In Jiangling, although Cao's army is still fighting hard recently, it has obviously relaxed the pace of the attack.

He also felt that the people were not attached to it, and if he wanted to fight a decisive battle with a strong enemy in Jingzhou, he must first do a good job of stabilizing the rear.

Cao Cao took away Cao Ren's military power (still temporarily acting as the general of Zhengnan), only put him in charge of the defense of Jiangling, and made Cao Hong's half-dead civil appointment as the Jiangxia Taishou, and also made Cai Mao the right governor, with full control of the Jingzhou naval army.

All this shows Cao Cao's conciliatory posture.

But the head of the Cai family knows in his heart that since ancient times, the struggle of interests has either the east wind overwhelmed the west wind or the west wind overwhelmed the east wind.

Cao Ren's repression aroused the hatred of those northern armies, they pushed all the previous defeats to the Jingzhou army led by Zhang Yun, and pushed all the difficult and dangerous conscription to them, and the previous strict military discipline was also gone, and the personal guards under the major generals began to loot the people of Jiangling with the connivance of the main general, and the contradictions between the two sides deepened day by day.

Cai Mao felt a little desolate in his heart, he thought that Cao Cao would soon control the situation after controlling Jingzhou, and when the time came, the world would be decided, and he would be the leader of Jingzhou and even the entire Jiangnan faction in the court, and form a faction with Kuai Yue, Fu Xun, Han Song and others, and spend his life in the court struggle with everyone in Jiangbei.

Cao Jun was already full of contradictions within him, because he had always won before, and such contradictions were temporarily shelved and hidden.

But now the depression of defeat is breathless, and this suspicion and entanglement will definitely continue to deepen, and it is not that Cao Cao alone can be completely calmed down with a few words of tenderness.

Cai Mao knew that she couldn't be the same anymore.

If you want us to be your dog, you have to have the ability to be the owner.

If you don't have the ability, you have to obediently listen to my Cai Mao's dispatch like Liu Jingsheng.

If you don't listen to me, Cai Mao, still want to stay in Jingzhou? I'm going to see if you can do it!

On this day, Cao Hong's soldiers looted on the streets, and Cai Mao directly ordered Huang Zhong to fight, and several miscellaneous soldiers were Huang Zhong's opponents, and they were beheaded one after another as soon as they clashed.

Cao Hong was shocked and immediately rushed into the street with his own soldiers.

When he saw that the murderer was actually an old man, he couldn't help but be furious, he still remembered Cao Cao's advice, and he didn't want to fight with Cai Mao on the street, but Cai Mao first angrily reprimanded the lawlessness of the Northern Army in front of the people, counted Cao Hong's tyranny, and praised Huang Zhong's chivalrous and brave martial arts, and finally said gloomily that it is better to settle the grievances than to settle the knot, it is better for Huang Zhong and Cao Hong to have a try, everyone is angry enough, vent their anger, and today's incident should not have happened.

Although Cao Hong felt that something was wrong, he was tyrannical by nature, and he relied on Cao Cao's favor to be unscrupulous, how could he be willing to be suppressed by Cai Mao.

He immediately agreed to compete with Huang Zhong, and stared at Cai Mao with a resentful face, and said coldly:

"I'm waiting for the martial artists to compete, life and death, don't blame Hong's subordinates for being ruthless."

I'm sure most people can guess the results.

Cao Hong was in the prime of life and experienced in a hundred battles, he thought that he would be able to kill the old man in a moment in sword fighting, but he didn't expect that as soon as the two clashed, he immediately felt that something was wrong.

This old man's knife technique is as continuous as a river hitting the shore, and the forest is like a wind blowing bones.

Cao Hong only fought for three moves, and his sword skills were gradually chaotic, and he was covered in a cold sweat.

He walked and retreated, and was about to jump out of the circle to make peace, but he didn't expect an idle man in the crowd to stretch out his leg and trip, Cao Hong sighed, and immediately fell to the ground.

Huang Zhong resented Cao Hong's connivance with his soldiers to commit murder in the streets, so he walked up with a sneer, threw the knife on the ground, and slowly crouched down again, punching Cao Hong hard in the face.

"Ahh With a miserable scream, Cao Hong's mouth was full of silver teeth and broken, and the pain was unspeakable.

"Don't hurt your brother's harmony!" Cai Mao roared and pounced on Huang Zhong from behind.

Looking at Cao Hong, whose eyes were full of resentment and fear, the head of the Cai family grinned, and squeezed out a trace of long-suppressed pride in his yellow teeth:

"What a character Liu Biao was back then, when he saw me, Cai Mao had to respectfully call me a virtuous brother.

What kind of thing are you, these days I see that for Mengde's sake, I tolerate everywhere, and you really treat me as if I am afraid of you.

Today, I will teach you a lesson, if you offend my Cai family, you can't get out of Jiangling! ”

Cai Mao pulled Huang Zhong away and glanced around.

Several idlers who had tripped Cao Hong before rushed up, and suddenly their fists and feet were added, and Cao Hong, who was beaten, couldn't stop screaming.

The guards who followed Cao Hong were shocked and drew their knives to rescue, but Huang Zhong raised his eyebrows and pulled out his knives to stop in front of him, and Cai Mao's guards also rushed up, shouting "Don't be angry", pulling Huang Zhong and Cao Hong's guards apart one after another.

Poor Cao Hong, who had followed Cao Cao's war for many years, was beaten by a group of splashes and screams, and kept rolling on the ground, and the people around him cheered and couldn't help but surround and beat him. Cao Hong's limbs were broken, several ribs were broken, and the expensive clothes and swords on his body were snatched away by those splashes, and he was lying naked on the street.

Cao Ren, who had already taken over the defense of Jiangling, couldn't believe his ears, he hurriedly took Chang Diao and others to order five hundred defenders and hurried over, looking at Cao Hong lying on the street, Cao Ren was angry and angry, hatefully drew his knife in his hand, and his fierce eyes stared at Cai Mao's face.

"It's the other way around, it's the other way around. Rebellion is not it! Okay, I'll see who dares to fight with me Cao Ren! ”

The last time the Cao family was so humiliated, Cao Cao slaughtered the entire Xubei. Cao Ren was furious and immediately commanded Chang Diao and others to attack and take Cai Mao's head.

How dare Chang Diao embarrass Cai Mao?

Cai Mao may not dare to kill Cao Ren, but Cao Hong's personal guards were killed all over the ground in an instant, and Chang Diao was afraid that he would also suffer such consequences.

His legs trembled uncontrollably, but he didn't dare to disobey Cao Ren's order, so he could only draw his knife in his hand tremblingly, and said in a loud voice:

"Cai, why did Cai Junhou hurt people?"

Cai Mao was surprised:

"Why do you smear people's innocence out of thin air? Everyone saw it just now, it was Zilian who wanted to compete with Brother Hansheng, and said that life and death are fateful, and there is no complaint.

Later, the guards under Zilian's command wanted to come forward to attack, but Cai's guards stopped them to the death, so as not to see each other.

But at this time, some people saw Zilian's luxurious clothes and took the opportunity to loot, which is no wonder to me. ”

Cao Ren scolded:

"Fart! Beating Zilian is clearly a helper in the army! Do you dare to deny it? ”

Cai Mao's eyes widened and said:

"Is there such a thing? Well, the beating must be some miscellaneous servants, so I will quickly dismiss him. Zilian's injury, I will also compensate for it. ”

As he spoke, Cai Mao really took out a long string of copper coins from his sleeve and walked to Cao Hong's side in a dashing manner.

As soon as he raised his hand, the copper coins fell one after another, crackling and falling on Cao Hong's face.

The falling copper coins knocked on Cao Hong's face, and the bloodied Cao family general's eyelids moved, and a trace of tears slowly appeared.

Cao Ren looked at the scene in front of him in a daze, and the anger, frustration and grief in his heart rushed straight to his head.

He stood up slowly, and his dark and cold eyes were immediately covered with a layer of bloodshot.

Cao Ren knew that he was far from being invincible in the world, but he definitely couldn't see his brother being so humiliated in front of him.

I'm a ranger prodigal, no matter what your great cause is, let's kill the people in front of you first.

"Ahhh Cao Ren's roar was earth-shattering, the beast's badly injured roar and bloody spit splashed everywhere, but no one dared to laugh out loud.

In the next moment, Cai Mao's eyes clearly reflected a silver cold light.

That's Cao Ren's steel knife!

"Die to Lao Tzu !!!"

Cao Ren is desperate, invincible, Huang Zhong didn't expect Cao Ren, who had lost his mind, to be so powerful, he wanted to swing a knife to help Cai Mao, but after all, he was a little slower.

Seeing that Cai Mao was about to be bloodied on the spot, Chang Diao, who had been hesitant to move forward, suddenly pounced, hugged Cao Ren's waist pole with his side, and wailed loudly:

"The general lives, the general lives! Thou shalt not kill! Thou shalt not kill! ”

Chang Diao's screams made Cao Ren's eyes regain a trace of clarity, and Huang Zhong also hurriedly ran over to protect Cai Mao.

Looking at the shiny steel knife in Cao Ren's hand, Cai Mao broke out in a cold sweat.

He gasped for breath, knowing that he had passed a moment from the point of life and death, and subconsciously bit his lip.

"Mao has been timid as a mouse since she was a child, and she does not dare to stay here for a long time.

I'll go to the army to deal with some military affairs first, if General Cao wants to kill me, even if I take the prime minister's warrant, I will not resist! ”

As he spoke, Cai Mao hurriedly waved his sleeves and disappeared with a puff of smoke.

Everyone looked at each other, and they couldn't help but exhale a breath of turbidity.

It's too dangerous, and if you don't stop it in time, it will almost cause a catastrophe.

Cao Ren also exhaled a breath of turbidity, threw the knife on the ground with remorse, glanced at Chang Diao with complicated eyes, and finally reached out and patted him on the back.

"Back to the camp, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years! We'll deal with it later. ”

"Who can kill Cai Mao, I will protect him as a general!"

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A storm finally subsided, but everyone didn't know that there would be a bigger storm soon.

A few days later, Xiangyang's grain ship arrived at the riverside, and a young general named Yunshan slowly walked down, feeling the warm winter sun, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Gangneung, I'm back again."

"How do you feel here...... Weird? ”