Chapter 15 I found someone again

Huang Hanshu and Jian Zheng were stationed in Donglai City, while Huang Xu set out with the army.

As the army marches out, it feels like clouds blocking out the sun.

After marching for two days, the army set up pots to cook, Huang Xu went to arrange the camp defense, and Gu Qingyuan came to check the soldiers' meals.

As he was strolling, a loud shout came from afar: "Brother Gu, do you still remember Zhang Chonghu from Zhuozhou?"

Gu Qingyuan looked up and saw a big man with a dark face standing on the hill, followed by another man. The two men did not approach him, probably waiting for Gu Qingyuan to come over.

Gu Qingyuan caught the elusive Huang Xu, gave him some instructions and then went there alone.

"Would it be inappropriate for my lord to go alone?" Dian Lai followed behind Huang Xu, somewhat hesitant.

"Don't worry, you are just going to see an old friend. Besides, in terms of military force, you can conquer the world." Huang Xu had already asked Zhao Dingshan and others about Gu Qingyuan's military force, so he was naturally not worried.

When Gu Qingyuan approached, Zhang Chonghu also came forward.

"Brother Gu, I saw an army passing by from afar, but I didn't expect it was your people." Zhang Chonghu was also a little puzzled. They had only met once before, and Gu Qingyuan was a master and disciple. He didn't expect that there would be such a big scene now.

"Brother Zhang, I didn't expect that we would meet again in Qingzhou after we parted that day. May I know who this person is?" Gu Qingyuan said while glancing at the person behind Zhang Chonghu.

The man was nine feet tall, with a face as red as a date, as stupid as if he had put on makeup, phoenix eyes, and drooping eyebrows. He held a Qinglong sword in his hand. He looked dignified and majestic.

"My name is Guan Sheng, nice to meet you, Brother Gu." Guan Sheng clasped his fists and bowed.

Gu Qingyuan returned the gift, and suddenly felt that Guan Sheng's aura was like that of a vicious dragon, but he was trapped at the bottom of a well, as if he was ready to break free from the chains at any time and devour the sky and the earth.

"Please forgive my rudeness, but does Brother Guan have any hidden illness?" Gu Qingyuan said.

Hearing this, Guan Sheng's slightly narrowed eyes opened, and a faint light of a knife flashed by.

"Brother Gu, can you tell? My elder brother Guan is born with an extraordinary destiny. He has the evil energy of a dragon in his body. However, the evil energy can confuse people's minds. Sometimes he goes crazy. When it breaks out, ordinary people can't stop it. I encountered it not long ago and tried to stop it. It took the two of us working together to suppress the evil energy." Zhang Chonghu said, and Guan Sheng nodded slightly.

Gu Qingyuan thought for a moment and said, "I also know a little about pharmacology, why not let me take a look?" Then he looked at Guan Sheng.

“This evil energy is not an ordinary pathology, Brother Gu…” It was Zhang Chonghu who spoke again, with a hint of worry on his face.

"It's okay, sorry for the offense." Gu Qingyuan nodded, indicating that he understood, and grabbed Guan Sheng's wrist, colliding their inner energy.

As cold and arrogant as Guan Sheng, veins bulged on his red face, and a huge momentum swept across, and for a moment a strong wind blew.

Zhang Chonghu also used his true energy, and black energy surged from his body, waiting for Guan Sheng to go crazy so that he could stop him.

Guan Sheng's body was wrapped in red true energy, beads of sweat flowed down his cheeks, and he said, "Hurry... hurry up, I can't hold it anymore."

what--

Guan Sheng shouted loudly, his face turned even redder, and his momentum came in waves, blowing sand and dust into the air.

Wow

Suddenly, there was a sound of chains, and a blood-red evil dragon rose from behind Guan Sheng. The dragon head screamed silently, ready to devour someone.

Zhang Chonghu's black true energy also surged out and transformed into a ferocious tiger. The black tiger came down the mountain and was about to fight with the red dragon.

The noise was also heard in the military camp in the distance, and figures came flying over. They were Zhao, Xu, and Dian.

“Brother Gu!”

"Lord!"

Gu Qingyuan, the focus of everyone, faced the red dragon head-on. He felt the murderous aura rising from his face. He also saw that Guan Sheng's pupils had turned white, and the cold saw in his hand was chopped and cut randomly without any rules. He must have lost his mind.

The red dragon behind Guan Sheng rose into the air and pounced towards Gu Qingyuan.

"Brother Gu, be careful!" Zhang Chonghu shouted, and was about to rush into the battlefield with his steel spear raised.

"Wait a minute, brother." A white shadow flew over and blocked the snake spear with a spear. It was Zhao Dingshan.

"Hurry, Brother Gu is your master, come and save him." Zhang Chonghu said to Zhao Dingshan who was standing in front of him.

"Don't worry, Brother Gu is not that weak. Just look." Zhao Dingshan looked at Gu Qingyuan who flew up. It would be better to say that he was very strong rather than weak.

Gu Qingyuan covered his fist with a thin layer of green light and hit the red dragon's head. In an instant, the red dragon turned into a red cloud, which rolled as if it was about to condense into a red dragon again.

Gu Qingyuan no longer cared and fell straight down in front of the mad Guan Sheng. Guan Sheng swung the Qinglong Sword and a two-inch long red sword light flew out and went straight for Gu Qingyuan's head.

Gu Qingyuan raised his hand and grabbed the blade with his left hand. As soon as the red blade light touched the green glow, it broke into pieces. He then grabbed the Lengyan Saw and pointed his right hand at Guan Sheng's chest.

Spots of brilliant light fell around Guan Sheng's body, sealing his major acupoints. Behind him, red clouds rushed back to Guan Sheng's body like swimming fish and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Hu... Ho..." The red energy returned and Guan Sheng regained consciousness. His legs went limp and he was about to fall. He drew his sword with his left hand, sawed the blade coldly and stuck it into the ground, then half-knelt on the ground with the support.

"Brother Guan, how do you feel?" Zhang Chonghu looked anxious, gathered his true energy, and hurried to support him.

"I'm fine, better than ever before." Guan Sheng let out a long breath, feeling his mind clear. The roar that used to be present all the time has now disappeared, and even the endless violent and manic aura has disappeared. "Brother Gu, I am grateful for your kindness. I have been troubled by this evil spirit for half my life. Although I am conscious when I go crazy, I can't control my body. Now that this problem has been solved, I thank you and will be at your disposal from now on!" Guan Sheng said as he stood up.

"Brother Guan, there is no need to do this. Brother Zhang is my good friend. The fact that he can make friends with Brother Guan shows that Brother Guan is also a hero. There is no need to talk about ordering him around." Gu Qingyuan said hurriedly.

Seeing that Guan Sheng was about to speak, he quickly turned to Zhang Chonghu and said, "Brother Zhang, do you still remember our appointment for a drink?"

Zhang Chonghu grinned and said, "Of course I remember."

Hearing the word "wine", Xu Hudian leaned over and asked, "Where is the wine? Where is the wine?"

Zhao Dingshan was still steady and stepped forward to greet them: "Brother Guan, Brother Zhang, we have received an edict to attack Dong Zhuo. Our camp is not far away. Why don't we go to the big tent and rest for a while?"

A group of people surrounded Gu Qingyuan and returned to the barracks. Huang Xu ordered the lifting of the ban on alcohol and killed a few sheep, both to reward the soldiers and to welcome Guan Yu and the other two.

He was not stupid. Judging from their aura alone, these two were also powerful generals. It was easy to get thousands of soldiers, but it was difficult to get a good general. He did not expect that these powerful generals would actually come to him. If he let them escape, Huang Xu would be afraid that he would not be able to sleep at night.

Looking at the increasingly powerful Gu faction, Huang Xu couldn't help but nod secretly. It was worthy of destiny. The brave generals came to surrender voluntarily, but he didn't know when some counselors would come.

Huang Xu couldn't help but feel a headache when he thought about how he had to take care of both military and political affairs and was unable to handle everything at once. Please, some counselor should come to help him.

In front of Sishui Pass, more than a dozen princes had already set up camp here.

"Zhang Ren, how many people are here?" Zhang Lu asked the person next to him, playing with the jade disk in his hand.

"Young master, there are already seventeen princes." Zhang Ren was a retainer of Zhang Zaichun. He followed Zhang Zaichun through his career in officialdom and was given the surname Zhang. Upon hearing Zhang Lu's question, he hurried forward and took out an intelligence map from his arms.

"The number of various princes, big and small, ranges from 30,000 to 10,000, with their camps covering more than 300 miles. All we have to do is wait for the young master to ascend to the position of leader, and it will be just around the corner for him to make great achievements." Zhang Ren said, pointing to the information on the various princes on the map.

Zhang Lu couldn't help but blush when he heard this. "Is there anyone here that I need to pay attention to?"

"There is a group of people, led by the governor of Yongzhou, Li Shiqiong, who is known as the leader of the Green Forest Army. He changed the Tiangang Village into the Tiance Army and has many brave generals under his command." Zhang Ren replied.

Zhang Lu was a little disdainful: "They are just a bunch of bandits, how can they become a force to be reckoned with?"

"Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, has many soldiers and sufficient food. His general Pan Yi is known to be unstoppable."

"It's just a temporary display of power. It looks gorgeous on the outside, but it's rotten on the inside!"

"Sun Juhu of Jiangdong has the divine weapon Tiger Roaring Blade, is extremely powerful, and has the natural barrier of the Yangtze River, so he can slowly conquer the world!"

"Just a warrior."

"Guangling Governor Zhang Li, rumor has it, was once the leader of the Demon Sect, gathering masters of the Demon Sect and having many talented people under his command."

"mob!"

"Zhao Jie, the great general of the border army, commanded a hundred thousand border troops. He was brave and skilled in fighting, and his military strategy was unparalleled."

"This Zhao Jie didn't even come. He only sent a few soldiers to help. What a coward!"

Zhang Ren felt a headache after hearing this. If he is not a hero, then he is not a hero. It seems that you, Zhang Lu, are born to be a general. Even your uncle doesn't dare to comment on the heroes of the world in this way, but you don't know your own weight.

Zhang Ren thought so in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud: "It seems that the position of leader belongs to you, young master."

Zhang Lu was just feeling happy when someone came to report outside that a group of people with flags carrying the Chinese character "Gu" were arriving. Zhang Lu hurried out to greet them.

When Zhang Lu walked out of the camp, he found that there were only 5,000 soldiers and horses, and the smile on his face faded a little.

The person who came was Gu Qingyuan, followed by Zhao Dingshan, Zhang Chonghu, Guan Sheng and Huang Xu.

He saw Zhang Lu's face change, but he didn't care. He was just there to watch the show. If he really made him angry, he would just kill him secretly.

Isn't the purpose of practicing martial arts to avoid being bullied? If someone gives me the cold shoulder again, then all my martial arts training would be in vain.

Thinking of this, the smile on Gu Qingyuan's face became more sincere.

"Who is coming?" Zhang Ren stepped forward and asked.

Gu Qingyuan didn't need him to answer. Huang Xu turned sideways, revealing Gu Qingyuan, and said, "This is the governor of Qingzhou, the descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, the great-great-grandson of Emperor Xiaojing, and the uncle of the Emperor Gu Qingyuan."

Hearing this, Zhang Lu smiled and said, "So you are a noble from the imperial family. It shows that we are the Xingyi Army, occupying the great cause. Please come in quickly."

But he couldn't help but mutter in his heart: Where did this imperial uncle come from? Is he here to steal my position as leader?

Although the campaign against Dong Zhuo was initiated by Zhang Lu and Cao Man, in the end, someone who understood the greater good had to be mentioned, and since Gu Qingyuan, a relative of the Great Xia clan, had come, it was inevitable that he had to be given a name.

The group entered the big tent, where quite a few people were already sitting. Gu Qingyuan had the title of a royal family member, and he also had five thousand men and horses. When everyone counted, including Gu Qingyuan's group, there were a total of eighteen groups of men and horses.

When Gu Qingyuan sat down, Li Shiqiong happened to be sitting next to him. With an acquaintance present, Gu Qingyuan was able to chat happily.

At this point, everyone is here, and the next step is to select a leader.

(End of this chapter)