Cao Cao returned to Xuchang with the remaining 70,000 troops, which basically alleviated the crisis in Xiangyang. Except for Jiangxia County, which is now in the hands of Huang Zu, the rest of Jingzhou is now back in the hands of Liu Biao, which makes Liu Biao, who has always been a little happy, feel better.

When Tai Shici led the army of 50,000 tigers and wolves to pass by outside Xiangyang City, and by the way, he also took away Huang Zhong, who had made Liu Biao not very reassured, and the 15,000 veterans under his command who had survived the battle, Liu Biao began to prepare for Wen Ping to lead the army to recapture Jiangxia.

Liu Biao's thoughts, only he knows.

Liu Biao didn't want Cao Cao and Liu Beibai to get Jingzhou, so he didn't hesitate to turn his face with the imperial court, and also formed an alliance with Zhao Xing, the sworn enemy of the imperial court. Facts have proved that Liu Biao's choice this time is correct, under the joint calculation of the seemingly powerful Sima Yi, Cao Cao, and even Jiangdong Sun Jian and Yangzhou Han Rong, Liu Biao still survived, and now the sun is shining and the sky is clear.

Liu Biao also didn't want Jingzhou to fall into Zhao Xing's hands in vain, so he always guarded against the activities of the Jin troops in Jingzhou, and prevented the capable Lu Meng, Jiang Xu and other Jin "commissioners" from contacting his soldiers too much. Only Huang Zhong guarded Huya Mountain for a long time, and finally went to Chengdu with Tianyi's army, so he became a heart disease for Liu Biao. Taking advantage of Tai Shi Ci's madness, Liu Biao simply sent Huang Zhong, Ma Liang and 15,000 Jingzhou veterans who often mixed with the Jin Tianyi Army to all the veterans of the hundred battles, which not only sent a favor, but also eliminated a hidden danger.

Liu Biao knew Zhao Xing's powerful methods, he didn't plan to compete with Zhao Xing for world domination, but he wanted to fight for the same "political treatment" as Jiangdong Sun Jian. According to Liu Biao's analysis, because of Sun Jian's relationship with Zhao Xing's sons and daughters, on the day when Zhao Xingjun came to the world, he would definitely be crowned King of Yue or King Wu or something.

Liu Biao now has no daughter who is favored by Zhao Xing's family, so he and Zhao Xing can't become in-laws, but Jingzhou's territory is big enough and the population is large enough, as long as it is watched closely, it is also a huge bargaining chip. Liu Biao waited for Zhao Xing to clean up Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and after forcing the emperor to the Zen throne, he exchanged the huge Jingzhou for a crown.

In fact, Liu Biao's abacus is still quite loud, since Zhao Xing can give Liu Rong and Liu Qian the titles of King of Jin and King Liang respectively, he does not mind giving Sun Jian and Liu Biao and others titles such as King Wu and King of Chu. As long as the army is unified under the control of the central court in the future, and officials above the county level are appointed, appointed, and dismissed by the central government, the fiefdoms of these kings will still be the territory of the Han Dynasty, and Zhao Xingquan will be a municipality directly under the central government or a special administrative zone.

However, there is a saying that everything is too much. Liu Biao was anxious to share the fruits of the victory of the revolution with Zhao Xing one day in the future, and when he learned that the Yuan family in Nanyang had been wiped out, he thought that the world was peaceful, so he hurried out of Xiangyang, wanting to unite the famous Confucian gentry of Jingzhou around him, so as to wave the flag for himself when he asked Zhao Xing for a crown in the future.

Liu Biao came to Phoenix Mountain, a scenic spot not far outside Xiangyang City, and personally visited several sacrificial wines from the Phoenix Academy, such as Sima Hui, Pang Degong and other famous Confucians in Jingzhou, and also visited Zheng Xuan, a master of scripture who lived in the Phoenix Academy. As the head of the Eight Jun, Liu Biao has a high prestige and appeal in Shilin, especially after he funded the construction of the Phoenix Academy in Phoenix Mountain, and became the spiritual leader of the southern scholars. Not long after the Jingzhou beacon fire was extinguished, Liu Biao went up the mountain with a smile on his face and a lot of food and books to comfort the teachers and students of the academy, and naturally received good results.

With a happy mood, Liu Biao, escorted by five hundred iron guards and his own nephew Liu Pan, took a carriage down the mountain, and when he came to a bend in the mountain road, he was suddenly stopped. The leading guard replied to Liu Biao that the rocks had fallen into the road and needed to be cleaned up, so Liu Biao sat in the car and waited. While half of the guards were carrying stones and half of the guards were keeping watch around the carriage, suddenly a loud roar sounded from the mountain, and when the guards looked up, they were too frightened to speak.

I saw a few puffs of smoke coming out of the hillside that would only come out when the gunpowder exploded, and then the earth and rocks rolling down, which instantly annihilated Liu Biao's carriage and hundreds of guards, and then rushed down to the foot of the mountain. In the face of this huge threat of landslides and ground cracks, Mo said that it was Liu Biao, even if Zhao Xing was present, there were no bones.

Liu Biao is really dead this time, and his death is very miserable and tragic. Liu Pan, the nephew who guarded him, was on the side of the carriage at the time, and he also did not escape the bad luck and hung up.

Only a few guards who were in charge of swimming and guarding in the distance picked up a small life, and they were not swallowed up by the sudden explosion of the rocks. They rushed back to Xiangyang City in panic like lost dogs, looking for Liu Biao's eldest son Liu Qi, preparing to report the shocking news to the young master.

These iron guards are not stupid, they know that there are only a few people who can use a large amount of gunpowder to kill the lord today, and the people of the Jin Kingdom are the most likely to attack. The reason is very simple, Zhao Xing, the king of Pingxi, has the ambition to swallow the sky, and now Guan Yu's army has been stationed in Nanyang, if he gets rid of Liu Biao and takes Jingzhou without blood, it will be a great merit.

However, to the frustration of these grief-filled guards, they didn't see the eldest prince after looking for a long time, but they were abducted by Lu Meng to Jiangling to inspect the people's situation. In desperation, these guards had to come to report to Su Fei, the deputy commander of the Iron Guard, that is, the general who secretly worked with Gan Ning as a water thief on the river.

After Su Fei listened to the funeral reports of these brothers who had escaped death, he immediately told a few people with a serious face: "This matter is very important, there are many people in the city now, don't leak the slightest rumor!" Several iron guards saw that Su Fei was so cautious, so they felt a little calmer, and drank a few glasses of convulsive wine under Su Fei's kind persuasion, and then fell asleep.

Seeing that a few iron guards who reported the news were flipped to the ground by numbness, Su Fei hurriedly called a few of his henchmen and asked them to gag these people with cloth balls, tie their hands and feet, and quietly stuff them into their homes to be strictly guarded. After dealing with these things, Su Fei hurriedly came to meet Jiang Xu and told Jiang Xu the shocking news.

As the intelligence liaison between Jingzhou and Crouching Tiger City, Jiang Xu naturally knew the huge crisis behind this matter, he patted Su Fei on the shoulder, and said with an encouraging tone: "General Su has done a good job in this matter, and I will report this matter to the next day to ask for credit for you! Now that the matter is urgent, I also ask General Su to personally rush to the accident site of Phoenix Mountain with five hundred iron guards, strictly seal the mountain road, arrest all the suspicious people nearby, and at the same time prohibit the teachers and students on the mountain from going down the mountain to publicize this matter!"