Chapter 90 - Inevitable Battle With Huang Zu of Jiangxia (1/2)
Chapter 90 – Inevitable Battle With Huang Zu of Jiangxia
Translated by Bloodfalcon, Edited by Krayto
“Report!” Suddenly there is a scout reporting intel in Lu Bu’s big tent. The intel is that there are troop movements in front of Huangzhou city.
“Army, huh?!” Said Lu Bu while looking at a very rough map drawings. This is a map which covered Jiangxia and all of Jing Province. This map was given to him by Sun Ce.
Although this is very rough, it had detailed information with labels of names of all the districts, evidently Sun Ce invested alot of their time to make this map. From this map, we can see that Sun Ce has been plotting to take Jing Province for a long time.
Huangzhou city is in one of Jiangxia’s region, so obviously there will be army movement from Jiangxia belonging to Huang Zu.
“What does Huang Zu want to do?!” Lu Bu tried to guess what was going on in Huang Zu’s mind.
“Gongtai, has our messenger returned?!” Lu Bu who wanted to pa.s.s through Jiangxia, naturally will need to ask permission from Jiangxia’s owner.
From Jiangxia to Xinye, there are only two ways to reach it. One is through water, using waterway not only convenient but also quick. The second one is to take mountain road. The mountain road is very treacherous, and very b.u.mpy. Not a good choice for his army to march using the mountain road, as he is bringing his family and Miss Yuan, also it will be difficult for his cavalry unit to walk. So, the only way is to ask Huang Zu to provide Lu Bu with s.h.i.+ps to transport Lu Bu army.
But, now Huang Zu unexpectedly deployed his army? What does he want to do? Evidently, he wanted to do battle!!! Chen Gong then said “Milord, we can forget that about messenger we sent or bringing toll fee to him, the result will always be battle.
This event happened because we have been sold out by Sun Ce!” Chen Gong then hand over an envelope containing detailed intel to Lu Bu.
Previously when Lu Bu arrived at Huangzhou’s vicinity, he sent scouts and spies to gather information. The information that he obtained was that the entire Jiangxia is in full alert with the city gates shut tightly and soldiers wearing their armor. Why they did? It was because their side received an order that stated “We must fight with Lu Bu and Sun Ce’s coalition army!”
“EH, WE ARE ALLIED WITH SUN CE'S ARMY?!” Lu Bu was suddenly standing. Disbelief with his own eyes, he already read the news more than ten times. What is written in the news is a rumor spread by Jiangdong’s army that Lu Bu has allied with Sun Ce.
If you heard a rumor only once it will be dismiss it as rumor, but if you hear it again and again, you will start to believe that it is real. And the result is all of Jiangxia is on defensive from Lu Bu’s “invasion”. Huang Zu sent out Su Fei and Huang Zhong, his two best generals to command an army of 30,000 troops to repel his enemy.
“30,000 troops, eh?!” Lu Bu smiled disdainly. In the entirety of Jiangxia, it is impossible for him to have military a strength of 30,000 troops, does Huang Zu want to fight all out with his soldiers?!
“Who the h.e.l.l is Su Fei and Huang Zhong?!” Lu Bu really have not heard the reputation of these two people before. Lu Bu not knowing who Su Fei is can be considered very normal because he is a general of the younger generation, this year hes only 29 years old. But Huang Zhong, if according to age, is almost the same age as Lu Bu. This year only 38 years old. But Huang Zhong did not show himself at the early stages of this chaotic time which is the Yellow Turban Rebellion, why did he not appear? Because he is busy going here to find remedy for his son’s illness.