The Three Kingdoms: A vicious plan was offered, and Liu Bei was stunned!

Chapter 19 Luo Gongqi is no longer the person I know

But when he saw Zhuge Jin, Liu Bei immediately looked very apologetic and said, "This... I really don't know. Half a month ago, my third brother and Gongqi disappeared. I thought they went out to play and never came back, so I sent people to look for them everywhere, but there was no news. I didn't expect that they went to Jiangxia!"

Zhuge Jin was stunned for a while: "Is what Lord Xuande said true?"

"How dare I lie?"

Why don’t I believe it!

Zhuge Jin was speechless. What your Liu Bei's subordinates did, you Liu Bei don't know. Is that what you mean?
How do you manage people?
Kong Ming smiled and said, "It's good to clarify the matter. Why did you come from Jiangdong?"

Zhuge Jin said, "Not long ago, Jiangdong received a letter from Luo Gongqi, saying that Lord Xuande wanted to form an alliance with Jiangdong. My master ordered me to ask if this is true!"

Kong Ming couldn't help but twitch his face. This Luo Gongqi was really fooling around. He actually thought of something before me?
This was what Zhuge Liang had in mind. If Liu Bei wanted to take over Jingzhou, he would definitely need a marriage alliance, but that was a very later step in his plan.

Kong Ming said: "It was Gongqi who acted on his own initiative, and my master didn't know!"

Zhuge Jin said, "Now I know that Lord Xuande took Jiangxia because he was interested in Jingzhou. I heard not long ago that Liu Jingzhou wanted to entrust Jingzhou to you, but Lord Xuande refused, didn't he?"

Liu Bei was suddenly embarrassed, he knew there was something wrong with what he said. If he said he was not interested, then what about Jiangxia? If you want to prove that you are not interested, then return Jiangxia to Jingzhou. If you are interested, then Liu Bei's previous rejection of Liu Biao was fake. You, Liu Bei, are a hypocritical person.

Seeing Liu Bei's dilemma, Kong Ming immediately came to the rescue and said, "The Jiangxia incident was decided by Luo Gongqi on his own, and the lord is not aware of it."

As soon as these words came out, Zhuge Jin looked at Kong Ming and asked, "Brother, do you still have any shame?"
You said that Gongqi helped Liu Bei to propose marriage, and it would be fine if Liu Bei didn't know about it, but you still say you didn't know about the capture of a city in Jiangxia?

At this time, a city was a county!

Jiangxia is the capital of Jiangxia County, and it is also the place that controls the Yangtze River waterway. It is a strategic location. The Jiangdong territory controlled by Sun Quan is even lower than Jiangxia!
Whoever controls Jiangxia can go downstream to attack Jiangdong. Indeed, downstream, opposite Jiangxia is Chaisang County, which is also where Sun Quan is.

Sun Quan attacked Jiangxia several times, not for revenge, but just to control this strategic location from which he could attack Jiangdong.

As long as Jiangxia is controlled, the lower reaches of Jiangdong will be safe. Otherwise, if troops are sent out from Jiangxia, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River can be attacked at will, which will make Sun Quan so uncomfortable that he will pee his pants.

Liu Bei didn't know about the military operations in such a place. Do you think I'm a fool, Kong Ming?

Zhuge Jin was breathing heavily.

Kong Ming thought to himself, I really don’t know, Luo Yuan is a very weird guy, what can I do?
When Gongqi was studying with me, he was not like this. He was an honest man. But after I came out of retirement, Gongqi became a different person.

But when Kong Ming thought about the casual way Luo Yuan gave advice to Liu Bei, he felt that this was something Luo Yuan could do.

"Brother, we just learned about this. You have also seen Gongqi. Well, it's useless to talk about it now. We haven't seen each other for a long time. Why don't we talk about something else?"

Kong Ming took the initiative to enter garbage time. It was so uncomfortable, so uncomfortable!
Zhuge Jin was also helpless. At this moment, someone came from outside and said, "My lord, there are enemy troops approaching from the rear of Xinye. There are about five thousand soldiers and horses!" Everyone was shocked and hurriedly prepared for battle!
Everyone went up to the top of the city wall, thinking that Xiahou Dun had sent troops to surround them, but when they saw the black-faced man in front of the enemy, everyone was speechless.

Zhang Fei shouted from a distance in a loud voice: "Brother, open the door, I'm back!"

Liu Bei quickly ordered the door to be opened and took everyone out to greet them. He saw Zhang Fei standing in front, with the army behind him neatly arranged and fully staffed!
Kong Ming was surprised and said, "They are all elite soldiers!"

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "I practiced it. Of course, Gongqi gave me some pointers, but in the end, I still mastered it. It took me only seven days to travel 400 miles from Jiangxia to Xinye."

Liu Bei was shocked. According to this calculation, they had to travel at least 60 to 70 miles a day, but these soldiers were not dying from running. Instead, they looked very energetic.

It would be a great achievement for an ordinary army to march forty miles a day.

Liu Bei had experience. When the Yellow Turban Rebellion was suppressed, the regular army of the Han Dynasty only marched thirty miles a day. The marching speed of the army was different from that of ordinary people.

"Third brother is truly mighty." Liu Bei was so happy that he almost laughed. These soldiers were all his. Now he had more confidence in fighting against Cao Cao.

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Don't worry, big brother. Jiangxia still has 10,000 naval forces under the command of General Xingba, who are training day and night. Their combat power is quite impressive!"

Zhang Fei briefly introduced Gan Ning, which made Zhuge Jin shudder with fear. Wasn’t Gan Ning the one who shot and killed Ling Cao?
He actually defected to Liu Bei!
Liu Xuande, you said you didn't know about Jiangxia's situation, but Zhang Fei said that Gan Ning only joined you because of your reputation for benevolence and righteousness.

Liu Bei was speechless at this moment, the surprise was really too great.

Zhang Fei was still buzzing, "Gongqi and I were originally planning to go to Xiangyang, but Gongqi got lost. We didn't realize we had taken the wrong road until we reached Jiangxia. We met Xingba, who was about to surrender to Jiangdong. Gongqi almost poisoned Xingba to death, which made Xingba willing to surrender to Big Brother. Now Gongqi ordered Xingba to train day and night. I think he asked me to support Big Brother, so he must be doing something big, maybe he is going to rob somewhere, otherwise why would he train the navy day and night? I just saw through it but didn't say anything!"

Zhang Fei was very proud. He thought, "I am so smart. The cooperation with Luo Gongqi is perfect!"

Kong Ming saw Zhuge Jin's eyes widened, and then he realized that there was an outsider here, and what Zhang Fei said was confidential, so he hurriedly said: "Yide, you have worked hard, go back to the city first, we will welcome you!"

Zhang Fei looked at Kong Ming, you pretty boy are not as good as Gong Qi, "Military Advisor, I think Gong Qi is more powerful than you, it only took us a meal to capture Jiangxia, and we stabbed Huang Zu to death, Military Advisor, you should learn from Gong Qi, I think Gong Qi is more powerful than you!"

Go away, don't mention Luo Gongqi to me anymore. Kong Ming felt uncomfortable when he heard the name Luo Yuan. My servant was obviously a good person, how could he become like this?

Could it be that he was led astray because of Zhang Fei?
Everyone returned to the city, and Liu Bei and others followed Zhang Fei, intending to find out more about what happened in Jiangxia. They were really surprised!

Kong Ming entertained Zhuge Jin alone, after all, they were brothers.

Zhuge Jin looked at Kong Ming and said, "You really voted for Emperor Liu."

Kong Ming asked, "Your master asked you to recruit me?"

(End of this chapter)