Emperor Road of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 444

When Liu Biao returned to Jingzhou, although he was taken care of by the best doctors and treated with the best medicines, his injuries were too serious to be cured in the end.

At this time, he had been bedridden for many days and had no energy to be a director. All political affairs were handed over to Cai Mao and Kuai Yue.Not only that, he has already begun to explain his funeral.

The atmosphere in Liu's mansion was very depressing, because Liu Biao was sick in bed, and the servants in the mansion knew that his life was not long.

Liu Biao really didn't have much time left, lying on the bed for many days, he lost a lot of weight, his face was sunken, and there was no flesh left.His complexion is also not good, pale or even pale.His eyes were equally dim, and his speech was weak.

"Yidu, cough cough, my life is not long!" Liu Biao leaned on the bed, looked at Kuai Yue who was silent in front of the bed, and said with difficulty, "Tell me, cough cough, who should I stand for?"

Facing Liu Biao's question, Kuai Yue remained silent.In fact, he knew Liu Biao's choice, and even if he disagreed with this choice, it was useless.He doesn't like this feeling, and Liu Biao's choice is not good for his Kuai family.But after being silent for a long time, he still said: "My lord, I should be the second son."

Liu Biao nodded in satisfaction, wanted to laugh, but coughed violently.After a while, he calmed down, and said: "Yidu, Zong'er is still young, you should help me a little bit, cough cough..."

"The more you know, please don't worry, my lord." Seeing Liu Biao's heroic end, Kuai Yue couldn't help trembling in his heart, and thought of Liu Biao's heroic appearance when he first came here.

Time is really the hero's greatest enemy!
Liu Biao still wanted to chat with Kuai Yue more, but his body didn't allow it, so he could only shake his hands wearily, and said, "Yidu, you go down first, ahem, ahem, I'm going to rest."

"Then, I'm leaving!" Kuai Yue lowered his head and slowly exited the room.After he came out, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, shook his head and left.

For the same matter, Liu Biao called other officials to talk about it one after another, just so that Jingzhou would not be disturbed after his death.This is also the reason why he decided to let Liu Zong succeed, because Liu Zong has the support of the Cai family behind him.If he lets Liu Qi succeed him, the Cai family will definitely make a move.The status of the Cai family in Jingzhou, but few people can match it.

Regarding Liu Biao's choice, Liu Yu knew everything without guessing.Ever since he knew that the hidden guard had also failed in Jingzhou, his heart sank to the bottom, and he knew that he had to choose the second strategy - to seize Jingzhou by force.

The failure of the hidden guards did not surprise him. With Jingzhou's defense and his aggressiveness, how could Liu Biao be unprepared.It was because of this that the dark guard's operation failed again.

Although he decided to take Jingzhou by force, Liu Yu would not lead an army to attack Jingzhou foolishly, otherwise it is impossible for Cai Mao to surrender to the Yuan family.Considering this, Liu Yu decided to use a three-pronged approach. The first move was to force the soldiers to question Jingzhou.

The so-called pressing Jingzhou was actually Liu Yu asking for an explanation on Liu Biao's sudden withdrawal of troops.Knowing that his fate was not long, Liu Biao withdrew his troops without telling Liu Yu.Therefore, Liu Yu used this reason very properly, and he used Liu Biao's sudden withdrawal of troops as an excuse to cause heavy losses to himself, so Jingzhou couldn't help but refuse to accept the move.

In fact, some people in Jingzhou speculated that Liu Yu was the one who attacked and killed Liu Biao, so they paid special attention to Liu Yu's questioning.Among them are Kuai Yue and Cai Mao. In this way, the army is naturally mobilized to defend Liu Yu.

And Liu Yu wanted this result.

Only when he attracted the attention of the Jingzhou army, could Liu Ye succeed in attacking Xiangyang.He said it was a three-pronged approach, but the first move was to force Jingzhou to question, and the second move was to disrupt the interior of Jingzhou.

This second move can not only mess up its interior, but also increase the credibility of the first move, because this move is to recruit Jingzhou civil and military.For a group of civil and military men in Jingzhou, there must be some people who are willing to take refuge in Liu Yu, and those who are unwilling will definitely disclose his solicitation.In this way, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?
These two tricks are nothing more than deception, and the third trick, that is, Liu Ye will send his troops north to Xiangyang, is where Liu Yu places his hope.Liu Yu still has great confidence in Pang Tong and Liu Ye, and then he also has confidence in capturing Jingzhou, because the two of them came up with the scheme.

The first two strategies were offered by Pang Tong when Liu Yu was distressed after the dark guard failed.At that time, Liu Yu couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard this plan, and said: "Shi Yuan is really my lucky general, hahaha, in this way, Jingzhou will definitely fall into my hands."

As happy events followed one after another, Pang Tong offered his advice, and Liu Ye's trick came.Liu Ye's plan to seize Jingzhou by force was well prepared.On the one hand, he asked people to contact the ministers of Liu Qi's faction in Xiangyang City, and asked them to build momentum for Liu Qi.As a result, Liu Biao and Cai Mao were naturally afraid.

Afterwards, Liu Qi let out another rumor, saying that his father was seriously ill, so there was no reason for the eldest son not to be by his side.Who doesn't understand what this means?
Cai Mao agreed with Liu Qi's return, so he could control Liu Qi better.But Liu Biao disagreed. He was afraid that Cai Mao would kill Liu Qi, so in the name of Liu Qi guarding Jiangxia, he severely warned Liu Qi not to come back.Liu Qi is his son after all, how could he not care about his life or death?

Liu Ye took advantage of the situation and asked Liu Qi to pretend to obey Liu Biao's orders.But in private, Liu Ye has already started to act.

Cai Mao is not a fool after all, as Liu Biao became seriously ill day by day, and as Liu Yu pressed on day by day, he also felt that the atmosphere became more and more oppressive.Therefore, he began to strengthen the city defense of Xiangyang.

Liu Ye saw all of this, but he was not worried at all, instead he smiled lightly and said to Chen Dao, "Kai Yue defends himself, even if he sees through my scheme, he will never say anything about it. As for the three brothers of the Cai family , huh, huh, but it’s just a waste of fame.”

What Liu Ye said was right, Kuai Yue did guess his strategy, but he just thought that Liu Qi wanted to use Liu Yu's power to seize the position of Lord of Jingzhou.No matter how great Ren Kuaiyue was, he probably would not have thought that Liu Qi was being controlled by Liu Yu.It was also because he didn't expect that Kuai Yue didn't intervene. If he thought about it, even if he didn't intervene, he would hint at Cai Mao.

But if no one in Xiangyang can guess it, that's impossible, because there are too many talents in Xiangyang, let alone Mr. Shui Jing, Wolong alone can guess it.But none of them intervened because of Liu Yu's status.

Speaking of Zhuge Liang, I have to say a few more words.The reason why this fellow has not defected to Liu Yu is because he disagrees with Liu Yu's methods, such as controlling Liu Qi.Of course, there are also Pang Tong's reasons.

Without mentioning Zhuge Liang, let's say that Liu Ye is ready for everything, only owes the east wind, has sharpened his sword, and only waits for Liu Biao to die.

If Liu Biao died, the news would reach Liu Ye's ears without any delay.The assassination and poisoning of the hidden guard failed, but it did not mean that they failed to break into the enemy.

A few days later, Liu Ye was leisurely, when the news came suddenly——Liu Biao died!
(End of this chapter)