Chapter 1239
On the outskirts of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Liu Bei picked up a bamboo stick from a wooden fish tube with two fingers. The dark blue bamboo stick was cut into a sharp sword shape, looking gloomy and stern like a real sharp sword.He raised his elbow slightly and tossed it lightly.

The bamboo stick drew an arc and fell on the ground covered with yellow sand.The executioner not far away yelled, and swung the broadsword with both hands tightly.The iron blade easily sliced ​​through flesh and blood, severed the neck bone, and cut off the entire head from a tall body.The head rolled a few times on the ground and rolled to Liu Bei's feet.The dead man's eyes were still wide open, full of unwillingness and resentment, in stark contrast to Liu Bei's compassionate and indifferent eyes.

And this head is just the beginning.With the clean performance of the first executioner, the other executioners are not to be outdone.Then they shouted loudly, raised their knives and dropped them.For a moment, the blood splashed on the yellow sand drank, and the heads rolled down one by one like a ball race, gliding past Liu Bei's feet.

It wasn't until the last head under his feet stopped rolling, and Liu Bei looked at the dead bodies all over the ground, that he sighed and looked away from the ground.Several sergeants nearby shouted loudly: "The execution is over, all the leaders of the rebels have been executed!" The voice resounded throughout the school grounds.However, in sharp contrast to Liu Bei's sympathetic eyes, after those soldiers shouted excitedly, they didn't know who they were, and they yelled again: "Uncle Huang is mighty!"

"Uncle Huang is mighty!" The rest of the soldiers felt goodwill from Liu Bei's stunned, then very warm smile, and Qi Qi shouted again.

Afterwards, without anyone asking, someone kindly brought a copper basin filled with clear water and a few peach leaves.It is a custom in Jingzhou to wash your hands with clean water after seeing blood. The fragrance of peach leaves can cover up the smell, otherwise the dead souls will follow the smell of blood to claim their lives.Liu Bei never believed in these things, but he had no particular reason to object.

He smiled at the soldier who brought the copper basin to express his gratitude. Although these were not soldiers under his command, it was because of this that he was not stingy with his smile.Then he washed his hands and looked up at the sky.The sky in Xiangyang today is gloomy, large clusters of lead gray clouds are gathering at the top of the city, and there is no wind at all.Such weather does not rain, but it is very prone to fog.Once the fog engulfs, the whole city will become white and blurred, and you can't see anything clearly, which makes you feel restless.

"It's really a good weather for the occasion." Liu Bei secretly said with emotion.

It has been almost a month since Liu Bei came to Jingzhou. In name, he came to help Jingzhou Liu Biao put down the rebellion.As a result, he had to do some superficial work this month.Thanks to Kuai Liang's energy in Jingzhou, Liu Bei got a lot of money and military rations, and in exchange for [-] equipment and horses from the Ma family.After fully equipped, the [-] Liu Bei army's combat power has directly increased by several levels. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as driving tigers and sheep to those bandits who occupy mountains as kings and rob houses.

After the first battle, Chen Dao, the leader of the personal guards, sighed in Liu Bei's ear: "With this fine armor, the general dares to charge [-] Jingzhou cavalry with [-] guards head-on!" After hearing this, Liu Bei's face was both happy and worried .The happy thing is that my military strength can already let go of a battle in Jingzhou; the worrying thing is that compared with Ma Chao's strength, there is already a difference between myself and Ma Chao.You know, the Ma family alone has [-] cavalry in Chang'an.Moreover, my military equipment and battle armor are still defective products that the Ma family has eliminated for more than a year...

Thinking of this, Liu Bei's brows were furrowed with sorrow, and he didn't even have the mood to smile back at the soldiers who watched him go back.Until he entered his mansion in Xiangyang, he didn't fully open his face, and then he went straight into a quiet room in the backyard.

"Why is the general frowning so deeply?" The young man turned around, and he didn't even see Liu Bei's face, so he judged Liu Bei's worry: "Ruoliang guessed right, but because of the internal turmoil in Jingzhou, the bandits have been calmed down, my lord. Worried that Liu Biao will use excuses to ask you to leave?"

Liu Bei smiled wryly. Ever since this young man came to his command, Liu Bei felt that all his thoughts could not escape his star-like eyes.However, Liu Bei never disliked this point. He doesn't need a seasoned man who knows how to hide his thoughts and is useless. On the contrary, Zhuge Liang, a young talent who is enterprising and vigorous, is exactly what Liu Bei needs most. .

For being able to get a young genius like Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei felt a little bit lucky.He remembered that before he was about to enter Jingzhou, he suddenly got a letter from Jingzhou Shuijing Mr. Pang Degong.The letter said that he was going to be moved to Chang'an by the Ma family, and that the son of an old friend was going to Xiangyang soon, so he asked Liu Bei to take care of him.Because Liu Bei had some correspondence with Mr. Shui Jing, although he had never met, he was considered to be acquainted, so he naturally agreed, and sent Chen Dao to pick Zhuge Liang over.

As soon as Zhuge Liang joined Liu Bei's army, he showed unparalleled intelligence and resourcefulness.After several times, Liu Bei attached more and more importance to Zhuge Liang, and gradually developed to the point where he would come to Zhuge Liang's residence whenever he had something on his mind.

"Bei is not worried about this matter. Since Liu Jingzhou invited me to enter Jingzhou, naturally he will not really do it for those thieves." Sitting in front of the main room, Liu Bei poured himself a cup of tea and drank it all: "The ones that Bei is worried about are I heard that the Han Dynasty was bullied by the Cao thief, the emperor drew his sword in anger, and the thief officials dared to attack each other with spears, forcing the emperor to add the Cao thief as the king of Wei. The prestige of the Han Dynasty was trampled to the soles of the feet, and Bei Shi was heartbroken. !"

Zhuge Liang smiled when he heard the words. He sat opposite Liu Bei, shook his feather fan, and said: "The general thinks that the Han Dynasty still has dignity? When Li Jue, Guo Si and others attacked Chang'an, the positions of the generals and the three princes are not the same. The rotten food in the vegetable market is usually left to Li Jue and Guo Si to get what they want?" At this point, Liu Bei was a little excited, and before he opened his mouth to speak, Zhuge Liang stopped him with a fan: "General, don't think that the emperor made Cao Cao the king of Wei because he was forced to It is a great honor for one person to be king, but it is a provocation for two people to be king. Does the general think that Cao Cao really wants the title of king of Wei?"

Liu Bei frowned again and remained silent. Yes, he could tell that in the short term, this was a sign of humiliation that the Han Dynasty was completely defeated by the Cao family and forced to bow their heads.But in the long run, the title of "king" is really not easy to be. As Zhuge Liang said, it is a supreme honor for one person to be king, but if there are too many kings, it is worthless.The Ma family in Chang'an is recuperating, and it seems that they have no desire to show their teeth, but who can say for sure, Ma Chao will not be angry because of Cao Cao's title of King of Wei?Even if he doesn't care, how can his entire group allow Cao Cao to be so provocative?

"As you said, is this your Majesty's trick to get you?" Liu Bei tentatively opened his mouth, but Zhuge Liang sneered, "Does the Han Dynasty still have the qualifications? The Ma family in Chang'an is regarded as a lifelong enemy. Finally, in the matter of Cao Cao, he made a bad move and lost all games. Perhaps, he thought that Cao Cao was still Dong Zhuo, but unfortunately, he was a little too confident."

Zhuge Liang didn't say any more about the following words.After all, the matter in Xuchang has already been settled, so there is no point in discussing it.And Liu Bei has always lived as the emperor of the Han Dynasty, so he naturally didn't want to hear more words that belittled the emperor.After Zhuge Liang rolled his eyes, they suddenly lit up again, and asked Liu Bei somewhat mysteriously, "General, did you just see the incident with the Emperor Liang's Mausoleum?"

"What do you mean by Mr.'s words?" Liu Bei was really surprised at this moment, he suddenly tilted his body slightly, and asked, "Could it be that there is an inside story?"

Zhuge Liang saw that Liu Bei's eyes didn't seem to be fake, and he felt a little confident in his heart, and then he still asked: "General, can you imagine, who will benefit the most from the Han Dynasty and the Cao family?"

"The Ma family?" Liu Bei said this sentence almost reflexively, but after thinking about it, he added: "Perhaps there is Jiangdong Sun's family?..." The voice of the latter sentence was almost negligible, the reason Without him, it is too heavy for the Ma family to be so huge in the hearts of the princes of the Han Dynasty.

"That's right, the Sun family may indeed benefit, but if it wasn't for Sun Ce's fate, he would have been shot to death by Cao's Jing'an Cao, how capable would he be to direct such a good show?"

"Mr. Zhuge means that this is related to the incident of Emperor Liang's Mausoleum, but it is also related to the Ma family in Chang'an?"

"I don't know about the irrelevance, but Liang knows that any event that is obviously beneficial to people cannot be just a coincidence." Zhuge Liang's words were a bit too difficult to understand, but the next sentence was simple and straightforward: "The general knows that the Ma family There is a person in the shadow, named Mu Yang?"

Liu Bei shook his head, but at the same time, he suddenly had a feeling in his heart: After the espionage work presided over by Chen Deng in Xuzhou was terminated, it seemed that he should establish a complete espionage system again.And the person in charge of this espionage system... is far away and close at hand!

(End of this chapter)

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