Chapter 292: The Stone in the Mountain Blossoms

Xiangyang City is in chaos, Cai Mao and Yuan Qi, Taishan confronted, although the Yuan Biao in the city was kept in the dark, but Yuan Biao is well versed in the world, and he saw a hint of clues in the generals who passed by like a marquee. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Cai Mao was called, Yuan Biao lay on the sickbed and first glanced at Cai Mao deeply, and then asked, "Are you using troops abroad?" Cai Mao was shocked when he heard this, and quickly denied it, deducing that he was just training soldiers. Yuan Biao had already expected Cai Mao's reaction, sighed, and didn't say anything more, so Cai Mao retreated. After Cai Mao left, Yuan Biao called his confidants and told him to go to the city wall to see what was going on, and be sure to find out whether Cai Mao was using troops externally and against whom.

Walking out of Yuanbiao's bedroom, Cai Mao felt a sense of oppression. It seems that Yuan Qi must be solved as soon as possible, Yuan Biao is already suspicious, and I am afraid that this matter will not be hidden for a long time. Cai Mao, who was walking, made up his mind, turned a corner with his steps, and walked directly in the direction of the city wall, he wanted to concentrate his superior forces today and kill Yuan Qi completely, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

Under the leadership of Cai Mao, the 30,000 sailors stationed in Xiangyang abandoned the ship and landed, and with the 20,000 foot soldiers in the hands of other military generals, the 50,000 army opened the city gate and appeared in front of Yuan Qi's military camp with murderous spirit. Seeing this, the young and vigorous Yuan Qi was furious, and immediately took Yuan Pan to fight and handed over the camp to Mount Tai to guard.

Taishan looked at Yuan Qi's figure in battle, a smile hung on the corner of his mouth, and then turned around and came to an extremely ordinary small tent in the camp, in which sat several extremely fine-looking sergeants. Their eyes are very sharp, and they know at a glance that they are excellent marksmen.

Seeing Tarzan coming, several people quickly stood up. Salute to Tarzan. Taishan patted them on the shoulder one by one, and whispered: "Our opportunity has come, you change into the clothes and armor of the Jiangxia army, and mix into the battlefield in front, if Cai Mao kills Yuan Qi, don't expose it, come back with the defeated army, if Cai Mao fails to kill Yuan Qi." Do you know what to do?"

One of the leading sergeants patted the longbow on his back and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, my lord, those who were killed by stray arrows during the battle between the two armies." But Yuan Qi is not the only one, he will not come back alive today. After speaking, he shook his head, and several sergeants were led by him. walked out of the tent one after another.

These few people. It was Taishan who came to Jingzhou and secretly raised the dead soldiers, so that one day, he could play an unexpected role on such an occasion. Short body walked out of the tent, Tarzan came to the back of the tent, saw that Mi Zhu was already waiting here, Tarzan walked to Mi Zhu's side. He whispered: "No matter how successful or bad things are, we must not let these people come back alive." If you want them to keep their mouths shut forever, you can only turn them into dead people. ”

Mi Zhu was stunned, these dead soldiers were recruited by Mi Zhu, and all along, Mi Zhu was responsible for the food and clothing of several of them, and Mi Zhu did not bother to work them, the elite level of these few of them was no worse than that of Bai Yu's elite soldiers, and Taishan's weight on them was also obvious, but now, in order to cover up the real cause of Yuan Qi's death, Taishan decided to abandon them. quickly reacted, Mi Zhu understood what Taishan meant, and replied: "Don't worry, my lord, I'll ......do it."

Looking at Mi Zhu's back, Taishan's face suddenly became gloomy, and he whispered in a voice that only he could hear: "In order to prevent these dead soldiers from leaking secrets, you can only execute them, but one day, if you Mi Zizhong want to betray me, who should I let execute you......"

Outside the camp, the shouts of killing sounded all day long, Yuan Pan protected Yuan Qi's side, looked at the two sergeants who were fighting, and said with some concern: "Big brother, Cai Mao and they have too many troops, I'm afraid we won't be able to stop it." Yuan Qi glanced in the direction of Cai Mao with disdain, and said angrily: "Brother Pan, don't worry, since ancient times, evil will not prevail! Our army will win!" Seeing Yuan Qi's confident appearance, Yuan Pan had no choice but to hide the worries in his heart, and shouted loudly to fight bravely with his subordinate sergeants.

However, war is not something that can be won by a book with a vivid mouth, especially a frivolous scholar like Yuan Qi who doesn't understand what war is. Under the command of Cai Mao, the 50,000 army advanced and retreated, and gradually suppressed Yuan Qi's 20,000 Jiangxia army. Seeing that his subordinates were suppressed, Yuan Qi's frivolous temper flared up again, he stretched out his hand and drew his sword, shouting loudly: "Soldiers, go forward bravely and avenge my father!"

Hearing Yuan Qi's shout, Yuan Pan chuckled in his heart, and suddenly felt that something was wrong. Your own side is already at a disadvantage, and as a commander-in-chief, not only do you not make accurate judgments based on the battlefield situation, but instead insist on rushing forward with a stream of blood, isn't this looking for death?

Sure enough, Cai Mao also judged Yuan Qi's location through Yuan Qi's shouting, raised his gun and pointed at Yuan Qi's side, and shouted: "Rush! Rush in this direction, you must catch Yuan Qi's rebellion, whether you live or die!" Under the command of Cai Mao, the 50,000 army rushed in the direction of Yuan Qi, and soon broke through the defense line arranged by Yuan Pan and killed Yuan Qi's eyes, until this moment, Yuan Qi had a feeling of fear, he clearly saw the killing intent on Cai Mao's face, fear, forced Yuan Qi to turn his horse's head and run backwards. As soon as he ran two steps, two sharp arrows flew out of nowhere and pierced Yuan Qi's chest, shooting Yuan Qi off his horse.

In the dark, several dead soldiers raised by Mount Tai threw away their bows and arrows, pretended to be defeated, and ran in the direction of the camp, but they did not know that they had been ruthlessly sentenced to death by Mount Tai, and what was waiting for them would be the poisonous wine that Mi Zhu had already prepared.

With Yuan Qi being killed by an arrow, Cai Mao's spirit was shocked, thinking that his subordinates had shot Yuan Qi, and led the army to kill for a while, and chased and killed until outside Yuan Qi's camp, only to be blocked back by Taishan and his army. After this battle, after Yuan Qi's death, Taishan led the army to resist Cai Mao's moves, won the favor of Yuan Qi's old department, and under the leadership of Yuan Pan, more than 20,000 soldiers who originally belonged to Yuan Qi all surrendered to Taishan's command.

Xiangyang City, a cronie sent by Yuanbiao. Dumbfounded to see the scene of Yuan Qi being killed by an arrow, in a panic, he hurriedly ran back to the Chengzhong Prefecture Pastoral Mansion. told Yuan Biao everything he saw. Yuan Biao was already ill and had not recovered, and after hearing the return of his cronies, he was furious, opened his mouth and spewed out two mouthfuls of blood, and said angrily: "Call Cai Mao, this mansion wants to ask him what his intentions are! My boy ......"

When Cai Mao took his generals and came to Yuanbiao's bedroom without removing their armor, there were blood stains on their armor. It made Yuan Biao dizzy for a while, and pointed at Cai Mao tremblingly, Yuan Biao said angrily: "Whose blood is it on your body?"

After solving Yuan Qi. Cai Mao no longer has any scruples. Yuan Biao has a total of two sons, as soon as Yuan Qi dies, no matter how resentful Yuan Biao is in his heart, he will still pass on the position of Jingzhou Mu to Yuan Cong, and at that time, Cai Mao is Jingzhou Mu's own uncle, do you still have to be afraid of anything? In the face of Yuan Biao's questioning, Cai Mao did not have the slightest intention to hide it: "Return to the lord." This blood belongs to the eldest son Yuan Qi. Yuan Qi led his troops to rebel. The last general has already cleared the door for the Lord. ”

I didn't expect Cai Mao to be so rampant, and he didn't take killing Yuan Qi as a thing at all, Yuan Biao's hand pointing at Cai Mao trembled even more violently, and after a long time, Yuan Biao suddenly opened his mouth and spurted out a large amount of blood, and then fell on the bed and fell unconscious. Cai Mao knew that Yuan Biao was stimulated by the pain of losing a child and fell into a coma, and the lesson of the past was in front of him, Yuan Ding did not hesitate to collude with Li Dao and Guo Yan in order to avenge Yuan Xi, which shows how sad it is to lose a child in the middle way. Sighing, Cai Mao turned his head to the two brothers Cai Zhong and Cai He and said, "You stay outside the room and take care of the lord." In addition to being dissatisfied with Yuan Biao's preparation to establish Yuan Qi as the son, Cai Mao can be said to be loyal to Yuan Biao, and naturally he doesn't want to see any accidents in Yuan Biao.

But Cai Mao is short of wisdom after all, he only thought about taking care of Yuan Biao, but he didn't think of Taishan who was ambitious by wolves outside the city. Taishan, the hero, seized the opportunity of Cai Mao to kill Yuan Qi, and together with Yuan Pan, he called on people of insight in Jingzhou to come to the "Qingjun side".

Under Pang Tong's strategy, Taishan transferred back Guan Wei, who was sent to Yanzhou, and instead captured Wuling County in the southwest of Jingzhou; sent Zhang Wu to capture Lingling County in the east of Wuling; sent Chen to capture Guiyang County in the east; and Taishan himself, under the banner of avenging Yuan Qi's grievances, continued to be stationed outside Xiangyang City with Guan Ping, Yuan Feng and others, paying close attention to the movements in Xiangyang City. Taishan knows that after getting the bad news of Yuan Qi's death, Yuan Biao's condition is bound to get worse and become more serious, if Yuan Biao is dying, Taishan is ready to lead the army to conquer Xiangyang and occupy the southern half of Jingzhou as his own.

As for Taishan's order to Guan Wei, Zhang Wu and Chen Zhi to attack the three southern counties, instead of Jiangxia and other places with abundant money and food, it was out of Pang Tong's persuasion, Pang Tong believed that the two forces of Yugong Zhaolie and Sun Quan in the north of Jingzhou were trying to survive in the cracks, which was not conducive to the development of their own forces, so it was better to take the three southern counties first, and take the three southern counties as the foundation, recruit soldiers and horses in the three counties, and use troops in the north. Anyway, Yuan Qi is dead, Jiangxia is in a state of no one to take over, Yugong Zhaolie and Sun Quan have their own troubles, and they are unable to invade Jingzhou in a short time.

Pang Tong's opinion was fully affirmed by Taishan, and he fought in accordance with Pang Tong's strategic concept. In less than 10 days, Guan, Zhang, and Chen Zhi successively sent people to report that the three southern counties had been taken, and Zhang Wu had surrendered to Lingling's general Xing Daorong in the Battle of Lingling, and Chen Zhi had also gained in the battle of pacifying Guiyang, so that Guiyang's general Chen Yinggui had surrendered.

At this point, the three southern counties of Jingzhou were completely pocketed by Mount Tai, and Mount Tai finally obtained a piece of land that truly belonged to him after more than ten years of exile, and he finally ushered in a gorgeous turn. Although the means used are not above board at all, and the excuse of avenging Yuan Qi is also very far-fetched, but Taishan doesn't care about these now, compared with the territory, money, food, soldiers and horses, the means and reputation, Taishan still feels that the former is more affordable.

Of course, under Pang Tong's planning, Taishan was very "innocent" in this civil strife in Jingzhou, and he was just forcibly implicated by the situation. The reputation of Mount Tai has therefore been preserved to the greatest extent, not only to get an affordable site, but also to retain a good reputation, Mount Tai's heart, has blossomed.