When Xu Ji heard that Liu Xie was gone, his heart almost jumped out.

This matter is not a child's play, and it is related to the great cause of unifying the world.

However, Xu Ji couldn't blame Shi Ah about this matter, because Shi Ah Ben was a very delicate person, as a top swordsman, he rarely made mistakes, if even Shi Ah didn't look at Liu Xie, then he was afraid that it would be the same result if he changed himself.

The most important thing now is to find Liu Xie, not to complain about people without need.

When Shi Ah saw that he heard the news, he was only taken aback at first, and then he was silent, and his expression was calm, not revealing his inner thoughts at all, obviously thinking about countermeasures, and he was greatly admired in his heart.

At the moment, he told Xu Ji the whole process of his and Liu Xie's escape and why he came out alone this morning.

Xu Ji looked at Shi A Shen and said, "Are there any traces of a fight at the scene?" ”

Shi Ah shook his head and said, "Everything is in order in the cave, just like when I left. ”

Xu Ji touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "In this way, there should be two possibilities, the first possibility is that the emperor has been found and taken away by Wang Yun, and the other possibility is that the emperor has run away by himself." ”

Shi A was taken aback and couldn't believe it: "Impossible, right? Will the emperor go by himself? ”

Xu Ji snorted coldly, remembered something, and said to Shi A: "By the way, I remember that the emperor carried a small package with him when he left with us, is there still it in the cave?" ”

Shi Ah immediately shook his head and said, "The package in the cave is still there, but it has been turned over very messily. ”

Xu Ji said in a deep voice: "It seems that the emperor really left by himself." ”

Seeing Xu Ji's affirmation, Shi Ah couldn't help but ask, "Lord." How so? ”

Xu Ji looked at Shi Adao: "This matter is obvious, if the emperor is found by Wang Yun." Just take the burden away, why mess up the package? It was clearly a sign that the emperor had taken something from the package when he left. ”

Shi Ah nodded when he heard this.

Xu Ji sneered: "It seems that we all underestimate our emperor. Who said that our emperor is powerless? Who said that our emperor is a weak lord of the deep palace at the mercy of others? ”

Shi Ah immediately understood what Xu Ji meant, and said in shock: "The lord is saying that the emperor has already planned to stay away from us?" ”

Xu Ji nodded and said, "Can't you see this?" For the emperor, he doesn't trust anyone now, the only person who believes is himself, compared to us, Wang Yun is even more unreliable, and Zhang Ren's matter further proves that the Han family can't be trusted, and now for the emperor, the only person who can be used and trusted a little is Liu Yu. ”

Shi Ah nodded. You must know that Liu Xie is not a fool, and among these people, only Liu Yu is the least ambitious.

Xu Ji sighed and said: "From this, it can be seen that the emperor must have sneaked out of the city while you were sleeping, and the emperor's destination is Youzhou." ”

Shi A couldn't help laughing out loud and said: "I don't know how thick the sky is, just relying on his strength alone to think of Youzhou, isn't that a daydream?" ”

Xu Ji shook his head and said, "Shi, if you want to talk like this, you must know that when anyone in the Dao has a stumbling path, the butterfly will never laugh at the caterpillar." The emperor is young. So there will be thoughtful places, such as walking too anxiously and not arranging the scene, so that we can easily guess his intentions. But you have to admit that our emperor is growing. For example, the emperor chose to go to Youzhou alone. This must have been unexpected by Wang Yun and others, after all, in Wang Yun's impression, the emperor should be in our hands at this moment. And the farther away from Chang'an, the better, but the emperor used it contrary to his wishes. It was much to the surprise of Wang Yun and others, since even you and I have already been deceived. And what about others? ”

Shi A nodded and said: "I admit this, the problem is that the emperor chose the wrong direction, the emperor only saw that Liu Yu was a person who was easy to manipulate, but he did not see that Liu Yu was indecisive, and he was not a person who could sweep away the local heroes, Gongsun Chan is the most obvious example, even if the emperor can avoid the pursuit of Wang Yun and others, how long will it take for our emperor to go to Youzhou?" When the emperor arrived in Youzhou, he was afraid that Liu Yu would have been defeated and died. What is the effect of the emperor's actions? ”

Xu Ji didn't expect Shi A to think so clearly, and couldn't help but look at him with admiration.

Shi A pondered for a while, and said to Xu Ji: "Lord, what should we do for today's plan?" ”

Xu Ji said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, we are definitely going to find it back, the problem is that the strength of the two of us alone is not enough, and there are a lot of things in Jizhou and Yanzhou, I can't stay in this kind of place for too long." ”

After a pause, he said: "Although Junqing did not return to the rescue, I know that he will definitely send someone to find us, once we contact the Phantom Elite who is best at field warfare, our chances of finding the emperor will be greatly increased." ”

Shi Ah patted his head and said with a smile: "The lord didn't say that I forgot that there is still Junqing!" ”

Xu Ji snorted coldly and said, "Although we are very close to Chang'an now, we have a greater chance of joining Junqing's army as soon as possible." We will spread the code widely so that we can contact Junqing. ”

Shi A nodded yes, and then remembered something and said, "By the way, my lord, how do you arrange that Li Yan?" ”

Xu Keats muttered: "This Li Yannai is a rare talent, we can't let it go, but it's still too early, because we don't know what Lu Dao's feelings about Liu Biao are." However, I think we have a good chance of subduing Li Yan. ”

The reason why Xu Ji dared to be so sure was precisely because Li Yan took the initiative to turn his back on Liu Biao in history.

Shi A nodded, and was about to speak, but saw Li Yanxing coming back in a hurry, followed by Chen Dao, who was going to keep an eye on Shi A when he came back, and stopped talking when he saw the two of them.

The four of them rode on their war horses and continued to move north, Xu Ji picked some small roads to move forward, of course, because he was afraid that Wang Yun's army would find out his traces.

Li Yan thought that Xu Ji was afraid of making trouble for him, so he would choose such a small path to move forward, and he was grateful in his heart. Because of this, Li Yan has not been aware of the great changes that have taken place in Chang'an City until now. Of course, Xu Ji and Shi A pretended to be confused. Chen Zhi naturally couldn't say more. If he told Li Yan that Chang'an City had been turned upside down, how could he not immediately return to Jingzhou to report this matter?

What's more, there is Li Yan's cheap helper. Walking on the road certainly adds a lot of strength.

Along the way, Xu Ji left a lot of contact signals among the elite of the Yanzhou Army.

After a day's rest. The little injuries on Chen Zhi and Shi A have been completely recovered, and Xu Ji has a little flesh wounds, and it will not delay the trip of several people. On the contrary, after Chen Zhi was injured, he became even more fierce, and his spirit was still better than in the past, obviously after the battle with Lu Bu, he benefited a lot.

When the ghost elite saw Xu Ji and Chen Zhi's radiant appearance, he couldn't help but almost shed tears of joy, and Xu Ji was moved in his heart.

Finally, at dusk on the first day. A Shadow Elite spotted them and followed, finding Xu Ji. Xu Ji was overjoyed, knowing that he would be able to see the Yanzhou army in the near future.

It was in a forest, when the tired birds returned to the forest, and the cuckoos wept blood, which suddenly aroused the loneliness of the people at the end of the world.

But Xu Ji didn't have time to care about these things. Finding Liu Xie is the first place.

Li Yan naturally asked who the Shadow Elite was, and Xu Ji lied to him and said that this person was one of his old friends' subordinates, so he passed the test in confusion. However, Li Yan was even more strange as to why Chen Zhi, even a majestic man, would obey Xu Ji's young descendant, but at this time he didn't ask much.

And it wasn't long before the Shadow Elite was gone. It rained again throughout the day, not as heavy as the night before, but under the heavy rain, thunder rumbled. One after another, the lightning flashed like a dazzling trident under the sea god's hand outside the forest.

Xu Jixin called it just right, so he proposed to rest here for a while, and then hurried away.

Of course, Li Yan has no opinion. Seeing that Chang'an City is almost here, where is the need to be in a hurry?

So the four of them sat down in the midst of talking and laughing.

Xu Ji took the opportunity to ask about the customs of Jingzhou. Of course, the intention was to understand Liu Biao's movements.

Where did Li Yan know about this, and thought that they were concerned about their future officials. Of course, he talked eloquently: "Speaking of Jingzhou." In fact, no one has a definite concept, anyway, Jingzhou is based on the Han Dynasty in the north, the South China Sea is exhausted, Wuhui is connected to the east, and Bashu is the west, which is quite a vast area. There are a total of nine counties in Jingzhou, including Nanyang County and Jiangxia County. The land of Jingchu flows along the north, with the Jianghan outside, and the mountains and mausoleums inside, not only the solid of the golden city, but also the fertile fields for thousands of miles, and the people are rich, it is really a good place. I think the two brothers have good martial arts, and they will definitely be reused when they arrive in Jingzhou. The two in Li Yan's mouth are naturally Chen Zhi and Shi A, as for Xu Ji, in Li Yan's opinion, they are just tips.

Xu Ji, Shi A, and Chen Zhi glanced at each other, and said with a smile: "Zhengfang said it really well, Jingzhou is indeed a good place, but the road of the official eunuch is not easy to follow, and I hope Wen Zheng will give me more advice." ”

Li Yanyi waved his hand and said: "I don't understand this thing, anyway, I only know that Lu Dao can't offend the Cai family and the Kuai family in the Jingzhou army." Otherwise, you will not be able to eat and walk around. ”

Xu Ji had long known this, and said with a smile when he heard this: "It turns out that Lord Liu Biao trusts the two of them so much." ”

Li Yan nodded and said: "Of course, let's just say Mr. Kuai Yue of the Kuai family, we Liu Yan people just listened to Mr. Kuai Yue's words to change Jingzhou to a tranquility, Mr. Kuai Yue said: 'Those who are peaceful are benevolent and righteous first, and those who are chaotic are the first to schem', and said that to deal with the thieves, we should 'punish them for their lack of way, and use their talents', Lord Liu Biao listened to Dayue, according to Mr. Kuai Yue's words, we have swept away the thieves last year. The general Sun Jian under Yuan Shu died in our hands. ”

Xu Ji was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect that Kuai Yue, who was not prominent in history, would have such skills.

Li Yan said again: "As for the Cai family, it is our Jingzhou's leading family, if you say a plan, it is of course Mr. Kuaiyue's business, but it depends on the three Cai brothers of the Cai family to send troops to fight, Jinzhou is a water town, not as good as the Central Plains, accustomed to horse warfare and foot warfare, our Jingzhou is only good at water warfare." Cai's three heroes are the most powerful naval generals in Jingzhou. ”

After a pause, he said: "What's more, the Cai family is still married to Lord Liu Biao, and that status is naturally extraordinary." ”

Xu Ji was overjoyed when he heard this, and deliberately smiled: "What? Square? With your skills, you are not included in the list of famous generals in Jingzhou? ”

Li Yan sighed dejectedly: "What am I worth? I heard that there is a general named Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng in Jingzhou, whose martial arts are world-famous, and it is said that he will not be weaker than Wenhou Lu Bu of Chang'an City at all. It's a pity that we didn't have the chance to meet. However, I heard that there is another person named Wen Ping, who is also a hero in the world. But he has already defected to the current colt Xu Ji, and I have no chance to see it. But to be honest, I really wanted to meet for a while. ”

Hearing Wen Ping's name, although Xu Ji had a smile on his face, there was a faint pain in his heart, Wen Ping was definitely a general with the style of a general that he was optimistic about, but unfortunately he died in the hands of Lu Bu because of his own mistakes.

However, Xu Ji quickly put these aside, although the grief was unbearable, but now he can't slack off because of a person's life and death. At this time, Xu Ji's heart began to wonder how he could win Jingzhou at the lowest cost, and Xu Ji didn't want to wait for the day when Liu Biao died before taking over Yanzhou. Now Liu Biao is still very tough, and he is afraid that he will not be able to die in a short time. It is impossible for him to pick up a cheap one for nothing like Cao Cao in history.

The art of war has clouds: the art of using military is scattered land, light land, land contention, land handover, Qu land, heavy land, encirclement land, encirclement land, and dead land. The so-called "scattered land is no war, light land is endless." If you fight for land, you will not attack, if you hand over land, if you fight for land, if you fight for land."

Jingzhou is a piece of "fighting for land", and the so-called "fighting for land" is the place where "I will benefit, and Peter will also benefit".

Historically. Jingzhou is like this, if Liu Bei gets Jingzhou, he can attack the Central Plains from Jingzhou and Yizhou, and realize the "rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty." return to the old capital"; If Sun Quan gets Jingzhou, he can rely on the Yangtze River natural insurance and settle in Jiangdong. contend with Cao Cao, and then seek to win the world; Cao Cao Ruo Jingzhou. You can take the Yangtze River upstream, and take the Yangtze River downstream. Annexed Soochow and dominated the world. Therefore, it is destined that on the Jingzhou issue, the three parties must have a dragon and tiger fight.

Therefore, for Xu Ji, Jingzhou must not only be his own, but also his "exclusive land".

Yuan Shu and Sun Jian back then obviously took a fancy to this.

Xu Ji is certainly no exception.

Yuan Shu's method is to conquer by force, so what should he do?

The original plan was to provoke Liu Biao's heirs, but now it seems that there is absolutely no such possibility, after all, Liu Biao is still in the prime of life, and Liu Biao is only in the early years of Jingzhou, and Mrs. Cai and no children are talking about it, what else are you talking about Liu Cong and Liu Qi competing for the position of inheritance?

It seems that it is not so simple to seize Jingzhou.

Hey, it would be nice to make Guo Jia or Xun Yu here, compared to Xu Shu, he is much worse, he has the ability to adapt to changes, but when he encounters such a strategic problem, Xu Shu's skills will also be at home.

It's a pity that the group of friends around me have been arranged to take important positions in various places in the two states, so that now I lack a person who can discuss big things?

At this time, Xu Ji's mind suddenly flashed Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair" that had not yet come out of the mountain, thinking of this, Xu Ji only felt a flash of inspiration in his mind, and immediately remembered the way to win Jingzhou.

In a word, if you want to win the world, you must get Jingzhou; If you want to get Jingzhou, you must Yizhou.

In fact, not only in the Three Kingdoms era, in fact, in other dynasties, the land of Jingzhou is also the hub of the world, every time the "chaos", every change of dynasty, the strength of the north and the strength of the south always clash here to determine the belonging of the world. With Jingzhou in the south, it can attack the base and logistics base of the northern regime, while with Jingzhou, the northern regime can go south and pacify Chu and Wu.

Historically, Cao Cao, the man most likely to end the chaos of the Three Kingdoms and unify China, lost the opportunity because he ignored this law.

If Cao Cao had not wanted to go south to destroy Wu after Cao Cao had killed Lu Bu in Dongping, Yuan Shao in the north, Emperor Han in Xuchang in the west, and Yuan Shu in Runan in the south, perhaps history would have changed.

If Xu Ji is Cao Cao, he must slow down his pace after getting Jingzhou and fight steadily.

Ma Teng should be destroyed first, then Zhang Lu, and then Liu Zhang, especially Yizhou, absolutely not like Cao Cao to scold Zhang Song away, put the map of Shu and don't want it, as long as he gets the land of Shu, he can stabilize Jingzhou and form the most decisive blow to Eastern Wu.

In fact, this idea is the idea of "Longzhong Pair", and it is a method that takes all the ancient and modern times.

In this way, it seems that his own plan to win Yizhou must be put on the agenda.

On the other side, Li Yan was talking endlessly, Xu Ji seemed to be concentrating here, but in fact, he had already traveled thousands of miles, and he didn't know where he had gone.

Just when Xu Ji was in a trance, he only heard Shi A, who had been silent, snort coldly: "Where did the unknown rat come from?" Since he has already followed, why do you hide your head and tail so much, and don't come out to die! ”

I didn't expect the enemy to come so quickly.

Hearing this, Xu Ji became alert, and then saw that Chen Zhi had already jumped up at the same time as Li Yan, and at the same time raised the gun in his hand.

And Shi Ah had already drawn his long sword. Look out of the forest at the world where the rainstorm will stop.

At this moment, I saw people killing them from all sides and surrounding them, but I saw dozens of figures, all of them exuding a fierce light like a beast, this scene was not only full of terrifying murderous intent, but also indescribably panicked to see.

Xu Ji looked at it, but found that there were as many as forty-eight opponents on each side, although the forty-eight people on each side seemed to dissolve into a whole, in fact, every four people were in a group, although the steps of these forty-eight people seemed to be the same, in fact, every four people and the four people had another rhythm, as if they were stepping on a certain mysterious and incomprehensible truth between heaven and earth, and there would definitely be no sense of chaos.

There's a terrifying murder in it. And the number of people is not dominant.

Listen to the sounds, there seem to be cavalry outside. It's just that he didn't come in to participate in the attack because he couldn't play to his advantage in the dense forest.

It seems that it is the enemy's brigade, and the situation is not optimistic.

However, the three people on the other side did not take these murderous people on the other side to heart at all, although people like Chen Zhi were in the realm of martial arts, although they were in the midst of thousands of troops, their state of mind was also like a little thousand years of ice on the fire of the furnace, and they looked at the enemy on the opposite side coldly, and they had already put aside the success or failure of life and death, and their hearts had entered the realm of Gujing without waves.

A scuffle, on the verge of breaking out.

It's just that Xu Ji complained in his heart, these three are all god-killing characters, but he is just a literati who can play a show, he can't help but start to ask a question: Dian Wei and Le Yi, where are you two bastards? (To be continued......)