For Huang Zu's situation, the Sichuan warlords 1,700 years later deeply sympathized.

On the one hand, Huang Zu sent people to report to Xiangyang urgently, saying that he had the ability to resist the offensive of Jiangdong, and on the other hand, he sent people to hurry to stop the Jingzhou army led by Cai Mao at the border of Jiangxia County.

Then the most important thing is to seize the time, defeat the invading enemy of Jiangdong in one fell swoop, and recover the two counties occupied by Jiangdong.

But Huang Zu overestimated himself after all.

Even if there is no persecution from Liu Biao, his Huang Zu is just no more than the Jiangdong Navy led by Zhou Yu, not to mention Sun Quan, who has just taken the throne not long ago, and is waiting to take Huang Zu's head to consolidate his position as the lord of Jiangdong.

Huang Zu, who was unlucky, let his cronies go into battle, not only failed to block Jiangdong's offensive, but was defeated by one game, and he was put into two counties.

Now it's okay, Jiangxia has a total of fourteen counties, and now it's seven counties lost at once. Half of the territory is gone.

Now Huang Zu is numb, he doesn't want the Jingzhou army to enter Jiangxia, and if he doesn't let the Jingzhou army come in, he will be unable to protect himself.

If this is caught by Jiangdong, it will be the end. Huang Zu didn't dare to think about it.

was seized by Liu Biao, although life is not easy, but at least for the sake of the Jingxiang Huang family, he may be able to survive.

But if he is caught by Jiangdong, his head will definitely not be protected.

Huang Zu had no choice, on the one hand, he let the Jingzhou army come to help quickly, and on the other hand, he desperately resisted Jiangdong's attack to buy himself time.

At this time, Huang Zu had no time to think about throwing Cao, and it was important to save his life first.

At this time, the Jingzhou army led by Cai Mao was marching unhurriedly.

He was not in a hurry to help Huang Zu at all, but after entering Jiangxia, he began to calm the people when he arrived in a county.

Huang Zu was in a hurry, of course, he knew Xiangyang's plan, this was to make himself and Jiangdong fight to lose, and then the Jingzhou army came in to pick peaches.

But even if Huang Zu knew Liu Biao's plans, he had no choice, so he could only complain to Xiangyang on the one hand, and on the other hand, he took out all his old books, and finally stalemate with Jiangdong's army in Xiling County and Shaxian.

And at this critical moment, Huang Zu was anxious to hang himself. Koto retreated.

It's amazing that Jiangdong withdrew from the army in such a good situation.

Not only did they retreat, but even the counties in the eastern part of Jiangxia that they occupied were also relinquished, but the local people were forcibly moved away, leaving only empty cities.

Seeing the situation, Huang Zu didn't care if Jiangdong had any tricks, so he hurriedly sent someone to recover the lost territory, and hurriedly sent a letter to Xiangyang, saying that he had repelled Jiangdong's attack, so that Cai Mao would not have to come to support anymore.

But can Cai Mao be so honest?!

Even if Cai Mao is so honest, Liu Biao will not be so honest.

At the same time that Huang Zu was desperately trying to regain the lost territory, the Jingzhou "reinforcements" led by Cai Mao no longer marched slowly, but quickly seized Jingling, and then began to march quickly to the east.

After some chickens and dogs jumped on their respective marches to grab territory, the Jingzhou army entered Jiangxia County, but Huang Zu's "defeated" Jiangdong's letter of merit also appeared on Liu Biao's case.

Liu Biao had a headache, and blamed Cai Mao in his heart, so he couldn't march a little faster and control Huang Zu before Jiangdong retreated. It's okay now, Huang Zu still has a little force at hand, and he also controls several counties, if he turns his face. It's a bit of a bad deal.

This Jiangdong is the same, you said that you attacked well, why did you suddenly retreat. Is your mother dead?!

Then when I inquired, it seemed that he was really dead.

Sun Quan's biological mother Wu died suddenly, and Sun Quan had to stop the army and go to mourn.

In these years, it is quite unlucky to rule the world with filial piety, and to use swords and soldiers after the death of his biological mother.

But as soon as Jiangdong retreated like this, Liu Biao made a difficulty, and he couldn't continue to let Huang Zu stay in Jiangxia, and the meat he finally ate was eaten, how could there be a reason to spit it out? !

But now with Huang Zu against the eye, but there is no righteous name, at this time it is not realistic to call Huang Zu to Xiangyang, people can be said to preside over the reconstruction of Jiangxia, a year and a half not to Xiangyang to say the past.

When Liu Biao was in a dilemma, Pang Shanmin of Pang suddenly visited Liu Biao's mansion.

After Pang Shanmin left, Liu Biao immediately announced that he would recruit Pang Shanmin for Jingzhou, and then announced that he would investigate Huang Zu for the crime of defeat and loss of land.

Originally, in this era of war, although losing the city and land is also a big crime, as long as there is a force and a backstage, this kind of thing depends on whether the lord is willing to pursue it.

Before Huang Zu lost the city and lost the land, Liu Biao did not pursue it, which is okay.

Now that Huang Zu has lost the city and lost his land, it is reasonable for Liu Biao to be investigated.

The most important thing is that in this Jiangdong raid, Huang Zu suffered heavy losses, although he still controls several counties, but his power is much worse than before, Liu Biao saw this, and dared to suddenly attack Huang Zu.

And now that the Jingzhou army is in Jiangxia, it is unrealistic for Huang Zu to want to go north to join Cao Cao, and before he can move, the Jingzhou army has already killed him in front of him.

This idea of "unlucky and lacking morality" in Huang Zu's opinion is, of course, Zhuge Liang's idea. Is Pang Shanmin his brother-in-law?

Zhuge Liang actually didn't expect Jiangdong to retreat, his original plan was to wait for the Jingzhou Army, Huang Zujun, and Jiangdong Army to fight each other, creating a power vacuum in Jiangxia, so that he could make it convenient to make plans and layouts in the middle.

But Jiangdong's retreat, Zhuge Liang didn't expect it at all.

The Jingzhou army is now quite complete, and Huang Zu is not without the strength to fight. It didn't meet Zhuge Liang's expectations at all.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang can only take a backup plan.

Huang Zu definitely can't let him stay in Jiangxia any longer, otherwise Jiangxia will never get out of his control, and he must find a way to get him away.

This is not only Zhuge Liang's idea, but also Jingzhou Huang's idea. They also didn't want Huang Zu to continue to sit big.

As for the Jingzhou Army, let's figure it out slowly.

So Zhuge Liang said that he moved his brother-in-law Pang Shanmin to see Liu Biao and told Liu Biao that if he didn't take advantage of Huang Zu's weakness now, then in the future, when he eased up, Huang Zu would not give Liu Biao a chance to interfere in Jiangxia.

Liu Biao was originally very hesitant, but when he thought of his age and physical condition, and then thought about his heir, Liu Biao gritted his teeth and decided to deal with Huang Zu, a guy with a big tail, while he was still capable of dealing with it.

This is the matter that Liu Biao wants to hold Huang Zu responsible.

When Huang Zu heard the news, of course he was very alarmed.

Now that his strength has been greatly damaged, and the Jingzhou army has also entered Jiangxia and has a foothold, at this time, he has no reputation and may not be able to do it.

The best way is to persuade Liu Biao that, like at the beginning of the year, the thunder and rain will fool the past, and it will be perfect.

Therefore, this time Huang Zu still secretly returned to Xiangyang, ran to see Huang Chengyan, kowtowed and swore by gambling curses, and begged the Jingzhou Huang family to help him survive this catastrophe.

Huang Chengyan happily received Huang Zu, delicious and delicious hospitality, and then let Huang Zu relax and stay in Jiangxia with peace of mind, Jingzhou Huang will not sit idly by and ignore this matter. After turning around to send Huang Zu away, Huang Chengyan immediately wrote a letter to Zhuge Liang, telling him that he could take the next step.

Huang Zu returned to Jiangxia with peace of mind, waiting for the Huang family in Jingzhou to help him mediate this matter, and Zhuge Liang's side, after receiving Huang Chengyan's letter, immediately asked Liu Bei to set off and go to Xiangyang.

Liu Bei arrived in Xiangyang, met Liu Biao, and then expressed his condolences to each other.

Liu Bei congratulated Liu Biao on defeating the Jiangdong invasion, while Liu Biao had a bitter face and discussed with Liu Bei the aftermath of Jiangxia.

Liu Biao really can only discuss this matter with Liu Bei, so the Cai family and the Kuai family, Liu Biao really doesn't want to talk to them about it.

Originally, the four major families in Jingzhou were quite balanced, and the Cai family and the Kuai family gained a lot of benefits because they helped Liu Biao stand firm in Jingzhou, and they were in a relatively high position among the four major families.

Jiangxia was originally the basic plate of the Huang family, and now Cai Mao of the Cai family has led the army into Jiangxia, and the Kuai family is also stepping up the layout to see if they can get a piece of the pie in Jiangxia If Liu Biao consults with these two, they must hope that they will divide the interests of Jiangxia.

But Liu Biao didn't want the Cai family and the Kuai family to continue to sit like this.

It's very simple, Liu Biao also knows the importance of checks and balances, if the Cai family and the Kuai family continue to sit big, and the Huang family and Pang family are weak, then after a hundred years, whether this Jingzhou surname is Liu or not is a big question mark.

Pang Zi has always been detached, and Liu Biao was very surprised to come to a Pang Shanmin to offer advice, and there was no way to ask for too much.

And Liu Biao originally hoped that the Huang family would come forward to talk about Huang Zu, but the Huang family has not reacted at all so far.

In fact, Liu Biao just wanted Huang Zu to get out, so that he could openly meddle in Jiangxia's taxation, official appointment and dismissal, and other matters. But Liu Biao didn't want to split or monopolize the land interests in Jiangxia, he just wanted to get back the rights that belonged to Jingzhou Mu in Jiangxia, and he Liu Biao was not so greedy about the ownership of the land on the land in Jiangxia.

This is also the basic mode of cooperation between Liu Biao and the Jingzhou family - Liu Biao obtains the official rights of Jingzhou Mu, as for whether the Jingzhou family is playing land annexation in Jingzhou, or seeking to become an official, he Liu Biao does not object.

But so far, the Huang family has not reacted at all, so Liu Biao has two choices left.

First, he just turned his face with the Huang family, completely took down Huang Zu, and controlled Jiangxia.

But in this way, Liu Biao will have to confront Huang Zu directly, which may cause his own losses, not to mention, it is still difficult to say whether Jiangxia's final ownership belongs to him, after all, Cai Kuai's two families have long taken a fancy to Jiangxia's land.

Second, he just pinched his nose and reconciled with the Huang family, and continued to serve as Jiangxia Taishou by Huang Zu.

Isn't it in vain that I have been tossing for a while?!

Liu Biao has been holding up the flag undecidedly, and it just so happened that Liu Bei, an outsider, came, he didn't have too many entanglements of interests in Jingzhou, and he was his nominal brother, so Liu Biao thought about listening to the opinions of this outsider.

Then Liu Bei asked Liu Biao strangely.

"Brother Jingsheng, as the saying goes, "Fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers". Jiangxia is a heavy land, and it is impossible to keep it if it is not a cronie, and now the son Liu Qi is already an adult, so why not send the son Liu Qi to guard Jiangxia. The affairs of the southeast, the brother and the son deserve it; The things of the northwest should be prepared. ”

When Liu Biao heard this, his face changed several times.

(End of chapter)