"What, His Royal Highness the King of Shu was blocked by that Liu Pan on the hills outside Xiangyang?" Kuai Liang exclaimed loudly when he heard the news he came to report.
"Yes! That Liu Pan gave His Royal Highness the King of Shu half an hour. If the hour is over, he will set fire to the mountain." The spy who delivered the letter reported.
"Half an hour, it takes less than half an hour to run from the outside of Ximen city to Ximen and then to the inner city." Kuai Liang's eyes widened.
"Look, uncle, there's a big fire over there!" Soon Kuai Ran saw a big fire rising above the western half of the sky.
"This Liu Pan really set fire to the mountain," everyone present was stunned.
"Get out of the way, I'm going to the West City Gate." Kuai Ran was about to go to the West City Gate resolutely, the fire was so raging, how could he still be alive, Kuai Ran was going to save his elder brother, but was caught Kuai Yue stopped him.
"It's too late to go now." Kuai Yue shook his head, now that the fire was raging, how could he save people, and going there without Liu Biao's order was useless, and he might have been accidentally injured.
"Now we can only pray that His Majesty the King of Shu will have his own fortune, and we need to make plans earlier!" Kuai Yue said to the crowd, Liu Pan came back at an inopportune time, and his shadow was so deep, this It shows that Liu Biao has long been on guard against the Kuai family and the Cai family. If Liu Biao wants to deal with the Kuai family and the Cai family, then the Kuai family and the Cai family will not die without a fight. "Brother!" Kuai Ran knelt down on the ground and bowed towards the raging fire in the west. Liu Mang saved his life, but he couldn't help Liu Mang. How likely is it to survive such a fire
"Hey!" Kuai Yue sighed bitterly and shook his head. Now what they are thinking about is once Yangzhou and Jingzhou go to war. Will the protagonist, Liu Biao, drag out the Kuai family and the Cai family as scapegoats
"If he, Liu Biao, regards us as a scapegoat, then he might as well just do one thing and go on and on, and instead he will go to Xudu to seek refuge with Prime Minister Cao!" Cai Mao's eyes were shining red there.
Prime Minister Cao? Kuai Yue looked at Cai Hao, this Cai Hao probably had contacted Xu Du long ago, and now that he was able to say such a thing, it seemed that someone in Xu Du had already given him the promise.
"I can't go! At least I can't go now!" Kuai Yue directly vetoed Cai Mao's idea, not to mention that they haven't lost yet, if Liu Biao wants to make Liu Pan his successor, this is just their guess. , with Liu Zong in hand, they can still fight. Even if Liu Biao really wants to abandon the Cai family and the Kuai family and make Liu Pan the heir of Jingzhou, then the Kuai family and the Cai family cannot betray Jingzhou. Otherwise, the reputation of these two companies will be completely ruined. And even if they defected at the last step, they couldn't go to Xudu. They had already offended Jingzhou to death, and there was a gap with Yangzhou. And now Xu Du and Yangzhou also have grudges, and Yangzhou wants to take Yuzhou and eliminate Liu Bei. However, Xudu Cao Cao sent troops to help Yuzhou by selling dog meat. If he took refuge in Xudu, the enemy of Yangzhou, then the little friendship with Yangzhou would be ruined. If he wants to go to Xudu, he must pass through the territory of Yangzhou. , Xinye is in the hands of others now, if this is intercepted halfway, then he will really die without knowing how.
"Then what should we do now!" Cai Mao looked at Kuai Yue. It was impossible to turn to Xu Du now, and Cai Mao had no more ideas. Looking at Kuai Yue, he was counting on Kuai Yue, the former think tank of Jingzhou, to give advice.
"Go back and rest!" Kuai Yue said calmly.
"Go back and rest?" Cai Mao was stunned, what kind of idea is this? Could it be that he went back and waited to die
"Go back and wait for the lord's summons." Kuai Yue said before leaving with his son and younger brother.
"Just wait like this?" Cai Mao asked suspiciously.
"Otherwise, what else can you do!" Kuai Yue said calmly, "We haven't lost yet, don't think about dying." As long as Liu Biao doesn't die and Jingzhou doesn't change masters, then they won't lose, so What the Kuai family needs now is to lurk and wait for Liu Biao's summons. They still have hole cards in their hands, not the kind of playthings that are manipulated by others.
"I see!" Cai Mao nodded, all they need to think about now is to make Liu Zong the next Jingzhou shepherd. Two days passed quickly, and the fire was extinguished.
People from the Kuai family, Cai family, and other big families in Jingzhou came to report the news of Liu Biao, and the lord Liu Biao summoned him.
"Come on, give this general a reward!" Kuai Yue was not stingy with his money. A personal guard who was ordered to summon the Kuai family was just doing his duty, but Kuai Yue still asked the housekeeper to give this general a reward. The little personal guard sent a few gold.
"This, this, what an embarrassment!" The guard was a little shy, this shiny gold was real gold, and this amount of gold was enough for his salary for several years.
"This general has worked hard, these are just trivial things." Kuai Yue smiled at Liu Biao's personal guard.
"This, this!"
"I don't know if the general knows why the lord is calling me to wait in such a hurry. Isn't this asking for rebellion?" It's easy to talk after giving the money, after all, it's short of others.
"Hey, my lord asked Mr. Biejia to go there to discuss important military and national affairs. I can't know about these things!" The guard shook his head. of.
Kuai Yue was a little disappointed when he heard that, and suddenly the personal guard made a turn, "But!"
"But what?"
"However, the lord's second son, General Liu Pan, had a gloomy face when he came back. It seems that His Royal Highness the King of Shu has escaped." That's all the guard can understand.
"Thank you, General!" Kuai Yue heard the news enough, "Come on, give the General a little more reward."
"This is so embarrassing!" I was embarrassed, but my hand didn't stop.
After dismissing Liu Biao's personal guard, Kuai Yue told his son and younger brother the news.
"What! His Highness the King of Shu is not dead?" Kuai Liang became uneasy and shouted loudly.
"Eldest brother is not dead, haha. I knew it. I knew that elder brother must be alive, he is lucky!" Kuai Ran beside him was also very excited. For the past two days, he stayed in the room with a sad face.
"I don't know the specifics, but according to what the guard said, Liu Pan went back with a dark face, and there was no body of His Highness the King of Shu. It should be said that His Highness the King of Shu has escaped from birth." Kuai Yue said to The two explained, "Now the lord has summoned me, and I'll go find out." Kuai Yue was already ready to go to the state pastoral mansion.
"Brother, I'll go with you!" Kuai Liang said beside him, who was also a high-ranking official in Jingzhou. So the two went together. When we arrived at the state pastoral mansion, we saw many carriages outside the state pastoral mansion. All civil and military men were heading towards the state pastoral mansion. When the two of them came, they were already behind.
Sure enough, His Royal Highness the King of Shu ran away. It turned out that after Liu Pan burned the mountain.
Liu Pan's heavy armored cavalry looked at the raging fire on the hill, and many animals ran out of it for their lives, and those who couldn't escape turned into barbecue coke.
Liu Pan surrounded the mountain for two days, and set up camp near the water source on the side of the mountain, waiting for the fire to be extinguished.
The fire was finally extinguished.
"General, the flame has been extinguished! I believe that His Royal Highness the King of Shu has been burned to ashes!" Liu Pan's thousand-man heavy armored cavalry general stepped forward and said to Liu Pan.
"Hehe! It's burnt to coke!" Liu Pan didn't have that kind of joy, but a kind of regret. "This Shu King Liu Mang Liu Hanyang. I still respect him as a hero. Do you know this Shu King Liu Mang What kind of character is he?" Liu Pan explained to the lieutenant general.
"My subordinates don't know!" A general with a thousand soldiers basically couldn't reach his hands. He was just a man who fought under orders.
"This person is amazing, you should know Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong." Liu Pan introduced Shu King Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang from the side.
"En!" Jiangdong little overlord Sun Ce is basically unknown in the entire Jingzhou, because this Jiangdong little overlord has often fought against Jingzhou over the years, and the father of Jiangdong little overlord Sun Ce also died in Jingzhou. Naturally, the people all know this person.
"This little overlord of Jiangdong once lost to this person!" Liu Pan said to the thousand generals under him.
"Ah!" The general was stunned for a moment. You must know that Jiangdong Little Overlord's reputation in Jingzhou was earned. No one in Jingzhou dared to say that he could beat Jiangdong Little Overlord. But this King of Shu, Liu Mang, actually defeated the Little Overlord of Jiangdong? "No way, General, it must be that this man has several times as many troops as Jiangdong Sun Ce." This thousand-man general automatically made up his mind that the king of Shu, Liu Wei, brought several times more troops to fight Jiangdong Sun Ce, and finally defeated Jiangdong. Sun Ce.
"Hehe, it's just the opposite!" Liu Pan shook his head with a smile. Talk about Liu Mang's battle in Lujiang, and Liu Mang's actions in Yangzhou.
"So, this person is really a general." The thousand-man general opened his mouth wide and listened to what his general was saying, and couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"Now you should know how powerful this person is. What a pity, what a pity!" Liu Pan's eyes were full of loneliness. Is this a kind of hero cherishing a hero, or a kind of regret? "Go, Find a coffin shop in the city and make a coffin for His Royal Highness the King of Shu."
"Yes!" The men on the side responded, and soon the horses were heading towards Xiangyang City.
"I've always thought that I would be able to compete with His Highness the King of Shu on the battlefield. Now it seems that I don't have this opportunity. It's a pity, a pity." Liu Pan is a young man, and he is also in his prime At that time, the blood in his heart was naturally very strong, so he wanted to compete with people of the same generation. The little overlord of Jiangdong was originally Liu Pan's goal, and these soldiers and horses under his hands also wanted to compete with the people of the same generation. Sun Ce fought, and later learned that Jiangdong Sun Ce lost to Liu Mang and Liu Hanyang, the king of Shu, so Liu Pan wanted to fight Liu Mang, but who knew that Liu Mang, the king of Shu, died just like that.
"What's the pity, General, haven't you already won?!" The thousand generals on the side stepped forward and flattered, "Look, General, Liu Mang, the king of Shu, and Liu Hanyang defeated Sun Ce, the king of Jiangdong. But he died at the hands of the general, doesn't it mean that Liu Mang, king of Shu, and Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong, are not opponents of the general?"
This flattery is well done, it belittles two people and exalts Liu Pan.
Sure enough, Liu Pan over there immediately laughed when he heard the words, "Haha. The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. Well said. Well said." Liu Pan really won, if he really killed Liu Mang If so, then Liu Pan really indirectly defeated Shu King Liu Mang and Jiangdong Little Overlord Sun Ce.
But the premise is that he really wants to kill Liu Mang.
"Report to the general, the king of Shu Liu Mang and other subordinates were not found in this forest." The troops who entered the hill to search for the bodies of Liu Mang and others came out and reported to Liu Pan.
"Not found?" Liu Pan frowned.
"It can't be that you didn't search carefully!" The thousand people who were flattering next to him reprimanded the cavalry under him.
"General, we have searched the entire mountain and found no trace!" The subordinate hurriedly explained.
"Go, I'll go into the hills with you!" Liu Pan said to his men.
"No, general, the fire on this hill has not been completely extinguished. Now the general is in danger!" General Qian said to Liu Pan. The fire on the hill was extinguished, but there were still many small flames. If it flares up all of a sudden, you won't be able to get out.
"Let's go!" Liu Pan directly took the lead and prepared to go in, is it dangerous? As a soldier, I never thought about what a threat is.
General Qian watched Liu Pan enter, and could only yell, "Come protect the general." Thousands of people entered the hill again.
This small hill is not big in the first place, and it might not be enough for hundreds of people to search, but if thousands of people search together. After so long, it was like a comb combing the entire hill for him.
But after sorting it out, I really didn't find any human corpses. Those were all animals. The only one that resembles it is the body of a bear, and the others don't have a humanoid skeleton at all.
"Look, look, look! I will definitely find it! I don't believe it, he can fly out!" Liu Pan was furious when he didn't find the bodies of Liu Mang and others, but he was waiting to prove it with the body of Liu Mang, King of Shu. As for myself, but now I can't find it. You must know that when the fire burned the mountain, he surrounded the entire hill, how could he take it out.
"General, the general found it, found it!" a subordinate over there exclaimed.
"Have you found the corpse?" Liu Pan's eyes glowed with gold, and the place where his subordinates exclaimed was a cave. Could it be that His Highness King Shu and his subordinates hid in this cave when the mountain was burned? bingo? No wonder then that their bodies were not found.
"No body was found!" The subordinate over there shook his head and responded, "Someone has already gone down to investigate."
While waiting outside for a stick of incense, a few ashen-faced subordinates came out and replied to Liu Pan above, "Reporting to the general, there is a dark spring in this cave. It should be possible to get out!"
"Dark spring!" Liu Pan walked out of the cave and looked at the hill and the mountains beside it. Over there is a tributary of the Yangtze River. past.
"Damn it, hate it!" Liu Pan finally knew why Liu Mang, the king of Shu, didn't come out and surrender. From here, the dark spring in this cave can directly reach the tributary of the Yangtze River outside. go out again.
"General, shall we chase them out?" asked the subordinate at the side, since they have discovered the escape route of Liu Mang and others, should we still pursue them
"Still chasing, chasing your mother!" Liu Pan was furious and swearing, this is still chasing like this, the fire burned for two days and three nights, just adding two days and three nights of escape time to the king of Shu, Liu Mang, This is still so chasing? It's fine if it's a plain, but there are mountains over there, and it's still like this on horseback.
"General, general, this coffin has been brought here!" The subordinates under the hill climbed up the hill and said to Liu Pan with a smile, wanting to claim credit, if Liu Pan is happy, it means he will be rewarded.
"Get out, get out, get out!" Liu Pan screamed hysterically, how could he not be angry? He thought he had the chance to win, he thought he was in control of the situation, and even burned the mountain to let the whole Xiangyang city know. If Liu Mang, king of Shu, was captured, even if there was only a corpse, then everyone would boast that Liu Pan was young and promising. Catch him, and let Liu Mang escape, it's really embarrassing and embarrassing after so long.
"Go back to the city!" Liu Pan entered Xiangyang City with a gloomy face. (.)