The white cold light slashed across his young body, and the sharp blade easily cut through the silk robe on his body, cutting through his tender skin, and making the red blood on his body splash out. He fell to the ground www.biquge.info the sharp pain that made his little face wrinkle tightly. He always felt very strange, why did the other party kill him, didn't his father say that he was a descendant of the Heavenly Family, and he was the blood of a dragon? Dragons are supposed to be very powerful, why...... Why...... Will you die...... He was a very clever little ghost, and he just knew what death was like from the conversations of the people around him, but he never imagined that this matter would fall on his head like this.

"It hurts...... Do you have to go through this kind of pain to die? However, I heard that death is to go to another place, and it seems to be very similar to the place where my mother went, is my mother also dead? Maybe, maybe I'll see my mother even if I die like this. It's just that I can't see my sister anymore. He thought wildly, his mouth opened slightly, but a mouthful of blood spurted out. His eyes became confused, and in this confused haze he saw his sister's concerned gaze, which was full of panic, worry, fear, fear and other emotions, which made him look very heartbroken. "Sister don't want to be like this, brother, I'm just going to see my mother......" He wanted to say this, but he said it after all. His eyelids slowly sank, his body slowly weakened, and he finally tilted his head, but it was impossible to wake up again.

"Brother......" Princess Coco Liu cried as she lay on the body of the prince Liu Jun, trying to reawaken her brother and make him open his eyes, but it was all in vain.

"Everything is irretrievable, and your mission has failed after all?" Liu Zhao stood there motionless as if he was stupid, and he didn't know what he should do now. He was really a little far away from here just now, and that person was too close to the prince Liu Jun and the princess Liu Wen, but he couldn't save it.

"General...... Checkmate...... What do we do now! The unimaginable Liu Zhao stayed there, but he scared his officers to death. At present, everything here has to be decided by Liu Zhao alone.

"Uh......" Liu Zhao finally came back to his senses, and finally gave a belated order: "Go and arrest the assassin for me!" ”

"Yes!" Soldiers swarmed up. But before they could get close to the man, the man laughed twice, fell to the sky, and never heard from him again.

"What's going on?" Liu Zhao felt strange, and stepped forward quickly, the long sword in his hand was lightly raised, and he gently lifted the face towel on the assassin's face, revealing the iron blue face and the strange smile on that face.

"...... he took poison?" Liu Zhao only felt a cool air rising from his back, and he felt that such a person was really terrifying. Doing nothing, just to achieve the success of the mission, to do anything, to become the enemy of such a person, it is simply impossible to live in peace. He was slightly frightened, and then gave an order: "Everyone should make up for the corpses of these people, I am afraid that there are still people here who are pretending to be dead." He said fiercely, the shock caused by the enemy was too great, but it made him have to do something contrary to common sense.

The order was handed down, and all the people did it without a word. The field was basically silent again, except for the whirring wind, the dull sound of weapons entering the body, and the low heartbreaking cry of Coco Liu.

Liu Zhao was dumbfounded, but he didn't know how to comfort Coco Liu. He is a big man, and he is not good at comforting girls, especially such a little girl with a noble status. "What to do?" He turned his head and turned his gaze to the smart girl who had been standing aside without saying a word, Cao Cao's youngest daughter, Cao Hua.

"Third Miss, can you please do me a favor?" Liu Zhao looked at Cao Hua pleadingly, and pleaded pitifully.

"How?" Cao Hua didn't quite understand.

"Can you help me comfort the eldest princess?" Things have come to this point, and it is useless to conceal the identities of Coco Liu and Liu Jun, so Liu Zhao will tell the identity of the eldest princess himself.

"Eldest Princess...... She? Cao Hua looked at Coco Liu, who was lying on Liu Jun but refused to let go, and was surprised to raise her head, she had already guessed what the story was. She knew that there must be conspiracy against her father, but she was very noncommittal about these conspiracy, just nodded lightly, and promised Liu Zhao: "Don't worry, I will persuade her." Liu Langjiang, leave the matter here to me, you better quickly solve the other things. It's already dark, and you don't want us to spend time on this desolate mountain road. ”

"Oh...... Be! Liu Zhao agreed, looking a little silly.

Liu Zhao left and handed over this side to Cao Hua. He didn't know how Cao Hua persuaded him, but he heard the crying behind him become louder, which made people always feel a little earth-shattering. "This ...... Maybe it will work, right? He thought, but he was a little unsure, but there was nothing he could do at the moment.

Liu Zhao is still very capable in the organization and arrangement of things, and he originally did exactly this under the emperor. He reorganized the chaotic team, divided the remaining soldiers into three parts, and arranged the ranks in the previous strong, medium, and heavy rear patterns: the front team had the smallest number of people, but the combat ability was the strongest, and he enriched most of his personal guards there; The team in the middle has the largest number of people, and the combat effectiveness is second, because everyone's identities have been revealed, Liu Zhao plans to arrange the princess and Cao Hua together so that a unified protective circle can be formed; As for the craftsmen who accompanied the army and the other soldiers who had little combat effectiveness, they were all sent to the rear to escort grain and grass. When they are not fighting, they will do the work of coolies, and if a battle breaks out and is caused by the rear, they will undoubtedly become abandoned shields to slow down the enemy's pursuit. This is the most normal and practical consideration, although those craftsmen helped Liu Zhao a lot in the previous battle against the bandits, but Liu Zhao finally counted them as a group that could be abandoned from practical and habitual considerations.

When the matter on Liu Zhao's side came to an end, the matter on Cao Hua's side seemed to be resolved. She brought the eldest princess to Liu Zhao, but she came to ask when she could leave.

"Going? I'm afraid we'll have to wait. Liu Zhao said.

"How?" Cao Hua blinked in confusion.

"O corpses, these corpses, whether they are enemies or mine, cannot be placed on this road. And the body of His Royal Highness the prince also needs to be resolved. Now we can't go back to Xuchang, but it is necessary for us to take his body to CD Of course, if possible, the corpses of these enemies must also be brought over. I've always wondered who is the nearest person who can send such a dead man. Liu Zhao pondered for a moment and made such a decision.

"These people won't be my father's people." Cao Hua quietly listened to Liu Zhao's words, and was slightly silent before he said this.

"How do you know...... In fact, Wei Gong's suspicion is the greatest. After all, only he has a reason to pursue us. Moreover, just now I was still in front of me to get the news that Duke Wei had sent a thousand tigers and leopards to chase me. Liu Zhao was not angry, Cao Hua exonerated the "national thief" Cao Cao, and thought that there was indeed no reason to keep it secret at the moment, so he directly told Cao Hua about it.

"If my father knew that you were doing such a thing here, he would indeed send troops to pursue you, and he might also directly target the prince. But that's just the last resort. Father's thoughts may cost you your life, but you really won't return the prince unless you have to, and even more absolutely not, he won't target me......" Cao Hua said leisurely, as Cao Cao's daughter, she knew more about her father than others.

"This ...... Who knows if Cao Cao will be so ruthless. Liu Zhao was prejudiced against Cao Cao, and he naturally thought about the worst, but he originally wanted to say so, but after looking at Cao Hua, he finally swallowed the words back, and said: "Maybe it's what you said, but everyone has doubts before the final thing is revealed." And Wei Gong's suspicion is only greater. ”

Seeing Liu Zhao say this, Cao Hua was speechless. She knew that most people outside now thought of their father: few people would face up to what their father had done, and always give the conclusion of sycophancy or prejudice - sycophancy, that is for their father's request; Prejudice, that is a gaze full of jealousy and hatred. Although his father doesn't care much about reputation or anything, as a child, he has to think about his father. Thinking of this, she glanced at Liu Zhao deeply, as if she wanted to see him through, but after he lowered his head, she turned her gaze to the leisurely mountains: "Father is really lonely, a very lonely person. I know that he has always wanted to find a lifelong confidant, but no matter Liu Bei or Sun Quan or anyone who has been defeated by him in the whole world, it is impossible to be his confidant. Maybe the dead Guo Junshi will be, but the deceased is gone. I don't know if Li Sheng on the other side will be such a person. ”

"Yes or no, is there a difference?" Liu Zhao asked: "Your mission, no matter what the outcome of this issue is, will not change. ”

"I also know this......" Cao Hua's words were a little lonely: "There is just a definite message, and if the answer is 'yes', I can undoubtedly be much happier in the past." If the answer is 'no', maybe I'm going to be speechless! Like a wanderer, many things in this world are like this. Sometimes I hate being a man. ”

"Hehe......" Liu Zhao smiled dryly, he felt that he was really helpless, in front of this little woman, he didn't seem to have a way to deal with it: "Presumably, Old Master Kong was also troubled like me at the beginning, so he would say something like that." ”

The conversation stops because everything has already been done. Liu Zhao's subordinates used two large carts to hold these corpses, and the prince's corpse had a higher status, and directly used a small carriage to load it, which was originally the carriage in which the prince and the princess were riding. Liu Zhao asked the princess Coco Liu and Cao Hua to be together. He had already confirmed that Cao Hua was harmless.

The chariot and horse team started again, and according to the route provided by Ma Dai to Liu Zhao, there was a built camp waiting for them fifty miles away, which seemed to be the camp that Ma Dai originally used to camp. Although it was still within Cao Cao's territory, it was very close to the border and was in the mountains, so it seemed hidden. Ma Dai meant to let them rest there for a few days with Liu Zhao first, and when his troops returned, they would go together with the large army. Ma Dai was not afraid that his team would be discovered by Cao Cao's people, because his team already had an official name, that is, the escort sent by Li Sheng.

Since he has such a name, Ma Dai is very bold, and his boldness also affects Liu Zhao. After a night of hurried travel, they finally arrived at the camp. Liu Zhao was like a master, and quickly spread out in the camp. Those who should defend were sent to defend, those who should make fires and make food were sent to live and cook, and everything was done in an orderly manner.

After resting like this, Liu Zhao and the group of people under him all breathed a sigh of relief and spent such a night. Then the next day, Liu Zhao saw Ma Dai and their tired figures covered in blood in the morning light.

"Got on with the tiger and leopard?" Liu Zhao greeted Ma Dai and asked with concern. He had a good feeling for Ma Dai, and although they had only just met, they felt like they had known each other for a long time.

"Yes! The tiger and leopard rode very strongly, and the five hundred horsemen actually fought with my fifteen hundred horsemen for three hours, and finally fled away after destroying three hundred of them. Is...... Of my thousand and five people, there are only more than one thousand and one hundred left, and the losses are greater than theirs. Ma Dai sighed: "It seems that we still have to strengthen their training." ”

"Ho ......" Liu Zhao couldn't help but gasp when he heard this: "The tiger and leopard ride is actually so strong? He couldn't believe it. At this moment, he couldn't help but envy his luck a little: "Fortunately, Brother Ma, help me protect me, if I let the other party invade and kill, I am afraid that I will ......" Liu Zhao shook his head, and he didn't dare to imagine what kind of situation would happen if he let the tiger and leopard ride into his army.

"That's right...... You've been robbed and killed? While Liu Zhao was thinking about it, Ma Dai suddenly asked.

"Well, how do you see that?" Liu Zhao asked puzzled. Now everyone is still at the gate of the camp, and the wounded in the camp have not been seen by Ma Dai, Liu Zhao himself thought that the arrangements he made should be able to hide that matter, but he didn't want to be seen by Ma Dai at a glance.

"Although you have done some cover-up, there are still some traces of it. Hehe, you are a novice in this regard, ......" Ma Dai laughed heartily, and then asked with a serious expression: "How is it, how is the loss......"

"The sergeant lost more than three hundred ...... It's still a trifle. Liu Zhao said and suddenly lowered his voice: "What's worse, the prince Liu Jun is dead." The other party was a dead man, and he approached the prince by cheating on death. It wasn't one who cheated to death, and I was far away at the time, so I ......"

"Alas......" Ma Dai sighed, and didn't know what to say, so he had to comfort Liu Zhao generally: "It's not your fault......" He thought about it silently, and then asked: "By the way, can you see who they are?" ”

"I can't see it. It doesn't seem to be what a northerner looks like. Liu Zhao thought about it, he had rested for a night, he no longer had the anxiety he had yesterday, and he also knew a lot about what happened to him, and he somewhat recognized Cao Hua's judgment on the identity of these people: "These people are not Cao Cao's subordinates. ”

"Not a northerner......?" Ma Dai frowned, and there were some doubts in his heart: "If it's not from Cao Cao in the north, where will it be?" The southerners are all allies of the lord. He had no clue but to try to confirm further: "Have you kept their bodies?" I want to see ......."

"Yes, please come with me......" Liu Zhao nodded and took Ma Dai to a big tent. The corpses of all the men in black were laid out in unison, forty-two in all. "This is the dead soldiers we killed, more than a hundred of them in all, and about a few dozen of them have retreated." Liu Zhao pointed to the corpses of these black-clothed men and said to Ma Dai.

"Dozens of people retreated......? You can't do anything about them? Ma Dai looked at Liu Zhao in surprise: "They are all cavalry?" ”

"No, they are all infantry......" Liu Zhao shook his head.

"It's all infantry...... I remember you have a lot of cavalry here. Ma Dai felt incomprehensible.

"They have no armor, just like what you see now, wearing only this black garment. But they are surprisingly flexible. Often, when we shoot them, we can't stab them, but they can go around to the other side of us and swing their swords at us, like the ghosts of legend. Liu Zhao said quietly.

"This ...... How can it be? Ma Dai's eyes widened involuntarily when he heard this: "You can't be joking, right?" ”

"No!" Liu Zhao shook his head affirmatively: "This is what I saw with my own eyes. Although there are not many people who can do this trick, they are mixed in with the crowd and are difficult to guard. At least dozens of soldiers have been killed by such men, and I have fought against them. ”

"Oh!" Ma Dai understood, and a shock rose in his heart with Liu Zhao: "Fighting with such a person, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat any good fruits." "That seems like a certainty......

"What a terrible enemy." Ma Dai said this, looked at the somewhat weak and slender bodies of these people, and asked Liu Zhao in a harmonious voice: "Do they have any marks on their bodies?" ”

"Body? Let me think about it......" Liu Zhao thought about it for a long time before he remembered such a feature: "The inside of the corners of all the black-clothed people is embroidered with the four white characters 'Relieve Jun's worries'. ”

"Relieve your worries?" Ma Dai read these four words carefully, and couldn't think of anything for a while, so he said to Liu Zhao: "This is a very important clue. I don't know exactly what this means, but I think we should report it quickly. Let the lord and the gentlemen settle this matter. ”

"That's what I thought, too." Liu Zhao nodded, and his voice suddenly became low: "But I have nowhere to go." If something like this happens, Xuchang can't spare me. I might not be able to go to the CD side. ”

"It won't be like this!" Ma Dai smiled, "You can go to the CD with peace of mind first." The lord is a very generous person, and he shouldn't care about you. As far as I can see, it's not your fault. ”

"Is that so?" Liu Zhao laughed a little, "Maybe...... But no matter what, I'll take it. The king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die. But I'm responsible for it. ”

"Alas...... You......" Ma Dai shook his head, he didn't know what to do about Liu Zhao's situation. He is not a comforting person, he is the same as Liu Zhao. Of course, he didn't say much about it, because he believed that everything could be solved once it was on the CD, and giving Liu Zhao a fact to watch was 10,000 times stronger than what he said here. Anyway, Liu Zhao didn't say anything and left right now.

The rest of the journey was simple, starting from the camp and crossing the non-existent border between Cao and Li, and following the main road, Ma Dai escorted Liu Zhao and them to Nanzheng in five days. Then the team made some new arrangements and adjustments in Nanzheng, and then there was the Sichuan-Han ancient road, and finally a month later, that is, on April 20 of the nineteenth year of Jian'an, they arrived at the CD At this moment, the news about the murder of the prince escorted by Liu Zhao had already reached Li Sheng's ears. Li Sheng tried his best to block the news, and it was not until Liu Zhao and his party arrived that they decided to mourn the prince and announce it to the world in plain form.

This thing can be described as a stone that stirs up a thousand waves. In less than a month, almost everyone in the world knew about it. Although ordinary people don't think about it so much, and they don't have any opinions because of this, those scholars who seem to care about the world's major affairs, those scholars have asked Cao Cao and Li Sheng to quickly come up with a result.

"The death of the prince is not a trivial matter." So they said. Although the division of the world is already a fact, this fact has not evolved into a change of dynasty after all, and the prince is still the prince of the whole world after all.

"The eyes of the whole world are focused on me and Wei Gong. Presumably, the pressure on Wei Gong is greater than ours. In the gazebo of the CD Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, Li Sheng sat on the pillar of the pavilion very unimaged, cocked his high Erlang legs, and said with a smile to Zhuge Liang, who was still elegantly fiddling with the tea set.

"That's natural, people still die in Duke Wei's territory after all, plus Duke Wei did send tigers and leopards to chase Liu Zhao and his party, and the lord has clearly put on the appearance of sending someone to pick them up, and everyone in the world seems to suspect that this matter is Gong Wei's doing." Zhuge Liang's feather fan shook lightly and said calmly and elegantly. As he spoke, the movements in his hands never stopped, thinking that he had developed the ability to use two minds.

"Hehe, Wei Gong probably doesn't care. He's the kind of person who just wants to get things done in the world and doesn't pay much attention to what others say. It would be nice if he could find the real murderer, but if someone else insisted on relying on him, he didn't care. Aside from the massacres he once carried out, I admire him. Li Sheng said with a smile.

"So what do we do? We also have to give a result of this matter. There are people out there who are putting pressure on us as well. Zhuge Liang looked at Li Sheng, frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly: "The lord seems to be very leisurely, and he doesn't seem to take this matter to heart at all." Although I know that you have sent Bai Yi to investigate, but after so many days, the traces have almost disappeared, and with those few corpses that have begun to stink, can you know who did the thing? If you don't give a reason, I'm afraid that people outside won't be able to fool you at all. ”

"Don't worry." Li Sheng looked like an old god was there, and he smiled and said to Zhuge Liang: "The discovery that Ma Dai told me, I have been able to confirm who did this. It's just that we can't make this public after all. ”

"What?" Zhuge Liang was slightly taken aback, "Lord, do you already know who did this?" He was surprised, the teapot in his hand shook slightly, but it leaked some of the tea.

"I mean, I already know who is doing this." Li Sheng narrowed his eyes and said.

"Who is it?" Zhuge Liang quickly adjusted his mentality, returned to his original elegant appearance, and asked with a chuckle.

"Who else but my eldest brother Sun Quan will be?" Li Sheng smiled bitterly and pursed his lips: "The name 'Solving Jun Worries' is good, and it looks ordinary, but I know that Sun Quan has set up a new army, and the name similar to the 'Haoyue' in my hand is called 'Solving Troubles'." Although I have an in-law relationship with him, it is not a family after all, and the development of my side is too fast, Sun Quan seems to be unwilling to see that I still have appeal after I have strength. ”

"Isn't the lord distressed by this?" Zhuge Liang nodded understandingly, and asked with a smile. He and Li Sheng are the two of them, so the questions and answers between each other seem very casual.

"If it had been decades ago, I might have felt a little distressed. But now! Everyone has begun to call the public a candidate, and now there is only the last rag left in this court, who cares? Perhaps Cao Cao himself tried his best to maintain it, but the emperor repeatedly challenged his patience...... It may also be necessary to add the imperial uncle, but the imperial uncle's strength is too weak, and he and Cao Cao are still hostile. Li Sheng said and sighed leisurely: "If the prince is not dead, what we will do next is to become the second Cao Cao." But now that he's dead, we can only do what we originally planned. Cao Cao's southern expedition to Liu Bei, we must also complete the plan of the western expedition and the southern expedition as soon as possible, time waits for no one. If Cao Cao had pacified Liu Bei before completing the southern and western expeditions, then it is very likely that we would encounter an attack on both sides of Cao Cao and Sun Quan. ”

"Cao Cao and Sun Quan's two-sided attack? This...... How can it be? Zhuge Liang didn't believe it anymore, "Wu Hou shouldn't be so unwise." Once Cao Cao takes Liu Bei, then the entire Jiangnan will only be left with us and Dongwu. In the face of Cao Cao's strong pressure in the north, Wu Hou should know the truth of the so-called cold lips and teeth. ”

"That's right. But Sun Quan also knows how to look at people. If we can resist Cao Cao independently and let Cao Cao suffer some small losses, it will be fine, if we can't do this, who knows what Sun Quan will do? In terms of Sun Quan's ability, he is a good master of shoucheng, but he doesn't want to only have the name of the master of shoucheng, he also wants to open up. He's not his overlord brother, so he's more likely to use a lot of tricks in the open-up, as in this case, which is hard to guard. Li Sheng sighed and said faintly. He felt very depressed, because in the final analysis, he actually suffered a dumb loss.

"In other words......" Zhuge Liang also understood this very well, "In any case, enhancing our own strength is the most important thing?" ”

"That's it......" Li Sheng nodded heavily.