Chapter 366: Escape and Pursuit

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When Liu Bei and Xu Shu arrived, Zhang Fei had already led the army to control the entire mansion, but to Liu Bei's disappointment, in addition to the subordinates, the core family members of the Cai Mansion, including the old patriarch Cai Wei, had long been missing.

Liu Bei said solemnly: "Such a fast transfer speed, could it be that they had already expected that our army would send troops to attack the city?" ”

"Impossible, if that's the case, how can we break through Xiangyang so easily?" Xu Shu shook his head and said, "The three caves of the cunning rabbit, the Cai family, as the first clan of Jingxiang, always has some life-saving means that we don't know. ”

Liu Bei asked: "Then according to Yuan Zhizhi's opinion, where will the other party go?" Is it already out of the city, or is it still hiding somewhere in Xiangyang City? ”

"If a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, if my expectations are correct, the other party must have left the city." Xu Shu thought for a while and said, "Before Cai Wei left, he deliberately took away Cai's mother and son, obviously planning to establish a second regime in Jingzhou to compete with Prince Qi, so now, they are going to Jiangling." ”

Liu Bei's eyes narrowed slightly, and he muttered, "Jiangling......"

Zhang Fei on the side asked, "Big brother, do you want to chase it?" ”

Liu Bei paused, tilted his head and asked Xu Shu, "What does Yuan Zhi think?" ”

"Of course you have to chase!" Xu Shu said in a condensed voice, "If you can't catch Liu Cong, Jingzhou will be divided, and in this way, it will only cheapen the tiger wolves who are eyeing the surrounding tigers!" ”

Liu Bei's heart tightened when he heard this, whether it was Cao Cao in the north or Wang Chong in the south, with the strength of these two forces, if Jingzhou was internally unstable, I was afraid that there would be no bones left that would be swallowed by the other party.

"Big brother, let me go!" Zhang Fei couldn't wait to ask for an order.

Liu Bei pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "It's okay." Yi Deke led 2,000 soldiers and horses to pursue south, and if there was no one within 100 miles, he should quickly lead the troops back! ”

"No!" Zhang Fei clenched his fists and took his life. Striding away.

Next, Liu Bei ordered Guan Yu again. Let him lead 5,000 soldiers to control Xiangyang City as quickly as possible, and he himself took Xu Shu, Chen Dao, Liu Qi and more than 100 elite soldiers out of the east gate and rushed to the military camp outside the city.

Chi Ze changed, Liu Bei knew this truth very well, so he was eager to control the Xiangyang army in his own hands as soon as possible.

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In the south of Xiangyang City, a team of more than 1,000 people is rushing south like a spark. Kick up a cloud of dust.

In the center of the procession, there were several carriages, one of which was Cai Yan sitting in it, and beside him there was a middle-aged man with an elegant temperament, but it was Kuai Liang, the head of the Kuai family.

The atmosphere in the car was a little depressing, whether it was Cai Wei or Kuai Liang, they didn't expect Liu Bei to have the courage to attack Xiangyang, and in a hurry, they knew that Xiangyang was difficult to protect. So he resolutely abandoned the city and left, and before leaving, Kuai Liang proposed to set fire to the treasury. It's a small pit, Liu Bei.

Originally, Cai Wei and Kuai Liang also thought about burning down their mansion so that Liu Bei couldn't catch a single hair, but after all, it was their ancestral home, and in the end they still couldn't bear to do it, anyway, they believed that soon, they would be able to return to Xiangyang.

It's just that in this way, the grain and money at home that didn't have time to be transferred were cheaper than Liu Bei.

Liu Bei sent troops to attack Xiangyang. This is tantamount to rebellion, but it is clear. Liu Bei would never let his charges be confirmed, so he would inevitably find a suitable excuse for what he had done. What excuse? Of course, it was an excuse to receive Liu Biao's secret order to let him enter the city and Qinwang, and now that Liu Biao is dead, as long as Liu Bei pushes Liu Qi to the front of the stage, it is enough to make the vast majority of the people believe it.

So who in Xiangyang City is most likely to pose a threat to Liu Biao's rule? The answer is obvious, except for Cai Kuai's two families, there is no one else, and now that Cai Mao, the sister-in-law of the Cai family, has been captured by Jinfan, the possibility of their rebellion is undoubtedly the highest, so Liu Bei, there is a chance that this basin will be buckled on the head of their Cai family.

It is precisely because he thought of this joint that Cai Yan would immediately escape from Xiangyang, otherwise it would be difficult to escape Liu Bei's poison.

As for Kuailiang...... If the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, the Cai family fled, and the ghost knows if Liu Bei will turn to target them and the Kuai family? In that case, it's better to go together.

In the blink of an eye, about an hour passed, Cai Yan and his party fled to the vicinity of Yicheng, but heard a knight from the rear to report: "Cai Gong, the big thing is not good, there is an army not far behind us that is killing us, looking at its dress, it seems to be Xinye's soldiers and horses." ”

"Huh!?" Cai Yan's face changed, and he lifted the curtain and asked, "Have you ever found out the opponent's troops, how long will it take for me to wait?" ”

The knight replied, "The number of the other party is about two or three thousand, and the distance between us is less than ten miles!" ”

"It's coming so fast!" Cai Yan's pupils shrank, and he said solemnly, "It seems that this Liu Da'er is determined to kill them all!" ”

Kuai Liang chuckled and said: "Don't disturb Cai Gong, not far from the southeast is Yicheng, there are still two thousand soldiers in the city, as long as we wait to defend the city, the other party comes lightly, how can we break the city?" ”

Cai Wei is not objective about this: "When I was in Xiangyang, I searched all over the state pastor's mansion, but I never found Liu Biaohufu, I think it has fallen into the hands of Liu Bei, if we are in Yicheng, the other party can lead a large army to encircle and suppress at any time!" ”

Kuai Liang smiled and said: "Cai Gong, don't forget, the other way has gone to Jingnan alone the day before yesterday, calculate the time, the Jinfan army has almost settled in Jiangling at this moment!" ”

Cai Yanyan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he sighed with relief: "It's still Zirou prescient, otherwise we will definitely be in danger!" ”

So, Kuai Liang wrote a handwritten letter and sent someone to send it to Jiangling quickly, while the whole team immediately turned to the southeast and rushed to Yicheng non-stop.

In Jingxiang, Cai Wei and Kuai Liang's face is definitely bigger than Liu Cong, the second son of Liu Biao, and the Yicheng guards belong to the Cai family, so Cai Wei and his party easily entered Yicheng.

A quarter of an hour later, with dust in the distance, Zhang Fei led his army to the city of Yicheng, looking at the closed city gate and a large number of crossbowmen on the city wall, Zhang Fei's face turned pale.

Due to the hurry of coming, Zhang Fei's army did not even carry grain and grass in the siege equipment, let alone the siege of the city, in this case, let alone the siege of the city, he could not even be stationed outside the city.

Fortunately, Yicheng and Xiangyang were not far away, and Zhang Fei did not dare to evacuate rashly, so he immediately asked people to return to Xiangyang to ask Liu Bei.

At this time, as Chen Zhi killed a few Jingzhou generals in the military tent, Liu Bei finally successfully controlled the 30,000 troops in Xiangyang, of course, in name, everyone is under Liu Qi's orders, but as long as a discerning person knows, Liu Qi is now a puppet at all. (To be continued.) )