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Chapter 300 Convocation

"grown ups……"

Kuai Qi looked at Kuai Yue's coffin parked at the bottom of the city with a pale face, and couldn't help but take two steps back. If it wasn't for the close friends on both sides who had quick eyes and quick hands, they helped him up in time, and he almost fell to the ground.

He lost his father when he was young, and was raised by Kuai Yue since he was a child. Although they are uncles and nephews, they are no different from father and son.Cai Mao once said that Kuai Yue was seriously injured and his life was in danger, but Kuai Qi still held a glimmer of hope in his heart, and now the last hope was completely shattered.

"What should I do..." Han Xuan beside him sighed anxiously.Just look at the dejected soldiers on the city wall. Liu Jing returned the corpses of Kuai Yue and Liu Pan, which not only demonstrated his benevolence and righteousness, but also severely damaged his own morale.

However, this is an open and aboveboard conspiracy, and he cannot refuse it.

Han Xuanben was in chaos because of Liu Jingjun's sudden attack, and his side didn't deploy in time. Now seeing Kuaiyue and Liu Pan's coffins causing commotion inside and outside Linxiang, Tian Dan would be resurrected at this time, and it might be difficult to hold Linxiang.

The soldiers of Liu Jingjun who were in charge of carrying the coffins were all carefully selected by Wang Qiang, and they all had extremely loud voices. They did not leave immediately after completing their tasks, but stood at the bottom of the city, rushing into Xiangcheng and shouting that the Northern Army that was going south was over. The whole army was wiped out, and the officials and people in Linxiang were encouraged to go anyway, to drive out the Northern Army and welcome Liu Jing.

If they were allowed to continue talking nonsense, Linxiang might surrender without a fight.Kuai Qi and Han Xuan endured their grief and panic for the time being, and sent troops out of the city to expel Liu Jing's soldiers, and moved the coffins of Kuai Yue and Liu Pan into the city.

As for Cai Mao's empty coffin, although Cai Mao would definitely not accept this gift, it was not easy to leave it outside the city, so he took it together.

As soon as the coffin entered the city, Kuai Qi staggered down the city wall, threw himself on the inner and outer coffin with Kuai Yue's name and taboo, and ordered someone to open the coffin lid. Sure enough, he saw his uncle lying in the coffin with a peaceful face and neat clothes. A scar has been stitched up with thread, which is consistent with Liu Jingjun's claim that he died by suicide.

While Kuai Qi grieved in his heart, he also felt a sense of gratitude to Liu Jing. As an enemy, it was extremely difficult for Liu Jing to do this. different?

But gratitude is gratitude, and this does not affect his hatred for Liu Jing. The meaning of "Spring and Autumn": "If a minister does not seek thieves, he is not a minister; if a son does not take revenge, he is not a son." As long as he has the opportunity, he must To avenge my uncle.

On the other side, Han Xuan also opened the coffin to confirm Liu Pan's body. Seeing that the latter's head was broken up to the neck, his face was traumatized, and his death was miserable, his heart suddenly became extremely heavy.

Cai Mao stood on Beijin City, staring intently at the Liu Jing fleet in the distance, his face was so gloomy that it was almost dripping water.

Until now, he has not been able to figure out why Liu Jingshui's army came so quickly and arrived in Linxiang on the same day as them, only three hours before and after, which is totally unreasonable.

It should be known that the Jingzhou army has tens of thousands of people. Even if they are flooded, it is by no means impossible to flee to the new camp to resist for a few days.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the soldiers of the Jingzhou Army did not resist and were captured without a fight, Liu Jingjun would have to catch them one by one for a day, right?In other words, the time difference between the two sides was at least one day, but the result was that the difference between the two sides was only three hours, which was unbelievable.

"Brother..." Cai Xun, wearing a hood and armor, strode to Cai Mao's back and said softly, "The red horse just reported back, and there are only a hundred enemy ships outside Linxiang City, which shows that Liu Jing is not Not all sailors have been dispatched."

Cai Mao squinted at Cai Xun with his bloodshot eyes, and said in his heart: "You don't need to say that? I'm not blind." He only has twenty or thirty warships under his command now, and the enemy ships in front of him are already It is four or five times that of them.Therefore, it made no difference to them whether Liu Jing sent all the navy or not.

Seeing that Cai Xun was hesitant and refused to back down, Cai Mao frowned and asked, "What else is there?"

Cai Xun gritted his teeth and said, "Brother, now that the enemy troops are approaching the city, Linxiang is shaken inside and outside, and the soldiers and people are all divided. This is a critical time, and we have to make preparations early."

Cai Mao naturally knew what he meant, and this was also his inner thoughts.It's not that he is greedy for life and afraid of death, and doesn't want to guard Linxiang, but if there is any hope, he is willing to give it a try.It's a pity that there is really no hope at all now, and staying in Linxiang will only lead to death.

Cai Mao glanced at Linxiang from a distance, and now, he can't care about Han Xuan and Kuai Qi, let's all have our own destiny!He shook his head and sighed, "Go and prepare."

Cai Xun's expression eased, and he promised to back down.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the sky gradually became dark in a blink of an eye.

During this period, Liu Jingjun was not in a hurry to land and launched an attack on Linxiang.Although the city of Linxiang is already undercurrents and turbulent, at least the surface is still peaceful.Of course, both parties are very clear in their hearts that this false calm will not last long.

In the dark and empty southern suburbs of Linxiang, at some point, fires suddenly appeared, and more and more fires became more and more, finally connecting into a line, forming dazzling fire dragons.

When Han Xuan and Kuai Qi received the news from the soldiers, they immediately rushed to the south wall to check. Looking at the bright fire outside the city, there were at least 5000 to [-] people.

Han Xuan and Kuai Qi couldn't help but look at each other, where did all this come from?

What made the two feel even more chilled was what was still to come. Not long after, a large number of fires appeared in the eastern and northern suburbs of Linxiang. Only the west of the city, because it is close to the Xiangshui River, did not appear unusual for the time being.

"Kui, we are surrounded by Liu Jingjun..." Han Xuan was sweating profusely.

Kuai Qi stared at the figure under the firelight outside the city, shook his head for a while and said: "No, Han Changsha, look carefully, these people's armor and weapons are mixed, and the arrangement is far from rigorous. A mob. If I'm not mistaken, they must be from the tribe of the Linxiang surname, who were bewitched by Liu Jingjun and came to make trouble."

Han Xuan was not at ease because of this, and sighed: "Even if it is a mob, there are more than ten thousand people. Liu Jingjun came here this time, and there are no less than ten thousand soldiers. And you and I have only 3000 soldiers..."

Kuai Qi was speechless. In fact, until now, the two of them felt like a bright mirror in their hearts. Linxiang was no longer to be guarded, but either because of the scholar's festival or because of responsibility, they had to stay.

After all, retreating after a defeat and fleeing without a fight are two completely different things. If they abandon the city and flee without a shot, even Liu Biao is a generous man, and he will never let them off easily.

"Brother Qu is indeed one of the best heroes in Changsha. It is really admirable to gather thousands of people overnight." Wang Qiang stood on the deck with his hands behind his back and said to Ou Xiong who boarded the tall ship.He was obviously smiling, but under the flickering firelight, he looked extraordinarily gloomy.

Ou Xiong stroked his mustache and said with a smile: "I, Ou Xiong, don't have such abilities. It's all because of Liu Jun's reputation."

Kuai Qi's guess is correct, the people holding the torches outside the city are all from the tribal family of the Linxiang family called by Ou Xiong.As a matter of fact, as soon as Liu Jing's fleet entered Linxiang, Ou Xiong took his brother Ou Sheng, wife brother Song Lin and his cronies, disembarked and went ashore secretly, and returned home secretly by land.

The District clan is located twelve miles south of Linxiang. Because the Qu clan tied itself to Zhang Xian's chariot, after the outbreak of the Jingzhou Civil War, some members of the Qu clan followed Zhang Xian, while others scattered around.

Mispressing the treasure caused the Ou family to pay a heavy price, but fortunately with Ou Xiong's defection to the north, the Ou family regained some vitality.

However, as the so-called "a centipede is dead but not stiff", the Ou family has a great career, and it is also a Wuzhi family. Its strength is still second to none among the many powerful families in Linxiang.

Ou Xiong didn't spend much time in convincing the prominent members of the clan. Now that Liu Jing became the lord of Jingnan, it was almost a foregone conclusion. Even Ou Xiong could let go of his old grudges and surrender to Liu Jing, so they had no worries .

Afterwards, Ou Xiong began to send people to contact the big surnames in Linxiang, such as Huang, Gong, Zhou, Hua, Chen, etc., to jointly raise incidents.

At the same time, Ou Xiong asked his wife and younger brother Song Lin to sneak into Linxiang to contact the Song family in the city, as well as the Zhu, Zhang, and Huan families.

Song Lin knew that his reputation was limited, and it was difficult to effectively integrate the various forces in Linxiang City, so he didn't even return to his own home, and went straight to Quanli in the northwest of Linxiang.

Quanli is the residence of the Huan family, so Song Lin came here to find Huan Jie.Only Huan Jie, the leader of the Changsha scholars, could unify all forces in Linxiang City and deal a fatal blow to the Jingzhou Army.

Most of the Huan clan had gone south to Leiyang with Huan Yi, leaving behind them all old, weak, sick and disabled. They were extremely vigilant towards Song Lin.After all, Huan Jie was wanted from Jingzhou Governor's Department to Changsha County Mansion. No matter what Song Lin said, he refused to reveal Huan Jie's whereabouts. He didn't agree to take him until the cheers outside the city proved that Song Lin's words were true. Go see Huan Jie.

(End of this chapter)