Chapter 231: Infighting

"My lord, something big happened over at Hulao Pass?"

"What happened?"

At night, Su Fan was preparing to meditate when Xi Zhicai's voice came from outside the tent: "Come in and speak!"

"Speak, what happened over at Hulao Pass? Could it be that Hulao Pass was broken?"

"Could it really be broken? How is that possible?"

Su Fan looked at Xi Zhicai's expression and was a bit surprised. It had only been a month since they left last time.

Those people in the coalition were so powerful that they actually broke Hulao Pass.

Su Fan was truly surprised, so he asked: "What exactly happened?"

Hearing Su Fan's inquiry, Xi Zhicai did not dawdle and soon told everything that happened under Hulao Pass.

"Hehe! I didn't expect it to be like this."

After listening, Su Fan sneered endlessly, "However, even if Hulao Pass is broken, I'm afraid it will be very difficult for them to reach Luoyang. After all, Dong Zhuo's losses were not great."

The breaking of Hulao Pass was related to Lv Bu.

The news from the Dark Owl said that three days after Lv Bu fought the three heroes, he led troops to suddenly raid the coalition camp at night.

Caught off guard, the coalition gave Lv Bu an opportunity, losing tens of thousands of troops.

Afterward, the coalition launched a great attack on the city, but for several days in a row, it had no effect, and instead, they lost troops and generals.

Waiting for the coalition to recuperate, Lv Bu left the pass to challenge generals in front of the formation, wanting to strike at the coalition's morale.

As a result, this time, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Gongsun Zan all took action directly, besieging Lv Bu. However, Lv Bu's strength seemed to have improved, and facing the three, he faintly had the power to suppress them.

And just as the battle between the four was heating up, a high-level scholar from the coalition took action, summoning the Void Extreme Heavenly Thunder with the help of an artifact to shroud the four.

The power of this heavenly thunder was comparable to a spell released by a Yin Spirit expert. Its power was terrifyingly abnormal. It is said that at that time, the entire sky above the four was transformed into a thunder prison.

The power was like the destruction of the world.

A spell with Yin Spirit combat power is truly terrifying.

Except for Zhang Jiao of the Taiping Dao a few years ago, who displayed power beyond Soul Refining, this has almost never been shown in the Shenhan for hundreds of years.

This sudden eruption shocked several warlords in the coalition.

The four were shrouded in the thunder prison. If it were an ordinary person, they would probably have been struck to death by this thunder prison.

But these four, the weakest, Gongsun Zan, had the combat power of the fourth or fifth level of Gang-Refining, and the other three were peerless fierce generals of the Divine Treasury realm.

At the critical moment of life and death, the four put down their hatred for each other. Of course, to speak of hatred, the two sides had none; it was just that their positions were different, as were their lords.

At the critical moment, the four joined forces to block the offensive of this thunder prison.

Among them, Lv Bu erupted with divine power, seemingly using some taboo blood explosion technique, temporarily raising his strength by a small level, faintly striking out a phantom of a Dharma Image, directly scattering the thunder prison.

However, the four resisted the attack of the thunder prison and scattered it, but they also received heavy injuries.

Especially Lv Bu. Without Lv Bu, the coalition chose to retreat when facing Hulao Pass.

They did not fight to the death.

However, the coalition took Hulao Pass, but infighting occurred.

The reason is very simple. Afterward, someone discovered that the scholar who attacked Lv Bu and the four was from the Yuan clan.

That was an elder of the Yuan clan with the cultivation of the eighth level of Soul Refining, holding the Yuan clan's artifact and casting the divine ability of Heavenly Thunder.

This kind of indiscriminate attack also heavily injured Gongsun Zan, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and the others after they survived.

Gongsun Zan's subordinates wanted to find Yuan Shao and the others to reason, but they were blocked by the warlords. After all, the Yuan clan's action was also in the hope of eliminating Lv Bu, a great enemy, right?

As for Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and the others, those warlords saw that they could not win them over or subdue them these days, so in their hearts, they just wanted to destroy them.

Of course, they did not die, which was also their good fortune, but it was impossible for Gongsun Zan to find trouble with the Yuan clan.

Although on the surface the Yuan clan might not be in the right, for the sake of the world's great righteousness, it could be justified. If they could really destroy Lv Bu, this super fierce general, they would not hesitate even if there were sacrifices.

Except for a few who had close relationships with Gongsun Zan and said a couple of words, everyone's meaning was very clear: let Gongsun Zan endure it. As for Liu Bei, he was directly ignored.

Originally, this matter would have ended here, and the Yuan clan was willing to pay a price to calm the other party's anger.

As a result, the next thing that happened caused the coalition to fall into a state of infighting.

Breaking through Hulao Pass, the warlords of the coalition all entered the pass, preparing to celebrate their merit. After all, with Hulao Pass broken, they could drive straight in and head straight for Luoyang City.

Although in this process, the coalition lost hundreds of thousands of troops, the main force was still there and could threaten Luoyang City.

Everyone was very happy, so they held a banquet at night.

But a group of men in black secretly returned to the coalition camp, attacked Gongsun Zan's camp, and assassinated Gongsun Zan.

Two martial generals of the sixth level of Gang-Refining, plus several assassin rangers of Gang-Refining, such strength should be more than enough to assassinate a heavily injured Gongsun Zan.

Even Zhang Fei and Guan Yu would not be able to do it. After all, at that time, the three were heavily injured, and it would be very good if their strength could maintain the third level of Gang-Refining.

Just at this best critical moment, another fierce general stood out from Gongsun Zan's camp, a fierce general of the Divine Treasury.

One person blocked those two martial generals of the sixth level of Gang-Refining.

Afterward, the group of men in black exposed their identities; it turned out they were Yuan Shao's subordinates.

Now, the entire coalition was in an uproar. You say the previous attack was because the spell could not be controlled, which could also be justified.

But now, openly attacking Gongsun Zan, even those who were very close to the Yuan clan could not round it off.

After a conflict broke out between the two sides, because Gongsun Zan was injured, he did not dare to stay long, and Liu Bei also followed him and left directly.

Seeing this, some of the remaining warlords also left.

After all, with such a thing happening, who could guarantee that they would not be the second Gongsun Zan? It was also thanks to the many fierce generals under Gongsun Zan.

Otherwise, Gongsun Zan would probably have died, and even Liu Bei would have died, so wouldn't the elites under his command have become Yuan Shao's?

Easily obtaining tens of thousands of elite cavalry, this means were truly vicious.

Half of the warlords left, and there were still a million troops left, but they did not dare to move forward.

After all, Dong Zhuo's army was almost voluntarily stepping aside.

So after understanding all this, Su Fan was truly shocked by Yuan Shao's flashy operation. Of course, he quickly understood Yuan Shao's motivation.

After all, he knew Yuan Shao's ambition. Gongsun Zan had those two brothers of Liu Bei, and his strength was so strong that he was almost invincible among the northern warlords.

After all, the addition of a Divine Treasury fierce general to the army's combat power is quite significant.

Gongsun Zan also had two, plus Gongsun Zan's own elite cavalry.

If he could eliminate the opponent in advance and also take over the opponent's elites, it could be said to be killing two birds with one stone. ===== CHAPTER 232 =====