Jingzhou, Nanyang County, Xinye County. Xinye was small and not densely populated, but it was an extremely important military stronghold in the Han Dynasty. Here is connected to Wan and Luo in the north, and Jing and Xiang in the south, which is the throat of Jingzhou.

Because of Ao Lie's crossing, Liu Bei came to Xinye ahead of the historical process. Since coming here, Liu Bei's entire mind has been spent on recruiting troops. At the same time, Liu Bei was also carefully pondering some of the rules of Ao Lie's career in Nanyang, and the more he thought about it, the more strange he felt. In the short time that Ao Lie was in Nanyang, in addition to leading the army to crusade against the remnants of the Yellow Turban who were guarding Wancheng, and that is, to clear the nearby mountain bandits and bandits, there was almost no time to rectify the armament, but those who later threatened the world were armed to the soldiers under his command during Ao Lie's appointment as Nanyang Taishou, so the question arises, where did the weapons used by the elite under Ao Lie's command come from?

Anything can't help but be scrutinized by people with a heart. Liu Bei was suppressed by Ao Lie for a long time and couldn't raise his head, he had long held a breath of resentment in his heart, looking for Ao Lie's flaws all the time, but the flaws were not found, but Liu Bei found another secret in Ao Lie's heart.

After spending nearly a year collecting and analyzing Ao Lie's whereabouts during his tenure in Nanyang, Liu Bei actually relied on his old scheming and deep calculations to find the secret treasure of Guangwu that Ao Lie had entered at the beginning. At the beginning, the strength under Ao Lie's command was not as strong as it is now, so he did not have the ability to transport all the things in the Guangwu Secret Treasure at once, but only two-thirds of them. Now, Liu Bei has discovered the remaining third.

Although there is only one-third, it still makes Liu Bei smile. Among the remaining treasures of Guangwu, Liu Bei found a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, and weapons, including several broken Jidu swords and Rahu dragon horn spears. These remaining money can help Liu Bei further recruit troops and expand his power; And those weapons are just enough to be equipped in their own army. saved a large amount of military expenses for Liu Bei. At the same time, Liu Bei also funded the craftsman to restore the broken and abandoned horse chopping knife, imitated five hundred horse chopping knives, and equipped them with his own white Yu elite soldiers, as for the dragon horn gun, it was ignored by Liu Bei, because this kind of weapon with complex shape and heavy weight is really not suitable for ordinary people.

When five hundred white elite soldiers appeared in front of Liu Bei's eyes wearing fish-scale iron armor and holding a horse sword, Liu Bei's eyes couldn't help but flash. Such an image. Isn't it the initial appearance of the terrifying bloody army under Ao Lie? It was not only Liu Bei who saw this, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also saw it. The three of them have had contact with Ao Lie, especially Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, because they have a good personal relationship with Ao Lie. knew a lot about the bloody army under Ao Lie, and the two of them only glanced at it. It was decided. This is the costume of the first batch of bloody killing troops, which was still called the bloody killing camp at that time.

Zhang Fei's old subordinates were originally a team of cavalry given to Zhang Fei by Ao Lie, and those hairy boys back then have long grown up now, and many of them have also served as cavalry governors or higher positions. Riders. It was one of the official positions in the cavalry of the Han Dynasty, and was responsible for the low-ranking officers in charge of fifty cavalry. Although it has been nearly ten years since he left Youzhou, in the hearts of these people, there is still Ao Lie's figure. So far, he refuses to call Liu Bei the lord, but refers to him as a general. When these people saw the outfit of the white soldiers, they turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee facing the north, their faces were covered with tears, and many people shed tears while saying with emotion: "Blood killing!" It's bloodkill! Lord, are you alright......"

The reaction of these cavalry officers once again aroused the dissatisfaction in Liu Bei's heart, ten years! These people still refuse to call themselves lords as they did at the beginning! Could it be that in their hearts, I, Liu Bei, am really not as good as Ao Lie! If he hadn't continued to rely on these people in the future, Liu Bei would have been impatient and killed these cavalry officers.

Unlike Liu Bei's reaction, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and even Chen Zhi were all infected by the actions of these cavalry officers, and they all sighed. For Ao Lie's order, these people have been following Zhang Fei for almost ten years, in the past ten years, these people have gone through a series of vicious battles, the number of people from the initial 1,000 people, sharply reduced to more than 400 now, but none of them resentment, all Liu Bei's orders, as long as they do not involve Ao Lie, they will be 100% dedicated to implementation, do not avoid life and death to follow behind Zhang Fei, for Liu Bei to charge, they are respectable and admirable. Now seeing the same outfit as the old owner's guards, their hearts are a little fluctuating, and it is inevitable that they will not forget the old master after ten years, which in itself is a feeling worthy of approval.

Secretly observing the expressions of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others, Liu Bei had already guessed their thoughts, and the hatred for Ao Lie in his heart became deeper. In order to consolidate his position in the hearts of the generals, Liu Bei rewarded those cavalry officers from Youzhou against his will, and let them continue to fight beside Zhang Fei. At the same time, Liu Bei prepared an army mixed with horse and infantry troops, numbering about three thousand, and handed it over to Guan Yu after being equipped with the weapons and equipment in the Guangwu Secret Treasure. As for Bai Yu's elite soldiers, they are still Liu Bei's personal guards, led by You Chenzhi.

With one-third of the money and armaments in the secret treasure of Guangwu, Liu Bei quickly armed an army of 10,000 people, in addition to Zhang Fei's 3,000 cavalry, Guan Yu's 3,000 horse infantry mixed army and Chen Zhi's 500 Bai Yu elite soldiers, the rest of the more than 3,000 people, Liu Bei handed them over to generals at all levels, and today, the strength scale under Liu Bei's command has finally reached tens of thousands, which also makes Liu Guan and Zhang three brothers happy. This situation also greatly surprised Ao Lie's expectations, he never expected that Liu Bei would find the remaining Guangwu Secret Treasure, from this moment on, Liu Bei has gradually escaped Ao Lie's control, and the situation has unconsciously undergone a slight deflection.

Some people are happy and some are worried, while Liu Bei is expanding his army, Liu Biao in Xiangyang can't sit still. Liu Bei, Liu Biao is still a certain wary, hearing that Liu Bei has expanded his army on a large scale, and tens of thousands of horses have gathered in October, Liu Biao can't help but muttering in his heart. He didn't know whether Liu Bei's large-scale expansion of the army was to help him resist Cao Cao, or whether he was preparing to wave his troops south and seize his own Jingzhou. Moreover, Liu Bei became wealthy overnight, which also made Liu Biao quite puzzling.

Under many doubts, Liu Biao summoned several important generals and strategists under his command to discuss Liu Bei's expansion of the army. As the governor of the naval army under Liu Biao, and Liu Biao's brother-in-law, Cai Mao was the first to express his opinion, he believes that Liu Bei is a bane, no matter where he goes, he will bring cholera wherever he goes, such as Gongsun Zhan, Tao Qian and others, all of them encountered a vicious battle after accepting Liu Bei, Gongsun Chan was lucky to be saved by Ao Lie, but Tao Qian was angry with Cao Cao to death, as the so-called lesson from the front car, the division of the back car, therefore, Cai Mao advocated that Liu Bei's momentum must be contained, and it is best to drive him out of Jingzhou. Cai Mao's proposal was approved by Zhang Yun and other generals.

Liu Biao's chief strategists, Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang brothers, put forward different opinions, they believed that Liu Bei was a famous man in the world, and the name of benevolence and virtue was all over the world, and if Liu Bei was driven out of Jingzhou, I am afraid it would cause more people to be dissatisfied. It is better to let Liu Bei guard in Xinye as the first line of defense against Cao Cao. But the root cause of Liu Bei's sudden wealth must be investigated, and Liu Bei's economic lifeline must be pinched in his own hands, and Liu Bei will be contained, and Liu Bei can no longer be allowed to continue to expand the army, otherwise the threat to Xiangyang will be too great.

After Huang Zu's death, the person who succeeded Huang Zu as Jiangxia Taishou was Liu Biao's nephew Liu Pan, Liu Pan was a talent with both civil and military skills, and Liu Biao relied on him very much. When everyone expressed their opinions, Liu Pan said with some doubts: "Uncle, my lords, I don't know if you have found a detail. When Ao Lie was serving as Nanyang Taishou, he suddenly made his fortune, and now Liu Bei's situation is so similar to Ao Lie at the beginning! It can be inferred from this that under Xinye's rule, there must be treasures of the previous dynasty that we do not know about, which were discovered by Ao Lie and Liu Bei successively. ”

After Liu Pan's reminder, Kuai Liang said: "Yes, I got the news, Liu Bei's personal guards are known as the white soldiers, these people have white feathers on their helmets, recently someone saw this elite soldier wearing fish scale iron armor, holding a horse sword, like the original Ao Lie's blood killing camp, Liu Bei's personal guard army is so similar to the original blood killing camp, there must be something strange in it." ”

Kuai Yue pondered for a moment, and suddenly said, "There is an ancient legend left behind. At the beginning, after Emperor Guangwu was revived, he had sealed a large amount of money and armaments in his hometown of Nanyang, so that in the future, there would be rebels like Wang Mang, and the Han family could revitalize the Han family with these secret treasures. Could it be that this legend is true? And this batch of secret treasures happens to be in Xinye? ”

Listening to everyone's words, Liu Biao's face gradually became gloomy. Although Liu Biao is generous and generous on the surface, he is actually full of suspicion in his heart, to put it bluntly, his personality is similar to Yuan Shao. Discovering and using the secret treasure of light martial arts is the only reason that can explain Liu Bei's sudden wealth, but the angry thing is that Liu Bei did not reveal a trace of news to himself, but chose to swallow this batch of secret treasures alone! This really made Liu Biao's heart full of dissatisfaction.

With a gloomy face, Liu Biao issued a series of orders: "Kuai Liang, someone sent a letter to Liu Bei and asked him to come to Xiangyang the day after tomorrow, saying that the government misses him very much and wants to have a small reunion with him for a day." Kuai Yue, immediately send someone to find out the reason for Liu Bei's sudden wealth, and report back to the mansion within two days! Cai Mao, the day after tomorrow, you lead 500 elite soldiers, ambush on both sides of the banquet, and take the mansion to interrogate Liu Bei in person. ”

Everyone took the order and left, leaving Liu Biao alone in the hall. Liu Biao raised his head and looked at the sky, and muttered: "Liu Bei, are you a hero or a hero......" (to be continued......)