Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1770: Chapter 1659: The White Horse that Rides the Wind

This time, Liu Bei and others went to meet Cao Cao, leaving the camp virtually empty. If the opposite side has eyes, they will seize the opportunity to occupy Liu Bei’s camp, which greatly reduces the attention on Zhou Yu. After all, until now, the Huns still don’t know that the Han Army has a force at the Ru River Ferry.

Naturally, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce must seize the opportunity to bring their army over from the Ru River Bank.

Liu Bei originally planned to lend troops to Sun Ce to help escort them. After all, pure archer units lack melee capabilities and mainly rely on others for cover. By switching all his troops to archers, Sun Ce was in a way showing complete trust in Liu Bei. So, Liu Bei, in return for this trust, intended to lend Sun Ce five thousand elite cavalry to protect the archers.

Sun Ce did agree to it; however, he didn’t bring these five thousand elite cavalry when heading to the Ru River Bank, saying as per Zhou Yu’s words that the target was too large, and they needed to be more cautious.

In short, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce are now heading to the Ru River Bank with only a small number of troops. But when they return, they will bring back tens of thousands of elite archers. By the way, the southern navy’s archery skills are indeed significantly better than those of this northern group.

When Chen Xi arrived at the front camp, Liu Bei and the others were almost all there. Chen Xi took a glance and noticed that Wei Yan, Zhuge Liang, and Yu Jin were missing, and roughly understood what was happening, so he nodded to Liu Bei.

”Are we just going like this?” Chen Xi asked Liu Bei, ”Aren’t we bringing too few troops?”

”Wen He’s opinion is that this many are enough, and besides, don’t we still have Zijian?” Liu Bei said with a cheerful smile, looking quite pleased, ”Moreover, we’re not going to engage in combat, bringing so many people won’t do any good.”

”Wen He, what if the Northern Huns ignore the camp and attack us?” Chen Xi said with some annoyance, not bothering to explain to Liu Bei. With just this ten thousand troops, if he were the Northern Huns Chanyu, knowing the composition of this team, he would definitely take action, as attacking this is worth much more than attacking the camp.

”Rest assured, they won’t attack us.” Jia Xu said with a certain air, ”Recently, scouts reported unusual activity within the Northern Huns, so even if they were to attack the camp today, it would only be a minor engagement.”

Chen Xi raised an eyebrow, ”So, you already know who those guys who blocked us in the north were?”

”Yes, the Dingling People.” Jia Xu nodded, ”I estimate that the Northern Huns are now in contact with the Dingling People too. After all, unlike us, the Dingling People can be considered their only allies.”

”The High Cart People?” Liu Ye looked at Jia Xu with a puzzled expression, while Chen Xi seemed perplexed, having a vague idea of a few things, but not much was clear.

”Logically speaking, they are our allies.” Fa Zheng, who had a good grasp of history, immediately retorted.

”The Southern Huns are still considered our own people.” Jia Xu said with a cold laugh, ”Back then, Dingling also split into two. I’ve already found some information. Now joining forces with the Huns is considered the Northern Dingling, and this tribe has quite decent combat power.”

”I see.” Chen Xi nodded, ”If the Northern Huns Chanyu is going to personally welcome them, then it should be the King of Dingling coming in person. It seems the Dingling People have fully sided with the Northern Huns. How about we lead troops to attack them?”

”Let’s not. If we move large numbers of troops and don’t head for the opposite camp, they will surely receive the news, so both the Huns and us will restrain ourselves this time.”

”What a pity.” Chen Xi curled his lips, ”Meng Qi, Boyuan, Ling Ming, have they already gone?”

”They have already gone ahead to greet them, Kongming didn’t want to go, and I left Wen Chang and Wen Ze to guard the camp.” Liu Bei said, ”Let’s go too. If we delay any longer, it will be a bit rude.”

”Then let’s go.” Chen Xi nodded, and Liu Bei said, ”Set off.”

Then, a mighty group of people led more than ten thousand elite cavalry heading southwest, meanwhile, Huyan Chu also led more than ten thousand elite cavalry, escorted by Xubo Cheng and Qiu Linbei, to welcome the King of Dingling.

”Zilong, why do I feel like you’re a bit absent-minded? Is it because Yun Lu isn’t speaking to you, and you’re a bit unhappy?” Chen Xi, scanning the surroundings, inadvertently noticed Zhao Yun appearing somewhat lost in thought, and joked.

”Uh? Zichuan, what did you say? I was a bit distracted just now, please forgive me.” Zhao Yun said, somewhat dazed, which startled Chen Xi, as Zhao Yun had never appeared like this before.

”Zilong, are you sick? Last time using that technique already caused you significant harm, right?” Chen Xi said with some concern.

”Not at all, previously that level of Inner Qi wasn’t enough to harm me.” Zhao Yun shook his head, ”My Inner Qi is much more than normal, and although the previous expenditure was large, it wasn’t to the point of injuring my bones and muscles. I was just contemplating the White Horse issue.”

”Huh?” Chen Xi looked at Zhao Yun with a puzzled expression, ”What’s wrong with the White Horse?”

”It’s that Golden Eagle I saw earlier; it seems familiar, but no matter how hard I try, I can’t recall anything.” Zhao Yun, unusually, showed a trace of irritability but quickly composed himself, ”Sorry, Zichuan, I’ve been bothered by this issue recently, making me a bit grumpy.”

”It’s nothing.” Chen Xi shook his head, ”You can tell me about it, maybe I can help you figure it out.”

”Alright, the general situation is like this...” Zhao Yun began explaining to Chen Xi, and while they weren’t paying much attention, Zhao Yun maneuvered from the military general group to join the civil officials, and Liu Bei glanced at them without saying anything.