King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 962 Cai Mao is Still Framed

Li Lin didn't know about Liao Li, but Pang Tong, like Zhuge Liang, knew Liao Li's ability. Temperament, in front of Li Lin, you can be as presumptuous as a joke with Li Lin, but Li Lin doesn't have that much magnanimity for Liao Li's presumptuousness regardless of occasion, time, place, and certain characters, at least not now. Liao Li is missing him, but Liu Bei's side is different. Liu Bei has nothing now, and with Liu Bei's character, he can definitely tolerate Liao Li's temper, so Zhuge Liang thought back to helping Liu Bei recruit Liao Li, but Pang Tong would not, Xu Shu Nor will it.

Although Pang Tong was surprised by Li Lin's understanding of the pros and cons of the serial ship, he was not too surprised. Looking at Li Lin's staring eyes, Pang Tong could not understand the deep meaning in it, and slowly said to Li Lin: "Everything has advantages and disadvantages. , What the lord said is absolutely true!"

Li Lin nodded, with an evil smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to the crowd: "Hehe! From my point of view, Zhou Yu is clearly out of good intentions to provoke me to fight today!"

"Huh?" Cai Mao raised his eyebrows and said doubtfully, "My lord! Is there any fraud in it?"

Li Lin said with a smile: "De Gui didn't even think about it. Why did Zhou Yu not escape when our army called for battle a few days ago, but today they provoked our army to fight?"

"Eh?" Cai Mao was taken aback. He originally wanted to say that Jiangdong soldiers dared not invade easily because he had made great progress. However, after looking at the current situation and analyzing Li Lin's context, Cai Mao knew that this was not him. As imagined.

"Isn't this obvious?" Looking at the stunned Cai Hao, Li Lin spread his hands and said with a smile: "It will take a lot of time for him to connect the warships under his command with iron cables. If he is not ready, he must be waiting for today. It's a grand debut!"

"This..." Apparently Cai Mao didn't quite understand.

"Hehe!" Li Lin waved his hands and smiled, and looked at Pang Tong and the others beside him. They had their own thoughts, and Li Lin stopped talking.

And the war still needs to be done according to the needs, and Cai Hao is no longer the Cai Hao who was easily defeated in the past. Although he was a little panicked for a while, after calming down.A corresponding solution was found.On the one hand, he waved the flag to command the ships under his command to disperse, not to fight recklessly with the Jiangdong warships, but to hang far beside the Jiangdong ships, and on the other hand, he ordered his sailors to fire rockets.Although it seems to be in a very embarrassing situation, being chased away by the Jiangdong navy, but in the end, the loss is much less than just now.

"Tsk tsk tsk! It's too ugly!" Li Lin looked at the battle situation for a while, smiled and turned to Cai Mao beside him and said, "Order to withdraw the troops!" Now that he has understood what Zhou Yu meant, there is no need to continue the fight. The victory or defeat of the battle is no longer related to the surface of the battle in front of us.

Cai Mao was speechless for a while, secretly glanced at the expression on Li Lin's face, but saw that he was not angry at all, so he was relieved.After a stick of incense, the Liao army lost nearly a hundred large ships, and countless small ships such as Zuo Ke, and there were casualties.It was probably the worst one in recent days, but Li Lin showed no signs of annoyance on his face, and the Jiangdong ships did not chase after him. Zhou Yu just recalled the warships and asked the soldiers under his command to shout aloud.

"King Liao, wait until the river is calm. I will invite you to fight again!"

"Hehe!" Facing Zhou Yu's ridicule, Li Lin sneered and waved his hands. Xia Houba understood, and immediately pushed the wheelchair back. When everyone returned to the tent, Li Linxin said, "Interesting, I still think that this straw boat borrowed arrows." , How to use Sun Liu's chain trick, I didn't expect to use such a method, shit! It's really low-level!"

This battle was the heaviest for the Liao army in recent days. As the commander of the navy, Cai Mao was naturally to blame.But to his surprise, Li Lin didn't blame him heavily, but just reprimanded him indifferently.So he asked Cai Mao to go down.This made Cai Mao feel even more uneasy. He had been secretly observing Li Lin's face, but he was not angry. Only then was Cai Mao heaved a sigh of relief and retreated with fists in his hands.

As soon as Cai Hao and other generals left, Cheng Yu smiled lightly and said, "My lord, Zhou Yu may come to the lord to offer advice today!" They are all extremely smart people. After the conversation between Li Lin and Pang Tong, Zhou Yu's plan came naturally. He couldn't hide it from Cheng Yu's eyes.

"Ah!" Li Lin smiled, looked at Pang Tong meaningfully, and said, "What Zhong De said is true, but this method is indeed beneficial to our army, and it is hard to give up!"

After hesitating for a while, Pang Tong cupped his hands and said, "My lord! If you want to use this serial boat, you need to prevent Jiangdong from using fire!"

"I know about this!" Li Lin smiled and nodded to Pang Tong.

Guo Tu on the side interjected, "My lord! I just made a rough calculation. Our army has 50 million people. If we board a ship to fight, the big ship may not be less than [-]. It may take a long time for me to connect them one by one. It is time to go to winter. At that time, there is a strong northwestern wind on the river. If Jiangdong wants to use fire, it will be his own death. If the fire rises with the wind, I am afraid that it will not be us, but Jiangdong!"

Li Linxie laughed, "That's not necessarily true!"

"Ah?" Guo Tu showed some doubts on his face.

Li Lin's complexion changed, and he said solemnly: "Perhaps, maybe the southeast wind was blowing at that time!"

"How is it possible? Is this something human can do?" Cheng Yu frowned, obviously a little disbelieving, and looked at the people at the side, all of them were terrified. Cheng Yu had just arrived in Jingzhou, so the duel between Li Lin and Zhuge Liang was not very important. I understand, but Cheng Yu has also heard about the battles here, smacking his lips, and muttered: "My lord is talking about... sorcery?"

"Hehe! Sorcery..." Li Lin said helplessly, while Pang Tong smiled bitterly and remained silent.

Guo Tu said slowly: "But my lord! This serial ship... is indeed very attractive..."

Nonsense, if this kind of strategy is not to use fire to attack, plus the southeast wind, it is definitely a big move for Li Lin's soldiers who are not very good at it, and it is more than enough to deal with Jiangdong. Will want to use this method, although I want to solve it quickly, but there is no need to court death like this!

When everyone was the only one, Li Lin would definitely not adopt this chain ship strategy, but Pang Tong got up, cupped his hands and said solemnly: "My lord, this chain ship is indeed beneficial to our army. If the lord trusts your servant, please hand over this matter to me." With your servants!"

Li Lin's eyes lit up, he exchanged a glance with Cheng Yu, Xu Shu and the others, raised his hand and said with a smile: "How can I not trust Shi Yuan, it's just that I feel that all kinds of things are very cumbersome now, and I'm afraid Shi Yuan will be exhausted to deal with... ...Forget it, I will leave this matter to Shi Yuan, Yuan Zhi, please help me! Come up with a proper solution as soon as possible and let us have a look! We will make a decision at that time!" Listening to Pang Tong's tone, this is good A way to solve the disadvantages of serial boats!Li Lin didn't figure out how to solve it, but Li Lin is not Pang Tong. In history, Pang Tong came up with this strategy. Knowing the disadvantages, maybe he knows how to solve this disadvantage!So Li Lin just let Pang Tong do it after a simple thought, and there might be unexpected gains!

"Don't worry, my lord. I am obliged to do so!" Xu Shu felt a little relieved, because he, like Li Lin and Cheng Yu, believed that Zhou Yu's intentional "suggestion" today might be deceitful.

"Thank you, my lord, for your trust!" Pang Tong immediately cupped his hands to Li Lin, but his eyes really fell into quick thinking...

Just as he was talking, suddenly there was a sound of notification from outside the tent.

"My lord, Tai Shici has something to ask for an interview!"

"Huh?" Li Lin was a little confused, so he nodded and said, "Ziyi, come in quickly!"

"Promise!" The guard outside the tent responded, lifted up his tent, Tai Shici strode in, cupped his hands and said, "My lord, Jiangdong Xizuo was captured just now!"

"Jiangdong Xizuo?" Li Lin rubbed his chin and said with a smile: "What does Zhou Yu want to do? Haha, it's interesting. Bring them up, I want to ask them myself!" Suddenly appeared, Zhou Yu's but He had never done this before, and he, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang, would not be ignorant of their abilities, so they dared to send secret work to themselves, it was too bold!
"This..." I saw a bit of embarrassment on Tai Shici's face.He clasped his fists and said hesitantly: "I report to my lord, these ministries have resisted tenaciously and will not surrender. After the final general surrounds them, these people will all commit suicide by taking poison!"

"What?" Li Lin was stunned, lost interest, waved his hand and said, "It's boring! Forget it, just bury it!"

"No!" Tai Shici clasped his fists in response, then hesitated, and said hesitantly: "The general thinks that if the lord wants to ask questions, it's better to send someone else!"

Seeing that there was a change in Tai Shici's expression, Li Lin sat up slowly and asked in a deep voice, "Who?"

Tai Shici sternly said: "Cai Mao, the commander of the navy!"

"What?" Upon hearing this, Li Lin asked in confusion, "Ziyi, what exactly is going on, you come from the truth!"

"Promise!" Tai Shici clasped his fists and said in a deep voice: "The general was ordered to patrol the camp. When he saw a few people sneaking around in the tent, he went up to question him. Unexpectedly, those people would run away as soon as they saw the general. Feeling strange, he hurriedly led dozens of guards to surround him. Unexpectedly, when those people saw this, they committed suicide by taking poison!"

Li Lin wondered, "What does that have to do with Cai Mao?"

"My lord, at the end of the day, the general passed those corpses to the army, and some officers and men said that these people just came out of General Cai's tent!"

"Oh?" Li Lin rolled his eyes, waved his hands, and said lightly to the people beside him, "Go! Take me to see it!"

Speaking of which, since Li Lin entered Jingzhou, the power transfer of Jingzhou's wealthy families has been almost earth-shaking. Many officials who originally relied on Liu Biao's influence have been demoted one after another, and most of them have been replaced by people trusted by Li Lin. Only some insignificant officials survived. .Of course, it is also impossible for Li Lin to demote all the officials who are in the center of power, such as the Cai family and the Kuai family. It is not so much that Li Lin values ​​their strength as they value their influence in Jingzhou. Keep them and appease Jingzhou. As for the future...isn’t there a saying that Ming Sheng is secretly demoted? Waiting to die, this is not impossible.Therefore, after the change in Jingzhou, Cai Mao immediately turned to Li Lin loyally. On the other hand, although Kuai Yue hesitated for a while at first, as soon as Li Lin gave him an olive branch, Kuai Yue tried his best to serve Li Lin. Moreover, Li Lin also saw that Kuai Yue was a person who was eager to make contributions and wanted to establish himself beside Li Lin. Jingzhou's trees are very popular, and Li Lin's attitude towards the aristocratic family will never let go of the two aristocratic families who have held the power of Jingzhou for many years. Therefore, Kuai Yue has to establish his position next to Li Lin, at least when he settles the aristocratic family in the future. Li Lin will definitely not easily move Kuai Yue aside, at least be more polite...

Or back to Cai Mao, using the excuse of defending Jingxiang, Cai Mao gathered Jingzhou soldiers and horses around, and stationed in Xiangyang. After many generals entered Xiangyang, Cai Mao invited him into his house to drink. "Eli" won over a large number of generals, and those stubborn veterans who advocated the resistance to the Liao Dynasty were emptied of military power by Cai Mao.In the early days, many of the generals in Jingzhou were disobedient, but when they heard that within a few days, Li Lin broke through Xinye and besieged Fancheng, they obeyed Cai Mao one by one. One hundred thousand sailors!Li Lin was indeed the one who won Jingzhou without bloodshed, but in the end, it was Cai Mao who was behind the scenes!Flattery, this is probably an unattractive word.However, many people in Jingzhou put this on Cai Mao's head.But when it comes to the truth, Cai Mao is a little "wronged". He didn't give Li Lin a gift or anything.Cai Hao is very smart, it should be said that he is very cunning. As soon as he saw Li Lin, he knew that the person in front of him was obviously not something that could be bought with money, and if he went to give gifts, Li Lin would hate him instead, and gave Li Lin a more The most affordable thing is to help Li Lin train the navy and fight for Li Lin sincerely. In this way, why doesn't Li Lin reuse Cai Mao?What's more, Li Lin is still in urgent need of talents for water warfare?
"Although Cai Mao is a villain, he is clever in handling things and smooth, and he is still a talent!" This is Pang Tong's evaluation of Cai Mao.In the matter of taking refuge in Li Lin, it can almost be said that Cai Mao took advantage of Kuai Yue, and in the end, he almost kicked them off. The military power was eliminated, but Cai Mao, on the other hand, justifiably took control of more than [-] naval forces, and took the position of the commander of the naval army.In the final analysis, Cai Mao is not a foolish man, he is much smarter than him...

But today, after a defeat, Li Lin did not scold and blame Cai Mao, but made Cai Mao feel that Li Lin trusted and valued him even more. So when he came back, Cai Mao discussed with his brother Cai Zhong and Cai Hezheng how to improve tactics. To deal with Zhou Yu, this can be regarded as Cai Mao has a lot of self-motivated!
But suddenly he heard a notification from outside the tent, saying that someone outside the camp asked to see the governor.Because members of Cai's family came to report the situation in Xiangyang from time to time, Cai Mao didn't care, and waved his hands to call the soldiers outside the tent to call them in. Cai Mao continued to discuss matters with his younger brother and several other confidant generals.But after a while, the guards outside the tent led the beggars in. Looking at the three people who came, Cai Mao was a little surprised. He obviously felt that these three people were too unfamiliar, and it seemed that they were not from his Cai family. , Frowning, Cai Mao asked intently: "Why are you waiting here?"

I saw three people dressed as ordinary domestic servants, the leader looked around, saw that there were many people in the tent, and said in a low voice: "The little one has something important to report to the governor, and he can retreat to the left and right!"

"Du Du!" Cai Mao's eyes froze immediately, and he felt suspicious. The person who came to address him as Du Du, probably not from his own Cai family, could it be someone sent by Kuai Yue?The left and right generals went in without knowing it, and when they saw this situation, they clasped their fists and laughed and said: "Since the governor has something to do, the last general will leave for the time being!"

Feeling puzzled, Cai Mao shook his head and said: "You all are people Cai Mao trusts, why bother to be so intrusive!" Then he raised his hand and said to the three people: "What is it, tell me quickly!"

"This..." The big man in the lead hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Captain, this matter is of great importance, or..."

"Tsk!" Cai Mao became a little impatient, and was about to speak, but saw all the generals in the tent smiling and said: "Don't be annoyed, governor, don't be annoyed, governor, since it's an important matter, I should retire!"

"This... Forget it, please wait outside the tent later, second brother, please wait for me to say hello!"

"Yes, big brother!" Cai Zhong beckoned the generals to retreat.

Seeing that the rest of the people had left the tent, Cai Mao glanced at the three of them, only his third brother Cai He was beside him.

"What's going on, don't tell me one by one!"

"Promise!" The leader clasped his fists, suddenly took out a letter from his arms, and said in a low voice, "Commander, write all this matter in this letter, and the governor will know it at a glance!"

Cai Mao glanced at his third younger brother Cai He, Cai He understood, stepped forward to take the letter and took a rough look, but saw that there was no indication on the envelope, he felt strange in his heart, but he didn't care much, turned around and The letter was delivered to his brother.Seeing that the letter was already in Cai Mao's hands, the three left immediately.Seeing that these people seemed to be in a hurry, Cai Mao was very surprised, waved his hand to accept them, told them to back down, and opened the letter at the same time.

Tore open the seal and pulled out the letter. Cai Mao only glanced roughly, but his eyes were full of doubts. However, looking at it, he seemed to suddenly think of something, his complexion changed suddenly, and he shouted: "Three Brother, quickly call the generals outside the account to enter!"

"Huh?" Cai He was stunned, and asked with a puzzled look on his face, "Who is it that wrote the letter and called the elder brother so?"

"Don't ask, hurry up!" Cai Mao shouted loudly.Seeing that Cai Mao was angry, Cai He didn't dare to delay.Immediately rush out of the tent, and invite the generals who stayed outside the tent to enter.When the generals walked into the account with puzzled faces, Cai Mao was about to pass on the letter to everyone. He had a faint feeling that he seemed to be being calculated by others...

It was only half a cup of tea before and after, Cai Mao and others suddenly heard a commotion in the camp, Cai He was taken aback, went out of the tent and asked the patrolling soldiers, "What's the commotion in the camp?"

"It seems that General Tai Shici has captured several Jiangdong spies!"

Cai He was still turning the corner, and was about to ask again, when suddenly a question came from behind him, "How do you know it's Jiang Dong's elaboration?" It turned out that Cai Mao felt uneasy and chased him out of the tent.

"Those three people seemed to be surrounded by General Tai Shici. They knew that they could not escape, so they committed suicide by taking poison. General Tai Shici pulled out three sharp knives from the three of them, with the words Zhou Qinwei engraved on them... This, the young one, just listened to it." That said, if the governor wants to find out what happened, he might as well ask General Tai Shici!" The man replied uncertainly.

"Oops!" Cai Mao's face turned blue and white, and he waved his hands to tell the soldiers to continue patrolling, and he returned to the tent, but the generals in the tent saw that Cai Mao's face was not good, and they didn't know what was going on, so they wanted to get up and leave, but Cai Mao called out... ………

"Everyone, don't go, I still need to be a witness for Cai!"

"Witness?" The generals looked at each other for a while.

"Yes! Witness!" Cai Mao casually placed the letter in a conspicuous place on the case, turned around and sat down, sweat dripping from his head.If I hadn't expected it wrong, I'm afraid this was right with my estimate!

After a cup of tea, there was silence inside the tent. Suddenly, there was a little commotion outside the tent, and suddenly someone called out: "I have seen the lord!"

Lord?Cai Mao was startled, got up immediately, ran to the tent, saw a large group of people approaching aggressively out of the corner of his eyes, and seeing the leader, Cai Mao hurriedly shouted: "The last general, Cai Mao, has seen the lord!"

The person who came, was undoubtedly Li Lin, who was sitting on the wheelchair with a faint smile on his lips. Hearing Cai Mao's call, he said with a smile, "You don't know that I want to come?"

Not understanding what Li Lin was thinking at the moment, Cai Mao naturally didn't dare to answer indiscriminately, and secretly glanced at Li Lin's expression, wondering what he had estimated... right?After calming his mind, Cai Mao reluctantly said: "Where, the last general also heard the voice outside the tent, and only then did he know, my lord, please!"

"En!" Li Lin nodded, and Xia Houba immediately pushed Li Lin's wheelchair into the big tent. When he saw the generals in the tent, doubts flashed in Li Lin's eyes.

"The last general has seen the lord!" All the generals in the tent clasped their fists and saluted.

"You don't need to be too polite." Li Lin smiled. Cai Mao's big tent is different from Li Lin's. Because of Li Lin's inconvenient movement, there is another slope on the platform of Li Lin's main battle position, which is specially for Li Lin. Lin's wheelchair is used.

"Hey!" Li Lin saluted with both arms, pushed his assistants on both sides, and stood up from the wheelchair.

"My lord!" All the soldiers on the side were stunned.

"Hehe!" Li Lin laughed twice, and said, "Mr. Hua just told me not to exercise too much, and I'm not disabled anymore! Why do you all have this expression!"

"Yes!" Everyone nodded again and again, and Li Lin stood up and twisted his waist, thinking, "It doesn't hurt so much anymore, it seems that Old Man Hua's medicine is still useful!" Thinking, Li Lin slowly took a step forward , walked to the main seat in Cai Mao's big tent, and slowly did it, all the soldiers stood there in a daze, watching Li Lin's movements.

Li Lin waved his hands casually and said, "Sit down, all of you! I have nothing to do, and I want to discuss with General Cai!" Squinting, he raised his head and said with a smile, "Why are you all here?"

"That's right, my lord!" Cai Mao hurried over.He clasped his fists and said, "Today, Zhou Yu won a battle with tactics, so the general is waiting here to discuss, think about what clever strategy can be used to deal with the Jiangdong navy!"

"Oh! It seems that General Cai Hao also has intentions!" Li Lin smiled without comment, and said lightly: "Then, what came out of the discussion?"

Immediately, Cai Hao showed a bit of embarrassment on his face, and said embarrassingly, "This..."

Li Lin didn't seem to listen to Cai Hao's words at all. He waved to Pang Tong, Cheng Yu, and Xu Shu who were standing at the entrance of the tent, and said with a smile: "Come on! Come and sit down, and listen to my navy generals." Opinion!"

"No!" Several people came over and sat down one after another.

Looking around at everyone in the tent, Li Lin laughed.Suddenly restraining his smile, he looked at Cai Hao seriously and said, "Dejia, just now Ziyi captured three Jiangdong spies in the camp, and some soldiers in the camp said that these three... they came out of your tent!"

Sure enough!Cai Mao's heart was startled, he shook his whole body involuntarily, and hastily cupped his fists and said, "My lord, these three people will never know each other. At first I thought they were from my Cai family, but I didn't expect..."

"I didn't expect it to be Jiang Dong's secret work, right? They came to your tent, what are they talking about?" Li Lin smiled lightly, and said casually. He didn't even sound suspicious of Cai Mao at all, but Li Lin's seemingly non-existent expression was even more impressive. Cai Mao was terrified.

Looking at Cai Mao who was so frightened to death, Li Lin grinned and waved his hands: "It's okay! Don't be nervous, I'll give you the time to explain, you take your time!"

When Cai Mao heard this, he settled down, thought for a while, summed up his words, and respectfully said to Li Lin, "My lord, those three people came here to deliver a letter, and it is the one on the case!"

"Oh?" Li Lin reached out and took the letter.Taking a rough look, he frowned, and said with a smile: "Who sent you a letter, it was so careless. Sent a draft?"

"Report to my lord!" Cai Mao clasped his fists in a salute, and said solemnly, "There will be no deletion at the end of this letter. This matter, everyone in the account can be a proof!"

As if they understood the meaning of Cai Mao's sentence "I will thank you generals to be a witness for Cai later!", all the generals said one after another: "My lord, this matter is absolutely true. After half a cup of tea, General Cai asked me to enter the account and pass this letter on, and at the same time, he also asked me to wait and see the ink marks in the letter, which obviously were not edited just now, hope the Lord will learn from you!"

"Oh? That happened?" Li Lin raised his head and glanced at Cai Mao. Looking at Cai Mao's appearance, he secretly praised Cai Mao in his heart. This kid has done a good job with a heart!

As soon as Li Lin heard that these three Jiangdong secret works only came from Cai Mao, he knew, "Jiang Gan will not succeed in stealing books. It seems that Zhou Yu still didn't let Cai Mao go!"

Although I know that Zhou Yu is framing Cai Mao, after all, Zhao Hu's navy under his command is already on the eastern front, and Cai Mao is his only hope. Zhou Yu is right in wanting Cai Mao to be framed by Yong Zehang. The method is also the most effective, but Zhou Yu's move is too small for Li Lin. It is said that Li Lin knows such a strategy, even if he doesn't know, the eyes of Pang Tong, Xu Shu and the others on the side already understand that this is Zhou Yu's frame Already......

(End of this chapter)