Cao Shu ordered the army to station on the spot. After waiting for about an hour, Cai Mao came with more than a dozen guards.

After entering Cao Shuo's tent, Cai Mao bowed and gave a big gift: "Cai Mao has met the young master."

"General Cai must be an important matter here." Cao Shuo smiled slightly and asked him: "Just say anything, just say it directly, we are old friends."

"Young Master is open-minded, of course I have to say it straight." Cai Mao asked: "I wonder what the young master is planning to lead his army to Jingzhou?"

"What else can I do when leading my army here?" Cao Shuo said with a smile: "Of course, I will change my surname to Jingzhou and destroy Liu Xuande."

"Since the young master came back to Jingzhou, Duke Jingsheng has never been an enemy of the Cao family again." Cai Mao said: "Did the Cao family refuse to give Jingsheng descendants a way out?"

"I will live for the descendants of Jingshenggong. Can they protect Jingzhou?" Cao Shu said: "The Sun family in Jiangdong is eyeing him, and Liu Xuande always wants to take Jingzhou into his pocket. Although there are generals and a group of Jingzhou subordinates who will Jingzhou fall into his hands in ten or twenty years?"

Cao Shu's words made Cai Mao ask what to do.

He lowered his head, his face turned very bad.

Standing up and walking to Cai Mao, Cao Shu patted his arm gently and said, "General Cai, I hope you can understand one thing. Whether the Sun family in Jiangdong or Liu Xuande gets Jingzhou, the wife and the second son will definitely die. There is only one hope for them to survive, that is, to join the Cao family and offer Jingzhou."

"Young Master, don't kill my sister and Liu Cong?" Cai Mao asked in disbelief.

"Why should I kill them?" Cao Shu said: "They gave Jingzhou and there would be no threat to the Cao family anymore. After all, Mrs. Cai is a woman, while Liu Cong is still a child. There is no difference between killing them or not. Killing them will ruin the name of our Cao family."

"I feel relieved if my grandson says this." Cai Mao said: "I'm not hiding it from my grandson, I came here this time to come to Jingzhou by my sister's order."

"Have you brought the seal and military talisman?" Cao Shuo asked.

"No." Cai Mao said: "If you don't know the intentions of the young master and Cao Gong, Jingzhou will certainly not dare to act rashly. As long as the young master promises not to kill his sister and Liu Cong, I will send the seal, military talisman and population list when I return to Xiangyang."

"You really have to go back as soon as possible." Cao Shuo said: "Our army is about to attack Xinye, and Liu Xuande will definitely not be able to defend it. After leaving Xinye, where do you think he will choose to go?"

Cai Mao was stunned.

Cao Shuo smiled at him: "Before I arrived in Xiangyang, the general, Mrs. Cai, and the second son of the Jingsheng family should not die."

"I understand." Cai Mao bowed and gave a big gift to Cao Shu: "I'll go back now."

Cao Shu nodded, and Cai Mao asked again: "Does your son think that Liu Xuande can break through Xiangyang?"

"He doesn't need to attack at all." Cao Shu said: "As long as he goes outside Xiangyang City, someone will open the city gate for him. Liu Xuande's command has a lot of people, so the general must defend it."

Cai Mao was stunned and hurriedly left.

After seeing off Cai Mao, Cao Shu ordered the army: "Stop on the spot today, and tomorrow morning, the army will head to Xinye."

Cao Shu had met Cai Mao and was getting closer and closer to Xinye.

Liu Bei in Xinye City did not actively prepare for the war.

The soldiers under Liu Bei were busy stacking firewood and grass at the homes of each household.

The people in the city could only watch him, Liu Bei's army soldiers piled firewood at their homes.

Not far from the city gate, Liu Bei looked at the soldiers busy stacking firewood in the city and asked Zhuge Liang: "Our army withdraws from Xinye, can Cao Zirong enter the city so easily?"

"If Cao Zirong doesn't enter the city, his pioneers will also enter the city." Zhuge Liang said: "As long as you burn them clean, it will be a defeat for Cao Zirong."

"The people are all ready?" Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei on the side.

"Brother," said Zhang Fei: "The people have been prepared long ago and can leave Xinye at any time."

"That's good." Liu Bei said in a compassionate tone: "I can't bear to let the people stay in the city. Once the fire starts, I don't know how many people will die."

He was still preparing in Xinye City, intending to stuff the entire city with firewood and wait until Cao Shu enters the city and burns a fire for Cao Shu to clean.

Cao Shu had already obtained Liu Bei's movements at this time.

Sitting in the handsome tent with Pang Tong and others, after listening to Huo Wu's reward, Cao Shu's mouth slightly held.

He waved his hand and signaled Huo Wu who reported to step down.

Huo Wu retreated and Cao Shu said to Pang Tong and others: "Liu Xuande is really kind and righteous. He wants to burn the homes of the people in Xinye, but he can say something that cannot bear to the people being burned to death."

"Is it time to do it?" Pang Tong asked him.

"How are our people prepared?" Cao Shuo asked him.

"I have lurked into Xinye long ago." Pang Tong said: "As long as the young master gave the order, the fire will burn on Liu Xuande's own head."

"Send the order." Cao Shuo said: "While Liu Xuande was still in the city, he immediately lit the fire and asked him to prepare firewood by himself, but was burned by his own fire."

Deng Zhan, who was standing in the tent, immediately retreated.

Not long after, a row of archers shot lit arrows into the air.

Arrows in the military camp flew up, and in just a moment, more than a dozen flame-burning arrows flew up seven or eight miles away from the military camp.

After going back and forth, soon, Rockets flew into the air just over ten miles away from Xinye City.

Cao Shu's army is not close to Xinye, but the rockets flying more than ten miles away can be clearly seen in the city.

Looking up at the fire ball rising from the distance, Liu Bei's face suddenly became a little bad.

He asked Zhuge Liang on the side, "Kong Ming, I had received news before that Cao Zirong was a hundred miles away. Could it be that they had arrived at a place only more than ten miles away from Xinye?"

"If they really get to a place that is only more than ten miles away, how could they reveal their own traces?" Zhuge Liang shook his head first, then suddenly glared at him: "Not good!"

"What's wrong?" Liu Bei asked in surprise.

"Lord, order to leave the city." Zhuge Liang said: "Cao Zirong is sending a signal to the city. I'm afraid the firewood we prepared will burn on our own."

Liu Bei was shocked and shouted quickly: "Send the order and the army will leave the city immediately."

"What should the people do?" Guan Yu asked.

"The situation is urgent, so how can you care about them?" Liu Bei said: "Let the army leave the city first."
Chapter completed!