In February and March, it rained in Jingzhou for a third of the two months.

Although it is not like the continuous torrential rain in the flood season after May and June, it is the Qingming cold food, and the light rain is continuous, and the whole Jiangnan is shrouded in smoke and rain.

And the ancient city of Xiangyang, which has experienced more than 1,000 years of historical vicissitudes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Eastern Han Dynasty, seems to have fallen into a dead silence.

The light rain was fluttering and swaying, and countless large ships on the misty banks of the Hanshui River were ready.

Today is a rare good weather.

"Captain."

Outside Xiangyang City, Kuai Yue arched his hand and said: "This battle is very crucial, and Captain Wangtai won in one fell swoop." ”

Cai Mao laughed and said: "Gan Ning is just a horse, watch me capture it alive." ”

"The great cause of Jingzhou will be entrusted to the Taiwei."

Kuai Yue gave up again.

Cai Mao turned around and got on the ship, and tens of thousands of troops successively headed north for Xinye.

Nanyang's 50,000 army, after Liu Bei went south, Wen Ping was stationed in Wancheng, and Han Xi and Lu Jie were in Yexian, Duyang and other places respectively.

Gan Ning was still stationed in Huyang County and was the defender of Huyang, but recently, he moved to Xinye.

On the grounds of his unauthorized transfer, Xiangyang ordered him to hand over his military power and escort him back to Xiangyang for trial.

In fact, everyone knows which side Gan Ning is on, but he has tens of thousands of elite soldiers under him, and he is a force to be reckoned with, so no one dares to really do anything with him.

Now that the war has officially begun, Cai Mao Kuaiyue plans to use Gan Ning's knife first, and then eliminate the garrison of Huangmen Pavilion.

Strategically this is true.

Because although most of Nanyang's troops are attributed to Cai Mao and Kuaiyue, the people of Gan Ning and Huangmenting are hidden dangers, and once they concentrate on attacking Jiangxia, these people are very likely to cause chaos in the rear.

Therefore, in line with the principle of first eliminating the nearest hostile forces, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue decided to break through Ganning and Huangmenting first, completely unify Nanyang County, and then encircle Jiangxia by three routes.

This time, Cai Mao brought 30,000 people, and ordered Han Xi and Lu Jie to go south, with a total of 50,000 troops, of which 20,000 were deployed in Caiyang, plus Fancheng Zhang Yun's troops, so that there were 50,000 or 60,000 horses around Xiangyang to prevent the enemy from coming to help from Zhangling Jiangxia.

As for whether the transfer of Han Xi and Lu Jie, who were guarding the entrance of the Nanyang Basin, would lead to an emptiness in the front and let Cao Cao take advantage of the situation, Cai Mao and the others were not worried.

Because Cao Cao is now in Yecheng.

Three years after Yuan Shao's death, Cao Cao finally recovered and began to use troops against the north.

At this time, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan squared Jizhou, and they had been fighting for many years, and they were already exhausted.

In March last year, Cao Cao took advantage of the battle between Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan at Julu to attack Yuan Shang again and besiege Yecheng.

Yuan Shang was shocked, hurriedly came to the rescue, was ambushed and defeated by Cao Cao, and fled north to Youzhou to join Yuan Xi.

After that, due to the unbearable pain of the head wind, he had to retreat back to Chendu to recuperate.

Yuan Tan, on the other hand, took the opportunity to annex Yuan Shang's troops, occupied Jizhou, tore up the alliance with Cao Cao, and began to engage him.

At the end of last year, after Cao Cao's condition stabilized, he went north again to raid Wei County, Yuan Tan resisted desperately, and the two sides are currently in a life-and-death battle around Yecheng, and the results have not been determined for three or four months.

Therefore, Cai Maoyue concluded that Cao Cao could not go south alone, and decided to take this opportunity to immediately sweep away Liu Qi's forces, solve the internal troubles in Jingzhou, and then send troops to Xichuan, and then take Jiangdong, and get the entire south!

In their first battle, they planned to burn the flames of war to Xinye.

There is no other reason.

Xinye is close, and if they take Jiangxia directly, Xinye is very likely to attack Xiangyang.

And after eliminating the forces of Ganning and Huangmenting, they can go south from Zhangling, take Suixian between Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, and attack Jiangxia Xiling by land.

Then he went south from the Han River with a sailor and attacked Jiangxia Shaxian by water. The last road is from Jingnan to attack the state tomb, that is, the later Shijiayu County.

In this way, the land and water are advancing together, and the three roads attack Jiangxia at the same time, completely blocking all the roads for Liu Qi to flee south to the north and west, unless he flees to the east to Jiangdong to join Sun Quan, otherwise it will be difficult to fly with wings, and there will be a dead end!

The white mist on the surface of the Han River was boundless, Kuai Yue watched Cai Mao's fleet go all the way north, disappear into the fog along the river north, and returned to Xiangyang City in a carriage with a happy and sad face.

At this time, he was thinking about carrying out a purge of Xiangyang, and there were too many ambiguous attitudes, and the officials of the family who did not know the side chose neutrality in this struggle.

Neutrality, on the other hand, means instability.

Therefore, no matter what means are used, whether it is persecution, threat, inducement, or killing, these destabilizing factors must be eliminated.

So after returning to his Situ Mansion, Kuai Yue began to draw up a list and sent people to various officials' mansions to control it.

Some people need to be imprisoned, some people need to have a good conversation, and some people are...

It's just that.

Looking at the last few lists, Kuai Yue frowned.

The Pang family and the Huang family did not express their position, although they did not participate in politics, but the two families still have many juniors, and Pang Degong and Huang Chengyan have extremely high prestige and cannot be strong.

It's just that Pang Degong has a very good relationship with Shen Chen, and Shen Chen clearly supports Liu Qi, so that Kuai Yue decides to kill him.

It is very likely that these people will send a message to Shen Chen and inform them of their plan of action.

But.

said so, but he didn't dare to do it, once he moved the Pang family and the Huang family, the major families in Jingzhou and Shilin would be turned upside down.

Kuai Yue frowned, and finally crossed out the two and said, "Come on." ”

"Situ."

The attendants outside the door had been waiting for a long time.

Kuai Yue said: "Prepare a few boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, silk and satin, and send them to the Pang family's house and Bai Shui Huang's family outside the city in a carriage. ”

The master book of Situ beside him was surprised: "Is Situ planning to win over the Pang family and the Huang family?" However, Pang Degong and Chengyan Gong are not outside the city and Baishui, one lives in seclusion in Yuliangzhou, and the other lives in seclusion in Cannan. ”

Kuai Yue said in a deep voice: "It is precisely because Pang Degong and Chengyan Gong are not at home that they can give gifts, otherwise the gifts will inevitably be returned, this is just to show our attitude, the two of them can refuse, but their family members can't refuse, I think they should understand what I mean." ”

"Oh."

The master nodded as if he didn't understand, and then looked at the last name on the list: "Situ, Da Si Nong."

The great Sinong of the Jingzhou Imperial Court is none other than Deng Hong.

Deng Hong was mostly engaged in agriculture in his early years, and Liu Biao got hundreds of thousands of yellow scarves and Guanzhong refugees, and he was in charge of these things in Nanyang Tuntian.

Moreover, he also made keel waterwheels, improved farm tools, and invented manure technology, which greatly increased grain production, and also laid a solid foundation for Liu Biao to have sufficient grain and grass to recruit a large number of soldiers to fight, so he was appointed by Liu Biao to specialize in agriculture.

Kuai Yue also had a headache when he looked at the name.

Deng Hong and Shen Chen's mother are cousins and nieces, and they are Shen Chen's maternal grandfathers, and they have a deep relationship, so they should have been the first on the list to be disposed of.

But he has a good wife.

No matter how Kuai Yue is, he has to take care of the Cai family, and the Cai family is now the largest family in Jingzhou.

Mrs. Cai has now become the queen mother, and the queen is also the Cai family, which means that Deng Hong has now become a relative of the emperor, and his wife is the niece of the Empress Dowager Cai, and she is the sister of Queen Cai.

"Forget it."

Kuai Yue shook his head and said: "That Mrs. Cai is not a good stubble, she can't afford to provoke her, just let the soldiers keep an eye on her outside the Dasi Nong Mansion, don't go too far." ”

"Yui."

When the Lord had commanded it, he went down and commanded.

Soon the whole of Xiangyang fell into chaos, some officials who had a good relationship with Liu Qi were dismissed and sent to prison, some big families were ordered to prohibit contact with Jiangxia, and some were simply beheaded, and they were purged everywhere to prevent anyone from becoming Liu Qi's internal response.

In the Dasi Nong Mansion, Deng Hong, who was just forty years old this year, sat cross-legged in the pavilion in the back garden with a very melancholy face, and beside him was Cai, who was in his thirties, had successfully lost weight, and his body was more plump.

Farther away, there were three innocent and romantic children running around, it was the spring of March, and the courtyard was full of flowers and butterflies.

Deng Hong's eldest son is called Deng Yan, born in October of the first year of Jian'an, when the beginning of the year coincided with Zhang Ji's attack, when Cai was pregnant with Deng Yan, he didn't even dare to tell Deng Hong, who was running between Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu as a lobbyist, that twelve years later, he took his younger siblings to play in the garden.

Looking at this scene, Cai's face showed a touch of warmth, and he smiled at his young children making noise.

Deng Hong put his arm around her waist and whispered, "Madam." ”

"Husband."

Cai clapped his hand and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"Situ sent people to surround our mansion."

Deng Hong's eyebrows crossed a trace of melancholy: "Recently, people have been arrested everywhere in Xiangyang. ”

"I know."

Cai whispered in his ear: "Don't worry, husband, they can't enter the mansion." ”

"Ma'am."

Deng Hong hugged her tightly and asked, "Madame, is it really right to do this?" Maybe we should do nothing. ”

Cai shook his head: "My uncle, I know, over the years, Cai Kuai's second family has offended many families in Jingzhou too much, and the king of Chu has taken the liberty of becoming the emperor, and the major families have long been dissatisfied, I am afraid that they will never get the support of the families, only in this way can the family continue." ”

"I see."

Deng Hong's eyes were slightly dilated, in this kind of big matter, because he was afraid that his wife would be implicated, he couldn't get an idea, and everything was led by Cai's behind.

As he spoke, his mood became a little depressed, and he muttered to himself: "How did Jingzhou become like this? It was like it was going to collapse overnight. ”

Cai didn't speak, she just snuggled up to Deng Hong, recited the ballad lightly, and looked to the north, where there was not only Cai Yang's Cai family, but also Huangmen Pavilion's Deng family.

In the Cai family, the Cai family was not happy, although her parents treated her very well, but because of obesity, she did not go out of the door all day long, and it was difficult to soothe her soul after all.

Only in Huangmen Pavilion did she really feel what happiness is.

She can show her head without worrying about being looked at with disgust by other family members, and she doesn't have to be afraid of being discriminated against.

Everywhere he goes, he is respected by people because of Deng Hong, and everyone votes not for the kind of contempt for a fat and ugly woman, but a kind of worship from the heart, and even envy.

The people at the bottom envied the life of the upper class, but more importantly, Deng Hong specialized in farming, helping the people of Huangmenting to actively produce, and it was he and Shen Chen who led the way to persuade the clan to move south, so that everyone survived.

Therefore, the prestige of Shen Chen and Deng Hong was extremely high among all the people of Huangmen Pavilion, and as Deng Hong's wife, the Cai family was naturally revered by them.

Here, it also gave her the feeling of a real big family.

The Cai family and the Deng family are both her family.

Therefore.

In this bloody storm, she will never let the Cai family and the Deng family fall into a situation from which they will never recover!

(End of chapter)