[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-three-kingdoms-the-coalition-insulted-me-so-i-de":3,"chapter-three-kingdoms-the-coalition-insulted-me-so-i-de-three-kingdoms-humiliated-by-the-coalition-i-def-chapter-20":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Three Kingdoms: Humiliated by the Coalition, I Defect to Dong Zhuo and Marry Dong Bai",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2112205,3441,"Chapter 20","three-kingdoms-humiliated-by-the-coalition-i-def-chapter-20",20,"\u003Cp>Inside the room,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi sat opposite Zhang He.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Zhang He could react, Gu Yi spoke first:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Junyi, you are a man of ability.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But under Han Fu, you will never have a day to shine; do you know the reason?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asked this by Gu Yi, Zhang He was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had always thought that he wasn't valued because he was young.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he had enough seniority, he would be promoted and valued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, looking at Gu Yi's sincere gaze,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang He kept questioning himself in his heart: what was the real reason Han Fu didn't value him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Junyi, you are not from a noble family, nor are you from a military lineage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although you can't be considered a commoner,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"relying on your original background to get ahead is just wishful thinking.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Among those valued under Han Fu, which one doesn't have a higher birth status than you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Under such a lord, how could you possibly be valued?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the words fell, Zhang He wanted to retort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that this was indeed the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of the people Han Fu valued were from humble backgrounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Zhang He's view, the abilities of these people were very average, even pathetic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet these guys firmly occupied the important positions in Jizhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang He thought about being captured today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, Zhang He was not on the coalition's list of generals to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he hadn't quietly followed behind Yan Liang and Wen Chou to charge out,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Fu probably would never have thought of giving this opportunity to Zhang He.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Junyi, you are a smart man; I’m sure I don't need to spell it out for you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Among those warlords in the Guandong coalition, the rest are of the same nature as Han Fu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you defect to them, I fear you will only end up as cannon fodder.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have said all I can; the decision of where to go is yours to make.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having said that, Gu Yi made a move to stand up and leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He believed that under the influence of the [Eloquent and Persuasive] feature,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as long as Zhang He wasn't crazy,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would definitely make the right choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>just as Gu Yi stood up, a flash of determination crossed Zhang He's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subsequently, he said in a loud voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhang Junyi will follow your orders from now on, Mr. Gu!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hope you can help me become famous throughout the world!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang He was still young at this time; as a military general, what he craved most in his heart was fame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi seemed to have given Zhang He nothing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but he had given Zhang He the most important thing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fairness, damn it, fairness!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Zhang He's excellent ability, leaving his name in history was not difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was difficult was that his room for advancement and his channels for promotion had been cut off!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In sharp contrast to the Guandong warlords,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the military generals under Dong Zhuo mostly had the same background as Zhang He.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were even worse off than Zhang He.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a doubt,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>for Zhang He at this moment, joining the Dong Zhuo army meant a bright future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he didn't join the Dong Zhuo army, even if Gu Yi really let him return to the Guandong coalition, he would only receive exclusion and oppression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>rather than saying Zhang He was acknowledging Dong Zhuo as his lord, it was better to say he had set his sights on Gu Yi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he achieved military merit in the future, he would become Gu Yi's hardcore loyalist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having accepted Zhang He, Gu Yi was in a great mood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second person he went to persuade was Han Hao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the immature Zhang He, Han Hao was a bit older.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Han Hao was also more clear-headed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His original lord was the Administrator of Henei, Wang Kuang, a man with no great ambitions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no talent and no fame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Han Hao followed Wang Kuang\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was simply because his official position was Attendant of Henei,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and he hadn't had the opportunity to seek another wise lord before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now it was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Hao had become a prisoner; he understood that only by following the Dong Zhuo army could he have a future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, under Gu Yi's solicitation, Han Hao quickly chose to surrender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Zhang He, Han Hao also nominally acknowledged Dong Zhuo as his lord, but in reality, he followed Gu Yi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides Zhang He and Han Hao,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi didn't have much interest in the remaining few.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>except for Sun Jian's loyalist Zu Mao and Gongsun Zan's loyalist Yan Gang,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the remaining few generals all chose to surrender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these two who didn't surrender also possessed great value in Gu Yi's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zu Mao was one of the \"four founding generals\" under Sun Jian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other three were Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the other three, Zu Mao's fame was the least prominent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In history, Zu Mao died at the hands of Hua Xiong while trying to rescue Sun Jian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in this life, due to Gu Yi's butterfly effect, Sun Jian did not engage with Hua Xiong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zu Mao also luckily kept his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a pity that he escaped the disaster at Sishui Pass but couldn't escape Hulao Pass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Gongsun Zan's great general Yan Gang,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this person might have average ability,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but in Gongsun Zan's heart, he was an irreplaceable right-hand man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides this, Yan Gang was the commander of the elite White Horse Volunteers under Gongsun Zan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His importance to Gongsun Zan was self-evident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>... ===== CHAPTER 39 =====\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the Hulao Pass council hall. ===== CHAPTER 40 =====\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dong Zhuo looked at the unyielding Zu Mao and Yan Gang and said with a smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gu Yi, how do you think this old man should deal with these two stubborn guys?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having said that, a fierce glint flashed in Dong Zhuo's eyes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Dong's temper could not be called very good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Guandong warlords, although they always claimed to be an army of justice,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in reality, if viewed from Dong Zhuo's perspective, these guys were completely a group of rebels!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Liu Hong passed away, the supreme power of the Great Han fell into the hands of He Jin and the Ten Eunuchs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both dreamed of killing the other and holding absolute power!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dong Zhuo entering the capital was at the invitation of He Jin, so he could be considered to have formal procedures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unexpectedly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>before Dong Zhuo entered the capital, He Jin had already died at the hands of the Ten Eunuchs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ten Eunuchs were also killed by Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and others at almost the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luoyang City suddenly fell into a power vacuum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With such massive authority right before his eyes, how could Dong Zhuo not take it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at the same time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Guandong aristocratic group led by the Yuan family viewed Dong Zhuo and his group of Xiliang warriors with contempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yuan family believed that Dong Zhuo entering the capital was because of the Yuan family's push.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After entering the capital, Dong Zhuo should have honestly followed the Yuan family's instructions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But here was the key point!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dong Zhuo controlled tens of thousands of troops and was already the strongest warlord on the frontier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the Yuan family did help with his entry into the capital,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>why should he have to look at the Yuan family's face for everything?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yuan family's goal was to turn Dong Zhuo and the Xiliang warlords into a puppet, a puppet that served only their Guandong aristocratic group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come on! Our Old Dong also has ambitions, okay?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he has big ambitions!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The conflict between the two sides inevitably erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after that, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and others, with the help of their family, went far away to Guandong to recruit troops and form a coalition to crusade against Dong Zhuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To put it bluntly, the conflict between Dong Zhuo and the Guandong aristocrats could not be resolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Dong Zhuo, who held the Han imperial court, and the Xiliang army were indeed equivalent to the regular army of the imperial court at this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, not all warlords in the world opposed Dong Zhuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, Liu Biao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His position as Inspector of Jingzhou was appointed by Dong Zhuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the various Guandong warlords participated in the crusade against Dong Zhuo,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Biao, this member of the Han imperial clan, had just entered Jingzhou alone not long before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Historically, before Dong Zhuo passed away,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Biao nominally always respected Dong Zhuo as the Chancellor of the Great Han.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was not until the later period of Li Jue and Guo Si's administration, when Zhang Ji led troops to attack Wancheng, that Liu Biao officially broke with the Xiliang army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Guandong coalition was smearing Dong Zhuo and the Xiliang army everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a clay figurine has a bit of a temper, let alone Old Dong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As prisoners, Old Dong had already given Yan Gang and Zu Mao a chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two still refused to surrender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Dong didn't mind using their heads as a sacrifice to heaven!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Old Dong, whose murderous intent was gradually boiling, Gu Yi advised:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord, don't be impatient; these two have other uses.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If used properly, they could even allow you to gain a fierce general whose martial prowess is no less than Guan Yu and Zhang Fei!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with Dong Zhuo's composure, he couldn't help but exclaim upon hearing this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the last battle ended, Dong Zhuo immediately sent scouts to find out some information about Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two, although still a distance away from Lu Bu in terms of martial arts,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>were still worthy of being called top-tier generals of the age.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would complain about having too many fierce generals?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could exchange Yan Gang and Zu Mao, who were extremely chicken-rib-like figures to Dong Zhuo, for a top-tier fierce general, it would naturally be the best thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Dong Zhuo immediately said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gu Yi, you are truly my lucky star!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you need anything, just tell me; go ahead and do it boldly, I will give you my full support!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dong Zhuo liked Gu Yi more and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep in his heart, he had already earmarked him as his future grandson-in-law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes, the bond between generations is strong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Dong's son was already gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For his granddaughter Dong Yuan, Old Dong usually showed infinite doting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, for this talented future grandson-in-law Gu Yi, Old Dong also felt very close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had completely subconsciously treated him as one of his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi had made another contribution at Hulao Pass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Dong decided that after returning, he would let him have contact with his granddaughter Dong Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would strive for them to get married soon and give Old Dong a big, fat great-grandson!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, the smile on Old Dong's face became even more unstoppable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gloomy mood brought about by the Guandong coalition for many days was also swept away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for how to deal with Yan Gang and Zu Mao, it was all handed over to Gu Yi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>outside Hulao Pass,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in the coalition camp,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gongsun Zan and Sun Jian found the alliance leader Yuan Shao together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he entered Yuan Shao's tent, Gongsun Zan couldn't wait to speak:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alliance leader, when exactly can we exchange back the captured great generals?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't care about others.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But my commander of the White Horse Volunteers, Yan Gang, is my trusted good brother!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If he can't come back, then I can only go and discuss the exchange of prisoners with Dong Zhuo privately!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the words fell,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the atmosphere in the tent instantly turned cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>... ===== CHAPTER 41 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",2012,"2026-06-16T09:19:20.127Z","2026-06-16T10:29:10.858Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","20cdd073d7c543f9241058e783fe15c96236ea2604607fbe1fb78a8bf59c8d5b","three-kingdoms-humiliated-by-the-coalition-i-def-chapter-21","three-kingdoms-humiliated-by-the-coalition-i-def-chapter-19",1103,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthree-kingdoms-humiliated-by-the-coalition-i-def-cover.jpg"]