[Watching the Romance of the Three Kingdoms last night, I suddenly understood a plot that I haven't understood for many years, that is, Lu Su went to Jingzhou, Liu Bei took out the sick Liu Qi to talk about things, and then Lu Su went back to Zhou Yu and said that Liu Qi would not live long, and Zhou Yu was silent, which is very meaningful! Luo Guanzhong didn't write it, how did Liu Qi die, whose hands did he die, Lu Su and Zhou Yu are both understanding people, knowing that someone wants to seek Jingzhou, Liu Qi will definitely not live long, a little understanding, and everyone appreciates. 】……

In the council hall, Chai Shao sat alone in a daze, he had been sitting for a whole afternoon, no one dared to persuade him, and all the soldiers saw that he was in a deep grief.

One of Li Xiaogong's own soldiers was released by the Sui army, bringing the news that shocked everyone, the Tang army reinforcements were ambushed in Dangyang and defeated, and Li Xiaogong, the king of Jing, committed suicide unwilling to be captured.

Not only Chai Shao, but all the soldiers were sad and mourned for the death of Li Xiaogong, but more of a worry, King Jing died, so how long can the Jingxiang Tang army support?

At this time, Liu Fangzhi walked into the courtyard quickly, saw several personal soldiers standing in front of the steps to visit the hall, and asked a little strangely: "What happened?" ”

A pro-soldier stepped forward and whispered a few words to Liu Fangzhi, Liu Fangzhi was shocked, "Is the news accurate?" ”

The pro-soldier nodded, "It should be true, it is the confidant of His Royal Highness King Jing, there will be no fake." ”

Liu Fangzhi's brows furrowed, it turned out that Li Xiaogong was really killed, it was not made up by the Sui army, he muttered and said, "Report to the general for me first!" Let's just say that I have a military report. ”

The soldiers walked up the steps quickly and stood under the lobby to report: "General." Vice President Liu came and said that there was a military report. ”

"Let him in!" Chai Shao's voice was a little hoarse, and his tone was full of endless sadness.

Without telling the soldiers, Liu Fangzhi walked directly into the lobby, walked all the way to Chai Shao, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "The last general Liu Fangzhi." See the Great General. ”

Chai Shao faced the inner wall, with his back to Liu Fangzhi, for a long time. He asked in a low voice, "How is it going?" ”

"Returning to the general, the humble post has made all the soldiers stop talking about the defeat of the Tang army. In addition, he also sent 1,000 soldiers to collect the leaflets projected into the city by the Sui army from house to house, and more than 2,000 leaflets have been collected, and the remaining leaflets are still being collected. ”

Chai Shao sighed, turned around slowly, and said with a wry smile: "Maybe I'm calling it a mess of covering my ears and stealing the bell, and the army's heart is chaotic." Can a single silence be stopped? Yang Yuanqing is good at surrendering without a fight, and now I have a deep understanding that we are too passive in comparison. ”

Chai Shao's words aroused Liu Fangzhi's concern, "The general is right. Although I ordered the soldiers to silence them with a mandatory military order, maybe they would not dare to talk about it in public, but what about in private? In the tent, I'm afraid they will talk more, Your Highness, the situation is not optimistic! ”

Chai Shao walked a few steps with his hands behind his back. Although Yang Yuanqing defeated the Xiangyang reinforcements, he was not worried that the Sui army would be able to break through Jiangling City, which was strong and tall and had a large number of troops, and it was difficult for the Sui army to break through Jiangling City purely militarily.

But now Yang Yuanqing used the strategy of surrendering the army without a fight, which shook the heart of the Tang army, and made Chai Shao begin to worry deeply that once a soldier opened the city and surrendered, the Sui army would win without a fight.

Thinking of this, Chai Shao glanced at Liu Fangzhi, in fact, what he was most worried about was Liu Fangzhi, a native of Jiangling, for them, surrender was in their best interests.

"General Liu, sometimes I am also thinking about whether we should make peace with the Sui army, for example, if we give up Jiangling City, and the Sui army will let us return to the north to maximize the survival of the Tang army, but I can't make up my mind, what does General Liu think?"

Chai Shao looked at Liu Fangzhi with a smile and asked, an imperceptible light quickly flashed in his eyes, and his hand had slowly clenched the hilt of the sword.

Liu Fangzhi immediately shook his head decisively, "I think that the idea of a general is not realistic, even if we give up Jiangling City, the Sui army will never let the Tang army leave safely, Yang Yuanqing will never talk about benevolence and righteousness in battle, he has always been like this." ”

"But I think you Jiangling generals want me to do this, don't you?"

Liu Fangzhi's face changed greatly, Chai Shao was actually talking about him, he knelt down on one knee again, and said with great pain: "Don't the general believe in humble duties?" ”

Chai Shao narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "Actually, I really want to believe you, but now the army is in chaos, everyone is in danger, if General Liu surrenders the city, he can get Yang Yuanqing's reuse, and the interests are here, if you are me, what should you do?" ”

Liu Fangzhi's lips were about to bite and bleed, and he suddenly pulled out a bright dagger from his leather boots, which frightened Chai Shao to take two steps back, his hand tightly pressed the hilt of the sword, and shouted: "What are you going to do?" ”

Liu Fangzhi stretched out his fingers, and with a wave of the dagger, the ring finger and little finger of his left hand were cut off at the same time, and blood gushed out, Liu Fangzhi gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain, and said in a deep voice: "I am loyal to the general, if I have the slightest intention of betraying the general, I will refer to it like this." ”

"General Liu, why are you doing this!"

The blood gushing out of Liu Fangzhi's hand dispelled the suspicion in Chai Shao's heart, and he shouted loudly: "Someone! ”

More than a dozen personal soldiers rushed to the lobby, and Chai Shao pointed to Liu Fangzhi and ordered urgently: "Quickly bandage General Liu to stop the bleeding." ”

The soldiers didn't know what was going on, they all hurriedly wrapped Liu Fangzhi with wound medicine and bandaged the wound, Liu Fangzhi never said a word, until the bandaging was completed, Chai Shao sighed and said: "I misunderstood General Liu, please forgive General Liu." ”

"I am willing to do my best to defend Gangneung City for the general!" ……

Liu Fangzhi retreated, the hall returned to quiet, Chai Shao stood in front of the hall with his hands behind his back, staring at the dark night sky in the distance, although Li Xiaogong's death seriously affected the Jingxiang battle situation, but Chai Shao knew that Xiangyang City must still be in the hands of the Tang Army, guarded by Yang Gongren.

As long as Jiangling City and Xiangyang City are not lost, they can hold back the Sui army. Even if the Battle of Jingxiang was lost in the end, as long as the Sui army was held back and the imperial court was given the maximum time, it was actually a victory.

Thinking of this, Chai Shao cheered up and ordered in a loud voice: "Prepare the horse, I am going to inspect the defense of the city." ”……

Liu Fangzhi was sent back to the house by Chai Shao's personal soldiers. His wife, Wu, saw that her husband had blood on his body, and her fingers were tightly bandaged, obviously injured. She was in a hurry, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Husband, what's wrong?" ”

Liu Fangzhi shook his head. He did not allow her to say more, but he commanded her, "Give the soldiers twenty taels of silver to drink." ”

Wu hurriedly arranged for the housekeeper to fetch the silver, Liu Fangzhi returned to his study, he pondered for a moment, and then went out and instructed a confidant family member, "Go and find Yu Shouren for me!" ”

The confidant's family rushed away, Liu Fangzhi went back to the room and sat down slowly, he raised his left hand, looked at the fingers tightly wrapped in gauze, and couldn't help sneering. As the saying goes, a strong dragon can't beat the head snake of the ground, will Chai Shao be his opponent Liu Fangzhi?

Not long after, footsteps sounded outside the room, and the family reported at the door: "Master, General Yu is here." ”

"Let him in!"

The door opened. Liu Fangzhi's confidant Yu Shouren hurriedly walked into the study, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See the general!" ”

Yu Shouren is the partial general who accepted the bribe of the Xiao family and let the children of the Xiao family out of the city, he is also a native of Jiangling, and he has always followed Liu Fangzhi. is Liu Fangzhi's confidant.

Last time, he privately let the children of the Xiao family out of the city, but afterwards he still reported to Liu Fangzhi, he knew in his heart that they were all locals, and it was difficult to hide Liu Fangzhi from this kind of thing.

"Sit down and talk."

Liu Fangzhi asked him to sit down, and Yu Shouren found out about the wound in his hand, and couldn't help but be surprised, "General, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I almost died at the hands of Chai Shao today."

Liu Fangzhi sighed and said: "That cunning fox tested me, saying that he wanted to negotiate with the Sui army, at that time his hand was already pressed on the hilt of the sword, as long as I say the wrong word, he will kill me without a doubt, if I continue to make these two determinations, I am afraid that I will not be able to come back today." ”

"General, is the problem really that serious?"

Liu Fangzhi sneered, "Do you think Chai Shao has no eyes and ears?" The people who are the most noisy today are basically Jingxiang locals, will he not know? Of course he was suspicious of me, so he tempted, huh! He thought I couldn't understand his temptations? ”

Yu Shouren asked worriedly: "General, then what should we do?" ”

"That's why I came to you."

Liu Fangzhi smiled and asked him rhetorically, "Did the Xiao family come to you?" ”

Yu Shouren nodded, "I was also about to report to the general, Xiao Yanqin came to me again last night, hoping that I could think more about Jiangling's fathers and elders and try to avoid war, and said it very implicitly, in fact, he wanted me to surrender the city to the Sui army, and promised to give me 10,000 taels of silver after the matter was completed." ”

"And what do you say?"

"Of course, the humble post said that he would consider the Jiangling father, but for 10,000 taels of silver, the humble post refused."

Yu Shouren was a little apprehensive in his heart, he didn't know if what he was doing right or not, he carefully explained: "I feel that this matter is different from the children of the Xiao family going out of the city, so I don't dare to take their money. ”

Liu Fangzhi narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "You did it right, you really can't collect money for this matter, it's not a matter of money, it's a big problem for our future, can you buy it for 10,000 taels of silver?" ”……

Xiao Yanqin has been quite uneasy in the past two days, since he has looked for Liu Fangzhi, there has been no news, he thought that Liu Fangzhi would come to him, but Liu Fangzhi was silent, and yesterday he went to Yu Shouren again, and promised a price of 10,000 taels of silver, but he was still rejected by Yu Shouren, which made him nervous.

Seeing that time dragged on day by day, but there was no progress in breaking the city, it was difficult for the Xiao family to explain to Yang Yuanqing, Xiao Yanqin found the head of the family, Xiao Yinyin, and said worriedly: "I'm very afraid that Liu Fangzhi or Yu Shouren will betray our Xiao family, they are ruthless, and they can do anything." ”

Xiao Yinyin shook her head and smiled: "It won't betray us, Jin'er is an important minister of the Sui Dynasty, he betrayed us, and they won't end well in the future, don't worry, they know it in their hearts!" ”

"But...... What do they mean by ignoring it all the time? Xiao Yanqin's face still couldn't hide the anxiety in his heart.

"Maybe they're waiting, too! When the situation becomes clear, I heard that the Sui army won a great victory in Dangyang County, even King Jing was killed, and the Tang army in Jingxiang has gone, I estimate that they will definitely take action in the next two days. ”

As soon as Xiao Yinyin's words fell, the butler's voice sounded outside the door, "Family master, General Yu is asking to see you outside the mansion!" ”…… (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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