"What the hell is going on?"

Seeing Liu Biao and Cai Mao playing dumb riddles, Liu Ye decisively stood up to relieve Liu Bei and set his eyes on Liu Qi opposite Cai Mao.

Liu Ye and Liu Qi have been together for a long time, and they think that the honest Liu Qi will not tell lies, let alone frame Liu Bei.

Liu Qide's Liu Biao's eyes signaled, and he frowned and explained: "It seems that my uncle really doesn't know, the Wudang County Commander has just sent an urgent military report, and the Haoqiang of Yanxi City and Shangyong are gathering their troops and preparing to converge with Zhang Lu's army to take revenge on Jingzhou."

"If Zhang Luxing's soldiers come to attack, it must be because the imperial court has crowned the virtuous nephew Hanzhong Taishou, what does this have to do with me?"

Liu Bei heard it in a fog and couldn't help but interrupt Liu Qi halfway.

"It's really related" Liu Qi shook his head bitterly: "At the beginning of the month, there was an army that went east from the upper valley of the Han River, and then went to the northeast of Wudang.

"Virtuous nephew is talking about Yun Chang? He had been stationed in Wancheng to defend against Cao Cao, how could he come out of the west of Wudang? It must be that the sentry detectives of Wudang are wrong, or the rest of the troops surnamed Guan are passing by."

Seeing Liu Bei shaking his head, Cai Mao sneered again and interrupted: "Liu Xuande, you don't have to be clever about it, Guan Yu's light troops attacked and wanted to seize the eastern counties of Hanzhong, but he was found by the defenders by not acting secretly, and the big cities such as Tin County, Xicheng, and Shangyong were all held behind closed doors, and he failed in his raid and ran out of food, so he slaughtered more than a dozen towns and villages and left, threatening to raise a large army to attack Hanzhong head-on in the coming year." ”

"Light attack? And slaughtering innocent people? ”

Liu Bei not only did not panic after hearing this, but responded with a sneer: "My second brother is arrogant, he is a heroic man of righteousness, how can he slaughter innocents for food and grass? It is clearly a traitor framed. ”

Kuai Yue said at this time: "The so-called knowing people and knowing faces do not know their hearts, according to the information that Wudang found from those counties, the leader is a red-faced and long-haired, holding a green dragon knife, claiming to be the captain of the northern part of Nanyang, who else would it be if it wasn't your brother Guan Yu?" ”

"Me"

Liu Bei was about to explain, but was interrupted by Liu Biao's speech: "Xuande, the imperial court issued an edict to Yun Chang, I haven't told them yet, you have good intentions for Qi'er, but you have to slow down the matter of seeking Hanzhong, Jiangdong suffered a big loss in Yuzhang, and it is difficult to ensure that Sun Quan will not send troops to retaliate, if you fight with Zhang Lu at this time, Jingzhou will not be able to take care of both sides."

"Jingzhou has an enmity with Sun Quan in the east, Jiaozhou Zhang Jin in the south is the enemy, and now the enemy is Zhang Lu in the west, plus the strong enemy Cao Cao in the north, isn't there an enemy on all sides? If the enemies of the four sides attack at the same time, Jingzhou will inevitably be in danger. ”

When Kuai Yue added this sentence, Liu Bei felt that he was full of mouth, and it was difficult to prove his innocence at this time.

At the critical moment, Liu Ye suddenly burst out laughing, with obvious mockery in his laughter.

Since Liu Ye is a Jianghuai celebrity and clansman, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue can't be as aggressive as Liu Bei, and Liu Qi can't question this teacher-like figure, so the pressure is all on Liu Biao.

The atmosphere in the hall was originally very heavy, and everyone was asking Liu Bei Xingshi for his guilt, but it was broken because of Liu Ye's laughter.

Liu Biao asked curiously, "Why is Mr. laughing?" ”

Liu Ye glanced at everyone, shook his head and explained: "I laughed at the fact that the princes were played around by Cao Cao, but the blame was imposed on the heads of the envoys and General Guan, and Cao Cao may smile brighter than me." ”

Liu Biao frowned after hearing this: "The imperial court sealed Qi'er as the Taishou of Hanzhong, and at the same time issued an edict to me to discuss with Yun Changzheng, this is indeed Cao Cao's yang scheme, but Xiangyang has always been very restrained. ”

"Hahaha"

Liu Ye shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then asked rhetorically: "Cao Cao's plan for Jingzhou is not limited to these?" I don't know why Fu Jun made up his mind to fight Yuzhang? I'm afraid I've heard some good news, right? ”

"Ahh

Liu Biao secretly glanced at Cai Mao and Kuai Yue, although he knew the answer, he deliberately made excuses: "Yuanyang and Sun Quan have a grudge against their father, and it is inevitable that they will fight with each other. ”

Liu Ye waved his hand and sighed: "Cao Cao won in Huainan in the first half of the year, drew Jiangdong's attention to the north, and then gave up his vigilance against Jiangxia, if Zhang Liao and Chen Deng also sent troops in the war, Zhou Yu may not dare to transfer so many troops to help, and Yuzhang may also be occupied by Huang Taishou, but the end is that the Cao army did not move a single soldier, Jingzhou used a lot of money, grain and warships at the expense of only tens of thousands of people in the end, don't you think it's strange?" ”

"Ziyang means"

After listening to this, Liu Biao suddenly realized, and always felt that the invisible hand was manipulating Jingzhou, but he didn't expect that all this was Cao Cao playing ghosts, this guy was really a treacherous person.

Liu Ye Zhengse said: "Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao in Guandu and Cangting, I am afraid that he has plans to annex Hebei, but Jiangdong attacked Shouchun twice and threatened Xu Du, so that Cao Cao had to go south for the next trip, Sun Quan was defeated from Huainan this year, and he was unable to go north in a short time, so Cao Cao turned his attention to Jingzhou, and only by adding more enemies to Fujun could Cao Cao rest assured that he would go north to fight a decisive battle with Yuan Shao. ”

Seeing that Liu Biaozheng nodded and pondered, Cai Mao asked when he saw the stitches: "What Mr. said has some truth, but it can't hide the fact that Guan Yu made a bad deal with Zhang Lu, my brother-in-law didn't have a plan to win Cao Cao, but Guan Yu cooperated with the imperial edict, don't forget that he stayed in Cao Ying."

"Tsai"

"De Jue is cautious!"

Liu Biao saw that Liu Bei was about to get angry, so he hurriedly interrupted and scolded Cai Mao, and heard Liu Ye's laughter as soon as the words fell.

"It is precisely because General Guan has been in Cao Ying's camp that his appearance is easy to be imitated by Cao Cao's people, if Cao Cao sends someone to pretend to attack Tin County, who can tell those defenders who can distinguish between truth and falsehood?"

"Yes, yes, yes."

Liu Bei echoed: "It must be Cao Cao who sent someone to pretend, my second brother is sitting in Wancheng, whether he leads troops west into Hanzhong, the local military and civilians can testify." ”

Cai Mao saw that the two of them were singing and harmonizing, and said disapprerovingly: "Guan Yunchang is edicted to beg the thief, he does have a motive to send troops, even if he doesn't go in person, he can send his generals to go, so there is no point in finding someone to testify." ”

"You"

Liu Bei was about to argue, but was stopped by Liu Ye's eyes.

Liu Ye then bowed and made a suggestion: "Since the prince and the princes are suspicious, why don't you invite General Guan to Xiangyang?" Now that the end of the year is approaching, Junzheng wants to go back to Wancheng to see if Zhang Lu will not send troops in winter, let's figure out the situation so that we can resolve this fight. ”

Liu Biao and Cai Mao glanced at each other, and then nodded in affirmation: "I originally wanted to stay with Xuande's family in Xiangyang for the New Year, but now I still have to focus on the safety of Jingzhou.

"But this."

Liu Bei understood now, no matter whether this matter was true or not, Liu Biao hoped that he would solve it.

Zhang Luke is different from the thieves in Jingzhou, and fighting with him will inevitably lose troops, and the result is contrary to the strategy of Liu Ye and others to 'borrow chickens to lay eggs and accumulate strength'.

Liu Bei wanted to find an excuse to push, but suddenly saw Liu Ye's affirmative eyes, so he just stopped talking.

(End of chapter)