Chapter 90 General Lingling, Xing Daorong!

"That's right. It's difficult to suppress the conflict between the two sides even temporarily." Guo Jia added: "If we don't send troops, Sun Ce, who is furious, and Liu Biao, who is personally mobilizing a large army to fight back, probably won't listen to our mediation. But if we send troops, there will be no practical benefit from moving the troops, and it will also be a loss."

There is a difficulty here, which is that the cost of mediation must be very small.

Otherwise, it would cost a huge amount of money and result in casualties to mediate, which would be worse than not mediating at all.

Let them fight to their heart's content and then clean up the mess.

"There's no need to send out a large army. I'll only take 500 Haotian Guards with me. We can mediate without taking any action!" Ji Hao said as he took out a map of Jingzhou.

There are red lines marked on it, and half of Changsha and Guiyang were taken over the nine counties of Jingxiang.

Jiang Xia was also eaten a lot like saw teeth.

Now, Liu Biao, who had suffered a series of defeats, was furious. He personally led Cai Mao and Zhang Yun to fight. The army marched to the border of Jiangxia, with the momentum to fight a decisive battle with Eastern Wu.

In Liu Biao's view, he still had a strong army, but he suffered losses because he did not react in time.

He believed that after gathering a large army, he would be able to defeat Sun Ce and Zhou Yu.

The only ones who were worried about his defeat, which would lead to the capture of Jiangdong by Sun Ce, were Liu Bei and Ji Hao. Liu Biao himself had no idea about the combat effectiveness of his own navy.

As a general, he was also very confident at this time.

Having learned from Huang Zhong's lessons, he promoted a large number of low-level generals.

Some young generals who were originally guarding the county town were promoted by him to be vanguard generals. The most typical one among them was "Lingling General" Xing Daorong.

He was originally just a defender of a county under Lingling, and his status was similar to that of Huang Zhong before his rise.

He is a general of a certain faction, but not a great general.

However, when Liu Biao promoted him out of turn, he suddenly became one of the generals who led the attack on Eastern Wu, and served as a vanguard together with Wen Pin, the defender of Nanyang, and dealt with Eastern Wu together with Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.

They do have the style and demeanor of the four generals under Dong Zhuo.

"Liu Biao now has four generals available, namely Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, Wen Pin, and Xing Daorong!" Zhou Yu said to the generals in the garrison: "Among them, we have already fought against Cai Mao and Zhang Yun. They are average and qualified generals, but not very powerful, so there is no need to worry."

Hearing this, everyone nodded.

In the battles during these days, Cai Mao and Zhang Yunshui fought well, and they retreated in an orderly manner after several defeats.

Preserved the strength.

He is also considered a good general of the time.

But that was all, they were defeated in all the battles, their abilities were just passing, they had some skills but definitely not much, Zhou Yu didn't even look at them.

"Then Wen Pin should not be underestimated. He is the garrison commander of Nanyang, guarding the borders of Yu, Jing and Si states. When Wei Yan defeated Huang Zu before, the reason why he did not take advantage of the situation to capture Jiangxia was partly because of his interference in the rear!" Zhou Yu said again.

Huang Zu's base was in Jiangxia. When he was defeated, Ji Hao had the opportunity to take it down.

But gave up.

It was because there were Liu Biao's troops in the rear. If they advanced rashly, there would be a great battle, which would result in casualties and would be a loss. Therefore, they retreated to Yuzhou.

It cannot be said that there is no element of fear of Wen Pin among these.

At least this one is not made of paper.

"What about Xing Daorong?" Sun Ce asked.

This was the first time he had heard of this name. The so-called "General Lingling" was just a self-proclaimed title before.

He was only recently appointed as the supreme general by Liu Biao.

"I'm not sure about this. He is definitely not among the 'Twenty-Four Generals', but he must have some outstanding qualities to be promoted by Liu Biao." Zhou Yu said, "Don't be careless!"

And at this moment, as if in response to his words, the scout suddenly came to report.

"It's bad. There's a man coming alone in front of us and challenging us in front of our camp." The scout said, "He calls himself 'Lingling General' Xing Daorong, and is clamoring for 'Sun Tai, Gan, and Zhou' to join the battle. He says he wants to let the world know that among the 'Twenty-Four Generals', there are some peerless generals who are not even on the list!" Zhou Yu was stunned when he heard this.

Sun Ce also looked confused.

"That person means that he is not ranked like Ji Hao?" Taishi Ci frowned and said, "But Ji Hao is not ranked because he fought against ten thousand people alone. A few days ago, he fought against Lu Bu, Dian Wei and Xu Chu alone and won. What's the reason for Xing Daorong?"

For a moment, they were a little skeptical, wondering if he was a peerless master hidden among the people?

After all, the gun prodigy Tong Yuan and the sword saint Wang Yue both enjoy high reputations.

Just because the God of Spear’s martial arts made Ji Hao and Zhao Yun successful, no one dares to underestimate him. What if Xing Daorong is a martial arts master like Tong Yuan?
"Don't be careless, go out of the camp and wait and see!" Zhou Yu said.

Everyone filed out.

When we arrived at the gate of the camp, we immediately saw a tall and mighty "strong man" holding a mountain axe.

Why does the word “壮” need quotation marks?

Because although the man was tall, he was not a strong man like Ji Hao and Lu Bu who were two meters tall and covered with muscles, but a fat man with a big belly and a round waist.

His figure is very similar to Lu Zhishen, and his mannerisms are very similar to Zhang Fei.

Arrogant, eccentric, and high-minded.

"Xing Daorong, I have traveled far and wide and fought for many years. I have fought against or side by side with more or less the top generals in the world, but I have never seen you!" Sun Ce walked up and said.

He wanted to use this to make Xing Daorong reveal his true identity so as to find out the enemy's strength.

Unexpectedly, Xing Daorong curled his lips and said, "Of course, people like you can't touch me. There is only one person in this world that I can really look at, Ji Hao. Even Lu Bu and Zhao Yun, I, Xing Daorong, only look at them with one eye, they are not worthy of me looking at them with both eyes!"

Sun Ce: "..."

"Then do you know Tong Yuan and Wang Yue?" Zhou Yu asked.

He wanted to find out whether Xing Daorong was a gangster.

Unexpectedly, Xing Daorong shook his head and said, "I don't know you, a nobody. Don't try to get close to me. Since the lord has wisely appointed me as the vanguard general, I will definitely kill your spirit today and let you Jiangdong rats know how high the sky is and how vast the earth is!"

After saying that, he raised the axe in his hand and showed his readiness to fight.

It made Zhou Yu's face turn green.

The Sword Master and the Gun God are just nobody?
Even Lu Bu doesn't dare to look down on them, okay?

Especially Tong Yuan, who has four disciples, two of whom are peerless and two of whom are first-rate. Now he is over 70 years old, but there is still an endless stream of people coming to him to become his disciples. It is said that he abandoned his old house and lived in seclusion in the mountains to avoid troubles.

"My lord, his weapon is wrong." Lu Meng suddenly said.

After hearing this, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce realized that Xing Daorong did not use a magic weapon, but a wooden axe, and the axe body was not very big.

The weapons of the top generals of the time all weighed about one hundred kilograms. Lu Bu's Fang Tian Huaji weighed one hundred and fifty kilograms, and Ji Hao's weapon weighed three hundred kilograms.

And the one in front of me probably doesn't even weigh 50 kilograms.

"Could it be fake?"

"Why not give it a try!" Zhou Yu said, "You shoot him an arrow with a five-stone bow. If he can catch it easily, we will avoid fighting and find out the truth first. If he is just bragging, he will definitely not be able to catch that arrow!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Sun Ce laughed.

You have to draw the bow and shoot the arrow.

But at this moment, a cloud of dust rose in the distance, and at the same time, an unusually tall black horse, carrying a general in golden armor, galloped over.

Arrived at the gate of the camp.

"Everyone, please give me some face and stop for now, okay?"

(End of this chapter)