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    Liu Biao finally died. Seeing his father dead in his arms, Liu Qi cried bitterly for a moment and quickly calmed down. Wang Wei, the captain in charge of the Jingzhou Mufu's security, was immediately informed that Liu Biao had died.  The news of his death was secretly communicated to his loyal minister Wang Wei.  Wang Wei was shocked when he heard the bad news, hugged Liu Biao's body and cried loudly, but Liu Qi grabbed Wang Wei and shouted with great majesty: "General Wang, now is not the time to cry, there are bigger things imminent!  Stop crying, it¡¯s important to do the big things first!¡±

    "No, I forgive you, sir. Oh no, it should be my lord who forgives me. I have lost my composure." It took a lot of effort for Wang Wei to come back to his senses. He wiped away his tears and apologized to Liu Qi. He choked again and said, "please don't worry, lord, I'm sorry."  Now go and arrange for people to hoist banners and hang mourning, decorate the mourning hall, and prepare for the funeral for the old master."

    After saying that, Wang Wei turned around and left stupidly, wiping his tears. Liu Qi quickly grabbed him and shouted in a low voice: "You are confused! Who asked you to hang up your banner and announce the death of your father? Block it for me immediately.  Everyone is allowed in and out of the inner and outer gates of the Mu Shou Mansion. No one is allowed to leave the house without my order! Also, prepare a hundred sword and ax hands for me immediately, I will be of great use!"

    "Swordsman? My lord, what do you want to do?!" Wang Wei was shocked.

    "Don't ask, you will know in the future." Liu Qi refused to answer, and said: "Immediately act as ordered, and remember not to let the outside world know about my father's death. After the matter is completed, I will not treat you badly."

    Wang Wei was speechless, but Liu Qi ignored him. He just turned to Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue, who were wiping tears beside him, and said quickly: "My father-in-law, please arrange for the envoy to leave the city immediately and summon the three brothers Cai Mao, Cai Yun and Cai Zhong back in the honor of their father."  I¡¯ll see you in the city. Uncle, you have a long-standing friendship with Huang Zu. Please go to the Ximen garrison camp in person. In your father¡¯s honor, please tell Grandfather Huang to come to see you. Remember, you must announce that Huang Zu and Huang She are coming to see you at the same time!¡±

    The expressions of Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue changed together. After hesitating for a moment, Kuai Liang asked: "Xian son-in-law, how do you plan to deal with them?"

    "Huang Zu can stay, as long as he swears allegiance to me and keeps Huang She by my side, I can continue to reuse him." Liu Qi said calmly: "As for the Cai family brothers, we can't keep any of them! We won.  They let old general Wang Wei take over the navy!"

    The Kuai Liang brothers were silent again, and Wang Wei, who was about to be promoted to Navy Commander, also turned pale. After thinking for a moment, Liu Qi urged him to act immediately.  Kuai Liangcai asked in a calm tone: "My lord, you have to think carefully. Before my death, my lord just told you to treat the Cai family well and let them be used by you. What you do now. Not only is it against the old master  The Lord¡¯s decree is even more risky, and if it fails, the consequences will be disastrous!¡±

    "Don't worry. I have been planning this plan for more than a day or two!" Liu Qi gritted his teeth and said: "When my father died, he told me to treat the Cai family well, but you also know the relationship between Cai Mao brothers and me. It was already here that either I would die or they would.  To the point of death, they didn't dare to mess around when their father was alive. Now that his father is gone, there are soldiers from Tao Ying and the traitor outside. If I don't strike first, once they bite back, the consequences for us will be even more unimaginable!  "

    "But my lord, you can be gentle to them." Kuai Liang said: "Now that the old lord is gone, you have succeeded to the throne of Jingzhou and are in charge of the power of life and death in rewards and punishments in Jingzhou. You continue to give generous salaries to the high-ranking officials of the Cai Mao family so that they can have more  If family members serve as officials, they may not be able to be used by you, so why can't you try to appease them?"

    "This" Liu Qi hesitated for a moment, and then said bitterly: "Well, let's trick the Cai brothers here first. If they are really willing to use me, I can also give them high officials and generous salaries! But if they dare to play tricks,  , or refuse to keep hostages, I will not show mercy to them!"

    Seeing that Liu Qi had made up his mind, the Kuai brothers, who had been tied to Liu Qi for a long time, stopped talking, immediately clasped their fists and sang a promise, and then hurried out to assign tasks.  Although Wang Wei wanted to persuade him, Liu Qi forced Wang Wei to swear allegiance to him in front of Liu Biao's body, and then forced Wang Wei to act according to his orders as the new lord. Wang Wei had no choice but to immediately blockade Jingzhou with his son Wang Zhong.  At the inner and outer gates of the Mu's Mansion, swordsmen were arranged to wait behind Liu Biao's bedroom. At the same time, Liu Qi immediately dispatched the servants and maids under his control to keep an eye on Cai and Liu Cong secretly. Cai and Liu Cong died because of Liu Biao's death.  Because Shidu was not at the scene, he still didn't know that Liu Biao had passed away, so naturally he couldn't quickly report the news.

    Liu Qi did seize the opportunity and deployed a decisive and comprehensive strategy. Unfortunately, Liu Qi underestimated his two opponents Huang Zu and Cai Mao, so

    Let¡¯s look at Huang Zu first. Kuai Yue, who had a good relationship with Huang Zu, personally came to the garrison station inside the west gate of Xiangyang and summoned Huang Zu to the Jingzhou Mufu in Liu Biao¡¯s honor. At the beginning, Huang Zu did notHe was suspicious. Apart from being a little worried that Liu Biao would hold him accountable for his consecutive defeats, everything else was as normal as before. He quickly changed into official official uniform and prepared to see Liu Biao.  But when Kuai Yue asked Huang Zu to bring his only son Huang She to meet Liu Biao, Huang Zu immediately smelled something was wrong and asked Kuai Yue very strangely: "Yidu, why did the lord summon my dog ??son?"  My dog ??is just a small school inspector, what does the lord do when he sees him?"

    "I don't know." Kuai Yue answered vaguely and said, "Maybe the lord wanted to see the general and his son before his death and entrust the general and his son with the funeral arrangements. Last time, the lord summoned all the civil and military officials to formally appoint the eldest son as his heir.  Old General, you and the Young General happened to be away from Xiangyang City and failed to listen to the Lord¡¯s teachings in person, and the Lord probably wanted to make up for it this time.¡±

    Kuai Yue's excuse was reasonable, but Kuai Yue's hesitant tone made Huang Zu suspicious. Under suspicion, Huang Zu simply asked directly: "Xiandu, what happened? My friendship with you is not the same.  It has been more than ten or twenty years, and I still don¡¯t know who you are? When you went to Jiangxia¡¯s den of thieves to recruit Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu, you were still calm and composed in the enemy camp, chatting and laughing. Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu later admired you.  Damn it, why are you so hesitant to speak today? What happened? "

    "If I didn't hesitate on purpose, I'm afraid you would be fooled directly."

    Kuai Yue murmured in his heart, but refused to say anything. He even lowered his head, showing a guilty conscience.  When Huang Zu saw Kuai Yue's expression, he suddenly felt something was wrong.  After careful calculation, Huang Zu came to his senses and hurriedly lowered his voice and said: "Yidu, tell the truth, has the lord already? The fact that you came here to summon me to see the lord is not an order from the lord, but Liu Qi's intention.  ?¡±

    Kuai Yue did not answer, turned his head away, and suddenly asked: "The defenders of Zhonglu. Did you deliberately take the time?"

    "What?" Ancestor Huang was stunned, and then he immediately understood. He tapped Kuai Yue with his finger and said with a smile: "Hey Kuai Yidu, you just deliberately exposed your flaw for me to see through, right? Otherwise, I can't see through it."  With your ability and your friendship with me, it would be so easy to trick me and Sheer into dying for Liu Qi?!"

    Kuai Yue smiled bitterly, but still refused to speak. Huang Zu laughed loudly, slapped Kuai Yue on the shoulder, and laughed unscrupulously: "Xiandu. You saved my life and She'er's life, so of course I will  To repay you, don't go back, just stay here. I'll take you to ask for merit. Don't worry, your family members in Zhonglu will not be in danger."

    "What about my family members in Xiangyang City?" Kuai Yue asked back - Kuai Yue was a smart man. Knowing that the Xuzhou Army crossed the river, he immediately divided his troops to attack the insignificant small town of Zhonglu.  The goal is definitely not to kill all his clan, so Kuai Yue doesn't need to worry about those clan relatives at all.

    "I'll send someone to protect them right away. I guarantee they won't have any problems." Huang Zu replied without thinking.

    Kuai Yue nodded, and then sighed: "Old Huang, I have been tricked by you. If you didn't deliberately offer Zhonglu to Tao Taiwei, how could I have done it when the old master's body was still cold?  Such a thing?"

    "But I also saved your glory, wealth, official position, and your vast farmland and family property in Jingzhou, didn't I?" Huang Zu laughed wildly, then patted Kuai Yue on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't  I'm stunned, brother, I hurt you once today, this time I'll make amends to you, you write the letter, and you and She'er share the opportunity to send the letter asking for merit, which is enough for you to atone for your sins and be promoted to a noble title."

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    On Cai Mao's side, although Liu Qi asked Kuai Liang to send an envoy out of the city to contact the Cai Mao brothers at the navy camp and trick the Cai family brothers into returning to the city to die, Kuai Liang felt that just by sending an envoy to contact the Cai Mao brothers, the Cai Mao brothers might not be able to survive.  Ken believed that Liu Biao would recall the three brothers to the city at the same time, so Kuai Liang simply left the east gate of Xiangyang in person, took the letter and rushed to the navy camp to meet Cai Mao brothers.  Cai Mao and Kuai Liang had already turned against each other because Kuai Liang married his daughter to Liu Qi. Hearing that Kuai Liang came to the military camp in person at night, Cai Mao was surprised and did not dare to neglect, and quickly took Cai Yun and  Cai Zhong immediately received Kuai Liang, and the two sides met in Cai Mao's Chinese army tent.

    After the meeting, Kuai Liang asked the three brothers Cai Mao, Cai Yun, and Cai Zhong to return to Xiangyang City to meet Liu Biao in the name of Liu Biao's oral instructions. He also said that the matter was urgent and asked Cai Mao brothers to set off immediately.  Unfortunately, brother Cai Mao was not a fool. After listening to Liu Biao's order conveyed by Kuai Liang, Cai Mao immediately became suspicious and asked Kuai Liang: "Mr. Zirou, is this wrong? Zhang Yun and Cai He took half of the navy.  After leaving Xiakou, the remaining Xiangyang Navy was under the control of our three brothers. The three brothers returned to the city together. The Navy was leaderless. If the enemy suddenly attacked, how could we resist it? My lord is also a man who is proficient in military affairs. How could he give such an order?  "

    "Sure enough, Cai Mao would definitely be suspicious if he deceived three brothers to return to the city at the same time. He only deceived one or two brothers.It's useless to go back alone. As long as one of the Cai brothers cannot be captured, there will be endless troubles.  Kuai Liang sighed quietly in his heart, and then said as best as he could: "General Degui's words are reasonable. It was indeed extremely difficult for the lord to summon the three generals back to the city at the same time. However, the matter was urgent, and the lord had no choice but to do so."  Therefore, I asked the three generals to temporarily hand over the navy to their confidants and return to the city with me as soon as possible.  Please rest assured, the three generals, it will definitely not take too long.  "

    The more Kuai Liang said this, the less the Cai brothers dared to take it lightly. At that moment, Cai Mao asked again: "What big thing happened? Mr. Zirou, please tell me clearly. Otherwise, we don't dare to take the risk and do it ourselves."  Leave your post.¡±

    "This" Kuai Liang hesitated for a moment and said simply: "To be honest with General Cai, my lord is dying, so I summoned the three generals back to the city to hand over his will and entrust his funeral affairs."

    "Has my sister-in-law's condition become this serious?" Cai Yun and Cai Zhong were both startled, but a hint of joy flashed in Cai Mao's eyes. After careful calculation, Cai Hao said, "Since my sister-in-law is so seriously ill, then we have to  Go back and take a look immediately, second and third brothers. You follow Mr. Zirou back to the city, and I will stay and lead the army to guard the water stronghold."

    "General Cai, you have to go." Kuai Liang said quickly: "You are an important minister of Jingzhou. When my lord is dying, how can you not listen to his will in front of him?"

    "It is precisely because I am an important minister of Jingzhou that I cannot leave the water village at this time." Cai Mao raised his voice, "The enemy is now. Once the lord dies suddenly, the enemy will immediately launch an attack after receiving the news. If I do not stay in the water village  If you are in charge of military affairs, how can you reach the Xuzhou bandit army's attack?"

    Kuai Liang was speechless. After thinking about it for a while, he could only settle for the next best thing, and then said: "General Degui's words are reasonable, so be it. General Degui, you go back to the city to see the lord, while the second general and the third general stay in the city."  You are in charge of military affairs, Commander-in-Chief, and you are an important official in Jingzhou, so you must see my lord one last time."

    Cai Hao was a little hesitant, not for anything else, but because he was afraid that Liu Biao would suddenly die of illness after entering the city, and Liu Qi would take the opportunity to take him down in one fell swoop.  At that time, even if Cai Yun and Cai Zhong go to do important things for them, their old fate will still have to be handed over to Xiangyang City - Cai Mao will not feel so distressed about taking care of the lives of his second and third brothers.

    "Report¡ª¡ª!" When he was hesitating, a messenger suddenly rushed outside the tent and reported to Cai Mao: "Report to the Governor. General Huang sent his confidants to come to see him, saying that he had urgent matters to deal with.  Report to the Commander-in-Chief and ask him to receive you immediately."

    "Second brother, third brother. Please stay with Mr. Zirou for me for a while. I'll come as soon as I go." Cai Mao winked at Cai Yun and Cai Zhong.  Then he hurried out of the tent. Kuai Liang peeked at Cai Mao's look and knew that Cai Mao had bad intentions, but he was not nervous or worried. On the contrary, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief, as if he was relieved of a heavy burden and seemed to  I have been waiting for this moment

    After a while, Cai Mao hurried back to the tent with excitement on his face. The first thing he did after entering the tent was to point at Kuai Liang and yell: "Come here, take down Kuai Liang!"

    "No!" The confidant guards in Cai Mao's tent agreed in unison, and immediately stepped forward to grab the defenseless Kuai Liang. Kuai Liang was shocked and asked: "What crime did I commit? Why did you take me?"

    "Why are you being taken?" Cai Mao laughed ferociously and yelled: "You Kuai Zirou, for concealing the news that my lord has passed away from illness, you already deserve death! How dare you come to deceive the three generals and brothers on behalf of Liu Qi?  Enter the city and let Liu Qi'er catch us all! You tell yourself, should I take you down?!"

    "What? My sister-in-law has died of illness?" Cai Yun and Cai Zhong both jumped up and screamed. Kuai Liang was even more shocked and blurted out: "How did you know?"

    "How do I know? It has nothing to do with you!" Cai Hao waved his hand decisively, then asked with a sinister smile: "Mr. Zirou, the matter is now at this point, what else can you say?"

    Kuai Liang was silent for a moment, and then replied: "Since you have seen through the trap, let's do it. I know you have wanted to kill me for more than a day or two. I just hope that for the sake of your colleagues, you will give me a good time."

    "Kill you?" Cai Mao smiled even more happily and said, "Don't worry, I won't kill you. I will only treat you as a gift and give it to Tao Taiwei as a meeting gift - come on, beat the drum and gather the generals, I have  Something big needs to be announced to the generals!¡±

    What happened next was simple. After summoning his generals to the commander's tent overnight, Cai Mao immediately announced the news that Liu Biao was dead, and then exposed Liu Qi's crime of trying to deceive his brother back to Xiangyang City. He announced that in view of Liu Qi's  Determined to cause harm, unjust comes first, and he decided to follow the will of heaven and people's hearts, and led all the Jingzhou navy officers and soldiers to surrender to the Xuzhou army!  As a result, the generals of Jingzhou Navy, who had long been dissatisfied with Liu Qi to the extreme, suddenly agreed, cheered together, and expressed their willingness to follow Cai Mao to surrender to Tao. Only two low-level generals refused to surrender. As a result, Cai Hao led the generals to hack to death with swords, and Jiang Tao was surrendered.  One thingIt¡¯s a foregone conclusion.

    What happened next was even simpler. Liu Qi, who had just fulfilled his wish and became the Lord of Jingzhou, set up an ambush in his mansion to wait for Grandfather Huang and Cai Mao to come and die. As a result, he waited around, but it was Huang Zu who came.  The west gate of Xiangyang was opened to welcome the bad news of the Xuzhou army entering the city, and the bolt from the blue that Cai Mao led the Jingzhou navy to mutiny and surrender to the Xuzhou army!  Liu Qi was horrified when he heard the report. He hurriedly led his troops with Wang Wei and his son to go out to check the situation. They saw the Xicheng area was filled with flames and people were shouting. The sound of Liu Qi being captured alive was earth-shattering. The fall of Xiangyang was a foregone conclusion.

    Seeing this, Liu Qi cursed Huang Zu, Cai Mao and others for being ungrateful, and had no other choice. He and Wang Wei and his son hurriedly led the troops that could be mobilized, opened the south gate of Xiangyang and headed towards Jiangling.  He fled for his life, but what made Liu Qi vomit blood was that the number of Jingzhou troops willing to help him escape from Xiangyang City was actually less than a thousand.  Many troops, including the defenders at the south gate of Xiangyang, had clearly heard Liu Qi's summons order, but they deliberately pretended not to hear the order and scrambled to escape, staying as far away from Liu Qi as possible. I still don't understand why I was like this.  The unpopular Liu Qi was so aggrieved that he roared loudly, but he had no choice but to do anything. Finally, he listened to Wang Wei's persuasion and fled south with the team he could lead.

    At the same time, in the Xuzhou Army camp, Deputy Director Tao issued multiple orders at once. First, after the Xuzhou Army entered the city, they were not allowed to plunder the people, they were not allowed to set fire to the city, and they made every effort to protect the granaries and money warehouses in the city; second, they were allowed to allow all Jingzhou generals and soldiers to  Surrender, those who surrender are not allowed to be killed; the third is to divide the troops to protect Liu Biao's Jingzhou Mufu. All soldiers in the army are not allowed to step into Liu Biao's mansion without their own orders; the fourth order.  We will pursue Liu Qi with all our strength to the end, and we must not let Liu Qi escape to Jiangling!

    After issuing several orders, Deputy Director Tao led the crowd to climb the city wall of Fancheng across the water from Xiangyang. Looking at the situation in Xiangyang to the south, he saw that apart from the dazzling torches, there was no fire in Xiangyang City. Only then did Deputy Director Tao  He breathed a sigh of relief.  Relaxed, Deputy Director Tao turned to Jia Laopo next to him and asked: "Mr. Wenhe, Huang Zu sent Kuai Yue and Huang She out of the city to present a letter asking for surrender, and then opened the city gate to welcome our army into the city. Brother Cai Mao detained Liu Qi's father-in-law  Kuai Liang, who gave me Kuai Liang as a meeting gift, led the remaining navy to surrender to us - in Mr. Wenhe's opinion, which one of these people was the cruelest to Liu Qi? Who tricked Liu Qi the most?"

    "My lord already has the answer in his mind, so why ask?" Jia Lao asked with a smile.

    Deputy Director Tao laughed loudly, and the old foxes such as Liu Ye and Xun Chen beside him also smiled knowingly. Only Yang Changshi was a little confused and asked: "My lord, Mr. Wenhe, who are you talking about? Grandfather Huang? Cai Maosan"  Brother? Or Kuai Yue who betrayed his niece and son-in-law? "

    "Mr. Zhongming, he is the only one you missed." Deputy Director Tao replied lightly.

    "The only person I missed?" Yang Changshi was stunned at first, and then exclaimed: "My lord, Mr. Wenhe, you are not talking about Liu Qi's father-in-law Kuai Liang, right? He was tied up by Cai Mao brothers and escorted  Come and give it to us!¡±

    "So, he is the one who treats Liu Qi the most." Deputy Director Tao sighed: "As Liu Qi's father-in-law, if Kuai Liang surrenders to us directly, the world will scold him as unjust; if he accompanies Liu Qi and carries it to the end,  , he would have to die, and it would also harm his family and relatives, so he very smartly asked his brother to surrender, and ran to Cai Mao's camp to be a prisoner. This way he could avoid the danger of swordsmanship and force me to watch.  Kuai Yue and Huang Zu would not kill him just because they got it in their hands. They would have a chance to make a comeback in the future. Oh, these aristocratic families are all very good at protecting their wealth, life and reputation!  "

    Yang Changshi was dumbfounded when he heard this. He finally came to his senses. Then he spat thick phlegm unhygienicly and cursed: "Damn traitor! He is more traitor than me! This time, I ransacked his house."  All chances are gone!¡±
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