The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 377 Chapter 376
It was almost noon when Liu Bei and Guan Yu came out of Liu Biao's mansion. Liu Biao followed Liu Bei's suggestion and personally wrote an official document, assigning Liu Bei to be fully responsible for the alliance with Sun Ce.

Liu Bei took the official document and went to Yiji's residence in Xiangyang together with Guan Yu.

Yi Ji had been waiting in the mansion for a long time, when he saw Liu Bei and Guan Yu coming, he rushed to greet him, moved to Liu Bei's side and said, "Young Master has been waiting in the mansion for a long time."

Liu Bei nodded, and followed Yi Ji directly into the mansion. When Guan Yu entered the door, he stopped suddenly and said to Liu Bei, "Brother, I'll go around the neighborhood!"

"Xiangyang is not Changsha, the second brother must not cause trouble!" Liu Bei instructed.

Guan Yu said: "Brother, don't worry, I have my own measure."

Liu Bei was very relieved of Guan Yu, didn't say anything more, and entered the mansion together with Yi Ji, while Guan Yu closed the mansion door, walked straight to the alley, and quickly disappeared among the crowd.

At this time, a short and thin middle-aged man poked his head out from the side of Yiji's mansion. After looking around, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said to himself: "The eldest son and Liu Bei, the governor of Jingnan, has a secret meeting in Yiji's mansion, if Lord Cai finds out about this news, he will definitely reward me heavily..."

As soon as the voice fell, the man turned around and left. Who knew that he bumped into a person directly, and bounced him away. He sat on the ground with his buttocks, and his buttocks were in great pain.

"You fucking don't have long eyes when you walk..." The man cursed, and when he looked up, the man standing in front of him turned out to be a big red-faced man with piercing eyes looking at him. Jian Jian, he felt that this person was very familiar. After thinking for a while, Guan Yu's name jumped into his mind.

Guan Yu stretched out his long arms and grabbed the man by the back collar of his clothes. Like a chicken, he picked up the man, raised it high above his head, stared at him with a pair of tiger eyes, and opened his mouth. Then he asked, "Say! Who sent you here?"

The man said: "No...no one sent me, I just passed by here..."

"Fart! With your fucking little trick, you still want to hide someone from me? You have been following us all the way since we left Liu Jingzhou's mansion. You said you were just passing by here? Are you thinking of me? Someone Guan is an idiot!" Guan Yu shouted loudly.

Seeing that Guan Yu had exposed his lie, the man didn't know how to respond for a while.At this moment, when Guan Yu's arm exerted force, he only felt that he was thrown out and fell heavily on the ground. There were pains in several places on his body, and he let out a mournful howl.

Suddenly, a big foot stepped directly on his chest, Guan Yu looked furious, and asked sharply, "If you don't answer, someone Guan will let you try my tricks!"

As he said that, Guan Yu raised his bowl-sized fist and punched the man in the face. Seeing this, the man immediately closed his eyes and let out a loud cry.

However, the fist didn't come down, but stopped in front of his face, and a fierce fist wind rushed towards his face. If this punch was really hit, the bridge of his nose would probably be broken .

The man was so frightened that his face turned ashen, a torrent poured out from between his legs, and he even peed in the crotch of his pants in fright.

"Say it quickly! Who sent you here?" Guan Yu squatted down, and the strength on his feet increased a lot, and the person who stepped on him was almost out of breath.

"I said... I said..." the man said with all his might.

Guan Yu then moved away the big foot that was stepping on his chest, grabbed the man, and asked, "Say, who sent you here?"

The man faltered and said: "Yes... yes..."

"Don't stammer, if you continue like this, Guan will leave you with no good fruit to eat!"

"Yes yes yes... I said it, I said it all. Master Cai sent me here to secretly monitor Liu Bei... Oh no, it was Dudu Liu who made every move and reported to Master Cai."

"Lord Cai? Which Master Cai?" Guan Yu asked again.

"It's Master Cai Mao!"

After Guan Yu heard Cai Mao's name, he said slowly, "So it's Cai Mao..."

"What else did Cai Mao ask you to do?" Guan Yu glared at the man again and asked.

"No, it's nothing. Master Cai learned that Liu Jingzhou was going to summon Liu Bei, so he sent me to monitor Liu Dudu and report Liu Dudu's every move to him."

"Then what did you see?"

"I... I didn't see anything..."

Guan Yu snorted coldly, clenched his fist again, and asked, "Do you still want me to beat you?"

The man was frightened and hurriedly said: "I saw the eldest son also entered here..."

Before the man could finish speaking, Guan Yu swung his fist and knocked the man unconscious, then carried the man on his shoulders and went directly into Yi Ji's mansion.

At this moment, Liu Bei and Liu Biao's eldest son, Liu Qi, were discussing matters in the hall. Guan Yu suddenly carried a man into the hall, threw the man on the ground, and said, "Brother, this man was sent by Cai Mao to monitor the elder brother." , it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, it is better to leave as soon as possible."

After hearing this, Liu Qi frowned, clenched his fists, and angrily slapped the table in front of him, smashing everything on it.

"Cai Mao is too deceitful!" Liu Qi said angrily.

Liu Bei said: "My lord, calm down. Since Cai Mao has already taken action, he will definitely not send only one person to follow me. Maybe there are other people hiding in places where Yun Chang can't see clearly. My lord, why don't we leave Xiangyang first?" , wait until outside the city, and then contact, how about discussing countermeasures then?"

Liu Qi cupped his hands and said, "Everything is according to Uncle's wishes."

"Yun Chang and I will go first, first to lure away the people who may be lurking around, and then Uncle Ji will secretly send the eldest son out of the city. Let's meet again at Shilipu outside the city!" Liu Bei said.

"Uncle's arrangements are very thorough, and my nephew will follow my uncle's wishes." Liu Qi said politely.

So, Liu Bei and Liu Qi parted ways, left Yiji's mansion with Guan Yu, and walked out of the city in a big way.

Things did not go as Liu Bei expected. Cai Mao sent several spies to monitor Liu Bei. Guan Yu caught only one of them, and the others were in different positions. Because there was a distance in between, the one Guan Yu caught was The spy did not attract the attention of the rest.

At this time, as soon as Liu Bei and Guan Yu left, they immediately attracted the attention of the other spies and followed them quietly.

Guan Yu rode a steed, and his tiger eyes kept looking around. When he spotted a few suspicious people, he said to Liu Bei, "Brother is very good at predicting things. Sure enough, Cai Mao sent more than one person to watch over Brother."

Liu Bei said: "Don't startle the snake, wait until you leave the city!"

"Yes!"

The two came to the gate of Xiangyang City together, and saw a long-faced man wearing an iron helmet standing there with a group of soldiers, as if waiting for something.

Liu Bei was startled, and thought to himself: "This group of people are not waiting for me, are they?"

However, Liu Bei remained calm and rode his horse slowly to the gate of the city with Guan Yu.

At this time, the general saw Liu Bei coming on horseback, and he led people to block the gate of the city. He stepped forward a few steps, cupped his hands to Liu Bei and said, "Next is Cai Zhong. I have been waiting for Liu Dudu here for a long time."

Cai Zhong is Cai Mao's relative brother and a member of Cai's party. He appeared here and blocked Liu Bei's way. Of course, nothing good happened.

Liu Bei reined in the horse, cupped his hands and said, "It turned out to be Colonel Cai. I don't know that Captain Cai blocked my way. What's your business?"

Cai Zhong said bluntly: "I am ordered by the Commander-in-Chief to wait for Governor Liu again. I hope that Governor Liu will give me a favor and go to the Governor's Mansion to have a talk."

Liu Bei said: "It turns out that Governor Cai invited me. If I don't go, wouldn't it be too disrespectful to Governor Cai?"

After hearing this, Guan Yu hurriedly said, "Brother..."

Liu Bei raised his hand, stopped what Guan Yu was going to say, cupped his hands to Cai Zhong and said, "It's rare that the governor will invite me Liu Bei, so please ask Captain Cai to lead the way!"

Seeing that Liu Bei was still cooperative, Cai Zhong did not take any action. He rode on a fast horse and let a group of people open the way in front. He, Liu Bei and Guan Yu went to the Governor's Mansion together.

The Jingzhou army is divided into two different systems: the navy and the army. Among them, the navy has the largest number and the strongest strength.

Cai Mao is a wealthy family in Jingzhou, and he knows the water system of the Han River and the Yangtze River very well, and is very good at water warfare. He is also Liu Biao's brother-in-law, so he was appointed by Liu Biao as the commander of the navy, commanding thousands of warships in Jingzhou, Eighty thousand sailors.

Therefore, when the governor is mentioned, everyone in Jingzhou knows that he is talking about Cai Mao.

Cai's power is deeply rooted in Jingzhou, intricate and criss-crossing. Liu Biao is the lord of Jingzhou in name, while Cai is the lord of Jingzhou in the dark.So some people come to Cai Mao if they want to do anything. As long as Cai Mao promises, there is nothing he can't do.

However, if you want to enter Cai Mao's door, you can't enter without some substantive "sincerity". The two took turns blowing the wind beside Liu Biao, and Liu Biao would basically be fooled into handling it.

Cai Mao invited Liu Bei this time. On the surface, Liu Bei was very calm, but in fact he was very upset in his heart.Cai Mao is Liu Biao's internal minister, Liu Biao trusts him very much, and Liu Bei is an external official.
Liu Bei was anxious all the way in his heart, and followed Cai Zhong to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in a while.

The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is located in the east of Xiangyang City, covering a large area, and the mansion is extremely luxurious, even more magnificent than Liu Biao's State Shepherd's Mansion.

Cai Zhong led the team to stop at the gate of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and said to Liu Bei: "Captain Liu, we are here, please dismount and follow me in! The Metropolitan Governor has been waiting for Governor Liu for a long time!"

(End of this chapter)