Chapter 153

Huang Zhong suddenly walked in from outside and reported to Gu Yi:

"My Lord, according to news from spies planted in the coalition camp,"

"Gongsun Zan seems to have had a conflict with several other Guandong warlords over grain."

"He left the coalition camp under Hulao Pass and built another camp twenty miles away with the Youzhou army."

Hearing this, a flash of light passed through Gu Yi's eyes, and he laughed:

"Hehe, the Guandong warlords are digging their own graves!"

"Since that's the case, let's satisfy their request."

Saying this, Gu Yi turned his head to look at Wang Men.

Wang Men had obviously heard the conversation between Gu Yi and Huang Zhong just now, and was currently in a state of anxiety.

Seeing this, Gu Yi spoke:

"Wang Men, you can't let go of your General Gongsun, right?"

"Since that's the case, I'll give you a task."

"If you can successfully complete the task, not only can you live,"

"but the other Youzhou soldiers under Gongsun Zan can also have food to eat and return to Youzhou safely!"

Gu Yi's words were filled with temptation for Wang Men.

As a rearguard, Wang Men naturally knew that the Youzhou army was facing the dilemma of grain being cut off.

Youzhou is cold and bitter, and grain production is not high.

In recent years, Gongsun Zan has been busy fighting Yuan Shao.

This time, marching south to join the alliance, all the grain brought was burned.

Whether he could successfully return to Youzhou with the remaining soldiers had become an unknown.

After all,

people are iron, rice is steel, and you get hungry if you don't eat a meal.

The Youzhou army collectively running out of grain is walking on a dead end!

Thinking of this, Wang Men hurriedly asked Gu Yi:

"Please tell me, Mr., what kind of task can allow my Youzhou soldiers to successfully eat their fill?"

At this moment, Wang Men had completely forgotten the fact that Gu Yi was an enemy of the Guandong coalition.

No matter what,

Gu Yi's words

were like a light in a desperate situation.

It gave him a great hope!

"Hahahaha."

"This matter is of great benefit and no harm to General Wang and General Gongsun."

Gu Yi told Wang Men the strategy.

The latter's expression changed suddenly.

Afterward,

Gu Yi arranged for a young scholar in blue satin robes, as well as Huang Zhong and more than a dozen personal guards, to follow Wang Men and disappear into the night.

In the middle of the night,

this group of more than ten people quietly arrived outside Gongsun Zan's camp.

By logic, at this hour, except for the night watchmen, everyone else should have been resting.

But the series of events that happened today really made Gongsun Zan unable to sleep.

Without any sleepiness, he was sitting on the edge of the camp.

Looking at the sparse starry sky outside the camp, Gongsun Zan sighed endlessly.

Suddenly, several figures flashed across Gongsun Zan's field of vision.

With his excellent eyesight, he instantly caught something wrong.

In the blink of an eye, an arrow was already hanging on his bow, ready to be fired.

"Who?"

"Don't tell me you want me to shoot you to death myself before you're willing to come out?"

Gongsun Zan shouted sternly.

"Hahahaha, worthy of General Gongsun, truly powerful."

"However, we have no malice in visiting today."

"On the contrary, we are here to point out a bright path for General Gongsun."

The speaker was the scholar in blue satin robes.

With a young face, he looked less than twenty years old.

Beside him stood several guards, as well as Huang Zhong and Wang Men.

Seeing Wang Men appear here, a flash of guilt passed through Gongsun Zan's eyes.

However,

with Wang Men's arrival,

Gongsun Zan quickly guessed the camp the visitors belonged to.

The person who visited in the middle of the night with the captured Wang Men was naturally someone from the Dong Zhuo army.

The young man in blue satin robes smiled slightly and teased:

"Let me introduce myself."

"Lest General Gongsun shoot an arrow later, and I die under your arrow without knowing why."

"I am Fa Zheng, from Sishui Pass."

"Under the instruction of Mr. Linzhi, I have come to discuss a big deal with General Gongsun."

Fa Zheng, the strategist under Liu Bei in history.

Strategies such as killing Xiahou Yuan at Mount Dingjun and waiting for work at the Hanshui River were all from Fa Zheng's hand.

After Liu Bei won the Battle of Hanzhong, he personally praised Fa Zheng for his greatest contribution.

Besides this,

in the battle of Liu Bei entering Shu, especially after Pang Tong died in battle, Fa Zheng made a significant contribution to Liu Bei's capture of Yizhou.

It's just a pity that Fa Zheng passed away before Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor.

Otherwise, if Fa Zheng had accompanied the army in the Battle of Yiling, Liu Bei would not have suffered such a miserable defeat.

The question is,

why did Fa Zheng become a person of the Dong Zhuo army?

In original history, Fa Zheng was a person from the Sanfu area, which is near Chang'an.

His grandfather, Fa Zhen, was one of the top Confucian scholars of the time.

When Li Jue and Guo Si wreaked havoc in Chang'an, Fa Zheng's family was persecuted.

Fa Zheng and his good friend Meng Da therefore traveled to Shu together.

Later, the two hooked up with Zhang Song and gradually gained a foothold in Shu.

But due to the changes Gu Yi made to the historical trend,

Old Dong was still alive and well.

Lu Bu did not launch a coup either.

Naturally, there was no havoc in Chang'an by Li Jue and Guo Si.

Fa Zheng's family was not affected by this.

Not long ago, Fa Zheng's grandfather Fa Zhen decided to go to the Imperial Academy to serve, which was considered submitting a letter of intent to Old Dong.

Fa Zheng naturally joined the Dong Zhuo army with his grandfather.

But perhaps it was a unique fate in destiny.

When Fa Zheng accompanied his grandfather Fa Zhen to visit the mansion of the Secretariat Li Ru, he happened to meet Zhang Song, who was helping Li Ru handle government affairs!

The two instantly hit it off like a blind cat finding a dead mouse!

The two of them instantly hit it off, like a turtle meeting a mung bean!