"Since you have been captured and you are dead, why do you need to say more!" Zhao Lei was extremely hard, and looked directly at Guan Yudao.

"Junhou, the grain and grass transported by this guy have been taken by General Liao Hua, and they are now hoarded with Maicheng." Chen Wu saw that Guan Yu didn't speak for a while, and reported first. "Zilie has worked hard!" Guan Yu encouraged, then turned his head to Zhao Lei and shouted: "Since you are not afraid of death, then I will fulfill you." Come on, drag me down and cut it down. ”

"Slow down." At this time, it was Zhuge Liang who heard the news and hurriedly came, and first confessed to Guan Yu, and then turned his head to Zhao Lei and said: "Captain Zhao has always been absent for a long time, Liang Su knows that Your Excellency is loyal and righteous, and Liu Jingsheng has never treated Your Excellency badly in the past, why do you want to rebel with Kuai Yue today?" ”

"Kong Ming?" Zhao Lei was also stunned when he saw his acquaintance at first glance, and the expression on his face changed continuously, so he sighed and said: "Kong Ming, since you and I are acquaintances, then I won't hide it from you." If I surrender, my parents, wife and children will be killed in a blink of an eye! ”

"I see!" Zhuge Liang suddenly realized when he heard this, Guan Yu's face was also a little better, and he said with a little hesitation: "Since you have something unspeakable, I won't force you." Come, take him down. After breaking Xiangyang, make plans. Zhao Lei thanked Guan Yu and took the initiative to go to prison.

"Captain Zhao, I don't know how long Xiangyang's grain storage will be enough to support?" Just when Zhao Lei was about to be escorted away, Zhuge Liang suddenly asked. Zhao Lei was stunned when he heard this, and then muttered: "The surplus grain in the warehouse is still enough to support more than 20 days, plus all that Cai Mao has in his own house, I am afraid that it can last for a month at most, after all, there are as many as 50,000 defenders in Xiangyang." ”

"I see!" Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu exchanged faces with each other when they heard this, and they both knew it in their hearts. "Junhou, it seems that Cai Mao is not afraid here. The two of them committed a rebellion, and it was impossible for too many people to respond. At present, there is a shortage of food and grass, and the morale of the army will be chaotic. Zhuge Liang admonished.

"How to attack the heart?" Guan Yu motioned for Zhuge Liang to continue.

"You can inform the defenders of Xiangyang and Zhangling counties that only the rebellious leaders Kuai Yue and Cai Mao and others will be punished, and the rest will not be investigated, so it will definitely mess up their military morale. Of course, who can be pardoned and who cannot be pardoned still needs to be determined by the lord and Liu Jingzhou. ”

"That's great!" Guan Yu also quickly finalized the decision, and hurriedly sent someone to send a letter to Liu Bei and Liu Biao to inform him of the matter. After a few days, the two replied, saying that if it were not for the sworn friends of the Cai clan, they could be pardoned. If the rest of the people can do it right, they will not be blamed for the past. At that moment, Zhuge Liang wrote thousands of letters of persuasion in the name of Liu Bei and Liu Biao, and shot into Xiangyang City when the grain and grass were scarce, so as to ensure that Cai Mao's position was in chaos.

Not to mention that Cai Mao himself is difficult to protect, at this time in the prime minister's mansion in Xuchang, Cao Ying was looking at the information sent by Xizuo from Jingzhou, his brows were slightly furrowed but he didn't say a word, after reading it, Xun Yu and other strategists were circulated, and everyone's hearts were a little heavy after reading it.

"Guan Yu is really unexpected this time, he didn't attack Xiangyang, but took Wancheng first. In this way, if our army wants to aid Jingzhou, it can only take Xiangcheng to cross the water. Xun Yu looked at the intelligence, then looked at the map, and immediately came to his conclusion.

"But Guan Yu captured Wancheng, but still did not attack Xiangyang, but attacked Maicheng, why is this?" Cao Hong looked at the information and asked in some surprise.

"It's not good, it seems that he wants to cut off Cai Mao and Kuai Yue's grain channel. As I expected, Yiling, Dangyang counties should have also been captured by Zhao Feng or Liu Pan. Guo Jia looked at the map for a while, and immediately understood the intentions of Zhuge Liang and the others.

"Cut off the grain road?" Cao Hong repeated Guo Jia's words with some astonishment, but heard the latter say in detail: "Jingbei has a big drought this year, and there is a shortage of money and grain, and Cai Mao and others rely on the money and grain accumulated in Jiangling to maintain it. If these two grain routes are blocked, then the counties of Xiangyang and Zhangling will inevitably be in chaos within two months. ”

"I see!" Cao Hong listened to Guo Jia's explanation and suddenly realized. "Then do you want to send troops to deal with it now? If Cai Mao and the others lose too quickly, it will be extremely unfavorable for the prime minister to become the master of Jingxiang in the future! After thinking about it, Cao Hong also suggested.

"It stands to reason that this should be the case, but our army's food is only just enough, and this drought is not the right time! Guan Yu's is not a conspiracy at all, but a naked conspiracy, and it is clear that he is bullying Cai Mao and has no food and grass! Cao Ying sighed, and then turned angry and said: "Cai Mao and Kuai Yue, the two idiots, first let people rob Liu Biao, and now they are in danger. Everyone was also silent when they heard this, whether Cai Mao can survive now depends on the will of God.

"Lord Kuai, no!" In Jiangling City, the gray-faced Cai He came back to Kuai Yuedao. "That Liao Hua held on to Maicheng, and the last general failed to win the battle with it, Maicheng was eager to be captured, but Zhao Feng raided our army behind him, and he was really suffering from the enemy, and he was miserable."

"What?" Kuai Yue was even more annoyed when he heard this. At this moment, someone came to report that the grain and grass that had just been sent to Yidu had also been robbed, and the commander Fu Shiren was captured, and only a dozen soldiers escaped fairly quickly and ran back to Jiangling City.

"That's it, Cai Dudu, Huo Zhongmiao, you all have your own destiny!" Kuai Yue can't take care of others anymore, let's keep his Jiangling first. At the same time, in the Yangzhou military tent, Wen Ping came to Zhao Feng with Fu Shiren, who was tied up with five flowers.

"General Zhao, this escort of grain and grass was intercepted by our army. After he was captured, he said that he had confidential military information, and I brought him to see you, the general. Wen Ping pushed Fu Shiren forward.

"Zhongye has worked hard!" Zhao Feng was relieved, then looked at the somewhat fat lieutenant in front of him and asked, "Who are you, and what confidential military information do you have to tell?" ”

"General Hui, the villain is Fu Shiren, the captain under General Huo Jun." Fu Shiren nodded with a flattering face. "Huh?" Zhao Feng didn't expect that the person in front of him was still a celebrity, and he suddenly had some expectations for his so-called confidential military information, but he still said quietly on his face: "It's best that Your Excellency's military information is useful to me, and I, Zhao Feng, don't like to listen to nonsense very much." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Fu Shiren nodded again and again like a chicken pecking rice, and then he spoke: "The general doesn't know, in fact, our General Huo doesn't want to be the enemy of your army, but his family members are all detained in Jiangling by Kuai Yue, so he has to work for it!" ”

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Zhao Feng was also a little surprised when he heard this, but after thinking about it, he said: "Even so, I can't help it." At present, Jiangling is very heavily defended, how can General Huo's family be rescued? ”

"No, no, General, now is a godsend." Fu Shiren hurriedly said, and then he told the truth of the matter. It turned out that when Fu Shiren was escorting grain and grass, he went to visit Huo Jun's sister-in-law and nephew by the way to report his safety. didn't want to be told it, but when Huo Jun's brother Huo Du's sacrifice was approaching, these two people went to Zhijiang's hometown to sweep their graves.

"In other words, they're in Zhijiang now, aren't they?" Zhao Feng asked leisurely.

"Exactly. In order to prevent them from escaping, Kuai Yue also sent people to follow them all the way. It's called protection, but it's actually a caretaker. Fu Shiren replied.

"Kuai Yue is not a scheming person, why did General Huo's family leave Jiangling at this time?" Zhao Feng couldn't help frowning and asked, this is not very logical.

"The general doesn't know, General Huo's sister-in-law's surname is Qing Yilie. If she is not allowed to pay tribute to her deceased husband, then she will break it by herself. And when the villain comes to Jiangling every half a month, he will visit Mrs. Huo to report a message. Once Mrs. Huo has something to do, how can General Huo be willing to work for Kuai Yue again after he knows about it? So Kuai Yue also had to make concessions! Fu Shiren told him the details one by one, and Zhao Feng suddenly realized when he heard it, it turned out that there was still this reason.

"Hmm." Zhao Feng also nodded, and then asked people to loosen their ties, and Fu Shiren hurriedly thanked him. At that moment, Zhao Feng sent Wen Ping to lead an army of 3,000 to raid Zhijiang immediately, and after seeing Huo Du's wife, he explained the reason to him and invited him here.

A few days later, Wen Ping led the army back to the barracks in a carriage with a woman in her thirties and a boy in her teens. "I'm disturbing Mrs. Huo, I think Mrs. Huo already knows what is happening. Kuai Yue and Cai Mao were in rebellion, and they used their wives to force General Huo to defend the city for them, and they are now confronting General Liu Pan in Yidu County. I also asked my wife to understand the righteousness and explain the current situation to General Huo, so that he would no longer help the abuse. Zhao Feng tried his best to explain the reason to Huo Jun's sister-in-law in a more polite tone.

This Mrs. Huo was not very surprised by this, and it could even be said that she was relatively calm, and when she agreed, she wrote a handwritten letter for Fu Shiren to bring back to Yidu and hand it over to Huo Jun to explain her current situation, and Zhao Feng also asked Liu Pan to tell Liu Pan that he was ready to accept Huo Jun's surrender.

A few days later, news came from Yidu that Huo Jun really surrendered after receiving Fu Shiren's return. Liu Pan stationed in Yidu County, preparing to recuperate and then go north to attack Zhangling. Huo Jun himself refused Liu Pan's invitation, and only brought hundreds of personal soldiers to Jiangling to defect to Zhao Feng.

"Meet General Zhao!" Outside Jiangling City, a young general in his twenties bowed to Zhao Feng. "General Huo doesn't have to be polite, the general abandons the darkness and turns to the light, congratulations!" Zhao Feng also said some words, trying to comfort Huo Jundao. As for why Huo Jun came to defect to himself instead of Liu Pan, Zhao Feng had already thought of it, firstly, his sister-in-law and nephew were still here, and secondly, Liu Bei, who was steaming in strength, looked more promising than Liu Biao in Bo Xishan. Huo Jun didn't even dare to be, but after seeing his sister-in-law and nephew, he relieved himself and completely took refuge in Zhao Feng.

Huo Jun surrendered, and the news of the loss of Yidu County reached Jiangling, Kuai Yue was like being poured a basin of cold water on his head, and he couldn't recover for a long time.

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