Chapter 698 Liu Biao

A family banquet came to an end in an inhaling atmosphere, and for Zhao Fei, seeing Guo Jia growing up, he naturally felt very happy as a brother. You must know that the ghost genius Guo Jianai is the person Zhao Fei admires the most, and Cao Cao's great achievements with Guo Jia's help are definitely obvious to all. Therefore, Zhao Fei naturally didn't want the ghost talent Guo Jia to sink down, he hoped that Guo Jia could be worthy of the name of the ghost talent.

As Guo Jia returned to Xuchang, Cao Jun fell silent again. After solving Ma Teng so easily, the princes of the world immediately knew that even though Cao Jun, the tiger, had fallen asleep, he still had the ability to hurt people. If he wants to hurt people, there is really no one in the world to defend against him.

When the news spread all over the world, Liu Biao in Jingzhou was obviously very worried. Cao Jun's growing strength has brought a lot of pressure to Liu Biao, and Liu Biao knows that Cao Jun's next goal must be undoubted, after all, he occupies the richest state and county in the world.

Jingzhou is not only strategically located, but also very wealthy. Jingzhou is the axis of the Han Dynasty, and if Jingzhou is occupied, then the Cao army can truly attack, retreat and defend. With Jingzhou as a springboard, Wuyue can be taken in the east, and Bashu can be attacked in the west.

With such an important position, Cao Jun has naturally coveted it for a long time. In the past, with the threat of the Yuan clan in Hebei and the strength of Jingzhou itself, although the Cao army coveted the land of Jingzhou, it did not have the courage to raise troops to invade Jingzhou. After all, the hundreds of thousands of armor-led divisions in Jingzhou were not a joke.

Today, Cao's army has defeated the Yuan clan and occupied Hebei. Suddenly, Cao Jun made a qualitative leap in strength and strength, Cao Jun, who didn't care about it at the beginning, has now become his biggest enemy, and for such a strong enemy, it is absolutely impossible to deal with it carelessly.

He does have some strength to occupy Jingzhou, but his soldiers are obviously not the opponents of Cao Jun's tiger and wolf army. Cao Jun's combat effectiveness is known to everyone in the world, and with Zhao Fei's world-famous strategist, it is obviously very difficult to defeat Cao Cao.

In any case, Liu Biao obviously will not sit still. Although he is only a man of letters, although he has no ambitions, this does not mean that he will be slaughtered. Although Cao Jun's combat effectiveness is strong, the only flaw is that Cao Jun's subordinates are all northerners and are not good at water warfare.

And this is obviously the advantage of Jingzhou soldiers, although Jingzhou may not be able to withstand the crazy attack of the Cao army, but Jingnan generation is south of the Yangtze River. As long as he takes care of the natural danger, even if Cao Jun is strong in combat, he still has nothing to do.

Before the battle, Liu Biao thought about retreating, which was obviously a problem. As the so-called soldiers are bearing, a general is a nest of bears, and a lord has no idea of competing with Cao Jun, so how can he ask the soldiers to fight to the death for him. It can be said that before the battle began, Liu Biao lost.

However, this is also a helpless move. Liu Biao's occupation of Jingzhou seems to be very beautiful, but if you really talk about it, Liu Biao is just half a puppet. In Jingzhou, what is really talking about is the wealthy families in Jingzhou, and Liu Biao is just their spokesperson.

The reason why Liu Biao was able to occupy Youzhou was also because of the help of the family. Without the help of the Cai family, the largest scholar family in Jingzhou, how could he have safely assumed the position of Jingzhou pastor. It can be said that without Cai's, there would be no Liu Biao today.

The Cai family is a famous family in Jingzhou, and among the many families in Jingzhou, the Cai family can be said to be outstanding, and it firmly occupies the name of the first scholar family in Jingzhou. The reason for this is that it is inextricably linked to Cai Mao, the current patriarch of the Cai family.

As we all know, Cai Mao is the younger brother of Xiao Cai's family of Liu's cousin, so the more common idea is that Cai Mao relied on nepotism to ascend to the position of governor of Jingxiang, but in fact, it is not. Cai Maozhi's ability to become the governor of Jingxiang is inextricably linked to his own ability.

Not to mention anything else, you can know it just from the few years that Cai Mao has been the governor of Jingzhou. When Cai Mao was the governor, the country was rich and the people were safe, Jingzhou's economic development was among the best in the country, and Cao Cao and Sun Quan could not seize Jingzhou. Even if Cao Cao and Yuan Shao can't fight. Is Koto Zhoulang a vegetarian? Zhou Lang's first step in dividing the world is to seize Jingzhou, a major land of money and grain, and a military location.

Moreover, when Liu Bei defected to Liu Biao, Cai Mao saw Liu Bei's essence at a glance. In his opinion, there are two things about Liu Bei that are not worth taking in. First, Liu Bei was disloyal and changed hands several times, so he couldn't take him in. The second is that Liu Bei is ambitious and will not send people under the fence and cannot work with him. The second point is very insightful, Liu Bei is a hero of the first generation, with great ambitions, and he really will not send people under the fence.

It can be seen that Cai Mao is not only capable, but also very insightful. However, Liu Biao obviously doesn't trust Cai Mao very much, after all, Cai Mao is suspected of being a master. First, the Cai family is too powerful, which makes Liu Biao feel very uneasy. Second, Cai Mao's performance also made him have a lot of vassals around him. And this also made Cai Mao's power more and more powerful. In the face of such a subordinate, anyone will have a headache.

Liu Biao not only had to worry about when Cao Jun would attack, but also worried about whether Cai Mao had the intention of rebellion. If Cai Mao has the intention of rebellion, will he have the ability to resist? All of this gave Liu Biao a headache, which also made Liu Biao feel very helpless.

For Liu Bei, Liu Biao naturally knew that this was a wild wolf. It was definitely an unwise choice to take him in, but for Liu Biao, Liu Bei could also become a means to restrain Cai Mao. After all, in Jingzhou, he has no ability to restrain Cai Mao.

The phenomenon of Cai Mao's family dominating the entire Jingzhou is obviously not good, if he can use Liu Bei's power to restrain Cai Mao, Liu Biao will be able to do a worrying thing. Cai Mao wanted to kill Liu Bei and Liu Biao very clearly, and he could just take advantage of this contradiction to let the two of them attack each other and consume their strength.

Liu Biao has been a puppet for so long, and he has never had any hope of getting rid of it. Now Liu Bei's appearance has made Liu Biao see this glimmer of hope, so he naturally will not easily deal with Liu Bei, nor will he let Cai Mao succeed easily. If Liu Bei is really dead, then who in Jingzhou can compete with Cai Mao.

Although Cai Mao is an important general under his command, he is also the patriarch of a family. For the family, what they value most is profit, as long as there is interest, they will easily break their promise. And all this is for the prosperity of the family.

As the patriarch of the Shi clan, Cai Mao is obviously inevitably unable to avoid such clichés. Therefore, if the Cao army really attacks in the future, and the Cai family makes money to join the Cao army for their own interests, Cai Mao will inevitably switch to Cao Cao.

Cai Mao's subordinates ruled most of the soldiers in Jingzhou, and if Cai Mao really switched to Cao's army, Liu Biao obviously had no means to resist. Therefore, it is best to take precautions and think about your own way out before this happens. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't know how I died.

In this era, every prince is not a fuel-efficient lamp, etc. If you underestimate any prince, you will die without a place to bury. Liu Biao obviously has a deep understanding of this. In the eyes of others, he is just a puppet, but who knows that he has so many ulterior secrets hidden in his heart. If this is really said, I am afraid that there are few people in the world who are not surprised.

Rubbing his forehead, Liu Biao slowly stood up. Cao Jun's matter has brought a lot of pressure to himself, but it is also his own opportunity. If you can grasp this opportunity, you will really be able to turn around in the future. Thinking of this, Liu Biao showed a hint of a smile.

Unlike Liu Biao, Liu Bei hadn't seen a smile for a long time. During this time, Liu Bei's expression was full of helplessness and sorrow. Regarding the results achieved by Cao Jun, Liu Bei obviously had no way to deal with it with a normal heart.

Recalling that from the crusade against the Yellow Turban to the present, he has always been in the midst of strength, and he is not stable. Heaven seems to be working against you, and as long as you settle down, things will happen quickly.

Now he has finally settled down in Xinye, but I am afraid that it will not be long before Xinye will obviously be in the midst of war. This kind of war is obviously not something that Liu Bei's troops can resist. Because he knew that Xinye would definitely become the first front to resist Cao's army.

Although this is a front, it is only himself who guards this front. Liu Biao called himself a brother and sister, but at a critical moment, he would obviously give up without hesitation. The reality is so cruel that Liu Bei has no room for resistance.

For Liu Bei, although he continues to expand his military strength, he wants to resist the offensive of Cao's army with the small place of Xinye, which is obviously a bit of a cannibalistic dream. Cao Jun commanded an army of more than 100,000 people, and he didn't even have a fraction of others.

There are indeed many battles in the world where the weak defeat the strong, but Liu Bei doesn't think he has that ability. After all, there are still many strategists under Cao Jun's command, especially Zhao Fei, the chief lieutenant, who is not an easy person to deal with.

In Zhao Fei's body, Liu Bei suffered a lot of losses. So for Zhao Fei, Liu Bei will always have a faint fear in his heart. He was afraid to fight Zhao Fei because he couldn't afford to lose a huge amount anymore.

However, these are obviously Liu Bei's wishful thinking, as long as Cao Jun fights, then Zhao Fei will definitely come to attack him in person. After all, the hatred that Cao Jun only saw with himself was obvious, and Zhao Fei wanted to kill himself more than once.

"Alas~~" There was another long sigh, and Liu Bei suddenly felt that his future was very dark. Obviously, he didn't know where he was headed, and he didn't know if he would be able to save the day in such an unfavorable situation. Everything was unknown, entangled in his mind.