Liu Cong sobbed and told the truth, it turned out that after Liu Biao died of illness, he found that Liu Biao had a bruise on his neck, Liu Cong asked the doctor to check Liu Biao's body, and did not find anything unusual, but Liu Cong found that Liu Biao's bedside had traces of fingernails when he was cleaning up Liu Biao's relics, Liu Cong carefully verified it and found that it was two words. Although the handwriting was very blurry, Liu Cong could still see what the words were, King Cai. Obviously, Cai Mao's Mao character is only half written.

Liu Cong realized that this must be the words left by Liu Biao before his death, although Liu Cong wanted to compete with Liu Qi for the position of the son, and cooperate with Cai Mao in order to achieve the goal, but he never thought of doing anything to his father Liu Biao, no matter what, Liu Biao is his father, his biological father, and although Mrs. Cai and Cai Mao are good friends with him, they have no blood relationship, Mrs. Cai is just his stepmother, and he and Cai Mao are just using each other. Now that Liu Cong realizes that Cai Mao can kill his father, then it is very likely that he will kill him in the future, and Liu Cong begins to fidget. After Liu Cong suspected Cai Mao, he began to investigate secretly, and when he heard that Mrs. Cai's maid was home to visit relatives, he secretly sent someone to arrest her, and then tortured him severely, and learned everything from the maid's mouth. On the night of Liu Biao's death, Mrs. Cai took two maids to tie the sleeping Liu Biao to the bed with a rope, and in order to prevent the rope from leaving bruises on Liu Biao's body, she also used clothes to pad Liu Biao's tied position.

Mrs. Cai wanted to kill Liu Biao, but she didn't dare to use poison or kill with her own hands, for fear of leaving traces, so she took her three lovers into Liu Biao's room, woke Liu Biao, and then blocked Liu Biao's mouth with a cloth.

Liu Biao is more than sixty years old, and the disease is born, and he can't live for a few years, and Mrs. Cai is only thirty-eight years old, which is the age of a wolf and a tiger, Liu Biao can't meet her physiologically, so she often takes the opportunity to go back to her parents' house to find a man to steal together, and these Liu Biao are in the dark. In order to anger Liu Biao, Mrs. Cai found three men who secretly cooperated with him, sneaked into Liu Biao's room at night, and fought with the three of them to humiliate Liu Biao.

After Liu Cong learned the news, he was extremely angry and vowed to eradicate the Cai family, so he wrote a letter to Huang Zu and Liu Pan to ask them to send troops to Xiangyang, but told Huang Zu and Liu Pan not to spread the news that Liu Biao was killed by Cai Mao, because he still had to seek Kuai Yue's help, and if the news was spread, Liu Cong might be put in danger. Huang Zu and Liu Pan were originally Liu Qi's faction, and now they are openly sending troops against Liu Cong, mistakenly making Cai Mao think that they are for Liu Qi, but in fact they have cooperated with Liu Cong to kill Cai Mao.

Liu Cong only told Kuai Yue the news that Liu Biao was murdered by Mrs. Cai, but did not tell Mrs. Cai about the murder of Liu Biao by adultery with a man, which is something that ordinary people can't say.

Kuai Yue saw that what Liu Cong said was true, he could be sure that this would not be Liu Cong's deception, Liu Cong had sworn to the sky, Huang Zu and Liu Pan had sent troops again, so Kuai Yue supported Liu Cong to eradicate Cai Mao.

Liu Cong and Kuai Yue set a plan, Liu Cong deliberately did not have a good burial date, delayed Liu Biao's burial date, and buried Liu Biao when Cai Mao led the army out of Xiangyang to resist Huang Zu and Liu Pan, and then buried ambush soldiers at the banquet after the funeral, arrested the Cai family and Cai Mao's party, and killed them all. After that, Liu Cong sent someone to kill Cai Mao's whole family, immersed Mrs. Cai's pipe in a cage, and buried her alive after fishing it out again before drowning.

After Liu Cong dealt with Cai Mao's party, with the assistance of Kuai Yue, he sent troops to attack Cai Mao on three sides with Huang Zu and Liu Pan.

Fangling, Ma Hong military camp.

Ma Hong, Liu Ye, Li Yan, Hu Du, and Fei Yi held a meeting to discuss whether to enter Xiangyang.

"Judging from the current form, Liu Cong and Cai Mao are like fire and water, and we now have two choices, the first is to attack Xiangyang, the second is to watch the fire from the other side, and wait for the two to fight to the death. What do you think should be done? ”

After analyzing the situation, Ma Hong spoke.

Cai Mao sent troops but did not expect Liu Cong to suddenly insert a knife in his back, and now the whole Jingzhou is rumored that Liu Cong wants to avenge his father, and Cai Mao is bound to be defeated under the attack on three sides. In my opinion, we can't wait, we should immediately send troops to Xiangyang and take advantage of the situation to take Nanjun. ”

Fei Yi calmly analyzed.

Ma Hong nodded at Fei Yi, and then looked at Hu Du, his student.

When Hu Du saw the teacher looking at him, he knew that the teacher wanted to ask his opinion, so he considered his words and said: "Although Liu Cong is now nominally the lord of Jingzhou, after Liu Biao's death, his control over Jingnan has become weaker, and Liu Cong is young, now is the opportunity for us to march into Xiangyang." Besides, the teacher is a wealthy family in Jingzhou, if he climbs the heights and shouts after taking Nanjun, naturally many people will come to take refuge. ”

Ma Hong smiled slightly and asked, "Brother Zhengfang and Senior Brother Ziyang, what do you think?" ”

"Both of them are right, now is indeed an opportunity, we seize this opportunity, naturally we can capture Nanjun, but now Liu Cong wants to eradicate Cai Mao under the banner of avenging his father, if we make a cross knife in the back, I'm afraid it won't be reasonable, I'm afraid that the reputation of the lord in Jingzhou will be ruined, and the princes of the world will have to chew their tongues."

Li Yan analyzed that now Li Yan has also changed his name to Ma Hong, and from the moment he abandoned the official position of Nanyang Taishou, he completely stood by Ma Hong's side.

In this era, reputation is very important, and the army should pay attention to the famous, the last time the undeclared war attacked Cao Cao, even if it was an unrighteous move, if this time if Liu Cong dang Cai Mao, if he intervenes, I am afraid that it will make the wealthy family of Jingzhou look at it coldly, and even if Jingzhou is taken at that time, the scholars of Jingzhou are not willing to take refuge, what should I do?

The current situation is that Ma Hong wants to send troops to fight, but there is no reason to fight, if he takes Liu Qi's reason to fight, it is too far-fetched, Ma Hong originally wanted to attack Jingzhou with the slogan of eradicating Cai Mao, but now Liu Cong is leading troops to fight against Cai Mao, Ma Hong is still holding this slogan It seems a little weak.

"What you said makes sense, all we have to do is to enter Jingzhou, as long as we get in, everything will be easy. So, the key lies in the word "enter". Liu Ye said with a slight smile.

"Into the word? Senior brother, what do you mean by this? Fei Yi asked puzzled.

Liu Ye smiled slightly, licked his upper lips and continued: "We will enter Jingzhou by ourselves, and others will invite us to go back." If we walk in by ourselves, even if the junior brother has a reputation in Jingzhou, it will still arouse the disgust of the Jingzhou scholars; So we asked the Jingzhou Shi clan to invite us back. ”

"Please? It's just that now Cai Mao has become a turtle in the urn, and Liu Cong can level Cai Mao without asking Liu Bei to make a move, how could Liu Cong invite us to Jingzhou? Fei Yi asked with a confused expression.

Liu Ye licked his lower lip, looked at Fei Yi and said with a smile: "Senior brother, that Jingzhou is not chaotic enough, if it is chaotic enough, even if Liu Cong does not invite us to go, but the Jingzhou Shi clan jointly invited us to go back, don't we have a reason when the time comes?" ”

Fei Yi nodded as if he didn't understand, he seemed to have thought of something.

"Sun Quan and Huang Zu have a grudge against their father, and Sun Quan has coveted Jiangxia for a long time, at this time, we only need to push it, and he will immediately send troops to attack Jiangxia." Liu Ye said with a smile.

Fei Yi was surprised: "Do you want us to make a secret alliance with Sun Quan now and ask him to attack Jiangxia?" ”

Liu Ye shook his head and said: "Senior brother, how can this kind of thing be an alliance, if it leaks out in the future, then how will the wealthy family in Jingzhou think of us." ”

"So what do we do? How can I get Sun Quan to send troops? Fei Yi asked.

Ma Hong interjected at this time: "Have you forgotten your senior brother Zhu Ran?" I only need to write a letter to Zhu Ran and persuade him to persuade Sun Quan not to take the opportunity to attack Jiangxia, and I will lead my troops to pacify Cai Mao, and he will definitely persuade Sun Quan to send troops to Jiangxia. ”

Fei Yi then understood.

Liangzhou, Hanyang County.

Pang Tong received the news of Liu Biao's death and Liu Cong's killing of Cai Mao's family, and couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect my plan to mess up Jingzhou, Shu Chang, killing Liu Qi is also a helpless move, don't blame me, may this secret sink to the bottom of the river forever!" (To be continued.) )