Section 21 Surrender

Ma Su looked outside and laughed "sneer" and said disdainfully, "Kuai Yuanji's expression was abnormal and his words were flustered, so he must be deceitful. Moreover, his two soldiers outside were disrespectful to him, and they were not as good as his subordinates should. They made people feel that there was something wrong at first glance. The elder brother was concerned and was confused. He was shocked by the news of his envoy's death. On weekdays, how could I need to remind me?"

Ma Liang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and after a moment of thinking, he understood the truth. Thinking of the key points, cold sweat immediately rolled down from his forehead. He quickly bowed and bowed to Ma Su: "You Chang, if it weren't for you today, at least a few hundred heads would have landed on the ground."

Ma Su returned the favor, thought for a while and said, "This is not right. If you leave the city, even if you don't come to Liu Yuzhou, my Ma family will not be able to escape. Since that's the case, my brother will go to see Kuai Yue immediately and tell him the news that Kuai Qi said, leaving him with nothing to say. I'll go to Fancheng."

When Ma Liang heard this, he nodded repeatedly. The two brothers left the mansion separately. Ma Liang went to report to Kuai Yue, but Ma Su quietly left the mansion and left the city quietly. As soon as he arrived outside the city, he flew on his horse and headed straight for Fancheng.

Shortly after Ma Su left the city, Kuai Yue and Pei Qian appeared from the tower of the Xicheng Gate. Seeing Ma Su disappearing in the green shade of the official road, Kuai Yue patted the city bricks with a little regret: "It's a pity that Yuan Ji was still seen by someone."

Pei Qian smiled and said, "Yuan Ji is loyal and kind, and he is quite as good as a father. He is indeed a little helpless in doing such a deceitful thing. The Ma brothers are known as the "Five Constellations of the Ma family, with the best white eyebrows". In fact, this young Chang is not weaker than his brother Ma Jichang. However, he is still young and not known to everyone. I think, this matter may be discovered by this Ma Youchang."

Kuai Yue looked at him gratefully and smiled: "Wenxing, I just crossed the river yesterday, and the boats were exhausted. Let's talk about it with me when I go home. This matter has become the icing on the cake, and it doesn't matter if it fails. The Prime Minister's army has arrived, and Liu Xuande can only escape by looking at the wind."

Pei Qian smiled and said, "Brother Yidu is humble. Even if the Prime Minister's army is not there, relying on the powerful soldiers in Brother Yidu's hands, without Cai Degui's help, you can beat Liu Xuande and escape alone."

Kuai Yue shook his hand with a smile, and said while walking side by side with Pei Qian: "Wenxing Misappy, I don't have such skills. I have more than 10,000 people to defend the city. If I really want to go out to fight in the field, I will not be Liu Bei's opponent. You have been in Changsha for a long time. What's the situation in Changsha? Please give me a lecture."

"I dare not obey my orders. Qian should know that everything will be said, and he will say everything." Pei Qian smiled faintly: "But Brother Yidu should take out the hidden wine first to satisfy my cravings and fatigue first."

"You, you have been to Changsha for so long, and you are still thinking about my two jars of wine. Don't worry, keep it for you." Kuai Du said with a laugh.

Just before Kuai Qi was called away by Kuai Yue, when it was dawn, Liu Xian had already taken his men and Liu Cong's surrender letters to go out of the North City Gate. He was a little tired, but also a little excited. Last night, Liu Biao took his last breath, and then Cai Mao and Kuai Yue gathered the people of their big families together. It didn't take long to discuss that Liu Cong became the successor of Jingzhou. Of course, facing the fully armed family soldiers of the Cai family, facing Cai Mao and Zhang Yun's cold eyes, and then the two ladies Cai, one big and one small, were carried by the pear blossoms, cried. Not to mention that they did not object to Liu Cong's succession, no one dared to say it even if they opposed it.

Of course, Liu Cong was just a temporary seat. The battle for succession was certain, and everyone was discussing the issue of the army heading south and whether Jingzhou was surrendered. Liu Cong, who was a little dizzy due to the sorrow of his father's death and the great joy of succeeding the throne, still wanted to occupy Jingxiang, fight against Cao's army, retain this acre of three-point land, and be a real ** kingdom, but was asked by Fu Xun, a clerk of Dong Cao, and lost all confidence, and immediately signed the letter of surrender.

Fu Xun asked him: "How is the general better than Liu Bei?"

Liu Cong was honest and said after a moment of thinking, "I am not as good as him."

Fu Xun smiled: "Since the general is not as good as him, even if he has saved Jingzhou, will it be the general's Jingzhou or Liu Bei's Jingzhou?" Then he asked: "General, how do you think Liu Bei is worse than Prime Minister Cao?"

Liu Cong's thin eyebrows frowned higher, and after thinking about it, he said, "Are you better?"

Fu Xun smiled and said, "Don't you understand the result very well? Now the general is not as good as Liu Bei. It is tantamount to relying on Liu Bei to resist the prime minister's army. Even if you are lucky enough to save Jingzhou, Jingzhou will be Liu Bei's sooner or later, not the general. The general will eventually lose Jingzhou. Instead of being controlled by Liu Bei, it is better to surrender to the court. Jiangdong has not yet been sent to the court, and Liu Bei is still there, and Yizhou Hanzhong and Western Liang are not controlled by the court. When the general surrenders to the court, the court will not be defeated. What else can the general hesitate?"

Liu Cong also had to consider it. Kuai Yue said in a timely manner that Liu Bei and Liu Qi wanted to lead troops back to Xiangyang to seize the throne. When Liu Cong heard this, he was shocked and immediately picked up the pen and signed the preparatory surrender letter. He picked up the official seal that had been worn less than a cup of tea and used it. He immediately entrusts Liu Xian to lead people north to welcome Cao Cao's army.

Everyone in Jingzhou has been very calm, as if they had been waiting for a long time this day, and it seemed that there was nothing to be surprised about for them. It was like eating a meal was as simple as it was and so unworthy.

Liu Xianqiang was energetic and was exhausted from sleeping all night, and he rode his horse. He knew that Ye County had been slaughtered. If he could arrive one day earlier and arrive before Wancheng City was broken, Wancheng might still be saved. If he was one step late, Wancheng, the big city, might have become a sea of ​​corpses and blood. He knew that without the surrender of the governor of Jingzhou, he would not surrender even if he beat the last one.

He didn't want Wancheng to become Ye County, after all, it was a living life. Recently, his nephew Zhou Buyi always mentioned that the young master Cao Chong, who he served, cherished human life, and even reached the point of being kind to some women. He couldn't help but feel a little funny. He heard about this young master Cangshu for a long time, but he didn't expect that he would still be young at this point.

However, Liu Xian didn't think that those people in Wancheng were life like grass, and they were not to be cherished when they died.

So he didn't bother to eat anything along the way, and ran northward without stopping, allowing the smoke and dust flying on the official road to follow him tightly, swaying his teeth and claws, as if he wanted to devour people.

He even ignored the life and death of getting off the horse, and glanced at the war horse that was gasping with his mouth open. He thought that he would change the horse when he went to the front post station. As soon as he arrived at the Changting outside Xinye City, Liu Xian flew off the horse before he could stop, and showed off his waist sign in his hand and shouted at the head of the pavilion who was snatching out: "Emergency military information, change the horse quickly."

The pavilion leader, who rushed out of the door, looked at the token in his hand, and quickly replied. Liu Xianli ignored him, rushed into the long pavilion, swept away the breakfast the pavilion leader was eating, and rushed to the kitchen, hurriedly wrapped the steamed pasta in the house, picked it up and left. The pavilion leader outside the door had just prepared the horses, and Liu Xian took a few followers like robbers and ran away.

The pavilion chief looked at their backs in surprise, raised his sleeves to cover the choking dust, and said to the thief who ran out of the door with a knife, "What's wrong with Lord Liu today? Isn't Cao's army still in Wancheng? Why are you so panicked?"

The thief was puzzled and scratched his hair that had not had time to wash, and said, "That's right, I was so scared that I thought a thief was coming. You see, I came out before I even put on my clothes. Fortunately, it was still early and I was not seen, otherwise it would be embarrassing."

The pavilion chief laughed: "There are really robbers coming. If you are like this, you will be killed by someone. It's not as simple as embarrassing. Oh, let's go back first. The tents of these horses can be reported tomorrow, but today's breakfast has to be redone. This is also Lord Liu. He usually looks very gentle. Today he looks like a robber, and he even robs food."

Just as the pavilion chief was muttering, Liu Xian had already raised the token and shouted all the way through the city, causing curses all the way in Xinye City, which had just opened the city, scaring the soldiers at the city gate to look at each other, not knowing what big thing had happened. He left Xinye North City Gate, ran ten miles along the official road, turned a big bend, and suddenly fell off his horse, then he flew up in fog. He fell and ate a mouthful of earth. He was about to raise his head and spit out the earth in his mouth, cursing a few words to relieve his anger, but someone stepped on his back, and then he was quickly tied into a meat dumpling, and then dragged him to a fully armed officer.

"General, this is the fifth one. It seems that he is a big man, and there are a few followers behind him." Someone shouted behind him.

Liu Xian looked at the fully armed general in front of him, with a murderous look on his face, and his heart suddenly jumped up. He struggled and shouted: "Is it Zhang Wenyuan, the general of the bandit? I am Liu Xian, Liu Shizong, the detached leader in Jingzhou. If you have urgent matters, please see the Prime Minister."

Zhang Liao was surprised, took a closer look, rushed forward, unbuttoned the rope on Liu Xian's body, and laughed: "Why did Mr. Shizong come here? I'm so embarrassed to let you fall such a big shot." As he said that, he turned around and kicked the confused personal soldier: "You bastards, Mr. Shizong from Jingzhou, don't recognize you, and he still has such a heavy hand. Look back at me to deal with you."

Liu Xian didn't care about listening to his hypocritical apology, and hurriedly pulled him and said, "General Wenyuan, since you have arrived in Xinye, I think it's a surprise soldier, your soldier, or the Prime Minister has come in person?"

Zhang Liao looked at him meaningfully: "The Prime Minister personally led the troops, Mr. Shi Zong is so anxious to see the Prime Minister, what's wrong?"

Liu Xian breathed a sigh of relief, and a cold sweat rolled down his forehead. Oh my God, the Prime Minister personally led the army to Xinye. Wouldn't that bet not far from Xiangyang? This is a surprise attack on Fancheng in Xiangyang? Liu Cong's idiot was still thinking of relying on Liu Bei to resist. The army was under his nose, and they were still in the dark. Fortunately, luckily, otherwise... he shook his head and wouldn't he think about going on anymore.

"Take me to see the Prime Minister quickly. I have important things." Liu Xian urged repeatedly.

When Zhang Liao saw him anxiously, he wanted to see the Prime Minister. He knew that something must be a big deal, so he hurriedly led him to the depths of the mountain nest next to him. Liu Xian looked at the camp that was slowly unseen in front of him, and was very grateful. He responded to Zhang Liao's words without saying a word, and hurriedly walked into Cao Cao's central army camp.
Chapter completed!