"Come on, push Liu Bei out and behead him!"

Seeing that Uncle Liu Huang was always speechless and unable to answer the question from Kuai Liang, Liu Biao, who had some hesitation and suspicion before, finally made up his mind, and ordered Uncle Liu to be beheaded.

Things have come to this point, if Uncle Liu Huang doesn't say anything anymore, it will basically be the end of the head falling to the ground, and in desperation, Uncle Liu Huang can only shout loudly: "Wronged!" Brother Jingsheng, I was wronged! Tao Ying is a traitor, he is because he has always been jealous and resentful, so he used tricks to frame me! I didn't report it to you, and there is a special reason! Please Jingsheng Gong look at the past feelings, and give me another chance to explain! ”

At this time, killing Uncle Liu Huang is obviously in line with the interests of the Cai family in Nanyang, and it will also give Liu Qi's hardcore supporters a chance to grow, considering this, General Cai Mao, who is not too stupid, also quickly stood up and said to Liu Biao: "Sister-in-law, Liu Bei is about to be tortured and shouts injustice, and the statement is unspeakable, and I also ask my sister-in-law to suspend the sentence and give him a chance to confess for the sake of Liu Bei's service to Jingzhou in the past few years." ”

Looking at the brother-in-law who had helped him a lot in ruling Jingzhou, Liu Biao hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, drag it back first and let him speak." ”

Cai Mao quickly sang the promise, hurriedly rushed out of the hall, and ordered the guards to drag Uncle Liu Huang back to the lobby, and after Uncle Liu Huang went to the lobby again, Liu Biao didn't ask the guards to tie up Uncle Liu, and shouted loudly: "Say!" Since you want to clear your name. Why didn't you report this to me beforehand? I have to do things in private, what is my heart? ”

Uncle Liu Huang looked very hesitant, first looked at the Jingzhou ministers on the left and right, and then said in a low voice: "Beidou has the courage to beg Brother Jingsheng again, can you go to the back hall to play alone?" I promise that I will be honest with Brother Jingsheng, and I dare not hide anything. ”

"No way!" Liu Biao categorically refused, and shouted: "The stakes are very high, you must report in public, and I must also give a fair and just explanation to the ministers of Jingzhou!" ”

"This ......." Uncle Liu Huang was in a dilemma. Originally, Uncle Liu Huang was looking forward to talking to Liu Biao alone. I reported the details of Liu Biao in the original way, and prayed for Liu Biao's forgiveness, so that Liu Biao did not have to worry about the attitude and reaction of the ministers in Jingzhou, and spared himself for the sake of interests. So that you can save your life and save your face. But Liu Biao asked Uncle Liu Huang to tell the truth in public. Uncle Liu Huang was completely helpless - he explained the details in public, not only did Uncle Liu Huang's reputation be finished, but Liu Biao wanted to give an explanation to the ministers of Jingzhou. I have to kill Uncle Liu.

"If you don't say anything more, behead immediately!" Liu Biao urged impatiently.

"Kong Ming, it seems that I can only be sorry for you once!" Uncle Liu Huang, who was completely helpless, gritted his fine white teeth, and in order to survive, he finally said hard: "Brother Jingsheng, Bei does have a place where he can't stand you, but Bei can swear to the sky, if Bei Zhen colludes with that Tao Ying traitor to plot your heart of Jingzhou, heaven and earth will not tolerate it, five thunders will hit the top, and there will be no place to bury you!" In order to clear your suspicions, you hide your private affairs, which is unspeakable! ”

"What's so hard to say?" Liu Biao asked with a cold face, and shouted: "Tell the truth, if you dare to hide anything, you will not be forgiven!" ”

"Brother Jingsheng, the only place that can't stand you!" Uncle Liu Huang finally showed his true colors, and said loudly without blushing: "I just shouldn't have shielded Zhuge Liang, the military advisor under his command, and concealed his crimes of personal affairs on the battlefield in Yexian County, and entrapping thousands of Jingzhou soldiers and General Liu Pan!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall was shocked, including the Cai Mao brothers, their eyes widened, and they looked at Uncle Liu Huang in disbelief, Zhuge Liang's own uncle, Zhuge Xuan, who was kneeling in front of him, and turned his head suddenly, looking at Uncle Liu Huang as if he didn't know him, and only after a while did he grit his teeth and say, "Xuande Gong, you say this, are you sorry?!" ”

By the way, I would also like to introduce Pang Tong's reaction, after hearing Uncle Liu Huang's words, Pang Tong's lips just moved, and then he closed his eyes, and there was no expression fluctuation on his ugly face.

Of course, Uncle Liu Huang didn't dare to talk to Zhuge Xuan anymore, and he didn't even dare to look at Zhuge Xuan's angry expression, but he continued without blushing: "Presumably, Jing Shenggong has already discovered that the situation is wrong, why was the 100,000 Hu military rations sent to Ye County from Bowang easily taken away by Tao Ying's traitors?" Why did Tao Ying's traitors know so well the withdrawal time and route of Yexian's troops, so much so that they arranged an ambush in advance to annihilate the main force of Major General Liu Pan? Why was the front army of Major General Liu Pan ambushed, but the team led by Bei withdrew to Yexian almost intact? I didn't dare to deceive Brother Jingsheng, this was all due to Zhuge Liang's design. ”

No one dared to speak in the lobby, Jingzhou Wenwu had different expressions, the neutrals were either surprised or angry or incredulous, the Cai Mao brothers who were inclined to Uncle Liu Huang were stunned, and the Kuailiang brothers, who were hostile to Uncle Liu, were silent on the surface, their eyes flashed with joy, but Liu Biao was so angry that he was almost speechless, and he smiled for a while and said: "Finally willing to tell the truth, Xuande Gong, please, listen to your ears." ”

"Bei also learned these details later." Uncle Liu Huang said tremblingly: "After the traitors of Tao Ying were rescued back to the camp by the Xuzhou thief army, Zhuge Liang knew that the strength of Yiye County City could never be the opponent of the army of Tao thieves, no matter whether the grain and grass were sufficient or not, it would be the end of the city's defeat sooner or later." And the 4,000 team prepared at that time had been brutally killed by Tao Ying's traitors to the last two soldiers, in fact, the whole army had been wiped out. ”

Zhuge Liang first took advantage of Xin Ping's eagerness to win the favor of Brother Jingsheng, and deliberately suggested that Liu Pan ask Xin Ping to send troops to Bowang to charge grain, but in order to keep more troops and the old Ji Marquis who was paralyzed in bed, and also in order to obtain the grain and grass supply and security protection of Jingsheng Gong, he immediately agreed to send 3,000 troops to charge grain, and then Zhuge Liang took the opportunity to excuse Tao Ying's traitor's army is close at hand, and the grain needs to be protected by a fierce general. With the courage of ten thousand people, he fell into the scheme again and agreed to let Zhang Fei temporarily command the 3,000 Jizhou troops. ”

Speaking of this, Uncle Liu Huang paused for a moment, and said: "But in private, Zhuge Liang concealed his preparations and gave Zhang Fei a secret order, so that once Zhang Fei was intercepted by the Xuzhou thief army, he would immediately abandon the grain and lead the army to retreat to Bowang. At the same time, Zhuge Liang deliberately used the arrow book to tell Tao Ying the traitor. made Tao Ying's traitor know about Zhang Fei's grain charge. induced the pottery thieves to send troops to intercept the grain and grass, but Zhang Fei withdrew from Bowang according to the order, and the 100,000 Hu army fell into the hands of the pottery thieves, and the 3,000 Jizhou army lost contact with Xin Ping. can only continue to accept Zhang Fei's command and dispatch. ”

Some of the centrists in the lobby began to curse. The Cai Mao brothers trembled. Because Uncle Liu confessed such a major crime, the Cai Mao brothers, who have a close relationship with the Imperial Uncle Army, can't even be implicated if they don't want to. And Liu Biao was also trembling, but not trembling from fear. It's because anger is trembling! After finally suppressing the anger in his chest, Liu Biao nodded and said with a smile: "100,000 Hu military grain, 240 steps of large acres of land, three Hu of grain a year, and more than 30,000 acres of land for a year's grain production, just send Tao Ying, really generous, indeed generous." ”

After that, Liu Biao laughed, but in the laughter, there was naturally no joy, and the Jingzhou civil and military forces in the lobby also gritted their teeth - don't look at these Jingzhou important ministers are all big landlords, but many people's families receive less than half of the 100,000 grains a year. Uncle Liu Huang kowtowed heavily, and said with tears: "The preparation of the emperor is not strict, causing the subordinates to secretly do such an ugly thing, and I am ashamed of Brother Jingsheng." ”

"Keep talking, going on." Liu Biao waved his hand and said, "What good things did you do next?" Let Liu Pan's team be all peritoneal, but you can retreat with your whole body? ”

"Brother Jingsheng, it's not us, it's Zhuge Liang who is hiding my private affairs." Uncle Liu Huang hurriedly cleared up the relationship, and said more honestly: "After the grain and grass were robbed, General Liu Pan, who had run out of military food, was forced to choose to break through, Zhuge Liang concealed that Bei used the arrow book to tell the secret again, and leaked the breakthrough time and breakthrough route of General Liu Pan's team to the Tao thief, and then played another trick, deliberately telling the Tao thief that Bei led the army to open the way in front, using the Tao thief's sick psychology of hating Bei to the bone, inducing the Tao thief to dispatch the elite main force, focusing on ambushing General Liu Pan's front army and the middle army, but the palace team led by Bei was taken lightly, Give Bei a chance to get out of the way. ”

After quietly peeking at Liu Biao's face again, Uncle Liu Huang said with a wry smile: "What happened next, Brother Jingsheng, you also know, because the main elite of the pottery thieves were all arranged in the front, and the two armies of the first two in the middle and the first half of the army that withdrew from Yexian were all annihilated, Major General Liu Pan was killed, Xin Ping was captured, the Son of Heaven and the old Ji Hou were robbed by the pottery thief, and the team behind the palace led by Bei was misled by Zhuge Liang's whistleblowing letter, but because the pottery thief was misled by Zhuge Liang's whistleblowing letter, he mistakenly thought it was an inconsequential team led by Yang Ling and Guo Ziru, and did not invest in an elite ambush to intercept it, gave Bei the opportunity to temporarily change the route of the withdrawal, and then he escaped from Shengtian very lucky, and at the same time, because Liu Pan died in battle, Xin Ping was captured, and Bei also took over the remnants of Ye County as a matter of course. ”

"What a vicious trick to fish in troubled waters!" The Jingzhou civil and military forces present almost gasped, and the Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue brothers broke out in a cold sweat, secretly saying that Zhuge Liang was so vicious and resourceful, if we don't get rid of him quickly, when he gains power in Jingzhou, our Kuai family will not have to die without a place to be buried?

"Finished?" Unexpectedly, Liu Biao didn't tremble anymore, but just asked Uncle Liu Huang seemingly lightly: "There is another question, when the pottery thief team was chasing you, there was a chance to severely damage your palace team, why did you suddenly withdraw the army?" ”

"I guess it's for today." Uncle Liu Huang said with a wry smile: "Bei has escaped from the pottery thief's knife countless times, the pottery thief knows that it is easy to hit the team of Bei, but it is difficult to take off the head of Bei, so the pottery thief must have set a divisive poison plan at that time, and suddenly ordered the retreat to stop pursuing, so that Brother Jingsheng you were suspicious, he took the opportunity to dissociate, and the result was not true, Brother Jingsheng, you were suspicious, and Bei did not dare to confess the truth in front of you, causing the pottery thief to take advantage of the loophole, forcing Bei to the point that he may not have to die if he tells the truth, but he must die. ”

Liu Biao raised his head, closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, then opened his eyes again, turned to Zhuge Xuan and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhuge , do you have something to say now?" You cooperated with your nephew to clear Liu Bei's suspicions, and you must know some of the good things your nephew did, what are you going to say now? Zhuge General Curtain, desperate in Yuzhang to Jingzhou to enjoy the glory and wealth of Zhuge General Curtain? ”

"The minister is guilty!" Zhuge Xuan kowtowed heavily and said loudly: "The minister's misdeeds to his nephew Zhuge Liang. I did notice it, but I didn't report it to the lord immediately, and I was ashamed of the grace of the lord to take care of and reuse, and the minister deserved death! However, before he died, the minister still wanted to ask the lord for one thing, please don't listen to one-sided words, it is better to summon Zhuge Liang and confront him face to face. ”

Uncle Liu Huang quietly glanced at Zhuge Xuan with pleading eyes, but Zhuge Xuan no longer looked back at Uncle Liu's righteous face. just said loudly again: "The minister thinks." The matter of Ye County, whether the little nephew did it alone, please ask the lord to investigate! ”

"Of course I will." Liu Biao replied coldly, then turned to Wang Wei and asked, "The person you sent to spy on Zhuge Liang." Is there any news coming back? ”

"Your Lordship. Not yet. ”

Said Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang arrived, and as soon as Wang Wei answered this sentence, a herald suddenly rushed in outside the door. Kneeling down on one knee and clasping his fists, he said: "My lord, General Wang Zhong escorted Zhuge Liang, the military division of the Xinye garrison, and a Xuzhou fine soldier to the outside of the West Gate, and asked the lord to allow him to open the city gate at night and allow him to enter the city." In addition, Mr. Huang Chengyan, the brother-in-law of the lord, also came, saying that he had obtained ironclad evidence of Zhuge Liang's secret collusion with the Xuzhou army, and he wanted to expose and report it to the lord in person! ”

"Yes, let them enter the city immediately and escort Zhuge Liang directly here!" Liu Biao agreed without blinking his eyelids, and shouted again: "What are you still doing?" Why don't you take a few ropes and tie up all the people who should be tied? ”

The guards in the hall sang their promises, quickly brought a few ropes, and tied Uncle Liu Huang, Zhuge Xuan, Pang Tong and Mr. Jiang Gan to a strong and strong one, and held them side by side. Liu Biao shouted again: "And Cai Zhong, tie me up too!" ”

"Sister-in-law!" Cai Zhong almost didn't cry out loud, and said, "The little brother has nothing to do with Ye County's affairs." ”

"The big-eared thief who leaked the news without permission and lent soldiers to him to do nonsense, shouldn't he be tied up?!" Liu Biao finally yelled loudly.

"It's not me, it's ......." General Cai Zhong wanted to continue to shout grievances, but seeing that his eldest brother Cai Mao had already glared at him viciously, General Cai Zhong obediently closed his mouth and was honestly restrained, and in his heart he scolded Uncle Liu Huang and Zhuge Liang's eighteenth generation ancestors over and over again, and also quietly scolded a few words of the eldest brother who forced himself to carry the black pot.

After waiting for a long time with bated breath, the sound of chaotic footsteps finally sounded outside the silent lobby, and soon, Zhuge Liang and General Li Lang were escorted into the lobby together, Wang Zhong and Huang Chengyan also came to the lobby together, and then Huang Chengyan naturally explained to his brother-in-law the major events that happened in Huangjiawan tonight, and presented Deputy Director Tao to his beloved daughter Huang Shuo's desperate letter, crying and saying that his daughter almost threw herself into the water and died, but unfortunately Liu Biao had no heart to comfort his brother-in-law, and took a cursory look at the desperate letter. Then he asked Zhuge Liang, who was tied up with five flowers: "Kong Ming, how do you explain this letter?" ”

"Yu Minggong, this is Tao Ying's traitor's discordant plan." Zhuge Liang replied without blinking his eyelids: "In order to kill our lord Liu Bei by the hand of Ming Gong, the pottery thief deliberately misled Huang Shuo with a letter, in order to let Huang Shuo girl present this letter to Cheng Yan Gong, and then send it to Ming Gong through the hand of Cheng Yan Gong, with very vicious intentions!" ”

"Oh, the pottery thief is vicious?" Liu Biao, who had already started to kill, sneered and said: "Then deliberately sending 100,000 Hu military rations to the pottery thief, and letting thousands of Jingzhou soldiers die, is it considered evil?" ”

Zhuge Liang didn't have the slightest shocked expression, but turned his gaze to Uncle Liu Huang who was tied up and kneeling aside, Uncle Liu Huang felt ashamed, his eyes dodged and he didn't dare to look at Zhuge Liang, and he was thinking in his heart, once Zhuge Liang bit back, how should he argue with it?

Just seeing Uncle Liu's empty gaze, Zhuge Liang, who was as careful as a hair, already understood everything, knowing that Uncle Liu Huang must have pushed all the sins on himself, but Zhuge Liang not only did not have the slightest anger at all, but also smiled with great relief, and then turned to Liu Biao and said: "Ming Gong, I don't think there is any need to confront him, I did it alone, it was I who told the Tao thief and betrayed the Yexian soldiers, and I also directly killed General Liu Pan and thousands of Jingzhou soldiers, and it has nothing to do with my lord Liu Bei, He only found out the details after the fact. ”

"Ahh Except for Pang Tong, everyone in the hall opened their eyes wide and stared at Zhuge Liang in disbelief, Uncle Liu Huang was even more surprised and couldn't believe his ears, looking at Zhuge Liang's eyes, in addition to shock, he was also full of gratitude.

"Kong Ming, are you crazy?!" Zhuge Xuan yelled: "Why do you want to take all the blame on yourself?!" ”

"Uncle forgiveness." Zhuge Liang replied very calmly: "The little nephew is not guilty, it is the little nephew who is indeed guilty, it is the little nephew who told the pottery thief twice, and successively leaked the grain transportation and breakthrough of the siege, resulting in the robbery of grain and grass, and the main force of General Liu Pan was wiped out, and it was also the little nephew in order to obtain the army, secretly ordered Zhang Fei to lead the army to abandon the grain and retreat, and did tricks and feet on the arrow book, inducing the pottery thief to ambush the first two armies with all his strength, and deceived the army behind the palace to escape. Everything was done privately by the little nephew, and it had nothing to do with the lord, and he only learned about it afterwards, so he also beat the little nephew for this. ”

"Kong Ming, you're crazy, you're crazy!" Zhuge Xuan yelled and shouted: "If you confess that the affairs of Ye County are all done by Liu Bei, you still have hope of living, if you take all the blame on yourself, then no one can save you, those families of the soldiers who died in battle can break your body into thousands of pieces!" ”

"The little nephew is willing to die." Zhuge Liang replied calmly: "Uncle forgives, the little nephew also wants to emphasize that the little nephew is not guilty, everything has nothing to do with the lord, at most he just knows and does not report it, and the crime does not deserve to die!" The little nephew is for his own selfishness, causing countless soldiers to die on the battlefield, innocent and tragic, the little nephew is the crime that deserves death! ”

"Why are you doing this?!" Liu Biao asked loudly.

"There is only one reason, to repay the lord for saving his life and knowing the grace of the encounter." Zhuge Liang replied solemnly: "Liang was twenty years old when he followed the lord, but the lord was deeply grateful to Liang for entrusting him with the important task of military advisor. The first battle of Xuchang between the lord and the pottery thief, Liang was disabled by the arrow, it was the lord who escaped with Liang on his back, and later failed several times, the lord never abandoned the inconvenient Liang of his legs and feet, and Yu Liang had several life-saving graces. In order to repay these kindnesses, Liang Cai set up a poisonous plan and defrauded thousands of soldiers and horses for the lord! ”

"In order to repay your kindness, you hurt nearly 10,000 soldiers in Jingzhou, what crime should you be guilty of?!" Liu Biao roared angrily.

"Bright sins deserve death!" Zhuge Liang kowtowed heavily, and then said loudly: "But before he dies, Liang must be given to Ming Gong to die, my lord Liu Bei and the pottery thief have absolutely no collusion, Ye County's matter, he just knows about it and does not report it, the crime does not deserve to die!" I hope that Ming will be gracious and spare my lord's life! ”

"Push it out, cut it!" Liu Biao yelled.

"No!" The guard sang a promise, and immediately rushed up to hold down Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang hurriedly shouted: "Wait!" Ryo still has something to say! ”

"What more do you have to say? Push it out right away, decapitate! Liu Biao roared.

"Lord, for the sake of our friends for many years, let him say a few more words!" Zhuge Xuan cried loudly, kowtowing desperately and begging, until he kowtowed and bleed, Liu Biao's heart and intestines were indeed not as black as Deputy Director Tao and Jia Lao's poison, and after a little hesitation, he still nodded and gave Zhuge Liang the opportunity to explain his last words. Zhuge Xuan was overjoyed, and hurriedly turned to Zhuge Liang and choked up and said: "Kong Ming, this is your last chance, if there is anything else to defend you, just say it to the lord." ”

"Uncle forgiveness, Liang doesn't want to defend himself, he just wants to ask Ming Gong for two things." Zhuge Liang said lightly: "The first thing, Liang's sin is too deep, even if the car is cracked, it is still too light, Liang is bold, I want to ask Ming Gong to change Liang's beheading punishment to waist beheading!" In case of atonement for sin! ”

"Change the beheading to the waist beheading?!"

There was an uproar in the lobby, and Liu Biao's eyes widened, but Zhuge Xuan cried out angrily and yelled: "You bastard boy, even if you die, you want to suffer more, don't you?!" ”

"Uncle, Liang's sin is too deep, even if he is cut in half, it will be difficult to atone for his sin, let Liang die more miserably, even if Liang has a little remorse for Ye County's crimes." Zhuge Liang finally sighed, and then kowtowed to Liu Biao and said: "Duke Ming, Liang's second request is to ask Duke Ming's permission, let the lord Liu Bei and his friend Pang Tong be on the execution table, feed Liang a glass of desperate wine, and let Liang say the last few words to them." Of course, Ming Gong can send someone to monitor him, and he can also go to the scene to watch the execution, so as not to misunderstand Liang and collude with them. ”

Uncle Liu Huang burst into tears, Pang Tong was expressionless, Zhuge Xuan continued to cry bitterly, Liu Biao's face changed gloomily, and he said after a long time: "Quasi, drag it out, and cut it off!" ”

If you want to know what will happen next, please see the next chapter, "Zhuge Legacy Strategy"! (To be continued......)