Chapter 186: Xiangyang Fengyun (16 ends)
"What's the matter?" Cai Mao asked first.
A soldier ran in, knelt down and said, "Our people found the bodies of Susie and Lu Ling, and someone found them and took the initiative to report them to us." ”
"What? Susie and Lu Ling actually died? Cai Mao was stunned when she heard this.
"Kill people!" Huang Zu said coldly: "Say, where were their corpses found?" ”
"General, it's not far from this palace, only two or three streets away."
"That's right, they must have been instructed by someone to come and poison the lord, and then they went to the vicinity of the palace to inspect the situation, and when the lord was really killed by those two poisonous doctors, the two poisonous doctors were also wiped out." Huang Zu deduced: "In this way, the clue is broken......"
"Cai Mao, since the clue has been broken, then, you can't get rid of the suspicion of harming the dead master, therefore, I think that now, the young master should be protected by me, Huang." Huang Zu swept Cai Mao at this moment.
"Huang Zu, you ......" Cai Mao was very angry when he saw that Huang Zu was still suspicious of him at this time.
"Okay, well, if you love to protect, you will protect. However, when a discerning person looks at it, he will know who has the intention and necessity to kill our lord. Cai believes that this person must be Liu Bei. ”
"Well, Liu Bei ......" Huang Zu thought for a while and said, "Then, Liu Bei can't die yet!" No matter what, we have to capture him alive and interrogate him, as long as we find out who our lord died at, I, Huang, will rest assured! ”
"Capture Liu Bei alive? This ......"
Cai Mao knew that Liu Bei was still in the city. For the time being, it should still be under the pursuit of Xiahoudun and Xu Huang, as long as Liu Bei is in the city, it is estimated that it will be absolutely impossible to escape death. So. Huang Zu wanted to say that he wanted to capture Liu Bei alive, which was probably a bit difficult.
"Did you order someone to kill Liu Bei directly?" Huang Zu asked.
"Yes, if you can't be captured alive, you will be killed directly!"
"That's good, if Liu Bei wants to escape, he must pass through the city gate, and he is in Xiangyang. He was afraid that he could only flee to the north of the city, flee to the Xiangjiang River in the north, and join Guan Yu and Zhang Fei who returned to Xiangyang. I will now lead the army to stop Liu Bei. Bring it back alive! Huang Zu said.
"That's fine, but don't let Liu Bei escape, don't worry. Here a qiē has me! "Cai Mao can only rely on Huang Zu now.
Although Cai Mao is not afraid of Huang Zu. However, he wanted to be assisted by Huang Zu.
At this moment, Liu Bei has been injured, and he has been caught up by Xiahoudun and Xu Huang several times, forcing him to keep walking through the streets and alleys, anxious like a lost dog.
There are more and more soldiers in the city who are chasing him, a large net. It also seems to be getting narrower and narrower.
At this moment, Liu Bei really felt that he was so close to death.
This moment. He misses Guan Yu and Zhang Fei more than ever.
Although Liu Bei didn't know how many times he had escaped, he had never tried something so dangerous as this one.
Being trapped in this Xiangyang City is called the heavens and the earth.
He really didn't expect that killing Liu Biao would make these people in Jingzhou so crazy, they weren't worried about the chaos in Xiangyang, and they dared to make such a big move, didn't they worry that without me Liu Bei, they couldn't resist the attack of the New Han Army? Without Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two generals, to defeat the New Han Army for them, even if they kill themselves now, will they be able to survive?
It's hateful, Cao Cao actually sent a general to assassinate him, making it difficult for him to use absolute force to coerce the ministers of Jingzhou.
However, Liu Bei did not regret it at the moment, because he knew that if he couldn't win Jingzhou, he would never have a chance to come out again in his life. Don't want to talk about the hegemony again, if there is another chance for him to do it again, he still has to try his best to seize Jingzhou.
"Liu Bei! The big-eared thief is on the run! ”
The pursuers behind shouted loudly.
Liu Bei, who was covered in blood, struggled to climb over a wall and fled into a private house.
He just crossed the streets and alleys through guò, and took advantage of the complex street and alley environment in Xiangyang City to escape the encirclement and interception of the Jingzhou army, and he was able to escape until now, and he has not been caught by the pursuers.
There was a laceration wound on his back, and in addition, there was an arrow stuck in his left arm, and he fought a few moves with Xiahoudun, and was shocked to the tiger's mouth on his hand.
Whether it was a wound on his back or a wound on his hand, it made Liu Bei feel stinging.
Liu Bei didn't dare to stay in the courtyard of this house for a long time, he didn't dare to catch his breath here for a while, he was about to rush into the house with his legs, and then pass through the house.
In fact, Liu Bei now, he doesn't even know how to escape from Xiangyang City. He only had the idea that he could escape for a while.
Liu Bei never thought that he would be forced to escape from Xiangyang City, so although he had many hiding places in the city, there was no way for him to escape from Xiangyang safely. Now, Liu Bei only hopes that he can delay until dark, as long as it gets dark, he can escape to the hiding place he has already prepared in Xiangyang City, and then see the situation in Xiangyang clearly to see if he wants to escape from Xiangyang City.
But the premise is that now you have to get rid of the pursuers behind, otherwise, he will be chased and killed all the time, and he Liu Bei will only be dead.
With a bang, Liu Bei pushed open the hidden door.
"Ah......h
In the room, there was a family that was looking at Liu Bei, who had become a bloody man, in horror.
"Where's the back door? Say it! ”
Liu Bei gasped.
"In, here......"
A woman said.
Liu Bei didn't think much about it, so he left with his legs, because, outside the courtyard, he had already heard the shouts of the pursuers.
"Wait, you, you're Uncle Liu?"
An old man in the room suddenly asked at this moment.
"Huh? It's me ......" Liu Bei would not be afraid of these unarmed people, and nodded after a pause.
"Uncle Liu Huang, from the back of our house, keep running north, there will be a stinky ditch, and that stinky ditch can dive directly out of the moat outside the city."
"Oh? Is there nothing to seal the outlet of the ditch? Liu Bei's eyes lit up when he heard this. He cautiously asked, "How do you know?" ”
"Uncle Liu Huang, at the end of last year. The old man was requisitioned to clean up the river, and that section happened to be cleaned up by the old man, after the cleanup. The old man was deliberately brought back by the iron fence there, thinking that if something happened in the city one day, the old man could also escape from Xiangyang City with his family. ”
"Bei was now framed by Cai Mao, saying that Bei killed Liu Jingsheng. is being chased and killed by the pursuers, if I Liu Bei can escape, I will not forget the uncle's life-saving grace in the future. Leave! ”
"Out of the city, you can go straight to the river, there are boats by the river. However, this section of the road is not easy to escape, and it will be seen by the soldiers defending the city, whether they can escape. It depends on Uncle Liu's creation. That's all the old man can do, take care ......"
"Thank you!"
Liu Bei didn't dare to stay any longer, so he hurriedly walked out of the back door of the house and looked north and went straight to the north.
Liu Bei has always regarded himself as benevolent and righteous in Xiangyang, and his usual style of acting also has the style of benevolence and righteousness. Whether he's hypocritical or not. It's better to put on a show. However, some of Liu Bei's actions. Indeed, some of the people have been blessed with benefits. Some people who can't see through Liu Bei's true temperament naturally think that Liu Bei is a good person.
This family is the one who has received some favors from Liu Bei, so they reminded Liu Bei.
And Liu Bei doesn't have too many choices now. Unless he can really get rid of the pursuers behind him, he will have to fight whether what this people said to him is true or false.
The pursuers were only a distance away from Liu Bei at most, and from time to time, a group of soldiers would emerge from the front to intercept him.
From time to time, bows and arrows would be shot at Liu Bei.
Now, Liu Bei fled in a straight line to the north, and for a while, he actually let him pull away from the pursuers a little distance.
Suddenly, the high city walls could be seen in front of me, and between the houses below, countless soldiers could be faintly seen. However, under Liu Bei's feet, there was indeed a stinky ditch.
Without thinking much about it, Liu Bei jumped directly into the stinky ditch, endured the smell, and sank directly under the black water with countless debris floating in the black.
After sinking, Liu Bei did not wait, but directly swam under the water in the direction that the old man said. In fact, just swim along the current of the stinky ditch.
When they chased and killed the chasing soldiers, when they chased this stinky ditch, they didn't expect Liu Bei to jump directly into it for a while. Therefore, no one noticed that Liu Bei was under the stinky ditch.
For a while, countless pursuers flocked to them, but they were only searching on the ground.
"What about people! This big-eared thief, really like a thief, slippery, actually let him escape here. Quick, transfer all the soldiers on the other side of the stinky ditch, I don't believe that Liu Bei can still fly to the sky. ”
Xiahoudun arrived and shouted angrily. Seeing that Liu Bei was in front of him, he couldn't catch up, or he caught up, but Liu Bei used some complicated house terrain to let him escape.
"What about Liu Beiren? Tell the order to go down, you must catch it alive! ”
At this time, Huang Zu led a group of cavalry, arrived with a bang, and gave a loud order from afar.
Xiahoudun glanced at Xu Huang, who had arrived, and secretly exclaimed that it was not good.
At the moment, Liu Bei has not been killed, and it seems that Liu Bei has lost his trace for a while. Now, it seems that the generals of the Jingzhou army are chasing after them, and they still want to mix in the Jingzhou army to chase and kill Liu Bei, I'm afraid it will be a little troublesome.
After all, they are here to assist Cai Mao, and they have nothing to do with other Jingzhou generals, in case the generals of the Jingzhou army recognize them as Cao Cao's people, then I am afraid that there will be another incident.
"General Huang Zu, we have been chasing Liu Bei, and when we arrived here, we disappeared Liu Bei."
"What? Where did this Liu Bei hide? Dig three feet into the ground for me, and you will find it for me. Be sure to capture him alive! ”
"Yes! I want to capture Liu Bei alive! ”
A group of Jingzhou soldiers responded loudly.
Hearing the dialogue between Jingzhou Jun and Huang Zu, Xiahoudun and Xu Huang couldn't help but secretly complain, because they wanted to kill Liu Bei, but Huang Zu seemed to want to capture Liu Bei alive. In this way, even if they find Liu Bei and they want to kill him, these soldiers of the Jingzhou army are afraid that they will not let them kill Liu Bei lightly.
However, after a long while, these Jingzhou soldiers who were searching in this area had not yet found Liu Bei, as if Liu Bei had fled here and disappeared out of thin air.
However, after a while, not far from the city, there were soldiers shouting loudly, as if there were people outside the city.
Of course, there were people outside the city, and not far away, there were also some military camps.
But. When the soldiers at the head of the city shouted, someone had climbed out of the moat and was running towards the Xiangjiang River.
Xiahoudun and Xu Huang, who heard clearly. Almost at the same time, they looked at the stinking ditch in the city, and looked down the ditch and saw that it could flow out just under a section of the wall.
Not good!
The two generals thought almost at the same time, then Liu Bei might have jumped into the stinky ditch, and then escaped from the city along the stinky ditch.
Huang Zu has also woken up, shouting. The city gate was wide open, and Huang Zu led the cavalry to rush out of the city with a roar.
Xiahoudun and Xu Huang also took advantage of the Jingzhou army's inattention. They took the two horses, mixed in with the cavalry, and rushed out of the city together.
Sometimes, the fate of a person. It's really hard to say.
If it makes sense. Liu Bei is in the city, in his Liu Mansion mansion, he will be killed. After all, if the Jingzhou military was determined to kill Liu Bei, how could Liu Bei escape with so many military horses, plus generals like Xiahoudun and Xu Huang?
But, on the contrary. but allowed Liu Bei to escape from his mansion, and. Running all the way around, allowing him to evade the pursuers. Fortunately, he learned how to escape from the city in time.
Under such circumstances, Liu Bei can still escape from Xiangyang City, which has to say that Liu Bei still has some luck.
However, Liu Bei's good luck may only come here.
Because everyone also wanted to miss one point, that is, Liu Bei had to flee from the moat to the river, and he had to run for several miles, if this was in the city, there were so many streets and alleys for Liu Bei to hide, he could barely escape, but in the open area outside the city. Can the legs outrun the four feet of a cavalry horse?
Liu Bei was also more unlucky, because he climbed up from the moat and escaped from the city wall not far away, and was seen by the Jingzhou soldiers at the head of the city.
At this time, Liu Bei was not too far away from the river. However, the cavalry behind the black pressure had already arrived.
Liu Bei was unwilling, and he was about to flee to the river, as long as he found the boat and jumped on it, he could escape.
It's less than a mile, that is, hundreds of paces away.
Whoosh......
A bow and arrow shot over, although it couldn't shoot Liu Bei, but it could make Liu Bei clearly feel what the threat of death was.
It's close, it's close, and the distance is getting closer.
"Stop! Otherwise, there will be no mercy! ”
The cavalry behind shouted loudly.
But how could Liu Bei stop, he took a sharp breath, and suddenly made his figure speed up, and in the blink of an eye, his running speed was comparable to the speed of Huang Zu's cavalry.
"Can't let Liu Bei escape! Shoot the arrows! ”
Another burst of bows and arrows came over.
Porphyry
The bow and arrow seemed to follow Liu Bei's footsteps, shooting all the way over, which allowed Liu Bei to dodge.
Drink!
Liu Bei shouted, his whole body suddenly jumped out, and with a snort, he actually swept a distance of ten or twenty steps, jumped directly, and was jumped onto a small boat parked by the river.
Without much thought, he swung his sword and cut the rope, struck the shore with a strong palm, and the boat floated out of the river.
However, Liu Bei didn't know that just when he suddenly accelerated forward, among the pursuers, two horsemen suddenly rushed out, far surpassing the other cavalry, and when Liu Bei jumped on the boat, they had already come to a distance of less than twenty or thirty paces from Liu Bei's boat.
Just when Liu Bei knocked the boat out of the river, the two of them each picked up their bows and arrows, and shot several arrows in a row.
At such a close distance, although Liu Bei was suddenly alert to the danger coming, he didn't have time to dodge.
Puff puff......
Liu Bei's body was shot several times in the blink of an eye, and one arrow pierced directly.
Blood, staining the already red robe again.
"Ah...... I, Liu Bei, disagree ......"
Porphyry ......
Liu Bei screamed miserably and crashed into the river.
"Bastard! I said I'm going to catch it alive! ”
At this time, Huang Zu didn't know who the person who shot Liu Bei was, and he said a little angrily.
"If you don't shoot Liu Bei with an arrow, I'm afraid I'll let him escape."
Xu Huang said in a humming voice.
"Huh? Who are you? How dare you talk to General Ben like that? Huang Zu looked at the two of them coldly.
"Haha! What are you? Xiangyang, we will come again, let's go! ”
Xiahoudun laughed wildly, greeted Xu Huang, patted the horse and walked to the side.
Liu Bei had already been killed, and their task was completed, so there was no need for Xiahoudun and Xu Huang to stay in Xiangyang anymore.
Huang Zu was about to be angry when he saw that these two people dared to ignore him, but he was stopped by a soldier who knew the situation and whispered in his ear.
After hearing this, Huang Zu couldn't help but be a little surprised.
After a long time, he suddenly woke up and said, "Quick, pick Liu Bei up for me, see if he is still angry, I have something to ask him." Now that Cai Mao has dealings with Cao Cao's people, it is even more difficult to dispel Cai Mao's suspicion of murdering our lord. ”
There was not only one small boat by the river, but when Huang Zu's people went to the river to bring Liu Bei's body up, they found that Liu Bei's body was missing.
At this time, they may have been swept into the river by the river.
However, everyone can see very clearly that Liu Bei has been hit by several arrows in his body, and he is already so dead that he can't die anymore, not to mention that one of the arrows still passes through his body?
Helplessly, Liu Bei's body could not be found, so Huang Zu had to return to the city with a stomach full of doubts and doubts.
Liu Bei's death soon spread.
This news caused an uproar among the people in Xiangyang City.
Liu Biao died, Liu Bei died.
Jingzhou is about to change.
In the city, Liu Bei's personal soldiers were also killed and captured by countless Jingzhou soldiers, and soon quieted down.
This is also a normal thing, after all, Jingzhou's military horses are now in the hands of Cai Mao and Huang Zu respectively, as long as the two of them are okay and not messy, even if Liu Biao is dead, they can still control the situation in Xiangyang.
After the news of Liu Bei's death came, the people in the city did not dare to make any changes, and they were all worried that they would follow in Liu Bei's footsteps.
In troubled times, it is always the one who holds the military power that can win in the end.
Now it seems that Cai Mao has won.
But the situation in Xiangyang will definitely attract more wind and rain because of the deaths of Liu Biao and Liu Bei. (To be continued......)