At the end of May, when Liu Zheng received news from Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu had already sent troops to Jiangxia, and an army of 30,000 was assembled, and it only took two days to launch a fierce attack on Jiangxia.

However, Yuan Shu's onslaught did not work in the first place, because Huang Zu, the general of Liu Biao who was guarding Jiangxia, was already on guard.

At the same time that Yuan Shu's army wanted Jiangxia to launch a fierce attack, Huang Zu immediately let his people stick to the city wall, and did not take the initiative to face the battle, Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses and Huang Zu's soldiers and horses were not much different, so in the absence of absolute superiority, it was not easy for Yuan Shu to defeat Jiangxia guarded by Huang Zu in a short period of time.

Whether it can be fought or not is still a matter of two words, but Liu Zheng's side, since he agreed to Yuan Shu to send troops to contain it, as soon as the time came, after that, Liu Zheng directly led an army of 40,000 and rushed to Changsha County.

After all, as long as Liu Zheng helps contain the forces in Changsha, Yuan Shu's people who can't beat Jiangxia can still hold on for a while.

At the beginning of June, Liu Zheng's men had already arrived outside Changsha.

Unlike Liu Zheng's expectation, there was no obstruction along the way, several small counties actually opened the city directly and surrendered, and there was no obstruction at all, but later Liu Zheng found out after entering the city that Changsha also had corresponding preparations.

Although the county seat of Liling is still there, the people in the city have already migrated away, and it is estimated that all of them have gone to Changsha City.

After all, although the city is there, it is just an empty city, and it doesn't have much effect if it is left behind, even if it is occupied by Liu Zheng and them, it doesn't matter.

As long as the county seat of Changsha is still there, it is much better to catch the steepness of the Xiangjiang River and defend Changsha City to the death than to send a large number of soldiers and horses to garrison for a few small cities.

Only by holding the main city can Changsha County be able to defend it.

"Cai Mao, this guy can do it, why didn't I find out before, he is so smart."

Along the way, Liu Zheng did not have a battle with Cai Mao's men, which made Liu Zheng's initial idea come to naught, he originally expected to have a few battles with Cai Mao's people before arriving in Changsha City, and play some momentum, so that Cai Mao could understand his strength.

When the time comes, he will send someone to persuade him to surrender, so that he can give Cai Mao some deterrence, so that Cai Mao will take the initiative to choose to surrender after weighing his strength.

However, since there was no fight, Liu Zheng still wanted to send someone over to talk to Cai Mao about the surrender before the battle, so he was an old acquaintance, and he could try not to meet Cai Mao's sword soldiers, Liu Zheng was still somewhat unwilling to directly fight Cai Mao.

After all, not to mention the personal relationship between himself and Cai Mao, it is Cai Yao's relationship that also makes Liu Zheng take care of Cai Mao a little.

"Yuan Zhou, I want to send someone to Changsha City to persuade Cai Mao to surrender, I don't know if you have any ideas?"

"Persuasion? Then how could Cai Mao be the one who surrendered so easily? ”

Yuan Zhou did not agree with the idea put forward by Liu Zheng, with his understanding of Cai Mao, and along the way, Cai Mao's various signs showed that Cai Mao had the intention to fight with the people on Liu Zheng's side, and it seemed that he did not want to surrender, even if Liu Zheng sent an envoy to talk about surrender, he was afraid that the probability of success would not be high.

"Cai Mao and I have an old relationship, and we can be regarded as having some personal relationships, if I really want to fight with him, I still have some unbearable feelings, if he can surrender, it is the best, if we don't surrender, it's not too late for us to fight."

After Liu Zheng's words were finished, in the military tent, everyone understood what Liu Zheng meant by this sentence, especially Gan Ning Wenpin and others, they all knew that Cai Yao was Cai Mao's sister, and this relationship was there, Liu Zheng would not be ruthless and attack Changsha City directly.

After understanding Liu Zheng's consideration, Yuan Zhou took over this task.

"Okay, I understand, the lord will let me go to Changsha City."

Yuan Zhou, as the main strategist under Liu Zheng, did many things himself, in order to show his ability.

"No, my lord, change me this time."

However, this time, Xu You, who was standing on the side, said a word to Liu Zheng.

"You're going?"

As soon as Liu Zheng heard that Xu You next to him actually spoke at this time, he was also surprised, and immediately looked at Xu You. 、

"Mr. Xu You, you have never liked to be this kind of lobbyist, why did you take the initiative to stand up and go to Changsha City to be this lobbyist today."

"Lord, there is a master behind this Cai Mao, if Mr. Yuan Zhou goes over, he may not be able to see through who the master behind this Cai Mao is, this kind of thing, if it is me, it should be more able to complete the task of the main bus generation."

"If I went over, I didn't have to recruit Cai Mao, I wanted to find out who was in this Changsha City."

This will also be able to get more information for the lord.

Xu You said his own words, in fact, this is not to look down on Yuan Zhou and think that Yuan Zhou is incompetent, but that Xu You is better at this kind of things, and it can be regarded as thinking about Liu Zheng, but when he said this, Yuan Zhou on the side listened to these words, and there was always some embarrassment in his heart.

However, Yuan Zhou is a generous person after all, and he doesn't mind Xu You's tone.

"Since Brother Ziyuan wants to go to Changsha, then I won't fight with you about this matter."

Yuan Zhou took the initiative to withdraw and responded to Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng saw that the two had already spoken, so he agreed to this meaning.

"Okay, Ziyuan, just go with you, don't remember, your life matters, don't anger them, if you can surrender them, you can surrender them, if you can't, we are not afraid."

Liu Zheng finally said a word to Xu You, and asked Xu You to take a few people and go to Changsha City to call the door.

Xu You only brought two people to the city, but it was precisely because there were few people that the defenders on the tower of Changsha City saw them.

The two officials immediately shouted outside the city gate to open the city gate.

There was a messenger who asked to see him.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of battle will generally receive envoys, especially Liu Zheng and Cai Mao are old, so it is naturally impossible not to see the envoys, so Cai Mao and Kuai Liang, Zhang Yun and others on the city tower hesitated for a moment when they saw a messenger in the city asking to see them, and finally chose to accept it.

Open the gates, lower the drawbridge, and let Xu Yu into the city.

Xu You took the two officials and walked into Changsha City.

Liu Zheng and the others were waiting for Xu You's news ten miles outside the city.

After Xu You entered the city, under the leadership of the two lines of soldiers, he walked directly to Cai Mao's usual office, and it didn't take long to see Cai Mao with a serious face.