Chapter 104: Assassination: Filling with numbers

In the hall, Cao Yu raised the wine glass in his hand and said, "My heroes, I, Cao Yu, I, wish you all a cup and wish you all the best!"

Below, the ten dead men raised their glasses together and drank the wine in the glass in one go. From their eyes, they could feel the perseverance of moving forward bravely.

Cao Yu put down the wine glass and continued: "I have found out that Gongsun Yuan has recruited a group of musicians to prepare to pay tribute to Liu Chan. At that time, you will be among those musicians. When Liu Chan lets the musicians play, you can easily get close to Liu Chan and do great things."

"Master, but I don't know the rhythm!"

"Yes, we are all martial arts practitioners, it's okay to dance swords and guns, but we won't know how to use this instrument."

"Hahaha..." Cao Yu smiled and continued: "It doesn't matter if you don't know musical instruments. As far as I know, Gongsun Yuan will recruit about twenty musicians. When playing music, you just need to go in and make up the numbers."

"So that's how it is." Everyone nodded. The music must be a ensemble. Although the difference between twenty and ten people playing music is quite big, these people were originally going to assassinate Adou, so it doesn't matter if they just fill in the numbers.

...

Xiangping City.

In the coffin shop, two stunning women were kneeling in front of the old man from the Goguryeo clan.

"Gongsun Yuan's envoy is about to set off. Do you remember what I said?"

"Don't worry, old man, we all remember."

"Okay, with your appearance, you will definitely stand out from those ten women. At that time, find the right time to assassinate Liu Chan. Don't forget that you will blame Gongsun Yuan regardless of success or not."

...

On the avenue, a carriage slowly came, and ten men of age were followed by the carriage.

These people were Gongsun Yuan invited musicians.

Musicians are not a highly valued profession, and they are nowhere better than peddlers. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, musicians were even more difficult to survive. After decades of war, musicians have become a very scarce profession. In addition to the small number of palace musicians in the Three Kingdoms Palace, it is difficult for the people to see them.

The Gongsun family has been martial artists for generations and knows nothing about music. So this time, Gongsun Yuan spent a lot of effort to find twenty musicians from the folk, ten of which were assassins inserted into by Cao Yu'an.

The ten assassins that Cao Yu planted had arrived in Xiangping, and the remaining ten musicians were also rushing towards Xiangping.

In the distance, smoke and dust rose from the end of the horizon, and then a group of cavalry appeared in front of everyone.

When these musicians saw the cavalry coming from afar, they consciously dodged a road and prepared to let the cavalry pass.

"Go..." The cavalry rushed over like lightning and soon approached everyone, but the cavalry did not go over, but stopped.

The cavalry leader looked at the ten musicians in front of him, pointed at the horse whip, and asked, "Are you musicians recruited by Gongsun Yuan?"

Everyone looked at me, and I looked at you. The last musician who was a little older in the grade stood up and said, "Sir, you are talking very much. I don't know what you have to do."

"Yeah, it's really you, that's right. Brothers, kill me, and don't leave any one!"

The cavalry behind immediately rushed over with a shout, swung the sword in his hands, and swung towards the musicians.

"No, run away quickly, you'll meet a thief!" As soon as the musicians saw the cavalry rushing over, they knew something was wrong and fled in all directions.

There was no way to escape the four hooves of a horse on human feet? In the blink of an eye, ten musicians were caught up and then chopped down to the ground by the cavalry.

A young man walked out of the cavalry group, and the knights around him bowed respectfully at the young man. This young man was Liu Yuan, the son of Liu Bao, the left wise king of the Southern Xiongnu.

"Zuo Xianwang, all the ten musicians, have been killed."

Liu Yuan nodded and then said, "Let's go and change into these musicians' clothes with me, let's go to Xiangping!"

"Zuo Xianwang, have you ever thought about something? None of us can play music!"

"What are you afraid of? I heard that Gongsun Yuan found a total of twenty musicians this time. Apart from ten of us, aren't there still ten real musicians? There is a saying among the Han people that is just a scattered number, so let's also recharge the number this time."

...

Luoyang.

Pang Tong took a big step into the hall.

"Keep to your Majesty!"

"Teacher, please spare me, there are no outsiders here." Adou waved his hand.

"Your Majesty, I just got the news that Gongsun Yuan from Liaodong sent an envoy. He was already on the way to come. He will arrive in Luoyang soon!" Pang Tong said with his head down.

"Gongsun Yuan? I have never had any contact with him. I heard that Gongsun Yuan and Sun Quan had some contacts. The Sun family's merchant ships often traveled to and from Liaodong. Now, which one did Gongsun Yuan perform?"

"Your Majesty, if what I expected is right, Gongsun Yuan is going to have the idea of ​​getting along with everyone." Pang Tong said slowly.

"Let's have a good time? Let's hear it."

"Your Majesty, it is true that Gongsun Yuan has made friends with Dongwu. I heard that in his early years, Sun Quan had promised Gongsun Yuan to be the King of Yan and also granted Youzhou to Gongsun Yuan. If Gongsun Yuan really occupied Youzhou, Your Majesty would think we can seize it?"

"Well, the more than 100,000 Liaodong cavalry under Gongsun Yuan's command are powerful, but Youzhou is weak and he will definitely not be able to support these more than 100,000 cavalry. Just cut off the commercial route of Youzhou, and Gongsun Yuan will trap himself to death in a few years." A Dou said.

"Your Majesty is saying." Pang Tong nodded, and then said: "Gongsun Yuan wanted to run Youzhou under the eyes of our and Eastern Wu, and it was undoubtedly a tiger's mouth to seize food, so Gongsun Yuan was fighting with such a good idea."

"Ha, Gongsun Yuan has a good idea. I believe that Gongsun Yuan has already made arrangements on Sun Deng's side. Once we send troops to attack Youzhou, Gongsun Yuan will definitely ask Sun Deng for help. Similarly, if Sun Deng has the idea of ​​attacking Youzhou, Gongsun Yuan will come to us. Gongsun Yuan is sure, and neither I nor Sun Deng will let each other seize Youzhou. By the way, teacher, should we meet this envoy of Gongsun Yuan?"

"See, of course I'll see you! Your Majesty, Gongsun Yuan spent a lot of money this time. There are fifty kilograms of Liaodong ginseng and ten beauties in three Koreans!" Pang Tong laughed as he said.

"Teacher, don't make fun of me. These fifty kilograms of ginseng and ten beauties are not that easy to get."

"Your Majesty, it's okay to take it. Gongsun Yuan wants to be successful, but there is a necessary condition for him to be successful."

“What are the necessary conditions?”

"Qingzhou!"

"Please give me advice."

"Your Majesty, Qingzhou is only a sea away from Liaodong. If you sail on the wind, you can go from Qingzhou to Liaodong day and night. If Sun Quan occupied Qingzhou, you can talk about Liaodong at any time. On the contrary, if Your Majesty occupied Qingzhou, Sun Quan would have to worry a lot if he wanted to support Liaodong. So as long as Your Majesty can capture Qingzhou, cut off the connection between Gongsun Yuan and the Eastern Wu, and then deal with Gongsun Yuan, Sun Deng would be powerless even if he wanted to rescue him."

"Qingzhou? Where has Jiang Wei attacked now? Has Dongjun seized it?"

"There was news from Yuanzhi that the entire Yanzhou should be captured within one month, and then the troops of Qingzhou will be sent." Pang Tong replied.

"The governor of Qingzhou is Zang Ai, the son of Zang Ba, and he is also the descendant of the general. I heard that the Qingzhou soldiers recruited by the Cao family in recent years were all trained by Zang Ai. Speaking of which, Zang Ai is also quite talented. It takes some effort to seize Qingzhou!"

"Your Majesty! Huaibei urgently reported!" Huang Chong hurriedly ran in.

"But the Huaibei Camp was captured by Sun Deng, which was faster than I thought. What about Sima Yi? Is it life or death?" A Dou asked hurriedly.

"Go back to Your Majesty, Sima Yi surrendered!"

"Submitted? He actually surrendered! Why did he surrender such a high official position?" Pang Tong looked at Huang Chong with some surprise.

"Hmph, then Sun Deng is so arrogant that even Sima Yi dares to take it in. Isn't he afraid of being bitten back?" A Dou sneered.

"Your Majesty, there is another matter. Lord Xu Shu brought a letter." Huang Chong took out a letter and handed it over.

Adou opened the letter, frowned immediately, and murmured: "I didn't expect that the governor of Xuzhou was actually Sima Yi's disciple! It seems that Xuzhou will soon fall into Sun Deng's hands. This plan to attack Qingzhou must be accelerated! The order to pass on Jiang Wei, after capturing Dongjun, he will advance directly eastward and approach Qingzhou as soon as possible. He must take a step ahead of Sun Deng."

...

Gongsun Yuan's mission traveled westward and entered Bingzhou. Then, under the escort of Ma Qiu, he went south and arrived in Luoyang in a few days.

Adou also knew that people came to pay tribute, and no one would feel very proud of such things, so Adou generously gave Gongsun Yuan a title of King Yan, and held a banquet to entertain Gongsun Yuan's envoy.

After three rounds of wine, everyone gradually became interested. With the accompaniment of the palace musicians, several barbarian heroes danced war dances in the middle. The generals and ministers from Shu from the field were enjoyable, but the other officials were a little drowsy. In the eyes of these officials, it was really meaningless to jump around in the middle with bare-haired muscular men.

After the dance, the barbarian hero bowed to Adou and retreated. At this time, the envoy sent by Gongsun Yuan stood up.

"Your Majesty, the ten three-Han women presented to you by my Lord are all good at singing and dancing. I think it's better to let these three-Han women come up and dance a song to help you drink?"

Adou nodded, seeing that the messenger looked confident, he should have great confidence in these three Korean women and wanted to show off here on purpose. Since he proposed it, Adou would not be able to refute his face.

"Since that's the case, then bring them up to help you with fun!" A Dou said.

The eunuch next to him hurriedly walked out and shouted loudly: "It is said that the three Han women, Liaodong musicians entered the palace to perform their skills!"
Chapter completed!