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Spring has arrived, and the air is filled with soft sunshine and warm breath. The woods have long been covered by emerald green buds, and the spirit birds are flying and singing over the woods.

The river water became greener, and groups of ducks and white geese were churning in the river. From time to time, fishing boats sailed by. There were a few cormorants standing on the bow of the boat, like a general wearing black armor.

The spring breeze was blowing, and the flag on the top of the south of Fancheng was fluttering in the wind. On the top of the city, Liu Hu was wearing iron scale armor, an eagle-edged helmet, and a ring-shaped knife on his waist. He was patrolling back and forth at the top of the city. He was burly, like a half-iron tower, holding a 60-pound sword in his hand, looking majestic.

He is now the chief of the Fancheng garrison Qutun, in charge of a soldier. The Fancheng garrison Qutun is Liu Jing's army. This army is somewhat similar to the later battalions and is composed of five soldiers.

This army was responsible for the north and south gates of Fancheng. It was not under the jurisdiction of the lieutenant stationed in Fancheng. Instead, it was under the jurisdiction of Liu Biao's yamen army and was directly responsible to the commander Wang Wei.

This is also the special feature of Liu Biao's army. Some strategic cities are controlled by Liu Biao's direct yamen army, such as Wuchang, Fancheng, Jiangling, Public Security, etc.

Therefore, Liu Jing's command of this five-man army is almost a kingdom, free entry and exit from the city gate, and does not affect his martial arts practice at all. This is also Liu Biao's painstaking arrangement for him.

This morning, it was Liu Hu's turn to be on duty. He has been serving as the head of the Tun for nearly a month and has already become a group with his subordinates.

Although Liu Hu is the nephew of the governor of the state, he has a good reputation and has no military officer. Everyone likes him, and they all call him "Brother Hu" intimately.

"Brother Tiger"

A soldier rushed over quickly and knelt down on one knee to report: "There is an emergency military report in Xinye"

Liu Hu smiled and kicked him, "You guy, when you talk about serious business, you should call me Chief Tun."

The soldier scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "I remember, I will definitely not make mistakes next time."

Liu Hu walked down the city gate quickly and looked around, "Where is the Junhou?"

"Brother Hu, Junhou seems to have returned to the military camp."

"Oh, I, the tiger, have to run again." Liu Hu had no choice but to turn around and run quickly into the city.

The camp of the Fancheng Plaintiff is not far from the city gate. It is a medium-sized military camp covering an area of ​​about acres, consisting of five rows of brick houses and a training school ground. It is surrounded by walls. There is also a meter-high sentry tower next to the gate, with sentries patrolling day and night, and soldiers standing guard in front of the gate. Idle people are not allowed to enter.

Liu Jing's barracks are located on the far left of the first row of military camps and are composed of a room. In addition to his main room, there are two auxiliary rooms, one houses piled up with various bamboo slips, and the other house is processing data, with two book assistants working in the room.

Liu Jing has been serving as a military marquis for nearly a month. From his initial excitement to his gradual dullness, he was busy every day and almost did the same thing, guarding the city and working on duty, training soldiers, mediating disputes, and writing a report every month. The business was dull and boring.

This month, Liu Jing spent most of his time in Fancheng and rarely went to Xiangyang, which made his life gradually calm and nothing happened.

However, Liu Jing has gained a lot in his martial arts. His hard training every night has strengthened his strength day by day. He can already dance nearly forty kilograms of weapons and be at ease.

The progress in martial arts has increased Liu Jing's confidence and made him full of hope for the future.

In the room, Liu Jingzheng was focused on reviewing the monthly report. This was a summary report he had to write every month. It was usually drafted by the book assistant, modified by him and submitted it to his superior Wang Wei.

Although it is all trivial matters, Liu Jing still dares not be careless. Wang Wei is a serious person and he will carefully check some data.

In the report last month, the amount of money and grain received by the army was slightly different from the amount of money and grain allocated. Wang Wei came to the military camp personally to check and found out that it was because some moldy food was removed in the report. Despite this, Liu Jing still experienced Wang Wei's harsh and upright attitude.

I heard that my ex was severely punished by Wang Wei for embezzling money and food, and is still in prison.

Another thing is that the arsenal was stolen a month ago and many crossbows and swords were lost. Liu Biao was furious and ordered the entire army to investigate. Each military camp would be investigated by special people, which caused a lot of controversy. In the end, the result could not be found, but it was still left alone.

At this time, a burst of rapid footsteps came from outside, and Liu Hu rushed in like a gust of wind, "Brother Jing, Xinye is about to start a war."

Liu Jingteng stood up, "The news is true"

This is the news he has been waiting for. As early as ten days ago, news came from Nanyang that Cao's army had increased by 20,000 troops, and Nanyang's garrison increased from 10,000 to 10,000. Henan Yin Xiahou Dun personally led his troops to Nanyang.

This is a bad sign. As people in Nanyang continue to drag their families to take refuge in the south, Fancheng defenders are like ducks in the spring river. What did they experience first?

Liu Jing, who was guarding the gate of Fancheng, also felt the approaching war, but he was looking forward to being on the battlefield.

He has been in Jingzhou for nearly half a year, and his mentality has changed a lot. At that time, he fled to Jingzhou through the battlefield and had an inexplicable fear of the war.

But now it's different. He longs to go through a war to hone his hard training for months. It's like a soldier who just took a gun, and he always has a natural desire for war.

He thought Liu Hu was slow to answer and asked again: "What about the news service?"

"I have passed the Han River and gone to Xiangyang."

Liu Jing pondered for a moment, "Then I'll go too."

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In the official room of Liu Biao in the prefecture yamen, Liu Biao was discussing the military situation in Nanyang with Cai Mao. Liu Biao received news ten days ago that Cao Cao sent general Xiahou Dun to lead an army of 20,000 to reinforce Nanyang, bringing more than 10,000 elite troops from Cao's army in Nanyang, posing a huge threat to Xiangyang.

Just now, he received an emergency military report from Liu Bei. Xiahou Dun sent his general Li Dian to lead his army of 5,000 to harass the border of Xinye County, and a small-scale battle occurred on both sides.

Liu Bei had only 6,000 troops stationed by Li Dian, and it was OK to deal with 5,000 troops from Li Dian, but if Xiahou Dun led 20,000 troops south, Xinye would be unable to protect him, so Liu Bei urgently asked Liu Biao for help.

The news that Cao's army attacked Xinye made Liu Biao very worried. He also received news that Yuan Shao was seriously ill and several nephews competed for the throne and internal strife broke out.

Liu Biao was worried that the Cao army would take advantage of the opportunity when the Yuan nephew competed for the throne and the army went south to attack Jingzhou, and Xiahou Dun might be just the vanguard.

But at this time, Liu Biao was furious for Huang Zu's refusal to send troops again. Sun Quan's mother was critically ill. The Jiangdong army had evacuated Pengze. Jiangxia was not threatened. Liu Biao ordered Huang Zu to send 20,000 troops to support Xiangyang and increase Xiangyang's defense.

But Huang Zu refused to be out of the epidemic in the army, and it was not appropriate to work hard to come, and Liu Biao quickly realized that there was no epidemic in the epidemic, which was clearly because Huang Zu did not listen to his orders.

This is not the first time, and it finally made Liu Biao unable to bear it.

"The first time Cao's army attacked Wancheng, I ordered him to dispatch 10,000 troops, but he refused. In the second attack on Wancheng, I ordered him to dispatch 8,000 troops, but he still refused. Last year in the Battle of Runan, I ordered him to dispatch 10,000 troops, but he refused again, again, again, do he still think I am the lord?"

Liu Biao was almost crazy when he was angry. Cai Mao was frightened by the side. He persuaded him again and again, and finally he calmed down Liu Biao's anger.

But Liu Biao became cold. He stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, and his heart was filled with murderous intent. After a long time, he said coldly: "He should regard Jiang Xia army as his Huang Zu's army."

"Master..."

Cai Mao wanted to persuade him again, but Liu Biao waved his hand, "No need to talk about this, tell me how I should deal with it in Cao Jun."

"yes"

Cai Mao sighed and had to pull Si back, pondering for a moment: "Lord, the key is that Cao Cao has not settled in the north and is unable to move south for a while. The stationing of troops in Nanyang is just a threat, so Liu Bei has the obligation to fight against Cao's army, and I think his pressure should be greater than that of the lord."

After all, Cai Mao was a military advisor in Jingzhou and had the first say in the military aircraft issue. Although he was a pro-Cao faction, it was not in his interest to go south at this time, so he also advocated increasing troops to Xinye to fight against Cao's army.

But Cai Mao still has deeper thoughts. If he could use Cao's army to annihilate Liu Bei, he would kill two birds with one stone.

He advised Liu Biao again: "Now Xinye has more than 6,000 troops. I suggest that Liu Bei adds another 10,000 troops to make Xinye's troops reach 16,000. He can barely fight against Cao's army, but Bei Zhi believes that our ten thousand reinforcements cannot be handed over to Liu Bei, and must be commanded by our own people."

Liu Biao nodded, Cai Mao's suggestion reached his heart. He placed Liu Bei in Xinye just to become his own barrier. Since Cao's army has increased its troops in Nanyang, the role of this barrier should be played out.

In fact, Liu Biao also had other thoughts. If Cao's army did not go south in large numbers and just harassment on a small scale, can we make good use of Cao's army?

Liu Biao agreed: "Just do what you said, you can send 10,000 reinforcements to Xinye to ensure that Xinye's weapons are sufficient money and food, but who should be the commander of these 10,000 reinforcements?"

"He recommended the captain Zhang Yun, who is the nephew of the lord, is loyal and unquestionable. He has led troops to fight against Cangwu Shi Huang many times, and is experienced and can take on great responsibilities."

Liu Biao pondered for a moment. Cao's army was not Cangwu's army. Zhang Yun could fight water, but Liu Biao was really worried about asking him to fight Cao's army.

At this moment, a guard reported at the door, "The Army of Kuai is here."

Kuai Yue's official position was the General of the Army and the No. 1 decision-maker in Jingzhou. He came just in time. Liu Biao also wanted to hear his opinions and immediately ordered: "Let him come in."

Soon, Kuai Yue quickly walked into the official room, knelt down and bowed to Liu Biao, "My subordinate Kuai Yue paid homage to the lord."

"No need to be polite in the differences, please sit down."

Kuai Yue sat down, bowed slightly to Cai Mao, nodded and smiled, "It turns out that the military advisor is here too."

The Kuai and Cai tribes have always been in competition in Jingzhou, although they have common interests in some aspects, such as they both belong to the pro-Cao faction, and for example, they both oppose the reuse of the northern aristocratic tribes.

However, it is difficult for the Kuai and Cai tribes to have a consensus on each other's core interests.

For a long time in the past, the Cai family's interests were in Xiangyang County, while the Kuai family's interests were in Nan County. They did not violate the river water and were still in peace.

But since last year, Liu Biao considered marrying the Jingzhou family, which involved the long-term interests of the Kuai and Cai tribes, and the conflict between them began to become prominent.

Cai Mao originally supported Liu Qi, but his uncle Cai Xun and his sister Mrs. Cai strongly advocated supporting Liu Cong. More importantly, Liu Qi himself favored the Kuai family, which made Cai Mao deeply disappointed.

He began to change his deviantness, supported Liu Cong, and considered marrying his daughter Cai Shaoyu to Liu Cong in order to facilitate control of Liu Cong.

Kuai Yue publicly supported Liu Qi, and he and Liu expressed a tacit understanding, marrying Kuai Jing, the daughter of his brother Kuai Liang, to Liu Qi, and completing the marriage between Kuai and Liu. Although both parties have not made a formal statement yet, this day will come soon.

Influenced by the marriage of the Liu brothers, the four major families in Jingzhou gradually took sides, forming two major forces, Cai Huang Group and Kuai Pang Group.

However, at this time, the two major groups were just a prototype. Liu Cong had not yet married Cai Shaoyu, and Kuai Jing had not married Liu Qi. The interests were mixed and the truth was unclear. It was the time when the old and new patterns of Jingzhou were alternating, just like the dawn where the night and daylight intersected.

Of course, Liu Biao was also very familiar with this pattern change. As a supreme ruler, he did not want his subordinates to unite and divide them into two opposing groups. This was in line with his interests of Liu Biao and facilitated his control of Jingzhou.

So Liu Biao also began to become abnormal and no longer forced Liu Jing to marry the daughter of the Cai family. If Liu Cong came to marry the daughter of the Cai family, it might not be a bad thing.

But Liu Biao was not anxious. He hoped that the evolution of this force pattern could be completed slowly under his guidance, and it would take one or two years to facilitate his deployment in time.

Although Huang Zu brought him a lot of anger, Liu Biao would not show it on his face. He smiled and said to Kuai Yue: "I am discussing the issue of Cao's army increasing troops in Nanyang with a military advisor. We all advocate sending reinforcements to Liu Bei to strengthen Xinye's defense. I don't know if there is any better advice."

Kuai Yue smiled, "I support the lord's plan and deal with Cao's army. Liu Bei is more experienced than us. If there are not many reinforcements, I will hand them over to commander Liu Bei directly. If there are many, it is better for our own general to control it."
Chapter completed!