In this battle, from the beginning to the end, there was not even half a pillar of incense, but the tragedy and danger of the scene still made people's hearts palpitate. Liu Cong was so frightened that his face was bloodless, and he trembled like chaff, when had he, a child of an official eunuch family, ever experienced such a bloody scene, and his crotch was wet.

Even Cai Mao, who has been in battle for a long time, was surprised, he never thought that someone would actually ambush the killer in Shili Pavilion to assassinate him, he only hated his carelessness for a while, and only wanted to curry favor with Liu Ze, so a team of people just waved the banner and did enough to do the low profile of the surrenderer, and if he was careless, he actually fell into the way of others. In fact, this is also Cai Mao's arrogance in Jingzhou for a long time, and he believes that most of the soldiers and horses in Jingzhou are under his control, and he didn't expect that anyone would dare to openly brush the tiger's whiskers.

Among several people, the most calm is Liu Ze, in the face of such a dangerous situation, he stood with his hands in his hands, calmly, without the slightest panic. Liu Ze has been in battle for a long time, and he has also encountered a situation that is a hundred times more dangerous than this, and he didn't pay attention to hundreds of killer assassins at all, the second is that Liu Ze's composure comes from his trust in his own guards, and he has every reason to believe that his guards can deal with this sudden crisis.

After eliminating the last few assassins, Zhao Yun jumped off the horse, rushed to Liu Ze, and arched his hand: "The assassins have all been cut off, which frightened the lord." ”

Liu Ze nodded lightly, did not speak, and swept his gaze towards Liu Cong and Cai Mao.

As soon as the battle ended, Liu Cong and Cai Mao's hanging hearts had just been put back in their stomachs, and they saw Liu Ze's two sharp gazes. I can't help but feel a pang in my heart, although these assassins really have nothing to do with them, but the incident happened outside Xiangyang City, just in Shili Pavilion, the place where they were surrendered, no matter what, they can't get rid of it.

Jia Xu said in a deep voice: "Liu Cong and Cai Mao, you are so bold that you dare to set up assassins here to plot assassination, what crime should you be guilty of?" ”

Liu Cong and Cai Mao bowed to the ground and said: "His Royal Highness King Jing forgives me, these assassins are not sent by us, and the minister has no intention of offending King Jing in the slightest." Please check it out to King Jing. ”

Jia Xu gave Liu Ze a look. He continued to shout: "This place is under the jurisdiction of Xiangyang, one of you is the governor of Jingzhou, and the other is the governor of soldiers and horses, even if these assassins are not sent by you." But the sneak attack happened in Shili Pavilion. Disturb the king. You will not escape the crime of dereliction of duty! ”

Jia Xu's meaning is clear, that is, to make a fuss about this assassination incident and negotiate this time. Cai Mao's asking price is very high, Liu Ze in order to peacefully solve the Jingzhou problem, fully agreed to Cai Mao's request, and this assassination incident, undoubtedly gave Xuzhou a chance to fight back, although it is not necessary to treat Cai Mao's capital crime, but take this opportunity to weaken Cai Mao's power. Liu Ze naturally understood the meaning of Jia Xu's eyes, but Jingzhou has not yet taken over, if it really takes away Cai Mao's power, it will inevitably be strongly resisted by the real power faction in Jingzhou led by Cai Mao, laying a shadow for Jingzhou's smooth transition, so Liu Ze weighed it again and again and decided not to hold Cai Mao and others accountable and maintain the existing agreement.

Liu Cong and Cai Mao fell to the ground and begged for mercy, and kowtowed again and again.

Liu Ze put his hands on each other, hugged the two of them, and said, "It's not about this matter, Cong Xian's nephew and De Jue, hurry up." ”

The two of them got up and said, "Thank you King Jing for your grace." ”

Liu Ze smiled and said: "Cong Xian's nephew and De Jue are sincere to surrender, how can they send assassins to attack, not to mention that the assassins did it, and they clearly want to put the two to death, so this king asserts that these assassins have nothing to do with the two, and there must be someone who is dissatisfied with the two of them and surrendering to the king, so they will send people to assassinate and intend to disturb the overall situation." ”

Cai Mao said: "King Jing Mingjian, in the next has decided to return to King Jing, there is no ambition, this assassin sneak attack, must be Kuai Liang Kuai Yue, the Kuai family in Jingzhou has been fighting against the court in the Xia, political views, this time Jingzhou military and people are united to surrender to King Jing, only the Kuai family to Cao but not Liu." Today, a certain and Liu Yuanjun went out of the city to surrender, looking at Jingzhou, only the Kuai family had the courage to send assassins to attack. ”

Liu Ze sighed lightly, Kuai Liang Kuaiyue? This is also Liu Biao once relied on the important ministers of Jingzhou, it is rumored that they have long colluded with Cao Cao, it seems that what they said is true, but their courage is too great, when Liu Cong and Cai Mao raised the city and surrendered, they actually dared to secretly kill the killer, don't you know that whether it is successful or not, the Kuai family has no place in Jingzhou.

Suddenly, Cai Mao's face changed greatly, and she said, "It's not good! His Royal Highness King Jing, it was the minister's negligence, although the minister was in charge of the military power in Jingzhou, but there were more than 10,000 private soldiers of the Kuai family, and there were not a few generals in the army who secretly communicated with the Kuai family, and the minister could still be suppressed in Xiangyang. Kuai Liang Kuai Yue must not only set up a strategy for assassins to sneak attack Shili Pavilion, but also will definitely make some moves in Xiangyang City, the minister is not in Xiangyang at this time, the Kuai clan will accumulate military power, plot rebellion, and the minister asks for orders to return to Xiangyang immediately to quell the rebellion of the Kuai clan. ”

Liu Ze looked calm, and turned around and said, "Zilong-"

Zhao Yun was behind Liu Ze, and when he heard Liu Ze's summons, he strode forward and arched his hand: "The last general." ”

"You speed the first army to Xiangyang, immediately take over the defense of Xiangyang City, if there is any stubborn resistance, you will be killed!"

"The last general obeys!" Zhao Yun received the order and retreated in great strides.

In fact, the Xuzhou army did not enter Kuma and put Nanshan because of Jingzhou's city, on the contrary, Liu Ze had already ordered all legions to continue to be on first-level alert, and the Xuzhou army had already made a plan to deal with any emergency, and together with the attack of the assassins, it did not escape the prediction of Liu Ze and the think tank, so after the attack, the Xuzhou side, including Liu Ze, did not panic at all, and responded calmly, just half a pillar of incense, which eliminated this assassin team. As for the rebellion in Xiangyang City, it was not unexpected, and after Liu Ze got the news, he immediately sent the first army to Xiangyang to suppress the rebellion.

In just a moment, Zhao Yun had already gathered all the men and horses and galloped towards Xiangyang.

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Almost in line with the action of Shili Pavilion, the calm Xiangyang City suddenly shouted and killed, and the Kuai family soldiers suddenly attacked with the cronies of the Kuai family in the Jingzhou army, and seized the four city gates of Xiangyang and the granary and treasury of the state pastor's mansion and other key places, and the army loyal to Cai Mao clashed with the Kuai family army, and the battle was quite fierce for a while.

However, Cai Mao was not in the city at this time, and most of Cai Mao's cronies and generals were not in the city, either accompanying Cai Mao to Shili Pavilion to surrender, or leading the army to move outside the city.

According to the agreement signed by the two sides, Xiangyang City will be under the jurisdiction of Liu Ze in the future, and the army under the command of Cai Mao will be moved to Jiangling, the county of Tunnan County, although it is still difficult to transfer all the troops out of Xiangyang, but according to the agreement, eighty percent of the garrison in Xiangyang will first withdraw from Xiangyang City and camp outside the city, and the remaining two percent of the army will be withdrawn from Xiangyang after the completion of the handover of the defense of the Xuzhou Army, and the troops who have left the city in advance will be moved to Jiangling.

Therefore, when the Kuai clan rebelled, Xiangyang City not only had Cai Mao's more than 20,000 troops left, but also there were no effective generals to command, plus some of them were loyal to the Kuai clan's army against the water, and the four gates of Xiangyang soon fell, and the Kuai clan easily grasped the control of Xiangyang City.

Kuai Yue didn't expect success to come so easily, and said excitedly: "Brother's clever plan, I can't imagine that Xiangyang can get it at your fingertips, if Shili Pavilion succeeds, Jingzhou is also under the control of my Kuai family." ”

Kuai Liang was not as optimistic as him, his brows were tightened, and he said: "There has been no news back from Shili Pavilion, I'm afraid there is little hope, if Liu Ze and Cai Mao don't die, even if we take Xiangyang, we may not be able to hold it." "Kuai Liang's pessimism is not unreasonable, Xuzhou Liu Ze has more than 100,000 male soldiers, Cai Mao also has more than 100,000 land and water troops in his hands, and now the private soldiers of the Kuai family in Xiangyang City, together with the Jingzhou army that the Kuai family can control, are no more than 30,000 or 20,000 people, and the enemy army is ten times larger, Kuai Liang can hardly see hope. Now his only hope was that the dead men could succeed in one blow, or the consequences would be unimaginable.

But there was no news back from Shili Pavilion, which made Kuailiang worried, and it stands to reason that only after the action is done there, whether it is successful or not, it will be transmitted to Xiangyang as soon as possible. It's a pity that Kuai Liang didn't know, the assassins he sent had been wiped out, and there was not a single survivor left, and naturally no one would pass on the news to him anymore. Kuailiang was unsettled, and ordered to send a scout horse to Shili Pavilion to inquire about the news.

Before the people he sent out of the city gate, they heard the neighing of horses and the sound of killing from people outside the city. Kuai Liang secretly screamed badly, thinking that the Xuzhou army must have been killed under the city, and ordered Kuai Yue to go to the city to transfer troops, gather people and horses to the west gate to defend the city, and personally climbed the city tower to take a look.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, it scared Kuailiang at a glance, the dust outside the city rushed to the sky, the flag was waving, countless people and horses rolled in, overwhelming the sky, the first general, the white robe, silver armor, white horse and silver gun, it was Changshan Zhao Zilong, the prancing horse shouted loudly outside the suspension bridge: "Kuai Liang Kuaiyue!" If you dare to commit rebellion and seek your own death, you should not surrender the city as soon as possible, otherwise when the city is broken, you will be killed! ”

Kuai Liang was frightened for a while, although Kuai Liang was quite strategic, but after all, he was born as a scribe, and the murderous aura under the city couldn't help but make him feel frightened, and subconsciously took a few steps back, but Kuai Liang still forced himself to calm down, after all, if he gave up at this time, he would have abandoned his previous efforts, and he ordered his soldiers to defend to the death, ready to fight to the death with the Xuzhou army.

"Kuai Liang Pifu, when you don't know the sky, go against the sky, today is your death!" A broken cry, like a thunderbolt, sounded from behind Kuai Liang. (To be continued......)