The General's Mansion of the Bandits. The Martial Arts Hall.

The hall door was closed, and the wind was howling inside the door, and the sound of tyranny was like thunder.

Lei Yuan whispered to the entourage guard beside the door: "How long has it been?"

The guard looked up at the sky: "It's half an hour."

"Half an hour is not over yet? General Gan is very brave!"

"General Lei, listen to the sound inside. General Gan was so anxious... he had been knocked over three times! I heard that his teeth were loose!"

Jian Yong pondered and said, "That's not bad. I heard that last time Wei Wenchang came, General Guan easily knocked him over five times."

"Wei Wenchang is worse than General Gan. Every time he comes, he loses and loses." The guard nodded in agreement: "But my general said that as long as he can use more thought, he will definitely be a powerful general who kills the general and snatches the flag in another two years."

Lei Yuan thought to himself: It turns out that Wei Yan and Guan Yu have a close relationship and often come to Guan Yu’s home to practice martial arts, so he learned Guan Yu’s arrogant character. In fact, Wei Yan is also a powerful general now, but an ordinary powerful general cannot catch the eye of Yun Changgong.

Gan Ning is different. Although he is middle-aged and his physical strength is not as strong as Wei Yan, his skillful skills and battlefield intuition he has honed over the years on the battlefield are probably more than better than the young Wei Yan.

At the previous meeting, Duke Xuande also announced the appointment of Gan Ning, with Gan Ning as the general and Guan Yu's deputy commander, and led the Jingzhou Navy. In addition, because the Gan Ning headquarters was defeated in the Gong'an City and lacked armor and equipment, he was awarded two hundred swords and twenty exquisite armor.

There are some special aspects of this appointment. Gan Ning, nominally, was the deputy deputy of Guan Yu, and was above the generals such as Guan Ping, Zhou Cang, Fu Shiren, etc. In fact, it had no direct relationship with Guan Yu's troops.

His mission is to lead the people of Yizhou to organize a small-scale naval army that can protect the Yizhou waterway as soon as possible. The base is temporarily located in Yiling. At the same time, he should also use his contacts in various parts of Ba County to strive to tentatively send power along the river, pass through Dangqu, Hanchang and other places, and from Micang Road to Hanzhong.

Of course, these two tasks are not small, and Duke Xuande would not hand it over to a surrendered general so easily. Therefore, Lei Yuan was the one who took the lead in taking charge, and Jian Yong, Gan Ning, Feng Xi and others participated.

In addition to Gan Ning being responsible for the front, Jian Yong had to coordinate his relationship with Brazilian prefect Pang Xi and other Yizhou officials. As the leader of all generals, Lei Yuan must ensure that the water and land routes of the Xiajiang River were foolproof. At a specific period, he would also lead troops into Brazilian counties and fight along the Micang Road.

For Lei Yuan, in this mission, he is still a general who leads a partial army. However, his main energy will be focused on ensuring the transit between Jingyi and the land, and combat is a special requirement under special circumstances. And among the mountains and valleys of Ba County, barbarians are everywhere. If the army enters Ba County, he may have to communicate with the barbarians first.

Perhaps this is because Duke Xuande understood the losses of the continuous combat of the Lei family in Lujiang. Overall, this task is not particularly difficult. In Shuzhong and Hanzhong, Duke Xuande would naturally mobilize other divisions to undertake it.

In the past few days, Lei Yuan retrieved information about Bahan in Yizhou from relevant officials in General Zuo's mansion, and asked Jian Yong for information on the distance, distance, width and narrow roads in this direction.

At the same time, he also heard that Duke Xuande, considering that the subsequent movements of the Cao army were unknown, the Jingzhou army had temporarily mobilized only the troops of Liu Feng, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan, with a total of about 10,000 people. In addition, he also sent envoys to Jiangdong to urgently inform the movements of the Cao army, hoping that after the main force of the Cao army was in the west, the Marquis of Wu could go north to threaten the Jianghuai city.

Because Fa Zheng is expected to set off to return to Yizhou tomorrow, maybe Duke Xuande will do a better job and will personally send him to the western border of Jingzhou, so Lei Yuan plans to set off today and return to Yidao to prepare for the host of the Xiajiang area in advance. If Fa Zheng returns to Chengdu and immediately persuades Liu Jiyu, then within about a month, the military operations will begin one after another, which is really undelayed.

Jian Yong naturally traveled with Lei Yuan, and he also had to call him Shang Gan Ning.

In the past few days, in addition to regaining his old subordinates, Gan Ning visited Guan Yu every day.

He is rude and fierce, but when he was young, he was a county magistrate and was not a stubborn young man without eyesight. Duke Xuande re-give him his official position and important responsibilities in front of everyone that day. He immediately accepted the order and worshiped Duke Xuande, saying, "I wish to serve the lord, Shenwu, and drive him to fight against the rebel ministers."

Because of his generous words, Duke Xuande was very happy. After the meeting, he specially stayed in Gan Ning for a lecture and comforted him heavily.

The next day, Gan Ning rode alone to the Jingzhou Navy headquarters to meet with the leader of the Jingzhou Navy, the general Guan Yu. When they met, they both admired each other for a long time, because they were both famous for their bravery and had a record of ten wins and ten finals on the battlefield.

In contemporary wars and confrontations, although there are so-called divisions between ten and ten thousand enemies, when the real weapon transfer is true, the so-called generals are the courage of the army, and whether ten thousand people can fight to the death is ultimately inseparable from the leadership of the generals of the mighty martial arts.

For example, the reason why the two generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are recognized as enemies of thousands is that during the decades of fierce battles of Xuande, they relied on their personal courage to turn the situation around more than once. Even in the desperate situation in the eyes of ordinary people, these two people were able to gallop across the enemy formation and make a glimmer of hope.

When Gan Ning followed Zhou Lang to besiege Jiangling, he had a relationship with Guan and Zhang Generals, but they were their own masters at that time, and it was even more unsuitable for competition. At this time, although Gan Ning was a surrendered general, he remained unabashed and would never bow down to show his grace. Such performance not only made Guan Yu appreciate it, but also aroused his strong interest, wanting to suppress this person.

So, the two competed with each other every day and fought endlessly.

Two days ago, I was in the military camp and had a rest today. Gan Ning followed him to Guan Yu's home again.

After a few days of fighting, Guan Yu obviously had the upper hand, but it was not easy to win; while Gan Ning was determined to be persistent and fought repeatedly, Guan Yu had to appreciate it. Unfortunately, Lei Yuan was about to rush back to Yidao and had to interrupt their competition.

Lei Yuan and Jian Yong waited outside the Martial Arts Hall for a while, and when the shouts in the hall stopped, the guards reported: "June, General Xu, Mr. Xianhe, come to find General Gan."

Guan Yu said in a deep voice: "Please."

The guard led the two into the hall.

I saw that the hall was quite open, with no furnishings except the weapon racks against the wall. The ground was covered with thick wooden boards, and many places were split by sharp weapons. The paint surface was broken and polished and smoothed again, revealing the wood core.

On one side of the hall, Gan Ning was holding a long knife and gasping for breath. The short-striking clothes on her upper body were soaked in sweat, and her face was also blue. Looking at his expression, he looked very happy and enjoyed it.

On the other side, Guan Yu's robe was not messy, and he carefully stroked his loose and floating beard. He looked better than Gan Ning, but his face turned redder than usual, as if blood was about to bloom from the blood vessels on his forehead.

Seeing Lei Yuan coming in to salute and informing him that he planned to return to Yidu County today, Guan Yu nodded slightly and waved his hand to signal them to go by himself.

When Lei Yuan and Gan Ning walked to the door, Guan Yu's strong and powerful voice rang behind him: "You must work hard to keep it. The lord treats each other with sincerity and will never let down."

Gan Ning beat up.

Lei Yuan was General Fenwei, the prefect of Yidu, and the captain of the Guardian of Jingman. In terms of official positions, he was one of the highest subordinates of Xuande Gong. However, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei could dominate the titles of Ting Hou.

But Guan Yu's words were like he was advocating Lei Yuan on behalf of Duke Xuande, with a strong condescending tone. Even if he and Duke Xuande were righteous as the monarch and minister, and his kindness was like father and son and brother, he would seem a little arrogant.

Fortunately, Lei Yuan didn't mind.
Chapter completed!