of blood. Sun Jian gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrows from his chest one by one. With each arrow pulled out, the excruciating pain made him convulse, almost causing him to faint.

Sun Quan's face was streaked with tears as he threw himself on Sun Jian's body, crying out hoarsely, "Father! You can't die! You can't die!"

Sun Jian gasped for breath, gently patting Sun Quan's back with his blood-stained hand, and said in a weak voice:

"Quan'er, you're right... That Imperial Seal is truly a jinx... Today's events are enough to show how treacherous the world is and how wicked people's hearts are... People's hearts are truly incredibly poisonous."

Sun Quan nodded repeatedly, weeping, "Father, I understand!"

An anxious soldier called from outside the cabin door, "My lord, let's get ashore quickly!"

Sun Quan wiped away his tears and nodded vigorously, "Father, let's get ashore quickly!"

He stretched out his thin, weak arms, gritted his teeth, and hugged Sun Jian's shoulders, desperately trying to drag his father out of the pool of blood.

But how could his strength, that of a nine-year-old child, possibly move a grown man covered in blood?

Sun Jian looked at Sun Quan's flushed face and shook his head with a smile.

"No need, Quan'er... no need. Father... won't accompany you ashore today."

He reached out and trembled as he stroked Sun Quan's tender cheek. Those tiger-like eyes that once looked down on all sides on the battlefield were now filled with endless tenderness and reluctance.

"My Quan'er...you are exceptionally intelligent, in the future...you must do your best to assist your brother."

Sun Quan wept so much he could barely speak a complete sentence: "Father, don't worry... I will definitely assist my brother well in the future!"

Sun Jian nodded, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty, his voice growing weaker and weaker, each word seeming to be squeezed out from his chest as a last gasp:

"Our most formidable enemy is not Liu Biao... but Yuan Shao. Not long ago, I risked my life for him and made many meritorious contributions... but in the blink of an eye, he instigated Liu Biao to harm me."

"My son, let's not keep this Imperial Seal... Another day, let's give it to Yuan Shu and let the Yuan brothers fight over it."

Sun Quan gripped his father's hand tightly and nodded vigorously, "No! No! Father, I understand!"

Looking at his young but heartbreakingly sensible son, Sun Jian finally shed murky tears that slid down his cheeks, mingling with the blood on his face and flowing into his graying temples.

"Quan'er... Father can't bear to part with you... Father really can't bear to part with you..."

He gritted his teeth, shoved the warm, lustrous Imperial Seal into Sun Quan's arms, and then shouted sharply, "Deceptive Tiger!"

A strange, pitch-black aura erupted from his body, condensing in the air into a ferocious tiger whose body was now tinged with purplish-black. That was the monstrous tiger within Sun Jian's body.

"Bring Quan'er ashore! Protect him!" Sun Jian's voice was hoarse but resolute.

The cunning tiger gazed at its dying lord with its bloodshot eyes, its voice hesitant for the first time: "My lord, what about you?"

Sun Jian shook his head, a relieved smile appearing on his lips: "I am destined to die. This is the will of Heaven. The will of Heaven cannot be defied, the will of Heaven... cannot be defeated. You all must leave!"

Sun Quan clutched the Imperial Seal tightly, and the seal seemed to emanate a warm power within him, which helped him stand up again, his legs trembling from crying.

He cried out hoarsely, "Father! I can't leave! I can't leave!"

Sun Jian looked at his most beloved youngest son, his lips moved slightly, but he finally hardened his heart, turned his head away, and roared sharply, "Get him out of here!"