Cai He, that's her own uncle.

Although Cai Shu cut off relations with the Cai family for the sake of Su Zhe, she always paid attention to the lives of the Cai family in her heart, otherwise she would not have followed Su Zhe to Jiangling.

Now, at the critical moment of the siege, she suddenly heard that Cai and Yuecheng had come to see each other, how could she not be shaken in her heart.

"Since you have serious business, then I will retreat to the inner account first." Cai Shu is very sensible.

Su Zhe asked, "What, don't you want to see your uncle?" ”

"No need." Cai Shu shook her head and said bitterly: "I have broken off relations with the Cai family, there is no need to see you again." ”

Su Zhe exhaled lightly and sighed, "Okay, since that's the case, I won't force you, then you can go inside and rest for a while." ”

Cai Shu returned to the inner account, and Su Zhe gave the order to pass that Cai He in.

A moment later, footsteps sounded, and a middle-aged man in a night suit walked in behind Hu Che'er.

"Xiaguan Cai He, I've seen Su Che ride." Cai He bowed his hand to meet him, and his attitude was quite respectful.

Su Zhe chewed a broad bean and said coldly: "I said Cai He, what are you doing when you don't help Liu Biao defend the city in Jiangling, and sneak to me in the middle of the night?" ”

Cai He took a deep breath and said, "Returning to Su Cheqi, Xia Guan was ordered by my eldest brother to come to Su Cheqi to present a letter of surrender. ”

Book of Surrender?

Cai Mao is actually going to surrender?

Su Zhe's heart shook, this is really good news for him, if Cai Mao can really surrender, this is an excellent opportunity to cooperate with the outside and take Jiangling.

It's just that I wanted to be Cai Mao at the beginning, but I despised him from the beginning to the end, and encouraged Liu Biao to send troops to attack him several times.

Moreover, Cai Mao himself also led the army to attack Nanyang several times, although he was killed and defeated in successive battles, but the two were already mortal enemies.

It is exactly like this, who looked down on his background back then, and fought to the death of a mortal enemy, and today he wants to surrender himself?

Su Zhe naturally felt a little surprised.

But he remained silent, and asked Cai He to bring the letter, open it, and read it carefully unhurriedly.

It was a letter of surrender.

In the letter, Cai Mao felt deeply guilty about the rude against Su Zhe back then, and was also terrified of leading the army to attack Su Zhe several times, claiming that he was a subordinate of Liu Biao, and he was also forced to do so.

Now, he has deeply repented and does not dare to be an enemy of the court represented by Su Zhe anymore, hoping that Su Zhe can give him a chance to make up for his mistakes and allow him to surrender.

And as a supplement, he will steal open the city gate, and help Su Zhe capture Jiangling City.

Su Zhe had to admit that after reading Cai Mao's letter, he was still quite excited.

Cai Mao is one of Liu Biao's right-hand men who can rely on, in Jiangling City, nearly half of the soldiers and horses belong to Cai Mao's commander, if Cai Mao does internal response, he will be able to easily break through the city gate, enter the city, and take Jiangling in one fell swoop.

At that time, if you are lucky, you can also slaughter Liu Biao by the way, and finish it in one battle.

"You Cai family, do you really want to surrender to me?" Su Zhe put down the letter, but there was a little doubt in his words.

Cai Hexi nodded and said: "The meaning of my brother's surrender can be seen by the sun and the moon, and our niece Shu'er is now by Su Cheqi's side, and she is devoted to Su Cheqi, my brother thinks, Su Cheqi is also his own family sooner or later, and I hope that Su Cheqi will be in my own family for the sake of our family, and give our Cai family a chance to serve." ”

Really.

Su Zhe knew that Cai Mao wanted to get closer to him Su Zhe through Cai Shu's relationship.

If Su Zhe agrees to the surrender of the Cai family, then the old grudges can not only be written off, but even in the future, the Cai family can continue to sit firmly in the position of the Jingzhou clan as a relative, which is beneficial to the Cai family.

If judged by this, Cai Mao's surrender is also reasonable.

"You go down first, let me think about it." Su Zhe didn't agree immediately.

At that moment, he ordered his soldiers to send Cai He down for the time being and treat him with courtesy.

Sending Cai He away, Su Zhe clapped his hands lightly and said loudly: "Shu'er, the person you don't want to see has already left, you can come out." ”

Footsteps sounded, Cai Shu lifted the curtain and stood in front of her again.

"Shu'er, you heard what your uncle said just now." Su Zhe asked with a smile.

Cai Shu nodded, but a strange color appeared on her face, "I really didn't expect that Uncle he would decide to submit to you, it's really unimaginable." ”

"Look at this letter, is it really your uncle's handwriting?" Su Zhe handed him the book of surrender.

Cai Shu took it, looked at it carefully, and then nodded and claimed that this was indeed Cai Mao's handwriting.

Su Zhe asked again: "Shu'er, I ask you very seriously now, with your understanding of your uncle Cai Mao, is it really possible for him to surrender to me?" ”

Cai Shu's body was shocked and fell into silence.

After pondering for a long time, Cai Shu slowly shook her head and said two words: "No." ”

"Why?" Su Zhe frowned.

Cai Shu sighed: "To put it bluntly, in the eyes of my uncle, it seems that a person like Ziming you, even if he becomes the emperor, he still looks down on you, that is a kind of contempt rooted in our family's blood and engraved in the bones, with my uncle's temperament, let him surrender to you, I'm afraid it's harder than killing him." ”

I see......

Su Zhe had some suspicions about Cai Mao's surrender before, but now, after listening to Cai Shu's evaluation of Cai Mao's niece, he was even more convinced that Cai Mao was surrendering.

Su Zhe sneered: "It's a good trick, I can even think of using your relationship to gain my trust in Cai Mao, and the person who can come up with such a plan must be my fellow student Xu Shu of Lumen." ”

"That'...... So what are you going to do? Cai Shu asked cautiously.

Su Zhe's face swept with murderous intent, and he said coldly: "What can I do, naturally I will plan and let them lift a stone to shoot themselves in the foot." ”

A chill swept up Cai Shu's back, feeling the strong murderous intent emanating from Su Zhe's body, and wanted to say something, but he wanted to stop talking.

"Shu'er, between you and me, there is nothing to say, if you have any thoughts, you can be honest." Su Zhe saw through that she had something on her mind.

Cai Shu bit her lip and sighed: "I know that the enmity between you and the uncle cannot be reconciled, I only hope that you can leave the uncle a way to live and give my Cai family a way to live." ”

Su Zhe looked at her begging eyes, nodded and said: "You can help me see through your uncle's deception, based on this alone, I can't help but agree to your request, don't worry, as long as the Cai family doesn't resist to the end, I will leave them a way to live, but if the Cai family wants to be the number one family in Jingzhou, I'm afraid it's impossible." ”

Cai Shu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a wry smile: "You can do this, I'm already very content, what is the first or not the first clan, for me, it doesn't matter anymore, I just need to have you." ”

"Shu'er." Su Zhe's heart was hot, and he reached out and gently took her into his arms.

……

On the same day, Su Zhe sent Cai He again, claiming to have agreed to the Cai family's request to surrender, and promised that after the matter was completed, he would promise Cai Mao's brothers a high-ranking official and write off the old grudges.

Cai He was naturally overjoyed, and he was grateful to Su Zhe again and again, and left excitedly with Su Zhe's reply.

In the next few days, Cai He sneaked out of the city several times to meet with Su Zhe and agreed on various matters related to the surrender of the city.

After meeting several times, Su Zhe finally agreed with Cai Mao that at midnight three days later, Cai Mao would raise troops to seize the East Gate, and asked Su Zhe to go to the East Gate to meet him.

……

Three days later, Gangneung City, West Gate.

The night was dark, and the sky and earth were dark.

Nearly 30,000 Jingzhou soldiers gathered in Ximen City, and everyone's face was mixed with excitement and uneasiness.

Cai Mao, Wen Ping, Cai and the three generals, stood solemnly with horizontal swords, silently looking at the soldiers under the city.

A moment later, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and Liu Biao galloped over with Xu Shu and other civil and military personnel.

Arriving at the head of the city, Liu Biao bowed his hand to Cai Mao and bowed deeply: "Deju, the survival of Jingzhou, the honor and disgrace of my Liu family, it depends on you to fight tonight, and I will entrust you with my future and fate." ”

Cai Mao took a light breath and said with a sigh: "I, Cai Mao, have a common enmity with that thief, and tonight is also the time for me to take revenge on that traitor, I should do my best to fight to the death." ”

After being generous, Cai Mao looked at Xu Shu, "I will naturally do my best, but I don't know, Mr. Xu Yuanzhi is completely sure of his strategy?" ”

Liu Biao looked at Xu Shu.

Xu Shu's face was not a little flustered, and he only said lightly: "There is no plan in this world that will definitely succeed, I can only say that this plan has a great chance of success, after all, General Cai's niece is Su Zhe's woman at the moment, and General Cai's surrender as a relative is reasonable, no matter how you look at it." ”

He didn't guarantee the ticket, which cast a shadow on Cai Mao's face.