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Chapter 288 Righteous

Liu Jing and Lai Gong were talking about Kuai Yue in the royal room, when they suddenly received the news that the latter had committed suicide, Lai Gong was taken aback immediately, let go of his hands in a daze, and the wine glass fell to the ground involuntarily.

"Chang Shi..." Lai Gong sighed deeply, with a look of sadness on his face.

Liu Jing also put down his wine glass, feeling very sorry in his heart, Kuai Yue is one of the most outstanding talents in Jingzhou, Liu Biao was weak back then, it was because of his assistance that he became strong.In history, after Cao Cao captured Jingzhou, he couldn't help writing to Xun Yu and said: "I don't like Jingzhou, but I like Kuai Yiduer." From this we can know his reputation and talent.

But Kuai Yue and Liu Biao were deeply involved, and Liu Jing's position as prefect of Lingling was promoted by Zhang Xian, which was no different from that of a private office. Compared with Liu Biao, Cao Cao, who took the emperor to make the princes, the difference is like cloud and mud.

Even Liu Jing is not as good as Kuai Yue himself, especially the governor of the Zhennan general's mansion, the former prefect of Zhangling, and Fan Tinghou.Therefore, it is impossible for Kuai Yue to submit to Liu Jing.

But even if Kuai Yue can't be used by himself, Liu Jing still doesn't want him to die, because the dead Kuai Yue is worthless to him, only the living Kuai Yue has value to him.

Kuai Yue can be regarded as the most important minister under Liu Biao's command. If Liu Jing captured him and treated him kindly, he would definitely deal a huge blow to Liu Biao. Unfortunately, Kuai Yue failed to satisfy him.

Then Liu Jing heard that six of Kuai Yue's close followers all committed suicide, and none of them survived.

In the past, Tian Heng defended justice and committed suicide by slaying himself with a sword. 500 people under his command floated on the sea, and when they heard the news of Tian Heng's death, they all committed suicide.

Zhuge Dan of the later generations rebelled against Sima Zhao, was defeated and killed, and his hundreds of people, faced with the choice of "those who surrender will live, and those who do not surrender will be beheaded", none of them would surrender, and they all died calmly.

Although Kuai Yue is not as good as Tian Heng and Zhuge Dan, he is still proud of himself.

Liu Jing couldn't help thinking, if he was defeated and died, would someone follow him and die?But this thought was expelled from his mind in an instant, and he would never fall into this situation, so this problem did not exist at all.

Liu Jing couldn't help and Lai Gong said with emotion: "Kuai Yidu is the hope of the Chu State, the crown of scholars, he has a deep strategy, both civil and military resources, and his talent is even better than his ancestor Kuai Tong. Today's Han Dynasty is unfortunate. The country is in ruins, Kyushu is disturbed, Kuai Yidu has the talent to help the world, he was supposed to assist the Ming Dynasty, revive the Han Dynasty, and his name will go down in history, but now because of Liu Jingzhou's selfish interests, he raises unjust soldiers and dies in Jingnan in vain."

Lai Gong was very upset when he heard his words. At this time, Liu Jing did not forget to pour dirty water on Liu Biao, and retorted: "The general is the lord of Jingzhou. Zhang Changsha is stubborn and rebellious. The general ordered the state soldiers to cross the river to crusade, to fight from top to bottom, and to act violently and obediently, how can it be called an unrighteous soldier?"

Liu Jing said calmly: "Mr. Lai has been in the Northern Army for a long time. I believe that no one understands the sufferings of the people in Jingnan better than Mr. Lai. In the eyes of people in Jingnan like me, the Northern Army is an unjust soldier. "

Lai Gong said: "The reason why Jingnan has been in war for many years is because Zhang Changsha refused to submit."

Liu Jing shook his head and said: "In this way, Cao Mengde was ordered by the emperor to conquer the Quartet. When his army entered Nanyang, Liu Jingzhou should be captured without a fight. Why did he resist Wang Shi?"

Lai Gong was speechless, of course he could say that Cao Cao was a traitor, as evidenced by the Emperor's Clothes Edict incident that broke out in the first month of this year.

But if you really want to argue so forcefully, it will eventually become a verbal dispute of "the benevolent sees benevolence, and the wise sees wisdom". Lai Gong is really not in the mood to argue with Liu Jing about this now.

Seeing that Lai Gong fell silent, Liu Jing stopped talking and shifted the topic to his sister-in-law Lai Ci and nephew Hutou in due course.

Kuai Yue was the commander-in-chief of the Jingzhou Army. As soon as the news of his suicide and death came out, it immediately crushed the remaining resistance of the Jingzhou Army soldiers, and all the "isolated islands" surrendered.

So far, Liu Jingshui's army quickly wiped out the "islands" with the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves, and captured more than [-] enemies. At present, there are only thousands of Jingzhou troops guarding the new camp who refuse to surrender.

With Liu Jing's order, hundreds of warships from the Navy immediately surrounded the new camp of the Jingzhou Army.In order to complete his service in one battle, Liu Jing only left more than a thousand people to guard the prisoners, and the rest of the soldiers were all transferred to the front line, including Liu Xiu, Liu Liang, and more than [-] people from the serious department.

Looking at the row upon row of battleships on the water and the densely packed armored soldiers on the deck, all the officers and men of the Jingzhou army looked apprehensive and uneasy.

If it wasn't for Liu Pan's despotic power, perhaps all the soldiers would have surrendered to Liu Jingjun long ago. After all, even the coach Kuai Yue had committed suicide, so what reason do they have to fight on?

As Liu's cousin and nephew, Liu Pan was fierce and would rather die than surrender. Sima and the school captain once persuaded him to surrender, but Liu Pan took him into custody without saying a word, and then personally killed several generals in front of thousands of soldiers to show determination.Since then, no one dared to say "surrender".

However, Liu Pan's move seemed to stabilize the morale of the army, but in fact, there was an undercurrent surging in private.

Liu Pan is well aware of this, but if he doesn't do this, he will only die faster. Anyone can surrender, but he can't.

Last year when Sun Ce attacked Jiangxia, his elder brother Liu Hu was ordered to lead his troops to rescue Huang Zu, but he was eventually defeated by Sun Ce and died in the chaos.Cong brother Liu Hu is not good at martial arts, but he was able to die on the battlefield without compromising his reputation. He always prides himself on being brave, if he is afraid of death and surrenders to the enemy, what face will he have in the world in the future?

Liu Pan already has the will to die, and now he has one thought, to kill as many soldiers of Liu Jing's army as possible. Every time he kills one more person here, the pressure on his uncle will be relieved. This is the only thing he can do for his uncle.

Currently there are more than [-] soldiers in the battalion, but there are only more than [-] soldiers who can be called elites, and the rest are either weak soldiers or surrendered soldiers.They were sent to build a new camp before, and they suffered a lot. Unexpectedly, they escaped the flood by accident.

Liu Pan knew very well in his heart that relying on these two thousand men alone would not be able to resist Liu Jing's army.Although the descending soldiers have combat power, they cannot be trusted. Given the current situation, if they are allowed to stand in front, they may turn against each other immediately.

In desperation, Liu Pan had no choice but to let Ou Xiong, who had a deep hatred with Liu Jing, command Changsha to surrender.He felt that among the generals in the army, if anyone would not surrender to Liu Jing, apart from himself, Ou Xiong should be able to rank second.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

With the sound of thunderous war drums resounding through the sky and the earth, the heavy rain seemed to have subsided.

Liu Jingjun is about to launch an attack.

(End of this chapter)