King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 935 How to Escape from Fan City
"Hmph" glanced lightly at the city.Zhang He shouted loudly: "Take the corpses of our soldiers and retreat ten li to set up camp!"

"No!" Everyone shouted in unison. Although Liu Bei was not killed, the morale was still soaring!
"Zhang Xi finally withdrew his troops." Cao Pi sighed slightly, turned around and looked at the traumatized Liu Pan apologetically, cupped his hands and said, "Someone was negligent. I almost missed the general's life, and I feel deeply ashamed!"

"Ziheng doesn't have to be like this!" Liu Pan was open-minded, and said with a smile when he heard the words: "The formation is really weird, the Liao army is only [-], but I am in the formation, and wherever I look, it is the Liao army. It's incredible!"

"When did Zhang He learn the ghost formation? It's so difficult!" Zhong Yao paused the spear in his hand resentfully, and Guan Yu nodded in sympathy beside him.

"Huh!" Heaving a sigh of relief, Liu Bei sheathed his two-pronged swords, sighed and said, "We just fought, but we were at a disadvantage, but I don't know why Zhang Yun withdrew his troops?"

"Without him, it's persecution!" Liu Bei's voice fell, and Zhuge Liang explained: "Fancheng is an important place in Jingzhou, and the city is strong. The Liao army does not want to attack the city to avoid heavy casualties, but wants to force us out of Fancheng. The only way to die is to defend the city, and there may still be a ray of life to go out of the city, this is the problem Li Lin asked me to wait for!"

"Well! What Kong Ming said is true!" Cao Pi nodded, and echoed with a wry smile: "Ten deaths without life and nine deaths in one life! But according to someone's opinion, there may be no big difference between the two, and Li Lin may not let me go so easily Let’s go to Jiangling!”

"It's not too late!" Covering the wound on his body, Liu Pan said seriously: "Uncle Liu Huang and everyone will go south by fast boat before the Liao army sends cavalry to blockade the port. If it is too late..."

"This..." Liu Bei was obviously having a hard time making a decision.

When everyone was unable to discuss, Liu Pan suddenly received a report saying that the Liao army sent thousands of cavalry to patrol outside Fancheng, and even occupied the port outside the city. Many ships were burned by the Liao army.Upon hearing this, Liu Bei and the others sighed slightly.Since the Liao army blocked the port with a large number of cavalry, it may be impossible to go down the Xiangjiang River.

"Looks like Li Lin has figured out that I want to go down the Yangtze River!" Zhuge Liang was very troubled, and said helplessly, "Since the waterway is blocked, my lord is going to Jiangling. I'm afraid I have to go by land!"

That night, it was exactly as Zhuge Liang expected.Li Lin ordered Zhang He to camp west of Fancheng, Gao Lan to camp east of Fancheng, and Li Lin himself camped again north of Fancheng, no more, no less. The third camp was only ten miles away from Fancheng. One solution!

Compared with Liu Bei and others in Fancheng, they were worried about Zhong Zhong.Li Lin is naturally in a much better mood than them.However, after Zhang Yun sent the battle report, Li Lin was also a little sure. Under Liu Bei's tent, the person who knew the sorcery was of course Zhuge Liang, who manipulated the celestial phenomena, in other words, the right time!

If Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei can't be eliminated here, when they are hostile in the future, they will be inferior on the side of Tianshi first, how can we fight?
Zhuge Liang, wise and close to a demon, one of his idols, is in front of him now, but it is a pity that he is his strong enemy, either his death or his own death, Li Lin feels his forehead is a little swollen.

"My lord?" Seeing Li Lin felt a little uncomfortable.Pang Tong, who was pointing to the marching map and guessing Liu Bei's next plan, asked worriedly: "Is it possible that the lord is tired? Why don't you take a break!"

"It's okay, it's okay!" Waving his hands, Li Lin lifted his spirits and said seriously: "If this trip to Jingzhou goes well, within three to five years, the chaotic world will be pacified, and there is absolutely no room for loss! If it wasn't for Jing Shiyuan's reminder, call If Liu Xuande went south to Jiangling by boat, heh! Shiyuan went on to say, now our army has surrounded Fancheng on three sides, leaving only the south side, and sent countless light cavalry to see every move of Fancheng. Under these circumstances, can Liu Bei have a plan to escape? "

"Okay!" Pang Tong cupped his hands, looked deeply at the marching map on the table, shook his head and said, "My lord's intention is to force Liu Bei out of Fancheng with such a layout, and Kong Ming can understand it logically, but even if they expected the lord's thoughts , and had no choice but to act according to the master's plan, defend Fancheng to the death, and the minister thought that Liu Bei would definitely abandon Fancheng and leave!"

"Is Liu Bei sure to escape from Zilong and Ziyi's cavalry?" Guo Tu interjected.

"Hey!" Pang Tong's eyes flashed, he stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It's not impossible, my lord, don't forget that Fancheng is an important place in Jingxiang, and there are 30 to [-] people in the city.

Hearing what Pang Tong said, Li Lin's complexion changed slightly, and he murmured, "Shi Yuan meant..."

Guo Tu beside him was also a little surprised, and looked at Pang Tongtong with a little admiration.

"King Liao, this is the only way for Liu Bei to escape!" Frowning for a while, Li Lin turned his head and said to Guo Tu, "Gongze, go to Xiangyang for me! Go overnight!"

Guo Tu was taken aback for a moment, and immediately understood.He clasped his hands and said with a smile, "No!"

Liu Xuande, are you really going to do this?And Liu Bei's situation is even worse than that in history.Li Lin is going to end Liu Bei here, but the 30 to [-] people in Fancheng are troublesome. If they forcefully attack the city, not only will the Liao army under his command suffer heavy casualties, but even the people in the city will be implicated!Sure enough, it is best to ask Liu Bei to withdraw from Fancheng on his own initiative, as long as he leaves a glimmer of life for him.

It is certain that Liu Bei will abandon Fancheng. Whether it is Li Lin, Pang Tong, Guo Tu and others, Zhuge Liang, Cao Pi and others, in fact, both parties understand that defending Fancheng is nothing more than waiting for death. The question now is when Liu Bei will abandon the south of the city. Next, what method should be used, you know, this time, Li Lin will definitely not show mercy... From this point of view, the most feasible way is nothing more than what Pang Tong said, pretending to be a fake!
Liu Pan's official residence in Fancheng!Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others were also discussing how to break through the siege of the Liao army and go south to Jiangling.

After all, because of Pang Tong's reminder, Li Lin cut off the waterway for Liu Bei and his party, so he had to go to Jiangling by land. However, outside Fancheng, there are 20 Liao troops surrounding him. Here comes Li Lin's army!Facing such adversity, Jian Yong, Sun Qian, Mi Zhu and others sighed. After all, the Liao army is too powerful, and Cai Mao in Xiangyang has the intention to vote for Liao. In other words, it is almost impossible to go to Jiangling by land. There is no return!

"Li Lin gave me a difficult problem!" Cao Pi smiled wryly and looked at Zhuge Liang, who was thinking silently beside him.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the room was too dull, Liu Pan interrupted and said, "Fancheng still has 20 soldiers. Although the Liao army has as many as [-] soldiers, they are camped on three sides of Fancheng, and the troops are scattered. Maybe we still have the strength to fight. !"

"Ha!" As if he had thought of some clever plan, Zhong Yao smiled lightly and said, "How about this, I will attack a Liao camp at night, and the Liao army must think that we are struggling to retreat, and they will never expect it. When we actually attack his camp, we don’t need many troops, just give me [-] elite soldiers, and I can take a battalion!”

"Yuanchang!" Liu Bei sighed slightly, shaking his head and said: "Li Lin sent two armies, one is Zhang He, the other is Gao Lan. Prevent our army from attacking at night? Or, Yuan Chang wants to attack Li Lin's camp?"

Zhong Yao rubbed the back of his head, and said embarrassingly, "Of course Zhang He and Gao Lan are together, so I don't believe that these two can be counted in our army's night attack!" Is it better than waiting here? Great plan, good plan. From day to night, I haven't seen you waiting to come up with any good plan!"

"Yuanchang!" Cao Pi listened to Zhong Yao's complaint, and hurriedly scolded him. After Zhong Yao heard it, he muttered a word, and then stopped talking. However, what he just said made all the counselors under Liu Bei's tent look a little embarrassed.

Zhuge Liang thought for a moment, and said solemnly: "Li Lin made such a layout to avoid the heavy casualties of the Liao army when he attacked the city. That's why he forced us to abandon Fancheng and go away, encircling three and missing one. His intentions were sinister. He sent thousands of Qingqi outside. It is nothing more than to monitor the movement of Fancheng. Once we abandon the city and come out and be detected by the Liao Army's Qingqi, then Li Lin will first take Fancheng and cut off our return. Let me wait, but now most of the soldiers in Fancheng are infantry, and there are very few cavalry. Once the Liao army catches up, alas... Liang has a plan in mind, maybe he can solve the siege, but whether to use it or not is up to the lord to decide !"

"Huh?" Seeing Zhuge Liang's serious face, Liu Bei's eyes froze, he raised his hand and said hesitantly, "What kind of clever plan is it? I'm going to ask the military master..."

"Yes!" Zhuge Liang cupped his hands, looked solemnly at everyone in the room, and slowly expressed his plan.

"No! Absolutely not!" Liu Bei yelled.The faces of everyone in the room also changed slightly, and they remained silent.For a while, the room was silent...

The sky outside is gradually brightening, not to mention Liu Bei and others are still unable to discuss, now let’s talk about Guo Tu, he is currently locked in a prison cell in Xiangyang, no wonder, when Guo Tu arrived in Xiangyang, the city gate had not yet been opened, at that time At that time, he looked around the city, and was about to retreat a little farther, and then re-enter the city when the city gate opened at dawn, but happened to meet a group of patrolling soldiers.

"This is good!" Lying on the hay pile in the cell, Guo Tu leaned his head on his pillow, looked around the cell, shook his head with a wry smile.But isn't he very worried in his heart, when the sky brightens, Cai Mao will naturally come forward, but right now... Guo Tu frowned, looking at the corner of the cell with some disgust, there was a stench coming from there... …

Right now in Xiangyang City, the person in charge is naturally Cai Mao. After Liu Biao died of illness, Cai Mao took control of Xiangyang soldiers and horses, while Kuai Yue advocated Xiangyang's internal affairs, and immediately facilitated Liu Cong as the son of the king of Chu. As the king, after all, Li Lin is in front, and Li Lin's movements are still unclear, and Cai Mao and Kuai Yue dare not act rashly.The Cai family and the Kuai family join hands, and the rest of the families in the city are naturally the only ones to follow suit.The only thing that made Cai Mao a little dissatisfied was that some Jingzhou veterans, seeing Cai Mao's heavy troops refused to come out of the city, made trouble for Cai Mao one after another. Cai Mao really wanted to kill these people and stand up.However, Cai Mao didn't want to do anything that happened outside the festival, and he didn't dare to do it. He managed to control Xiangyang soldiers and horses. If something bad happened, it would be bad. For this reason, Cai Mao hung high in front of the mansion to avoid it card, to drive out a group of people, out of sight, out of mind.

This is a person who can freely enter and leave the Cai Mansion. Besides Kuai Yue, I am afraid that there are Cai Zhong, Cai He and other brothers from the Cai Mao clan, plus the people sent by Mrs. Cai. In fact, Cai Mao is not in a good situation at the moment. Nearly half of the generals took the initiative to go out of the city to fight Li Lin. Those who supported Cai Mao were nothing more than some wealthy Jingzhou families who betrayed the old master Liu Biao's foundation for their own self-interest. For them, it was just "good birds choose trees to live in!" Of course, The premise is that Cai Mao has to guarantee that after coming to Jingzhou, their interests will not be violated...

Therefore, Cai Mao could only appease the aristocratic family and the generals in the city who fought against the Liao Dynasty. Regarding Liu Bei's loss of Xinye and retreating to Fancheng, Cai Mao got the news two days ago and ordered Liu Pan, the guard general of Fancheng, to take the opportunity to get rid of Liu Bei. However, the success or failure of this matter is still unknown, but a battle report has been obtained.

Yesterday, Liu Pan, the guard of Fancheng, sent people here, saying that 20 Liao troops surrounded Fancheng, and the city was about to be broken. I hope Cai Mao will send troops to reinforce it quickly.

"Li Lin came so fast." Picking up the tea offered by his servants, Cai Mao was thinking about whether to send someone to Fancheng, no!It was a trip to the Liao army camp in Fancheng.

"I don't know when the King of Liao arrived in Jingzhou, God help me!" Cai Mao smiled lightly, took a sip of the tea in his cup, and recalled in his mind that he had invited those generals to come to the mansion for discussion last night.As soon as they heard that Li Lin led an army of 20 to besiege Fancheng, the generals who originally advocated sending troops to fight against the Liao Dynasty stopped talking and just drank in a muffled voice.This is a soldier who surrenders without fighting!
Since Li Lin's cavalry came, they ruled Liaodong, swept across Youzhou and Jizhou, and fought for the Central Plains. It was even more tragic to compete with Liu Biao's army for the Central Plains. Wan Dajun killed the invincible Liu He, and then retreated Jiangdong, Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu He, Sun Quan, Han Sui, which one is not a prince, but all of them are under Li Lin's strong wrist Or die, say to worship, who can stop Li Lin Tiejun?Right now, Li Lin is sitting firmly in the north, with hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, and even 20 soldiers marched into Jingzhou, besieged Fancheng, and marched to the city of Xiangyang. Looking around the world, who dares to say that Li Lin's army can be retreated?

Except for some old Liu Biao troops and stubborn veterans, the rest of the generals outside Xiangyang all joined Cai Mao one after another, and finally Cai Mao managed to barely control the military power in Xiangyang.What is difficult for Cai Mao right now is how to get in touch with Li Lin, the Liao king outside of Fancheng, without the knowledge of others. After all, Jingzhou is Liu Biao's foundation.What Cai Mao hoped in his heart was that Li Lin would encircle Xiangyang with his army right now, so that Cai Mao could say that he had no choice but to surrender...

"But before that, I still need to meet that person!" Cai Mao sighed slightly, got up and walked out of the hall, and suddenly saw his younger brother Cai Zhong coming in a hurry, and asked suspiciously: "Two Brother, what are you doing if you don't go to inspect Xiangyang city defense?"

"Brother!" Cai He naturally also saw Cai Mao, walked over in a hurry, took out something from his bosom, handed it to Cai Mao, and said solemnly: "Brother, let's see this thing?"

"Huh?" Cai Mao reached out to take it, saw that it was a letter, looked suspiciously at the signature, but saw that it only said "General Cai Mao's personal letter" and signed with only one word - Liao!

"This..." Cai Mao glanced at Cai Zhong suspiciously.But I saw Cai Zhong looking around.Fu Er said to his brother: "Today at Yin Shi, a secret agent was captured in the west of Xiangyang City. From this person's arms, I took out this letter. Fortunately, all the brothers in Chengfang are confidantes. Otherwise, this letter would fall into the hands of those veterans. That would be bad!"

Cai Mao frowned, and immediately took a look at it, his face became more and more joyful, and he laughed loudly: "Okay!" After finishing speaking, he turned to his brother and said, "Where is that man now?"

Cai Zhong cupped his fists and said knowingly: "It seems that in Xiangyang Prison, after my younger brother heard about this, even if he rushed to his elder brother's place, he had never seen that person before!"

"It's not right!" Cai Mao put away the letter and hid it in his bosom. He said anxiously, "I'm afraid this person is the confidant of King Liao. Don't be negligent. Go, take me there!"

"Yes, brother please!"

At the same time, the confidant of the King of Liao in Cai Mao's mouth.Guo Tuzheng was looking at the corner of the cell with disgust, and was sitting in the haystack with his nose pinched, when he suddenly heard a voice coming from outside, he frowned, his heart moved, he sat upright with his eyes closed, and then said "Crack! "The sound of unlocking came to his ears.

"Well, cough cough!" The person who came was undoubtedly Cai Mao, as soon as he walked into the cell, Cai Mao smelled a foul smell, and after another look, he saw a literati sitting on the grass, closing his eyes and resting his mind, so he spoke out to test.

Slowly opened his eyes, Guo Tu was very calm. Since Li Lin sent Guo Tu, of course he knew that although Guo Tu was far from Pang Tong in terms of military skills, he was definitely a pretentious criminal, and his tearing skills were even better. It is excellent, if you say that things were broken many times under Yuan Shao's command, but since you followed Li Lin, you can be regarded as learning from anyone, and the appearance of an outdoor expert is quite Li Lin's demeanor.

Guo Tu looked up and down the visitor very calmly, and said jokingly: "Looking at the clothes under your feet, I'm afraid it's not this hell guard?"

Cai Mao smiled faintly, clasped his fists together and said with a smile: "Cai Mao, a general under the command of a certain King of Chu!"

Could it be that the Lord has come?Guo Tu thought secretly, stood up and cupped his hands, and said respectfully: "Guo Tu, a counselor under the tent of a certain Liao king!" After finishing speaking, he looked at the jailer standing outside the prison.

Cai Zhong understood, waved his hand and scolded: "You wait and back down first!"

"No!" The jailers obeyed and retreated.

Seeing that there was no one around, Cai Mao took out Li Lin's letter from his pocket and handed it to Guo Tu. When Guo Tu saw it, he realized something in his heart, and then he looked Cai Mao up and down, but remained silent.It seemed that he understood Guo Tu's thoughts.Cai Mao smiled wryly and said: "Although Cai Mao is not talented, there is no one in Xiangyang who would dare to pretend to be Cai!"

(End of this chapter)