Chapter 552 Transaction!
Night fell.
Sun Jian stood in the camp, looking at the stars in the night sky, and fell into deep thought.
Miao Moqing walked behind Sun Jian at this time, but Sun Jian seemed not to feel it.
"Lord!"
Miao Moqing called Sun Jian softly, but Sun Jian did not respond at all.
Miao Moqing did not call him again, but stood beside Sun Jian, waiting quietly.
After a long time, Sun Jian reacted and saw Miao Moqing beside him, thinking: "I was careless".
Sun Jian has always used the Gu tribe as his trump card, but he knows in his heart that the Gu tribe can become his trump card and also has the ability to destroy him. Sun Jian has always been on guard against the Gu tribe.
Seeing Sun Jian looking at her, Miao Moqing asked, "What are you thinking, lord?"
"Clan leader, do you think we can still take Jiaozhou?"
Hearing this question, Miao Moqing also fell silent. She originally thought that it would be easy to take Jiaozhou, but she didn't expect that Liu Bei actually had a way to restrain his poison gas. The current situation of the war was in a tug-of-war, which was not what she wanted.
Looking at Sun Jian with a bitter smile, Miao Moqing made a decision.
"Lord, will you help us take back Jiaozhou in the future?"
"Of course, Jiaozhou is not only yours but also ours, and aren't we also trying to take back Jiaozhou now?"
"Since the lord has the heart to help us, then I am satisfied. Let's withdraw our troops, but before leaving, I will leave them a gift. The lord will give these 20,000 people to me."
When Sun Jian heard that Miao Moqing agreed to withdraw his troops, he was immediately excited. As for the 20,000 people, he didn't intend to let them go back like this.
"Okay."
Led by Zhang Fei, Pang De and Zhang He led the last 10,000 Taishan tiger bandits and quietly left the city to ambush around Sun Jian's camp.
After observing for a while, the three of them confirmed that the patrol of the camp was the same as usual and there was nothing special. Then they rushed into the camp with the Taishan tiger bandits.
Zhang Fei took the lead and waved his Zhangba Snake Spear casually, and thousands of Yangzhou soldiers lay on the ground.
"Zhang Fei, you are looking for death!"
After the voice fell, Sun Ce rushed out of the camp and killed nearly 2,000 Taishan tiger bandits with a casual shot.
Then he fought with Zhang Fei.
Zhang He and Pang De, who witnessed the abilities of the two legendary generals, were secretly amazed.
If such a person really wanted to kill the other party, I am afraid no one could do it except the legendary generals.
The two knew that they would definitely not be able to participate in the fight between the gods, so they could only take the remaining Taishan tiger bandits and start attacking Sun Jian's camp.
After fighting for a long time, the 20,000 troops in Sun Jian's camp were almost wiped out, but in the end, they only saw Sun Ce, and did not see Sun Jian and the Gu tribe.
The two of them suddenly felt bad.
At this moment, a scream sounded not far away.
The two looked in that direction and found that the Taishan Tiger Bandit who had just died stood up again.
They had been fighting with the Gu tribe for so long, so of course they knew what this scene was.
Pang De rushed over and chopped off the head of the resurrected Taishan Tiger Bandit in front of him with a knife.
Then countless green poisonous gas spread out.
For a while, more dead people stood up, including the Taishan Tiger Bandit and Sun Jian's 20,000 Yangzhou troops.
In a corner of the camp.
Four hundred Gu tribe members, led by Miao Moqing, were controlling the poisonous gas.
And Sun Jian was guarding on the side.
Seeing that it was almost done, watching the poisonous gas spreading bit by bit, Sun Jian couldn't help but remind them.
"Chief, should it be OK?"
Miao Moqing opened her eyes and nodded with a smile.
Soon, Sun Jian led Miao Moqing and the Gu tribe to quickly evacuate the camp.
"No, we've fallen into a trap. Let's go."
Pang De said, waved and chopped off the heads of several resurrected zombies, and then commanded the remaining Taishan tiger bandits to rush out of Sun Jian's camp.
However, after just a few steps, the Taishan tiger bandits in the front row fell to the ground.
Then the ones in the back also began to fall.
Just when Pang De was anxious about what to do, he suddenly felt that his head was heavy and his eyes went black, and he fell off his horse and fell to the ground.
Zhang Fei saw this and forced Sun Ce back with a spear.
"You Yangzhou are really shameless."
Sun Ce laughed and turned around and left.
Zhang Fei looked at the situation on the battlefield. Almost all the Taishan tiger bandits fell to the ground.
Knowing that he was powerless, he could only hold Pang De with one hand and Zhang He with the other, relying on the fact that he was a legendary general who was not afraid of poison gas, and quickly left Sun Jian's camp.
As for those Taishan tiger thieves, Zhang Fei had no way to deal with them. After all, he was not Hua Tuo and did not have so many hands.
After rushing out of the camp, Zhang Fei finally returned to the city.
Seeing this situation, Deng Ai looked at Zhang Fei with a puzzled look. He did not follow him, and naturally did not know what happened in the camp.
"We were attacked by surprise. The people of the Gu tribe were really cruel. They even calculated their own people. The remaining 20,000 people of Sun Jian were just bait."
Zhang Fei sat on the ground, looking at Sun Jian's camp, thinking about the more than 10,000 Taishan tiger thieves he left behind.
Zang Ba's eyes turned red when he learned that all his Taishan tiger thieves were dead.
This time when he came out of Taishan, not only did he not help, but he also killed several first-class generals brought out from Taishan.
Zhang Fei looked at Zang Ba, hesitated for a moment, and walked forward and patted Zang Ba on the shoulder.
"This is war, don't worry, the lord will definitely restore the personnel of your Taishan Tiger Bandits after he comes back. As long as they are still called Taishan Tiger Bandits, their sacrifice will not be in vain."
Zhang Fei's ability to comfort people is very crude, but it is not useless for Zang Ba.
After wiping a tear, Zang Ba nodded.
Sun Jian retreated with 400 Gu people.
Sun Jian lost this battle, but Gu Rubing did not win, at least not now. Fifty thousand Taishan Tiger Bandits and nearly 30,000 ordinary soldiers died, while Sun Jian had almost no casualties, less than 100,000 in total.
Such losses could not be achieved even when the four coalition forces besieged Nanjun.
The most important thing is that Pang De and his men had no choice but to stop expanding to Jiaozhou. They now have less than 30,000 people in their hands, and the defense is not enough, so how can they have extra strength to expand.
Gu Rubing returned to Sili, and before he went to the palace, he received a war report from Jiaozhou.
"Such a huge loss? This Gu tribe seems to be in trouble."
Gu Rubing muttered to himself. So far, there has been no news from Liangzhou, which made Gu Rubing a little suspicious. Did Cao Cao really go to the Thirty-Six Kingdoms in the Western Regions? If so, why has there been no movement for so long?
Just as Gu Rubing was thinking about this, Zhuge Liang came to Gu Rubing's side.
"My lord, that Yan Gaozhen has arrived at the gate of the palace and was stopped by Chen Dao and others. Do you want to go and see?"
Gu Rubing nodded.
"Get out of the way, your emperor has let me in, but I have an imperial edict in my hand."
Yan Gaozhen raised the imperial edict in his hand and was about to go in.
But how could Chen Dao and others care about a piece of paper? They only had Gu Rubing's military order in their eyes.
"Sorry, no one is allowed to enter the palace without the military order of King Lie. We must ensure the safety of His Majesty."
"Aren't you afraid of being punished by your emperor?"
"No."
Seeing that Chen Dao was unmoved, Yan Gaozhen had no choice but to sit on the ground in anger.
"Hey, isn't this the eldest prince of the Kushan Empire? What are you doing here?"
"King Lie, you are finally here. Your emperor has given me an imperial edict to let me see him, but your men have been reluctant to let me in, and I have no choice."
"Did the emperor give you an imperial edict?"
Gu Rubing had never thought that the emperor in the deep palace knew the news outside.
Seeing this, Chen Dao walked to Gu Rubing's side.
"My lord, yesterday a eunuch left the palace and said he was going to find you, but he came back halfway. It should be that this eunuch met this person on the way to find you."
Eunuch?
In order to show his difference from Cao Cao, Gu Rubing issued a clear order not to let Liu Xie leave the palace, but he did not prohibit Liu Xie's eunuch from leaving the palace, so this eunuch often went out of the palace to purchase some delicious food in the market to satisfy Liu Xie's cravings, and Gu Rubing never cared about it.
"Alas! It's really hard to be a good person."
Gu Rubing sighed helplessly, but he also knew that this kind of thing was unavoidable. After all, everyone knew that this eunuch was Liu Xie's spy. For the sake of a good reputation, he could not kill this eunuch at will.
"Forget it, since the prince wants to go in, then I will go with you. It just so happens that I have something to find His Majesty."
With Gu Rubing's leadership, Yan Gaozhen nodded hurriedly.
Soon, the two came to the hall.
After seeing Yan Gaozhen come in, Liu Xie's face was full of smiles. After so many years, he finally felt the benefits of being an emperor. Seeing foreign envoys, he felt a sense of superiority.
But then seeing Gu Rubing follow in, Liu Xie's whole body collapsed.
Yan Gaozhen frowned slightly when he saw Liu Xie's listless look.
He felt that the emperor in front of him was not as energetic as the King Lie beside him. Who was the emperor and who was the king?
"Your Majesty, Emperor of the Han Dynasty, please escort me back to the Kushan Empire. As long as I go back, our king will definitely reward me with a large sum of money. At the same time, the Kushan Empire will be friends with the Han Dynasty for a hundred years, and they will trade with each other and become allies!"
Liu Xie immediately became energetic after hearing this. He was not excited about other things. The thing that excited him the most was the one about becoming allies. As long as the Kushan Empire helped him, wouldn't he have a chance to escape from Gu Rubing's control?
"Okay, in that case, then I..."
"Your Majesty..."
Gu Rubing saw that Liu Xie was going to agree so easily, and immediately stopped him.
"King Lie, what else do you want?"
"Your Majesty, the thirty-six states in the Western Regions rebelled and took over two counties in Liangzhou. In addition, the rebellion in Yizhou has not ended, and Jiaozhou and Yangzhou are still resisting. At present, we do not have enough troops to help the Kushan Empire."
"No troops?"
When Yan Gaozhen heard that Liu Xie wanted to help him, he was so excited, but when Gu Rubing interrupted and said that he could not help, he felt bad.
"King Lie, you took my money."
"Huh? Did you take money?"
When Liu Xie heard this, he became excited and looked at Gu Rubing, pretending to be angry and asked: "King Lie, what's going on?"
"Prince, don't forget that it was not me who took the money, but my two subordinates. They are all military generals and have no decision-making ability. So they took the money just to tell me the things."
"What?"
Yan Gaozhen looked at Gu Rubing with a look of shock on his face, and looked at Liu Xie unwillingly and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think?"
"Ahem, King Lie, no matter what, the Kushan Empire is also our friend. When a friend is in trouble, shouldn't you help? If you don't help, it will be a serious blow to the reputation of our Han Dynasty. You are the uncle of the Han Dynasty!"
Looking at Liu Xie's gloating look, Gu Rubing's eyes showed some murderous intent, and he had to agree.
"Your Majesty, I will let someone deal with this matter, but there is one more thing, does your majesty still remember Prime Minister Cao?"
When he heard Cao Cao, Liu Xie nodded.
"He is missing now, so I would like to ask His Majesty to issue an imperial decree to look for Cao Cao in the Han Dynasty, saying that King Lie wants to invite Prime Minister Cao to meet with Si Li."
"What, you want me to pass on a message to you? Do you think you are..."
Before Liu Xie finished speaking, he met Gu Rubing's eyes, and his momentum dropped instantly.
"Okay, I'll pass it on to you."
Liu Xie sighed, called the eunuch next to him, wrote down Gu Rubing's words, stamped them, and directly sent them to the thirteen states.
After doing all this, Gu Rubing smiled with satisfaction, and when he was about to leave, he looked at Yan Gaozhen next to him.
"Prince, what are you still doing here? Aren't you going with me?"
Yan Gaozhen is a prince of the Kushan Empire. He can see the situation clearly. King Lie has obviously controlled Liu Xie.
Under this situation, it may not be an opportunity for their Kushan Empire.
"Ah, no need, King Lie, please go first. I have something to talk to your majesty about!"
"Oh?"
Gu Rubing smiled, said nothing, and turned to leave.
After Gu Rubing left, Yan Gaozhen looked at Liu Xie and whispered, "Your Majesty, this King Lie?"
Liu Xie nodded, indicating that it was exactly as Yan Gaozhen thought.
"Your Majesty, if this is the case, we may be able to help you solve the hidden danger of King Lie, but after you take power, you must help our Kushan Empire and destroy the so-called Thirty-Six Kingdoms. In addition, we also want the Han Liangzhou as a free trade zone, which is not subject to any jurisdiction of either of us. As for the benefits, we will each have half."
When Liu Xie heard that the Kushan prince was going to take advantage of the fire, he wanted to refuse, but when he thought about it, he could help him destroy Liu Bei. As long as Liu Bei died, he would use Liu Bei's men to destroy the Kushan, and he would also help Liu Bei to avenge himself. Wouldn't his generals be used by him?
"Deal!"