Chapter 408: Thunder Momentum
Liu Biao was assassinated, and he was in danger at the moment, this matter could not contain the fire in the paper, and many high-level officials of the Chu State repeatedly concealed it, and finally let many officials know the truth. Liu Bei was also among them.
Birth, old age, sickness and death, the reincarnation of heaven, although Liu Biao's assassination was an accident, but anyway, now Liu Biao's life seems to have come to an end, although Liu Biao's cronies like Mrs. Cai and others have repeatedly concealed it from the people below, saying that Liu Biao only suffered a little skin injury and it was not a big problem.
However, Mrs. Cai's words, it is okay to deceive ordinary people looking for heads, after all, the people don't know much about this matter, but it is not easy to deceive people like Liu Bei, not to mention that Liu Bei still has Zhuge Liang by his side.
As soon as Liu Bei heard this, he suddenly panicked in his heart, what are you kidding, it is now an eventful autumn, although Cao Cao has been repelled by him once, but the strength of Wei may make a comeback, the second and third time, if there is no support from Liu Biao, he may not be able to withstand it.
However, Zhuge Liang seemed to think more, he suggested that Liu Bei take a long-term view, first of all, to prepare for the worst, without Liu Biao, Chu State will not be able to hold on, if Liu Biao dies, then for Chu State, the most important thing is to set up a new monarch.
Liu Biao has two sons, the eldest son Liu Qi and the younger son Liu Cong.
The eldest son Liu Qi was born when Liu Biao was still in Luoyang, but Liu Qi's mother died early, and after arriving in Jingzhou as the pastor of Jingzhou, Liu Biao renewed the string, Liu Biao in order to stabilize the situation in Jingzhou, so the object of his continuation eventually became Mrs. Cai, the great family of Jingzhou.
The second son born to Mrs. Cai Wei Liu Biao is Liu Cong.
Although there is a saying in this feudal society, it is called "there is a grandson, but there is no grandson".
But then again, this is only a superficial statement, and who the king wants to appoint does not depend on the mood of the king.
In recent years, with the slow growth of the process, Liu Cong, who is nearly ten years old, has gradually understood what the world is all about, and he also wants to seize the position of the king of Chu. There is even a saying within the upper echelons of the state of Chu that after a hundred years of the king of Chu, Liu Biao will pass the position to Liu Cong.
And Liu Qi's status in the DPRK, this is the decline of the river, and there are almost no cronies around, but Mrs. Cai is also a politically sensitive person, although Liu Biao prefers Liu Cong at the moment, but Liu Biao's thoughts are only clear to Liu Biao himself.
Until the last moment, who knows who the next king of Chu will be, so Mrs. Cai has always wanted to get rid of Liu Qi, Liu Qi felt deeply in danger, personally went to consult Zhuge Liang, and finally went to Jiangxia to hide.
Now Liu Biao's life is in danger, it seems that many forces are ready to move, Liu Bei is not idle, handed over the defense here to Zhuge Liang, and sent the general Zhang Fei to stay here, and then he took Guan Yu and Zhao Yun and rushed towards the direction of Xiangyang.
After arriving in Xiangyang, as Liu Bei expected, in the interior of the Chu State, they had already begun to make their own calculations at this moment, because Liu Biao was dying.
Liu Biao, who was lying on the hospital bed at the moment, seemed to know that he would not live for a few days, so he also began to arrange his afterlife.
A group of ministers of the Chu State walked into Liu Biao's room one after another, obeying Liu Biao's final instructions, and after everyone came out of the room, their expressions were either happy and some sad.
However, what is a little surprising is that Liu Biao even specially summoned Liu Bei, and Liu Bei at this moment is also in Xiangyang City, in fact, Liu Bei is now only an official residence of a new field Taishou, this official position is not big or small in Chu State, even if it is a middle-level officer.
Originally, many people thought that Liu Bei's trip was nothing more than to make a little benefit and would not pose a big threat, but they never expected that Liu Biao, the king of Chu, would summon Liu Bei in person, and the significance of this matter was a little unusual.
When that day came, Liu Bei walked into Liu Biao's room with a sad face, Liu Biao's room naturally did not dare to have a secret whistle to eavesdrop there, but outside it was full of eyeliner from other forces.
Liu Bei entered Liu Biao's room, and after a while, there was a sound of crying in the room, which startled the guards outside, but Liu Biao inside did not give orders, these guards did not dare to act rashly, and more importantly, after listening carefully, these guards found that the owner of the cry was not Liu Biao but Liu Bei.
Many people are slandered there, Liu Bei is also hard enough to gain more power, and they have all been staged to the point of howling and crying, this acting skill may not be comparable to others.
After half an hour, Liu Bei came out of Liu Biao's room, when Liu Bei came out, he could see Liu Bei's eyes were red, Liu Bei wiped away his tears, but then there was a strange expression on his face, just sighed softly, and then left here.
The spies arranged outside were very surprised by Liu Bei's expression, and they really wanted to know what Liu Biao said to Liu Bei? It's been a long time, much longer than the average minister.
If you want to know this secret, in fact, it is not impossible, although Liu Biao is critically ill, he still has someone to serve his daily life, so in Liu Biao's room, there must be countless eunuchs waiting for him in turn.
The eunuchs around Liu Biao must be Liu Biao's cronies, and they will not easily reveal what Liu Biao said to outsiders, but this is only under normal circumstances, now that Liu Biao is critically ill, these eunuchs also want to make a fortune because of this, so under the heavy purchase of some people, these eunuchs finally told the truth.
"I vaguely heard in the back, the king of Chu seems to say that he wants to hand over Jingzhou to Liu Bei!"
When this news was released, it was tantamount to a bombshell, which exploded directly within the high-level of the Chu State.
And Mrs. Cai and the others were even more angry, they asked the eunuch to explain the reason carefully, in fact, when the eunuch was in Liu Biao's room, the distance was relatively far, and they just listened to a rough idea.
Anyway, Liu Biao told there that when he left, the most reassuring thing was the territory of his Chu State, the people of Chu State, and he knew that Liu Bei was the only one who could resist Cao Cao in Chu State at all times, so he was ready to be all located in Liu Bei, so Liu Bei was there howling and crying, and he was moved.
When Mrs. Cai and the others heard this, they were completely blown up one by one, what kind of joke did this Liu Biao make, he didn't choose an heir from his two sons, he had to choose an outsider Liu Bei, or that this Liu Bei and Liu Biao were of the same clan and clan as the Han family, and there was still some uncertainty about this, after all, there is no genealogy as proof, and it is okay for this Liu Bei to say that he is anyone's descendant.
Passing the throne to Liu Bei is an international joke, of course Mrs. Cai and others are not allowed, so they began to plot how to get rid of Liu Bei.
And at this moment, there was a new movement on Liu Bei's side, after Liu Bei came out, he immediately felt that the eyes of the people around him were different, although Liu Bei said that he had been adrift for half his life, but his eyesight was very accurate, and he vaguely felt that the eyes of these people looking at him were filled with a touch of murderous aura from time to time.
Liu Bei felt that these people might have misunderstood him, and after Liu Bei went back, he immediately went to the road and found a person who was rushing to Xiangyang, and that person was none other than Liu Qi.
He just said a word to Liu Qi: "Prince, you must not go back to Xiangyang, now Mrs. Cai and others may have sharpened their knives, just wait for you to pass, and then kill you, you hurry back to Jiangxia now, and fight hard." Rectifying the army and being able to fight against Cao Cao is the right way for the Chu State! ”
Liu Qi was a young man in his twenties, and when he heard this, he also had some desolate gods, so he didn't dare to say more, so he nodded quickly, and then rushed back to Jiangxia.
And Liu Bei on the way back, it seems that he also encountered several waves of assassinations, Liu Bei has been forced into a desperate situation, who knows that Liu Bei's crotch of the war horse Lu, at the most critical moment, showed his bravery, the three-foot-high cliff actually jumped up, and then left with Liu Bei Fei, Liu Bei picked up a life.
After returning to Xiangyang, Liu Bei immediately found Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, and then a group of people quickly rushed to Xinye, after all, Xinye has Liu Bei's troops, and only staying in Xinye is the safest.
However, at this time, Liu Bei still had some grievances in his heart, Mrs. Cai and the others did not get the news from the little eunuch, the little eunuch just listened to a rough idea, and did not listen to it all, Liu Biao had no intention of handing over the position to him Liu Bei.
What Liu Biao said to Liu Bei was that Liu Biao was afraid that if he left, the Chu State would fall into a dangerous situation, and now the Wei State was eyeing the Chu State, and Liu Biao wanted to keep the territory he had won with great difficulty.
Therefore, Liu Biao finally told Liu Bei that he would make his eldest son Liu Qi king, after all, he knew that Liu Bei and Liu Qi were relatively close. What's more important is that Liu Qi is now in his twenties, although his personality is a little weak, but he still knows something about politics.
Anyway, in the final analysis, Liu Biao has one meaning, he hopes to appoint Liu Bei as an auxiliary minister, assist Liu Qi, and resist Cao Cao's capture of Chu.
When Liu Bei heard this, the whole person's heart was beating wildly, what kind of joke, the minister of the auxiliary government, this is a disguised way to give Liu Bei a lot of power.
Therefore, when he heard this, Liu Bei could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart, and finally turned into tears one after another. Liu Bei shed tears of excitement, who knew that he was listened to by those eunuchs, and finally spread the rumor, anyway, it evolved into Liu Biao, who wanted to entrust the position to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was also wronged, but Liu Bei knew that it would be useless to say anything now, in fact, Liu Biao's coming to Liu Bei was a superfluous move, because even if Liu Bei could resist Cao Cao, but now most of the forces of Chu are not in Liu Bei's hands, Liu Bei has a little force in Xinye, especially in Jiangxia, but the other Chu forces are concentrated in the hands of those big families.
This is a historical problem of the Chu State, when Liu Biao started, he relied on the powerful power of the family to quickly calm the Chu State, although this effect was very fast.
But now the drawbacks have been completely exposed, the power of the family is too huge, and these families also represent their own interests.
The new King of Chu must also support their family when he ascends the throne, and Mrs. Cai is undoubtedly the best representative, so those big families all support Liu Cong's accession to the throne.
However, when the nobles of these Chu countries were intriguing, Cao Cao, who was eyeing him in the north, was laughing, and he and the national team were both complacent.
Guo Jia will not be known as a ghost talent, and just a small strategy will basically collapse the Chu State, so that Cao Cao wants to conquer the Chu State. It became extremely convenient, this time Cao Cao sent another 100,000 troops to attack Jingzhou, but Cao Cao did not send a general to go, but personally conquered.
Cao Cao's personal expedition to the Chu State, this matter has become a bit of a big deal, with Cao Cao sitting in the front, the morale of the Wei army has been greatly encouraged, coupled with the news that Liu Biao is about to die of illness, it has spread everywhere, so even if the soldiers of the Wei State have suffered some heavy losses before, everyone is full of confidence at this moment that as long as they work harder, they can completely destroy the Chu State.
Therefore, the final situation was that the Wei army quickly drove the army to Xinye with the momentum of thunder. Prepare to directly enter the state of Chu.
When Liu Bei looked at the Cao army all over the mountains, he couldn't help but touch his face, a scoundrel, he Liu Bei is so big, and he has never commanded so many thousands of troops and horses, and now there are a full 100,000 army, even if he Liu Bei has the strongest Zhang Fei Guan Yu in the world, what can Zhuge Kongming do?
In the end, Zhuge Liang could only sigh helplessly, and let Liu Bei flee quickly, although he Zhuge Liang asked himself to be superb, the last time he defeated the 100,000 army of Wei, it was also his strategy, and at that time he used ingenuity to take advantage of Xiahoudun's negligence, so it was implemented, but this time the same loss, Cao Cao will not suffer the second time.
As long as Cao Cao doesn't make a mistake, the 100,000 army can kick down Xinye's low city wall with one kick, so Xinye has no strategic value at all.
When Liu Bei thought of this, he also sighed helplessly, ready to leave. However, before Liu Bei left, he suddenly had an idea, as if he had thought of something, he immediately turned around to look at Kong Ming, as well as Zhang Fei Guan Yu, and said with some regret.
"A few days ago, I defeated Xiahoudun's army, and there were at least more than 10,000 people in the beheading Cao army, compared to Cao Cao's character, it will definitely not end here, if Xinye is broken, I am afraid that the people of Xinye will be devastated!"