The adventures of a Young Warrior

I don't own DW/ROTK but I guess I do own the idea for the OC characters in the story.

Lu Tan had hoped that things would go smoothly on his trip to the north. That was not going to happen, in fact everything was pretty bad. When he rejoined the army, he was no longer the commander of a unit under Cheng Pu's command, he was not even the second in command. He was just the lowest level officer possible, in charge of a total of 6 men. The commander of his unit was Fu San, who was a youth in the same area of Chang Sha, that the Sun family lived in. The second in command of the unit was Fu Shang, San's younger brother.

The two families had business deals, and Sun Jian promised to give the two young men of the Fu clan a chance to make a name for themselves. Both were men of high birth class, and men of elegance. San was a tall then person with the looks of a playboy. While Shang was also a tall person with more of a intelligential look to him. They were both pretty good at picking up women, but that is about all that can be said for them. Shang was a arrogant man was an arrogant man who would not listen to others opinions, and did only what he wanted. San was a playboy who did care what happened with his unit. All in all two men who were not meant for commanding a unit in battle. As they marched Lu Tan did everything he could to keep everything right inside of the unit, and used connections with different soldiers to keep things on track.

The other thing Tan did not expect was how cold it was in the north, he had grown up lived pretty much all of his life in the southern region of the empire, and as such he had never seen much snow. Now that he was I an army on the way to Guan Du to meet the other regional leaders, it could not be any colder or snowing more. The snow never stopped coming down, it was insane, Tan never before believed that it was possible for so much to come down at once.

Tan remembered when he got to Guan Du. There were so many forces their, and for the most part everyone was play good at being friends. He meet many of the unit commanders of the other forces. Men like Li Dian, and Yue Jin of Cao Cao's force, Tian Feng of Yuan Shao, and Zhang Fei of Liu Bei's force who was fighting for Gongsun Zan. He was glad to say that he made friends with all of them. He also found it amazing the amount of warrior and leaders who were at the place, but then again it would take that type of force to beat Dong Zhou and his forces lead by Lu Bu.

"Tan, the defenses are almost done," a voiced said bring him out of his though.

"Good, soldier, make sure that we are prepared, remember that in war, anything is possible," Tan replied to the soldier getting nod in response.

Tan looked around at the land, he was in a small valley. Large rock formations on both sides of the one useable road, and small rocks sometimes. The road went down hill at the location he was, but he was sure that after a little while it evened out before getting to the gate. Tan had ordered the men to move some of the rocks to create barriers which to put sand behind and create platforms for the archers. The brothers Fu where no where around, they were actually up with the front of the army. It was so they could see the actual fight. Tan and the rest of the unit were in rear guard, a place unlikely to see any fighting. Not that Tan minded a bit, with the Fu brothers in command, a battle was going to be a challenge at best. The men of the unit were doing a fine job of doing their jobs.

"Sir, I have an idea," a short soldier said walking up to him.

"Sure what is it?" Tan replied.

"Sir, with the platforms on the outside we should dig a trench or pit in the center, with how wide the road is it won't take long at all," the short soldier said with a confident tone.

"Good then make sure it is done, but make it in a way that are allies can get through," Tan replied turning to a messenger, "Have you any clue as to when Yuan Shu's supplies are going to get here. I am sure that Lord Sun Jian needs them at the front."

"I will go check sir," the messenger said.

A bit later when the trench had been finshed, Tan spotted another two riders on their way towards him. "Looks like we have to more messengers, I guess the battle is already over, and without the extra supplies. I guess Sun Jian is really as great as they say," Tan said under his breath.

Then as at once the look on his face changed, the riders where none other then the Fu Brothers running for their lives, Tan had to put platforms over the trench for the Fu brothers to cross on there mad dash. Soon others came, the whole army was running in retreat. Tan turned to see his men looking worried.

Tan sighed thinking of what could be the right thing to say, then he just decide that at this moment, they needed to be calm.

"Men, focus yourselves, we have the advantage in land, that soon Jian will have him men coming in a counterattack that will push right pasted us," Tan said seeing the enemy coming closer, "Everyone into position. As they got closer he could see that Lord Sun Jian, Cheng Pu, and Huang Gai were bring up the rear. Once they crossed the planks, the planks were lifted away. Tan picked up one of the extra bows, and took aim at the incoming men, at the head was a man who was big and strong with the face that looked like that of a Lion. The archers were able to get 4 volleys off before the enemy troops were close. He prepared himself for battle. He saw a horsemen riding right at the pit jumping high over it. He moved to get be in its way. The rider carrying a sword, had the advantage as he advanced on him. He moved a bit from side to side with his swords out, thinking of the timing he would need. When the horsemen slashed with his sword, Tan blocked with one sword and brought the other one from the enemy soldiers back side slicing him apart. Tan then pushed the remains off the horse, and got on.

Tan the looked around to see that the enemy unit was making it way to the archers. Where his men were fighting them hand and foot. Tan made his way over their quickly blocking sword and spear strikes with one sword, and countering with the other. It was overall pretty effective, he was able to keep the attacks on him at bay and do some damage of his own. After a short bit he heard men coming from behind him, and smiled thinking how quickly Jian rallied the men. It was not him, it was another two forces under the command of one of the lower regional force commanders who he didn't know. Their leaders in turned rode to fight the man with who was no doubt leading the enemy foes. Both were killed quickly, and when the men saw their leaders fall, most of the helping units ran as well. Some did stay, and were a good amount of help as they battled for a while long. After another unit came forward, this one lead by Guan Yu, an person who he had meet when the forces meet at Guan Du. He rode forth and challenged the enemy unit commander as well. This time when the enemy commander attacked, Guan Yu dodged with ease, and at the same time used his massive blade to kill the commander. The enemy soldier all looked shocked at the event, and began to run. At the same time other units were arriving as well, and the defense became a active attack till they had over ran Si Shui Gate.