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Wei Yan's promotion to Zhonglang General was really a little joyful.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wei Yan took four soldiers and replenished all kinds of supplies to Shangyong City, and rushed to Shangyong City without stopping. He didn't want the eastern Hanzhong that he had just captured to be seized by Cao Cao!

Outside Xiangyang City, Hao Meng sent someone to send Liu Qi to Xiangyang City.

Of course, Liu Qi also had a letter of persuasion in his hand, which he brought to Liu Biao.

This is not a tiger returning to the mountain, or turning the handle upside down or something, but Hao Meng's naked demonstration: "Today, I, Hao Meng, can capture your son of Liu Biao and let him go; If you want to break Xiangyang City tomorrow, it's not just a matter of thought? ”

This is the same as the "Seven Captures and Seven Verticals" in the Romance.

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Xiangyang City, Shepherd's Mansion.

It has only been two months since the beginning of winter, but Liu Biao seems to have aged twenty or thirty years old in an instant, and his hair is full of luxury.

It is not possible for Liu Biao not to age quickly. During this period of time, Liu Biao knew that the seven counties of Jingxiang had mostly fallen into Hao Meng's hands at this time, and now outside Xiangyang City, Hao Meng's hundreds of thousands of troops were even more besieged in Xiangyang City.

In fact, if Liu Biao was given a year and a half, he might not be afraid of Hao Meng's house.

Jingzhou has a vast land and abundant resources, and Liu Biao has increased his troops to 500,000 this year.

Later, although Cai Mao abducted 100,000 of the most elite sailors, it did not hurt the overall situation.

As long as there is a year and a half to practice, the 400,000 recruits recruited this year may not become elite soldiers and veterans, but they can rely on several important towns in Jingzhou to focus on defense, but they are still worthy of a war.

It's a pity that Hao Meng also knew that the opportunity could not be lost, and after the end of the Jiangdong War, Bing Feng directly entered Jingzhou.

At this time, how could the 400,000 recruits in Liu Biao's hands be able to stop the 500,000 or 600,000 lions after Hao Meng's victory?

This is not only known to Liu Biao, but also to people with a little vision in Jingzhou. Therefore, when Hao's army entered Jingzhou, the officials of various counties competed to surrender. Even, there were generals who abducted Liu Biao's already small number of troops and lost their sincerity to Hao Meng.

And this is also one of the important reasons why Liu Biao was born early.

The only thing that made Liu Biao a little relieved was that the Kuai brothers were still loyal.

Now, Xiangyang City has become a lonely city, but the Kuai brothers are not like other officials from big families, not only do they lose their sincerity, but they also kidnap his Liu Biao's soldiers and horses, money and grain, and territories.

Liu Biao didn't know that the Kuai brothers had long wanted to lose their sincerity to Hao Meng, and they were ready to sell him Liu Biao at a good price at a critical moment!

……

In the pastoral guard's house, Liu Biao leaned on the sickbed, with little energy, planning a way out. Before Liu Biao could come up with one, two, or three, Kuai Liang trotted briskly close to the ward.

"Lord, the eldest prince is back!" Kuai Liang reported in the first place.

"My son is back?" Liu Biao sat up in surprise.

Since the capture of half of Hanzhong, Liu Biao has garrisoned heavy troops in Shangyong and other cities, led by his eldest son Liu Qi.

First, it is to let the eldest son personally control a team of soldiers and horses, so that when the son succeeds his father's business in the future, Liu Qi will be like him Liu Biao, who has no military power in his hands and is constrained by the big families of the Jingxiang family everywhere.

The two, with the eldest son sitting in Hanzhong in the east, can dispel Liu Zhang's sight from watching Shangyong and other cities in Shuzhong.

After all, even our eldest son is in the eastern Hanzhong, can we not pay attention to this territory? If Liu Zhang wants to raise troops to seize Hanzhong in the east, he must be ready to fight Jingzhou to the death, otherwise, it is better to extinguish the ambition of unifying Hanzhong.

The three, and the most important one.

Hao Meng is already powerful, once Jingzhou is not guaranteed, this eastern Hanzhong is his last retreat for Liu Biao!

Therefore, Liu Biao asked his eldest son Liu Qi to sit in Shangyong City.

It's just that why did Liu Qi come back at this time?

Isn't the Hao army outside the city besieged, how can it be possible to let Liu Qi enter the city?

……

After a while, Liu Qi came in.

Xiaobu approached Liu Biao's sickbed, and Liu Qi cried: "Father, Shangyong City has been lost, and the child has disappointed you!" ”

Liu Biao sat up, stretched out his hand to help Liu Qi, and said with a desolate expression: "My son will get up, and if Shangyong City is lost, it will be lost." Hao Meng's battle is big, and the army is strong, Xiangyang City may not be protected at any time, let alone a mediocre city? ”

"As long as my son does not die in the chaos, it is the blessing of the ancestors."

At this time, it is not how many years of Jian'an in the romance, but at the end of the third year of Chuping, Liu Biao still likes his eldest son Liu Qi very much.

Liu Qi cried on his father's sickbed for a while, and then said: "Father, in the first battle of Shangyong City, the child was captured by Wei Yan, and then brought to Xiangyang City, but Hao Meng's house let the child be sent to Xiangyang City, I don't know what it means?" ”

Regarding the process of being captured, Liu Qi did not hide it from his father.

After all, Hao's army besieged Xiangyang City with hundreds of thousands, if Liu Qi said that he had entered the siege and entered the city to see his father Liu Biao, don't say that others don't believe it, Liu Qi himself doesn't believe it first!

Hearing this, this was unexpected by Liu Biao, but it was reasonable.

"Hao Meng returned the captured Liu Qi, what does this mean?"

Liu Biao was still ill at this time, and his mind couldn't turn away for a while, so he looked at Kuai Liang with an inquiring gaze.

"Lord, Hao Meng's move is nothing more than a deterrent, so that the lord can surrender." Kuai Liang said. "After all, Hao Meng can capture Gongziqi once, can't there be a second or third time?"

"In the same way, breaking Xiangyang City, will it be difficult for Hao Meng?"

"Ruochen guessed right, when Hao Meng released Gongzi Qi, there should be a letter of persuasion for Gongzi to bring back with him."

Kuailiang is not really a miracle plan.

It's that they are in the Kuai family, ready to surrender to Hao Meng at any time, and secretly even have contact with Hao Meng. Yes, Hao Meng sent Liu Qi back and asked Liu Qi to bring back a letter of persuasion, and the Kuai family still knew about this matter.

……

When his father looked at it, Liu Qi awkwardly took out the crumpled silk book.

When he returned to Xiangyang City, Liu Qi quietly read this "letter of persuasion", because Hao Meng's words in the letter were disrespectful, Liu Qi crumpled the silk book into a ball at that time, and was ready to throw it away.

Now it seems that fortunately he did not throw away the silk book at that time, otherwise, it would be difficult to explain it to his father.

Liu Biao took the silk book, but he didn't care about the wrinkles of the silk book, but quickly unfolded it and looked at it:

"Brother Jingsheng, seeing the words is like meeting, saying goodbye in the summer, but now we are seeing each other."

"It's not that General Ben wants to devour Brother Jingsheng's territory, but for the sake of the livelihood of the world, General Ben has to clear the world."

"Today, this general has a million armor, a thousand fierce generals, and Chen soldiers are under the city of Xiangyang."

"If General Ben wants to attack the city, what is the pseudo-capital of Xiangyang City compared to Yuan Shu?"

"Yes, I advise Brother Jingsheng to go out of the city as soon as possible to come down; For the sake of the old friendship, Brother Jingsheng did not lose his position as a marquis after all. In this way, the Liu family is very lucky, and the Han family temple is very lucky! ”

The letter of persuasion was just over 100 words, but it made Liu Biao sigh.

Yes, at this time, Liu Biao was only embarrassed, but he was not angry, and he actually didn't have much hatred for Hao Meng.

The decline of the Han family is not Hao Meng's fault. The princes of the world are competing, who doesn't want to be on the throne? It's not Hao Meng sweeping the world today, and there will be other princes jumping out to replace him in the future.

After Liu Biao read the letter, he fell on the couch, muttered for a long time, and said, "Then come down!" ”