Chapter 312 The Gathering of Ten Warlords – Part Two (1/2)
Chapter 312 – The Gathering of Ten Warlords – Part Two
Fortunately for Tong, not all lords and retainers were blind.
Pu Jing whispered to Cao Cao's ear, ”That's not Zhang Tong. The guy with long ears is Liu Bei that I told you about.”
Cao Cao slightly nodded, ”Ah, that's the future headache you have told me about. I knew it's him from first glance. Then, the guy with a long beard is the future God of War after Lu Bu?”
”Indeed. He's Guan Yu, soon to be the Loyal and Righteous God of War.”
”So, do you think we can tame that Guan Yu? From your story, he deserted my force the moment he heard Liu Bei joined Yuan Shao, right?”
”I don't think his loyalty toward Liu Bei is that deep since they had just been brothers for a few years. Let's try to kill Liu Bei in this war first, then we'll try to poach Guan Yu. But my lord, be careful of Jiang Man. I believe he's also an immortal like me.”
”Ah, I already knew about it actually. I'll tell you later what my spies had told me after this meeting. It's a very interesting development.”
Pu Jing raised his eyebrows for a moment, but he grinned in understanding and stepped back. Good leaders should have their own intelligence agency aside from using the agents of his subordinates. Cao Cao's action was similar to what Pu Jing did in his previous life.
Seeing everybody taking their seat, Yuan Shao clapped his hands and changed the subject, pretending ignorant.
”Now that everybody is here. Let's start our meeting. For someone that might not have known me, I am Yuan Shao. I shall be the leader of this coalition against Xiongnu.”
As soon as Yuan Shao finished his speech, a commotion broke out in front of the tent.
The guards stopped someone from entering the tent, and the retainers of the leading person were offended for it.
”Are you blind!? This gentleman here is Zhang Tong, and we're his followers! Why are you stopping us from entering the ally tent after we have invited all the lords here!?”
Tong, Xun Yu, and Jia Xu glared at the guards as if they wanted to murder someone. They went through so many troubles to get this alliance together, so they could get them to fight the Xiongnu. Why did the sentry guards stop them from entering?
Tong, who had arrived here later because he was too busy compensating ally forces with his provision, arrived at the gathering late. He had also sent Hua Shi to Wan City to deal with the provision supply and other compensation to the allies on the different battlefront, so he was short on hands.
As for Zhang Min, Tong and Hua Shi did not bring her here. They had entrusted the little girl to Zhang Jiao in Julu.
”Sir, Lord Zhang Tong has already entered the tent. I need your identification token.”
”Huh!?”
Jia Xu and Xun Yu got infuriated to the point that they wanted to pull out their personal pistol and shoot the guard on the spot. Fortunately, Tong raised his hand to stop them.
”Are you saying that an imposter is impersonating me inside that tent?”
Tong locked his killing intent on the guards. His current mental strength and cultivation foundation right now had developed during the peaceful years, and it rivaled that of Lu Bu in his early years.
As he put the pressure on the men, he revealed the jade token, which represented the Zhang family symbol.
”Is that enough?”
Tong doubled the killing intent to punish the men. The pressure shuddered the guards, who were sweating profusely from the realization of their mistakes.
One of the guards had foams on his mouth before he passed out. The two others wet their pants while the last one could hardly stand on his trembling legs from fear.
”A-Are you really Lord Zhang Tong? T-Then the group of people earlier …”
”A group earlier? I see.”
Their voices and the entire conversation could be heard from inside the tent.
None of them was stupid. All minor lords turned their attention toward Liu Bei, who brought in three retainers instead of two.
”So, he's an imposter?”
”Wait, then who the hell is this guy?”
”Someone wants to shame Zhang Tong?”
Guan Yu noticed the glare and felt that something was wrong. He leaned down and whispered to Liu Bei.
”Xuande, I think this seat is prepared for Zhang Tong. You're sitting on his place.”
”Huh? I'm sitting on that moron's seat!?”
The ”moron” remarks did not escape the ears of all lords.
Lu Zhi and Gongsun Zan glared at Liu Bei in anger. Calling their fellow junior disciple a moron was not the right thing to do, consider that they were under the same mentor.
Cao Cao, Cheng Yu, and Pu Jing looked at the development with interest as they wanted to see how Liu Bei would get into trouble or how Tong would react to this fledgling King-to-be in the future.