Liu Hu is the nephew of Liu Biao, skilled in archery and horses, brave in battle, and quite prestigious in the Jingzhou army, but his brain may not be easy to use, so Liu Biao appointed Lai Gong, a famous Lingling scholar, as his staff officer. During the day, Liu Bei sent Jian Yong to negotiate with Liu Zhang, and after Liu Hu returned to his temporary mansion, Lai Gong said to him: "This plan to delay the army is also, I see that Liu Xuande is ambitious, and he is willing to let go of a county?" If Liu Bei refuses to retreat, we will return to Xiangyang immediately, and how can I explain to Liu Mu? The general should think carefully. "Hurry up and come up with an idea.

Liu Hu said that since this was the case, it was better to immediately launch the Jingzhou army, kidnap Liu Bei, and force him to return to Jingzhou. Lai Gong said that it was not appropriate, Liu Bei's subordinates Guan, Zhang, Zhao and others were all enemies, Xu Shu, Pang Tong, and Fa Zheng, who had recently come from Chengdu to vote, were also wise and resourceful, and they were planning to conspire, I am afraid it will be very difficult to succeed.

However, as soon as Liu Hu made up his mind, he refused to listen to Lai Gong's advice, and immediately ordered to convene the generals of Jingzhou to discuss. Among the Jingzhou generals who came over, he was the only one who was not called Gan Ning - Gan Xingba was very popular with Liu Bei, and the two of them have been getting closer and closer recently, this is a person who can see it, although Liu Hu is short-sighted, he is not blind after all.

Among the generals called by Liu Hu, Gan Ning's friends Shen Mi and Lou Fa were also included. Because Gan Ning was heavily rewarded by Liu Bei, Shen and Lou were inevitably jealous, and occasionally complained, saying that although we did not have the great merit of Xing Bali, but there was also hard work, and Liu Xuande's reward was a little too thin. Liu Hu had heard of this, so he didn't avoid the two.

However, Shen Mi and Lou Fa are from Yizhou rather than Jingzhou after all, and they inevitably feel ostracized in the Jingzhou army. Their dissatisfaction with Liu Bei was far less than their dissatisfaction with Liu Biao and Liu Hu. And at the beginning, he was against Liu Zhang with Gan Ning and the three of them, and now Gan Ning has Liu Bei's attention, so as long as he firmly adheres to this little friend, are you still afraid that there will be no future? It's better than going back to Jingzhou. So they stabbed the news to Gan Ning in a blink of an eye.

Gan Ning was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly ran to report to Liu Bei. Liu Bei was stunned at first, but then he heard Yi said: "Xuande is not going to return." He reacted, and this bad thing can become a good thing! Therefore, Xu Shu, Pang Tong, Fa Zheng and others were urgently summoned to discuss, and they struck first and sent Zhang Fei and Gan Ning to take over the Jingzhou army. Take down Liu Hu and Lai Gong on the spot.

Zhang Fei came to see Liu Bei with a single hand and walked to Liu Hu, who was tied up like a dumpling. Liu Bei was taken aback by the fake model: "How dare you treat Liu Gongzi like this?" "Hurry down and help Liu Hu untie it. Liu Hu really thought that Liu Bei didn't know about this, and it was the people under him who did it without him, such as the reckless man Zhang Yide and others, and quickly cleared it up: "It's not that the tiger dares to touch the tiger's might, but that Lai Gong taught it." ”

followed Lai Gong, who was escorted in, scolded Liu Hu to death in his heart. But he knew that even if he turned his face with Liu Hu on the spot. Make the words clear. may not be able to win Liu Bei's trust - besides, do you really believe that Liu Bei doesn't know that the mastermind is Liu Hu? simply stalked his neck: "We have been away from Jing for a long time, and people's hearts are home." General Liu did not want to withdraw from the army, so he had to be heard. Please behead the head to vent the hatred of the general, but let Liu Gongzi go. ”

Liu Bei nodded sadly, and said I understand your feelings, but there is something to discuss, why do you want to do this, everyone can't get off the stage? Pang Tong helped beside him, saying that Liu Jingzhou not only swallowed Yuanzhou, but also heard that he sent troops to take over Xinye and other counties, you want to go home early, but my lord is equivalent to being homeless. In my opinion, it's better for the big guys to get together and disperse, so let's go their separate ways.

So he convened Jingzhou soldiers to train them, and in the end, three percent were willing to stay, and seven percent hoped to return to their hometowns. Liu Bei confiscated all the weapons of the seventy percent Jingzhou soldiers, only prepared a month's food, put down the boat, and asked them to follow Liu Hu, Lai Gong, Yi and others along the river to the east and return to Jingzhou.

By the way, Liu Bei also wrote a sincere letter and asked the Iraqi nationality to bring it to Liu Biao. The letter said that if I didn't want to withdraw from the army, everyone was unwilling to give up the land obtained from the bloody battle, even if I temporarily guarded it for Brother Jingsheng. I have a brother in Qianwei, and it is expected that Liu Zhang will no longer dare to look at Jingzhou, and between Jing and Yi, it will be peaceful.

Of course, there is nothing to do between Jing and Yizhou, and the war within Yizhou cannot be stopped. Liu Bei sent Jian Yong to Chengdu to negotiate with Liu Zhang, but he did not mention the withdrawal of the army, only saying that he hoped to live in Qianwei for a long time, and under this premise, he was willing to be Liu Zhang's minister. Liu Zhang said that it was not a big deal to allow you to be a county guard, but Wuyang is too close to Chengdu, if you don't spit out Wuyang City, I can't agree to your request.

Jian Xianhe stayed in Chengdu for seven days, either bargaining with Liu Zhang, or visiting the high-ranking families in the city, and lived a very fulfilling life, as for whether the mission could be achieved - he didn't take it to heart at all. On the fifth day, Shisun Meng also saw that Liu Bei sent this person to completely delay time and deal with things, and it would be useless for me to continue to mix, so I just said goodbye and went back to Xu Du.

Seven days later, Jian Yong also said goodbye to Liu Zhang, saying that he would go back to discuss with his lord again, and returned to Wuyang City in a leisurely manner, where Liu Zhang sent Wang Mou to visit Liu Bei.

In the past few days, Liu Bei was in Wuyang, completely purged the Jingzhou forces that refused to obey, reorganized the troops, and took Sun Qian and Xu Shu as the work, Pang Tong and Fa Zheng as the staff officers, and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Xiahou Su, Gan Ning, Yan Yan and others to lead the various armies. To deal with Liu Zhang, Pang Tong offered a word "drag" - talking about judgment on the surface, secretly accumulating strength, if he wants to fight us, he will stick to Wuyang, and if he doesn't move, we will not continue to advance. After all, the balance of forces is still very different, and the city of Chengdu is high and dense, so it is not the right time to attack.

So how do you expand your strength? Fa is the head of the snake, immediately offered a plan, and went south to collect the counties of Yuewang, Yizhou, Qiqi, and Yongchang, as well as Shu County and Qianwei as the two subject countries. He said that the local powerful factions such as Yonghong in Yizhou, Deng Fang in Yongchang County, Zhu Bao in Zhu Bao, and Wang Gaoding in Yuewangyi all had friendships with him, and they were also dissatisfied with Liu Zhang's rule of Shu, so they could lobby to make them dependent. He Zong also said that the Yizhou County Shou was the chief guest of his fellow townsman, and he could fight for it.

"In the territory of the Dianjiang River and the ditch in Ba County, between the Han water and diving, there are people who live in Yan, who are fierce and good at fighting, and in the past, they used to follow the fan, and they held the crossbow and helped the Han to attack Qin, which is also known as the 'Ban Yu Man'. The counties of Yinan are the former Qiongdu, Yunnan, Yingdu, Yelang and other countries, and the people are either farming or herding, and they are all fighting. If these two kinds can be accepted as pawns, the Yizhou soldiers will not be able to do it. In the end, Fa Zhengjian yì Liu Bei went to win over the ethnic minorities and recruit their people as soldiers, so that he could be ten and defeat Liu Zhang.

Liu Bei was overjoyed, and immediately sent Sun Qiancheng to Ba County to bribe people, and sent Gan Ning to move other troops westward to take the subject country of Shu County, and he was ready to personally lead the army to the south and cross the Luwei River to enter the south. But Pang Tong persuaded him: "Chengdu or send troops, can the main public security leave Wuyang?" The situation is far away in the south, between the poor mountains and bad waters, there are many miasma, and this trip is difficult and dangerous - I am willing to go on behalf of the lord. ”

In the end, Liu Bei adopted Pang Tong's Jianyi, that is, appointed Tong as the general of the military division, and joined the army with Fa Zheng, so that Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun led 8,000 elite troops to the south. It is planned to take Yuewang this winter, and then divide the road to Yizhou and Qiqi, and if the army goes smoothly, it can enter Yongchang again in the coming year.

In addition, Shisun Meng left Chengdu, returned by the same route, and met Liu Biao again in Xiangyang on the way, stayed for three or five days, and then hurriedly returned to Xudu and reported to Cao Cao about the envoy. Cao Cao didn't take Liu Bei too seriously, he felt that now that kid has entered Yizhou, and Liu Zhang, Zhao Wei, and Zhang Lu are four points, this battle has to be fought for many years, and when they divide the winners and losers, I should also think about collecting the southwest - from Qingzhou to Xuzhou to Jingzhou, and now to Yizhou, Liu Xuande is really stirring up trouble everywhere, but the ultimate profiteer, isn't it still me Cao Mengde?

He just asked Shisun Meng: "Can you see Kong Wenju in Xiangyang?" ”

Shisun Meng said that he saw it, and Kong Rong was treated as a guest by Liu Jingsheng on the surface, but in fact restricted his activities. Because it is said that as soon as Kong Rong arrived in Xiangyang, he asked Liu Biao to punish Huang Zu who killed Youheng, so most of the people under the Jingzhou curtain were hostile to him. After meeting, he also opened his mouth to probe and said that I had already finished paying tribute to Zhao Weiqing, should I return to Xu Du to pay the order?

Cao Cao was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What is Qing okay?" "Shisun Meng said that I am not so stupid. If he wants to come back, he can say goodbye to Liu Biao at any time and return to Xudu, why do you want to ask me? It was obvious that Jingzhou couldn't stay anymore, but he didn't dare to return suddenly, so he wanted me to help him get an idea - Cao Cao hated Kong Rong, and he knew that he sent Kong Rong out of Jingzhou, just to get away out of sight and out of mind, Shi Sun Meng also saw this, how could he take Kong Rong back again?

Cao Cao said okay, it's good if the bastard doesn't come back - it's been less than half a year since he went out, and you can't stay still? But I just let you know that I, Cao Mengde, treat you quite well, and others may not be as tolerant of you as I am! Cao Cao couldn't help but think wishfully, maybe after a year or two in Jingzhou, Kong Wenju would know that he was wrong, and even if he came back, he would no longer fight with me?

After all, Kong Rongwen is famous all over the world, although it is useless, but as long as he does not make trouble, Cao Cao is still willing to be a mascot.

Only Shi Xun heard that Liu Bei had been subordinated, and he couldn't help but sigh: "The tiger has come out." According to the split situation of factions within Yizhou, he took into account that Liu Bei's command was full of talents—there were Xu, Pang, and Fa, and Wu, Zhang, and Zhao...... Ah, inexplicably, there is one more Gan Xingba - in less than three or five years, it is expected that Liu Bei will be able to defeat Liu Zhang and become the master of Chengdu.

The question is, in the past three or five years, will the Cao family have time to level Youzhou, take Jingzhou, and then be able to extend their influence to the west of Liangzhou and even Liangzhou? Shu Road is difficult, if you can't have Jing and Liang at the same time, put pressure on Yizhou from the east and north, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defeat Liu Bei......

Could it be that in this world, in the end, it will not be able to achieve three points?!

(End of Volume 13 of the Dead and Alive) (To be continued......)

PS: Ah, I'm really sorry, today's article was written smoothly, and I accidentally missed the time for the update...... It's been delayed until now that I remember, I'm here to blame, big guy, forgive me......