Chapter 2060 Xiangyang falls, thorns block the way
Since serious health problems occurred, Liu Biao almost never went to the city wall to watch the battle. Although Liu Biao did his best in his own mansion, there were some differences between him and a leader who went to the front line to fight in person.
When Cao Jun and the Cai family joined hands to sneak into the city and seize the south gate of Xiangyang, Liu Biao was sitting in the front yard of his mansion. When the first shout came faintly, before anyone else could hear clearly what was going on, Liu Biao suddenly straightened his neck and looked towards the south...
In an instant, chaotic sounds of shouting and fighting erupted like thunder in the south, reaching into the sky. In the blink of an eye, these mixed shouts swept through the whole city from south to north. Inside and outside the city, they responded and mixed together. With overwhelming murderous intent, they shook the entire Xiangyang City, impacting everyone inside. People''s minds are shaken and fear spreads, which means death.
『Xiangyang has been destroyed! Xiangyang has been destroyed! Only kill Liu Biao, and those who surrender will be spared death! 』
??The shouts of death and panic outside became even louder. The whole city, the neighborhoods, and the surrounding deep mansions and courtyards seemed to be in commotion because of this.
Liu Biao''s face was very pink, so he couldn''t see any changes in his expression. He just shook his body a few times, then stood still and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, please don''t panic!" It''s just Xiao Xiao''s mischief! Order Pang Zhizhong to temporarily take over the military post and strictly guard the north gate! Order Wen Zhongye to quickly lead troops to quell the chaos in the city! 』
After Liu Biao finished his roar, his breath was inevitably short for a moment. He took a few sharp breaths and continued to order: "Get a certain weapon!" Close the front and back doors! Soldiers go up to the turret! If any thieves come near, they will be killed without mercy! 』
On the long street of Xiangyang, there was already a mess, with cries and cries. In the streets and alleys, there were helpless people running around. There were also some scattered Jingzhou soldiers, holding weapons, but Like a headless fly, being pulled around by the flow of people, not knowing which direction to go.
In Xiangyang City, some fires have been rising. In any troubled times, there are always some people who can''t avoid it. They don''t care, they only think about themselves, and they take advantage of the chaos, which becomes a beautiful scenery.
Liu Biao stood on the high platform, raised his sword and shouted: "This is Liu Biao, the shepherd of Jingzhou!" Cao Cao''s thieves were greedy and immoral, and plundered and plundered Jingzhou! As a loyal Jingzhou fellow countryman, please don’t be deceived by me! Let’s defend our homeland from foreign enemies! 』
??The guards standing near the Jingzhou Mufu Yamen also shouted: "Let''s defend our homeland from foreign enemies together!" Let’s defend our homeland from foreign enemies! 』
?In the midst of the panic, hearing Liu Biao making such a sound naturally had some effect. Many scattered Jingzhou soldiers also found their way and moved closer to Liu Biao.
?Amid the billowing black smoke, Liu Biao held his sword high and roared over and over again until his voice became hoarse. Beads of sweat fell from his forehead, and the thick powder on his face was washed out into ravines.
At this moment, the fighting near the south gate of Xiangyang has reached its most brutal stage.
Although Cai Jiu and others took advantage of the surprise at first and killed the soldiers on duty in Jingzhou by surprise, the rest of the Jingzhou soldiers quickly reacted and attacked with all their strength, blocking Cai Jiu and others in the city. The door. After all, in order to pretend to be refugees working, Cai Jiu and others naturally couldn''t wear any armor. In the era of cold weapons, whether or not there was armor were two completely different concepts. Under swords and guns, any contact would result in bloodshed and broken skin, resulting in casualties. When there are too many, the momentum will naturally suffer some loss and will no longer be as fierce as before.
During the fierce fight, people from both sides continued to fall. Some died on the spot, but some were injured, but they were trampled under their feet by unknown members of their own family or opponents, and they screamed miserably. Some of them were still struggling. Climbing to the corner of the road, I accidentally stepped down a few times and gradually lost my breath...
Suddenly, Cai Jiu, who was leading a team to attack the winch of the city gate, heard a huge shout erupting from the city. A battle flag with the word "文" came from the north and rushed straight towards here!
『Damn it! Damn it! 』
??Cai Jiu shouted and quickly ordered his men to move faster. There was some panic in his tone that could not be concealed. Wenpin''s martial prowess is well known in Jingzhou. If Wenpin had really arrived here, not only would he have failed to seize the city, but his own life would have been in danger!
Success or failure, now it seems that the only thing left is who can be faster!
Wenpin led his men and ran southward, his spear tilted to guide the gate.
?Cai Jiu danced his sword crazily and turned his head to urge his men.
Xiahou Dun in the north of the city stood under the flag of the Chinese army and beat the huge war drum himself.
??The Cai family in the south of the city stood outside the gate of Xiangyang, anxiously waiting for the gate to open.
Black smoke billows.
?The flames are fierce.
Howling and crying all around.
Liu Biao stood on the high platform, showing his pale and withered arms, holding up a long sword.
Liu Cong huddled under the corner, with frightened and helpless eyes open, holding his knees.
Everything seems to be in turmoil, and everything seems to be a still scene.
The winch at the south gate of Xiangyang was finally turned up, and the iron fence closing the city gate was slowly raised...
Suddenly, near the south gate of Xiangyang, both above and below the city, whether Cao Jun or Jingzhou soldiers, could not help shouting, either with despair or with ecstasy! Cai''s reinforcements outside Nancheng were eagerly pulling at the city gate, eager to rush in at the next moment!
??Cai Jiu was ecstatic and shouted: "Xiangyang!" Xiangyang City was captured! The first achievement, the first achievement is ours! 』
Wenpin raised his arms and shouted: "Go up!" Hold the city gate! 』
?The fire was rolling, and the sky was filled with black smoke. The remaining clouds in the sky seemed to be connected with the black smoke on the ground.
Cai''s reinforcements rushed into the city, but were blocked by Wenpin and others at the city gate. Cai''s soldiers attacked again and again, but with Wenpin''s blessing, Jingzhou soldiers stood tightly in one place, Even though Cai''s soldiers fought inside with red eyes, they still didn''t make much progress, and there were even signs of being pushed out of the city gate!
At this moment, the sound of horse hoofbeats was faintly heard again. Cao Hong and other Cao army cavalry who were hiding in the south of Xiangyang saw the agreed signal and ran out of their hiding place and headed towards Xiangyang City with a ferocious look!
Before Wenpin could react, he suddenly heard another loud commotion in the north of the city!
? Wenpin, who was usually calm and composed, finally changed his expression. After a while, increasingly loud noises and uncontrollable chaos spread in Xiangyang City...
? Pang Ji, who was in charge of the defense north of the city gate, was killed by Han Song. Then Han Song ordered the city gate to be opened and the city surrendered.
??Cao’s army poured into the city like a raging tide!
Wenpin looked up to the sky and roared, but there was nothing he could do. Liu Biao vomited blood on the balcony and died.
Xiangyang City has finally fallen...
The sun sets in the west.
The chill of the night gradually came.
Sometimes, the same news has different flavors in different places. Liu Biao''s death may be the result of a series of complex interactions among the Han people, but from the perspective of the event itself, those who feel happy about Liu Biao''s death, or "pleasant", are basically No.
In the main hall of the Xu County Imperial Palace, the lit oil lamp drew a circle that made people feel a little warm. Although the eunuchs, attendants and maids were standing around, some in the hall and some outside the hall, Liu Xie still felt extremely lonely and endless helpless.
Even though Liu Biao had problems of one kind or another, or Liu Biao also acted arrogantly, Liu Biao was, after all, the last member of the Han clan who held real power in the Han Dynasty!
After Liu Biao, there was no longer a prince in the world whose soldiers carried a banner with "Liu" written on it.
Emperor Liu Xie sat silently in front of the chessboard. The hall was quiet except for the occasional sound of falling pieces. Opposite Liu Xie, there was nothingness. Liu Xie seemed to be playing chess with himself and the future.
“I, is this step... the right one, or...”
Liu Xie muttered in a low voice, his voice too thin to be detected. He held a chess piece in his hand and never put it down for a long time.
"Some of the things I did were right, and some... were wrong... It was inevitable, and I knew this, but no matter whether it was right or wrong, what I did was..."
Liu Xie gently dropped the chess piece on the chessboard.
"It''s like playing chess. If you don''t make a move, you lose..." Liu Xie raised his eyebrows slightly, and after a moment, he smiled bitterly, "But after you make a move, you can''t change it..." The chessboard is full of black and white. , under the illumination of the oil lamp, it seems that some other colors have appeared, flowing and hovering on the chessboard.
"Dong, Wang, Li, Guo, Yuan..." Liu Xie slowly picked up the piece, and then pinched the last one, "Liu...hu..."
"I have never failed the world...why the whole world...has failed me..."
"Why? ! 』
"Why…"
Liu Xie gritted his teeth, the muscles on his cheeks twitched, and the pain in his heart was indescribable.
As early as Dong Zhuo''s death, Liu Xie had great ambitions in his heart. These ambitions originated from his father and were born from his blood. He also wanted to become the overlord of ZTE like Guangwu. He chose to leave Feiqian''s Bingzhou and come to Yuzhou because this was Guangwu''s Longxingzhi. Liu Xie hopes to embark on Guangwu''s road to rejuvenation from here, but now it seems that although he has stepped on the footprints left by Guangwu, the road back then has disappeared.
What is left is a land full of thorns.
Liu Xie struggled. He fought against Cao Cao and tried to use some people close to him to build a new Han court structure. Then he could regain control of the world and bring the Han Dynasty to normalcy. But in the end he failed and was discovered by Cao Cao...
Liu Xie''s son died.
Cao Cao’s son also died...
Died.
Then both Liu Xie and Cao Cao realized that if they continued to fight, they would only gain the advantage of the other guys who were standing around and watching eagerly, so they stopped fighting each other, taking their respective wounds, and temporarily put down their hatred. Then Cao Cao captured Jizhou, and the territory that Cao Cao controlled became larger, but at the same time, this also meant that the power that Cao Cao originally concentrated in Yuzhou would be spread out. Even Cao Cao himself focused his main energy on Jizhou and stayed in Yecheng.
??Liu Xie was not very clear about the financial embarrassment Cao Cao was currently facing. In his mind, he felt that the reason why Cao Cao wanted to attack Liu Biao was because of one word, "Liu".
??Cao Cao was worried that when he stayed in Jizhou, there was a royal family member next door to Yuzhou and to the south of Xu County!
?Once upon a time, Liu Xie thought that he and Cao Cao could really forget the pain and work together, but now it seems that the coldness and cruelty of reality forced Liu Xie to face the black and white and iron-blooded world again.
?There is also the hussar general Fei Qian…
Liu Xie sighed.
??If Liu Xie was hurt for Cao Cao, then Liu Xie was even more disappointed with Fei Qian.
??Cao Cao launched an offensive against Jingzhou. Liu Xie once imagined how the hussar general Fei Qian would react? But he didn''t expect that Fei Qian just sent Liu Qi over in the end, and he also acquiesced that Liu Biao would be defeated by Cao Cao. What made Liu Xie even more painful was that Fei Qian actually "guessed" it right.
Xiangyang fell and Liu Biao died in the Yamen of Mufu in Jingzhou.
Liu Biao...
Isn’t it claimed to have 100,000 soldiers?
Liu Xie suddenly felt that Liu Biao had been operating in Jingzhou for so long, whether it was a horse, a horse, an army, or a rest, the body that originally looked huge and strong turned out to be an empty shell!
After weighing and weighing, thinking and thinking, Liu Xie finally continued to make his move. Since the chessboard has not been completely overturned, the chess game still needs to continue until it is filled to the point where there is no place to stay, and then it will be completely erased and a new game will be started...
On the other side, Liu Qi, who arrived in Xu County, received the message from Xiangyang. He could hardly bear the blow and fainted on the spot. Although Liu Qi once had a teenage rebellious period, he was still his father. Even though he had made some preparations in his heart, he still couldn''t bear it after hearing the definite news.
As Liu Qi’s bodyguard, Liu Pan was also dumbfounded and looked sallow.
Yi Ji on the side had a complicated expression, which eventually turned into a sigh.
After a while, Liu Qi regained his consciousness and cried in a low voice, "Father, Father..."
??Yiji was silent for a moment and said to Liu Pan: "Liu Xiaowei, please leave the inn to find some white hemp...I need to change these clothes..."
Liu Pan accepted the offer and left without mentioning it.
"Young Master..." Yi Ji turned to look at Liu Qi who was crying bitterly, "Sir, my condolences... Young Master, this is not the time to be sad..." In this world, trying to exchange one''s own misery for the mercy of others, and crying to pray for others'' care, is the wrong way to do it. Totally unworkable.
Even the Son of Heaven, who claims that Heaven is his father and Earth is his mother, and that the Son of Heaven is born of Heaven and Earth and raised by the Earth, cannot live on mercy and sympathy, let alone Liu Qi, who only has a staff left?
?If you don’t work hard for yourself, don’t fight for yourself, just give in and show weakness, cry and beg, you will eventually become someone else’s food and be swallowed alive by others. Although Yi Ji may not be the best in strategy, his understanding of life and the world is obviously a hundred times better than Liu Qi''s.
"Uncle Ji..." Liu Qi held the staff, "I, I... what should I do?" 』
『Take this opportunity to express yourself directly before the Dan level! "Yi Ji said, "The Cao family''s new victory in Jingzhou must have many affairs, and it is difficult to do everything at once. Only at this moment can we make a turn for the better! 』
Liu Qi nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, Uncle Ji said... But, this seal..."
…” Yi Ji was also aware of Liu Qi’s current state, so he sighed and said, “That’s it, I’ll write it, and after it’s done, the young master will copy it…”
Liu Qi naturally has no objection.
But this chapter is not easy to write. Halfway through Yi Ji''s writing, he felt that the wording was too intense, so he stopped, and then started again. Not long after writing, he stopped again, and then started writing again, but he stopped writing before he even finished the beginning. .
Yi Ji knew in his heart that behind Liu Biao''s matter, it was not that simple. At the same time, the emperor Liu Xie could not do whatever he wanted. What he wrote must not only stand up, but also allow everyone to do it. All aspects can be accepted, otherwise even if I write with great literary talent and brilliant rhetoric, it will have no effect, I am afraid it will just be annoying...
Yi Ji frowned and thought for a long time before writing again. This time, it was written about the impeachment of Xiahou Dun, but the words were not too fierce. Yiji knew that the emperor Liu Xie needed a breakthrough, but he could not directly oppose the emperor Liu Xie to Cao Cao, because after all, the power of Liu Xie and Cao Cao was already strong. Not equal.
I can only seize the fact that Xiahou Dun kills royal family members without the king''s orders. If he uses gentler words, there will be room for discussion. Once the discussion can be discussed, he can strive for more benefits for Liu Qi...
When the time comes, he will be the vicious dog that pounces on him and bites him, while the emperor Liu Xie can be more detached and assume his balancing role, which is also in line with the emperor''s own needs.
As for Xiahou Dun, the most he can do is a reprimand, a fine, and other indifferent punishments. However, Yiji officially wants to use this method to determine Liu Qi''s right to file a complaint about the Jingzhou incident, because if Liu Qi does not defend himself, Who else in the world would appeal on behalf of Liu Qi and fight for his rights?
Is the hussars general Fei Qian?
Obviously Fei Qian sent Liu Qi to Xu County, which showed that his desire for Jingzhou was not that strong. If Fei Qian really cared about Jingzhou, Taishi Ci would not just stay outside Yangcheng, but Zhu Ling was dispatched to **** Liu Qi to Xu County.
It''s just that Yi Ji felt that General Hussar''s methods were definitely not Liu Qi''s. There must be some other actions in Jingzhou, and the best way for him to achieve this is to catch up with General Hussar. These actions, and then influenced each other, completed Liu Biao''s entrustment to Yiji, and opened a possible path for Liu Qi to take among the thorns. As for where Liu Qi can reach in the future, Yiji himself also There is no certainty...
When you see one step, just take one step.
The great Han Dynasty was so big that he could not even walk all over the world. He had countless mountains and rivers.
??Dahan is also very small, and two or three surnames are already full. Even if you want to write one more, there seems to be no room to write...
(End of this chapter)