Jingzhou has seven counties, the most important of which are Nanyang, Nanjun and Jiangxia, which are the three counties of Jiangbei.

Nanyang County is located in the north of Hanshui, east of Yanyu, west of Hanzhong Guanzhong, north of Sili, is the intersection of Jingzhou and the Central Plains, but also the northern gateway of Gongwei Jingzhou, the geographical location is extremely important.

In the past, Cao Cao and Liu Biao repeatedly fought for Nanyang several times, for which Cao Cao even paid the life of a son and the general Dian Wei.

If Liu Biao wants to sit firmly in Jingxiang, he must take Nanyang, otherwise, the soldiers of Nanyang will go south, and they will be able to attack Hanshui in a few days, threatening Xiangyang, and making it difficult for Liu Biao to sleep and eat.

Diao Xiong is familiar with history, so he naturally knows the importance of Nanyang to Liu Biao, and he is actually mentally prepared to send troops to attack Liu Biao.

But what surprised him was that Liu Biao would send a messenger to persuade him to take the initiative to withdraw from Nanyang, and give him Nanyang County, which had only been captured from Yuan Shu after several bloody battles.

"This Liu Biao, does he think I'm a fool?" Diao Xiong sneered, brushed his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go and meet Liu Biao's envoy for a while." ”

Back in the lobby, it was late at night.

The banquet has dispersed, and the silence in the hall has returned, and two columns of Xiliang armor soldiers, holding axes and geese, are murderous.

The mink sat on top and ordered the messenger to come.

A moment later, a man dressed in a fine costume swaggered into the main hall.

He glanced up at Diao Xiong, only slightly arched his hand, and said loudly: "Captain Cai Zhong of Jingzhou, on the order of my family's state pastor, came to meet General Mink." ”

It turned out to be Cai Zhong.

Diao Xiong has long known about the powerful forces in Jingzhou, and he knows that Liu Biao sits in Jingzhou, mainly relying on the two families of Cai Kuai.

Among them, the Kuai brothers are mainly responsible for giving advice to Liu Biao, and the three Cai brothers are in charge of the military for Liu Biao.

This Cai Zhong is one of the Cai brothers.

"It turned out to be Captain Cai, who visited the general late at night, and I don't know what happened?" Salute first and then soldier, and Mink Xiong is silent first.

The corners of Cai Zhong's mouth raised, and he said loudly: "The letter of my state pastor, presumably the general has seen it, and the letter has made it very clear that Nanyang originally belonged to one of my seven counties of Jingxiang, and it should be governed by my lord Liu Jingsheng, the Jingzhou pastor appointed by the imperial court, and I also ask the general to lead your soldiers and horses to withdraw from Nanyang, so that my lord can receive Nanyang smoothly." ”

Cai Zhong was high-spirited, and when he raised his hands and feet, he had a kind of self-confidence of a famous person.

Mink Xiong's sword eyebrows sank, and anger appeared in his eyes.

Before he had a seizure, Xu Rong had already opened his eyes and said angrily: "Fart!" When Liu Biao was the pastor of Jingzhou, Nanyang County was already in the hands of Yuan Shu, he was beaten by Yuan Shu and defeated again and again, and he didn't even dare to let a fart in Xiangyang City. Now my general is working hard to take Nanyang from Yuan Shu, but Liu Biao wants to pick up a ready-made bargain, let us give it to him, he still has to be shameless! ”

Xu Rong angrily reprimanded and scolded the generals' psychological words, and everyone glared at Cai Zhong angrily.

Cai Zhong changed color and shouted angrily: "My lord is a member of the Han family, a famous man in the world, a dignified state pastor, what kind of identity, what qualifications do you have to speak disrespectfully to my lord." ”

When the words fell, Li Yan stood up again and said sharply: "Your Liu Jingsheng is the assassin of Jingzhou appointed by the imperial court, and the general of my family is still the Nanyang Taishou appointed by the imperial court. ”

"This-" Cai Zhong was asked for a while, his face was embarrassed, and he didn't know how to answer.

In this troubled world, the so-called holy decree of the Son of Heaven is regarded as righteousness when the princes need it, and when they are not needed, it is regarded as a fart by the Son of Heaven.

Li Yan is both civil and military, since Liu Biao plays the righteousness of the Son of Heaven, then he will use his own way to return the favor to him, and also play with him to play the righteousness of the Son of Heaven.

Cai Zhong was choked back, and the card of the Son of Heaven could no longer be played.

Diao Xiong didn't speak, and sat back to see what tricks Cai Zhong could play.

After a moment of embarrassment, Cai Zhong's arrogant attitude was slightly restrained, but he smiled and arched his hand: "Don't hide it from the general, my state pastor still admires the general very much, and personally praises the general for killing Yuan Shu and saving the people from fire and water, and he is really a young hero." ”

As soon as the words changed, Cai Zhong smiled again: "So my family state pastor also said, it is okay if the general does not withdraw from Nanyang, as long as the general is willing to draw a clear line with Dong Zhuo and go to Xiangyang to meet my family state pastor, he will let the general continue to be this Nanyang Taishou and guard the north gate of Jingzhou for me." ”

The corners of Diao Xiong's mouth raised slightly, and he sneered secretly, sure enough, Liu Biao still had a second plan.

Cai Zhongfangcai's conditions were clearly for him to turn his back on Dong Zhuo, and instead serve him Liu Biao as the new master, like Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu in history, to sit in Nanyang for him Liu Biao and guard the hospital.

"You want me to be Diao Xiong, be his watchdog for Liu Biao, is he worthy!"

Diao Xiong, who had been silent, finally spoke, asked a fierce rhetorical question, and categorically rejected Cai Zhong's conditions.

Sooner or later, Diao Xiong will openly oppose Dong and become a hero, if he betrays Dong in advance and submits to him Liu Biao, it is not equivalent to taking off his pants and farting.

Besides, now that he is far away from the emperor, although he is named Dong Zhuo's general, in fact, Dong Zhuo can't control him at all.

If you submit to Liu Biao, you have to put down your dignity and risk your life to go to Xiangyang to bow down to Liu Biao.

Diao Xiong swore that in this life, he would never bend his knee for anyone again!

Seeing that Mink Xiong refused, Cai Zhong's smirk disappeared in an instant, glared at Mink Xiong angrily, and said coldly: "Mink Ziyong, my family state pastor has always valued harmony, and he has given you such a condition, which is already magnanimous, you don't toast and don't eat, eat and punish wine." ”

As soon as the threatening words came out, Xu Rong changed color left and right.

"What, is it possible that Liu Biao still plans to send troops to Nanyang, and he can't use it with this general?" Diao Xiong was not angry at first, and asked with a sneer.

Cai Zhong raised his head and said confidently: "Mink Ziyong, you killed Yuan Shu, but don't forget, if it weren't for my lord to send troops and break Xinye from behind, Yuan Shu would not have been able to flee east, and you would not have had the opportunity to kill him, in the final analysis, you can take Nanyang, just by luck and with the help of my lord." My lord now has Wenhou Lu Bu to help, and the entire Jingzhou as the backing, if the army goes north, do you think you can hold Nanyang? ”

Cai Zhongyang sprinkled a lot, and he had completely torn his face, and he threatened Mink Xiong with arrogance.

Diao Xiong also admitted that Yuan Shu's defeat was inseparable from Liu Biao's troops, and Liu Biao's family strength was far better than his own.

What's more, after Lu Bu defected to Yuan Shu and was not accepted, he did not go to Jizhou to defect to Yuan Shao as in history, but went south to vote for Liu Biao, which further boosted Liu Biao's military strength.

Compared with everything, no matter how he looks at it, he is not Liu Biao's opponent.

If you were someone else, I am afraid that you would give in, but unfortunately, Liu Biao encountered the hard bone of Mink Xiong.

Since the day he left Chang'an, Mink Xiong had already deleted the words submission and fear from his dictionary.

Seeing that Diao Xiong was silent, Cai Zhong thought that he was shocked by his words, and his expression became more and more complacent, so he said loudly: "How about it, General Mink, have you thought it through, give me a reply quickly." ”

Slowly getting up, Mink Xiong looked down at the arrogant Cai Zhong, raised his hand slightly, and shouted coldly: "Come on, drag Cai Zhong's guy down, beat him with twenty military sticks, and then blast him out of Wancheng." ”

When the order was passed, the sergeants who had long been indignant on the left and right rushed up to grab Cai Zhong.

Cai Zhong was shocked and changed color, and shouted angrily: "Diao Xiong, are you crazy, I am the messenger of Liu Zhou, how dare you treat me like this?" ”

Mink Xiong sneered: "Don't you want to reply, this is the reply that Ben will give to Liu Biao, you go back and tell Liu Biao that Nanyang was taken by my Mink Xiong with his life, and he Liu Biao wants it, so he will take his life!" ”

After that, he waved his hand violently, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with him again.

"Diao Xiong, you kid who doesn't know how to lift, you-"

Cai Zhong was dragged out, and soon, howls sounded outside the tent.

Xu Rong and other generals on the left and right all exhaled with relief.

Although Li Yan felt happy, he kept a sneer and reminded: "Liu Biao will not give up Nanyang, the general's move is tantamount to declaring war on Liu Biao, with Liu Biao's strong strength, and now with the help of Lu Bu Wang Yun, this will be a more difficult war." ”

"What are you afraid of, the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will cover it." Mink Xiong is confident and calm, without the slightest fear.

Li Yan nodded slightly, secretly sighed at Diao Xiong's courage, and suddenly remembered something, but said: "The reason why Liu Biao was able to sit firmly in Jingzhou was nothing more than relying on the support of several major families. However, Jingzhou has four major families, of which only the Kuai Cai family and the Huang ancestor lineage in the Huang family have the support, and there are still Pang families who have not clearly expressed their support for Liu Biao. ”

"What do you mean?" Diao Xiong's eyes lit up, and he already heard a little meaning.

Li Yan said: "I know that in the Pang family, there is a young rising star, this person has the talent of the world, just because of his ugly appearance, he is not liked by Liu Biao, and he has been idle at home. If the general can invite this person to come forward, he can not only get a top strategist, but also get the support of the Pang family. ”