Xiangyang City is in chaos, Cai Mao, Liu Qi, Liu Bei can not confront each other, although Liu Biao in the city is kept in the dark, but Liu Biao is well versed in the world, and he sees a hint of clues in the generals who are staggered around him.

called Cai Mao, Liu Biao lay on the sickbed and first glanced at Cai Mao deeply, and then asked, "Are you using troops abroad?" Cai Mao was shocked when she heard this, and quickly denied it, deducing that she was just training soldiers. Liu Biao had already expected Cai Mao's reaction, sighed, and didn't say anything more, so Cai Mao retreated. After Cai Mao left, Liu Biao called his confidants and told him to go to the city wall to see what was going on, and be sure to find out whether Cai Mao was using troops externally and against whom.

Walking out of Liu Biao's bedroom, Cai Mao felt a sense of oppression. It seems that Liu Qi must be solved as soon as possible, Liu Biao is already suspicious, and I am afraid that this matter will not be hidden for a long time. Cai Mao, who was walking, made up his mind, turned a corner with his steps, and walked directly in the direction of the city wall, he wanted to concentrate his superior forces today and kill Liu Qi completely, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

Under the leadership of Cai Mao, the 30,000 sailors stationed in Xiangyang abandoned the ship and landed, and with the 20,000 foot soldiers in the hands of other military generals, the 50,000 army opened the city gate and appeared in front of Liu Qi's military camp with murderous spirit. Seeing this, the young and vigorous Liu Qi was furious, and immediately took Liu Pan to fight and handed over the camp to Liu Bei to guard.

Liu Bei looked at Liu Qi's figure in battle, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he turned around and came to an extremely ordinary small tent in the camp, in which sat several extremely fine-looking sergeants. Their eyes were very sharp, and at a glance they knew that Lu Dao was an excellent marksman.

Seeing Liu Bei coming, several people quickly stood up. Saluted to Liu Bei. Liu Bei patted them on the shoulders one by one, and whispered: "Our opportunity has come, you change into the clothes and armor of the Jiangxia army and mix into the battlefield in front, if Cai Mao kills Liu Qi, don't expose it, and come back with the defeated army; If Cai Mao's waste fails to kill Liu Qi. Do you know what to do? ”

One of the leading sergeants patted the longbow on his back and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, my lord, those who were killed by stray arrows during the battle between the two armies." But Liu Qi is not the only one, he will not come back alive today. After speaking, he shook his head, and several sergeants were led by him. walked out of the tent one after another.

These few people. It was Liu Bei who secretly raised the dead soldier after he came to Jingzhou, so that one day, he could play an unexpected role on such an occasion. The short body walked out of the tent, Liu Bei came to the back of the tent, and saw that Mi Zhu was already waiting here, Liu Bei walked to Mi Zhu's side. He whispered: "No matter how successful or bad things are, we must not let these people come back alive." If you want them to keep their mouths shut forever, you can only turn them into dead people. ”

Mi Zhu was stunned, these dead soldiers were recruited by Mi Zhu, and all along, Mi Zhu was also responsible for the food and clothing of several of them, Mi Zhu did not work them, the elite level of these people was no worse than that of Bai Yu's elite soldiers, and Liu Bei's weight on them was also obvious, but now, in order to cover up the real cause of Liu Qi's death, Liu Bei decided to abandon them. quickly reacted, Mi Zhu understood what Liu Bei meant, and replied: "Don't worry, my lord, I'll do it......"

Looking at Mi Zhu's back, Liu Bei's face suddenly became gloomy, and he whispered in a voice that only he could hear: "In order to prevent these dead soldiers from leaking secrets, you can only execute them, but one day, if you Mi Zizhong want to betray me, who should I let execute you......"

Outside the camp, the shouts of killing sounded all day long, Liu Pan protected Liu Qi's side, looked at the two sergeants who were fighting, and said with some concern: "Big brother, Cai Mao and they have too many troops, I'm afraid we won't be able to stop it." Liu Qi glanced disdainfully in Cai Mao's direction, and said angrily: "Brother Pan, don't worry, evil has been invincible since ancient times!" Our army will win! Seeing Liu Qi's confident appearance, Liu Pan had no choice but to hide the worries in his heart, and shouted loudly to fight bravely with his subordinate sergeants.

However, war is not something that can be won by a book with a vivid mouth, especially a frivolous scholar like Liu Qi who does not understand what war is. Under the command of Cai Mao, the 50,000 army advanced and retreated, and gradually suppressed Liu Qi's 20,000 Jiangxia army. Seeing that his subordinates were suppressed, Liu Qi's frivolous temper flared up again, he stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and shouted loudly: "Soldiers! Forge ahead and avenge my father! ”

Hearing Liu Qi's shout, Liu Pan chuckled in his heart, and suddenly felt that something was wrong. Your own side is already at a disadvantage, and as a commander-in-chief, not only do you not make accurate judgments based on the battlefield situation, but instead insist on rushing forward with a stream of blood, isn't this looking for death?

Sure enough, Cai Mao also judged Liu Qi's location through Liu Qi's shouting, raised his gun and pointed at Liu Qi's side, and shouted: "Rush!" Rushing in this direction, you must catch Liu Qi's rebellion, whether you live or die! Under the command of Cai Mao, the army of 50,000 rushed in the direction of Liu Qi, and soon broke through the defense line arranged by Liu Pan and killed in front of Liu Qi's eyes. Fear forced Liu Qi to turn his horse's head and run backwards. Just ran two steps, two sharp arrows flew out of nowhere and pierced Liu Qi's chest and shot Liu Qi off his horse.

In the dark, several dead soldiers raised by Liu Bei threw away their bows and arrows, pretended to be defeated, and ran in the direction of the camp, but they did not know that they had been ruthlessly sentenced to death by Liu Bei, and what was waiting for them would be the poisonous wine that Mi Zhu had already prepared.

With Liu Qi being killed by an arrow, Cai Mao's spirit was shocked, thinking that his subordinates had shot Liu Qi, and led the army to kill for a while, and pursued him until he was outside Liu Qi's camp, only to be blocked back by Liu Bei's army. After this battle, after Liu Qi's death, Liu Bei led the army to resist Cai Mao's actions, won the favor of Liu Qi's old department, and under the leadership of Liu Pan, more than 20,000 soldiers who were originally Liu Qi's subordinates all surrendered to Liu Bei's command.

Xiangyang Chengtou, a cronie sent by Liu Biao. Stunned, he saw the scene of Liu Qi being killed by an arrow, and in a panic, he hurriedly ran back to the Chengzhong Prefecture Pastoral Mansion. told Liu Biao everything he saw. Liu Biao was already ill and had not recovered, and after hearing the return of his cronies, he was furious, opened his mouth and spewed out two mouthfuls of blood, and said angrily: "Call Cai Mao, this mansion wants to ask him what his intentions are!" Qi'er. My boy ......"

When Cai Mao came to Liu Biao's bedroom with his generals without removing their armor, there were blood stains on their armor. It made Liu Biao dizzy for a while, trembling and pointing at Cai Mao, Liu Biao said angrily: "Whose blood is your body?" ”

After solving Liu Qi. Cai Mao no longer has any scruples. Liu Biao has a total of two sons, as soon as Liu Qi dies, no matter how resentful Liu Biao is in his heart, he will still pass on the position of Jingzhou Mu to Liu Cong, and at that time, Cai Mao is Jingzhou Mu's uncle, do you need to be afraid of anything? In the face of Liu Biao's questioning, Cai Mao did not hide the slightest meaning: "Return to the lord." This blood belongs to the eldest son Liu Qi. Liu Qi led his troops to rebel. Punish the guilty! The last general has already cleared the portal for the lord. ”

Unexpectedly, Cai Mao was so rampant, and he didn't take killing Liu Qi as a thing at all, Liu Biao's hand at Cai Mao trembled even more violently, and after a long time, Liu Biao suddenly opened his mouth and spurted out a large amount of blood, and then fell on the bed and fell unconscious. Cai Mao knew that Liu Biao was stimulated by the pain of losing a child and fell into a coma, and the lesson of the past was in front of him, Yuan Shao did not hesitate to collude with Li Dao and Guo Yan in order to avenge Yuan Xi, which shows what a sad thing it is to lose a child in the middle way. Sighing, Cai Mao turned his head to the two brothers Cai Zhong and Cai He and said, "You stay outside the room and take care of the lord." In addition to being dissatisfied with Liu Biao's preparation to make Liu Qi the prince, Cai Mao can be said to be loyal to Liu Biao, and naturally he doesn't want to see any accidents in Liu Biao.

But Cai Mao was short of wisdom after all, he only thought of taking care of Liu Biao, but he didn't think of Liu Bei who was a wolf outside the city. Liu Bei, a hero, seized the opportunity of Cai Mao to kill Liu Qi, and together with Liu Pan, he called on people of insight in Jingzhou to come to the "Qingjun side".

Under Pang Tong's strategy, Liu Bei transferred back Guan Yu, who had been sent to Yanzhou, and instead captured Wuling County in the southwest of Jingzhou; sent Zhang Fei to capture Lingling County east of Wuling; sent Chen to capture Guiyang County in the east; Liu Bei himself continued to be stationed outside Xiangyang City with Guan Ping, Liu Feng and others under the banner of avenging Liu Qi, paying close attention to the movements in Xiangyang City. Liu Bei knew that after getting the bad news of Liu Qi's death, Liu Biao's condition was bound to worsen and become more serious, if Liu Biao died on this, Liu Bei was ready to lead the army to conquer Xiangyang and occupy the southern half of Jingzhou as his own.

As for Liu Bei's order of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Chen Zhi to attack the three southern counties, instead of Jiangxia and other places with abundant money and grain, it was out of Pang Tong's persuasion, Pang Tong believed that the two forces of Cao Cao and Sun Quan in the north of Jingzhou were trying to survive in the cracks, which was not conducive to the development of their own forces, so it was better to take the three southern counties first, and take the three southern counties as the foundation, recruit soldiers and horses in the three counties, and use troops to the north. Anyway, Liu Qi is dead, Jiangxia is in a state of no one to take over, Cao Cao and Sun Quan have their own troubles, and they are not able to invade Jingzhou in a short time.

Pang Tong's opinion was fully affirmed by Liu Bei, and he fought in accordance with Pang Tong's strategic concept. In less than ten days, Guan, Zhang, and Chen Zhi successively sent people to report that the three southern counties had been taken, and Guan Yu also subdued the general Zhou Cang in the battle of attacking Wuling. Zhang Fei surrendered to Lingling General Xing Daorong in the Battle of Lingling; And Chen Zhi also gained in the battle to pacify Guiyang, so that Guiyang's general Chen Yinggui surrendered.

At this point, the three southern counties of Jingzhou were completely taken into Liu Bei's pocket, and Liu Bei finally obtained a piece of land that truly belonged to him after more than ten years of exile. Although the means used are not above board at all, and the excuse of avenging Liu Qi is also very far-fetched, Liu Bei doesn't care about these now, compared with the territory, money and food, soldiers and horses, Liu Bei still feels that the former is more affordable.

Of course, under Pang Tong's planning, Liu Bei was very "innocent" in this civil strife in Jingzhou, and he was just forcibly implicated by the situation. As a result, Liu Bei's reputation has been preserved to the greatest extent, not only to get affordable land, but also to retain a good reputation, Liu Bei's heart has blossomed. (To be continued......)

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