Passing on the Lamp of the Buddha's Heart: Infusing Wu Song with Spiritual Power, and the Emergency Headband Is Developed! (Continued)
But he had been constrained by the position and stage history had given him.
In the end, he lacked the experience of independently commanding an army on one front."
Zhang Fei carefully recalled every detail from those days in the military camp.
He realized it was indeed so. His eldest brother, Liu Bei, could not do without Zhao Yun and simply could not bear to send him out to command an army on his own.
After Lin Chen had finished discussing the Five Tiger Generals, more than half the knot in Zhang Fei's heart had been undone.
But he was a stubborn man, and there was still one final question lodged in his throat. He would not rest until he spat it out.
He abruptly turned his head, looking first at Guan Yu beside him, who had been stroking his beard and listening all along, then at Lin Chen:
"Since my lord himself said that my brother Zilong lacks experience and cannot serve as supreme commander, then my second brother, Guan Yunchang, is a bona fide commander-in-chief!"
Zhang Fei spread both hands and widened his eyes. "Then why won't my lord let my second brother directly take up the commander's seal?
Let him command Zilong. They are brothers, so their coordination would be even more seamless. Wouldn't that be the natural course of things?
Why insist on using the newly arrived General Yue Fei?"
As soon as this question came up, Guan Yu, beside them, also stopped stroking his beard. His phoenix eyes narrowed slightly as he quietly looked toward Lin Chen.
Clearly, he wanted to know the answer as well.
Lin Chen drained the remaining wine in his bowl, a proud curve rising at the corner of his lips:
"I am not using Lord Guan as the corps commander.