Chapter 8: Stepmother Sun Shangxiang, I, Liu Wu, snatched her away!
Chapter 008: Stepmother Sun Shangxiang, I, Liu Wu, snatched her away!
Boom! ~
The sun rises in the east, and the golden morning sun shines on the snowy plain.

Under the morning sun, the sharp spears and swords are like flowing water, and the eight hundred trap camps are like mountains!

Although there were only 800 people, they were like a black torrent rushing in the front. Their momentum was so overwhelming that even the towering mountains around them would be smashed to pieces by the impact of these people.

Two thousand veteran soldiers followed closely behind, their spears and halberds like a forest, their swords and halberds like a mountain! Under the sunlight, the armor on their bodies was almost impossible to look at directly.

A murderous and iron-blooded aura swirled above the army formation, and the birds and beasts in the distance had already been frightened and fled in panic.

Liu Wu rode his horse to the central army. He turned around and looked around. Wei Yan and Gao Shun were riding horses to guard both sides. There were 800 brave soldiers in the front and 2,000 elite veterans in the back. These were all Liu Wu's assets.

Even in the territory of Jingzhou, the army under Liu Wu's command is a force that cannot be underestimated.

Wei Yan, who was standing by, looked very happy at this moment: "Now that the young master has taken us away from Liu Bei, from now on, we will be like a dragon returning to the sea and a bird flying into the sky. We don't have to endure that humiliation anymore!"

"With these eight hundred vanguards and two thousand elite veterans, and General Gao and Wei serving you, you can go anywhere in the nine counties of Jingxiang."

Wei Yan was in his prime, full of desire to achieve great things. However, he had been ostracized by Liu Bei before. Now that he had left Liu Bei, he was eager to do great things.

Liu Wu said calmly, "Brother Wen, Liu Bei no longer has me as his eldest son, and you are no longer a general under Liu Bei. Don't mention the word 'young master' again in the future."

"Not 'Young Master'?" Wei Yan was stunned and blurted out: "Then what should we call him... Young Master?"

Gao Shun, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up: "My Lord, you are already twenty years old this year, it's time to give yourself a courtesy name."

The Book of Rites says: "When a man is twenty, he wears a cap and a given name." In this era, when a man reaches the age of twenty, he should wear a cap and a given name under the auspices of his elders. Liu Wu has been running around for Liu Bei's great cause all these years, so how could he care about these things?
Although Liu Bei was Liu Wu's father, he did not take this matter to heart.

Now that Liu Wu has separated from Liu Bei, it is time to put the matter of choosing a name for himself on the agenda.

"General Gao is right. Young Master has already established himself. If he doesn't have a courtesy name, he will be laughed at. But..." Wei Yan beside him hesitated: "Now that Young Master has no elders around, no one can give him a courtesy name."

Liu Wu turned around on his horse and bowed to Gao Shun: "General Gao, you are the oldest among the three of us. Please give me some advice on how to write Liu Wu's courtesy name."

Gao Shun did not refuse. He couldn't let Liu Wu go back to Gong'an and ask Liu Bei to give him a name.

He pondered for a moment, "The National Discourses says: King Cheng is able to make his words known and to rule his country with his military prowess..."

"Your name just happens to contain the character 'Wu', so why not change your name to... Zilie!"

Zilie?

Liu Wu, Liu Zilie?

Liu Wu muttered to himself and nodded slowly: "Okay! From today on, Liu Wu is Liu Zilie! Don't mention the word "Young Master" anymore."

From then on, Liu Wu was no longer Liu Bei's shadow.

From then on, Liu Wu was no longer anyone's subordinate.
He wanted to build a foundation that belonged to him, Liu Zilie, in this chaotic era of the Eastern Han Dynasty! !
"Gee!" Liu Wu rode his horse, whipped it, and leaped out of the central army.

at this time,

A red sun was rising higher and higher in the sky, and the vast white earth was covered in red.

"Zi Lie, where are we going this time?" Wei Yan, who was chasing behind, rode his horse as fast as flying.

Liu Wu rode his horse and galloped towards the north: "Conquer the world!"

……

An official road heading north of the Yangtze River had long been covered with snow, with occasional merchants passing by.

Suddenly, the sound of drums was heard.

A huge team appeared on the official road. Men and women rode horses and carriages, each wearing gorgeous robes. The ceremonial procession was decorated with carvings of dragons and paintings of phoenixes, and was of extremely high standards... This was a team to send off a bride.

What attracted the most attention were the more than one hundred maids gathered beside the carriage. Although they were women, they were all wearing armor, carrying bows and swords, and looked quite heroic.

At this time, these heroic maids were whispering:
"I heard that Liu Xuande is nearly fifty years old. I'm afraid our young lady would not be a good match if she married him."

"What do you know? Liu Bei is a hero even Cao Cao acknowledges!"

"In the Battle of Red Cliff, he and our lord teamed up to defeat Cao Cao and captured the four counties in southern Jing. Now he is on the rise."

"Humph! What do you mean by alliance? It was our Grand Commander Zhou who defeated Cao Cao, Liu Bei just took advantage of us in Jiangdong." "So what if Liu Bei is a hero? Our young lady is the Princess of Jiangdong, no matter how heroic he is, he has to bow down to her."

After the Battle of Chibi, in order to continue to resist Cao Cao's subsequent counterattack, Sun Quan married Liu Bei and betrothed his sister Sun Shangxiang to Liu Bei as his wife.

This wedding procession was to escort Sun Shangxiang to Gong'an to marry Liu Bei.

In the carriage, Sun Shangxiang, who was wearing her wedding dress, listened to the discussion outside the carriage and frowned. She ordered the maid beside her: "This is not Jiangdong, tell those little hooves to stop talking nonsense."

"Yes!"

After the maid left, Sun Shangxiang murmured to herself: "Liu Bei, Liu Xuande..."

This is the husband she is going to marry.

She has loved wielding swords since she was a child, and when she grew up, she even made the maids around her wear armor and carry blades. She often hated that she was not a man and could not be a hero.

Therefore, she admired heroes more and more.

Liu Xuande is the hero she hoped for...

Suppress the Yellow Turbans!
Defeat Dong Zhuo!
Sign the imperial edict!

Fight to the death with the Han traitor Cao Cao! !

Not long ago, Liu Bei joined forces with his brother on the river at Chibi and defeated Cao Cao's 800,000-strong army, shattering Cao Cao's dream of unifying the world.

Now, he has the momentum to sweep across Jingxiang!
She was even a little impatient to catch a glimpse of this Uncle Liu.

Sun Shangxiang looked at another maid beside her and said, "Go ask Officer Lu, how far is it from here to Gong'an?"

……

"Please reply to the princess that we will be able to enter Gong'an City in about a day and a night." At the front of the wedding procession, a young man in brocade clothes sent a maid to the sedan chair to reply.

This young man was none other than the official who escorted the bride, Lu Xun, a descendant of the Jiangdong Lu family, and Lu Boyan.

"Hero? Haha..." Looking at the maid's receding back, Lu Xun couldn't help but curl his lips.

The fact that the princess admired a hero was well known in Dongwu, and it was not uncommon for a young woman to admire a hero.

Liu Xuande might be considered a hero, but heroes don't have any sentimental feelings in their hearts; they only have grand ambitions and ambitions.

The lord married his sister to Liu Bei to fight against Cao Cao, or to seize Jingzhou. I am afraid it is still unclear...

Lu Xun shook his head and ordered: "Tell the envoys to hurry up and arrive at Gong'an as soon as possible without delay."

……

Boom! ~
An army of thousands of people was marching in the snow. On the boundless snow, the trampled road looked like a black dragon, winding endlessly.

Liu Wu rode his horse at the front of the team, with Wei Yan and Gao Shun following closely on his left and right.

Da da da! ~
Suddenly, a rider came flying from the front. It was the scout sent out by Liu Wu.

The scout rode up to Liu Wu and dismounted, saying, "My lord, there is a wedding procession about ten miles away, heading towards our army."

"What they are fighting under seems to be the banner of the Sun Clan of Jiangdong!"

The bride's escort team, Jiangdong Sun Clan...

Wei Yan and Gao Shun were cheered up and looked at Liu Wu in front of them at the same time. They seemed to know who was coming.

Well, they are finally here.

Woo! ~
Liu Wu didn't hesitate at all and swung his halberd fiercely: "Go!"

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