Li Su used the name of Da Yi to run, and asked for this or that, and ransom the warship, which made Liu Biao very depressed.

He is fifty-six years old this year and has been in Jingzhou for more than six years. In terms of ambition, it has actually been a lot of waste. In history, when the Battle of Guandu three years later, he was fifty-nine. The reason why he chose not to help Cao and Yuan was also an important factor. He is already a 60-year-old, who is still taking risks?

Now seeing Li Su’s actions makes it difficult for him not to remember how he was appointed as the governor of Jingzhou by the court more than six years ago. Because of his predecessor, the governor of Jingzhou, Wang Rui, was killed by Sun Jian on the excuse of "supporting the counter-attack on Dong."

Wang Rui was hesitant when he provided Sun Jian with military supplies. He refused to charge Sun Jian vigorously at any cost. So Sun Jian designed to make a mutiny in the military spirit and ask the governor Wang to appease him.

As a result, Wang Rui wanted to negotiate terms with the mutiny army, but was directly arrested by Sun Jian. He put the knife on Wang Rui's neck and forced him to be a decent person himself.

At that time, Sun Jian also went north from Changsha to fight against Dong, but now Li Su led Zhao Yungao to follow Changsha to fight against Yuan.

With so many coincidences, even if Liu Biao was not a superstitious person, he was still suspicious and always felt that his existence itself had established many unlucky FLAGs.

I just want to live a peaceful life until I am in peace and prosperity. Why do trees want to be quiet but the wind does not stop?

This fear of inauspiciousness made Liu Biao make up his mind.

On the evening of the first day of March, he summoned confidant counselors Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue, and Fu Xun, who was responsible for logistics and grain, and Yi Ji, who was responsible for contacting the outside world.

While discussing how well Li Su's ship was prepared, Liu Biao asked everyone how to deal with the dispute between Li Su and Yuan Shu, how Xiangyang County and the entire Jingbei region should seek in this crack, not being affected by the war.

Fu Xun had to give Liu Biao a bad news first: "June, Li Su's conditions are too harsh. He asked us to provide excellent large ships such as tower ships and bucket ships for combat. However, he also made demands on the draft of tower ships.

It is said that the water depth of the water is insufficient, so we have to choose the size, length and width, but the draft is shallow and the area of ​​the ship is small. It will take at least three or five days for us to concentrate ten building ships, twenty to thirty bucket ships for him. If he is willing to relax his requirements and get some small boats with a total of equal numbers of people for him, it will be faster and he will get them all in two days."

Liu Biao became more and more bored as he heard it. He waved his hand in disgust: "Satisfied him, let's make up the numbers first. It's just that Yuan Shu is not upright and the princes in the world seem unfaithful to refuse Yuan if they don't express their opinions. Li Su is willing to represent Jingzhou to fight Yuan with Jingnan Army, just to act as a matter for us."

Fu Xun took the order and left. Liu Biao thought about it for a while, and then thought about the fate of Wang Rui and Zhang Zi back then. He had a plan and ordered Kuai Liang:

"In order to prepare for military supplies these days, I was restless and occasionally felt cold and could not see guests. If government affairs or foreign envoys arrived, they would be dealt with separately by your brothers and Ji Bo. By the way, the city of Xiangyang was also sealed. That is to say, the epidemic was spreading in the city, and it was afraid that it would infect innocent people outside the city, so the city was blocked.

Anyway, there is no need to transfer the warships and military supplies from Xiangyang City, and no one is allowed to enter and exit the city within at least three days. When will Li Su and Zhao Yun go north to fight with Yuan Shu? They don’t care about us anymore, so they will be allowed to open the city gate!"

Originally, if it was just a state master who had a disease, it would be enough as long as Liu Biao himself did not see the guests. But Liu Biao was afraid that Li Su and Zhao Yun, who were camping on the north bank opposite the Han River, would do something, so he simply made excuses to block the city temporarily. This would be impossible to even make a sneak attack.

Kuai Liang said that he would deal with internal affairs, so please don’t worry.

Yi Ji, who was in charge of foreign affairs, had to ask for instructions: "Empress, during the period when you were locked down the city and did not see guests, if the right general or even the King of Hanzhong and Yuan Shu sent someone to contact him, how should I stabilize it?

Yuan Shu is now increasingly suspicious. I heard that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao don’t believe his argument for the death of the emperor. In my opinion, if Yuan Shu sends people, should we arrest and repatriate directly? Even adopt a more intense attitude?”

Liu Biao said angrily: "Don't meet anyone! I won't give you a chance to speak! I can't find anyone! There is no need to offend them specially. Could it be that I still sent a letter to kill Yuan Shu and sell Liu Bei well, but Yuan Shao?"

Yiji paused his head and indicated that he would definitely implement it.

...

Liu Biao didn't know how much additional impact his retreat would have, but he did get a few days of leisure with this attitude.

It made it impossible for Yuan Shu or Li Su to find his people again, and no detailed works of enemy and friendly forces could be mixed in Xiangyang City.

After several days of preparation, Fu Xun finally collected the warships that Li Su needed. Fu Xun wanted Wang Wei to send a capable general to lead a group of sailors to deliver the warships.

But Wang Wei was carrying Xiangyang's city defense and obeyed Liu Biao. He was naturally unwilling to send important generals to do such things. As a result, he sent a young and capable school named Liao Hua, who was less than 20 years old, and took hundreds of sailors to drive the boat over.

Fu Xun was too lazy to care about it. Anyway, this job was not difficult, so this unknown subordinate officer was also used.

In addition, Yi Ji, the other leader in charge of diplomatic work, also went with Fu Xun. He also had to do some diplomatic and harmonious work and send Li Su Junli out of the country.

On the fourth day of the March, Fu Xun and Yiji, who were outside Deng County, came to Li Su's military camp with dozens of ships to work in the army. With a smile on his face, he asked Li Su "Why did he still go north while under the banner of attacking Yuan Shu. This time he got the forty or fifty warships that Liu Biao's army made up for, he should be able to go north."

Li Su changed his polite attitude when he first arrived in Xiangyang to request aid supplies many days ago, and his face turned pale. Next to him was Zhao Yundianwei, Gao Shun and Gan Ning, and they were also glaring at each other, as if Liu Biaojun had done something that was sorry for Li Sujun and for the mistakes of the Han Dynasty.

Fu Xun was only responsible for logistics and finance, and was at a loss for a while.

Seeing this, Yiji had to take on his own responsibility and asked, "Why did General Pingnan maliciously face each other? Could it be that Envoy Liu was too slow to prepare for the warship? My envoy was worried day and night, and fell asleep in bed because of this matter. He had already worked hard to do it. He hoped that the General Liu would not be ungrateful.

The two armies of our army have always been harmonious, and the king of Hanzhong is benevolent and dignified. Everyone in the country knows that he has been fortunate to visit him and admire him. The right general is so aggressive, wouldn’t he not cherish the reputation of Hanzhong Wang Ren.”

Li Su sneered in a pretentious manner and threw out a secret letter first. It was sent back by Liu Bei through a secret envoy mixed in Yuan Huan's mission a few days ago, and threw it in front of Yi Ji:

"I know that Liu Envoy was sick - the case of Yuan Shu killing the regency. He was afraid that he didn't want to see these iron evidence that Yuan Shu killed the regency, so he locked up the city and pretended to be deaf and dumb."

Yi Ji was shocked and took it over and looked carefully. He saw that it was Yuan Shu's confession that Yuan Huan had cast a secretly turned to the light. He immediately realized that Liu Biao's current attitude was still too neutral.

For such a person who is obviously a trumpet robber, how could he just send dozens of warships to Li Su? He should have expressed his opinion, and seemed willing to fight against Yuan Cai with Li Su.

I'm still bold and hesitant!

Yiji quickly explained: "My envoy is indeed feeling the cold. Right General, we agree with the righteousness of your army in fighting against the thieves, but we really don't know about this, nor are we pretending to be deaf and dumb.

Please ask the right general to put it in mind. My envoy is already fifty-six. It is normal for you to feel unwell at such an old age. There is indeed a typhoid fever epidemic in Xiangyang City, and the city is closed for the sake of the people."

Li Su had a look of "acting, you continue acting" and used her expression to suppress Yi Ji, making him even more guilty, and then he smiled proudly with the look of "I have seen through everything" as soon as possible:

"Yes, Duke Jingsheng is old and weak, and he should be sick. Otherwise, how could he missed even such an important messenger to receive him? Come and take the messenger Yuan Shu up!"

Li Su waved his hand, and Dian Wei immediately came out of the account and came over from the side note. It was Yuan Shu who sent him to meet Liu Biao. It turned out that this person was halfway through the road and heard that the Northern Expedition from Changsha to fight against Yuan's army in Deng County, Han River had been hiding his identity and trying his best to hide his whereabouts.

Unfortunately, in order not to cause trouble, Liu Biao sealed Xiangyang City and refused to let anyone in. The secret envoy had to visit for a few days to find another opportunity.

As a result, Zhou Tai, Gan Ning and other naval generals under Li Su were diligent in patrolling the river, and they were arrested when Yuan Shu's envoy was transferred for the second time.

To be precise, it was caught by Gan Ning. At that time, Gan Ning discovered that the secret envoy of the merchant ship was riding on the Han River at night. Based on the professional sense of the thief of the river, he noticed that something was wrong with the merchant ship. The draft, speed, and cargo were indescribable and strange, and it was inconsistent.

As a result, his subordinates who were born in Jiang thieves rushed up and caught searches. They actually caught a big fish and found that they were Yuan Shu's envoy.

A secret letter was also found from the other party, and in cooperation with the torture and questioning of the messenger, I got very important news: the content written in the secret letter was that Yuan Shu expressed his willingness to report to Liu Biao to the group to keep warm and support Liu Biao as the emperor!

As for the reason, the confession pried out from the secret envoy seemed to be diplomatic mediation between Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao and Liu Bei, trying to sell "I heard the oral order of the late emperor before his death." As a result, because neither Yuan Shao nor Liu Bei missed him and did not care about the orthodox nature of the will, he joined forces with him to deal with another family, and forced Yuan Shu to the dead end of being attacked from both sides.

Yuan Shu never expected that he would do so miserably. He had prepared his hard work, and no one in the world would attack him!

When he was sick and seeking medical treatment, Yuan Shu jumped over the wall with a desperate attempt and wrote a joint sincerity with Liu Biao again, "As long as you want, I will say that I heard the oral order of the late emperor before his death, saying that Liu and Liu Bei were both in trouble and deceiving the king and the emperor were the only one who was kind and gentleman, and the late emperor was willing to pass on his posthumous position in Liu Jingsheng."

Yuan Shu probably didn't expect Liu Biao to be a puppet for him, but this was not a waste of time to get a good news about "hearing the oral order of the last order" but it could not be realized. I was unwilling to give up, so I just try it casually.

However, he didn't expect that his own tricks fell into Li Su's hands again, causing Liu Biao even more trouble.

After reading Yuan Shu's secret letter and interrogating the secret envoy sent by Yuan Shu to Liu Biao, Yi Ji was immediately angry and snatched the envoy of Yuan Shu crazily after snatching Dian Wei's whip:

"Dog thief! Yuan Shu, the dog thief, wants to trap my lord injustice! Our lord was ordered by the late emperor to be the governor of Jingzhou, but he secretly occupied Nanyang for seven years. Our lord had long wished that he could expel the thief who was in trouble and chaos in the Chaogang! He still had the face to send envoys!"

After beating, Yi Ji begged Li Su: "The right general, the sun can be seen. Envoy Liu did not see these traitors, otherwise you would not be able to catch him, right? Envoy Liu would not listen to Yuan Shu's crazy and conspiring words."

Li Su patted Yiji on the back, so that he could not be too anxious, and then poured him a glass of calm rice wine with his own hands:

"Brother Ji Bo, I have always known that Liu Enjun and his brother are both kind and gentlemen, so they should not have such a rebellious heart. However, there is no master in the world and people from far away are confused. Mu Shu is very interested in wealth and honor. Today, Yuan Shu is like this, but fortunately I intercepted him. If there is a general in the future, he will be promoted to the position of King Jing in the future, he will be old and weak, so he will not be allowed to refuse."

Yi Ji was slightly sweating: "How to win the trust of the King of Hanzhong and the Right General to show that our army has no different ambitions, and please let the Right General make clear."

Li Su corrected: "It's not about winning the trust from me! I am a common man, what's the matter with trust or not? Brother Ji Bo, you and Duke Jing Sheng must think clearly for yourself, who is the new master of the world? You must win the trust of the master who can bring peace to the world and clear away the rebellious masters."

Yiji wiped his sweat: "I will tell you this to Liu Jun very much."
Chapter completed!