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Wen Ping's eyes were breathing fire, and he was only three steps away from catching up with Diao Xiong.

Kill Diao Xiong and everything will be over.

"With the great merit of killing Mink Xiong and recovering Nanyang, the prestige of my Wenpin was greatly shocked in Jingzhou, at that time, even if Liu Jingzhou favored Cai Mao again, he had to promote me heavily, I could at least be on an equal footing with Cai Mao, and I would no longer have to be ridden by him on the top of my head......"

The more Wen Ping thought about it, the more excited he became, and the more murderous he became.

At this moment, the mink male in front of him suddenly turned around, stood with a spear, and looked at him proudly with a sneering expression.

Wen Ping's expression changed, and he also said that Diao Xiong knew that he could not escape, and planned to fight to the death.

"Diao Xiong, take your life—"

Before he could say a word, suddenly, three ropes suddenly rose up on the ground in front of the avenue, blocking his way.

Tripping horse lock, it's a tripping horse lock!

Wen Ping was shocked and was in a hurry to rein in the horse, but he rode too fast and didn't have time to stop it, and the hooves of the war horse under his crotch were hung up by the tripping horse lock.

One man and one rider, fell to the ground with a bang, and planted forward.

The incident happened suddenly, and Wen Ping didn't have time to react at all, and his whole body flew forward and fell heavily to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, more than 100 mink soldiers ambushed and came out from both sides of the road, rushed up in a swarm, and tied him up while Wen Ping had not yet stood up.

The situation was reversed in an instant, and when Wen Ping came back to his senses, he had been captured alive.

Gray-haired, he glared at the slowly coming Diao Xiong angrily and frightened, only to realize that he had fallen for Diao Xiong's tricks, and the people were deliberately defeating him and luring him here, but in fact, he had already laid an ambush in secret, waiting to kill him.

"This kid saw through my deception, and laid an ambush in advance, waiting to capture me alive, he is so deceitful......"

Wen Ping was terrified, and his expression was both remorseful and unbelievable.

A smile flashed across the corner of Diao Xiong's mouth, but he swept the silver spear and shouted: "Come on, tie up this defeated general for me first, and I'll deal with him later." ”

Diao Xiong tied up Wen Ping and went to Xinye.

At this moment, Wen Ping's 1,000 defeated soldiers have been killed or surrendered, and Ji Ling has also led the infantry army to capture Xinye Empty City.

Diao Xiong escorted Wen Ping, rode his horse high, and slowly entered Xinye City.

On the head of the city, the banner of the mink character has been raised high.

From Confused Water to Xinye, this battle, Mink Xiong ended with a perfect ending.

In this bloody battle, nearly 10,000 Jingzhou legions were killed, and as many as seven or eight thousand soldiers were captured, and countless ordnance and other materials were obtained

With these captured materials, and then these prisoners will be reorganized, and in time, Diao Xiong will be able to form a new army of about 10,000 people.

What's even more gratifying is that he also took advantage of the situation to take the important town of Xinye.

If Nanyang is the barrier that guards the entire Jingzhou, then Xinye City is the gate of Xiangyang.

Now that Diao Xiong has Xinye, he can not only defend Wancheng, but also go south, and within half a day, he can kill the north bank of the Han River, besiege Fancheng, and threaten Xiangyang.

This means that Diao Xiong has seized the geographical advantage of Nanyang and formed an offensive against Liu Biao.

After entering the city, Mink Xiong rewarded the three armies on the one hand, and strengthened the city on the other, preparing to deal with Liu Biao's second wave of attacks.

Xinye's geographical location is too important, and Diao Xiong is convinced that Liu Biao will never give up so easily, and a bigger bloody battle is still to come.

At the same time, Mink Xiong released the news that the Wen Ping had surrendered to him.

……

Xiangyang City.

In the lobby of the state capital, Liu Biaozheng and Zhu Wenwu were talking about the strategy freely.

Previously, Cai Mao had sent back a war report, and his army went north from Xinye, marching all the way, forcing Diao Xiong to retreat step by step, and his troops were on the verge of confusion, and Wancheng would be recovered in the near future.

Minkxiong's army retreated all the way, not daring to fight, and kept shrinking in the direction of Wancheng.

The situation is very good, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before Diao Xiong is defeated and Nanyang is recovered.

"De Jue is worthy of being my first general in Jingxiang, it seems that without that Lu Bu, the old man can recover Nanyang." Liu Biao stroked his beard and smiled.

"Diao Xiong, this thief is scheming, I think it is better to be careful, and not to underestimate the enemy." Kuai Liang sat down, but his tone was calm.

His younger brother Kuai Yue smiled: "Brother is too worried, that Diao Xiong is nothing more than relying on the benefits of the cavalry, as long as General Cai follows the secret plan I gave him, step by step, even if the Diao Xiong is treacherous, there will be no way to do it." ”

Liu Biao nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with Kuai Yue's judgment, and between the old eyebrows, he added a little bit of self-confidence that he was bound to get, picked up the wine glass, and drank lightly.

At that moment, the scouts hurried in.

"Lord Qi, there is an urgent report from the north, Diao Xiong defeated our army a few days ago, forced to surrender Wenpin, and has already laid down Xinye City."

Bang~~

The wine glass in his hand fell off his hand.

In the lobby, there was a deathly silence.

Then, there was an uproar.

The moment he heard this shocking news, Liu Biao panicked, so panicked that he couldn't even hold the wine glass, the wine glass fell to the ground, and some hot wine in it spilled a hand, which made Liu Biao so hot that he snorted.

In the blink of an eye, the pain in Liu Biao's hands was replaced by the shock that followed.

He couldn't believe that what his ears heard was true, and after rubbing his ears, he said sharply: "What do you say, say it again?" ”

The scout also shook and quickly repeated the information.

This time, Liu Biao heard it clearly and did not drop a word.

That's right, Diao Xiong did defeat his more than 30,000 powerful Jing army, beat the "No. 1 general in Jingzhou" in his mouth, and fled like a water dog, and even captured Xinye and forced his general Wen Ping.

"Mink Xiong, this guy...... He...... How the hell did he do it? ”

Liu Biao, who was shocked and inexplicable, was stunned for a long time before he spit out this sentence with difficulty from between his teeth.

At the bottom of the stairs, whether it was Kuai Liang, who was calm before, or Kuai Yue, who was confident and calm, both of them were shocked and dazed.

"Cai Mao misunderstands me, Cai Mao misunderstands me." After being stunned for a long time, Liu Biaofang came to his senses, and couldn't help but sigh and complain about Cai Mao.

When the hall was in shock, the soldiers outside the hall came to report, saying that Cai Mao had fled back to Xiangyang and was waiting to see him outside.

As soon as Liu Biao heard that Cai Mao was back, he was angry, and the order was about to be passed in.

After a while, the gray-faced Cai Mao, Fang Shi lowered his head and walked into the hall.

Before he could salute, Liu Biao had already questioned him: "De Jue, didn't you make a military order, this battle must be won, but why did the 30,000 army lose miserably at the hands of Diao Xiong, how did you fight this battle?" ”

Liu Biao's words were clearly full of complaints against Cai Mao.

Cai Mao was ashamed and wanted to kneel down to plead guilty, but when the words came to her lips, her eyes rolled, and she changed her mind.

He raised his head and said with great indignation: "Qi Yu Lord, Mao Ben was according to the advice of the lord, step by step, into Wancheng, unexpectedly, that Wen hired meritorious service, and constantly persuaded me to enter the army, I listened to his advice in a moment of confusion, and only then did I fall for the trick of Diao Xiong." ”

As soon as these words came out, the resentment on Liu Biao's face suddenly weakened a lot.

Seeing this, Cai Mao's mood became even more sad and indignant, and then said: "After the defeat of the army, I knew that the Xinye heavy land could not be lost, so I ordered Wen Ping to lead the army to hold on, and when I moved the main army to the north, and then attacked the anti-Diao Xiong inside and outside, who knew that when I first arrived in Fancheng, I heard that Wen Ping had surrendered to Mink Xiong and handed over the important town of Xinye to Mink Xiong. ”

Liu Biao has always believed in Cai Mao, but now he doesn't know the inside story, and he was convinced by Cai Mao's lies, so he couldn't help but be furious, and scolded him: "Wenpin! The old man treats you well, you betray me! ”

Cai Mao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said angrily: "If it weren't for the civil appointment, the last general would not have suffered such a big defeat, this thief is too hateful, please order the lord to severely punish his family." ”

He was forcing Liu Biao to do it, and simply took the "culpability" of Wenpin.

Liu Biao hesitated, frowned and said: "Wen Ping is guilty of surrendering to the enemy, but the old man is not a brutal person like Diao Xiong, how can he bear to condemn Wen Ping's family." ”

"If the lord does not kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, if he can subdue the officials of Jingxiang, if everyone sees that things are not good in the future, they will defect to the enemy, but what should they do?" Cai Mao was righteous and stern, forcing Liu Biao to do it.

Liu Biao hesitated for a long time, let out a long sigh, and waved his hand unbearably: "That's it, the old man can only bear a cruel infamy for the sake of the people of the seven counties of Jingzhou, so according to your order, all the Wenpin family members will be imprisoned." ”

"The lord is wise." Cai Mao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing this, Kuai Liang at the bottom seemed to have seen the doorway, so he wanted to dissuade him.

At this time, Kuai Yue shook his head at him and signaled him not to plead for Wen Ping.

Kuai Liang hesitated for a moment, then understood, and had to sigh secretly.

The Kuai brothers are smart, of course, they can see that Cai Mao's move deliberately put the blame for the defeat on Wen Ping, and let Wen Ping be suspected of replacing the dead ghost, after all, such a major failure, someone has to bear the black pot.

The Cai family and the Kuai family have always been good friends, married to each other, and have close interests, for the interests of the two families, the Kuai brothers can only choose to remain silent and sacrifice the Wen family by default to keep Cai Mao's status.

Liu Biao didn't seem to know the deep meaning, so he only said with a bitter face: "Fang Jin has a big defeat, countless soldiers have been lost, and Xinye has been lost, what should I do?" ”

The counsellors were silent.

After a while, Kuai Yue took a deep breath and said: "Xinye must be taken back, and now, with our own strength, I am afraid that we will not be able to defeat that mink male, to this point, we can only take the risk of using that Lu Bu." ”